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141 VEN'IN'G SU N 13, Great Marlborough-street. MRS. •GORE'S NEW NOVEL, " THE MAN (IF FORTUNE," IS NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. OTICE - 1--COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL and NAVAL and MILI TARY MAGAZINE.—Mucii confusion having arisen from the similarity of title between this Monthly periodical and that assumed by a Weekly Newspaper (the United Service Gazette), it has been found necessary, in order as far as pos • si ble, to prevent future mistakes, to modify the name cf this work by a simple transposition of its double title, so as to make a broader distinction between it and a print, with which, it ought to be needless to say, the United Service Journal can have no sympathy or connexion. It is therefore 'requested that Correspondents will be particular in addressing their com munications in conformity with the title this publication will h..nceforth bear —namely, COLBURN'S UNITED SER VICE MAGAZINE, and NAVAL and MILITARY JOURNAL. Henry ddburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. QUITABLE NSVI7 YEAR'S PRESENTS. I. MERRIE ENGLAND in the OLDEN TIME; or, Pere g rinations v i ith Uncle Tim and !Jr. Bosky , of Littleßri tain,Dr3salter.- By GEORGE DANIEL. 2 vols. post Bvo. , with numerous Illustrations by Leech, .&c., including several Fac-similes of rate and curious Ohl Prints. 11. THE PORCELAIN TOWER; or, NINE STORIES of- CHINA. By T. H. SEALY, Esq. I vol. post BVo., with-- numerous Illustrations by Leech, price lOs. 6. 111. THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS; or, MIRTH:and IMARVELS - By THOMAS INGOLDSBY, - Esq. 1 vol. Bvo., with numerous Characteristic Illustrations, price 10s. 6d Also, by the same Author, SOME ACCOUNT of MY' COUSIN NICHOLAS. 3 vols. post Svo. IV. 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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. • - • THIS EVENING, JAN. 3, Her Majesty's Servants will perform the Play of THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, hom the Text of Shakspeare. Di.ke, Mr. 0. Bennett; Antonin, Mr. Phelps; Bassani°, Mr. Andersen; Lorenzo, Mr. Elton; Shylock, Mr. Macready ; Portia, Mrs. Warner ; Neris.a, Mrs. Keeley ; Jessica, Miss E. Phillips. After which will be repeated the New Christmas Pantomime, ealed HARLEQUIN AND DUKE HUMPHREY'S DIN NER :. OR, JACK CADE, THE LORI) OF LONDON STONE. _ . . _ _ Doors to be opened at Half. past Six, and the Performance to begin at Seven o'clock. Boxes 55., Second Price, 2s. 6d. Pit 35,, Second Price 2s. Lower Gallery Is. 6d., Second Pr ce Is. Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GAL:DEN. UNiEll the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VMTRIS. THIS EVENING, JAN. 3, Rill be performedShaksPere's MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM.—lheseus, Mr. Cooper; Quince, Mr. Bartley ; Bottom; Mr. Harley •, Flute, Mr. Oxberry ; Snout, Mr. Mea dows ; Snug, Mr. F. Matthews • Hermia, Mrs. Nisbett ; ' Oberon, Madame Vestris • Titania , W. Lacy; Puck, Miss Marshall; First Fairy, Miss Rainforth. After which will be repeated the New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled GUY EARL OF WARWICK ; OR, HARLEQUIN AND THE DUN COW. Doors to to opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price ; 3s. 6d.; First cd Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 'ls. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. 2•.; Gallery, Is. Ticket's and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private- Boxes to be had so'ely of Air. Andrews, bookseller, I 67, New Bond-street. To-morrow, Norma, with the New Pantomime. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER Till?, MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND AIR. WILLIS TONES. Astounding hit—The acknowledged best Pantomime in Lon don—Hundreds nightly unable to gain admittance—The Sons of Syria aqd Felix Carlo surprise everyone. THIS EVENING, JAN. 3 Will be acted a New Domestic llama; entitled MADAME LAFFARGE, from Memoirs written by Herself. After which, a Naut;cal Burletta, entitled JACK JUNK ; or, a SEAMAN'S FIRESIDE.—Jack Junk, with Five Sea Songs, Mr. Waltdn. 'To conclude with a Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE ICE QUEEN; OR, JACK -FROST AND KING SHAM.—With gorgeous and charac teristic Seencry, 'splendid Properties, ludicrous and Quaint Dresses, ingenious Tricks, magnificent Panorama by flrun ning, &c. . M. Huline ; Patch, M. Rochet ; Pan taloon, M..Lehmaz ; Flip, Signor Feliz Carlo ; Clown, Mr. Buckingham ; Columbine, Miss Sharpe. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSRALDISTON. Graed Juvenile Week ! The Pantomime played as Second Piece ! Novelties unequalled ! Attraction undoubted ! In terest unprecedented! and Success enormous ! THIS EVENING, JAN. 3 Will be acted, SUSAN HOPLEY ; or, THE TRIALS AND VICISSITUDE:; OF A SERVANT GlRL—Wil liam Dean. Mr. E F. S iville ; Dicky Dean, Mr. Paul , Susan Hoploy, Mits Vincent (ale acknowledged Heroine of Domestic Tragedy), After which, 'a New Grand Romantic Aerial Crmic :Pan tornirne; entitled HARLEQUIN PETER WILKINS ; OR, THE KING OF THE AIR AND THE FLYING IN DIANS.--With new and extensive Scenery, Dresses, Decora tions, Tricks, Transformations, and Effects—A new Nautical Panorama, to be entitled " Our Native Sea-girt Isle !" con siding of Maritime Vieas along the Coast of England. Also, a MA; Grand Di,solving Diorama, by Childe, the Great Illu t,ionist ' • and the Opening of the Pantomime supported by the Comic Talent of this—the Popular Theatre of London. • To conclude with THE lIAUNTED INN. ?luxes, 23. -nt, lg.- , 6d.—Half-price to the Boxes oniT, at Ilalf-pa3t Eight. To-morrow, Susan Hopley, Harlequin Peter Wilkins, and The Haunted Inn. NEW STRAND THEATRE. OPEN EVERY EVENING. Immense attraction, thunders of applause, the Public deceive . _ with their eyes open. '• Mr. JACOBS, the ROYAL VENTRILOQUIST and .GREAT MODERN MAGICIAN, having been received on .his third visit to the Metropo'is in the most gratifying manner, will continue to work his wonderful and sense-deceiving powers cluring the present season. AA ere surprised, all astonished, all delighted with the incomprehensible and metamorphistical feats produced ; amazement sits upon the countenances of the spectators, and Murmurs of approbation resound throughout the theatre. Visit the temple of this modern chat liter, or you will lose a treat indeed. In addition to the above are added the fol lowing excellent performances : Mons. ROUSSEUR, the celebrated FRENCH EQUILIBRIST ; the Classical group ings of the PATAGON IA N WONDERS; and Herr KIIEU ZER'S PHANTASMAGORICAL DISSOLVING POR TRAITS. Doors open at Half-past Six, commence at Seven. Boxes, 2s. (id.; Children, Is. 6(1. Pit, Is. 6d. ; Children, Is. Gal lery, 6tl. Half-price a Quarter to Nine. Boxes, Is. 6d. Pit, 1.. Gallery, no half-price. Carriages to b. in waiting Ten Minutes to Eleven. THE RAILWAY SUN IS NOW RE-PUBLISHING, PRICE SIXPENCE. - TUE CHINA SIJN, AND THE PA RLIAMENTARY SUN. ARE STILL ON SALE, • PRICE SIXPENCE EACII. St Offity , , Jan, 3, 1542. TO COMZESPONDENTS. " A - Render." who writes from Liverpool, does not see that Etlition of The Sun in which the closing prices are given, else he could not complain If he is a sub scriber, he should order the latest Edition. LONDON: MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1842. When we extort praise from an opponent we are sure we deserve it. Ills abuse we disregard as the sign of nothing but his own ill-temper. We can conscientiously say, that " The Suit is a paper," as the Colonial Gazette, anxious to in form its readers of our character, says, " of good repute, as to the liberal arrangements which it makes fur securing ample and speedy reports of public occurrences." But The Son, being in no' wise bound up with any humbug or fraudulent schemes for enriching land jobbers at the expense of the labourers of England, takes OWIL view of a much-praised scheme o f b oi • ro wing money, or selling land that has no value whatever, in order to obtain the means of transpurtiug the people whom the landlords of Eligland will not allow to live at home and enrich their country. For taking this independent line, which, as our readers know,- we - took the very next publication after we had heard of the emigration scheme, the Coloniat ; Gazette takes us to task, and misrepre sents our character. The latter is public, and must vindicate itself. Of emulation, the point about which we differ from sundry so-called Liberal Journals, and so called Liberal Members of Parliament, we are i t at , IA -,9 P ee lNy , iti tr, I . AOA 4 'N ' qtr mo s -,„; k • "?' , > l. Am. not the opponents; but