The Sun. — London, England, 1842-01-17 00:00:00

' 1 MORN ING :UN UNITED STATES. -ewe eTkACTS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS 'I44TERATION OF THE CONSTITUTION. Clay IN SENATE, WASHINGTON, DEC. 9. 1. • ‘-' l ,ay asked leave to introduce three separate -"oint teaPlutions for the amendment of the Constitution of' the th n e lt ed States. Each of the three would be found to have e rid 8 , 4113 e object, viz.:—the restriction of Executive power, His Ping it within the pale of wholesome restraint. t i:„ object was at this time simply to present the resoln ,_and let them have their first and second reading era4t'e re.solutions were then introduced, and had their p e att d:secand reading, as follow s : of the the S ena t e an d H ouse o f R epresentatives (te n ~..rnited States of America, in Congress assembled lo x :'tnirds of both Houses concurring), That the fol t,,ev 111 g article be proposed to the Legislatures of the th e ,nl States as an amendment to the Constitution of r e Lnited States ; which, when ratified by three-fourths t he said Legislatures, shall be valid as part of the constitution Itro s• o r fe Fnater- or Representative shall, during the term faction of a term for which he was elected, be ap -1144,ted `to any civil office under the authority of the nlted Stat es. ile I t f th ved by the Senate and House of Representatives (e v e Cnited St a t es o f A mer i ca i n C ongress assem b led, tii ? thirds of both Houses concurring), That when a R ee w hich shall h ave p asse d t h e S enate an d H ouse of t i „tft,esentatiees of the United St a t es s h a ll b e returne d tile President, with his objections to his approba ale-11. an d signature, if upon its reconsideration, it shall v e T ll . pass each House, by a majority of all the Members o h ° flging to such House, notwithstanding the President's the exists' it shall beconie a law; and the requisition by a existing Constitution of two-thirds of each House ierfto pass the Bill in such case is hereby annulled. any Bill shall be presented to the President within a attl°(l. less than ten days (Sundays included) from the ni nation of' the session of Congress during whi c h it 4th at h ave passed, and shall not be returned by him at . s ession, it shall be his duty to, return it within the e et e : first days o f th e succee di ng sess i on . If he should r ecur o return it, the Bill shall beconle a law; and if he 4 n it wi t h h i s o bj ect i ons to his approbation and sig-- 41re within the time herein required, the two Houses h s ‘:'.ngress shall proceed to consid er it, i n like manner li k i t It had been returned during the session at which it Bga• l PaS Sed. And if, u p on su c h re - cons id era ti on , i t shall 11 b e ' Pass each Hous e by a majority of all the members th 9n ging to such House, notwithstanding the President's Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives, (t e . 'tilted States of America in Congress assembled, er 0-thirds of both Houses concurring), That the Se lee,tar„Y,.or other head, by whatever denomination he may T r -a "ed, of the Treasury of the United States, and the r ein e asnrer of' the United" States shall be, respectively, k1 011 11 , 4 2 1 Y, appointed by a joint vote of the Senate and tw o - er ' °lercepresentatives, by ballot or viva voce, as th e ei th I.l . o iikei - may severally resolve. When appointed, th e r of them may be removed by a concurrent vote of Houses, separately given, but neither of them S tet be rem ovea ble b y t h e P res id ent o f t h e U n i te d te: a . Congress may provide by law for the case of a periods o oc f tcurrihe annual appointments in , either of these offices between the '`;( 1 . r e NrANCE S OF THE UNITED STATES.—A Bill has been eC e f t ed in the House of Representatives for twelve years' ot., e t taion of the term for which the unexpended residue e e "".e twelve million loan may be taken. The same Bill tottni also a provision for an additional loan of five stood of dollars on the same terms; which is under ne-`4 to be intended as . substitute for the re-issue, as l e r a rsed in the annual Treasury - Report, of an equiva- Thi s a mount of the Treasury notes note outstanding. to te. -`)'• , therefore, .proposes to provide altog e th er f or Aeitething more than ten. millions of the estimated de tn fourteen millions two hundred thousand dollars u ways and means of 1842. R (From the Baltimore Patriot). ip t p E TIrDxA.Tio N INDlANA.—Resolutions have been diinliced int o b ot h H ouses o f t h e L eg i s l ature o f In as so much of the State debt of Indiana e rk was been i ncurre d b y the sale of State Bonds for which L,eonsideration has been received, in consequence of the b ut or f rau d u l ent conduct of the purchasers thereof ; con ic, at the same t i me , ac k now l e d ging, i n all t i me to the valid obligation of all her liabilities outstand ing, for which she has received the proper consideration - ere e 4s d upon. One of the resolutions provides for the ertahunent, by the Fund Commissioner, of the num reit.'s, dates, amounts, and other descriptions of the bonds th„ e ,,. l. reci to, and for their publication in certain cities of - e ` - ' ll iO4. and of Europe, as repudiated bonds." av"-he introduction of' these resolutions, and-the seeming ' 3 .,. u r with 'which they are received, by the Members of . a a tiegislatUre,, taken in connection with the proceed rel 4 ' of public meetings, recommending this course; and t ril a , rks,ot the newspapers countenancing such pro ena,Y well excite fears that I n di ana , lik e t SEssiS -1;44 is about to adopt a course inconsiste i ty ,b - h er °llour and her honesty. elven-us, TENN., DEC. 7.—THE JUDICIARY OF MISBIS :I4I.—A novel scene, and one which we' trust may never qua be exhibited in an Americas Court Room, was pr e sented' %Monde week last at Holly Springs, at the opening of, or Path rr in the attempt to open, the December Term of the sa ' r shal Circuit Court. There seems to havebeen a regular llibble between Messrs. Haling and Howry for the judicial l e - 0 7. The old Judge (Huling), who contends that there was kei tea neYs and consequently that the late election was null a s „ v ° l ,(l, refused to recognise the Judge elect, but proceeded (1:1, - ; 5 ' - to take his seat on the bench. The new Judge fon (lion, ' made his appearance, and claimed his seat. Then while tb Le farce of each claimant ordering the other to gaol, th en. '4_Slieriff and Clerk very properly refused to obey ei was ever lawy ers e put in their jaw, ' and for a while there those ▪ Prospect d uty very pretty little bit of a row between wnose especial it is to maintain the majesty of the a n th result is, thre is no Court to be held this term, be e '' ll Prertie Court of this State will have to determine en the nq parties.—Euier. of tilltakr ROB BERY AT ST. r Lous.—The following is a copy ste an l St. Louis New Era, extra, of Tuesday last :—The l'ort - ,rat Patrick Henry, from Cincinnati, was lying off the ext,‘"ts morning , waiting ' for officers to come on board and th e sl i te a search Of passengers, in consequence of the robbery of , ilt‘ d ' er k . ,' , Office the night before last. We understand that the u -e ,"oor of the office was broken open vwhile the clerk w c 0 ,, t 1 nt the soc i al hall, and the drawer rifled of two packages cl rn a ,, l ' l it'g 4 , 900 dollars, all in notes of the Miami Exporting and sen t by , Miami Mr. Sigerson, of Cincinnati, to Mr. rise ‘S", o f Alton addressed to the care of Simonds and Mor td: of this city 'The robbery was discovered shortl after le,v7, and promp t measures taken to prevent any person from ( kel r 'g the boat until a, search was made. The cabins and crowded with passengers, and we apprehend there is tt:Uttle chance for the recovery of the money.—P.S. The 1) 0 1, 4 her e h as been entirely ineffectual, no traces of the money f ° o nd. Nv, (From the Albany Evening Journal.) upn i S TERN RAILROAD AHOY !—The Bostonians are down ,• 14 Their locomotive engine came puffing and blow ,nost,,rl° Greenbush yesterday. Albany is tune united to 4ratt;'oY continuous and unbroken links of railroad. The t rsa'n of cars for passengers and freight, for Boston and 'et," leaves to-morrow morning. Te r , (From the New York Courier.) to-e ae - a.nnay NlGHT.—lllinois and Indiana Stocks sold Si re at some advance. Those of the fOrmer State, cent s of 1870, closed at 19 1-2, an advance of 1 1-2 per 4 ,4 ; 1 , 133 ,000 Indiana Bonds were sold at 19 1-4, an „ . `O4 - ,, e of 1-4 per cent. In other stocks there was not • "ne, or any material variations. Delaware and oisi°ll, however, advanced 1 1-2 per cent Delaware general state of the Stock or Money Market sa - ,„'ae departure of the last steamer, it is impossible ,Yle e '„"lthing satisfactory. The dividends on Penn a€DB,:',4l. State Stocks, now becoming due, will no doubt P,„ro — e;„7: For those of Maryland falling due on the Ist Ar e - ' 4 '. o , we are sorry to say no provision has been made. 1, a nnex to day's quotation of Stocks : Offered. Asked. ` w ct States Five-and-a-Half 96 1-2 97 97 1-2 99 1-2 vo N. y. 8 • Sixes b.,t 4 te Sixes B6 1-2 87 1-2 u• Five-and-a-Half l6 1-2 77 Do ' Fives, 1845, '46 '47, '5O 85 86 Do' for o , do. 1855 ;58 , ' 76 1-2 77 , - , or °' Four-and-a-Half, 1849 75 80 Peration Fives, Fire Loan 77 79 Ohi Do, W a ter do 76 1-2 77 1-2 ° T, Si xes, 1850 73 76" 4 •'1 1 (1 . 60 1856, '5B, '6O 72 73 41.0, ) eky Sixes — O. Fives, 1850 . 70 ' t u - 73 t 1 4 2 : Bonds, 6 per cent. 4 years 19 20 ,'il3l4Sterling) Bonds 19 1-4 19 1-2 4111,°' ~_ (Dollar) do 19 1-2 21 I " ' S . (Dollar) 1860 ,b 0 Sites 19 1-4 19 1-2 *Nab . do. 1870 40 50 Aik,tala Fives, 1865 (Dollar) 1,-,.-•-usas Bonds, 6 per cent. 25 years 27 45 - 7 1 7In'y I/Otes 1 1-4 a 1 I-2 discount. doge -... ere his been about the ordinary amount of business . The in i l l; Fo . reign Exchanges, and no scarcity of bills. Ivi ° 4 "'lng are the present rates. 