The Sun. — London, England, 1842-01-06 00:00:00

4,•* 1 tOnt Of Igou new old last , tiled itch. entsi cabl e :tent ILV hill o len t, con 3111' si% V S. „ 0 0 13 :1 [O,C' witig ;0 0 281.' Ma r oil!! est" .terst fro ol the Lu re, Wel a ,rre .110° E. tb: t he for !ocy, rgo 304 ilfl 4-4 EVENING SUN CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURi'. THE POST-OFFICE CASES.—H. Warner, aged 18, who yesterday pleaded guilty, to an indictment charging him with stealing a letter containing a 101. note, was brought IT fur judgment this morning, and sentenced to trans portation for 15 years. Richard Horton, who was yesterday convicted of stealing a post letter containing a sovereign, received a similar sentence. THE FORGER/ . CASE.—John Mathews and John .135r °er, who were yesterday convicted of uttering a forged 101. Bank note; were this morning brought up for judg ment, and respectively sentenced to transportation for 15 years. STREET ROBBERY, WITH VIOLENCE.—Thomas Muller, aged 20, was indicted for assaulting William Cannon on the Queen's highway, and stealing from his person a knife, and Is. 6d. in money. On the night of the 17th December the prosecutor was attacked in Wentworth-street, Whitechapel, by two men, who knocked him down and took from him the Property in question. He believed the prisoner to have been one of them. Sarah Ward witnessed the attack on the prosecutor, and swore distinctly to the prisoner as one of the assail ants; she gave information to a policeman, who took the prisoner into custody. When taken by the policeman t he Prisoner s sleeve was covered with blood. Air. PAYNE having addressed the Airy for the pri soner, Mr. Baron GURNEY summed up. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. He was sen tenced to fifteen years' transportation. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY. —Ann Gifford, aged 27, yes terday pleaded guilty to ten indictments, charging her with stealing in a dwelling-house. This morning I,P h 'aso Gifford, aged 25, was placed in the dock, stole with feloniously receiving certain of the goods by Ann, well knowing them to have been stolen. Knir-O•PHIELIPPS stated th care to the Jury, and called -.1 1. Watson, who 'resides in Shoreditch.. The pri sOner Ann came to her house sometime in December, to O'er as a servant. The prisoner gave a reference, anti Airs. Watson went there, but found the reference was - a fahe one. During her absence the female pri soner stole a watch from the drawing-room. The female servant of Mrs. Watson corroborated her MistresN's testimony. shopmaa of Mr. Hazard, pawnbroker, proved at the male prisoner had pledged the watch at his I Partter's shop, and, at the time of doing so, said he had L re ,quently pledged the same watch before, which had to his father. s „t be police inspector who took the prisoner into cus ;ey tbund the duplicate for the watch on his person. Ile said the female prisoner was his wife. beCross - examined by Mr. BaLLANTINE—He said he had en only recently marr i e d to h er . Th e pr i soner af fetrirt.led him every f ac ili ty i n mak i ng h i s search. vr. BALLANTINE having addressed the Jury for the • softer, and called severa l w it nesses t o c h aracter , vm Air. B aron GURNEY summed up, and the Jury found e , prisoner Guilty. .14. an swer to a que s ti on f rom th e J ur y, , 4 . 1 r. Baron GURNEY stated that the female prisoner 4 .4 been before transported. When the prisoners were called up for judgment the ir, l n Prisoner said that he was not aware that his friends ) 1 " 4 employed Counsel to defend him, or he should have If: e n his Counsel information to conduct his defence. then entered into a long rambling statement as to his ',ollduct, with a view of showing that he had no guilty : n wledge of the acts of his wife. During his address the Court the female prisoner fainted away. On her recovery, _ 5 Mr. B aron GURNEY sentenced her to transportation for - 1 Years, and Alpho nso Giff or d to transportalion for 14 They were then removed f rom t h e b ar, t h e ma l e Prisoner making vehement protestations of his innocence. NE W COURT. William Todd, aged 28, a shoemaker, was convicted of stealing at Greenwich, on the 14th December, two spoons, value 1 0s., the property of William Cox. The prisoner was p sentenced by the Court to six months' imprisonment and hard labour. CuRISTDIAS FREAK.—Janies Low was indicted with t'aling, on the 27th of last month, a silver watch, a gold a purse containing money, a pocket-book, and other ankles, the property of Mr. Robert Reid. The c ase came on before Mr. Halls, at Bow-str ee t a few fen days ag o , an d t h e f acts have been already given at gth. From the evidence, it appeared that Mr. Reid, who resided at Hastings, had come up to town to enjoy the amusement of Christmas. That on the 27th of last month he dined with some friends and drank more wine than did him good. About seven o'clock in the evening be went to the Lowther-rooms, where' he h a d sun d ry 'bottl es o f porter and glasses of gin and water, which Completely finished him, and he was totally unaware 'what he said or did till the next morning, at six o'clock, When he found himself at the George Inn, in the Bo rough, discovered his loss, and made it known to the police. The prisoner, who sweeps a cross ing in the neighbourhood of Hanover-square, Was at the Lowther-rooms on the night in ques tion, and was seen repeatedly in company with ~the prosecutor, and drinking with him. Suspicion filling upon him, he was taken into custody, and in his Pockets and on his finger were found an empty purse, a Watch - hey, and a ring, which were identified by the pro secutor. At the prisoner's lodgings were also found two Pocket-books, containing three sovereigns, and the du eleate of a watch. The watch and one of the pocket oks was sworn to by the prosecutor. .The p r i soner denied the robbery, but to l s l 'e. Jury, w i t h out calling', upon the Learned Judge Z . n uP, -found him Guilty. impris Justice MAULE sentenced him to eight mo n th s ' meet and hard l a b our . a n aePh Adams, a most respectable man, in appearance, diet e d Bribed in the calendar as a merchant, was in of go '''r forging and uttering an order for the delivery A h !'da, with intent to defraud Emma Clapham. pr os CLAntisoN addressed the Jury on behalf of the cantor, and Mr. DOANE defended the prisoner. Thei)roeerf.o,llowing witnesses were called on behalf of the Hessn,u _p Clapham stated that she carried on the busi ceiv:,''_a milliner, in New Bond-street. On the 7th re fr " 4 letter by the General Post, purporting to come 41 Airs. e t , l Patterns f "e l Hill, requesting her to send some IV . h velvet dresses to Newport, in the Isle of „ t. R eent ,. , .BSeS Iro m vely the arded a ;a",,r,ect anothe r letter, purporting to come she forv v -1° Party, in consequence of which the it o M Colonel Hill, at . al y or i_ et dress to Airs. produced 1' Late), Southampton. The dress now ce• ''' 43 the o ived anothe I thampton. Re ne forwarded to Sou 1g another. r etter approving of the dress, and order: cions, and , This caused witness to entertain suspt guineas ner brother went to Southampton. Fifteen cros as charged for the dress. etche r examined by Mr. DOANE.—The letters all came • r oil , New The different leP tort orouthamto. d read. Bettel— t w ere t November hen put last wasaa sn waiter at the to Southampton, Received a parcel addressed at the Hill, Hill, which he delivered to the prisoner ceiv ed •' who had called at the hotel before, and re , letters addressed there for Mrs. Colonel Hill. The - r ri suner represented himself to be Colonel Hill, and Kt° mg him to be so, witness gave him the parcel. was Hill —Was the widow of Colonel Hill. vv.e_ r eng a t New . port, in the Isle of Wight, in No he'nr.ue,r fitness The prisoner at the bar was a stranger to let , A itness did not write, or cause to be written, the Cross-examined now produced. \dro ss ., . gamed yby Mr. DOANE—Did not know a lady ci Carnegie, residing at Newport. Isabella Scott —Was the widow of General Scott, who N a ' s an officer in America. Witness married him at York. The prisoner had dined with them at New ztnDid not come from America with the prisoner. ess, on com i ng here resided in Sackville-street. e prisoner lodged there. Witness had seen the pri rner write, and had read what he had written after -1 , ards. Th e letters produced witness (after some hesita „s4) stated, s h e t h ought, were in the hand-writing of .ue prisoner. Cross-examined by M r . D oANE —Th ought the letters 'Were in the prisoner's hand-writing.. 'Ann Hatton— Was a widow. Was residing in South ampton in November last. Made the acquaintance of the prisoner at Cowes. Purchased the dress produced f rom sixteen guineas t h e pr i soner , f or s , on the Monday previous to his being taken . into cßarrister, ustod) the prisoner said a friend ot his, a had the dress to dispose of , • that he had had it for a ley to whom hq was going to be married, but that, from S ome cause or other, it did not do. Shortly after witness Purchased the dress she read the account in the news- Papers of the prisoner being taken into custody, and sent fi word to the officers that she had the dress. Derry, a sergeant i n the Southampton police, took the prisoner into custody. Found upon him a gold watch, ring, and 12s. On further searching him, in a small leather bag, bung round his nec k, witness found several duplicates, a 5/. note, and two sov ere i gns . T his was th e case for the prosecution. Mr. DOANE addressed the Jury for the prisoner. Mr- Justic e M AULE summed up, and the Jury, after a short c onsultation, found the prisoner Guilty. SA f ormer conviction a t the Somerset Quarter sie ns was p u t i n , b y wh i ch i t appeared t hat h e was convicted of stealing two watches and Sentenced to s even years ' transportation in 1834. A free pion in 18 37, which was found in the possession of the Sri don was then put in. tr ausportatiston Juice MAULE s en t ence d hi m to fif teen years ' Pu- of letter antS EY s Is4.