The Sun. — London, England, 1842-01-11 00:00:00

MORNING SUN R)xburghsbire, to send their sons to De. Turnbull, who wa asuecessful with them both, one being a ease of con genital deafness. This eminent person, the President of the loyal Society of Edinburgh, has, both in writing a !ll by oral communication, expressed to us his full con viction of the power of Dr. Turnbull to effect extraordi lii, na a ry cures in this class of diseases. father s in-law of one of the individuals now ad - ea la". ; eag the , public has been deaf in his left ear fifty s yells's, in consequence of a cold from sleeping in a a a.lp bal. W e saw this gentleman sit down in Dr. tusibull' s room with his left ear utterly deaf, and, in las fire minut es ,, a f ter a process which will be afterwards described, and the application of a 'liquid, we saw him ri s yin possession Ville hearing of that ear. In this gen laaPalaaa's case, all the efforts of many other aurists had cOMpletely failed. t ai. Mr. Cha r l es H ope , w h o l ate l y ret i re d f rom t h e situa oa ;lon of President of the Court of Session, was induced a ear a friend - to resort to Dr. Turnbull last April, on ac count of impaired hearing. To quote a letter to (-gir ls,- 'elves, which the ex-President has placed at our dis rwaaal :---a Before* putting myself under Dr. Turn ar all's c are I thought it right to inform him that I f o "bald just care, my 79th year, on which he at once landidly said that he would not undertake to cure me, s ac , but that perhaps he might do me some good, if I Iz aaould allow him to examine my ears, which of course I • iil d• He told me it impossible that I could hear t 9 - was t 44 - web, for my ears were as dry as the mahogany table we , s ,were sitting at as there was a total want of the se erstioa of wax. That, he said, he certainly could re atora Accordingly, after two or three applications, the *S, 1 1 : 11 x began to appear, and at the end of ten or twelve aays became copious ; and I certainly found very consi ., (-arable improvement in my hearing, which was sensible my family and my colleagues. The secretion of wax continu es and my ears are now in their natural healthy S tate, subject only to the effects of old-. age, which go - lierally blunts all the senses. * * * In short, Dr. Turnbull did me all the good he ever pretended he could do to my hearing, and that benefit - continues." Three deaf-mute children, from ten to eleven years of t ge, who had been for some years receiving their educe— !ion in the Day School for the Deaf and Dumb in Edin burgh, attended Dr. Turnbull in Aprillest, and - hard their hearing established. Mr. Drysdale, the deaf-mutemasa te r of the schoisl, has given distinct testimony to this fact in a document which we have perused ; and, at a private personal interview when we asked categorically If th ese c hil dr erafornieras did not hear and now do so, h e : .. a .,:,.swered as emphatically that such really was the case. saw the three children more than once, and found t hem able to hear very slight noises at the distance of several yards, and to pronoance words after any one Speaking to them, these persons, it is important to: re finark, being stationed behind their backs. Their pro- `a'l. 2ll lneiation, it may be noticed, waaimperfect, and some= -: .agailes the sound uttered by them was very unlike the ; but there could he no doubt of the existence; • 'small the three, of both the power of hearing and of !• sPeakin a , • Per. T urn b u ll was i n Ab er d een d ur i ng S ep t em b er an d st e toter -last, in consequence of an invitation from a,f ( ' - "a Jaek, Principal of King's College. He was there I successful in a number of very interesting cases. A girl named Mary Moir, from Waterside of Thornton, near laawrencelsirk—born deaf and dumb—was enabled t• o hear perfectly in a- few minutes. Two young per- Margaret and. Robert Stirling, of Aberdeen, deaf jinn birth, were also, completely cured. Sophia Ro "ertson, of the Deaf and Dumb Institution of Aberdeen, and John Scott, from Dufftown (a lad of twenty • tour), were other eases of ;complete cure. Dr. Keith, s urgeon to the Infirmary, and Mr. George Rainy, "rgeon to the Ophthalmic and Annie Institution, both r 4 Aberdeen, certify these. cures in documents before us. htliZforme r gen tl eman .gays; in a letter to Dr. 'rum " After repeated examinations of many of the "kjects of -your care previously to anything being cl° ' lo , la satisfied myself that they were both deaf al ni dumb, a have witnessed the application of your remedy •to . the ears, and bear testimony to their lt a viage in my own presence, obtained the sense of " ri ng ; and by my own tuition in a few minutes after- I jards, acquired the power of speech." The case of a`ophia Robertson is certified by Mr. M. R. Burns, the - niastee of the Deaf and Dumb Institution, an individual ?_f whos e moral wort h we h appen to have personal kn owledge. " Sophia," he says, "lost her hearing from s • i n ) fever. She cou ld h ear th e c l oc k s t r iki ng w h en stan di ng i y it. But since she has been u n d er y our care s h e can ;leer a bell r ung th ree p a i rs o f s t a i rs up , an d eas il y t h e s i 'iging of the church &ells. In ma own experience it is t a. ..mot le ss effectual, though less rapid. I feel my hearing 2;(l4lrogressing." Dr. Fleming, Professor of Natural Philo ala::1)113a and Dr. William Gregory, - Professor of - Che esal I ' 4 '34:shave: likewise given f avou r a bl e t est i mon y, t h e arm utter gentleman saying, amongst other things, with re sca rd te• the three Edinurgh child ren a b ove - ment i one d , %the doubts which have been e x pr esse d (o b v i ously ; , Avithout . experimental grounds) of the .permanence of' Your cures, must be in a great measure diseipated by- the, state of these individuals, six months after treatment." - Dr. Turnbull was in Glasgow at the beginni n g of the by-past year, and i n pu bli c a dministe re d to various deaf and dumb persons. Happening to be acquaiuted with a; gentleman who had taken an interest in what was then • done-, he wrote to him, making particular inquiry into the condition of two young persons whom we understood to have received decided and permanent benefit. These - Were deaf-mutes, named Jane Wilkie and Margaret Muir, the one being about eight years of age, the other about n ineteen. Our friend answered (Dec. 2) as follows :—"I tailed for both the girls to-day, and had the good luck to "ad Wilkie a t h ome . H er mot h er states f ree l y t h at she hears quite as well as the other children, and is at a i _sehool conducted b y a female; who seems to be bring her on very well, if I may judge f r o m a s p ec i men ' li t: her reading I witnessed to-day. H er ar ti cu l a ti on h as B , ve ry perfect, considering the short time that she to as d °eau at. school. They have no occasi on now t o spea k i to her, as s h e se e ms t o un d erstan d qu i te we ll w h at even when her back is turned. * * * I fciund n tr's parents at home, but she herself was at work in the e t a ° e tt en-mill. I put many questions to the parents, which th_Y. answered very 'satisfactorily. They stated • that .ie surprisina effects produced by Dr. Turnbull had not s ' e u t a s te d the least degree, but, on the contrary, were er increased. She hears whatever is said to her, though she may be in another room with the door shut." Ma t is e l . • a common allegation respecting Dr. Turnbull's ae es, that, on the most favourable construction, they tt) e little more than momentary ; and we are bound ac±anhserve that we have heard of persons of impaired a ti r o illa . relapsing after a time from the. improved con,. ° into which he had brought them.. But what is e s said of Mr. Hope, who has continued well for six I) sev en month s ; of the three child ren o f t h e Edi n b urg h t4 .- sellool for the Deaf and Dumb, who have main 7 itZ.l recovered hearing for an equal time ; and of Jane toser l e and Margaret Muir, who are better now than ' a fter nearly a twelvewonth .? By these cases, not' tlEn of of others of more recent date, the so-far perma of the remedy seems to us fully established. ao - c r k t s , born deafness was never cured before, it may be th e n While to give a few particulars with respect to 144, se nsations of the - patients on th e i r fi rst b ecom i ng W s Ped a of the heretofore deficient sense: Mi ss a _ :car states, in a letter before us, that she at first v e F i a iel ri elleed c ons id era bl e anno y ance f rom t h e no i se of ins" in the street. On attending church, the sing had g av e her new an d exquisite pleasure, though she t 0 some enjoyed music in the manner peculiar s ,,l_ne deaf persons, through the effect of vibration the general frame. - Another cured patient, who, T a l e . _ ;I-has Walker, had previously acquired consider able knowledge of written language, has drawn up a t ia s per to enforce a hypothesis which has occurred to r.mind, th a t soun d and language are connected. A Vri residin g a t Gl asgow, who was cured in May, has it ~ I ce acquired th e sense or smell : when she discovered a she held out a ro se to her mother, and said her nose ' t `: l ,., spoken._ A married woman, residing in Edinburgh, v it e eatting .homeh-efarron.icthe first experiment with reco tear hearing, . 'r children crying, but was not some time ite ale that the sound had any connection w ith th e i r suffering. It w ou ld he obviously of import t4inees to t, have a fair opportunity of observing the effect of 1 4 so u den acquirement of the sense of hearing on some ar. n capable of recording Iris gradual circumstances causing it. perceptions of the 4rf:.----,4aeetlon of sound with the „.. : ;' l ' . o proceed to report what has been stated to us, and Vitt w e have witnessed, respecting the ex clients used ps s 'll.-)1*. Turnbull for the cure of deafness.Pe tthe. course of general practice in 1834, he had two u,elits. afflicted with tic doloureux, extend along the ' 4 11! )11 '"Ples and forehead, and producing partialiilindess in ) 5 . ';f or t ' .