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

MORNING SUN LOUIS PHILIPPE is too clever a dealer in hyper- - bole to be outdone by M. SAUZET. His MA JESTY therefore replied to the Address of the I). • • - follow • cputies in the follow ing Munchausen strain : I accept, fo'the whole extent, the binding together of one and all Which .you allude to ; I believe that it exists is fact, and that it is essential that its existence should be l ickn °wiedged; for it is only by reciprocal confidence, and S ending a nat i onal a i d, that the var i ous powers o f t h e their can acquire that freedom of action which constitutes force, and enables them to fulfil their high mission. All e prerogatives are then respected, the exercise of all the r ights is sairanteed by the general security, and it is thus that is-realised what I announced more than eleven Zeus since, when I said that the Charter should henceforth oe a truth. However, Gentlemen, these are the benefits that it is wished to deprive us of, by spreading vain fears, an d by propstgating odious mistrust ! L But with your legal concurrence, we shall know how to triumph over all these attacks on social order, on property, and all that is dear to man, and to guarantee to France the rokintenance of her repose, and the development of her Prosperity. Besides the Moniteur, the Courrier Francais, t he Quotidienne, and the Commerce, are the only papers which appeared in Paris on Sunday. They contain no general news, except that M. DE SALvArrni and his suite had left Madrid on their return to France. Only a Secretary of Legation Was left to represent France at the Spanish Court. W ho) after this, will admit that it is possible to e qual the abs ur diti es o f th e etiquette of di oporlyoroacy ? Poor departed S IM P S ON, so long the and the pride of Vauxhall What an ad tuirable figure he would have cut in the annals of Preneh diplomacy. its The following article may attract notice by extravagance. We quote it from the Com merce...—. • In an interesting essay on the progress of the armies In tlie East, and in Africa, the Sentinelle takes a retro !Pective v i ew of what might have happened if our Go- Ternment had encourag ed Mehemet Ali, and left our fleet in th e Levant. g ." Let u s b e permitted (says the Journal) to call to !lrid on this occasion the plan proposed by Adaiiral La lande to M. Thiers. Admiral Lalande was at Tenedos, !leaf the mouth of the Dardanelles, with ten ships of the line; and ten Eng lish ship s o f t h e li ne , un d er R ear -Ad- Tiral L ouis, were at their anchorage. Admiral Louis .et ac Lai h ed two of the m t o S yr i a i mme di ate l y . Ad m i ra l ande,who was just informed of the treaty of the 15th Jul Y E : wrote to M. Thiers, that exemplary vengeance u b g tbe take n o f t h e B r i t i sh b ad faith ; that he engaged to near the eight English s hip s o f t h e li ne t h at were anc h ore d , cache ti t tnen to take th e t wo ot h ers t h at were d e - J of o, Syria ; that. he would compl e te the equipment e e e leven Egyptian and n i ne T ur ki s h s hip s o f th e 4 , then in th e port o f A l exandria, and would bring H eleta ouloun, where a corps of 30,000 men might Itssemblecl, under the pretext of reinforcing the army 4 ?_ Afri ca ; that France having, all included, 35 or 40 coast of the line, might then land 30,000 men on the tk a t of Ireland, and take the English by surprise ; and _eus lewo naval divisions would then go and seize on the Al tt ments of Great Britain in India. It is self-evident V that , :this plan would not meet with the slightest obsta !and if it had been executed, the English power tonld have been. orerthrown. Such an oppor turrY will perhaps not occur for three cen e„.o." Napoleon would have understood Admi- Ztlialande, he would have given him all necessary Youructions and would have made him High Admiral. . know what M. Thiers did—he sent a packet-boat to 'admiral Lalande, inviting him to profit by its return to W I! back immediately . to France. For some days after the„ae 53. Levant squadron was ,recalled to Toulon, and 0.. Ministerial Deputies had the effrontery to say, in the flebune, without being contradicted, that the ships, which 7 re within reach of the Telegraph, were nearer to Sun- E gypt than if they had remained at Smyrna or Ourlac. Ad - P LYMOUTH SUNDA.Y 2 AN. —Wind N.E.— NClty the T Conway, 26, Captain Bethune, The - dol l s China, having on board two millions of rs ' as anchored in the Sound about six o'clock. r the °• er destination was P or t smou th, b u t a c h ange wind having taken place, she was compelled ) 8 P • to -1 come in here. She entered at the eastern end that :;! the Breakw a t er , an d i t b e i ng a f ter sunset s h e year „b not salute the Admiral's flag. She brings rne I " °ll.l e many invalid s f rom th e squa d ro n i n t h e Up • .ipso-rl.)ina seas. She was a t th e C ape o f G oo d H ope on the Ist o f October .. It is reported that sh e Widest 0 h will be paid •off at Portsmouth. Of course she hsie B ) ,j brills no intellig ence th a t h as not prev i ously re linia B " .1 a ed England. apart , GIMAT MEETING OF THE MINISTERS A T STOWE. KING ,Rumour says that the purport for which the Nlinisters have met at the mansion of his Grace s the orßuckingham is to persuade him to give up a reat la rge part of his beloved Corn-law ; and rumour ion of ' S ays that the Duke is not likely to yield. If he ion so . w ants the talents, he has all the stubbornness 'of d t he t he Grenvilles. It is confidently expected, there °re, say s Madame Rumour, that there will be a )11 tii° ihreak.up in the Cabinet, and a reconstruction of cora' the brittle patch-work immediately upon, 07 ,er, is ev en before, the meeting of Parliament. 3 year pn t he dge of that' ,4 ' We • ' t v erity - ' l . l ore evera' ye the 4 adreS 4 ; read repo' .~, ~,i „ zitre".; tls 9 D L ti - isl 4 r/J1 41 on st ised dis ally ers. and who igh y to ople ielty the piety WIND COURT CIRCULAR. Albert walked B both in the TUESDAY.—T h fbren e Queenoon arid and Prince __ ~ he ti the Home Park. Her Royal Highness 1-1 0v ,t r , I less of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny po tly. .lwalked to Datchet, and returned iu a Lard „seton. lokyro ti as th e L ord . has succeeded Viscount Sydney Fr6derick Stlu Waiting on the Queen, and Sir as t he ro, 0 vin has succeeded Sir Robert Otway T4 e i ii 2 11 in Waiting on her Majesty. exPeet d gut Ron. Sir 'Robert Peel, Bart., is e this e • , isc oulv . veiling on a visit to her Majesty. 'nary Melbourne Cavendish left and the Hon. Sarah A sPlendi ish left the Castle this morning. tnree Patron S v enting i n ill b V s liel, executed in silver, repre- Anadints . relief the achievements of the Geor ge , St. of Great Britain—viz., St. I! radiated centrerew' was suba? and St. Patrick, enclosing ,Tajesty, tion Allis mornincr u which is the profile of her . itted to her Majesty's inspec- DTr' W. E. Dra;' „,,,The Shield was executed for Ward, i n coin _ ) - ` 11 .P., by Messrs. Green and uaemoration of her Majesty's Coro na.tion. . Coro- Their Royal Ilighl-----1;;----asesdthe Duchess of Cam Prince George ' the Princess Augusta .°r Cambridge, attentierr by Lady Augusta So merset, lionour l e ir d Dr , lesence on urylane Theatre with their ightlesses the Duchess.uonaa evening.. Their Royal .. of Cambridge and the Princess Au gusta afterwards returned to their resmence at K l!ralThe Attorney-General and the Solicitor-Ge thehad_ an interview with the Chancellor of Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence ~.]?own. ~ street. Downing_ terbolor Robert Peel arrived in town yesterday af . on, from his seat, Drayton Manor,.Stafkord allire. The Right Hon. Baronet, on his arrival, tPio rloee9ed from t h e E uston-square terminus of Birmingham Great R a il way to the terminus of the Western Railway at Paddington, and left on a visit to h er M ajesty at Windsor Castle. „_Lord Stanley left tow n yester d ay on a visit to is'ietetuke of Bu c ki ng h am, at his seat, Stowe, .., _r4e Archbishop of C an t er b ury ha d an inter- L'e'W-yest erd ay with the Ch ance ll or of the Ex 'twiner, in Downing -street. .Sir James G ra h am l eft town yesterday for S towe, Bucks, on a visit to the Duke of Buck. Ingham. Pespatches fr om th e G overnor of the Cape of Good . . Hope were received yesterday at the Co loniitl.;affiee. ~, t fa utfo A tell• nt is nest (r , publl or Go t ' an b e ' e blest , tber or . ;retie,our he gew othingt to sol i ona the ow fie ,rers -to ;upP° r° ers h ,, is end' it, con' letioust f all to ck 9 buocir, which . I. la"' 3 raise: ~oncet; wunt i/ f them', red t° e t rais hT rk HO!, ;ry °` f th ° for , thei;i .PETERSFIELD BANK. - (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) In consequence of the very satisfactory arrangements which have been made relative to Messrs. Hector and Lacy, Petersfield and Hampshire Banking Establish nlelit, preparations are making upon an extensive scale inAny of the principal creditors of the late firm to invite the above gentlemen to a dinner on the 7th inst., at the tolphin Hotel. Sir. Harry Featherston, Bart., of pliark; has in a most handsome manner engaged, un • B() neited, to p rov id e s i x fi ne d oes, and twelve pheasants a l 4 hares for the occasion. A military band will also .7 in attendance, and through the spirited exertions of the Committee, nearly 100 tickets have been disposed of La"vn and adjacent villages. The leading concoctors w mischief are quite chopfallen since the London and Joint Stock Banking Company have taken to the njui's of Messrs. Hector and Lacy, and paid all demands in full. her Maw' S iS odgei perch ever,' party' as $ ,;'han i ; ,ure °, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. t o ntYou w ou ld great l y oblige me by giving insertion 41. the following, er otherwise assist me, as your judg qt may suggest.