The Sun. — London, England, 1842-01-12 00:00:00

EVENING SUN of Parliament ; subject, however, to the following con ditions :- 1. " That he be a native of these realms, or a fo reigner who has lived in this country upwards of two years, and been naturalized. 2. " That he be twenty-one years of age. 3. " That he be not proved insane, when the lists, of voters are revised. 4. " That he be not convicted of felony within Six months from and after the passing of this Act. 5. " That his electoral rights be not suspended for bribery at elections, or for personification, or for forgery of election certificates ; according to the penal ties of this Act. 6. " That he shall have resided six months in the town or district for which he votes, prior to the day of election or registration." This last proviso, as it respects residence; is not pre cisely inserted in this order of place in - the Charter, as we think it should have been ; we have, however, in serted it here ourselves, in order to comment upon it in due course. Indeed, it seems so intimately bound up with the other conditions, that we apprehend the non insertion of it here originally must have been an oveseight. To the first, third, fourth, and fifth conditions, as ,above, we agree at.once, and concur in their propriety ; but to the second and sixth we have objections, and pro pose to superadd in both cases some few qualifying con ditions. We will begin with the second clause, " That he (the elector) be twenty-one years of age." Instead of this we propose that the clause should read thus : " That he, (the elector), be at least twenty-five years of age." We do this for various reasons. First, in order to se cure a maturity of judgment on the part of the elector ; secondly, on account of the increased chance that a man by this time will have acquired a " local habitation and a name ;" thirdly, on account of the defective state of education in this country at present, which makes it ne cessary to superadd this additional guarantee ; and fourthly, on account of the general fear among the middle classes of the rashness, inexperience, and reck lessness of young men without family ties, settled habits, or practical experience. In thus proposing to raise the qualification-age for electors, we do not in the slightest degree interfere with the principle of "equal rights," which we shall, as the free citizens of a free state, keep steadily in view ; ou r ma i n o bj ec t s are t o ex t en d: the franchise to an hitherto unprecedented eaten t, while at the same time we hope to secure the support of the middle classes by furnishing guarantees with which-the Movement Party among them may be satisfied, and which may induce thair general and effective support. As this advanced qualification age may to some appear new and startling, and to others arbitrary or- capricious, we propose to show that, in conferring important poli tical power upon individuals, it has been the custom in all Republican countries, from Athens downwards, to insist upon guarantees, sometimes of age, sometimes of property, and sometimes of both together, before they instructed their citizens with offices of high trust or responsibility. We propose, further, to show, that the qualification age for electors has been various in various States, both ancient and modern, and that it is at pre sent different in France and England, Holland and Belgium.—ln ancient Rome no patrician or commoner could hold any public office until he was twenty-four or twenty-five years of age. The first office he could as pire to was that of Questor, or public treasurer. It fol lowed, of course, that he could not hold any higher or more important office, until he had arrived at a still more advanced age. A Senator was obliged to be 25 years of age before he could take his seat. He must, further, have previously borne some office in the Magistracy, and be seised or possessed of an estate of not less than from 6,000!. to 7,0001. A Consul (an officer with almost kingly power) was galiged to be 42 years of age. A Dictator (or actual Emperor, pro tern.) must have first served the office of Consul, and of course must have been 43 years old and upwards. Augustus made a law, that no man should have the freedom of the city without a previous examination into his merit and character.—ln Athens, a citizen must be 30 years of age before he was eligible as a member or .juror of the Helica, or Court of Judges. Beyond thisa citizen must be 50 years of age be fore he had the privilege of haranguing in the Ecclesia, or puplic assemblies, upon State affairs. All the officers of the State and Magistracy were destined by Solon to be filled from the first three classes of the -richer citizens—the fourth, or poorest class, being ineligible to office, but having the right of voting in the public assemblies.— In Sparta, a citizen was not allowed to take any part in public business until he was 30 years of age, and then a man of ordinary station was thought forward and pre suming who intermeddled much with political affairs. A Spartan was not eligible for election to the Senate until he had passed his 60th year.—ln Venice (one of the Republics of the middle ages), no nobleman could. take his seat or vote in the Grand Council, till he had attained the acre of 25 years.—ln Florence, a citizen, at one time, tote eligible to any office in the Magistracy, was obliged to be 30 years of age.--In Genoa, the nobi lity alone were capable of holding the chief offices in the Republic. No person, either, could be elected Doge until he was 50 years old, and had left off business 15 years before.—ln Holland, at the present time, no man can be a member of the Lower House who is less than forty years of see.—ln Belgium, a Senator must be, forty years of age. and pay direct taxes to the amount of 1,000 florins, or 851. yearly. A member of the Cham ber, of Deputies must be twenty five years of age, and pay direct taxes to the amount of 81. annually. He is paid for his public services, while the Chambers are in session, at the rate of 16/. per month. After the Revo lution in Belgium, a National Congress was assembled at Brussels, to settle the Government, consisting of 200 Deputies, who were elected from the various provinces by all tax-paying persons above 25 years of age. In France, before the Revolution of July, an elector was obliged to be thirty years of age. After that event. in 1831, the qualification age was reduced to twenty-five years, where it now remains. There is further, a property qualification of 200 francs required with an elector. At the same time, 1831, the qualification for a Deputy was reduced from 40 to 30 years of age; and the property qualification from 1,000 to 500 francs.' No Peer can sit or vote in the French Chambers until he is 25 years of age. In England, the tenure of the franchise is arbitrary and various; generally it is a property qualification, but the lowest qualification is that of a freeman, who is en titled to vote Dar Members of Boroughs when he has at tained his 21st year. In America (partially copied, of course, from English institutions), the electoral qualification is 21 years of age, and six months' residence,. This latter proviso is, however, shamefully violated by both parties. In the general Government of America a Representa tive must be 25 years old, a Senator 30, the President 35, and the Vice-President 35.—1 n the State of Maine, a senator must be 25 years old; and the G overnor 30. In the State of ?Massachusetts, a Senator must be possessed in his own right, of. a freehold within the commonwealth, of the value of 3001: at least, or po ssesse d of personal estate to the value of 6001. at least, or of both, to the amount of the same sum ; and must have been an in habitant of the commonwealth for the space of fiveyears immediately preceding his election. The Governor must have been an inhabitant of this commonwealth for seven years preceding, and must be possessed in his own right of a freehold within the commonwealth of 1,0001., and must declare himself' of the Christian religion.—ln New Hampshire, a Senator must be possessed of a freehold estate, in his own right, of the value of 2001., lying within the State: he must be 30 years of age, and an inhabitant of the State for seven preceding years. A Representative must have been an inhabitant of the State for two years, and must have an estate within the district of the value of 1001.; one half of which, must be a freehold in his own right. The Governor must be thirty years of age, must have been an inhabitant of the State for seven years preceding, and must have an estate of the value of 5001.; one half of which must be a freehold in his own right. A Councillor, of whom there must be six, for advising the Governor in the executive part of the Government, must have an estate of the value of 300/. within the State ; 30c/. or more of which must be freehold in his:own right t h e must be thirty years old, and an inhabitant of the State for seven years preceding.—ln the State of New. York, the Governor must be a freeholder, and thirty years old. AU electors must have paid. # tax to the State or county, assessed upon their real or personal property, or must have per formed military duty in the militia of the • State.— Pennsylvania. A Senator must be twenty-five years old, and an inhabitant of the State four years before his election. The Governor must be at least thirty years of age, and have been a citizen and inhabitant of the State seven years before election, The electors must have paid a State or eouuty tax, and have resided in the State two years before the election. All the other States of the. American confederacy haiTe similar varying provisions re s pe c ti ng t h e qualification age of heir Representatives and Governors, as will be seen on reading the note enumereting the whole at the bdttom of the column.