The Sun. — London, England, 1842-01-19 00:00:00

EVENING 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 Libm.ries ' in 3 vols. post Bvo , THE SCHOOL FOR WIVES A NOVEL. By the Autheress of " Temptation." Henry Colima, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. IS EVNING, JAN. 19, Will be perfo rm ed the T r agedy of THE GAMESTER.— BeverleY, Mr. 3lacready ; Lewson, Mr. Anderson ; Jervis, Mr. Elton • Bates, Mr. G. Bennett ; Stukelay, Mr. Phelps ; Mrs. Beverley, Mrs. Warner; Charlotte, Miss Ellis. After which will be repeated the New Christmas Pantomime, caled HARLEQUIN. AND DUKE HUMPHREY'S DIN NER ; OR, JACK CADE, THE LORD OF LONDON STONE. Doors n. be opened at Ha'f. past Six, and the Performance to begin rt Seven o'clock. Boxes 58.. Second Price, 2s. 6d. Pit 35., Second Price 2s. Lower Gallery Is. 6d., Second 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 VESTALS. 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 Dorillon, Mr. Cooper ; Sir George Evelyn, Mr. G. Vandenhoff ; Mr. Bronzely, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Miss Dorrillon; Mrs. Nisbett ; Lady Mary Baffle, Mrs. Glover ; Lady Priory, Miss Faucit. After which will be repeated the New Grand Chr stmas Pantomime, entitled GUY EARL OF WARWICK ; OR, lARLEQUIN AND THE DUN COW. Doors to to opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circ'es, ss. ; Second Price, :Is. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. 25.; Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office,. from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had open application. Private Boxes to be had so'ely of Mr. Andre xa, bookseller, 167. New Bond-street. To-morrow, orma, with the New Pantomime. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS TONES. 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. PI, Will he 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 ning, Hatlequin, M. Huline ; Patch, M. Rochet ; Pan taloon, M. Lehman; Flip, Signor Feliz Carlo; Clowu, 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 distinr'uished. THIS EVENING, JAN. 19 Will be performed, a New Domestic Drama, in Three Acts, entitled THE STORY OF GERALDINE ; 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 tomime, entitled HARLEQUIN PETER WILKINS ; OR, THE KING OF THE AIR AND THE FLYING IN DIANS.—With new and extensive Scenery, Dressh, 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 th e Comic Talent of this—the Popular Theatre of London. To conclude with THE LOTTERY TlCKET.—Worm wood, Mr. Gardner ; Capias, Mr. James ; Charles, Mr. Saa man ; Susan, Mrs. Howard. Hoxes, N.—Pit, Is.— Gallery, 6d.—Half-price to theßoses only, at Half-past 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 this week surpass all his former efforts, by the New Feats he purposes introducing. Hls Ne cromancy deceives even the most acute vision ; and wonderful, truly wonderful, arc the vrcrds 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 Groupings of the THREE PATAGONIAN WON DERS—The Comic Dance of the UNITED SERVICE CLUB—And Mons. ROSSEAU, the Celebrated FRENCH EQUILIBRIST ! Doors open at Half-past Six, commence at Seven. Boxes, 2s. ed. ; Children, Is. M. Pit, Is. &L ; Children, I. Gal lery, W. Clo,e Ten Minutes to Eleven. COSMORAMA ROOMS (ROOM 7), 209, REGENT- STREET. THE IVORY MODEL OF THE TAGE MUHAL, or Crown of Edifices, atAGRA, in the East " There is at present an Exhibition at 209, Regent-street, as elaborate a Model as was ever perhaps, presented to pub lic view. It is a copy , in ivory , of tint celebrated rage Muhal, one of the most remarkable edifices in modern Agra, erected in 16:50 by Khan Shah Jehan, the fifth Great Mogul, as the cemetery of his *favourite wife, Sultana Mehd Aliya. This mausoleum is built entirely of white marble, ant sonic .dea may be formed of its splendour, when it is stated to have cost in its erection 60 Lacs of rupees, or 75C,000/ 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 ales 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 net the hastYuro duet 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 its the copy with every appearance of exactness ; nor is the resemblance limited to the outside alone : the 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 tile metropolis. "—Morn. Chron. Open from Ten to Six o'clock. Admission, Is. Book, 6d. THE RAILWAY SUN BEING OUT OF PRINT, WILL BE RE-PUBLISHED IN THE COURSE OF THE WEEK. TILE cnINA Sul, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACII. Sun Office, Jan. 19, 1842. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The letter of " J. II.," respecting Anthracite Coal, is an advertisement. " F. Y"—The proceeds, of course, will be expended in ftirtherinf3 - the object which the Committee profess to have in view, but we hre not aware what arrangements have been made. We declined to publish the letter of William Vaughan, because it casts strong imputations on parties at a dis c tance, with respect to transactions of which personally we could know nothing. TIIE WEATHER.—Noon, JANUARY 19. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 29 I highest 34 I Lo►►•est 2B Barometer 30.05.—Wind S.W.—Freezing Point 72 Deg. WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW Morning. 47 minutes after 6 I Evening S minutes after 7, The Pnblieation of the Evening Edition of THE Sux com menced at 10 minutes after Three. ~~ ~~~ tke. '4l ! Tit .2, fr o • 6 ' %PUY' 4 - Pt - DROI - m ° • ;-,1°"•{;1. OL% „ na. LONDON: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1842. It was properly and forcibly represented by Mr. SMITH, in pleading against CHARLES SOUTH WELL) at Bristol, that religion is the great re r straint on human passions on which society de pended for itssecurity. Hence the State establishes and pays a Public body of clergymen. This opinion is very 2 4 . enerally 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. SOUTIMF-LL for putting forth writings ac cused.of producing that effect, was the object or We must, o n thi s account, prosecuting him. cull attention to a passage in the spe ec h of a Dr. TAYLOR, delivered at the Edinburgh Confe rence, as an illustration of the et:Wets of the Corn-l aws in weakening the influence of religion on t r io 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 of 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 precept s 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 commission when he enjoined contentment; but he felt th a t 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 bad felt constrained to say that the des titution many of them were experiencing proceeded from laws enacted not by God but by man, and in di rect contravention of the divine law; and thus, instead of calling forth gratitude to the Deity, there was danger of exciting resentment against a portion of their fellow 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 bounties, and are regarded by many of the people as being to them the authors of all evil. Again, he, for one, held 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 good things. But how could one inculcate this an 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 far 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 ho use , h e b a th d en i e d 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 shiverin around, not the fire, b u t 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 as the one thieg 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 of hunger; they cannot call on their congregations 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 pf exciting revolt against human authority. Those ministers practically and daily feel that the pre. 