The Sun. — London, England, 1842-01-10 00:00:00

'A~ EVENING SUN THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) , TT La,t v, e:Aa ~..i- i i uti of Barley vv - ere considerab,-, ou: ,moder ate of other grain, and the fresh supplyof most 'gads of. Corn was fair. The darkness of the day was a k l \ : e at interruption to business, so that little was done. , h eat, both English and for e i gn , un l ess ver y fine, was is Per quarter lower. Barley nearly unsaleable. Beans (pilat last quotations. Grey Peas full 2s. per quarter °w er. Oats firm, with a limited demand at last week's 1,3,:-je.'s. Flour met a slack t ra d e . kit ivALS. OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WEEK. ' Wheat. I Harley. Oats.. f Flour 3,511 qrs. 11,151 qrs. 4,115 qrs. 6,.3.lsacicr 4,347 1 - t 550 1 67 brig ' sl--1P ,eneish oith ........ Porei z i; .......... , 1,290 1 - W il ea t PRICES OR BOARD OF . ,Red (old) -s. -s. Beans, Small (new) ...3 9 4.405. 1------ White (01d)..... -g• -s • (old) ........ . 42 ' 46 5. ~:""----- Red(1841) 528. 555. ---- Tick (new) 23 303. -------- Fine 565. 635. (old) Us. 4.18 ..------ Superfine ms. 678 - Harrow (new) 32s 348 1-- .......... W 1,r.e h i te(Ml) Ms. 595. 605.62,. Brank ___-"`"------ Super fi ne S. 735. Oats, Feed ......s -1 o-----•--Foreiens6,. free - New ~, 163.21s kirk). ............... ..35 5• 408 • ^1e.... . -Poland -s -3 ........ gds. 325. New ' , Os. 25 , . "•••---- Grinding .13s. 30s - Potatoe -s.-s. **""•••-•„,alt Malting c3 s . 36 5 . m 565, 608 Scotch ,Z 7..... Fine New 62s 648. Irish 155.... 188.22 e. .-ease, Grey, New 10s. 326. Flour Town (per sack).- sds. 625. `"'"-- Maple New 3ls. 335. Seconds 24 54 s. ""4"... White .345. 363. -..... North Country .... 501 54,, *----- Boilers .365. 38e. Bran 7l as. SMITHFIELD MARKET. th The supply was but moderate, with% brisk demand at at :quotations. Beasts, 2,766 ; Sheep, 23,200 ; 4 s i g , 37 1; Calves, 72. Beef, 3s. Bd. to 4s. 10d. ; Mutton, • to 58. ; Veal, - 49. Bd. t o6s. ; Pork, 4s. 6d. to ss. 6d. TEA MARKET. 'ree Trade was d u ll, and p r i ces su pp or t e d with diffi eultY• Common Congou, 13. 9d. cash ; Company's Con- Du, Is. 91d. cash. TALLOW MARKET. fair demand for Russia, and prices firm at 48s. ad. Lotw4oBlll.o6dnt.host! the spot, and 495. for delivery in the next WOOL MARKET. The market was fi rm , w i t h a goo d d eman d ; pr i ces look h glAvard. HOP MARKET. 14., good demand and prices firm, esp ec i a lly f or th e sort.% the supply was moderate. PROVISIONS. 1 1, 4 . good sale for B u tt e r, a n d p r i ces fi rm , fi ne D utc h , 4 s. per cwt . ; B acon se ll s f reely, Pr i me at 525. to 565. ,L evy t. COURT CIRCULAR. IWIXDSO M SUNDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albe r t, ane -Duchess of Kent, and the Royal Suite and House hl, atte n d e d Di v i ne Serv i ce th i s morning - in the private C hapel of the Castle. The Rev. W. Canning officiated. ;tt ie sterday her Majesty and P r inc e Alb er t • wa lk e d on o Castle T errace an d in thc , Slopes ,• afterwards his 0 741 Highness enjoyed the sport of shooting at Cram ' I,,"'irile Lodge, attended by Lord Charles Wellesley, Co ne' flouverie, Sir Fred. Stovin, and Mr. George E. Anson. -1- ., 11 e - Earl and Co un t ess D e l a W arr t oo k t h e i r l eave yes terday morning. " t , -.4te R ev. `fib Canning will have the honour of j o i n i ng Royal Dinner Circle this evening. On Tuesday next her Majesty and Prince Albert and ujte are exected to leave the Castle for Claremont, Wher e thev are . expected to remain until Saturday. Their pal HikhnesSes the Prince of Wales a nd the Princess will remain at the Castle. The Chap e l R oya l S t. G eorge c l oses to - morrow , to end he the wor k men to com m ence the necessary prepara ns for the augus t ceremony o f t h e R o y a l CI ristening. 'ere ar e at present f our stoves w i t hi n t h e Ch ape l , an d talte temperature this evening was 48. Two more stoves re to be erected in a few days. • Hi s Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge lef u town °a Saturday.morning for his residence at Kew. th nis Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Hesse Philipps ,al left M arl b orough House, Pall-mall, at half-past two it Clo ck on Saturday-afternoon, for the Continent. M. Fortique, the Venezuelan ' transacte s•„* n ess on Saturday with the Earl of Minister, Aberdeen at the Sir • : H enry Lushington had an interview with Lord St anley on Saturday at the Colonial-office. T he Eavl of Ripon, the Earl of Lincoln, and the Right n• W. E. Gladstone had interviews with Sir Robert eel On Saturday. The Earl o f Li nco l n v i s i te d Si r James Graham on Sa turday at the Home-office. Despatch es . c or the Governor of S out h A ustra li a were seat off on Saturday evening from the C o l on i a l- o ffi ce . tler Majesty an 1 Prince Albert have been :raciously 'tP,lettsed to honour Sir William Ne w t on w i t h their sane :Oil to paint two pictures upon a large surface of ivory, Nmpanions to his Coronation picture—viz., one of her ajesty's marriage (which is much advanced), and the other of the approaching interesting baptismal ceremony "the Infant Prince of Wales. Th e , Judicial Committee of her Majesty's Most Ho • hourable Privy Council sat on Saturday in the Council Chamber. The Lords present were the Lord President, Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, and Mr. Justice P.rskine. Their Lordships resumed the hearing of an appeal front the PrerogaNve Court, " Charles Deare and Tho tlas Mayhew a.Ellerr lwyn," relative to the will of Mr. 'eter Rai n i er, w h o d i, x ; on the 30th October, 1837. The Solicitor-General addressed the Court for the . I YB Pondent, and occupied the whole of the day. Their '',dships then rose. I,p,?_flenry Mildmay, Bart., and Mr. E. Miklmay, have ‘,..varranc'e's Hotel, for the seat of the Earl" of Ches. vrtield, Ilretby Hall, Derbyshire. UN jar - d r,' l \ ERSITY INTELLIGENCE. o h RD, J AN . 8 .-- Hilary or Lent Term commences r lgay next ' and - being the first day of term, a con ktei4l9ll. be holden for conferring degrees, &c. VL b,• 9. attn sermon which precedes each term will be aeil eci.Yy' s the Rev T. Patteson, of Exeter College, on 1 4 ' 14 3'1 at St. Mary s. lloecillsequerme of the resignation of the R ev. G. E. be„nian, th e Rey. H. rearson, of Ballioll College, has of i t Pre sented to the Vicarage of Sonning in the county Prettlirks, W. Renaud, of Exeter •College, has . iseen c ount to the Curuey of Norton-by-Daventry, .in the Thg ° f Northamp ton. Dresee Itev. G. AVebcter of Exeter College, has been Z v ed to the Curaey - of St. Peter'-s fancy ft, Norwich. •.„Oroodenou h vas on Tuesday last admitted an 11-11-4Qllow of LW College, as founder's kin; and s altle . d:Ve has been admitted an Actual Fellow of the C4%," t 'ge, after being two years a probationary one. uN, -Ittnaß JAN. 8.--John Parker Birkett, 8.A., of niversity, has been appointed by -4 tr o , — 'sworth to the Mathematical Mastership at Th„: v „," - aeated by the Rev. J. W. Colenso, M.A. 'ley. William Procter, M.A., of Catherine hall, xerk s ' iu t !' pref erre d to t h e Vi carage o f Bi s h op B urton , I,llemet cl n -Q, e ' c amination for Mathematical Honours corn next o n Wednesday and will terminate on Tuesday tilos: "'ere are 120 candidates. The examination of -- ec etitleraen who are not Questionists in Ilonours "ik ence on Wednesda. DE NT h e "lPvp_,- &REATH OF THE REV. R. RAT-. 'utlrrio 'lll' llo3day last the Rev. Gentleman left Acton I Wo ` ll an early hour, and on his arrival at Harley, Rer s 5 ,7„„ e3 , from Wenlock, about nine o'clock, two cotta- Ltago.,7_,•aho passing down the road, when he suddenly -the',"` i e ' and fell to the ground in a tit of apoplexy. 11 14 "lastened to his assistance, and lifted him up ; The after breatlaing several heavy sighs, he expired. trtti and ee will ase da, , h odY was removed to Acton Burnell the same b e wa i s nterred in the chapel to-morrow. in his 70th year. He was a p rone at at Douai College when the horrors of the n ary Revolution compelled the inmates of that semi he, 3 7 to fly from France, and seek a shelter under the •.f..itable roofs of the wealthy members of the Catholic alth i n ,4 „AGreat Britain and other countries. He arrived iiircton Burnell, the seat of Sir Edward Smythe .other refugees, in 1793, where he remained up to t ine of his death ; an d , d uring the last twenty-six 1 1 , I s, officiated as th e D omest i c Chaplain of the family. q at * . ns the last desce n d an t o f t h e h ouse of Derwent tQer,. which suffered so much, in property and life, for ethr adherence to the cause of the Stuarts.—Shremsbury T ENT CANDLESTICK.