* It thus appears that in the most democrat,ic,„country of the world, th e co llective wisdom of its sages and politicians have devised numerous guarantees of age and property as security forp ; the•conduct, patriotism, and capacity of their publiomsen. .We wish .sincerely, for the sake of human. nature and public liberty, that they had devised some such guarantee for the probity of their electors ; then their institutions, both in theory and in practice, might have been the pride and wonder of the world. Our last and concluding example in favour of an ad vance& qualification age, for offices ,of trust and respon sibility (and the franchise is a trust of grave and serious respon s ibility), is the evidence of the approbation o f th e Deity himself, in the only government especially insti tuted under his immediate superintendence —we mean the theocracy of the Jews. Here, it was ordained by the original appointment of Moses, that the Levites— who were priests, scribes, lawyers, &c.—were not to be allowed to enter upon their sacred and peculiar duties till they were2s or 30 years of age, and were to be dis charged from their performance at 50. As it is written in the Book. of. Numbers, ch. 4, ver. 3, they Were " to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation " " from thirty years old and upwards ;" and in the Bth chapter,it is said, that " from twenty and five years old and upwards, they shall go into wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation." Thus it seems, from almost immemorial custom and prescription, that the wisdom of all ages and nations, in which there has been any portion of freedom, has always provided various' guarantees for public security ; that i s not on l y sanct i oned by precedent and high this mature qualification age, which we propose as an amen dment, antiquity—not only adopted by the fi rs t an d most civilised nations of the old world—not only con fi rmed by the practices of the free states of, the middle ages — not only ratified by the example of most of the comparatively free nations of Continental Europe—not only act e d upon by S- Y- 14": ` 7 Republican Aineiica—but that it has, as far as Jewish example can apply, the express and approving counte nance of the Divinity himself. We trust, therefore, that. we shall not be considered as capricious or unreasonable in propesing this alteration. The only reason or authority for the present qualifica , lion age in this country is that of custom and prescrip . tion ; but if we were to inquire further, and to ask why was 21 originally fixed upon, we e fear that no ve r y satis / factory solution could be given. In our opinion it was an , arrangement originated in times of superstition and monkish ignorance, when astrology and alchemy were popular, and physical science was in abeyance. In those days an absurd factitious importance was attached, among other follies and fancies, to the number 7. This aggre gate of units happened to be coincident with the days of the Creation, with stars and planets, with the days of the week, the colours of the rainbow, &c,. thus :- 7 stars (Pleiades), 7 wise men of Greece, 7 heavens, , 7 days in the week, 7 colours of the rainbow. The 7th day was consecrated and set apart in the Jewish law, so was the 7th year ; and 7 years multiplied by 7 years, or th e 49th year preceded the rear of Jubilee. Tere were 7 fat kine and 7 lean, 7 full ears and 7 blasted, 7 golden candlesticks and 7 branches. In the Book of Revelations there were 7 churches, 7 *spirits, 7 stars, and 7 lamps, 7 seals, 7 angels, 7 vials, and 7 plagues. Beyond this, in Scripture History, there were 7 clean beasts and 7 unclean, 7 altars and 7 trumpets ; the Jews were 7 years building their temple, and were commanded to forgive their offending brethren 70 times 7. A 7th son was, perhaps is now, considered as a sa vant; but the 7th son of a 7th son is a very Solomon perforce I These remarkable coincidences, among other reasons, induced the Sages of the middle ages to attach a won derful importance to the number 7 : there was evidently, they thought, something so extraordinary in it, that no doubt there were oth er occu lt co i nc id ences in nature, and in man, that would still further corroborate its mystic and, almost magical properties. This, till the time of our immortal Bacon, was the rule for philosophising an hypothesis was hastily taken up from some few coin cidences or startling facts, and then nature and the uni verse, matter and mind, the elements and seasons, land and sea, mountain and valley, the treasures of the past and the promise of the future, were all pressed or tor tured into the service, to illustrate or substantiate a no tion that was as false and fleeting as a summer cloud. Hence the origin of a man being pronounced of age at 21 : it was three times 7 ; and of course it must be a marvellous proper age. No matter whether he were flever and competent before that time, still he had not passed the magic line, and of course was unfit for self government, or political enfranchisement. Human life was further divided intoranciful periods of 7 year' du ration, at the end of which periods some remarkable change was supposed to have occurred in the physical constitution ; but the most remarkable changes were those which arose from or accompanied the periods when the 7 could be multiplied by an odd number, as at 21, or 3 times 7-35, or 5 times 7-49, or 7 times 7-63, or 9 times 7—which latter was called the grand climacteric. Should this impression of ours, as to the orgin of this electoral arrangement, prove to, be ultimately correct, what attention need be paid to, f or what respect is due to, such an arbitrary qualification age ? Or how comes it to be mixed up in men's minds with so grave, so glo rious, so sacred a principle as " the equal rights :of man?" We have endeavoured to show the absurdity of its origin, and we have further demonstrated, from the example of America, the practical mischief of its operation. If in a country like America, where education is so universally diffused, and where every man is in such a situation of easy security and happy independence, there are so many mischiefs flowing from, and apparently in separable from the circumstances of youth and rashness being admitted to the exercise of political power ; what must or might be the natural consequence of admitting in this country all young men of twenty-one years to the exercise of the franchise indiscriminately ? From the absence of a system of National Education in England, the people are as a whole necessarily only partially in formed ; they would therefore be liable tp b e caug ht or imposed upon by every passing novelty, and thus become the unconscious dupes and tools of designing adven turers. They have at that age too generally no settled habits, no family ties, no fixity of residence, and no in terest in the locality. Every impartial and observii g man, who; has candour or moral courage; enough to avow his opinion, must feel that such men, at such an age, are unsafe depositories of so important a trust as the elective franchise ; and that it would be far better they should enter upon it when their judgment were matured, when they had acquired an increased interest in the locality, and had furnished society with some reasonable security of their good conduct as citizens and members of society. It would undoubtedly be better, even for themselves in the long run, as their interests and social happiness are so intimately bound up with the well-being of society as a whole ; and any important mistakes in legislation would affect them more immedi ately, more seriously and extensively, than any other cl uss in the empire. We now resume the sixth and last clause of the Charter that we propose to alter, or amend :—" That he (the elector) shall have resided six , months in the town o r district for which he votes, prior to the day of election cr registration." We propose to alter thi&residence quali fication to twelve months instead of six; our object in this instance being to provide a reasonable guarantee that electors are bona fide residents, and have a real in terest in the locality ; and to guard against, and ex clude, wanderers, adventurers, thoughtless, reckless, or desperate characters, who would desecrate their electoral rights to purposes of faction, or of interest. We know that in the Atlantic cities of the United States, where there is a six months' residence qualification required for an elector, there are annually thousands of newly arrived aliens (Irish or foreigners) polled, who have no right to vote whatever ; we, think, therefore, that the middle classes have a right to this reasonable security ; and we further feel confident, that the work ing classes would be more faithfully, fully, and fairy represented in consequence of its insertion and adop. tion, than with a residence qualification of shorter du. ration. We now introduce a few extracts from Sir W. Black stone to show that according to the theory of the British Constitution, Universal Suffrage is the law of the land, and, further, to show his explanation of the reasons which induced our ancestors to provide property guaran tees for electors : Page 171, Book 1, c. 2—" As to the qualifications of the electors, the true reason of requiring