we are decided enemies of the Government adding to its duties by undertaking to apportion labour and capital to land throughout the vast dominions of the British empire. Our Government is already notoriously inefficient to perform the immense duties imposed on it. Our criminal law is a cruel blunder. Our civil law is - an undigested mass of anomalies and confusion. Our administration in all its branches is at once costly and worthless. It abounds with idlers who engross large sala ries, and over-worked subordinates who are under paid. If any chairmaker's apprentice had at his first trial made such a wretched abortion of a three-legged stool as our Government is, for all useful purposes, he would have been at once turned out of the shop, and told he would never earn salt to his meat. To place on such an in efficient, weak, and yet costly instrument, the additional and most onerous duty of apportioning labour and capital to land, as is now demanded by some pretended Liberals, seems to us one of the most extraordinary follies that ever cupidity or overweening vanity engendered. For the Government, which is so incapa ble of now performing the duties imposed on it, to seek this additional and most onerous duty, is a more mad ambition than, ever was nourished by any of the conquerors of man- kind, from ALEXANDER to NAPOLEON. CO ceiving that our Government has already a much greater number of duties to perform than it can perform well—considering, also, that the appor- tioning of labour and capital to land is no part of the duty of any Government—we object most decidedly now, and shall object at all times, to the Government, be it in the hands of what party it may, presuming to interfere in any way with the distribution of capital and labour. By the Tory Journals a great:outcry was made against the Whigs when they were obliged to take up the Corn-law question for making that a party question ; but not a word escapes from the virtuous and immaculate emigration-- mongers at the Tories taking up emigration as a party question. Not a step did they ever befbre take in the matter; but now, when it will serve their party purposes, and may, perchance, weaken the just demands of the people for a re peal of the Corn-laws, they are about to take it up, and a whole ho3t of Weekly Chronicles and Spectators make common cause with the Jour nals of the vilest and most unscrupulous faction that ever cursed a country, in praising this party move as the height of patriotism. We are not so blinded, nor so bribed, by any particular interest, and we denounced the emigration scheme from the moment it was propounded, and,shall continue to denounce it as a sly scheme of the culprit monopolists to postpone the day of reck oning and the day of punishment. If the mind of man have not lost its love of justice, and have not ceased to do homage to truth, that day will inevitably and speedily overtake them. We borrow, from the Carlisle Journal, a para graph descriptive of the present condition of the poor of that town, which the Journalist remarks is within a short distance of Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S property, who is at this moment, he further says, raising his rents from 20 to 30 per cent. In ordi nary cases, what rent a gentleman asks for his land is to the public a matter of utter indiffe rence. It is a mere bargain between two indi viduals, with which the public have no more to do than with the price of tallow or hops ; which in general, however, the dealers make known. We should hold it, in fact, under ordinary circum stances, to be an impertinent intermeddling with private concerns to direct the public attention to the rent which any gentleman asks for his land; but at present, when rent is raised, as Lord STAN LEY admitted, by a tax on the people's bread--:. when Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S rent is increased by the bread-tax levied on his starving neighbours when that same Sir JAMES GRAHAM is a vehement supporter of the law which ordains this unrighteous tax— when he is a member of the Cabinet that has been constituted to preserve this flagrant iniquity—and when his case is an exact coml. terpart of that of most of the members of the Cabinet, and most of the members of his party— we feel bound to notice it, and bound, if we can, to rivet public attention to the individual fact, and the general facts to which it is an index. Sir J. G RAHAM, a member of the Cabinet, is raising his rents and increasing his income, while his neighbours are starving, and starved in order that his rents may be raised. Sir J. GRAHAM'S case is also the case of Lord STA NLEY. lie gets at present higher rents by the rise in the price of food, which stints and starves his neighbours in Lancashire. Sir JAMES GRA II AM'S case is also the case of Sir ROBERT PEEL, Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL, the Duke of BUCKINGHAM, the Duke of WELLINGTON, the Earl of ABER DEEN, the Earl of RIPON, and probably every member of the Cabinet. One and all of them have raised, or are raising, their rents in conse quence of the high price of corn caused by the laws they passed, and they have been consti tuted a Cabinet to preserve. Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S case is also the case of every landowner who has a seat in the House of CJmmons, and contributes to make the laws. All England is a common neighbourhood, and every landowner is now raising, or has raised his rents, by levying a tax on the bread of his starving neighbours. Sir JAMES GnAnAm's case, who is now raising his rent while hisstarving neighbours are obliged to pay him a tax on their bread, let it not be for one moment for gotten, is the case of every landowning legislator in the empire. A great question is at issue between the people and the landowners. This statement makes it perfectly plain that the landlords benefit by the bread-tax, and the landlords in the Cabinet and in Parliament decide in their own favour against the people. No man, however virtuous, is a proper judge in his own cause. In such a case no man is unbiassed, and all the assertions and arguments of the landlords must be liable to sus picion. A Corn-law, made or modified by them, never will command the confidence, and we doubt whether it will long command the obedi ence, of the people. We are quite sure that no Corn-law they can make will deserve to be obeyed. "When the rise of rent on the one hand, and the starving people on the - other, are considered to be the two great elements of the landlord's judgment, it must be also remembered that the starving people are called canaille by the law-making landlords and their friends. They are called the swinish multitude, and are continually spoken of, and continually treated as if their feelings, and even their lives, were of no manner of importance. Weighed against a rise of rent, the whole of the so-called mob of Car lisle are not, in the landlords' minds, worth a moment's consideration ; and the conduct of the bread-taxers, for many years past, justifies us in asserting that, if they could raise their rent by starving the whole of the inhabitants of Carlisle, they would not hesitate to starve them. As long, therefore, as any Corn-law shall be enacted by the land-owning Legislature, whatever it may be, it never will satisfy the people or settle the ques tion. It is in the nature of things that our pre sent Legislature can only settle it by totally abo lishing, the Corn and Provision-laws. It is worth further notice, that while Sir , lES GRAHAM'S neighbours are starving, and he is raising his rent, he is also running about feast * and enjoying himself, without having a word to bestow, Cabinet Minister as he is, on the sufferings of his starving neighbours. His occu pation on last Tuesday was, we are told, to quiz the answer of Lord JOHN RUSSELL to the Ply mouth Address. We have read the quiz, and however praiseworthy it may be as a party Iration, as the speech of a Cabinet Minister, now raising his rents while his starving neighbours must pay him a tax on their bread, it is worthy of this paragon of bread-taxers. He is thoroughly satisfied with himself; his conscience is clear because he is a Cabinet Minister, supported by a consideraMe majority of monopolists. He could boast, notwithsanding the oppression of the bread-taxers, that under great privations, which lie imposes, and which he refuses to re. iieve, the patience of the people of England had THE SUN, LONDON; MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1842. been most exemplary and while he can boast of that, he will do his duty towards them as he has hitherto chine it, and continue to tax the bread of his starving