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MORNING SUN SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. ?Rost THY DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. CHRONICLE.—On Saturday last we inserted a letter signed " Historicus," which charges our leading articles with having repeatedly done " cruel injustice" to the Puseyites, by reprobating what s eems to us t h e insincerity of their cause, mad tracing that insincerity to sordid motives. Other claims on attention prevented our immediate notice of these allegations, which yet arc too grave to be passed over in any manner that might be construed into acquiescence. Indeed, did we acqui esce, it would become our duty not to do so silently. The Puseyites maintain, says our Correspondent, " that no difference of opi n i on w h atever i s ca pable ofjustify ing the sin of schism," and hence he infers that they would " take upon their consciences what they esteem a deadly sin" in separating from the Church of England a s by l aw es t a blished. As the distin guishing doctrine of the sect is that a church cannot be established by law, we do not perceive the conclusiveness of our Correspondent's argument. The Puseyites contend that a higher allegiance is due to the Catholic Church than to the Church of England. To every body but a Puseyite it is plain that our national church is founded on the contrary assumption. It stands in the denial of all such external authority. It claims for the head of the State to be also that of the Church ; and this supremacy, of which Puseyism is a continuous denial. Pusey clergymen take pay for preac • hing Oar Correspondent overlooks the differ ence between belonging to a church, and teaching or preaching in that church. Conscien ce ma y protest against secession, but conscience cannot enforce the receipt of emoluments for the promulgation of what the individual deems error. This is what we complain of in the Puseyites. We raise no question about their obligation to secede, if they be content to hold their tongues, and Comp their revenues derived from the national funds. Dr. Pusey draws the distinction which " Ilistorieus" disregards ; and coincides hypothetically in our view of the case as opposed to that of his apologist. " Our own Church is the immediate, the Church universal, the ultimate visible authority ; she is to tie the representative of the universal Church, as the Church universal is of her Lord ; our own derives her authority from the universal Church, and cannot claim any, contrary to her. We belong to her because we were baptised in her, and she is the descendant of the primitive Church in this land, and her Bishops the successors of the Apostles ;' we receive as articles of faith what she delivers to us as fixed by the universal Church ; what she has by her private judgment de duced from Holy Scripture, we teach because we also think it to be so deducible ; if we did not so think, we should obey, must belong to her, but could not teach. Her Sacraments we receive because she has received the commission to impart them ; her rites, because she has the power to ordain or to change them. To our own Church we owe submission ; to the decisions of the Church universal, faith."—Letter to the Bishop of Ox ford, pp. 3:2, 53. The Church of England professes " the Protestant reformed religion." The Puseyite repudiates and anathematizes the word " Protestant," and mourns over the " crimes" of the Reformation. That he revives the observance of obsolete ceremonies will scarcely pass for " simply acting out the written code" of his religion, while he engages in ceaseless warfcre with the spirit of that code. As a Protestant code, he is entirely out of sympathy with it. The Articles, the Homilies, and the assumption of a controlling authority in the civil power —and these are surely the characteristics of Church of England religion—are another gospel from that which he preaches. We confess ourselves unable to conclude that men so acute are unconscious of this fatal incon gruity. In fact, their writings yield abundant evidence that they are conscious of it. The duty of silence, if not of secession, follows by their own admission : of silence, we mean, as Ministers of the National Church, If the proof be not admitted, we see not by what evi dence the charge of insincerity can ever be established. When " Historicus" asserts that the Puseyites have " conscientiously and rigidly endeavoured to live up to what they nominally profess," we take his testimony with so much weight as belongs to that of one who is " most remote from any connection, either personal, or through their opinions, with Puseyism." The remote ness tells more for the impartiality than for the suf ficiency of the testimony. But when he appeals to us as knowing that " they are abandoning all hope of further advancement in worldly advantages," we can only say that we know no such thing. In com bination, not rare, with its obtrusive asceticism a wordly spirit seems to have pervaded the whole move ment. It began in consequence of the interference of Earl Grey's Ministry with the temporalities of the Irish Church. A Committee meeting of Clergymen, at the house of the Archbishop of Canterbury's chap lain, coming by discussion to resolutions, for counter acting such danger as threatered the Church by that measure, is rather a singular fountain for the pure stream of a spiritual revival. From a daily journal which acted as its organ, we take the statement that " the younger Clergy are said to be very gene ally of this school ; it has no want of advocates among their seniors ; it has penetrated into both Houses ef Parlia ment ; and we are confidently informed (we suppose, therefore, upon some foundation) that it has met with countenance from the Bishops themselves." The dan ger of aay great sacrifice of worl sly advantages in form ing such a pert) , is not mare obvious than the chance of profiting thereby. Bishops cannot be very hostile when their chaplains are friendly ; nor would it be difficult for less unworldly part . zens to obt tin docu ments through such confidential functionaries, by which the peril of future hostility might be materially abated. Little indifference to temporal advantages can be ascribed to a sect which, while affecting to despise the periodical press, contrives to get hold of news papers, daily and weekly, of magazines, and of a Qnarterlu Review. In one instance, it is before the public that the attempt to obtain this sort of influence has been made by appealing to the most sordid mo tives. The battle now fighting at Oxford for the Poetry Professorship is no token of indifference to worl Ily position as a party, and the advantages thence arising. Mr. Williams must write much better verses than any we have yet seen, for us to plead guilty to " cruel injustice" in not interpreting the struggle on his behalf as altogether the result of a conscientious ap preciation of his fitness for the office in question. If the sect have all the virtues ascribed to them, it is eery unfortunate that they should look so like proficients in the arts of priestcraft. NV hen clergymen use " disparag ing language' of the articles to which they have sworn; when they represent those articles "as a bondage rather than as a safeguard ;" and when they suggest that their ambiguity is " to be palliated for the present only by a forced strain of the grammatical meaning," it implies no great breach of charity in the looker on to treat them as we have treated the Puseyites. And this description is not ours, but their own. We borrow it from the deprecatory letter, written when censure was apprehended, of their professor of moral philo phy. We have advanced to argument against the in clusion of Puseyism, or any other ism which obtains a lodgment in the national mind, within the comprehen sive limits of a na ti ona l c h urc h. B u t t hi s i s not t h e position for which the sect struggles. It claims to be the Church. And it does so, with a marvellous lack of evidence and plentitude of pretension. We would have it dealt by precisely as the opposite extreme of theology would he dealt by under similar circumstances. A Pusey has no more business in the Church than a Strauss would have. For the one, there are profes sorships, livings, and canonries ; for the other, there would probably be prosecutions. Yet, whatever his errors may be, Strauss is the better Protestant of the two ; and the people's ample fund for spiritual culture, its millions sterling per annum, are paid for teaching the Protestant reformed religion. They are not legally applicable to the support of the rationalism of Ger many ; neither are they applicable, either legally or morally, to that of the bastard Popery of Oxford. TIMES.