any qualification with regard to property in voters, is to exclude such persons as are in so mean a situation that they are es teemed to have no will of their own. If these persons had votes they would be tempted to dispose of them under some undue influence or other. This would give a grew, an artful, or a wealthy man, a larger share in elections than is consistent with general liberty. If it were pro bable that every man would give his vote freely and without influence of any kind, then upon the true theory and genuine principles of liberty every member of the com munity, however poor, should have a vote in electing those delegates to whose charge is committed the disposal of his property, his liberty, and his life. But since that 'ran hardly be expected in persons of indigent fortunes, or such as are under the immediate dominion of others, all popular states have been obliged to establish certain qualifications ; whereby some who are suspected to have no will of their own are excluded from voting, in order to set other individuals, whose'wills may be supposed in dependent more thoroughly upon a level with each other." Page 158, Book I,e. 2—".ln a free State every man who is supposed a free agent, ought to be in some measure his own governor, and therefore a branch at least of the legislative power should reside in the whole body of the people." Page 185, Book 1, c. 2—" Every man in England is, in judgment of law, party to the making of an Act of Par liament, being present thereat by his representatives." Page 139, Book 1, c. 1 (already quoted by Mr. Joseph Sturge)—" For no subject of England can be constrained to pay any aids or taxes, even for the defence of the realm, or the support of Government, but such as are im posed by his own consent, or that of his representatives in Parliament." It thus appears from the authority of the first com mentator upon the laws of England, that Universal Suf frage is fully sanctioned by the theory of the Constitu tion; though at the same time we are all well aware that there never was a period in our history when it has been practically carried out ; or when there were so many men possessing the elective franchise as at the present day ; whether compared with former ages, as to actual numeri cal amount, or relatively at any period, compared to the whole population in existence at the time. We propose, then, to make no further alterations in the document called " - The People's Charter:" the sum and substance of our amendments amount to this:— admitting and adopting the . principle'of "equal rights" to its fullest extent, we have in three instances increased the guarantees against youth and rashness ? against roving adventurers, and the abuses and inconveniences proved to be the result of annually recurring elections. We be lieve the Charter, with the exception of the points we have altered, to be a document of great ability, and one which (with these amendments) we now commend to the sober and serious perusal of the middle classes gene rally. We propose to subjoin our amended Charter at the end of this address, and we believe in our consciences that fit might come into practical operation to-morrow, not only without the slightest prejudice to public tran quillity, but with an incalculable advantage to the morals, liberties, and social condition of every subject of the British empire. We believe it would increase the self respect of every working. men in England, Ireland, and Scotland. We believe that it would qualify him to main tain himself in social happiness by his industry i and we further believe, that he is entitled to it by the theory of the constitution ; and that, beyond and above all this, he is entitled to it by the inalienable right of every man, however poor, to have u vote in electing those delegates, to whose charge is committed the disposal of his property, his . liberty, and his life." We shall wait some timC to ascertain how far our Amended Charter is, likely to meet with general support. If it be approved of, we can then take ulterior measures for petitioning, or for some combined national movement in its behalf. We see no reason why we Reformers of the Midland Counties may not, by reducing politicaVab stractions into a practical form —recognizing firet'prin ciples, but adapting them to English society—origmate a new democratic movement that may restili in the broadest and most extensive concessions to' 3opular li berty. We are, geographically, the heart 'of the coun try : let us, then, imitate the action of the heart, and send forth our vivifying influences throughout the length and breadth of the land. We invite the Movement Party of the middle classes—vve call upon the united democracy of the country —w e invite all Reformers of every grade and shade, to amalgamate with and join us; and we promise them in return the regeneration of the Empire. "" In the State of Connecticut, the Governor roust be 30 years of age. All Electors must have a freehold estate of the value of seven d9llars in this State, or being enrolled in the Militia, shall h.ve performed military duty therein for one year precedin.—ln th e St a te of New Jersey, Ele c t ors must be worth 6 (1 proclamation money, clear estate, in the sam e , an d must have resided for a year in the county preceding the elec tion. The Governor must be r an ibhabitant and freeholder in the county in which he is chosen, and worth at least 1,0004 real and personal estate in the county.—ln the State of Dela- THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1842. ware, a Representative must be 24 years old, have a freehold in the county, and have been a citizen and inhabitant of the State three years berore the election. A Senator must be 27 years old, have a freehold estate in the county in 200 acres of land, or an estate in real or personal property to the value of 1,0001 . at least. The Governor must be at least 36 years old, and have been a citizen and inhabitant of the States twelve years before election, and for six of the State for which he is elected. Electors must have paid a State or county tax.—ln the State of Maryland, a Senator must be above 25 years old, a resident in the State three years before election, and have therein real or personal property to the valai of 1,000/. A Counsellor must be above twenty -five years old, a resident in the State for three years, and have a freehold to the value of 1,900/. The Governor must be above twenty-five years old, a resident in the State five years before election, and have therein real and personal property above the value of 5,0001., 1,000/. to be in freehold estate.—ln the State of Virginia, a Senator must be thirty years old, and must be a resident within the district qualified by his freehold to vote for members of the General Assembly. A delegate must be twenty-five years old, and a resident and freeholder in the district. An elector must be a citizen pos sessed of an estate or freehold in land of the value of twenty five dollars. No person of unsound mind, nor a pauper can vote. The Governor must be thirty years old, and a citizen of the commonwealth for five years, before his election. In North Carolina, the Governor must be thirty years old, a re sident in the State for five years, and have a freehold in lands and tenements above the value o f. 1,0001. A Senator must pos sess in the county he represents not less than 300 acres of land in fee. A Representative must not have less than 100 acres of land in fee. —ln South Carolina a Senator must be 30 years old, resided in the State for five years, and have a freehold in lands and tenements above the value of 300/. sterling. The Governor must be thirty years old, have resided in the State ten years, and be possessed of an estate of the value of 1,5001. A Representative must have an estate of 500 acres of land, anti a real estate of the value of 1501.—1 n the State of Georgia, a Senator must be 25 years old, three years a resident in the State, and possessed of a freehold estate of 500 dollars value, or taxable property to the amount of 1,000 dolllars. A Repre sentative must be possessed of a freehold estate of the value of 150 dollars, or taxable property to the amount of 500 dollars. The Governor must be 30 years old, an inhabitant of the State for six years, and possess 500 acres of land in his own right. An Elector must have paid all taxes required of him for a year before.—ln Kentucky, a Representative must be 24 years old. A Senator must be 35, and have resided in the State six years before his election. The Governor must be 35 years old, and have resided six years in the State before election.—ln Tennessee, the Go vernor must be 35 years old, and possess a freehold estate of 500 acres of land, and have lived in the State four years before election.—ln Ohio, a Representative must be 25 years old. A Senator must be 30. The Governor must be 30, a citizen of the United States twelve years, and an inha bitant of the State four years, before election .— ln Indiana, a Senator must be 25 years old. The Governor must be 30 years old, and have resided in the State five years before election.—ln Louisiana, a Senator must be 27, and hold landed property to the value of 1,000 dollars. The Governor must be 35 years old, an inhabitant of the State six years, and hold in his own right a landed estate of 5,000 dollars.—ln Mis sissippi, a Representative must be 22 years old. A Senator must be 26 years old, and - hold in his own right in the State 300 acres of land. The Governor must be 30 years old, have resided in the State five years, and possess a freehold estate of 600 acres of land, and a real estate of the value of 2,000 dollars.