—lt would s eem th a t th e A rc hbi s h o p the erbury h as not always viewed Puseyism through s ate spe c t ac l es, and that threats are h e ld out that out, sshoul of his Gr ace , carefully preserved, will creep d he be so ill advised as to take any part against his former friends. We suppose our Content tZrarY, the Standard, had his Grace of Cantere efrY in his eye in his yesterday's gallant defence v.elneonsistency. Mutatis mutandi,s—it will serve ~ ;" Archbishop as well as the Home Secretary. His I'l,lnies will say, and the vulgar will be too ready to r:,",ve, that he is always a deserter who is not alvi . 'a3 so the same ranks." The occupant of Lambed:l ritt fa r ui,ffers from the occupant of the Vatican, that he does b Q i el aiin to be always infallible, though he can never the veil Fong,— (, 'ironic ie. eldCrlterday evening, about half-past five, .au knaei4 entleman was knocked down and run over . by directi:s cart, which was proceeding furiously in the . nat e gerlil Pentonville ; when picked up, the unfortu a ssista tie t e ' e nlan was, after receiving temporary medical A n taken to Bartholomew's hospital. at L e i cas ula flan of 90, named Thomas Chew, died inesrt°llßuzzard a few days ago. The deceased was on, and eccentric person ; he died with his best clothes andterrecr Particularly requested that he should be se in , t forgetting , no to put on his great top coat, hat, yiiil2ll4. Ildkerchief, and which request has been complied IDENTITY O.F THE TEN HOURS' DEPUTATION, WITH THE CHARTISTS OF THE NORTHERN STAR. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—lt may be something to know, that the plan proposed to Sir James Graham by the cele brated Ten Hours' Deputation, is intrinsically the same with that which has been so vigorously paraded by the section known by the name of the Northern Star Chartists, in opposition to the re moval of the Corn-laws. Here follows, first, the proposal of the . Chart ists as taken from pages 21 and 22 of the pamphlet entitled "The Land; how to get it, and how to use it," sold by J. Cleave, Shoe-lane, and by all booksellers, price twopence. And afterwards, the proposal of Messrs. Fleming, Hobson, Leech, Crabtree, and Brooke, as ex tracted from the Times of Jan. 4. 1842. '—my Lords and Gentlemen,—l am nothing daunted; and shall, therefore,—proceed at once to my purpose, which is to apply details to your principle of reclaiming waste land. Of that land you have in Great Britain and Ire land more than fifteen millions of acres capable of re clamation. It at all events can scarcely be called your own, and is tha'refore out of the Newcastle principle of doing what you please with it. By its proper appropria tion you not only do not suffer damage, but on the con trary, I propose to do for you what you cannot do for. yourselves: to make it valuable. I estimate that land at a rent of one shilling and fourpence per acre. I cal culate that each acre in the out-set, taking the tenant's house and stock and means of subsistence till the land is brought to bear into account, would require somewhere about seven pounds per acre, or a capital of about ono hundred-pounds for every fifteen acres. The fifteen - million acres allotted in farms of fifteen acres to one million heads of families, would thus require a capital of one hundred millions of pounds sterling to aid the working communities in their work of reclamation. The value of those fifteen millions of acres, at twenty years' purchase, at a rent of one shilling and fourpence per acre, would cast government 20,000,0001. Now what I propose is, that government shall purchase the lands from you, say at that rate, and then, under proper official management, at the head of which should be a Cabinet Minister to be called the Minister of Agriculture, lease those lands at one shilling and fourpence per acre, in lots of fifteen acres, with a capital of one hundred pounds advanced to each tenant, subjecting the tenant to a rent of five pounds per an num for the land, and the interest of one hundred pounds at four per cent, that is one pound for land and four pounds for interest. This sum of 120,000,0001. I propose to consolidate into one national fund, which shall stand as a mortgage upon the fifteen millions of acres, and over which the Parl;s ment alone shall have control ; and that it shall not be a transferable stock, or a stock allowed to be made the medium of exchange, barter, or traffic. in the Jews' tem ple ; but that the government shall merely be agent for the fund-holder and fund-payer--receiving from the one and paying to the other. I propose that after the first eleven years the tenant shall yearly pay . ten pounds in liquidation of his debt, thereby liquidating the whole amount at the end of the next ten years, or with the twenty- firstyear of his tenancy; at the close of which period—twenty-one years—l propose that the tenant shall pay no more than the original chief-rent, of one shilling and fourpence per acre, and all local taxes; or a pound.per annum for his holding for ever and ever, and Amen—until some future generation, in its wisdom, shall see the State necessity of making the then occupiers —(themselves being parties)—pay something more as their quota of any national require ment.'—The Land, 6-c. By Feargus O'Connor, Esq. Here follows the Deputation's version ; which, after the Roman general's simile, is the same pork, with a little difference in the dressing.— ' Sir J.' Graham.—What would you recommend ? The . Deputation„—The adoption of a comprehensive and efficient plan of home colonization ; for which pur pose we would advise the passing, at the expense of the nation, of a general waste-land inclosure hill, whi c h should make provision for reasonable compensa tion 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 un cultivated 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 provide food and shelter for themselves, and the surplus of their labour would form a fund for defraying the necessary expenses, and ultimately repaying the prin cipal advanced.' . . It is impossible to let the Deputation go, with out a point-blank denial of sonic of the principal positions, which they seem to think their own declaration sufficient to impress on the undis puted belief of all human beings: The Deputation proceeded to say, that according to the arguments presented in favour of the policy of causing the operatives to be dependent on a foreign mar• ket for employment, it was admitted that our ascendancy in those foreign markets could only be kept up by a con tinuous cheapening of the cost of production. How was that to be effected ? It could not •be done by reducing much lower the wages of the adult ope ratives. That class of labourers were as near the bare " subsistence level," when in full employ, as it was possible to place them. The only way, therefore, to do it was by still further-displacing these adult and com paratively high-priced labourers by self-acting machi nery, or machinery so contrived that what little attend ance it might require would be that of women and chil dren, and as little even of that as possible ; and thus we' shall to the same result. The great bulk of the labouring classes would be thrown idle, whether we ex tended or restricted our foreign trade under the present direction of machinery.' It is not admitted, but on the contrary stre nuously denied, that " our ascendancy in foreign markets can only be kept up by a continuous cheapening of the cost of production." We want to have, as our fathers had, the power of enjoy ing those branches of trade and manufactures for which the country has natural advantages, without being checked by legislative restric tions. It is not admitted, but strenuously denied, that the only way to preserve our markets is by the substitution of women and children for other labourers. We want to have those markets from which we are hindered by the tax on food, and nothing else. It is not admitted that the bulk of the labouring classes will be thrown idle under the present direction of machinery whether we extend our foreign trade or restrict it ; for it is contended on the contrary, that the superior power of in venting and working machinery, is what God has given us as the means of holding our ground in the honourable competition of nations. When the landowner finds his efforts bounded, be does not bethink himself of contenting him self without them, nor of going to Prime Mini sters to represent that there would be no use in making him further openings because steam ploughs would swallow up the difference. But he goes straight to the pockets of his neighbonrs, and takes out of them what shall make both ends meet. And this it is, whether they know it or not, that the Deputation are working to con= ceal. Yours, very sincerely, T. PERRONET THOMPSON. Blackheath, Jan. 6, 1842. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR-I shall be glad if some of your clerical readers can tell us how Bishop Monk can be allowed to hold the following : Bishopric of Gloucester and Bristol, 3,7001. per annum"; A Canonry in Westminster Abbey, 1,0001. per annum, and a house ; Pealirk Rectory, Diocese of Peterborough, 5001. per annum clear. Was it through the interest of the Bishop of London, that great reducer of clerical incomes— except where he or his friends were concerned? All the Bishops, except those of Canterbury, London, Winchester, and Ely, are obliged to hire houses in town at a great expense : the favoured Monk has one rent free. It is a shame that Bishop Monk should retain Peakirk, which he presented himself to as Dean of Peterborough; he ought to have been made to resign this when he got Bristol to hold with Gloucester also. The Stall at Westminster may be worth more than I have put it at.—Yours, Jan. 5. A RATIONAL REFORMER. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY.— During the whole of Monday Inspector Stubbs and Superintendent Cumming, of the I) division, were ac tively engaged in endeavouring to trace out the perpe trators of an extensive robbery of jewellery, &c., which on the previous evening was committed at the resi dence of Pedder, Esq., No. 7, Great Cumberland street, Hyde Park. The property carried oft con sists of a valuable gold watch, gold brooches, brace lets, chains, &c., many of the said articles being set with diamonds and other costly stones. From the exa mination which has been made, it appears that footmarks have been traced from the back of a house in Bryanston street to the premises of Mr. Pedder, and that the thieves having thus gained an entrance into the back yard, suc ceeded in possessing themselves of the valuable property in question, which was deposited in Mr.Pedder's bedroom. The amount of the articles stolen is,it is stated, about 2001. Lord Ashburton is expected to arrive at Bath House, Piccadilly, on Monday next, from his seat, the Grange, Hants, to make his final arrangements for de parting on his important special mission to the Govern ment of the United States. His Lordship, we under stand, will embark at Portsmouth, on board a instant. Govern ment steam frigate, for New York, about Monday, the 24th He will be attended by only a limited suite, as his Lordship's stay at Waghington, where the personnel of our embassy already consists of Mr. Fox and Mr. James Hudson (rendered illustrious for his dis patch in bringing Peel from Rome), is expected to be brief. Lady Ashburton and the Hon. Misses Baring do not accompany the Noble Envoy to America. I understand," said a Deacon to his neighbour, "that you are becoming a hard drinker." " That is a slander," replied the neighbour; " for no man can drink easier." INCOME. Customs.—Consolidated Duties Sugar applicable to the Consolidated Fund Total Customs Excise StaMps Taxes Post Ottice Crown Lands Miscellaneous Imprest and other Monies Repayment of Advances To Cash brought to this Account to be applied to pay off Deficiency 8i115.... A,644,29: 4,037,896 1.59A, , 45 1,786,771 9!',000 4 0,0 JO 11,437 32,5 i 6 1:23,918 11,332,336 11,372,3:36 3,689,266 THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 0, 1842. THE REVENUE FOR THE YEAR AND QUARTER END No. I.—An Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain in the Years and Quarters ended sth of January, or Decrease on each head thereof. YEAR QUARTERS ENDED QUARTERS ENDED ended April 5, I July 5, I Oct. 10, I Jan. 5, , 1 Jan. F, lBlO 1841 1810 1841 18.1 YEAR ended Jan 5, 181.2 April 5, July 5, 1 Oct. 10, 1841 1841 18:1 Jan. 5: 1812 Customs.—Consolidated Duties Sugar . Tay applicable to Consolidated Sugar Duty applicable to Supplies Total Customs Excise Stamps Taxes Post Office Crown Lands Miscellaneous , Total Ordinary Revenue , Imprest and other Moneys Re-payments of Advances ....... Total Income . The Amount applied to the Consoli dated Fund Ditto, as Advances Ditto, as part of the Ways and Means of the Year Total. Year ended Jan. 5. Increase. Decrease. No. ll.— : lncome and Charge of the Consolidated Fund; in the Quarters ended the sth January, 1841, and the sth January, 1842. ECG JANUARY 5, 1842. I 841, arid sth of January, 1842, sheaving the Increase Quarter ended Jan.:. Increase. I Decrease. '----.--- I I i '----- 1 ' ---* 1 1 - 3,499,329 3,985,998 4,562,04 8 3 , 644 ,2 0 2 - 3,527,825 3,767,031 4 , 256 , 825 3,682,266 _ - - - - 340,135 1,151,936 - - - - 9144,678 - - - - - - - 733,159 - 1,100,829 736,614 - .. 000,682 171,374 1,490,389 1,106,008 - - - - - -- ---- ----- ------ - ------ 4,572,653 3,137,934 5,662,877 4,180,1706 19,754,340 4,516,503 4,848,336 5,737,217 4,795,274 19,809,185 145,245 414,363 1,929,996 2,711,951 3,916,249 4 , 010 , 3 56 1',5:4,56`2 1,885,470 2,795,312 4,1 a ,866 3;39,270 12,580,913 6,3.56 277,09 G 1,85%188 1,728 , 6 E 1 1 , 7 51,417 1,516,646 6,7 5,9.2 1,677, 4 04 1,680,821 1,7.'2,704 ), 6 1 8 , 517 6 ,70 0 ,446 26,436 21571 - 119,038 1,4.7,808 332,807 1,786,771 3,9.6,444 :24,045 2,030, 6 ! 1 6 32 1 ',1'0 1,010,,, Ico 4,48 ',!111 53 6,467 10,003 10,000 1•23,000 1 8,000 441,009 93,000 119,000 116,0(Y) 127,000 45 ,000 14,000 ...... 1?.3‘.239 29 - ,000 - 40,000 42,500 45,000 4',000 167,500 32,500 30,000 50,500 49, , P 0 162,000 5,500 900 ) 3',180 4,117 24,38 2 12 , 437 78,116 49,11:6 )8,235 15,325 1 5 ,0 52 9, , 738 19,84 2,013 ----.. -------- ----, ----- --- - - 8,537,045 11,573,961 11,855,7:2 11 , 1.31 , t Z 4' 2 ,0f.,7,14 -- 4 2,478,053 11,522,650 12,132,772 12,254,1'0 44; 87,51;8 721,690 31,956 C 60,093 277,096 • 31,913 207,880 82,099 32,546 445,338 32 151 11)7,985 97,805 26,187 354,128 ...... 91,210 6,359 110,7:6 195,995 172,419 1223,5118 603,1c8 98,916 143,510 122,374 145,8.59 510,769 •••••• 92,42) 21,911 - ---- -- --- -- 8,679,714 11,867,836 12,111, 5 3 0 1 12 , 087 , 620 1 44 , 746 ,4 011 8,609,200 1 11,#61 , 175 1 12,352,951 12,426,169 f 45,252,495 721,690 ------ -- 1215,595 62,004 23',455 . ----. --- Deduct De Deduct 7,483,39 6,898,530 8,682,179 8,937,023 32,000,771 7,390,901 6,753, 8 92 10,476,911 8,787,558 73,401,262 crease 215,595 Decrease, 233,435 279,852 111,050 70,600 30,00) 4: o,' CO 182,050 192,550 60,000 50,000 554,600 1 916,825 4,258,256 3,359,051 3,120,597 12,214,729 236,249 4,917,733 1,616,049 3,618,611 11,288,033 Increase on Increase on ---.„ --- 8,679,714 1.11,867,836 12,111,230 1 12,087671 44,746,4( 011 8,609,200 1 11,864,175 1 121 , 352 951 1 12,426,169 45,252,495 506 , 193 33,4,540 Quarters ended Jan. 5. 11 31,41,292 P 5 65P,266 ;763,046 1,618,517 1,210,010 127,001 49,030 15,052 20,187 145,P51 11,340,9,7 50,0(0 11,3.1V37 MUSICAL LICENSES VERSUS MID DLESEX JUSTICES. In other countries it is the policy of Governments to encourage and promote the harmless amusements of the people. In England, the Magistrates, who are the crea tures of the Government, are perpetually making them selves busy to contract the sphere of the people's inno cent recreations. Of the wisdom or folly of these two courses there can hardly be a difference of opinion in the minds of any two rational beings. To suppress or abridge popular enjoyments, is not simply impolitic, it is mis chievous. Such proceedings inevitably tend to sour men's minds, to beget moroseness of feeling, and to render them dissatisfied mortals. To deny the people the privilege of indulging in any kind of relaxation most agreeable to their taste or fancy, provided it be not in itself vicious or immoral, is the next thing to debarring there from breathing the air or receiving the light of Heaven. After men have been toiling six days out of seven, to earn a subsistence fo r themselves and families, by the " sweat of the brow," it iA too much to say, that on the seventh they shall be excluded from all pleasure— " cribbed, cabined, and confined" to their own dull, per haps, melancholy abodes. Or are they to be coerced into the frowsy atmosphere of a crowded chapel, or into the marble coldness of a church ? Yes. This is what the " London City Mission," and the "Saints" of Exeter Hall are straining every nerve to accomplish. The no torious John Scott, the immense defaulter of Clerken well, was one of the most active and officious of this ultra-sanctimonious set. Ex uno disce otnnes. These remarks are sufficiently trite ; but they are pertinent to our present purpose ; and they cannot be too repeatedly hammered into the skulls of the dull heads among the Middlesex County Justices. To come to the more immediate subject of this article. It will be remembered that, in the month of October last, the usual period of granting musical licences, when ap plication for the renewal of those for the White Conduit House, the Eagle Tavern, the Royal Standard, and other places of a similar kind; was made, some demur took place as to ,compliance therewith, and the Magistrates ultimately gave way, with a proviso that there should be a special indorsement on the back of each litense. With the exception of one or two brief and casual no tices, this subject has hitherto escaped the observation of the Press. It is one, however, that well merits a few further observations. The conduct of certain parties concerned in the business would form a little his tory not unworthy to be read. Nor let it be imagined that it is merely the interest of a few tavern keepers, or proprietors of pnblic gardens and saloons, that is at stake. What the " saints," par excellence, are strenuously and constantly aiming . at, is to destroy the last vestige of the old free, hearty, jovial, manly English character, and to substitute a species of gloomy, howling fanaticism instead. They wish to put down every species of what they denominate profane amusements, and to cohvert the whole country into one vast conventicle of folly, bigotry, superstition, and hypocrisy. But it will not do. It is an undertaking beyond the power of all the Cantwells and Mawworms in the world to achieve. TO return :--We have already alluded to the indorse ment on the back of each license. It runs in the fol lowing words:—" The Court, on the day when this li cense was granted, expressed a strong opinion of the impropriety of keeping open on Sundays the saloon, and other parts of the premises used for public amusements, and that such practices should be discontinued, and the house used on Sundays only as a common tavern. The Court are not to be considered, by this memorandum, as having pronounced any opinion as to the lawfulness of the representation of theatrical representations upon week days,, in public-houses possessing musical licenses, and still less as having given such exhibitions their sanction.