109 . is the tip top h m e . on. London for the best city drawn bills, and sales aad e b een made for other paper at all rates down to 108, lb e ven at 106 for Southern bills with bank endorse ., eins, l' '''. h e llang,e on London — l - A ° • on Paris ....... "•,-,°. on Amsterdam '-'(:). on Hamburgh Do 35 5-8 35 3-4 till * . on Bremen 77 77 1-2 k o s are very plenty on the South, *ncl there are _ / /l i re sellers than buyers. The present quotations / iluaad Exchanges are as follow : il i T 3 n 1-4 a. 1-2 South. L. and Trust, Fa., 60 ! 94elphia 6 1-4 Mobile 15 a 16 Baltimor ei r 4 1-4 a 4 1-2 Monomery 16 1-2 N.,.10 4inia 7a 6 3-4 Tuscaloosa 16 1-2 t '.;', rill Carolina 51-2 a 6 New Orleans 9 1-2 na.rleston 1 1-4 a 1 1-2 Nashville 17 alB Aajannah 2 3-4 a 3 Lousville 11 a 11 1-2 e e pste 4 1-4 a 4 1-2 St. Louis 16 al7 k 4co iunan 13 bus 11 1-2 al2 Cincinnati 14 Interior of Ohio 15 .. tittl Union, Florida 45. had eor no movement in specie at present. We have amoun t late arrivals of Mexican dollars, but a large S panish is xpected. The rates are— ;itPatriot Doubloons $l6 25 to $l6 50 riot ditto • 15 80 to 16 00 Uanish Dollars Mexican Dollars Fiv e 4 to 34- e ran e pi 934 to 94c. Ase'll..e_ric.an II a l e v c e e s s F or and American Gold par th ere ' a week after the departure of the last steamer lia e, w as some demand in the flour market, for home 6 9. sad a l arge parcel being taken for England at 6 dols. had ?ri ces recovered considerably from the decline they were rpreviously exper i enced ; but since the accounts e c eived by the Columbia steamer the article has El, obis. 2007 Ping, and hold ers are d a il y b ecom i ng less fi rm. estern have bee n j us t so ld f or s hi pment to I,:paad at 6 dols. We quote Genesee 6 dols. to 6 dols. ti o U via ca na l 6 d 0 1, ,. ; Ohio via Ne , ,v Orie , iili 2,60,1.8k4 to 6 d o l s . ; M ichigan 5 doll, 574. About ~ , rns,'• 'is., viz. N ew O r l ean s are now afloat, unsold. ~,zAne last sales of Wheat have been 3,000 bushels Long 1. and. 2,800 bushelslndiana, both at .125_ cents, for exports - to England. Rye sells at 74 cents a 75 cents. Jersey Oats 45; Northern 48 a 50 cents; Southern Corn, new and old, 65 a 67 cents ; Jersey 66 a 68 cents. There is some inquiry for Corn for the English market. There has been but a light demand for Cotton, but still sufficient to prevent any increase of the stock; prices, however, have fallen lc. per lb. during the last fortnight. The purchases have been chiefly for the Continent of Eu rope, and but very little for Enyland. We quote : Uplands, very ordinary to middling, 7 a 8 1-2 ; fair to good, 8 3-4, 9 1-4, 9 1-2 ; Tennessee and Alabama, 7 a 8 1-2; Mobile, Louisiana, &c., ordinary 'to middling, 7 1-2 a 8 1-2 ; fair to good fair 9 1-4 a 10; good and fine, 10 1-2, 11, 11 1-2. The sales since the 15th inst. are estimated at 8,500 bales. There are many vessels, it is believed, outside waiting till the Ist January, when a reduction of duties takes place. Brandy and foreign spirits, and English bar iron, are all perfectly inactive, in consequence of this circum stance. Ashes are firm at ,%5, 87 1-2 aO6 for pots, and $5,37 1-2 a 5 50 for pearls. Sales of Clover-seed for the English market at 12 a 12 1-2 cts. A cargo of Sheep skins from New South Wales were offered at auction this morning, but witildrawn in consequence of pur chasers not being willing to meet the views of the im porters. 163 calf-skins imported by the same vessel were sold at 53c. PHILADELPHIA, DEC. 30, P.M.—There was little done at the Stock Exchange to-day except in Pennsylvania s's, 3,531 dollars of which sold at 604 cash, and 3,500 dollars, after the Board, "at so f, regular way ; Girard declined, and 50 shares sold at the Board at 12, andafter the Board, 54 shares at 12k; United States Bank closed at 34 a 4 ; PentisYlvania Bank, 150 a 160 ; Girard 12 a 121 ; Camden and Amboy 75 a 77 ; Louisville 60 a 66; Vicksburg 21 asked; sight drafts on New York 54 a 6. We have experienced another stormy and unpleasant day, with the wind from the north and east, and since 12 o'clock constant rain. FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL. PRITSSELS, JAN. 13.—Among the papers seized at the residence of M, Vandersmissen, merchant, at Etterbeck, on a domiciliary visit made by the police relative to the Ont, they fOund. the Meniorial, edited by the ex-General Vandersmissen at the time of the revolution of 1830. This Memorial is added to the other documents. The ex-Colonel Borreinans, accused as an accomplice in the plot against the safety of the State, has taken refuge at Rotterdam. It is said that he has just written to a per son at Brussels, that he has fled from justice only for the present, to avoid being imprisoned ; but, that as soon as the affair comes to be trial, he will present himself, being certain that he has no cause to fear a condemnation. Nothing official has yet been published relative to the passage of the King of Prussia through Belgium, and we do not know that the Minister of Foreign Affairs, who ought to be informed of it, has made known the day when his Majesty will arrive at Liege. However, pre liminary instructions have been given as well to the Postmaster at Liege as to the chief of the station at Aria. The King travels incognito, and has - ordered all the ex penses to be paid without distinction for himself and his suite. THE HAGUE, JAN. 9.—A report has been current here for some days that the King has signed the discharge of Messrs. Van hlaanen and Vajs Doom. It seems that it will not be publicly - announced till all difficulties respect ing their successors are removed.—Arnham Courant. THE HAGUE, JAN. 12.:--The accounts of the state of the rivers received to-day, announce that the water in the Upper Rhine is fallen. All our rivers are full of floating ice. In some places the ice is firm and passable on foot, but not by carriages. DUTCH - FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, JAN. 11. Muziey. Mils. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent Jitto, ditto 5 per cent. Ainert Syndic,4% per cent 9l}, 92 Ditto, ditto, 3% per con' 76 764 ' Commercial Company, 4 per cent /554 5 - 46 Ditto (18.35 and 1837) 5 per cent. Loan 1837, 5 per cent........ ........ .. ....... Exchange on .London, One month l2 07% Two months Hamburgh, One month 35 7554 Twomonths 35 S 7 Dutch Papers, Jan. 14. BELGIAN b. UNDS—BaulisaLis, JAN. 14. actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Lean, 5 per C:n t lOl% • Loan of Thirty Pdillioni, 4 per Cent. 93 3 per Cent. ----..Thirty.seven----- (1 A 0).....„ ........... 102% . Loan of City, 1:32, 4 per Cent l l4 Society et Comm erce, 4 %per Cent 9l dank of Belgium, 5 per Cent. 7B National Society. • Exchange on London (short) ........... ....... - -Brussels Papers, Jan. 14. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Visrea, JAN. 7. r lyepey Cents. Metalliques Fear y•ei• Cents. 991 Three p:r Cent 5........... 75% 14.,.nk Shares .............. ............................ —4ll,,emeine Zeituzg. Jan. 10. " 'HAMBURG BORUEN Li ALLE, JAN. 11 Bill,. Memel, . . 4nstrian S per Cents. ...... .......... ... Bank Shares - — I€6o A nein-Russ tan Loan 109 3 4( 109% Russian 5 per Cent: Ist series, Cortificate inscription, Ist Seri. l(3 ttHr.ian s,per. Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th ~. { Series ... 9S - ; Ditto in Certificates ' New 4 per Cent. (1840) 8.4 68 DtltCh actual Debt, 2 1 4 per Cent SOX, 50% Ditto 5 per Cent Polish Bonds New Picket ..... ........ .. ..... .. ............. Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 7B 77h K..twegian Lran, 1834, 4 per Cent... Splnisb, New 5 per Cents. 18;6 16 EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HawBURG, JAN. 11.-13 734.—Tw0 months, 13 6 Pwritaseukcii, JAN. 4.—Two months, 2t454 pence ItioA„ JAN. 1. —Three Months, 38%. srocanous, JAE. 4.—Seventy-fiyedays, 12, 9. . . BREMEN. JAN. 4 —Two months. 6 11. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.— Bsawn. JAN. 8. • Bills More,. St. Schuld. Sch., 41, per cent. ...............10154 sO4 Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent.... 102% 1024 Exchange on Landon, three months 6 1954 ..:-.:Prstistitn State Gazette. Jan. 9. THE PHILLPSTOWN AFFAIR. It seems that some of the parties—not Captain Duff— said to have been implicated in the outrage, have moved for a conditional order for liberty to file a criminal infor mation against the proprietor of the Monitor, for a libel. This proceeding, we take it for granted, is recurred to— not in the view of vengeance, but to enable the parties inculpated, or alleged to have been inculpated by the Monitor, to justify themselves before the public. Even - so, we do not think the course a judicious one. But waiving this question for the present, we really do not see the why of withholding the notes taken at the in quest. We cannot possibly see what effect the publica tion of their proceedings could have upon the Queen's Bench=ivhile, on the other hand, the document, even in this secondary form, might be used advantageously by the Monitor in its defence.—Dublin Evening Post. STATE OF TRADE. FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, JAN. 14.—We have had but a limited demand for foreign wool during the past week, though prices have undergone no variation. ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, JAN. 14.—Sales continue limited, and prices without any alteration from last week's quotations. BRADFORD MARKET, THFIRSDAY.—We cannot re port any improvement upon last week's Piece Market. Merchants manifest great caution in their operations, nor do we anticipate any material change at present. Prices continue about the same. In Yarn there is no observ able difference since our last report. Spinners continue to work short time, and thus prevent any material accu mulation. Prices are firm. A continued dullness pre vails in wool : prices, however, are not affected, which may be attributed to the market not being glutted with a superabundant stock.—Leeds Mercury. EXETER MARKETS, JAN. 14.—Cattle : We have rarely seen a smaller market than the one of this morning ; every thing, however, was sold at our late quotations. Cows and Calves fetched high prices.