—We were never among the number of those " moderate politicians," mentioned by one of our Irish correspondents in yesterday's Times, " who, a short time ago, were sangeine enough to have sup posed that Mr. O'Connell, disheartened by the seces sion of so many of his supporters, and alarmed at the effect produced on the minds of thinking men by the cogent epistles of Sherman Crawford and the sensible addresses of some few Roman Catholic clergymen op posed to a further agitation of repeal, was about to dissolve the association, and take refuge under the banner of Reform." We always knew Daniel too well. We saw that the common sense, the intelligence, and the virtue which might have been found among the ranks of his supporters while it was possible for en thusiasm to connect his exertions with the good of Ireland, had gone from him ; we knew, that whatever there was of piety among the Roman Catholic priest hood had declared against him ; but we did not imagine, either that all the Roman Catholics of Ireland were pio us , or t h a t t h e mot l ey f orces o f agita tion would disappear in a moment at the command of intelligence and virtue. Far less did we conceive that any change could come over the spirit of the great hierophant of sediti o n hi mse lf. I t was enoug h for us to perceive that his p rac ti ca l i n fl uence was gone—that with a strong and just Ad m i n i s t rat i on , an d with the moral faeling of the b e tt er port i on o f t h e I r i s h peop l e , scithout distinction of creed, decidedly against him, he could no longer do any seriou s m i sc hi e f to hi s country, or cause any. formidable embarrassment to the Government. He might go on amusing himself with the echoes of his former power, he might continue to trade at some pecuniary profit upon its miserable re mains, without giving more than a harmless vent t o the appetite for ga sconade which he has been so instramen tal in creating. In this point of view, we have derived . much entertainment from a perus al of the Report of the " Grand Repeal Demonstration" which came off in the county of Louth on Saturday last. We really feel surprise, long and frequent as has been our experience of the gullibility of the class of which Repe alers are made, at th e excess i ve s l en d erness o f the bait and the transparency of.the hook which he hung out for these poor people. There is a broad humour in his way of addressing them, which .make s us a l mos t in love With his impudence ; and though he does unques. tionably presume too far upon their unsophisti cated natures, we find it impossible to quarrel with him for what affords us such a hearty treat of laughter. No doubt there is some disloyalty, some Jacobinism, some g loatin g over the distresses of Eng land in his speech on this occasion ; but this may be passed over as no more than the usual garnish of all the .. Right Honourable Gentleman's" speeches. We soon get into the smooth water of blarney, and then the drift of everything becomes perfectly apparent. Money is the true subject, scope, aim, object, and purpose of the whole harangue : if he inveighs against a " grievance" with any sincerity it is because it touches him in the purse ; and if he devises plans of refor- 1 mation, they all centre equally in his own breeches' pocket. In the Dandalk oration we first get a sight of the real business of the day when he comes to the tithe rent charge. His spirit stirs within him when he thinks of it. "He struggled," he said, '• for Repeal, be cause it would enable Ireland to get rid of a hostile Ministry, and every other grievance, even that immense tithe grievance now called a rent-charge, but which he hated under one name just as much as under another." " There was that abominable tithe rent-charge, the very reflection on which prevented hint from sleeping in his bed." We make no doubt of it. The original grievance of tithe to Mr. O'Connell was, that it was some thing which Mr. O'Connell was required to pay, and therefore he resisted it, and made a good thing of his resistance till agitation overreached itself and led to re form. Tithe ceased to exist, and Mr. O'Connell found that be had got to pay a round sum by way of rent-charge instead, with this difference, that the clergyman had a more efficacious remedy, and the agitator less chance of keeping him by violence from his right. No wonder that Mr. O'Connell chafes; no wonder that be now protests that " new rent-charge is but old tithe writ large." No wonder that " the reflection prevents him from sleeping in his bed." There is no way of escap ing ; the money must be paid ; and the only device for making things straight again is to levy fresh contribu tions, with interest, upon the " finest pisantry in the world." All our readers have heard of mountebanks. There is a good specimen of the original sort in Ben Jonson's play called the Fox : but we avow that the performer of Dundalk beats him all to nothing. l' This blessed unguento, this rare extraction," says the imagi nary vendor of ointments, " bath power to disperse all malignant humours that proceed either of hot, cold, moist, or windy causes ; to fortify the most indigent and crude stomach ; a most sovereign and approved remedy for the vertigine in the head, the mal-caduco, cramps, convulsions, paralysies, epilepsies, tremor-cordia, retired nerves, ill-vapours of the spleen, stopping of the liver, the stone, the stranguary, hernia ventosa, iliaca passio ; stops a dysenteria immediately ; and cures melancholia hypochondriaca." " The repeal of the Union," says Mr. O'Connell, " would cause the exclusion from Ire land of everything that was not of Irish manufacture. It would revive and extend the manufactures of the country ; it would enlarge her commerce, it would give fair play to all, it would confer upon every man twenty one years of age a right to vote, it would protect him by the introduction of the honest and holy ballot, and it would restore Ireland to the full noontide of justice." " Being taken and applied according to my printed re ceipt," continued the poet's Fox, "'twill cost you eight crowns. And (Zan Fritala, prithec sing a verse extem pore in honour of it) you all know, Hon. Gentlemen, I never valued this ampulla, or vial, at less than eight crowns ; but for this time I am content to be deprived of it for six. Six crowns is the price, and less, in cour tesy, I know you cannot offer me ; take it or leave it, howsoever, both it and I arc at your service. 1 ask you not as the value of the thing, for then I should demand of you a thousand crowns. But I despise money." Listen now to the modern Volpone. " Would they not join him? But patriotism and cheers were not alone sufficient, al though the cheers of so many thousands of his fellow countrymen delighted his heart and made him feel young again. But it would not do. Every man, woman, and child, must enrol themselves in the Repeal Association. It was the easiest thing in the world. He asked only a farthing a week, a penny a month, or a shilling a year. Let them grant his request, and he pledged himself that in six months after he had ob tained 3,000,000 of Repealers he would have a Parlia ment in College-green. It was not the shilling, but the man at the back of it, that produced the effect ; and that was the way in which he wanted his exertions to operate and to tell." Mr. O'Connell proceeded to lavish his compliments upon the Queen (towards whom he said that" his allegiance almost warmed into paternal affection"), observing that " he delighted to look upon the smile which beamed on her lovely face when the the Irish Members passed before her." We can easily believe that her Majesty does sometimes smile on those occasions ; but if the exterior deportment of the honest Repealers produces such an effect upon her, what would she say if she could be regaled with such an exhibition as that presented to the peasantry of Louth on S'atarday last ? We fear it would require all the virtues of our Italian friend's ointment to restore her Royal nerves to that graceful and dignified calmness for which she is in general so remarkable. THE REVENUE. STANDARD.—The accounts of the Quarter's Revenue, ending to-day, cannot be finally made up antil a late hour this evening. We are enabled, how ever, to state that there is a considerable increase in the Revenue derived from the Customs for the present quarter, as compared with the corresponding quarter of last y ear. On the Excise there is a falling off as compared with the corresponding quarter of last year. The decrease is chiefly on the items of malt and hops. The deficiency in the Excise, however, we are happy to state, is fully compensated by the in crease on the Customs and other branches of the Re venue. There will be no great difference in the pro duce of the year ending the sth of January, 1842, with the year ending sth of January, 1841. The total revenue for the two years will prove nearly equal. If there is any difference, it is expected that there will be a small increase on the financial year ending to-day, but until the accounts are finally closed it is impossible to state with certainty what the amount will be. GLOBE.—The one sentence which was open to criticism in Lord Kinnaird's recent letter was of course seized on by the honest Times ; and the views of a cer tain factory Deputation were seized on in like manner. The object was to throw the blame of the concentration of masses of people in the factory districts—and of their present distress—on the mill-owners,' and off the land-owners' shoulders. This is just another specimen of the trick we have often denounced, of taking advantage of Ihcir own wrong, and charging upon others its consequences. We are quite free to say that we think Lord Kinnaird made a weak point, and missed a strong one, by expressing himself in the manner which has been thus criticised. It was unnecessary either for him or for any one else to recommend emigration from the agricultural into the manufacturing districts. That sort of emigra tion wants no encouragement, and ought to receive none, while it simply operates, as at present, to re lieve landlords from those effects of their Bread-tax which show themselves in pauperism, the sure attendant of Corn-law prices. They throw on the towns those whom they do not find it profitable to feed on the lands ; and thus the reverse process has been in fact going on to that which the land advocates pretend to have taken place. It is not the pauperism of the towns that is thrown on the land, but that of the land on the towns. And then the landlords (fit descendants of the robber and pirate caste of old times) cut off supplies from those very towns to which they have driven their " surplus" villains. And then they point the finger of scorn at the misery which pre vails in those towns ! That last is a refinement beyond their sires of Plantagenet days. Robbery and piracy the latter were up to ; the moan aggravation of lordly wrongs by clerkly sophisms they were not guilty of. We do believe they would have blushed through the bars of their vizors at such fulsome eulogies of their frank violences, as Mr. E. S. Cayley's Cressy and Poi tiers speeches. Cressy and Potters invoked forsooth to ennoble the sliding scale ! But, as we have said there is not the least occasion for Lord Kinnaird, or for any one else, to say a word in favour of immigration into the towns from the country. Our Lords have taken care that there shall be enough of it. It attains its maximum under the present system. It could not go on more actively (it might go on less actively) after a change in the Corn-laws than it does at present. The towns are the last refuge of misery caused by the Corn laws. Leave the peopling of them, and the starving of their people, upon the right shoulders ! MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. CHRONICLE.