The Sun. — London, England, 1842-12-14 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR. t TUESDAY.—HisINDsoR, TuEspay.His Royal Highness the lid Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz A a morning visit to the Queen at the Castle, and ed to lunch with her Majesty and Prince Dnrt. Ab ou t three o'clock the Hereditary Grand c took hie departure from the Castle on his return to Kew. early in the morning the Queen and Prince Albert Mmenaded in the new grounds of the Little Park, 11 4 the P r i nce o f W a l es and the Princess Royal were t aken an airing, accompanied by the Dowager Lady tlttelton. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, the pr ee of "Wales and the Princess Royal, are in ex cellent health. I Ins Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on a orsehack, attended by Sir E. Bowater. Her R o y a l Hi g h n ess the Duchess of Kent paid a alcrning visit to her Majesty. Sir Henry Wheatley left the Castle to day. ner Majesty and Prince Albert rode out in a pony phaeton, his Royal Highness driving, attended by the °I). Colonel Grey. Lieut.-General IVemyss will have the honour of ing with the Royal party at the Castle this even g• This will he the only addition to the Royal circle. Covers are laid far 13. Th,' 'hr ..neir Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess oh "knbridge, and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, sm d the H ere dit ar y Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh 'strelitz visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester on Monday evening, at her residence G loucester House. • Capt.Whittingham, with dispatches from Sir Hugh G ough fir Lord Stanley, her Majesty's principal Se cretary of State for War and the Colonies, arrived in wn yesterday, and attended at the Colonial - office in the afternoon. Capt. Whittingham is the bearer of a number of Chinese standards captured by the British a rmy during the recent operations in China. Z.l The ArchbiShop of Canterbury, the Chancellor of Ile Exchequer, and the Bishop of Llandaff, attended "' . 4 Meeting of the Ecclesiastical Commission at the !=4,• `! - 'nee in Whitehall-place yesterday afternoon. ,A meeting of the Customs' Revenue ,Commission ~ . ‘yaa held yesterday at Gwydyr House, Whitehall. Commissioners present were Lord Granville s e 'erset, Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Mr. A. gle, Mr. Bingham Baring, and Mr. Milncs kell. la i; % ord Stanley left town yesterday morning for atham house, Ormskirk, Lancashire, the seat of "rd Skelmersdale. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat I;sterdi t y. The Lords present were Lord Campbell, Paron Parke, Mr. Justice Erskine, and the Judge of th e Admiralty Court. Mr. Jackson was heard on a petition of John Ash t°ls Yates, R. V. Yates ' and J. Priestly, for leave to • a PPeal from Trinidad. Their Lordships granted the Praye r of the petition on the parties giving security. Mr. Burge, Queen's Counsel, was heard on a peti tion of Hugh Duncan Bailie, and John Lucie Smith, for the reversal of orders • of the Supreme Court of JJ emerara, of May 21, 1842, and Aug. 17, 1842. ;: Lord Campbell, on the part of their Lordships, !fated that the Court would take measures for obtain- I Ng the information they -3,e, luire, and until an answer should be received from the Judges, the petition would be for further consideration. Other petitions were LusPosed of, and the Court then rose. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. Yesterday being the day to which Parliament stood Prorogued, both houses met pro forma. The Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Haddington, and tLords Fitzgerald and Vesey, as Lords Commissioners , ;', 4 Ving taking their seats in front of the Throne , the .),Sher of th e Black Rod was directed to summon the Souse of Commons to hear the Royal Commission read for the further prorogation of Parliament. In a few minutes afterwards the Commons, who • were represented by the Clerks and Officers of the douse, appeared at the bar, when the Royal Commis :,;_ s len having been read, The LORD CHANCELLOR, in the usual form lied words, declared the present Parliament to be L'u'ther prorozued until Thursday the 2d of February belt, and added, then and here to meet for the dis ' Patch of divers urgent and important business. The Commons then withdrew. INCOME-TAX APPEALS IN THE CITY OF LONDON'. t,, t ; Monday being the general adjournment day for ,:tearing those appeals which were not heard during the last week, the Income-tax Commissioners met at ten o'clock, for the purpose 'of finally disposing- . of h them for the, wards of Aldersgate Within and With- II „Bread-street, 'Castle Baynard, Cordwainer's; Cripplegate Within and Without, Fay.' Aa,l i jlingdon Within, St. Andrew's Holborn, St. Barth°. .;' 3 a.Jltwta, St. Sepulchre's, St. Dunstan's-in-the , 1-o ,fest, St. Bride's, St. Martin's, Ludgate, Whitefriars , and''Sergeant's Inn. The number of ap ;L j iir o il i dlants who have, presented themselves each day has - ktq, Featly exceeded. the 200 provide& for which has much delay, as many of them were rather a, fficult cases to determine, end required a serious con= tderation on the part of the Commissioners to define the real meaning of the Act as regards schedules A 4aa,parld B; respecting hind.s, tenements, and hereditaments ; 4 , 11 , 6 1 under schedule Din professions, &c. Yesterday I there was a very full attendance, and many were. thi remarks against this unpopular tax. A notice was Put up, that it having been represented to the Board , • that one of the appellants . had ill-conducted himself, 't ,by making insolent observations, the Commissioners ft, • Would not hear his case until the close of the Cora- Inission ; and that the same rule would be enforced N , 'against all others who might thus misconduct them kives. The consequence is, that respectable citizens It 4 "(I housekeepers of the free city of London , w ho con itni4Yota alder themselves unjustly over-assessed, must keep i ., 88 quiet as schoolboys when presenting themselves at ' rrthe Property and income.tax office, 36, Basinghall itreet, at least within the hearing of the worthy Corn 4, , I nissioners, or their underlings. It appears that the tOtice authorising the surveyor of taxes, Mr. Welch, Isk to discharge the assessment made upon clerks, who a satisfactorily prove that their incomes are under 15 0/. per annum, does not extend to commercial tra vellers, and they are assessed according to their an ?nail returns while out on journeys, which causes the V 'l ,, greatest complaints to be. made on their part against ' '• the injustice of the assessment. 1 4, Major Malcolm, of the 3d (the King's Own) !, Light Dragoons, who brought the important dis- Patches from our plenipotentiaries in China, after '.•, transacting business at the Foreign Office, left the London Hotel, Albemarle-street, on a visit to his mother, Lady Malcolm, at Warfield Park, Berks ; and on Monday the Gallant Officer returned to town, ac ' companied by her Ladyship, and again had an inter- View with Lord Aberdeen. It is understood that the Major, who is son of the late Sir J. Malcolm, formerly Governor of Bombay, will not remain in town more than afortnight, when he will return to China with • disatches from the Foreign-office. Sr. MICHAEL, BASSISHAW, LONDON.--A hand * acme silver salver, weighing upwards of 100 oz., has t been subscribed for and presented to Mr. Wadd, sur ,. geon of that parish,- by his neighbours, as a token of Itiv i '••, their es t eem for his gratuitous medical services t o the i . Poor of that parish during a perio d of Softy years, be- Vit ,r; f4 i fore as well as since the passing o f the New Poor-law it 'lap Act. Mr. ' add has resided upwards of f ort y years ti ~'!t, • , T. that.parish, and during that period has never made a charge to any poor person residing within it, although continually assisting them, by advice as . , as medicine. The p resentation took p lace at Mason's-hall on Friday evening, the 9th inst., when a high encomium was passed on that gentleman by 1,;q;,;; Mr. Alderman Farncomb, who , kindly undertook to convey to him the feelings of his fellow-parishioners. COVENT-OARDEN T IIEAT RE.--The Merry Wives of Windsor, as adapted with music, was represented at ts this theatre on Monday. The character of Mrs. Ford Was supported by Miss Kate Howard, it being her first appearance on this stage, and was very pleasantly and promisingly personated. The house was well filled. Ilayssaaavr : THEATRE. -- The benefit of Mr. Archer, the box-keeper of this theatre, took place on Monday. The performances consisted of A Cure for Lov e : Suzanne, with Celeste as the he roine : the hurletta of One Hour ; or, A Carnival Ball, Charles Mathews and Madame Vestris acting in their origi nal characters of Swiftly and Miss Dalton ; and the farce o f My Husband's Ghost. The second piece was Mr. Charles Mathews' own comedietta of The Dowager, the principal characters of which were per formed by himself and Madame Vestris. . The house was crowded in every part. UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW.—MT. Allan Maconochie, son of Lord Mcadowbank, has been appointed Pro fessor of Civil Law .in the University of Glasgow ! All announcement so monstrous is almost sufficient to rouse the shade of John Millar from its resting lace, in order to chastise the presumptuous intruder. The time was when tried abilities were a necessary qualification for so important a chair in a learned institution. The time was when the prelections of a Millar were listened to with delight from the same spot that is now to be desecrated by the feebleness of a Maconochie; but, under the auspices of a Peel and a.Graham, our Universities are henceforth, it would appear, to be turned into -houses of refuge for the - Worse than mediocrity of such aspirants as the newly appointed Professor. We alluded some time ago to , 'a, ~ the circumstance of Lord Meadowbank having been -t (1' tsaointed at the time when what has b e e n termed !5.,_ 14 h the pp unprecedented leap" was taken by a hi g h le g al ' functionary, and to the current rumour that his Lord ship had resolved, in consequence, to remain some -7.- 'what lon ger o n the Bench than was desired by certain 1 a ) , 'Pat. Parties. Can it be that the appointment o f his son to ;bi t th e University of Glasgow is a sop to Lord Meadow .iy„fcr.,.. bank, t o make up, in some degree, for past disap aa"ik, Peintments, and to smooth the way for the arrange -m. 1 1 , 214 Ments that are understood to be in progress ? ' Glasgow ,Argos. • . _ ';* , ~r: ~~~. r. ;,, ry r ~~ ~ ':f 11 .. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 14, 1842._ BOMBARDMENT of BARCELONA. (From the Moniteur Parisien of Sunday night.) We have received the following letters from Bar celona to the sth inst. The following is a summary of their contents :—" The bombardment began on the 3d, at 11, A.M., and continued without interruption until midnight, 817 bombs having been thrown into the city, causing the greatest damage, and setting fire to several places. The quarter where the Municipal or Town-house is situated was particularly affected by the fire. General Van Halen signified on the 4th that he would give six hours to the authorities and inhabit ants to disarm the corpos francos, who still held out, and if the place did not surrender at the expira tion of that period, he would resume the bombard ment. The authorities after having convoked the principal citizens, and, assisted by a great portion of the population, immediately commenced to disarm the insurgents, and succeeded. The town has suf fered much, and it is impossible to estimate the da mage that has been done or the number of victims who have fallen. On the sth the fire was still raging in some quarters. The French Consul, whose zeal, energy, wisdom, and humanity, cannot be too highly praised, obtained from the Commanders of the French ships of war in the roads the assistance of the crews, who afforded every assistance with their known ac tivity. Before the bombardment the insurgent mi litia went en masse to the ship where their officers had taken refuge, demanding with fury that they should be given up, and the Commander had to repulse them with force. Several houses belonging to the French, and even that of the Consul, were more or less da maged. A forced tax of two millions of piastres was about to he imposed on the town. The Regent had not yet made his entrance into Barcelona. As soon as the town was surrendered, and Van Halen and the Stoops had made their entrance at five P.M. on the 4th, the General issued the following proclamation : " Don Antonio Van Halen Sarti, Murphe y Casta neda, Count of Peracamps, &c., Captain-General of the 21 Military District, om mandant-General of the First Corps d'Armee, &c. The town of Barcelona having submitted to the empire of the laws, violated by the most scandalous sedition, my first duty is to prescribe the measures which at the first moment I consider most conducive to order by destroying every germ of anarchy ; to chastise the crimes that have been committed, and to protect honourable Spaniards, the faithful defenders of the legitimate throne of our young Queen, of the Constitution that has been sworn to, and of the Regency, with which the nation has invested the Duke of Victory, by investing him with a shield of a nature to preserve their persons and their property, menaced by the ambition and efforts of the partisans of despotism. Consequently, making use of the powers which have been conferred on me, and are ascribed to me by decree, as Commander-in-Chief of the army in campaign, I decree the following bando : " Art. 1. Barcelona is declared in an exceptional state from the first shot fired at the troops of which the brave, faithful, and well-deserving army is com posed. The state of siege will continue so long as circumstances shall require it. " 2. The National Guards of all arms is dissolved in Barcelona, until its re-organisation has been deter mined according to the rigorous terms of the law. " 3. All the arms and war materiel belonging to the said militia, as well as the arms extracted from the national magazines, with all the articles and effects appertaining to the State, shall be delivered up within 24 hours, without fail, after the date of this procla mation, to the fort of the Atarazanas. " 4. At the expiration of the 24 hours any one in fracting this order shall be shot. " 5. Any denouncer of the existence of arms in any house, or in the possession of any individual, shall receive as a reward 10,000 reals. This sum shall be paid by the person or master of the house or locality where the said arms shall be seized. In the event of VT asva %.• the incompetency of the party to pay the fine it shall I be levied on the quarter where he or they live. " 6. Within two days all arms and weapons of every kind, including those for hunting; shall be given up by the inhabitants of Barcelona, and no person shall he allowed to retain any except by virtue of a license to that effect. "7. 10,000 reels fine for the infraction of the pre ceding article. " 8. Everything valuable, whether in horses, furn,l - &c , taken from the individuals forming the gar rison, to be restored, or the value thereof. " a. Any one committing a robbery, or any other crime against public order, to be shot, whether he be long to the population or to the army. " 10. The legally constituted authorities will see that all crimes are duly prosecuted in the interest of public justice, and any one who, by words or otherwise, commits an outrage is to be severely punished. The troops as well as the inhabitants are to forget the past, and are to embrace each other like brothers. The' authorities are and will remain responsible for the execution of the present decree, their misiion being only to proi.e the offences and to punish them. " Barcelona, Dec. 4, 1842." SEDUCTION AND SUICIDE. An inquest was held on - Monday before Mr. Wakley, M.P., at the Skinners' Arms, Hart-street, Paddington, as to the death of Emily Churchill, aged twenty-two. Mary Jackson, of 10, Hart-street, widow, stated that the deceased had lodged at her house for about four months. She had a child with her, and said that her parents were the owners of a very large farm in Yorkshire. She left home about two years ago, -if consequence of some differences with her family, and about eighteen months ago got into service in London, and very soon after was seduced by a gentleman under a solemn promise of marriage. If she went home, she said, she feared her father and mother would not look at her, and she thought her seducer was going• to be married to another; and if he did, she would not be long for this world, for she could never- afterwards be happy in it. Witness had frequently seen a gentleman call oa her. The last time was on Monday. On Thursday he sent deceased a letter, and she afterwards told witness he was going into the country for a few months. The deceased remarked that was only an excuse, and she believed he was going to get married the next morn ing. On the Friday, finding the deceased did not come down to breakfast as usual, she went up to her room, and found her hanging by a rote attached to her neck, and suspended from a nail in the wall. The poor child was lying in bed asleep. Witness imme diately went for a surgeon, who, on his arrival, said she had been dead two or three hours. She was very low-spirited after reading the letter, but witness had no idea she meant to destroy herself. Witness added, that a letter was found on the deceased's table ; it was unsealed, and was to the following purport : "My dear Charles,—l cannot bear up with my misfortune and trouble any longer; you know you have so often promised to marry me. I could never bear to see my father and, mother again unless you keep your promise, and now you are going to get married to another ; it is more than I can bear, dear Charles; I did not think you would have so deceived me after your sacred promise. My mind is quite dis tracted ; people in this world will laugh at me, and I shall be pointed at by every one. lam resolved to make away with myself, and before you receive this letter I shall be no more ; but I pray God you will take oare of my dear little Emily, and do not desert her as you have me. I hope God will forgive me, and my dear father and mother. Once more I pray you to take care of Emily. Adieu, dear Charles, and God be with you.