The Sun. — London, England, 1842-01-05 00:00:00

47 , °'`r_Mk,.`th.pAillok "7 ,,,t,ti0 - • ii, 60 . , 13 ~, . :• . , . • ii i,,.....,..4,7 .m 0 t 4 t .a ' • ... , ...W . ,4 \ - • • • . EVENING SU N Just ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo., M ON T F OR T; Or, Me OLD ENGLISH NOBLEMAN. A NOVEL Richard Bentley, New Burlington•street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, JAN. 5, When Her Majesty's Servants will perform the Comedy of EVERY ONE HAS HIS FAULT.---Lord Norland, Mr. Phe'ps ; Harmony, Mr. 11Iacready ; Mr. Placid, Mr. Keeley ; Edward, Miss Vining ; Lady Eleanor Irwin, Mr . s. Warner ; Mrs. Placid, Mrs. Keeley. After which will be repeated the New Christmas Pantomime, ca led HARLEQUIN AND DUKE HUMPHREY'S DIN NER : OR, JACK CADE, THE LORD OF LONDON STONE. Doors to be Opened at Half past Six, and the Perf ormance to begin at Seven o'clock. Boxes 55.. Second Price, 22. 6d. Pit 35., Second Price as. Lower Gallery Is. 6d., Second Pree Is. Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6 d. To-morrow, fhe Merchant of Venice, and the Pantomime. THEATRE ROYAL, CO Vk.N -GARILEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTALS. THIS EVENING, JAN. 5, Will' be revived Mrs. Inehbald's Comedy of WIVES AS THEY WERE AND MAIDS AS THEY ARE.—Lord Priory, Mr. W. Farren ; Sir William Dorillon, Mr. Cooper; Sir George Evely-n, 111 r. G. Vandenhoff • ' Mr. Bronzely, Mr. Charles s . lathews ; ;Mss Dorrillon, Mrs. Nisbett ; Lady Mary Raffle, - Mrs. Glover ; Lady Priory, Mhs Faucit (her first ap • peiranee at this - Theatre). - • After which wilt be tepeated the New Grand Christmas Paraosnin c, entitle&GUY 'EARL OF WARWICK ; OR, 11.A1ILEQUIN AND THE DUN COW,_ pours to to opened at. half-past Six—the performances to - commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; 'First and Second Circs, ss. ; Second Pri3e, 2.5. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. 2..; Gallery, is. 'rickets and places for the ByAes to be tak - en of Mr..Grogan at. the Box-office, from Ten Till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Bnaes to be had so!ely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167, New Bond-ttreet. 'lb-morrait-, Nostna . , with the New Pantomime. - •' aOYAI. SURREY THEATRE. - 'UNDER Till', MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE • AID MR, WILLIS JONES. 4stount.ing hit—The acknowledged • best Pantomime in Lou .. tlquHundreds nightly unable to gain admittance—The Sons 9f Syria and Felix Carlo surprise every one. THIS EVENING, JAN. 5. Will he acted a New Domestic Mama, entitled MADAME LAFFARGE, frotu MeMoirs written by Heiself. After a Naut'cill Burletta, entitled JACK JUNK ; Or. a SEAMAN'S FIRESIDE.—Jack Junk, with Five Sea Songs, Mr. Walton. . . 'to cost nte a ith'6. Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HA RLEQUIN - A'ND THE ICE QUEEN; JACK -BROST .AND , KINtiI SHAM.-=Witif nor eons and chanke tefis4e ; Scenery, splendid Properties, ludicrous 'and Quaint Dresses, ingenious Tricks, magnificent Panbrama by Brttn ning, &c. Hafiequizt,..V. Huline ; Patch, M. Itochet ; Pan tactiin; M. Lehman ; Flip, Signor Feliz Carlo ; Clown, Mr. Ititeltibgbata ; -Columbine, Miss Sliarpe. . ROYAL VIC1;6111A,'11-1EATRE, UNDER THE DittiWTION tit' Alit. OSBALDISTON. Grand Juvenile- Week ! The Patitoinitne played as Sreetal Piece.! Novelties unequalled I- Attraction undoubted ! In t-, itt.T•refit olnirvrion. ! i . r I • ", til ‘141 , •;.-=.1i 1 1 , 1;• - • ;NT _Wil -11:1111,01..\11. F. F. 1 , 1. ! Vintcht : 1 1. J. it. , I 1!”.i of ) ; .ktier yrhich Gctiol Cionie enl.6-1 ILIi.INS; • THE 'IcIN - G OF THE AM AND TILE FLYING IN DIANS.—With new and extensive Scenery, Dresses, Decora tions, Tricks, TransformationF,' and Effects—A new Nautical Panortrma,' to' be entitled " Our Native Sea-girt Isle !" con sisting of :!'aritime Views along.the Oast of England. Abo, a new Giand Diorama, by . Childe, the Great Illu sioni,t ; and the;OP[ii..ng of the Pantomime supported by The Talent of - this--the Popular Theatre of London. 'fn ecorwluda.mislt 'cll } l7: HAUNTED INN tqaes, Gd.—Half-priee to the Boxes 11,11 v at ljalle , juitt Peter Wilkins, anti THe Ilautitcd l w.• s Tit A ND THI..; A 'I RE. • • I.: V Y VENIN G. iirirderist t ti; 1414.: sof au plattg e the Public deceived iiflr therr'eyes open Mr. JACOB S', the ROYAL N' ENTRILOQUIST and GRLAT MODERN MAGICIAN, having been received on his third visit to the Metropo'is in the most gratifying manner, will continue too work Ma wonderful and sense-deceiving powers ditring the present season. A.I are ,urprived, all . astonished, all delighted with the incomprehensible and melamorphistical feats produced ; atmazenterit sitii,upon the countenances of the spectators, and in tumeres of approbation, resound throughout the theatre. Vi,i; tire temple of this modern charmer, or you will loso a treat iruh-ed. ' - In addition to the above are added the fol lowing excellent performances : —Mons. ItOUSSEUR, the celebrated FRENCH EQUILIBRIST;AIe Clitsical group ings of the PATAGONIAN WONDERS; and Herr KREII- Z ER'S PHANTASMAGORICAL DISSOLVING POR TRAITS. Doors o-en at Half-past Six, commence at Seven. Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Children, ls. 6.1. Pit, Is. 6d. ; Children, Is. Gal lery, 64. Half-price a Quarter to Nine. Boxes, Is. 6d. Pit, b. Gallery, nu half-price. Carriages to be in 'Fairing Ten:Slinutes to Eleven. COSMORAMA ROOMS:(R0011 7), , 209, REGENT- STREET. THE IVORY MODEL OF TILE TAGE MUHAL, or Crown of Edificei, at AGRA, in the East In.lies. " There is at present an Exhibition at 209, Regent-street, as elaborate a Mc.a4.as was ever perhaps presented to pub lie view. It is a copy, in .ivory, of the celebrated Tage Mahal, one of the most remarlable edifices in modern Agra, ereeted in 1659 by Khan Shah Jehan, the fifth Great Mogul, a. the cemetery of his favourite wife, Sultana .3lehd Thi,s mausoleum is built entirely of white marble, an 1 some .dea may - be formed of its splendour, when it is stated to have cost in its erection 60. LIC3 of rupees, or 75C.0001 The Model occupies a space of nine square feet, and its height is six feet. It is the work of Indian artists, and while in point of extent it is'ulanatchable, it is also one of the finest specimens of that minuteness of detail and delicate manipulation for which Intli,n ivory working is.so noted. The amount of labour bestowed on this model must have been immense. It is not the hasty pro 'duet of a day,' but the result of many years' patient applica ti in. Ali the multitudinous carvings and inlayings of the ori ginal building we expressed is the copy with every appearance of exactness,; nor is the resemblance limited to the outside - alone : tho interiofis also finished in the same minute style, awl contains the to/hbs of the - Shah and his Consort, exqui sitely and elabOrately worked. On the whole, this model pre sents a surprising and beautiful effect, and - forms one of the most inter, sting exhibitions in the metropolis. "—Morn. Chron. Open from Ten to Six o'clock. A dmission, Is. Book, 641. TO CORRESPONDENTS. 'We cannot insert the two communications from Sunder land. Is the writer aware that hie uses old stamps, and thereby renders himself liable to a severe punish ment ? • TIIE WEATHER.—Noox, JANUARY 5. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET Thermometer... 34 ; Highest 34 1 Lowest 27 Barometer 29.83.—Wind N. —Freezing Point 22 Peg. Wall WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW Murning ..... 4; minutei after 8 I Evening .... 24 minutes after 9 carded with contempt, but their testimony to ti present . condition of the people under Ike benignant rule of the landed aristocracy, will be a lasting memorial of the utility to them of a so called protecting and paternal Government. They told Sir ROBERT PEEL, so long ago as October 23, that— ,. The females at the factoriel get little if any educa tion." " They grow up in total ignorance of all the true duties of women." "They are totally unfitted to attend to the care of home or to participate in its employments." " They neither learn, in the majority of instances, to make a shirt, darn a stocking ; cook a dinner, nor clean a house." " The system is an inversion of the order of nature and Providenee." " Disaffection and discontent must be en g endered amongst parties so situated." " Throughout the manufacturing districts mills are nearly closed. The capitalist and middle classes are in difficulties—insolvent or bankrupt ; while the operatives are in a state of destitution which must make every heart bleed, and which arises from causes over which they themselves have no control. As a proof that we are not overstating the facts, we beg to present you, Sir Robert, with one illustration of many which might be offered. It is a printed copy of the Report of the Unemployed Operatives' Enumeration Committee of Leeds, in which a detailed statement of the condition of the operatives