The Sun. — London, England, 1842-01-28 00:00:00

EVENING SUN chia There being no penalty for the omission, the Ma gistrate, of course, said he had no power. n At Bow-street, yesterday, Baron Charles de Behr, a t, ll , l it'e of Germany-, was ordered to find bail, himself in a v'-'/ : , and two sureties in 100/. each, on a charge of °b nut i nl: und er f rau d ulent pretences, at d i fferent t i mes, t h e e . rh o e f l l o o n o g / . . pdi f e ro ni m g lr. Osborne Rich, of the War-office. a and curious case of Dillon v. Dillon, me on fo r another hearing yesterday in the Consistory .nrtibbut th e L earned Doctors, after speeches on b ot h ees, hit the a ff a i r i n as muc h myster y as ever . D r . 04 11h ington, th e J u d ge, ev id ent l y h as a strong op i n i on i nfi t h subject, as he cannot discover how the reputed Dillon,delit is wife came to the cn yo f h* • kn owledge of Dr. s. A t Guildhall, yesterday, Henry Stone, who had been li e katedly examined on charges of stealing pots from, l ee nsed victuallers, was fully committed for trial on not e6s than , nine charge. The lielodists' MUSICAL. yester Club commented its sixteenth season d the aY• About fifty members and visitors dined . at r b; a g I b , e Freemasons' Tavern, B. B. Cabbell, Esq., in the Chair. e otritT--F.ELSHIONABLE. of Prussia returned to Windsor yesterday th " aa tnPton Court. His visit was quite unexpected by ieeo.ffieial personages there, and consequently his Ma "o,,s,t3 had to wait till they had put on their robes of '..ee, and were ready to receive him. toyer and Lady Stanley left town yesterday on a visit l e i M ajesty at Windsor Castle. to, Duke an d D uc h ess o f A rgy ll , are expeete d i n ,11 to-marrow. eni ‘ i t he Ea r l and Countess of Mount Edgcum b e propose fling to this country from Italy early in March. t h 'r he Duk e and Duchess of Bedford leave Woburn for Thson on S a t ur d ay . Bishop of Worcester will leave the Episcopal se: on Friday next, and take up his residence for the T O in Grosvenor-place. wi,7 l : 4 e Prin ce an d P r i ncess o f C apua are passing. the L ati ler at Ri c h mond, with occasional visits to Lord and et y b inorben, at Bute House. His Highness is under ~Bki to still in the receipt of 4,000/. per annum, from principality of Maseah in Sicily. It Pisa trl of D ur h am an d hi s th re e s i s ters have arrived ,from Rome. At t ' -e MISCELLANEOUS. sale of M r . B a tty's menagerie yesterday, at it' g . r iv rth, W om b well gave for the handsome Bengal Ei l2 . i ess , 90 /. • for the white Polar bear, the largest in byjr allu, 3 71; an eight years old elephant was purchased r. Oliver for 3501. h ir t i. t. Liverp oo l , yester d ay morn i ng, i t bl ew a perfect I Nle, and grea t f ear was en t erta i ne d f or the ship pia the Channel. 11 4 i)ll,renee Peel, Esq., Advocate-General at Calcutta, of t en appointed Chief J u sti c e of the Supreme Court Judicature in Bengal. lir e is RUMOURS OF THE DAY. ,uear that several promotions, consequent on the pli ee k of the Ki ng o f P russ i a i n thi s cou ntry, will take It in both serv i ces. to A i s s said that the Rev. Archdeacon Hale will be elected head-mastership of the Charter-house School, - Dy the d ea th o f Dr. Goodenough. ° - v SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) ST Akr ,„ •-,e 41 4 j -•ATE CREEK, JAN. 27.—Acrd. Helen Munro, Mogadore. il)tiAt3,(l:ocsokA.f7., JAN. 27.—The Angelique, Cornelius, has AN. 27.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Tuscan, west- L' P d ut back, Euxine, Bombay ; Anna Eliza, China. JAN. 27.—1 t blew very hard last night, the ,•" .° lent squall s . The following.vessels at anchor in 11 00 - o lv er, were driven ashore :—Ann, Budson, Lima, in e Bay, with loss of rudder ; Emily, far Pernaua e 0 11 the Clarence Dock-gates, but got off and into N I , ?i ; 11, with stem stove, &c. The Indefatigable, Run- In the Coburg Dock. The Tamenund, New Or kfters„,' dragged her anchors in a gale at N.W. this ter' s - v . ° ° ll, and grounded in Bootie Bay on the first quar t* e.o. The sloop Helen, from Ramsay (with pota- In I V , is ashore near Southport. Two flats are ashore 4 i 'r Dove Point ; and the wreck of a vessel, apparently s ick , e P, near arsdale Castle. The wreck of a small An t af! drifted this morning at Hilbree Swash. The Isaac, l e , rt ell, from Natchez, lost sails outside the banks last h.g . 't, and ran for the Victoria Channel, struck on the if t r, but afterwards came to anchor in the river. As the the ebbed she took the ground, but was towed off on L PO RTSMOUTH, JAN. 27.—Wind N.W. to W.--Arrd. 6arietta L us i ne, Amston, for Batavia ; Berkeley, 1,; (1 °e, for Jamaica ; Mi ran d a , d o ., f or A nt i gua ; th e h" Queen, f rom Y oug h a l, as h ore on S out h sea B eac h , h a r been got off and brought into the harbour. Sld., (line, steamer, Barbadoes. COWES, JAN. 27.—Arrd. London, Linden, for Jamaica. R, 11) -(ItTmouTH JAN. 27.—Arrd. Saucy Lass, Bristol for Michael's, Was blown up channel in yestarday:s_ e gale : Ittt 0 smack Providence, of Broxham, got on the 1 e iZ t tems and was struck heavily, but was assisted and O ught into the harbour. g J 26 Irnd W.S.W. to N.W.—lt ALMOUTH, AN. 1 I _` 4B blown throughout the day a strong gale, with violent Niatils from W.S.W. to N.E. ,ahellaip:AsToLom, JAN. 27. Arrd. Eleanor, Demerara. A was passed yesterday off the Foreland, Alinehead, by the Billow, arrd, here from London. all DUBLIN J n* ' A N' 25 .—1 t has blown a very severe gale ig t and this day from S.W. to W., and. the appear ,:,oe of the night is very threatening. Two small utoners are at anchor off Kingstown. of C A l t, JAR. 27.--We have just got advice of the loss Berbice to London, near Boulogne. ' W illi„ "Y, ISLE or MAN, JAN. 26.—The John and on C r n , Patt erson , f rom Leith to Liverpool, was driven di s O re in the Bay this morning, ;and will have to be A ar. ed __ crew saved. or "'"LINGTON, JAN. 26.—The Good Intent, Leake, mil e fr ° l n Weymouth, has been driven on shore six P° to the South w a r d. FLEETWOOD JAN. 27.—The Tom Scott, from lli a Z t Preston, i s on shore between Rossall and 1/,,D 0 0 0 l, and must diseharge—crew saved. 1 14 1 ;1 )C A RI JAN. 26.—The Junge Jacob Nippe, from YestZ,Pee duo Altona, ran on the sands near the Marske tie t ,'" r uayurin a gale from S.S.E., and is expected to ete a wreck; crew and materials saved. iatP li ,L l) B, JAN. 26.—The Constantia, a light collier, amting the ba r y es terday morning, got on the rocks, 5,, (13 become a wre ck ; crew saved. Doh t, ? b ERLAND, JAN. 25.—The Flora, Grant, of this I' is en shor e , an d much damaged. tv e.;. -W ESTOFFE, JAN. 27.—Thomas Oliver (not Hollo ka'ia, reported yesterday), on shore on the Inner - "ell over on her beam ends, and sank. 14 14 °ItD JAN. 26.—1 t blew a heavy gale this morn 14° S. to S.S.W , and during the day at W. The C 4 L e the Fourth, Cornelius, from Liverpool to New uollild to Palermo, and the Hope, Lloyd, from at e 4 gr to Rouen, drove on shore near the Habber- W k i ci le• The Betsey, of Ross, and the Edward, of zle e i s . Z.d, parted their cables ; the latter drove on shore ItO a d - k "ll Point, where the crow abandoned, her. A pilot tol l : e ll's crew boarded her, got her off, and ran her up P - ', l ‘" B Pembroke Dock. I' t , I ,,INOUTR, JAN. 26.—Arrd. Delight packet, from it - 'l, ll leo, sailed 9th ult., Vera Cruz 19th, and Havannah ka• It has blown a strong gale all night. 27th. More LI VERPOOL_, JAN. 27.--Wind N.W. to W.N.W.—Arrd. e ta , l t.;arnav, Maranham ; Cherokee, Long, Savannah. kr t Ell-NESS', JAN. 27.—The Amedie, Constance, Roch he' got entangled this morning n itlr the ships of war the dockyard, and was obliged to be run on the tr, but has not received any damage. The Vesper, Ya l r t i e l , r !,in e proceeding for the Creek, ran foal of a dock , c , 'gat r. idr e t Pt, JAN. 25.—The Isabella, from Sydney, Cape Jlis e i 7 ll, Put into St. John's, Newfoundland, 14th inst., -4sted. 4 10 ItTALITY in the METROPOLIS. 141:follo w i ng are th e resu lt s o f " A Table of Mortality in i ltto s , e tropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes %%red in the week ending Jan.'22, 1842." The Table is from the Office of the Registrar-General:— Weekly Average . • CAOSKS OF DEATH. Total. F' - our I Four k i d Wi..terslYears bi,:"liC t Endentie, & Contagious Diseases 179 199 190 1 ) . , -L 'es of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 152 160 149 DiAl''se of the Lungs, and other Organs of espi rat i on . ....... Ds ' 44, 1 of the Heal and Blood-vessels O r a ses of the Stoinach, Liver, and other Di, gans of Digestion .• • Che,"s of the Kidneys, &C. 8 5 4 D; a bed, Diseases of the Uterus, &c....... 13 11 10 Di' e a sN of the Joints, Bone s, and Muscles 5 7 6 bi:s , i of th e Ski n , &e 1 1 1 0 1 4 le ' of Uncertain Seat • 132 115 104 Deathse, oViolence) atura Decay I , : 38 26 25 aPtlecltancil ........ .... . .1.3.r.i.7.t.in..0..r..1..n.t.em.. heaths •e not specified .....• 5 7 7 s From lllO - --- all causes . ............. '.. Average Weekly Deaths ... 1017 912 Population Average Deaths enu- weekly in , DISTRICTS . merated Deaths the .: I b 4l . P 3?-9-C-1. Week. "elk_ (1,5,_ Kensington, St.'George r .--,..._ 1 Four I Feur 41',bover-s qu are ), Westmin- Years.' Wint rs.- st.'