—One of the most eeZ t Tious And useful inventions of the day has been re sir44_ bra, u k , ht . out by a house in. Birmingham. It is a . " eetia meal contrivance, for the purpose of super gf - 4'g, tn the u se of those domestic discomforts, slides and ;ails, and ih called the Soho Patent Candlestick. By Ill et Le:.37 turning I;ound the nozzle of the candlestick, the an - e e is raisea or, depressed as occasion may require, 44 th e v or _ (4p y last ixtrtiele consumed without the neces ,°' s'aing a h i t t er. Nor is it less convenient in e aPe3ts, as the nozzle takes out easily, and is I n ally Cleared by a short immersion in hot water. 4 4 ,7 41, therefore, of e tonomy, cleanliness, and utility— cart manufactured in every description of mate thes—the i nvention is in valuable. We understand that J ay l' l ature of this improv ?anent was originally suggested t‘qiera IIY Lee Stevens, whOse scientific utility is pretty known. ,DllOl4--:,.uTH ER EASTISEt.—Our worthy pastor C 110 t T. ice on Sunday e the 26th ultimo, that he would in e comeliane with Mr. Hamilton's circular, we suppose) " ‘rah his parishioners on Monday the 27th, to ex tiol) " 3 •hein the nature of a Chu rc h-defence Assoc_ ia-_ ' and to' prepare th e i r m i n d s t h e b e tt er to comprehend Nltspeeclies which were to b reverend e delivered by two Ae en ,,Tent on Tuesday, a Church-defence meeting. nt, t -- "lngly, we attended at the hour-appointed, and Nyere l ie a little amused at the . way he illustrated his subject. I , o „, e ' p raPared the Kirk of Scotland to a boy s at school, 'Y ' • ,of t len afflicted with sore eyes who was under the care_ Ott eminent physician (the Lord Jesus Christ),_ and Pi t „ L "long other remedies, advised the boy to . ta . ke 5 44 - "," .. ,_0f snuff ; but he no sooner began to . exln o b f it th hi e s tithe box at school, to the no small %lineation _ boy., than the assistant-teacher (the Court ille of 111:o.a:Z. r. took it from him, observ:ng that - ` . "ee could not be tolerated in any well-' , ervernea I . .bis The boy, not satisfied with this 'decigion, cif l V e ver, appealed to the principal teaefier (the House 11 ,;;;; I :d 8 ), who, in place of ordering back the invaluable confirmed the sentence of the assistant, and ilesraissed the appeal. We are not aware how far Mr. I ,, s rr ie sueweded in convincing his hearers of the just this's of the Kirk's claims by the above simile ; but of we are certain, that it has drawn forth some very Severe cornments...._Fife Herald. WEATHER. —PARIS, WEDNESDAY.-- ( V 14. Ch eva li er ' s thermometer, at four o'clock yester z :yoraorning,, the temperature was at four degrees below anti of the C ent i grade scale, 25 degrees of Fahrenheit, re maiDed so st a ti onary , t h at at m id-d ay i t h a d f a ll e n t Y ll , B lvOn e etentlis of the former, or one-fourth of a degree r. IRELAND. PAT, 1:141,,C"' DUBLIN, JAN. 7.—The ,Deplltanoo to England have returned, and their " journey to London" in quest of a candidate has been, as was anticipated it would be, so much mis-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 of a vacancy ; and the idea of soliciting Mr. Colquhoun to stand in the breach was abandoned by the Deputies from Dublin as one altogether hopeless. Such 13 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 Vance, who in the early sta,,,,n of the proceedings pro posed to advance 3,0001. to war d s the expenses of the con test, the Society undertaking to make up the deficiency, and guarantee the cost of a petition—for a petition is now their only hope. This was regarded as a very shabby proceeding 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 lay down 5,0001., provided the Society would either guarantee his return for 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 arc 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 the suffrages 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 bonefits which we derived from that Executive, nftich, very much of our lasting gratitude is due to hire. "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 to speak to the citizens of Dublin. What establishment for the alleviation of the sufferings of the poor of the metropolis did not receive his prompt protection and munificent sup-' pert? 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 countryman, was his co-operation solicited and 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 pilvate 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. By order of the bommitt6o,: l. o l !‘ . ' • . " GEORGE ROE, Chalitnan. " THOMAS H. SYMES, " THOMAS O'HAGAN, Secretaries. " JOHN R. BERWICK, "- - Committee-Rpoms, No. 12, Fleet -street, Jan. 7." THE MURDER AT PEMBROKE-.ROAD.-ARRAIGNMENT OF DELAIIUNT FOR THE MURDER. A true bill having been found against John Delahunt, for the murder of the boy Maguire, the prisoner was called 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 his pace 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 he 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 LAMENNttIS, AND THE STUDENTS OF PARIS. (From Galignani's Messenger of Saturday.) Ott Thursday morning and yesterday, at an early Hour, m 'ctnuscript placards were found affixed to the walls of the Scllools 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 4-)f 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 for them. The crowd thus formed went by the Pont-Neuf, - the Quays, the Place du Palais-Royal, th4Rue St. Vonore, and the Boulevard des Italiens towards the residence of M. de Lamennais, in the Rue Tronchet. On passing before the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the mob cried a bas Guizot ! a bas le Ministre de l'Etranger ! and when they had arrived opposite the house of M. de Lamen nais, they halted, and four delegates proceeded to his apartment. M. de Lamennais shortly afterwards pre sented himself at the balcony, and was saluted by cries of Vive Lamennais! At this moment a detachment of trcops 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 shouted A bus Guizot and then proceeded to the Rue du Croissant, where it stopped for a moment in front of the office of the Journal du Peupk,ishouting Vive Dupotg On reach ing the Chamber of Peers the perturbators shouted several times A bas les Pairs, Vieux habits, Vieux galons, dfc. Having returned to the Place du Pantheon, they appeared inclined to remain there, and began to sing the Marseillaise, but a de tachment of the Municipal Guard, headed by a Commissary of Police, immediately came up, and dis persed them. Several persons, students and workmen, who were in the assemblage, and who had made them selves prominent by their shouts and turbulence, were arrested at various points, and conveyed to prison. The population on the entire line traversed by the assem blage evinced no sympathy with this demonstration. In the evening everything was quiet in the capital. The National having stated that a conflict had taken place op Sunday last, at the Barricre de l'Ecole Mili take, between 2,000 men, part belonging to the 2d Re giment of light infantry, and part to the 59th of the line, between whom a misunderstanding previously ex isted, adding exaggerated details, which represented the scene of action as bearing the aspect of a regular field of battle, the Moniteur Parisien remarks :—" It would be difficult to persuade the public that a fight could have taken place between 2,000 men, and have remained five days unknown 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 blows, the sabre having been used on both sides, and that when they were parted, and peace estab lished, both 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 Sunday last between the soldiers of the 2d Light Infantry 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 was inflicted, and consequently no person was conveyed to the hospital. Every necessary measure has been adopted to maintain harmony between the corps 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 sentedyesterday to M. de Lamennais by the students who went to his residence. This document, which is by no means remarkable for elegance of diction or depth , o: thought, expresses the respect of the students for tee courage, patience, and public and private virtues of the Abbe ; and assures him that the majcrity of their body are preparing themselves by " study and labour" for public life ; that they receive the Abbe's doctrines with avidity ; that they have full confidence in the social and regenerating 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 raennais, in reply, declared that he did not deserve so flattering an address ; but that the cause to which he had devoted himself was sacred to him, and that he was happy that the students had come to express their senti , ment . s. lie added th a t they ought to prepare themselves for their future career by deep study and by habits of discipline, and recommended them to show as much firmness in their opinions as calmness in their manifes- g.' ‘ after their prod iss character °L during the The Pi eces tsterFuriO4 to 3, will . in person. e sailed with fortnight hood. l ye been ea- tt the end ° f ston e of tO Earl qua e - . s quare• ew Ostend °'' m the effects Satiirday ,01:f )se Slu.' villa at We' ire likely abolished to i ticke i t 9 vr e 110Y 31 ,000 pet s ° addition e llor of i h r eipitate, . in one etit.reallP n the I)unclee, 1 lrrang e ! e en o t Gov err iul he lall.h oe he le untlo . sions. L 0 0 efi*„ —We b l e s the -9" which , n o. sP ec ; ter daS yes The fol l° !.; w hich P ic l : stern Co (lo pe, to, , ver pooi L on don au 8 ;ai r K. i for firm. 91. quarto this rer fla t ~— ( 1 nish Ac di ONO~ 21 ONE" to 27 to to to to to to -- OY, jt a the Pi°c9l isj ili , re no equ er 6 1; ferre' , 1 2 1 v 2 4; 3 lois , 0 A i. Ives, n New fl ,1 Ditto New, 4 'HO o f CP S° . °CiSe '6 Oll he P °s course treat aitboug eg fof Omen' of 7erieS• the 1 ° 55 l e been 01 : ent for ; P A S. ~q Arnt r ; s.E. 14th ; lad l‘forb we , Ar' a lt. 3t. J °P oil ; rat OldTrie! V ir,t- Pl' 1.., St3'on'Wie; al, nAn tO Gooleo ;and, vreio enl ion• re Avero b i n , " a• E. fit6h ; orle o9 1 0 " fi ige°°' 11. o f ed IS t _wog' id. JP'cl'' pho , 400 he clOt , fl; ri ne, I sty: te' t On e o (t P r a , )f w n. L.' 11 p ),,qtavi d , Ilerf‘ Cubn . sail ed Tarbert -ira. „if th r g re po BP° _The r en t 4 TUC OVeria ;rche' h fret , 1 ,-,- sent' i e fole ,f -, frurgfi FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS. In October last the Police of Toulouse 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 knives, though sharp, opening with a spring, and having a guard like a poniard, had only one edge. The Procu rein. du Roi appealed to the Cour Royale, which decided that these knives came within the Royal Ordonnance of 23d March, 1728, and Article 1, of the Law of 24th May, 1834, and therefore condemned the cutlers to pay a tine of If. each, with all the costs of the prosecution, and to forfeit all the knives seized. This is contrary to.a 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 customs duty. A whale, upwards 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, Dime-- 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 lA. 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 therare not. to open until they are outside' the Straits of Gibraltar. It was said in Toulon that they would touch at eight or nine particular places on their voyage. The Government of the Swiss canton of, Tessino, imi tating that of Argau, has just suppressed a convent of Cordeliers. The Swabian Mercury states that the authorities of the city of Cassel have published the following curions clause from the will of .the late Electress I bequeath to-the town of Cassel the portrait of my son between two Hessian peasants, which .1 had painted in commemora tion of the reception given to us when we returned to our cduntry, in 1813 ; also a small silver hammer, which was used in nailing the flag of the Burgher-Guard ; 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. .. On Sunday last, a man entered the house of the cure of Neylen, in Mgium, 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 rufigan, 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 long ago made a similar demand for Brittany, arid for the Faculty 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-General of the Pouts 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. de 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 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 went out to verify the silver he had given for the sup posed rouleaux of Napoleons, was practised with per fect success; but the robbers had not only carried off the clerk's silver, they had also abstracted froth his note book a bill of exchange, payable that day, and duly re ceipted. On becoming aware of this, the victim has tenedoff to the house by which the bill was to be paid, and fortunately arriving there before 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 thus caught has been recog nised as one of a gang of depredators in this line, but he persists in not impeaching his associates. A suicide attended with some carious circumstances of determination was committed the day before yesterday in the Passage de Tivoli by a middle-aged 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 latter went 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 in particular order, several 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 i as soon as the fatal shot had taken effect. 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. Poch, stealing handkerchief§, purses, &c., from the congregation. On their lodgings being searched a considerable quantity of articles thus obtained were found. They have been committed for t r i a l. 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 Aurepp from undertaking the expe dition which had been projected for September. The tribe of the Djiguettes, lying between the river Kami cheliar and Ga.ora, 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 almost 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. Diming the campaign, the Russians have lost between 6,000 and 8,000 men, most of them carried off by disease. Tho hospitals of the Crimea are so crowded, that 300 sick have been transferred to Odessa, and 400 more were expected. General Zest has not been more fortunate in the Kuban and the Laha." RUSSIA AND POLAND. (From the Journal des Debuts.) The last news from Poland announces that the system for uniting this unfortunate country with the Russian empire has reached its last period. The German papers unionhave a o l f re l a a d n y gua p g u e bl a ished the ndofe measures inTency inth e re t l w atv o i c e ou t t n o trie be s. The Augsburg Gazette of the 27th of November con tains an article which shows the opposition which exists between the policy of the King of Prussia and that a the Emperor with respect to the Polish provinces. A decree inserted in the Official Gazette of St. Petersburg, suppressing the Supreme Court and Council of State of that ancient kingdom, which it replaces by two . sections called departments of the Russian Senate, has proved the last and final blow to Polish nationality. The Senate in Russia is not, as is believed, an aristocratic Chamber, an independent power, intermediate between the throne and the nation. The real Russian aristocracy, the territorial aristocracy, lives at Moscow, or on its lands, exercising no influence over the affairs of the country. The Senate is compos ed ofeo u r tiers and generals, the mostpart foreigners; it forms a superior tribunal, which, although it is not a tribunal of appeal, is in some sort at the disposal of tilt. Minister of Justice, who acts as its Attorney-General. The Senate is at present composed of ten sections, six of which are at St. Petersburgh, the seventh and eighth at Moscow, and the ninth and tenth at Warsaw. The first section is destined to register and preserve the ukases o the Emperors. The other sections are kinds of tribunals judging all civil affairs unanimously. It is a strange and remarkable fact that the famous liberum veto 01 Poland, which disturbed so many political assemblies, is found in the Russian Senate to disturb private affairs. Th e opposition of a single member of a section is suffi cient to annul a judgment ; it is then sent to the Gene ral Assembly of all the sections together, which judges these questions by the majority of votes. Nevertheless, an affair' judged by the Senate in th e sect i ons an d i n t h e General Assembly is not ended; on the appeal of the Minister Procureur-General it may be sent into the Bu reaux which give their advice ; from thence it is trans mitted to the Council of the Empire, composed of all the ministers, the dignitaries of the Court,and the oldest gene rals, where it is again judged but this is• not yet all. it is sabmitted at last, to the decision of the Emperor, Vi hose will is above the law, Yet the affair is not always THE SUN, LONDON. MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1842. tations ; since, without order a n d ca l mness , the .. Abbe observel, .it was difficult th a t th ere s h ou ld be, any con staucy in opinions, or any continued progress. The, Aationcti estimates the number of persons who went to . the Rue Tronchet at 1,200. tried in that supreme form, for it often _happens that the Emperor, when occupied with more serious affairs, sends it to the provincial Tribunal qf the First Instance. This is what has given rise to the characteristic Russian pro verb, " An affair is never so near being won as-when it is lost." In general, it may be said that in Russia tri bunals merely exist for form ; all is judged in the Ca binet of the Minister and of the Senators by obscure and ignorant people. It is easy to see what a door re mains open to corruption with such a system and such tribunals, judging according to indecipherable laws. These laws, which the Emperor Nicholas has united, form sixty- - seven volumes in quarto. The extracts of these laws containing the laws called obligatory laws, which serve as a code for