—Messrs. George Frazer and Son, of Manchester, in their annual circular, give a good re view of commercial affairs during the past year, and, in alluding to the new one, adduce various grounds for ex pecting some improvement ; but taking into considera tion the depressed state of the country, which has now existed, with more or less rigour, for the last four or five years, they observe that they cannot look forward with confidence to any " permanent" improvement un til the price of food becomes reduced, and the currency of the country is placed beyond the reach of the adverse action of those circumstances which have latterly deranged its operations. Comparing our exports of cotton yarn and cotton thread, plain calicoes, cam brics, and muslins, dyed and printed calicoes, and the consumption of cotton in bags, for the year 1841 with any of the years from 1837 inclusive, it appears that those of 1841 have been greater than that of any of the other years, more particularly of piece goods, and yet the actual deliveries of cotton for consumption during the last year, compared with the former, show a diminution of about 3,200 bags per week, or about 168,000 in the year. This extraordinary, fact they attribute very properly to the " decreased de mand for otir home trade," and the forced shipments of goods to foreign markets under consignment. They refer to the additional 1,000,0001. of bullion now , in the Bank, with no increase in the paper circula-1 Con, and to the favourable course of the foreign exchanges, among other reasons, for expecting that the lowest point of depression is overcome. The Directors of the Bank of England, as we have fre quently had occasion to observe, have reaped wisdom from experience, and, by dint of frequent hammering, have at length imbibed better principles of manage ment. They are now perfectly aware that when corn is scarce their paper money must be pulled in, and stringent principles put in practice. They have also seen that it is a bad thing to alter the rate of interest in such circumstances, and that the object in view may be equally well accomplished by limiting the range of discounts. Their last return to the old practice of limiting their negotiation to bills not having more than sixty days to run, instead of raising the rate of interest, as formerly, to 5 or 6 per cent., was found to be equally efficacious. HERALD.—As the industrial progress of other countries must always be interesting, if only as a stan dard by which to measure that of our own, and stimu late by friendly rivalship in case of being found in ar rear, the following official details respecting the pro duction and consumption of salt in Russia in 1840 will be interesting to the numerous and respectable class engaged in that particular branch of industrial produc tion in this country, and no less so perhaps to the sta tistician and legislator. In Russia the salt necessary for consumption is procured in a great measure from the lakes, where it is found naturally deposited ; a cer tain quantity also is obtained by evaporation in the salt works of the Crown and of individuals. The chief se line lakes of the empire are situated in the Crimea, in Bessarabia, and in the Government of Saratoff, and the principal salt works in the Government of Perm. The salt of the lakes costs the Crown from 4-7ths of a copec to five silver copecs per pood, and the extraction of salt by evaporation from 6 to 50 silver copecs per pood. These figures represent, however, only the cost of extraction, or elaboration properly so called ; with respect to the real prime cost, it would be necessary, in order to obtain it correctly, to have an account of the charges for carriage to the great storehouses where deposited ; those incurred in re pairs of the roads by which conveyed, five per cent. on the capital employed in the salt works and establish ments necessary, warehouses and other buildings, with 3 per cent. for their support and repair, the intrinsic value of the salt and that of the waste dechels, the amount of the imposts and other obligations pay able by those employed by the Crown in the transport and in the other labours of salt production, and of which the Treasury is deprived, and lastly ten copecs assignations per pood for the expenses of the adminis tration of the salt works. In adding to the prime cost so arrived at the trifling profit which constitutes the net beneficial interest of the Crown, the sale price of the salt may be ascertained. This price is specially fixed for each store deposit, according to the distances which the salt has to be carried and the expenses of carriage borne by the Crown. In 1840 the sales of the salt of the Crown produced the sum of 6,948,416 silver rubles, or 24,319,957 rubles assignation money. The net result to the Trea sury by this operation was 4,141,849 silver rubles, or 14,496,474 rubles assignation. To these quantities must be added 776,4:83 poods of salt of private pro duction. There hava been years when the quan tity of salt sold has been more considerable, but no conclusion can be deduced from the fact in respect of internal consumption, because the circum stance may arise from accidental causes. Thus in 1839, for example, the sales of salt ascended to more than 31 millions of poods, because all the speculators were eager to lay in large stocks on account of the false reports in circulation at the time of an approachin; considerable rise in the fixation of the sale price of Crown salt. The annual average of the sale of salt for internal consumption is generally at the rate of 25 millions of poods. The pood is equal to about 36Ibs. ; and the silver ruble to 3s. 20. sterling. The population of Russia by last returns 61i millions of inhabitants. THE TEN HOURS FACTORY QUESTION. CONTINUATION OF A REPORT ADDRESSED TO THE SHORT TIME COMMITTEES OF THE WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE OF CERTAIN CONFERENCES HELD WITH THE RIGHT HON. SIR R. PEEL, BART., AND SEVERAL OF HIS COLLEAGUES, ON THE SUBJECT OF THE TEN HOURS FACTORY BILL. INTERVIEWS WITH LORD WHARNCLIFFE, LORD PRESI DENT OF THE COUNCIL, AND MR. W. E. GLAD STONE, VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE. The following day the deputation had an interview with Lord \Marneliffe and Mr. Gladstone. As in former cases, the deputation proceeded to ex plain the nature of the measure which they advocated, and the economical and moral reasons upon which they based their claim. Lord WHAIINCLIFFE testified, from his own know ledge, to the fact that the statements thus presented as to the physical, the domestic, and the mental and moral condition of the factory workers, were not in the slight est degree exaggerated. Mr. GLADSTONE appeared to take an earnest interest in those portions of our statement which had reference to the educational, the domestic, and the moral and re ' ligious statistics of the subject, and paid particular at tention to the proposed restriction, of which Sir Robert Peel seemed to doubt the practicability—namely, that which would limit the employment of female labour. Mr. Gladstone treated this subject in a very able and practical manner. Agreeing in all the deputation stated as to the evil effects, both on individual character and on the domestic condition of families, which resulted from the present mode of substituting female for adult male labour, lie asked, " What practical measures would you suggest to make such a clause as you propose generally operative ?'"The deputation, in their replies to this question, were rather aided by Mr. Gladstone than otherwise; and it was ultimately suggested that the ob ject might be effected by means of three regulations. First, by fixing a higher age for the commencement of infant female. labour than for the commencement of in fant male-labour in factories. Secondly, by limiting the number of females in proportion to the number of males in any one factory. Thirdly, by forbidding a female to work in a factory after her marriage, and during the life time of her husbaud. It will be seen that these sugges tions meet the case put by Sir Robert Peel, and at the same time obviate the objections taken. The working of the present Factory Act was also very fully canvassed, and the unwieldy and impracticable nature of its provisions illustrated by facts well known to all conversant with the subject. The Deputation, while on this part of the subject, stated, in the first place, that the short-time Committees and the friynds of the factory labourer had been no parties to that measure (the Act of 1833) ; that they had seen from the begin ning that it would not work, and they were thoroughly convinced that it had been adopted more as a means of evading, thun satisfying the demand for the due regula tion of the labour in factories. With respect to the education for which it professes to snake provision, it was notorious that in most cases its provision had either been entirely evaded, or that what instruction had been given had been imparted under circumstances which made it a mockery both as to