The Sun. — London, England, 1842-01-10 00:00:00

EVENING SUN NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., ANNE BOLEYN, AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE. By MRS. A: T. THOMSON. 4thor of , 4 Memoirs of Henry VIII.," " Constance," &c. Mnry Celburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. whether or not they will sanction a war with the United States to enforce the doctrines of Lord PALMERSTON and Lord ABERDEEN. It must at once excite great suspicion in the Liberal party, to see the right of England to visit and search American ships now strenuously urged and maintained by the Tory Press. It has been taken up by the Times, the Morning Post, the Quarterly Review, the Morning _Herald, &c., and it is pressed vehemently by these high-flying monarchical Tories against theßepublicans, whom they continually deride and depreciate. With them it is a personal quarrel, founded on their hatred of freedom. They press it, too, in the name of humanity, when theyiwere the men who resisted to the utmost of their power, through a succession of years, every attempt to check the progress of the slave trade, or meliorate the condition of the slaves. THEATRE ROYAL, DRLIJRY-LANE. THIS EVENING, JAN. 10, Her Majesty's Servants will perform the Play of THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, lions the Text of Shakspeare. Dui., Mr. 0. Bennett; Antonio, Mr. Phelps; Bassaaio, Mr. Anderson; Lorenzo, Mr. Elton; Shylock, Mr. Macready ; Portia, Mrs. Warner; Nerissa, Mrs. Keeley; Jessica, Miss E. Phillips. o f After xhich will e repeated the Ne w Ch r i s t mas P an tomime, ca'led HARLEQL AND DUKE HUMPHREY'S DIN NER ; OR, JA CADE, THE LORD OF LONDON STONE. Doors to be opened at Half past Six and the Performance to begin at S even o ' c l ock. Boxes 55., Second Price, 2s. 6J. Pit 35., Second Price 2s. Lower Gallery Is. 6d., Second Price Is. Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. . . • THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDE -N. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, JAN. 10, Will be performedShakspere's MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREANL—Theseui, Mr. Cooper; Quince, Mr. Bartley; Bottom, Mr. Harley ; Flute, Mr. Oiberry ; Snout, Mr. Mea dow s ; Snug, ;Mr. F. Matthews ; Hermia, Mrs. Nisbett ; Oberon, Mailanii: Vestris ; 'Titania, Mrs. W. Lacy }..,Pack, Miss Marshall; First Fairy, Miss Rainforth. After which will be repeated the New Gond Christmas Pantomiw e, entitled GU'l EARL OF WARWICK ; OR, HARLEQUIN AND THE DUN COW. Doors to to evened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven. Dress lloxeg, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and second Cirees, sa. ; Second Price, ‘'s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; F.4=coort Price. sr.; Gaikry, Is. Ticked and places for the Boxes to be Wee() of Mr. fhogari at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Loxes to be hr.! so!ely of Air. Andress, bookseller, 167. Nestr- 8011. i-street. To-morrow, Norma, with the New Pantomime. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER TIE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Upwards of 30,000 persons have witnessed the Pantomime at this Theatre, pronounced the best of the Season. THIS EVENING, JAN. 10, Will be acted a New Domestic Dtama, entitled MADAME LAFFARGE, from Memoirs written by Herself; supported by the entire Company. After which, a Nautical Burletta, entitled JACK JUNK ; or, a SEAMAN'S FIRESIDE.— Jack Junk, with Two Songs Mr. Walton. To conclude with a Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE ICE QUEEN; OR, JACK FROST AND KING SHAM.—With gorgeous and eltarac teristic Scene ry, splendid Properties, ludicrous and Quaint Dresses, ingenious Tricks, magnificent Panorama by Brun ning, &c. Harlequin ' M. Huline ; P a t c h, M. R oc h e t ; Pan taloon, M. L e h man ; Flip, Signor Feliz Carlo ; Clown, Mr. Buckingham ; Columbine, Miss Sharpe. Private and Public Boxes can be had of Messrs. Sams, Ebers, Alitchell, Andrews, and Seguin, during the run of this popu lar Pantomime. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. eNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. Enormous success, and Second Grand Juvenile Week, in con sequence of the thousands of Children that have witnessed the perforrnalice of the Pantomime as Second Piece ; and First. Week of " The Story of Geraldine !" THIS EVENING, JAN. 10, Will be performed, a New Domestic Drama, in Three Acts, entitled THE STORY OF GERALDINE ; OR, THE TWIN ORPHANS OF ST. PRE.—Henri, Mr. E. F. Sa ville; Huntingdon, Mr. Dale; Claud, Mr. Seaman ; Jemmy Cottle, Mr. Gardner ; Davy, Mr. Paul; Geraldine, Miss Vin cent, the acknowledged Heroine of Domestic Drama. After which, a New Grand Romantic Aerial Comic Pan tomime, entitled HARLEQUIN PETER WILKINS; OR, THE KING OF THE 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 aleng the Ccast 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 thts--the Popular Theatre of London. To conclude with THE ILLUSTRIOUS STRANGER.— Bowie:11, Me. Gardner; bimbo, Mr. Howard; Aboulifan, Mr. James ; Irza, Mrs. Lee. Boxes, 23.—Pit, 1 s.— Gallery, Gd.—Half-price to the Boxes only, it Half -past Eight. NEW STRAND THEATRE. OPEN EVERY EVENING. Combined Talent—Crowded Houses:-Enrapitired Audiences. Those who wish to obtain comfortable seats to witness the extraordinary wonders accomplished at this neat little Theatre most not delay until a late period of the evening; numbers during the past week have been unable to gain admittance. JA COBS !—MA GICIA N JACOBS ! has once more made his fame resound throughout the Metropolis. All Wizards and Magicians who have preceded this great Professor of the Ne cromantic Art may now hide thei► diminished heads, and re turn to that oblivion from whence they came. His Ventrilo quism is astonishing: he imitates the voices of twelve persons, to the surprise of everybody. The following perfortilances are also added :—Mons. ROUSSEAU, the FRENCH EQUILI BRIST ; the PATAGONIAN WONDERS, theDISSOLV ING PORTRAITS, and Kr. J. SCATES on WHEAT STONE'S PATENT CONCERTINA. Doors o;',en A Half-past Six, commence at Seven. Boxes, 9.5. ed.; Clgjdren, Is. 641. Pit, Is. 6d. ; Ch il d ren , i s . Gal lery, 6d. Close Ten Minutes to Eleven. THE RAILWAY STN IS NOW RE-PUBLISHING, PRICE SIXPENCE. Til 141 CHINA SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Jan. 10, 1342. • TO CORRESPONDENTS. The letter of the Rev. Mr. Smith would involve us in a controversy, which is interesting only to the parties concerned. THE WEATHER—NOON, JANUARY 10. ROYAL GALLERY OP SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 27 I Highest 42 f Lowest ..... 25 Barometer 29.85.—Wind N.—Freezing Point 22 Deg. t 11011" WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW Morning 41 minute; after I I Evening Ihe Publication of the ,Evening Edition of THK Sux corn. nieneed at 10 minutes after Three. * . tO / ~+1 - 91?-471g$, lecOsite State, persists in visiting American ships, with a view of enforcing, not international law, but cer tain recent enact.L. - -, - Itsofour law, anci "of pariia! obligation." We hold with Mr. STEVENSON that this is a violation of the national rights and sove reignty of the United States, and we hope that our people will not support our Government in a course of proceeding which is at once novel and fatal to the liberty of the seas. On Saturday there was another field-day in the Marylebone Vestry, to decide the merits of the Oxford-street wood pavement; and we are glad to find that the vote of the previous week for postponing the further consideration of the question for three years was reversed. The re solution, as we stated last week, was an insult to the inhabitants of the parish, and the Vestry seem now to be of the same opinion, for they have changed their tone, and recorded by their votes that the question is still open for discussion. It would be a great relief to the parish, and to many other parties, if this Mary lebone Vestry would show something like con sistency, and, instead of eternal talking and voting, adopt some rational line of conduct which might meet with the approbation of the inha bitants. We are anxious to judge impartially of their conduct, and regret to state, that, as far as we have means of information, the question in dis pute is more influenced by party feelings and selfish motives than by any regard to the inte rests of the parishioners. There will be an other meeting, of course, on the subject, in a short time; and as the result is of importance to a large community, we will watch the proceed ings, and report them to the public. It excites great suspicion, too, that the party which is so eager to involve us in war, in order to promote the advantage of the Africans, is the advocate of monopoly at home; and while