* This question does not, on the present occasion, come before the Court." Now, the first question that must strike the most cur sory reader of the above is, how did it happen that those Middlesex Justices became so suddenly sensitive as to the evil, of which they complained for the first time only in the month of October last ? Had these places then become of a more obnoxious character than before that time ? There Is no such allega- don made, no such pretence set up. Yet these musi cal licenses had been previously granted for years in succession for the same places, by the same Bench of Justices, without any similar or other in dorsement, and with only the caveat of one or two crotchetty members of the Court, such as Mr. M'Wil liam. What, then, so unexpectedly enlightened the, until then, darkened optics of these Middlesex sages and Solons of the law ? The Saints of the " London City Mission " must answer this interrogatory ; and fortu nately they have done so to our hands. Be it known, that ihese Worthies, these pattern-of-religion men, ad dressed a memorial in writing (not in print—that would have been dangerous) to each of the Middlesex Justices, praying " That they would grant no license by which the Lord's• day would be legally desecrated, and the cor ruption of youth of both sexes advanced, to the injury of society." The document is dated from the " London City Mission-office, Oct. 14, 1841." We have already re marked it was sent in writing, no doubt from a fear that, if it had appeared in print, it would have prematurely exploded. It is worth while to observe the artful manner in which this privately circulated manifesto is couched. The very first paragraph contains the following words, viz., " That among the obstacles to the progress of social happiness and of good order in society your Me morialists have especially to complain of the existence and rapid increase of Sunday and other large taverns, licensed for concerts, under the 25th of George IL The proprietors of several of them, under the name of Con certs' have plays performed ; they have large theatres, large companies of actors, and all the paraphernalia of the licensed theatres with this disadvantage, that spirits and water, and other liquors, and cigars, are served to the company during the whole time of the per formances." Setting aside the quality of the grammar the tenour of the, foregoing passage is to leave•no.'otherintditikice than that " plays" were:performed at tho - Tlaceir in ques tion on Sundays. If this be not the °Woos onnstruc- tion to be put on the words we have cited, whsi t ,t,other will they bear ? Otherwise, why allude to perform ances at all ? The ground of complaint is the dese cration of the Lord's Day—and that alone. The words marked in Italics are so underlined in the manuscript new lying before us. It speaks of Sunday Taverns licensed for concerts, in a way that will admit, if we speak literally, of only one interpretation, and as if those taverns were licensed for concerts to take place on that day ! There is no reference to week days. The passage, therefore, to which we are adverting was, beyond all doubt, so framed, with a pre meditated design to mislead ; or, we must adopt the other alternative, that the Committee of the " London City Mission" are more illiterate than we take them to be. But we beg to ask, where is the difference between Sunday and other taverns ? Are they not all open on Sunday ? Or are some open and some shut ? But what Dogberries the Middlesex Justices must have been, not to see through the flimsy veil thrown over the real purpose of this precious Memorial I That they should have been hoodwinked by it ! The purpose was nothing more nor less than to make them the cat's paws of the " London City Mission," and its cat's-paws they became. Talk of desecrating the Sabbath by theatrical performances I Why, it would be difficult to find fifty decent persons in the whole metropolis who would sanction by their presence any spectacle of the kind. Nay, it is questionable whether any half dozen actors could be mustered, even from the refuse of the profession, so far to debase themselves by performing on a Sunday, supposing they might do so with impunity. No ; a reverence for the Sabbath is too deeply rooted in the breasts of all classes in England (except, perhaps, the higher) to be easily eradicated. We think we have now given a tolerably sufficient proof of a gross decep tion having been practised upon the Court by the Com mittee of the " London City Mission." The same unique document, the Memorial, goes on to state that—" Your Memorialists sent on Sunday even ing, Aug. 1, ten of their missionaries to visit five of these Sunday taverns." What ! had they no other means of knowing, what was going forward but by sending their own " missionaries" to these dens of pollution? After that, the word " missionary" should stink in the nos trils. The Memorial omits to add, whether they escaped contaniinatien, what quantity of " spirits and water" they drank, what "cigars" they smoked, or what other " refreshments" they consumed. As to all these mad, ters, we are left cruelly in the dark. , Surely, if these places are producing the demoralize. tion charged upon thorn, a detachment of spies and in , formers need not have been employed to verify the fact. CHARGE. Permanent Debt. Terminable Annuities Interest on Exchequer Bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund Sinking Fund The Civil List Other charges on the Consolidated Fund For Advances, and to pay oft'Exchequer . Bills issued for Advances Total Charge The Surplus The Amount of Exchequer Bills issued to meet the charge'on the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ended Oct. 10, 1811, and paid off out of the growing produce of that Fund for the Quarter ended .lan. 5, 142 The Amount issued in the Quarter ended Jan. 5, 1812, in part of the sums granted by Parliament out of the Consoli dated Fund for Supply Services The Surplus of the Consolidated Fund, Quarter ended Jan. 5, 181, The probable amount of Exchequer Bills required to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund, Quarter ended Jan. 5, 1812 But let us go on 7--At the Royal Standard they found about 1,000 persons ; and at the Eagle Tavern, nearly 5,000, and no less than 37 waiters " busily employed during the evening." Such was the result of the arduous labours of these pious functionaries, and such was the creditable work upon which they were set by their spiritual employers. The next paragraph is of a piece with all the rest. It makes a sweeping charge against these establishments, describing them as " Schools of evil and nurseries for our prisons, our hulks, and our penal colonies ;" and it refers to the " testimonies of many youths -now under sentence of transportation, and otherwise committed to our metropolitan prisons," in confirmation of their state ment of the evils arising from such. places of resort. We confess we should like to see these " testimonies," if any such. exist, and to ascertain whether they were given voluntarily, or whether they were artfully extracted by questions so framed as to lead to the answers desired. None, however, but the great est simpletons could be befooled by the nonsense which this Memorial contains. There was; of course, no such thing ever heard of as juvenile crime and delin-, quency beore the White Conduit House, the Eagle, &c., hecame places of musical entertainment ! There were no profligate, wicked, or unnatural parents, who aban doned their offspring . to chance, presented to them ex amples of the most wicked depravity, who reared them in practices by which they could scarcely fail of being trained for " our prisons, our hulks, and our penal colo nies !" The best answer to this rhodomontade is, that the Memorial itself does not state that the Red Lion square Missionary spies witnessed any indecent or im proper conduct at the houses they vis.ted on their me morable Sunday evening expedition. If they had seen anything reprehensible in this respect, it would have as suredly been deemed too good to be omitted. The worst it speaks of is the appearance of some women of " loose" character. But we must hasten to a conclusion. It is only right to add, that although the Memorial, as we have already stated, was, in the first instance, sent privately to each individual_ Magistrate, it was on the licensing day read in open Court. What, however, was this but sheer mockery? A mere formal pretext for a predetermined wrong? The document had already done its work. Its poison had been insidiously instilled into the minds of those for whom it had been especially concocted. What fullowed was meant as - a blind to the public. As the last act of the farce, and thii is the most cha racteristic bit of all, the Red Lion-square Mission had ac tually the unblushing audacity to thank God, in a public advertisement, inserted in the Times newspaper, of Oc tober 29, for the " Suppression of Sunday Taverns !" The impiety of this act is enough to shock any real Chris tian. 