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EVENING SUN means of judging, and deems it therefore unnecessary to either admit or deny it. - The question is not whether the power asserted might be necessary or expedient, but whether any such rower exists. It is incumbent then upon her Majesty's Government to shpw upon what principles of justice and right it claims the power of deciding upon the right of an independent nation to npvi gate the ocean in time of peace ; and this, too, for the purpose of executing treaties to which such nation is not a party, and consequently not bound. The signal error of Lord Palmer ston is in assuming the necessity and expediency of the power as proof of its existence. Was such a power ever before as serted in the manner or tithe extent which is now done? On the contrary, has not the right of visitation and search been always regarded as exclusively one of a belligerent character? In proof of this, the undersigned need only refer Lord Aber deen to the authority of Great Britain herself on the subject. " I can find no authority," says the late Sir William Scott, " that gives the right of interruption to the navigation of States upon the high seas, except that which the right of war gives to belligerents against neutrals. No nation can exercise a right of visitation and search upon the common and unap propriated parts of the ocean, except upon the belligerent el tim." And again :—" No nation has the right to force the way for the liberation of Africa by trampling upon the inde pendence of other States on the pretence of an eminent good by means that are unlawful, or to press forward to a great prin ciple by breaking through other great principles which stand in their way." Now, of all the principles ever attempted to be established in the past history of the dominion of the sea, few probably could be selected of more offensive and objectionable cha racter than those asserted in Lord Palyerston's note. In deed, it is difficult to be beleved that his Lordship, or her Ma jesty's Government, could seriously expect that any indepeu dent nation could for a moment acquiesce in doctrines involving the extravagant supposition of yielding to another the right of determining upon the terms and conditions upon which it should navigate the ocean in a time of general and profound peace. Such a power once submitted to and there would be no species of national degradation to which it might not lead. 't hat such would be the consequence the under signed feels himself at liberty to suppose. But if it were ad mitted, for the purpose of illustration, that such a right was even doubtful, still the United States, as well as other com mercial nations, would be bound to demand its discontinu ance, if attempted to be exercised in the manner indicated in Lord Palmerston's note. Under what restrictions and limita tions could such a power be enforced? What competent tri bimal would there be to determine upon the degree of sus- picion which is to justify the boarding and detention, and the right of determining the national character of all vessels under the flag of the United States? Would it not make every sub ordinate commander of a British cruiser the exclusive judge, and not only lead to angry and exciting irritations upon the ocean, but to painfal discussions between the two Govern ments? What security would American merchantmen have against decis.ons made without evidence, or where all the rules of evidence might be violated with impunity? Would it not, from its very nature, be a power the exercise of which, in whatever form it might be guarded, could admit of no just limitation ? _ _ . The answer to these questions will best show how incon sistent with the peace of Great Britain and the rights of other States the exercise of any such power would be attended. lint it is unnecessary to press this view of the subject further upon Lord Aberdeen's attention. The objection is one of principle and not of expediency, and is, therefore, wholly incapable of being overcome by the manner or discretion with which the power might be exercised, or the limitations thrown around it However softened in terms, or restricted, it must still be regarded as imposing restrietions upon the lawful commerce of neutral nations, and an innovation upon the liberty of the seas; a power which no independent State could ever submit to without surrendering its independence and sovereignty, and disregarding the high obligations of duty which it owes to itself and the other nations of the world. Nor is there any force in the view alleged by Lord Palmer. stole, and upon which great reliance is placed, that the flag of the Union is grossly abused by other nations as a rover to their ,slave traffic. To what extent the flag of the United States may have bee. used for this purpose the under signed and his Government have no means of judging. That it has been grossly abused, however, there is too much reason to believe and deplore ; but whatever this abuse may have have been, it can have no just influence either to strengthen or weaken the right asserted by her Majesty's Government. jp rela ion to the conduct of other nations, who seek to cover their infamous traffic by the fraudulent use of the American the Government of the United States cannot be respon sib7e. It has taken the steps which it deemed best to protect its flag as well as its character, from abuse, and will follow it up by such other measures as may appear to be called for. The Government of the United States are not insensible to the force of the considerations which belong to the subject of the ,frican slaveetrade, nor have they failed to manifest their sensibility to whatever concerns its abolition. Nothing is farther flem the w ish of the American Government than a de sire to increase the difficulties, or throw obstacles in the way of th e execution of the existing treaties for its final extinction. This the undersigned has, upon more than one occasion, had 'he honour of a ssuring her Majesty's Government, and takes leave now to repo at to Lord Aberdeen. Anxious, however, as the Government of the United States are to promote the views of her Majesty's Government on this subject, it cannot consent to do so by sacrificing the rights of its citizens or the honour of its flag. Her Majesty's Government cannot be insensible of the im pertance and value of guarding the rights of neutrality from very species of violation. This duty belongs especially to great and powerful nations, such as Great Britain and the United States, not only as the best means of preserving peace, hut giving security to weaker communities, under the shadow of impartial justice. Among neutral nations there is probably cot one more deeply interested than the United States. Their Attitude is that of a neutral and peaceful Power. The con sistent and persevering policy of their Government has been displayed in defence of the rights of neutrality and the liberty of the seas. Desirous to manifest cordial good-will to allnations, arid maintain with each not only relations of the most perfect amity, but those of a commercial character, upon the basis of a fair, equal, and just reciprocity, the United States will con tinue to give to their system of policy a sincere and steady adherence. Upon this basis, the relations between Great Britain and the United States, as well as all other nations, can alone be expected to continue. The undersigned, therefore, is happy to see in these relations, as well as the justice of her Majesty's GOvernment and the firmness of his own, the best reaeen to expect not only au abandonment of the power which is now asserted, with the whole system of vexatious interrup tion and surveillance to which the vessels and commerce of the United States have been subjected, but the future relations of the two' countries placed upon the solid foundation of mutual interest and comity, and a more enlarged and liberal policy. These are the views which the undersigned has deemed it hie:duty to submit to Lord Aberdeen's consideration, upon the doctrinei contained in Lord Palmerston's note, of a character so new and alarming to national sovereignty and sensibility, and the friendly relations of the two countries. He has pre sented them with the frankness and earnestness which their im portance merited, and with the high respect due to her Ma jesty's Government. He has, therefore, no other duty now to perform than to transmit copies of Lord Palmerston's commu nications to his Government, and to protest, in the most solemn manner, against their doctrines, as alike inconsistent with the principles of public law, with the rights and sovereignty of the United States, and with that sense of justice and right which belongs it) the British nation. The undersigned prays Lord Aberdeen to accept assurances of his high consideration and respect. A. STEVENSON. To the Right Hon. the Earl of Aberdeen. (To be continued.) LOVE AND MURDER. (FRO)I A CORRESPONDENT.) MANSFIELD. DEC. 31.