‘ e- of each patient. Ba the application of veratria as Out f our weeks, the tic was removed, and at the, 'asa t "e tim e th e sight restored. This latter circumstance q e rlie lt his mind forcibly, and he thought it might be well H t li sQ ' t r'Y'the effect of some of the new alkaloids upon eye ' getes• Obtaining permission to experiment in St. 4 a i s t istiecaZ Workhouse, he found a patient in an old para- Ai d ontan who wanted seeing and hearing on one 411 ' e With , d , ‘ th e fo _ a view to the cure of the eye only, (l ays Zaead of this woman was rubbed daily for four t aen, _ eith an extract of capsicum, when her vision S tilt completely restored ; and next, day—a re seria °tell had not been, in the faintest degree, • ta ea Tad, she also regained hei hearing 1 He La Wi th -similar experiments, but in no other ease met ',uch very extraordinary results. His attention was fce . ., ‘ ' a n s "weaer, powerfully - attracted to ear diseases. Be - e ky _vertin g to lfis further - progress in that walk, we Pr o f e ' se‘ Fntion that he succeeded in establishing with the eathe e : r 1 ° 11 generally the powerful effects of veratria in i le a oth er fti e of c-doloureux, rheumatism, gout, and all forms of neuralgic disease. : tea ta4 'r a Pe ., riment in time showed that, in cases of deafness 190 210 • ea og fro m 1 011 , the _ a nervous energy, a class to which nearly Ta laa ses of the deaf and dumb belong, the organ his exhibited a sad picture of commercial distress, and showed how deeply shopkeepers and all other classes w _e_l,laore o r l ess success f ully treated b y applying to were interested in the prosperity of linen, the great aeautoeaa alkaloid. This he rubs gently upon the tym- staple trade of the town. Mr. Baxter adverted to lea t h ee °Y means of an instrument tipped with skamois the bounty on linen ; which, when proposed to be dis a. la ws * , and generally in ten minutes the effects are et, est. continued, same deprecated as attended with danger, t h e but in which fears he did not concur. Now, the year 4 1 : 2 t r t it „ greater number of diseases of the ear arise after these bounties were abolished, the shipments ttea ,;:,•43ideproducing acute and chronic imflammation, linen increased 30,000 pieces, which showed how little W ' Ll tnitushing or altogether obstructing the flow of real benefit trade derives from such protection ; and he Wax Who h "titer -r emy the tympanum and other parts of the believed the same good results would arise from leaving a h ad ear, from being . exposed . to the air, are thickened, agriculture to its own native energies. —(Cheers.) " deprived of sensibility. Cold also produces in- Sir J. OGILvY, a landowner, but allied with the ma ss Aathaatici ae ssaa _ ll and consequent accumulation of mucus in the nufacturers by opinion, recommended moderation and the a ati a zt e called the Eustachian tube, which cons- use of reason. te p „',.tes ,. between the internal ear and the baele of the Mr. 1). BAXTER moved the first resolution :—" That t , i_! - u aiding cured persons relapse in consequence the manufacturing interests of this district are, and have itsa lle h d• f arect of wax, Dr. Turnbull w a s pro m pted to been, for some years, in a state of great distress." He . t tle h ea us -ocillrisistq4y.inin endeavouring to discover a would read to them a statement showing the number at the a 1 . that secretion. He reflected, of persons out of employment, the rate of wages . as a . kosh er , PP ication of the mouth of the child to its ! compared ‘lith former years, and the effect of the high breast, by removing the. pressure of the at- ' 'price of provisions on the industrious classes of the corn tre es ; ta I 05...; Causes the milk immediately to flow, and munity. aesasaleved th a t a s i m il ar result might follow with Factory Weavers.—Total number of looms, 3,131 ; •s e it a.4 4 -teet tq t h o laz a of the ear', if he could by any of which in employment, 1,232; partially employed, 554; tta remove the the atmosphere 1 priwaire from unemployed, 1,345 ; total of persons employed, 1,319 stlt external parts. For , this, ealtr4o2 Le, at first used partially employed, 554; unempleyed, 1,468 ; starchers 44 aise with au Indian rubLer t:::i441.4 £tted employed, 87 ; unemployed, 113 ; total, 3,331. Of those aperture of the ear. The plan was -slacce§ifq; employed[ 360 are working Government sailcloth, the - vessels l4oo d resumed a fr e q circulation and thg flow ' h • • ; copITACO i re masa. NJ ; - • of wax recommenced. It strikes us that we . have rarely known a more beautiful instance of a simple natural principle being taken advantage of by human ingenuity, for a humane end. The clearing of the Eustachian tube, for which no means formerly existed but the application of medi cines to the bowels, or the dangerous use of a catheter, was effected by Dr. Turnbull by the same simple means. For producing exhaustion, however, either in this or the above case, he does not _use a syringe, but a very elegant application of the air-pump, suggested to hini by Sir John Robison of Edinburgh. This he calls a Pneu matic Extractor. A common air-pmnp operates in ex bausting a tall bell-saped receiver, in the interior of which is a mercurial guage, to indicate the degree of ex, haustion. Erom the plate of the pump'proceeds a flexible air-tight pipe, baring a stopcock near its junction. On the farther end of this pipe, the experimenter can fit on either an oval glass cup made to contain the outer ear, and fit close to the head by means of a little soft wax or putty—or a slightly-bent tube of the same material, 3-8 ths of an inch in diameter, with its mouth a little evasated, or turned outwards. On this tube being introduced into the mouth of the patient, and applied to the orifice of the Eustachian passage, communication is opened be tween the previously rarefied air in the receiver, and the orifice, from which a discharge of mucus is soon made into the tube, which is then withdrawn. The rarefac tion which effects this best is equal to from five td eight inches of the mercurial column. It may be remarked, that engorgement of the Eustachian tube and the inner cavities of the ear, are conditions which prove a fre quent cause of deafness. The air, it must be obServed, is the proper conductor of sound ; and there must be a free passage between the inner ear and the outer air, in order to allow of the tympanum performing the vibrations which give hearing. All that tends, as engorgement does, to impede the free vibrations of the tympanum, must of course produce deafness. We thus clearly see of what importance must be every means by which engorgement can be readily reduced. As we are only anxious on the present occasion to show the grounds we have for an opinion subversive of the ,injurious notices formerly inserted in this work, we do not propose to say more respecting the various depreciatory remarks which have been made respect ing:Dr-. 'Turnbull, apart from his practice, than that we have seen .and heard enough to satisfy us that they are, on. a liberal construction of . circumstances, ill founded. We leave him to pursue his way, freed at least from any obstruction which may be supposed to have been thrown in it by this Journal. That he has, by patience and ingenuity, obtained a grasp of certain new medicaments and methods calculated to cure cases of deafness, such as were never cured before, we have no doubt ;* and we consequently believe that, if he perse veres in his course, he will -speedily be able to come.be fore the profession with claims for an unequivocally high place in its annals. .The past history of his experiments—for, strictly speaking, he is as yet only experimenting—supplies . some curious. matter:for reflection. Aural surgery pro ceeds for ages with a small measure of "success, and; though in a vast proportion of _eases no benefit is expe rienced, no one ..thinks of venting complaint or remon strance on the subject. Failures numberless are over looked and excused, as only what is to be expected from the defective state of medical science. At -length, a man of some originality appears, who apparently de tects -the true -and direct means of curing deafness in many of its forms, and heis successful in a very consider rable number of cases. What is the receptiOn he meets with ? The medical profession are instantly in arms against him. The public treats him as one rather pro-' posing to injure than to benefit it. The keepers of in stitutions for the deaf and dumb, with scarcely an excep tion, present bayonets at his approach. The evidence of: his cure is disputed. Cases of failure, though they occur • in a small proportion compared with what could be reckoned formerly, are fastened upon, magnified, and made a pretext for doubting cases of proved success. Men are heard with one breath denying his cures altogether— with the next alleging that they last only for a few days. Everything that - can be heard of to his prejudice is gathered together and flung in. his teeth. Every quirk, and quibble, and dexterous" evasion that can be devised, are brought to bear on his public exhibitions, so as to ensure his failure, or at least bring discredit on his operations. In short, the whole world seems in somewhat the same mind with the Irishman who laid a bet that his friend would not carry him to the top of a house in his hod, withouNetting him fall, and who had great hopes from a trip about the third storey. It seems out of its senses with eagerness to discover that the whole of this attempt to benefit it should prove to be an imposition. Accordingly, the experimenter appears in exactly the same predicament with those who brought bad news to Athens. He stands with a rope about his neck, which the angry public seem every moment abeitt to draw tight—despised, ridiculed, mis- Called, hustled, badgered, and reviled. It is scarcely necessary to remark - how his fortune prospers during this pleaSant probation. While alleged to be robbing 'rich and poor, and accumulating an enormous hoard i)fwealth; he is in reality curing the poor without any `kind of charge, and has lost most of even that moderate income which he formerly drew from common practice. " Everything but trodden out of existence" Is; in one word, the fate of the individual who has been