neighbours. I-Ie and the rest of the landlords will be just towards the people when they are convinced it is not safe to be otherwise, and not before. The Irish are a grateful people. The affec tionate regard they still entertain for Lord NOR MANDY, the first Lord Lieutenant that meted out to them even-handed justice, their public demon stration of regret at the departure of Lord EBRINQTON, who followed in his footsteps, and their still warmer attachment to Lord MORPETH, who acted but a subordinate part in the great work of reconciling contending factions, are incontrovertible proofs of their generous and ardent dispositions. The electors of Dublin, on Friday last, paid another high, com pliment to this noble and amiable statesman, and seem determined, if they cannot have him as Secretary, to make him at least their represen tative. A private meeting of the friends of the Liberal interest was held on that day, the LORD MAYOR in the chair, when it was unanimously resolved to put Lord MORPETH in nomination, and in a few moments 1,0001. was subscribed to defray the expenses of the election. Will the elec tors of the West Riding of Yorkshire be behind the people of Dublin ? Let them subscribe also, and they will still have him as their repre sentative also in the House of Commons. A great public meeting of the inhabitants of Dub lin has been announced for to-day, when we are convinced such a demonstration will be made as will leave little doubt as to the result. Whether Lord MORPETH accept the offer or not, this public mark of respect will be gratifying to his feelings, and do him and the electors of Dublin ()Teat honour. The Speech delivered by the Regent of SPAIN, at the opening of the annual session of the Cortes at Madrid, on the 26th ult., published in another part of The Sun, is a well-arranged business document; and its perusal will afford great pleasure to all who take an interest in the consolidation of the peace and the growing prosperity of Spain. There are topics, how ever, upon which it greatly disappoints public curiosity. A mystery is observed respecting the chief originators of the rebellion ; the correspondence between Senor OLOZAGA and Madame Muxoz is not so much as alluded to; nothing is said of the executions that took place; and the quarrel between Spain and the Holy See is spoken of incidentally as an affair of secondary, or rather of no moment. But' upon other, and perhaps more really important, matters the Speech is exceedingly explicit. It announces the conclusion of friendly Treaties between Spain and three of the South American Republics; the negotiation of a treaty with Portugal for the navigation of the Douro, and another with France for preventing the violation of the Aldudes. The British Go vernment having given satisfaction to Spain for the cutting out of the vessel at. Carthagena, the REGENT has no further ground of complaint on that score. The speech, after briefly noticing the suppression of the late rebellion, and the declaring Barcelona in a state of siege, proceeds to state that the con struction of the public roads, suspended by the civil wars, has been resumed, that bridges have been ordered to be built, and every measure taken to facilitate safe inland communica tion, and promote the interests of com merce. The Government has also directed its attention to the establishment of normal schools of education ; and various measures are in pre paration for enforcing the execution of justice, and effectual administration of the laws. The proper maintainance of the clergy, the punish ment of frauds in the collection of the pub lic revenue, a general review of the Customs, Tariffs, and other taxes, and the appropriation of funds for honourably discharging the public debt, are all measures recommended to the serious attention of the Cortes. The Courts of justice are to be re-modelled, a necessary and most useful measure, and efforts are to.be trade improve the commercial navy of Spain. The only harsh measure recommended in the speech is one for restraining the licentiousness of the Spanish Press—a measure which we are deeply pained to state is loudly called for by the abuses of some of the Spanish Metropolitan Journals. In some of these Papers we have recently seen articles openly advocating another revolution, the suppression of the Regency, and the abolition of the Constitution of 1837. The conclusion of the Speech is full of spirit, arid well calculated to make a deep impression on the grave national heart of Spain. Address ing the Cortes, the REGENT says Your mis sion is serious, and tends to regenerate the nation, and the book of immortality reservesyou a golden page. Depend upon my efforts and the honest heart of a soldier, who always fought for the liberty and glory of his country. Let us draw closer the bonds of a sincere and consolidat ing union, and let us consolidate the Constitu tional throne of a young QUEEN, whose name has always vanquished the enemies of liberty." This is excellent advice ; and now conies the best possible reason why the Cortes should fol- low it. In the REGENT'S continuation we have the very climax of patriotism :—" I have no ambition for myself. My life belongs to my country, and the glory of serving it with honour forms my patrimony. May the existing Consti tution, the Throne of the young ISABELLA, the national independence, and the Government framed according to the wishes of the nation, be the programme of our fidelity, and the point of departure whence to direct the legislative la bours towards the consolidation of a strong and just Government; which, resisting the snares of ambitious factions, may secure for ever the pros perity and happiness of the nation !" This is surely not the language of the man whom the French zepresenfed as the betrayer of Queen CHRISTINA, in order to usurp the throne of her august daughter. These, on the contrary are the sentiments of a soldier and a patriot. There was a time when we doubted the honesty - of ESPARTERO ) but that time has not been since the flight of Madame illinvoz into France. That was a result to which we felt patriotism must have contributed. The speech is silent on the subject of the differences between the REGENT and NI. SAL VANDY, the French Ambassador, respecting the presentation of the latter's credentials. His Ex cellency, to avoid the mortification of an exclu sion from the Ambassadors' seat in the Cortes, visited Toledo and La Granja on the 25th and *26th ult. This whole affair, on the part of France, would be very ridiculous, were it not well understood that the object of the Ambas sador's presentation to the young QUEEN is to prepare the way for surrounding her with the French Camarillo, who made such a dupe ofher mother. The whole of the French Journals of Friday and Saturday have been received. They are chiefly occupied with the Speech of the PRESI DENT of the United States at the opening of Congress. Their comments amount to this : That Great Britain cannot persist in exercis ing a right of search in the case of American vessels engaged in the slave trade, without pro voking a war with that Republic. The Borsenhalle, under date of Stockholm, 14th inst., states that an annual pension of 2,000 rix-dollars banco of Hamburg, has been granted to Baron Rothschild, for merly envoy at Copenhagen. The Diario di Roma states that the Prince of Monaco was received by the Pope on the 19th inst. The Gazette de France says—" 'The establishment of a Viceroy in Algiers, in the person of the Duke de Ne mours, is again talked of, and the mission of General de Rumigny is said to be for the purpose of making the ne cessary administrative arran gemen t s ." We find the following in the Handelsblad of Amster dam :—" The Governor-General of the Dutch settle ments in the East Indies has announced that, in virtue of a Royal Decree, the Western India Bank at Surinam was again authorised to issue its paper, from which it has been interdicted since 1831. The cholera morbus is making great ravages in the island of Java, and the other islands of the Indian Archipelago, whilst the islands to the north west of Timor are so reduced by fa mine, that upwards of 300 natives have died from this terrible scourge, although the Government had afforded them large supplies of provisions." The Temps says, " A rumour was current yesterday evening, that an ex-Deputy, who is now Editor of an ultra-Radical Paper, had been arrested in consequence of the new investigations of the Court of Peers. This rumour does not appear to us to be probable. We be lieve that all the persons who have been arrested belong to the working classes. We are assured that in the course of yesterday the Court ordered new arrests. Owing to