in the several wards of that town, the emporium of the woollen district, is given. The summary of that ap palling statement is, that nearly 20,000 human beings are now living upon an average weekly income of I Ifd. per head. We leave to your own judgment what must be the ultimate end of such a state of things." They told Sir JAMES GRAHAM, on the 28th of October, that our ascendancy in foreign markets could not be maintained by " Reducing; much lower the wages of the adult operatives. That class of labourers were as near the bare 'subsistence level,' when in full employ, as it was possible to place them. . . . . You have just these alternatives-7-either to commence this measure (a sys tem of home colonization) now gradually and peaceably, and thus avert the evils we have been anticipating, or to let the present system take its course, spreading destitu tion, pauperism, discontent, and disaffection, more and more widely, until it terminates in general disorga nization and anarchy, and then to be forced to begin de novo, amid the wrecks of former institutions - The humble - comforts of the operative's cottage have disap peared. The middle class of tradesmen, who depend upon the lower classes, are in all but an insolvent state, and trade is concentrated in the hands of a few over grown capitalists, in consequence of the inability of smaller capitalists to contend with them. Such is the state of our towns at the present moment. We have given you our reasons for bclieving that the increase of our foreign trade under the present system would permanently increase neither wages nor profits, nor arrest their downward tendencies ; and we leave to you the consideration of these, reasons. Upwards of two months ago, therefore, was lite • terithle condition or hilt , - operative eiaskes clearly awl i•voit , ht limier the Ito het.; of • these t, I. ..‘lllll , l , ‘S. f litt.t. littVt tll ‘c dime 14) ;.10 , ..A15l ur I•eliv!v•2 it' airototcly h othio. They hz,ve jllttetkeyed from iiiit t or to I.9iidoti, loll' from Loudon to Lim worth ; they have dined and spouted at Dor chester; they have raised their own rents; but they have left the people a prey to this deep distress, and they have allowed the system to run on—they have even accelerated its progress— Which dooms the people to this distress, and which threatens such disasters. We do riot suppose that the members of the Short Time Committee, who ascribe their suffer ings to the employment of machinery, are any more to be relied on in trachw out the cause of distress than in suggesting its cure. It has been more than once proved in The San that the use of machinery has very much increased manual employment. Every new machine, in fact, is the creation of a new art or a new trade, and increases the sum of employment. We do nut blame the Ministers, therefore, for not be lieving that the distress of the operatives was caused by the use of machinery, nor do we blame them for not acceding to the recommendations of the Short Time Committee as to the means of cure ; but we blame them—knowing as they must, otherwise they are the merest quacks and humbugs that ever assumed the name of statesmen, the real causes of dis- tress, and knowing as they must the means of cure, or the Tamworth Doctor and his friends take very large fees for performing that which they must then admit they cannot perform,—we blame them with all the energy at our corn tpand for allowing two precious months to elapse, when the severity of the season must enhance the sufferings of the people, without using time smallest exertions to relieve their great distress. The Ministers might have allowed the free im portation of food by order of Council which would set the mills to work, as well as re duce the price of bread, but that would have lowered rents, and that rents may be kept up, the people are doomed by the Tories to remain x prey to poverty, famine, and despair. Such, admiring people ! are your honoured and almost worshipped Tory statesmen. The remedies suggested by the Short Time Committee are also indicative of great suffering. They ask the Legislature, which has never meddled with trade but to injure it, to restrict the hours-of work. Surely they can and ought to do that for themselves. Let them say that they will not work more than eight hours a day if they like, and we apprehend the law will not compel them to work more. They also asked for the repeal of the new Poor-law, which they told Sir R. PEEL was now inoperative, and never could be carried into operation in the manufac turing districts. To Sir JAMES GRAHAM they recommended— " The adoption of a comprehensive and efficient plan of home colonization; for which purpose we would advise the passing, at the expense of the nation, of a General Waste Land Enclosure Bill, which should make provi sion for reasonable compensation to all those interested in these lands. We should then have a Parliamentary grant raised by loan, or by Exchequer bills, to be applied under a Board of Control to the settling down upon these uncultivated but improvable wastes our now unemployed population; and if the waste lands were insufficient we would recommend that the Government should have re course to the Crown lands for the same purpose and in the same way. This would increase real wealth at home, direct the energies of the people in the first place to pro vide food and shelter for themselves, and the surplus of their labour would form a g und for defraying the neces sary expenses, and ultimately repaying the principal advanced. " Sir J. Graham—Ah ! that might do very well if we were beginning de novo, but under present circumstances seems quite impracticable." Sir JAMES does not like the notion of squatting on the landlords' manors, and on the Crown pos sessions. If that were to begin, and if home colonization were to be promoted by the issue of Exchequer bills, Sir JX3tEs knows that the parks at Netherby and Stowe, and even Windsor _ _ Parks, which arc Crown lands, and admirably adapted for cultivation, would soon be required to feed the increasing population, if it had to be maintained by our own - §oil. Sir JAMES and the monopolists will always find it, more impracti- cable, the Short Time Committee may be well assured, to relieve the suffering labourers, by dividing the wastes and Crown lands amongst them, than by allowing the free est importation of corn, conjoined with drafting off the people from the land into the manufacturing towns. That the Short Time Committee, the protegees of Lord ASHLEY and the Tories, should have dared to make such an extraordinary proposition to a Minister of the Crown as that of taking away the manors of the Nobility and the QUEEN for the sustenance of the people, indicates, in our opinion, a deeper distress amongst them, and a more resolute earnestness to obtain relief than is to be found in the narration of their sufferings. Before we quit the subject, it seems necessary to remind the Short Time Committee, and the public at large, that the Legislature, not the master: manufacturers and .millowners, are re sponsible for the condition of the labourers. The millowners do not pretend to protect them. They take no large payments for performing that service. They have no monopoly of land granted them in order to watch over the interests of the nation. No large part of the national in come, like tithes, and like rent, is set apart for their especial use, in order to enable them to provide for the public welfare. The millowmers are mere traders, busily and openly employed, like retail dealers, in providing for their families, and making a fortune; and they are no more responsible than any other class of traders for the gelfare of the persons with whom they deal, whether they buy of them labour or cotton. The landowners, who have had a monopoly of law-making as of laud, the great Peers,; the Clergy, including the Bishops ; , in short, the well paid but terribly inefficient governing classes, and not the industrious millowners, are respon sible for the condition and sufferings of the la bouring classes. . . Though now greater than ever, they did not commence in 1836, or even in 1830; and then the millowners, as such, had not even votes for the Members of the House ofCom mons. Before Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, &c., were enfranchised, the factory masters, un less they happened to be freeholders or free men, had not any direct electoral power, what ever influence their wealth might have given them over the landlords. That was, un doubtedly, considerable ; and we do not deny that the landlords lent themselves to the avarice of the masters, and prostituted legis lation to oppress the people, whom the law makers ought to have protected. That the mas ters are selfish men seeking wealth nobody denies, but that is neither dishonest nor dis honourable. All men are selfish, and they all seek wealth, though to some are denied the means and