the first merely human being to cause the deaf to hear. After such a history; it must be owned that the' temptations to leave the quiet chininey-corner of commonplace and common error,-are not great, or, whatever they are, that the warn ings On'ihe other side are such as only a Very brave class Of minds would disregard. ANTI-CORN•LAW DEMONSTRA TION. THE LINEN TRADE-MEETING OF DEPUTIES. • (Abridged from the _Dundee Advertiser.) A public Meeting of the members of the Dundee Anti- Corn-law Association, and Deputies from the various Anti-Corn4aw and - Free-trade Associations in Forfar shire, Fifeshire, and the neighbouring counties, connected with the flax and linen-trade, was held in Bell-street Chapel, on Thursday, for the purpose of diffusing infor mation relative to the depressed state of trade, and the baneful effects of the Corn and Provision-laws on the con dition of the:people, and to memorialise her Majesty and petition Parliament for the total repeal of these laws and other restrictions on commerce. Edward Baxter, Esq., President of the Dundee Anti- Corn-law Association, took the chair, and Messrs. Law and Wighton were appointed Joint Clerks. The platform was crowded. Amongst others we no ticed about fifty Deputies from the towns and villages of Forfarshire, Fifeshire, and Perthshire, comprising a number of Magistrates, merchants, manufacturers, and tradesmen, the greater part of whom were connected more or less, with the linen trade, in their respective districts. The CHAIRMAN read letters from Lord Panmure, and George Duncan, Esq., M.P., for the Borough, excusing their absence, but expressing cordial concurrence in the objects of the meeting. The CHAIRMAN, stated the object of the meeting, and thanked. the Deputies, who had come to attend the meeting, for their prompt attention to the call of the Dundee Anti-Corn-law Association. He (Mr. Baxter) admitted that all the distress did not arise from the restrictive laws alone,—there was a severe pressure on the productive classes, from un equal taxation. But the taxes on food, and the pro hibitory duties on foreign productions, were the great cause of the present distress. They considered freedom of trade to be the inalineable right of freemen, and they would not cease remonstrating until the foreign was as free as the home trade. Mr. Baxter gave a history 'of the effects of the Corn-laws, and showed that they im peded the home trade more than the foreign. The trade of Dundee exemplified this statement. From 1827 to 1834, omitting the .speculative years of 1835 and 1836, the shipments of linen to the home and foreign markets increased at the rate of 29,605 pieces annually. Omitting these years of speculation, the 'year of distress 1837, we find the export of linens to all parts from Dundee for the year ending June 1839 to amount to 717,070 pieces. .Unlike the periods referred to, the exports fell in June 1840 to 695,459 pieces, and in June 1841 they were .697,295 pieces. Since then, the last six months ending 30th November 1841 shows a farther decline of 29,457' pieces compared with the shipments during the same period of 1840. In what articles was this deficiency shown ? In Osnaburg, of 8,560 pieces, and in dowlas of 3,658 pieces. These fabrics are chiefly shipped to foreign markets. But, has the home market im proved ? It has fallen off in a greater ratio. In sack ing used at home, chiefly by farmers and others, there is a decrease of 13,754 pieces, and of narrow bagging and . Hessians of 9,097 pieces. But there is an increase in cotton bagging of 7,311 pieces ; and perhaps Sir Ro bert Peel would point to this as a proof of our prospe rity ; but he should be glad to hand over to Sir Robert 7,000 pieces which he had in the United States unsold. It appears, therefore, trade in linens is declining ; but he ought to mention that there is an increase in yarns exported of 107,845 cwt. in 1840 to 122,064 cwt.. in 1841, and that the increase during the last six months com pared with the corresponding period in 1840 has been 13,606 cwt. The number of bankruptcies during the last five years is as follosss 1836-7. 1838-41. Merchants (Dundee trade) Manufacturers (ditto) 99 Flax-spinners (ditto) l 2 Bleachers (ditto) 2 152 95 Founders and machine-makers 5 Shopkeepers, dealers, and other • trades Ebert aTia waned on will vonina 1 e ['eh, for .tecl )ast t' attended esiderie6 Wiad" Ilibr ridtd by laylr"1, [chess " ,n'V, 641' Thom Cha rles a tors, -- „n d Stan. vitalt he e E c i3l r 'esterdat esterclol ntersiel( esideoce Me 0 1" ha d • idi . :1,010111- he rr il e fo wl; Elw yn of THE SUN. L • Out-door Weavers.--In respeet to :their condition, as regard:, the rate of wages, it had biezi found-that a diminution of fully 25 per cent. had taken place since 1836: - In consequence their, earnings are barely adequate to procure the most pressing necessaries of life. At pre-' sent butchers' meat is seldom seen in their families, — sometimes a little on Saturday night, and that of the worst quality ; the greater part of the married women have neither shoes nor stockings, and their children are in the same condition. The present rate of. weavers' wages is barely sufficient to provide food; and the'- great' bulk Of the families of 'weavers are in rags. Very feW weavers are able to educate -their children, and hardly any Who subsist. solely by weaving , pay for a seat in - church. In 1836 weavers' wages were 40 per cent. highet than they are at present. Wages were about 25 per cent. higher in 1836 than they .are now ; the fall has been gradual. Wages in 1836 were. 25. per cent. ; in 1837, 183$, 18 per cent. ; 1839, 10 per cent. higher than at present. Mechanics employed, in Machine-making Works. Number of workinen employed, on' an average; during two or three past years, 1;638 ; total number now em-, ployed, 758 ; unemployed, 880. Masons Employed in the' Quarries in the Neighbour- hood, and by Six of the most extensive _Contractors.-- Number employed average, during past two or three years, 405 ; number recently employed, 66 ; unem ployed, 339. House Carpenters ; returns from' Six of the most ex tensive Contractors.—Employed average of two or three past \Tars, 137; presently employed, 34; unemployed, 103. Slaters, Plumbers, and Plasterers.—ln the same pro portion as masons and wrighth. Shipwrights, Carpenters, and Blacksmiths, employed in Ship-building Yards, exclush'e of Apprentices.— Average of two or three past years, 302 ; presently em ployed, 156 ; ,unemployed, 146. Journeymen Tailors.—Fully employed, 5 ; partially employed, averaging half work, 124 ; unemployed, 30 ; total, 159. During the four years from 1833 to 1836, the average price of wheat was 465. 9d., and during the three years from 1839 to 1841 the average price was - 695. During the former period the average wages paid to the follow. ing operatives were as follows :—Hecklers, 2s. 7id. per cwt. 3 lib. dressing ; spinners, Bs. ; reelers, 7s. ;Ad. ; preparers, ss. 2d. ; weavers, for 24 porter osnaburgt, Bs. During the latter period the average rate was—Hecklers, 2s. ; spinners, 7s. 2d. ; reelers, 6s. sd. ; preparers, 4s. 10d. ; weavers, Gs. 10d. The only remedy for such a serious state of things was a total repeal, not only of the Corn and Provision-laws, but of all monopolies. (Cheers.) During the last five years the great mass of the working population had suffered the greatest distress from inadequate wages and high-priced food, and, were not these pernicious restrictions speedily repealed, the amount of suffering would go on increasing. Mr. Baxter concluded by reading the motion. Mr. TIIOMAS SAUNDiRS seconded the resolution in an eloquent speech. Mr. LANDALE, of Rirkahly, moved the. second resolu tion; 'denouncing the Corn and Provision-laws. He ob served, that th e present was not a question of party politics, nor was it a- movement to cry down one party at the expense of the - other; bnt a question, the set tlement of which, under the present Government, would either raise us from our difficulties, or sink the nation at large into .deeper poverty and wretchedness.—(Hear.) He was sure that he spoke the sentiments of this meet ing in saying that he cared not what Government gave us an:effectual system of free trade, and the Minister who did so would receive the gratitude of the people.— (Cheers.) Looking at the answers of the manufacturers to the questions in the list, he found that almost all sta ted that at-least one-third of the manufacturing popula tion were at present out of employment, and this he found more . than confirmed by taking the number of warping mills employed at present by, five of the princi pal manufacturers of linen in his district. These five manufacturers were in the habit of keeping thirty warp ing mills in constant employment, but at present they had only twelve at work ; and, taking on 74n average that each mill . prepared warps for sixty weavers, there were no less than ten hundred and eighty workmen throWn idle by these five manufacturers alone, and the average wages of those employed was about five shillings per week. Such was the distress in the parish of Largo, that the heritors had found it necessary to raise a consider able sum of money to purchase yarns to keep the starving weavers: in employment, the manufacturers in general finding theinselves unable to take advantage of their offer of service, even at greatly reduced wages.—(Hear.) The ameliorations to be proposed next Session of Parliament, in our provision laws, • might not be worth our accept ance ; but let them firmly and- perseveringly call for jus tice being done us, and declare that class legislation shall no longer be submitted to. Mr. KINLOCH of Kinloch, who was received with cheers, moved the sixth resolution. Mr. W. F. L. CARNEGIE, of Boysack, seconded the re solution. He said that it was scarcely necessary to ob serve he was one of those referred to by his friend Sir *John Ogilvy, as belonging to one-part of the great na tional family, and professing the sentiments of the other on this vital subject. He concurred cordially in -the pro, position's of the motion!he had been invited to second. Mr. CANNING ' of Arbroath,• proposed th e thi r d reso lution, and read a table showing the average weekly rate of wages paid to canvass and linen weavers at Arbroath, from 4836 to 1841, both inclusive, of whi c h th e f o ll ow i ng is .an abstract, Canvass Weaver S. Sheeting Weavers. Don lag Wrea\•Frs. 1836 10s. 3 ,4 . 