—Your once truly affectionate lover, " EMILY CHURCHILL." The Jury returned a verdict of Temporary in sanity. It was stated in the room that the party alluded to holds a high situation in the City. WAGES AT SYDNEY.-The following rate of wages is copied into the Sydney Herald, from the Immigra tion Report, prepared by the Superintendent of Police for the year 1842 :-Agricultural labourers, 221. per annum, with rations of meat, flour, tea, and sugar ; Shepherds, 241. ; Carters, 28/. ; Domestic Servants, 251. ; . Mechanics, from 401. t o 561. a year. The above refers to country districts only. The wages of women are as follows :-Cooks, 141. to 30/. a year; Dress makers, 91. to 16/. ; Dairy-maids, 121. to 30/. ; Farm servants, 101. to 151. ; Gener a l h ouse serv ants, 101. to 18/. ; Housemaids, 12/. to 15/. ; Housekeepers, 81. to 201.; Ladies'-maids, 8/. to 131.; Laundresses, 121. to 26/. ; Needlewomen, 101. to 14/. ; Nursery governesses, 61. to 15/. ; Nursemaids, 51. to 131. , Nursery go vernesses at 61. a year ! Ladies' m a id s seem a l so i n poor request, standing much at the same figure in the market as nursery governesses; but mechanics are tempted with rates varying from 401. to 561. a year. St. Lucy Day, December 13, is in the Church of England Calendar and the Almanacks. St. Lucy was a virgin of great sanctity and purity of life. She gave her whole fortune to the poor that she might not be teazed with suitors, and particularly to get rid of one, who, being vexed at his disappointment, accused her before Paschasius, a heathen judge, who, becaupe she was a Christian, put her to cruel tortures, under which she fell a martyr in the year 305. THE PRESENT STATE or Moscow.-The Russian journals give some details relative to Moscow, which are not without interest. Towards the end of the 17th century manufactories of cloth, silk, co cotton, glass, porcelain, and crockeryware , we r e established in this city, but without any decided effect until 1822, when, in consequence of the protective system adopted by the Government, Moscow became the centre of a vast number of ma n ufactories, all in the most flourishing state. At present there are, in and about the city, not less than a thousand of these establishments send ing forth goods to the amount of 40,000,000 silver rubles a year. Upwards of 40,000 workmen are em. ployed in those manufactories, besides 30,000 h% various trades. The prosperity of the city has, in fact, increased to such a point, that all traces of the • , terrible catastrophe of 1812, by fire, are entirely 1 effaced. ANTI-CORN-LAW MEETING AT LINCOLN. A meeting was held in the-Guildhall in the city of Lincoln, which was crowded, on Friday, the 9th De cember, called by the Mayor, in compliance with a requisition signed by 378 of the inhabitants. The MAYOR stated that he would not interfere with politics, and. a Mr. Hodson (a working man) was . called to the chair. The meeting was addressed by a Mr. AxuLL, who moved the first resolution, and ended by thanking the Anti-Corn-Law League for their exertions in the cause of free trade. He pledged the meeting to sup port the League, and invited Mr. Cobden and other gentlemen to visit Lincoln. Mr. NORTON gave the following valuable statistical information : Debtors in the Felons. City gaol. Flour per stone. s. d. 1 10 1834 22 1835 24 1836............ 30 1837 Total... 106 1839 1840 1841 27 .... 61 1842 Total... 154 203 2 9i The usualnlQ; number of applications for nightly shelter in the Union until lately were 6, i. e., about 80 per quar ter. The Governor of the Union remarked, whereas the old applicants were regular trade beggars—those who now applied were intelligent, well educated artisans, and that he had derived much valuable information from them. Mr. N. further stated, that supposing the number of families in Lincoln at 2,000, they would consume yearly 312,000 stone of flour, the cost of which, at the low average of 1834 to 183(i, would be 28,6001., but at the high average , of the last five years, 42,9001.; that the people of Lincoln had, therefore, paid 100,0001. more the last four years than the pre vious for flour alone ! And that, even supposing all this 100,0001. had been spent with the tradesmen of Lincoln, they would only realize the profit, say one fifth, of what had been taken from them. After more valuable local information, showing that wages had not increased since 1834-5 proportionately with the rise in flour, an earnest 'address to the working men, and an expose of the intimidation attempted to deter the men of Lincoln from joining the League, Mr Norton sat down amidst vehement cheering. The resolutions were carried. Mr. MURRAY 'delivered a very racy, eloquent, and pointed address, and at the conclusion of his speech, a vote of thanks was proposed to the Chairman and Mr. Murray, and the meeting separated. THE CANADIAN FLOUR TRADE. According to the "American Almanac" for 1843, the aggregate amount of the crops of grain and potatoes in the United States last year, is equal to 755,200,000 bushels, or 42} bushels to each in habitant, man, woman, and child. As this is con siderably more than double the amount per head which Great Britain produces,the people of the United States have not only enough for themselves, but a considerable surplus for export. With us the grand difficulty is, how to get a sufficient supply . of food at all times ; with them the chief difficulty is, how to dispo!e of their superfluous produce. So long as our sliding scale exists, it would be unrea sonable to expect them to send any considerable quantity of corn direct to England ; but we perceive from the American papers, that a brisk traffic in grain and flour is going on between the United States and Canada, from which we shall, no doubt, reap some benefit ; although much less than we should do, were our ports thrown open to the admission of wheat and flour, direct from the United States. The following extracts from the New York Herald, of November 19, will show that the Canadians are anticipating a brisk trade in flour with Great Britain :-- "The average price of flour in this country is now 3,75 dollars a barrel—lower than it has ever been. On the lakes, large quantities of breadstuffs are crowding forward to market. Vessels of all kinds are in demand, millers are active buying wheat at 40 to 70 cents a bushel, and the great western intercommunications are alive with waggons loaded down with grain. Vast quantities, comparatively speaking, are going to Ca nada, v:-it quantities are given to cattle, vast quantities are storing, and vast quantities are seeking a market. There is no colouring in this. Everything indicates the great yield of last year. " FLOUR AND WHEAT SHIPPED FOR BUFFALO. Years ending Fldur bbls. Wheat bush. October, 1838 39,463 ............... 215,600 ~ 1839 50,922 ........... . ... 203,120 1, 1840 101,076 ............... 163,320 1, 1841 87,272 247,656 1843 144,079... ............ 378,94,5 " The aggregate of this month was greatly re duced, perhaps twenty•five per cent., in consequence of many boats taking the Niagara river route to Black Bock, instead of the canal, which they were compelled to do for want of sufficient water between Buffalo and that place. " As an evidence of the magnitude of the operations in the Buffalo grain market, we would mention the fact, that, of the immense amount of wheat received within three days ending 11 th instant, not over 40,000 bushels remained unsold. This, for the opera tions of two days, in the most unfavourable weather, will probably challenge competition with the grain market of any other city in the Union, and perhaps in the world. "This indicates that America will soon be the gra nary of the world. If it were not for tariffs, we could now supply Europe with at least five millions barrels of flour, worth twenty-five millions .of dollars — o ne hundred and fifty per cent. more than we ever ex ported. Will our farmers think of this ? Let them ponder well on protective tariffs." From another part of the same paper we learn, that some 50,000 bushels of wheat had been sold at Buf falo within .a few days, at the average price of 62} cents., about 20s. per quarter. The greater portion of this would no doubt be purchased by Canadian millers, who, after converting it into flour, will send it to this country as Canadian produce; the duty on flour from our British possessions being only 3s. per barrel at present, while on foreign flour it is 12s. per barrel. We perceive that the general average price of wheat in Great Britain, for the week ending Decem ber 3, is 48s. 6d. per quarter, which is just about 30s. below what it was four years ago. Making every reasonable allowance for the abundance of the late harvest, and also for the falling off in the con sumption of flour, owing to the general poverty of the labouring classes, we cannot help thinking that the depressed condition of the market is in no small de gree owing to the belief of the farmers that, what with the importation of United States corn through Canada, and what with other changes which may be made at no distant period, the days of agricultural protection are at an end.