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, don." We are bound, as the Conference is &- sailed by our Tory - Colitemporaries with much ribaldry, to express our cordial approval of its doctrines, and to assert that those who vin 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 reli gion be destroyed, society will be endangered ; and that can only be preserved by getting rid of unjust laws, which contravene it, and bring, at one and the same time, the authority of law and religion into disrepute. We arc 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 if 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 taken their stand. Those ministers have emphatically declared that the Corn-laws are an unrighteous robbery ; that they arc 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 laws -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 HErtop ordering 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. Um), but, perhaps, not quite so atrocious, as the law of HEROD ; and they would not be consist- era 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 tiding 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 judge ofof redressing it on the other. But who shall 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, and fate 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 rig ht 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 unresisted. 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. LA*. BERT JONES, and he is a gentleman even less known to fame than Mr. Alderman .PirtiE. " 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 all civic dignities. To that, perhaps, we may attribute the absence 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 be 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 iionour 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 cient 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 to 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 reports, which we yesterday published of the state of trade in Scotlard,and which we have of late frequently publiSheci, of the lamentable con dition or a great portion of industrious England, convict the Chaplain of an error, or the deposi taries of political power of a crime. Commerce is not now prospering. From all sides, we have the most deplorable accounts of distress. Traffic is only the exchange of the surplus products of industry, and 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 displa3% 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 call attention to an able and excellent article in the Westminster Review, of the pre sent month, the principal points of which will be found extracted in another part of The Sun, under the head " Claims of Prerogative and Wrongs of the Subject." It relates to the case of the claimants for losses in Denmark, and clearly illustrates what we believe to be the fact, that it is much more easy to obtain justice, in some par ticular cases, in the most despotic nation in Europe, not even excepting Turkey, than it is to procure redress from the Government of this country, unless some private job or interested motive of some one or more Of the Ministry be not connected with the concession of it. The delay in granting relief to the sufferers by the Danish reprisals after the repeated favourable decisions of the House of Commons, to whose arbitration the matter was expressly referred by the Government, is a great cruelty, more espe cially as the case has now become a constitu tional one, involving the privileges of Parliament, and even of the Crown itself, whose authority the Chancellor of the Exchequer virtually has, according to precedents shown by the article referred to, for paying these unfortunate claimants. The French Journals of Monday have reached us. They are unusually barren of poli tical news. M. DE SALVANDY, the noted diploma tist, was expected to take his seat in the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday. The letter of M. CuAm noLLE, the Deputy, avowing himself the writer of the article in the Siecle, was read in the Chamber of Peers on Monday, but no further notice was taken of it. The responsible editor will there fore have to bear all the brunt of the Chamber's wrath. The debate on the Address of the Deputies, in answer to the Speech from the Throne, was com menced on Monday, but it presented no feature of interest. The Right of Search Treaty was generally condemned by the,Deputies. The in terest will begin with the Spanish question. The Echo du Nord mentions the following unexpected circumstance, resulting from the bold defence made by the widow Boulanger against_ the two robbers who as sailed her in her lonely cottage at Beau Marais, near Calais, and of which we gave a full account at the time. "On New Years-day, while the good widow was enter taining her family and friends, an elegant carriage drawn by four horses drove up to her door. A servant in handsome livery got down, opened the carriage, and a gentleman with a lady and two younger ladies alighted and entered the humble dwelling. The gen tleman, announcing himself as Lord Gainsborough, told the widow that, having heard of her heroic conduct, he wished, on coming over to France, to view the theatre of her siege and defence, and express to her his admiration of her courage. The widow Boulanger then related to the noble family all that had passed, showed the broken door and windows, her ditch filled with water over which she had to make her way in her escape, and then said that the arm chair in which his Lordship was seated was for a considerable time occupied by one of the robbers. Lord G. replied that he wished to reward her presence of mind and resolution, and begged her to accept a couple of guineas as a testimony of his admiration. One of the valuable youngl shawl ladies , as, and threw sa token of it of over her the sati shoulders e fhe satisfaction, tookoft:a oldcoutet nd nsi cottager, ne'sehoemtehneyanthd kindness."enleft,ocome to tears by so m The Prussian State Gazette of the 1I th instant an nounces officially that M. de Geissel, Bi.,hop of Spire, has taken the oaths as coadjutor and admintstrator of the Archbishopric of Cologne with - the right of succes sion. The same Journal also publishes a letter to the Archbishop, Baron Droste de Vischering, relieving him in direct terms from all imputation of having used secret revolutionary practices. The new Coadjutor will return to Spire till next month, and then go to Cologne. The Correo Nacional states that while Rubini was at Madrid he sung in a concert given by a society , for the relief of distressed religious sisters and military invalids. The receipts amounted to more than 16,000 reals (4,000 fr.), and Palafox announeed, in the name of the invalids, that, with the genuine spirit of Spanish gal lantry, they gave up all their share of the profits in fa vour of the religious sisters, The Borsenhalle of Hamburgh mentions the death of the father of the student Frederic Staps, who twice at tempted to assassinate Napoleon. The-old man was a Protestant Minister, and was aged 84. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1842 A Toulon letter, in the Constitutionne/, says that Admiral Baudin, the Maritime Prefect, has just caused several persons, employed in the dockyards, and various departments under his control, to be arrested on charges of fraud. The Saone at Lyons froze so suddenly the other day. from the stoppage of the floating ice, that seven barges, six of which were empty, were caught in the ice, and the pressure being excessive, were crushed and sunk. A gendarme, while on duty at Maidevrier, in the Maine-et-Loire, a few days ago found a poacher armed, who fled at his appearance. The gendarme pursued him, but he turned round when on the point of being taken, and discharged his fowling-piece point-blank at the gen. darme. The latter was killed on the spot, and the mur derer, though immediately followed by two other gen darmes, who were at hand, contrived to escape. The press in Belgium has during several years been increasing in productiveness. In 1837 it produced 180 original works, in 1838 210, in 1839 290, in 1840 320, and in 1841 348. They were divided as follows : General history 5, history of Belgium 43, literary his • tory, philology, and bibliography 6, literature bio graphy 16, fine arts 11, grammar and lexicology 10, juridical and legislative sciences 13, medicine and sur gery 17, travels 3, theology and philosophy 7, commerce, industry, and administration 7, botany 3, political, reli gious, and other pamphlets 57, public instruction 7, nu mismatics 3, mathematics and mechanics 6, statistics and political economy 2, academic essays 21, heraldry 1, geo graphy 1, periodical miscellanies 29, annuals and alma flacks 12, the• scenic art 4, and various other works 11. The number of journals remains very nearly the same, for though some have ceased to appear, others have come forth to supply their places. The reprint trade has assumed a great extension in Belgium, being occupied in nine-tenths of its business with French works. Thus a Belgian Company is now selling for If. 40c. the same work which M. de Balzac sells in Paris for 7f. 50c., and which other Companies in Belgium sell for 3f. There are 2,000 subscribers to the works issued by this Com pany, and they receive a volume every week at the price of 70c. Another Company is publishing, under the title of Tresor Historigue,, the best works of French con temporary historians, at If. 25c. for the octavo volume. Thus Thiers's History of the Revolution, which sells for 40f. or 50f. at Paris, and for 20f. or 30f. by the larger Belgian Companies, is sold by the Company i 1 question for 12f. 50c., and it is illustrated with 10 lithographic portraits. There are 2,000 subscribers to this work, and it has returned a profit of 2,500 f. in ten weeks. The historical works of De Barante, Mignet, and Villemain, have been equally successful. The Cardinal Prince de Croi, Archbishop of Rouen, has just given 3,000 f. to the poor of that city. The Augsburg Gazette has the following from its Paris Correspondent " Notwithstanding the persevering efforts of M. Hu mann, and the considerable reductions in the army ex penses , made by Marshal Soult, the Budget about to be presented to the Chambers will show a deficit of 30,000,000 f. If we reflect that, during the last year, Algeria alone cost 130,000,000 E, a deficit of this extent, considering the state of derangement in which the Ad ministration wasofonnd on the accession of the Cabinet of Oct. 29, will not appear to bo so very great." The following is from a letter from Vienna of the Bth of January :—" Since the sth of this month, Henry of France (The. Duke of Bordeaux) has been out every day in a carriage, and descended (without being carried) the staircase of the palace which he inhabits. These trials have restored to the muscles the strength and pliability, which a state of forced repose had made them lose. Dr. Watemann seems to be certain that by the end of the nCQh, - iliePrince will be able ~to walk, with the assistance of only one person. He conti nues to receive many marks of attention. The Emperor sent one of his aid-de -camps to compliment him on the new year. All the Archdukes have visited him, as well as Prince Metternich and the members of the diplomatic body."—Gazette de France. It was affirmed yesterday at the Foreign-office that the Cabinet of the Tuileries had addressed to the Spanish Government a note relative to the French resident in the Peninsular.—Constitutional. The English Journals have not arrived. The con - cession of the right of search creates a great sensation in the journals, the most inclined. to optionism, which have preserved the least spark of feeling for the national honour. Thus the Americair pub lished at Brest, the port which saw Duconedie return as conqueror, but paying with his life for his victory over the English flag, cannot allow that such a stipulation has been agreed to. The refusal of M. Guizot to com municate the treaty may already prove to the Americair, that its hopes are ill-founded. What is honourable is not concealed in this manner. The Moniteur has said that the treaty was nacratifled ; this is an additional rea son for examining it, since it is still time.—Commerce. BOURSE—peals, MONDAY, JAN. 17. First Highest Lowest Last Price Pnce. Pric% Price. French 5 per 117 90 ... 118 ...11785 ll7 95 4 per Cents ...... 102 20 ... 102 20 102 21 ... 102 ill 3 per Cents. 7B 93 ... 78 90 78 85 ... 78 85 Loan Sank of France Lattitte Bank 5.000 f. Shares ...025 ...50'25 ...5025 ...5025 flr•seisn Rank . .......... '7BO ... 780 775 775 Belgian 5 per Cents. .... * 104 1 .4 1114 1 4 ... 104 1 4 .. 1044 i 5 i.er Cents., 1540 105% ... 105% ... 1055( lt's% ipanith Active ......... 25 25% ... 25 ... 25% Passive 5% ... 5% ... 5% ... 5% Fortugueses per Cents. Neapotlian %omen... _lOl, ... 104 104 ... 104 EtAILWAY Sict A Itittl. R. Germain 810 ... 840 ... Bto ... 846 Versailles. it. h' 337 50 237 50 ... 337 50 ... 337 50 945 15 206 15 ... 206 15 ... 206 15 Rouen 485 -. 485 485 483 ••• • - ••• 000 a Orieaus 513 75 515 ... 513 75 515 Itr3sburgtoßale, ..... 23/ 50 ... 232 50 ... 2;0 ... 230 THE WAR IN SYRIA.—The public will be happy to learn that the Gallant Commodore Sir Charles Napier has written a history of the late war on the coast of Syria, which may be expected to appear in a few days. Having himself been the life and soul of the expedition, .which drove Mehemet Ali out of Syria, and filling the rank of second in command, no per son can be so competent to supply all the details of that brilliant campaign as the Gallant Commodore. Moreover, it was by Sir Charles that peace was negotiated with Me heinet Ali ; and it cannot but greatly interest the public to learn all the details of a negotiation between two such extraordi nary diplomatists. The future historian of our Naval annals will owe a deep debt of gratitude to our fighting Commodore Napier. The Morning Post is, we believe, mistaken in supposing that the descriptions it has quoted of the condition of the factory labourers under former Tory Governments is causing 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. THE DUKE OF CLEVELAND. The following is a copy of the Bulletin issued at Half past Twelve to-day : " His Grace the Duke of Cleveland is more comfort able, and rather better this morning." St. James's-square, Jan. 19, 1842. THE MARKETS.