* Jame artin in the Fields, 300,705 135 151 169 :Nortl i s pan -St. Mary-le-bone, St. ,_,ras, Islington Hackney 365,660 162 182 226 l''N----Saint Giles ' and Saint R e° rge, Strand, Clerkenwell, clo olb ens , St. Luke, East Lon . 11, West London, City of .011dOn ...... 3 73 , 806 188 213 204 '11 ! t-- Shoreditch,Whitechapel, Bethnal Green, St, George S.::: the East, Stepney, Poplar 392;49 1 206 228 236 4 1 . 1 , ---St Saviour, St. Olave, rt'' George( Southwark ),Ber belldgeb Newington. Lam - L.' , Uatriberwell, Rother .4e, Greenwich .... ..... ....438,060 221 • 243 275 Total 1,870,727 912 1017 1110 a 2 , 3 stated that under the term Metropolis are comprised the 4o _uoltriet s herein mentioned, which include the City of Lon. wa with and without the walls, the City and Libertir of an;ltniinster, the out-parishes within the Bills of Mortality-- IC the parishes of St. Marylebone, St. Pancras, Kensinglol!., h aln, Hammersmith( Chapelry), St. Luke (Ch elsea), ran jton, St. Mary (Stoke Newington), St. Leonard (Brom iL e Y , St. Mary-le-bow, Camberwell, Greenwich, St. Nicholas „„ St. Paul (Deptf or d), an d W oo l w i c h. Th e population, as luurnere.ed in 1831, was 1,594,890; and in June 1841, was , 870,727 . Th e wee kl y average for 1838, 1839, 1840, and all, w as Otained by dividing the deaths in the four years by , and the deaths in the four winters by 52. TEM ran.ATuaa IN TH E WEEKS ENDING Jan. 15. Jan. 22. 38 0 43° 29 29 33 3i,, 27, 1842. Highest • •• Lowest ... Daily Mean . •• General itegistee Office, Jan. LAW INTELLIGENCE. CHANCERY COURT-(THIS DAY.) CLOBERRY V. HERRING. The further arguments in this past-heard case occu pied the Court the whole day. ROLLS' COURT.--(THIS DAY.) His LORDSHIP was occupied the whole of the morning in hearing motions, none of which possessed any features of general interest. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) Unopposed petitions and short causes occupied his Honour, the Vice-Chancellor of England, the whole morning. (Before Vice-Chancellor BRUCE.) OLIVER V. LATHAM. The Court was engaged the entire day, to the time of its rising, with the arguments in this case. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) THE QUEEN V. THE PROPRIETOR AND PRINTER OF THE " NORTHERN STAR" NEWSPAPER. Mr. THESIGER said in this case his Learned Friend the Attorney-General had obtained a rule for a criminal information against Mr. Feargus O'Connor, the propri- etor of the Northern Star newspaper, and Mr. Wright, the printer and publisher, for an alleged libel. He did not rise on the present occasion to show cause against the rule, but he was most anxious that their Lordships should understand the position in which Mr. O'Connor was placed with regard to the publication of the article in question. Mr. F. O'Connor was the proprietor of the paper, and knew that he was, criminally as well as civilly responsible for every article that was published in his paper ; but he had been extremely desirous since he became the owner of the paper to pre vent the insertion of any attack upon private character, and for the four years during which he had been pro prietor of the paper, he (Mr. Thesiger) would venture to say, on no one occasion had there been any such at tack upon private character. At the time of the inser tion of the article Mr. O'Connor was absent, and was not aware of what had been introduced into the paper ; but when he returned he expressed his disapprobation in the strongest possible terms, and insisted that an im mediate apology should be made. Of course there was not the slightest desire on Mr. O'Connor's part to defend in any way the insertion of the article so improperly published, and which undoubtedly conveyed imputations of a very unjustifiable nature, and which he had no desire of making. He was on the contrary desirous of making the most public as well as the earliest atone ment for the insertion of the article. As for the printer, White, Mr. O'Connor insisted that he likewise should, throw himself upon the mercy of the person he luid offended, and make an apology for having permitted such an article to be inserted. He had much gratification in making that apology to his Learned Friend, and he trusted under the circumstances that he would not press the rule. Lord DENMAN—The rule was obtained, I believe, in the other Court. THESIGER—Yes, my Lord. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said it would be necessary for him to occupy the time of the Court for a few minutes, in stating the circumstances under which the attack was made upon the character of Mr. Anstey, who was master of a school at Rugby. Lord DENMAN—The matter is entirely in your own hands. _ - - The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, in order that the arrangement might be satisfactory, it would be neces sary to refer to some of the circumstances of the case, and to leave it to the Court to say whether the apology ought to be accepted. Mr. Anstey was the master of a school at Rugby ; he was the father of a large family ; had always lived in the utmost harmony with his wife and children, and had testimonials of the highest descrip tion as to his general character. He himself personally, and his wife, performed various acts of kindness to the wife of an individual who was left destitute in the town where they live. These acts of kindness were misrepresented, and used as the basis of truth for the purpose of casting upon that gentleman the vilest slanders—he was charged with having - seduced the woman, and making the pre tence of charity the means of gratifying his lawless pas sions. It was impossible for Mr. Anstey not to have brought the matter forward; at the same time Mr. An stey had no desire to do anything beyond setting himself right with the public, and vindicating his character as. the master of a school and the father of a family. He had not, therefore, the slightest objection to receive the public retractation and apology that had been made, their Lordships being of opinion that that was the pro per course for him to take, and his Learned Friend un dertaking that the costs should'be paid by the defendant. Lord DENMAN—Beyond all doubt the prosecutor should insist upon these terms, lest there should be any possibility of supposing that his forbearance proceeded from any improper motives. Mr. THESIGER, of course, had not the slightest objec tion to agree to these terms, and had, in fact, omitted to state them previously. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL Under these circum stances, and with your Lordship's permission, Mr.4nstey having no wish beyond that of vindicating his character and placing it before the public as it ought to stand, I have no objection that the rule should be discharged. The rule was then discharged. BAIL COUKT.-(THIS DAY.) THE QUEEN V. REV. G. HOBSON.-QUO WA RRANTO. Mr. COLE moved for a rule for a quo warranto, calling upon the Rev. George Hobson to, show cause by what right he exercised the functions of a burgess of the borough of Lichfield. The affidavits set forth that the Rev. Gentleman did not possess any one of the quali fications necessary under the Municipal Corpora tions Act.: He had not occupied any house, ware house, or premises within the borough for two years. He was not an inhabitant householder, he was not rated to the'poor, and he had not paid any rates. Under these circumstances he trusted the application would be grated.—Rule nisi granted. LITERATURE. JOURNAL:OF A TOUR IN GREECE. Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1842. In an introductory notice to these volumes, Mr. Mure, the author, says that since the revo lution, "the whole appearance of Greece and of its towns and villages, has been changed, but un fortunately not for the better. The old Greek population, on entering on their new career of independence, have assumed in many respects, a new and improved. character. Many favourable traits, which had been. smothered under the Turkish oppression, have been brought to light ; and the natural talent of the race, universally acknowledged to be great, althoughSor the pre sent perhaps little little favoured by circum stances, will, it is to be hoped, daily obtain a wiler and more beneficial field far its display ; while the anomalous features which the sudden transi tion from bondage to independence could not fail to stamp on the character and habits of a lively people, render the study of both replete with amusement as well as instruction." The "ano malous features" in the characters and habits of the Greeks, which Mr. Mure here speaks of, are described by him with great spirit and, appa rently, with great fidelity, in these volumes, which are the result of a short tour through the country made in the spring of the year 1838; in the course of which tour he visited successively Parnassus, Ulysses' celebrated Island of Ithaca, the far-famed Corinth, Thebes, Athens, and Delphi—in fact, every spot dear to the scholar, the poet, and the historian. With the first sight of Parnassus our author was specially de lighted. He describes it as an insulated moun tain, of vast elevation—being upwards of seven thousand feet high, and possessing an aspect of calm and majestic sublimity. Here is his sketch of a summer evening spent in its immediate vicinity : "It was a calm beautiful evening. The sun had set nearly