—Manchester Guardian. A FIXED DUTY.--Many of our Whig friends are opposed to the total repeal of the Corn-laws, and say, "We want revenue. Why, is not corn a fair sub ject for taxation ?" Our answer is,—Be it so. You want corn to be taxed. Well, let it be taxed at the mill, both foreign and domestic. But you dare not do it. The old women themselves would abolish your tax with their brooms and their pokers.—Correspon dent of the Liverpool Albion. THE CORN..LAWS.--A public meeting of the Lam beth Chartists was held last evening at the Britannia Tavern, Waterloo-road, to take into consideration the propriety of calling a public meeting of the friends of Reform, relative to the Conference about to be holden at:Birmingham. After the special business of the meet ing was disposed of, Mr. J. Daws rose to call the at tention of the Chartist body to the conduct of certain persons calling themselves Chartists, who made it their study to go about disturbing meetings called for the purpose of repealing these obnoxious laws, which deprived the working man of food for his family. He need but to mention that he meant the Corn-laws — (Hear, hear)—and he was sure no upright Chartist would sanction any opposition to a body of men oppos ing laws so unjust and ruinous. He could assure the Chartist body that such interference had injured the progress of a reform in the ,franchise more than all the acts of a despotic Tory Ministry, and would sub mit the following resolution to the meeting :—" That this meeting fully deprecates the conduct of those persons who have hitherto interfered at meetings called for the purpose of lecturing on the Corn-laws, or on any other subject, and consider such inter ference as a serious injury to the cause of Chartism, and wholly incompatible with the cause we advocate —freedom of public opinion." The resolution was then seconded, and carried unanimously by a very crowded meeting. GUERNSEY, DEC. 10.—Government has decided on the removal of the Channel Islands packet station from Weymouth. For a long time past all the cor respondence from this island and Jersey to England, has been sent by the Southampton steamers, by which means our letters reach London and the north of Eng land a day earlier than when sent by way of Wey mouth. Thus the Southampton steam-packet com panies have bean paid for conveying our correspon dence, and an expensive establishment at Weymouth has been rendered useless. In the course of the past week the brooms have disappeared from the mast-heads of many of the ships in the various docks and canals within the port, which may be regarded as a very palpable indication of a favourable move in maritime affairs. The ship wrights, too, who have been, very much totheir dis-; advantage; idle hands about the banks of the •ThaMos for some time, begin to find occupation. The valu e of tonnage is improving, and with the spring T ip m a y expect mere general and increased activity. LITERATURE. GODFREY MALVERN. Vol. l. Miller, London, 1842 Godfrey Malvern—so far as it has yet pro ceeded, for we have here only the first volume — is a pleasant, readable story, whose style is uni formly flowing and animated, and whose senti ments are such as do the author great credit. It is an additional recommendation to the narrative, that its incidents, which are numerous and well put together, in no one instance clash with pro bability, and that the characters, especially that of the hero, are sustained with spirit and good sense. The scene of the courtship between Widow Clarkson and Gregory Gruff, where the former is anxious to make a deep impression on the latter's susceptible heart, is full of truthful humour, and will remind the reader of the famous interviews in "Tristam Shandy" between Widow Wadman and my Uncle Toby. MIDSUMMER EV.O. 3 Vols. Saunders and Otley, London, 1842. There is considerable ingenuity evinced in this fiction, whose leading incidents are so contrived as to give the reader a very fair idea of the do mestic manners and prejudices of Londoners during the stormy period of the Reformation. The chief personage —or, at any rate, the one who will most warmly excite the reader's inte rest—is a poor, blind, fatherless girl, by name Annot Palmer, who is represented at the outset of the story sitting by the way-side near the turnpike at Islington, like the lone figure spoken of in Scripture. Being a regular attendant on Sundays at the church of one of the reformed preachers, she is discovered and attested by the furious Popish Bishop of London, Dr. Bonner, conveyed to his palace at Fulham, subjected to a rigid cross-examination as to the articles of her faith, in the presence of the Prelate, mid several other Church dignitaries, and ultimately put to the torture as a heretic and infidel. Exhausted with pain, she is next removed to one of the city churches, which. is used as a prison for refractory Lutherans; but the place of her confinement being fortunately discovered by a young man, Harry Markham, who had been the innocent cause of her arrest, he resolves on obtaining her release, impelled to this determination by his affection for a lady of birth and fortune, Anne Granville, who had long been a kind friend and patroness of the blind orphan girl. Markham's attempt is successful, Annot is liberated by stratagem from her con finement, and the story concludes with her de parture, in company with her liberator, and several other persecuted Lutherans, , from Eng land for the shores of Germany. The character of this meek, patient, sweet-natured girl is sus- tained with great feeling and propriety through out; and with a skill, too, and a delicacy that proves the author to be well read in that " mys tery of mysteries," the female heart. Dr. Bonner is a portrait less felicitously executed; vigour it possesses, enough and to spare ; but we fear it is coarse to a degree exceeding the truth of history. The scenes in the prison in the first volume, where the high-minded old martyr, Dr. Maynard, administers the sacrament to his fellow-prisoners, are admirably coloured; and the description of the business at Smithfield has an earnestness and reality about it, that might almost induce one to believe that it was an extract from the memoir of some contempo rary chronicler who' was an eye-witness of the terrible spectacle. NEW MUST U. " Jeminy Cracks! How hot it is! The man that couldn't get cool ; or, a Song for the Tee totallers," is the title of Mr. Beuler's last. We very much suspect that the author is of Yankee origin, although the Germans claim him under the name ofVon Bider, for the conception of the subject of the song is certainly American, but it is a hyperbole with a good moral, and the author well deserves a medal from Father Mathew. The story is as follows :—Mr. Jeminy Cracks, by overdoses of brandy (British or Foreign is not mentioned) gets so extremely inflammable that, while lying in the fields to chill himself, his nose is the cause of several incendiary fires, and con sequently the country soon becomes too hot to hold him. He quits it in a steamer, to which he proves as good as a cargo of coals in keeping up the power of the steam, by which the vessel is enabled to go " much farther north than any before." On the voyage, while bathing, he puts the whales in a perspiration, boils the smaller fishes in the sea, and, lastly, -" nearly sets the Pole on fire ;" for he becomes a kind of prome nade " snap-dragon, and "walks about the polar night" surrounded by a blue flame, and occa sions, as the crew report, the Aurora Borealis. To quench the flame in vain he tried, It gradually consumed his hide, At last of self-combustion died, The man that couldn't get cool. Some part of him that was unburn'd, Immediately to glow-worms turned ; " And some part,' says old Boson Buss, " The doctor took for phospho-rus." The dust and ash the ship-cook choos'd, And a'terwards he was accused, That he for Cayenne pepper used The man that couldn't get cool." It is an extravagant, but humorous composi don, and doubtless effective in singing. _ - NEW THEATRE, MARYLEBONE. On Monday a new theatre was opened for the firs time, in Church-street, Marylebone, in the immediate vicinity of Portman market. It is a most commodious building, and is capable of containing between two thousand and three thousand persons. The interior is fitted up with great regard to convenience, and much taste has been displayed in the general decora tion of the house ; indeed we consider it to be as ele gant and as unique a theatre, for its size, as any within the metropolis. The doors were scarcely opened be fore the house was crowded in everv, part, and the audience in the boxes displayed a class of persons whose attendance gave to the establishment a tone of respectability which must hereafter have a most be neficial effect upon it. Amongst the company that have been engaged we noticed several names that speak well for the species of entertainments that will be furnished to the visitors at this theatre.