it pre tends to feel for the suffering negroes, it cruelly starves our own" people, inflicting in a thousands instances a more lingering and pain ful death than ever disgraced the middle passage. While we feel that the Tory cantabout humanity is a sheer pretext, we cannotforget that the free republicans, against whom they would direct the wrath of our humane people, are the dwellers in the boundless plains of the Missis sippi, and ofler to our starving multitudes the food which the Monopolists withold from them. A war against them would be an effectual means of indirectly preserving the monopoly of the bread-taxers. Another source of suspicion is found in the allies of our Tories. Russia, Austria, Prussia, and France form the league which is to dictate a new code of international laws to the Republic whose capacious bosom yielding nourishment to all who ask it, whose strong arms to defend them, and cheap institutions constitute a stand ing condemnation of all the Monarchies and despotisms of Europe. Is England to unite with theni to put down freedom under the pretext of putting down slavery ? The language used by the defenders and ad vocates of this holy league, is calculated to ex cite grave suspicions. They want to enforce " maritime order," just as they have established terrestrial order, or slavery ; they want to spread a "police over the sea," as they have spread it over the land ; they liken a ship to a traveller, and they contend, as the latter is subject to have his passport overhauled on the Continent, so no shipowner can complain if his vessel be stopped till she has proved to the satisfaction of the cap tain of the vessel stopping her that she has a right to wear the flag she hoits, as a traveller is stopped bygens d'armes on the Continent, and is compelled to prove that he is entitled to carry the passport lie exhibits. Passports are inventions to preserve order. They are to prevent the escape of criminals, and enable a Government to bring offenders to jus tice. That is their best defence, but they are a prodigious annoyance to honest and innocent men. Let these Powers obtain the sanction of maritime England to establish a police on the sea—let our people approve of the plan now urged by the Tories in the name of humanity, of stop ping and examining every ship in time of peace of which a naval officer may choose to entertain suspicions —and very soon no vessel will be al lowed to cross the seas unmolested by the police cruizers of all the tyrants of Europe. Not one of their victims would then be able to find re fuge from their wrath in the United States. Not a vessel would then be able to cross the sea to carry on a traffic of which they disapproved. To the commerce of England a sea police to preserve maritime order would be a fatal enthralment. We Let gets and papers from Madrid of the Ist inst. hope that our ow n me r c h ants a n d s hi p captains, state that M. SALV ANDY h a d not t h en l e f t t h e who would not submit to suc h a pract i ce, w i ll b e careful not to supp or t th e present c l a i ms against capital, and was still nego ti at i ng a b out t h e deli the United States, l es t th e prece d ent hereafter be very of his cred en ti a l s . H e h a d rece i ved de applied to themselves. spatches from his Government, approving of his From these circumstances, though some of condiset, and ordering him to persevere till he our Liberal Contemporaries have taken the received further orders from the KING, his side of the Tories, a n d o f L or d P ALMERSTON, we master- Upon thi s ques ti on , we quote t h e fol lowing- excellent l e tt er f rom M a d r id, d ate d the vernment with great di s lik e , an d we shall en look on the clai ms now put f ort h by our Go -Ist inst;.., which is a t r i um ph an t answer to every deavour to show th a t th e y are f oun d e d altoge- thing -which has been said by th e F renc h press titer on new a n d erroneous assumpt i ons. We upon the subject:— may stand alone in our resistance to the claim The old year has ended without bringing M. Sal made in the name of E ng l an d as v l a n n a d io ), rs, quarrel with the Spa Spanish Government to a con e - against th e The new begins with it as its most interesting United States, but it is better to be right alone feature.. The question is still unsettled. M. Salvandy, than wrong with a great multitude. it is sal .d, has received instructions from his Government week,not during the . indeed final, but lookin g u p on hi s It is rather lat e t o b eg i n our statement of evfurser t, or t him t . o ersevere in i principles, and o ur argument at the tail of so till he receives u e c de rs. ellin The g Spanish Government, t many observations, and we must, therefore, on the other hand, will not yield, and indeed cannot do so content ourselves with observing that the claim The h thor rt a violation of th e C onst i tut i on an d all precedent. now made by Engla n d h as ent i re l y grown u M. P saiva a n t mi h e o n i t sta to nd i s iis thu o s i p n r t et t y la m t uhcihs b credentials being out of a new set of circumstances, and being in addre ;soj to Queen Isabel, he will not present them ; a to itself a novelty should unquestionably not b e the Reg ant. Were any other' person than Espartero enforced by viol ence on t h e unw i lling subjects I R egent;, he would, he says, act in the same way. Ile of any other Government. In contradiction to st ek m es ba ° s l :L t t Lhdoisr c o ar rh ly liqp u t o i t ie in fli t t h h e o c f a s se p ao.f Cwh ellamar t the f o t e ins h s t ofd my Lord A BERDEEN , we w ill venture to assert and pr as e nted his credentials to Loui s that it never was the practice of the British Frances then a minor of five years of age, instead of de navy, nor of any navy, to ascertain, by visit, livering: them to the French Regent, the Duke of Orleans. during peace, th e rea l nat i ona li ty o f merchant To the ffirst of these arguments, the 59th article of th e Spanis It Constitution gives a triumphant reply. It dis vessels met with on the high seas, if there be tinetly • ratates that the " Regency of Spain is to exercise good reason to apprehend their illegal cha- all the authority of the King, in whose name th e ac t s o f ratter. When the nations ar e a t p eace t h ere is , the Ivernment are to be published." If, th ere f ore , t h e no motive for examining vess e l s me t w i t h on , receir tig of Ambassadors be one of the attribut es o f a Span: It Spa Sovereign, so must it also be of a Spanish Re the high seas. It would be a gratuitous waste gent. With the Spanish people this view of the matter of time. Except a man-of-war be sent after sonic musts ,nd will be held conclusive. They cannot compli particular pirate vessel, or some particular ille- ment it away without degradation. The historical in gal trafficker, it is not the practice to examine I Philip stan 11" of Stpedainb,yas IS e l v . er S y a o l n v e an h d n y ow i a s , n r o as t h le ini ss ae y f nh l ap ea p n y : vessels met with on the high seas during peace. I didate I ir the Regency and guardianship of I. ouis XV., in Iu fact, the right of visit, or the right of opposit' 10 a to his relative, the Duke of Orleans. It was ! th f erefo tx • natural that he would wish to offend the Duke search, is altogether a right of war. It is to is by in t g o Ambassador, K Cella A mar, to instituted and acknowledged solely as a means oOrie credentials strlic oaurcnegly, indeed, be d be made m° of preventing an enemy from receiving supplies, present nconcl give reference could s'e ' and neve r was e i t h er practised or submitted to mutatis mutandis, it is Louis Phili ppe sen di ng an during pea ce . W e are now at peace, and there- t A er m o ba t i c i l t or to t M he adid to d anrr y the Regent historicalEspar rodoircoiotmatisotanosooosf fore, according to th e customary law of nations. this ki iv I a're sa t y o be v Sp al a i ni d, ar in s the . alto we have no right to visit American ships. . of both.: nations, they might adduce the instance of the French , . Ambassador Rotemburg, b e i ng o bli ge d to go carry on a trade which we and' some ot h er na. But the American flag, it i s sa id, i s use d to upon Ili knees, to beg pardon of Isabel F arnese , t h e - I. second • • • is - de of the same Philipe, who gave orders to Lions have recently declared to be piracy, and in Cellars r not to deliver his credentials to any one but order to put an end to that it is contended that the mi at fr Louis XV. In modern precedents, as regards the toms a . countries, Spain has mu c h th e b est o f t h e argu in certain latitudes where , s hip s are li a bl e to sus- ment. .No less than five Ambassadors of F rance h ave picion, vessels bearing th e A mer i can flag may since Lit 3 death of Ferdin dan presented their creden be