half an hour ; but the western half of the sky still retained that brilliant mixture of orange, purple, and gold, peculiar to the twilight of southern latitudes, while from the opposite horizon, the shades of night had al ready begun to overspread the landscape. The last beams of expiring daylight gradually became fainter and fainter behind the snow of Parnassus. The few stragglers of the' flocks that had enlivened the surfaCe of the ruins were now slowly disappearing in the gloom of the valley towards the hamlet, when a common abode for the night awaited themselves and their masters. The interruption which the tinkling of the bells, the occa sional low of an ox, the bleat of a goat, or the wild cry of the herdsmen, becoming fainter and fainter in the distance, gave to the stillness of the scene, tended rather to increase than detract from its effect. Looking up the plain towards Parnassus, the first object, a little to the left, was a fountain, round which were still lingering a few squalid, but not inelegant, female figures. Beyond, rose the Acropolis, with its broken walls and towers, looming in irregular 'masses on the brow of the cliff, below which the position of the theatre was marked by a blight mass of a yellow-red, or brown colour, on the face of the rock. Behind, was visible in the distance a corner of the tufted citadel of Panopea ; and further on, in the same direction, a round lump at the foot of Par nassus, could still be recognized as the Acropolis of Daulis. At the extremity of the plain, more broadly projected by the yet vivid rays of the departed sun, the colossal summits of the sacred mountain itself, bounded the landscape." Of course, while voyaging over the lonian sea, Mr. More did not omit the opportunity of paying a visit to Ithaca—the kingdom of Ulysses, the hero of the Odyssey. Of this celebrated island he tells us, that since the commencement of the present century, the zeal of English classical re search has rescued it from the obscurity in which fin. ages it had lain ; and it has now become a chief object of attention with the numerous tra vellers who annually visit the Archipelago. Its chief town, Valtry, extends in one narrow stripe round the extremity of the horse- shoe port, whence it derives its name. Its houses are for the most part whitewashed, and of cleanly exterior, but small ; a large proportion of them consist of but a single floor, and the place offers no church or other public building making the least external show. Speaking of the population of Greece and its islands, our author states that the Govern ment Returns give 926,000 as the gross amount ; and that the principal city, Athens, was consi dered in 1838 to contain 20,000 souls. The stand- in.. army on the peace establishment numbers 137326 ; the navy consists of thirty-two vessels, large and small, the largest a twenty-gun cor vette; mid the gross ordinary revenue of the country for 1836 exceeded 500,0001., and it has since been on the increase. Those who desire to make themselves acquainted with Greece, not as it was, but as it at present exists, will find much to answer their purpose in this entertaining and instructive work, which abounds in useful facts, and descriptions as remarkable for their graphic excellence as their accuracy. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT, JAN. 26 (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) The celebration of the Royal Christening was on an extensive scale here. The shops were closed, business suspended, the streets decorated with flags and ever greens, as were the ships and vessels. The poor were supplied with coals, beef, &c. The Miss Wards, with their accustomed liberality, gave a dinner of roast beef and plum pudding to the children of the National School, (about 200), besides other charities to the amount of 501. The guns of the Royal Yacht Squadron and other bat teries were discharged. The brass band paraded the streets ; there were large dinners at the principal inns. About 60 gentlemen were assembled at the Vine, and did justice to a most excellent dinner. By the liberality of Lord Yarborough and Mr. G. H. Ward, the table was bountifully supplied with game. Mr. Alderman Eames took the Chair, and we noticed he was supported by Admiral Betsey, the Rev. J. B. Atkinson, the Collector of the Customs at this port (Ambrose Foot, Esq.), Dr. Huffmuster, the Belgian Consul (H. Ross, Esq.), Capt. Smythe, and the principal inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood. Mr. Moore filled the Vice-chair. " The Queen," " Prince Albert," and " the Prince of Wales," with other appropriate toasts, were drank. The gentlemen of the Newport Glee Club very handsomely joined the party, and added much to the harmony of the evening. We will not say one word of the good feeling which per►aded the whole room ; on such an occasion who would dare to introduce a subject, or a word, that could by possibility mar the general joy. There was another large and happy assemblage at the Grapes Inn, and a ball at the George Inn, where they danced the daylight in, and all were glad and gay. ,WS F. 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CLUTTERBUCK V. COFFIN. The plaintiff was engaged by the defendant (the Cap tain of her Majesty's ship Trinculo) as cook, not only to his own cabin especially, but generally to the ship. The plaintiff on one occasion having fried a dish of fish inst'ad of boiling it, was dismissed, and the defendant refused to pay him his wages. For this the action was brought, and the Jury found for the plaintiff in the amount claimed, 351. Mr. Sergeant Channell afterwards ob tained a rule nisi for a new trial. Mr. Sergeant BOMPAB this day showed cause against the rule, which, after hearing Mr. Sergeant Channell in reply, the Court dismissed, being of opinion that the ille gality of the contract could not now be made an objection to the verdict, as it was not pleaded at the trial. RAHN V. HARDING. This was an action to recover an alleged arrear of tithes, due for the year 1838. The defendant, a farmer, in Berkshire, produced at the trial a number of receipts, amounting to the whole value of tithes, for several years prior and subsequent to that year ; but none referring specifically to that year. The Jury found for the de fendants, and subsequently Mr. Sergeant Ludlow ob tained a rule nisi for a new trial, against which Mr. Sergeant Ludlow this day showed cause: The deaths in the metropolis during the week ending January 22, have increased 68 as compared with the previous week. The increase has taken place chiefly among deaths caused by epidemic diseases, and those of the lungs and stomach. THE KING OF PRUSSIA IN 1814.—When his present Majesty accompanied his Royal father and brother in 1814, a circumstance occurred which may have a tendency to avoid giving too much publicity to his Majesty's movements on the present occasion. The Royal party having arrived at the entrance of St.James's Park, on their way to the Palace, the assembled crowd, in accordance with the then prevailing mode of showing respect to a popular party, unharnessed the horses, and, by means of ropes, drew the carriage to its destination. The late King appeared in great trepi dation when these operations commenced, though, when the matter was explained, he seemed much delighted at this (to him) novel mode of testifying respect, and very cordially shook hands with many of those persons by whom his carriage was surrounded, and was greeted with loud acclamations till he arrived at his apartments. His Majesty afterwards appeared at one of the windows, and was greeted with similar demonstrations. During r l h N e - i e ss l i et c] en r ye e e s a s i e aA d nid p a s e ot r ef s rt o ,h n a s otc a oc s fa s s e ri m or ni h i c e l le d yß i igliurfezitioti gratified dof who,th h i s e Majesty' s the great er p or ti on o f severa l success i ve d ays, crow d s of a p a u public well bays appearing at a window and bowing courteously. The person who murdered the cattle-dealer in the Toulon diligence, as we related a short time back, has ever since been confined in the prison of the Presentines, at Marseilles. He has fallen into such a state of self- abandonment, that he has resolved to die by starvation, and, according to the last accounts, had remained six days without taking a morsel of food. We have great satisfision in informing our readers, that the French sbelety for the abolition of slavery have finally determined to hold a public meeting at the Hotel de Ville, Paris, on the 21st of February, 1842, for the abolition of slavery in the French colonies and throughout all civilized States. At this meeting it is expected there will be representatives from different parts of the continent of Europe, and to it a deputation from Great Britain and Ireland will be appointed.— Anti-Slavery Reporter. BRUSSELS, JAN, 26. — The average price of Wheat last week was 21f. 57c. , and that of Rye 12f. 48c. SINGULAR INVESTMENT.—We are told, a few days since, that there Is a wealthy individual in this country who is owner, by purchase, of sixty-nine pews! Of these, 17 are in Baptist Societies ; 7 in Uni tarian; 12 in Trinitarian; 2 in Roman Catholic • 9 in Torn Powys.