--(TIIIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The fresh arrivals of Grain were moderate, and the foggy state of the weather prevented business, so that many articles were nominally as on Monday. Flour very dull of sale. COLONIAL MARKET. Prices were firth for all the principal ar ticles, with a good demand from the home trade and ship pers. Raw Sugar in good demand at firm rates; 60s. is the lowest rate for: Brown 'West India. Coffee in good demand, and prices firm. Good ordinary Ceylon made 68s. 6d. to 71s. per cwt. Saltpetre 25s 6d. to 28s. per cwt. Rice. dull of sale, and prices declining. TEA MARKET. The market firm, with a good demand ; low cominon Congou ls. 10d. a Is. lOid. per lb. cash. TALLOW MARKET. The demand good, and prices firm, at 48s. 3d. on the spot, and 48s. 6d. for arrival. WOOL MARKET. Prices firm, with a fair demand for both English and Foreign. • SPIRIT MARICET• Rum in good request, and prices fully supported. Brandy held - firmly, with few buyers. Corn Spirits at 9s. 10d. BIRMINGHAM, JAN. 18. (FROM A CORItESPONDENT.) eORO NElt t ' he a IdNeaQttlh of 13ashs"iles importantat e a p n investigation i i EBTz— , shot by h er h us b and while clean i a gun, closed this evening. Th e i nqu i ry, w hi c h h a d b e en continued from clay to day, occup i e d a lt oge th e r thirty-nine hours, and e respecting T whowas .. twenty-four witnesses were examined. In the course of the inquiry, the confidence of the prisoner seemed to have forsaken him. lie became painfully depressed, and generally sat with his face buried in his-hands, with his elbows leaning on the table, evincing but little con. sciousness of what was going f o rward. lie was re spectably dre sse d i n black with black kid gloves, and generally kept hi s f ace hid' in his pocket - handkerchief. 'The evidence of the surgeon was very unfavourable to the prisoner's account of the affair. The prisoner said, he was cleaning a gun, which lay on a round table, by the side of which the deceased sat sewing. The discharge entered her chest, making a wound of an inch and a half in diameter, internally wounding and lodging a splint er of bone in the court s o f t h e heart , an d fracturing the 3d, 4th, sth, 6th, 7th, and Bth ribs. Doctor Daemt, surgeon, of the 6th Inniskillen Dragobns, said it was a literal im possibility for such a wound and its consequences to be produced by a gun. The Jury summed up at gr ea t length, and the Jury, at h a lf- pas t n ine, returned a ver dict of" Wilful Murder against Ezra Steapenhill." The prisoner, on hearing the sentence, seemed greatly dis tressed, and covered his face with his hinds. S OMR/ARV OF NEWS AND übttc Optition, " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. M. de Salvandy made his appearance in Paris on Monday. Of the importance which he att a ches to hi s fool's errand to Spain, some idea may be formed 'from the following extract from his last despatch to M. Gui zot :—" The King's embassy to Spain, after having fought a hard and obstinate battle, could effect no more. It, however, brought back the body of France safe and intact from the combat." The body of France, indeed ! M. Salvandy writes as if he had been one of Madame de Pompadour's footmen. It is a pity M. de Salvandy was not an Ethiopian dwarf, for no man could better fill the office of one of the guardians of the Imperial slipper. The Chamber of Deputies on Monday commenced the debate on the Address in answer to the Speech from the Throne. MM. Bechaud and De Came were the first speakers, and both denounced the foreign policy of the Cabinet. In particular, both pointedly condemned the right of search on the coast of Africa guaranteed by the Five Powers. The following resolutions have been adopted by the Council-General of Commerce on the question of iron duties : Ist. An assimilation of the duties on iron entering by sea to those on iron entering by the northern fron tier; that is to say, a reduction of 3f. per 100 kilogrammes. " 2d. A reduction of 3f. (in two annual reductions), commencing from Ist January, 1844; on iron made with coal, and on iron made with wood. " 3d. No special reduction to be made on rails for rail roads ; but Government to be strongly urged to establish a liberal system of drawbacks on steam-engines made in France with foreign iron. " 4th. That all tools made in France should be subject to a similar reduction of duty as raw iron." The Spanish Chamber of Deputies has unanimously voted thanks to the Government and the Regent for hav ing refused to allow M. Salvandy to present his creden tials to the young Queen. The Senate had previously adopted a similar vote. Thus all Spain is opposed to the pretensions of King Louis Philippe. Advices from the Mauritius to the 14th October, quoted by the Bourdeaux papers, state that all French priests had been ordered out of the island by the British authorities. We publish the following anecdote, on the authority of the Constantinopolitan correspondent of the Morning Chronicle :—‘‘ Within the last two months no less a per son than the Centre of the Universe, the Shah of Persia, was conversing with a distin g uished European, and the subject of Egypt and A cre having been touched upon, the King of Kings exclaimed, " Mashallah I I know all about it. The English are a wonderful people ; they talk little and do much. The French are also a wonder ful people, they do little since Napoleon's time, but they talk a great deal more. Now see 1 The English suddenly sent many ships to Acre, and lo I that impreg nable place quickly disappeared ; they likewise sent some red-coats into Syria, and lo I the army of Ibrahim melted like the summer snows from Demavend ; they also sent ships and men to the Celestial Empire, and there also they spread panic and received tribute. In the meantime the French made many speeches, and called Mehemet Ali Pacha their soul, their brother. They also collected great armies at home, and sent forth many ships more than the English. But the sol- • diers did not move, and the ships sailed towards opposite shores ; and then when they heard that Acre had fallen, and their soul, their brother, was devouring immeasure able dirt, they hastened to call back their ships, and to build walls round Paris for their soldiers I Why did they do that 1" PUBLIC OPINION. The Morning Herald returns to the subject of the Times' ill-considered article on the King of Prussia's visit, observing:—" The Times is ashamed of the inso lent ribaldry with which it noticed the forthcoming visit to this country of the King of Prussia. It was forsooth —only nobody discovered its meaning, in spite of its being, so widely read—in ridicule of th Herald ! It is a mighty pity that the writer could not render his object palpable without making his Journal contemptible, and damaging the party it so unwillingly and on compul sion supports." The Chronicle contains an article suggested by the Times' hint about the expediency of prosecuting some of the clergymen, of the late Edinburgh Anti-Corn-law Conference, for sedition ; the object of which article is to show the Government that the people of Scotland would feel their honour engaged in standing by their ministers ; and that the people of England would cheer, with their