the judgment of causes, is com posed of twenty volumes, which are increased each year, with an appendix, containing the orders of the Emperor in the course of the year, and which have the force of laws. The two sections of the Senate of Warsaw differ from the others, in that one judges criminal affairs and the other civil affairs. According to the last letters from Warsaw, the Code of Napoleon, which the inhabitants were already accustomed to, is about to be replaced by a legislative digest, made under the inspiration of cen tral power at St. Petersburgh. The territorial tax will be replaced by the capitation, such as exists in Russia. This tax is paid by the proprietor, who answers to the State for his peasants and serfs. The abolition of the line of custom-houses in the two countries will be put in execution. It is the only measure good for Po land, which; shut up between Russia and Prussia, could not export its natural produce, nor its manu factured produce towards Asia, . especially towards China, where its cloth would be sure of an advan tageous sale. The national and confiscated goods and lands of emigrants have all been made over to the Warsaw bank. All these lands, which form almost one third of the country, are to be sold, but the money which comes from it will enter into the Imperial Treasury ; for, according to the last decrees of the Emperor, the Bank is to send the benefices and surplus of its funds to the Treasury. The other measures, such as the . instalment of the Archicathedral at Warsaw, the enrolling of Jews in the army, the introduction of the Russian Enguage into the acts of administration, and into all the colleges, the obligation of wearing the Russian uniform, the trans formation into a public establishment of the Sybylle of Pulawy, a temple consecrated to the Polish nationality —all these measures are the complement of that level ling system, the aim of which is to destroy every vestige of Polish nationality. Besides, the Russian Government, no doubt fearing to increase the authority of the territorial proprietors in Poland, has just decided that the officers of the army, who already occupy almost ..all the civil functions, will be called to the functions of Mayor in the country places. But here the calculations of despotism are at fault. The officers who have no ininiOVable . property in the country, and whose pay is insufficient, will be obliged to depend on 'those they are .placed to watch; and will thus irribibe ideaS from which they would have .been pre served, if they had kept their military. functign. •It is well known what answer was given by a Governor of a province, accused of too •much, mildness towards the - Polk "There is," said .he, ".something in the at mosphere which modifies thg, nature and the cha racter of man,' ailiPME . Mile - ror Were in Poland, he would become a Pole." 'The 'Grand Dicke Constantine, eldest brother of the Emperor Nicholas; after a few years' stay in W arsaw, wished rather to abandon the throne than renounce Poland, where he had married the daughter of a simple citizen. What, then, is that magic influence, that hidden power, which acts with so mach force upon the Russians in Poland ? It is civilization, the spirit of progress, which all the efforts of despotism cannot root odt, and which will show itself sooner or later among the Russians. The Poles until now have only fought in the name of their nationality and their independence ; but if they would keep their flag till happier times, and then begin a struggle in the name of that civilization which is so un worthily outraged, one of those corny - notions of which Russia has already felt the fatal effect might take place. Poland has always been the scarecrow of Russia ; the Russian philosophers and liberals, full of hatred and na tional rivality, repulsed all that came from that part, laws, customs, and liberties ; they thought it better to - seek models in the Grecian and Roman annals or the American Constitution. Now that simple Polish Consti tution, which one of their Sovereigns promulgated in a moment of inspiration, , has given to politics principles, to society better laws ; and these new dogmas will not want ardent•disciples to propagate that. The Russian empire is, no doubt, imposing by its elisentll3 and its ex tent. All classes are linked one to the other by a mili tary hierarchy, and by an iron discipline which directs them at its will. But if a single spring of this vast ma chine gets out of its place, the whole is likely to fall, leaving the field free for the old spirit of municipal free dom, and to ardent populations impelled in divers ways by sentiments of nationality. FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAlL have made our rea d ers ac - BRUSSELS, JAN. 6.—We (painted avith the new convention relative to the part which the Belgian Government has concluded with that of France for facilitating the reciprocal transmission of the correspondence between the two countries. This convention was to take effect on the Ist January, 1842. The Minister of Public Works had even given orders to the Belgian frontier post-office to begin to act upon it at that date, but we learn that the French post office will not be ready to execute the convention before the 15th January. It is said that the King of Holland will again visit Luxembourg in the course of this month, in order to make himself acquainted with the real state of affairs in that country. In the course of the year 1841, 197 ships arrived in the port of Ghent ; nine of these ships came direct from the Havannah, and other distant ports, laden with raw sugar, cotton, and rice. . blur ssELs, JAN. 7.—The cold has become very intense since yeSterday evening. This morning the Contigrade thermometer was at 901. ' The navigation of the canal of Charleroy and Willebroeek is interrupted by the frost. Alfred du Rosset, a foreigner, has just been condemned to a year's imprisonment and costs, for having altered his passport, which was originally authentic, or at least ofihaving made use of an altered passport. A. letter from Amsterdam, dated Jan. 3, in the Eman cipation, says—" It seems that the Cabinets of the Hague and Brussels, severally desiring to put an end to the dif ferences between them, have become sensible that it is very difficult, if not impossible, to come to a solution of all the negotiations left to the Conimissions instituted according to the treaty of the 19th of April, 1839. These Com missions having communicated . with each other, it was found that none of them could take account of the con cessions made- by another and make a concession in return. Each naturally endeavoured to obtain from the adverse party as many advantages as possible without having means to grant an equivalent. The two Cabinets have therefore agreed to take up the result of the pro ceeding of .the Commissions at the present, which they have now attained, and to take it at the basis of one negotiation, to be entirely carried on diplomatically. DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, J.N. 7. Money. nii.s. Actual Dobt, 256 per Cent Jitto, ditto 5 per cent Amort Srndic,4% per cent 91 34 S 2 Ditto, ditto, 3)4 per cent 76 7634 Commercial Company, 4% per cent Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 p er cent. Loan 1837, 5 per cent. • 97% 98 Exchange on London, One Two months ...... .s :l2 Hamburgh, One month 35 68% Two months 35 43% Dutch Pdpers, Jan. L BELGIAN k UNDS—Bauserm s JAN. 7. Actual Debt, 234 per Cent. Rothschild's Lean, 5 per Cent lOl% Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 92% Sper Cent. Thirty seven ---(1340) lOl ll Loan of City, 1':32, 4 per Cent. 95 Society)! Commerce, 4 %per Cent PB Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent..„........:: 75% National Society. Exchange on London (shot t) Brussels Papers, Jan. 7. AUSTRIAN FUNDs.—VIENNA, Dec. 31. fire per Casts. Mctalliques Foes per Cents. 99 hree par Cents. dank Shares IE2I —Aagenzeine Zeilutte. Jan. 3. EDINBURGH HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY. Thursday the Court met for the trial Of a number of lases, among which was one which attracted an unusually genteel auditory. James Bower Burn, John Topp, Richard Blennerhasset, And Thomas Chater, students of medicine, were charged with a breach of the peace, by fighting u duel last sum mer ; as also assault by means_ of, loaded tire-arms, whereby Mr. Topp was wounded in .tha left t ,chigh: by Mr. Burn, the other two gentlemen aiding and „abetting, by uting as seconds. These charges were laid' first as at common law, and the act of shooting with intent to kill or do some grievous bodily harm, was also charged under the statute. _ The prisoners pleaded guilty of the assault, to which the Lord Advocate restricted the charge. An eloquent Ippeal was made on behalf of the prisoners by Mr. P. Robertson, their counsel, who stated the high respecta bility of the young gentlemen, of which he held ample documents. He also urged the extreme rareness of the offence, in order to show that a severe punishment was unnecessary for its prevention in future, no similar case having come before the Court during the last fourteen years. Their Lordships, in consideration of all the circum stances, considered themselves justified in awarding a sentence of two months' imprisonment in the Jail of Edin burgh; and to find caution to keep the peace for two years, under a penalty of 501. each. FRIDAY.