—A young man of the name of Jame. )I,risnu, journeyman tailor, left this place (Hebden uge), about four years ago ; and, no t w ith s t an di ng e to erY : in cllliry, I have not been abl e t o ga i n any satisfac , Antelligenee of hi m . I h ave just now heard, from a trrsun in the trade, that a man answer i ng hi s descrip andr having two thimbles in his pockets, was found 4 °4 ngs, on the hill s b etween Pontypool and Mer ' r q w ydvil, l ast winter, frozen to death. What gives stutt et nent more wei g ht, h e was i n the habit of writ lie b e i ntervals, wh en s i m il arly absenting himself. P ' not be still livin g , an d s h ould this meet his eye, he needll , eollnt told in what st a t e hi i re l at i ons are on h i s t ioN , e 1 - 3 Should y ou not t hi nk proper to insert the t tkith o ,„'•,7 suggesting- the mean s o f my ascerta i n i ng t h e ferrtr4es of the place .vhere the individual above ry %Aso, tu was interred, you will greatly oblige his (Its 114e brother, E. N. „"11 B ridge, Jan. 1, 1842. tjk , z, 111%st 1 1 BY DROWNING.-011 MondaT an at the .W a s held before Mr. Payne, the City Coroner, bod est i . . y y Hall, St. John's, Horsleydown, on the evitleu te trorge Wade, aged 39. It appeared by the , d eased A l p, on the evening of Friday last, the de rtnrsleydowitt Work on a b arge at Mr. Brandon's Wharf, tFeiat,cle a l When he suddenly fell overboard. -A eff e 6 t. - , 4 zertion was made to save him, but with eitlajaw m being clear that his death was entirely ac "' ."'" 4 " that ea Jury returned a verdict to e - • •ether , ,they; yaltp nee 19 conge r tbeta is ast lita ble C. fi nd ,te OO rnA ni ' ? ivy° . terle s ' ) d th e y in' ied t° it bY. Ot :a to nd 0111 Y: - cl. t .r 1- If g juitikitgAill OF NEWS AND Vttbitt OPtiltOn• " Who runs may read•" FOREIGN. We have no foreign news of any interest, except the annual New Year's-day addresses presented to the King of the French, and published in the Moniteur of Sunday. The Parisians were pleased with them. M. de Salvandy, the French Ambassador has left Madrid with his suite on his return to France. According to the returns of the operations of the Savings'-banks of Paris, in 1841, published in the Moni teur of Sunday, the investments amounted during the year to 40,041,548 francs, and the reimbursements to 26.911,458 francs, leaving a surplus in the banks of 13,130,089 francs. On the Ist of January, 1842, the sums deposited in the Savings'-banks of Paris amounted to 83,485,427 francs, belonging to 134,843 individuals, 90;000 of whom were either labourers or servants. PUBLIC OPINION. The Advertiser observes, that the speech of Sir James Graham to his constituents at Dorchester, is just what might have been expected from a hardened renegade, whom nothing can shame ; and adds, " he is dissociated from his former political friends, and by them disowned and despised ; he has gone openly over to those who were the deadly haters of the Grey Government ; and yet, though the brand of a renegade of the first magni tude be thus visibly imprinted on his forehead, he has the surpassing barefacedness to glorify himself in the very outset of his speech, on having been a member of the Ministry of Earl Grey ! Surely the force of cool assurance can no further go !" The object of the principal article in the Herald is to point out the .fallacy of some of the reasonings of the Corn-law Repeaters, whom it calls "prophetic alarmists," and whose arguments it vainly endeavours to controvert, by quoting a passage respecting the " existing tariff of duties," from President Tyler's late Message to Congress. The Post contains a leading article, suggested by the Emigration question. in which it states that this ques tion is decidedly of Whig origin, observing, " to Whig- Radical projectors do we owe our modern theories of emigration—to a Whig-Radical Government do we owe the attempt to embody these theories in action." In the course of some comments on Sir James Gra ham's speech at Dorchester, the Chronick intimates its ()pinion that new taxes will be laid on which will " make the people feel," and that this is the first distinct dis closure of projerited measures which any Member of the Cabinet has made. The Times, in a leading article on the subject of Sir James Graham's Dorchester speech, warns him to review his declarations and intentions on the question of the Poor-law, and depart from his former Judgments, and brave the imputation of inconsistency, rather than ne glect his public duty. MONEY—TRADE — COMME RCE. A corn merchant and a manufacturer in Glasgow, both in extensive business, have stopped payment. The debts of the two are said to exceed 400,000. An old and re spectable ship-building firm in Leith has also become insolvent. The Hastings boats have commenced the mackerel fishery with success. It is stated that the East India Company's order of 15,000 pieces of cloth, usually sent to an eminent manu facturing establishment in Leeds, has this year been given to a house at Aix-la-Chapelle, on the ground that the quality of the Continental fabric is equally good with that of Leeds, and much cheaper. _ _ _ ECCLESIASTICAL. One of the new Cardinals spoken of, is Monsignore Charles Acton, son of the quondam Minister of Naples. The new Episcopal College in Scotland is to be called the " College of the Undivided Trinity," to be erected when the subscriptions shall amount to 20,0001., of which 6,0001. are already collected. The site will probably be in the neighbourhood of Perth. NAVAL AND MILITARY. Forty convicts for a penal colony, as also those for Van Diemen's Land, were embarked on board the Isa belle, on Saturday, for transportation. LAW AND POLICE. At the Thames Police Court Archibald Leslie, a Scotchman, about thirty years of age, of respectable ap pearance and good address, was committed to take his trial for defrauding Michael Henry Hart, a Jew slop seller, of 201. in goods and cash, by means of a forged order, partly written and partly printed, purporting . to be an award in favour of William Bouch, by the British and Portuguese Mixed Commission, for his services during the war of liberation in Portugal. William Robinson was also committed to Newgate, on the charge of administering oxalic acid to his wife in the town of Greenwich on Christmas eve. It did not appear that the unfortunate woman had taken any of the poison, but as she was dying of consumption her deposition was taken' by the Magistrate. • At Union-hall on Monday William Yates, a man ad vanced inyears, was brought before Mr. Traill, charged with obtaining various sums of money by means of forged cheques, from several charitable institutions, amongst which were those of the Magdalen Hospital, the London Asylum for the Protection of Young Females, the Found ling Hospital, and the Seamen's Hospital. He was soon recognized by Mr. Knevit, the Secretary to the Mendi city Society, as a notorious begging letter-writer, who had been discharged from gaol only about a week before he changed his made of doing basiness." After one case had been proved against him, [he forging of the name of Sir H. Fletcher, of Ashley Park, Walton-on- Thames, he was. remanded for a week. :::1.6"L - ICTIONEZILXNG. Rumour states that Sir A. B. Brooke, Bart., is likely to be raised to the Peerage ; in which case there will be a new election fur the con3ty of Fermanagh. AnTS. Lord Sudley's portrait, by Sir Martin Archer Shee, has just been presented by his Lordship to the town of Tewkesbury for the Town-hall. LITERARY' AND SCIENTIFIC. The death of Mr. J. 'l'. Allen, M.A. of Cambridge, eldest son of the late Member for Bridgewater, leaves a vacancy in the wardership of Dulwich College. Accord ing to the statutes of this College, his successor must be elected on the 17th inst., and no person can become a can didate for this appointment unless he be named Alleyn, or Allen, and unmarried. A new literary periodical, under the patronage of the Empress of Russia, was to appear in St. Petersburgh on the first of the new year, entitled the St. Petersburgh English Review. SPORTING. A veterinary surgeon to the artillery at Montreal, is master of the foxhounds, and gives the garrison good i sport. lie has started a cab company there and at Kingston, which supersedes the old caleche; he has also put these vehicles on sleigh-runners, for winter;work. COURT—PASHIONABLE. The Earl and Countess of Wicklow have returned to Shelton Abbey. The Earl of Aberdeen, in consequence of the press of business in his department of the State, will remain in town during the winter. The Earl and Countess of Kinnoul have, during the past week,received company at Dupplin Castle, Perthshire. Earl Fitzhardinge has removed from Berkeley Castle to his villa at Cheltenham. Sir W. W. Wynn is staying at Bath. Sir Robert and Lady Peel have a select circle visiting them-at Drayton Manor. • Viscount Canterbury arrived i❑ town on Monday from Gunton Park. Lord Foley returned to town on Monday from a visit to the Countess of Berkeley at Cranford Lodge. Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence left town on Monday for Beaudesert, Staffordshire, the seat of the Marquis of Anglesea. MISCELLANEOUS. Limerick will shortly be raised by the Customs depart ment to a first-class port. The visitors to the ruins of the Tower armouries, dur ing the week ending with New Year's-day, were in num ber 2,498. The crown and regalia still remain at Messrs. Rundell and Bridge's. LORD ASHBURTON, MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY FROM GREAT BRITAIN, TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin—The announcement of the above appointnlent, or intended appointment, by the present Tory Admi nistration, and the cordiality with which it has been ap proved by the Morning Chronicle, the Globe, and the Examiner, the respective organs of the late Whig Cabinet, have struck with dismay every mind, alive to the interest of this country and of humanity. It sounds as the knell of departing freedom. Fur where can we place our hopes when those on whom we trusted, almost implicitly, bid us rely—on whom ? On Lord Ash burton ! Is he not one of the greatest landowners in the United States ? Are not his lands, too, exclusively to be cultivated by negro—that is, by slave labour ? Was he not, if he be not now, the greatest money jobber in the world, the largest creditor of American debtors ; the greatest holder of American securities as they are falsely called ; the accredited agent (by his dependent relations) of the Philadelphia United States Bank, of swindling notoriety ;—in one word, was he not the Bri tish Biddle ! On him ! we are told to rely for the equitable adjust ment of all our differences with the United States, and for the effectual suppression of that slave trade by which alone can immense tracts of lands in Texas and Louisi ana, said to belong to him, be brought into immediate culture ; or the immense claims, public and private, which he, and those for whom he acts, have on the slave holding States of America, be redeemed. And is it come to this, Messrs. of the Morning Chronicle, of the Globe, and of the Examiner ? Are we to seek for trustworthy men in the class of renegades to which Lord Ashburton belongs ? And is it you who advise us to do this ? Foh, how it stinks ! " Go, Counsellor! —you and my bosom henceforth shall be twain." For a set of Tory fundholders who have, at the in stance of a wily old fox, been cajoled into lending money to American planters, to be laid out on the im provement of lands, some of which are held by Lord Ashburton, it is quite natural for them to call upon him to go and look after his and their interests, perhaps to save them and himself from bank ruptcy. That is a thing to surprise no one, nor can it be reasonably objected to by any one who helped to force the present Cabinet into the counsels of the Queen. The reports of the loans made to the Americans by the leaders of the Tory faction were too rife, and too generally believed, to leave to such any ground of complaint upon this occasion. They knew their men, and promoted them accordingly. But for any man, or any set of men professing to feel fur the distresses of this nation, and affecting to defend to the last the cause of justice and of freedom, for them to join in eulogizing such an appointment, was surely re sented for the last extremity of British self-degradation. From the remarks made in The Sun of last Saturday, THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1842. I am happy to see that in the ranks of the British press then is still found one faithful sentinel. I trust that others will be found to rally to him, and in that hope, I remain, Sir, your obliged servant, January 3, 1842. ABNER. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TUESDAY EVENING• The Funds have this day experienced a slight re-action in consequence of sales having been effected, which seems to be only of a temporary nature. The current quotations of the morning were 891 and at the close of business this afternoon, 894 to t. In the Unfunded Debt, on the other hand, there was quite a contrary movement; a purchase to some extent, said to be on ac count of the Bankruptcy Court, led to an advance in prices of 3s. to ss. in the premium of Exchequer Bills, viz., to 21s. and 245. East India Bonds were also rather higher, being ss. to Bs. prem. Bank Stock was worth 167 to 1671, which is an advance of 1 to 1 per cent. Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. were at 991 to 1, and the Three per Cent. Annuities at 891 to 89i. Foreign Stocks were also rather flat. Spanish Active Ponds receded to 251, and 25+, Mexican Stock from 291 and 30, to 291 and 29, and Colombian, from 221 and 23, to 221 and 22, Brazilian Bonds of 1829 were at 53 to 534, and Peruvian at 16. New Portuguese Five per Cents., maintained the rally to 32k ex div., and the old Fives were at 54. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. were marked 51/ to 511, and the Five per Cents. 100 to 1001 The Share Market underwent no particular alteration. Great Western Railway were 22, the New 101; the Bir mingham 79, the New 261; and the York and North Midland 42 prem. Brighton Shares were 111; North Midland 271; and Eastern Counties 14 dis. London Joint-stock Bank Shares were at 21, and London and Westminster 2 prem. The rates for Bills of Exchange were this afternoon fully supported, the prices being as follow :—Paris 22f. 75c. to 80c.; Antwerp 12 31 to 12 4; Frankfort 150; Trieste 9 52; Hamburgh 13 104 to 1; and Amsterdam 12 41 to 4. (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JAN. 3.—The sales to day are 4,000 hales, all to the trade. Prices are firm without alteration. _ _ LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JAN. 3.—Grand Junc tion, 196 ; Ditto Half Shares, 97,k ; London and Birm ingham, 170 ; Quarter Shares, 1.654 ; Manchester and Leeds, Quarter Shares, 4 ; Midland Counties, 85 ; North Midland, Thirds, 16+. MANCHESTER STOCK E?CHANGE, JAN. 3.—We com mence the new year with a fair day's business, and the demand for Railway Stock has been considerable. Prices have still an upward tendency. The following are our sales :—Dublin and Drogheda (30 paid), 12/ ; Lancaster and Preston Three-quarter Shares, 16+ ; London and South Western, 59/ ; Hull and Selby, 404 ; Manchester and Birmingham Quarter Shares, 284 ; North Midland Halves, 364 ; Manchester and Leeds, 72 ; Half ditto, 31; Quarter ditto, 3+ and 31. 19s. ; South Eastern, 23 and 231; Bank of Manchester, 41; Manchester Assurance, 94. Both Markets opened firm this morning. Exchequer Bills, have further advanced to 20 22 prem. Consols are 894 4 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 894 a ; Three-and a-llalf ditto, 991, 4. Spanish Active Stock opened at 254 • Passive, 5+ 64 ; Deferred, 1 3 1 ; Mexican Bonds, 29 * 30 ; Portu guese Five per Cents., 324 33 ex. div. ; Ditto Three per Cents., 19+ 1. Exchequer Bills continue to advance,. they are now 23 24 prem. India Bonds have also improved to 5 8 prem. Consols 894 4; Three per Cents. Reduced, 89+ i; Bank Stock, 167 i The Foreign. Securities are not quite so firm as at the opening. Spanish Active is now 251; Passive, 51 ; Mexi can, 29+; Colombian, 22; Portuguese Fives, 32+ ex.-div.; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 514 ex.-div. Very little doing in Shares, and no material alters , tion to notice :—Great Western, 87 ; Do. Fifths, 10 4 ; London and Birmingham, 169 ; South Eastern and Do ver, 224 ; York and North:Midland, 92. The French, while viewing our naval preparations with much jealousy and suspicion, undoubtedly magnify them far beyond the bounds of truth, but they contrive to tell us some bitter truths with regard to our commercial code, which makes us alike the prey and sport of all the' continental na tions. Thus they draw a lively picture of the injury done to our shipping interests by the high price of food and labour at home, compared to what it is in the North of Europe, and cite, as an example, the fact that out of one thousand seven hundred vessels employed to bring the recent heavy cargos of foreign Wheat to this country, only 300 were British ! The fact is, as the French truly state, with our Corn, Timber, and Sugar-laws against us, we can neither build norjsail our vessels, feed our people, nor sell our manufactures so cheap as our rivals. Consols, 891 4 ; Colombian, 22* ; Mexican, 29+ ; Spanish, 25+ 4. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. sank Stock 1671 'lndia Stock 3 per Cent Red. B 9 -i Ditto Bonds Bpm 3 per Cent Cons 'Ditto Old Annuities ... 3i per Cent Red.. 991 Ditte New Annuities... New 3} per Cent — Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2id 23 pm New 5 per Cent — Ditto 5001.... 24 pre Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small. 22 pm Jan .. 