—ln Illinois, a Senator must be 25 years old. The Go vernor must be 30 years old.—ln Alabama, a Senator must be 27 years old. The Governor must be 30, and have resided in the State four years before election.—ln Missouri, a Repre sentative must be 24 years old. A Senator must be 30. The Governor 35. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAL TIMES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 7 per mille, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10-id. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25.82, and the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25.45, it follows that gold is 0.52 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburgh, the price of gold is 428 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 1 old. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13. 61, and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13. Bf, it follows that gold is 0.93 per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburgh. The Government broker was again a seller of stock to-day for bank-notes, and did a good deal of business. This, of course, made money scarce and prices flat ; for whereas, in the early hours of business, not more than 3 per cent. could be got for money, 5 per cent. was the current rate at the close. ADVERTISER—We have accounts of the 2d inst. from the Christmas fair of Leipsic, which state that although the number of foreign buyers present exhibited a falling off, the agents of the Levant houses had made some large purchases. A strange accusation is brought . against the agents of an attempt to introduce light gold into circulation, but which is said to have been frus trated. The state of the fur trade is much complained of in these advises, and, in addition to the mildness and uncertainty of the winter, the absence of any demand for furs in England, on account of the China market, is as signed as a reason jor the depression. Cheap Prussian cotton fabrics sold well, but not at satisfactory prices for .he manufacturers. There were large sales in iron goods. The new scale for dues to be levied at the passage of the Sound, as fixed between this country and Denmark, had force from the Ist of January instant, vessels of all nations participating in the benefit of the reductions made, and which there is every reason to hope will be found more advantageous and more lucrative to the Ex chequer of Copenhagen itself, by promoting an extension of navigation in that quarter. SUN.—The public securities left off rather heavily this afternoon. Consols for Money at 88i, and for Account at 88i to 89. The sales of the Bank brokers were re sumed again to-day. Exchequer Bills ruled at 18s. to 20s. premium, and India Bonds at 9s. to I Is. premium. Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. were 99 to 994. There was a rise in the quotations for bills of ex change on most of the Continental drawing cities. Paris was done at 25f. 771 c. to 80e. ; Hamburgh at 13 11*; Frankfort at 150, and Trieste at 9 62 to 53. There-was not much speculation in any of the Stocks except Mexican, which ruled a shade lower. The Queen of Portugal's Speech had but a slight effect upon the Bonds. The Share Market was very quiet, and the leading Railways were about the previous quotations. Great IVestern realized 22, the New 11 ; Birmingham, 79i premium ; Brighton were 12k, and Croydon 11 discount. Union Bank of London shares were 4 discount. The following are the official returns of the exports of ,he precious metals for theweek ending Thursday last : Silver Coin to Rotterdam 2,000 oz. Hamburgh 35,500 do 26,000 f 1 91 ~ Bars MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT. TWO SISTERS AND A BROTHER D ROWNED. —Last evening a lengthened investigation took place at the Windmill Inn, Clapham Common, before Mr. Higgs, Coroner for the Duchy of Lancaster, to inquire into the circumstances connected with the deaths of John Bunce, aged 21, Caroline Bunco, aged 18, and Ann Bunce, aged 16, the son and daughters of a respectable widow, carrying on the business of a grocer, in Acre-lane, Clapham. John Harris, an excavator, said—On Monday afternoon, about a quarter past four o'clock, I was standing by the side of the pond, called the Long Pond, on Clapham-common, when I saw five per sons, two young men and three females, standing by the side of the pond. The two young men and two of the females got upon the ice and walked to the north-end of the pond, and then turned to go back. When they had got about one-third of the length of the pond the ice broke and let all the four persons into the water. They struggled very much, and I and another has tened to assist them, and got Miss Ann Bunce out. She looked back, and seeing her sister struggling in the water, went to the edge of the broken ice to rescue her sister, when the ice again broke, and she was a second time immersed. They were all struggling for nearly a quarter of an hour before either of them sunk. By this time a scaffold pole was procured and pushed to wards them when the cousin of the unfortunate! family got upon the pole together with John Bunce, when the latter lost his hold and again sank. The cousin was saved. Henry Gilbert f .servant to Mr. Cherry, of the Rookery, ' Clapham-common, said—l went to the pond to treak the ice for the horses to drink. I heard a screaming, and on looking up saw four' perS'ons struggling in a hole in the ice. I ran to thii.r assistance. Miss Ann Bunce at that tithe had a piece of stick in her hand. I suc ceeded in getting hold of her hand, when the ice broke, and .1 was pulled into the water. She clasped hold of me and turned me over two or three times. At length she- caught hold of my hand with her teeth, and severely bit it. (The witness here showed. his hand, which was much lacerated.) I then got hold of her hand, and succeeded in getting within foie rounds of the top of a ladder which was put out, when she again pulled me back. I then got:hold of a boat-hook, the female c on v ul s i ve ly_ grasping my leg. She screamed " Oh, do no t l eave me ," and immediately fell back. I was dragged ashore, but rememb6red no thing after. A - Ju.ror inquired of the summoning officer the depth of the pond, and th e answer was that there was ono foot of soft mud, and 6i feet of water, and that there was no protection. Several other witnesses were examined, and a lengthened discussion took place as to the best means of preventing such fatal accidents, when the Jury returned a 'verdict of " Accidentally Drowned," and added that a parish meeting should be called . to take immediate steps for providing, some protection to persons who ventured on the dangerous ponds in Clapham Common. SADDLEWORTH.—A numerous meeting of the inhabitants of thifi'towr!, opposed to the Corn-laws, was held last week. Giles Shaw, Esq., was called to the chair. The speakers were the Rev. J. Holroyd, the Rev. Mr. Tompson, Mr. W. Nicholson, James Lees, Esq., Mr. J. Greaves, -- Bent, Esq., and other gentlemen. They drew a frightful picture of the condition of the people, of our prospects as a manufacturing country, and spoke of their conviction that unless the Corn-laws and Provision-laws were speedily repealed, that England would soon be one of the most wretched and miserable countries in the world. A number of spirited resolu tions were unanimously passed ; the last was to the fol lowing effect—that it was the duty of the people to re quire compensation from the landowners, for the spolia tion which they had already suffered by the Corn and Provision-laws. - -- There 'are rumours current in the Clubs in London, that Richard Arkwright, .Esq., of Willersley Castle, Derbyshire, is about to be elevated to ihe Peer age under the title of Baron Willersley, of Willersley ; and our highly -esteemed neighbour, 'Wilbraham Egerton, Esck, of Tatton Park, under the title of Earl of Tatton, of latton Park, in this county.—Stockport Advertiser. A letter dated Naples the sth tilt., in the Malta Times, states that Sir Woodbine Parish and Mr. Sulivan, the British Commissioners in the affair of the sulphur monopoly, have succeeded in the settlement of the various' questions arising out of that matter ; and adds, that they have done so without having had to appeal to' the Freudh arbiter, whiise office has been a sinecure. NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., N . NE BOLEYN. AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE. By MRS. A. T. THOMSON. Author of " Memoirs of Henry VIII.," " Constanee," &c. Henry Celburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. MRS. GORE'S NEW NOVEL. N ow ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vels. post Bvo., T HE MAN OF FORTUNE. By MRS. GORE, Authoress of " Mothers and Daughters," " The Peeress," &c. " A tale of real life, full of intense interest, and teeming with those Mee traits of character, deep touches of human passion and brilliant sketches of existing society and manners, in which Mrs. Gore's novels are exceeded by those of no living writer."