opportunity of gaining much. Be tween their conflicting and rival claims, it is the business of the Government to stand neuter, be strictly impartial, and do justice to all. Our great misfortune is to have a Government which is a rabid partisan, which never is neuter, and which is actually ,constituted at present to per petrate injustice. The Short Time Committee, therefore, and its constituents, should vent their wrath on the Government, not on the mill owners who, like, themselves, are men struggling with one another in trade and with the world. A horrible murder has been committed in Ire land. A poor idiot has been smeared with tur pentine, and roasted to death. Law and autho rity have been mocked by holding a pretended inquest on the body. The culprits are said to he chiefly OFFICERS OF TIIE ARMY, a class of men who belong to the aristocracy, as well as to the military; and who learn from their class, and their profession, to be habitually regardless of the lives of the people. Our indignation is justly roused against such a monstrous piece of bar barity practised on an unoffending lad ; but how slight were his sufferings, how speedy and beneficent the end, compared to the protracted sufferings which the landed aristocracy inflict on hundreds and thousands of our not merely unaffending, but most useful and valuable mann faourin:, a.rtisau..F; tioly and litik oliffs' - ! Wheit the LtAriAature sets the ,hoittiliaibir ample of slusvly, t h e ihttitit tl ic t licen .: to death, sve onot be at all surprised, however greatly we are indignant, that the sons and relations of the landed aristocracy— that the military servants and dependents on that aristocracy and Legislature, should roast a poor simple lad to death. Nor are we surprised at the ferocity which is now occasionally dis played by. individuals, for it is practically taught them by the example of the law-makers. We have long and perSeveringly exposed and denounced the wicked cruelty of those who raise their rents by taxing their starving neigh bours' bread ; and we now call on society to mark well, before the passions of the people break through all bounds, the growing cruelty and ferocity which have been inculcated by the Legislature, and which, we much fear, society will yet have to deplore in tears of blood. We invite the attention of the public generally, and of her 'MAJESTY'S Government in particular, to a communication headed " War with China," which will be found in another part of The Sun. The plan of operations suggested by Mr. Wises Correspondent in China, may at first excite alarm by their extensiveness; but some acquaintance with the history of the Celestial Em pire, since it became known to Europeans, ha presses us with the conviction that it is by no means impracticable. The only thing which we could not readily accomplish is the preventing other nations from profiting by our military achiev_ements, and perhaps the interests of humanity would be best con sulted by our being content with a fair share of the Chinese trade. With regard to the good un derstanding likely to spring up between the English and the native Chinese, intimated by Mr. WisE's Correspondent, a remark able instance of it was supplied by the intelligence brought by the last overland mail from the island of Hong- Kong. This island, though only a few weeks in the possession of Captain ELLIOT, was crowded with Chinese peasantry, some hun dreds of whom were quietly employed as day labourers in marking out the site of a new town. Nor were these labourers confined to one or two trades ; masons, car penters, joiners, and workers in brass, iron. and other metals, all tendered their services to masters so willing to treat them well, and to pay them fair wages—objects the most highly prized by a Chinaman. We repeat, the suggestions of Mr. WisE's Correspondent de serve the attention of Ministers and the country. We have Madrid Journals of the 27th ult. On that day the Chambers were occupied with the election of their Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and Secretaries. In the Senate the four follow ing Members were appointed Secretaries : Senors TORRES SALANOT, ONIS, MUGNIZO, and CLIACON. In the Chamber of Deputies the fol lowing elections took place;—Senor AdUNA, President, elected by 69 votes ; Vice-Presidents —Senor ALcox, by 53 votes ; Senor LILLO, by 48 votes; Senor SAGASTI, by 46; and Senor VIA DERA, by 44 ; Secretaries—Senors CABALLERO, FERNANDEZ CANO, GALVEZ CANERO, and MA-. REDERO. A Jury has authorised the prosecution of the Correo Nacional and the Huracan, for libels upon the Government. One of the articles to be proscuted, recommends the abolition of the Con stitution and the Regency, so that it is both libellous and treasonable. But the press is yet in its infancy in Spain, and very, imperfectly comprehends its high mission. On the Madrid Exchange, on the 27th ult., four bargains for 1,450,000 reals took place in the Threes at 211 for sixty days, 14} for fifty seven days, and 23i for cash. In the Fives eleven bargains for 6,100,000 reals at 321 for cash, 35i for sixty days. Exchange upon London, 90 days, 37,1 ; Paris, ditto, 161ibs. 3s. We are indebted to Grzlignani's Messenger of Monday for the following news from Turkey : A letter from Constantinople, of the Bth ult., in the Augsburgh Gazette, states that the Sultan intends nomi natinr, Hussein Pacha to the post of Seraskier, or Com mander-in-Chief of the army, and Hafiz Pacha to be Minister of Finance. Zekeria Pacha is to be recalled from the Pachalic of Diarbekir, and is to receive the command of the army in Routnelia. The corps is to be carried up to 50,000 men (regulars), with 15,000 Alba nians, 2,000 Spahis, and 3,000 Ba.schi Bosuk. It is to be divrded into an army of observation, and an army of operation. The former, 30,000 strong, is to be concen trated on Adrianople, Philippopoli, Sophia, Varna, Silis tria, and Schumla, and is to watch over Bulgaria and Servia. The latter is to be stationed at Salonica, and on the frontiers of Greece. It is also stated that an army of 50,000 men will be concentrated on the capital. The two naval divisions now in the Bosphorus are to be com pleted to six sail of the line each, with smaller vessels, and are to sail, one for the Gulph of Volo, the other for Candia. The Capitan Pacha is to command one, and Walker Pacha (Admiral Walker) the other. It was said at Constantinople that one or these divisions was in reality destined for Tunis. The new Armenian Patriarch had been recognised by both parties of his countrymen, and all difficulties among them were in fu ture to bo arranged by 24 notable persons, selected from the Armenians in general. The Speech of the Spanish REGENT on opening he Cortes is discussed in all the Paris papers of Monday. The Court organs praise its mode radon ; but even their praise is not without a leaven of jealousy, excited by the contrast which it offers to the King of the FaExcn's fulminations against the domestic enemies of his dynasty. " There reigns in the speech," says the .Journal des Debuts, "a certain degree of optimism, to which we do not, however, allude ill-naturedly, for we cannot but sin cerely desire that the prospective of better days for Spain, which the REGENT promises, may be realised. The long and complicated amount of reforms which the REGENT proposes to intro duce, shows, however, but too clearly the inex tricable confusion in which every department of the State is plunged. The Government which ► may be able to introduce light and order into this chaos, whatever that Government may be, must be the best that Spain can desire." There can be no doubt of this. The difficulties which. the ,REGENT has to encounter are more than Alpine in their magnitude, more insurmountable than the highest pinnacle of the Jura; and if he surmount them, great indeed will be his glory, and most legal his Government. We will not trouble the Journal des Debats to remember what share the French Government has had in confusing and disordering' Spain ; nor will we ask our Contemporary what thanks are due to the REGENT for his delicacy in not raising the veil which shrouds the discreditable conduct of the Court of the Tuileries. But if a degree of " optimism" reigns in the REGENT'S Speech, " pessimism " is the characteristic of that of the King of the FRENCH. The Constitutionnel is cordial in its approba tion of the Speech. The following are the re marks of M. TniEns' organ : The Regent's Speech appears to us to contain excel lent passages. It is moderate; it announces the reso lution .to maintain the Constitution and Royalty against the manceuvres of the factious ofevery party, Republicans, Christinos., or Carlists. It gives to the measure by which the fueros were modified its true sense. It shows that the Spanish Government is endeavouring to close all the wounds of the country, and to organise society on new and solid bases. Everything that can render Spain