1837 8 6+ 1838 8 61 .9s. Hid. 8 4 7 9 Bs. ld. 6 9M - .1 5 . 9 8 03 7 9- 21 5 7; 1841 7 9 5 5i 1839 9 '1 1840 8 a 8 0 Taking these facts along with others into consideration, no reasonable man would doubt that a change of a most portentous nature was coming over the staple trade of Forfarshire and Fifeshire ; and, as it was shown that a similar revolution was occurring in the other great branches of British industry, it appeared to him that a case was made out well calculated to disturb the repose, not merely of those more immediately engaged in or de pendent-on-manufactures, but of all who had any stake in the country. The Rev. Mr. Low, of Forfar, in seconding the mo tion, stated that, in order to ascertain the state or the working classes, the town was divided into eighteen dis tricts ; and the Provost, some or the Magistrates, minis ters, and other respectable individuals, undertook the charge of investigating the several districts. The informa tion obtained by this means, after the most careful and minute inquiry was this :—There were visited 1,402 fami lies, comprising 5,122, which is within about 2,800 of the whole population within the Parliamentary boundary. Of these 5,122, there were only 139 %t h o had frem 6d. to 9d. a day 193 from sd, to_slll. ; 386 from 4d. to 41d. ; 851 from 3d. to 31d. ; 1;533 from 2d. to 24d. ; 1,691 from Id. to lid. ; 231, 4d. and under ; and 118 who had no income whatever, and are dependent on charity ; empty houses, 93. it must be reinarked that the few who have about 6d. a day are young stout unmarried individuals, or cases when there are a man and his wife without family, and even here it cannot be called riotous living for an adult to have only 3s. 6d. to 4s. with which to purchase every necessary of lire—for luxuries, it must be admitted, he can have few or none. But look to those cases where there is only from Id. to lid. fowthe support of each individual of a family for the day ; and this class was by far the largest in the list —suppose a man and his wife, with five or six children. It is as much as the wife and the oldest of the children can do to make out to wind the husband's pirns—it is as much as he can do with the scant watery diet on which he is necessitated to exist, to make out his web of osnaburg in the week, for which the whole week's gain in the family is only 7s. 6d. Now, talle from this the rent of the robin or hovel in which they live, the rent of the loom-stance, and the cost of the light for the many long dreary hours it is required to wind and to work out the web, and the glimmering fire around which the shivering children crowd, crying for food—and what have you left ? Why 4s. Gd. or ss. for the whole week's provisions for seven or eight in dividuals, where the hungry children will actually eat more than the health-broken, heart-broken father and mother, who, in the poverty and misery to which they are reduced, must, in violation of all natural feeling, dread an increase of their family as only an augmenta tion of their woes. Now, this case we have sup posed is a faithful representation of the real state and condition of hundreds of families in Forfar at the present time. Mr. Low here gave an instance of a man who had been in the employment of one master for about twenty years, who has a wife and four or five children. his earnings per week, taken from his mas ter's books, deducting winding, &c., were—in • 18,29, Us. 6d.; 1836, 10s. ; 1841, 6s. 6d. This, then, was a real case of a man who had been working the same amount for twenty years, but with a greater waste of physical strength, having less food to support it. Hi amily had increased—his income had decreased. The prices of provisions had increased ; and, according to ghe Tory hypothesis of dear food and high wages always oing hand in hand, this man's whges should have been much better now than in 1836. With regard to clothing,_ the case of the man referred to was an illustration in re gard to a very great part of the weaving population. He was an industrious man, of sober habits, and of excel lent character.—(Cheers.) The time was when he could have appeared in any society in clothing befitting his station, and now he is going perfectly in rags. Talk of people going to churches ! why, how can they ? The last blush of virtuous shame has not yet fled from the cheek of the poor man, although the last rag of his once church going coat has nigh fled from his back.—(Cheers.) The wages of masons from 1836 to 1839 were 18s. a week, and for 1840 and 1841 only 15s.—work had gra dually decreased, till now there was none to be had, and no prospects whatever of it reviving ; and this was the case with trade all over the country. He had thus shown, on evidence Which would stand the most strict scrutiny, that the present condition of the labouring classes of Forfar was miserable—that their wages had declined while the price of food had been rising— that they had not half the means of support they had at and before 1836--that their clothing was almost gone, and no means of replacing it—their children growing up without means of education—disease spreading, and ruin staring them in the face. But that was not all : Wherever a people were starving, and destitute of food and clothing, crime increased in a corresponding degree. In 1836 the number of criminal trials at Forfar WAS 90 ; in 1841 the number reached 202, twi n more than doubled—rising and falling, in fact, with the price of the loaf. The year had, indeed, opened upon thein with ' prospects more gloomy than any of them . had ever wit nessed, —threatening to reduce the middle classes to tn. gary, 4114 PINOgO thP decker in distress. Air. J. G. STUART moved the fourth resolution. Mr. JAMES ANGUS, of Kirriemuir, seconded the re solutipn. . . . Mr. DAVID LANB, of Brechin, moved the fifth reso lution. Mr. JOHN DARTER, li2of Blairgowrie, seccoptiTd the re 7 S9llltiQui - • 4 • - • - Mr. W. Nnixrr, of Logie6almond, Moved an Address to the Queen. ► Mr. A. D. .YOUNG seconded the motion; iAieh was unanimously carried. Mr, BUTCIIART, of Arbroath, moved a petition to - both Houses of Parliament for the total and immediate repeal of the Corn and ProviSion-lawa: - Mr. ALEX. Low seconded' the motion, which was, uranimously carried. After . a vote of thanks to the Chairman, the Meeting separated. ' VICTORIA!TBEATRE; Perfected by a week's reheirsttW theChristmasyieces, k on their nightly re-apPeai'anee,'-'hoiV- pass of with im proved rapidity and 'eclat Before a erowded gathering of merry, juveniles; who:abo u nded in- 'gay looks and' laughters, Gerolfline; or the Mini Orphans of St. Pre led the- van of last evening's. entertainments: -Little brilliances of attitude and surprising positions—mica pected developments that produce a- •" syncope and . pause "—so vary the 'Scenes of this domestic drama-, that excited interest was sustained throughout. In the hamlet of St. Pre, reside a brOther and his fair-haired, sister. A.Very village , queen for beauty, ti4 - i6ers soOn" aspire. to the hand of but the successful' suitnr is Edgar ' Hunting don; a dashing Englishman whirling' on ''pleasure through France, and w h o , with the art and array'Of the cavalry officer, wins the sweet girl's affections, arid then flings her, like a weed, away. RighteOus indignation takes possession of her brother's breast. Armed with. weapons of vengeance, he sets out in pursuit of the seducer. They meet in encounter, bitt the-interposition of Geraldine prevents, in this instance, a fatal issue ; a second conflict proves deadly, and, contrary to all moral laws, the innocent brother falls; and in passion Edgar strangles his sister, and flies. Five years elapse, and Edgar Huntingdon has entered into' possession of the Hose-court estates, but, regarding himself as the mur derer of St. Clair and hi s . s i s t er , dreams haunt per petually his nocturnal rest, and gold and pomp avail no thing to quiet his disturbed spirit. Geraldine, meanwhile,. miraculously recovers, and, in the. guise of an abbess, still hovers round his steps, and acts as his preserver ; and when Larole, her brother's friend, tracks the seducer to his, estates to slay :him,, she throws herself in the poniard's . way, and receives the death-wound dealt at Edgar. Ex4ellent as is ,the piece for representation, the moral aimed at is undoubt edly strained, and of a false school. The notion that Geraldine, having received in her own person the deepest injury of which human nature can be susceptible, should still with unswerving firmness of purppse so cling with her -first love to her seducer as to anew:the sacrifice of, her own avenging- brother and his friend, is uncoun tenanced by any canons of moralsriticis m . However, this objection is not over-palpable to play-goers. Gardner, in Jemmy Jottle, and 'Paul, in Davy Glib, sustained the conucalities scatterer "throughout, with great naivete and humour ; the logic of the former was highly flavoured with the spice of the Epicurean school, and his syllogisms were truly savoury. Miss. Vincent, as Geraldine, threw all the customary sweetness and pathos which she is so accomplished a mistress, of, into those parts that fitly required them. Her first costume has too much prudery about it ; but her second dra peries of mourning, and her thrd of white, suited her gracefully. The pantomime of Peter Wilkins, with, its bright silver-wing e d aerials, and fl oat i ng forms,- opened charmingly its display. Having noticed it on its first night, it is only necessary recapitulatively to remark, that practice has made its interminable variety of trick, masquerade, and knavery, perfect in their changes. Among its sly sarcasms, was that of an Irishman's blessing, in wishing fdt a benison on a child, that " every hair of its head might become a mou ld c a n dl e , to light her up to glory." The dissolving Diordma was admirable ; the advance and re t rog ression' of a bright scene or portrait, now obtruding itself close upon the view, and now retiring so appa rently remote as to seem like a lucid star, was managed with great adroitness. 