the rumours in circulation, the approaches to the Luxembourg have been crowded with curious per sons. The Journals which have announced the removal of the prisoners from the Luxembourg for Doullens and Mont St. Michel have been misinformed as to the mode in which they have been disposed of. According to the order of the Court of Peers, Dupoty, Bazin, Boggio, and Mallet have been sent to ullens ; and Petit, Jarrasse, Dufour, and Launois. to Mont St. Michel." The Debuts states that the wife of Colombier was interrogated yes terday by Baron Pasquier. - A few days ago, says a Brussels paper, as two men who had dug up some carrots in a field at Mariakerke, and were preparing to carry them off, a man armed with a fowling-piece made his appearance, and desired the thieves to lay down their booty and retire. On their refusal he fired, and one of them fell. He died of his wounds on the following day, and the other thief has been arrested. The Journal de Bruges contains an account of the murder of a poor woman, aged 69, at Saint Requiers, during the absence of her husband, who was at church. The murderers carried off a sum of ten sous, which was all the money in the possession of this poor couple. A good deal of snow has recently fallen on the Jura, and in some places on the Lyons and Geneva road it has drifted from 15 to 20 feet in depth. Cardinal Mattei, - the Minister of .the Interior, and Pre sident of the Board of Health at Rome, has lately issued an ordonnance whereby the physicians and surgeons of all the public establishments in the Papal dominions are bound to vaccinate all persons admitted into these re spective houses. The same is to be done for the troops and persons confined in prisons. Days are appointed for the vaccination of the poor gratuitously, and measures are prescribed for isolating all persons affected with the small. pox. A letter from Ajaccio mentions that a notorious ban dit, named. Stefanini, of Sari d'Orcino, in Corsica, who had taken refuge in Sardinia, had returued to the island with another bandit, and carried off by force the Mayor of Sari, demanding 4,400 f. for his ransom. Orders had been given for a company of the Corsican Voltigeurs to go in search of the malefactors, but they had been un successful, and the Mayor still remained in the hands of Stefanini. About four months ago, Letang, a chaser by trade, married a young woman from mutual affection. The bride was so brought up that she had a peculiar horror of drunkenness, and perceiving, three days ago, that her husband was, when he came home to her in the evening, somewhat heated with liquor, determined to watch him. Next day she went to the shop where he worked to in quire fur him, and learnt that he had not been there for two days. This intelligence had such an effect upon her that she lost her reason, and determined to destroy her sel£ Instead of returning home, she first went up the stairs of a house in the Rua Maubuee, but, not finding it suit her purpose, came down again, and, entering No. 43, in the Rue des Blanes Manteaux, ascended to the fourth story, opened the window on the landing-place, bound a handkerchief over her eyes, and threw herself down into the street. This did not cause immediate death, but she was carried, with both her legs broken, to the Hotel-Dieu, where she has undergone amputation, and now lies in imminent danger. The architectural and internal decorations of the new Chamber of Peers are all finished, except the allegorical paintings of the Conference-room, but the sittings will not be held in the new hall till the middle of next month. The construction of this building has cost 300,000 f., and the ornamental sculpture and paintings 800,000 f. It was commenced in 1837, and has been four years in execution. The new Chamber in which the sittings are to be held is placed between the archives-room and a spacious library, with windows looking into the gar den. The cabinets for the President and the Grand Re ferendary, and the committee-rooms, are to the right and left of the Chamber. The ceiling is both rich and grand. The four pendentives are ornamented with figures of Wisdow, Justice, Law, and the country, executed by M. Abel de Pujol. The three grand 'medallions, and the six window compartments, representing Prudence, Truth, and Confidence, and the six most illustrious law-givers of the ancients—Moses, Draco, Solon, Lycurgus, Numa, and Justinian, are by M. Vauehelet. On each side of the semicircle, in which the President's chair is to be placed, are two allegorical paintings by M. Blonde'. To wards the centre of the ceiling, in six medallions round the opening, to permit the passage of the chandelier, are the profiles in bronze of Charles V., Louis XII., Fran cois 1., Louis XIV., Napoleon, and Louis XVIII. The gilding and accessory ornaments by Messrs. Adam Bro thers. The Minister of Public Works, the Commission of Monuments, and a great number of Peers and Depu ties, have highly congratulated M. Gisors, under whose direction the whole has been accomplished. BOURSE—PARIS, FRIDAY, DEC. 31. rust Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Prick. Price. ' , tench 5 ter Conte ......" 116 60 ... 116 65 116 55 116 60 per Cam. exdiv 78 tO 78 25 ... 78 15 ... 78 15 Loau ex div '7B 70 ... 78 70 .. 78 70 ... 78 70 Bank of trance -350 Latlitte Dank:l.ooof. Sharon 1017 50 ...leo7 50 ...1007 50 —1(07 50 Melvi] Bank Belgian S per vent:., 1840.„ 1t.2% 102% ... 102 N sp."..sas ACWIt .«25% P ". 255. Passive....„. y . 5% 5% ... 5% Portuguese 5 per Cents. Dutch 2% per Cents. 53% ... 53% ... 53% ... 5356 ...... ..... 103 ... 163 ... 103 s e e 103 HAILWAV SHARES. _ _ _ Versailles.L.l3..... .......... 212 50 ... 212 50 ... 207 50 ... 2 0 H. 1: 340 ... 340 ... 319 73 ... 310 Rouen ........ ...... 457 50 ... 457 50 ... 457 50 ... 457 50 Orleans . ... 512 50 ... 517 50 ... 512 50 ... 517 50 Strasburg to . l3ale. 232 50 ..235 ... 232 50 ... 233 75 HOMICIDE AND SUICIbE.—It is observed, in a letter published in a Weekly Journal, that suicide and • homicide very often go together. The writer, a Mr. Sampson, quotes a consider able number of instances in which murder has been committed from a disregard of the mur derer's own life, or an actual desire to get rid of it. Our Journal of Saturday evening recorded such a case at Mansfield, which will add to the number of the writer's illustrations. From the connection he notices, he draws a conclusion that capital punishments, by gratifying the desire of suicide, encourage and promote murder. If that be a just conclusion, what a commentary does it supply on the wisdom of our law-makers! There is undoubtedly some truth in the obser vation, and it makes apparent a most benefiCial change in the character of man. At present no inconsiderable number of murders arc commit ted from this morbid desire to get rid of the monomaniac's own existence, which will proba bly terminate when the law ceases to supply its gratification. But whatever may now be the case, undoubtedly in former times life was fre quently taken from jealousy, from revenge, and from avarice, with a view to obtain worldly en joyments by committing the crime. The remark of the author we have referred to shows that crimes of violence in modern times from such motives are much rarer than is generally sup posed. That is the beneficial change in the ~char acter of man, which his remark makes obvious. POST-OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY.—We gave a favourable notice of this work when it was published, and we are glad to find that every London journal that afterwards adverted to it has expressed unqualified approbation of the plan and execution of the publication. Messrs. Kelly and Co. deserve great credit for having produced a Directory which surpasses any that has yet appeared. The press is unanimous in its favour, and we have no doubt that when the public have an opportunity of judgitig of its merits, they will find that the press, in this in stance, states the truth. The Marylebone Vestry have come to the sage conclusion of postponing the question of wood pavement for Oxford-street for a period of three years. This was carried by a majority of only two. We recommend the inhabitants to resent this insult offered to the deputation by calling a public meeting without delay. Let them persevere, and they will compel this speechifying vestry to act as well as to speak. To postpone the consideration of such an important subject for so long a period, is a disgrace to the inhabitants of this large district. CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. The third Sessions of the Central Criminal Court, dur ing the present Mayor a lt y , com menced this morning, at the Justice Hall, at the Old' Bailey. At ten o'clock th e L ord Mayor , the Recorder, Alder man Sir Chapman Marshall, Alderman Lainson , the Sheriffs, the Und er -Sh er i f f s, an d the other City autho rities, took their seats upon t he bench, and the Court was opened with the usual formalities. The Grand Jury having been impanelled and sworn, The RECORDER proceeded briefly to address them or their duties, the performance of which would not, he was happy to state, according to present appearances, detain them so long as was sometimes the case. The cases that were brought before them were for the most part of an ordinary character. There was one case, however, to which he would direct their attention for a few moments. It was on a charge of feloniously u tterin g for g ed notes. It was perfectly possible that a pe rson mi g ht be inno cently iu possession of forged notes , and might attempt to pass them without knowing they were fo rge d, therefore the mere fact of possession could not be taken as an assumption of guilt. It was for them to decide whether the previous circumstances deposed to in the case, such as that the party charged had made a previous unsuccessful attempt to pass the same note, ar gued a guilty knowledg e on the part of the accus e d. H e was sorry to obs erve t h a t the Calendar cont a i ne d six charges of cutting and m aiming, none of whi c h, however, presented any l ega l difficulties. He would not detain them longer, but at once remit them to the execution of their duties. The Grand Jury then retired. The Calendar contains the names of 162 prisoners, of whom 21 are committed from the City of London ; 111 from the county of Middlesex ; 14 from Rent ; and 16 from Surrey. There are four charges of cutting and maiming from Middlesex, and two from Surrey. HULL, JAN. I.—Wind S.—Arrd. thci Niagara, Cole, 'rom New Orleans. GM) ARY OF NEWS AND Vubitc eptuton. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The most interesting foreign event reported this morning is the Speech of the Regent of Spain at open ing the Collies of the Kingdom on the 26th ult. This speech is very pacific, and altogether of a most satis factory character. New Year's-day in Paris is a festival never dese crated by any public business, so that • our accounts from the capital of that date are but records of courtly and official visits and addresses to which we have only space for a passing reference. The Univers states that orders have been sent to M. de Salvandy to demand his passports immediately, and I to return to France with all the persons of his embassy, if Espartero does not withdraw his pretensions in refus ing to the French Ambassador the right of delivering his credentials to the Queen of Spain in person. A commission, composed of three Peers, and of Messrs. Pinsonniere, Jouffroy, Felix Real, De Corcelles, d'Ar blay, Gustave de Beaumont, Musson (du Lot et Garonne), Laurence, Filleau de Sainte Hilaire, Director of Colo nies at the Ministry of the Marine, General Bellonet, of the Engineers, and M. Linguay, as Secretary. has been appointed to take into consideration all questions relat ing to the colonisation of Algeria. A letter from Berlin of the 22d ult. says :—The de parture of the King of Prussia for London is now defini tively fixed for the 16th of January next. He sups the first night in Magdeburg, whence he proceeds to Hagen, and arrives on the 19th, by way of Aix-la-Chapelle, at Liege. On the 20th he will reach Ostend, where a Go vernment steamer will be in readiness to receive him, and he will reach London on the 21st. The suite of his Ma jesty will not be so numerous as several German papers have represented. It will consist of Generals Ratzmer and Von Neuman, the celebrated traveller and author Alexander Von Humboldt, and Count Stolberg, the Ca binet Councillor Muller and the Marshal of the Palace Von Meyerinck. Accounts from Lisbon of the 27th ult. report that the elections have terminated in Portugal in the complete triumph of the Ministers. PUBLIC OPINION. The Morning Chronicle contains an article the hints for which have been furnished by Sir James Graham's late speech at Dorchester. In this article our Contem porary says :—" The paltry trickery of Sir James Gra ham will be but of slender benefit to his leader. The country is not now in a mood to be trifled with. Sir Robert Peel must make his election between the people and the Monopolists. He is in a false position, from which he cannot, by any degree of ingenuity be ex tricated." With reference to an article in the New Farmer's Journal, which is one of the organs of the landed in terest, theAdvertiserobserves:—"The Monopolists are not wanting in sufficient foresight to perceive that it is a dangerous thing to make even a show of reform in the details of a bad system ; their policy, therefore, is to resist, as long as they can hold out the approach of even a fallacious reform." The Morning Herald recommends the Dublin electors to lose not a moment in selecting some stiff-necked Tory to represent them in Parliament • and specially exhorts them to oppose Lord Morpeth's election by every means in their power. The Times is exceedingly out of humour with the Anti-Corn-law agitators, and says:—" We can tell these gentry that the snore fiercely they preach a crusade against the landed interest, the more absolutely do they detach from all sympathy with them and their exertions the large class of honourable and respectable British merchants who are as ardent as themselves in their oppo sition to the Corn-laws." The Liverpool Chronicle, commenting upon the pom pous announcement of the Morning Herald on the " fa mily residence of the Lyndhursts," observes :—" That Lord Lyndhurst has advanced himself from a mud cot tage to Great George -str ee t i s muc h to hi s cre di t. We admire him for it, and we can afford to say it as we ad mire him for nothing else, but still that does not at all lessen the folly and absurdity of the Morning Herald. We marvel too who composed the select party. " The growth of Anti-Corn-law principles and their gradual extension in England is dwelt upon by the South Wales Advertiser thus :—" It is not many months since our Parliament refused even to consider the ques tion relating to the effects of the Corn-laws--they would not hear evidence as to their operation, neither would they consent with any degree of patience to their discus sion. Now; how stands the case? Why, one of the most in fluential supporters of those laws, a County Conservative Member, stands up before a meeting of landowners and says-- , Parliament is now obliged to entertain the ques tion, and whatever we may think as to the prudenee or policy of Parliament entering into this discussion, it is not in our power any longer to resist it. I would ask you, as practical men, as men not merely well acquainted with agnculthre, but well versed in general public affairs, can you, in the present state of public feeling, refuse any longer to consider in detail the existing Corn-laws.' " The Bristol Mercury in dilating upon class distinctions of the first, second, and third class Railway trains ; re marks—" On our Great Western Railway, how admirably are the gradations of society preserved I The thirty-shil ling aristocrats 101 l upon luxurious couches, securely protected from wind and weather ; the one-and twenty-shilling shopocrats sit upon uncovered seats, exposed to all the" skyey influences,' antici pating that draughts will lead to draughts, and indulging in doleful visions of stiff necks, sore throats, coughs, catarrhs, doctors, and doctors',bills ; whilst the twelve-shilling mobocracy, coming under the denomina tion of the swinish multitude,' are appropriately packed off with the pigs in the luggage-train ! Nor does the distinction end here. The two former classes are whirled the whole distance in four hours, whilst those to whom time is, emphatically, money, are detained on the road for twelve ! ' The distress in Paisley, and the methods now using towards its relief are thus stated by the Scotsman of Saturday:—" Amidst the overwhelming sufferings to which this town and its neighbourhood has for these last six months been exposed, it is even a satisfaction to ob serve that the last week's increase of applicants for sup plies of food is only sixty-three—which makes the total number depending upon the Relief Committee for a very bare subsistence, 13,303. To-morrow is the day appointed by the Presbytery of Edinburgh for an extra• ordinary collection to be made, forenoon and afternoon in all the Established Churches of the city and neigh bourhood," The meeting held at Dublin, last Friday, on the ap. proaching election for that city, and the conduct of the