—Pork Carcases : There has been a larger supply this morning than has been seen for some time, and the demand not having been greater than usual, a good deal remained unsold. Prices also have declined to 8s to 8s 6d.—Pan nier : Poultry, Game, &c. : Turkeys, from 5s to 9s ; Geese, 4s 6d to 5s 6d, Fowls, 2s Gd to 3s 6d; Ducks, 4s to ss; Pheasants, 7s; Woodcocks, 6s 6d to 7s per couple; Snipes, is 6d per couple; Hares, 3s Gd to 4s; Rabbits, is to is Gd.—Vegetables : Carrots and Turnips, Id per lb.; Onions, lid per lb.; Savoys, id to 2d each; Celery, ld to 2d per stick ' - Potatoes, 7d per score.—Fruit: . Pears, is t 9 is 6d per dozen; Apples, 4d to 5d per dozen; Eggs, 14 to 16 for is ; Butter, is to 14d per lb.—Corn : A slight reduction has taken place in Wheat ; the prices are at present from 7s 6d to 8s 3d. The market, how ever, is pretty brisk. Barley and Oats, which are dull of sale, remain at late quotations.—Seeds : Oats, 2s 6d to 2s 9d per bushel; Beans, 5s 3d to 6s; Barley, 3s 8d to 4s. Oats rather on the advance. Early Beans, 6d per quart; Early Peas, 8d ; Linseed, 8s 6d to 9s.—Western Times. MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—On Saturday morning, about a quarter past seven o'clock, the follow ing melancholy accident took place on the river within a short distance of Vauxhall-bridge. It appears that two young men of the names of Charles Phippson and Henry James Phippson, brothers, both button-makers, and who resided in Ebury-street, Pimlico, were proceeding to Hungerford-market in a boat, when, by some accident, they ran against a coal barge which was lying near the terminus of the South Western Railway. They pro ceeded onward, little imagining what was to follow, when, to their terror and astonishmment, they found that their boat had sprung a leak owing to the concussion with the barge, and in less than two minutes it was filled with water, and went down. Charles Phippson, being an expert swimmer, swam to the shore, but his brother, we regret to state, sank, to rise no more. Every endea vour was made to save him, but without success. The unfortunate young man was in his 23d year, and was to have been married on Sunday week. Ilis brother took off his coat and vest, and dived in after him, but without avail. LORD ASHBURTON AND THE SLAVE QUES TION.—It is said that Lord Ashburton is a great holder of land in New Orleans and Texas, which is cultivated by slaves. It is quite possible, if this be true, that his Lordship may have a direct and immediate interest in the transport of slaves to New Orleans. He or his agents may have been the purchasers of some of the slaves in the Creole, and the possibility of such a circum stance occurring, much more the probability, and the sus picion that it has occurred, with the known infirmity of the Noble Lord of basing his judgment on his breeches pocket, his sensorium, as we have before stated, lying in his right thigh, must make the Noble Lord a totally unfit man to manage the delicate negotiations now pend ing between the two countries. From his negotiations— founded on the mercantile principle of making money, which, though allowable in commerce, is contrary to na tional intercourse—it is impossible that either advantage or . honour to England can ar i se . Th::! tnportant Corn-law Conference- for the eou nde3 of lia . nrs, and Dixsct, including the Isie of Wight, will take place in bouthampton on the Ist ,of February next. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 1842. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 15.—The Warspite, 54, Captain Lord John Hay, went out of harbour yesterday, and the Vindictive, 54, Captain J. T. Nicolas, C. 8., to day. The Warspite proceeded to the Downs this morning, and will be followed at daylight to-morrow, by the Vindictive, both to join the Formidable, when the whole will sail for Wend, to escort the King of Prussia to this country. Orders were given yesterday for two of the Royal Pages to held themselves in readiness to embark on board the Firebram), steamer, at Woolwich, on Monday next, to attend on their Majesties during the voyage from Ostend, where it is understood King Leopola will meet the Prussian Monarch. The Fire brand will also convey the Marquis of Ex, ter, Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert, or Earl Hardwicke, as the. Lord-in-Waiting, and the Prussian Minister, to escort the King of Pru,sia to this country. His Majesty will embark at Ostend on Thursday next. The Cambrian, 36, Capt. (Ands, C. 8., with Lord Ellcnborouzh, Governor• General of India, on board, arri‘ed at Tencriffe on the 22d Nov. The Southampton, Pearl, and Partridge, arrived at Monte Video, from Rio Janeiro, on the 30th Oct. The Aigle shied from Gibraltar on the 24th ult. The Malabar arrived there on the same day from Ply mouth. The Java transport, with detachments of troops, arrived at Gibraltar on the 20th ult. The Lynx, 3, Lieut. Bursiem, is to go to the West India station from Lisbon, to follow the Heroine, 10, Lieut. Stewart. On Wednesday night it blew hard from the south. east, which raised a little sea at Spithead ; the Queen, in consequence, parted her bower cable with 120 fa thorns out, but was brought up by her sheet anchor. She is reported to have pitched and rolled much more than could have been expected. The Rhadamanthus steam transport is hourly ex pected here from ,the eastward, on her way to Gibral tar, with naval and military stores, and a detachment of sappers and miners for the garrison. The new steamer Thunderbolt was launched at this dockyard on Thuisday, and taken into dock to be coppered. Her dimensions are as follow :—Her length of keel for tonnage, 155 ft. 11i in. ; extreme breadth, 36 ft. ; depth in hold, 21 ft. ; burthen, in tons, 1,055. The Thunderbolt is fitted with Captain G. Smith's paddle-box boats, which, in her, are thirty feet. long, and nine feet six inches wide ; and the remissness of Government in not so fitting all men-of-war steamers, cannot be more amply shown than in the state to which the Avon might have been reduced, a few days since, when she was found to be on fire ; and though only a . few miles from the Irish coast, was in capable, herself, of furnishing her crew and passengers with the means of escape, had it been requisite. The Growler has been so fitted, and the Geyser is ordered to be. Altogether, about 30 steamers have adopted this useful improvement, including 14 belonging to the Royal West India Mail Company. A serious respon sibility now falls on all Companies and Owners of Steam packets, who do not avail themselves of this safeguard to their customers and passengers. And we regret to find that officers of the Queen's yards have in more than one instance, so raised objections as that a ship has been sent to sea without these boats having been supplied, though orders have been given to that effect, Insinuations have been thrown out to the detriment of Mr. Grant's Patent Fuel, that it was liable to spon taneous combustion, the Admiralty have submitted it to Professors Farraday and Brandt, who both report that it is impossible it can ignite of itself, whatever degree of heat, devoid of flame, or whatever degree of friction it may be subject to. The smack Dibden, Mant, master, of and for this post, from Jersey with potatoes, went on shore at the back of the Isle of Wight, on Thursday night, in a snow storm, and was totally wrecked ; we believe the crew were all drowned. The bodies of Brock, a seaman, cud Waldron, a boy, were brought hobse to-day, and an inquest was held on their remains: The corpse of the captain was (andel here this evening. In Harbour—St. Vincent, Victory, Excellent, Royal George, Car3sfort, Rapid, Nautilus, Echo (steam-tug). At Spithead—Queen, Vindictive, and Isabella (con vict-ship. hrough the Gulf, it being very cold. They were up all night, and got fro St-bitten froin the Severity of the - ' weather. The water-casks were frozen. A signal of distress was hoisted, but he did not know by whom. It was from morning tiltnight. There was no:syniptoin of mutiny ; they had not even an angry Word with the Cap tain. They offered to go to prison rather than risk their lives. It was for the purpose of saving their lives that they struck: Carttar here said there had been'a mutiny and conspiracy among the men. The Magistrate said there was no legal evidence of that.) DouSley pro ceeded to say that the note promisin ,, 3/. extra was signed vo l u ntarily by the Captain, first and second mate, and carpenter, without consulting the crew ; they would not go to sea without such note to ensure their wages ; the captain went to the forecastle.and offered his portmanteau and two sovereigns to the men, but they refused his offer. The men then said that they did not want them. They pumped the whole passage home, night and day, every two hours, and frequently hourly. Mr. Carttar said that the character of the ship was at stake, being. registered at Lloyd's as a first-class ship, and they would therefore appeal to the Quarter Sessions if the deeisiOn should be against them. The Magistrate said, if appealed against, the case would not be heard before April. The men would get nothing at all. The whole would be swal lowed up in law and fees. An offer was made,to which Mr. Grove said it would be wise in the men 'to accede to, namely, to deduct a. from each claimant's pay, and two day's double pay, for disobeying orders when in the- St. Lawrence, making together 335. 4d. to be deducted. from the amount sought by each of the claimants as wages. The men consulted together a few minutes, and agreed to those terms. AMERICAN COURTSIIIP.