sympathy and their approbation, the efforts of men embarked in the cause of justice, and defending the rights of discussion and the press. The Times gives its opinion on the perplexing case of the brig Creole in the following terms:—" In the matter of compensation, where they really can hope for no con cession from the British Government, they (the Ameri cans) have the reason of the case and the authority of their own writers flat against them. On the - claibefiir delivery of the criminals, on which they may possibly (for it is not yet clear) have reason with them,:They have, first, no reason to assume that their claim will not be freely acceded to; and, secondly, if it be not, their own law, at all events, speaks with so much indistinct ness and Contradiction on this head; that they are almost debarred from claiming what would be abstractedly their duo. They can scarce demand with much confidence for themselves what they are so backward to grant to others." The Post advocates the prosecution of some of the more earnest speakers at tho Edinburgh Anti-Corn. law Conference. "We grant," says our Contemporary, " that the punishment of such stupid, noisy dunces, might ' elevate them into a kind of notoriety, which at first they would like. But still, for the sake of public justice, we think they ought to be punished." On the question of the Creole brig, the Advertiser is of opinion that America must declare that not only is the slave trade not piracy, but likewise that it is lawful, be fore they can exhibit a tittle of right to the trial of the offenders in question. " Till this question were set at rest," adds the Advertiser, " we know not on what pre text she could demand, or the British Government sur render, the African victims." The Glasgow Argus thus refers to the Anti-Corn-law agitation now progressing in Scotland :—" Th e peop l e of Scotland are, perhaps, not so ready as their neigh bours in the South to embark in a career of public agi tation. SLOW BUT SURE is a saying that may be aptly applied to our countrymen, and we are well satisfied that, having once become awake to the fearful conse quences that flow from the laws which enhance - the price of food, and which prevent the industrious of the land from procuring the means of subsistence, they will be the last to withdraw from the contest, until their righteous purpose has been finally accomplished." The following is from the Tyne Mercury :—" The railroads, all the new facilities for commerce, the steam packets, the immense increase of steam and all other communication both by land and water, and manufac turing automaton power, are suffering from the present state of commercial intercourse, and it is their business to increase their traffic, not to see augmented duties from Russia and from America, with both of which we are threatened, and that too in consequence of our abo minable Corn-laws—so that in truth they are made the instruments of our obtaining a repeal of those laws." Alluding to some recent political statements in the Dublin Tory Journals, the Dublin Pilot says :—" They have, in point of fact, avowed that the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland is a party to the nomination of Mr. Gregory —that he is most solicitous for his return ; and, as if to give currency to the statements, his Excelency permits his chief steward or butler, or by whatever other name Lord Jocelyn is known in the household, to go about the town on a canvassing excursion, begging votes for the Conservative nominee. Now, this we take to be exceed ingly wrong, The late Administration eschewed all con nection with candidates and committees." The Brighton Guardian contains an - article on the ap prOahhing Session, from which we take the following paSsli . ,—" Sir Robert Pe e l, w ith hi s usual policy, is for compromise and delay ; btit compromise and delay will Snit neither the bread taxers nor the anti-bread taxers ; and as his lot, is cast in with the former, we are afraid that all the powers of the Government will be employed in upholding and vindicating the present sys tem or plunderinr , the industrious classes by laws; and if such should be the case, which God forbid, nothing can save England from a' terrible revolution, or the most frightful.commercial ruin." " 2VIONEY—TRADE—CoI Tramtcm. By the report read at the meeting of the St. Katha rine's Docks Proprietors yesterday, it appeared that their accounts showed an increase of 1,0821. Ils. 2d. for the last year. The tea-trade, notwithstanding the obstruc tions in China, had increased 37,553 packages. The re turns of shipping showed an increas e in Briti s h ships of 71,493 tons, and a falling off in the foreign tonnage of 35,487 tons. ECCLESIASTICAL. The over-crowded state of the burying-grounds at Leith oblige fifteen or twenty cartloads of surplus mould from the different churchyards to be deposited in the sea weelcly. The shore is constantly strewed with washed-up coffins, coffin-handles, and other relics of mor tality. NAVAL AND MILITARY. A new fixed light was erected on the west pier of Calais harbour on the first day of this year. LAW AND POLICE. The Crown debtors look forward with anxiety to the 25th instant, the day of the Royal baptism, in the hope of liberation, Yesterday, at Guildhall, James Adams, the young man who Was apprehended at Childs' banking-house when he was utterin4 a forged cheque for 901., was dis charged, as the Solicitor for Messrs. Childs believed the prisoner had been made the innocent dupe of some person. At Queen-square, George Blarsdel, a genteel-looking young man, was committed to take his trial for stealing two great-coats from the waiting-room of the Vice-Chan cellor's Court, the property of two of the Ushers. WM. Lewis, a li as Livermore, who described himself as a lieutenant in the navy, charged some days ago with stealing a watch and 23 sovereigns from a young man employed in Deptford Dockyard, was fully committed for trial. It appeared that the family of the prisoner was very respectable ; that his father lived at Croydon, and his brother was a wine-merchant in the City, who, on the facts being communicated to him by a policeman, said his brother had given an immensity of trouble to his family for years, and that he was transported to Ber muda fourteen years ago, and that since his return, from transportation he had been going on as bad as ever. norm ARTS. A statue in memory of Bichat, the celebrated physi cian? is about to be erected in the town of Bourg in the Ain, the place of his nativity. Liszt, the musician, was to leave Berlin on the 10th, to pass six weeks at St, r t ;tersburgh, and then go to Moscow. _ A concert was lately given at Madrid for the benefit of distressed religious sisters and . military invalids, at which R u bi n i sang a number of airs. The proceeds amounted to nearly 350/. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. The friends and admirers of Sir Humphrey Davy are endeavouring to promote a plan for a statue to his me mory, and the front of the Athenaeum Club-house is spoken of as an appropriate - site: Efforts also are making in Cornwall for a like "rnose. a purpk. spoTraTa. In Kensington-gardens yesterday, the ice was upwards of two inches thick, and from 1,000 to 1,500 persons were upon it. There wereittrge numbers on the Serpentine : 800 to 1,000 were in St. James's Park, and a greater number in the Regent's. In the latter park, a concus sion took place between two skaiters, and one of them had his skull fractured. COURT--PASHIONABLE. A grand ball was given at Naples on the - sth instant, in honour of the birth of the Prince of Wales, and the brilliancy of the fete could not be surpassed. Among the company were Don Sebastian, and his nephews, the sons of Don Carlos, who return to Rome next month. The Duke of Richmond left town on Saturday for Goodwood Park. The Marquis of Hertford has been suffering during the past week from a severe cold. The Earl and Countess of Darlington have arrived in town from Penton Hall. The Earhand Countess of Gainsborough have arrived in Paris from Barham Court, near Maidstone. Viscount Melbourne has been - visiting Viscount Pal merston during the past week at Broadlands. Lord and Lady Carrington have returned to town from Lincolnshire. The Earl of Aberdeen has been invited by the Queen to Windsor Castle, during the stay there of the King of Prussia. The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry en tertain a succession of visitors during the week at Wynyard Park. raISCELLANEOUS. The present is the second occasion of a visit of a reign ing King of Prussia to this country. The last visit was in 1814, when the father of the present King came over with the Emperor Alexander of Russia, now twenty eight years ago. Costa Rica, the late scene of the earthquake in Central America, is called the " The Rich Coast," from its actual fertility, abounding in gold mines, cocoa, pasturages, sugar, and corn. San Jose, the capital, contains about 16,000 inhabitants, and has two fine harbours. The whole country is mountainous in the extreme. Owing to some new regulations of the Ironmongers' Company, with regard to the letting of their Irish estates, no less than 360 tenants are on the point of being dispesseiSed of their lands in the manor of Lizard, in Derry. Most of them are linen-manufacturers to the Coleraine market, cultivating flax on their ground ; and are nearly all Presbyterians. A man named Jupp, who kept, the Star at Reigate, threW himself under the Brighton train, at Redhill, on Monday, and was smashed to pieces. The cause of this determined suicide is not known. The relation of two Queens, viz., Mrs. Wyndmore, cousin of Mary, Queen of William the Third, as w ell as of Queen Anne, died in Emanuel Hospital in 1772, having been supported fifty years on charity. The anniversary of St. Paul's conversion in the year 85, A.C., falls on the day of the Prince of Wales's christening. The Prince's nurse, Mrs. Brough, is to have a com mission in the army for her eldest son, RUMOURS OF THE DAY. Not fewer than seven candidates for the vacant see of Chichester, are mentioned. They are Dr. French, the Master of Jesus College, Cambridge, an electioneering friend of Lord Lyndhurst, Mr. Anderson, Dr. Hook, an ardent Puseyite, Dr. Wordsworth, Mr. Arch deacon Wilberforce, Archdeacon Lyall, and the Rev. John Peel, a canon of Canterbury and a brother of the Premier. LETTER TO SIR R. PEEL. Chateau de Talhouet, Pres de L'Orient, France. Sir Francis Mackenzie presents his compliments to Sir Robert Peel, and takes the liberty of addressing him on the subject of an alteration in our 13ritish postmge, from Id. to 3d., which Sir Francis, before I, ' i l ing i Nngland, was assured by one who believed hiin'S a pfilmesrEl ,of true information, would be proposed on . vit l . R .pkuutig of Parliament. Mixing as Sir Francis ipalys.tli:,:every variety of society, in both . Scotland an England, he begs to assure Sir. Robert of the unpopularityy of such a 'measure, and th 4 the. public opinion is decidedly favour able to a4d.postage, which, without being so high as .to chAeK ri t t lie , present amount of correspondence, would at 'once - double the Post-office revenue now re ceived ;. whilst a 3d. pOsfage would be most unpopular, and deemed oppression by the lower classes, thus pre vented by the triple postage . from continuing that friendly communication between distant friends and re latives so deserving of encouragement, as, producing the best and kindest feelings of human nature. Sir Francis also takes the liberty of asking Sir Robert Peel if he is aware that a combination 'exists amongst the master manufacturers to continue, if not increase, the dissipated and vicious habits of their operatives.? Sir Francis has more than once heard it asserted by them, that if temperance habits prevailed to any extent amongst the working classes of our manufacturing towns the ruin of England must follow. It is scarcely six weeks ago that Sir Francis met, when travelling in the • railway from Nottingham to. Leicester, an extremely respectable and intelligent • manufacturer, who paid, he 'said, above 1,0001. every Saturday evening to his wurk men; every shilling of which he believed was spent in debauch or unnecessary - expense before Tuesday morn ing, when they were compelled to return again to work, only from the craving -desire to repeat the same indul gence of the grossest appetites. This gentleman had ab stained from all fermented liquors for the last six years, on account of his health; and Sir Francis and his family having happily embraced the principles of total abstinence above two years ago, with the best effects, in all the towns and villages near his country residence, thought it a duty, as President of all the Northern Societies, to press this gentleman to sign the abstinence pledge-- powerful as his example would be amongst his people, and not requiring any sacrifice of taste or habits on his part, but no arguments had any effect. His reply was, that it was his wish, and the interest of all master ma nufacturers, to conceal rather than make known his tem perance habits ; for this reason, that so soon as an ope rative became converted from habits of vice, and drunk enness, so common to their class, they immediately com menced saving money; . ' which, after a few years accu mulation, was invested in manufacturing operations, in conjunction with their reformed brethren—that the union of such Working reformed men enabled them to manufacture goods of a better quality and at a cheaper rate than master manufacturers and large capitahsts could do—who were thus in danger of ruin, caused wholly by the reformed habits of those men, who, whilst degraded by intemperance, were the sole source of those immense fortunes often realised bymaster manufacturers of large capital. Ho also said that he feared temperance and good habits were creeping on too fast already, and that unless checked, and an alteration should take place, twenty years would not elapse ere the investment of large capitals and the - making of large fortunes would be at an end. How different is the treatment of their labourers by landed proprietors, who always take the strongest interest in the - encouragement of sobriety, savings' banks, provident societies, and every other means in their power to render them independent and virtu ou3. 