1860 . . 121 Bank Stock for Acct... Oct ' 1859 — India Stock for Acct.... Jan. 1860. — Consols for Open B9i FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent. 54 Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto 32i Brazilian 80nd5.......... Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres,6 per cet Russian, 5 per cent — Chilian, 6 per cent.— Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per cent.. Spanish, 5 per cent 2s* Ditto, 1824. — Ditto, Deferred . Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Greek, 18 . 45, 5 per cent — Exchange Mexican, 5 per cent.... 29 French, 3 per cent —f. —c Ditto, 6 per cent, 1837 Dutch, 2i per cent sl Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent. . ..... 1001 SHARES. Great Western Railway( 65 paid) B7 Ditto New Shares (50 paid) ......... Ditto Fifth (4 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) 3Bl London and Birmingham (90) Ditto Quarter Shares ( S paid) 241 Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) ..: ....... Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... ... Ditto New Shares (30 paid) Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) ..... 23i Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid) 2li Northern and Eastern (40 paid) North Midland Railway (100) Paris and Rouen (12 paid) South Eastern and Dover (43 paid)......... 22i York and North Midland Railway (50 paid) 92 Ditto New Shares (15 paid 3ll COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY). Amsterdam CF. 12 7i Ditto, at sight Rotterdam .........2 U l2 8 Antwerp l2 7 Hamburgh M. B. 13 13 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 55 Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 90 Frankfort on Maine... 1501 L'etersburgh, 3Us ... 37 Berlin... 7 Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M 953 Trieste, ditto 9 55 Madrid Gibraltar ~. Leghorn Genoa 25 90 Milan ... 3l Venice ... 47 Naples Palermo, per oz 1194 Lisbon Oporto 52 Rio Janeiro 27 Bahia Buenos Ayres New York, 21 says sight 46i Philadelphia 46 PRICES OF BULLION, PER 07. Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 9 Cadiz ... 3 3 6 6 i B il bao Barcelona Seville Portugal Gold Coin —3117 5 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars ... 0 4 10 !Silver in Bars... 0 4 11. NEW YEAR'S REVELS. —On Saturday, a young man, about twenty-four years of age, was found lying dead at his father's door in the Pleasance. He had been drinking the preceding evening, and about midnight he went into a spirit shop in the Pleasance, where he fell asleep, and lay till about eleven o'clock on Saturday forenoon, when the spirit dealer employed a man to carry him on his back to his door. There he was put down ; and it appears he had crawled up to the top of the stair, where he was found dead by his brother. —Edinburgh Courant. FRIGHTFUL OCCIDENT.—Monday afternoon about three o'clock, Mr. Charles Salisbury, painter and glazier, of the Willow-walk, Pimlico, met with the follow ing accidenti—He was standing upon a painter's machine, painting the second-floor windows. While so engaged the feet of the machine gave way, and he fell into the stone area below, a distance of nearly forty feet. While falling the palm of his hand caught the top of one of the iron railings, which tore away a great portion of his hand. He lies at present in a very precarious state. On the 18th ult. died at Rome, after a short ill ness, Cardinal Joseph Della Porta Rodiani, Vicar. Ge neral to his Holiness the Pope. The deceased was in the 69th year of his age, and had been invested with the purple by the reigning Pope in the year 1835. Government, it is currently reported, has resolved to establish a line of steam communication between the Pacific coast of South America and New Zealand and the Australian colonies. The authorities of Panan-a, we may add, have invited an English engineer to survey a line of railroad across the Isthmus, and are most desi rous that the line should be executed by an English Company, to which they are prepared to grant extensive privileges. EVASION ON TILE TOLLS BY SIR EDWARD KNATCHBULL. — The appeal of' Sir Edward Knatchbull from the conviction of the Magistrates for evading the turnpike tolls, was on Monday taken at Canterbury. After Counsel had been heard, the conviction was confirmed by the Recorder, who observed that if the Right Hon. Baronet were dissatisfied he might appeal to the Court of Queen's Bench. COMPETITION IN THE SLOP BUSINESS. SHIRTS MADE FOR THREE FARTHINGS A PIECE.—The competition in the slop business is almost ruinous to a numerous and industrious class of females at the east end of the metropolis, who managed to support them selves decently by their needle. A few years ago, when shirt-making was reduced to three shillings a dozen, it was considered so low a price, that it was impossible to make a bare existence at it. Yet, from that price it be came gradually reduced, and many of the large Jew slop sellers at present pay but ninepence a dozen, or three farthings each shirt, for them. If three shillings was a price at which these poor women could make a mere existence, what must be the effect of the present allow ance ? and yet thousands are to be found even glad to get such work ; but it is only those who can get a num ber of girls, who have some other means of support to work for them at shirt-making, that can earn bread at it. THE BISHOP 07 GLOUCESTER AND THE TRACTISTS.—We are enabled positively to contradict the report, originating in a London paper, that the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol was perfectly satisfied by Mr. Williams's explanation of his Tract on Reserve in religious teaching, which his Lordship severely censured 4045 late Charge to his ClergYoi.—British Journal. LITERATURE. COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE 1- 1 ZINE. As this Magazine has been, under the old title; confounded with a weekly Tory newspaper from the similarity of the titles, the publisher has adopted a slight alteration in the name, in order to prevent mistakes, and for the future it will - be designated " Colburn's United Service Maga zine, and Naval and Military Journal." Though the name is changed the character of the work remains the same. We have the same consist -1 ency and regard for the interests of the two services of which it professes to be the organ. The paper on the Military Force of Great Bri tain, by Henry Marshall, Esq., Deputy Inspector General of Army Hospitals, will be read with interest. It treats, among other subjects, of en listment; vices and virtues of soldiers; and edu cation; and in discussing the latter the author points out as one cause why common soldiers in the British army are not promoted to the rank of offi cersso frequently as in France, their want of that instruction requisite to qualifythem for promotion. In this country from 30 to 50 per cent. of the men who enlist are unable to read, for any use: ful purpose, while in France the case is quite dif ferent, as the conscription forces into the army men nearly of all ranks and classes. Besides this the present Number contains two other good articles, one on the Navy and the other on the Army, past, present, and future, with the distri bution of the Army and the Stations of the Royal Navy in Commission on the Ist January 1842, with the years when built, and dates of commission of the officers in command. Ithare profited 1y the high and pure moral truths t hey: ennficiatei but never yet have we perused diem otherwise tfilia With an unmoistened eye. Often have we recognised in them the pre sence of a lofty 'intellect, speculatitl on hu manity in the kindliest and most indulgent mood, and giving all the fervour of a pro phet utterance to the most exalted send. merits 3 but we have been unable to detect any of that quick, active, trembling sensibility, which makes its appeal direct to the heart. Mr. Wordsworth, we suspect, would himself be the first to repudiate such tenderness, as derogating from the high pretensions of the philosopher. A certain shade of pensiveness at times steals over his spirit—for this is inseparable from fixed habits of contemplation; but he never strikes a deeper chord of feeling. Tod° so would be inconsis tent with his philosophic creed, which in some points is singularly austere. We perfectly agree with the Reviewer that his " Sonnets" are among his best and most characteristic productions ; and we may add, too, that they are incomparably the finest in the language. Their clearness and com- pactness are unrivalled, and not - less of note are the felicitous diction and ima- gery in which they abound. What, for instance, can be more appropriate than such expressions as the " sonnet's scanty plot of ground"—the set ting" sun'spatheticlight"—the " audacious flight" of genius—or " pure religion breathing house hold laws?"