'What with the merry din of the music, the posturings of the silver-boddiced Columbine and Harlequin, and the fulsoma dazzle of the szens, the audience is warmed with gratification. The infinitely amusing drama of the Illastrioas Stranger wound up the evening, with its broad burlesque - and humour. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sia—l beg leave to correct a statement which ap peared in your Paper of Saturday laSt, respecting the time of the arrival of the fire-engines at the fire which took place in Amphitheatre - row,Stangate, on the Fri day preceding. - It appears that some person has furnished you with very erroneous report, as:the •engines arrived at the fire within twenty minutes after it .was discovered, and ten minutes befbre a supply of water could be obtained. I refer you for the accuracy of this statement to Tho mas Jobson, P. C. 128, L division of Police, who called the engines ; Mr. Fachney, plumber, No. 26, and Mr. Barnsley, No. 20, Amphitheatre-Kow.---I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, • JAMES' BRAIDWOOD, Superintendant of the London - Fire Establishment. 68, Watling-street, Jan. 10, 1842. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR—In your Journal of saturdaf evenin g you , ap pend the L eam i ngton S pa Ch ron i c l e to s ome "Lik e lih oo d s ' which you will find in the Comic Almanac& for thepre sent year. I mention this knowing i : that you like to " render unto el'esar the things which are Czusar's.” Your's, &c. E RITA s. January 10. [We are obliged to.our cuiTeapOntlent for calling our attention to the piracy. We cannot read everyllpulilica tion, and, trusting to the editord the Leanangton . Spa Chronicle, we gave it as - his own piodUction. • This 'gen tleman, who lives. im A very religious, district, might to obey the commands of Scripture, one of which,is," Thou shalt not steal."] SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, The St. Leger for 1843 has closed with ,142405 e i TATTER S A Ll.."S—ATt.s7ly.t:,nA.Y,..,„ v , THE DERBY:—Or the few horses` Mentioned below, the Joanna colt alone was in 'any deinaiirl,' 5 . 0481 Was taken in two quarters, - and from, 'the stibse, qnently mtig i e by other p ar ti es , th er eVall Auto cloubt that had th ayers been dispos e d to go on. at - the,'sanie' price there wou'd have been ni) lack of *kers. .200 to: 50 was laid on the field against the two faVourites ; '25 to 1 to 50, agst Ballinkeele, 26, 27, 4nd , 28 to,l'agst,Robert de Gorham ; 1,000 to 30!agst Wiseacre , : 40 , t0 3,2, or 3' agst Auckland ; 50 to 1 to 501 agst Artful Dodg er , Latest • ..,), • Latcstpriees 4to l ori the field h t two—taken 25 to 1 agst Mr. Maher's' Ballinkeele 27 to 1. agst Lord 1 7 ,4Tularn's Robert de Gorham 33 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Wiseacre 40 to' agst Lord Westinirister's Auckland 50 id lingst Lord :Jersey's joanna colt—taken 40 in , t.agst Mr. W. Scott's The Artful Dodger 68 to 1 agst Mr. Cooke's Palinurus 1600 to 25 agst Duke of Grafton'S Canadian—taken 1000 to'lo agst Sir G. Heathcote's lot—taken - INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. HIPPODROME SECOND MEETING, 1842. SECOND DAY. — NOMinatiOHS for a Two-yrs-old Sweep stakes of 10 Sots. each, and 100 added :—c by Camel, out of Westeria—f by Camel; out of Wadastra—c by Uncle Toby, out of Dinah—The Handmaiden—Vitula —Miss Polly Testy—Bastille—Prospero—Seringo ----- Trueboy—What—James (late Bacon)—Brother to Pe loponnesus—Bossu—King of Trumps. DONCASTER, 1842. MONDAY.--Nominations for the Champagne Stakes:— Napier — Marquise—Zora—Black-drop—A British Yeo man—c by Uncle Toby, out of Dinah—Auld Lang ,lne—Prizefighter--Sister to Barbara—Philip—c by Emilius, out of Vari a ti on —Wh a t P egg y Aris tides 2Bother'em —Bashaw—c by Muley Moloch, out of l'Hirondelle Colocynth--- Deerslayer Old May Day—• , The - by. Velocipede, out of Her Highness—c by Velocipede, out of Bird-lime—The Orphan Boy—Cheviot--c by The. Mole, out of The Mystery—Ebenezer—Lady Skipsey—f by Physician, out of Sweet-pea•-.--Brother to Peloponnesus Winter— Aquila—Maria Day—Sister to Satirist—e by Camel, out of Monimia. TnuasnAY-7--Nominations for the Two Yrs-old Stakes —Pharsalia,4Napier—Marquise—Winesour—A British Yeoman—Baldersale—Pharaoh—c by Uncle, Toby, out of •Dinah—Judith.— The Ara—c by Emilius, out of Variation—Truebor—c by Bay Middleton, out of Mermaid—Prince •of Wales—Bother'em—Sir Abs trans Ante Dickens, Larry WlTale The Caster—c by - Velopocide, out of Her Highness-- c by Velocipede out of Bird-lime, Cawood Castle -0 -by-The Mold, -out mt;the Mystery—The Orphan boy-Cheviot—,Lady iSkipsey—c the .11 . ule, out of Teresa—f by Physictaniionrof Fly--Sweet-peaL—Bro. to Pelopomasus —Winter--Mary of Burgundy-•--c by Emi lius, out of Veloqipede.'s dainitterry Andrew—Maria Day, Sister to Satirist—c by Jereed, out= of Ganymede • —Squireen. - • •Nominations for Ahe Gascoigne States—Attila— Lord of .llolderness—Tharold — William de Portihus— Prince Edward. • ,Nominations for the Scarborough Stakes— Attila—Williani le Gros- , -Master: Thomas—Foxberry —e .by:Yelocipede, :out of Bathsheba—Bro. to Garland —Chatham--Miss .Trooper—Wllliam de - Fortibus— Prince Edward. . THE UNEMPLOYED. —It will be seen, by the following official Report, that the number of unempl o y e d is still on the increase in all the districts named. Th e gi o Less thaw Happily our kind fri en d s i n a ll parts of the country are sending in their aid with a lib era l s number in I the three places named amounts to not - hand : PAISLEY. Males 1,970 Dependents.. Females Dependents.. .... ................... . Total... KILBARCHAN. ......... 12,703 Ma1e5................................... 198 Dependents . . ............................ 579-777 Females. ................................. 81 Dependents ..... 118-199 Total .................. 976 BARRIIEAD. Ma1e5............................... 83 • Dependents..... ......................... 265---348 Females .... . ............................ 32 Dependent 5.............. . 76-108 Total .. . ............... 456 —Paisley Advertiser. CHIPPENIIAM.--IS the Corn-law (or dear bread either) a benefit to - the Agrietdtural labourer ?In our neighbourhood several of the farmers hav6`lo - ivered their labourers' wages to Ss • per week, thus adding another to the many proofs that dear bread causes low and. ne4 w.a.v;;—ficit Justitia ifiltshire Inde pendent, FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS. In tietiiber last the Polie - 51* - inittinSe seized a consi derable number of poinard-kniVes, and cited the cutlers who sold them before the Correctional ,Tribunal. They were; however, all acquitted, on the ground that their kuives,theiigh sharp; opening with a spring, and having a guard like a poniard; had'only'one edge. The Procu rour du Roi-appealed to' the Cour Royale, which decided that. these knives came within the. Royal Ordonnauce of 23d March, 1728, and Artiele 1, of the Law of 24th May, 1834, and therefore condemned the cutlers to pay a fine of If. each, with all the costs of the prosecution , and to forfeit all the knives seized. This is contrary to 4 deci sion given some time ago by the Cour Royale of Paris, which declared such knives not to come Within the terms of the law. - A tariff has been issued 'at St. Petersburgh of a more rigorous kind than the old one. It is said that many articles, especially woollen goods, hare now to pay the double duty. 'The UkaSe for effecting their modification, the details of which are not yet known, declares that certain duties shall be augmented; others diminished, and some prohibitions taken off. . The additional duty of 12i per. cent. is Maintained as a general and absolute regu: lation ; but the mode of levying it is changed, the addi tional duty and the quarantine duty being added to the fundamental castoins duty. A whale, - up.vards of 60 feet long, and 40 feet in cir cumference, was found at Berck, near Montreuil, on the 29th ult. It was killed, .and was to, be sold on the Ist inst. Immense numbers of persons flocked from the neighbouring districts to see it. The Gazette de. France states that the Duke de Bor deaux is to pass the whole of the winter at Vienna. The Marquis de Pastoret has left Paris on a visit to his Royal Highness. A letter from Vienna, in the Swabian Mercury, says : —" The Emperor has written to Baron de Kubek, Direc tor of Railroads, and to the President of the Aulic Council of War, urging them to expedite the comple tion of these undertakings. From this it is inferred that soldiers will be employed upon them, and some persons say that 20,000 men will be put upon the Prague line." A Toulon letter states that the two corvettes ordered for the South, Seas were kept in sight of the mouth of the harbour during part of the preceding day, in conse quence of telegraphic orders from Paris. The Com manders have got sealed orders, which they are not to open until they are outside the Straits of Gibraltar. It was said in Toulon that they would touch at eight or pipe particular places on their voyage. The Government of the Swiss canton of Tessino, imi tititlg that of Argau, has just suppressed a convent of COTrdeHers. The, Swabian Mer c u r y s t a t es t h at t h e aut h or i t i es o f the city of Cassel have published the following curious Clause from the will of the late Electress :—" I bequeath lo: , .the. town of Cassel the portrait of my son between two Hessian peasants, which I had painted in commemora tioa, of the reception given to us when we returned to our country, in 18 13 ; a l so. a small silver hamm er , w hi c h wras used in nailing the flac , of the Burgher Gua r d ; and likewise the arm-chair embroidered . by thirty young ladies of Cassel, and presented to me on the 52d anniversary of my birth-day.", The Princess also left 1,000 crowns to the" poor fund. . . . Orr Sunday last, a man entered the house of the cure of Neylen, in Belgium, during' Divine service; intending to rob the house, and thinking- that the cure was at