—New Monthly. The Publication of the tEveuing Edition of Ts= Sox com menced at 10 minutes after Three. slander of their wretched libeller. The women of Great Britain alone would subscribe one hundred-fold the neces sary expense. Now when, or upon what occasion, was the high-minded, generous-hearted nobleman here lyingly alluded to, ever heard to cast a reflection upon the character of the fair sex of this or any other country ? Lord MORPETH repeat the slan der of the libeller of his countrywomen 1 Never. If England has produced a man who would be the last of all others to utter a disparaging word of women, that man is undoubtedly Lord MOH PETH. And as to the repetition of the stale-, thread-bare calumny about Mr. O'CoNNELL, it is enough that that gentleman solemnly declared in our hearing, arid that of hundreds besides, in the House of Commons, that he never uttered the words attributed to him reflecting upon the chastity of Englishwomen, to justify any gentleman, or public writer, having a due regard to his own character, to treat it with silent contempt. With a view to cool the ardour of the Libe rals, the Tories pretend that, if elected, Lord MORPETH would not accept the representation' of Dublin. We believe this to be altogether untrue. Lord MonPETH must entertain too high a sense of the honour done him by the Irish metropolis, to dream for an instant of declining it. Were his Lordship asked to put himself forward as a candidate for the representation of Dublin, very possibly he might refuse; but it is quite another thing to be returned unasked as a Member for that city. So far as concerns the best interests of the Irish electors, it would be impossible for them to select a better, or more influential and judicious representative than the Noble Lord who so recently and so praisewor. thily filled the office of Secretary for Ireland. We do not agree with our Contemporaries who find fault with the Ministers for admitting the sham deputation of the Short Time Com mittee to their presence. On the contrary, we hail with pleasure every deference which they, as the representatives of the aristocratic faction, show to the working classes, and trust the good example will be followed in other cases. It is a proof of the growing power of the democracy, and an assurance that, whenever it is united and resolved, the 'aristocracy will not only listen to its prayers, but run to obey its commands. After such humility, the Ministers cannot, without the imputation of partiality, refuse to see deputations from the besieged and starving people of Bolton, from the decaying spinners of Manchester, from the perishing hand-loom weavers of Carlisle, from the remnant of the once flourishing Stockport, from the real opera tives of Leeds, from the alms-nourished spectres of Paisley, and from all the other starving and suffering bodies in the community, not excluding the down-stricken agricultural labourers, whose wages have lately been reduced in several places from los. to Bs. a week. Encouraged by the condescension of the Ministers, who profess great anxiety to learn from the unrepresented operatives the true state of the country, and their opinions of the causes of the - general dis tress, we are disposed to advise all these bodies, if they can possibly raise the funds, to send up deputations of two or three persons to lay their case before the Ministers. If they can only procure an introduction from some Tory Mem ber, they will be admitted into the presence of the man, with a heart, who is noW Prime Minis ter; and if his be a human heart, their tale of woe will fill him with sorrow and with shame. He ' , nay not, like JUDAS, hang himself, after hearing the harrowing evidence of his own mis deeds, but he will not be able to escape the con viction that, where JUDAS betrayed one to death, he has betrayed thousands. That the Ministers were deceived in the cha racter and authority of the deputation intro duced by the Tory Member for Leeds, is no fault of theirs, except that it is another proof of their profound ignorance of what concerns the people. They admitted the Tory-trumpeted deputation to their presence to lessen their igno rance, and are not to be blamed for the deceit of others. How could they know, unless Mr. BECKETT should have been so indiscreet as to Muller it out, that the scheme was devised, as is said, by Mr. OASTLER, who is also said to have drawn up the reports, and is believed to have handed them to the Times, seeing that Mr. OASTLER was then, and is now, a prisoner in the Fleet ? How should Ministers know that the persons who presumed to intrude into their presence, led by Mr. BECKETT, were, as the Morn ing chronicle says, ." a knot of subordinate Socialists and • Chartists?" How should they know, as they have ever turned aside with horror from Owenism, that Mr. G. A. FLEMING and Mr. Joinua. HoasoN were the doubles ofMr.OwErr and Mr. FEARGUSO'CONNOR, the former having been the editor of a Socialist newspaper, and the latter Mr. O'CoNNon's Leeds publisher ? How should the aristocratic RICHARD PLANTAGENET, Duke of Buckingham, or the father-in-law of Viscount VILLIERS, know whether MARK CRABTREE were or were not an ex-door-keeper of' the National Convect tion, an agitator against the Poor-law, and a partisan of Mr. WALTER at Nottingham ? How should they know who is Mr. LEACH or Mr. Trims BROOKE, or whether they lived in London or Yorkshire ? The character given to these persons by the Morning Chronicle, in an article which we copy, and als6 given by the Man chester Guardian, in an article which we in serted in The Stun on Monday, was probably not known to the Ministers, whatever might have been the knowledge possessed by Mr. BECKETT. 1-le 'is answerable for having betrayed them into giving a cordial reception to a "knot of subordi nate Socialists and Chartists." He is not answerable for Sir JAMES GRAHAM not having spurned the deputation front his pre sence when it propounded a new appropriation of manors and Crown lands. He is not answer able for the cordial approbation given to Socialist .doctrines by the Duke of BUCKINGHAM —for his 14offer of service, and for his calling the pious Lord ASHLEY the friend of Mr. FLEMING, Mr. HOBSON, and Mr. CRABTREE. He is not an swerable for Sir ROBERT PEEL denouncing ma chinery, while he held down his head to conceal his tears at the recollection of wealth acqnired by the toil of children 'in his father's mills ; or for Mr. GLADSTONE speaking of the Socialist views as some of the gravest matters which could be 'submitted to the deliberations of the Cabinet." Mr. BECKETT is only answerable for the deceit practised on his friends by representing th ese men as a deputation from any nutnerous and respectable body, and they arc answerable for the encouragment they are reported to have given to the silly views of ignorant and mis chievous would-be law-makers. 1 There is another party much to blame, we think, in this whole matter. Though the reports, as published, are not yet denied by the Minis ters, it is certain that they are coloured, not to say distorted; and equally certain that the depu tation was, in truth, a fraud. Now, there can be no doubt that these circumstances, and all the circumstances connected with the getting up the reports, were known to those who published them. In the columns of the cautious Times, which will never send forth a statement without having the name of its author, these reports first appeared; that journal, therefore, knows the whole history of them. But they are a fraud on the public; and we charge the Times with being cognizant of the fraud. Who else may be a party to it, we know not. The Chronicle says, Mr. OASTLER; and as that gentleman has been a coadjutor of the Times, he may have been con cerned in foisting the fictitious statements of a sham deputation on the public as genuine "chapters in our social history." But with the Tunes, so far'as the public is now aware, rests the guilt of palming on the public, as - a true account,. this literary and historical fraud. " A❑ Old East Indian" writes Withjostindig nation against the appointment of Mr. LYALL, SOll of the Chairman of the East India Directors, to the important office ofJudge-Advocate of India. He is only twenty-four years of age, and con sequently has had no practice at the bar to en title him to fill such a post. We can make allowance for the anxiety of a father to provide fur his son, and also for the partiality of Tories to candidates professing their 'political principles, but theie feelings cannot justify such a wanton departure from the rule generally observed in making legal appointments. In England, if a young man, merely from his power ful interest, were raised over the heads of many others, as in this instance, the bar would consider themselves insulted and disgraced- Will the bar of India, and .the millions of inhabitants that trust to the Courts of Law for protection, view this appointment in a different light; or will their confidence in the Home Government be strengthened by such a gross instance of jobbing ? India is of too much importance to this country to be treated with such marked contempt; and we therefore confidently trust the Board of Con trol will not sanction the nomination of the Directors. Madrid Papers have been received of the 3d inst. They are destitute of any news of interest. The Correspondent of a Contemporary, writing from that capital on the 3d, says : The news of the protest of the bills recently sent to London for the payment of the British Legion, caused rather a sensation on 'Change today. I understand, how ever, that the occurrence was accidental, and that the bills in question will be regularly paid. The Spanish Govern ment, were in no way to blame in the matter. What ever promises Surra y Run has hitherto made he has in variably performed. The affair will be quickly righted. The memorial preceding the estimates is ready, and will be read during the week, perhaps to-morrow, in the Chamber. Fives Active, 33i to-day. There is no news of any political interest in the Paris Journals of Monday. The