—The only trial of interest which came before the Court, this day, was that of James Boyd, engineman on the Dundee and Arbroath Railway, charged with cul pable homicide, in so far as in the month of October last where the railway passes through the village of West 'aaven, he caused the death of an old woman, 82 years of age, and who was quite deaf. She was driven off the rails by the engine, which the panel was driving, and was so much injured that she died. The Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. The trial lasted for about seven hours. Last summer Sir Thomas M. Brisbane pur chased a school in Largs, at .an expense of more than 3001., and has endowed it to the extent of 30/. per annum, kw the benefit of the poor and working classes there. The school is now crowded with scholars, receiving edu cation at a very cheap rate. Sir Thomas has also re cently sent 20/. to assist in finding work for the unem ployed in the parish ; 10/. to aid th e e;lion ill relieving distress ; and 5/. to support - the parish m i ss i onary ; With kind assurances that more will be given, if required.— Ayr Advertiser. A young gentleman, named Wright, of Fethard, accidentally shot his companion on Friday last. " In joke ho presented his gun, saying, " I'll shoot you." The gun went off, and unfortunately had the expressed effect. The grief of Mr. Wright is inconsolable, • FAMILIES OF LITERARY MEN. The Quarter 4 Review, in discussing . an obj ec ti on t o the Copyright Bill of Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, which was taken by Sir Edward Sugden, gives some very curious particulars about the progeny of literary men. "We are not," says the writer, " going to speculate about the causes of the fact—but a fact it is—that men, distin guished for extraordinary intellectual power of any sort, very rarely leave more than a very brief line. of progeny behind them. . Men of genius have scarcely ever done so. Men of imaginative genius, we might Say, almost never. With the one ,exception of the noble Surrey we cannot at this moment point out a re presentative in the male line even so far down as in the third generation of any English poet, and we believe the case is the same in France. The blood of beings of that order can seldom be traced far down even in the female line. With the exceptions of Surrey and Spencer we are not aware of any great English author of at all remote date from. whose body any living person claims to be descended. There is no other real English poet prior to the middle of the eighteenth century, and we believe no great author of any sort— except Clarendon and Shaftesbury—of whose blood we have any inheritance amongst us. Chaucer's only son died childless. Shakspeare's line expired in his daughter's only daughter. None of the other drama tists of that age left any progeny —nor Raleigh, nor Bacon, nor Cowley, nor Butler. -The granddaughter of Milton was the last 3 .19100 d. Newton, Locke, Pope, Swift Arbuthnot, Hume, Gibb on , C owper, Gray, Walpole,avendish—and we might greatly extend the list—never married. Neither Bolingbr o k e , nor Addison, nor Warburton, nor Johnson, nor Burke, trans mitted their blood. M. Renouard's last argument against a perpetuity in literary property is that it would be founding another noblesse. Neither jealous aris tocracy nor envious Jacobinism need be under much alarm. When a human race has produced its bright consummate flower' in this kind, it seems commonly to be near its end." Poor Goldsmith might have been mentioned in the above ILA. The theory is illustrated in our own day. The two greatest names in science and in literature, of our time, were Davy and Sir Walter Scott. The first died childless. Si r Walter left .four children, of whom three are dead, only one of them (Mrs. Lockhart) leaving issue, and thi, fourth (his eldest son), though living, and long married, has no issue. These are cu rious facts. THE FROST,—THE PARKS, &c. Notwithstanding the severity of the frost for the last few days, neither the Serpentine River nor the Canal in - St. St. James's Park, are frozen over sufficiently strong to allow the public to venture on. Yesterday and S a t ur d a y the wind was mo s t k een f rom the north-east. The ther mometer at the Receiving-house in Hyde Park, at eight A.M. yesterday, was as low as 26 ; at the Tent in the Regent's -Park, it was 28 ; during the day the mercury did not rise higher than 29. The west end of the Ser pentine River was frozen slightly over, but no vestige of ice was to be seen at the head. The Round Pond, in Kensington Gardens, was frozen sufficiently strong to bear, and during the day a multitude of scientific skaters were on the ice, and the gardens were thickly attended by fashionable company. The Regent's Park was the grand resort in the afternoon. There could not be less than 10,000 persons ass - enabled, and, we are glad to say, no fatal accident happened. There were a great number of persons within the enclosure in St. James's Park, and a few on the edges of the canal, where the ice was not more than a quarter of an inch thick. At four P.M. the thermometer in Hyde Park was 27, with the wind E.N.E. During the day a small quantity of snow fell. (FURTHER PARTICULARS.) Loss OF LIFE.—The ice, with the single exception of that on the round pond, Kensington-gardens, was, how ever, in an insecure and dangerous condition, and nume rous inimersions took place during the day, but through the prompt exertions of the officers of the Royal Humane Society, they wore unattended with fatal consequences, until a late hour in the afternoon, when three young men, who were skating on the ornamental water in the Regent's-park, were suddenly immersed ; and although every possible assistance was immediately rendered, so long a period elapsed before they were extricated, that, after more than one hour's application of the remedies recommended by the Society, two only were restored to animation, the third case being shortly after given up as hopeless. It appears that the ice had been in a most dangerous state throughout the day, notwithstanding which many hundreds of persons persisted in venturing upon it ; and the Report of the Superintending Officer states that upwards of thirty were taken out of the water in the space of five hours. The accident, which has terminated so fatally, took place shortly before five o'clock, in the afternoon, opposite Sussex-place, at which time it was getting dusk. As soon as the alarm was given several officers of the. Society hastened to the spot with ice -boats, and after great exertion, three of the ice men being . themselves immersed in the water, succeeded in recovering two of the young men. The third sank under the ice, and several minutes elapsed before his body was found. It was ultimately brought up by the drags and conveyed to the receiving-house (a tent erected within the grounds) of the Society, where Mr. Norton, of Baker-street, and assistants, were in attend ance, and used the most unremittinc , exertions to restore animation. As previously stated, in the two first cases he was successful, but every means failed in the third— the vital spark having fled. The deceased was a tine young man, apparently about twenty-five years of age, but no card nor paper was found upon him to lead to his identity. The body was placed in a shell and conveyed to the workhouse to await the inquest. The names of the young men who recovered were stated to be James: Wood, of Avery-street, Bloomsbury-square, and George Demounay, of Cottage-place, Peckham. Much praise is due to deputy superintendent Giles Barr, for his ex traordinary exertions, he having been immersed in the water no less than four times. The situation of Lieutenant-Governer of Que bec is vacant by the death of Gen. Mikes, formerly of the Fusilier Guards. Mr. Babington, F.L.S., of St. John's College, Cambridge, is announced as a candidate for the chair of Botany at King's College, vacant by the death of the late Professor Don. Dr. Leman and Mr. Kippist are both announced as carididates for the situation of Librarian of the Linnwaii Society, 'also held by the former. The Paris Post-office has published a notice that the mail with the letters sent from Paris to St. Peters burgh on the 23d, 24th, and 25th of November, has been lost between Riga and the Russian capital, and that all effortS of the Russian Government to find it have hitherto been unsuccessful. THE WEATHER.