'That the reader may not think we aro imposing on him, we quo t e t h e very words:—" The Committee of the London City Mi ss i on devoutly thank God for this great blessing," &c., than which nothing to our minds can be more revolting. The introduction of the name of the Deity on such an occasion is not only an insult to common sense, but an outrage on all proper feeling. The passage would have been more pertinent and less impious, if the phrase, " Middlesex Magistrates," had been sub stituted for the name of the Almighty. The Committee, in the fulness Of their exultation, fur ther announce that the gates of the. Eagle Tavern, the Royal Standard, and all similar pleasure-grounds, within the jurisdiction of the Middlesex Magistrates, had been on the previous evening closed, thereby, doubtless, in tending. to deter • people from visiting them in future. But, with one exception, White Conduit House, we believe they are all open on Sunday evenings, as before the Magisterial resolution. The proprietors of the White Conduit House have bowed to the opinion of the Justices, by keeping the Theatrical Saloon shut on those evenings ; but it is false to say that the Pleasure-grounds are closed. With regard to the latter, no difference what ever has been made. But to the - proprietors of these places generally, we presume it is wholly a matter of indifference whether they serve their customers with tea and coffee, or spirits and water and cigars. Let them, however, insist upon their indubitable rights to use every part of the premises they occupy, and some of which have been reared at an enormous outlay of capi tal, in any way they please, not contrary to law, as well on Sunday as -every other evening in the week. Talk of vested rights ! What is this arbitrary -inter ference of a set of J ust i ces b u t an infraction of vested rights ? And wh a t s h a ll we s ay \ of the conduct of the Court in permitting itself to be ear-wigged and biassed in private, on matters which it ought to have en tertained only in its public capacity ? If it had per formed its duty, it would at once have denounced the Red Lion-square memorial as-anaudacious attempt to corrupt the springs of j ust i ce ; i ns t ea d of which, it has exposeditself to very i n j ur i ous imputation. Believing, however, that there aro many gentlemen among the Aliddlesex Magistracy inclined to discountenance fanati cal zeal and stupid bigotry, it would be well if some such would take the earliest opportunity of moving the Court to retraco its steps, and to rescind the resolution passed iu October last ; or, if this should be thought too dero gatory to its dignity, the next best thing it can do will be to take no further notice of the matter, and to renew the licenses as usual, at the proper time, without any future restriction. * Musical licenses were formerly granted only to such places as Vauxhall, Ranelagh, Astley's, the Royal Circus (now the Surrey Theatre), Sadler's Wells, and a few others. The extension of these licenses to taverns and public-houses is the work of the Magistrates themselves. In fact, there was no other authority. If, therefore, any evil has arisen from their practice, as they are the authors of it, so they ought to be alone responsible for the consequences. But, to use the late Lord Castlereagh's expression, they are now " turning their backs upon themselves." Unfortunately, however, let them turn Which way they will, they are always ready to show their teeth. 8,177,231 070,4C0 11,910 97,022 402,339 70,000 9,437,965 1,931,371 I I ,372,536 fyilB,6ll I,BS7,Jl'd 8,242,705 069,955 16,166 97,392 489,800 20,000 P,534,008 1,F57,929 11,3.3,:)37 4,841,151 1,760,6:32 LITERATURE. T FREEMASON' S QUARTERLY REVIEW.' A portrait of Dr. Crucifix, with a design of a beau tiful testimonial to a brother who deserve so well of the Masonic fraternity, constitute the fitting em bellishments of this Number of the "Freemason's Quarterly Review." The articles are so exclu sively devoted to subjects interesting- to, and only to be, fully understood by, the craft, that being of the uninitiated, we can only speak of them in very general terms. The most interest ing is from the prolific pen of the Rev.. Dr. Oliver, who is a constant contributor to the pages of this Periodical. As allegories are now some what rare, we quote the following entire. It• is entitled " Time and his Children :" ' Few who have paced the gorgeous halls of the Vatican can fail to remember a lovely basso-relieve, from the matchless chisel of Praxiteles, representing Time and his three daughters, the Past, the Present, and the Fu ture. What expression has the .- cunning Greek given to the first ! what a tale of broken hopes and faded dreams while the joyousness of h er sisters, so varied in its cha racter, the friendship speaks of love of the Prefect of the pala ce, the p r esent Cardinal Fieschi, I had free permission to r oam at will through itkthou eitn t i o t s c o d m e v e e . u ra n e s t a c t r e'd y , e o t r so pleasure i n t ense y sand halls and chambers, an indulgence I seldom failed to avail myself of on those days when they were left to the guardianship of their own awful solitude. It was on one of these visits that Metzofaufl, the learned librarian of the Pope, who had noticed my admiration of the cape dopra in question, placed in my hand a manuscript, writ ten in choice Italian, the production of one of his prede cessors. As it relates to this well-known group, I have - translated it for the benefit of the readers of the Quarterly. In the olden days of the earth, when the gods loved to descend from Mount Olympus to wander among the sons of men, when every fountain boasted its nymph, and every grove its dryad, there were born unto Time, by one of the Hours, three daughters, fair as the rosy-fingered Aurora, and beautiful as the Paphian goddess. The, were named the Past, the Present, and the Future. Their education was entrusted to an old female relative of Time's, called Experience ; and, but that their froward disposition inclined them rather to mock at than imbibe the wise precepts of their venerable ; -Lstruclress, they. might have become as wise as th,;,, _-teat parent. One morning, it was a :dolt May Morning, the sun sparkled with unusual b7;;Jliane,- , and a gentle breeze,laden with perfumes fre - the adjacent meadows, mirrored through the - green vine foliage that covered their dwell ing. no sisters gazed from their lattice upon the lovely v.:itley, blue mountains, and clear streams, which lay ex , tended before them. "What a delicious day for a ramble among - those disr tant groves and meadows !" exclaimed thfit Future. "Delightful !" echoed the two s i s t ers . • " Experience, who seldom lost skltt of them, shook 6,C06,833 her head significantly, and turning her weather-wise eye upon the blue unclouded sky, dryly remarked, that she had seen mornings of fairer promise close in a stormy eve. The sisters laughed, for they made it a point to laugh at everything Experience advised. " lire had lovely weather yesterday," said the Past, " not a drop of rain fell the entire day." " And I am positive," said the Future, " that this day will prove as fine." " And sec," added the Present, "there is not a breath j to shake the white blossoms from the orange-trees ; the wild bees' hum has become languid with delight ; and 'see, there go a troop of Joys, wreathed with flowers, and dancing to the merry notes of the cithara ; let us join them.' "No," interrupted the Past, "let us rather take a boat and sail down the smooth stream of Retrospection —the waters are bright and clear, and on the banks of that sweet river grow flowers of richer hue and perfume than any of the Elysian fields ever yielded ; we will weave them into garlands, and— " Nonsense !" exclamed the Future ; " I hate viewing a place a second time ; let us pay a visit to Happiness, her temple lies only a little way on the other side of yon der hill." " Agreed," said the Present ; " though I own I would rather hunt for slumbering zephyrs amongst the half-closed leaves of the asphodel on a sunny bank in the garden." The Past, perceiving she could gain no one to coin cide with her proposal, also acquiesced. The madcaps would have started instantly had not Experience de tained them, and insisted, much against their inclina tion, on their taking three faithful servants to accom pany them. The Past was consigned to the care of Me mory, an ancient thoughtful sort of fellow, of a most gro tesque appearance, owing to his head being twisted nearly round on his shoulders. The Present had En joyment for her conductor, a pleasaii i cheerful compa nion, but unfortunately a little too'ißauch addicted to making copious libations to Bacchus: The Future had for her guide, Hope, a young and inexperienced travel ler, but who, from her buoyant spirits and fanciful tales, made the road seem shorter than any of her fellow servants. It was arranged that the Past and Memory should lead the way, but they had hardly commenced their journey, when the latter, recollecting that he had not brought his staff along with him, returned to fetch it. Mean time the Future, impatient of delay, and urged by Hope, set off in high glee at the anticipation of outstripping the others, and being first at the temple of Happiness. 