--We have to announce the demise of th is DEATH OF THE HON. AND REV. LYTTEL - Universalist; 6in Episcopalian; and 16 in Methodist. The average cost of these pews was about GO dollars gentlenian, on Saturday last, at Thrapstone Rectory, each, and he has derived an average interest on the cost Northamptonshire, in his 61st year. Mr. Powys was the of 11 per cent. This is not only a singular investment, second son of Thomas, first Lord Lilford, and uncle to but, it we have been correctly informed, amore profit the prese n t P ee r. He married July 24, 1809, Penelope , able one than any one would have been led to suppose.— daughter of James Hutsell, by whom he has 'left issue Concord (America) Freeman. a son. In the small village of Blackwell and Newton, EXTRA ORDI NARY WORK.—David Sq ui re , there are no less than 22 individuals whose average age smith, of Barnstaple, undertook a short time since, in is 81 years, while in the adjoining village of Tibshelf, order to decide a small wager, to make four dozen horse- where there are nearly six times the inhabitants, there shoes, in a workmanlike manner, in the short space of are not more than eight who have reached that advanced three hours. The wager came off on Monday, and he afe. The water used by the inhabitants of the latter n ace contains, besides oxygen and hydrogen, a small accomplished his task in the unprecedented period of two hours' and twenty-five minutes, including seven n of oxalic acid, while the water of the former minutes, lost time occasioned by a slight accident. We are informed that he made twenty-two shoes within the • • T H E WEATHER.—ThiS morning it commenced last hour. A competent judge was called in to examine 'ed by heavy rain, both of which have contains_ ammonitu—Derby Reporter. the work, and he pronounced it properly executed.— blowing a o.ale of wind amounting almost to a hurri- Western Luminary, cane, accompanied The Court .of Assistants and Livery of the continued without intermission throughout the whole of Worshipful Company of Leathersellers dined yesterday the day. During the day a heavy show -board was b own at the Albion Tavern, Aldersgate-street, to celebrate off the front of a house iannDdaamheo-street, F by: sh w anu hic h h ie the christening of his Royal Highness the Prince of was unfortunately killed, and a boy so much hurt that W a les, having previously ordered the distribution of , was partially blown down, by which a child was killed his life is despaired of upwards of 100/. to various public charities, and to the a street m an and several, persons injured.—Dublin Evening poor of the Company. I Mail, Wednesday. COURT of REVIEW—(THIS DAY.) IN RE NASH Mr. M'ClintsTrE applied, on behalf of the petitioner, for an order in this matter, under these circumstances : He stated that his client had issued a fiat against Jona than Nash and Robert Nash, as the supposed names of the partners constituting the firm of Jonathan Nash and Son, brewers at Bristol ; that the commission was duly opened under which the petitioning creditor's debt, the act of trading, and the act of bankruptcy, were proved ; that the parties were then adjudicated to be bankrupts, and that they had surrendered. That subsequently it was discovered that the name of one of the partners was not Robert Nash, but Robert Lucas Nash, upon which the Commissioners not only refused to proceed, but can celled the adjudication. In this state of things the Learned Counsel prayed that the Court would have the goodness to order that the fiat should be amended by the insertion of the name Lucas. The COURT observed that it was not usual to order that a fiat should be amended after the adjudication had been made. Mr. APCRRISTIE said that by obtaining the order he now asked for noinjury could result to any one, whereas if his client were put to the alternative of having to issue a new fiat, not only considerable extra costs would be incurred, but much inconvenience occasioned by con veying witnesses from afar to prove de novo all that had already been proved, and which appeared upon the proceedings under the commission then in Court before his Honour. The COURT said it was induced to think that in this case the order might be made. Mr. 3iPCHaisTIE then said the time for making the adjudication would expire to-day, and, therefore, it was necessary for him, as the Court had been pleased to grant the indulgence prayed for, then to trouble his Honour by asking that he would have the goodness to enlarge the time for making the adjudication for a fortnight. His HONOUR inquired if the petition prayed for that ? Mr. WCRRISTIE was sorr = y to say there was an omis sion in the prayer of the petition to that effect, but he trusted the Court would allow the petition to be amended in - that respect, and that the enlargement should be di• rected upon the petition when so amended. His HONOUR ordered it to be so. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1842. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, THURSDAY. - The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual walk this morn ing, and again promenaded in the afternoon. Prince Albert enjoyed the sport of shooting in the neighbourhood of Cumberland Lodge, accompanied by Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Co bourg, the Princes Augustus and Leopold of Saxe-Cobourg, the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of Exeter, and Col. BouVerie. The King of Prussia and Suite left at a quarter past ten fbr London, but returned 'to-dinner. The Lord Chancellor, Countess „Jersey, and Lady Clementina Villiers ' the Earl and Countess of Westmoreland, an d Lord and Lady Stanley, are expected to arrive at the Castle ,to-night, on a visit to her Majesty. The Marchioness of Exeter, the Duke of Buc cleuch, and the D u k e and Duchess of Suther land, took their departure this morning. Mr. G. E. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, Colonel and the Min. Mrs. Arbuthnot, Hon. Sarah Mary Cavendish, Mrs. Bouverie, and Mr. and Mrs. Hakcourt, of it. Leonard's Hill, will have the honour to join the Royal Dinner Circle this evening. Mr. Moon had the honour of submitting to the Queen and Prince Albert, an engraving from Cattertnole's Picture of the Baronial Hall in the Olden Time, and received her Majesty's commands to engrave the Picture of the Royal Christening by Hayter. The King of Prussia left Windsor Castle soon after ten o'clock yesterday morning, attended by the Chevalier Bunsen, M. le General Nutzmar, le Baron de Humboldt, le Comte de Stolberg, M. le General de Neumann, M. Muller, M. de Megerinch, M. de Brauchitsch, and by the Earl of Hardwicke, Lord in Waiting, and Captain Meynall, Groom in Waiting. His Majesty and Suite went to Slough, and left by a special train for Paddington, from which terminus they were conveyed in three of the Royal carriages to Buckingham Palace, where they arrived a quar ter before twelve o'clock. Her Majesty held a Court for the reception of the Foreign Corps Diplomatique. The French Ambassador, the whole of the Foreign Ministers (including those accredited on special mission), and also the different Charges d Affaires, resident at the Court, at tended. The Baron de Renduffe, Portuguese Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Prussia, was also present. The Vice-Chamberlain and the Comptroller of the Queen's Household conducted their Excel lencies to the presence of the King. The Che valier Bunsen, his Majesty's Minister Plenipo tentiary on a Special Mission, presenting all the members of s the Corps respectively to his Ma jesty. The Baron de Schleinitz, Prussian Charge d'Affaires, and the Baron de Canitz, attache to the Mission, had previously arrived at the Pa lace, and attended his Majesty, with the other gentlemen of the Suite, at the reception. 'The Diplomatic Corps having retired, his Ma jesty and Suite were served with a d e j e une. At ten minutes past two o'clock the Corpora tion of the City of London arrived at the Palace to present an Address of Congratulation to his Majesty. The Lord Mayor in his State robes, and %veering his Collar, came in his State coach, drawn by six greys, preceded by the City Marshals on horseback, and also by Marshalmen and Footmen in State liveries. His Lordship was followed by the Sheriffs in State carriages, and by a numerous deputation. Among those present were Aldermen Sir Peter Laurie, Sir Chapman Marshall, Sir George Car roll, Thomas Johnson, Gibbs, Lainson, John Johnson, and Farneomb ; the Recorder; Mr. Sheriff Magnay, Mr. Sheriff Rogers;' the Chew berlain, the City Remembrancer, the City So licitor, the Common Pleaders, Messrs. Bul lock, Gurney, and Ryland, and other Officers of the Corporation. Also 117 Commoners of the City of London, including Mr. Stevens, the mover, and Mr. Wire the seconder, of the Address; Messrs. King, R. L. Jones, Cope, Wheelton, Parker, Edward Harrison, and West wood. The King received the Address in the Library. His Majesty was habited in the uniform of the First Regiment of Prussian Foot Guards. His Majesty wore the Ribband of the Garter with the Bade appended, and also the Star of that Most Noble Order. The Lord Mayor and the very numerous De putation were conducted to his Majesty by the Vice-Chamberlain, and the Comptroller of the Household. The Earl of Harduicke, Lord in Waiting, and Captain Meynell, Groom in Waiting, attended the King, as also his Excellency