pros perous and powerful becomes for France an augmenta tion of strength and credit in the world. Shall we then violently snap asunder the bonds of union which were to become so firm for a question of etiquette?" Notwithstanding the REGENT'S denunciation of the abuses of the Spanish press, the Republican National praises very highly the Speech of the REGENT. The following is an extract from a clever, laudatory article in that Journal : We have read with great interest the speech of the Regent, which forms another contrast to the sorry docu ment which Ac. Guizot recently sent forth to the world.. The Peninsula is rising by degrees from the abasement into which it was plunged by civil war. The Govern ment encourages industry —devotes itself with solicitude to public instruction—and is about to consecrate by law, after having already practised them, the doctrines of good government. The judicial hierarchy is to be orga nised on new bases ; the registrars and escribanos, who are one of the curses of the country, are to have fixed at tributes, and deeply-rooted abuses are to be attacked by severe regulations. Espartero speaks briefly and without pomp of his last victory over the rebel Christinos. Cle li - mency has been mingled with his policy; and if in his dif ficult position the Regent has not dune all that we might ' have %;pected from him, it cannot be said that he merits the reproach of having kolonged the system of chits ti.,ement, and curses tiro' himself by hi'' ernelly. S , Entin. governed by the Melt who were chosen by ilt nation, Spain happily pres,rved from - all C our t nuen c ,, for her Roy:4y is but nusninal, has for eighteen months tasted all the blessings of • a free and strong Go vernment. The calm which the nation enjoyed has been disturbed by intrigues which had their birth in France, but the result of the odious insurrec tion which was got up has been defeat and shame. In less than a month the insurrection vas fully put down, and the Regent was able to resume the direction of the great interests which are entrusted to him. The Spaniards have again proved that they are ready armed for the defence of their revolution, and, although even at this moment the partisans of Christina are endeavouring to renew their unworthy agitation, they will doubtlessly remember the severe lesson which has been inflicted upon them. What is incontestable to al honest men is that the Regency of Espartero is the sin sere expression of the national will. The sovereignty of the people created his rights, and ,these are the rights in the name of which the Government is acting. There is no domestic news of any interest: in the Paris Journals of Monday. Conjectures are a float As to what the Opposition may do or not do, but we apprehend that nothing is yet re illy known upon the subject. The following extracts from them contain all the miscellaneous news of any interest : CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES. The Chamber of Deputies met in its Standing Com mittees on Monday to appoint the Committee which was to draw up the reply to the King's Speech. All the Com missioners appointed were favourable to the Ministry. They were the following :- Ist Standing Committee—M. Hypulite Passy, the Mi nisterial candidate, obtained 24 votes; M. Berrille, the Opposition candidate, had only 9. • 2d—M. Delessert was returned by 19 votes ; M. Bil lault by 16. 3d—M. Lacave Laplagne, 19; M. do Came, 16. 4th—M. Muret (de Bord), 21; M. Vivien, 16. sth—M. Dupin, 26; M. Duvergier de Ilauranne, 10. 6th—M. Dumont (de Lot et Garonne), 22, out of 37 votes. _ _ _ _ _ _ 7th—M. Jacques Lefevre, 25 ; M, Moreau (de la Seine), 10. Bth—M. Fould, 17; M. %Neville, 10. 9th—M. Bignon, 21; Messrs. Rivet and Odilon Bar rot, 19. The Russian Government has established savings' banks at St. Petersburgh and Moscow, in connection with the banks of those cities. The minimum of a single deposit is to be half a silver rouble (2fr.), and the maximum 10 roubles (41fr.) The Moniteur Belge publishes royal decrees which order General Daine to be put on the non-active service list, and M, Feigneaux, member of the Medical Commis sion of Brabant, to be revoked from his functions. These measures are caused by the supposed implication of these persons in the late conspiracy. A letter of General Daine's was said to contain the phrase—" Comptez sur moi, je serai pret avec tout ma meute." The letter from the Queen of England to the King of Prussia, inviting his Majesty to the christening of the Prince of Wales, is stated by the Ilamburgh Correspon dent to have been couched in the kindest terms. Among other expressions occur the following :—" I shall regard it as a favourable augury for the happiness of my child if your Majesty and my very dear cousin will hold him in person over the baptismal font." The St. Petersburgh papers remark that the winter has hardly ever been known to be so mild in Russia. At Wassili Ostrow, some daisies and primroses just blown were gathered in the open air on the 13th ult. At a recent sitting of the Grand Council of Argau, in, Switzerland, the sale of the possessions of the convents was ratified by a formal vote. Thi s m easure was adopted, as the Narrateur of St. Gall states, in conse quence of the vacillation shown on this subject by the Helvetic Diet. A correspondent at Rome writes to the Augsburg Ga zette on the 21st ult., that official notice had been com municated to the Auditor-General, Mre. Acton, and the Governor of Rome, Mre. CaSOni, that they were to be immediately created Cardinals. Mrs. Trollope had been presented to his Holiness. A Vienna letter, 25th ult., in the Gazette of Upper Germany, says that Sir Robert Gordon had presented an invitation on the part of the Queen of Great Britain to the Duke Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg to come to London and stand as one of the sponsors for the Prince of Wales. His Serene Highness, it adds, is to be represented by the Saxon Minister at the Court of St. James's on this occasion, and the Duchess Dowager of Saxe-Coburg- Gotha by the Duchess of Kent It has just been decided in the Constituent Assembly of Geneva that' the sittings shall be public, but that no body under eighteen years of age shall be admitted. On a motion being made that women should be allowed to be present at the sittings, there were fifty-two votes for, and fifty-two against the measure, but the President gave his casting vote in favour of the ladies. The festival of Ste. Genevieve commences this clay, and lasts till the 11 th inst. inclusively. During this period, several grand masses will be pertbrmed in the church of Saint Etienne-du-Mont, whore the shrine of the' Saint is, and a solemn procession will take place in the edifice on the last day. A young woman, fashionably dressed, was detected, three days ago, in the act of stealing a rich inkstand from the show-rooms of Messrs. Susse, on the Place de la _Bourse. She had entered with the apparent purpose of making purchases, and had seized the opportunity of secreting the object in question under her cloak, without being. perceived as she unagi ned. She was immediately taken into custody, and on h er lod g in gs being searched numerous articles of the same kind, obtained by similar means from other shops, were found. The Commissary of Police for the quarter has com mi tted her for trial. Itsismo THE W IND .—A gay youth of Paris, having by his extravagance worn out the liberality of his pa rents, and exhausted his credit even with the usurers, was on the poi n t o f " yi e lding to his fate," when th e following bri g ht id ea s t ruc k him. He went to a cunning little Isaac, and p ro p ose d to give him a bill foi• 2,000 f., upon which the Jew, without advancing a single sous, was to arrest him and confine him in the debtor's prison, ,young Hopeful being convinced t hat his father would im mediately pay the money and release him. Upon this Isaac was to retain all his costs with a handsome pre mium for his agency, and hand over the rest to his prin cipal. The first part of the plan was executed quickly but the second failed ; for the young man's friends, de termining to punish him for his follies, resolved to leave him in his new lodgings, a nd Isaac was obliged to let him out, or continue to pay t he monthly allowance of 30f., ordered by law to be paid by every creditor fur the sup. port of his incarcerated debtor. BOURSE--PAnis, M O NDAY, JAN. 3. rir , 4 Highest Lowest Last " ,c, Is 20 ... "8 15 ... 78 15 Price Price. Price. Pri ce. •re.ich sT i e ,e r r (C:oon:t, . ex div. r lid 65 ... 116 63 ... 116 65 ... 116 6 5 4 per Cents lOl 50 ... 101 stl ... 101 50 ... 111 5 0 3 Link of rrance LAlltte nint - I,ooot. SLaros 104 75 0 ...1607 50 ...1007 50 ...1007 50 elytan Bank Belgian 5 per Cents. - - 10 24 ••• 11 . 1 4 ... 1024 .. 1(91. 5 per eclat., 1840 .. . i nni ... 10 3 4 ... 102% i o 44 .p.niah Active ......... ........ 115!6 ••• ' :(1 ••• 25 4 .. A il passive siti ••• 53 4 ... 