'the Present, who did not wish to lose sight of the Fu ture altogether, nor yet daily too long with the Past, sauntered along quietly, plucking a flower here, or cap turing a butterfly there ; at one moment chatting and laughing with a troop of Fauns, or joining in their rustic dances, beneath the spreading branches of a lofty oak ; or again loitering beside some gushing fountain, and re galing herself with the purple clusters that hung in wild profusion from the interlacing tendrils. At length the Past and her companion Memory, who had overtaken her, set forth ; their pace was firm and equal, and as they proceeded they looked not upon the pleasant scenes before and around them, but with averted eyes gazed through the vista of Years into the vale of Time, which they had quitted ; every spot they had passed by seemed clad in brightness and verdure ; they spoke but of the delights of yesterday, and the songs of Memory, for the old man had a sweet and plaintive voice, always turned upon his early joys and sorrows. The Future—for it is now time to trace her course— still continued to progress gaily. Unlike the Present, she disdained to cast a look upon the blessings that lay scattered in her way. Nature in vain showered the fairest fruits and flowers in her path ; Music breathed her most touching melodies ; Mirth framed his gayest measure. Both were alike unheeded ; for Hope, in her aerial robe and floating locks, danced on before her, ever pointing to some distant object glittering in the sun's golden rays—some vine-clad hill or sparkling stream ; and the giddy Future, urged by her ardent guide, pressed on to gain the halcyon spot, overlooking in her eagerness the rocks and brambles on the road, which too fre quently bruised and lacerated her tender feet. They had not, however, journeyed far in this manner, before they reached a small olive grove by the way-side, in which a fane of the purest white marble had been erected. On its altar burned a clear flame, fed with rich gums and spices by a vast number of doves, whose fluttering pinions fanned the fire they supplied. Sleeping at the foot of the altar lay a winged boy, his ambrosial locks curled round a cheek as soft and roseate as a ripe peach. Hope was the first to perceive him. "It is Love she cried. "Ah ! could we but capture the sweet boy, what happiness !—what delight !" The eyes of Future sparkled at the idea. " Dear Hope !" she exclaimed, " what a delightful thought. I would cherish him more tenderly than my favourite lamb ; he should sleep in my bosom ; and I would feed him and kiss him." " Softly," whispered Hope. " I shall certainly catch him while he sleeps." But .Hope was deceived ; the urchin, who had heard every word she uttered, suffered her almost to lay her hands upon his downy pinions, when, starting from his pretended slumber, he ran away, laughing at his disappointed admirers. Neither of the damsels were, however, easily dispirited. " We shall have him yet," said the Future, and off they both started in pursuit of the fugitive. Through brakes and thickets they rushed with heedless speed — now bounding across the open glade like rival Atalantas —now threading, like Theseus, a labyrinth of tangled underwood, as they caught distant glances of the flying boy, who, " Bright with his owl immortal smile," laughed at the hopeless chase, now suffering them to gain upon his path, in order to maks their disappointment at at his loss the greater. Such is the character of Love— happy only in baffling the pursuit of those who seek him. Wearied with the fruitless chase, the giddy girls de termined to return to the high road, and resume their journey to the Temple of Happiness ; but, alas ! they had lost the path. Terrified and exhausted, the Future sat down at the root, of an old tree, her mind filled wit h 'gloOnp , anticipations ; for Hope had.wandered from her, deep into the forest, in expectation - of finding a wood -nymph named Content; with whcina she trusted to rest for a short time. Meanwhile, the Present, encouraged by enjoyment, continued sporting merrily onwards, seldom, indeed, troubling herself about the fate of her runaway sister, the Future, or bestowing a thought upon the Past, both of whom she looked upon as romantic visions ; at length she reached the Grove of Love. The boy, wealy of his chase, was seated beside his altar ; he beckoned thy travellers to approach, and they entered the fane. En joyment offered him a fresh honey-comb, and the Pre sent stooped to kiss his glowing lips. At first, the ur chin seemed fearful of approaching the strangers ; but, gradually becoming more bold, he crept into the arms of the Present, and nestled his cheek upon her soft bosom. Enjoyment, delighted with the scene, flung showers of rose-leaves over them ; he pressed from the rich grape its ruddy juice, and they quaffed deeply the maddening draught ; the maxims of Experience were forgotten in the delirium of the hour. .I_ve crowned the Present with flowery garlands, and Enjoyment re velled in delight. But pleasure the most exquisite soon palls. Enjoy ment soon sank listlessly upon a bank of flowers ; the fervid breath of Love had prematurely withered the gar land on the brow of Pleasure ; his wings became clogged with honey-drops, and his snowy garments empurpled with the blood of the vine. The day closed drearily. The voice of the fierce wind was heard howling in the deep valley, and the wings of the storm crushed the dark pines upon the mountain's head. Sadly, and with anxious solicitude, Experience sat upon the threshold, watchin4 for the return of the three wanderers ; at length a figure bent with grief approached. It was the Future ; but how changed ! her blue eyes were suffused with tears—her step had lost its buoyancy. Hope was no longer her companion ; she had deserted her, and a woe-worn melancholy being, named Despair, supplied her place. The deluded girl wept long and bitterly as she sank into the arms of Expe rience, and in those tears was the agonizing confession that she had spent A weary day of hopes and fears. Began in folly—closed in tears. Following closely on her sister's steps, came the Present. She, like the Future, had drank the cup of disappoint ment to the lees ; the pollutions of Pleasure had dimmed the fire of her eye, and paled the rich carnation of her check. Enjoyment had deserted her, and a gaunt being, named Remorse, who was ever by her side, reminded her of her ruined wasted feelings. Last of all came Past, with Memory 50 supppiDg ber ; little change was to be seen in her manner or ap pearance, save that her brow wore a graver shadow than it had done in the morning ; for she had heard of her sisters' disasters, and dropping a tear to the blighted day-dreams of the Future, and the delusive pleasures of the Present, she hinted to Experience that, in time to come, Memo ry should be given to check the wishes of the Future, Hope to regulate the actions of the Present, and Enjoyment to sweeten the recollections of the past. FRANCE. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, JAN. 4.—The Parliamentary campaign appears to be opening favourably for Ministers, more on account of.the want of union and ordinary tactics on the part of their opponents, than from any innate strength of their own. Thus Lamartine was decidedly a more popular candidate for the Presidency of the Chamber of De puties than Sauzet ; and yet, by the different frac tions of the Opposition agreeing to vote each for their own special candidate in the first instance, instead of combining all their strength in favour. of Lamar tine at once, the Ministerial candidate obtained an absolute majority, and was elected. In the same way the Ministers have just carried all the elections in the Bureaux on the Address, and there is no doubt, from the Deputies appointed to draw up that document being all Ministerialists, that it will be just what that Cabinet wishes. Debates on it will of course take place, but it is not expected that the Opposition will carry any essential lamendments. The plain fact is, that neither the ultra Conservatives, Count, Mole and his party, nor the war party, Thiers and Co., are either of them strong enough , to attack the holders of the power and the purse-strings , of the State with success ; and they are so far from com bining that no immediate danger is apprehended by the Cabinet. It is impossible as yet to foresee on what points the debate on the address will mainly turn, but the reduction of the army, the expense of the occupa tion of Algiers, and the late proceedings before the Court of Peers, will afford ample topics to hang a discussion upon. It is stated that the reduction of the army has ac tually been carried into execution ; that is to say, that a company in each battalion has been broken up, and its officers and men drafted into the other companies, so as to complete their effective force; but no official announce ment of this circumstance has yet been made public. The attention of Great Britain ought to be turned to the fact, that two French corvettes, with a large detachment of marine infantry on board, and consi derable quantities of warlike stores have actually sailed from Toulon for New Zealand with the intention of aid ing the French settlers there in making good their footing. These settlers are at present located on British ground, and it is to the interest of Great Britain that her rights and privileges should not be attacked with impunity even in that remote quarter of the globe. It has been stated by several of the Paris papers, that the four sail of the line ordered for sea, at Toulon, have s d!tcl for the Levant; but acoording to the last accounts from that port, this is incorrect. They are stilt there ready for sea at a moment's notice, and it is now evident from the King's