—Mr. Os baldeston, Miss Vincent, Mr. B. Rayner, Mr. T. Lee, the Irish comedian, Mr. Collins, the vocalist, Mr. Cobham, &c. &c. &c., are amongst those announced to make their appearance at an early period • in deed, Mr. Rayner supported the character of Lu bin, in Passion and Repentance, in the course of the evening. The performance commenced with a grand historical drama entitled The Saxon Maid; or the Days of William the Conqueror. It is one of those pieces in which there are a tyrant Earl, an unknown Knight, a lost child, a lovely maid, and all the et cetera of the regular and well-established romantic spectacle. It was well sustained by the several per sons engaged in it. Mr. Freer,• as the Unknown unbounded • applause from the g K wwaii n ithl i he g rm b eye t, n y. As d i d r u e ieni wrisa:bfThorntondown as a Page, played and sang effect. A new farce entitled -Tea wed. It is an agreeable trifle. The entertainments concluded with the petite drama of Love's Frailties, under the name of Passion and Re pentance, in which Mr. Rayner sustained his original part of Lubin with unabated vigour and success ; but it would be superfluous at the present day to offer any comment on his performance of the character, as it is perfectly well known to every play goer. He had, however, to contend with a heroine (Susan), who might have had a little more juvenile app earance. - Is it, however, judicious to bring this gentleman for ward only in the last piece, and that at so late an hour that the attention before he appears ? W e think the manager s would best consult their own intere s t s b y a lt er ing this ar rangement. of the audience is wearied E Y THE WEST RN LITERAR INSTITUTION. _ . A very interesting. lecture , 401; the Scriptura History of Sacred Music and the Practice of Psalmody' was delivered the other evening, by Mr.-Netherclipt, Institution, Leicester -square. The theatre was crowded Literary and Scientific coe val with ma n , it oug ht t o b e ma d e proceeded to observe, that a to t theexc excess. s. Theatre T h e o f theoet lecturer Western m on u e si o c f btheiencghief points of his education, and if it were universally understood, it would be the means of pre venting a great deal of wickedness, for, as " Music bath charms to soothe the savage breast," so might it be made available in many ways, and more especially in our prisons. He showed to the satisfaction of his audience, who testified their approval by frequent applause, that the great cause of the wretchedness o of wi t o h g e singingtothe ‘‘ shyness" in most of ou r c h urc h es was mainly of the female part of the congregation, and incompetent teachers of music to the children, and in the course of ' his lecture suggested that every parish should appoint' com petent persons to teach the congregation, either at the church or some other convenient place on par ticular evenings. The illustrations of the lecture, ex hibiting. the light and shade of psalmody, as expres sive of various devotional feelings, were selected from the " Twenty-four Psalms and Hymns," composed by the lecturer, and dedicated to the Bishop of London, and were very ably sung by an efficient choir to the Accompaniment of the organ. A. Short time since a lecture on the "music of Shakspeare's plays" was delivered at this theatre by Mr: Rirribault, with illustrations, &c. ; and in noticing these lectures it is but doing justice to say a few words in favour of the society by whom they are given, the "St. Martin's Subscription Library (in connection with that founded by Archbighop Tenni ° son), in Castle-street, Leicester.square, An d which, by the exertions of a few individuals, inhabitants of the parish, has been rescued from oblivion. By ap peals to the inhabitants generally, which were most liberally responded to, sufficient funds have been raised to renovate and improve the building, and to form a subscription library. The Rev. Sir Henry Dukenfield, Bart., the vicar, consented to act as President, and, with others, largely contributed many volumes of modern scienti fic, historical, and biographical works, and donations in money. The library rooms are now well supplied with newspapers and all the best periodicals, to which any one resident or employed in the parish can have access, by paying annually the small subscription of 10s. 6d., being less than any other institution of the kind in the metropolis. The present number of mem bers is upwards of 500. The title by which the ground for the erection of the library was held for the vestry, shows that the library was for the use of the public. It is as follows :—" Dr. Thomas Tenni son having considered that, in the city and liberty of Westminster, there are great numbers of ministers and other studious persons ; as also that there is not in the said precinct any one shop of a stationer fully fur nished with books of various learning, nor any noted librarie except that of St. James (which belongs to his Majesty, and is not easy qf access); that of Sir Robert Cotton (which consisteth chiefly of books re lating to the antiquities of England), and the library of the Dean and Chapter of St. Peter's Church, Westminster," &c. The library contains between five and six thousand volumes upon all subjects, but prin pally upon theology, and amongst them are many valuable manuscripts. The library is deposited in a new building near the church. DEXTEROUS CAPTURE OF POACHERS. A very short time ago, consequent upon a well-laid train, two of the most audacious poachers in this dis trict were captured at Washington, in this locality. Information having been obtained by the constituted authorities here, that two of the most notoriously des-. perate characters that have infested this range for some time past were prowling about near at hand, their lurk - ing-place was ferreted out by our active rural policeman and assistants ; but from the daringly reckless charac ter of the gang it was deemed advisable to delay any attempt to capture until a strong force was mustered, for which purpose a messenger was dispatched with the intelligence of their being found out, and, at the same time, a request was made to the agent of the Perthshire Game Protection Association here that a strong force ' might be dispatched without loss of time. Accord ingly, the recruiting party of the 93d Highlanders, stationed here, consisting of a sergeant and three pri vates, were sent off to the scene of action without a moment's loss of time, and very soon thereafter joined the policemen. After stationing a part of the force round the house to render futile any attempt at es cape, the sergeant and his men went in and demanded if those they were in pursuit of were within ? and were answered by the inmate in the negative ; but, of course, discrediting this statement, their warrant was produced, and a search determined on, which proved unsuccessful in the first instance, but on their entering another apartment, in which was a closed-ln bed, and on casting a glance in that direc tion, there the two delinquents were seen snugly ensconced, enjoying a very sound and no doubt refreshing sleep, as it appeared from the head of game stowed in a closet in the room that they had had a pretty hard, as it was certainly, a suc cessful day's sport. The soldiers went close to the bed, presented their fire-arms, and demanded them to sit up in bed and allow themseives to be handcuffed. which they had no alternative but to submit to, although accompanied by a good many threats and shrugging of the shoulders. On their being hand cuffed, a search was made in the room ; and in the closet above referred to were found two double barrelled guns, both barrels of each gun loaded, six pheasants and five hares, procured of course by illicit means. On their being secured, they were ordered out of WI, unshackled, and requested to dress, which they did, and were then marched off to this town, where they were kept in custody all night, and sent off to gaol next morning.