The Sun. — London, England, 1842-01-04 00:00:00

SPIRIT. of the PUBLIC JOUIBALS, FROM Tit .EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—When a Cabinet Minister delivers a set speech-Co Ins constiteents, and mskes the position and policy of the Government of which he is a member the eni,ject. matters of his speech, such a production claims attentien froth the press, no lees from the responsible station of its author, than from the interest which the public: has in the intimations it givas of the intentions of the Government with -respect to the measures it de s;gns to submit to the Legislature for piecing the great if:remits of the country en a basis calculated to pre serve them front injury, endtostcare their advancement. This would hold good with respect to any indiv dual member et the Cabinet at any fine. But when the public feeling is wroug h t up to an ex t ra ordinary pitch of painful excitement by commercial embarrassments, my Aving wid e l y - sprea d privations and seerings throughout every branch ofi our national manifaeturemanufacture',and w hen the prev i ous l y h erme tically-sealed In'eotions o m i f the G atern ent, as to the require d changes in our s) stem o f co ' snmerc i e l policy, to whtch, in a .censt.l..e -rahle degree, th os e embarrassments rind sufferings are referred, h e s e p r oduced a craving aft!n•information as to the plans the new Governinent designs to propose . for meeting the deficiency in the revenue and for re lieving the national distress, a speech from Sir James Graham to his assembled constituents will be regarded a; little le:s that. oracular. Ile has, in former days, written and spoken much and wed on the "insane and cruel pelie) "of etc Cora-laws. T.1, - )se very lave which, in Corn and Currency, he had denounced as fraught with ell imaginable mischiefs to the country, in his speech to his conetituents last autama were eulo gised as the tic plus ultra of hum in wisdom, the per fection of legislation, to touch which would endanger the very sustenance of the people. Agitated as the country is on this vital question —a question which in volves the existence of the Government, and, what is of greater importance, the revival of its trade and com merce and the supply of food, as the reward of labour, to millions of its peopl e it is the only natural result of Sir J. Graham's reputation as a political economist, and • of his position as a member of the Government, which has obtained of ee by defeating the late Ministers on the questions of Free Trade as opposed to existing monopolies, that his speech at Dorchester, at such a time, should be regarded by all parties with deep earnestness. Such was the feeling with which we ap plied ourselves to the perusal of the Right Honourable Baronet's address. If we asset that the production is anything but calculated to realise the expectations crested by its pretensions, we do so with regret, We wish, for the sake of the Right Honourable Baronet himself, and especially for. the sake of the public, which has been deluded into the indulgence of hopes which have proved fallacies, that it had been otherwise ; that, instead of being a vague, frothy, un meaning effasion—a string of sentences uttered evi:h a manifest intention of concealing, instead of revealing, the designs of the Government with respect to its fiscal and financial schemes, it had given some specific inti mation of its policy —some glimpse of hope amid the pressure of national calamity —some ray of light from the Treasury, by which the public, long left under the dominion of those fears which darkness is calculated to engender, and the perplexity and doubt which uncer tainty produces, might shape its course of opinion and of act, or at least be sust lined until the Premier shall be pleased to reveal the grand Ministerial remedy for the deeply seated and widely-spread calamities of the country. Instead of this, however, we find Sir James Graham copying the bad example of his Chief. Sir Robert Peel at 'rarnworth is the copy which Sir James Graham at Dorchester strives to imitate. STANDARD.