Liberals in their fervent display for the cause of Lord Morpeth, is highly eulogised by the Dublin Evening Post, which thus continues:—" The resolutions of that meeting will be read in every part of Ireland—in every part of England, and in Yorkshire particularly, with exultation. There is no second opinion as to the propriety and the policy of selecting the Nominee—for Candidate he can not be called. His high talents—his noble character— his eminently amiable demeanour—these are qualities and attributes acknowledged by all, and by none more readily than the gentlemen of the Conservative party." MO NEY — TRADE—COMMERCE. A silk manufacturer at Basle, in Switzerland, writes that in that town all the silk-trade houses are busy to the utmost, and remarks that as good workmen are get ting scarce and troublesome there, our own factories might send a re-inforcement. At a meeting of the unemployed Spitalfields weavers, held at Bethnal-green on Saturday, the hardship of putting weavers to stone-breaking at the poor-house was bitterly complained of. A representation was unani mously resolved to be made to the Poor-law Com missioners. Six French vessels laden with wheat were entered at the Plymouth Custom-house last Monday. Their car goes amounted to 458 tons. The duty is now 225. Bd. per qr. COMMERCIAL REPO RIVI. At a Corn-law meeting last week at Maidstone, a letter from a resident gentleman was read, stating that sixteen f►milies in that locality had refused to sign the petition for a repeal of the Corn laws " because to do so," they said, " would lose them their election money." ECCLESIASTICAL. The monastery on Mount Carmel is to be repaired, and the King and Queen of the French have given 1,500 francs for that purpose. EX.ECTIONEERING. The signatures to the West Riding address of York shire to be presented to Lord Morpeth on his return to this country, al ready numbers 25,050, and the subscrip tions amount to 1,4301. 9s. 3id. The succession of Lord Boscawen (son of the late Earl of Falmouth) to his father's honours, 'creates a vacancy in the representation of West Cornwall. About twenty individuals of the citizens of Dublin, at a meeting held there last Friday, subscribed 1,0001. to secure Lord Morpeth's return. The determination ex hibited by the Liberals to start his Lordship has caused Mr. Vance to retire. The Lord Mayor is active in those admirable proceedings. NAVAL AND MILITARY. A Liverpool man last week, anxious to enter the East India service, but unqualified by being one-eighth of an inch under the standard height, fixed a ball of wax covered with hair on his head, and thereby passed, but on detection was discharged from the corps. iThe decoration of the Red Eagle has been conferred on Admiral Walker, of the Turkish service, by the King of Prussia. LAW AND POLICE. The session for the Central Criminal Court commenced this morning at the Old Bailey, being the 87th, and third during the present Mayoralty. The calendar contains about 120 prisoners : two cases are of a very serious nature, the others are chiefly common larcenies. PINE Charles IL, when pensioner of the French Court, had given orders that the national bust of Britannia for the coin of the realm should be an exact likeness of the Duchess of Portsmouth, the French Courtezan, and her Grace was about to sit for it, but Nell Gwynne prostrated herself in the King's way, and admonished him against it. Accordingly the bust of Miss Byron, a celebrated beauty and virtuous lady, was adopted in its stead. This coin is esteemed a gem. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. A scientific soiree was held by Dr. Mantell on Clap ham Common last week -250 persons were present. - Of Literary Ambassadors, three have of late been very eminent men, viz. Niebuhr, the historian at the Court of Rome; Dr. Bunser, his successor, author of " The Ro man Forum," whose wife, Madame Bunsen, is an English woman, and one of the co-heiresses of a wealthy Welsh iron-master, the other daughter married Sir Benjamin Hall, the Member for Marylebone ;:and, lastly, Mr. Eve rett, one of the most distinguished of the American literati, the new Minister for the Cabinet of the - United States. 9Ft?i~;`Taly G. Lord Rendlesham, while pheasant shooting at Camp sey Ash last week, shot away the forefinger of his right hand, and grazed his eye, while reloading his gun, which accidentally went off. COURT--s ^^ • ASHION.ELBLZ. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford arrived in Bel grave -square on Saturday from Woburn. The Marquis of Tavistock leaves town to-morrow for Woburn. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort arrived at Hamp ton Court on Saturday, on a visit to Mr. and Lady Anne Culling Smith. The Earl of Aberdeen has been elected President of the Aberdeenshire Spalding Club. The Earl and Countess of Wilton have gone to Egerton Lodge, Melton Mowbray. Lord and Lady J. Russell leave Bowood Park today. Lord and Lady Pahnerston have left Broadlands fur Bowood Park, Wilts. The Marquis of Kildare has accepted the Shrievalty of the county of Kildare. The Earl and Countess of Hardwick° have been re ceiving company during the week at Wimpole Cam bridgeshire. Viscount Melbourne arrived in town on Friday even ing, from Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire, and, on Satur day afternoon, departed for Windsor Castle, on a visit to her Majesty. IVUSCELMANEOILTS. The Duke of Bordeaux has recovered from his late accident, so as to receive visits in his arm-chair from the nobility and gentry at Vienna . It is a remarkable circumstance that the heirs of three Earldoms should, after only enjoying seats in the Lower House during the short session of last autumn, lose their seats by succeeding to Peerages—we allude to the pre sent Earl of Falmouth, the present Earl of Elgin, and the present Earl of Malmesbury. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CI7 Y, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JAN. I.—An extremely limited business has been done in the Cotton Market to-day, the sales not amounting to more than 2,000 hales, chiefly American description to the trade. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JAN. I.—The business at the Stock Exchange to-day has been merely nominal, nothing having transpired of any 'moment in any de scription of Stock. Present prices for the Stock most in demand are—Grand Junction, 196 ; Eastern Counties, ; Great Western,' 861 ; London and Birmingham Quarter Shares, 251 ; Ditto New, 28k. THE FUNDS. The English Securities opened firm this morning at the leaving off price of Saturday. Consols 89i i for the opening ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 89-a ; Three-and a•Half ditto, 991 i ; Exchequer Bills, 15 17 prem. In the Foreign Market an advance of e per cent, has taken place in Spanish Active Stock, the quotation being now 25/ 1 ; Portuguese Five per Cents, are 321 33 ex. div. ; Ditto Threes, 19i i.. Very little business doing at present. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Birmingham and Gloucester 100 Ditto New 7i 6 Eastern Counties Great Western 65 Ditto Fifths London and Brighton 5O ...... 39* London and Blackwell London and Birmingham 90 .. to Ditto New ... Manchester and Leeds Ditto* Shares North Midland .. ...100 Ditto Thirds South Eastern and Dover HALF-PAST ONE. There has been a good deal of business transacted in the Stock Exchange this morning, and prices have further advanced. Consols are now 891 for the Opening ; Three per Cents. Reduced 89 4 ; Three and-a-Half per Cents., ditto, 991 . ; Bank Stock, 1661 4 ; India Bonds, 4 prem. ; Exchequer Bills, 16 19. The following are the quotations in the Foreign Mar ket :—Brazilian, ; Chilian, 72 ; Colombian Bonds, 224 23 ; Mexican, 29i 30 ; Peruvian, 151 16 ; Portu guese Five per Cents. 32 , 1 ex div. ; Ditto, Threes,l6l ; Spanish Active Stock, 25a ; Deferred 13 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 51i ; Ditto, Fives, 100. Very little doing in Shares, and quotations are rather lower :—Great Western, 861 ; Birmingham and Glou cester, 63/H ; Eastern Counties, 9 ; London and Brigh ton, 39i ; South Eastern and Dover, 22 4. TWO O'CLOCK. The Markets are very firm at the above quotations. HALF PAST TWO. Consols, Account, 89i ; Exchequer Bills 19 21 ; Co lombian, 22ai, ; Mexican, .291 30 ; Spanish, 251 QUARTER TO THREE. The Tea Market is very firm to-day, although of course some doubt must prevail as to the news the Overland Mail expected this week will bring to us from China. Prices are even rather on the advance at present, and the public sale this morning went off briskly at id. per lb. rise on Congous. LLOYD'SSHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, JAN. 3.