quality and quantity ; and one instance in particular was adduced, in which the stoker of a steam-engine had been constituted the schoolmaster, and the fire-hole had been made the school-room. After the ten hours' measure had been very fully can vassed in its various bearings, the Deputaiion took the liberty of laying before his Lordship and Mr. Gladstone (as they had already done with Sir R. Peel) their views as to the imperative necessity of passing it in connection with an alteration of the Poor-law, in accordance with the dictates of humanity and justice, and as an instal ment of good measures to the working classes. These were matters about which the Deputation thought there should be no delay, as upon them an immense mass of evidence had already been accumulated. Lord WUARNCLIFFE asked whether the masters were not generally opposed to the views advocated by the Deputation in reference to the Ten Hours Bill ? To which it was replied, that the masters were now in many instances becoming convinced, by dear-bought experience, that these views were correct ; that a ten hours restriction would be the only means of saving them as well as their workpeople from utter destruction. His Lordship said that he supposed that might be the case with the smaller manufacturers, but such instances of approval of the Ten Hours Bill, he thought, were rare among the more wealthy and extensive capitalists. The Deputation stated that as a general rule that might be so, but that many of the large employers were now coming round to the same opinions. In corroboration of that statement the deputy from Huddersfield mentioned the names of several of the most extensive and influential mill-owners of that district, with whom his Lordship was well acquainted. Mr. GLADSTONE, at the termination of a most encou raging interview, expressed himself highly gratified with the conversation, and said it was impossible to direct the attention of Government to subjects of graver import ance than those which the Deputation had brought before Lord Wharncliffe and himself. " You may," said he rest assured that I will devote my best attention to them, in conjunction with the Cabinet, and with an earnest desire to discover and adopt those measures which may be best calculated to put a stop to the evils you have described. Where we may happen to differ, I feel a confidence that our motives and opinions will re ceive from you a fair and liberal construction. But, in deed, it is not fair to assume that we do or shall differ, for the evils are palpable, demand immediate remedy, and your claims are just and reasonable. The spirit and tendency of your views are alike rational and concili atory." Lord WHARNCLIFFE, at the request of the Deputation, readily, and in the kindest manner, gave a letter of in troduction to his Grace the Duke of Buckingham, upon whom the Deputation next proposed to wait. The impression left on the minds of all the members of the Deputation by the bearing of Mr. Gladstone was of the most favourable description, and gave rise to hopes of a cheering nature as to the ultimate results of their labours, and the intention of the Government, both with reference to the Ten Hours Bill, and also to other mea sures deeply affecting the operative classes. And of Lord Wharncliffe the Deputation have to report that he rendered them very valuable assistance by corroborating several of their strongest statements from his own per sonal knowledge of the manufacturing districts. GEORGE A. FLEMING. JOSHUA HOBSON. JOHN LEECH. TITUS S. BROOKE. MARK CRABTREE. EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY.— . . On Friday, the 17th December, the Directors Made a trip, preliminary to the - opening, which it is supposed will take place on the Ist February. LAW INTELLIGENCE. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Jan. 5. IN THE f MATTER OF WILLIAM BRETON. Mr. WOODROFFE, on behalf of the insolvent, who had been in very affluent circumstances formerly, and resided I at Walham Cottage, i❑ the county of Devon, but who was now reduced to the deepest distress, moved for the ap pointment of an assignee. The grounds on which he founded his motion were, that a small property had be come available to his estate, and upwards of forty of the creditors, compassionating his unfortunate reverses, had signed a release from all demands, and petitioned that Mr. Ford, who was a creditor for 1,5001., should be ap pointed assignee, in order that this property might be appropriated to the old gentleman's use. Mr. Commissioner BowEN said he should appoint the assignee ; still he thought it possible that the few cre ditors who did not sign the document alluded to might call upon him to account to them. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1842. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COUNT. AN INSANE PRISONER.—John Griffith Evans, whose appearance betokened furious madness, and whose long beard and enormous mustachios added considerably to the wildness of his appearance, was placed at the bar, and called on to plead to an indictment, charging him with an assault. The prisoner, however, instead of pleading, abused the Recorder and the Court, making use of the most violent and blasphemous expressions, ac cusing them of high treason, and swearing he would hang the whole of them. Mr. M`Murdo, the surgeon of Newgate, who while giving his evidence was frequently interrupted by the vociferations of the prisoner, deposed that he had had frequent opportunities of observing the prisoner since he had been in custody, and that, in his opinion, the prisoner was insane. The Jury immediately found that the prisoner was of unsound mind, and he was removed from the bar. UTTERING FORGED BANK NOTES.—John Mathews, aged 23, printer, and John Barber, aged 23, mathe matical instrument maker, were indicted for feloniously uttering a forged 101. Bank note, with intent to defraud the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, well knowing the same to have been forged. The Attorney-General, Mr. Shepherd, Mr. Adolphus, and Mr. Gurney appeared for the prosecution. Mr. C. Phillips defended the prisoner Matthews, and Barber was defended by Mr. Clarkson. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL having stated the case to the Jury, called several witnesses, from whose evidence it appeared that the prisoners had gone on the 11th of December last into the shop of Mr. Harding, jeweller, in Holles-street, Cavendish-square, and Mathews had there purchased a wedding-ring and a guard, for which he tendered what purported to be a lot. note. Mrs. Harding having sent to her daughter, who liVed in the neighbourhood, to get the note changed, the daughter showed the note to two of her friends, who, not liking its appearance, advised her to send for a po liceman. She did so. Gave him the note and went with him to her mother's shop. On the policeman mak ing his appearance at Mrs. Hardirs's, one of the pri soners, Barber, endeavoured to snatch the note from the policeman's hand. In this, however, he was unsuccess ful, and the prisoners were both taken into custody. The Batik Inspector pronounced the note in question, which was produced by the policeman, to be a forgery. The prisoners had on the same day, previous to their visit to Mrs. Harding, made an unsuccessful attempt to pass a 101 note to Miss Richardson, who keeps a shop in the Edgware-road. Miss Richardson, of whom the prisoner had made some purchases, on having the note tendered to her sent it to Mr. Minton, wh o keeps a public-house in th e neighbourhood, to get i t changed. Minton chang e d it, but subsequently enter taining doubts as to its , en uiness, he went t o Mi ss Richardson's, and found the prisoners had not left, and obtained his change again. The addresses given by the prisoners were proved to be false. The prisoner, Bar ber, had given his address at 2, Trafalgar-place, Wel worth, and in consequence the curious fact was elicited that there are no less than six houses No. 2, Trafalgar-place, Wal worth. From the evidence of Mr. Harris, a watchmaker, re siding in East Smithfield, it appeared that on the Bth of December last, the prison e r M a thews had passed a forg e d 51. note to him, which no t e was produced in Court, having had the word "Forged" stamped on it at the Bank, when Mr. Harris had taken it there to be cashed. The Bank Inspector pronounced the 51. note to be a forgery, as regarded paper, plate, and signature. Mr. PHILLIPS and Mr. CeanksoN addressed the Jury fur their respective clients. Mr. Baron G URNEY summe d up, and the Jury found the prisoners Guilty. The prisoners were then removed from the bar, Mathews declaring that he had witnesses to prove an alibi on the Bth of December. POST-OFFICE ROBBERY.