'Which population, therefore, deserves the greater encouragement, the manufacturing or the agricul tural? Which is fittest, from their habits, to defend our country if called on to oppose a foreign enemy? Yet, any one who has within the last twenty years travelled frequently through Britain, must see even now, at this time of general complaint, the immense increase of build ings in all the manufacturing districts over those which are agricultural. Sir F. can, for instance well remember the picturesque town of Lancaster wholly devoid, but a few years ago, of a single tall smoking chimney-top-- observe it now, despite the continual cry of distress, and examine the changed state of its population, debased by those vices which ever accompany manufactures. Does the same misery and vice accompany an increase in agricultural population. even 'if it were doubled in number to what it now is in Britain? Belgium,'Jersey, and Guernsey, answer the 9uestion and speak for them selves, and at once decide in favour of the agricultural population. Is then that" betiter race of men to be at once sacrificed by the enormous change, the sudden, un avoidable ruin, which would accompany the admission of foreign corn at a duty of eight shillings? Sir F. has ever been, and hopes ever whilst life remains, a Re former of all abuses where they are proved to exist, but at the same time he knows the danger of even the best reforms if too suddenly made. The introduction of fo reign corn at once on a duty of only Bs. would, is well known to all men who ioii i'lira(ireed Poland; a l i . agricultural c re g o u o iv a j i re n ita t o e npr d dso, p i 1 ivbuialut population. ig.cor t a h nur_ e ry. s c v o s za r incl n y.d: P p renderraorad paralyse e l one-half lg the d i ls s , t h ei p e l toesuorof of not, then, try a gra d ua l decrease on the duty for admis-- sion of foreign grain? Why not lay on at first a higher duty than Bs., and gradually reduce that . duty by one shilling yearly? There would then be time and facts by which the question of such difficulty as that of our Corn-laws could be truly and well decided. The re duction of one shilling duty annually would soon show what was best for the greatest interests of our coun try, and we could proceed or retrace our steps as might be proved most advantageous to the nation without that vio lent contention which at present disturbs Britain. Sir Francis has always stated in society his opinion to be in favour of a gradually falling duty on foreign corn, and seldom has that opinion been opposed, which induces him the more willingly to intrude his ideas on the much occu pied and valuable time of Sir R. Peel, who will, however, he trusts, forgive the intrusion, perhaps, when he knows it to emanate solely from the sincere desire he entertains for the virtue and happiness of his country. To the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel. &c. &c. A good deal of laughter was excited by a joke which Lord Stanley passed while the Earl of Ripon was speaking. The latter, when about to make the quotation from the Scotch song cf " The Boatie Rows," it will be recollected said, " I beg pardon of the Lord Mayor if I should not read the words with the proper ac cent." "Why don't you sing them ?" cried Lord Stan ley, to the great delight of the Aldermen opposite to him. ACCOUNT OF THE COINS DEPOSITED IN TiiE STONE sovereign, 1 half-sovereign, 1 half crown, 1 shilling, 1 sixpence, 1 fourpence, 1 fourpence Maunday money, 1 threepence Maunday money, 1 two pence Maunday money, 1 penny Maunday money, 1 three-halfpence (silver), 1 penny, 1 halfpenny (silver), 1 farthing, and 3 coins (copper) States of. Jersey, 1 quarter farthing, 1 half ditto, 1 small Roman coin. MORE CONVERTS TO CATHOLICITY.—On Thursday last, the Feast of the Epiphany, the two eldest daughters of Thomas Tennison, Esq., of Inistiogue, late of Rock Hall, were publicly received into the bosom of the Mother Church by the Rev. Ur, Butler, C.C.—Kilkenny Journal, EVENING SUN MONEY sad COMMERCIAL NEWS• CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JAN. 18.—We have had a dull inactive Market to-day, and this being Man chester Market-day, the attendance of the trade is slender. The sales are 3,000 bales, at steady prices. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JAN. 18.— Lancaster. and Preston Junction, 27 ; London and Birmingham 321. Shares, 57i ; Ditto, New, 28i ; London and South Western, 58i ; Manchester and Leeds, + Shares, 3/. 19 9 * MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 18.—W° have had an increased demand to-day for our local Banks, and a fair business done in Railway Stock. Lan caster and Preston, 271 ; ditto Three Quarter Shares, _ 161.1185. 9d. • Midland ,Counties, ; South Eastern , , 27+ ; Manchester and Leeds Quarter, 3/. 17s. 6d. to , 3/. 18s. ; Manchester and Leeds Bonds at par ; South Lancashire Banks, 4i;:Manchester Aisu r a nce , 9/. 6s. 3d• THE FUNDS. - . Both the English and Foreign Securities opened firm, with a slight advance upon the closing prices of yester day. Consols are now 89k i for Money,. and 891 for the Account ; Exchequer Bills, 16 18 prem. Spanish Active Stock, 24i 25i ; Portuguese Securities ri are firm ; the Five per Cents. are 34k, and the Thre e .,= per Cents. 201 1. • PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.• RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. '',. 42 Bristol and Exeter 6O ..... 25 - :' Great Western - , , b l ' -. Ditto New London and Brighton 50 ...... 38iii... to --,: ':'l. , Manchester and Birmingham ... 40 - ,raft' Midland Counties .. lOO - to 9fil South Eastern and Dover York and North Midland... COURSE OF EXCHANGE —k YESTERDAY. ) 714 Amsterdam CF. 12 7i Gibraltar . .... AO' Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ..2 U. 12 8 Genoa Antwerp Hamburgki M.B. 13 14 Venice Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 65. Palermo, per ez 119 ii. Ditto, 3 months 25 N Lisbon 2 ` ; ). ,ig ,2 Marseilles 4 Bourdeaux 25 95 Rio Janeiro 27 ) .4:4 Frankfort on Maine... 1501 Bahia Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37 Buenos Ayres — _ 8er1in........ 7 New York - , 21 days sight 46i " Vienna, effec. tl. 3M. 955 Philadelphia ...... ...—.... 46 Trieste, ditto 9 56 PRICES OF BULLION, PER 0% . 1 Madrid Cadiz Bilbao ... 36 New Doubloons 0 0 0 sf Barcelona Seville HALF-PAST ONE. There has been but little business transacted in the Stock Exchange up to the present time. Consols are DOW 89* for Money, and 891 t for 0 1 ! Account ; India Stock 2461; Ditto Bonds, 10 12, and Exchequer Bills 16 18 premium. Spanish Active Steele has improved to 25 toe ; Portuguese Five per Cents. are firm at 344 ; Mexican Bonds, 29/ ; Belgian, 1031 Brazilian, 65 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half perSents. 5 1 It ; Ditto, Fives, 100/. Very little doing in Shares,' Great Western New ari! 611 ; London and Brighton, 38/ ; Manchester and Biv-s mingham, 28 ; Midland Counties, 82/ ; South Easter/I,c and Dover, 27 ; York and North Midland, 914. HALF PAST TWO. Consols, Money, 89* 1 ; Do., Account, 89/ ; T' lombian, 22 221 ; Mexican, 29i # ; Portuguese, 341 Spanish, 24i 251. QUARTER TO THREE... It is to be regretted that the Greenland and Davla Straits Fishery should exhibit such symptoms o f decal- In the year 1821, upwards of ninety whale-ships left the single port of Hull, and the total number of v essels engaged in the trade in that year was nal than 200, whilst for many years the quan tity ° whale fins averaged, in weight, from 600 to 700 tons. Of late years.the number of ships employed, and of fish ;' captured, have very much diminished, as appears from''; the following table : Quantity o f No. of Ships. No. of Fish. Whalebon e 1833 39 466 1839 41 ... 