—Wind this day at noon N.W. DEAL, ,JAN. 2.—Wind E.—Arrd. Berkshire, Norris, Bombay. Arrd. from the River, Thomas Coutts, for Singapore; Flora, Jamaica; Larne (steamer), Barbadoes. Sld. Narwhal, South Seas; Monarek, Messina. BA.MiDATE, JAN. I.—The Commodore, Camfibell, was hauled into the dry dock much strained, and must repair. GLOUCESTER, JAN. 2.—Arrd. Bolivar, Taylor, St. John's, New Brunswick. NEWPORT, JAN. I.—Sld. Menapea and Maria Theresa, Adra. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 2.—Wind S.E.—Sld. Elva, Ma dras ; her Majesty's ship Hazard, China ; Alma, Ba tavia. Arrd. off; Herald, Amsterdam for Baltimore. The Ontl.rio, from Newcastle to Alexandria, reported 19th ult. leaky, is coming into harbour to repair. COWES, JAN. 2.—Sld. James M‘Queen, St. Kitt's. OFF SALCOMBE, JAN. I.—Fame, Omer, Newfound land ; Diamond, Foulon, Montreal. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 2.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrd. Anna Ma ria Cornelia, Tiers, Bahia. Sid. Ceres and Louise, New York; her Majesty's ships Volage and Serpent, westward. FALMOUTH, DEC. 31.—Wind variable and light.— JAN. 1. Wind S.—Arrd. Tagus steamer, Gibraltar, left 23d ult., Cadiz 24th, Lisbon 27th, Oporto 28th, and Vigo 29th; Grace Darling, Taskar, Odessa; Thames steamer, London for West Indies; Tay steamer, Southampton, do. WARKWORTH, DEC. 31.—The Iron, of and for Ar broath, got on Bondicar rocks:yesterday morning, bilged, and sank on the flood; greater part of materials saved. OFF HASTINGS, JAN. I.—Arrd. Amorzana and Eu ropa, Rotterdam, for Batavia. SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. I.—Sld. Oriental st., Alexandria. JERSEY, DEC. 29.—Sld. Hebe, Rio. LIVERPOOL, JAN. I.—Wind S.S.E. light-2, W.— Arrd. Corinthian, Casely, Laguna, sailed Nov. 19; Hope. Saule, Berwick; Harding and Memphis, King, New Orleans;, China, Quebec; Hampshire, Ditto. Slci. Brad shaw, Charleston; Hesperus, Mary, of Maldon, and Cur rency, Calcutta; Ann Mary, Bombay; Superior, Deme rara; Mary Ellen, Barbadoes; Julia, Hayti; Robt. Kerr and Adelaide, Mobile ; Eliza, Keith, New Orleans; Prompt and China, Charleston; Creamore, Newfound land; Goshawk, Cap e; North Pole, Africa; Sarah Maria, Buenos Ayres ; Lima, Bahia ; Sheffield, New York; Neris, Azores. DARTMOUTH, JAN. 2.—Sld. Caledonia, st., Corunna. SLIGO, DEC. 31.—The Duchess of Gloucester, New man, bound to Liverpool, which fell over at the NeW Quay, 18th inst. has been hauled over on the Graving Bank, and the necessary repairs completed. She has re shipping her cargo. OFF CORK, DEC. 30.—General Palmer transport, from Halifax ; Lady Mary, Richebucto. CLYDE, DEC. 31.—Arrd. Kent, M`Caver, from Riche bucto ; James Deans, Quebec. BERWICK, DEC. 31.—The Commerce, Crew, from London, having struck on the Boomersteel, and carried away keel and stern, has been put on the slip. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY). CORN EXCHANGE. Last week's arivals of Wheat were moderate, of Bar ley good, and of Oats very large. The fresh supply of Wheat was middling,, of Barley and Oats again good. Wheat sold slowly at last quotations. Barley dull, and ordinary cheaper. Beans and Peas unvaried. Oats ex tremely heavy in sale, and is. per quarter lower. In the Flour trade little demand. 4 RRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WEEK. Wheat. I Harley. • oats. 1 Flour English Irish - -- 40,436 - Foreign - 1,657 4,789 or!' • FiLICZtt OR BOARD OF SPIT . Wheat. Red (old) - s. -s. Beans, Small (new) 38, 40s. -... White (old) --s.-s. --- (old) ...... .. 42 - 465. ..---- Red(1841) 521. ('ss.- - Tick (new) 25 30s, Fine 565. 635. --- (old) 311...41's Superfine 66s 671. --- Harrow (new) 325. 34s ..---- White (1841) ....Ms. 5Ss. --- Fins COL 6.2. Brank -a.--s. Superfine - 08. 755. Oats, Feed -s ...g -..-Foreign free 561. 766. -- New 161.218 Dade 351. 40s - Poland --s s Sarley . 265. 326 - -----New 201.25 a . ----. Grinding ' , Ss. 30s, -- Potatoe . Malting 531. 365. ---- N ew , 241.27,. Malt 5614 60s, - Scotch 0 66.289. .--- Fine New 625. 645. --- Irish 15s. ... 18s. 22e. •--- Maple New SO,, 05s. Pease, Grey, New ..... Xs. 355. Flour Town (per sack).... Us. 625. -- Seconds 1 2i.545. -- White .345. 361. I - North Country.... 50s. ... -- Hollers 365. 386, Bran ls. , es. SMITHFIELD. The supply of cattle and calves was moderate, of Sheep short, and of Pigs very fair. The demand good for every deseriprion, at the prices quoted.-Beasts, 2,423 ; Sheep, 22,150 ; Pigs, 482 ; Calves, 194. Beef, 3s. 4d. to 4s. Bd. ; Mutton, 4s. to 4s. 10d. ; Veal. 4s. 4d. to ss. 4d. ; Pork, 4s. 4d. to ss. 4d. COLONIAL MARKET. The markets looked healthy, and the demand for mos articles has improved. The imports were to a fair extent TEA MARKET. The Market for Free Trade Tea presented a firm aspect, and common Congou, cash, was not to be had under Is. 911 TALLOW MARKET. A good demand exists for Russian Tallow, and prices firm at 48s. 6d. to 48s. 9d. on the spot. PROVISION MARKET. Butter in good request and prices firm ; Fine Dutch, 1145., and Irish 100 s. to 103 s. Bacon sold freely at 51s. to 565. Lord dull of sale at 735. to 755. per cwt. Hams met with a fair sale. HOP MARKET. A fair demand for Hops, and prices firm ; the supply moderate. THE GREAT WESTERN STEAM-SKIP.--This splendid vessel is now in Cumberland Basin ; she was brought up the river from her moorings at Broad Pill on Wednesday morning last, and passed through the lock at about seven o'clock. The bridge as usual had ,to be pre viously removed, as well as the ship's paddle-wheels.-.!--' Bristol Mercury EVENiNG SUN COURT CIRCULAR. W1:4030R, SUNDAY.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert,. the Duchess of Kent, the whole of the Royal Suite. and Noble Visitors, and the Household, attended Divine Service, this morning in the private Chapel of the. Castle. The Venerable Archdeacon Wilberforce officiated, end preached a m os t e l oquent S ermon f rom the 19th verse 0, , the 2d chapter of the Gospel according to St. Luker" " But Mary kept all these things and pondered them to her heart." This afternoon the Yen. Archdeacon Lord Charle s Wellesley, Hon. C. A. Murray, and some of the Ladies of the Suite attended Divine Service at the Chapel Royal , St. George's. One of Dr. Green's fine old anthems was performed by Messrs. Turner, Smith, Mitchell, Oa French, in an excellent manner. Yesterday morning her Majesty and Prince Albert walked on the Terrace and in the New Grounds of the Home Park, afterwards his Royal Highness went to Norfolk Farm, pheasant shooting, attended by Viscoun t Sydney and Colonel Bouverie. Lord Charles Wellesley (Clerk Marshal) has sue' ceeded Colonel Arbuthnot as the Equerry in Waiting °r l the Queen, and Colonel Bouverie has succeeded Major' General Sir Edward Bowater as the Equerry in Waiung on Prince Albert. The Queen honoured Mr. Partridge with a sitting ye s " terday for a portrait he is painting, by her Majesty command. The venerable Archdeacon Wilberforce and Viscount Melbourne arrived on a visit yesterday. Major-General and the Lady Isabella Wemyss, George E. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, and Mrs. Colonel Bouverie, had the honour of joining the Royal Dinner Circle last evening. Their Serene Highnesses Prince Ernest of Hesse Phi' lippsthal and Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday 0 Gloucester-house. Count St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador, visited the Earl of Aberdeen on Saturday, at the Foreign-offiCe' Mr. Studholme Brownri gg h a d an i nterv i ew w i t h L ol l Stanley on Saturday at the Colonial-office. Despatches for Sir Charles Metcalfe, Governor of Jamaica, and for the Governors of the other "West Indic Colonies, were sent off on Saturday evening from the Colonial-office. DISTRESS AT CARLISLE. It appears that the Committee appointed at the publl o meeting on Tuesday week, at once set themselves to works in a business-like manner, and on Tuesday last presented to the adjourned meeting a Report which, in its detail* presents a picture of misery such as the most callous cannot look upoh but with feelings of horror and dismay. 