—If a gill has a layer down at Ann Arbour, of course she marries him as soon as her friends consent; if they object, then she goes to bed, and remains there until they give their consent, which generally occurs in less than a fortnight. It is found by that time to be less expensive, and more agree able, to call in the lover than the doctor. Mr. Payne held on Friday an irquest at Guy's Hospital, on the body of Joseph Bristow, aged 25, a waggoner, in the employ of Mr. Thomas Tyler, farmer, of Bexley, Kent. W. Smith stated, that, on Saturday afternoon last, whilst standing opposite to the White Swan, Blackheath-hill, he saw deceased driving a waggon; and team of horses. Deceased was seized with a fit of coughing, and rested his head on the chain of the trace next the shaft horse. Punch and Judy were on the opposite side of the road, and their drum just began to; beat. The horses started at the sound, which made de ceased's hand slip from off the ''chain, and he fell. The horses went on, and the two near wheel's passed over deceased's left leg and thigh and right arm. Witness picked him up and carried him to 'Ur. Smith's, a sur geon, residing just hy, who dressed his wounds, and or dered a fly to bring him to that hospital. Policeman, 130 R, said he accompanied deceased to the hospital, who told him that he fell through dizziness caused by the coughing, and that he had not heard Punch and Judy's drum. Mr. Holland, house-surgeon, said the deceased's left leg was fractured, and that all along it there was' extensive extravasation of blood, which afterwards turned to suppuration, producing weakness of the system, from which deceased could not recover, and he died on Thursday evening last. Verdict—" Accidental death." DEATH FROM STARVATION.--A lorg inquiry took place on Friday at the One Ttm, Perkins's-rents, Great Peter-street, Westminster, before Mr. Higgs, the Coroner, concerning the death of Mary Clark, aged thirty-five, of No. 10, Perkins's-rents. Mary Bailey," midwife to the Western Dispensary, said that she first saw the deceased on Tuesday morning last. Deceased was then in labour, and apparently going on favourably. In the course of the morning a change took place, - and wit ness gave her a little brandy. She soon became much worse, and witness sent for Mr. M`Cann, the surgeon to the Dispensary. He arrived in two hours, by which time de ceased was dead. Paralysis appeared to be the cause of death. Mr. Nicholas I‘lCann, surgeon, of Parliament street, said that he delivered the deceased after death of a dead child. He considered death to have been caused by extreme debility, and the want of strength during labour. Her debility was from inanition. Mary Burke, of No. 9, Perkins's-rents, said that on Tuesday last she went to the workhouse of the united parishes of St. Margaret's and St. John's, Westminster, to obtain the assistance of the parish surgeon for the deceased. She waited there about half an hour before the overseer came, and when wit ness was about to deliver her message, Mr. Ristall, the clerk, came, and, laughing at her, said that her husband could attend to her. He jeered at her, and made a joke of it. Witness represented the dangerous condition of the deceased, as desired by the. Midwife, but no notice was taken of it, and she then left The deceased, with her husband, and two children, were in the greatest distress. I have no doubt that theywanted the common neces saries of life, and I know that they - fasted the whole of Christmas day. They were all very sober persons. After some further evidence, the Jury returned a verdict-, " Died from the want of the common necessaries of life." A subscription, amounting to about i/. was raised amongst the Jury for the husband of the deceased. SHOCKING DEATH OF AN AGED FEMALE BY FIRE.—On Friday forenoon an inquisition was taken before Mr. Wakley, M.P., at the Marylebone Workhouse Infirmary, on the body of Elizabeth. Connold, aged 66, who was burned to death. Maurice Eligott, of No. 4, Highworth-street, Lisson-grove, stated that on Monday evening last, about five o'clock, he was passing through Stafford-street, which was near to his own dwelling, when he observed a very strong light in the kitchen of of No. 6, and on looking through thevindow, saw the deceased standing at the sink, enveloped in flames, with both arms raised above her head. He' immediately knocked at the door, and .on its being opened raised an alarm, when, rushing down stairs, he caught hold of the hearth rug, which he threw. round deceased, and with some difficulty succeeded in extinguishing the fire. She was in comfortable circumstances, and was the widow of a servant of the Earl of Harewood.--" Accidental death." THE LAST FALL OF A DRUNKARD,---011' Friday Mr. Payne held an inquest at Guy's Hospital, on the body of Maria Hayward, aged 52. George Hay ward, husband of deceased, said that about nine o'clock on Thursday evening last he came honie, and being the worse for liquor, he lay down on his bed. His wife, with her bonnet and shawl on, was sitting singing on a chair before the fire. She was intiiiicated, and had been so ever since " boxing-day." He fell asleep and awoke at eleven, and his wife was still sitting on the chair singing. He asked her to come to bed, and she replied, " No, I shan't." He again fell asleep, and did not awake until four crclock'next morning. Be call deceaied, not finding her in bed, and receiving no answer, he got up, and found her with her legs doubled under her, and her head, face downwardS, under the grate. She was dead. She was addicted to gin drinking, and, having had her head fraCtured whilst' a girl,'' a little liquor had a great effect upon her, and would make her fall head foremost. Ver dict, "-Natural death." ANOTHER DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN BER• NONDSI:Y. — On Friday night about half-past eight, a most destructive fire broke out at the paper-mills of Mr. Hunt, in the Blue Anchor -road, Bermondsey. The fire was first observed by one of the neighbours, who resided in a cottage adjoining, and the flames appeared suddenly to break forth from the centre of the null. An alarm was immediately given, and several inhabitants residing near the spot hastened thither, and endeavoured to ex tinguish the flames, but the : fire had taken such a firm, hold of the interior of the building, that all their efforts were fruitless. In the meantime from the inflammable nature of the buildings and stock; the flames shot up to a great height, and illuminated the atmosphere for a con siderable distance ; and the firemen from the various' stations, having been attracted by the strong glare of light, hastened in that direction ; but, such was the ra pidity with which it burnt, that, before they could arrive, the whole of the mill, with the machinery and contents, was nearly consumed. The damage done is very con siderable, but it could not'be ascertained whether Mr. Hunt is insured. DETENTION OF THE MAILS.—On Friday morning the mail trains on the Lendon and Birmingham Railway, and also those or the Great Western, which should have arrived at six o'clock, did not, on account of the heavy fall of snow, arrive until half-past seven. Tho Worcester and Portsmouth mails did not arrive until eleven, and at twelve o'clock there were upwards of a dozen mails of the eastern and northern counties which had not arrived at the General fost-office in St. Mar tin's-le-Grand. Some of the guards of the mails which have arrived, state that the roads in many places were from five to six feet deep in snow, and in others drifted to a great depth.—Railway Times. FRIGHTFUL GIG ACCIDENT, IN PICCA DILLY.—On Friday evening between five and six o'clock, a frightful gig accident occurred in Piccadilly, opposite to St. James's Church, to a gentleman and his groom, proceeding along Piccadilly from the direction of Hyde Park. It appears that the horse, a remarkably fine powerful animal, ran furiously from Hyde Park along Piccadilly, the gentleman and. his groom using every Caine in violent collision with endeavour to arrest his progress , but without effect, uthnatilt t o h f e w a h n eel o o m f o t i l b ie us gi , g by which the p ar ti es were thrown . into the road, an d the gig overturned on them. The horse disengaged himself from the gig, taking the shafts with him, and proceeded at a frightful rate along Piccadilly and Coventry-street, dashing sometimes on to the foot-pavement, which was crowded w i t h passen gers, all of whom happily escaped i njtitY, the animal lie reached Marl con tinuing his course until tet-street, New port-market; when he was secttred by dashing his head through some shop, shutters, and afterwards removed, with the fragments of the gig, to a livery-stable in Marylebone-street, Golden -Square. The gentleman and his groom were removed to St. George's Hospital, where they lie in a precarious state. EXMOSION AND Loss OF LIFE AT A FIREWORK MANUFACTORY. — On Friday a n i nques t w a s held at the Coburg Arms , Coburg-street, Lambeth,• be fore Mr. Carter, Coroner for Surrey, on the body of William Robert Jones, a fine child, four years of age. Moses. Harris deposed, that he worked for Mr. Jones, the father . of the deceased, who was an artist in fire works, No. 9, Webber-street , Waterloo -road, when about four o'clock on Tuesday afternoon an explosion took place in the composition room. The shock was very terrible ; the whole of one side of the room was blown into the yard. Witness was knocked down by the falling bricks, and was rendered insensible for some time. On recovering, be was shocked at diseovering the deceased under a quantity of bricks ; the poor child was frightfully mutilated. Mr. Bates, a surgeon, attended, but so dread ful was the nature of the injuries the unfortunate child had received, that after great suffering, he expired about two o'clock on Wednesday. Mr. William Jones, the father of the deceased, said that when the explosion took place there was'about six .pounds of composition 'on the premises. He considered that the unfortunate catas trophe arose from spontaneous combustion, owing to the dampness of the room, as no fire had been kept there since last August twelvemonths.. Mr. Jones is son-in law. to Madame. Henglcr, ope.of the first artists of fire works in this country. Verdict, "Accidental death." PROGRESS OF DISTRESS. - (From the Tablet;) I The - winter has now set in in earnest ; and the poor, in addition to short work, or GO work at all, and