church. The cure,-however, being unwell, was at home, having got a friend to officiate for him. . A struggle ensued between the cure and the ruffian, who struck him several times on the head with a hatchet. In endeavouring to protect his head, the cure had three of his fingers cut off, and, would have been murdered, if his cries had not brought some peasants to his aid, who secured the assailant. The Post-office has published a notice that the mail with the letters sent from Paris to St. Petersburg on the 23d, 24th, and 25th November, has been lost between Riga and-the Russian capital, and that all efforts of the Russian Government to find it have hitherto been un successful. • The Quimperois, the journal of the chief town of the Finisterre, after noticing the application reported to have been made to the English Government for the ap pointment of professors at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge in - the Celtic language and literature, says :—" We ourselves have lone ago made a similar F demand for Brittany, an d f or the aculty of Letters at Ronnes. How desirable it is that the ancient language of the Celts, which two or three departments in Brittany as well as Wales have preserved, should. not be lost. The Council-Ge.teral of the Fonts et Chaussees had yesterday to decide between three plans for a railroad between Marseilles and the Rhone. Those lines which were proposed to run along the Valley, of the Rhone, being considered as too difficult of execution, if not im practicable, the third, presented by M. do Moutrich et Lancon, which will unite Marseilles with Avignon, and cross the Valley of the Durance, with a branch to Beau caire, was almost unanimously adopted by the Council. M. Henry Herz, the eminent pianist and composer,* has just been married to a young 'foreign lady of dis 7 tinction A vol a l'Americaine was practised, the day before yes terday, on a collecting clerk,. of the house of Delamarre. The usual expedient of getting the victim into a wine— shop; and leaving him there, 'while the . confederates wentout to verify the silver ho had , given for the sup poced rouleaux of Napoleons, was practised with 'per fect suc.eess ; but the robbers had not only carried, off the :silver, they had also abstracted from: his note book a bill of exchange, payable that day, and duly re ceipted. On becoming aware of thi s , th e , victim has tened off to the house by which the bill was to be paid, 'and fortiMately arriving there befdre the - thieves, was secreted until one of them made his appearance with the bill; and was thus the means of having him immediately, apprehended. The rogue o• thus caught has been .reco- . nised as one of a gam , of depredators in this line, but he pcn;ists in not impeaching his associates. A suicide attended with some curious circumstances of : determination was committed the clay before yesterday in the Passage de Tivoli by a imiddle-a;ed man in a re spectable station of life. He - had insulted in the most unpardonable manner a young girl, his brother's child, and on being Warmly reproached for it determined to destroy himself. He wrote to his brother more than once to announce his intention of so doing, but his let ters were considered as mere bravados ; at length, how ever, the Jat',;er N7.ellt to his residence, and tried to get in at his door, which was fast shut. Just as an entrance was being' forced, he shot himself through the head with a horse pistol,- and the brother on making his way in, as soon as the report was heard, found his corpse lying on the ground with the head dreadfully disfigured. The furniture - was all arranged i n p ar ti cu l ar or d er , severa l letters to his brother were found, and on a plan of the room was traced out the 'figure of a man lying prostrate with the head represented as divided into two parts, and ,which gave an exact idea of the manner in which his body was discovered, as soon as the fatal shot had taken eifeet. It appears that he had carefully studied the manner in which his body would fall before committing the act of "self-destruction. Several females were detected on Sunday last, in the Church of St. Roch, stealing handkerchiefs, purses, &c., from the congregation . On th e i r l o d g i ngs b e i ng searc h e d a considerabl quantity of articles thus obtained were fournL They have been committed for trial.' The following details, from Odessa, on the autumn campaign of the Russians against the Circassians, are given by the Moniteur Parisien :—" The diseases which put the Russian troops collected at Adler out of condi tion to march, added to an insurrection in the Gurial, prevented General Au re pp f rom un d er t a ki ng t h e expe= dition which had been projected for September. The tribe of the Djiguettes, lying between the river Kami cheliar and Gagra, seeing the weakness of the Russians, did not keep the treaty it had entered into with them, but remained neuter. In the first fortnight of October, General Aurepp, having received fresh reinforcements, and a portion of his sick being recovered, left Adler with about 12,000 men, with the purpose of fighting the Babouiches between the Kamicheliar and Pchad ; but being attacked on the sea-shore during his march, in a narrow path shut in by alzhost impenetrable wooded mountains, the column was decimated, and the rest had great difficulty in reaching the fortress of Jatcha. It is affirmed that 500 men, 27 of whom were officers, fell by the hands of the Circassians. During the campaign, the Russians have lost between 6,000 and 8,000 men, most of them carried off by disease. The hospitalls of the Crimoa are so crowded, that 300' sick have beeh transferred to Odessa, and 400• riiore'weie expected. General Zast has not been more fortunate in the Kuban and the Laha." , PATENT CANDLESTICKe--Mne , ;Of , the' most ingenious and useful inventions of the dayi . ittis been: re.. eeiitly brought out by a house in Birminghittikn'lt is a, simple mechanical contrivance, for th6 . pirpose , WI Super ceding the use of those domestic discotinforts , slides and save-ails, and is called the Soh o Patent Candlestick. By merely turning round the nozzle of the candlestick, the: candle is raised or depressed as occasion may require, and the very last particle consumed without the neces sity of soiling a 'finger. • Nor is it less convenient in other respects, as the nozzle takes out easily, and is effectually cleaned by a short immersion •in hot water.. In point, therefore, of economy, cleanliness, and utility- 7 - for it can be manufactured in every description of Mate rial—the invention is invaluable. We understand that the nature of this improvement was originally'suggested • ; by Mr. Lee Stevens, whose scientific utility Tis pretty generally known. ANSTRUTHER EASTER.--laur•worthy pastor gave notice on Sunday the 26th ultimo • that he would (in compliance with Mr. Hamilton's circular, we suppose) meet with hiS parishioners on Monday the gnii, to ex plain to them the' nature of a Church-defence Associa tion, and to prepare their minds the better to comprehend the speeches which were to be delivered by two reverend gentlemen, on Tuesday, at a Church4efence meeting. AccOrdingly, we attended at the hour appointed, and were not a little amused at the way he illustrated his subject. He compared the Kirk of Scotland to a boy at school, very much afflicted with sore eyes, who was under the care of a most eminent physician (the Lord Jesus Christ), and who, among other remedies, advised the boy to take a pinch of snuff ; but he no sooner began to exhibit his snuff-box at school, to the no small edification of the other boys, than the assistant-teacher (the Court of Session) took it from him, observing that this illegal practice could not be tolerated in any well -governed seminary. The boy, not satisfied with tli &cislon, however, appealed to the principal tiateher (the House of Lords), who, in place of ordering hack the invaluable snuff=box, confirmed the sentenc e o f t h e ass i stant, and dismissed the appeal. We are not aware how far Mr, Ferrie succeeded in convincing his hearers of theitmt.: ness of the Kirk's claims by the abow *ilia of this we are certain, that it 140 draivi forth some very severe cemmtAts.--4'ile hera ld . , CHRISTENING OF THE PRINCE OF WALES. —(From a Correspondent.) —W e understand that it is now definitely settled that the solemn and imposing Ore-. mony of christening -tlikn I.lgit., Apparent to • the British Throne is to take place in St. Qoarge's Chapel= - Windsor, on Wedneklq, the 26th inst. IRELAND. THE ELECTION. DUBLIN, JAN. 7.—Tne - Deputation to England have returned, and their " journey.to London" in quest of a candidate has been, as ivas anticipated it would be, so much finis-spent time. Mr. AttwOod declined the honour which was proffered for his acceptance, on the ground that all his future - energies Would be directed towards the strengthening his position as candidate for. the "great metropolis" on the next 'occasion Or a vacancy ; and the idea - of soliciting Mr. Colepthonti to stand in the_ . breach was abandoned-by the Deputies -froth Dublin as one altogether hopeless : - - Such is the present: position of the Conservatives. With discord and division within the camp, and a com bined, determined, and experienced foe without, their prospects are far, very far indeed, from flattering. It is said, whether truly or not remains to be seen, that a sec tion of the .Conservative party is for accepting the offer - of N .