—The present season seems to be peculiarly rife with crime of an appalling cast, for scarcely a day passes without the report of some addi tional horror. On Friday night last the quiet town of Mansfield, in Nottinghamshire, became the scene of a domestic tragedy of a shocking character. A young man, called Samuel Moore, which, however, is said not to be his real name, who was paying his addresses to a girl named Mary Hallam, in a frenzy of jealousy, cut her throat in a dreadful manner, and she immediately died of the wounds. The man is about 23 years of age, and is a shoemaker by trade, being a good workman at his craft, and the girl was 19, and a dressmaker. Moore is not a native of Mansfield, but has lived there about three years, working for a respectable shoemaker, and having lodg ings in the tow n. On the evening of Friday he made an appointment with the girl to meet him at eight o'clock. They met, and he induced her to accompany him to the shop in which he worked, a small tenement he rented for the purpose near his lodgings, lie conversed with her on the subject of other young men following her, expressing his wishes that she would give them up and devote herself to him. She, however, said she would ,not, and becoming excited, he committed the dreadful nit which cost the life of the girl, and sacrificed his own to the offended laws. Ile afterwards went to bed at his lodgings ; but thu unhappy parents of the girl, after long, search on missing her, having found her body, he was arrested, and he then made a full confession of his The body awaits the Coroner's inquest, which is to be held this day (Saturday). Moore is a young man of steady habits, and respect :4l)lg character; and the girl was good-looking, and also respectable. The readers of this paper, who may be afflicted with Rheumatism or Gout, will tind important informa tion relative to its cure, by perusing Bell's Life in Lon lon. published Jan. 2, 1842. THE ROYAL EXCHANGE.—The amphitheatre or pavillion, to be erected on the occasion of laying the first stone of the new Royal Exchange by Prince Albert, and de&Tibetl in the Times of Thursday, will be nearly 300 feet in circumference, 62 feet high in the centre, and contain seats for 1,200 visitors. These seats will rise trom a platform 40 feet in diameter, of a circular form, fo increase by ten concentric rows of sittings to the dia meter of 100 feet. This enormous space will be roofed with canvass, lined with scarl e t an d wh i te drapery, so as to have the appearance of a beautiful round tent of vast dimensions, supported by a pillar in the centre, and we understand Mr. BenjaminEdgingto n , of N 0.2, Duke street, Southwark , is now p re p arin g i t. Under his suprintendence, with his well-known exp er i ence and capabilities, there is every guar antee for i ts being securely done, and erected in the very first style. Ihe New York Morning Herald contains an account of another American vessel having been boarded and overhauled by a British craizer at Galenas. A ves sel c a lled the William had arrived at the above port, when she was boarded by her Majesty's brig Dolphin, and permittod to go at liberty again. The same paper contains an extract from a letter dated Havanna!), which says---" A serious affair has just commenced in the neighourhooti of Matanzas. It appears that the English Conant went a few days since to a plantation situated near that town and attempted to obtain the emancipation of all the slaves belonging to a planter who had arrived from Jamaica. Ills seditious cuunaels might have occa aione:l a general revolt among the coloured population of that place. As . soon as the c o mm a nd e r o f Matanzas obtah: in bo,rniaon of this occurrence he arrested the Consul, and sent him back here escorted by soldiers un der .the order of the Government. 'We do not know what will be the result of this atl'air." RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN FRANCE.—The Journal de l Eure, of the 24th instant, states, that in conFAttence of u bank of earth havinc , given way at Tourville, where the engineers of the Faris and Rouen Railroad were constructing a tunnel, five labourers were cut off from all communication with the exterior. In order to extricate them, it was found necessary to dig through a bank of bard gravel to the depth of thirty feet. In less than fourteen hours this operation was completed ; and, thanks to the coolness and intrepidity displayed by Mr. Jones, the English engineer, the five men wei c saved. MR. LAING'S NEW WORK. This day is published, in 1 vol. Bvo., price 16s: cloth lettered, NOTES of a TRVELLER on the SOCIAL and POLITICAL STATE of FRANCE, PRUSSIA, SWITZERLAND, ITALY, and other Parts of Europe, during the present Century. By SAMUEL LAING, Esq. Author of " A Journal of a Three Years' Re sidence is Norway," and of " A Tour in Sweden." London Longman, Brown, and Co. ais EMPEROR of MAJESTY the AUSTRIA, His MAJESTY the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, His MAJESTY the KING of PRUSSIA, having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtain 'ng LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH and at LUBECK, Are now SELLING ORIGINAL BONDS for the saidDlS ritißurlONS. Persons desirous to purchase for the Next Distributions Inv re:eive. PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PRO SPECTUS 'and PARTICULARS, upon addressing a line to HEINE BROTHERS. The NEXT AUSTRIAN DISTRIBUTION contains DI VIDENDS of £25,000 £6OO £llO £7O 5,000 400 100 60 1,500 200 9() 50 1,000 150 80 Sterling. 800 120 HEINE BROTHERS having remitted during a short time 25,0001., 18,000/., 9,000/, 5,0001., 3,600/., &c. &c. lee., to Londoa ; 3,600/., 800/., and 7001., to Edinburgh ; 3,6001. to Dublin; 3,6001. to Beverley; 3,600/. to Halifax (Yorkshire); 1,200/. to Portleaven Harbour; 9001., 700/. and 600/. to Li verpool; 900/. to Newcastle-upon-Tyne; 900/. to Hull; 9001. and 600/. to Manchester ; 700/. to East Retford (Not tinghamshire); 600/. to Bideford ; 6001. to Cork ; 600/. to Bradford ; they shall feel glad to remit many Dividends of the next Distribution to England, Ireland, and Scotland. Direct for Prospectus and Particulars, it ithout delay, either to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, or to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, JAN. 1, When Her Majesty's Servants will perform the Comedy of EVERY ONE HAS HIS FAULT.--Lord Norland, Mr. Phelps ; Harmony, Mr. Macready ; Mr. Placid, Mr. Keeley ; Edward, Miss Vining ; Lady Eleanor Mrs. Warner ; Mrs. Placid, Mrs. Keeley. After which will be repeated the New Christmas Pantomime, caged HARLEQUIN AND DUKE HUMPHREY'S DIN NER ; OR, JACK CADE, THE LORD OF LONDON STONE. Doors to be opened at Half. past Six, and the Performance to begin at Seven o'clock. Boxes 55., Second Price, 2s. 6d. Pit 35., Second Price 2.5. Lower Gallery Is. 6d., Second Price Is. Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, JAN. I, Will be repeated Bellini's Opera of NORMA.—Pollio, Mr. W. Harrison ; Marius, Mr. Clement White, Oroveso, 11r. Leffler ; Adalgisa, Miss Rainforth ; Clotilda, Miss Grant ; and Norma by Miss Adelaide Kemble. After which will be repeated the New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled GUY EARL OF WARWICK ; OR, HARLEQUIN AND THE DUN COW. Doors to he opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. 2,.; Gallery, J. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Alr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had open application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, I ri7 . New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. The most extensive Christmas Novelties ever produced. All the talent of London. Grandeur and expence unequalled. All New. THIS EVENING, JAN. 1 Will be acted a New Domestic Drama, entitled MADAME LAFFARGE, from Memoirs written by Herself. To conclude with a Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE ICE QUEEN; OR, JACK FROST AND KING SHAM.—With gorgeous and charac teristic Scenery, splendid Properties, ludicrous and Quaint Dresses, ingenious Tricks, magnificent Panorama by Brun ning, &c. Harlequin, M. Huline ; Patch, M. Rochet ; Pan taloon, M. Lehman ; Flip, Signor Feliz Carlo ; Clown, Mr. Buckingham ; Columbine, Miss Sharpe. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSRALDISTON. Splendour—Novelty—Attraction and Interest ! Undoubted ! Unequalled ! Unprecedented ; THIS EVENING, JAN. 1. Will be acted, SUSAN HOPLEY ; or, THE TRIALS AND VICISSITUDES OF A SERVANT GlRL.