speech on the opening of the Chambers, that their desti na ti on i s T un i s, i n case of a Turkish ex pedition being sent to bring the Bey to order. The King declareid his intention of hindering any foreign power from interfering with the French settlements in Africa. This is well known in the political circles of Paris to mean, that he will not allow the Porte to remove the Bey , of Tunis, who is favourable to France, from his 13eylick. The right of France to interfere in the quarrel, if there be a quarrel, between the Porte and the Bey is not very evident ; and as the Four Great Powers of Europe are bound by treaty to maintain the " integrality" of the Ottoman empire, this empty boast of Louis Philippe means that he would oppose any allied squa dron in an hostile demonstration against Tunis. We are not advocates for needless war, but if it sheuld be judged fit to support the Sultan in maintaining his authority at Tunis, and if a French squadron should attempt to defend the entrance of the Goletta, we should like to see every ship of it sunk. Between the words, however, of Louis Philippe and his actions there is, as every body knows, an immense difference. Nothing is known for positive as to whether M. de Salvandy, the French Ambassador to Madrid, is recalled or not ; but we should not be surprised if he has been ordered home. Espartero we believe to be perfectly in the right, on account of the etiquette observed by France since the death of Ferdinand VII. If the preceding diplomatic agents of France had not been accredited to the Regent for the time being, but to the young Queen herself, there would be just cause for complaint at Espar tero's refusal. But because he now wishes to deal ac cording to the same measures and standard as were adopted with regard to his predecessors, the French Go vernment pretends to take offence, and to talk big. There is no danger, however, of any hostilities resulting from a breach with Spain. Louis Philippe dares not go to war, and this every body knows ; hence Espartero, who has a better title to his Regency than Louis Philippe has to his crown, can afford to beard the wily old despot with impunity. Not that the Spaniards would fight any more than the French ; the. Don of the present day has a most tender respect for the safety.othis own per son. The most serious affront that has been offered to the Court of the Tuileries is certainly the studied ab sence of the Russian Charge d'Affaires and all the Russians, from the official receptions on New Year's day. Whether the Emperor Nicholas means it as a joke, or as a serious affront, it is impossible to tell ; but the mot d'ordre came from St. Petersburg, and it has pricked the Citizen's gentility of the Tuileries to the quick. Paris is more than dull this winter ;it is well nigh dead, as far as business or pleasure are concerned. There is little or no business in the retail line now doing, and in foreign commerce, the Americans, who are the principal customers, are unsually shy in their orders. All the fashionables are either in London or. Rome, or Germany (Vienna, Berlin, Dresden, &c.) Nobody now thinks it worth while to come to Paris, when better entertainment, better company, and more real enjoyments are to be obtained elsewhere. The dif ference between Paris of 1842, and Paris of 1838, is astonishing ; as great, indeed, as that between the capi tal in the latter year and in 1830. The carnival enter tainments of masked ba!ls have begun ; but these affect only the riff-raffs and demireps of the metropolis ; even these are unusually dull. The King is said to be much cast down in spirits, and to be breaking rapidly. He complains much of his own personal anxiety, and is more taciturn than usual. Every thing and every body in fact, are suffering from the results of what the French term " une fausse position." POST-OFFICE. ANNUAL STATEMENT OF LETTER.S, JAN. 5. [The numbers given are in some degree the result of estimate, more especially those previous to the reduction in the'rates.] LETTERS SENT THROUGH TILE LONDON GENERAL POST. Year immediately preceding reduction, viz., that ending Dec. 4, 1839 (chargeable let ters only) 1840 1841 Increase in the last year's lett.rs since 1840 19,362,000 Ditto since , reduction 47,583,000 LETTERS SENT THROUGH THE LONDON DISTRICT POST. Year immediately preceding reduction, viz., that ending Dec. 4, 1839 1840 1841 Increase in the last year's letters since 1840 2,514,000 Ditto since reduction 9,542,000 LETTERS DELIVERED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. [The letters sent out of the United Kingdom are of course excluded from this account.] Year immediately preceding reduction, viz., that ending Dec. 4, 1839 (exclusive of franks, which are estimated at 7,000,000) 75,469,000 1840 1841 Increase in the last year's letters since 1840 27,732,000 Ditto since reduction 121,031,000 COURT CIRCULAR. berNtirtioN.knsothit,eirWmitrlizzowrnrin—gT.shwearen and Prince Al- His Royal Highness shot again at the Flemish Farm' attended by the Earl Delawarr, Sir Robert Peel, Colonel Bouverie, Lord Charles Wellesley, and Mr. G. E. Anson, The Lady Clementina Villiers and the Earl of Leices ter arrived to-day on a visit to her Alajesty. Major-General and the Lady Isabella Wemyss, and Mr. George Edward Anson will have the honour of joining the Royal dinner circle, at the Castle this evening His Excellency the American Minister has left town on a short visit to Lord Ashburton, at the Grange. Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes, ►ad an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer j •esterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Baron de Nieumann, the Austrian Minister Pleni potentiary on a Special Mission, had an interview with the Earl of Ripon yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. The Sardinian Minister transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. The Postmaster-General had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Downing-street. Lord Fitzgerald has left town on a visit to the Duke of Buckingham at Stowe. Despatches from the Governor of the Bahamas, and also from the Governor of St. Ilelena, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. NEWLY INVENTED COMPOSING MACHINE. —The London Phalanx, of Saturday week, thus con cludes its leading article :—" Amongst other interesting movements, we may mention the fact, that the principal portion of this number of the Phalanx has been com posed in type of a newly-invented composing machine ; and is the first piece of periodical literature which has ever been typographed in this manner. It is the begin ning of a new era in the art of printing, which, with a very little practical experience, will render the art of composing type so simple and elegant., that ladies may sit down, as at a piano-forte, and set up in type their own sweet effusions, with as much ease as they can commit them to writing. The keys are marked with the letters, and, when touched with the finger, the corresponding type falls into its place with the rapidity of spelling. It will multiply printing, and reduce its price, without di minishing the number of workmen, or lowering their wages ; for cheap production multiplies demand." SING SUN EVI , ANTI-CORN•LAW CONFERENCE. THE MEMBERS O r THE WORKING MEN'S ANTI-CORN LAW CONFERENC -TO THE RADICAL REFORMERS OF GREAT BRITAIN 11,ND IRELAND, ADOPTED AT MAN CHESTER ON THE..-ST INST. " Fellow-countryeti—:The appalling distress under which hundreds of thousands of our countryman are at present suffering, the alarming fact that that distress is daily increasing both in extent and severity, and the me lancholy prospect that we, with millions more, shall ere long have to be numbered among the sufferers, if some means be not adopted to stay the progress of the evil, and relieve those at present suffering from its influence, call loudly and imperatively on every one who wishes well to his country to endeavour to apply a remedy. Guided in our deliberations by the evidence which was laid before us, and the, state of public opinion, we have come to the determination to support, and to endeavour to procure, the repeal of the Corn and Provision-law s ; because we are convinced, that the remedy sought wil more easily and speedily be obtained by such conduct, than by any other course of proceedings which, under present cir cumstances, we could adopt ; and our purpose in in truding upon your notice is to state to you the reasons which have induced us to come to this determination, and to endeavour to convince you of the propriety and the De► cessity of pursuing a similar course of conduct. " Deeply impressed with a sense of the iniquity of all prohibitory duties on the necessaries of life—fully aware of the unjust and partial principle upon which the pre sent Corn-laws are founded—and sensibly feeling, in the high price of food, the effects of their oppressive ope ration—we have often expressed our abhorrence of the principle, our dissatisfaction with their operation, and our convictions that they ought to be repealed. We, therefore, make no sacrifice of principle in endeavouring to obtain their abrogation. " We do not pretend to assert that the corn monopoly is the greatest ; but it is one which is so glaringly un just, that almost every person who has the slightest per ception of right and wrong, except those who are bene fited by its existence, can see and must admit, the op pressive and selfish nature of its establishment. It was not designed and enacted for the purpose of increasing the national revenue, but for individual aggrandizement —not for the