—The weather during the past week has presented a succession of frosty and over cast, cloudy and fine, nights, with occasional small showers of broad snow flakes. A rain-guage at Hack ney, up to Sunday at noon, indicatel but three-hun dredths of an inch occasioned by the melting snow. There was a prevalence of northerly winds, and the high est range of the barometer was 30.5 inches on Saturday, the average maximum for the week being 30.15, and the minimum 30 inches. On Sunday,. at four o'clock, the thermometer at the Zoological Gardens was 27 deg., which was also the ' lowest point of temperature during the day, at three o'clock in the morning. During the present year the lowest daily range of the thermometer was 28 deg. at two o'clock on the Ist ; 28 deg. at four o'clock on 2d ; and 22 deg. at midnight, being the cold est point of the year ; 29 ° deg. on.the midnigt of 3d ; 'at four o'clock on sth • 24 deg. at- four o'clock on al • 28 deg. at four o'clock on 7th, and 28 deg. at four on Saturday. The average difference be tween the external temperature and that of the, giraffe house, varies from 26 deg. to 30 deg., and of the , mon houSe 28 deg. It may be interesting to remark that ...ithin the corresponding Vresent week 'and those of the is ,t fifteen years, the highest temperature arthe Horti cultural Gardens, at Chiswick, occurred on the 15th of January, 1834, when the thermometer was 56 deg., and the lowest on the 14th, in 1838, when the thermometer was 4 deg. Notwithstanding the confirmed frosts, the Regent's Canal remains open for navigation. ANECDOTE OF THE DUKE OF WELLING TON.—When his Grace the Duke of Wellington, who is known to be a very early riser, was last at Windsor Castle, upon a visit to her Majesty, the following inci dent occurred, aftbrding another proof of the strict mili tary discipline so closely observed and practised upon all occasions by his Grace. One morning, between seven and eight o'clock, the Duke, accompanied by his youngest son, Lord Charles Wellesley (who was then in waiting as one of the equerries upon her Majesty), walked from the Castle into the quadrangle, .which he was about to leave by the iron gate near the entrande to the state apartments to proceed on to the North Terrace. The Duke and his son, however, were stopped by the sentry (one of the 72d Highlanders) stationed at this spot, who stated that his instructions were not to sutler any person to pass from out of the quadrangle - at that early hour in the morning. Lord Charles Wellesley imme diately stepped up to the soldier on guard, and said, " You surely can't know who this is—it it the Duke of Wellington, my father." His Grace instantly responded, " Pooh, pooh, nonsense ; let the sentry perform his duty;" and returned to the Castle until the hour ar rived at which the sentry could suffer them to pass out through the gate in question. Invitations have been forwarded to the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., the Duke of Wellington, and the chief members of the Government, to witness the in. teresting ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the Royal Exchange, on Monday next, by his Royal High ness Prince Albert. The Lord Mayor gives a splendid banquet at the Mansion House to his Royal Highness, when all the members of the Cabinet, and the Earl of Jersey, Earl of Liverpool, Earl Delawarr, and the lead ing officers of her Majesty's Household, will honour his Lordship with their company to meet his distinguished guest. COMING OF AGE OF LORD CURZON.—On lie 16th inst. (Sunday next), the above Nobleman,yldest son of Earl Howe, attains his majority, when that happy event will be celebrated with much rejoicing at Gopsall Hall, Leicestershire. Preparations are already in pro gress for the fete, which is to take place the following day. The poorer classes on the Noble Earl's estate are to be bountifully regaled at his Lordship's expense, in ad dition to their having received excellent warm clothing for. the winter. A grand entertainment is to be given' to the principal family tenantry, and the troop of yeomanry cavalry, of which his Lordship is Captain, -are to dine to gether in commemoration of the joyous occasion. The only remaining Chimpanzee of the three added to the collection at the Zoological Gardens during the past summer died on Saturday evening, of an affec tion of the chest, under which it had lingered for some weeks. This makes a total loss to 'the Society of five of these rare and interesting animals, and it would ap pear that all attempts to acclimatize their in Europe will be in vain, particularly as all that have been intro duced to the Jardin des Plantes, which would appear much more genial to them, have also died. The Society Liss likewise just log a valuable monkey in one of the act ive Gibbous, EVENING SUN POST-OFFICE IMPROVEMENTS. (From the Spectator.) The Penny Postage is one of the few benefits which the People sometimes derive from a weak Government. It was a concess'on to Public Opinion, made with the greatest reluctance, and only because at that particular moment it was cxpediant to court popular favour ; the gradual loss of which had endangered the existence of the late Ministry. But, however ungracefully the boon may have been granted, its universal importance, sod the value which the nation attaches to it, prevent the possibility of its ever being resumed. Penny Postage (unless, indeed, it eventually lead to a halfpenny rate) is as immutable as the Bill of Rights, or any funda mental institution of the empire. It was always our opinion that the monopoly of con veying the correspondence of the country is not a legiti mate or proper source of revenue. It was not so in tended in its origin ; and, looking at its nature and amount, it was perhaps the most odious, impolitic, and tyrannical tax ever imposed upon a people calling themselves free, and believing themselves ietelligent. Yet custom reconciled us to the imposition ; and as the members of the Government, high and low, as well as those of both Houses of Parliament, contrived to exempt themselves, their families and friends, from its operation, the system was said to thrive well; for while it - swelled the resources of the Budget, it was a cause of hourly distinction to the rich and privileged classes, who re joiced in Government covers and Parliamentary franks. Time, however, which innovates on all things, at last brought Post-office Reform. But though the tax is greatly mitigated, the principle of making the Post-office a source of revenue still continues. Future improve ments, therefore, must in some degree depend upon fixing the amount, per cent. which it may be expected to yield as a tax ; and upon expending all above that amount on the rapid, frequent, and safe conveyance and delivery of letters and small parcels. Instead of con fining the expenses of the department to the minimum of colt with the view of producing the maximum of taxation, the principal object ought to be to perfect the system. Every improvement would eventually increase the general receipts, and consequently augment the returns to the Treasury. Hence, to oppose improve ment, is to injiire the revenue ; a fact of which the ene mies of Post-office Reform seem totally ignorant. At this moment, before the stage of transition is passed, and while the plan is not yet fully carried out, the Post-office yields the enormous profit of some 40 per cent. to the State, without the employment of any capital, or incurring the slightest risk. But this is by no :neans its only advaetage to the Government. It is of all departments (except perhaps the Customs) the most fruitful source of patronage ; and a Parliamentary return of the number of appointments annually given by the Postmaster -General would expose the real motives of many opponents of Post-office Reform. Such a re turn would be still more useful : it would suggest inquiry whether all the present cumbrous and expensive ma chinery is actually necessary ; and it might therefore lead to changes alike economical and efficient. If a large saving can he made in the ministerial part of the system, part of the loss to the revenue, of which so many pathetic complaints are made, will be shown to arise from jobbery or mismanagement ; and thus, that long-enduring piiblic, whom all profess to regard, yet whom every man, individually, is delighted to drain, will be found to have been doubly ill-used—first by having been plundered and aggrieved for the sake of the revenue, and secondly for the purpose of patronage. Post-office Improvement cannot, however, now be prevented, though it may be retarded ; and Govern ment will only show its wisdom by cheerfully taking the lead, instead of being sulkily driven to consult the meets and wishes of the country on this subject. An ,rulication of the feeling of the Administration was shown in Lord Lowther's recent answer to the depu tation from