—Wil liam Dean, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Dicky Dean, Mr. Paul , Susan Hopley, Miss Vincent (tke acknowledged Heroine of Domestic Traledy). Kfte; which, ROBERT MACAIRE.—Robert Macaire, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Jacques Strop, Mr. Gardner. To conclude with a New Grand Romantic Aerial Comic Pan tomime, entitled HARLEQUIN PETER WILKINS ; OR, THE KING OF THE AIR AND THE FLYING IN DIANS.—With new and extensive Scenery, Dresses, Decora tions, Tricks, Transformations, and Effects—A new Nautical Panorama, to be entitled'' Our Native Sea-girt Isle !" con sisting of Maritime Views along the Coast of England. Also, a new Grand Dissolving Diorama, by Childe, the Great Illu sionist ; and the Opening of the Pantomime supported by the Comic Talent of this—the Popular Theatre of London. Boxes, 2s.—Pit, 18.—thtltery, 6d.—Half-price to theßoxes only, at Half-past Eight. THE RAILWAY SUN IS NOW RE-PUBLISHING, PRICE SIXPENCE. THE CHINA SUN, AND TIIE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Jan. 1, 1842. 4 4tt ..Ant. LONDON: SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1842. That the Ministry have resolved to send Lord ASHBURTON, taking him from the Exchequer Bill Commission, to which he has just been ap pointed, on a special mission to the United States, indicates a critical, not to say an alarm ing, state of our diplomatic relations with that country. The publication of the Correspond ence between the American Minister and the Secretary of State for Foreign Af fairs, on the RIGHT OF SEARCH, comes unhappily to confirm the worst apprehensions which Lord ASHBURTON'S appointment excites. We pointed out, when we adverted to the Ame rican PRESIDENT'S Message, the danger which threatened us on this question, and the com plaints of the Americans of the manner in which the right is exercised by our ship Captains, men for the most part accustomed to adminis ter to their own people an odious tyranny, confirms our remarks, and tends to justify the Americans in refusing to submit their vessels to the rude visitation of such arbitrary police officers. The dispute between the two coun tries on this question has now assumed a very formidable and unfavourable appearance; and, consequently, the character and fitness of the Noble Negotiator for the delicate and im portant task he has undertaken, has become a public matter of very considerable interest. Lord ASHBURTON, let it be remembered, was Mr. ALEXANDER BARING, a great merchant for the best part of his life ; for many years a Mem ber of the House of Commons ; created a Peer by the Tories, a few years ago, after professing Whig principles through the greater part of his career; and at present remarkable, for an old man, for a somewhat senseless ambition, to be a great statesman as he has been a great mer chant. He seems stimulated by the success in this line of Mr. P. ThomsoN, and as he aspired to preside over the trade of the country in imi tation of that merchant, he now aspires to eclipse his glory in pacifying Canada by settling all dis putes between this country and the United States. The motives of the man, we arc afraid, are unworthy ; and the situation and abilities of the negotiator do not warrant the national confidence. The I/cm/d of this morning alludes to Mr. BARING having been an American merchant, and says " that his mercantile services have pro voked not the gratitude, but the animosity and ill-will. of the agrarian democrats of that stranere country." Mr. BARING, now Lord ASHBURTOX,WaS not only a merchant, he was also a loan-contractor; he was also an extensive proprietor of the United States Bank Stock, that is a partner; he, or his mercantile firm, was the agent of that swindling body, and long considered its chief European adviser and prop. At present the inhabit tats of the Union are suffering most dreadfully from bank and mercantile swindlers, and nearly the whole domestic policy, and most of the party feeling in that country turn on the honesty and on the credit really due to bankers, merchants,and money issuers. Now Lord ASHBUR TON, closely connected all his life with one of these parties as the representative here of such men as BIDDLE, must be, on this account, as the Herald says, unacceptable to the most numerous and in fluential portion of the Americans. Judging of Mr. TYLER'S opinions from the part he has acted, we must conclude that Lord Asu- BURTON, from his unfortunate connexion with what the Americans call the "Shin-plaster," or " shaving" interest, must be unacceptable even to the head of the Government. He is further connected with American parties by an alliance with an American lady, and must be, on these accounts, biassed, partial, and wholly unfit to represent this country at Washington. Lord ASIIBURTON is said to have retired from trade, but no person will believe that his connec tion with the house of BARING, BROTHERS, and Co., of which his, sons, we believe, and at any rate his relations, are the chief members, will not bias his judgment. Suppose that house should at this moment be involved in the loans for the different States, which are repudiated; suppose that it should be con cerned in cot ton speculations, and be smarting under a recent loss of 200,0001., caused, it may be asserted, by sonic act of the PRESIDENT, in refusing his expected, and some say, promised, assent to a banking scheme—will such a circum stance not be expected to influence the money sensitive mind of Lord ASHBURTON, a nd make him anything but an independent and impartial negotiator? A man, with the strongest mind, and of the most straightforward cha racter, placed in such a position, would ex cite unpleasant suspicions ; there would be a want of confidence in him ; he would be unfit for that particular negotiation and Lord ASH. BURTON is neither a strong-minded, nor a straight forward man. On every question not concerning his own pocket he sees it in such a variety of lights, that he never expresses any decided and clear opinion. He cannot, it is said, give a plain answer to a plain question without same limitations or qualifications. He never makes a speech in which he does not say almost as much against as for his own view. He always doubts, and balances, and argues every question as, if there were nothing positive and certain, nothing decidedly right or wrong. He splits hairs, refines, mystifies, and contradicts himself. In a negotiator frankness, or at least the appearance of frankness, sincerity, or its semblance, to win confidence, are essential ; and of frankness and sincerity, of all earnestness and directness of purpose, except to gather wealth, the_ mind of this ennobled merchant seems wholly destitute. All his propositions will be regarded with suspicion, and the object of sending him will most probably be defeated by the opinion that he has purposes ,of his own to serve. In what spirit can he be expected to conduct a negotiation ? In that of a merchant higgling for a bargain. That is the habit of the man's mind, it is natural and confirmed by long practice. To succeed with the Americans, the most unreserved openness and simplicity are requisite. Lord ASIIBURTON, we are afraid, will carry to the negotiation the habitual sharpness of a loan contractor. Through his whole political life, when he pleaded for free trade in the House of Commons as a merchant, and when he advo cates the Corn-laws in the House of Lords as a landlord, this man has made his political prin ciples subservient to his interests and his ambi- Lion, and is alike undeserving of the confidence of the Americans or the English. He is now one of the foremost advocates ofrestraints and restrictions on commerce, a matter in which the Americans are almost as deeply interested as in the right of search, and on this ground as well as on account of his political character, and his connection with the loan interest, he will be most unac ceptable to the Americans, and a most unfit re presentative of England at Washington. We cannot conclude this subject, to which we shall probably recur, without throwing out a suggestion which may possibly lead to a favour able result. The Americans profess a wish to put an end to the slave trade, but they wish, from' very substantial reasons, to preserve their flag from being visited by our men-of-war. Let the visitation or search then be made under their own authority. How ? Place an American officer, we say, on board every English man of-war employed to repress the slave-trade, and let every ship which shows American colours be examined and answered for by him? That would satisfy the honour of the Americans, pro tect the flag from insult, and their people from injury, and secure the end of suppressing the slave-trade by American vessels, so far as that can be secured by the employment of our men of-war. In casting a glance over the past year, with an endeavour to pry into the future, we shall direct attention to principle, rather than parti cular facts. We shall speak little of party inte rests, and much of those of the public. We shall consider men, not things; and the words " Whig" and " Tory," and the names " MEL BOURNE" and " PEEL," are to be considered more as signs for principles than the names of men. The change of the Ministry, the triumph of the Tories, and the defeat of the 'Whigs ; the substitution of PEEL for MELBOURNE, and of one set of men for another in all the offices of Government, is the great event of the past year. Happily for England, her Ministers are not changed so frequently as to make those changes unimportant; and, considered as a change, not only in men, but in the principles on which our affairs are to be conducted, after the Whigs had been ten years in office, we agree with the Tories in considering the change in the Admi nistration as the most remarkable domestic event of the year 1841. What does that inform us of the past ?