stopped and made to prove to an English tials t a the Regent of Spain. These were MIL Ray cruizer that they arc American vessels, and neval, J atour Mabourg, the Duke of Fezensac, Marquis de Rum gny, and Mathi eu d e la Redone. Not one of navigated accordin g t o t h e laws of the United States. Now this declaring a particular traffic theses creden etit T s s t t o o h t : e r em Regent.a de any i t o b i j e e m c tai remarks M. r Salvandy,t in their tlt e piracy is a complete novelty in the code of na- letters of these individuals were addressed to the Regent, Lions. We are not sure, however welc ome i t was Maria C 'hristi na , not to Q ueen Isabel. True • but it could ly have been as Regent th at t h ey were addressed to our zeal for humanity, that it is a just novelty. to that ft ivoared lady. And again, why was th e r e an To kidnap the blacks, as is so me ti mes d one b y a lt era e 101 made in the mode o directing these letters now ? .3 Ospartero is Regent, if Maria Christina was so. the Slavers, is undoubtedly a l most as b a d as our practice of imp ressment; t o b uy t h ose who are The tires s o a i l e l e authorities a f ree id t s h e e ly e — ola na e i snelym, a de the t r h e e p r o e n s e en a tnad already enslaved, however heinous an offence to the ea Regents. But this is not all. The converse morality, can scarcely be called piracy. The of the pc,atetice of France is equally against its present latter never had the sanction of the civilized pr . ocee, fit it Not only did the French Government R A e mbassado to present their credentials to per world; the slave trade, and slavery, received that ! Il e gp F an r' i:l 3 gent, but the King of the French did re sanction for ages. To class the slave trade as ceive tl t o letters of Sp an i s h Ambassadors, Miraflores to piracy, is, therefore, a novelty, an d we d on t_ wit, and . - signed and addressed by a Spanish Regent. whether it be proper to . enforce a noveltyY on 01 ozak , whose credentials were given by Espartero as others by such extreme measures as stopping Spanis Is Regent, and to whom M. Salvandy will not now American ships at sea, and making the captains deliver kds ? prove that they are bona fide American ships. The Quarterly Review admits that "practically this question has grown out of our slave trade legislation and treaties." The Times admits that " it has arisen upon the slave trade treaties." "It is only a means of enforcing certain recent enactments of partial obligation." We have been careful to obtain the consent of other nations where we could, to our means of enforcing on their subjects obedience to our enactments, and the Government never thought itself justified in enforcing obedience, without first obtaining the consent of other nations. Hence our treaties with those nations giving a mutual right of search, which would have been wholly unneces sary had such a right been, according to my Lord ABERDEEN, always in existence in peace. The enactments creating the illegality and the piracy being .novel and municipal —not international—it was clearly necessary to obtain the consent of every independent Sovereign be fore visiting its vessels, to establish a contravention of our municipal law. The United States was applied to for their consent, showing that they had the right to refuse; and they did refuse. England, in violatioe, of the, dignity of the United States, as an independent Sovereign The non -patronage party in Scotland, com monly called the " Non-Intrusion " men, and sometimes the " wild " men, have lately been circulating reports of the favourable disposition of Sir ROBERT PEEL and the Earl of ABER DEEN to their scheme of getting the whole of the Kirk patronage into their own hands. We never believed a word of the statements, because the present Government could not with any consistency or gratitude have given additional power to that unfeeling section of the Church which had cruelly deposed many of the most worthy men on the Establishment, and for their own selfish purposes had thrown the whole religious community in the north into the greatest confusion and dis may. The present Government may be bad enough in some respects, they are guilty of many delinquencies, but they never desert their friends, and we, therefore, argued, as on a matter of fact, that not only would the Strathbogie mi nisters be protected, but that means would be adopted for depriving their persecutors of power to do further mischief: The following letter to certain Non-lntrusionists bears out our statement, and will be' a " heavy blow and great discouragement" to CANDLISH, CUNNtNCIHAIVI, and Co. It was sent as an answer to certain parishioners, who wished to take the patronage from the Crown, and confer it on a party in the parish, instigated, no doubt by some " Non-Intrusionist " minister : Whitehall, Jan. 3, 1842. SDI- —I am directed by Secretary Sir James Graham to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the Ist inst., stating that you are request e d by t h e par i s hi oners of the parish of Kettle, now vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr. Bal .clay, to inquire whether the Government will allow th e male communicants to send up a list or choice of four , or five persons, and will give the presentation to one of the persons chosen by them ; and to inform you, that Sir James Graham does not require any list of per sons, chosen by the parishioners in the vacant parish of Kettle, to be sent to guide him in advising the Crown as to the presentation of a minister.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, (Signed) H. MANNERS SUTTON. Mr. Thomas Arnott, Chapel, Kettle, Fife. The French Journals of Friday and Saturday dwell %upon the diplomatic fracas between the Courts : of Russia and France. It is•altogether a very ri a tieulous business. The Liberal and Mi. nisterit papers having expressed their opinion upon it; the Royalist journals bring up the rear, but with a strong leaning on the side of the Auto crat. he Quotidienne says : M. CA .izot, Professor of the Sorbonne, has believed and said dr tt . Al. de I'ahlen left Paris to avoid having to ad dress a .e King on New Year's Day. This was a mal adressi :! in itself, and an engagement to commit a second ; in fa' t M. Guizot's journals have taken care to inform .ias that M. Casimir Perier had received orders not to Lppear on the occasion of the fete-day of the Empe Pm-. Now this was an aggression. A want of taste I e ll M. Guizot to an act of rudeness, and this unsea so/lab' e a ff ectat i on o f pr id e h as appeared very singular in aAI inister who has so little suseeptibillry when the nation. ti dignity is really concerned. Certain, however, it is, tl M. de Kisseleff, by way of reprisal, received orders t o be ill on NeW Year's Day. In diplomacy, ad dress co us ists in believing in appearances, and acting as if no bel ise f was placed in them. M. Guizot, then, has conductedi himself like the greatest novice among diplomatist s, for he has acted as if he believed that M. de Pahleu: 1 ieft Paris for the' purpose of offering a sort of insult to G auis Philippe. The question has become seri ous, for tii. Guizot has commenced with reprisals of eti quette, v ai d these may lead to r e p r i sa l s o f po li t i cs . Thi s it is to c pi ifide the aflairs of a great nation to starch pro: (77 Vo4lk 4 LONDON: MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1842. The strong langunge used by Mr. SrEvEriso x, which we quoted on Saturday, 2.nd the almost equally strong language of the American PRE T SI DENT'S Message, preclude the possibility of supposing that the United States will subthit to our clai aof visiting their vessels. At the same time, the language used by Lord PALMER - STUN,- and adhered to in substance by Lord ALETD:r.r. - a. in his letter to Mr. STEVENSON, pre cludes the possibility of supposing that England can, without dishonour, recede from her claim to examine any American vess e l s , w hi c h her naval officers may tosuspicion. Lord ABERDEEN said— " it has been the invariable practice of the British navy, and, as the undersigned believes, of all the.navies in the world, to ascertain by visit the rednationality of mer chant vessels met with on the high seas, if there be good reason to apprehend their illegal character. In certain la titudes, and for a particular object, the vessels are vi sited not as Aticrican, but either as British vessels engaged in an milawful traffic, and carrying the flag of tho United States for a criminal purpose, or as be longing to States which have by t reaties conce d ed to qicat lint:tin the - right of search, and which right it is attempted. to defeat by fraudulently . bearing the flag of the Union or, finally, they are visited as piratical • outlaws, possessing no claim to any flag or nationality whatevsr. The