—Richard Horton, aged 30, was indicted for stealing one letter, containing one sove reign, the property of the Postmaster-General. Mr. SHEPHERD (with whom was Mr. Adolphus) stated the case to the Jury. It appeared that on the 22d of Deember, Mrs. Ann Ray, residing at Truro, en closed a sovereign in a l e tt er dire c t e d t o Mr. Alden, 27, Brewer-street, near the Brill, Somers Town, London, sealed the letter, and put it into the post-office. The letter arrived at the Post-office, London, in due course, on the 24th of December, and was entrusted to the pri soner, who is the postman of the Somers Town district, to deliver, the inspector having, on observinr , that it was a money-letter, previously made an entry of the di rection in a book, unknown to the prisoner. On the prisoner returning to the office he was asked if he knew Mr. Alden, 27, Brewer -street, and if he had delivered a letter there, as inquiry had been made on the subject. The prisoner replied that he knew Mr. Alden, and 27, Brewer-street, but that he had had no letter directed to 27 that morning, for if he had- it would have been deli vered in the usual course. The prisoner during his rounds that morning had passed Mr. Alden's house, and had spoken to Mrs. Alden, who was standing at her door, but had delivered no letter. The authorities at the Post-office directed that the prisoner's house and person should be searched, and in the prisoner's trowsers-pocket there was found a sovereign, and in his breast-pocket a memorandum•hook, in which was the letter in question, the seal of which was broken, and from which the money had been abstracted. The prisoner at the Police-office said, that on getting to Brewer-street, he found the seal of the letter broken, and the sovereign visible ; that he took it out ; that he did not know whet to do with it, and had intended, on his return to the Post-office at five o'clock, to ask what he was to do with it ; and that he would have stated the fact at the Post office when given into custody, if he had not been cau tioned by Peake, the policeman, as to what he might state. Mr. Pfliwps addressed the Jury for the prisoner, and contended that the account given by the prisoner at the Police-office was strongly corroborated by the fact that he had not either destroyed the letter or changed the sovereign. Several witnesses gave the prisoner an excellent cha racter. The deposition of Peake, the p o li ceman, b efore the Magistrates, was put in and read, for the purpose of con tradicting the testimony he had given in Court. Peake, in his evidence to-day, stated that when he took the pri soner into custody he cautioned him by telling him that whatever he said would be used either fur or against him, when, from the depositions, it appeared th a t lie had stated when before the Magistrates, that he had cau tioned him not to state anything unless he thought pro per. Peake denied that he had made use o f th e expres sions attributed to him when before the Magistrates. Mr. SHEPHERD replied. Mr. Justice IVIGHTNAN in summing up said, that it did not appear to him that the discrepancy in the evi dence of Peake, as given in Court to-day, and as given before the Magistrates, was of any very grea t import ance as regarded the case against the prisoner. The Jury without hesitation found the prisoner Guilty, but recommended him to mercy on account of his good character. Mr. Baron GURNEY—You should recollect, Gentle men, that every person employed in the Post-office must necessarily have a good character.—The prisoner was then removed from the dock. ANOTHER POST-OFFICE CASE.—Henry Warner was indicted for stealing one letter, containing a bank note. value 101., the property of the Postmaster-General. The prisoner pleaded Guilty. From what transpired, it appeared that the prisoner was shopman to an oilman, whose shop was a receiving house for the Post-office, and that the prisoner had stolen the letter in question, which had been posted at his master's. Several witnesses gave him an excellent cha racter.—Sentence deferred. Daniel Ryan, was indicted for assaulting Owen M'Carthy, NS ith intent to disfigure him. The occurrence took place on " boxing-day." The prosecutor was in the Gun public-house, Shoreditch, on that evening, when a quarrel and fight took place, and, according to the statement of the prosecutor, as he was about to leave the house, the prisoner seized him by both ears, dragged his face towards him, and then bit off the was co mpletely removed, and greater part of hi s nose I The me di ca l gent l eman who was called in d escr ib ed the injury as b e i ng most severe, and he said th a t a port i on of both nostr il s , an d also of the cartilage of th e nose the prosecutor, it appeared, woul d b e di s fi gure d f or l i fe. The Jury found th e prisoner G u ilty. Mr. Baron G URNEY, after commen ting upon th e sa vage character of the offence of which the prisoner had been convicted, sentenced him to be kept to hard labour for eighteen months. John Roach, 22, and Daniel Sullivan, 21, were in dicted for feloniously beating and wounding John Hartshorne, with intent to do him some bodily harm. Mr. DOANE conducted the prosecution, and Mr. PHIL LIPS defended the prisoners. It appeared that th e prosecutor, a man, eighty one years old, was passing a l o ng Tooley-street on the night of the 2d Dec e mber, when b o th the prisoners met him, and S u lli van s h ove d hi m, and when he raised his stick to protect himself, he knocked him down. Sullivan then picked him up, and told him t o go home, and Roach immediately followed him, snatch his stick from him, and struck him a tremendous blow on the face with it, and his face was cut open, and part of his cheek bone broken off. It also app eare d t h at durin g the transaction the prosecutor lost five sovereigns. The Jury found Roach guilty of the whole offence im puted to him, and declared the offence of Sullivan to amount to an assault only. A police constable informed the Court that both the prisoners were desperate characters, add they had been in custody a great many times for violent assaalts, and also on charges of felony. The RECORDER ordered Roach to be imprisoned, and kept to hard labour for eighteen, and Sullivan for six calendar months. The rest of the cases disposed of were of no interest to the public. The Court adjot2rned at nine o'clock. I VRIV COURT. X STRONG PROPENSITY FOR WIIEELI3i rt no ws.— WM. Saith, a mart Of Kent, 'AV iraioted for steil' ing a wheelbarrow on the 30th of January; at Wool wich, the property of Joseph Tabby. The prisoner pleaded Guilty to the charge. He was then again indicted upon four other similar charges ' to all of which he pleaded G u ilty. The COMMON SERGEANT—Why, prisoner, how is this ? You seem to have a great affection for wheelbar rows, for I see you have stolen no less than six from different persons. The prisoner—l did it from want, my Lord. The COMMON-SERGEANT.—That cannot be the case for I see your robberies are close upon one- another. I really think you ought to be transported, but I will deal leniently with you this time. The sentence of the Court is, that you be imprisoned, and kept to hard labour in Maidstone Gaol for one year. This I hope will put an end to your propensity fur wheelbarrows. (Before Mr. Justice MAULE.) Shortly after ten o'clock, Mr. Justice MAULE took his seat in this Court, and proceeded with the trial of the cases that were in the paper for the day, several of which consisted of charges of uttering base coin, and the others were of a most trifling character. BlGAMY.—JosephCooper, aged 32, was indicted and charged for that he on the 13th of September, 1832, was married to one Rebecca Cooper, and that he on the 30th of May, 1838, was married at St. George's, Hanover square, to Elizabeth Perkins, his wife Rebecca being then alive. Mr. Clarkson defended the prisoner. Eleanor Harvey stated that she was the mother of Re becca Cooper, who was married to the prisoner 11 years ago last September. Her name had been always Cooper, which was the maiden name of witness. She was born before witness was married. Witness was at her daugh ter's wedding, which took place at St. Luke's, Chelsea. Cross-examined by Mr. CLARKSON—Her daughter Rebecca was 24 years of age when she was married. At that time she was a laundress. Witness did not know that she got her living in any other way. She lived with witness. She used to be out of an evening, but not all night. Witness knew a person named Godfrey. He kept company with her daughter. He was a Catholic. Witness never heard from her daughter that she was married to him by a priest before she married the pri soner. The prisoner and her daughter only lived toge ther two or three years. She had no child. James Hatfield was a labourer, and came from Wing field, Berkshire. On the day of the marriage of the prisoner with his last wife, witness was in the neigh bourhood of St. George's, Hanover-square. The pri soner came up to witness, and asked him if he would go to church with him, as he had been disappointed by a young man. Witness went to church, and saw him married, but he did not know to whom. Besides himself there was a young woman present, who acted as bride's maid. Had never seen the prisoner before or since, until he saw him at the police-office. Witness was cer tain the prisoner was the man, because he took particular notice of him. The prisoner gave witness half-a-crown after he was married. ' Cross-examined by Mr. CLARKSON—Was out of a situation at the time the occurrence took place. Witness saw the prisoner that morning about eleven o'clock. When he asked him what he was, the prisoner said he was a gardener. Witness could not say whether the lady to whom the prisoner was married was tall or short, dark or fair, nor could he say what coloured • bonnet she had on. Witness signed the register. Could not remember what coloured coat the prisoner had on. His trousers were drab. The reason he had come to give evidence was because he had been summoned by the police. At the time he re ceived the summons he was at Wingfield, in Berkshire. Witness was pot acquainted with Mrs. Harvey, nor the prisoner's first wife, Miss Cooper. Had been to two other weddings since he attended the prisoner's, but did net know either of the parties. Could not say whether he should know the woman the prisoner married three years ago. Thomas Bates, a policeman, produced the certificates of both the marriages of the prisoner. He apprehended him on the 16th of December last. When he did so, the prisoner said to him, " They think they have a pull upon me about my first wife, but she was married before, and I don't care anything for them." Cross-examined by Mr. CLAnxsoN—The prisoner was living, when I took him into custody, very respectably, in a cottage at Battersea. Witness saw the first wife at the Police-court, but did not know how she got her living. The two certificates he had produced were sent to the station-house. Witness had examined them with the original registers. The reason