81 ; 1840 1841 The increased quantity of South Sea whalebone ha s ' to some extent, supplied the deficiency of northern bone ; but inasmuch as the former is of a coarse qualitY:f and not applicable for many of the purpo ses for Whie`' northern bone is used, the northern has increased in value. LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DA Y. O l LONDON, J. 19.—Wind this day A t AGM S. to S. T i v • STANGATE CREEK, JAN. 18.—A rr d. N or h am Odessa; Phantom, Patras; Sabina, Messsina; John an Mary, Alicant. RAMSGATE, JAN. 18.—The Venus, from Hartlepool toa. Weymouth, in proceeding to sea got in contact with k vessel, and carried away bowsprit, &c., and has put ha s to repair. The William, from Newport to London , -- na been assisted in, with loss of bowsprit and jib-boon'. ht cutwater damaged, &c., having been run into last nig whilst at anchor off the North Foreland. DEAL, JAN. 18.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Danae, ter, Port-au-Prince; Amy, Shields, and sailed for Bonr bay; Ivanhoe, ditto, and sailed for Havanna. Arrd. from the River and sailed, Janet Willis, Demerara; Oberon+ Westward, with the rest of the outward bound. Her 3 0 " esty's ships Warspite and Vindictive, have proceeded tc ' the Northward. Arrd. Georgia, Westward. , BRIDE, JAN. 17.—The Victoria, Found, from F orth- l cawl, was wrecked at the ent rance o f t hi s h ar b our ynsteL - ,;,.: 2. „ day, crew saved, with material s an d part o f cargo . 41 LIVERPOOL, JAN. 18.—Wind variable.--Arrd. La" Combermere, Bonny, sailed October 19, Fernando 1 ) ° , :9 20 ; St. Laurence, Richibucto ; Old Tom, Ancona' Renshaw, Taylor, Smyrna. Sld. Patriot, King, Calcutta; .4 Thirteen, Rio Janeiro ; Fanny, a nd Goli a h, New 491... .,f leans ; Eagle, Savannah ; Frederick Warren, Boston' Cossack, Cape Vecchia ; Heron, and Joseph Albino's • Malta ; Honesty, Leghorn. OFF WATERFORD, JAN. 16.—Hibernia, Liverpool , O r New York. , for SHADWELL ROADS, JAN. 16. - - Sarah, Liverpool, TORBAY, JAN. 17.—Arrd. Flora, St. Übes, for 1 - 1011- don, leaky, making 12 inche's water per hour. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 18.—Wind calm.—The Armeni f4 Hunter, whi c h go t as h ore near S un d own B ay 14th ins t ' : was assisted off this morning. OFF PLYMOUTH, JAN. 15.—Lightning, for Malta.' CARDIFF, JAN. 17.—Sld. Caroline Louise, St. Thetli , ,: KINGSTOWN, JAN. 17.—Arrd. Mincarlo, Leghorn. e , ••••,' KINsALE, JAN. 15.—Put back the Rob er t Stria' for Naples. • PORT FLEETWOOD, JAN. 17.—Part of a brig's to k 4 mast, with top and part of rigging attached, no mar was picked up in Lime Deeps 11th inst. a YARMOUTH ROADS, JA N . 18.—A rr d. J a mes oi l Thomas, Bombay, for Hull. OFF HASTINGS, JAN. 15.—Rowena, River G a mbits., • , COWES, JAN. 18.—Arrd. her Majesty's ship liar• cable, Gibraltar. Sld. her Majesty's ship Ferret,Afri , FALMOUTH, JAN. 17.—Wind N.W. to w.N•r• fresh breezes.—Arrd. Montrose (steamer), Alexanr °4 left 24th ult. ; Malta, 30 ; Gibraltar, Bth inst. ; Lisbo n ' .12th, and has •sailed for Southampton ; Honor, t Sailed the Dee (steamer), West Indies ; Margnr ° (steamer), Vigo, &c. SWANSEA, JAN. 17.—Arrd. Ald. Thompson, Cubs: GIBRALTAR, JAN. B.—The Oriental steamer, wi l : proceeded hence for Malta and Alexandria, put back th 5 morning with paddles injured, I:ss of boats, &c., l °l vin ': been in contact with a vess e l, and nation known, to the eastward of the rock. for Her Majesty's ship Li zar d h as b een sen t t o s earch the missing vessel. THE MODEL OF THE T,A.G . ' a MUHAL, NOW EXHIBITING AT • THE COS" MORAMA, REGENT-STREET. Among the numerous exhibitions of the metropoli s ; there is none more worthy of notice than the ivory mo de ! of the Tage Muhal, now exhibiting in Regent-street. Iti is made of solid ivory, and is an exact model of the original' which is one of the wonders of modern India. Bishop Reber , in his " Journal," speaking of the Tage Muhal, says :--" " I went to see the celebrated Tage Muhal, of which IS is enough to say, that, after hearing its praises ever sinfe c.g I bad been in India, its beauty rather exceeded than short of my expectations." This magnificent and be au " tiful edifice is situated about three miles from Agra, of. the banks of the Jumna, and is built entirely white marble. It occupies a space of one litindr e yards square; and is crowned by a dome which rise s 1 : ' ;9s l the height of 150 fe e t. Th e building itself is raised ,°,`Thc , -' a terrace of whit e mar bl e , f rom th e ang l es o f w hich I_7. four lofty minarets. It was erected abo u t A.D. 1650, b y Khan Shah Jehan, the sth Great Mogul, as the ea, le ; tery of his favourite wife Soltana Mehd Aliya, the Inef o of Nur Jehan, his mother. in-law. This mausoleum, t': l finest in the world, cost 60 lacs of rues, or 750,00', • It contains a central hall. within whi c h are the to b 5 of the empress and of the Emperor Shah Jehan and around this hall are several smaller apartments and corridors. The founder of this magnificent mausolea, l l.7' l was one of the most talented, and at the same time one the most unfortunate, of the Sovereigns of India. of affection for his wife this mausoleum, erected by him I% ler-, her last resting pl ace , was a su ffi c i ent proo f ; and 11 e W l3 ' equally remarkable for his affection for his children•_:,,,, No sooner had his three sons attained to years of maturitf - than he bestowed on each the government of a prcoi nce. His youngest son was the celebrated and infamous -Na t i , rungzebe. He was the favourite of Shah Jehan, nn after endeavouring to i n cit e his broth ers to treas °it against their father, in order to betray thT, and to obtain posse ss ion o f th e i r territ or i es , in his he was but too successful, he, having destroyed brothers, turned his arms against his parent, a nd 01 aged Monarch spent the last ten years of his life in is. f : prison, to which his ungr a teful s on h a d d oo med him..., i „a his death his remains were d e p os it e d i n the Tage by the side of his favourite wif e . The mu" - , which took twelve years in making, and which 1 "; originally intended for the late Mar qu is of Hastings , . , v - one of the most' beautiful specimens of Indian ingen tli :'„ ever exhibited ; and no one who takes an intere s t India, its history, its architecture, or its antiquitle.'t: should omit paying a visit to•the Cosmorama to inspe ebi . - NEW COMET—(From a Correspondent) . Mr. J. Jennings, of South P oo l, D evons hire, di s f re °- vered a comet in the constellation Leo, on Friday , o f 14th. The place of its perihelion is in 27 deg. 50 e. Leo, its hetiocentric motion is retrogade, and e° l-I "i t quently its orbit is inclined towards the north-east Pativ of the heavens ; its parallax is very small, consequen the atmosphere must be exceedingly c l ear t o render e ," visible to the naked eye. It h as a sma ll aPren:Zr which proceeds from its atmosphere, reflecting the rays and will disappear in a few evenings. espatches from the Governor of the Mauri tius, and also from th e G overnor o f the Cape °f Good Hope, were received yesterday at the C" loniakffice. L Ct NIL th e Que the Ti c ord e , Tgt ; Ti 'nfor th e c orral der e( Sir Ti Plse6s Th e 1),•"ec t ot fir ' 1111,3.ei reel 10 rje