Noble Lord then proce2ds to discuss the possibility of Mr. STVENAON maintaining that England ought to allow her own subjects, or the subjects of other States with which she has con cluded treaties to defeat her laws, and asserts, that " unless Mr. STEVENSON can maintain these propositions the whole fabric of his argument falls to the ground." England, therefore, is resolved to maintain, as the Times positively asserts, the right of visiting every ship showing American colours, in certain latitudes, which the officers of her MAJESTy's ships may regard wiLli suspicion, and or making the captain of that ship prove her nationality, and prove that she is navigavd according to the laws of the United States. The United States is equally resOved to resist the exercise of that right, and the con+licting niews of the statesmen of the two countries threaten such serious con sequences that we must again revert to the Subject. This question involves a war between the two countries, by which the industrious people alone, as is well known, suffer, and of which they pav all the ponalties. Statesmen and military men who who urge it on, and naval enptains who i mp li cate the country by their intemperate zeal, may ga i n honour and glory by conducting it or carrying it on; and they never have such strong motives as the industrious classes for avoiding, the cala mities of war. The people, then, 1 1 3119 t exa mine this question, and must express an epttoun THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1842. fessors, who think it is very grand, to disregard the cour tesies due from Government to - Government, seven when thereis no attachment existing hetwen them. It :be a sad. thing, however, to see France involved in a quar rel with Russia, merely because M. Guizot had not tact enough to appear to place faith in the motives assigned for the departure of M. de Pahlen. In the old monarchy, diplomacy was placed in the hands of men tutored, as it were, to elegance, propriety, and dignity. In the present day, the absence of these qualities is a recommendation, and, therefore, M. Guizot is a Minister. The Gazette de France regards the conduct of Russia as hostile to the KING personally, but expresses no displeasure thereat. It briefly re marks : What is the use of such suppositions as to the causes of the quasi-rupture between the Emperor Nicholas and the Government of Louis Philippe ? It would seem to us that for the last ten years the Emperor Nicholas has been sufficiently candid for no person to mistake his meaning. He has explained himself often enough, and in plain terms, as to the nature of his antipathies. Every body knows that these antipathies rest upon considera tions which are purely moral and personal. The France, alluding to the article in the De buts, which appeared in The Sun of Saturday re commending the recal of the French legation from St. Petersburgh, observes:— The differencb between the two Cabinets is a puerile one in appearance, but it is only the pretext of a long conceived resolution. Russia is of too much weight in the balance of Europe for this war of reprisals not to be followed by the recal of all that remains of the em bassy in Paris. This word, imprudently pronounced, may produce consequences which it is easy to foresee. And again the Quotidie.zne of Saturday, com menting on the same article in the Debats, has the following : The Emperor of Russia has his warning. He has only to recal his envoys. This would not be war, says the Debate, but merely rupture. We are beginning to grow proud. This is surely making the most of the personal. dislikes of two Monarchs. But then the Debats contends that Louts PHILIPPE is France—that in fact the KING and country are one and indivisible. This is rather questionable doctrine to preach one week after all the public functionaries in France had congratulated his MAJEsTY gin his escape for another year from the regicidal bullets of his beloved subjects. In writing. about the identification of Louts- PHILIPPE and France, the Court organs ought to carefully abstain from making people laugh. The National has a long article on the treaty of the great Powers for the suppression of the slave trade, and the right of maritime search set up as the most effectual means of putting an end to this traffic. The National, like some other Paris Journals, declares that, as far as England is con cerned, this display of humanity in favour of the blacks is mere affectation, and that the real motive of her conduct is the desire to keep up and even increase her maritime superiority. The National reminds its readers that. in the last cen tury England entered into a treaty with Spain ? in which she stipulated for the monopoly of the sale of all the negroes in the Spanish colonies, and reserved to herself the right of introducing 4,800 slaves at a fixed price per head annually. "This," says the National, "is what England did a hundred years ago;" and then it goes on to state that her policy and her principles are unchanged, The National om i ts a ll and, ther e f ore , t h at h er phil ant h ropy, at this moment,an ambitious isofil3rputon to cover d es i gns o f nature. notice of the change which has come over the people of England, on the subject of the slave trade, not merely within the last hundred, but within the last thirty years, and that what thirty years ago would have been either legal, or was permitted by custom, is now offensive to the laws, and highly so to the feelings of the nation. The National, overlooking this tact and the ar guments of the English slave abolitionists, that the English Government is necessarily the organ, on this question; of the feeling of the people of England, says, "The English Government, in plac ing itself at the head of a crusade against the slave trade, has two objects in view, both in reference to its interest. One is to destroy, for a long period at least, the cultivation of the productions of the slave colonies, in order to compel con sumers to receive them exclusively from India, the other to usurp the sovereignty of the seas by means of the right of 'maritime search." The National then expresses its admiration of the resistance to the principle of the Tight of search which is made by the PRESIDENT of the United States of America. The National does not, however, bestow its censure exclusively on Eng land. It doubts the sincerity of all the Govern ments which are in alliance for the suppression of the slave trade, and observesthat astonishment must be excited at this sudden tenderness for the blacks by States which allow their own white subjects to pine in poverty and wretchedness,. and which encourage the traffic in human flesh at home in the system of raising . substitutes for persons called upon to serve in the army. In such a state of things, says the National, it is au thorised in regarding the philanthropic declara tions of the Governments which are associated for the suppression of negro slavery as a mere cloak of hypocrisy. The Moniteur of Brussels states that an official coin's m snication has been made to the Belgian Government by the Belgian Consul at Alexandria, of an arrange ment made between Meh4met Ali and the English Com pany, called the Oriental and Peninsular Steam Packet Company, without the intervention of the British Go vernment, for the conveyance of goods and passengers to and from India through Egypt. It is to last for one year, subject to renewal hy consent of both parties, and is on the following conditions :—Mehemet Ali engages to build warehouses for goods and establishments for passengers, at his expense, on the line from Suez to Alexandria, for which the Company is to pay a sum to be fixed at the end of the first year. The Paella gua rantees the security of passengers and merchandise. The free passage by Suez is granted to all other nations, but without any privilege. We regret to learn by the Gazette of Posen, the death at Krzemuniec (Volhynia) of the Countess Kicka, born Countess Krosnowska. The Hanover Gozette says:- " Mr. Holmes, the Eng lish engineer, who remained in this country till the au tumn, taking the levels for the railroad b e t ween Ki e l an d Glucllstadt, laying down the plans and making the estimates, will return again in a few months. The project of this line is highly approved, not only at Gluck stadt and Kiel, but at every place by which it is to pass. We arc assured that the plan is in great favour at Lon don, where many commercial houses have signified their intention of becoming shareholders." The Scheldt, as the Antwerp papers mention, com menced floating down ice on the sth inst. The Committee of the Chamber of Deputies on the Address sat yesterday till five o'clock. The Ministers of War and Finance attended to give explanations. The Commerce says, It was stated in the Salle des Con