scanty food, or positive starvation, have to encounter the mi sery of intense cold, and a still further diminution of em ployment consequent en the frost and snow, and short days which now encompass them. We have again be fore us, in the same fashion as heretofore, long stAtiE tical details of distress in various portions of the island - 7 -chiefly from Dundee and the surrounding district', and from Gloucester and the west of England. We might fill our paper with tables, and figures, and lists of suffering and misery, but we think that what we have already printed in this way will suffice. If our readers will be at the pains to select any one of the tables we have before presented to them (the worse the better), and will substitute the name of Dundee, or of Stroud, or of any of their neighbouring towns and villages, the detail will be accurate enough. It is, literally, a case of starvation to hundreds and thousands, not merely in the county of cotton-mills--- the sudden growth of a time of factitious prosperity-- but in every corner of the land in which anything in the shape of a manufacture has presumed to show its head. Some are cut down because they are too new, some because they are too old ; some because the process they employ is too thrifty of labour, and too prodigal of art ; some because they have not been sufficiently thrifty in en couragirg the cost of production ; MOW because they ' have adhered too blindly to old modes and traditions of manufacturing ; some because they have too greedily adopted the new; but all are cut down, or are being cut down, one after another, by an invisible hand, against which neither enterprise nor skill, nor capital, nor prudence, nor human foresight, can struggle suc cessfuli). The destroying angel smiting the first-born of Egypt gave, perhaps, a sharper, and more startling shock, but hardly produced a deeper and more wasting agony than this unseen devastator of cities is planting in every portion of this island. And let not those who are determined to shut up their bowels of compassion hug themselves under the belief that these thing are tf . e idle stories of bustling d e ma gog u es , or th e dishonest creations of the press. For our readers, at least, there must be a deep significance in such a man as Lord Stour ton—a man removed from the pettiness of faction, if any such there be—high-minded, cautions, experienced— coming before his fellow countrymen in the beginning of winter to tell them, that " this distress pervades wide districts, and prevails in some with an intensity I have never, to my mind, seen equalled in this kingdom, coveriig our roads with artisans in search of employ ment, and exhibiting itself in our towns under appear ances the most calamitous and frightful." These are not the words of a trading agitator, nor of a rash enthu siast, but of a man of sober and practicaV good sense, who truly discerns the evils of our presetiit state, and grieves over them. Nay, the facts arc becoesingloo black and too certain, as well as too dangerous, to be wholly denied or concealed by those who would run all lengths to deny or conceal theta, if it ;veto possible. Hear what the Standard now tells us of •tte condition of Paisley— -: ~: !"•,, - isi- , .--i,- - 4 - • " We regret to learn that the distress iiPetArnot only continues, but is actually upon the intensi.: We have seen a later written by a gentlemav welLac" quainted with that town, from which we quete•the fol., lowing appalling extract :---' The number of claitnants. upon our funds is on the increase. The,•:peaW are actually dying of starvation—no beds to lie:: 001:. no covering even ; the boards only to rest upon. -: Thesis are facts.'" We will venture to lay before our readers an extract from a private letter bearing on the same subject ; the writer, whom we known intimately, is the wife of a gen tleman of property in Stockport,and the most perfect re liance may be placed on her statement. We do not give it as containing a more shocking statement than other accounts which have already been published, but because we, as well as every one else, attribute a rather higher importance to facts which we can ourselves verify, than to the mote abstract statements which crowd in upon us from other quarters. I must tell you a little of the Stockport distress, for it is awful ; no description can equal it. Last Thursday was rent-day there, and T--- did not re turn till late, when he told me one of the tenants, named H--, a draper, was late in coming to pay his rent. The reason was, he was one of th e Relief Committee employed to search into the distresses of the poor, prior to their being relieved from the fund of 2,0001., which has been collected for them. He has been out all day, and such were the sights of dis tress he had witnessed, and so unable were they to re lieve them, that it made him ill, and he could not eat. lie even felt inclined to give up business, and leave a neighbourhood where charity could alleviate so small a degree of misery. Such a tale induced my husband to go on the following morning and see for himself, taking H- with him. I must tell you what they saw, and don't tire of it, for we are sur rounded with it, and it ought to be known. In one house, three stories high, on the first floor, were six people preparing to dine off one pennyworth of potatoes. In the next story lived another family, and in the third (one room) lived fourteen persons, without any appearance of a bed, or anything to lie on. In another room, which was net seven feet square, slept seven people. A widow owned two cot tages ; in one she lived with her son ; he was out of work ; she could not get any rent. Her furniture kept going till nothing was left, and she slept on pack sheets. She had 31. of pawn-tickets ; and this woman, the owner of two cottages, was grateful for a sixpence. Parents and children huddled round the fire, with not a mouthful of food in the house ; and they were gra dually pining to death. Oae man was fretting sadly over a child he had buried the day before. He had had no solid food for five days. One youngish woman stretched out her arm, which, from want of clothing, was bare to the shoulder, and showed them how thin it was for want of food. Little children, mind this, were waiting for some oatmeal and water for breakfast, which was nearly ready for them ; they had not tasted food that morning, and it was near twelse. One man had worn two pairs of shoes out in seeking work, and found none. There are about eighteen cotton-mills stand ing in Stockport and the neighbourhood, and these are the workpeople, with the addition of poor cobblers and the like. My husband, you may be sure, did not pass them by without attempting to relieve them ; but these are people who want no charity, if they might only have work." In all this, awful as it really is, there is nothing pecu liar, nothing which has not been said a hundred and a thousand times. But the truth is, no description can equal the reality of these things. All that can be told of any given moment of time—" we have had no food to-day," " we have had no solid food for five days," and the like—makes but a small item in the great account which weighs the man down. He has had no solid food for five days—shocking, truly. But how did he live before the beginning of that five days ? The five days of abstinence of which he tells you were but fol lowing up a long series of days of the same kind. He began his forced experiment in fasting with a half-empty stomach, an enfeebled constitution, a wasted frame, and above all, with hopes blighted, and spirits sunk, at the long period during which ill-flick has pressed her heavy hand upon him and his. Of all this wearing and tor turing anguish, which hangs upon and haunts him every moment of his life, he says not a word. He speaks only of the last five days, and few of his hearers take the trouble to mount back to the fifty which preceded them. Meantime, what is taking place here in London? The Workhouse regulations seem to be growing de cidedly unpopular, especially among that class who, having no settlement, though they may have resided in London for a quarter or half a century (perhaps been born there), have no legal title to relief, and are offered the delightful alternative of famine or a pass to their own parish, which knows them not, and which they know not. Accordingly, bands of these' men are be ginning to parade. about the street, and to.koock tumid tuoUsly at 'Workhouse doom, "Some fhea4 ,in- de spair ,of ,4ndiag, any. yielding metal ip ; *ha breast : of a relieving officer, march off in array to allaker's shop, and send in a deputation to take loaves by the strong hand, and thereby secure at least a breaking of bread among the famished multitude. Arrest follows as matter of course, and is Dot resisted ; fcr even in prison a man who makes a profession of fasting is provided with gruel and water, which are not always to be bad out of doors. And while the poor are in this state, what are the rich doing ? Above all, how is that aristocracy demean ing itself which steadfastly denies them food, and all for the good of these starving wretches cripples trade, makes corn dear, and employment scanty, with the avowed object of keeping rents above their natural pitch ? What is Lord Stanley about—that profound statesman who sees the welfare of. the country brought about by an artificial encouragement given to grooms and fancy gardeners, as a panacea for the general dis tress ? A recent number of the Liverpool Journal will tell us. This Noble Lord and his associates having, we suppose, as many grooms and gardeners as they can well ,employ, are directing their philanthropic energies to a cognate manufacture—that of gamekeepers and poachers. Then follow certain details of the distress now preva lent in Prescot and St. Helen's. " It must be evident to every one that a community so situated must, at any time, but parti c ularly with food at the present high price, be suffering the most horrible distress, nor could the frequency of crim