witness apprehended the prisoner was, that be received an order from his ser geant to do so whenever he saw him. The supposed second wife was not at the Police-court, nor had she made any complaints to him. Did not look after the second wife after the first day. The reason he went to find the mother of the first wife was, that he was sent to do so by the Magistrates. Found her in the Commercial road, Pimlico. Mr. CLARKSON here objected to the reading of the first certificate, which was overruled by the Court. The certificates having both heen put in and read, Eleanor Harvey, the mother of the first wife, was re called, and in answer to Mr. Clarkson, stated that she was delivered of her daughter, the first wife of the pri soner, before she was married. Her daughter was not walking the streets, to her knowledge, before she was married. Mr. CLA.RKSON then, at some length, addressed the Jury on behalf of the prisoner. Mr. Justice MAULS summed up, and The Jury, after a short consultation, found the prisoner Guilty, but strongly recommended him to mercy on ac count of the dissolute conduct of his former wife. - Mr. Justice MAULE sentenced him to two calendar months' imprisonment. SURRE Y SESSIONS. The General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, which were opened at Guildford on Tuesday, were yesterday held by adjournment at the Sessions House, Newington, be. fore Mr. Puckle and a full Bench of Magistrates. William Hopei, an aged and lame man, and Richard Stofel, a young labourer, were indicted for stealing two cows, the property of John and James Knight, from a field of theirs, in the parish of Farnham, on the night of the 28th November last. From a vast body of evidence which was adduced, it appeared that the cows were of the Alderney breed, and had been in the possession of the prosecutors, or some part of their family to whom they had lent them occa sionally, for the last ten years. It was about seven o'clock on Saturday evening, the 20th November, when they were turned out into a meadow which was closed by a gate opening inwards. On the Sunday morning the gate was found to have been opened outwards, and nearly broken, and the cows gone. The two prisoners were seen in company on the Saturday evening. About four o'clock on Sunday afternoon, one of the witnesses, who was a buyer of cattle, and was on the road to Guildford, met the two cows being driven towards town by two men, one of whom he positively swore was Hopel. He could not so confidently identify his companion. He took particular notice of the beasts, as they were of a singular colour, and one of them (the hide of which only was found), had pecu liar horns. Next day he saw a bill describing the cows, and offering a reward for the apprehension of the thieves, and in consequence of the information he gave the prisoners were apprehended. On the even ing of Sunday the two prisoners arrived at the yard of the Ham Inn, Smithfield, where they put up. They were very urgent with the landlord to purchase the cows of them. He at first refused to have anything to do with them on the Sunday, but as the old man pressed very much he agreed to give 151. for them, but would not complete the transaction till the following morning. They slept that night in the yard amongst the cattle ; got up very early, and insisted upon the landlord being called up before six o'clock, that they might, as they alleged, receive their money, and be off to some fair. The landlord did get up, and gave the old man a cheque for 151., but in consequence of something his servant told him, he snatched it back, and refused to have anything to do with the beasts. The two prisoners then drove them into the market, where they sold them to a butcher in White chapel, who had them killed, and the skins sold to a large dealer in such goods, where the one last killed was found, and fully identified by all the preceding witnesses, in consequence of its peculiar marks. Hopel, when taken into custody, was put in the cage at Farnham, and upon the morning after he freely confessed the robbery, which he said had been concocted by Stofel. The Jury, after a very long inquiry, found both pri soners guilty, and the Chairman sentenced them to be transported fur ten years. The case occupied a very long time, and was not over till a late hour. During its progress the Grand Jury returned all the bills which had been laid before them. In their present ment they regretted that Magistrates were not empowered to deal summarily with many of the petty cases which had occupied their attention and put the County to much expense; they suggested, that in no case where any wit ness had assisted in theft, by purchasing goods at much below their real value, should such witness be allowed any of the expenses of his attendance. The CHAIRMAN said the first question was a very wide one, and one with which they could not meddle with there; the other suggestion would most certainly be acted upon.—They were then discharged. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. James Steptoe, who had been tried at the Old Bailey on Tuesday, on an indictment for being a party in steal ing a bale of silk and a box of furs, the property of Messrs. Littlewood, of Milk-street, Cheapside, and Messrs. Ellis and Everington, St. Paul's Church-yard, for which he was acquitted, was placed at the bar before Mr. Alderman Copeland, on the charge of stealing a so vereign and some silver, the property of Elizabeth Bretten. It appeared, from the evidence, which was very lengthened, that the prosecutrix, who was a simple country girl, after leaving her situation, went to lodge with a woman named Griffen, where the prisoner also resided, and on the evening of her arrival, while sitting beside her, he stole the money, which was all she was worth in the world, from her pocket. She identified the sovereign by a peculiar scratch upon the rim. Inspector Woodruffe said there were several other charges against the prisoner. —Committed for trial. No less than eight persons, most of them able-bodied men and youths, were charg e d w ith enter i ng severa l bakers' shops, and forcibly taking bread from the coun ters. In excuse they said they were starving, and un able to get work. They tried at the workhouse, bat could get no relief, and they were unable to resist the tempta tion when they saw the bread in the windows. Mr. Alderman COPELAND said several cases of stealing bread from shops, by force, had come before him these few days back, which he treated with leniency, having only sentenced them to seven days' imprisonment, but in every future case brought before him he should commit the offending parties for trial at the Old Bailey. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A young -man, of very fashionable appearance, who gave his name as Thomas Sale Pennington, was placed at the bar before Mr, lisltby, the presiding Magi_ irate charged with improper conduct in one of the dress boxes of the Haymarket Theatre. A gentleman, named Hope, stated that last evening he was in the dress circle, accompanied by his lady. He was in the box next but ",one to the stage ; the prisoner was in the next box to the stage. A gentleman named Robinson, and his lady, were also in that box. About eight o'clock Mr. Robinson had occasion to go out for a short period, and witness noticed that the prisoner then fixed his eyes upon the lady in a very ungentlemanly manner, and as if he wished to stare her out of counte nance. In a short time afterwards witness saw the pri soner expose himself, and commit a nuisance in the box. He removed the lady, and gave the prisoner into custody. Several other witnesses gave similar testimony. The prisoner, in his defence, said that he was so much intoxicated that be had not the slightest recollection of what had passed. He was sure he had no intention of insulting any person, especially a lady, and could pro duce persons of the highest respectability to speak to his moral character. It was extremely improbable that a person in his station of life should so misconduct himself. He had been four years a member of Oxford University, and never had his character been in the slightest degree blemished. Mr. MALTBY said he regretted that the charge had been so clearly proved, that no favourable view of the case could be taken to the prisoner's advantage. He should, therefore, making no distinction as to the station or society of the prisoner, convict him of the offence charged, and commit him to hard labour in the House of Correction for three months. The prisoner, on hearing his sentence, seemed deeply affected. CLERKENWELL. On Tuesday police constable 10 G, reported to Mr. Combe that an unfortunate man, named William Walker, well-known about town as a vagrant, and called " Silly Billy," was apprehended on Monday night last, in Wake field -street, Regent-squere, for being drunk, and causing a mob of persons to assemble ; and yesterday morning, on proceeding to his cell, he was found quite dead. The dceeased was charged at this Court the day before with being drunk, when he was in a most horrid state of filth; he was paralysed, and had been in custody three or four times in the course of last week. He was 26 years of age, and a most incorrigible drunkard. His body lies for a Coroner's Inquest. Richard Balmer, badge 759, in the employ 'of Mr. Lee, cab-proprietor, of High Holborn, appeared to a summons, to answer the charge of Mr. W. Wade, builder, of No. 1, Amwell-street, Clerkenwell, for having at tempted to exact more than his legal fare, assaulting him, and insolence. It appeared from the complainant's evidence that on Wednesday last a gentleman, a lodger in his house, was in haste to reach the Birmingham Railway, and witness sent his son for a cabiiolet, but remaining away longer than was expected the gentleman hired a cab accident ally passing by. The defendant shortly after arrived with his vehicle, when witness, in consideration of his having been called from his stand, tendered hint Bd., on which he demanded a shilling, and forcing himself into the passage, refused to leave unless he was paid a shil. ling, and behaved himself in a most insolent manner, to the annoyance of his family, and caused a mob to as semble round the house. He was eventually ejected, and witness took out a summons. Mr. Comrtt—l shall convict you in the penalty of 40s. and costs, and in default of p a y men t one mon th s impri sonment in the House of Correction, with hard labour. LLOYD'S SHIPPING LONDON, JAN. s.