ferences that the Committee heard with much complai sance the explanations of Marshal Soult as to keeping up a costly and expensive list of commissioned and non commissioned officers, and that no member of the Com mittee had remarked on a precedi_ What which is in contra diction to his solemn promise s . What we have heard, however, leads us to hope that this expenditure, which is ruinous to the treasury, and without profit to the army, will not-be allowed to escape without public cussion. M. Hamann is said to have spoken for a lone time on the impossibility of establishing an equilibritita between the receipts and the expenditure. It is said that he was warmly questioned by B. M. Pussy, and defended by M. Lacave-Laplagne. The Committee will this day hear the Ministers of the Interior and Finance on the question of the census. - The Bord2aux Papers state that two public meetings have been held in that city for the purpose of concerting measures to make a demonstration of satisfaction to M. Lacordaire, the Dominican preacher, on account of the course of sermons he has been preaching in the Cathe draL An address is to be presented to him by a numer ous deputation of the inhabitants. " The only talk of Brussels," says the:Courrier Beige, " is of the recent elopement of a young, beautiful, and rich heiress, the sister-in-law of one of our Ministers, with the nephew of the Bishop of Ghent. On the break ing up of the first Court ball, four post-carriages with four horses, each containing a young couple, dressed in the same manner as the intended bride and bridegroom, started at the same moment ill different directions, so that it was impossible for the pursuers to know which road to take. The real fugitives reached L on d on i n safety, and the banns h av ing been previously published and every other preparation made, they were married as soon its they alighted. They are expected immediately back at Brussels to pay their wedding visits, and set up an establishment." BOURSE-PARIS, SATURDAY, JAN. 8. first Highest LOWCit hart Price Price. Prick Pri cr. French f. pet Cents ll7 55 ... 117 55 ... li7 45 ... 117 LO 3 per Cents._ ......... 78 60 78 60 ... 78 40 ... 78 40 36 Sank of trance 2O 238410 ...3360 _8360 4Laoffigitatne p 8 ma a ai n n5 k t:5. 1 :. , 7 0 00 .........f f ... .... : 5 it 1 ...a a ir r ..u. 0 s i s l 70 0 ei l 50 7 Ni 2o ... . ". ..... 5 1 i1 2: .... ........... 5 1 70 ° 14 1 1 2507 7 3,,5 5 0 0 .... . ..... ..... 5 1 70 2 0 16 : 2 2: 0 il Belgian 5 per Cents. . .... lO3 ... 103 ... 103 .. 1(<1 5 per Cents., 18407 103% ••• 103% ... 103% ... 10% Active New Deferre d - ••• Portugueses per Cents. .... 2736 ... 2 : 7 ,!', '" 1 734 75 ... ( 71, Neapolitan - ." i f (it LT Ronan.... 103 k ••• 1 , ...:4 ••• - - .., ... aw, Spanish RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain ..................... E 39 •• 8:3/ ". 830 830 Versailles, ................... 243 75 203 75 202 50 ... 202 50 R.ll .................. 337 50 : - :37 50 .. 337 50 3 3 7 50 Rouen 4 70 ". 470 ... 470 ... 470 Orleans . 5lO ... 511 25 ... 51n ... 511 ts straiburgtofiale,.., ............ 227 50 ... 227 50 227 : 0 227 50 TII E LIVERPOOL ANTI-MONOPOLY ASSOCIA TION held a meeting on Thursday evening, says I the i, T • Thorneley, M.P., the Presicleut of the Association, in the - Chair. Mr. Thorneley add resse d the meeting at considerable length, remarking, amongst other things : .The country, in the month ending the th of Dec., wanted a very large importation of corn for the supply of the people, but the operation of this absurd and ini quitous sliding scale was to prevent the importation or corn, because the duties were prohibitory. One conse quence of the working of the scale was to bring about fa mine prices ; it was effecting that object ; that object was most iniquitous ; and the object the Ati-Monopoly Association had in view was to procure the abolition of this most iniquitous prohibition of the importation of food.—(Cheers.) There were other articles. passing under their eyes every day in Liverpool. He would take the article of sugar. It was a very common observation— " The price of sugar is exceedingly dear." Now, the price of sugar was in reality lower now than ever it was in the world before ; but they did not choose to admit foreign sugar because it was cheap.—(Hear, hear.) The Legislature had the folly to prohibit all foreign sugar from coming into this country, and then when the supply from our colonies was so unequal to the demand as to raise the price of the article out of the reach of the poorer classes, then they lifted up their hands and said, " How dear sugar is l"—(Hear.) But the Anti- Monopoly Association of Liverpool would investigate the matter ; they would show them— they would show the people of the United Kingdom—they would show to the world that in every bonded warehouse in Liverpool in which there was sugar, the produce of the British plantation, at an enormous price, out of the reach of the labouring classes, there was also lying the cheap sugar of every foreign nation in tile world, which they might have at a cheap rate, if the Legislature would admit of it.— (Hear, hear.) Look at the operations of the sugar re finers, and of their friends—the Messrs. Branokers amongst the rest. The whole of the sugar refiners of Liverpool had left off refining the dear sugar of the Bri tish possessions •, they had all become refiners of the cheap sugar of Brazil, Cuba, and every port of the world, except the British possessions, because every other part of the world supplied cheap sugar, whereas the British possessions supplied very dear sugar. Now the foreign sugar bought in bond in this town averaged in price some thing like three-halfpence or 2d. per lb., free of duty •, they were refined in bond ; when refined they were sold at from 2id. to 4d. per lb.; but the people of this country were not allowed to consume this free sugar ; it was sent to every part of . the world—to foreign countries—to Italy, Germany, and Canada, and other British posses sions in America ; it went to Brazil—the West India Islands ; and though they (the meeting) were debarred from the consumption of free sugar, he rejoiced that their brethren, the negroes in the West Indies, were allowed to consume the cheap article.—(Hear, hear.) It also went to the Isle of Man—and he was very glad that they had a little spot, within about eighty miles of Liverpool, where, to a certain extent, the principles of free trade did prevail.—(Cheers.) Several other gentlemen also addressed the meeting, after which resolutions for promoting the establishment of Anti-Monopoly Associa tions and Free Trade were unanimously agreed to. A petition to the House of Commons in fa vour of Free Trade was adopted, and entrusted to Mr. Thorneley for presentation. Liverpool, therefore, though terribly Tory and priest-rid den, is not altogether lost to the good cause. PENINSULAR BONDS. In answer to several applications from the country respecting the payment of the half-years' dividend on Portuguese and Spanish Bonds, we regret to say the following is the only informa tion we can at present furnish. The Portuguese Dividend (only half of what is due) fixed by the November decree, is in course of payment in London at present, but the limited hours for re ceiving it are sadly complained of. The money is paid by the finance agency of Portugal. The dividends, though really due in ,December, were not tobe paid, according to the new arrangement, till the Ist January. Respecting the two half- . years' dividends expected to be paid on the capitalised coupons of Spanish Bonds, we can state absolutely nothing certain; and we can only advise the bondholders, who have had so many disappointments from that quarter, to mistrust every statement till their broker informs them that he has received their dividends. DREADFUL ACCIDENT AND EX TENSIVE LOSS OF LIFE. , We have this moment received the following letter : " TO THE EDITOR OP THE MORNING POST. " SIR,—I am directed by the office to let you know that.a tremendous and most singular oc currence has just taken place in the immediate neighbourhood of our city. In the confusion which prevails I cannot, of course, be expected. to transmit particulars with anything like accu racy; but rather than delay, I send you a gene ral statement, conceiving that the earlieSt pos sible notice will be interesting to the public through the medium of your popular Journal. Between lbw and five o'clock this evening, and when almost twilight, the entire surface of a very large piece of ground more than seven acres, at Combe Down, gave way, owing to the work men having conducted their excavations in a stone quarry far beneath an angle, or rather street, of that populous village, of which above eighteen houses, with its beautiful new church, school-house, &c., were thus completely un dermined, and have been, by the instantaneous subsiding of their foundations, involved in ruin; and multitudes in the buildings and accidentally assembled on the spot have perished; " Though late when I write, the various ave nues in the outlets of the city are thronged with anxious thousands crowdin g towards the scene of desolation.