—Or what more definite and impres sive than the image of upstart wealth, which must needs " run glittering like a brook in open sunshine 1" We could easily multiply instances of similar felicities of thought and expression, but we must hurry on with our notice. To pro ceed, therefore ; the Reviewer quotes several un published sonnets, wherein Mr. Wordsworth in timates his ideas of " Punishment by Death," to which, in the case of murder, lie appears de cidedly favourable. In the subjoined poems it will be seen that he illustrates the question with great force and subtlety : " Ah, think how one compelled for life to abide Locked in a dungeon, needs must eat the heart Out of his own humanity, and part With every hope that mutual cares provide ; And should a less unnatural doom confide In life-long exile on a savage coast, Soon the relapsing penitent may boast Of yet more heinous guilt, with fiercer pride. Hence thoughtful mercy, mercy sage and pure, Sanctions the forfeiture that law demands, Leaving the final issue in His hands Whose goodness knows no change, whose love is sure, Who sees, foresees ; who cannot judge amiss ; And wafts at will the contrite soul to bliss." " See the Condemned alone within his cell, And prostrate at some moment when remorse Stings to the quick, and with resistless force Assaults the pride she strove in vain to quell. Then mark him, him who could sd long rebel, The crime confessed, a kneeling penitent Before the altar, where the sacrament Softens his heart, till from his eyes outwell 'rears of salvation. Welcome, death ! while Heaven Does in this change exceedingly rejoice ; While yet the solemn heed the State hath given Helps him to meet the last tribunal's voice In faith, which fresh offences, were he cast On old temptations, might for ever blast." " Margaret Davidson" is a notice of a biogra phical sketch of this young American poetess, recently deceased, which has been published by Mr. Washington Irving in Philadelphia. The notice is penned in a kindly spirit, though the Reviewer is not wholly devoid of a certain whole some distrust respecting the precocious powers of the young Margaret. If we even believe half of what is recorded of her by her biographer, enough will still remain to call forth our wonder and admiration. At six years of age she was familiar with the poems of Milton, "and marked with taste and discrimination the passages which struck her ;" and when little more than four years , old, " a bright star=light night," we are told, ' "would seem to awaken a mysterious rapture in her infant bosom, and one of her early expressions in speaking of the stars was, that they shone like I the eyes of angels !" This gifted young girl died when she was only fifteen, of confirmed consump tion, brought on•—or at any rate aggravated—by her constant habit, which she could not repress, of overtasking all her mental faculties. The " Copyright Question" is an admirably rea soned article—eloquent, where eloquence is ne cessary—argumentative, where plain argument will best answer the purpose—full of perti nent facts, all bearing directly on the question, and from which facts such deductions are drawn as might bring conviction home even to the perverse, and somewhat obtuse, understanding of a Warburton. Those who have read Mr. Ser geant Talfourd's splendid speeches on the subject of copyright, should read this article with equal attention, for though it does not possess the lofty tone of thought, the rich poetic colouring, and the generous enthusiasm of those eloquent orations, yet it brings equal sincerity and manli ness ol'reasoning to its task. We quote an able passage, which combines clearness of argument with vigour and animation of style in no ordinary degree : The greatest antagonist of the very principle of lite rary property in the last age was far too sagacious not to see the consequences that must in reason flow from it— were it once admitted.* Not venturing to contradict the statement on the other side, that even then the days of the patronage plan were over, he denied boldly that any effective stimulus for minds capable of worthy things in letters or science ever had been or could be supplied by the hope of any worldly delight or advantage what soever, except only the pure enjoyment of intellectual exertion, and its consequence in honour, respect, fame. But these motives, however powerful, can be of them selves sufficient only in the case of men fortunate enough to need nothing beyond what these motives point to. In the energetic exertion of every noble fa culty there is a delight beside which no other earthly pleasure can be named. The soldier knows it, and so does the poet. The aged bard was found with streaming and flashing eyes, trembling all over, in the midst of his Alexander's feast. After an interval, the secrets of which we can never penetrate, he exults over again in the applause of educated England. Ile has this joy and honour, because they cannot be denied him—and he gets them at nobody's cost ; the accordance of them is in stinctive, and in itself a delight to the yielders. But shall this be all? Grant that the creative glow, and this reflex confirmation of its high origin—attained or anti cipated—may indeed be the sufficient rewards of the il lustrious effort itself ; such efforts occupy, after all, but a small space in the mind that is most capable of them— they are severe though sweet—perilous as well as price less: let them be frequent and continuous, as the lesser heroes of ordinary toil may safely be—and there ensues a madness or a torpor. And since a man is not the less a husband and a father because he is also a Dryden, and the broad course of time and life must be given to the common cares of the whole humanity that is in every man—we must, if we would have such efforts repeated, reconcile it with the standing reason of this favourite of Nature, that he shall so order his existence as to keep that intellectual power which might have been profitably diffused over a wide space, concentrated and compressed for the exhausting energy of divine moments. It is the same with the hero. He too puts forth one at least of the noblest attributes of man in that splendid perfection which implies consummate felicity in the act, and which cannot be observed of other men without drawing from them precious worship. " Sound—sound the clarion ! fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim— One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name." But what nation ever proclaimed to her soldiers that this was to be their sole recompense ? " England ex pectS every man to do his duty," said Nelson, before a battle ; bat, under the like circumstances, he had said also, "A Peerage or 'Westminster Abbey!" The review of "Stephens's Travels in Central -America," is a careitil• digest. , of 4.*Ork chiefly 'valuable for its accumUlatio.ii, , cit, Useful: 440E0. " Fish-markets and,Eish,ponds,"ria' an amusing: taper, conveying.- brief : directionsufor:stocking ponds with the best fresh-water fish. - 'ln the course of this article we are told that Professor Owen has lately discovered a multitude of fossil turtle at Sheppey, whence we infer, that if he will persevere in his examination of the locality, he will find, at no great distance off, a multi tude of fossil Aldermen, since, wherever there is a turtle, there, in the immediate neighbourhood, one is sure to find an Alderman. " Turtle with out Aldermen," says the Reviewer, " seems a strange dispensation"—a remark in the justice of which we cordially concur. " Letters of John Adams" is a dull, wearisome notice of the re-. cently published correspondence of one of the great founders of the American Republic, the friend and colleague of Washington during his first and second Presidentship. Of the two re maining, articles, the most readable is the one " On the Principles of Gothic Architecture." • Whoever desires to study the history of the Act of Queen Anne, and the discussions upon its interpretation down to 1774, will find the materials clearly arranged in Mr. Lowndes' volume ; but they are given in more detail by Mr. Maugham, in his excellent " Treatise on the Law of Literary Property." —London, 1828. CoRN-LAws.—A meeting was held last even ing; of the members and friends of the Islington Anti- Corn-law Association, for the purpose of hearing a lec ture from Mr. Sidney Smith upon the Corn-laws. Dr. Price took the chair, and having.briefly detailed the ob ject of the meeting, Mr. Smith came forward and de livered an able address, exposing the absurdity and baneful effects of the present Corn-laws in colours but too true. The lecture was received with continued ap plause, and the Lecturer concluded amidst loud cheering. THE CHRISTENING OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.—The Royal Chapel of St. George's will be closed on Monday next, to enable the necessary prepara tions being made for the important and interesting ceremony of the christening of the Prince of Wales, which is now fixed, we believe, for the 25th of this month. The royal and illustrious persons will not proceed, as has been stated, 0 the chapel on foot, but w ill b e omveyed in carriages, --Windsor .vpress. PRICES OF CANAL,DOCK,ASSUR ANCE COMPANY SHARES, &c. &c. &c. LONDON, TUESDAY, JAN. 4. Number Dividend Price Number per CANALS. .•I'. Annum. Paid. gritre 1,766 7 per cent. Ashton & Oldham...Average97l.lBs.A. -98 1,482 41. Ashby.de.leaouch .....Average 1131.0 h. -72 1,260 1,005 511. Brecknock and Abeegavenny ISOLA. 92 8,090 I-16th. 101. Birmingham, (.16th share ..."1311. & 711. 2 00 ..* 4 . 