—Perth Advertiser. In Scotland, therefore, where, as we learn from the report of the Renfrewshire meeting, people must starve or break the law, poaching seems by some classes to be considered tantamount to murder. If these men, instead of having killed a pheasant, or snared a hare, had slain a fellow-creature, what stronger lan guage could be used than that of this paragraph, and what more vigorous measures could be taken than to call out the military to apprehend them. Does the Com mander-in-Chief tolerate such an employment of soldiers ? Does the community submit to an income tax that an army may be kept up for the protection of the landlords' pheasants against starving men? We have not of late met with many paragraphs more pregnant than this with the conviction that there is something essentially wrong in our political regula tions.—En. Sun. The Semaphore of Marseilles contains the follow ing article :—" Barcelona, Dec. 4.—The treaty of commerce has just been signed by Espartero. The English 1-nd him 160,000,000 reals, and he gives them in exchange the entrance of the port of Barce lona for the introduction of their goods, with which they will soon inundate all Spain. French editors are verily a strange people. On Monday afternoon, about 4 o'clock, a middle aged married female, named Margaret Ryan, fell down in convulsive fits in the Blackfriars-road. She was conveyed, by 156 L, (who was near the spot) to Mr. Jones's, a surgeon, who found her in a dying state, and ordered her to be taken to Guy's Hospital, but she expired on the way. Fara, or A GRANARY.—On Thursday evenir about twenty minutes past seven o'clock, the people residing in York-street were startled by an extraor dinary crash, accompanied by a simultaneous shock, as if produced by some subterraneous convulsion. On inquiry, it turned out that the alarm had been pro duced by the fall of a grain store, situated to the rear of the elegant and substantial bonding warehouses in York-street. The building which was thus unexpec tedly levelled with the ground, was of considerable extent, being four stories in height, and about forty six- feet - in length, and, at the time the casualty took place, contained a large quanity of grain. The loss we have heard estimated, altogether, at between 4,0001. and 5,000/. ; upwards of 2,0001. will, it is stated, be required, to restore the building. Fortunately, no person was injured. — Glasgow Paper. A few evenings since Lord Bridport's keepers, at Monckton Wylde, were disturbed from their sleep by hearing noises in the adjoining copses; on going to the spot, there were no less than eight poachers, seven of whom had fire-arms, and one of them a tremendous bludgeon. A conflict immediately ensued, and guns were fired, the report of which brought three of the neighbours, Copp, Collier, and Salter, to the assistance of the Richmonds (the gamekeepers), but they were soon overpowered, and Collier was so dreadfullv beaten on the head, &c., as to have been nearly killer. The elder Richmond, a lso, was severely , wounded ; his gun was wrested from him, and a large slug was lodged on the temple, near the left eye, which has since been extracted. As the poachers left they fired their guns, several of the shots of which pierced the legs, &c., of farmer Copp. Collier's wounds have been dressed, and he is now able to work. Richmond was able to recognise one of them, of the name of Ber ridge, who has been committed to Dorchester gaol by J. Hussey, Esq., of Lyme.—Sherborne Journal. ANOTHER SIGN OF THE TurEs.—Speaking with an acquaintance, a pawnbroker, on the long-continued and deep distress which prevails throughout this dis trict, he invited us to an inspection of his returns of pledges taken by him, and we found, that in the years '1833 and 1834 he was days without taking in one pledge ; while in the years 1840 and 1841 the .number averaged for every day in those years 125 per day, or 3,750 for each month.—Bolton Free Press. REDUCTION OF THE SUGAR DUTIES.—TIIE TRADE WITH BRAZIL —For some time the West India inter est have been labouring to secure as good terms as possible for themselves in that change of the sugar duties, which has now become inevitable, and, accord ing to the account given by the Manchester Guardian of the future rates of duty on plantation and Brazilian sugar, they have succeeded even beyond their hopes, so far as their own produce is concerned, whatever they may have done with regard to Brazilian. The future duty on plantation sugar, it is stated, is to be 16s. per cwt., which is less than what the West Indians were willing to have bargained for, namely, 2d. per lb ; and that on Brazilian is to be 30s. The former is a re duction of Bs. on the existing duty (which is 245. per cwt.), and also on the duty under the Bill proposed by the Whigs; and it will cause an immediate loss of upwards of a million and a quarter to the re venue. The expected duty on Brazilian sugar is a reduction of 6s. per cwt. beyond what was proposed by the Whigs; but as it will open a new branch of trade, and reduce the selling price of sugar to about 50s. per cwt., it will probably give such a stimulus to consumption as will very soon make up for the loss in the duty on plantation sugar. The substitution of a duty of 30s. per cwt. on ,Brazi lian sugar will doubtless be a great improvement on the present prohibitory system, though even that rate of duty is much too high, as it will compel every person who buys a hundred weight of sugar to pay a premium of 14s. to the West India planters, in addi tion to the 16s. which he pays for the purposes of revenue, and the 18s. or 20g. which he pays to the grower and importer of the article. So fully do the West India planters reckon on an important altera tion being made in the sugar duties in the next session of Parliament, that at the opening of the Jamaica Legislature last month a Committee was appointed to endeavour to obtain a suitable differential duty in favour of British plantation sugar. They will hardly have the conscience to ask more than Government a ppears to disposed to give, which is a differential duty of no less than 14s. on a duty of 165., that is, 87 per cent.—Leeds Mercury. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. GLOBE.—The contemporaneous occurrence of dis putes of discipline in the Church of England, and in the Scottish Kirk, and the simultaneous sort of appeal which both seem making, or about making, to the Legislature—to improve either their jurisdiction, or their means of enforcing it within its own pale— afford occasion to examine the principles on which the Legislature should proceed in such matters. The first observation which strikes us, is that• the high claims of each Church exclude each other; and that, if the Legislature listens to the one, it must spurn the other. For the High Church champions of each of these Establishments assert a title supe rior to all secular authority, and above all control by it. According to these, the Church does not depend on the State, but the State on the Church ; the obedience of the members of the latter is due, in the first place, to itself; and only second arily to the Government, provided its com mands coincide with Church laws. Now we do not mean to cast any derision on this pretension. In a certain sense, we consider it well founded. The fact that a man belongs to a Church involves the conse quence that he holds its precepts " wisest, virtuous est, discreetest, best," and follows its spiritual guidance. If a Government, therefore, should ordain anything directly opposed to that guidance, passive obedience is the utmost that a Churchman (really persuaded of his Church's precepts, which, however, Church autho rities should remember their flocks seldom are on all points)—passive obedience, we say, is the utmost a de voted Churchman could give such a Government. That is to saw, he would suffer what it might do con trary to the tenets of his Church, but he would not act so as in any manner to aid or abet such its doings. This passive state is that which High Church men, both Scotch and English, seem in these times contemplating. Indeed it is the only attitude they can well take towards the State ; since the basis on which they rest their respective claims, we have said, exclude each other. If the State listened to one, it must put . down the other. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. TIMES.