5% .:. p i qua; olit in .... 35 ... 106 25 ... 1(6 33 'tosian .. 103 ••• 103 ... 103 ... tog RAILw A y SHARES. St. Germain Versailles. L.ls 2lO ••• 210 ... 210 . 210 LB ........... .. ".312 ,0 town .......... ....... ........,,,_ 465 ••• 465 ... 465 ... 463 „Means .. .......... 513 75 itrasbutgtoßale ...... .... GREAT MEETING OF VIE MINISTERS AT STOWE. —Rumour says that the purport • for which the Ministers have met at the mansion . of his Grace of Buckingham is to persuade him to give up a large part of his beloved Corn-law ; and rumour says that the Duke is not likely to yield. If he wants the talents, he has all the stubbornness of the Grenvilles. It is confidently expected, there: fore, says Madame Rumour, that there will be a break-up in the Cabinet, and a reconstruction of the brittle patch-work immediately upon, or even before, the meeting of Parliament. WAR WITH CHINA. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin—As the war with China occupies a considerable share of public attention at the present moment, and as you have ever been an :advocate of the justice of such war on the part of Great Britain, since the death of the Gallant Lord Napier, I beg you may give publicity in your widely circulated paper, to the following extract taken from a letter received by me from the writer on the spot, and who is qualified to give a sound opinion on the subject. I am, your obedient servant, ROBERT WISE. Allonby, near Carlisle, Jan. 1, 1842. (From a Correspondent in the China Sea.) My belief is, that so soon as the Chinese find that their Tartar rulers have not thepower to interfere in any islands or places occupied by the British, but, on the contrary, that the British protect the Chinese from Tartar op pression, that they, the Chinese, will find our Go vernment so mild, so preferable, and so profitable withal, that they will at once throw off the Tartar yoke; but we have yet much to learn in China ; time is required, and I look upon past events as favourable to our obtaining possession of valuable points on the Chinese coast and Chinese rivets, N‘ Web, if well selected, will enable Great Britain to hold a very considerable con trol in the councils of the Chinese Court at Pekin. Ido not pretend to be a good judge of war operations, but it must be evident, to every thinking Englishman at least, that the Chinese forces, however numerous, have no chance with the British. The point arrived at, therefore, is this—not how far can the British go—but, how far will they go ? I presume to state that it would be for the ultimate advantage of both China and Great Britain, that the whole of the islands on the coast of China, together with the command of the mouths of all the great rivers in China, and the principal harbours, should be placed under our control and pro tection by subsidy, certain puints being ceded to 'us de facto. This would enable us to protect the Chinese coast from foreign, European, and American aggression ; it would give employment to a large number of English forces and civilians, who would, of course, be paid out of Chinese subsidiary, revenue ; but, what is still of more value to England, it would open a trade with one-Third of the family of loan, whom we can clothe at one third less cost price to the wearer than the Chinese can do themselves. The amount of this trade is almost beyond one's grasp to comprehend; it is capable of being made to infuse such life and vigour, by its magnitude, into our commerce, shipping, and manufactures, as would produce almost a new eta in Great Britain. All that is wanted is the above. and to compel the Tartar Emperor to comply, and to give us a free, fair field, for intercourse and trade. his Chinese subjects are but too willing to trade with us; but, while the Tartar Mandarins .hold the iron ride and forbid their Chinese 3nbject3 to tnide with progress can be made. M laid, the T,rtar , will never give its any thing till foreed. must t heri, fore take wh:a ,% ant by force, ld by force keep it, and when we are ~ ;atisfied, force the Emperor to cede mid substantiate it. I think possession of the Great Canal, at its head, at Hang Choo Foo, and its heads where it crosses the Yang and Yellow River, and where it enters the Pekin river, would alarm the Tartars ; these are the most vulnerable points, but you want more troops to occupy the points taken. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JAN. 4.—We have had a fair demand fur Cotton to-day, the sales comprising 4,000 bales,. at firm rates. Nothing to report in export or speculation. LIVERPOOL SHARE 'MARKET, JAN. 4.—A very limited business has been transacted at the Stock Exchange this day. The quotations are :—Grand Junction, 195. ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 631; London and Binning ham, 170 ; London and Brighton, 381; North Midland Half Shares, 364. • MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHA.NCIE, JAN. 4.—We have had only a limited businass to-day, owing chiefly to a want of stock, through the confidence of sellers in the prospect of farther improvement. Our sales are -.—London and South Western, 59 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 281 and 28i ; Manchester and Leeds, 714 and 71k; Ditto Quarters ' 3/. 17s. 6d. ; North Midland Thirds, 167,-; Ardwick Cemetery, 24. No intelligence of the Overland Mail up to the present time. Two ships have arrived at Penzance from China, viz. the Bassorah Merchant, and the Thomas Lowry, but the papers brought by them ar© not of so late a date as those previously received. rite Am LONDON: WEI)4TESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1842. REVENUE RETURNS. We learn on good authority that the Revenue returns, to be made up this evening, will show no inconsideratle increase on the quarter. s!iould rejoice with all our heart if we could conceive that this circumstance was . an indication that the law - caused sufferings of the people were at an end; but while they are undiminished, the increase in the amount of the money levied on them, only indicates, we fear, the severe manner in ,which the system is carried out. We have recently publis'acd some communi-. cations between the Short Time Committee and two of the Ministers, on the condition of ouir factory labourers, and the means of hnprov inr, it, which must, we think, have commanded the attention of the public.. However much the statements of the Committee as to the con dition of the factory labourers may be relied on, no person will suppose that their suggestions of . legislatie, measures, which will affect not only thetxl n ., i t oke capitalists, who have a con flitting interestand the whole of the corn -trinity, 'are' 'tVs66ring of 'Elie same confidence. 'Tar be j.t : frvm ~to say that these hard working, ,and, we believe, much injured people, whci:feel eltepieSs4reOf bad laws, do not take as . .,Oear and comprehensive .a : View of the national interest as .the-. ntonopoli.st Ministers they at 'tetnpted in vain to' enlighten. Far be it from us to suppose, that their opinions are not as states ruanlikn :anl,,pairbitic as those of the selfish laufflordsi . .. but they are not at present in a pottion to be honoured and obeyed, their suggestions - are treated as c'tinttrical by thy MiniSters, and will be treated i i ppr wticable . by the community. '' How," it will lie at , said, " can such purblind m or t a ls as those •who have all their lives treh - , ; )inning' e . otton or carding wool, coominnicating. only with other wool-carders and :cn,tton.spinners, presume to know any thing of the stupbudotts and complicated rela tiOns of that `s.cielefy, .which are beyond the ken of philesopbers,--- which the wisest and most practical statesmen cannot grasp; for their best laid schetueSnare Contintially addled, and whicl .seem rather, stlLleets of Divine ,contemplation, and , of Divine than of hutuan regulation,—how can cotton-spinners and wool-carders, make laws for the ecm - imunity 1" Their suggestions for new enactments, therefore, will probably he dis.. THE SUN, LONDON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1842. THIS YUNPS. Both the English and Foreign Securities opened flat and heavy this morning, with the exception of Ex chequer Bills, which remain firm at 21 23 prem. Con sols are 89i sellers for the opening. Spanish Active Stock 25k I ; Passive 51 6 ; Deferred 12i 13k ; Mexican Bonds, 28i 3 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 32} 33 ex. div. ; Ditto Three per Cents., 19k PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great We2tern 65 Ditto New Ditto Fifths - 4 _ _ London and Brighton 5O ...... 3814 ... to London and Birmingham 90 169i...... to Ditto Thirds - _ . . Goodin and Croydon ( Trunk). 