—what does it indicate for the future? The Tories say, great honour and great hope for them. Conservatism has triumphed and will continue to triumph. We read the lesson some what differently. Lord MELBOURNE and his friends grew lukewarm in the Liberal cause — they became Finality-Conservatives, and natu rally, therefore, gave up their places to the heads of. the Conservative party. They could not go vern on Conservative principles; and Liberal principles—making progress with the age—they had discarded. Party and public necessities, in deed, made them concede sundry measures de manded by the Liberals, but they had gene rally adopted Sir R. PEEL'S policy ofstanding still, and of that principle his friends, not the Whigs, are the organs. The change of Ministry was in fact no triumph of Tory principles ; all the tri umph which they could achieve they had gained when the MELBOURNE party declared for finality, and declared emphatically against the total repeal of the Corn-laws: But after they had so declared, the necessities of the State compelled them, though still at the head of the Government, to make concessions to the popular demands. They became quasi Ballot men, and quasi Corn repealers. There upon the Conservatives took the Government from them, and they were forced to give up their newly embraced Conservatism. They became then re-converted to Liberalism, and will now probably march with the spirit of the age. The change of the Ministry was therefore much more an accession of strength to the Liberal cause than it was a triumph of Conservatism. To thoSe who still believe that the Government re gulates society, to get possession of the Ministry is all in all. To those who know that Gove rnment must submit to society, the fact that the Con servative Whig 3 have been obliged to adopt more advanced principles, and therefbre made way for the Tories, is evidently a triumph of those prin ciples. So we read the past—what for the future ? From no trick of statesmanship, but from sheer and stern necessity, the Whigs were obliged to take up the question of commercial reform, and the reduction of monopoly-taxes. That brought the question to issue, and will fix it on the public mind till it be finally settled. We te , AlL yh, .l* - 4;6 °4 '.: . 4,31 , 4 0 s • g•-• THl4] SUN i LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1842. have the authority of Mr. CHRISTOPHER for say ing that one point• has already been gained. The Corn-laws must undergo Parliamentary revision. The Tories yield, monopoly lowers her black death flag, and if Liberalism could triumph over Lord MELBOURNE and the Tories, when they were acting on the same principle and could force on such a concession, why should we not hope for its continued progress, now that it has detached the Whigs from Conservatives, and brought to a .Parliamentary and public issue, the great question which for four succes sive years the Conservatives have refused so to try ? If, as we affirm, the change of Ministry denoted a necessary accession to the Liberal cause in the past year, we see in its further progress to the beginning of the present year, no reason to dread its continual and great advancement. Of the final and even speedy success of the great principle of free trade, around which contending parties are drawn up in battle array, we have firm, and we trust well-founded hopes. Within a few days Europe has resounded with praise of the Five Great Powers for concluding a treaty to suppress the slave trade. That treaty may not put an end to the nefarious traffic, but it is invaluable as the general testimony of mankind against vio lence and wrong. The treaty is the homage of the constituted authorities of Europe, to the de clared opinii of the most enlightened of their subjects, whicii, however strange it may at first seem, like the discoveries in science of a NEWTON or a DAVY, is destined, like them, if tbunded on truth, to become the common creed of all man kind. That treaty, indicating the progress of the constituted authorities of Europe in rectitude in the past year, warrants the hope that the princi ples of robbery and violence, which they stigma tize by the treaty, will be speedily excluded from their Legislation. To subsist rather by violent plunder than by peaceful art is characteristic of savage life, and thatprinciple, though banished from our manners, is still, like many other ancient errors and crimes, embalmed in our laws. The age is most, honour ably distinguished by directing the bulk of its energies to the peaceful acquisition of wealth. Never before "were the talents and desires of mankind so wisely and incessantly employed in producing useful objects, and in improving those arts which contribute to the physical and moral well-being of the species, as now. That general ease and general comfort have not resulted from these untiring and skilful exertions, has not con vinced the people that in them there is some principle of illusion and mockery. They will not believe that the light which comes from heaven leads astray, and they accuse the errors and crimes which are embalmed to the law as the causes why these vast and well-directed energies have not produced their appropriate effects. Until we become aware of the present peaceful and industrious tendency of mankind, we cannot be sensible of half the mischief which has been inflicted on this generation by the Le gislature's pertinacious adherence to ancient and unfounded prejudices on the subject of commer cial intercourse between different nations. The defeat of the Whigs on a branch of this great subject, has brought, in the past year, the natural principles of trade and the political quackery of those who attempt to regulate it, face to face, and the next year will moat assuredly see an ap proximation to the complete victory which the former is destined to achieve. When we consider the vast energies of our in dustrious and peace-loving people all directed to the honest supply of their own wants; and when we know that a great abundance of good pork and beef can be brought from North and South America, and laid down in Manchester for 2d. per pound, we certainly feel bitter re gret and indignation at the immense sufferings which base legislation, and nothing but base legislation, has inflicted on them in the course of the past and preceding years. But now that principles are brought face to face, and there is a certainty of the ultimate triumph of the truth, which, like the heavens, is permanent, though it may be occasionally obscured by the mists and clouds of error, those vast and peaceful energies inspire us with the brightest hopes for the corn ing time. Who can tell at what low price, and in what rich abundance, food and clothing may be supplied to an ever-increasing population, by all the civilized people of the earth directing their exertions to the attainment of that bene• ficent end ? Nor will the lesson which the unmerited suffering inflicted during the last year on our industrious people by those whom they maintain in idleness and opulence has taught them, be thrown away. Undoubtedly the coming year will see them earnest and re solved to throw off the trammels of an ab surd and cruel commercial legislation which has perverted the admirable mechanical inventions of civilised man into curses. When that legislation which forms the only obstacle to boundless pros perity shall be swept away, the future, if not the next year, will see a greater diminution of poverty and crime than statesmen have ever hoped to accomplish by a severe poor-law and a cruel criminal code. Having said so much of the past and the fu ture as to the State, we would say something of the Church, but our limits compel us briefly to ob serve, that the great