protection of a nation, but of a class—not for the benefit of the people, bat for the aristocracy ; and from the injustice of its provisions being more directly, prominently, and frequently presented to the perceptions of the people, the natttral consequence may easily be inferred—that a very great portion of them, who have studied but little the principles of general poli tics, will seek to obtain the destruction of a monopoly, the influences of which are so obviously injurious, before they will attack any other. " Consistency of principle dictates that those who condemn an abuse should assist in removing it ; and sound policy will point out the propriety of attacking that abuse against which the greatest numbers can be arrayed. Convinced by our own observations, and the information of others, that, if all who condemn the pre sent Corn-laws would assist in destroying them, there would he `found a greater number of opponents to their existence than could possibly be at present obtained against any other abuse, either in the Constitution or laws of the country: we, therefore, feel constrained to use our best exertions to obtain their repeal. " But let it not be imagined that we compromise, or with you to compromise, the great and righteous prin ciple of equality of political rights, for which we have so long contended ; and without which we ven ture to assert, no permanent good can be effected for the people of this country. On the contrary, we believe we are doing more to further the success of that principle, by joining in the present agitalion against the Corn-laws, than we could do either by opposing or standing aloof from it. For surely, by seeking to stifle the expression of other people's opinions when they do not exactly coincide with our own, we should only show our intolerance and bigotry, by en deavouring to deprive others of their liberty; we should only prove our unfitness to be entrusted with our own, by standing aloof from, or by endeavouring to thwart any agitation having for its object the good of our country, because it may not be for objects which we think are of the greatest importance; we should only make known that we were the slaves of ambition and faction; whilst, by al lowing to others the same freedom of expressing their opi nions which we claim for ourselves—by being as careful of trenching on other people's liberty, as we should be firm in resisting their invasion of ours—and by assisting in abrogating every abuse in the institutions of our coun try, whether those abuses be attacked singly or collec tively, we shall prove to all intelligent and candid men, that we are honest and consistent advocates of the great principles of commercial, religious, and political equality. The latter course of conduct will ensure the respect and co-operation of all liberal-minded and intelligent men in obtaining our rights ; while the former would only con vince them that there would be danger in admitting us to any share of political power. " But, independently of principles of consistency and duty, principles of policy would compel us to join the pre sent agitation. Every reflecting mind must be sensible that, as the number and extent of monopolies can be dimi nished, the number of those interested in their existence will diminish in proportion; and those who had an interest in their continuance, on finding that there is no hope of a renewal of those by which they benefited, will be amongst the most strenuous opponents of those which may remain, because they will have the best knowledge of their ope rations ; those who are seeking to destroy monopolies will increase in intelligence, in confidence, in number, and strength; and those who are striving to uphold them will be diminishad in numbers, dismayed in spirit, and weak in action, till at last every monopoly, save that of legislation, will be destroyed; and the people at large, on finding that they are not benefited so long as that is suffered to remain, ‘i ill attack it with an union, an energy, an intelligence, and a determination, which will be resistless. But should the utmost efforts of the advocates ofcotnmercial freedom be of no avail in inducing the Legis lature to comply with their wishes, then we shall have gained a host of allies in attacking and endeavouring to destroy the monster monopoly—the monopoly of portical power, which is Ore fruitful source from which all Others spring,. The Corn-law repealer will attack it as a means of removing those laws which lie believes are so inju rious to the commerce and prosperity of the nation ; those who are desirous of removing religious distinctions in the State, and are striving to abolish compulsory pay ments for religious purposes, will attack it as a means of enforcing their principles and redressing their grievances; whilst the friends of freedom in commerce, in religion, and politics, will seek its destruction as a means of cor recting every abuse, and removing every impediment which preventsithe full development of the faculties of man and the attainment of the greatest degree of happi ness at which he can possibly arrive. " Hoping that the reasons which we have adduced will be sufficient to persuade you to imitate our conduct, is the fervent wish of the undersigned members of the Working Men's Anti-Corn-law Conference." THE ITALIAN OPERA.—Mr. Lumley has succeeded in retaining the following singers - :—Madame Molteni, and Signors Santi, Guasco, and George Ron coni. These will be new to this country, and Ronconi is now by far the finest baritone, as well as the best actor, Italy can boast of. Madame Molteni is a young prima donna of much promise, as well as an actress of great talent. Iler engagement is dated from the 20th of Fe bruary to the 15th of August. Santi is a bass of good preterlsions, and Guasco a tenor, with a melodious fresh voice, and a singer of considerable acquirements. Grisi, Persiani, Mario, and Lablache, will return ; Tamburini goes to Italy; Pauline Viardot's indifferent health ren ders her engagement doubtful. Rubini has promised to sing for a limited number-of nights, for which he is to receive 1,0001 Cerito will certainly appear in the month of May ; and Carlotta Grisi, and her husband, Perrot, are both retained, but not to lead the ballet before Easter, as erroneously stated. Guy Stephan is again engaged. Worn-out operas are to be shelved, and seve ral new works are to be brought out, amongst which wo may mention La l'estale, by Mercadante, which has been very popular in Italy, and has just been produced with great success at Paris ; and Maria Padilla, by Donizetti, written for Mdlle. Loewe and the company now performing in Milan. The theatre will be opened on Saturday, Feb. 26. THE ANCIENT MINERAL SPRINGS OF ST. AGNES, HOXTOIC—Ie the course of ths excavations which are now in progress at - the end of Fittfield-street, Old-street, for the formation of a new sewer, when the workmen reached that part of the road which is opposite the St. Agnes mineral baths, they castle against a Roman brick gutter, at the depth of about twelve feet,which was found to communicate with the site of the ancient baths known by the above name. The effect was, that upon the gutter being removed the baths were soon emptied, ar.d the supply was lost, as the water ran down the course of the new sewer. At the time of the discovery a fall of earth had taken place in the sewer, when the water speedily rose to a height of ten feet. Previously it was not known where the source of the spring was ; but it is now ascertained to have run from the west. In the title-deeds of the property no mention is made to that effect. The bricks that formed the gutter are of the most solid and compact structure, each is twelve inches long, six inches wide, and the• diameter of the boro three inches and a half ; each weighs from twelve to fourteen pounds. The baths were originally erected in the year 1242, by Agnes, daughter of Sir John de Finn, one of the knights who accompanied King John to the Holy Land. After the sewer is formed, Mr. Moore, the proprietor of the baths, is led to believe that the Com missioners of Sewers of the Holborn and Finsbury di vision will restore the communication between the springs and the baths. Some gentlemen connected with the Antiquarian Society have visited the spot. SINGULAR PLEDGE.—Yesterday information was received at all the metropolitan police stations, that in the course of the afternoon a fine male child, sup• posed to be about one month old, had been found placed in one of the pledging boxes on the premises of Mr. Reynolds, a pawnbroker, near the Mile End-road. It was wrapped up in two bed gowns, two patched blankets, &c. It has been removed to the workhouse. THEATRICAL.—The Birmingham Theatre opened last week for the season with a very talented company. They have been playing a round of Shaks pear s plays to lull houses, the principal t •b a racter in each being supported by Mr. Woolgar, a gentleman ho has attained much celebrity in the provinces. The theatre is under the management of Messrs. onr oan Simpson. • A white woodcock was shot, a few days ago, at Moldy, in the Basses-Pyrenees. Mr. Frederick Chatterton, the well-known harpist, has arrived in Paris at the Hotel Windsor, Rue Rivoli. A few days since a woman at Elvange, in the - Moselle, who had just lost her d augh t e r,ai,tffifibte)atefittrrvetseedheyn,i,:, young fell ne thetoilechildren. downi g f h a at gnoo and and was waiting by the side of the coffin for it taken the to th el nrneertse when vas t e y s S o he ae m t n t h t e c a h isn expired immediately. Quarters.ended Jan. 5.