13 North Midland lOO — to Ditto Thirds 415 South Eastern and Dover 43 24 to COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY). Amsterdam CF. 12 7f . Gibraltar . „ Ditto, at sight Rotterdam .........2 U l2 8 ,Genoa . '2s 90 Antwerp Hamburgh M.B. 13 13f,Venice 47 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 55 P alermo, per oz 1191 Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Lisbon Marseilles . Bourdeaux 25 90 Frankfort on Maine... 1501 Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37 .. 7 RIO Janeiro Bahia Buenos Ayres New York, 21 says sight 46i Vienna, effec. fl. 3M. 963 Trieste, ditto ... 955 Madrid ... 36 Cadiz Bilbao 36 Barcelona Seville Philadelphia 46 PRICES OF BULLION, PER 07.. Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin ...3 17 5 New Doubloons 0 - 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 10 Silver in Bars... 0 4 11 .HALF-PAST ONE. There has been but little business doing in the Stock Exchange, and both markets arc flat and heqvy. Consols are now 89-1 ; Three per Cents. Reduced; 89i ; Ditto, Three-and-a-Half per Cents. 991- ; • Bank Stock, 167 168 1671 ; Exchequer Bills have receded to 21s. 225. 18s. prem. -; India Stock is quoted at 246. Spanish Active is now quoted at 25k 4 ; Passive, 5:1 ; Deferred, 124 ; - Colombian Bonds, 21i ; Brazilian Bonds, 63/ ; Dutch Two-and•ii-Half per Cents. 51h- ; Ditto, Fives, 1008 ex.-div. The Share Market remains flat, with little doing : G reat Western are at 878 ; Do. New, 61; Do. Fifths, 91 108 ; London and Brighton, 38i ; London and Birming ham, 169 k ; Ditto, Thirds, 578. HALF-PAST TWO. Consols, 89/ ' • Exchequer Bills, 18s. to 20s. ; Co lombian, 211 22 ; Mexican, 281 29 ; Spanish, 25i QUARTER TO THREE. Every one is looking forward to the news by the Overland Mail with considerable interest. Some calcu• late on Thursday as the day of its arrival. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THISpAY .) LONDON, JAN. s.—Wind this day at noon N. DEAL, JAN. 4.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. from the River and sld. London, New Zealand ; Isabella, Hobart Town ; Julius Cesar, Bombay ; Richmond Hill, Berbice ; Cod riugton, Antigua ; Switzerland, New York. IL ADI SGATE, JAN. 4.—Arrd. Republican, Calaip, for Yarmouth, with loss of bulwarks, &e., having been ashore on the French Coast ; Monticello, Lawton, New Orleans. • PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 4.—Wind N.N.E. to E.N.E.— Sd. Switzerland, New York; her Majesty's steamer Ma gmra, Woolwich. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 4.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. T. Coutts, London, for the Cape and Singapore. Off—Toronto, Att wool, New York; her Majesty's ship Conway, China. FALMOUTH, JAN. 3.—Wind E. to E.S.E., strong breezes.—Arrd. Racer, Hallin, Cephalonia; Spring, Car diff for London, leaky. ller Majesty's ship Lynx, Lis bon, sailed 19th ult. with mails. Sailed Thames . steamer and Tay steamer, Barbadoes; Tagus steamer, Vigo, &c. OFF PENZANCE, JAN. 3.—Thomas Lowry, Graham, China, sld. Aug. 30 ; St. Helena, Nov. 22. BRISTOL, JAN. 3.—Sld. Adelaide, Tobago. DUBLIN, JAN. 2.—Sld. Kingston, Demerara. CORK, JAN. 2.—Arrd. Virginia, New Orleans. SW. Atholl (transport), Jamaica ; Xarifi, Barbadoes •, Ed ward Thorne, New Orleans ; Boyne (transport), Malta. SUNDERLAND, JAN. 3.—Arrd. Adahline, Quebec ; William Rippon Storey, RichebuCto. HULL, JAN. 4.—Wind Froja, Odessa ; Mary, Leghorn. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 4.—Wind Arrd. Leila, Mg gings, New Orleans ; Seaflower, Campbell, Newfound land. Sld. Britannia steamer, Boston ; Chicora, New York ; North Pole, Africa. Mimic'', JAN. 4.—The Emily , Pettingell, from Bou ; logne to Hamburgh, has put back with bows stove, having been in contact with a smack. ST. HELENA, Nov. '22.—The Juno steamer, from London to Sydney, New South Wales, was fallen in with oft' the Cape, with loss of rudder, having been struck by a sea, endeavouring to get into Simons Bay, by the Crusader, arrived here from Calcutta. MURDER OF THE IDIOT AT PHILIPSTOWN. —The Evening Post and other journalists have asked, and very naturally, what is the Government about ? We have asked the same question ourselves, and we can positively state, that up , to Saturday ni g ht, no intelli gence had reached the Executive of any such outrage as that stated having been committed. Had such been the case, and a refusal to take such steps as were calcu lated to bring the perpetrators of this terrible outrage to justice, on the part of the Government, they. would have disentitled themselves to the support and good opinion of every well-thinking man in the kingdom.— Dublin Mail. RUMOURED RESIGNATION OF CAPTAIN LAYARD.----It is rumoured, but w e - cannot at present vouch for i ts accuracy, that Captain Layard, the repre sentative for the borough of Carlow, is about to withdraw from Parliament at the opening of the ensuing Session, having obtained military promotion since the late brevet. The Radical party keep the matter secret, but are, we have heard, on the look out for a successor.—Carlow Sentinel. s y y R r faf. Bid Ati ui• r it AND Vtibltc Opinton. " Who runs may read•" ronzaGN. Citizens are no longer admissible to the august pre sence of the Citizen King, without disfiguring them selves with the mummer costumes of old monarchies. Thus, on New Year's day a deputation of citizens was denied access to the King because they did not wear court dresses ! There were no Court dresses in fashion during the Three Glorious Days. ! The absence of all the Members of the Russian Lega tion from the King of the French's Levee on New Year's day, has greatly irritated and annoyed not only the French • Court, but the French Ministerial Press. The following remarks . of the Courrier Fran cais embody the • sentiments of the Court : " The Emperor of Russia has adopted a singular method for showing his political p.ntipathy for the French Go vernment. The Russian Minister excused himself from attending the King's levee with the other members of the diplomatic body under ihe plea of indisposition, but Was that a reason why no other member of the Russian, Embassy could be present ? Was it on account of indis position that the Russian residents in Paris, so numerous last year at the Tuileries, refrained from showing them selves this year ? Or was it not in consequence of orders received from their Sovereign ?" The Ministerial Presse has the following upon the same subject :—" M. de Kisseleff was not among the members of the corps diplomatique who went to the Tuileries on Saturday. This absence has given rise to interpretations which, if they had any foundation, would he too puerile ! France and Russia cannot forget that they are in the first rank of the Great Powers, and that the whole world has its eyes constantly fixed on them both." The Constitutionnel, M. '!'biers' organ, thus notices the slight offered to the King :—" The absence of the Russian Minister from the presentation of the address of the corps diplomatiqUeoccasioned much surprise. The Minister had excused him Self on the ground of indispo sition ; but what is no less surprising is, that no member of the Embassy was sent to supply his place, 'nor did any Russian subject require to be presented to the King. "These facts have given rise to numerous comments. The most accredited version is that the Minister's in disposition and the conduct of the Russian subjects were both prescribed by instructions from St. Peters burgh." • AL Gaugain, the editor and proprietor of the Pilots de Calvados, has been sentenced by the Police Court of Caen to pay a fine of 500 f., and to imprisonment for one month, fur having published in his journal an account of the deliberations of the Court of Peers ! The National states that the receptions at the Tuile ries on NeW Year's Day were cold beyond example. It was remarked, according to that journal, that the visi tors were less numerous than on any preceding year, and that there was less enthusiasm than usual even amongst the. official attendants. " The King himself appeared affected at this change, end at the absence of Members of_ the Chamber of Dep u ties, of whom not more than folly wi-rr pre,.