event of the past year is the schism amongst its own members. Gradually falling, as the endowed clergy have been, in the estimation of the public for years past, the dis putes amongst themselves must accelerate their downfal,, and procure an ascendancy for the Voluntary principle. In this schism both parties appeal to the people. One claims to have made a discovery by studying the Fathers, the other in sists that its. predecessors in the reign of ELIZA BETH and J AmEs, knew all that it was necessary to know, and it will not go beyond the Protest ant Articles. The dispute is kindling in the land a spirit of inquiry into the rival claims of both parties, which cannot fail to be productive of a rich harvest of knowledge that must stifle the dominion of the priesthood. If the close of the year 1841 sees the Govern ment in the hands of monopolists, it sees them receding from their principles, and overwhelmed by the enormous responsibility they have 'assumed. hit sees the Church still in existence, it sees it rent in twain, and ill able to resist the storm which is gathering against it. If it sees the people disunited and oppressed, it also sees them awake and roused to the fact, that the ex clusive cause of their misery is one-sided, unjust, iniquitous legislation. They are now thoroughly aware of this important truth, which is the certain precursor of their union and of their success in putting down that system which they justly affirm has been a dire curse to them. We publish in our columns of this day the first part of a long, and by no means lively, cor respondence between the Governments of Eng land and the United States, on the subject of the Right of Search of vess els on the coast of Africa suspected of being engaged in the Slave Trade. As this correspondence is en gaging a great deal of serious attention in the United States, and as it will form a subject of discussion in Congress, we deem it of sufficient importance to be sub mitted at length to the consideration of our readers. The sum and susbstance of the whole correspondence may, however, be summed up in a few words. The United States Govern ment refuses to allow vessels bearing the Amen. can flag to be searched, although suspected of being slavers, and the British Government, after a great deal of ineffectual struggling, is forced to abandon all attempts to detain vessels bearing the American flag. The consequence is obvious. Under shelter of the American flag the Slave Trade will again flourish to an extent un precedented in the recent history of that de. testable traffic. The Treaty of the Five Powers is, therefore, not worth the parchment upon which it is written. While any flag can cover and protect a traffic in slaves, nothing but the progress of African civilization can ever put it down. We find no news of importance in the Paris Journals of Thursday. The fiAlowing extracts from them include all the news they contain of any European interest:— The Moniteur of the 30th pu'ulishes in its official part a Royal Ordnance announcing variouslegal appointments. The following is the test of the proposal of M. Ducos: —" All citizens inserted in the departmental list of the jury are electors." • " All citizens are likewise electors who may not have been entered on this list, on account of the incompatibi lity resulting from Article 383 of the code of instruction criniinelle." The Journal of Upper Germany has a letter from Vienna, which says that the Duke of Bordeaux's leg, which has been set, is still a little shorter than the other. The Journal des Havre says—" We have been asto nished at not receiving for some time past any informa tion respecting the internal affairs of the Augustine Re public. Captain Bordieu, of the Jeune Raymond, which has just arrived from Monte Video, accounts for this silence, "We find in his report the following passage:—' As for the political affairs of Buenos Ayres, it is very difficult for me to give any particulars of them, because the Pre sident does not permit the slightest matter to be pub lished. As for the Unitarian, it is still in the same state of uneasiness.' " The Moniteur Algerien, of the 14th, says—" It is an nounced that a caravan of 400 mules, richly laden, has arrived at Constantine from Tunis, Without baying been molested ; complete security prevails in that province." —Constitutionnet A letter from Gex contains the following passage : " Such a quantity of snow fell at Gex on Monday and Tuesday, this week, that it was necessary to take pre caution to support the roofs cf the houses, two of which, however, sunk in. The snow was so heavy on the trees, that the branches brake ; and some of the trees them selves were broken, by the weight of this most extraor dinary fall of snow. We are informed that the damage is much greater than that done by the hurricane last summer."—Comnteree. The Siecle of yesterday had the following article : " M. Odilon Barrot has entered into a formal engage ment with his friends, to present, or support, after the first debates in the Chamber are over, a proposition for restoring to the press those guarantees which have been doubly compromised by certain provisions of the laws of September and the late unexpected application of the law of the 17th May, 1819." On this the Moniteur Pa ;lien observes—" The Siecle does not tell all it knows. It might have added that a Committee of Deputies, chosen from the most divergent fractions of the Opposition, has undertaken the examination of the reforms to be intro duced either into the September laws or into that of 1819. This Committee is composed of M. Berryer, from the Extreme Droite, Messrs. Mauguin and Dupont de l'Eure from the Extreme Gauche. M. Odilon Barrot from the Gauche Dynastique, and M. Billot from that fraction of the Centre Gauche which sustained the Cabinet of the Ist March. The Archbishop of Tours, M. de Monthlane, died in that city a few days ago. Two persons just arrested by order of the Court of Peers, were interrogated yesterday by Baron Pasquier. The Debats mentions the arrest of two persons yester day morning, and adds, that the examining commission of the Court of Peers met yesterday at the Petit Luxem bourg. "On Tuesday evening," says the Droit, "a German shoemaker, named Bauer, living in the Rue du Jour, Place St. Eustache, and several other men, were arrested under a warrant of the Ohm - Mellor. In Bauer's lodging there were found 300 political pamphlets, both in French and German, and a voluminous correspon dence, which have exposed numerous branches connected with the Secret Societies in France, of the Communists and others in Hesse, Baden, the Rhenish Provinces, and other parts of Germany. These new captures are all lodged in the Conciergerie."—We mentioned the arrest of the wife of Boucheron, a few days ago ; it was for robbery, it appears, not for a political offence. A letter from Erzerotun states that, when the British Legation was travelling towards Teheran, Messrs. Todd and Ablote, two of the Attaches, were attacked by the Kurds near Bajazid, and plundered. Mr. Todd was wounded in the hand. Billul Pacha, Governor of Baja zid, was said to be the secret chief of the predatory band by which this attack was made. The Russian Consul'at Teheran, attended by 100 Russians in grand costume, went out to meet Sir J. M'Neill. Just as the rencontre was about to take place, the Consul's horse became frightened, and run away with him, nor could the animal be stopped till after he had gone some dis tance. The Consul then returned to the cavalcade, but all covered with mud, to the no small amusement of the Persian dandies. A letter from Constantinople of the 2d inst., in the Presse, says, " Accounts have been received here, via Trebisonde, of a brilliant victory obtained by the Circas sians over the Russians. An expedition of about 30,000 men had landed on the coast, for the purpose of destroy ing the corn which had been got in by the Circassians, when a violent storm came on, drove the Russian vessels froni their anchorage, and dispersed them. The Circas sians, profiting by this circumstance, attacked the Rus sians, and compelled them to retreat, without provisions, into the mountains and defiles, where all but 2,000 of them were killed or made prisoners." This account of the Russian loss is probably an exaggeration. _ _ _ The erection of a second tower' to the Cathedral at Betz is going on with rapidity, and when finished will render this building one of the finest in France. The old fresco paintings on the inner walls, which have been covered with lime and plaster, are being restored. The churches of Notre Datne and Saint Martin, at Metz, are about to be embellished with stained-glass windows. The Chateau de Canna, one of the finest mansions in the department of the Landes, was entirely