—The speech of Sir James Graham, at Dorchester, is naturally enough made the subject of ill-natured comments by the Opposition journals. The Right Honourable Baronet could scarcely anticipate that it would escape, and on the whole he has reason to be satisfied that his unfriendly critics can find so little in his address upon which to fix even plausible reproach. Le t fixed with inconsistency through the whole of one's life, is a debt that must be paid by every man who does not sell himself absolutely to party, if it has been his misfortune to set out in- bad company. No proof that he has always maintained his princi ples inviolate, and that it. is in the maintenance of his original principles be has been separated from his first associates, will acquit a man, ,so circumstanced, of a seeming tergiversation : his enemies will say, and- the vulgar will be too ready to believe, that he is always a deserter who is not always found in the same ranks. This is the fate of all men who act with the integrity and courage with which Sir James Graham has acted ; and doubtless the Right Honourable Baronet made up his mind to undergo this fate seven years ago. It is curious, however, and it is a circumstance of which Sir James may well be proud, that in seven years, during which he has been the object of const tat attack on the score of inconsistency, a single charge of dereliction of principle Las not been substantiated, or, as far as we can remember, even advanced against him. All that malignere can allege is, that he has not followed in the tortuous serpentine path of Lords Melbourne and John Russell—now resisting reform, now proposing it—now de'eading the Corn-laws as what it would be madness even to think of . disturbing-, now calling for a Tercel of these. same laws—now denouncing Mr. Daniel O'Conne:l as the public 'enemy, now licking the feet of that individual as the bulwark of 0-.1 Go vern's-it:tit and the Threnc itself. This path Sir Janet could not keep, because he chose to walk in a straight one, and, therefore, he inevitably fell out of the ranks of his e irly associates. Sir James began a Reformer ; aided in carrying the great me isuro to whieh he was committed from his outset in life ; and having aided in carrying reform, he properly took his place wilt those by whom reform is defended from its Saturnian parents—Saturnian in every sense—who would destroy it. There is no real inconsistency in this ; the inconsistency lies with those who propose an opposite course. We hare said so much upon this print, beeauee, in fact, nine-tenths of the cernments upon Sir James Graham's speech resolve theinstlve: into attacks upon the personal consistency of the speak. r. COURIER.—We are daily assured by the dogmatic dolts of the Anti-Corn law Le tgue that the unrestricted adtnission of the corn of foreign States wouhl be met by the unrestricted right of et.try of cottons and wool lens -into those States in return. The Smiths and the Cobdens answer for foreign State; with an assurance and stolidity as imperturbable as if facuitatel with ple nary posers to conclude in their behalf, and with orders in their pockets for super calicoes and broad cloths as re turning cargo,on the moment that, throueli the surpassing eIT et of their eloquence, the Legislature should, to use n Scotch phrase, be concussed into it surrender of fie Corn laws. If, however, we come to 11,..k for a sight of these powers, ail that we can arrive at is, that Smith has the word of 11).vring for the fac', wlylsr Cobden—proud of mare direct associetiorat—et quaints us that his au thority derivr s from certain understrappers of the Foreign office at Berlin, whom he used casually to meet at some.. cheap atreer kraut eating-house in that cardital when on lt's travels ; for Cobden is a travel e I calico painter, if not legislat es ; and nit hough as innocent as the babe unborn of an.y acquintance with foreign idioms, and hat senivi'y conversit.t with his own, yet he core tiived,liy a simple pr ocess o f hi s own , to penetrate t : Le mysteries of Cabinet if he is to be believed, so 5.5 to be able to; redieate th e i r iweations in a given caj c._ nom his unhesitating confidence of speech and maener we should be inclined to s.uspect that ail the wisdom of Sussex was conceeirsted in thi3 curie Mr. Cobden, who acqe tints us that in that county ha dates his hirth and traces his leirage, but un fortunately for him it seems that ins is no prophet in his own ,county at le te, for we happen to know sorpe respectable people thereabouts who utterly disclaim him and his pr. tensions. Ile is clearly much mare at home in the regions of cotton waste and the H . :ideate than in the more enlightened land of his n rtivity, where Arch„f .y hz• was reglrdeti in the rightful character of a bare, if not the boor he is anxious to pass for. CORNWALL EL EC TION.