•mm I,,sid, , s hose who attended i - qtltl.lLi 01-411V1014. The Times contains a leading article on the subject of African slavery, the object of which is to show that by not taking a decided part, America renders herself liable to the charge of being friendly to the disgraceful traffic, notwithstanding the bouncing disclaimers of her Ministers in Congress. " Should America," adds the Times, " unhappily determine neither to exert her own powers, nor to co-operate with other countries in sup. pressing the abominations of the slave trade, she may rely on it that the common object of the European States will not brook to be thwarted by any ordinary restive ness. A s:ngle war with Great. Britain she has already tried; a war on lier part with all Europe will be a novelty." The Post labours hard to prove, in an article suggested by some comments that recently appeared in a French print respecting Puseyism, that Mr. Newman, and the Puseyites generally, so far from being favourably dis posed towards the Church of Rome, are, in fact, strongly opposed to its tenets, and have earnestly protested in their "Tracts for the Times " against the Romish errors. The Herald, referring to a strange article that ap peared in its columns on the 21st ult., respecting the Exchequer bill fraud, and in which it spoke of rumours implicating certain distinguished and noble individuals in that fraud, now makes its retractation in the following terms :—" The result of inquiries which we subsequently . instituted on the subject, now leads us to the conviction that we have been imposed upon, and that such rumours had gained no such circulation as our informant confi dently stated." The Chronicle, in an article on the subject of Lord Ashburton's proposed mission to the 'United States, 'ob serves that the objections in the City to his Lordship's appointment, so far'. from abating, are urged with more force than ever. Alluding to the Government Commission on the Ex chequer bill affair, the Advertiser states :—" We find everything being done by the Government to render the promised investigation as fruitless as possible." znoNzie-Titaroz-COMMEINLOS. Two million dollars, a portion of the Canton ransom, arrived on Monday at Portsmouth, from China, by the Ship Conway. From the annual report of tl% City of Westminster Savings' Bank, it appears that the last year has_ brought 644 new depositors, and the total increase of the year is 5,0301. At a meeting of the Directors of the Colonial Bank yesterday, the surplus profits fur the half-year were stated at 3,067/. 13s. and a similar rate of dividend to the last was declared. .fIGEICULTURA.L. The olive-crop in France is so abundant this year that double wages are given to the persons employed in ga thering the fruit. The proprietors assert so productive a crop has not been seen since 1788. _ _ ECCLESXASTXCA.L. The church of the " Christian Chartists" at Binning ! ham is under the charge of twelve pastors, and the re. ceipts during the year in its support have amounted to between 3001. and 4001. NAVAL AND MILITAIVIr. By order of the Admiralty, several master-shipwrights from our leading dockyards, assembled at Woolwich, on Monday, to decide upon fixed principles for building her Majesty's vessels, so as to prevent the possibility of the work of one master being altered by another on removal to another dockyard. LAW AND POLICE. At Bow-street yesterday James Low, charged with stealing from the person of Mr. Robert Reeve. of Has tings, three 51. notes, a silver watch value 101., a gold ring, and various other articles, his property, was fully committed to take his trial. It appeared that the pro secutor on the 27th tilt. had wandered into the Lowther Rooms in a state of liquor, where he met the prisoner, and drank with him, but recollected nothing more that happened till he found himself in the George Inn, Bo rough, without the propertq specified; suspicions fell on the prisoner, and on his apartments being searched part of it was found in his possession. Evans, the lunatic, who made a desperate assault on Dr. Mullins about a month ago, was committed from Queen-square to take his trial, in order that the Judge, on conviction, might have the power of providing for the safe custody 'of the unfortunate man, by sending him to a lunatic asylum. Goodeve and Williams, the late cashiers of the Chi chester Old Bank, were tried on Monday for alleged em bezzlement, at the Chichester Sessions, and both acquitted. At Clerkenwell, William Mills was fully committed for attempting to murder the child of a woman with whom ho cohabited. The circumstances of the case bore a strong resemblance to those of the unfortunate man Ward, the last executed at the Old Bailey. The child in this instance survives, and the' prisoner was onlered to be again brought before the Magistrates to hear the evidence of the surgeon. At the Thames Police Court, Robert Garbutt, the chief mate of the ship Edward, now lying in the Com mercial Dock, was charged with assaulting, on the home ward voyage, two seamen, one of whom had since died,. and the other fell or went overboard. It appeared from the evidence of several of the men, that both the deceased had been repeatedly beaten (or " stirred up," in the mate's words), by a rope. The men were not accus tomed to the work ; " and if," said he in his defence, "I had not been taut with the men all would have been lost." She was, it appeared, an old worn-out ship, and the men were thus treated by the mate, and the Captain also, in order to keep her afloat. The Magistrate said the case might at once be taken before the Grand Jury. THEATRICAL. _ The performances of the French plays will begin on the 26th inst., under the management of Mr. Mitchell, of Bond-street. Perlet will be the first star, and will be succeeded by Plessy, Bouffe, Dejazet, Cartigny, and Fougeot. The season Kill consist of 40 nights. Boxes have already been taken by his Excellency the French Ambassador, the Duke of Beaufort, Lady Clicsterfield,&c. QUEEN CHRISTINA. AND lIElt PEACH. A TALE FOR TWELFTH-NIGHT. " One day, while riding,out, and the Royal invalid asleep, Queen Christina amused herself by eating peaches, but at tracted by a handsome soldier of her escort, her distracted at tention caused her to cut her finger with the stone of that fruit. Her handkerchief staunched the wound, but perceiving it stained vith blood she threw it from the carriage windotv. The soldier dismounted, a n d se i ze d th e h an dk erc hi e f . Chris• tina seemed not displeased : his name was Munoz." ' Timbrel of silver. attune thee and tell, What whilom and once on a summer-eve fell, 'Twist a rosy-cheeked Peach and a crowned Damoselle. - 'Twas Spain's pretty sparkle-eyed Queen I trow- , - And the Peach one of those that rosily glow, In the sunny-walled gardens of Ildefonso. This damask-bright Peach in her fingers fair— Christina rode out thro' the flower-sweet air— . Soldiery guarding her carriage and pair. The King slept Found in his carriage's niche-7-, Christina sat peeling her nectarine peach— • Unconscious, unmindful, unloving was each. But a certain bright vision before her eye danced, Outside the carriage it glittered and glanced, • Finely it gleam'd, and effulgent it pranced 'T was Munoz—bold Munoz—the " lady-loved Knight." Whoie form and whose handsomeness filled with delight , Who 'Midst ate bright cavalry figured most bright. No Saragoss warrior, no brave 'Biscayen, Of all that had conic to the hiving Queen's ken, Seemed bright as was Munoz—the glory of men. So brilliant his air, so bewitching he shone — Broke not the trance of her fancy's sweet tone, Till her finger was pierced by the Peach's sharp stone. Ah me ! was it sin of a love-stricken heart ? Or a wound from the point of love's purple-winged dartt, That made the red blood from its artery start. Tier sweet-essenced handkerchief bound up•the wound,' Smarting but little, the smitten Queen found— Pain in love's sweetness was utterly drowned. • But ho.! noble Munoz—what ho ! chevalier ! Iler crimson-tinged hankerchief—love-g,uerdon dear ` Forth tlingeth the Queen, and it floats in the air ! .4 4 Unmounting, he down to the river-side sprung, Then round his gay helmet the gage-d'amOur • And gallantly back on his steed again swung. Ah ! out of that carriage two blue-beaming eyes, Pour a - starry-sweet shower of love and surprise, On the swordsman so puissant who seized .on the prize. That day, and henceforward, two hearts were entwined ; The Queen for the Captain enamouredly pined ; intern reathed with her own was her paramour's mind. 3 Their eyes spoke soft tales, though their voices nought ; • "Pwas intercommunion made of sweet thought, While Love, all in silence, his silver-links wrought. Short the time that went by—ancient Ferdinand diet4 ,l When fast locked in marriage, by each other's side, ' Christina and Ainnoz made bridegroom and bride. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY OLD COURT • AN INSANE PRISONER.—John Griffith Evans, wl lO , appearance betokened furious madness, and whose 11 beard and enormous mustachios added considerably the wildness of his appearance, was placed at the 18 !,; and called on to plead to an indictment, charging b l o 'f .with an assault. The prisoner, however instead pleading, abused the Recorder and the Court, use of the most violent and blasphemous expressions, i' c o cusing them of high treason, and swearing he WOU hang the whole of, them. whi r Mr. M'Murdo, the surgeon of N e w ga t e , who vo l i giving his evidence was frequently int e rrupted by t' l 3 vociferations of the prisoner, deposed that he lje t had frequent opportunities of observing the priso n since he had been in custody, and that, in his opinion, Il prisoner was insane. of The Jury immediately found that the - risoner sV -Ile 11y unsound mind , and he was removed from the bar. UTTERING FORGED BANK NOTES.