destroyed by fire a few days ago. " It was observed," says the Siec/e, " that among the 288 members present at yesterday's sitting of the Cham ber of Deputies, there were 95 Ministerial functionaries, and 13 functionaries belonging to the Opposition." The Council General of the Bank of Yrance has voted the renewal of the grant of 1,200 f. made every year previous to 1837, to the Infant Schools of Paris, and the money has been paid into the Treasury of the Com mittee of Management, to be applied to the relief of the indigent children received into these institutions. The Gazette de France states that it has received a citation to appear before the Court of Assize, on the 11th January. The Gazette adds, that the charge against it is the same as that against the National, which is take its trial on the same day. A series of military marches is in course of publication at Berlin. The 11th number, which has just appeared, is interesting from its containing a march composed by Frederick the Great, one by the late King Frederica William 111., and others by the Princesses Albert and William of Prussia, Prince Frederick of Prussia, and the Princess Royal of Sweden and Hanover. They are all arranged for a full band. " At the moment," says the Moniteur Parisien , " when General Bugeaud was preparing to come over to France, he received from one of the points of the territory sub. ject to our government some important intelligence, which may render his presence necessary at this point. He has therefore renounced, for the moment, profiting of his conge." _ _ _ An Alexandria letter of the 9th instant states that six sail of the line have been laid up in ordinary by order of Mehemet Ali. BOURSE-PARIS, THURSDAY, DEC. 30. ,- - - Y frit Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Prick Price. erench 5 per Cents ll6 35 ... 116 60 ... 116 55 ... 116 60 3 per Cents. ex dlv. 78 1.0 .. 78 25 ... :8 15 ... 78 20 rank or France Latfitte Bank:s,ooof. Shares 5025 ...5025 ...5025 ~.5025 ...onto Bank Belgian 5 per Cents. 5 per Cents., 1840 lO3 ... 103 ... 102% _. 102% ;parish Active 24% ... 25 ... 24% ... 24% Passive 556 ... 5% ... 55„ ... 5% Portngueses per Cents. Neapolitan Roman.... RAILWAY RUA REb. St. Germain BO5 ... 805 ... 805 ... BJS Versailles. L.ls 2OB 75 ... 210 ... 208 75 .. 210 •K. B 337 50 ... 340, ... 337 50 .7. 340 'town) 457 50 ... 457 50 ... 457 50 ... 457 50 inean. .. _ 507 50 ... 512 50 ... 507 50 ... 512 50 itrasbur g to Bale. 230 .. '232 50 ... 230 ... 232 50 SUDDEN DEATH OF THE EARL OF FALMOUTH. Our Falfhouth Correspondent writes us as fol lows :—" We are informed that the Right Hon. Lord Fal mouth died suddenly at Tregothnan, Cornwall, on Wednesday morning, when in the act of dressing himself. The Noble Earl had his title conferred. in 1821 ; he will be succeeded by his only issue, Lord Boscawen Rose, one of the Members of the western division of Cornwall, a vacancy in the representation of which is thus created. The late Earl was in his 55th year, having been born in May 1787. He married Anne Frances, daughter of the late henry Bankes, Esq. The present Earl, .his successor, is in his 31st year. The late Peer was Recorder of Christchurch and Truro; but he does not ap pear to have held any other public appointments. The doings of the . Marylebone Vestry and dis cussions on the wood pavement of Oxford-street, are becoming public nuisances. We stave more useless talk about them than about the Repeal of the Union, or the Northern Boundary Line, and if we may judge from appearances, there is as much chance of one of these important points being settled as another. If, however, the inhabitants of Oxford-street will act with vigour, we have no doubt the the Vestry must yield ; and the meet ing held on Thursday night, leads us to believe that this will be the result of the contest. The public are utterly sick of these endless experiments which have been carried on for years in that great thoroughfare. They know that jobbing is the cause of all the delay, and that it can be put down only by a hearty and una nimous declaration on the part of the inhabitants. It is evident that something must. be done to remove the evil, or Oxford -street will soon become as unfashionable as it was in bygone times, when it was the highroad to the Tyburn gibbet. If th e V es t r y w ish to be convinced, let them turn their attention to the various kinds of pavement introduced within the last few years, and par ticularly to the different systems of wood pa vempts broughti out by several Companies, illustrated n a little 1 pamphlet, written by Mr. Lee Stevens, and published by Richard Spencer, High Holborn. The object of the writer is to prove from experience, as well as theory, that an economical, safe, and durable surface of wood for streets may be adopted as a use f u l substitute for stone under most circumstances, and he certainly makes out a good case. He e xam i nes at length the different systems hitherto in Use, gi ves calculations of the expense and durability, as w e ll as in contestable proofs of the conveniences, of wood yave ments compared with granite or any other st one . Th e subject is treated with great skill, and the treatise alto gether evinces more practical knotvle dga on this mo d ern discovery than has yet been exhibited. W e re f er t h e Marylebone Vestry to the details and calculations, and give only one extract as regards economy —a n important consideration on a line of street a mile long, and subject to as much traffic as any in London. Mr. Stevens, to wards the conclusion of the treatise, says :—" Compared with the Macadamized portions of Oxford-street, Picca dilly, and other places of equal traffic, the economy of wood paving is as prominently evident. These cost at present from 2s. 6d. to 3s. per yard, per annum, to keep in repair, to say nothing of •their first construction ; and the wood paving, for ,terms of twenty-one years, can be laid down, and kept in perfect repair, at an annual charge or rental of 2s. 3d. per yard—being a saving of from 10 to 30 per cent. per annum." THE g( FIREBRAND QUAKER" OF BRIDGE WATER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR-My duty as a good partisan, being not to see the enemy careless in his posts and parties without turning it to account, I take advantage of the looseness of some of his movements, to try to advance the object of calling on the Libe rals, in various quarters, and by their various in terests, to lift up their heads and unite on the question of Free Trade for a general move. The subject which now presents itself, is an article or letter signed " No Magistrate," in the Times of 31 December. To whatever extent a leading Ministerial paper by choosing an article for insertion adopts it and makes it part and portion of the policy it maintains, to that extent the contents are appealed to as if they were pro mulgated by the Government. A " firebrand Quaker" as he is called, a borough magistrate, at Bridgewater as would ap pear, is charged with exhibiting a placard in his window at the last election with the following : " Are the poor to pay 9d. per loaf, and the rich land owners to pocket the tax of 3d., which they invariably do ? Or are the poor to pay 6d. per loaf; and the Con servative landowners to lose the 3d. ?" In immediate juxtaposition to which, is the following commentary : • " Could this proposal for confiscating the whole rental of the kingdom—for making the landlords lose' all, and falsely representing that all to be four times as great as it actually is- —could such a detestable proposal possibly pro ceed from a person ' admitted mull hands to be fully quali fied for the commission of the peace ?' Surely it may be safely left to any honest man in the kingdom, what ever his politics may be, to determine on the quali fication of this firebrand Quaker for the magistracy, who at a period of general excitement could exhibit to the public so monstrous a lie—a lie, too, so likely to de lude and infuriate the people. Can any respectable man doubt for an instant that the exhibitor of this infamous statement was utterly disqualified for any office which required a respect for truth and a reverence for the lives and property of his neighhiurs ?" It is one thing to enjoy the elegant amusement of calling a Quaker a liar, and another to answer to a man's own party for having given the op portunity to an adversary to invite public opinion to determine, whether the honest Quaker was not proceeding in a course as consistent with religious iprinciple, and with the duties imposed on him both as a citizen and as a magistrate, as if he had chosen to de monstrate his zeal against any other of the forms of evil-doing which are rampant in society. May this crocodile to Quakers have been im posing on the Times, and after