—The Liberal free hohlvrs uf West Cornwall are, 'we hope, already fully alive to the importance Of an immediate selection of a candidate to represent the interests of that division in Parliament. Several names have been mentioned, among them that of Sir Charles Lemon, for re-election ; Sir W. Molesworth, - and Mr liobartes ' the nephew of the Hon, Lady Agar. We trust that the Reformers will be united in eir.icc and aetion in the struggle to regain their recently lost grohnd, for a struEt•gle they will have to encounter v. the moncTolists. ACCIDENT TO LORD It ENDLESII AM.— On Wethiesday last Lord Rendlesham, whilst out shooting, met With a seriou.; misfortune from the accidental dis• ellaege of one of the'berrels of his gun, uhich went off his LiiriLhip was in the act. of leading the other barrel, the charge passing through the - right hand, be-. tween the forefinger and thumb, and slightly grazing the side of his face. The finger VA ' S . so severely injured that immediate amputation was necessary. The thick part Of- the hand Is also considerably injured, but the thumb escaped without injury. The accounts from Rendteshani House last night report that his Lordship is going on favourably. • ANTI-CORN-LAW MEDALS.—Mr. Davis, of Birmingham, has designed and executed a spirited and charadteristic medal, suitable for Anti-Corn-law Asso- ciat ia m • On the obverse site is the emblematic figure 4)f justice, holding her balance over the column of the Anti-Corn -law League; upon which her mantle rests. M o tt o ; 6' Undo the heavy burdens, deal thy bread to the hungry." On the left is a group of once prosperous and happy . artisans, reduced to misery and distress by the oppressive and unjust Corn and Provision laws, appealing' to justice for redress, that they may earn their daily bread: On the right is the pampered personification of monopoly, deaf to the cries of the hungry, anx i ously fearing the interference of justice, straining in his selfish grasp the emblems of abundance. On the reverse side in tliefuregiound, the monster monopoly is overthrown, bound hand and foot, still grasping in his hand the rem nants .of his once cherished Corn and Trovision laws. The happy results of unrestricted industry are exhibited by the active exchange of produce and , bustling cam merce; plenty and domestic comfort enlivens the surface of sea and land. Motto, " Free Trade with all the worki."—Manchester Times. LAW INTELLIGENCE. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT Jan. 3. IN RE TROMAS ST;;WELL. The insolvent in this case was the well-known com mon informer. Ho had been previously before the Court on his application , to be adinittel to bail, which was refused. His last application to the Court, was opposed by Mr. Cooke on behalf of one creditor. Having come to an a rrangement; the Learned Commissioner ordered hit to be discharged. IN RE BLACKET REDESDALE HARRISON, The insolvent appeared on his petition to be dis charged, and Was opposed, on behalf of his detainin: c: editor, by 4:Tr.:Nib:lolls. Mr. dom . ' rnissionQr BOWEN, after hearing very detailed evidence, ordered him to- be' remanded for eight months from the date of his vesting order _at the suit of his de taining creditor, for vexatiously defending an action, whereby a large and unnecessa r y amoun t o f l aw cos t s was accumulated. IN THE MATTER OF RUBEN MARNER.—PERJURY. Mr. WOODROFFE nude an application to the Court that it would order• the schelule of the insolvent to b 2 given up to Mr. Lingrishe, the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Sussex, as the grounds for sustaining an indictment for perjury against the insolvent. It appeared that on the 3d o f last September he had been before the Court and filed the schedule to which he (Mr. Wood rofTe) alhided, and from which was omitted certain pro perty to which he was entitled, when he was remanded for three months. Circumstances had transpired since by which they were enabled to establish the charge of wilful and corrupt perjury on the schedule, and proceed ing.; were now about to be taken. egninii3sioner BOWEN at once acceded to the application, ordering that an office copy should be filed of the schedule before it left the office. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. ROBBERY AT A BARRISTER'S CHAJIBERS.