- ince, who in the early stage of the proceedings -pro po.sed to advance 3,0001. towards the expenses of trie con test, the Society undertaking to make up the deficiency, and guarantee the cost of a petition—for ti petition is new their only hope. This %Nits regarded as a very shabby pr 4 on - the part of Vance, and hence the dispatch • of a Deputation to London in search of a candidate. Another section of the Conservatives are for accepting the •offer of a Mr. Gregory, who volunteered to Jay down 5,0001., provided the Society would either guarantee his return tor that sum, or the reimbursement of the money in the event of defeat. Which of the two parties will prevail I cannot say; but opinion inclines towards the Gregory's. In the meantime Lord Morpeth's friends are exerting themselves with unexampled energy and perseverance. •An active canvass of the religious por tion of the Conservatives—on whom Lord Morpeth's high moral character and munificent charities are known to have made a most favourable impression —was com menced this morning by a Committee appointed for that purpose, and I have just heard that several of that class of electors have promised either to vote for his Lordship or to abstain from voting altogether. The Committee have issued the following address to the electors : " Lord Morpeth has been put in nomination,—first, by a meeting of influential persons, held in Charlemont House; and again by one of the most numerous, united, and enthusiastic public assemblies ever convened in the Irish metropolis. " His Lordship is absent—and, at such a distance as precludes the possibility of communication with him-- but those who. have undertaken to conduct his election do not, on that account, less confidently claim for him thesutfrages of their felloW-citizens. " He has been known to you as a stanch friend to liberty through the whole course of his public career. As Member of Parliament and as Minister, in opposition and in office, he has battled for free institutions with con sistency and determination. "He is the advocate of freedom of conscience, and the enemy of all exclusion and intolerance. " He is the foremost amongst the assailants of those monopolies which cramp the energy, and blight the com mercial prosperity of the nation. " But, above all, he is the friend of Ireland. He was one of the best Members of the best Ministry we have ever seen. • He was one of the Executive which first dared to be just to our country ; and for the benefits which we derived from that Executive, much, very much of our lasting gratitude is due to him. "He has been practically, as well as politically, the friend of Ireland, promoting every measure which contri cuted to the development of her resources and the in crease of her happiness, and fostering every institution which could accelerate her intellectual and industrial progress. - "Of his personal character—his high talents, and great acquirements—his generous and.manly spirit—his ample charities, which knew no distinction of creed or class-his cordial affability of demeanour, and unaf fected kindliness of heart, which won for him the attach ment of all men of all parties who approached him during his sojourn amongst us—it cannot be necessary t o s p ea k to the citizens ofllublin. What establishment for the alleviation of the sufferings of the poor of the metropolis did not receive his prompt protection and m un ifi cen t su p= port? What claim upon his liberality for the relief of individual misfortune was ever made in vain ? .To what effort, for the elevation of the physical or moral condi tion of our countrymen, was his co-operation solicited cnd refused? • " Differences of political opinion will always exist, and no man's political conduct can be regarded with the same sentiments by all ; but there can be only one judg ment as to the pure integrity, the high moral principle, the perfect honesty of purpose, and the noble benevo lence of nature, which have illustrated Lord Morpeth's public and private life, and won for him his almost un exampled popularity. " Citizens of Dublin, such is the man for whom we claim your suffrages. On his behalf, we ask you to rally together, and combine your strength—to forget partial differences of sentiment, for the attainment of a great common good—and insure the return of Lord Morpeth by- a generous and cordial unity of action. Bv order of the Committee, • , . ~ . 4 GEORGE ROE, Chairman. 'irff • . " THOMAS R. SYMES, ~- l c, , '.; .3 " THOMAS O'HAGAN,. .SeVelarie.,. " JOHN R. BERWICK, " Committee-Rooms, No. 12, Fleet-street, Jan. 7." TILE MURDER AT PEMB ROKE - ROAD. - ARRAIGN.MENT OF • DET.AHIJNT FOR THE MURDER. • A true bill having been found! against John Delahunt;' for the murder of the boy Maguire, the prisoner was caned to the bar, when the. greatest curiosity .and in terest prevailed in . the Court, whiCh was crowded to excess. The prisoner was slightly flushed on taking hisli!ace at the bar, but in a few seconds his face be came deadly pale ; he looked round him-with a scruti-• nizing glance, and then held down his head. In his personal appearance he is considerably altered since the Coroner's inquest on the body ; his 'countenance is - meagre, and his complexion livid ; in fact, he looked like a person emaciated by hunger. During the time be remained at the bar he did not betray any emotion, and he appeared to regard the Situation in which he stood with the utmost indifference. No day has been 'fixed for the trial. THE ABBE LAMENN &IS, AND THE STUDENTS OF PARIS. (From Galignani's•)llessenaer of Saturday.) On Thursday morning and yesterday, at an early. hour, manuscript placards were found affixed to the walls of the Schools of Medicine and Law, inviting the stu dents to make a manifestation on occasion of M. de Lamennais coming out of prison. These placards were removed by order of the authorities. Yesterday, about one o'clock, from 200 to 300 individuals, including many students, met on the Place du Pantheon, and went to the Place de l'Ecole de Medecin, where an other assemblage of about 200 was waiting fol. them, The crowd thus formed went by the Pont-Neuf, the Quays, the Place du Palais-Royal, the Rue St, Honore, and the Boulevard des Italiens towards the residence of M. de Lamennais, in the Rue Trenchet. On passing before the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the mob cried a bas Guizot I a Las le Ministre de l'Etranger ! and when they had arrived opposite the house of M. de Lemon nais, they halted, and four delegates proceeded to his apartment. M. de Lamennais shortly afterwards pre= seated himself at the balcony, and was saluted by cries of Vile Lamennais! At this momenta detaohment of troops of the line,' headed by two Commissaries of Po lice, made its appearance, and the mob resumed its march, on its return to the neighbOurhood of the schools. In passing again in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the assemblage again shottted A bits Guizot and then proceeded, to the Rue du Croissant, where it stopped for a moment in front of the office of . th e Journal du Peupb,'slibuting , Vice Dupety! On reach ing the Chamber of Peers the. perturbators shouted several times A Las les Paint; Vieux habits; Vieni galms Having returned. to the Place du Pantheon, they appeared inclined, to remain .there, and began to sing the Afarsettlaisel. but a de tachment of - the Municipal Guard,- - headed by a Commissary of Police, immediately tame up, and dis persed them. Several persons, ,ptudenpi and w,irknieu, who were in the assemblage, aNta who bail made titem selves prominent by their stionVAnd'titibulence, were arrested at various points,:tindeOtite - Yed to prison. The population on the entire line, 'traversed by the Assem blage evinced no sympathy with this demonstratio.a., jn the evening everything was quiet in the capiFit/. The National having stated that 6 Conflict hnd taken place on Sunday last, at .the Barrier° de l'Ecole Mill taire, between;2,ooo men, , part belonging to_the 2d Re kiriteet of light infantry, and part t o the 59th of the lifilirbb4eeti=i4oin a misunderstanding previously ex istektulding exaggerated details, which represented the scene of action as bearing the aspect of a regular field of battle, the Monitar Pariden remarks :—" It would be difficult to persuade the public that a fight could have taken place betwwn 2,000 men, and have remained five days unhi - Own to the whole of Paris, and that an oc currence -of a nature so serious should first be an nounced to the inhabitants of the city through an ar ticle in a Journal. The fact - is, that a few soldiers of the - two regiments mentioned did quarrel at the barrier, and came to blow's, the salmi having been used on both ,sides,. and thatwhen they were parted, a n d p eace estab lished, bath regiments were confined to their respective barracks.. It is, in fact, nothing more than an affair of military police, and so it is hoped it will remain without any further consequences." The Messager says—" The National has ridiculously distorted the facts. No colli sion took place on Soy last between the soldiers of the 2d Light • litilintry and the 59th Regiment of the line. it was with some soldiers of the 11th Regiment of the line that some soldiers of the 2d Light Infantry had a quarrel on that day, but it was of such little im portance that the arrival of a single piquet sufficed to quell it. Not a wound wo inflicted, and consequently no person was coawyed to the hospital. Every necessary measure has been adopted to maintain harmony between the ,gyps of the garrison of Paris, and since the affair in question this harmony has not been interrupted." The National publishes the address, which was pre sented yesterday to M. de Lamennais by the students who went to his residence, 'this document, which is by no means reutartiable tbr elegance of diction or deptlr of thought, expresses the respect of the students for the eourage, patience, and public and private virtues of the Abbe ; and assures him that the majority of their body are preparing themselves by " study and labour" for public life _; that they receive the Abbe's doctrines with avidity t4LO they have full confidence in the social and I ,wlOrating principles which he professes ; and that they " look on him as the prophet of the future, whom they will follow as their guide and torch."