personal quar rel between the King of the FRENCH and the Emperor NICHOLAS grows stale and as neither of them are likely to add piquancy to the quar rel by personal invectives, the public naturally grows tired of it. We cannot but observe how ridiculous it is in a country like France, and an elected Sovereign like LOUIS PHILIPPE, to ma nifest Such extreme sensitiveness. For what is it to France that the EMPEROR bestows the hands of his daughters upon the enemies of the reign ing- dynasty ? Would the throne of Louts Pill- LIPPE be less secure, if, instead of a son of EU GENE BEAUHARNOIS, the EMPEROR had chosen to marry the Grand Duchess OLGA to the Duke of BORDEAUX, or Prince Louis NAPOLEON ? Not a jot. LOUIS PHILIPPE can never be dethroned but by France. The only real danger to his dynasty is to be found in the dis content of his people, provoked by the persecu tion of the Press, and the unconstitutional con duct of the Chamber of Peers. In the September code his dynasty has a fbe ten thousand times more formidable than twenty Autocrats of all the Russias. The Council of Ministers met yesterday at the Tuileries. The following is a letter from Oran of 21st December . —" Abd-el-Kader is on his march to the Tafna, at the head of his regular troops, and of the contingents of the Hachems the Bordijas and other tribes that remain faithful to his cause. News of this movement has come from Mascara. ` Yesterday "Colonel Tempoure, the superior Com mandant, assembled the disposable troops at .Oren, and. immediately took the field, at the head of •teacoratitn, - 'of between 1,600 and 1,800 men, horse ;and friqtiorlith four field pieces, proceeding towards the Rio .battektc On 'the way to the, Talha, where he will probably be pined (if he had not „.been so already) by the ,natilies; under eneraOttuAtapha, who has 1,200 horsemen. under his :9411Rihin , • Tlt is 4441 General Lamorici ere in announci ng th e marc h of that Emir, informs Colonel Tempoure that hefolloWs the Arabs closeli, and indicates a point. of junction. It is said that a similar notice has been -sent to General Be deau, commanding the moveable column of Most4;anem. " Such are the reports in circulation, which we believe to be not without foundation. • " It is said that the Lieut.-Gen. Governor will shortly come to Oran."—Constitutionnet - On Saturday the Council-General of Commerce assem bled for the purpose of coming to a resolution relative to the commercial negotiations which have beon entered upon by the Government. No doubt had been enter tained that the vote would be favourable, for the Conneil of Commerce is the only Council of the three at this mo ment assembled which has no interest in prolonging the prohibiti ve sys t em . Th e result, however, has not what was expected. The propositions submitted to them were as.follows:—The Council expresses a hope that the Government will make every effort to conclude, treaties of commerce with Foreign Powers. This proposition,, which was certainly a very, moderate one, was; after a discussion of two hours, rejected by a majority of 14 to 12. M. F. Deles2ert voted. against it, because the Com mittee, which has assumed the initiative, refused to say —Good treaties of Commerce. In the same Council a resolution, expressive of a desire for a reduction. of the postage of letters, was carried by only a very small ma jority. The conduct of the Council is explained if we re flect that it is composed of as many . manufacturers as traders, and that our large commercial towns are but feebly represented in it. In the sitting of the Council- General of Agriculture, on Saturday, a resolution 'was unanimously passed in favour of maintaining the-duties on import,' from Belgium. The three Councils of Com merce, Manufactures, and Agriculture, meet this day. The discussion of the Corn question is among the Orders of the Day.---Courrier Francais. BOURSE—PARIS, MONDAY, JAN. 10. First Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Prick. Price, French 5 per Cents ll7 60 ... 117 70 ... 117 60 ... 117 65 .1 per Cents 'lol 75 ... 1111 75 ... 101 '75 .. 101 75 3 per Cents 76 50 . '7B 55 ... 78 45 ... 74 50 'Loan Bank of France Witte Bank I,ooof. Stares liao ...IC2O —1141.. ~..10'..20 4.slelan Bank Belgian 5 per Cents. , 5 per Cents., 1040 103% ... 103% ... 103% .. 114% 3 per Cents 7O 80 ... 70 80 ... 7,'80 ... 70 80 ipsnish Active Passive 5% ... 6 ... 5% .. 53i Old Deferred Pbrtugueses per Cents. N eapolitan Roman... lo3t ... 103% ... 103% ... 103% Dutch 2% per Cents. 52% ... 5234 ... 52% ... 52% RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain no ... 830 ... 830 .., 830 Versailles, ft. a 537 50 237 50 .. 337 50 .... 337 50 L. 8.. Rouen Orleans .. 512 1 , 0 ~ 512 50 ... 512 50 0 ... 512 511 Strasburgto Bale 2,7 50 .. 227 50 ... 223 25 . 227 50 ; s its,' iA V s• U NOs-11415851.., JAN. 3. Actual Debt, 254 per Cent. Rotbschild's Lean, 5 per C en t NI% Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 p er C ent , 924 - 3 per Cent. — --- 7 1 14 --(1 40) lO2 Loan of City, 1•412, 4 per Cent. 95 Society of Commerce, 4( per Cent (l7 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent.. ........... NationalSeciety. — Exchange on London (short) — —Brussels Pavers, Jan. 8. • HAMM ItG BORkIENHALLE, Jarr.7. e Austrian,s per Cents. , 107% 107 Bills. Man ; 3 Bank Shares 1610 Anglo-Russian Loan 1 (19% lON Russian s_per Cent, Ist series, Certifi ca t e Inscription, Ist Series H I Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th • . Series -- 93 Ditto in CertifiCates S;l3 Ncw 4 per Cent. (1840) 8 9 14 11.34 Dutch Actual Debt, 2% p er C ent 5034 50% Ditto 5 per Cent — Polish. Bonds ... 155 15154 New ticket Anglo. Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 7854 ?8 Norwegian Lean, 1834, 4 per C e nt ... 15 23 10214 3p.rsish, New 5 per Cents EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, JAN. 7.-1:I 7 , ,.—Tw0 mo n th s , 13 53 4. BERLIN, JAN. 4. Three months, 6. 1934. LEWSIC, DEC. 19.—Two rao ths, 6. :O. STOCKHOLM, - Oac. 31.—Sevcnty-five days, 12. 12. BREMEN, JAN. 4 —Tao months, 6 14. VIENNA, DEC; 30.—Three months, 9. 35. Thirty-seven• LORD MORPETH.--A correspondent of the Morning Chronicle suggests that the sum of 1,4001., collected in the West Ridipg, ,for the purpose of presenting a testimonial to his Lord ship, should be handed over to the Dublin Com mittee towards the expenses of the diction. This is good advice. The Tories have laid down 8,000/. to oppose Lord Alorpeth, and we trust the Liberals will not be outdone when they have a candidate so generally beloved. DEATH OF GENERAL MAIN WA RING. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) COWES, JAN. 11, 1842.—At eight o'clock this morning, died Lieutenant-General Mainwaring, aged eighty years, universally respected and regretted. A better man, or a more charitable one, could not possibly exist ; his hand was ever open to the unfortunate as was that of his ex cellent lady, to whom he had been married above fifty years, and all who bad the good fbrtune to know him, or came within reach of his boun tiful hand, sincerely sympathise in her bereave ment. Lieutenant-General Mainwaring served at the reduction of Martinique, in 1794 ; -accom panied the 51st regiment to Cormina, in 1808 the expedition to Waleheren, in 1809, w h ere h e took two eight-pounders, and many prisoners; served in the Peninsula in 1811 ; and wail pre sent at the battle of Fuentos d'Onor, and the second siege of Badajoz. THE STRATHROGIE MINISTERS.--Although the death of one of these excellent and venerable men— (Mr. Cruickshanks, of Marnoch)—has been announced in the newspapers. we have occasion to know that it ill make no change in the relative position of parties as to Church matters, because his Grace the Duke of Richmond will confer the.patronake of the parish:on the son-in-law of the late Reverend Pastor ; and his princi ciples are in unison with those of the perkeuted brethren. —Scotch Reformer's Gazette, ) - • ,1 Q yr au ;4 4 ' 4 V o lk ' :7- 1 ; 1 4 ' 0 P • . - - .4,,. bRo% Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, JAN. 12, Will be performed the Tragedy of THE . GAMESTER.— Beverley, Mr. Macready ; Lewson, Mr. Anderson; Jervis, Mr. Elton; Bates, Mr. G. Bennett; Stukeley, Mr. Phelps; Mrs. Beverley, Mrs. Warner; Charlotte, Miss Ellis. After which will be repeated the New Christmas Pantomime, caged HARLEQUIN AND DUKE HUMPHREY'S DIN NER OR, JACK CADE, THE LORD OF LONDON STONE. Doors to be opened at Half past Six, and the Performance to begin at Seven o'clock. Boxes 55., Second Price, 2s. 6d. Pit 35., Second Price 2s. Lower Gallery Is. 6d., Second Price is. Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, JAN. 12, Will be revived Mrs. Inchbald's Comedy of WIVES AS THEY WERE AND MAIDS AS THEY ARE.---Lord Priory, Mr. W. Farren ; Sir William Dorillon, Mr. Cooper ; Sir George Evelyn, Mr. G. Vand en h o ff ; Mr. Bronzely, Mr. Charles Mathews; Miss Dorrillon, Mrs. Nisbett ; Lady Mary Raffle, Mrs. Glover ; Lady Priory, Miss Faucit (her first ap pearance at this Theatre). After which will be repeated the New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled GUY EARL OF WARWICK ; OR, IARLEQUIN AND THE DUN COW. _ _ Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, Ss. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. 21.. ' Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan. at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andre as, bookseller, 167. New BOnd-strest. To-morrow, The Merchant of Venice, and the Pantomime. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF 1111.--DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Upwards of 30,000 persons have witnessed the Pantomime a this Theatre, Pronounced the best of the Season. THIS EVENING. JAN. 11, Will be acted a New Domestic Theme, entitled MADAME LAFFARGE, from Memoirs written by Herself; supported by the entire Company. After which, a Nautical Burletta, entitled JACK JUNK ; or. a SEAMAN'S FIRESIDE.—Jack Junk, with Two Songs Mr. Walton. To conclude with a Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE ICE QUEEN; OR, JACK FROST AND KING SHAM.—With gorgeous and charac teristic Scenery, splendid Properties, ludicrous and Quaint Dresses, ingenious Tricks, magnificent Panorama, by Brun ning, &c. Harlequin, M. Huline ; Patch, M. Rochet ; Pan taloon, M. Leh man ; Flip, Signor Feliz Carlo ; Clown, Mr. Buckingham ; Columbine, Miss Sharpe. Private and Public Boxes can be had of Messrs. Sams, Ebers, Mitchell, Andrews, and Seguin, during the run of this popu lar Pantomime. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE: UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. BALDISTON. Enormous success, and Second Grand &i rate Week, in con sequence of the kbousands of Children that have witnessed the performance of the Pantomime as Second Piece ; and First Week of " The Story of Geraldine !" THIS EVENING, JAN. 12,1 Will be performed, a New Domestic Drama, in Three Acts, entitled THE STORY OF GERALDINE ; OR, THE TWIN ORPHANS OF ST. PRE.—Henri, Mr. E. F. Sa ville ; Huntingdon, Mr. Dale ; Claud, Mr. Seaman ; Jemmy Cottle, Mr. Gardner ; Davy, Mr. Paul; Geraldine, Miss Vin cent, the acknowledged Heroine of Domestic Drama. After which, a New Grand Romantic Aerial Comic Pan tomime, entitled HARLEQUIN PETER WILKINS ; OR, THE KING OF THE AIR AND THE FLYING IN DIANS.—With new and extensive Scenery, Dresses, Decora tions, Tricks, Transformations, and Effects—A new Nautical Panorama, to be entitled " Our Native Sea-girt Isle !" con sisting of Maritime Views along the Coast of England. Also, a new Grand Dissolving Diorama, by Childe, the Great Illu sionist ' • and the Op ening o f the Pantomime supp or t e d b y t h e Comic Talent of this—the Popular Theatre of London. To conclude with THE ILLUSTRIOUS STRANGER.— Bowbell, Mr. Gardner; bimbo, Mr. Howard; Aboulifan, Mr. James; Irza, Mrs. Lee. Boxes, 2 s. —Pit, Is.—Gallery, 6d.--Half-price to theßoxes 0r..11/11sam. t Eight. NE W STRAND THEATRE OPEN EVERY EVENING. Combined Talent—Crowded Houses—Enraptured Audiences. Those who wish to obtain comfortable seats to witness the extraordinary wonders accomplished at this neat little Theatre mu not delay until a late period of the evening; numbers during the past week have been unable to gain admittance. JACOBS!—MAGICIAN JACOBS I has once more made his fame resound throughout the Metropolis. All Wizards and Magicians who have preceded this great Professor of the Ne cromantic Art may now hide their diminished heads, and re turn to that oblivion from whence they came. His Ventrilo quism is astonishing: he imitates the voices of twelve persons, to the surpriie of everybody. The following performances are also added:—Mn,.o ROUSSEAU, the FRENCH EQUILI BRIST ; the PATAGONIAN WONDERS, theDISSOLV ING PORTRAITS, and Mr. J. SCATES on WHEAT STONE'S PATENT CONCERTINA. - Doors open at Half-past Six, commence at Seven. Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Children, ls. 6d. Pit, Is. 6d.; Children, Is. Gal lery, 6d. Close Ten Minutes to Eleven. COSMORAMA ROOMS (ROOM 7), 209, REGENT STREET. THE IVORY MODEL OF THE- TAGE MUHAL, or Crown of Edifices, at AGRA, in the East Indies. " There is at present an Exhibition at 209, Regent-street, as elaborate a Model as was ever perhaps present e d t o puk lie view. It is a copy, in ivory, of the celebrated Tage Muhal, one of the most remarkable edifices in modern Agra, erected in 1650 by Khan Shah Jehan, the fifth Great Mogul, as the cemetery of his favourite w if e , S u lt ana M e hd Aliya. This mausoleum is built entirely o f w hit e mar bl e, and some ,clea may be formed of its splendour, when it is stated to have cost in its erection 60 Lacs of rup ees , or 75C , 0 00 / The Model occupies a space of nine square feet, and its height is six feet. It is the work of Indian artists, and while in point of extent it is unmatchable, it is also one of the fi nes t s p ec i mens o f th at minuteness of detail and delicate manipulation for which Indian ivory working is so noted. The amount of labour be s towed on but the result of many years ' pat i ent applica this model must have been immense. It is nit the hasty pro ultitudinous ca rv i ngs an d i n l ay i ngs of the ori itdanhgeya'in're expressed i n th e copy w i th every appearance gddiuonenati building ui of A of exactness ; nor is the resemblance limited to the outside alone : the interior is also finished in the same minute style, and contains the tombs of the Shah and his Consort, exqui sitely and elaborately worked. On the whole, this model pre sents a surprising and beautiful effe c t, an d f orm s one of the most interesting exhib i tions in the metropolis."—Morn. Chron. Open from Ten to Six o'clock. Admission, Is. Book, 6d. THE RAILWAY SUN IS NOW RE-PUBLISHING, PRICE SIXPENCE. TIIE CHINA SUN, AND TIIE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, • ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Jan.,l2, 1842. . THE. WEATHER.—NocoN, JANUARY 12. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 32 I Highest 33 I Lowest 2B Barometer 29.85.—Wind S.W.--.Freezing Point 32 Deg. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW Morning 57 minutes after 2. 1 Evening 11 minutes after 3. OR, _Sun. LONDON: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1842. The Tories arc s truggling with might and main to prevent the return of Lord MORPETII for the Irish metropolis. They parade the amount of the sums which they are prepared to spend in bribery and corruption. The Standard says that a more fitting candidate than Mr. GRE- , GORY cannot be found, which, of course, means that no other Tory is disposed to sperid in the Hou se o f C om mons. The Carlton Club more than 4,0001. s terling for a seat for Dublin is ready ,to a d vanc e 2,0001., and with 2,0001. more, Mr. GREGORY feels assured that he could buy a working majority of the old Dublin free- Protestant Conserve men. But should Mr. GREGORY take fright at rtehceuildnemaeonfdrsistkhiengTo4r,Oieoso/t.O pu , the t saintiy Standard another Tory in t n i o ve n s iin u a f t E io i t i i g , ialtitildti will tlla supply the needful. Th ere is no attempt ma d e to disguise the cor rupt influ leinhcel)awristuicul:sapreapetolb. e si: fin: sparing u o expense at work by th e T or i es. to promote perjury in Dublin. Pious Protestant gold is to be expended in the purchase of Irish souls for SATAN. But bad as this is, it is not bad enough for the Standard. The bump o f l y i ng was never surely so strongly developed as upon the brazen front ofour Contemporary. We know h n a o s t e Nh n v ess ict to abhor o l fthefollo m w o i s u t g , the fou ifalsehoodettuekupoour the the , character of Lord MORPETH :- The women o f thi s i s l an d remember thei r d e b t to the individual with whom - th e . battle is really to be fou g ht, an d they cannot fo rget t h at , even v er y l ate l y, his nominee in Dublin on the present occasion repeated the foul EVENING SUN S MMARY F AND public Opinion.. " Who runs may read." • resismitGatr. of The news f r o m t h e U n i te d S tates i s to t h e 2' Dec., being seven days later than the last arrivals. The Sec re t ary o f t h e N avy i n h i s Report. r e e r cope , mends a large i ncrease i n t h e num b er o f war steam and heavy frigates, but none of ships of the line. t ee The Postmaster-General in his Report state s er the expenditure in his department has exceeded the come during the last y ear . B ut h ow d oes he PrZies to cover the deficiency ? By i ncreas i ng , as the i l c os talk of doing, the rat es of p ostage ? 0 no ! By re° the salaries of the servants of the Post-office. l e o The " Right of Search" quest i on i s pro d uc i n g ( 1 i1 ( 1 0 ,0 ferment in the United Stat es . F rom thePresithgn oot s to the humblest labourer at the foot of theyee4 f i r solii tains all are resol v ed to resiSt any ,atterept pro ef- b ait American merchant-vessels, o r t o compel them t 4 °ot their papers. The qu e sti on i s i n d ee d a very tro ubles one, and perhaps had better be at once abandoned' po The ship Creole, from Richmond (Virginia) t°„..0 1 Orleans, with 135 s l aves on b oar d, put into, •I``":0 (New Providence), on the 14th ultimo, when it l• found that the slaves h a d, f or th e purpose o f 4° lti their freedom, murdered the captain, the °weer' al one or two others, They then insisted that -the el should be taken to Nassau. She was so, and all the . s re t 's r set free according to English law, except a few whow,e oil culpated in th e mu ti n y an d mur d er . Th e A mer i ca n 0 ; al demanded th e sl aves as d argo , b ut t h e aut h or i t ies o , l ea r island could only cons id er t h em as passengers , and t ro u a fOre free to go wh ere th e y pl ease d, an d most o f ll' e air: cordingly shipped for Jamaica. The point ehieol tbe rl; cussed is the liberation- of the slaves ; and the Sellel, Papers are very war m u p on th e su bj ect , an d u rge it 0: topic for the imm e di a t e cons id erat i on o f C on gre well as the claim of search. . • i . 