—JO4 A/MO' ): aged 23, printer, and John Barber, aged 23, utatif =deal instrument maker, were indicted for felonia'd uttering a forged 101. Bank note, with intent to deil l the Governor and Company of the Bank of En; h° well knowing the same Co have been forged. The Attorney-General, Mr. Shepherd, Mr. Adolph`s, and Mr. Gurney appeared for the prosecution. Viet Phillips defended the prisoner Matthews, and 1 34 " Was defended by Mr. Clarkson. „ The ATTORNEY -GENER•L having stated th e CO' ne e the Jury, called several witnesses, from whose evid e o l it appeared that the prisoners had gone on the 11th is December last into the shop of Mr. Harding, jewelle r ' r o Holles-street, Cavendish-square, and Mathews had the w purchased a wedding-ring and a guard, for w hiel* tendered what purported to be e. 10/, note. lied, Harding having sent to her daughter, who ' i d, in the neighbourhood, to get the note chaeg l o the daughter showed the note to two of her friends, ' ), not liking its appearance, advised her to send for o, Reclean. She did so. Gave him the note and •i sr oc• with him to her mother's shop. On the policeman ing his appearance at Alfs. Harding's, one of the r t tie soners, Barber, endeavoured to snatch the note fret'', policeman's hand. In this, however, he was unguecd, lul, and the prisoners were both taken into cus i o n, The Bank Inspector pronounced the note in q!le s , er t which was p ro d uce d by th e poli cema n, to be a torbor The prisoners had on the same day, previous to L t 0 visit to Mrs. Harding, made an unsuccessful uttelfeo pass a 101 note to Miss Richardson, who keeps $ IV in the Edgware-road. Miss Richardson, of when' of prisoner had made some purchases, on having be note tendered to • her sent it to Mr. Minton , keeps a public house in the neighbourhood, to g e te r changed. Minton changed it, but subsequently el' O taming doubts as to its genuiuess, he went to l 'OO.l Richardson's, and found the prisoners had not left% of obtained his change again. The addresses given b) ,t' prisoners were proved to be false. The prisonerol' ber, had given his address at 2, Trafalgar. place, tUf~ worth, and in consequence the curious fact was elicitet've there are no less than six houses No. 2, Trafalgarr Walworth. te . From the evidence of Mr. Harris, a watchmalte r 'b idinn E.- -- the St siding in east Smithfield, it appeared that on the, rg d December last, th e p r i soner M at h ews h a d p asse d a 5/. note to him, which note was produced in having had the word "Forged" stamped on it ° id' Bank, when Mr. Harris had taken it th ere t o be c 3 ', 4 1 The Bank Inspector prOnounced th e 5/. no t e to v forgery, as regarded paper, plate, and signature. j i tri Mr. PHILLIPS and Mr. CLARKSON addressed the for their respective clients. Mr. Baron GURNEY- summed up, and the Jury the prisopers Guilty. b 0 The prisoners were then removed from the Mathews declaring that he had witnesses to pre ! alibi on the Bth of December. NEW COURT. tOV" ./ A STRONG PROPENSITY FOR WHEELEARB' Wm. Smith, a man of Kent, was indicted forlool' ing a wheelbarrow on the'3oth of January; at r wich, the property of Joseph Tabby. The prisoner pleaded Guilty to the charge. m Q He was then again indicted upon four other Si• charges, to all of which he pleaded Guilty. The COMMON SERGEANT—Why, p r i sone r, - 111 this ? You seem to have a great aff e cti on f o r wheeft.oo rows, for I see you have stolen no less than six different persons. The prisoner —I did it from want, my Lord. 0 , 1 The UOMBION - SERGEANT.—That cannot be tve r , .1 for I see your ro bb er i es are c l ose ' upon one an oil, de , really think you ou g ht t o b e t rans p or t e d, b u t I wi'i lo or i leniently with y ou t hi s t i me . Th e sentence o f the `,",r is, that y o u b e i m p r i sone d, an d k e pt t o h ar d litu o , - , t Sa Maidstone Gaol for o ne year. This I hope will P end to your propensity for wheelbarrows. (Before Mr. Justice MAtax.) 0 016 Ito Shortly after ten o'clock, M. Justice MAuLE f t seat in this Court, and proceeded with the tria l : w ) cases that were in the paper for the day, several o '4o consisted of charges of uttering base cum, and th e v were of a most trifling character. MARLBOR,OUGH-STREB III (THIS DAY.) WI A young man, of very fashionable appearal le " it o, g ave his haute its Thomas Sale Pennington, was Y ri ite 4 at the bar before Mr. .Maltby, the presiding Magi d ui charged with improper conduct in one of the • boxes of the Haymarket Theatre. A gentleman, named Hope, stated that last he was in the dress circle, accompanied by his 154:. oc r i was in the box next but one to the stage ; the P r % ° e, was in the next box to the gtage. A gentleman ° A V Robinson, and his lady, were also in that box. l o t . eight o'clock Mr. Robinson had occasion to go out ot o short period, and witness noticed that the prisoner fixed his eyes upon the lady in a very ungentleulti,ote: manner, and as if he wished to stare her out of c o f i Baum In a short time afterwards witness saw 1110 DoP soner expose himself, and commit a nuisance in th e 0 4`' He removed the lady, and gave the prisoner into Cu Several other witnesses gave similar testimony. 001 The prisoner, in his defence, said that he was s° t i o n‘f intoxicated that he had not the slightest recollectio what had passed. He- was sure he had no inte l l a insulting any person, especially a lady, and col , to ti o duce persons of the highest respectability to sPe n moral character. It was extremely i m probable, i :oe lt person in his station of life should so misconduct Ile had been four years a member of Oxford Ijul'aeir and never had his character been in the slightes t blemished. Mr.. MALTBY said he regretted that the charPof been so clearly proved, that no favourable vie w case could be taken to the prisoner's advantagetotioce should, therefore, making no distinction as to the oft e n or society of the prisoner, convict him charged, and commit him to hard labour in the IL If Correction for three months. • a de ° The prisoner, on hearing his sentence, seeni e affected. of the Ouse IP I SUDDEN DEATH —This morning, abotl-o,oo' past eleven, as a Mrs. Osborne, the wife of a but te ,joil in Feather's-Court, Drury-lane, was proceed.,i n g Wo l ; White Hart-street, she dropped down dead. D' lr : e 0 0 ' ker, a surgeon, was called.ininstantly, which, °;-° was ir no avail. WA/ / EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAIL - ~„4 , c l e 1 On Friday, the 17th December, the Directors w P-Posev trip, preliminary to the opening, which i t is su will take place on the Ist February. of bio The Marquis of Waterford had several 0. 0 hounds poisoned last week, in the covert o f Dan SPOILTX/fG. At a late county meeting held in Renfrewshire, Mr. Wallace, M.P., showed a letter from the Marquis of Breadalbane, in which he stated that the breed of Capper which ho lately introduced on his estates, is doing uncommonly well, and that he considered this,kind of game completely restored to the High►lands. cOUNLT—rAsHIQNAnLE. We learn with regret that a change for the worse has taken place Within the past week, in tho health of the Duke of Cleveland. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort are gone to spend a week with the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield. . His Excellency Prince Estherhazy has written to an nounce his return for the 16th of this month. The Marqui s of S a li s b ury arr i ve d in Arlington-street yesterday from Hatfield House. Preparations are in progress at Wynyard Park for celebrating Lady Londonderry's birth-day on the 17th inst. Earl Jermyn, M.P., has arrived at Belvoir Castle. The Right Hon. J. W. Croker arrived in town yester day, from Drayton Manor. Lord and Lady Dinorben have relinquished their tention of passing the early part of the year at Brighton. The reported marriage to be betwixt the son of a Noble Whig Marquis and the beautiful and accomplished daughter of a Foreign Ambassador, appears to have lost all probability. The Eat 1 and Countess of Shrewsbury, after a length ened residence of nearly two years in Italy, return to this country at the close of the ensuing month or early in March. IKCISCELLA*EOUS. The land intended for the Royal gardens at Frogmore, has begun to be laid out for the conservatories, cottages, and terrace-walk, as designed. Wood-paring is about to be adopted at Montrose. No less than six dreadful murders have been perpe trated within the last month, viz. :—Emma Evans, at Chirk, near Oswestry ; Mr. Richard Kenton, at Severn- Stoke ; the boy at Dublin, supposed to be murdered by Delahunt ; Mary Hallam, at Mansfield, by her lover, Samuel Moore ; the idiot murdered at Philipstown ; and Dugdale, at Burnley. EVENING SUN r was str, ace ( (1, 1 atte pose he I reef last Grt dre fror his itud Con Celli Mat hel for the stoc nut mit fr:rf u 1 np r 4(1., thQ bee Cot bad by sor ' • an, ser the tru w is alt to fo to at