the Chevalier Bunsen, and the gentlemen of his Majesty's suite. The Recorder then read the following Ad dress : " To his Majesty the King of Prussia. " The Address of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and • Commons--of the City of London, in Common Council assembled. " May it please your Majesty, " We, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of London, in Common Council assembled, ap proach your Majesty to offer our sincere congratulations to your Majesty on your Majesty's auspicious visit to our beloved and gracious Sovereign the Queen. " Deeply interested in every event which affects the domestic happiness of our beloved Queen and her Royal Consort, we hail with the greatest pleasure and satisfac tion your Majesty's presence as one of the Sponsors to a Prince, who, we trust, will in the fulness of time ascend the throne of these realms, the protector of the religion and liberties of this nation. " Permit us, Sire, to express our earnest wishes that your Majesty's presence in this country may tend to in crease and perpetuate a friendship and alliance so essen tial to the Protestant interest, and eminently calculated to promote the liberties, the happiness, and prosperity of the British and Prussian nations. " By Order of the Court, (Signed) " H. WOODTHORPE." The Recorder having read this Address, gave it to the Lord Mayor, by whom it was presented to the King of Prussia. His Majesty then read the following Answer: " Lord Mayor find Gentlemen, " I thank you most warmly for the interest you take in my arrival in this country. " I have seized with particular pleasure the opportu nity which the kind invitation of the Queen has afforded me, of showing the high regard and sincere friendship I feel for your justly-beloved Sovereign, and of being one of the Sponsors to the Royal Infant, whom .I pray God may bless. . . " It will be to me a source of high gratification to find that my visit to this country may contribute to in crease and perpetuate the friendly relations so ]sappily existing between the two countries—relations so im portant for the maintenance and development of all the blessings of peace, and for the furthering of that civilisa tion which is founded upon Christian piety and virtue. " I am glad to have had this opportunity of expressing these my feelings to the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of London." His Majesty banded his answer to the Lord Mayor, by whom it was delivered to the City Remembraneer. The Lord Mayor then presented to the King, the Aldermen present, all the Officers of the Corporation, Messrs. Stevens and Wire, the mover and seconder of the Address, and also Mr. King. His Lordship and the Deputation then retired. The King of Prussia, attended by the Earl of Hardwiclre, his Excellency the Chevalier Bun sen Captain Meynell, General Natzrnar, 13aron de Humboldt, Count de Stolberg, General de Neumann, M. Muller, M. de Meyerinck, and M. de Brauchitsch, left town ten minutes before three o'clock for Hampton Court Palace, to view "The Cartoons." Lord Ernest Bruce, Vice- Chamberlain, and the Right Hon. G. Dawson Darner, Comptroller of the Household, received his Majesty on his arrival a t B uc ki ngham Palace, and conducte d his Ma jesty to his car riage on his departure for Hampton Court. The Grand Wine Cistern, the largest and finest piece of plate on r ecord in Europe, made George for his Majesty King the Fourth, by Messrs. Rundle and Bridge, was used at the fes tivitieS at Windsor Castle in honour of the Royal Christening. Its contents on this occasion were forty gallons of s piced claret , and it was placed in the Waterloo Galle r y . Her M a j e sty and her August and Royal guests were served from it, and drank the health of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Many pieces of the Regalia were also made use of at the Royal Festivities on this occasion, having been brought from town by Messrs. Rundle and Bridge, to whose custody the whole of the Regalia had been committed immediately after the conflaFration in the Tower, by the Lord Chamberlain. The ancient Salt Cellar of State, richly adorned with precious stones, placed. between her Ma jesty and the King of Prussia on the banquet table, is the model of the White Tower. The embrasures in it are filled by miniature cannons, placed on carriages, wrought in gold. The ancient font in St. George's Chapel, from which his Royal Highness the Prhice of Wales was baptised, had been re-gilt, and, together with numerous articles of plate displayed in the Wa terloo Gallery and St. George's Hall, had been brought from town with the Regalia and State Salt-cellar. Yesterday was the birthday of his Royal High ness the Duke of Sussex. His Royal Highness received visits of congratulation from their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Gloucestey and the Duke of. Cambridge. In the afternoon the Royal Duke went to Marlborough House to pay a visit to hei Majesty the Queen Dowager, and after wards returned to Kensington Palace. The Duke of Cambridge visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday. A Cabinet Council wag held at two o'clock yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-office. Sir Robert Peel and the Earl of Aberdeen arrived from Windsor Castle, to be present. The Council sat two hours and a half. Sir Robert Peel and the Earl of Aberdeen afterwards left town on their return to Windsor Castle. Lord and Lady Stanley left town yesterday afternoon on a ♦isit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. Mr. Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yeterday, at his official residence in Downing street. Captain Trotter, the senior officer in command of the Niger expedition, has arrived in town, and yesterday transacted business both at the Foreign and Colonial-office. THE CITY ADDRESS TO THE KING OF PRUSSIA. Yesterday the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, i nd Common Council, and principal City officers, as sembled at the Guildhall for the purpose of waiting upon his Majesty the King of Prussia with the Address voted on Monday last, in the Court of Common Council, upon his Majesty's visit to Queen Victoria, as sponsor to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. fly, order of the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor the bells of several of the churches in the City were rung during the day in honour of the occasion. The procession set off from the Guildhall at a little after one o'clock. There were in the procession, besides the Lord Mayor, Aldermen Sir Peter Laurie, Sir Chapman Marshall, Thomas Johnson, Gibbs, Farncomb, Lainson, Sir George Carroll, John Johnson, Sheriffs Magnay and Rogers, the City Cham berlain, the Recorder, the Common Pleaders, the Retnembrancer, the - City Solicitor, the Comptroller, the Secondaries, and 119 Common Councilmen. The Corporation were received in the most gracious manner by his Majesty. The Recorder read the Address, and the King returned a most gracious Answer (for which see Court Circular). On Monday his Majesty will visit St. Paul's, and afterwards the Mansion-house, and partake of a dejeuner with the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress. THE ELECTRO-MAGNETIC RAIL WAY-TRAIN CONTROLLER. Yesterday afternoon a private lecture was delivered by Dr. Bachhoffner, at the Royal Polytechnic Institution, for the purpose of explaining the peculiarities and ad vantages of a recent invention for controlling the motions of railway-trains, the authors of which are . Messrs. Wright and Bain, the latter of whom is known to the public as the ingenious contriver of the electrical clocks, upon which principle one is now going in front of the Institution. The agent employed in this railway-train controller is electricity ; and its application, as in the instance of the clock, is effected by means of an electro magnet. The object contemplated by the patentees is to compel the galvanic fluid to act as a preventive against any ordinary accidents to which railway travelling is exposed,. and this they purpose accomplishing by first laying down wires along the whole length of a line be tween the rails, and then furnishing the locomotive with a galvanic battery, and a pilot engine with an electro magnet, electrical communication between both being established by curved springs which travel along and upon the wires. When this electrical communication is broken, which it would be in the case of impending accident to the train, an instantaneous warning is given to the engine -driver, by which means the danger is avoided and should the engine -driver, or his as sistant, take no notice of such warning, the interruption of the voltaic current immediately puts some self-acting mechanism in motion, the result of which is that the steam is by it shut off, and the breaks put down. The pilot engine we have mentioned is first started at about two miles a-head of the passenger or goods train. Should a slip of earth take place, the stoppage caused in consequence to the pilot engine would be at once com municated to the advancing train, and a similar effect would be produced were the earth to fall between the pilot engine and the train. In like manner, if a side gate were left open, through which carts or carriages might cross the line, the train would