the London Mercantile Committee on Postage ; but his Lordship did himself injustice in say ing he was " as willing as his predecessor" to carry out Mr. Hill's plan—we believe him to be bath more witting and more able than Lord Lichfield to carry it out. It is perhaps to be wished that the same disposi 'ion and similar ability existed is the inferior function aries of his department. Admitting that many of the great alterations adva cated by Mr. hill must be attended with a certain increase of expense with an uncertain increase of reve nue, and that time may be required for their due -con sideration, there are, nevertheless, other important changes to which neither objection applies. Oar pre sent remarks will therefore be confined to pointing out some defects which arise from mistake, negligence, Mid the want of a systematic arrangement. I. THE DISTRICT POST. Before the estublishment of a uniform Penny Post, small parcels under the weight of four ounces were conveyed to any part of the Metropolis for 2d. and to the suburbs for 3d. The same-sized parcels aro now charged one price as if they were sent to the Land's End or to John o'Groat's House and this is said to be because there is a uni form rate. That, however, is a fallacy; and it has proved equally inconvenient to the inhabitants and in iurious to the PosteolEee. The new system was in tended to increase not to lessen say existing advan tage. In every other case, the Post office conveys a letter or smell parcel at a cheaper rate than it could possibly be sent by any other paid conveyance ; but a parcel weighing from two to four ounces can be sent from houses leithin a short distance of each other at less than half the price now demanded by the Post office. The Post-office loses, therefore, the benefit of conveying most of such parcels (which are either sent by hand or by one of the private conveyance-compa nies), and which could be delivered by the present corps of District postmen without any additional cost to the department. The London public and the Post office revenue are alike injured—the latter perhaps the most—without. any single counter-balancing benefit, and without any apparent reason. 11. STAMPS ON LETTERS. Every letter that passes through the Post-office, whether Gen sal or District, ought to bear a stamp containing the date (and hour, if District) and the name of the place where it is posted : the utility of which for tracing a letter is obvi wis. But let airy one compare, as we have done, five or six letters of each class, General and District, and he will find that no uniform principle is observed. Some General Post letters are altogether without a stamp : others contain the date without the name of the place; sonic, the place without the date ; while in form the stamps are unlike each to each. With respect toeas triet letters it is " confusion worse confounded ;" and though the hieroglyphics that occur on them may per haps be deciphered by official skill, to the uninitiated the marks are utterly unintelligible and useless. From the want of systematic arrangement and central c on t ro l , so visible in this branch of the service, men are led to infer extreme carelessness or incompetency in othe r branches which are more concealed in their workings, though felt in their evil results. 111. THE DELIVERY Or LETTERS. If the name of the street be accidentally omitted on any letter, the delivery of that letter is matter of chance ; and to the Post-office, Court Guide, Blue Books, Directories, and the numerous other works of reference, are things unknown. Let the party, from his name, rank, or sta tion, be ever so easily identified, or stand ever so con spicuous in the Court Guide or Blue Book or Direc tory, he will not receive his letter until it has been " Try"-ed by a jury of postmen, each taking it in turn, who may think he knows some one of that name, or something like It," in his boat. After many failures, the individual may, at the distance of a week or ten days, be lucky enough to receive his letter, covered with evidences of neglect in the form of Tries ; whereas, a single glance at one of the commonest books of refe rence might have immediately discovered his address. This is a serious evil ; and, considering that it is an im portant part of the contract on which the monopoly exists that letters shall be duly and quickly delivered, a special department in the General and District offices ought long since to have been established for the pur pose of ascertaining doubtful or mistaken addresses a little experience, and that tact which experience gives, would soon enable the °Seers to do all that is practicable. But " Not known," " Try," and " the Dead Letter Office," save trouble to all but peripatetic postmen. IV. THE POSTAGE OF NEWSPAPEIS IN THE LONDON DISTRICT. Though any newspaper will pass and repass from one end of the kingdom to another without charge, yet if it be sent from one street of London to the very next street it is charged a penny. While a distinction existed between the District and the General Post-office with respect to postage, the fact admitted of explanation ; but when the rates were assimilated, the retention of the postage of newspapers became anomalous and unjust. It shows how un willingly the reform was adopted, and how determined the authorities were to clutch every farthing of receipt for the revenue. The stamp is affixed to a newspaper professedly to cover its postage ; and if it carries a paper free any number of hundreds of miles, upon what prin ciple is a charge amounting to one-fifth of the value of the paper imposed for conveying it perhaps two miles, perhaps only fitly yards ? A clearer proof of the want of a general system, or of the niggardly spirit of the Post-office, could not be adduced. In fact, no anomaly seems too great to be preserved if a few hundred pounds ere to be gained by it. Enough of suggestion for one week. Lord Lowther may be assured that his administration is watched with caufilence by many, and interest by all. HINTS FROM THE TAVERN WAITER'S READY RECKONER.--" Waiter !" " Yes, sir." " Wha t have I to pay ?'" Pay, sir ; what have you had, sir ?" " Chops." " Yes, sir—chops one shilling, sir ; anything else, sir ? " " Potatoes."— " 'raters two-pence, sir that's fourteen-pence, sir—and fourteen pence is one and four, sir ; any bread, sir ? " " Yes." " Bread a penny, sir ; and one and four is sixteen-pence, and one is seven teen, and seventeen-pence is one and seven-pence, sir ; how many goes of brandy, sir ?" " Two." "Two,' sir, that's fourteen-pence. One and four, sir, and one and seven—one and one is two—four and seven is eleven, that's two, and one is three, and one is three and a penny ; anything .else, sir ? " " No ; there are four shillings." "Four shillings, sir. Thank you, sir. Coming directly, sir." Waiter retires.— Punch's Almanack, 1842. THE ROMANCE OF EMIGRATION. • (From the Befit() (United States) Advertiser.) About three weeks since a pretty and interesting young woman, with two fine children of the ages of one and three years, called at the office of our city clerk, inquiring for the Mayor. That officer was absent, but her sorrowful demeanour spoke so affectingly in her behalf, and although evidently in humble life, she seemed so intelligent and unassuming in her distress, that Mr. Lacy, the clerk, was led to ask the cause of her trouble, when she told him her brief story. She said her husband, whose name was Evans, left their native place, Brecknock, in Wales, a year ago, to seek a new home for them in Ame rica, leaving them to follow when he should have found the desired spot, and earned the means to enable them to make the journey. He finally settled at Oak hill, Jackson County, in the southern part of the state of Ohio, wheac be worked industriously at his trade, that of a tailor, until he bad laid by 80 dollars for the passage-money of his family. This amount ho enclosed to his wife, with direction s as to the best route to reach her destination, which would be via Liverpool and New York. She accordingly bade adieu to her birth place, and started on her lone and distant voyage, cheered by the prospect of soon join ing her husband in their new western home. Oa ar riving at the nearest seaport on the coast she was per suaded by the mercenary Captain of a trading vessel that it would be much cheaper to go by way of Quebec, whither he was bound, and she, therefore, took passage with him. It was two bong months before the tardy craft reached port, and during this tine, her stock having been ex hausted, she was compelled to purchase from the Cap tain, at his own rotes, a supply for the wants of herself and her chil,lren. The extortion to which her inexperience made her an easy prey, and the increased expenses of the inconvenient route she had ignorantly taken, left her without a shilling on her arrive' at Buffalo. She was still 600 miles from her journey's end, without