- The bells of the Abbey and other churches are ringing violently, and the authori ties are hastening to Combe to render what as sistance they can 'to the surviving sufferers. Nothing like truth can be obtained as to the loss of human life and property by this strange cala mity. Report speaks of hundreds slain and mu tilated. " This hurried account shall be speedily fol lowed.by a less confused detail of what has hap pened. I am, Sir, &c., "A. SISSON. " Warden Office, 53, Milsom -street, Bath, Sunday, January 9. " P.S. Our paper is published on Wednesdays only."—Morning Post. AMESBURY UNION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR-I have been informed, on indubit4ble authority, that sonic time since a very high pa- negyric appeared in your paper, on the conduct and management of the Amesbury Union and house. As an ex-officio Guardian of that Union, I am intimately acquainted with all its transactions, and must beg leave to contradict any assertion as to its very superior merits. I must honestly un deceive the public by saying, that in its conduct and management I consider it inferior to the rnjority of the Unions in the kingdom. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, EDWARD DUKE. • Lake House, Wilts, Jan. 7. [Will our Correspondent inform us when the panegyric on this Union appeared?] BIRMINGHAM, JAN. 9. A WIFE SHOT BY HER HUSBAND.—A dreadful oc currence took place in Birmingham on the evening of Friday last. The circumstances, as far as our r e p or t er is justified in giving them, are these:—A man named Ezra Steapenhill, who is either beadle or sexton at St. Matthew's Church, about a month ago, found a gun, as hefstated, and a few days after he was showing it to a friend, stating that it was unloaded ; his wife, Bassilesa Steapenhill, was then present, and, in joke, pulled the trigger over his shoulder, and it went otf, shattering the. clock case to atoms. On Friday evening he was clean ing the same gun, and, roost unfortunately, did so whilst it was heavily loaded and capped. His wife was sitting at the end of the table on which the gun rested, and when in the act of rubbing the lock it went off, and the contents, unhappily, entered the chest of the unfortunate creature, and she dropped down a lifeless corpse : she was about thirty years of age, and was by birth an Hanoverian. A. great sensation exists in the neighbour. hood where the tragedy took place. The husband is under the surveillance of the police. An inquest will be held to-morrow (this clay). THREE Boys DROWNED.—WhiIst a number of boys were amusing themselves on a pool of water in ravel's. street, Birmingham, this afternoon, thd ice gav e Way? and three of them sank to rise no more alive. The awful event has produced the greatest grief and coaster. nation in that part of the town. About the same hour a young man, t we nty years of age, named Crowley, ti gold-beater by trade, fell through the ice of Edgbaston Pool, and after struggling in vain a considerable time be was drowned in the presence of a.nuMber of people, who could render him no assistance. A young man was drowned under precisely similar circumstances, on Sun day fortnight, in the same pool. DEATH OF TIIE BISHOP OF CHICHESTER. —Dr. Shuttleworth, Bishop of Chichester, died at his Episcopal palace, in th a t c i ty, at about eleven o'clock on Friday night. Ilis Lordship, it seems, had been slightly indisposed for the two or three preceding days, but no apprehension s of danger were entertained until within two hours of his death. Dr. Shuttleworth had been Bishop of Chichester only fifteen months. He was the only surviving son of the Rev. Humphrey Shut tleworth (Prebendary of York and Vicar of Preston and Kirkham, Lancashire). He was born in 1782, and was sixty years of age. In 1822, he was elected Warden of New College, Oxford, and discharged the duties of that office for eighteen years. •He was made a. proctor in 1820, and a Bishop in 1840. He was educated at Winchester, and subsequently moved to Oxford, where he gained the prize for a Latin poem in 1803. His Bishopric rendered him patron of seventy his annual incom e was 4,200/. livings, and --, tl AND OnWic Optnton. " Who runs may read." OR,ZI. The French J ourna l s are still N occupied - with the reci procal insults offered to each other by the Sovereigns of Russia and France. They could hardly be employed upon a more contemptible theme. Private letters from St. Petersburgh of the 22d ult. state that the abrupt manner in which M. Peeler, the Charge d'Affaires in the absence of M. Barante, ab sented himself from the fete day of the . Emperor, had caused a great sensation, and the effect of it had been to exclude M. Perier from all in vitations in society which had taken part with the Czar. M. Nesselrode, on getting into his car riage to attend the Levee, had placed in his hands a brief and stiff note of M. Perier, accounting for his ab .sence. The Emperor was furious, and at first was dis posed to order the passports for M. Perier and suite, but on the representations of Count Nesselrode and others, the retaliation was confined for the present to 'the in structions sent to M. Kisseleff, in Paris, not to attend the Tuileries on New Year's Day. Baron de Bourquenay, the French Envoy, arrived on the 17th at Constantinople, in the Cameleon steamer, which saluted the Seraglio by 21 guns ; the salute was responded to from the batteries of Topkane. The Court of Peers on Saturday enrolled the letters of grace which save Quenisset, Golombier, and Brazier, alias Just, from a scaffold, and destine the first to trans r o:tation or imprisonment for life in a fortress, and the latter to hard labour for life in the galleys. The pri soners are ind e b te d f or th e i r li ves to t h e prayers of the Dukes d'Aumale and Nemours. The following singular paragraph is quoted from the, Augsburg Ga ze tt e :—." The village of Madana, which is about fourteen German miles (60 English) from Rusts chalt, in Wallachia, offers at the present moment a curious ethnographical singularity, having- been inhabited by women only for the last thirty years. At one period this, feminine population amounted to 2,000 ; the ladies did not live as war riors, like the Amazons of old, but they-avoided all con tact with mon, and drove away from their territories all who approached with matrimonial intentions. • This anti-social settlement is now supposed to be on the de cline ; at least, no more recruits are made from the dis appointed or the love-crossed, and the members of the, population are rapidly decreasing. These women are nearly all Mahometans." The National Guards of Madrid were reviewed by the Regent on New Year's Day. They were dressed in new uniforms, and presented a very fine appearance. PUIEILIC OPZNXON. • The Times has a leading article on the subject of the constitution of the Court of Bankruptcy, wherein it ex presses its opinion that the Commissioners ought not to be entrusted with the power of commitment for contempt, adding-, " the more we see the irritability in these gene rally useful and valuable administrators of the law, the 'greater is our repugnance to the project of increasing their power over the liberty of suitor, spectator, or witness." The Morning Herald contains some remarks on the subject of the approaching Dublin election, in the course of which it states that a great probability exists that Lord Morpeth will be returned for that city. "It is impos sible," observes our Contemporary, " that the Conserva tive electors of the Irish metropolis can ever be taken la• - surprise, except by their own supineness and intestinal discords; and for them to permit the election of a Radical candidate, when they have the ability to prevent it, is to desert the cause of good government.' . The Post is loud in its reprobation of the manufac turing system, which, it states, "is enough to bring a curse upon any country," and observes, in addition, "that what it looks to at present is a gradually increasing con viction of the:public mind that the system is fraught with terror and inhumanity ; and that a set of men counte nancing one another in cruelty, and competing with one another in cheapness, have degraded the English.work ing-people to a position in which they ought not to be placed." The Advertiser speaks of a project entertained by some of the members of the Anti-Corn-law League, for uniting the middle with the working classes, in an endeavour to obtain sound Radical Reform, and • observes, "it is