000 .. ~ .. Ditto & Liverpool Junet.lllol. sh 100p'! . 11 600 31. Bridgewater and Taunton.lool.sh. all pi -- 100 51. Chelmer and Blackwater lOOl. sh . 105 500 321. Coventry .... ....... ........... .. .... . . lool.sh. 3 00 Croydon.• Average3ll.2l.lod. eh. - 2, 60 51. Os. Dudley H..... ....... .. ..... ..•1001. eh. 94 600 IN. Derby lool.sh. 120 20,000 4 per cent. Danube and Mayne 411.131. 4d.pd 30 3,5751 4' Ellesmere and Chester Average 1331.5 h. 75 231 621 Erewasn .* .... .. .. ' ~...1001.1n. 735 8,485 8 3 1. Forth and Cly d e 100/.s h. 1001. pd. ltB 11,453 71. Grand Junction 1001. s n 113 1,6491 256. Grand Union ..... ............. Wash • 26 ',500 ... Grand Surrey. .... .... .... ..... lOOl.Bll. 15 1,0001 41. per cent . Ditto (optional) L7an.......- lOOl. 096 .. .... . Grand Western 600 131.1 . 25 . . 9d. Glamorganshire, Aver. cost 1721.138.4 i. 230 1 749 12s. Grantham ..... 1501.5 h. WO 6 . 238 21. Os. Hudderßfield Average 5 /1. 63.8 d. eh. 21% toe 25,3913 11.10 s Kennet and Avon. Av. 391.185. 10d. sh 20 11,6991 11. 7s Lancaster Average 471. 6s. 8d 27 0,897 g 301. Leeds and Liverpool lool.sh '230 5451 111. Leicester 1401. at. 150 ,897 51.9 x. Leicester & Nort kampton Aver 831.10 s ' 71 36 2,409 101. Monmouthshire lOOl.lll 200 250 101. Melton Mowbray ioet.eh. 117 600 254 Mersey and Irwell IOOI.A. 510 3,000 21. 108. Macclesfield lOOl. sh. all pd 23 247 171. Neath 1001.81.. 325 1,400 51. Peak Forest Average about 781. sh. 71 1,418 66. Regent's (or London) Av. 33/.161.8d. eh. 9 36 1,669 N. Rochdale Average 851. eh. 62 500 81. Shropshire ............. .......... .....,./251.5h. 137 ;800 111. IN. Somerset Coal .* .. . ... ...............1501.5h. 176 3,6001. 6 per cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock 121. 10s. sh. 11 51 700 361. Stafford and W0rce5ter.............1401.5h. 6& 500 151 Shrewsbury.... 125!. eh. 280 300 91. 3teurbridge............sie 1451. A. 396 3,647 11. Os. Stratford-on-Avon Jiver...79l. Os. bd. sh. 33 533 141 Swansea lool.sh. 265 3,762 21. 12s. Severn and Wye &Railway Av. 261.95. sh. 45 2,60015 h. 32/. 10s. Trent and Mersey, 1 share lOOl. A. 500 6,149 .... ..... Thames and Medway Av. 19 1 . 55. Bd . sh . g I,ooosh I ,o o oig hl 161. Warwick and B , rmisigham lool.s- 203 980 131. Warwick and Ivapten'.... ... ... .. lool.sh. 117 7,000 41. Worcester & Birmingham Av. 1791.85. sh. 55 5,000 365. Wilts and Berks Average 671. 10. Bd. sh. 28% 800 6., Werlev and Essington........„ 1151.511 '74 .26 Wirareacn .......... ........ ..... ..... 13:,1. ah. 50 903 Ir Wee and Arun.... ....... llOl. en. 20 DOCKS. 2,600 & 1, , 65i . h. 1 3p. c. Commerc al ...... .. 1001 sh 61 •...•1111.1.11.11•••••• • • 5 per cent. Fast and West India ,....„.......,5t0ck 102 M 0,238,31011. 31. p. ct. London Stock 74), Ditto Bonds 100)4 2,209 M. 6s. sd. Bristol Average 14'1.95. sh. 75 68,324/. 51. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts lOB 352,752 5 per cent. St. Katharine Stock 9•2 5005N141 per cent. Ditto Bonds 2011,000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years Deptford Pier ................201. sh. 201. pd 10 BRIDGES. 1,600 11. Hammersmitl• . .........' .. .. ...........50/. oh. 2134 1,231 Southwark, O l d Av. 631.25. Bd. sh. 3e. 1,700 11. 15s. Ditto, New, 0(71 per cent........ 501. eh. 15% .1,000 Waterloo 100/. sh. 3 5,000 225. Od. Ditto, Old Annuities of 81 601. p 4 21 5,000 19s. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71.... 401. pd 18% 30,000/. 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds 5.848 27s Vauxhall .........Average 701. 10s. 3cl. sh 26 • ASSURANCE COMPANIES. 2,000 3/10s Albion ....... ...- ........... 5001. sh. 501. pd 72 50,000 t 6 L e c r i l e 5V •l Alliance British &Foreignlool.sh. 111. pd 13% 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 100/. sh. 5L pd 5 4 24,000 11. per sh. Atlas 5O/. sh. 51. pd 14 1,200 Ish. 5/. Birmingham Fire 2501. sh. 551. pd 10734 20,000 41. percent. British Fire 250/. sh. 50/. pd 40 12,000 61. per cent. British Commercial .501, sq. 51, I A g 5,000 51. percent. Clerical & Medical Life, 1001.5h.2110s pd 1 24 4,000 31 Os County lOOl. sh. 101. pd 11 8,000 as. Eagle 501. sh. 51. pd 4% "n f and 301 5 per cen We / Economic Life 1000 1 . A. 2501. pd 406 '''''' / 2,271 225. per cent. European Li ie 0 01.1 h. all pd 22 50,000 2s. Ditto, New 201. sh. 21. pd 17‘ 1,000,0001. ( l. per ct Globe Stock 115 20,000 51• Guardian 30,000 4s. Od. Hope 5O/. sh. 51. pd 5 38 2,400 51. 12.5. 6d. Imperial Fire 5001.5h. 501. pd 135 7,500 12s. Imperial Life lOO/. sh. 101. pd 11 13,459 5/. per cent. Indemnity Marine 100!. sh. 8/. pd 2934 2,020 31 10s Kent Fire 5O/. sh. all pd 92 31. Ditto Life 5Ol. pd 66 10,000 16s, Law Life lOOl. sh. 101. pd 31% 5,001) les. London, Fire 251. sh. 121. 10s. pd 1831 3,900 10s. London, Ship 25/. eh. 12/. 10s. pd 1834 1.000.0001. ... ..... Minerva Life 100/. sh. 25,000 N. per cent. National Loan Fund... 201. sh 21. 10s. pd 2% 35,000 51. per cent. Palladium Life 5Ol. A. 21. pd 216. 50,000 5!. per cent. Protector I,la 201.811. 2/. pd :fib Od 10,000 4 per cent. Protestant Dissenters -.100/. sh. 5/. pd 5 34 4,500 11. Provident Lite lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 20 200,660 45. Od. Rock Life 89,2201 51. per cent. Royal Exchange Stock ISO 6,000 5 per cent. University Life 1001. sh. 51. pd 8% 10,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 100Lsh. 51. pd 736 JOINT STOCK BANKS. 25,000 Agric. and Com. of Ireland2sl. sh. 10/. pd 15,000 8 per cent. Australasia 401. sh. 401. pd 533; 10,006 10 percent. Bank of Birmingham 501. sh. 101. pd 13 10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank 5O/. sh. 101. pd 13% 3),000 6 per cent. London & Westminster 1001. sh. 201. pd 22 60,000 51. London Joint Stock 50/, sh. 10!. pd 123 8 .3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster ..».... 1001. sh. 101. pd 30 25,000 10 per cent. Liverpool ..... sh. 1214 pd 1 8 34 50,000 '7l percent. Manchester and Liver ] 501.5 h. 151. pd 10 pool District 20,000 7 per coat. Manchester lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 5 20,000 8 per eent. Provincial Bank of I relandlool. sh. 25/. pd 41 0,1100 6 per cent National Bank of Ireland 501. sh. 1711. pd 17% 0,000 6 per cent National Provincial Eng.lool. ah. 351. pd 34 10,000 Ditto New 101. sh. 10/. pd 10 ,0,000 Gloucestershire 501. sh. 10!. pd 32 6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 9 GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 16s Od Bath 201. sh. 161. pd 22 5,000 .....«.. British 401. sh. 161. pd 18 ohooo Etpdeys.ert.l Ditto Provincial .. ..... 2Ol. sh. 191. pd 24M 928 51 10s Birmingham 50/ sh. 96 1,250 210 s Bristol 2O!. sh. 36 2,250 3/ lOs Brighton 2Ol sh. 13% 750 91 lOs Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. IN. pd 9 2,471 q per cent. Brighton General 2Ol. A. all pd 93% 1,000 71. lOs. Continental Consolidated -751. 621/. pd 110 1.000 101. City of London.. ....... . 300/. sh. all pd 195 ' 1.000 61. Ditto. New 1001. a h. 751. pd 150 4,000 31.05. Equitable .501. pd 20 ,0,000 31. per cent. Imperial 56/. sh. 59 800 51. per cent. Isle of Thanet 251. sh. 20/. pd lb% 1,350 6/. per cent. Independent 30/. A. all p., 56 9,000 41. per cent. Pheenix 5Ol. sh. 391. pd 30 1,000 41. per cent. Ratcliff IOOI.A. SO!. pd E. 3 4,000 South Metropolitan 501. sh.'l3%/. pd 17 9,000 51. per cent. United General 501. lb. 471. pd 29 240 5/. per cent. Warwick 5Ol. sh 50 400 51. per cent Wake fi eld 9,000 31. Westminster Chartered ..-. 5Ol. sh. 58 6,000 12s. Ditto New 5ll. A. 101. pd 1134 780 3 per cent. Yarmouth 2Ol. sh. 181. pd 19% 12% lY 92% 107 LLOYD'S SHIPPING LONDON, JAN. 4.—Wind at noon, various and light. RAMSGATE, JAN. 3.--Sld. Juno, New York ; Eliza beth, Leghorn. The Magnet, Picard, has been placed on the patent slip. OFF TILE GALLOPER, DEC. 25.—Godfrey, New Orleans. DEAL, JAN. 3.—Wind N.E. by N. moderate. — Arrd. from the River and sld., St. Vincent's, Bombay ; WS,Te, Sierra Leon e ; Dibdi n , Mobile. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 3.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Oriental, Buenos Ayres ; Thomas Mellor, Maranham—sld. Nov. 27 ; Laurma, Laguna ; Resolution, Quebec. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 3.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrd. her Ma jesty's steamer Megra, from Barbadoes. Of F DOVER, JAN. 3.—Caesar and Helene, Hamburgh for Havannah. FALMOUTH, JAN. 2.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrd. Elizabeth, Shields, for Jamaica. Sld. Oriental steamer, Alexandria. CARDIFF, JAN. I.—Sld. Hannah, Booth, Malta. SCARBOROUGH, JAN. 2.—The Palestine, Thomson, from Sunderland to Lynn, came ashore south of Filey yesterday morning during a fog, but got (Wafter throw ing about one keel of coals overboard, and proceeded with assistance. DUNDALK, JAN. I.—The llelen, llPliensie, of Aber deen, in proceeding to sea struck on the Bar, but cams off without damage. ABERDEEN, DEC. 31.—The sloop Alexander, Aspy, has arrived here from Spalding, much strained, with loss of bulwarks, and nearly the whole of her cargo damaged, having grounded on Marion Sands, and been struck twice by a sea. The Workington, from Honduras, is supposed to hare arrived off Lymington. - - The Bishop of St. David's is said to be so fascinated with the beauties of the Welsh language, of which he has made himself master, as to have determined to trace it to its sources, as a key to the early history of Wales.