1 0 The Mexican Papers st a te th a t th e w h o l e o f the T e 10,0: Santa Fe expedition, consisting of several liundro d sit l i had been captured ; but advices from Galveston ar e the truth of the report. Two arrivals from Vet° ta i'l and Havannah, however, seem to confirm the capO l a very circumstantial manner. The Courier and Enquirer states that the mitt Texas with the United St a t es wou ld b e broughtily the consideration of Co ngress d ur i ng t h e se ssioi. l el The packet-ship Sheridan, from LiverpoOl f 01 ,./0 1 York, struck on the J erse y s h ore on t h e n ight of `l7th ult., during a snow storm, but happily *,lO, , g r after throwing :bout' 40 t on s o f z i nc overboard. :•11, From France the news i s no t i m p or t an t. The ,1,; ~0, 00 du flue I?hin of the Bth iust. states, that the /n o ' ll3B l o. the bar at C o l mar h a d entere d a protest aga i ns t th e _ d ol ; tense pronou nce d by t h e C ourt of Peers in the e? M. Dupoty, an d f orwar d e d i t to M . Mar i e, Ch a iro) the Bar. of Paris. e el ,. Toulon letter s a nent i on t h e l oss o f t h e new -i, P e steamer Brandon, l a t e l y equ i ppe d at Roc h e f or t • s l' lost at Mahon, all the crew saved. e o' In a letter from Vienna of the 3d inst. we find t' o ef lowing neaps relative to Turkey:—" The eleVatiencl! Grand Vizier Izzet Mehem e d P ac h a h as proda v crisis. The Porte is dreaMing of her power end gi . in former times, confirmed in those illusions, it . *, ol t , appear, by false friends. She already . an ti `, a re r eonquest of Greece. The apprehensior.4, explosion is so .strong here, that Prince -,'",,, nich has felt himself- called upon to despatch 5 to the Divan, recommending them to abandon hostile demonstrations against Greece, us t." . Powers were determined not to suffer any attaca. • made on that kingdom. The question is, can 0 A ' adopt this advice whilst he finds himself surround d' , 4 fanatic and ambitious Musselmans anxious - to r 915 1 banner of former days? The opinion universal),;:‘ ' tamed in the best informed p o liti ca l c i rc l e s ill t i 1 ., , is, that the idea of peace, and order having been tablished in the East is v a i n an d p rema t ur e. PUBLIC OPINION. __' • The herald, in commenting on the Emigrat e tion, states that the wisdom and e x p e di e ncy of l meat establishing the machinery of a national emigration, " to be worked by the voluntary an2 ht taneous agency of the people theniselveS, hava' a strong hold of the public mind." • • The Post has a leading arti c l e , th e o bj e ct of .., W11 0 1 1.(1 to show that th e manu f actur i ng system may beer' Our Contemporary observes, " the Manchester I/ houses are full, th e cupboards of the Manchest er s a people are too empty. Because the masters ill-n - a have produced to man - stockings, the•• workal: st d earn the means of providing their children with th e ings which they require.' fi, ' d at h °• , The Times, in an article suggested by the e et 0 Bishop of Chichester, observes that the pres ( "l - 0 ti moment of very serious import to the Church , 4.'' arse an element which has lain in the Establishmen_' oe sse unnoticed by observers, has Sprung up in the _ , , eo i ten years into unparalleled energy, and its stin t sl pearance has induced a contest on which the r'', ° lo . 0 guine must look with no slight apprehension. c-i ie Ss temporary adda—alluding . of course to the Pr:, i e ' Puseyisin—" We cannot modify our feeling one efdr; history of the English Church the present is s _ ° o w cardinal occasions which , : may affect its CO I. centuries." T wit° The Adqertiser is of opinion that Sir Robert -..- ,JAP I be seriously embarassed by hie junction with Sir i ll' ill' Graham and the Puke of Buckingham ; and adl - ', ; o' Sir James, in particular; is likely, before .itlan•Yd e bi° l have passed, to be the destruction of the Toll' aao I " assuming that no other cause shall ' exP e - 'catastrophe." 0 , ' 0 ) • The Chronicle, speculating - on the probabiltO citc eo Duke of Buckingham's surrendering his preP l otV the subject of the Corn-laws, and regarding lt, , i 3 be r e , Robert Peel's eyes, says :—" A report, which ' ti lil y , c , , current for some days, and is now very ge.li er m s V 4 l , dited, induces us to think that the bargain be - ve t o made ,on these terms—that we are speedily to ,„, a ia ° , happiness of counting the Duke of 13uckingllan is !, the friends of free trade ; and that henceforth'eivi, to be'cOnsidered the mere 'Farmer's Friend,' but . o , f b i ,J ' The Farmer's Judicious Friend.' ' This renc.n . '„ p ii , ' ~i, it is suddenly di:,Covered that Lord Cowley Is ' t 1 11 'i of seventy years of age ; that an Ambassador a d ,. be , in these days of quarrelsome etiquette, ought I`)Josed`o the vigour of life and intellect ; and that th e l ost' Buckingham; the Farmer's Friend, is to be An' • at Paris." .;..,,,, , „ i l , MON EY — TRADE--CO2ViittElty.' - ' 0 0 . c15 ' The annual produce or the private gold mine s eigll' ' works in Siberia, has increased since 1829 to a I I " ' 8,50011 i.. English. ;-i i s : - ECCLESIASTICAL. - • V A ,/ The new Bi s h op o f O ssory w i ll most likelAaler Tonson: Archdeacon Stopford taking the see 0 , d i M i ' ' EDICAL. Fd O6/, o y The Times of yesterd a y sa y s , " Ch am b er 's aot 0 1 Journal, in an article of great length, makes tl% e 9 to 1)r. Turnbull for its former attacks upon I li i , ,cit y t e of practice. We are induced, from informati on , ifi t , t ai ottr own knowledge, to concur with the edi t° •r a ta concluSion at which they have arrived, that O r ' et ratte, ' has, by patience and ingenuity, obtained 0 t0 , '„,1 certain new medicaments and methods calculat es ~.-r e cases of deafness such as were never cured h e li bi',pi certainly, the fact that lie has made no secret e ort iti‘ e ,,, medial means, but has always invited the ince; e / asfi t sr of his professional brethren into their nature anu ti e's w e affords, prima facie, a ver y f avoura bl e presurnPor IP him in any controversy about the legitimal ! of his system.' " , i • ~,,e NAVAL AND IVIILITA.Wr• a grre During the "christening week " there will he be V review in the Great Park, and new colours wi n sented on the same day to the 72d Highlander s. o r LAW AND POLICE. , fife i . 10 At the Mansion-house yesterday, CaPto, ni ae jea t e Y peered upon a summons to account -fora ue ,"-,fie"„g four chests of indigo, which had lately been 1 stW a it' Rotterdam in the Ocean steamer. A lengthell e 10 40' 1 ,11 took place, and, at the conclusion, Sir Peter L 3 fe ata 01 Captain Fife was, in his opinion, exonerate d j est t he blame. A. strong suspicion, however, prevailed' er atta'',,,:i persons who had charge of the lighters at hot ter '-lin t ' which the goods were landed, were 'not quite by . 1 ,4 as they should be.. - - des ej or At Bowsstreet 'yesterday, John -Souter, Billy eloje from the Royal Sappers and Miners, "lv° 6 , a tali, 1 , I li mitted to take his trial for stealing a,gold '' te, , ;! o1 40 guineas, th e pr o p er ty of Li eu t. De Ciri s : 0 . . Royal Engineer s . ' 0 0 At Guildhall, James Dunc an , a b oy 13 yea rs ,' dp in the employ of the Parcel s D e li very Conilloitit, charged with ste a ling a parcel c o n t a i n i ng a goi'ogfi value 181.; and his father was charged with reeeeli e t i knowing it to be stolen. As there was reason t 0 o f t this was not the only parcel stol en , • th e p r i s olier remanded till Friday.. .- l'o ° COURT---FASHIONABI.E.. esaall..e The Duke and Duchess of BeautUrt have le f t -coly House for Bretby Hall, on a vi s it -to the Earl an d , d ( -tess of Chesterfield. iei lv ii , The Marchioness of Conyngham is passing t.,1' e f ,.." 5 101,‘ at Richmond.' The Marquis is at Seine Castle, in 11' The Earl of Liverpool leaves Buxted Park, 7, te r field, on Saturday next, for Fife House. OAP The Earl and Countess of W es t m oreland lei l e a f street on Monday last for Brighton. Delg r. " The Dowager Countess of Clare arrived in ~. ester square yesterday from Mount Shannon, Irelan d " The Dowager Countess of Essex and Miss Ju tbe it '" are expected to leave Paris early in March, on r of turn home. - 1 . - etO l Sir James Graham has taken the mansion ...pet , occupied by the M arq ui s o f N orman by in Bill - s 1 MISCELLANEOUS. , , ifs ~,01 On Monday last, another giraffe in Wouinf o o cv lection —the lase but-one--broke its back ill ' e t! the carriage -van,' and has - since died. _ be res t : ) . 1.1 The ancient castle of Wartburg is about to 2 , 4 06.,' 0 e by the Duke of Weimar. It was erected abolo o s st-,', 0 4 Count Ludwig theleaper. It is most worthy _ 4 . f i eli lection to Englishmen, as being the residence at, . ~,rI ill` from May 1521 to March 1522. I al On this day died at Zurich, in Switzerlat t y[ovoa' the celebrated physiognomist, from the effects, , t c ita'..' received from a grenadier in the attack on tri m : g ee: fe e' Nlassena. His work on '• Physiognomic 1. ie has been translated, abridged, and illustrat ed variety of form. . siX ji' Since the setting in of the severe weather, 0 0 have been lost up o n th e i ce -p on d s a t BirminO4 ra 'se• at The cold at P ar i s f or some d a y s h as been inter' „„a Sunday morning the thermometer stood at 'Nell ie ) noon, it had ri se n o n ly to 21 F a h ren h e it. The c o , covered with floating ice, and the canals of St• i r e •s' St. Martin are entirety frozen. frO i d) The total number in the u,r ward of Re depending on ct.arity for subsistence, amounts te , P 15,000 ersos, : • hi d 0 Yeste p rday n nearly 200 Ifish-LbOurers" assetli,mplo the doors of the Marylebone workhouse for the r 1 )1 4t . as . Per 444 I t Per , 49s 23. s 1) lig the 41 to of t 1 Ari i Wi eut ou Ar k 111 41 eey Pcks i Is, 1)0 Of Cll4