more likely to succeed than any similar project we have yet heard of." The Chronith, speculating on the measures to be pro pounded in the approaching session of Parliament, states that Sir R. Peel's ancient language of vague and nega tive generalities must now be exchanged for that of positive and explicit explanation of practical measures ; and that instead of amending and opposing, he, must make his own suggestions, and propound his own plans: Our Contemporary, however, expresses himself by no means sanguine as to- the efficiency ,of. Sir Robert, Peel's - measures. - Alluding to the deSperate efforts made by the Tories to get ajory candidate for Dublin; the Dublin Evening Post says :—" They have been scouring th e emp i re . they. have been refused by Attwood, by Crichton, by Jocelyn, by Blackburne, by Colquhoun, &c. &c. And now we are told confidently that the fraudulent -mana gers of the concern have actually laid violent hands youth who has barely reached his majority, for the pur pose of delivering him over, pinioned and skewered, to be plucked and excoriated by the famishing Orange free men of Dublin." " In an article on the present state of the finances, the Birmingham Journal makes the following remarks : " The pinch is severe ; but it is not yet severe enough tc produce that general and determined combination amongst the suffering, which is essential to a thorough and permanent change. Things must be worse before they are effectively better. And we consider it not merely probable, but almost certain, - that, before the worst come, there will be a glimmering of revival." We take the following from the Bolton Free Press : " Partly from ignorance of the exact value of money, and partly from want of sympathy, and of due respect for human nature in the persons of the poor, our gran dees receive, with a degree of apathy which is fearfully ominious, the appalling statements of misery arising from low wages, now published throughout the length and breadth of the land. In the relative position of the. higher and lower classes of society - in this respect, England, at the preSent moment, forcibly reminds one of the intolerable state of things in France, which brought forth her bloody revolution of half a cen tury ago." The Manchester Times remarks, in reference to the approaching struggle on the Corn-law question : " There will be a desperate struggle, for the monopolists are strong and firmly banded together, and will light as if for life and death. In the meantime there is a strong corps de reserve in course of organization for the Corn law repealers. Thousands of electors have already signed the declaration issued by Joseph Sturge, of the right to complete suffrage; and we have the fullest conviction that this new movement will proceed with all the quiet moral energy which characterised the efforts to abolish slavery." The Cambrian says :—" It will one day becothe in credible to the historian that such a monopoly, as now exists in the article of its food, was endured by a nation calling itself free. The Corn-laws have: worked well only for the monopolists, without benefitinc , the farmer in the slightest degree, and producing incalculable misery to the people." The Scotsman, speaking of the selfish conduct of the landowners, remarks as follows :—" They have plun dered the class whom it was their du/ to cherish and protect, and, adding insult to injury, their orators and journalists are now spitting out their malice and con tempt against it." The Devonport Telegraph thus alludes to Sir James Graham's address to his constituents :—" Nearly all that Sir James Graham has to state, respecting the Mi nisterial policy, is that the Government win endeavour to meet the wishes of the public.' Thus are stern necessities put off by a paltry common place which means anything or nothing ; it is, indeed, periectly in keeping with the most unpopular Member of the Mi nistry. • Such gross apostasy as that of Sir James Graham may meet with political success, but n ever with respect." MONEY—TIZADE—COMMEZECE. The Canton treasure, brought by the Conway, is in dollars of Sycee silver, ,and weighs upwards of 60 tons. The dollars are ordered to be conducted to the Mint. The distress at Paisley is on the increase. A letter quoted by a Ministerial paper says—" The number of claimants on our funds is increasing. The people are actually dying of starvation—no beds to lie on, no cover ing even—the boards only to rest on. These are facts." Dullness has pervaded the trade of Leeds and Hud dersfield during the last week. At Rochdale there has been another failure of a manufacturer. At Bradford the sales of wool, and other goods have been limited. The total number of signatures obtained to the me morial of the women of England, for the repeal of the Corn-laws, in Manchester, Salford, and Huhne, amounts already to sixty-five thousand woman. In many large towns, villages, and country districts the memorial - has been adopted, and the canvass is carried on with spirit. NAVAL AND rea za .a. rt. The late chivalrous and unfortunate Don Diego Leon; by his will has bequeathed his sword to General Evans. --- ECCLESZASTICAL. The inhabitants of the city of Worcester are signing a memorial to the Ar c hbi s h opo f C anterbury on the sub-' jut of the spread of Puseyism. The Bishop of Chichester, who died on Friday, was sixty years of age. In 1803 he gained the prize for a! Latin poem at Oxford; and has enjoyed his Bishopric! but fifteen months. At the meeting of the Presbytery of Glasgow, held on Wednesday last, Dr. DPLeod gave notice that, at next meeting, he would bring under the notice of the Presbytery the demoralizing effects of the Church agi tation, the formation of Church Defence Associations, and other forms of the present controversy. The parish of Kettle, in Fife, of which the Crown is . patron, haVing become vacant by the death o f D r . Bar clay, ie father of the Scotch Church, certain parishioners made application to the Home Secretary, with a view of 'submitting a list of candidates .out of which he might choose one, on the Non-Intrusion principle ; but they received a sad rebuff. Sir James Graham directed the Under-Secretary to write that he did not require their: assistance in advising the Croon. . . I'ENE ARTS. The King of Prussia has ordered his Court Jeweller to take several decorations of the Red Eagle to London, and a decoration of the Black Eagle, in diamonds, valued at yearly 2,0001. is also making : but for whom it is in tended is not knon"i. ZETERA7ELY AND sczzarlarr.c. Miss Isabel, Hill, whose literary labours gave her a good position in the world of letters, died on Thursday at Brighton. TEIMAT2IC.II7.. The Queen an rri Mb accompanied by the EVENING SUN Kings of Prussi' and Belgium, will eery 1,0710!ir Dr! , T r , wit h inef SOClll':after their , • Aierca,daute's opera, Elena Utierti, will be Proch i • ed at Covent Garden o n S a t ur d ay next, w h en Mi ss A 40131 de f Kemble will sustain the principal female character Elena. Private theatri c al s h ave b een per f orme d during th: Christmas sea son a t R avensworth Castle. The Piec e „ selected were th e p o p u l ar b ur l esque of Bom b astes Fari°'` u , and the glee of Witches and chorus in Ilfacbetb. Rubin', the singer, after visitino London, St. Petersb urg h, • w hi t h er h e has received pers° ll3/ vitation fro m -th e. Emperor Ni cholas. w ill go to PRTING. Lord Castlereagh S and O Captain Lyon have sailed W i , t , ll . the Earl of Dy sart to T un i s, to enjoy a fortn i g h '! shooting and boar-hunting in the neighbourhood. GOURT--P.A.SI-.ZIONAmLZ. ne • The Duke and D uc h ess o f B uck i ngham have been tertaining a distinguished party at Stowe. a d The Marquis of E xe t er comes to town at the en the week to attend the laying of the first stone o f t Royal Exchange. The French Ambassador dined with the Earl Countess of Jersey on Saturday in Berkeley-squar e. The Earl of Derby is expected to leave Knows" Hall, Lancashire, early in February for town. The Earl of Westmoreland arrived f r om Osten d °ll Saturday. Lord Rendlesham is rapidly recovering from the e ffect of his recent accident. - • • oil Colonel and Lady Alice Peel left town on Saturth*, bf a visit to th e D u k e an d D uchesS of Montrose a t Se" Hall, Northamptonshire. Miss Burdett Coutts has returned to her villa At - hampton. MISCELLANEOUS. Capital p un i s h ment and the bastinado ;ire - through the interposition of the Diet, to be a bolish Hungary. " According to th e present di str ib ution o f t i c -et 9 witness the laying of the first stone of the RoYa l o s change, the sp ec t ac l e w ill b e limited to 12,000 P ei" out of a metropolis of nearly 2,000,000. On this day in 1643, the execution of Arc Laud took place on Tower-hill. Laud, in a ddition the being Archbi s h op o f C anter b ury, was Chancel l or of bee University of Oxford: According to his biogrq for Heylin, Laud's conduct was " rash and pitate , prefrhe attempted more a l terat i ons in the Church i n on e 5 than a prud en t man Would have done in a great . 