be stopped, and were a train accidentallyLto get upon the wrong rails, and thus become exposed to the danger of meeting another, col lision between the two would be jprevented. The same may be observed of one train overtaking another. An explanation of the scientific and most ingenious means by which these effects are produced would be unintelli gible without drawings, but enough has been stated to explain the general objects of the invention. PUSEYISM. THE PRIMATE OF ALL ENGLAND SUSPECTED. Addresses are pouring in daily to Lambeth Palace, calling upon the Chief Shepherd of the flock to guard them against wolves in sheeps' clothing. Protestants begin to suspect that he is a dumb dog that cannot bark, and, if we judge from the answers of the Primate, to their earnest and conscientious entreaties, they certainly have cause for alarm. The answers to their applicationsare all the same, and simply amount to this—" I will give due consideration to the subject." While the subject agitates the whole kingdom, and threatens to make an awful schism in the Church, the most Reverend Father in God, Primate of all England, and Metropolitan, seems to look at it as a matter which he has yet to take into his consideration. The following address and reply, just published, show that there are good reasons for fear, independent of the fact that one of his Grace's Chaplains is a distinguished contributor to the Tracts for the Times. The Catholics re joice and say, the present successor of Thomas a-Becket will yet perform high mass at Canter bury : TO THE MOST REVEREND FATHER IN GOD, HIS GRACE THE LORD ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, PRIMATE OF ALL ENGLAND, AND METROPOLITAN. • We, the undersigned lay members of the Church of England, inhabitants of Bristol and its vicinity, re garding with dismay the views recently inculcated by the authors of the " Tracts for the Times," and their ex tensive and baneful influence amongst the members of. our Church, venture to address your Grace, as the chief ecclesiastical guardian of the Church of Christ, in England, persuaded that many of those writings are utterly repugnant to the Word of God, at variance with the plain meaning of the Articles, Liturgy, and Homi lies of the Church of England, and contain the essence of many of the most fatal errors of the Church of Rome. This tendency was clearly discerned, and joyfully hailed, two years ago, at Rome itself, as appears from the fol lowing extract from a publication issued under the sanc tion of the Propaganda College : " The attention of all good Catholics, and especially of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, cannot be enough excited by the present state of religion in England, in consequence of the new doctrine propa gated with so much ability and success by Messrs. New man, Pusey, and Keble." The extract concludes with these words :—" In such sort as to leave but little dif ference between their opinions and the true faith, and which difference becomes less and loss every day. Faith ful ! redouble your prayers, that these happy disposi tions may beincreased.' We, therefore, humbly entreat your Grace to take such measures as may seem most advisable for obtaining from the Episcopal Bench their authoritative and united condemnation of those opinions, of which several of the Bishops have already expressed their individual disap probation at their triennial visitations, and amongst the est, the Lord Bishop of this diocese on a very recent ccasion. 'We now solemnly and earnestly commend this matter to your Grace, to whom the charge and oversight of the flock of Christ in this part of the United Kingdom hal been committed by the Chief Shepherd and Bishop of our souls; and with the utmost respect we beg to subscribe ourselves, Your Grace's most obedient and faithful servants. REPLY OF ISIS GRACE. Lambeth, Jan. 24, 1842. GENTLEMEN—I have the honour to acknoWledge the receipt of an address, very numerously and respectably signed, by lay members of the Church of England, inha bitants of the city of Bristol and its neighbourhood ; and I request you to inform them that in compliance with their request, I will give due consideration to the subject to which they have solicited my attention.—l have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your most obedient servant, W. CANTUAR. LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAIL WAY.—On Wednesday last the half-yearly meeting of the Proprietors of this Company was held in Liverpool, Mr. Charles Lawrence, Chairman of the Board of Di rectors, presiding. The Secretary read the half-yearly Report of the concern, which commenced by alluding to the existing distress and embarrassment, and to the in fluence which they had on the concern. The Report in cluded a statement of the accounts, from which it ap peared that the receipts were, for the past half-year, in the coaching department, 80,5491. 14s. 7d. ; merchandise department, 53,9741. 19s. 11d. ; coal department, 3,0061. 3s. 4d. ; total, 137,5301. 17s. 10d. The gross expendi ture for the same period was 70,080 L ss. 7d., leaving a net profit for the half-year ending the 31st of December, 1841, of 67,4501. 12s. 3d. Add to the profit the surplus from the half-year ending June, 1841, and the disposable fund, is 74,1821. 9s. 7d. The number of shares entitled to a dividend is 12,090 hundred pound shares. The Di rectors recommend a dividend of Si. per share, amount ing to 60,4501. Also the payment of a third instalment of the reserved interest on 5,100 original 1001. shares, 1/. per share, 5,100/. ; and on the 5,100 first quarter shares, 2s. per share, 5101. ; total, 66,0601., which being deducted from the available fund, as above stated, will leave a balance of 8,1221. 9s. 7d. to be carried to the next half year's account. DEATH OF THE HON. ROBERT LEEsoN•-- This Hon. Gentleman died at Thorne, near Penrith, on the 14th instant, in his 70th year. He was the youngest son of Brice, third Earl of Milltown, and uncle to the present Earl. BIRMINGHAM DISTRICT ANTI CORN-LAW MEETING. FURTHER ACCOUNT. The following is a more lengthened report of the speeches made towards the conclusion of the meeting on Wednesday than appeared in The Sun yesterday : Mr. SCOTT, speaking of the Stourbridge district, said, —The wages of the glass-cutters between 1838 and 1842 had been much reduced. In 1838 employment could be readily obtained, but at the present time great numbers were out of work, while others were only partially em ployed. He held in his hand a list, showing the reduc tion which had taken place in wages in the various branches of the glass-cutting trade, which he proceeded to read to the meeting. It was as follows : Price in 1838. In 1842. s. d. s. d. 1 3 per inch ... 0 11 per inch If Decanters Dishes 7 0 „ ... 5 6 5 0 „ ... 4 0 3 0 „ The wages paid for wines, clarets, champagnes, tumblers, &c., exhibited the same rate of reduction. Mr. Scott then referred to the price of food, in connection with the foregoing facts, showing that the poor workthan was not only suffering from reduced wages, but that he had to pay considerably more for his food than when he ob tained a higher remuneration for his labour in 1838. Again, with regard to the article of parchment, a con siderable quantity of which was manufactured in his neighbourhood, principally for the American market. Their climate gave the people of this country almost a monopoly of the article, for it could not be readily manu factured in the United States, where there was a con stant demand for it; but the Americans could not pay for it, and we refused to take their corn in exchange.— (Hear, hear.) Were we permitted to import corn from America, the men who were now unemployed would obtain constant work, the trade would revive, and the manufacturers would be enabled to dispose of the heavy stocks which they had lying on hand —(Hear, hear.) The. Honourable Gentleman afterwards described the depressed state of the coal and iron trade, and tne general distress which prevailed in Stour bridge and neighbourhood. Nothing, he observed, was more astonishing to him than the endurance of the people, pledging everything they were possessed of to keep them from that _fearful resource, the workhouse. In visits paid recently amongst the poor, many of the houses were found without a bed, and the family huddled together in a corner, with a few rags to cover them, en deavouring to procure warmth and without a morsel of food to sustain life.—(Hear, hear.) This was not a soli tary case of destitution, and although he knew that dis tress would be found to exist more or less at all times, yet he firmly believed that the present misery and suffer ing were almost entirely owing to the state of trade, and the operation of iniquitous laws pressing down the ener gies and trade of the country.