—Wind this day at noon N. DEAL, JAN. 4.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. from the River and sld. London, New Zealand ; Isabella, Hobart Town ; Julius Czesar, Bombay ; Richmond Hill, Berbice ; Cod rington, Antigua ; Switzerland, New York. . . _ RAMSGATE, JAN. 4.—Arrd. Republican, Calab , for Yarmouth, with loss of bulwarks, &c., having been ashore on the French Coast ; Monticello, Lawton, New Orleans. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 4.—Wind N.N.E. to E.N.E.— Sd. Sw4zerland, New York; her Majesty's steamer Ma gwra, Woolwich. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 4.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. T. Coutts, London, for the Cape and Singapore. Off—Toronto, Att wool, New York; her Majesty's ship Conway, China. FALMOUTH, JAN. 3.—Wind E. to E.S.E., strong breezes.—Arrd. Racer, Hallin, Cephalonia; Spring, Car diff for London, leaky. Her Majesty's ship Lynx, Lis bon, sailed 19th ult. with mails. Sailed Thames steamer and Tay steamer, Barbadoes; Tagus steamer, Vigo, &c. OFF PENZANCE, JAN. 3.—Thomas Lowry, Graham, China, sld. Aug. 30 ; St. Helena, Nov. 22. BRISTOL, JAN. 3.—Sld. Adelaide, Tobago. .DUBLIN, JAN. 2.—Sld. Kingston, Demerara. CORK, JAN, 2.—Arrd. "Virginia, New Orleans. Sld. Atholl (transport), Jamaica ; Xarifa, Barbadoes; Ed. ward Thorne, New Orleans ; Boyne (transport), Malta. SUNDERLAND, JAN. 3.—Arrd. Adahline, Quebec ; William Rippon Storey, Richebucto. HULL, JAN. 4.- , —Wind N.E.—Sid. Froja, Odessa ; Mary, Leghorn. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 4.—Wind N.E.— Arrd. Leila, Rig gings, New Orleans ; Seaflower, Campbell, Newfound land. Sid. Britannia steamer, Boston ; Chicora, New York ; North Pole, Africa. _ _ HARWICH, JAN. 4. —The Pettingell, from Boti logne to Hamburgh, has put back with buws stove, having been in contact with a smack. ST. HELENA, Nov. 22.—The Juno steamer, from London to Sydney, New South Wales, was fallen in with off the Cape, with loss of rudder, having been struck by a sea, endeavouring to get into Simons Bad-, by the Crusader, arrived here from Calcutta. VESSELS SPOKEN Win!. Trident of Hamburgh, outward bound, Nov. 19, lat. 20, lon. 40 ; Alert, Co penhagen, for West Indies, Nov. 21, out 56 days, by the Janet Gibson, arrived off Swanage ; Garrick, Liverpool to New York, and Sesquehannah, ditto, to Philadelphia, 25th ult., lat. 47, lon 28, by the Thomas Mellor, ar rived at Liverpool. Velocity, Newfoundland to Oporto, 12th ult., lat. 42, lon. 11 ; linmase, Liverpool to Bom bay, 15th ult., lat. 42, lon. 11 ; Galetea (Hamburgh, No. 24) 22d ult., lat. 45, long. 11, by the Diligence ar rived at Liverpool. Mary Dick, of Dysart, 28th ult, 125 miles S.S.W. of the Lizard ; Governor M'Lean, London to Cape Coast Castle, 80 ditto ; Cecilia, out 53 days from Galway, 19th Nov., lat. 1 N., lon. 21. W., by by the Berkshire, arrived in the Downs. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrivals.—H.M.S. Conway, Bethune, from China, at Plymouth, sailed July 17, Batavia Sept. 6, Cape Nov. 1, and St. Helena Nov. 17 ; Berkshire, Norris, from Bom bay, in the Downs, sailed Aug. 25, St. Helena Nov. 6. Arrivals at St. Helena.—Helen Thompson, Wilson, Nov. 8, from Calcutta, and sailed 11th to London ; Wetherall, Hall, Bth, from Singapore, and sailed 11th to Liverpool ; H.M.B. Water Witch, Watson, Bth, from Cabenda ; a Brazilian brig, Mr. Stardee in charge, I I th, Prize to the Water Witch, and sailed 13th to Ascension ; Eclipse, Whitmarsh, 12th, from Sumatra, and sailed 14th to Salem ; Claudine, Brewer, 15th, from Madras, and Cape Bengalee ; Trainet, 15 th, from Cal cutta to Marseilles ; Candahar, Ridley, 15th, from Bombay and Cape, to London ; Andromache, Barnes, 17th, from the Cape to Rio ; Fortitude, Hutton, 17th, from Lombock and the Cape, passed for Cowes. Departure from St. Helena.—Reform, Miller, Nov. 9, to Ascension and the Cape of Good Mope. Arrivals in Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope.—Chatham, Oppenheim, Oct. 23, from London to Sydney ; Sove reign, Archer, from River Fortitude ; Hutton, 25th, from Lombock and Mauritius ; Cape Packet, Lambe, 26th, from London ; Wellington, Kenrick, 27th, from Portsmouth and Madeira. Departures from Table Bay.—Dream, Squire, Oct. 22, for Mauritius ; Bolivar, Fenwick, 23d, London ; Margaret, Scarborough, 24th, Sydney; Bristolian,Thotnas, 24th, Sydney ; Jim Crow, Geere, 26th, Algoa Bay. Arrivals in Table Bay (Cape of Good Hope).—Susan nah Collins, White, Oct. 25th, and Artemis, Goulding, 26th, from Liverpool: Arrival in Simon's Bay.—Her Majesty's ship Fan tome, Butterfield, Oct. 26th, from St. Helena. Arrivals at Lombock previous to the 22d of August.— Frederick Keith, Toby, from Sydney and Batavia Byker, Christie, from ditto. Arrivals at Batavia.—Concord, Spavin, Aug. 29th, from Boston; Hilda, Hall, from Manilla; Neptune, Carleron, from Bourbon; Rubens, from Bourbon; Navi gator, Bridges, 30th, from Liverpool; Alexandre, An drieux, Sept. Ist, from Bourbon; Columbus, 3d, from Hamburgh ; Egmond, from Samarang; Argo, Billing, 4th, Sydney; and SourabayaMargaretha, Barcham, 6th, London; Gonda Suzanna,Muldez:, Bth, Amsterdam. Departures from Batavia. Thule, Coleman, Aug. 28th, to North America; Psyche, Somerville, Sept. 3d, to Singapore. Arrival in the Straits of Sunda.—Robert Henderson, M'Farlane, Aug. 31st, from Liverpool. Arrival at Sourabaya.—John Bartlett, Bartlett, Aug. 24th, from Sydney. MURDER IN IRELAND.—We believe prompt measures have been taken to bring to justice the perpe trators of a murder committed in the county of Down, upon the person of a Roman Catholic, in which, we deeply lament to say, Protestants are the accused parties, many of whom are at this moment in custody. Mr. Brew, J. P., has received the thanks of his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant for the activity and discretion dis played by him in effecting the arrest of the parties im plicated.—Dublin Mail. DEATH OP THE BISHOP OF OSSORY.—The Right Rev. Dr. Fowler, Bishop of Ossory, Ferns, and Leighlin, against whom a commission of lunacy was re cently taken out, expired at the Palace, Kilkenny, on Friday evening. The deceased Prelate was in the 76th year of his age, and was consecrated Bishop of Ossory in May, 1818. Dr. Fowler, previously to the melancholy visitation with which he was afflicted, was distinguished in a pre-emin en t d egree f or hi s p r i nce ly ac t s o f carity. Possessed of an ample private fortune, it is well known that for a long period he devoted the revenues of his see to the exclusive use of the poor and friendless throughout his diocese. The names of Dr. Elrington, Regius Pro fessor of Divinity, and the Very Rev. Robert Daly, Dean of St. Patrick's, are mentioned as the probable candidates for the vacant Bishopric. That's what I call a finished sermon," re marked a man, as he was coming out of church. " Ye s , finished at last," replied his neighbour, " though I began to think it never would be." FIRE IN THE LONDON DOCK.-011 Tuesday morning, about six o'clock, a fire broke out on board the schooner Lady Ann, lying alongside the north quay of the London Dock. Mr. Clement, the principal of the dock police, saw the smoke issuing from the forecastle, and immediately collected the Thames police and land policemen of the II division in the dock, and they soon broke through a bulkhead into the forecastle, where the fire was raging, and by means of buckets o f water t h row n on the flames, he fire was got under without doing much damage. The fire it; supposed to have been caused by the ignition of a box of lucifer matches which a boy who slept in the forecastle placed under his bed to keep them dry. The boy narrowly escaped with his life. MORNING SUN RECANTATION. (From the Awning He;trld.) In our paper of the 21st ultimo we noticed, upon autho rity on which we have been accustomed to place implicit. reliance, the existence of rumours relative to the Exche quer Bill Fraud, which we were assured had gained sn extensive circulation in the City. The result of inquiries which we subsequently instituted on the subject, now leads us to the conviction that we have been imposed urion, and that such rumours had gained no such circula tion as our informant confidently stated. To have given currency to an unfounded statement such as we allude to, is a matter of regret ; but, having ascertained its want of foundation, there is only one course to be adopted, and that course we do now sponta neously adopt by thus making the fact just stated public. It has, we regret to find, been supposed that our para graph, with its quotation from Milton, " What seemed its head, The likeness of a kingly crown had on." alluded to a Noble Marquis lately Viceroy, of Ireland, and subsequently high in her Majesty's Government. We take this opportunity to avow our thorough convic tion that there could not be the smallest foundation for any such charge. We need hardly add, that, to any one who should understand our allusions as directed against hi m , we should vonvey a most false imputation against that Noble Lord - Which we should be the first to regret. THE POOR MAN'S CHURCH. The following extract, from a work recently published by Palmer and Son, Paternoster-row, strikingly pour trays the secular character of