—Bristol.Journal. LEIPZIG FAIR.—On the first of this month the celebrated fair at Leipzic commenced. It is for the sale of manufacted goods and for pleasure, but the business itself commences three or four days earlier. This, like all the German fairs that are of commercial in terest, last three weeks. This fair at New Year was first proclaimed in 1458, and the concourse of merchants from various countries is very great. The value of the goods sold at the different Leipzic fairs, in one year, was estimated, a few years ago at upwards of 3,000,0001. ster ling, exclusive of the value of the books then disposed of. A desperate affray occurred on the night of the 23d of December, near Fairfield, the seat of Barlow Hoy, Esq. A determined body of poachers, amounting to twelve in number, entered the preserves, and began popping down the game in all directions. The keepers and their assistants (who, it appeared, had received previous notice of their coming) mustered their strength, and endeavoured to make them prisoners ; but being far inferior in numbers, the poachers levelled them in all directions with the butts of their fowling pieces, and gained a complete victory. Some of the keepers received severe injuries, but the whole of the poachers got clear off; leaving one gun and a bat in their possession. A reward of twenty-five guineas has been offered for the discovery of the offenders, since which we are informed a person named Tutton has been taken at Ryde, and committed by the Magistrates of that town to take his trial at the next sessions.—Hants Independent. ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY. WOOL WICH, JAN. 3.—The final examination of the gentlemen cadets of the first glass, studying in the Royal Arsenal, is appointed to take place to-morrow, when the following students will obtain commissions, having completed their course of study in a satisfactory manner:—James BroWn, Eustace Bourchier, Adolphus Connell, Joseph Childs, Charles Franklin, John Grant, Henry Grain, Andrew Green, William Grant, Alexander Hawkins, James Hill, George Johnson, Barclay Lawson, Valentine Mairis, Horace Montague, Charles Morris, Niel M. May, Pierce Parson, Algernon Peter Herbert Patton, Fitzroy Somer set, Edward Williams. DUZLIN, JAN. 2.—The candidate whom the Tories have in view is Mr. Atwood, who had been de feated at the last general election in Kinsale, by Mr. Watson, and subsequently in Sunderland, by Lord llowick. The approaching election will be a great stand-up fight between the monopolists and the friends of free trade and honest government. On the side of the Tories there will be the unscrupulous interference of the Government, and reckless intimidation. The money of the Carlton Club will also be available, and general sub scriptions amongst the place-expectants in this country. Under such circumstances, the Liberals will require the cordial assurance and co-operation of every friend of the good cause. The following . Memorial, numerously signed, has been addressed to the Postmaster-General " TO THE RIGHT 110 N. LORD LOWTHER, HER MAJESTY'S POSTMASTER-GENERAL. " London, Dec. 31, 1841. " My Lord—Having observed, from the official public notice, that your Lorship intends to establish, in con nexion with the Royal Mail Steam-packet Company,' a small branch steam-packet to proceed, twice in every month, from Fayal to Madeira, the undersigned British merchants trading to, and having mercantile establish' ments in, the Canary Islands, respectfully solicit that the port of Santa Cruz, Teneriffe, may be included in that arrangement. " The distance between Madeira and Santa Cruz is 240 miles. The extra time required,'therefore, will only be about one day, to secure to the commerce of this country the advantages of this regular and expeditious cotninunication. " Cadiz or Gibraltar might be included in this round by an extension of two or three days, thereby securing the regular and frequent steam communication of the Azores, Madeira, and the Canaries with England, and enhancing the benefits to the revenue, as well as to the Royal Mail Steam-packet Company,' from the in creased conveyance of correspondence and of passen gers, specie, and cochineal. " The population of the Canary Islands is about 220,000. It is the only province of Spain where British cotton goods are admitted. The anchorage at Santa Cruz is good and safe." How TO PUT A LADY IN GOOD SPIRITS. —Take her to a milliner's shop and buy her a bonnet. The manageress of one of the most extensive establish ments in London, in the course of her evidence the other day, in an action for breach of promise, declared, that " ladies are always in good spirits when they go to amil liner's to choose a bonnet." Here we have a viJuable recipe, which may be of great use to those gentleu:en whose ladies are troubled with ennui and the sullen& Like most applications for the health of " these delicate creatures," however, it is expensive. We believe the efficacy is not confined to bonnets. Ladies love to be purchasing, and we doubt not, if they were permitted to spend their days in shopping, their smiles would be perpetual. SIDNEY SMITH'S LAST.—This worthy and facetious dignitary of St. Paul's, dining in company last week with 1)r. Selwyn, the new Bishop of New Zealand, observed, though a most excellent dinner was provided, that his Lordship ate very sparingly. " Come. my Lord," said he, " this will not do in New Zealand (in cluding the Cannibal Islands), where you will always find two courses, and a cold man on the sideboard. What think you of that?" The Bishop replied, that he did think the practice worse than " roasting bishops in Eng land !" The " Senex Derisor' was dumbfounded. The Earl of Lincoln had a long interview yes terday- with Sir James Graham, at 'the Home-office, previous to the Right Hon. Baronet leaving town for Windsor. THE NEW YEAR IN EDINBURGH. On Saturday the new year was ushered in, in Edinburgh, with the usual demonstrations, by crowds of persons in the principal thoroughfares, but hilarity and good humour universally prevailed. To the credit of our citi zens, it ought to be remarked that the unseemly broils and riots which formerly disgraced Edinburgh at this season have long since disappeared.—Edinburgh Paper. BEGGING.—The oldest inhabitants in the pa rishes bordering on the iron works, do not remember so many able-bodied workmen going about for bread and cheese as at present. If the repeal of the Corn-laws would prevent this system, we should think that all the small farmers would most cordially give their suffrages to those Members of the House of Commons who would vote for their repeal.—Silurian. Sir Robert Peel arrived in town yesterday ,by - the ,LondAM and Birmingham .Itailway,, from Dra,yton . Minor, and at two o'clock the Right Hon. Baronet, ac donipanibil :james Graham, and Lord Stanley, F irocee44 by the Great Western Railway to Windsor Castle,'.en a Visit to her Majesty. The Right lion. Baronet and Noble Lord will proceed from Windsor Castle to Stowe, on a visit for a few days to the Duke of Buckingham. FIRE AT PANIIELD HALL FARM.—Oa Wednesday night last, a fire broke out in a large and nearly new•built barn at the above farm, occupied by Messrs. John and Robert Lambert. Although unable to save the barn, they succeeded, principally by means of wet blankets, in saving three large stacks (two of barley and one of beans) which stood within six feet of the barn, but the building was entirely destroyed, with the contents, about 200 quarters of barley, beans, and peas. The fire was subdued about five o'clock the following morning. The farm and buildings belong to Guy's Hos pital, and the latter were not insured. The barn was one of the largest and most substantial in the county, and we lament to add its destruction, there is every reason to believe, was wilfully occasioned. It is a singular fact, that one of the dogs, which is usually in the yard at night, and was seen on the night of the fire, has not since been seen or heard of. The animal in question has been fo some years on the premises.—Essex Herald. FATAL ACCIDENT.—A youth, fifteen years of age, named James Templar, the son of George Templar, a jobbing carrier, who resides at Halfway- street, Bexley, was driving a waggon and horses up the Kent-road between 6 and 7 o'clock on Monday morning, the waggoner having stayed for some purpose behind, when near the Crown and Anchor, on the west side of the New Cross Toll-gate, a night coach passed at a quick rate (supposed by the time to be the Hastings), when the horses the unfortunate boy was driving trok fright, ran off, and, in his endeavour to stop them, he was knocked down and run over. Upon being carried to Mr. Ford's, the Crown and Anchor, life was quite extinct. THE EMIGRATION EXPEDlENT.