—(hear, hear.) He would not detain the meeting on that occasion by making a speech on the general, principle of the Corn-laws, but proceed at once to the resolution which he held in his hand. It was as follows:—" That the avowed object of the Corn- laws was to create a monopoly in the food of man. That the operation of the Corn-laws has been to counter act the designs of Providence, by restricting the ex change of the productions of industry, to deprive the working classes of the just remuneration for their labour by shutting up markets—to ruin the trade of Great Britain by circumscribing its intercourse with other na tions, and to induce a fearful state of general and un precedented distress which daily becomes more intense, and threatens to destroy our commercial prosperity, and and our very existence as a nation." It might, perhaps, be considered a rash assertion to say that the operation of the Corn-laws tended to counteract the designs of Providence, but if Providence intended that man should enjoy the fruits of the earth and the honest reward of industry, the observation would not be misapplied to laws which deprived him of both.—(Hear, hear.) Their opponents were fond of referring to the home trade of England, as affording a market for her commodities ; but they forgot that the very act which destroyed their foreign trade would reduce their home trade to a win entity.—(Hear, hear.) He defied their opponents to point out a town or village in the county, in which their home trade was in a flourishing condition. Their home trade was, he asserted, in a most depressed state, and unless some immediate legislative change took place, he was convinced that universal ruin would swallow up the' trade and prosperity of the country. Mr. DnrlocK, of Bilston, seconded the resolution, in an excellent address. Mr. TAUNTON, of Coventry, supported the resolution, detailing the state of trade in that city, and the distress which prevailed amongst the working classes. He had frequent opportunities of observing the habits of the working classes, and the very offal which was now eagerly purchased in pennyworths by the people, and the rags which were bought to cover them, afforded suf ficient indications, if he had not more conclusive proof, of the misery to which working men and their fami lies were reduced. JOSEPH WALKER, Esq., of Wolrerharnpton, moved the next resolution :—" That inasmuch as the compli cated evils under which the country now suffers are shown to be the natural fruits of monopoly, this meet ing earnestly deprecates all legislative interference with industry, and pledges itself to adopt all peaceful and legal means to obtain the total and immediate abolition of the Corn and Provision-laws." He did not think that the present was the fitting occasion to go into the general question of the Corn and Provision-laws, as they would have an opportunity of discussing that question in the evening. He would therefore proceed at once to the immediate subject before them—that of communicating information in reference to the trade andmanufactures of the town which he represented. The staple of Wolver hampton was hardware, and he would just premise that the articles were not such as depended upon the caprice of fashion ; neither were they in the position of other manufacturers in the country, who depended upon foreigners for a supply of the raw material. They had coal and iron almost at their doors, and at a cheaper rate than could be produced in any other part of the world. They would therefore judge by the prices which they paid for articles of hardware in 1836 and 1841 whether trade was improving or declining. Mr. Walker here read the following list, showing the relative prices of the articles mentioned in 1836 and 1841 : Cost in 1836. Cost in 1841. s. d. s. d. Bolts 6 o 3 Buckles . Chest handles Currycombs 5 6 3 6 Door springs Hinges (forged) Hinges (cast) Locks (iron door) Ditto (mortice) Ditto (iron chest) Ditto, brass lO 0 7 () Ditto Trunk Locks 2 0 1 2 Ditto, iron pad Ditto, brass pad Ditto, stock - locks Latches (iron) door ll 0 7 6 Coffee mills Rat traps 9 0 7 6 Screws l2 0 8 0 Bed screws Now, in none of these articles, he might safely say, was there such a thing as a machine used.—(Hear, hear.) Therefore the argument of those who contended that the evils under which they suffered arose from machi nery, here fell to the ground. But the comparison of prices did not exhibit the whole of the evil, in order to arrive at which they must take into account the quan tity of the necessaries of life which could be obtained in the former year for a given amount of labour, and the quantity which they could now obtain by the same amount of exertion.—(Hear, hear.) After entering into this view of the subject with great force and perspicuity, Mr. Walker proceeded to observe that charity,ilowever munificent, could not meet the evils under which the industrious classes were suffering—it would be only taking a slice off one poor man's loaf to give it to another. -It did not increase the amount of food. If they went to buy up food in a place where there was only a fixed quantity, it immediately raised the price; it brought a fresh customer into the market, and the landowner, in fact, pocketed the amount of their charity.—(Hear, hear.) He defied any man to point out any other means of increasing the comforts of the people of this country, and of adding to the quantity of the necessaries of life, but by openin g the ports of Great Britain. Mr. Walker concluded amidst the cordial plau dits of the meeting. Mr. WYNNE, of Wolverhampton, seconded the reso lution, which was unanimously adopted. The Rev.. Mr. M'KEAN moved the adoption of a me morial to the House of Commons, embodying the prin ciples and views set forth in the foregoing resolutions. The memorial was seconded by Mr. BROMFIELD, of Coventry, and unanimously adopted. The following gentlemen were then appointed as a de putation to wait upon her Majesty's Ministers, for the purpose of laying before them a statement of the effects of the Corn-laws on the trade of the district :—Joshua Scholefield, Esq., M.P. ; G. F. Muntz, Esq., M.P. ; T. Thornely, Esq., M.P. ; Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P. ; Robert Scott, Esq., M.P. ; Messrs. Joseph Sturge, Joseph Walker, W. Boultbee, Corbett, Taunton, and the Chairman. The next resolution was moved by Mr. SMITH, of West Bromwich, viz. :—" That this meeting rejoices that the National Anti-Corn-law League have convened a meeting of deputies to assemble in London, on the Bth of February ; and this meeting earnestly recommend to the deputies, when assembled, to take prompt and effi cient measures, irrespective of the course which may be pursued by the Government for testing the opinions of the Members of the House of Commons on the total and immediate abolition of the Corn and Provision-laws." It was also suggested that deputies from the different Asso ciations throughout the country should attend the great general meeting on the Bth of next month. The resolution was adopted. Mr. Alderman WESTON proposed, " That the Com mittee of the Birmingham Anti-Corn-law Association be requested to forward to the Metropolitan Anti-Corn-law Association a statement comprising all such statistical information as may be best calculated to promote the re peal of the Corn and Provision-laws." SAMUEL GODDARD, Esq., in seconding the resolution, said he would make a few observations on the trade be tween this country and America, with which he was in timately connected. It was his intention to have handed to the committee a mass of statistics in support of the business of the day, but when he set about collecting them, he found the evidence on all hands so abundant and conclusive, that he shrank from the task of making a selection. He had, however, during the meeting, handed to the Chairman some account of the manufac tures of the United States, and also a list of articles now made there, or imported from the continent of Europe, which, previous to the passing of the Corn laws, were obtained almost entirely from England.— EVENING SUET '7 -- ,; (Hear, hear.) This list comprised c ar p en t ers an d-j o i ners - ii: tools Onerally, in which three-fourths of th e t ra d e was It - - lost ; agricultural implements, of which seven-eighths—_-_-: were lost ; buttons, of which about one-half were lost ; brushes of all kinds, of which the whole of the trade ' ' was lost ; the same with respect to combs, and lead in :M various shapes ;_ and nearly the whole of our ex p or t o f glass. Mr. Goddard also enumerated the trade m iron, leather, nails, and other articles, the whole of the ex ports in which were altogether lost, or nearly so. He added that, notwithstanding the prodigious increase of manufactures in America, that market had continued to take a larger amount of goods from Great Britain annu ally than the amount of produce taken in return, thus clearly evincing a disposition to take goods to the full extent of the means of payment, and not to require gold. He thought it only fair to suppose that the trade would greatly increase were flour and provisions generally al lowed to be sent to this country. In this case there would be a much greater trade under more certain payments. —(Hear.) When the Corn-laws were passed the argu ment was, " Oh, the Americans can never manufacture for themselves ; our industry, skill, and machinery, will prevent that." But now it was said the mischief was done, and it is too late to remedy it. But he would undertake to say emphatically, that although much mischief had been done, it was not too late to prevent much in pros pect.