a friend or acquaintance, truly a helpless stranger in a strange land, with her little children looking up to her for food ! The energies of a woman's nature, SJ strikingly developed by neces sity, did not cave her to despair. She obtained shelter for herself and her children in a cellar-room in the Towbridge block, for which she had to pay ss. a week, and succeeded in procuring a little sewing from a clothing-shop, which barely realised as much money as paid for their gloomy lodging and coarse and scanty fare. She wrote a letter to her hus band, informing bum of their arrival and destitute situation ; but weeks wore away in cruel suspense, while she wrote ag , in and again ; and on the ramie of each post learned with a heavy heart that it had brougit no letter for her. At length her employer had no more work for her, and she was obliged to pledge articles of clothing to pro cure necessary fowl. This wretched resource now failed, several weeks' rent wet e due, and in her ex tremity she thougl,t of applying to the Mayor for ad vice and relief. Tee wor woman's simple statement touched the manly heart of Mr. Lacy. He commenced a subscription, and Mr. Williams, a countryman, a worthy mechanic reading here, wi'h prompt philan thropy took Mrs.E%aes and her little ones into his house, when a discovery that his guest was born within half a mile of the old home he lett twenty years before, and the family histories she related, amply repaid the kind Welchtnan for his hospitality. Another honest Welchman soon cheeied her with his greeting. Fifteen dollars, the sum necessary to send her to Oak.hill, were soon rased, and Mrs. Evans's passage was taken on board the packet. But while hastening to redeem a shawl which, during the preparatioa for thest art she recollected still lay on the pawnbroker's shelves, the boat cast off. Lamenting her disappointaient she turned round and her husband stood before her. Ile hail been in the city ten days in search of her; . had boarded at the United States Hotel, just over the low and squalid apartment in which his little family were staying—he comfortably lodged, and living up as the luxuries of a well-served table, while they were famislsirg only a fee , feet distant. It was a joyful meeting ; the dollars were returned to the good subscribers, and the reueited and happy family took boat the next day for their western home. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, JAN. 5, 1842. —Our Sug:ir Market re-opened to-day, but the sales ell'eeted have I.x!'2:_ on a very limited scale ; the mer chants require the same rates that they• (lid before the holiday:;, but the trade seemed very indisposed to com ply with their demand ; and we cannot at present give correct quotations._ We Understand that the Marquis of Exetei will be appointed Lord-Lieutenant of the County of North tunptonviu th , 2 pl: , of the Jut rl of Westmorland. CUANMOS TESTIMONIAL—DREAD OF RE VELATIONS.-0 wing to unavoidable and nu tiweseen cir cumstances, it. ha; been found necessary to postpone the dinner intended to have been given to his Grace the Duke of Buckingh.tin Chandoi, on tln 11tH of Feb ruary, on the occ a , Ht of the pr,26entation of the testi . monial itom the A;:::ricuiturai interest, and it is supposed :hat the presonta'.ion will be mad.; in Whitsun week, when a Cinn,r on an extensive scale will take place.— Bucks Ilirf://. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)—The Glycia rium is daily crowdtd with distinguished yisiiors ; among others have Ewen the Dukes or Brunswick and St. Alban's, Earl and Countess of Lovelace and party, Lords Adolphus and Augustus Fitzclarence, Sir Nicholas Tyndall, and nr. Baron Alderson, Sir John Sebright, Bart., Ladies Walpole, Fuller, Hayes, and parties ; Miss Pardoc and party, the 13ishop of Ll:tad:4 and party ; Sirs Benjamin Brodie, James Falconer, and Augustus Foster ; Major-Gc..terals Sandwith, Tremanheere, and parties ; &c. STRANGE II? TnuEr—A Belgian paper, the Gazette d'Ath, stat u s th a t a poor old couple, who resided at Aleslin Levegue, have just died under extraordinary circumstances. Shortly before Christmas the wife said to her husband---" We have been married 40 years." To which the husband replied, " Yes ; and we have en dured great misery. If God would call us both away, it would not be a misfortune." A few days afterwards they were both taken ill, and on Christmas-day, whilst the priest of the village was with them, they both died so nearly together, that the priest could not say which had died first. ADVICE TO TEETOTALLERS.—." I cannot tell What ails me," said a sick man ; " I am sure I live temperately enough, and drink nothing but water." Then, take my adl ice," replied his friend, " and stick to the old proverb, which says, Let Well alone.' " Literary Gazelle. CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.—Mr. Ray, mate of the Ruby, just returned from Australia, had determined to pass his Christmas holidays in London, with his wife ; hearing, however, of the railroad accident, he resolved to go by coach, and singular to relate, his wife is, we understand, now detained on the road from inju ries caused by the upsetting of the coach.—Bristol Mirror. _ _ Her Majesty will hold drawing rooms at St. James's immediately after the christening of the Prince of Wales ; and we are informed, open an authority competent to fi.win an opinion, that they will be more numerously attended, and more splendid than any that have occurred for the last twenty-five years. The season will, consequently, continence at an unusually early period in London, and the fashionable hotels will be thronged by foreigners who are expected in this country. We knew that it is the intention of the Court to spare no pains to make the reception of the King of Prussia in this country as brilliant as possible, and that a series of fetes, of the most magnificent description, will be given in honour of his Majesty.—Court Journal. What if you have failed in business ? You still have life and health. Don't sit down and cry about mishaps, for that will never get you out of debt, nor buy your children frock. Go to work at something, eat sparingly, dress moderately, drink nothing exciting, and, above all, keep a merry heart, anti you'll be up in the world.—B. Frytntlin. The take of sprats at Torquay continues to be immense. About two thousand tons have been caught during the last three months. They have afforded a most welcome supply of food to the starving poor.— lVestern Times. THE SASZATARIAN 46 DECLARATION."- We understand that immense exertions are making to procure signatures to this document. We have heard of one case in which a spirit-merchant was informed, that ii he did not sign it, influence would be used to deprive him of his license ! Many persons, too, are appending their names under an impression that the " Declaration" merely expresses dis approval of Sunday travelling, and a determination not to travel on that clay; whereas it binds the parties not to use the railway at all for any one day of the week, not cven for goods, unless the Company sub mit to theiri dictation ! We therefhre beg the public to be .on their guard. There are few subjects on which greater ignorance prevails—the object of the proposed Sunday trains being, in fact, nothing more than to do away with ordinary coaches, to obviate the necessity of private expresses, and lessen the amount of " Sabbath desecration." We trust the . shareholders, at their meeting in February, will estimate at its proper value this scandalous conspi racy at once to injure their property, and deprive the public of a valuable boon.—Scotsman. MERTHYR.—So strong and rapid does the tide of emigration to the United States run here, that sales of household furniture take place daily. The number of vacant houses is great ; many new and good houses at the Market-square are unoccupied. The building speculation in this central part of the town, has hitherto been profitless to many. The contrary holds with cottagers. There were but very few workmen's or any other houses, between this town and Dowlais about fifteen or .twenty years ago; but now there are two rows almost all the way, and the appearance of the chimneys on the declivity, from the Swansea-road, is very picturesque.—Mountouthshirc Merlin. There is now living in the possession of. Mr. T. Jones, farmer, in the parish of Llanishen, i n the county of Glamorgan, a pet goose, upwards of 45 years of age, having produced to him a flock over 350 i n num ber.—Monmouthskire Merlin. EMIGRA TlON.—Thirty-five persons from Dow.. lais, and fourteen families from Ithymney,. left for the United States last Saturday. Chairs which cost five shillings, are now sold for only one ; .and other hou se • hold furniture proportionally low.--S i lurian. DEATH OF MR. COBHAM.—Mr. Cobham, the well-known performer, died on Monday last. lie was much respected by his brother actors. vb f it 5. tit