—Louisa Stan fieti was indicted for stealing a considerable quan tity of plate, consisting of silver spoons and forks, of the value of 40L, the property of James M'Donald. Mr. Adolphus appeared fur the prosecution, and Mr. Chadwick Jones for the prisoner. The prosecutor is a barrister, occupying chambers in the Temple, and had employed the prisoner as his laun dress, and her husband in waiting on him at his cham bers. The prosecutor goes the Northern Circuit, and on his return to town at the conclusion of the long vaca tion, he discovered that his forks and spoons had been taken from his chambers and transferred to the shop of Mr. Walmesley, a pawnbroker, residing at No. 100, Drury-lane, by the prisoner at the bar, and a quantity' of imitation silver substituted in its stead. The pri soner, during the prosecutor's absence, had b een en trusted with the keys of his plate chest. On behalf of the prisoner, Mr. CHADWICK JONES, having elicited from the prosecutor that he had been left a legacy under his father's will in which document he was called James Benassa M'Donald, contended that the indictment was bad, on the ground of the misnomer. Mr. ADOLPHUS contended that the objection was in valid. The prosecutor, who was born in India, had come to England at a very early age, and had always gone by the name of James M'Donald only, and the circum stance of his having once signed his name as James Be nassa M'Donald, was not sufficient to prove that he had received the name of Benassa at his baptism. The RECORDER said that, in his opinion, the evidence in support of the misnomer was so slight, that it scarcely amounted to anything. That, however, was a question of fact which he should leave to the Jury. The case must go on. • Mr. CHADWICK JONES having addressed the Jury for i the prisoner, who had hitherto borne a good character, The RECORDER, in summing up, said that the Jury would have two questions to determine—first, did Mr. M'Donald bear any other Christian name than that of James; and, secondly, did the prisoner take the property in question with the intention of stealing it. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. Mr. ADOLPHUS said there was another indictment against the prisoner, which, however, under the circum stances, it was not his intention to press. He felt bound to say that no person could have behaved better than the pawnbrokers had in the present case—they had afforded every facility to the prosecutor. Mr. M'Donald recommended the prisoner to mercy. The prisoner was then removed. John Stanfield, 27, the reputed husband of the female prisoner, was then indicted for stealing a shirt and some other articles of wearing apparel, the property of the same prosecutor, his master. Mr. Doane defended the prisoner. It appeared that the prosecutor upon making the dis covery of his former loss, instituted a further search, which led to the apprehension of the prisoner, and upon his person there were found some articles of wearin g apparel, the property of the prosecutor. There was every reason to believe, that although the prisoner and the woman represented themselves to be man and wife, that they were not married, and it appeared that it was in a great measure owing . to his solicitation that the former prisoner had committed the offence of which she had been found guilty.—The Jury convicted the prisoner. The RECORDER directed the prisoners to be brought up for judgment, and after observing that they had been convicted of a very serious offence, said that as there ap• peared to be good reasons for believing that the woman had acted under the control and solicitation of the other pri soner, the sentence upon her would not be so severe as it otherwise would have been, lie then ordered the man to be transported for seven years, and the woman was sen tenced to be kept to hard-labour for twelve months. WiTam Cooke, 19, was indicted for stealing a cash box, fifteen sovereigns, and some silver, the property of William Finch, and John Hardman, 23, was indicted for feloniously receiving part of the money, knowing that it had been stolen. Mr. Prendergast defended Hardman. Mrs. Fanny Finch deposed that her husband kept the Cock public-house at Clapham, and on the 29th of Oc tober, a quarter before twelve at night, she placed a cash box on a chair in the tap-room. It was locked, and con tained about twenty pounds in gold and silver. She let some people out of the house, and having secured the door she went up to bed, leaving the cash-box in the tap-room. The prisoner Cooke had been employed in the house occasionally, and he came backwards and for wards after the loss of the eash-bOx was discovered. The cash-box was missed on the following morning after she had left it in the tap-room. James Knowles, a labourer, proved that on the 18th of November, he was at work at the prosecutor's cow house, when he found a cash-box. It had been covered, but a dog that was with him, scratched it out of the ground. It was half open, and all the money was gone. A police constable proved that while he was on duty at the Clapham Police Station, he heard a man named Laing ask the prisoner Cooke what he had done with the money, and he replied that he took the cash-box