10311).. 1 (1- The Right Hon. Lord Panm ure h as given the hn some sum of 1001. to the R oya l I n fi rmary of Dunde e ' i_ ear addition to his former munificent donations. Rumour/. or THE HAT. inen t It is report e d t h at un d er a contemplated arrangement,„ all persons in the Ci v il D epartments o f t h e G ov ernor who have served upwards of thirty years, shall.hav e option of retiring upon the proportionate scale undi:r. Order in Council for the regulation of Pensions. MONEY and COMMERCIAL C. 17 1 7, TWELVE O'CLOC h oe LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JAN. 8 , !--"" r e ale s had a mode ra t e " d ema nd for Cotton to-day ; the .4,-ace computed to b e 4 , 00 0 b ales, nearly 400 of wh i c h r been taken fo r ex port. There is nothing doing in spy '3 .lation, and the M ar k et continues steady at yest er 7, -- prices. aloo" lavEnrooL SHARE M ARKET, J AN. 9. _The ing are the present pri ces f or Railway- Stock, which been most in demand during the week :—Eastern C°rter ties, 9 ; Grand Junction, 1951 196 ; Ditto, Clu,soi .Shares, 481 ; Gnat Western, Ne w , 60 ; Liverpo ol re d Manchester, 198 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 92 ; London Birmingham, 170. der MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 8 . Affil' Market is very inactive, but prices continue firm. ' 91. chester and Birmingham, 28i; Manchester As.t,u ranc e ' r , There are no later arrivals to-day from any VIII° THY. FUNDS. t tIO The English St oc k M ar k et opened rather fig" o ld' morning. Consols op ene d at 89 1 1 ex div., for mono}' t i v e account. Exchequer Bills are 20.22 ; Spanish :A e (iitt o Stock 25i; Portuguese Five p er C ents , 32-f 4 Threes, 191 PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE' RAILWAYS. Paid. , Per Share. 07 Bristol and Exst er 6O 27i.... to Great Western 65 - Ditto New London and B r i g ht on 5O ...... to Landon and Birmingham 90 1691...... to •••°: London and South Western 3B/ 59 ...... to London and Croydon (Trunk).,. 131 l2 ...•• to York and North Mid1and..... . ... 50 Ditto New 5hare5..... . .. l5 .. .. . 314 - , Ds HALF PAST O LV .Zeic There has be en b ut li tt l e b usiness doing in the "."891 Exchange up to the present time. Consols are ni )v fiiii, for ,the Account, and 89 for Money. Exchequer ; 18 20 prem ; India Bonds, 8 10 ; Bank Stock, 1 - 1 21; Spanish Active St oc k, 25& ; Passive, 6i ; Deferreu , ,;ip Portuguese Five per Cents. 32i ;Colombian 13ondsi m i, Dutch TWo-and-Half pe r C ents . 51; Di tto Fives..,ll7 Very little doing in s h ares . G reat Western 'k;e''' 0 , 1 quoted at soi ; London and Brighton, 37-a D itt9 jll' South Western, 59 ; Y or k an d N ort h Midl an d New r , , , g, QUARTER TO TH l ?' 01 5 The Bank broker has a pp eare d as a seller o f -o bject to some extent to-day, but what is the preei s .. .„ e iiori may be easily i mag i ne d v i z., to strengthen these Ti -j of of the Corp ora ti on w hil e the dividends are ill e° s , - te dbl payment, Th e i nterest on the New Stock e re " . 'op the last f un di ng i s paying with the rest, olio for some of the Exchequer bills received as instalroe uts . Of nd wilt not suffer the les s a j e ( th ot e i . r . s s c e ri l p he .ar ß e an k i n c o o w f n E t n o gl h a ave turned out forgeries. i ll Government for f t o h t i • s th ca a s t e p , demnification. a u n rp d o i s f e n , i a l r l r c a o n m g e em up e o n n t t l i t i a e s already been -2 0 , 50 6, 891 ; Mexican, 294- ; Spanish, 25 LLOYD'S SHIPPING —(TIPS LONDON, JAN. W.—Wind thi s d ay a t no O n, DEAL, JAN. B.—Wind E.N.E.,. fresh ; 9, E. to j r ., , 11i moderate.—Arrd. Pl anta, Thom, Honduras. Ar r \ L i i ,b; the River and Sid, Buckinghamshire; Bombay ; Batavia. V LIVERPOOL, c B.—Wind S.F. light; 9, 1;1 • (I t at.; Arrd. Vi rg i n i an, Allen, New York, sailed 1 4 th ori l v Isabell a , T r i este ; Wi l b erforce, Maranham ; Linn; islov, Calcutta ; • Ni g hti nga l e , H unter, P e r nambuco, saili' l , o d ; 29; 'Denmark, Frost,. New Orleans ; Mary, ICilg s Ware, and Admittance, 'Mobile ; Benjamin. 3 1 \ ) vo t• Johnson, Charleston ; R acer, Cephalonia'; ,itt" chester, Ferris, Savannah, - sailed 14th --1111; „.„1 1 0; rived off;. Babao, from C ey l on ; England, St- d' New Brunswick ; . Scotland, William Lushingto li vil• Rob Roy. Sailed, G. Armstrong, for Bombay ; Al oe" Demerara, ; Mary Jon es , Jamaica ; North f' ste ; riea, New York ; Mantura, A zores ; Elizabeth TI; or Blanche, Messina . ; Hopki nson, P ort Philip ; 0/01-00,12i land, Calcutta ; Blair, Ceylon ; . Sh enan d oa h, '`ij e ff , delphia ; Queen of the Ocean, M o bile ; L or d St 3 ' ',e; New York; Patriot, Bona. ; Bethea, Constanii o rAo Touch-me-not, Leghorn ; Eliza Bell, Monte ,d American ship, supposed the Shenandoah, g' schooner are ashore on Burbo. to WnENHoE, JAN. Thames, Blow, st London, was totally wrecked on the Gunfle'e; Sand , night ; crew saved. OFF THE GALLOPER, JAN. 2.—Mary Ann, 33reille Baltimore. OFF DOVER, JAN, 9.—Washington, ror London. t ore PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 9.—Wind N,E.—sid. Adve ° (packet), Lr westward. Pmotrrn, JAN. 9.—Wind N.B.—Sld Cornubia , neY, New South Wales. FALMOUTH, JAN. 7, AND B . —Wind E. to N.-- E breezes. Arrd. Majestic, Morrison; New Orleq"oo Alexandria, Ancona ; Victory, Paulson, Rio-, pieces of yellow pine timber marked Pon red palm, razed B, Nos. 138 and 544, were towed in here, r; ll ,co p, been falle n i n • a ith off the Li zar d. Sld. the . 121 / , packet, Brazils ; Strathmore, Leghorn. BRISTOL, JAN. 7.—Sld. Triumph, Trinidad. KINGSTOWN, JAN. B.—Arrd. Pigeon, Legf,orn• 0 1 OFF CORK, JAN. G.--Hero, Grant, Bonny,. sailed November ; Wetherall, Hall, Singapore, 7th- - -“f,,v , dove, Monte Video ; lfalcon, Day, Que:oec, Sid. 34 " - son, New York. 00 LOWESTOFFE, JAN. 8.-Th e M ar i anne, Stepher" .. cz , 0 3 was driven on the B eac h t hi s morn i ng— part o f the fell (barley) has been landed. 9th.— The Marianne9 .,lo B over on her bea m - en d s l ast n i g h t an d i s a cornll . wreck, about half t h e cargo l an d e d in a d amage d sM . j , WEYMOUTH, JAN. 9.—Arrd. William, from Liven" after being ashore, and throwi ng p ar t o f c a r go (t , ci, overboard ; she is mu c h damaged, an d half full of rIP Ovr DARTmonTII, , JAN. B.—Hermione, Surinam. co , OFF PENZANCE, JAN. 6 AND 7.—Arrd. Allan - HI f, ;A ; lumbus, Gronebeek, an d Java Korier, Dav r i ng, P,stan'd; Louis XIV, N ew O r l eans , f or • If - avre. Sail e d ifeM Leghorn. MILFORD, JAN. 7.—Arrd. Appleton, 011yer, C a/". Sailed Corsair, New Orleans. led LIMERICK, JAN. 7.—The Thetis, Ross, S ni r t leaky, djAsazii!esd.—thweninced,thwris._mosrnizt% hence for Bristol, on the 2d inst., put brick to Tarbe. CORK, JAN, 6.—The Hero, Grant, arrived off o t: 1 5 port from Bombay, whence she sailed Nov. icon, the Niger Expedition lying at the mouth of River ; greater part, of the crews sick. Nllll;derie,nrrara4o7,_o The feelingin Edinburgh is CO strong in favour of HE ANTI-CORN -LA W C ONFERENC E.--7--„i the Anti-Corn-law meeting which is to take place on I o ela day and the two folio\ • • ving days, that although see ale ,. hundred ministers and members of • dissenting . - cb ur eC from distant places. have been accommodated with 0 . , 1 lodgings in the houses of private friends, we unders t3 o daily offers of additional accommodation are being sc IA i N ti v : d so that, after f•upplying all the demands ! 1 %), t( • • nesday, there was- a considerable surplus aPP I '' - ' 9 . those who - may yet snakeapplications.A reP__,_"' the proceedings LW/ I w°' weeny chronic/e: appear in our ne.. FATAL ACCIDENT.—At a quarter past four 21 Ye 3 , 1 : 5 ,' O'clock on Sunday evening Henry Woolin, aged apprentice to Mr. Scott, No. 4, Pearson street, l i t:. larrd-road, and - Frederick Atkins, aged 17, of COrnal' court, Curtain-road, were walking on the ice in 13ua4 e e d pond,. - Hackney-road, when both fell in, and were dra g g, s , out and conveyed to the Carpenter's Arms, A nn . e v . place, Pritchard-mad. They were attended by Mr. le ifison, , of Ilackney-road, an d ever y e ffort to restore ani mation was tried, b u t w i t h regar d to one of them,,:_!_ Woolin, without su c c ess .- The body lies at the U [renter's Arms to await a Coroner's inquest. " Pa," said an interesting little Yankee P oly- S ' glot, with his Ft-finch Rudiments before him, " • o r should one egg be sufficient for a dozen men's breakfast " Can't say, child." • " Because rrn ceuf—is as good it s feast." • " Stop th a t boy • gr uh, mother, and - save ft . 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