0 shows that the fourth of our population is living in a state, bordering on abs o l u t e s t arva ti on ! .4 The number 01 families," say the Committee in their Report, with' out any means of subsistence beyond a dependence oil casual charity, was found to be 309, and the indivi• duals belonging to these families to amount to 1,146 , , The cases most deserving of s p ec i a l a tt ent i on are , 0' course, those where, notwithstanding the endeavour 0 , obtain an i n d e p en d ent su b s i stence, t h e amount 9 ' earnings is far below what is requisite to procure the barest necessaries. Exclusive of those who have no sib's , resources, the number of persons whose weeldi means of maintenance do not exceed one shilling_ per head, is 1,465; of those wh o h ave more t h an one shilling, but not above eighteen-pence per head, the number -1 S 1,623 ; above eighteen-pence, but not more than two shillings, 692 ; more than two shillings, but below three shillings, 635." Thus we have 5,561 individuals, in a population of 22,000, reduced to such a state of suffering, that O . mediate relief has become necessary to save them from actual famine This is not a statement got 14 1 to serve any party p ur p ose . Th e d eta il s have 0, bean furnishod by an y " Anti-Corn-law League" - f ° ,' the purpose of bearing out th e i r assert i ons o f g enery distress. They have been obtained by a Committe e , composed of men of all parties, and including in thei r number most of the reside n t c l erg y o f t h e Ch urc h 0( England, from a minute personal inspection ; and their correctness have been vouched f or by M r . H ea d an, Major Wilde, both gen tl emen w h o t hi n k t h e .pse sen,', Corn-law " the best that human wisdom can devise. And all this misery, too, is being suffered in a tow situate within an hour's ride of those broad acres be' longing to Sir James Graham, for which he is at this moment seeking an increased rental of some twenty thirty per cent., and whi c h, accor di ng to hieg l _ A flourish of last year, sho u ld now be diffusing unalloye d blessings to all around !—Carlisle Journal. DEATH OF MR. HOWARD.—We are soli; to announce the sudden death, by apoplexy, of the pope ° lar and distinguished writ er , M r . Ed war d Howard, 0,1 author of "Rattlin the Reefer," " The Old Commodore!, "Outward Bound," "J ac k A s h ore, " the " Life of S' Sydney Smith," and many other works of distinguish merit. Mr. Howard w as one o f our most prolific en., successful contributors to our hi g h er b ranc h es of per'. odical literature. In his temper he was cheerful ; in 1 1 habits, temperate ; and in his domestic life, mild ' 11 ° A , affectionate. As a husband an d a f at h er he was tneT beloved ; he was esteemed as a frie n d • and much mired in society, of which, howe ver , he had latterly been deprived by his total deafness. In convivial associati° he had always displayed fancy, wit, humour, and urban but latterly his absolute deafnesi prevented any communication. fr if FATAL ACCIDENT .ON TH E RIVER.—... T morning, about half-past six o'clock, the following 47; lancholy catastrophe occurred On the River, with short distance this side of Limehouse reach. It apPe• that four persons of the names of Walter Mitchell, .1 0 1: 0 . Johnson, Ed war d T urner, an d J osep h Crouch, al l carpenters in th e emp l oy o f Mr. Robert Dovastey, 't) Cannon-street, St. George's, :were returning to the ir employment from Deptford, where they had be el . 2 to celebrate the mar r i age o f one:of their fellow-worktee° , while proceeding up the ri ver by some accident the' boat came in collision Nith a sailing vessel which ivg ° coming down. The concussion caused by the collision was so great as to captise their boat, and all four wet./ precipitated into the water. Aft er some t i me Mi tc hell and Turner 'were rescued, and taken on board the sailie% vessel, but unfortunately both Johnson and Crow were drowned. .ANOTHER FATAL ACCIDENT WITH Fl os ABMs.--On Monday last, as Mr. Thomai Whitford, the son of Mr. Whi t f or d , attorney, of St. Columb, amusing himself with some other lads on a shooting °P; cursion, abo u t a m il e f rom the town, on getting ever d . IV'" - hedge the gun acc id enta ll y went off , and literally 1 ) 19 ,, - 1 his head to atom s . Th e unfortunate young man about seventeen years of age.— West Briton. CHEAP RIDE BY RAILWAY.—I n the far e s of the Manchester and Sh e ffi e ld R a il way t h ere is t"; curious feature of a penny fare from Newton to Godle.q about a mile and a h a lf. Ab out 2 0 1 . was rece i ve d at this charge on the first day the railway was opened. „ ALWAYS " POORLY."—" I feel quite unwel and will take a littl e b ran dy an d water, " sa i d a membe r of a Temperance So c i e ty, w h o h a d prom i sed to use ardent spirits, except as me di c i ne . "I am very un we my dear ; a little more brandy." Here is the brand says the wife ; " an d I w i s h t h e soc i ety further off, you have not had a well day since you joined it." A DETERMINED SUICIDE AT BRIDPoRT.—• I most determined act of su i c id e wa s comm i tte d at 1114`" port on Christmas-day. A man, named Welch, dis; s vered his wife suspended by th e nec k t o th e bed-post,lo the morning, from whi c h s it ua ti on h e re l ease d her. v 0 shortly after left her, leaving orders with hi s c hildren not to quit their mother ; but she no sooner found he i c, self freed from his presence, th an s h e sent out the ch,_ dren, and, upon her husband's r e t urn, h e discovered Pe f in her bedroom quite dead, he r th roat b e i ng cut from eft to ear. The instrument used was a common table-WI: The poor woman had been in a desponding state for sow time.— Western 7'imes. l AN INGENIOUS DEVICE.—Thomas -ange was on Wednesday last charged at the LiverP° o police-office by a recruiting sergeant with having tised a singular imposition. It appeared that the PT' soner was extremely anxious to enter the servl of the East India Comp an y ; b ut b e i ng one.eigh,ta of an inch under the s t an d ar d h e i ght lie fixed to crown of his head a ball of wax covered with Having by this means elongated himself to the requ''„ dimensions, he w as passe d on Friday week h being ordered to attend again on Sunday, the l i"; genious device was detected. Mr. Rushton sal is knew of no law whi c h con d emne d a man top 'I t he meat For such an act as that committed Y.,. prisoner ; and he said th a t h e t h oug h t the East India Company were not so very pre c i se as to h e i g h t as i n VI Majesty's service. The s ergean t, h owever, said Os' they were equally strict, and that the standard height s were the same in both services—five feet six inches. A: the request of th e sergeant t h e pr i soner was cautioned to repeat the offence, and was discharged. INTEMPERANCE.— o f Ghattony is th e sour ce - all our infirmities, and the fountain of all our diseases' Asa lamp is choked by superabundance of oil, a 6 1 extinguished by excess o f f ue l , so i s the natural heat ° the body destroyed by intemperate diet. GENERAL PosT-orFrcx.---The following nee Lice was issued by the Post-office authorities on tl!! New-year's morning :—" Post-office, January 1, 1 84$ ' —Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, Gibraltar, Mediterrr nean, and East Indies.—The next mail for India vi a Marseilles, will be made up her e th e 4th i ns t . (t o -1 101 : row). The next mails for Malta, Gre ece , an d th e lonia: Islands, via Falmouth, will be despatched hence °'; the 15th instant, and for E g ypt an d I n di a on the 31,9„ instant. Madeira, Bra z il, an d B uenos Ayres:---TP- Pigeon, for the mails of the 4th inst. (to-morrow ) ' America.—The Britannia, for the mails of the 3cl ins ( ' (this day.) Ship letters from Rio de Janeiro and pore, by the Black Nymph, Hall arrived at Margate. On Thursday the Dundee Warder, a Now'' . trusion Paper (understood to be conducted by clergy". men), was exp e ll e d f rom th e A r b roat h Reading-room 11 a majority of 30 to 5, in consequence of the abusive an scurrilous part which it took in the case of George ref' whom the Minister of Barry excommunicated for having -! buried his child on a Sunday.—Fifeshire JoernaL • 1 A WOMAN, NINETY -.THREE YEARS 07 AG ffl ' s BURNT TO DEATH.—Mr. Baker held an inquest 0 ° Saturday last, at the Middlesex Hospital, on the boat of Ann White, aged 93, of No. 74, Belton-street, Long' acre. Samuel Guthridge, on e o f the ledgers, said that on Monday night last lie heard th e d ece ased, who Jive d in the room below his, give an a l arm o f " fi re, " an d en ' the deceased for help. He instantly ran d own sta i rs, an d saw 1,1 deceased in flames. A man helped him to extinguish the fire by wrapping a cloak aroun d h er, an d su b seque ntly in taking her to the hospital. Witness had since cs.cer tained that deceased was searching in a box for soon sugar, when the candle which she held fell against, 1 0 ° set tire to her cap. She:died of the injuries the fcil°w ng day. Verdict, " Accidental Death." The General. Steam Navigation - Compaq vessel the Columbine, W. Norwood 'from Rotterdam, ar rived offthe Custom-house yesterday with the Dutch Mau• I rot l'r h el the tobe Goy it in out t ever fends the c days last vern Its and Prom thisl to be Patti the has 1 coral