es against property excite any great surprise. But to po verty, as a source of demoralization, we must add the game-laws, which tend directly to give crime its most dangerous and sanguinary character. For miles round these tow ns , once hives o f i n d ustry, now dens of despair, the land is one great preserve. Demesne succeeds demesne, Ranked by covers, and guarded by keepers, lodges, and armed watchers. There is scarce a thicket without a hare, or a co ppi ce w i t h out a phea sant., and in the middle of them all men are starving by thousands. A perfect mania for preserves has possessed the gentry, to the exclusio n o f anyt hi ng lik e f a i r old fashioned sportinic. Lord Stanley, we have been told, by laying the Knowsley and Latham estates together, and influencing some smaller proprietors, can now tra t vel 15 miles in a straight line, over a country on which not a gun can be lawfully fired without his permission. The consequence is, that the peasantry over the coun try are pretty generally becoming poachers." " Alas, where now are the Hen„eists and Marks of our still glowing, still expanding Europe ; who, when their home is growing too narrow, will enlist, and, like fire-pillars, guide on ward those superfluous masses of indomitable living valour ; equipped, not now with the battle-axe and war-chariot, but with the steam-engine and ploughshare ? Where are they ? Preserving their Game l"—(Carlyle's " Chartism.") In a little time, is a few weeks, these frightful symp toms must be encountered by some better remedy than that of pheasant-breeding, by some better answer than doubts as to whether John Nokes really died of star vation, and references to the increase of Savings' Banks, which increase may just as well be owing to the increasing poverty of those private depositaries of the poor man's saving s, who enjoyed and merited his confidence ()Are the Government took this trust upon itself. It will not do, then, to deny the want of food, or to boast of the facility with which men from the dregs of society can vault to the loftiest pinnacles of honour. Yet Et few weekS, and neither quackery, nor trickery, nor sophistry, nor rhetoric, nor candour, nor impudence, nor t a ctics, nor delay, will serve the turn. These things have hed their day. The party game has been played out. The national game remains to play ; and a stern and feeful game it is. If it is a hard thing to reason with the ' Nester of ten legions, it is sometimes not less difficult td rcason with millions not a unit of whom is master of anything but an empty belly-. With haggard countenances, rough ~,, e ect, and pererep. tory voice, these men—for hey are men after all—will, in effect, if not in form, thrust themselves in:o the sane. tuary of the constitution, stand face to face v.7ith t he Prime Prime Minister, and a sk him w hat remedy his wejet contains as the fruit of the "comprehensive view" of affairs which he has been taking for the last three or four months. Woe to him if he has then nothing to offer them but a bottle of patent quack medicine. LITERATURE. MUSICALEDUCATION ; OR, THE ART OF PIANO-FORTE 'PLAYLV Grainer, Regent-street. The above brochure emanates from the pen of Miss Geary, well known in the musical circles as a very brilliant and powerful pianiste, and whose superior execution of dashing fantasias from Thalberg and Dobler at Willis's and the English Opera, last season, drew down on her the combined praises of the press. An accomplished professor ol' tier art, this lady now advances, for the general guidance of instructresses and learners, such musical advice as her own experience and skill have convinced her to prove of benefit to initia tors and their noviciates. Though the mind must be the ultimate perfecter of musical pur suits, yet the mechanical branch of the art ? as averred by our authoress, is that which at ftrat must wholly engross attention, leaving mental activity to grow with the growth of the be ginner. In pursuance of this principle, a 'synopsis of a gradual train of teaching is exhibited, recommendatory of a progressive scale of practice, which, if followed out from the juvenile age of seven to that of sixteen, and acted upon for the specific times laid down, is - ,.eitleulated to form a fine instrumental performer. ',The excellence of the method laid down calls for hearty concurrence and adoption, and testifies Miss Geary to be as judiciously-minded as finished at her profession. The over-confinement and application, arising, in a great measure, from irregularity of plan, to which many masters of the day subject their pupils, and which have been known in more cases than one to be the cause of premature departure, is hereby avoided and counteracted. The " many-toned science" is attained by smooth and pleasant initiation, and as the fingers improve in their dexterity, the mind unfolds itself as gradatively towards the comprehension of genuine harmony. Among other little note-worthy observations scattered through her page, our authoress re marks that briethess is a great virtue in perform ances on the instrument, and instead of loading the piano-keys with heavy half-hour sonatos and interminable rondos, it is judiciously recom mended by her that— A piece destined to please should never exceed seven or ten minutes ; it is rarely clone by the finest masters, unless it be in concertos, which, with the relief of a full orchestra, are offered exclusively to a musical audience. The following is a gift to the player of one cf the little available mysteries in the music-art: — In cadences of extreme delicacy and refinement of style, the urea corda, or soft pedal, used in conjunction with the open pedal, creates an effect that is singularly beautiful. Miss Geary relates a pleasing instance of the power of the piano-tones in correcting perversity and unamiability of temper in a young lady : At seasons of temporary misbehaviour, her gover ness would request the favour of her playing " Tutto e seiolto " or SOMQ similarly pathetic composition, and by the time this had been once or twice repeated, serenity again shone on her countenance, and to the soothing tones of her piano-forte she constantly had recourse, as Milton expresses it, to put her soul in tune. Another appreciative feature in this lady's " model of practice," lies in the fact that the lesson-books recommended by her for commence ment, are those of the same masters whose stu dies are still kept before her pupils in maturer years; so that while Cramer, Kalkbrenner, and Moscheles are made conducible to the teach ing of the pupil's earliest key-notes, these are but introductory at an advanced stage of progress, to the more involved brilliancy, or display of instrumentation demanded by the un in terpolated compositions of each of those 2nacstri individually. The instructions in Miss Geary's book ought inseparably to accompany the teacher at the piano : her lucid system will be found of most effectual avail, and evinces her to be no less a mistress of her art than the best practical musical teacher we could recommend. THE WEATHER.—On Friday morning there was a very general thaw, which dissolved the greater portion of the snow that fell on the previous day. The snow-storm appears to have extended for some distance in the country, as nearly all the mails were after their time in their arrival at the Post-office, in consequence of which there were three General Post deliveries. The Wells and Lynn mails did not arrive until eleven o'clock, and the Devonport mail had not arrived at four o'clock in the afternoon. Most of the mid-day and aftermxm mails were considerably after their time. From all ac counts, there has been a considerable accumulation of snow in Essex, Cambridgeshire, and Norfolk, as well as in Wiltshire. No particular delay occurred in any of the arrivals of the railway trains. THE BRANCH RAILWAY TO HALIFAX.----A new survey for the branch line from the Manchester and Leeds Railway to Halifax, is now in the course of com pletion. BURNING OF A LETTER FROM THE SECRE TARY OF STATE.—A few weeks ago the Beverley Town Council sent a memorial to the Home Secretary, remon strating with him for not consulting them before he no minated several gentlemen of Conservative principles to be Justices of the borough. Sir James Graham's cour teous reply came in due time informing them, as a mat ter of course, that they had nothing whatever to do with the matter. A meeting of the Town Council was called forthwith, and a majority decided that the letter be con . - mitted to the flames, being an insult to the Council. The beadle was called in, and did execution in due form by cramming the letter into the fire.—Halifax Guardian. FIRE AT Bow.—On Friday morning, about half-past six o'clock, a fire broke out in a range of stabling at the rear of the Bird-in-Hand public-house, Bow-road, the property of MrS; Mary Ann Thompson. The engine of the Bromley ciistilloiry was soon on the spot after the outbreak, as Well as the engines from Well close-square and 7 7effz•eys-iquare; but the flames had got such a firm hold of the buildings that it was impossible to save them. _ • POST•OFFICE MONEY ORDERS.""—ID order to provide accommodation for the numerous parties ap plying at the General Post-offic4 for money-orders and their payment, a commodious temporary wooden erection was put up yesterday, which will remain there during the winter months, for the purpose of affording shelter and protection to persons who, in consequence of the great accession of business in this department, are some times detained a long time. RAILWAYS IN IRELAND.—The Railway Times states that it is in contemplation to impose an ad ditional halfpenny on the postage of all Irish letters, for the purpose of forming a fund to guarantee four per cent. interest to the capitalists who have proposed to construct railways in Ireland, under the terms specified in a Bill lately introduced into Parliament, but not passed. It is said that the original plan of mortgaging the county rates has been found unpalatable, if not impracticable. YARMOUTH.