—M. de La mennais, in reply, declared, that he did not deserve so flattering an lidayes,s ; but that the cause to which he had devoted himself was sacr e d to him, a n d th at h e was h4ppyibat the students had come to express their senti ments. Tie added that they ought to prepare themselves for theirtiturg cartn• by deep study and by habits of 4 dlscil lllll9 -, and recommended them to show as much .aniness in their opinions as calmness in their manifes- _`lll4-ORN-ING SUN tations ; since , withont:order and calmness, the Abbe obServed, it w . as .didioult that there should be any con stancy in opinions, or any continued progress. The Nationa: estimates th number of persons who went to the Rue Tronchet at 1,20. PENINSULAR BONDS. In answer to several applications from the country respecting . the payment of the half-years' dividend on Port uel;itcse and.. Spanish Bonds, we regret to say the I:Alurvin3- is the only informa tion we can at present furnish. The Portuguese Dividend (only of what is due) fixed by the November decree, is in ciourse of payment in London at present, but the limited hours for re ceiving it are sadly complained of. The money is paid by the finance.agency of Port uga l. Th e dividends, though really due in December, were not tube paid, according to the new arrangement, till the Ist January. Respecting the twu h a w_ years' dividends expected to he paid oit the capitalised coupons of Spanish Bond., we can state absolutely notluing certain; and we ea u on l y advise the bondholders, who have had so m any , disappointments front that quarter, to mistrust every statement till their broker informs them that be bas received their dividends. DREADFUL ACCIDENT AND EX TENSIVE LOSS OF LIFE. We have this moment received the following letter : " TO THE EDITOR OF THE AIORNING POST. " am directed by the office to let you • know that a tremendous and most singular oc curmiee has just taken place in the immediate neighbourhood of our city. In the confusion which prevails I cannot, of course, be expected to transmit particulars with anything like accu racy ; but rather than delay, I send you a gene ral statement, conceiving that the earliest pos sible notice will be interesting to the public through the medium of your popular Journal. Between four and five o'clock this evening, and when almost twilight, the entire surface of a very large piece of ground more than seven acres, at Contbe Down, gave way, owing to the work men having conducted their excavations in a stone quarry flu- beneath an angle, or rather street, of that populous village, of which above eighteen houses, with its beautiful new church, school-house, &c., were thus completely un dermined, and have been, by the instantaneous subsiding of their foundations, involved in ruin; and multitudes in the buildings and. accidentally assembled on the spot have perished. " Though late when I write, the various ave nues in the outlets of the city are thronged with. anxious thousands crowding- towards the scene of desolation. The bells of the Abbey and other churches are ringing violently, and the authori ties are hastening to Coinbe to render what as sistance they can to the surviving- sufferers. Nothing like truth can be obtained as to the loss of human life and property by this strange cala mity. Report speaks of hundreds slain and.mu tilated. " This hurried account shall be speedily fol lowed by a less confused detail of wh a t h as hap pened. I am, Sir, &c., "A. SISSON. " Wardea Office, 53, Milsom -street, Bath, Sunday, January 9. " P.S. Our paper is published on Wednesdays only."—Morning Post. ..C.VIESBUI.IN UNION. ' TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR-I have been informed, on indubitable authority, that some time since a very high pa. negyric appeared in your paper, on the conduct and management of the Amesbury Union and house. As an ex-officio Guardian of that Union, I am intimately acquttinted with all its transactions, and must beg leave to contradict any assertion as to its very superior merits. I must honestly un deceive the pubic by sayinp-, that in its conduct and managentetA I consider it inferior to the majority of the 'Unions in the kingdom. I am, Sir,'your obedient servant, EDWARD DUKE. Lake House, Wilts, Jan. 7. . [Will our Correspondent inform us wh,e r t th e Panegyric on this Union appeared ?] BIRMINGII4I - 31 4 JA N . .9. A WIFE SHOT Dr /L ER Ift:SUANUe---i dreadful oc currence took place in Birmingham on the evening o f _Friday last.' The circumstance :1 as fa r as our rertorter is i tistifiedin giving' them," are ;hese :—A man named Ezra Steapenha who is either beadle or sexton at St. Matthew's Church, ahnut a month ago, round a gun, as he stated, and a few day; after he was showing. it to a frienk stating that it was 'Unloaded ; his wife, Bassilesa, SteapenhilL w theltyresent, and, in joke, pulled the trigger over lis'Aofilder, and it Went off, shattering the clock cr,s, to tlIov; On Frkilay evening he was clean ing the same gun a.:d, most unfortunately, did so w hil st it was heaVily loaded and capped. His wife was sitting at the end of the t a bl e pn .w hi ch the gun rested, and ',Alen in the act of rublnng the l oc k i t went off, and the contents, unhappily, entered th e th e it of the unfortunate. creature, and she dropped d own a lifeless corpse : slot was about thirty years (:),.f' ftg.e,' and- was by ,birth art Hanoverian. _.l great serisatton exists in the neighbour hood where the tragedy_ Wok ' place. The husband is under the surveillance, of the police. Au inquest will be. held to-morrow. THREE BOYS I)IZOWNED.—WhiIst it number o:' boys were amusing themselves on'a co o l o f water in, ravel s street, Birmingham, this afternoon, the ice gave way, and three of them sank tr, rise 'no more alive. The awful event has prodn - ced the greatest grief and conster nation in that w.'•r, of the town. About the same hour a young n . ..a;i, twenty years of age, named Crowley, a gild-beater by trade, fell through the ice of Edgbaston POol, and after struggling in vain a considerable time he was drowned in the presence of a number of people, who could render him no assistance. A young man was drowned under precisely similar circumstances, on Sun day fortnight, in the same pool. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS• FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE. --The Dahlia Tories are at their wits'- ends. The deputation sent by the Dawson -street Orange Club (the Carbon of Dublin) to this country in search of a candidate his failed in accomplishing the object of its mission. Of the numerous aspirants to the honour of a scat in Parliament, no one has been found sufficien4 destitute of brains to commit himself to the consequences of a contest, with such fearful odds against success, when conne3ted with a compliance with the pre liminary clause in the agreement, of placing the formidable sum of 6,0001. at the discretional power of the Club. All this was bad enough. To learn that their depu tation had been received with cold formality, instead of beeing greeted with cordiality, and the object of its miss sion hailed with delight by thole to whom they pre sented their credentials, was sufficiently mortifying to the overweening hopes of the always-sufficiently-inflated Dublin Tories. Poor Alderman Boyce and Commie sioner Carey, in their report, told a melancholy tale tsE what they bad heard, and seen, and felt, in their pro gress from one great luau's house to another in !dirt her ance.of their ample instructions. How they were bowed out of one presence and refused audience by another .person , --from whom they expected very different kind of treatment. How the Carlton Club itself cast cold water upon their hopes, and refused to advance cash for their purposes. All this was narrated with appropriate amplification and illustrations, and heard with indigna tioefeOted in execrations both loud and deep, by the conclave assikrnbled to learn the result. The measure of mortification was not yet filled. Just as the Dawson. street conclave was making a virtue of necessity, and were engaged in close consultation. as to what was best to be done under the heavy blow and discouragement to which they had been subjected—just as they had detet mined to fall back upon such choice as was yet wilisin their power—although bad was the best which remained out of which to make a selection—a new embarrass ment arose. An article of fearful import appeared in the columns of the Evening Mail—one of their own Journals. Instead of sympathy, there was censure. In place of consolation under calamity, there was reproach, administered in terms of biting sarcasm. The oracle uttered sounds prophetic of approaching defeat—and, what was yet worse, exulted in the prospect. STANDARD.—'The interviews which have lately passed between her Majesty's Ministers and the dele gates upon the Ten Hours Factory Bill have obtained already a large share of public attention, and they merit even more than they have obtained. Such immediate communications between the members of the Executive and the humble labouring classes of the community open a new chapter in our social history, and are rendered more auspicious by the good feeling which it has mani festly inspired in the less elevated party. The examples of Sir R. Peel,. the Duke of Buckingham, Lord Lynd hurst, and others, the most distinguished men by genius, rank, and birth which the country possesses, cannot fail to afford a useful lesson, on one aide, as to theinan ner in which our fellow-subjects of all conditions ought. to be received by gentlemen and wise men, while the courtesy and candour with which the representatives of the labouring c!ass have been met, cannot fail to inspire gratitude for the present (as we see it has done), and for the future that self-respect which, in nil men, is the best human guarantee for good conduct. The benefit of the lesson will not be confined to England. It will teach - to the Ministers of Monar c hies the policy, of affability and an accessible habit—to repu!o -t he that they licans, the benefit of' good manners. It is quite plaids that with all the Mini s t ers the factory delegates have succeeded to a great extent, with length of their objects. The only some objectionsto matism of the now happily expiring system of polit, t ed have bad to encounter are theoretical , part of the do a economy constructed by Mr.,Malthus and his co Atem . remember the opposed f rom l A , first p r o_ mulgation, and when; it numbered a l mr , st tho ppororuardie to s and re fellow l a bourers= system whie' o we are country among its disciples. whole NDON TVESDAY,,4I**TARY - 115 1842.