—The announcement of the Canada lean, which was inserted in the Times of to-day, was also posted up at the Stock Exchange, according to cus tom, and copies were sent to the Bank of England. The members were not in the least taken by surprise, as since the passing of the Act by which the loan is authorised, the appearance of such an announcement has been almost daily expected. The time of such appearance is generally admitted to be remarkably well chosen. At the present low rate of money any thing like a profitable investment, guaranteed by the British Government, will probably be caught at with avidity, and the present stock, which bears 4 per cent. interest, will at the price of 106 yield .about 31. Hence, though the price that will be tendered is merely a matter of conjecture, it, is believed that the tenders will range tolerably high. But, besides the abundance of unemployed capital, there is another cause for supposing that the present time is particu larly opportune for bringing forward a stock bearing a high rate of interest. This is the belief which pretty generally prevails, that a reduction of the Three-and-a-Half per Cents. is contemplated by the Government. Should such a measure take place, the Canadian Four per Cents., which will not be redeem able till twenty years have elapsed, will be the only Government stock in the market commanding an in terest above 3 per cent. The fear of a fluctuation in the value of money, which might render it just as scarce as it now is plentiful, will, it is believed, be the only check on the eagerness with which the new loan will be sought. The sum to be raised not exceeding 300,0001., it is thought no disadvantage will arise by making the loan an open one, instead of disposing of it by contract, though had it een for a large amount difficulties might have arisen. According to the advertisement, the bonds repre senting the loan will be " redeemable" in twenty years. The capitalists, who are regarding the value of the stock as a banking investment, observe that there is a little ambiguity in this expression, us it does not point out whether it shall be obligatory or optional on the part of the Government to redeem at the end of the specified time. Mauritius papers to the 3d of September have ar rived in the city. These allude to the issue of one dollar notes, rendered necessary, it appears, by the absorption of specie by the banks, and other unfore seen circumstances which have contracted the cur rency of the island. The calling in of part of the coinage had added to the serious inconvenience of the mercantile community, who had made serious com plaints on the subject to the Government, who at last consented that this new paper circulation should be brought into vogue to give greater facilities for the transaction of business. There is little else in these papers worth notice. An Order in Council had been published advising proper regulations for the import of Coolie labour into the colony. To the merchants here it is stated, as a matter of fact worth knowing, that though in the new system of business which has sprung up ik the market, two and three months' credit is allowed buyers, they still receive as heretofore the rates of discount, varying from six to ten per cent. It is said there would be no great deal done if these deductions were not conceded ; and that, therefore, to keep business alive it is sub mitted to. The prospects of Spain, in a financial point of view, are manifesting some improvement. By letters of the 2d instant, received this morning from Madrid, it appears that the money for the payment of the divi dends on the stock of. the capitalised coupons of the Five per Cents. was sent forward the day before to London. A competition has arisen in Madrid for the quicksilver contract, the produce of the celebrated mines of Almaden, in regard to which the Minister has shown himself regardless of all private influence, in consequence of which the Government is likely to obtain much better terms than heretofore. The project for conducting the sale of the quicksilver through the Bank of San Fernando having gone off on some point of form connected with the rules of that institution, a tender is said to have been put in direct to Senor Calatrava by the Messrs. Rothschild, with a very considerable advance on their last contract, and this had been followed by a proposal on the part of some London capitalists, by an agent now in Madrid, of still better terms. This latter had intimated his readiness to bid at the public auction, to which the Minister of Finance is bound to submit the produce of these mines, as high as 65 dollars the quintal, and for the whole net produce for the ensuing seven years, which it is supposed will not be less than 140,000 quintals ; and further (which constitutes the great novelty of this proposal), to pay for the whole in hard cash, as follows :-40.0001. in six days after the Mi nister accepts the pro . position, and 6 . 0,000/. after the auction has been announced by public adverti s ement; further, if successful at the auction, he undertakes to pay 900,0001. more in twelve monthly instalments. Ile also engag es to p a y to the mining establishment at Almaden during the seven years of the contract 560,0001., to provide the necessary funds for the working of the mines, and the transport of the quick silver to Seville, making in all 1,560,0001. to be ad vanced in hard cash. As soon as his advances have been equalised by the delivery of the quicksilver, he is to pay for each new quantity in eight days after its delivery at Seville. No doubt can exist, with the vast natural resources which Spain possesses, of the possibility of placing her on the footing of other civi lised countries in point of credit, and the main thing now required for that purpose is the organisation of a steady and powerful Government, calculated to attract and to retain public confidence. Inquiries are constantly making by Correspondents respecting the transactions of the Committee of South American Bondholders, and more especially what they are doing in regard to Buenos Ayres and Peru, States which obtained their loans on very high terms, during the height of the loan mania in this country, who got all their funds, moreover, regularly remitted to them, and received them at a time when they were of the most essential service. As to both of these States, the evidence of ability to pay is of the most clear and satisfactory nature. In the instance of Buenos Ayres, it is established by official documents published by that Government, and which have been already referred to ; and in the case of Peru, though not exactly supported by similar evidence, the wealth and natural resources of the country are notoriously much greater than Buenos Ayres, while in both the debt to this country amounts to a very insignificant sum indeed, viz., Buenos Ayres, 1,000,0001.; Peru, 1,800,0001., with arrears of interest of 16 or 17 years. The successful issue to which the arrangements with the comparatively poor state of Chili have been brought should certainly sti mulate the Committee to increase their exertions with Buenos Ayres and Peru, since they may fairly hope that the example of Chili, without using . arguments of a more cogent kind, would shame them into an act of common honesty, leaving gratitude entirely out of the question. For the reinstatement of Chilian credit the creditors are mainly indebted, we believe, to the continued exertions, during several years, of the house which contracted the loan, in pointing out the advantage as well as honesty of doing justice to Eng lish claims ; and it is but reasonable to expect the same result, if the same means are used with the other States. They would have the cordial support of the Government, which possesses much power in withholding comm ercial privileges, or otherwise, de pendent on the character and credit of the countries which solicit them. HERALD. --The loan opened for the service of Canada; and for carrying on and completing certain public works in the United Provinces, publicly . an nounced this morning, has naturally formed a topic of conversation in City circles to-day. The whole autho sura proposed to be raised at intervals as wanted , rised by the Canadian Legislature and the interest guaranteed by the Imperial Government according to Act of Parliament, is fixed at 1,500,0001 ; but the amount of this loan now offered for public tender is 2 4 2 31 2 8 3 4 2 10 2 10 limited to 300,000/. only, bearing interest at the rate of 4 per cent., and not redeemable until the expiration of twenty years to be calculated f rom J anuary 1 , 1843. Debentures to be issued for the amount in sums of not less than 5001. each. The loan, or an It part thereof, to be tendered for on the 16th i ns t an t. t is understood that the amount now brought to market is intended merely to cover bills already drawn from Canada on account of the loan, a considerable pro portion of which has fallen, or is about to fall, due at the Treasury. Speculations were naturally afloat about the rates at which this small loan would be tendered for. The market rate of Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced to-day was 101, which establishes a eurrent rate of interest at rather less than 3} per cent. These Cana dian debentures should perhaps be considered as a more advantageous investment, because of the security against redemption or conversion for 20 years to come. On the other hand, being a stock small in gross amount, but large in respect for each debenture, say 5001., the debentures may be less easy of circulation and sale on occasion. It is supposed in some quarters That the tenders may . run as high as 1151. for each • 1001. stock, which would give an interest equal to about 3f per cent. ; but it is more generally supposed that the tenders will be somewhere about 1101. for each 1001., which would return an interest of