—We understand that the whole of the private lights, as well of all the general lights on the coast of this kingdom, have become the property of the Honourable the Commissioners of the Trinity Board.—Norwich Mercury. MEETING OP ST. ANDREW'S WARD.—On Tuesday there was a numerous and influential meeting of the electors of St. Andrew's Ward, at 42, Clarendon street, to adopt the necessary arrangements to return the Right Hon. Lord Morpeth as representative of the City of Dublin—Joseph Byrne, Esq., T.C., in the Chair. The secretary, Mr. Mark Byrne, read the requisition calling the meeting. The resolutions, which were adopted with acclamation, will be found in another column.—Dublin Evening Post. A TOLERANT SPIRIT.—I look on the va rious churches of Christendom with no feelings of en mity. I have expressed my abhorrence of the sectarian spirit of Rome ; but in that, as in all other churches, in dividuals are better than their creed ; and amidst gross error and the inculcation of a narrow spirit, noble virtues spring up, and eminent Christians are formed. It is one sign of the tendency of human nature to goodness, that it grows under a thousand bad influences. The Romish Church is illustrated by great names. Her gloomy convents have often been brightened by fervent love to God and man. Her St. Louis, and Fenelon, and Massillon, and Cheverus ; her missionaries, who have carried Christianity to the ends of the earth ; her sisters of charity; who have - carried relief and solace MORNING SUN, to the most hopeless want and pain ; do not these tea, us, that in the Romish Church t le spirit of God has t omld a home ? How much, too, • hive other Churcliel 3 to boast ! In the English Church we meet the names of Latimer, Hooker, Barrow, Leighton, Beskeley, .and Heber ;i n th e di ssent i ng C a l van i s ti c Churc. l l, Baxter, I Howe, Watt s , D o dd r id ge, an d R o b er t H a ll ; L :Mong the Quakers, Georg e Fox, William Penn, Robert Barclay, and our own Anthony Benezet, and John Wool. I man; in the Anti-T r i n i tar i an Ch urc h , J o h n Miltor', Juba I Locke, Samuel Clarke, Price, and Priestley. To repeat these names does the heart good. They breathe a fra grance through the common air. They lift up the whole , race to which they belonged. With the churches. of which they were pillars or chief ornaments, I have many sympathies ; nor do 'condemn the union of our selves to these or any other .churches whose doctrines we approve, provided that we, do it without severing ourselves in the least from the Universal Church. On this point we cannot be too eaene:it.— The Church; a • Discourse by the Rec. Dr. Channing.. A circumstance not unworthy of record occurred on the revival of The Gamester at Dretry-lane Theatre, oil Wednesday last. The gallery doors - Nere besieged by a considerable crowd at an early hour. At the shilling gallery the pressure was so great that the doors were actually fbreed open before the money-tai ars were at their posts. A number of persons entered eon' took pos session of the seats. Expulsion would have been diffi cult, if not impossible; but application being a, ade, the money was honourably and very readily paid eeyery in - tance, the rush having been occasioned by a real in terest in the performance of the drama. From such a fax the reader may "point a moral" as to the influence of a na... tionnl theatre on the poorer classes of society. DIPLOMACY AND TRAD2.—The Corn and Provision-laws are a tax upon food. We want to abolish, that tax, for the benefit of the people of this country, quite irrespective of foreigners. If that tax be abo lished, food will be brought to us by our merchants, and they ;yin find the means to pay for it. We do' not ask Gove:enment to find us markets. We look with h nscicion at the pretended zeal vvith which diploma tists go to work, and Niger expeditions, or Euphrates expeditions are set On foot, for extciding our mar kets. All that we ask :is, t;: s at Parliament will abolish the laws which interfere with five trade. We do not ask it to feed the people, but to lonic us to !eed our selves. As for the pretended fears of the monoyolists that foreign nations will not receive our manufactur:( 4 s in exchange Or their corn and provisions, we say, Reimere your own impediments, and then wait till we complain to you of obstacles a thousand miles off. 'Were this really the motive for upholding the Corn-law, where would be the difficulty of at once abolishing it ? If other nations would not exchange their food for our productions there could be no additional trade, and things would re main as they are, excepting the important difference, that ' we should then have no ground of complaint against our own rulers.—Ardi• P,read-tax Circular. POIITSMOUTII. JAN. 14.—(From a Cones pondent.)—ller Majesty's ship Vindictive, Kith five other men-of-war, are to sail immediately for the Irowns, to meet the ship that conveys the King of Prussia to this country, and to fire salutes in honour of his Ma jesty's arrival. The Vindictive will then go to Ply mouth to take in stores and proceed immediately fo the Bermudas. COLONEL THOMPSON AT OLDHAM.—Or! Monday last, Colonel P. Thompson, the father of the - Anti-Corn-law agitation, delivered a lecture in the large room of the Town-hall, Oldham, on the evils of the Corn-laws, to an audience of upwards of 1,000 persons, comprising most of the leading manufacturers of . the', town and vicinity, and a considerable body of intelligent '- '' working men. George Barlow, Esq., master cotton-y: spinner, was appointed Chairman , after whikColonel- i r , Thompson spoke for nearly an hour and a hale on the.i l\ unjust nature of the Corn-laws, the prevalence of class ~,, legislation, and the exclusion of the mass of the people ' from their due share of representation in Parliament : • the declaration of his views on the latter subject elicited great applause. A vote of thanks was passed to the Gallant Lecturer, accompanied by repeated rounds of ap plause, on the motion of Mr. James Greaves, operative, of Austerlands, seconded by Mr. William Knott, hat manufacturer, of Oldham. The services of the Chair man were also acknowledged by a vote of thanks. — Leeds Mercury. 1 UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.—At a meet ing of the Senetus Academicus, held in the University on Saturday, the Professors, after some discussion, voted the sum of 150/. towards defraying the expenses of the concert or concerts of music to be annually given in remembrance of General Reid. The 13th of February is the anniverspry of the General's birth-day. Falling this year on a Sunday, the concert will, we understand, be deferred till the 19 th.—Edb4burgh Courant. THE SHEFFIELD SUICIDE.—The late at tempt at murder in this town, by Henry Vaughan, table-knife-hafter, on the lives of the three sisters, named Poole, and the subsequent suicide ,of Vaughan himself, has terminated, after an inquest on his body, in the following verdict :--" That Vaughan shot him self, being at the time of sound mind ;" and the Co roner thereupon issued his warrant for the interment of •. the body at midnight, without any of the rites of Chris tian burial. LANDOWNERS, PARSONS, AND CORtI , LAWS. —The rich and great have sent their smooth-eengned priest to the hovels of the fatherless, to pfetich thelessons. of content ; when extortion has mane 'theelporirin - 50b-- stance, to persuade them they are rich in faith ; ,wheat the unequal hand of man is crushing theM; to tell them of the equal eye of God that is over all ; When the earth has been turned before them into a desert, to keep the= quiet by promising the paradise of heaven. The most depressed and ignorantcan see through the sophistry. of, this insult. If all men bear the same relation fa: God: in heaven, where is the tyrant's title to the homage of a.' God on. earth ? If all are accountable to the tribunal above, shall he mock at the obligation to do justice' and love mercy ? If the earth in its length and breadth is gifted with fertility and decked with beauty for the sake of all, who can wrest from labour its rewards but the offender against the impartiality of Providence ?—Rev. .James Martineau's Rationale of Religion, p. 72. A rumour was afloat in Paris that the Duke d'Angouleme was dead. SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 14.—The Dee, West India mail, packet, left Southampton with a large number of passengers at one o'clock this afternoon. She will re ceive the mail for the West Indies, Mexico, and Ne* Orleans, - at Falmouth, on the morning of the 17th inst.. We believe it is now no longer secret that, Sir Robert Peel has been comlled to succumb to the mo nopolists in the Cabinet. Whatever intentions he might have of proposing a change in the Starvation-lawOn some degree approaching to the public expectations, haVe been so pared down and modified, as to be no 1044 objects of alarm to the Buckingham and Knatchbult - - section of the Cabinet, and consequently will he impo tent for good to the interests which are crushed nearly out of existence by the pressure on their energies. . , THE UNEMPLOYED PRINTERS.—The printing business has, within the last week, taken a very favour- , able turn, a great number of the unemployed having oh tained situations, and it is confidently expected that %%hen Farliament meets there will be very few out of work. The relief committee have sufficient funds in hand to continue the relief to the distressed compositors and pressmen until the commencement of the session, at which time it is intended to discontinue it. The Com mittee have now ceased sitting to receive subscriptions. NEW CHURCH IN THE LIBERTY OF THE ROLLS.