—(Bear.) They had heard a good deal of specu lation about new markets, and especially resp e cting the China markets. But, although he was of opinion that the more markets they had the better, he thought it highly probable that a larger amount of manufactures was consumed in America by seventeen millions of Anglo-Saxons than in the whole empire of China. It was his firm conviction that if they repealed the present Corn-laws they would have a great and flourishing trade with the United States, but that if they continued them they would not only lose irretrievably that market, but create amongst that people competitors in every market under heaven.—(Loud applause.) At the close of the meeting a vote of thanks was pre sented to W. Scholefield, Esq., for his kindness in pre siding. In the evening a tea-party and public meeting was held in the Town-hall, for the purpose of receiving in formation on the subject of the Corn-laws. Mr. Curtis, of Ohio, Colonel Thompson, Joseph Sturge, Esq., and most of the gentlemen who took part in the morning's proceedings, were present. The hall was crowded, and the addresses were llstened to with great interest. IRELAND. CITY OF DUBLIN ELECTION. DUBLIN, JAN. 2e,.—The polling re-commenced this morning at nine o'clock. Long before that hour the booth M.. the chief stronghold of the Liberals, was beset by crowds of voters. This booth has been placed in the open street, and notwithstanding the torrents of rain fall ing all the forenoon, the Reformers, drenched to the skin, have been waiting patiently, in the hope of getting forward to record their votes for Lord Morpeth. There are nearly 2,000 voters allotted to this booth, not more than one-half of whom can possibly poll in the five days allowed by law for the polling. On the other hand, the Tory booths, fitted up with convenience and comfort, have, several of them, not 500 voters to poll. It is under such circumstances, according to the management of Lord Dc Grey's Tory Sheriffs, that the Liberals are struggling to effect the return of Lord Morteth. If there were anything like fair play, Lord Mo r p e t 's return, by a very large majority, could not for a moment be doubted. But whilst the Reformers are obstructed by all sorts of contrivances, the Tories are pouring in the votes of non-resident freemen, although the law expressly declares that no freeman is eligible it' he reside seven miles be yond the boundaries or the city. The unqualified freemen, not six months registered, admitted by wholesale on the last day of 11layoralty by Sir John Kingston James, are also polling. But this question is now before the assessor. STATE OF THE P.iLf. AT TWO O'CLOCK ON WEDNESDAY. Lord Morpeth Mr. Gregory 6Ol Majority on this day - 36 • . STATE OF THE POLL AT THREE O'CLOCK. . Lord Morpeth Mr. Gregory 839 Majority for Gregory this day 37 Majority, yesterday 230 Gross majority for Gregory - 267 In the hour between two and ee o'clock, Gregory gained but one vote. It would appear as if the Tory ad vance had been effectually checked. -The Tories claim a majority of 57 on this day, the difference amounting to 20, being made up from objected votes of yesterday, decided by the assessor in their favour day. The weather is terrible, it is blowing a hurricane all day. STATE OF THE POLL THIS EVENING. 1,004 925 Mr. Gregory Lord Morpeth Majority fur Gregory this day... - 79 GROSS POLL. Mr. Gregory 2 149 Lord Sforpeth Gross majority - fir 309 This day the assessor decided a new point, that " hold ing," instead of house, is an illegal description. This disfranchises a large number of Liberals. In fact, the people have no real franchisethe Reform Bill has become a mockery. LETTER FROM. MR. O'CONNELL , B` , ZO THE . ELECTORS OF DUBLIN." The following letter appears in the Pilot of to-night : " Mansion-house, 26th January, 1842. " Fellow Citizens,—Our prospects are beginning to be clouded. There is an appearance of apathy or neglect. The bigoted faction that has so long oppressed our un happy country threatens a new triumph over us. Yet We have the means of success in ourswn power. • " I shOuld not experience the bitterness of disappoin meat if we were deflated by the superior strength of th'e enemy ; but I confess that I feel it painfully discredit- able to be bound to admit that we run the risk of defeat, not for want of strength, but for want of activity and energy. • "Rouse, then, electors of Dublin !: Let there be nol, apathy—no neglect—no delay ! Sho' you have a deter,. , mined spirit to r es i s t th ose w h o v ilif y your cree d an d t k a -'1: duce your country. " Surely you cannot mean to shrink from your duty. You, cannot mean to give a victo r y t o th ose w h o wou ld reduce:your country to a base servitude, and tarnish - your religion with the name of a vile idolatry ! " If I possess any influence with you, permit me 4 in the name of Ireland, to call you at once to the poll. Re collect, that if you triumph now, you defeat the worst Anti-Repeal party—the interested enemies of our Legis lative independence. " Recollect that if you succeed, you show the energy of the Repealers, and the liberality which they entertain to wards the friends of Reform. " You also show your political hostility to the enemies both of Reform and Repeal. " I conjure you, then, in the name of all that is dear to patriots and to Christians, to hasten to the poll, and once again to record your votes in favour of Old Ireland " nave the honour to be, fellow-countrymen, your ever faithful devoted servant. " DANIEL O'CONNELL." CORONERS' INQUESTS. The inquiry adjourned from Monday last, into the circumstances attending the Sudden death of Elizabeth Linsey, aged 38 years, and also of her child, only one month old, was resumed before Mr. Payne yesterday afternoon at the Commercial Tavern, Sherborne-lane. Mr. Hugh Fuller, surgeon, of King William-street, said that he had made the necessary examination. He found the organs of the body of the child perfect and healthy. The stomach was nearly empty. It .was his opinion that it died from exposure to the cold. With respect to the mother, he found that the heart had very much wasted, -so much so that it would be difficult for reaction to take place after fainting. There was no doubt on his mind that fainting was the cause of death. A wasting of the heart was often the result of mental anxiety. The deceased was a remarkably robust woman, and had died in a full habit of body. The jury rettirned a verdict in both cases of " Died from 'natural cadses." Yesterday an inquisition was taken by Mr. Wakley, M.P., and a respectable Jury, at St. Pancras workhouse, on the body of Thomas Davis, aged 55, formerly a corn chandler amid coal-merchant in an extensive way of busi ness, but lute an inmate of the above workhouse. Alexander Peckham, also a pauper, said he knew de ceased, who was in the convalescent ward, No. 3, with him. They generally sat next to each other at meals. The deceased was so voracious in his appetite that it was. the custom of the nurse of the ward to cut his meat up in small pieces, for fear of his choking himself. On Sunday last, whilst at dinner, the nurse had left the table for a minute or two without having cut up the meat in deceased's plate. She had no sooner turned her back than the deceased took up . a large piece mid crammed it into his mouth. He immediately made a noise in his throat, as if he was choking, but, notwith , standing this was the case, when witness made an at ' tempt to pull the meat out of his mouth the decease& prevented him by closing his teeth. The throttling noise in his throat increased, and the deceased became black in the face, and struggled violently. Mr. Easteott, the surgeon, was sent for, and arrived in about• ten minutes, but before he could do so deceased had expired. Mary Brown, the nurse, gave similar evidence, and stated that the deceased had been nearly choked three or four times from like conduct. The meat supplied to the poor was very hard and tough. The sister-m-lan of the deceased thought that proper attention had not been paid to deceased. Knowing his propensity, the nurse ought not to have left the meat be fore him without cutting it up in small pieces. ,-;- The CORONEIt considered there was no blame attri butable to any one. With regard to the hardness of the meat, representations ought to be made of the fact to the parochial authorities. After some further discussion the Jury returned a ver dict of "Death from apoplexy, produced by choking." PRINTERS' PENSION SOCTETY.-A grand concert and ball, for the benefit of the unsuccessful can didates for admission upon the fund of the above admi rable Society, will take place on Tuesday next, at the Grecian Saloon, Eagle Tavern, City-road. The enter tainments are of the most attractive character, and have no doubt that the result will prove eminently pro fitable to the fund for the relief of those who have not been fortunate enough to be placed permanently amongst the parties who enjoy the extensive benefits of this ad mirable institution. ARREST OF A MURDERER.--John Hogan, d stas that the murderer of Roughan, at Cast le Waller, has been ar rested at Killoskehane, by couannty Ins tepector Caitrr wason. Hogan has confessed his without premeditation , but anxious to expiate the of fence by capital punishment. It appears that he went to the wood to cut timber, and being discovered by the steward, and dreadingprosecution, he a t first fled, but returned and slew his victim.—Nenugh Guardian,