our National Ecclesiastical Establishment : "From these calculations" (contained in a tabular ex hibition) "it will be seen that Spain and Portugal are the only two countries which cost 100,0001. per million of hearers ; and in both these countries the income of the clergy is being reduced. If tithes constituted the only revenue of the English clergy, and we supposed the Church to contain five millions of hearers, the English clergy are then paid ten times more than the clergy of priest-ridden Spain and Portugal. If we take the ave rage expenditure of Roman Catholicism upon the clergy % the difference between the income of the Romish and English priesthood will be as twenty to one. If we add only a third to the tithes of the Anglican clergy, which may be safely done, the disproportion is as o ne to thirty. If we take Italy, where Popery lives, and moves, and has its being ; where the man of sin is enthroned, and Where the Government has been for ages in the hands of ecclesiastics, the excess will be as thirty-seven To one. And if we go no .further than France, we shall find the revenues of the English clergy forty times greater than the revenues of the French clergy, making the pure, re formed Church of England, forty times more expensive in England than is Roman Catholicism in a neighbour ing country ; and thirty-seven times dearer than the ad ministration of Popery in Italy itself ! We ask whether it be at all probable that the clergy generally can enter this Establishment free from secular motives ? Whether, a Church, possessed of so much wealth, can resemble the true Church of Christ ? Whether it does not appear thoroughly carnal, earthly, and contrary to the Church of Christ ? And whether it be not indecent, as well es absurd, fur the clergy to upbraid the Catholics with ad ministering a secular religion, and subscribing for the sake of emolument?" " Besides tithes, there are twenty-six Bishoprics ; twenty-six Deaneries; fifty-three Archdeaconries; three hundred and ninety-four Prebends ; at Oxford, four hundred and forty-four Fellowships, and four hundred and four more at Cambridge. Then there are the Fel lowships at Winchester College, Benefices. in the Schools at Eton and Westminster, besides the Masterships of numerous Hospitals, Schools, Almshouses, and various other charitable institutions, all productive of the good things of this life, and all, or most of them, in the hands of the clergy, their patrons, and dependents."—Pietas Ecclesice, the Dissenters' Text-book chap • of ix pp. 162, St and 5. And so our holy and Apostolic Church has dwindled, away, and become a text-book for the Non.-Cons. ! The thought is an ingenious one, but the fact is plain enough. God help Old England, if this be her State Church. CLERICAL SUBSCRIPTION.—" Eighteen thousand clergy' men, swearing that they believe they are moved by the Holy Ghost, and, in the same breath, taking their oath to matters of hazardous and doubtful import. Subscrir Lion is written and engraven upon every step in the winding stairs of Episcopal ascension. A Vicar, for in. stance, before he is regularly settled in the Vicarage , must have made at least twelve solemn attestations, and, if previously licensed to a Curacy, sixteen. Should h 8 graduate through minor degrees to a Bishopric he will have had not fewer than thirty oaths imposed upon him, all of which he has taken freely and unreservedly. In fact, a clergyman cannot advance a single step with out taking an oath. Swearing begins with his beginning: grows with his growth, and advances with his progress. —Chap. viii. pp. 141, 2. T MARKETS.—(YESTERDAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. • The supplies of Grain since Monday have been small Wheat, Barley, and Oats, all very dull at last quotations Flour also sold heavily. COLONIAL MARKET. Although there was little activity in the market, the orders for goods are gradually increasing, and price firm for all the leading articles ; confidence has much increased amongst mercantile men. Raw Sugar met * fair sale. Brown West India, 58s. to 60s. ; low to fine Yellow, 61s. to 71s. per cwt. Refined goods in fair re' quest, standard lumps 80s. 6d. per cwt. TEA MARKET. There was a good demand for Free Trade Tea and prices were firm; ls. 9id. was the lowest rate of Common Congou cash. Company's Is. 10d. per lb. TALLOW MARKET. A good demand ; prices firm at 48s. 6d. on the spot , and 495. for delivery in the next two months. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. There was but a moderate inquiry for meat. The, supplies were fair, but in prices no v ar i a ti on occurre d worthy of notice. Of Game and Poultry we had a fai r show; but trade was dull, and price s near ly nom inal' Figs dull of sale, at 4s. 6d. to 10s. per 120. IRISH MARKETS. DUBLIN MARKET NOTE for he Wcek ending DEC. 3L From 417 Wheat,per barrel -4. 4ft/or 21 0 325 Sere 4. ....... 18 stole l4 0 341 Barley a............ 16 stone l5 0 513 Oats 1 4 steno 8 0 4) Flour, per cwt... la stoue — 0 436 Oatmeal 8 stone ll 6 Sold to Bakers only. 8,313 Cwt. E lour lO 0 1 27 0 I 21 10% Average price ./f Wheat and _lour 55. Od per sack. Receipts Fait. f rom 22 5. Od to 27s oa eceipts of Flour, 12,6'111 , Gales of Do. • • ec " '9 ".... from l Os. Od. to _.l 3 .ocl _ . 9 ' " Thirds ........ front ios. Od. to 15s 00 To 35 0 15 C 1$ 6 13 0 0 14 6 A verzle . 27 1 I 14 9 16 10 11 9 0 12 PRAM OF BREAD. Quarterr, I.oat CORK MARKETS.—Jan 1. Wheat (per t:Ost.) od. tt,311. tkl.lLoats (per list. .5301 to 12+. ad• parley (per 1(5t.)14 0 17 111cr'r (per cwt ,8 n 23 d Oatmeal (per Od to 14s Od Reef, 61 to 60. Mutlen, sd. to Ott Veal , 4&d to 51 Pork. 4d. to 5d.--Fresh Butte!, 11d. to 12d per lb. PRICE OF BUTTER. To the Merchants. To the Country *fret Quality ..• 00000000 •••••••••• SS •••••••••••••••••-• ..... ... ilit, Second .. 84 ... •••••••• •.... 75 Third .. ......... •.• .. ...... ..• 74 ....,.........•.• • ......: 65 Fourth . Filth Sixth - - CLON DULL MARKETS...Jan. 1, Per t wt. .. 4. s. d. $ d. •d. . , • e New Butter .98 oto 1-.9 0 aides (eaw),........... tc .:4 ll Oatmeal- 0 14 6 Bacon Pie5...........4 i c 46 n _fut. 0 I ---- F0urth5......18 0 --• Rendered Lard 0 52 1 d eada.................2& -- " Per BEf.. 6 0 Fleur, Second — 0 40 ' !flour, thirde........ 0 i 0 Household I.' Per Barrel. 0 ile a ff seed. 20 0 —0 f Barley ...............16 9 1 3 n 13 0 1 CAA, .___________,....... .• .- KILKENNY 14ARKETh. flit Wheatsperbarrel)2Bl Od.to 335. Od. Beef %ler It ..... Os. Od.l , Os• Barley 12 0 19 0 Mutter , .......... 0 5 0 s 'I Lists R • 0 15 I , Pori. •••••••••••••. h 4 0 , Flour (per bag) 25 0, 59 0 bee' ............. . 0 6 °. 6 Butter(percwt.) 0 0 98 0 crest: Mutter ... 0 0 i „ 6 Bacon Pigs 45 0 46 0 Salt Dirt ........ 0 6 0 I Coals 1 0 1 2 Potatoesiper 44 I) 9 to " " I understand," said a Deacon to his neighbour , " that you are becoming a hard drinker." That is:, slander," replied the neighbour ; " f or no man can drin k easier." PATENT LEVER WATCH -:,,..• This celebrated construction (the most accurate on whit; ch watch can be made) is now offered at the following Pr i t with the latest improvements e. the detached escapeste ll . jewelled in four hole., hand to mark the seconds, and sitagl taining power to continue going while winding up, SILVER. CASES With double-bottom cases, capped 4:6 6 0 ' With hunting cases, capped 6 16 6 ' GOLD CASES. Size for Ladies, with elegant gold dial Ditn) in double-backed oases l4 14 0 Size for Gentlemen, enamelled dial Ditto extra full size, capped l7 17 0 A Pamphlet, contai n i ng o b servat i ons respect i ng the vario,ul constructions on which w a t c h es are ma d e, w i t h t h e pr i ces bob in gold and silver cases, and a variety of sketches of new de signs, which have just be en completed in gold Chains, will r sent, gratis and po s t age f ree , on app li ca ti on b y l e tt er t o .A. SAVORY and SONS, Watchmakers, No. 9, Cornhill, Log don, opposite the Bank of England. BIRTHS. At Upper Montagu-street, Montagu-square, the lady of E r ' nest Jones, Esq., of a son. f On the 29th ult., at Maxton House, near Dover, the lag ° f Digby Murray, Esq., of a daughter. On the 31st ult., at Jersey, the lady of Henry Strong, BK . ' of the Middle Temple, of a son. On the Ist inst., at Saxmundham, the lady of the Rel. B . Bond, of a daughter. On the 2d inst., at Teen Cottage, near Dorchester, the lad/ of Thomas Provis Wickham, Esq. of a daughter. On the 4th inst., in Bloomsbur y-square, Airs. Hornidge , a daughter. MARRIED. On the 4th inst., at St. Mary's, Bryanston-square, Arthr Beresford Brooke, Esq., of the Royal Welch Fusiliers , only son of Lieutenant-General Sir A. Bri , oke, K.C.8., to Franceg, Maria Wemyss, daughter of the late C a pt a i n Thomas WenS Ceylon Rifle Regiment, and niec e o f th e l a te General D. Wemyss, Governor of Tynemouth and Clifford Fort. DIED. On the 20th ult., at Chertsey, Abs. Mary Giles, aged 8 3 ' 0‘ On the 22d ult., at Paris, George Alexander. only chil d George Graham. Esq., of Drynie, North Britain. On the 31st ult., at the Vicarage, Broadclyst, near Elate ? ' the Ray. W. Barker, Vicar of that parish. On the Ist inst ,at Readi ng , B er k s , H e nry Delme, the , fant son of Captain Murray, R.N., aged . 10 months. On the 3d inst., in Sloan e - s t ree t, K a tharine, widow of tile late Colonel Bulkeley, of Huntley Hall, Staffordshire. On the 3d inst., in the Greve, Hackney, Mr. F. Procter. On the 4th inst., at Upper Woburn-place, J. Nisbett, Es ( k ni , ; • On the 4th l es t., at Raven Cottage, St. John's, FA II Joice Angela, on l y aughter of L. L. Lee, Esq., aged 20. 0 • On the 4th inst., Mary Ann, youngest daughter of Thom Richard Read, E sq ., o f t h e T o we r o f L on d on . , -.---- of London: Printed and Publiafied by MUMS° YOUNG , No. 112. Straw, at The Sun. Office, No. 112, Stra p Ui County of Middlesex, Thursday, Issue.* NT A 7 Th e c , Ti lt ei 14 Ci I E