all be some wag of the League's, aspiring to boastino , that he at tacked the landowners through the columns of the Times? The position he has fixed upon them is this,—that all the rental of the kingdom is taken through the operation of the Corn-laws ;—that the Corn-laws are an invention for creating a class of men to be called rent owners, who otherwise and by the unaided course of nature would never have existed;—that they are a contrivance for causing a public loss, of dimensions with difficulty assignable or calcu lable, for the single object of giving a limited and easily calculable amount out of it to a happy portion of society the law creates for the express purpose of being the recipients. The League never said so much, but the Times has. And for any nice questions of authority, the Times must settle them with its correspondent. Meantime the assertion of the honest Quaker's• window stands out avowed, defended, adopted, transferred to the hearts and heads of all in the country who to honesty join a certain quantum of intelligence. Combining this with the other portion of the letter, whip!' is. on the coup d'etat tor creating Tory magistrates, may we not hope that the united effoet will be to raise up a spirit of indi vidual determination in the places which have been the scene of operation, the end of which will be to promote the feeling of a general -ne cessity for union on the question of Free Trade, as the means of driving out the common enemy. When the Neapolitaug" Misbehaved, somebody said they must have more of the Austrian stick. The Tories are giving us the stick. Yours, sincerely, T. PERRONET TH OMPSON. Blackheath, Jan. 1, 1842. , t MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CI7 Y, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, DEC. 31.—The trans actions comprise—Grand Junction Half Shares 97i ; Great Western Fifths, 101- ; Midland Counties, 85 ; North Midland New 361. The St. John's New Brunswick papers, received by the Acadia, state that three attempts had been made during the week to set fire to houses in the city. Tilt FUNDS. Consols opened at 891 1 ; Three per Cents. Reduced 89H- ; Three-and•a•Half ditto, 991 g ; Bank Stock, 166 167 ; Exchequer Bills, 14 16 prem. Very little business doing at present. The settlement of the half-monthly account in the Foreign Market yesterday passed over without any casualty occurring. Spanish /Wive Stock opened rather flat at 24 to 25 ; Mexican Bonds remain firm at 281 to 29 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 33k- to 34 ; Ditto Threes, 20h 1. The Continental exchanges were steady yesterday, al much the same quotations as last post day. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Birmingham and Gloucester 100 64i to Cheltenham and Great Western. 72i lBi to Eastern Counties Northern and Eastern Ditto Debentures ...... —Bl. 6s. Bd. 101. 16s. 8d to Great Western .65 Ditto New Ditto Fifths London and Brighton 5O 39ii ... to London and Blackwall Ditto New 4l. 6s. Bd. ...... 71. Is. Bd. London and Birmingham 9O l7O ...... to 169 Ditto New 2 ...... 28i to London and Greenwich London and South Western 384 Loudon and Croydon ( Trunk)... 134 124..... to South Eastern and Dover COURSE OF EXCHANGE=—(YESTERDAY). Amsterdam CF. 12 7iiGfbraliar 46 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 8 Genoa Antwerp Hamburgh M.B. 13 13k Venice Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 55 Palermo, per oz 1191 Ditto, 3 months 25 80 Lisbon Marseilles Bourdeauz 25 90 Rio Janeiro 27 Frankfort on Maine... 1501 Bahia Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37 Buenos Ayres Berlin. Vienna, effec. 11. 3 M 952 Philadelphia 46 Trieste, ditto 9 55 PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ. Madrid Cadiz Bilbao 36 New Doubloons 0 0 0 Barcelona Seville HALF-PAST TWO. There has been but little business doing in the Stock Exchange up to the present time. Consols are now quoted at 89i ; Three per Cents. Reduced 8911; Three-and-a-Half per Cents., ditto, 991 s ; Exchequer bills 14 16 prem. ; Spanish Active Stock, 25 ; Colombian Bonds, 22 ; Mexican, 24 29 ; Portuguese Five per Cents. have advanced to 34. No material alteration has taken place in the Share Market ; the following are the quotations :—Birming ham and Gloucester 64 : 1 ,- ; Great Western, 88 ; Ditto New, 611 ; Ditto Fifths, 10i ; London and Brighton, 39i ' • London and Birmingham, 169 ; London and South Western, 591 ; South Eastern and Dover, 2.2 i• 23. HALF PAST TWO. , Consols, Account, 89i ; Spanish, 2511 a ; Mexican, 291 30. QUARTER TO THREE. It is satisfactory, as far as the consumption of the sta ples of Colonial produce are concerned, to find that it had not fallen off last year, though, perhaps, a very different result might be exhibited were meat and bread to come within the category. It should be borne in mind also that the year 1840 was one of privation. The stock of goods in bond, 'except in a few cases, is not so high as at this time last year, proof that our merchants hive not been over trading Very few have done a profitable business, however,' during the year. GUILD HALL.-(THIS DAY.) NOVEL MODE OF PROCURING CLOTHES.—SiX able bodied young men were charged by Alexander Lamb, the Master of the East London Union Workhouse, under the following circumstances : Lamb deposed that they• came into the workhouse last night as temporary paupers, and their clothes being in a very filthy condition a fresh suit was given to each while they stopped in the house, and this morning, about day-break, they piled all their old clothes on the floor of the sleeping-room, and,, having got a lucifer-match, set fire to them, when they were burnt to a cinder. Only two remedies, therefore, remained to him, either to turn them into the street in a state of nudity or keep them in the workhouse. Having refused to give them any breakfast, in consequence of their conduct, they broke twelve squares of glass in the sleeping-room, when he sent for a constable and gave them in charge. Mr. Alderman FAREBROTHER sentenced them to seven days' imprisonment. A wretched-looking female was charged with breaking a square of glass in the shop of Mr. Sherwood, Cheapside. In reply to the Bench, she said her only motive for the act was to get shelter t as she was houseless and starving. She was sentenced to a month's imprisonment. EVENING SUN I S 'OM MAT/ OF NEWS AND Publtt Optaton. " Who runs may read." POR.ZIGN. The Droit, a Paris Journal, of Thursday, has the fol lowing :—" On Tuesday evening a German shoemaker, named Bauer, living in the Rue du Jour, Place St• Eustache, and several other men, were arrested under a warrant of the Chancellor. In Bauer's lodging there were found three hundred political pamphlets, both in French and German, and a voluminous correspondence, which have exposed numerous branches connected with the Secret Societies in France, of the Communists and others in Hesse, Baden, the Rhenish Provinces, and other parts of Germany. These new captures are lodged in the Conciergerie." The French Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday elected MM. Gatos and Boissy d'Anglas, Secretaries. These were Ministerial candidates. On Thursday, M. de l'Espec, another supporter of the Ministry, was voted the third Secretary. M. Havis, a the Left party, was elected by agreement the fourth Secretary. Letters from Madrid, of the 23d ult., state that the Commissioners were to leave Madrid on the 26th for Paris and London, for the purpose of capitalising the over-due dividend warrants, and that two dividends will be paid at once on the New Three per Cent. Bonds, in proportion as they are issued. The bonds in the hands of Ardouin and, Co. are to be withdrawn and destroyed. The Bank of St. Fernando was to advance to the Go vernment 24 millions of reals for this project, to be re paid by assignments on the public revenue. PUBLIC OPINION. The Advertiser has an article suggested by the circum stance of a great Anti-Corn-law meeting in Manchester, and the object of the article is to show that the system of popular agitation on this question of questions must be resolutely persevered in. " Let vigorously-worded petitions," adds the Advertiser, " for the immediate and complete abolition of the bread monopoly, be forthwith prepared in every city, borough, village, and hamlet, in the country ; and let them be ready for presentation by the time the Legislature commences its sittings." The Chronicle, referring to an announc emen t i n yes terday's Times, ;hat Lord Ashburton is about to proceed to the United States on a special mission, with the object of settling all existing differences between that country and our own, states that from his Lordship's con nexions, and the extent of his property within the Union, his personal influence must