—The new Church, now erecting in Bream's buildings, Chancery-lane, is rapidly advancing towards completion. The architectural character of the build inn, is Anglo-Norman : the interior consists of a nave and two aisles, &c., chiefly lighted from a lofty elirstory, supported by arches and columns. The altar end is de corated with a series of plain and interlaced arches, with a spacious triple-light window above. The principal elevation in Bream's-buildings displays three doorways with stone columns, a large triple-light window, and the central portion of the composition is surmounted by , Is bell-turret, selected from one of an early date, and of a very original character. Messrs. C. Davy, of 'Furnival'a Inn, and J. Johnson, of Cook's-court, are the joint ar chitects. The funds for the erection of this church hive, _ been principally derived from a o-rant bestoWed by - the . trustees appointed for the diltribiition 'of thilara :Mss. liy A ndm p a o n f is ic eh e tt xf ri A ty lv . , D —. K .- 0 . :' ,O " N -, 'i z ;‘ ,5 ' 1 1;;` ,2 7, 10 - : i: , ,. .. Lo .e'Je a,T e p li4 ; : poeit.a4.werregret:to have, to' record atfr4 (trip as ,f?f, a. , poligis, ponstable losing his life in,tho 'London ]di c k, the, second instance of the kind since the introduction of the • metropolitan police into the place. On Friday night Thomas Everett, - a police constable, No. 43 IL was. sta tioned on the South Quay, a very exposed and dangerOus . place, and was seen on his beat at eleven o'clo c k by In- spector White, of the Thames division; who Spoke to hita. At twelve he was missing, and could nowhere be found. The drags were immediately procured, and the bason was dragged, but it was not until eight o'clock yesterday morning that his body was taken out of the . water under the corner of the South Quay, where he is supposed to have fallen in, and where there is no rail or protection to prevent any one walking into the dock on dark nights. The body was removed to the watch-house for the Coro ner's inquest. Everett was a young man and greatly es teemed in the force. On Saturday, at the Court of Review, two of the assignees appointed by the Court of Bankruptcy in the case of Hitchcock, the draper, of Regent-street, pe titioned the Court for leave to bring an action against Cook and Gladstone, to recover the amount of a large quantity of linen, said to have been fraudulently obtained by them. Mr. Coleridge said that Messrs. Cook mid Gladstone were most anxious to have the action tried. Permission was accordingly granted. APPOINTMENT TO THE GOVERNORSHIP OF THE MILITARY KNIGHTS OF WINDSOR.— Captain J. J. Cumming, half-pay, Bth West India Regiment, who has been one of the Military Knights of Windsor during a. period of eight years, has just been appointed to the Go vernorship, vice Lieut.-Colonel Basset, deceased, by her Majesty, upon the recommendation of the lion. and Very Rev. the I)eau of 'Windsor. -The installation of Captain Cumming, upon his appointment, will not take place until after the Royal Christening. The duties devolving upon the Governor were performd by Captain Cumming during the severe illness of the late Colonel Basset. TILE SOUTH WRAXALL BURGLARY.--T" other men, named George Stokes and John Stokes, have been committed for trial. John Stokes, as he witbeing conveyed by the Bath Railway, endeavoured at sta tion to escape, but, after a severe struggle, wa t s dashing lie made a subsequent and unsuccessfu l t-9 P c w u as sto c d a y p . tured at ai'rn'of both his hands through the window. The residencesand ~ the ured. f y committed implements found in each. They vver- Gough, tl these men were searched, and crow-bares, _k u ysi other for trial at the Assizes. On Friday evening, , 0 J AIL 11.—vv e h ave now from only one missing of the Southampton, and conducted . ‘.., 3 deg. to 7 deg. of HAMBURGH, cold. There is a gr_eat deal of ice in supP°toseßdagathnit the river, but it is a Otfr ozen (Mer. 4 -1 - lamburith Paper. PIIOIdOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS. PROMOTIONS•—Mate Charles Redstone Read (1838), late of the Conway, to the rank of Lieutenant. APPOlNTMENTS.—Commanders—Charles Patey, to the Powerful : W. Kelly (a), to the Winchester (Hon. Admiral Percy's flag-ship. Lieutenants—Edward Little, to the Powerful ; G. Henry Seymour, to the Will am and Mary yacht, for service in the Firebrand eteam-vessel, destined to ac company the King of Pru:s a to this country—(this appointment to the Firebrand is in addition to the ap pointments of Commander John Neale Nott, of the Ex cellent, and W.-E. A. Gordon, ,Mate of the Dido) ;P. - Bisset), to the Dolphin ; Oliver Jones, to the Calcutta ; E. Gray, to the Bonetta ; Charles Postle, to the Lizard, %ice Estcourt, promoted. Surgeons—Dr. Alexander S. Allen, to the Power ful; Sir John Hamett, to the Vindictive, vice Allen. Assistant Surgeons—C. C. R. Kinnear, to the Howe ; Dr. Thomas Graham, to the Warspite ; John ',Aran, to the Rapid. Mates—T. Foster, to the Warspite ; F. H. Vyse, Thomas Miller, P. W. May (from the Excellent), and Charles Baskerville, to the Carysfort ; Thos. Cochrane, to the Thalia. Midshipman—Thos. Falmer, to the' Vindictive. Volunteers Ist Class—Thoniai H. D. Martin, to the Carysfort ; Sr. John Coventry, to the Powerful Wm. Edward Charlton, to the Illustrious. Second .Master—G. S. Hall, to the Rapid ; Richard Hartfield, jun.(Actiog, additional), to Victory, for service in the Li ve ly. Clerks—C. H. Niblett (in charge), to the Rapid ; J. E. Styles, to the Carysfort. The following Gunners' Mates have been promoted to be Third Class Gunners :—Wm. John Hoar and Thomas Dewar, of the Calcutta, William Neville, of the Thunderer, John Emey, of the Impregnable, and M. W. Turner, of the Excellent. IN VESTIGATION REGARDING " SUBJECTS." There seems to be no end to the " investigations" which are required into the working of the Anatomy Bill. We have for some time been aware that another of these inquiries was in progress; but probably should have postponed making any reference to it, had not the daily press taken up the subject. Under these circum stances delicacy no longer forbids us to lay the facts be fore our readers. Some time ago the bodies of several• paupers were taken from the St. Marylebone workhouse, _ and em ployed for anatomical purposes in the usual manner. According to our information, the entire number dis posed of on the occasion alluded to was eight, while only six .were- entered on the "Book of Deaths" kept by the master of the workhouse ; yet eight, as we have just said, were entered in the in spector's returns, and these were mostly sent, in - ,the first instance, to University College, and, such as were not required there, were afterwards distributed among the other schools. Their distribution, however, is not the point which at present concerns us, but this—that although, according to the smaller computation, six bodies had been taken from the Marylebone workhouse, yet an examination of the register exhibited no sign of anyburial ever having taken place ; and ti e.attention of the Board of Directors and Guardians having been ar rested by this omission, the subject was brought before the Vestry, and a considerable degree of excitement was the result. Inquiries were instituted on the subject; and from these it appeared, that there is a burial ground called " Globe Fields , ' in the parish of Stepney, Mile-end, to which place of interment all the bodies alluded to had been carried. Now the allegation is that the cemetery in question is not consecrated ; but that thither, never theless, the bodies of all, whether of the Church of Eng land or otherwi4e, had been taken. - . The funeral service was performed by Mr. Cauch, a preacher who - officiates for Mr. Tagg, th e proprietor of the burial-place ; and we understand that the ceremonies of the Church of England arc those generally adhered to. It is said that, Ifitiring.a period of seventeen months, viz. from Feb. ).840,. to irk ' . 1841, above 250 bodies were thus interred in Globe Fields burial-ground, and a large amount of fees paid.by the anatomical teachers—a sum, indeed, which, if we take the minimum of fifty shillings per body, comes to no. less '-than 6351. But we believe the actual sum to be'cops4erably greeler than we have just stated, becauie we linow that the teachers of ana tomy are sometimes charged 31.; 'and even 41., by the persons who remove the bodies from the schools after the dissection has been completed. Representations to the above effect having been made at the Home-office, an investigation has been instituted, and Mr. J. H. Green and Mr. Newman Rogers are now employed in examining evidence on both sides of the question :—we may therefore hope for a fair and satisfac tory settlement of the points at issue. Medical Gazette, SHIPOWNERS AND SEAMEN. On Saturday, at the Greenwich Police-office, Mr. H: Gortley, master of the barque Harbinger, of Quebec, 320 tons, appeared to answer a summons given him by 11 seamen, for wages due to them on a voyage between that port and London. Mr. Pelham appeared for the claimants, and Mr. Cart tar, the Coroner, on behalf of the Captain and owners. The first case called was that of Henry James Dous ley, for wages amounting to 71. 195., which decided that of the remainder. Dousley, on being sworn, said that he signed the articles of agreement to make the voyage as able seaman on board the Harbinger, at 51. per month, in the Shipping Master's Office, Quebec, on the 12th Nov. last. The ship sailed on the 14th, and reached the port of London on the 28th of December. The articles were not read over to him, nor was the Captain present. Mr. Grove—Then he is liable to a penalty of Si. On the passage from Quebec down the St. Lawrence they discovered that the ship was very leaky and in an unseaworthy state. All hands knocked off, and refused to proceed, as they considered their lives in d anger ; did not know her state previous to leaving Quebec; she made a great deal of water afterwards. The Captain came down the forecastle on the Wednesday morning after sailing and offered them all 31. each in addition to their wages ; said the vessel was new, and leaky in consequence ; he also offered grog, both of which they refused, saying that they would not go for 201. at the risk of their lives. The vehsel seas becoming water-logged. It uas blowing fresh at the . time, arid she was lying on her beam ; he afterwards prothised the coffee- i D3_ I ..