—lndir ectl y adverting to this subject, thus speaketh the Westminster Review :—" Emigration is proposed. It may meet for the moment many pressing evils, but it is an ex p edient, not a cure. The evil lies deep in the ver y heart of our present state of social regulations and institutions, and no palliatives will be permanently beneficial." During the last French war, a fellow in London ee de nt a of ly be the n e :u h who hawked the daily papers ab out the streets, on find ing them lie on his hands t,oGwarredasttnlietierwitsah,! r suddenly day, while he only cried , be thought himself to change his tune ; and by roaring out " Bad news" he sold mo re in one ho able to do during the whole of the day before. BRITISH MAGAZINE. The religion of the Rosicrucians, it might rea sonably have been thought, had altogether lost its vitality, in the persons of its latest disciples, Reuchliu and Prince Mirandulanus. Several papers, however, of late, in this Magazine, ma nifest its embers to he still on the sparkle and the present article, " Macrocosm and Micro cosm," forms part of a series. This school, known long on the Continent as that of " Rosy Cross," and whose disciples were once multitu dinous in the East, has been greatly deteriorated in modern times by its triple admixture with astrology, freemasonry, and the Welch bardism. These have muffled its originally clear features in enigma and intricacy, and the doctrines ap• pertaining to it have been 'so thoroughly dis guised, and . their textual readiness interpolated, that it has become scarcely possible to discover among them, the intelligent system aticiently taught under the orange-shades of Babylon and Jerusalem, by the elders and rabbis of those people. An elaborate paper on the "Times of the Reformation ? " adduces proofs from the Contemporary pulpit, on the spread of immo rality among the London population at that period. The complaints of the clericals of the day form a perfect' Jeremiad. The books then read are wofully stigmatised; most particularly those little black-letter duodecimos, full of popish legends and tales of enchantment, which changed hands with incredible rapidity, and were " cheaply purchased for their weight in gold." The poets were inspired by no holy thoughts, but had their fancieS sublimed only by " sack and claret." Eight. theatres were open' every Sunday—the Theatre, the Curtain, the Globe; and five others playing twice and thrice a week, realised a revenue of 2,0001. a year, and were little " palaces of pleasure" that swarmed with depravity. On this day also "silver-games, drinking, dancing, and dicing" were among the cornrnonestprofanities, and the only penalty of the offenders , herein, was a flap with a fox's tail. Even the . Queen, whose accession was hailed by Reformers as the rising of a "bright accidental star" fell under the general ban. Elizabeth was found to lead no life of faith. " The field, the dance, the bear-garden, and the stage, succeeded so constantly and rapidly on, her morning studies in theology, that it seems - ,strange how any but courtiers could imagine that they had calmed her mind, and made her happiness. She was a gay, worldly, scheming woman. The Papists hated her for what :she did : the Reformers doubted her for what she did not. The Queen's popularity in the early part of her reign was itself an evil, when it made 'fashionable the oaths she swore, and the dilapidation and sacrilege she in dulged in." Lastly, to consummate the scene, there existed, even among the clergy themselves, a species of " diVisum imperium" on the score of conduct and immorality. While one Bishop blesses the English Church in its then present state, and comfortably believes that it is " crown ed with infinite stars, who are the good professors of the word," a rival Archdeacon pitiably com plains that " a man now-a-days makes himself minister to get a piece of a living, and sings stoutly for the stipend only." The "Christmas Rose," being a charming subject, should have inspired more glow and colour to the lines. " The Five Articles of Perth" give an historic sketch of the introduction of a few religious crot chetsamong the Scottish Episcopalians by James I. They certainly appear very innocent ordinan ces, and only the most ludicrous fanaticism could find in them anything to deprecate. Neverthe less Calderwood, the chronicler, states that when the Perth articles were touched by the sceptre for ratification, lightning flashed; that the day was marked as "Black Saturday;" and the cannon from the Castle of Edinburgh, in their discharges, " began with fire from the earth in the morn ing, and ended with fire from Heaven in the evening." It is agreeable to observe that Spot tiswood, whom the Presbyterians assailed with lampoons and libels to perpetuity, is otherwise regarded by the writer as a pious, mild, and vir tuous prelate. Among its medley of correspon dence the Editor denies the charge made by Mr. Golightly, of this Magazine being an engine in the hands of the Oxford tractarians : it has dis cussed many Puseyite convictions, and refuted more: ALEXANDER'S EAST INDIA MAGAZINE, The emulative and industrious spirit of the Par sees is much extolled in the article on "Education in India." Their seminaries are the best in that part of the world, and their religious faith fences them about with none of those restrictive tenets that beset other Oriental creeds. An account of four of the leading Arab chiefs, whose territories skirt the Arabian coast of the present day, forms an interesting paper; the younger are the warriors, the elder have subsided into patriarchs. The ex traordinary" Formation and Colour of the Clouds" in India, will remind many a traveller of daz zling spectacles beheld in that clime. Abound ing in the ruins of ancient pagodas, the " Island of Salsette furnishes some good historic remi niscences. Malaria, arising from jungles and marshy districts, appears to be the chief cause of the " Disease of the Deccan," and to that cause they are attributed by the writer. LONDON JOURNAL AND REPERTORY OF INVENTIONS. Among the patented inventions of last year, the most noticeable is that whereby a textile or fibrous plant, which grows on the coasts of Spain and the Mediterranean, known to botanists by the name of " esparto," is to be rendered convertible into the manufacture of paper, card boards, cloth, flax, and cotton. The remaining patents consist chiefly of improvements rather than original inventions, and are characterised by different shades of ability and artisanship. .C 2 044-#7,'E ELY Y. REVIEW , No 137 . • - Afpwrap 7--CoVfon ' 1842. The general charaCter of . - w- or d k i w .,,i t h74 ii oetry, especially of his Sonnets, is discussed at considerj- - rable length in this Number. The discussion is fairly enough carried on, and if in places it be a little too exuberant in point of panegyric, such excess is a fault on the right side, more particu larly when we bear in mind the flagrant in justice with which the great Lake poet was treated by certain infl uential critics for the best part of a quarter of a cent ury. Mr. Words worth is a rare instan ce of an author not only tainstehbd w hich lie is to b e apprec i ate d , ow n lifetime, th e f u ll h arvest butc r ea reaping,t ing t ie of that improved taste. Year after year, in spite of all that ridicule or prejudice could do, he has seen the circle of his admirers gradually widening, until at leng th it e mbraces almost every name of any note in p olitic al literature. His reputation is now pla ced be y o nd the reach of envy and detraction ; but thou gh enemies are no hloyngtehretobbliendfeare much mischi e f may b e d one enthusiasm of f r i en d s, who are find of tenmar.grwreaetrdlsvwrioterrtis: worst foes. Wh en we constantly compared to Milton, whose sustaine d ma jesty of thought and depth of he feeling, never,eling, developed apparently without effort, with all his s t ra i n i ng, b ee able to approach; wh en w e find Lord Byron con t em pt u ously thrust aside, i n or d er t h at a ll eyes may be fixed uninterruptedly on him ; when we are told that he has exhibited evidences of of his versifiea y tiexaggeratedshow;isonlytoequalled praises heaped upon Mr. Wordsworth, we are strongly tempted to. regard them in no more fa vourable light than as attempts to coerce public opinion into absolute s u b m i ss i on . It was but the other day we read in a literary journal of some influence, that if the r e was one quality more than another for which the author of the " ExcurSion" was remarkable, it was pathos! Now, we have been for years no inat tentive readers • and we hope we WATER WORKS. 1,800 345. Blrroiniham --- -- -'2s' sh. 25/. pd 21 4,433 71. East London 100/. sh. 162% 5,500 21 15s. 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Gtasgow Gas ~........251. sh. all pd 52 760 71 per cent• Leith (oal Gas . 201.51 a. all pd 21 1 154 Edinburgh and Dalkeithtlaitway 50/. sh FUNNELS.—On Sunday night week most of the vessels lying at the Scotch wharfs on the north side of the river, in the vicinity of the docks, were boarded by thieves from the river, and had the copper tops of their cabin funnels carried oft'. It is reported that no fewer than fourteen were stolen on the night in question. It is a matter of considerable surprise that this wholesale robbery of ships' funnels should have taken place without the detection of the thieves, and the Thames police are blamed by the wharfingers and shipmasters for gross neglect - of duty. MORNING S Ulf P