be considerable ; and adds, "we believe the mission originated in the best of mo tives, and could not be entrusted to a fitter person." The Times, alluding to the ladies who have taken a share in the Corn-law agitation at Manchester, observes, " We have no time and no taste for enlarging upon this painful subject. Presently we shall have the petti coat politicians of Manchester schooling us on the most recondite questions of national policy." MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE. Three extensive lines of railrord are immediately to be completed in Austria. One from Vienna to Trieste ; a second from Vienna to Bavaria ; and a third from the same city to Dresden, through Prague. COMMERCIAL ralionaz. In addition to the Members of Parliament who will attend the Glasgow Anti-Corn-law Convention on the 14th and 15th proximo, Lord Belhaven has signified his intention of being present. MAW AND POLICE. The Jury, in returning their verdict upon the late accident on the Great Western Railway, attached' great blame to the inefficiency of the night-police on the sta tion, placed a deodand on the engine and carriage-train of 1001., and recommended the passenger-trucks in future to be placed further from the engine. Price Humphries, a wine-merchant in Berkeley-street, Portman-square, was finally examined at Queen-square yesterday, on the charge of fraudulently obtaining 197 gallons of varnish, and committed for trial. During the last fortnight, the cabins of several ships• in the river have been entered at night-time, and robbed to a great extent. On old offender in this shape was suspected, of the name of Smith, who, on being cap tured, along with another man named Marshall, both Marine deserters, were committed for three months, at the Thames Police-office yesterday, upon clear charges of robbery. I I PINE ARTS. The new Liverpool organ, erected on the model of the celebrated chef d' oeuvre of Silbermann, in Strasburgh. Cathedral, for a leading chapel in that town, is said to transcend the organs in York Minster, or the Town-hall, Birmingham. THEATRICAL. Signor Tamburini not having been re-engaged for her Majesty's Theatre, has entered into engagements with a company in Italy, for which he departs on the close of the Paris Opera season at the end of Lent. SPORTING. A large party of sportsmen, among whom are the Duke of Cambridge and Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, are now on a visit to Colonel Conyers, at Copt-hall, Epping. The splendid yacht Theresa, has arrived at Naples, from Malta, with the Earl of Desart ; it is the only ves sel of the Royal Yacht Squadron, with the exception of Mr. Brinsley Sheridan's, anchored in the bay. Cotrwr —reasHXON.ll.2loo. The Lord Chancellor and Lady Lyndhurst leave Tre ville-park in a few days for town. The Duke and Duchess of SutherlantlTeiVe Trenthaul' hall on the Bth inst. for Stafford-house. The Dowager Lady Ellenborough has returned to Stratford-place from Brighton, The Earl and Countess of Carlisle are expected to pass a few days next week at the seat of the Duke of Sutherland, in Staffordshire. Sir James Graham arrived in town yesterday morning from Dorchester. The Marquis of Breadalbane has returned to Tar mouth Castle, Perthshire, from attending the funeral of his father-in-kw, Mr. Baillie. Lord and Lady John Russell go to Bowood Park, Wilts, early next week. Lord and Lady Wharncliffe return to Wharncliffo House early in' the ensuing week, from Wortley Hall, near Sheffield. MXSCELLANEOUS. George Palmer, Esq., of Nazing, is a candidate for the office of Verderer of the forests of Epping and Hainault, vacant by the decease of Mr. Sergeant Arabin. The title is derived from the French verd, green, the chief part of the office touching the verd, to wit, the wood and grass growing in the forest. Twenty Peers have died in the course of the last year. Yesterday, at noon, the Jews shaved, bathed, and adorned themselves, to prepare for the new year, which is, in most countries, proclaimed by them with the sound of trumpet. Their feasts to-day abound with wine, meat, and sweet fruits of all sorts. The remains of the late Countess of Durham arrived in London, from the Continent, after a tedious journey from Genoa, last week. They have since been conveyed by hearse to Rushyford from London, and were deposited on Tuesday in the family burying-vault at Chester-1e- Street. The new Poliee-court in Bow-street will be opened, it is expected, on Monday, for the transaction of the busi ness of the district, the arrangements being completed. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY). NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. There was a very. abundant supply of Meat, the de mand was dull, and a decline in most articles took place. 'Beef, 3s. to 4s. 4d.; Mutton, 3s. to 3s. Bd. ; Veal, 3s. 6d. to 4s. 4d. ; and Pork, 4s. to ss. per stone of 81bs. Gam! and Poultry was in good supply, the demand dull, Oa lower rates were generally accepted. Rabbits, 7d. 10 Is. 6d.; Geese, 4s. to 6s. ; Fowls, 2s. to 55.; Chickens: ls. to 2s. 9d.; Turkeys, 4s. to 75.; Black Cock alio Grey Hens, 3s. 6d. to 4s. 6d. ; Pigeons, Teal, Widgeon, and Snipes, 6d. to Is.; Woodcocks, 3s. to 55.; Pheasants, 3s. to 45.; Ducks, 2s. to 35.; Partridges, is. Gd. to 29- Eggs in good supply, trade bad, and prices rather lower. WHITECHAPEL MARKET. The supply of country killed meat was disposed of at better prices, but a good deal of town-killed B ee f a nd Mutton remains on hand. Beef, 2s. Bd. to 3s. 10d. ; Mut ton, 2s. Bd. to 3s. 10d.; Veal, 3s. to 55.; p or k , 3 3 , to ss. 2d.; Clover, 21. 10s. to 51. Bs.; Hay, 21. to 4/, 65.; Straw, 1/. 10s. to 11. 14s. TEA MARKET. The demand was steady, and prices were fully, wig ported. Common Free Trade Congou Is. 9411. to ls. 9e cash, and Company's Is. 9d. per lb. TALLOW MARKET. The market was firm, at 48s. Gd. for parcels on e spot, and 495. to 495. 3d. for delivery in the next two months. Town Tallow sold freely. METAL MARKET. Spelter dull of sale, and prices on the decline, at 391. on the spot. Iron in b r i s k request, and pr i ce s on the advance. Lead firm, an d i n f a i r request. WOOL MARKET. Prices firm for b o th E ng li sh and Foreign. HOP MARKET. The market fi rm, b ut the demand limited ; the suPP li by no mean s l arge. sellers SHIPWRECKED MARINERS' SOCIETY.—Sinc e the establishment of this humane Institution, 1,217 widows and orphans have been aided and protected -by it, and 2,510 seamen have been provided with employment, who, but for the rality of the public, might have been confined to a workhouse or starved to death. This must be a great inducement for persons of property, and above all men connected with mercantile affairs to subscribe liberally. Our seameti are the great defenders of the country' the fisher population of England are amongst the most industrious of her sons—their lives are devoted not only to toil, but to peril of the elc tremest kind ; they must pursue their calling ¢ „ all seasons and in all weathers—under all us' spects of danger and suffering—and their gahOf when successful, but scantily reward their excl . ' tions. Under all circumstances they are objeet, of admiration;—wh en misfortune befall them the have a tenfold claim upon our compassion. „ e trust, therefore, that the appeal now made by t he friends of the shipwrecked fishermen will not be urged in vain. Between eight and nine o'clock this morning the family of Mr. William Turnbull, of No. 27, Monte' gue-street, Portman-square, fisbrnor.ger, was throw° into alarm by the discovery being made that the c ook, named Lydia Malone, a widow, aged sixty, bad attempte d to commit suicide by cutting her throat with a razor. Sh e was found lying in bed with the clothes covered over her head. A great quantity of blood had flowed from the wound, and she was removed to the Middlesex hos• pital. No hope is entertained of her recovering. f' , ..., A A me( and a s it the whol brought an accou but upon officer o uo R ep , car,' of I are the to guess, who are as public L 14 0 LOND, • OFF Rims, LIVEI Canton Lima; 11 Jamaica Itavanns stook, N a way, V ton ; .11 York ; ton, Az' ew Or: leaky, h : diieharg Cow PAL; bridge s OFF Latavia. SOITT I SU N ", TEtca G tierns e 2 9th ult. CHit i Win walked the new ness the in the fo Colon the Roy. Visao visit to arrived !he - expecte( Mrs. Ai H the Roy His it by Coloi from (3 ( visited b Gloucesi House f, A Qu Reducti( the Tre Right E Sir Job' Air. Co Mr. Sir R ot , had ittte nial-offic Colin! the .Ear Sir j, 'ng iro n , bespi were sec besp: Nova t... office. We receive( for the to each, passeng ehandiz Week ended Dec. 25 :30 25 25 28 :.ltd the last Llas bee con s i, kent oi ENG] ties w e s ent ha operati, ett n , of this but] ebeerle last-for much I dull sto dull shi chases Your