about 3i per cent.; there are some who incline to think that 107/. would be the more reasonable value per 100/. stock, which would yield interest at the rate of about 3 per cent. These calculations exclude minute fractional quantities. U should seem that with the guarantee proposed, which renders the stock equally secure with any portion of the national debt, and at the present low rates of in , terest with the abundance of unemployed capital, these debentures should command such a rate as would equalise them with the Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, that is 115/. per 1001. stock. The bills drawn and to be drawn from Canada on account of the whole loan, together with the rather heavy amount periodically drawn by the commissa riat of the forces there, will afford, to the extent, a useful supply of bills on England to the New York market, where probably a large proportion is and will be negotiated. In such case they may have a favourable effect in raising the exchanges there. The bills drawn on the Treasury here, on commissariat account, are stated to have amounted to about 130,0001. in one month a short while ago—probably, however, covering a quarter's charges. NEW ZEALAND; The advices from Kororareka of the 26th of May give particulars of a public meeting, held at the Ex change Hotel, Auckland, about the beginning of that month, James Coates, Esq., high sheriff, in the chair, for the purpose of adopting a petition to both Houses of Parliament, praying for representative institutions, which they aSsert that " this rapidly rising colony is justly entitled to." The petitions to the Queen and to the Imperial Parliament were read and unanimously adopted, set ting forth— " That many of the British colonies are in the en joyment of Legislative Assemblies, without possessing the population, wealth, revenue, or commercial im portance of New Zealand, which, although it has vir tually been a British colony for three years only, has still been inhabited and partly occupied by a large body of British subjects for upwards of thirty years. " That the expenditure of the government of this colony has, during the last two years, amounted to upwards of 130,0001., and is likely to increase consi derably. "That the petitioners cannot, however, exercise the slightest control.over the appropriation of the revenue of the colony, which is entirely under the control of his Excellency the Governor, three executive mem bers of Council, and two non-official members, chosen by the Governor and irresponsible to the people. " The petitioners, therefore, humbly pray that Par liament will be pleased to adopt such measures as may seem proper for extending to the colony of New Zea land that form of representative legislation to which it is constitutionally entitled, and which it is now fully qualified to 'exercise." EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT AT MURDER AND SUICIDE. An attempt to commit murder, under rather singu lar circumstances, occurred at the Auction Mart Tavern, yesterday morning, about half an hour after midnight. A young man, about twenty-one years of age, who had been in the capacity of potboy for some considerable time, and who had been most re spectably recommended, had, it appears, conceived a passion for Elizabeth Magnus, who had been about four years employed at the tavern as barmaid. She being nearly forty years old, gave the youth no en courarment, but still he persevered in his unwelcome attentions. Oa Monday Mr. Baker, the proprietor of the tavern, with some friends, had gone to the Haymarket Theatre, to the benefit of Mr. Archer, and only Mrs. Baker was left at home to see the house shut up at the usual hour ; Elizabeth Magnus went below to lock the cellar door, and the potboy (whose name we could not ascertain) was close by her— she remarked something strange in his expression of countenance, and asked him why he stared so at her ?- He immediately discharged a pistol at her, She. called out " Murder," and - the alarm brought Mrs. Baker down, and the police constable was soon on the spot. The woman was bleeding,and her clothes were on fire. When Mrs. Baker first seized the pot boy by the arm, she discovered that his throat was cut. The policeman took the knife out of his hand, and found a razor in his pocket, and a number of per cussion caps. The pistol was one of the cheap Bir mingham manufacture. The youth was sent to St. Thomas's Hospital, where it was found the incision in his throat was not very deep, nor considered dangerous. The unfortunate female was taken to her bed-room, and when she was undressed, the bullet fell from her clothes. It would appear, from the fact of her clothes having caught fire, that the young man had been very close behind her. The bullet passed entirely through her body on her right side, perforating her stays, and had been caught in her woollen underclothes. Sh e was able to detail all the circumstances, and was placed under the best medical advice that could be procured, ured s o that the most sanguine hopes are enter . tained of the safety of, her life, although, perhaps, it may be attended with a tedious recovery. PRINTERS' ALMS•IiOUSB FUND.—An amatuer vocal concert in aid of the funds for erecting alms-houses for poor and decayed members of the printing profes sion, was given on Monday in the Theatre of the Mechanics' Institution, Southampton-buildings. It was well attended, and the manner in which it was conducted reflects great credit upon all engaged in it, and, we hope, that with the aid of the public patron age being liberally extended to it, the Society will soon be enabled to attain the object they have in view. The herring fishery, just concluded at Yarmouth, has been the most productive for many years. Up wards of 200 boats from that port alone have been engaged during eleven weeks in the trade, and have realized an average profit of more than 4001. each. The same trade is as extensively carried on at. Lowe stoft, and at other small ports along the same coast. Lately the French have been very large purchasers. A LLOTT ING LABOURERS,—The labourers belonging to the parish of Brill have been suffering severe vations from the want of employment. A short time since nearly forty persons belonging to that parish. were inmates of the unio n-house at nlame. Those out of the house unemployed made an house, his Grace being a considerable occuper attempt to see the Duke of B uckin g ham, at Wott on - i in the parish, for the purpose of stating their grievances. Their first attempt to get a hearing was unsuccessful ; a second, however, was made by between 30 and 40 able-bodied men, in a body, which was successful The Duke relieved their immediate necessities, and ordered the parish officers of Brill to attend at Wotton-house ; requeosftedalltohtetmingtotebaellmaepuaarmishonmgeethte ing, for the pu r p ose ratepayers; and stated, that if the rest of the rate to their asses - would g choose eight p m a e y n e t r s t owtohlei k r l a t t a e k s b t e h e o m b e e n p a u c k c e o ) rdi labourers for his share for the winter, which is some thing more than his p ro p o rtion. The parish meetin p was and an arrangement made to send o accordinglyne for each 70/. assessment to the l abour labourer called, poor-rates ; those paying less than a 70/. assessment to take a labourer so many days a week in proportion. SUICIDE.—Mr. Carter, the Coroner for Surrey, held an inquest at half-past one yesterday afternoon, at th York Hotel, Waterloo-brid g e-road, on the body of Louisa Caroline Smith, a fine girl of 16, who termi nated her existence on Friday night last. It ap peared, from the evidence of her mother, a respect able widow, residing at 16, Charles-street, Oakley street, that the deceased had, for sometime past, been serving in the house of an invalid huh', whence she had been discharged for some acts of petty theft ; she spending the money thus got, by pledging the pro perty, in theatres and other places of amusement She had been attached to a respectable young mast, the son of a master tailor, in the Waterloo-road, and they had for a considerable time been keeping company. Latterly, however, he dropped her society, and this treatment preyed very much upon her , spirits, and kept her always desponding. She frequently, in con sequence, threatened to destroy herself. Last Thurs. day afternoon witness went out after somebusiness, leaving deceased at home with the children. On her ' return, the elder child told her that " Louisa had gone out, and taken 2s. Sd. with her." She did not return home that evening, but she was seen next day by a person in the New Cut, Lambeth, and in the evening of the same day by another party near West minster Abbey. Next morning, a young man, in a dredging machine, at the swath side of Waterlee bridge, picked up her body, and, from the appearance, it could not have been more than five or six hours in the river. Verdict' —" Committed suitide while Ina state of teMporary derangement." I