out of :he tap-room, and . carried it into the yard, where he broke it open, and he took out the money and gave five sovereigns to Hardman, and some more of the money to his sister, and he kept the rest, and afterwards hid the cash-box in Mr. Finch's cow-shed. Another police-con stable proved that the prisonerllardman came to him and told him that he wished to deliver himself up, and he said that he knew nothing of the robbery, but that Cooke, as they were walking together, pulled a bag of money out of his pocket and gave Min two sovereigns, and he was at first afraid to take them, but he ultimately did so, and he afterwards gave him two more, and lie then accompanied Cooke to his sister, and he gave her some money, and they subsequently vent to Kent -street, in the Borough, where they staid till they spent all the rest of the money. Mr. PRENDERGAST, on behalf of Hardman, submitted " to the Jury, that although it appeared to be clear taut he Lad received some of the stolen money, there was . not the least proof that he knew it had been stolen ; and he called witnesses, who gave him a good character. The prisoner COoke said nothing in his defence.. The Jury fi aind Cooke Guilty, and acquitted Hardman. The REcoanna having ascertained that Cooke was in a very ill state of health, and under the care of the-sur geon or the gaol, ordered the judgment upon him to be respited until next Session. NEW COURT. Edeea:•d Carter was indicted for stealing, Sibs. weight of cigars, value ti, l Os., the property of John Weston. From the evidence- given, it appeared that the prisoner met the errand-boy of the prosecutor, as he was taking the cigars in qnestion to a house in the Edgeware-road, the boy had the misfortune to let the bundle fall, and the result was, that the cigars were strewed about the road. The prisoner came up to the lad, and assisted him in tying up the cigars, and accompanied him to the Edge ware-road, but the party refused to receive the cigurs„ as a considerahle portion of them were missing. The prisoner then took the lad to , a coffee-house in St. Giles s, told him to go in and inquire for a perion named Johnson, and that ►►hile he did se he would hold the cigars for hint. As was to be expected, on the boy's return the prisoner had decamped; he ITas, however, subsequently secured by a policeman. • • The Jury, without any hesitation convicted the priso ner, and • The CommoN SEUOEAvr.Sentenced him to four months' imprisonment and hard labour in the House of Correction. Philip a;flfrey, aged 36, described in the calendar as a saddler, was indicted with obtaining money under false pretence?. From the evidence given it appeared that the prisoner was employed by Messrs. Reeve and Hatton, who carry on the business of engravers and printers in King-street, Covent-garden, to obtain orders at a cem mis:ilon or 101. per cent: _Messrs. Reeve and Hatton were in the habit of paying their servants every Saturday, and the prisoner, for the purpose of obtaining money on. account, represented to them that he had orders from Messrs. Truman and Hanbury, and Messrs. Charringtorc for card-plates. Upon the representation of the prisoner the orders were g ot up at considerable expense, but before the plates were sent in the prisoner decamped, having obtained his commission from the prosecutors. From the statement of one of the prosecutors it appeared that they estimated their loss, in consequence of the false orders given by the prisoner, at between 2001. and 3001. Mr. Clarkson appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Ballantyne .defended the prisoner. The COMMON SERGEANT summed up, and the Jury found the prisoner Guilty, but recommended him tJ mercy The COURT sentenced him to four calendar months' imprisonment and hard labour. • M DDLESEX SESSIONS. These sessions commenced yesterday, before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS and a full bench of Magistrates. SERGEANT having congratulated the Jury on the lightness of the calendar, both in this Court and at the Old Bailey, the Court proceeded with the hearing of the trials, which were very few and en tirely without interest. A tariff was expected at St. Petersburgh with the new year of a more rigorous kind than the existing one. It is said that many articles, especially woollen goods, will have to pay the double duty. POLICE INTELL/GENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Maurice Pitcher and George Adgitstus Piteier, who were a few days ago brought lEsfore 016 LJr.l Mlyor the custody of Forrester the officer, charged by Colonel Aspinall, the American.. Consul, with having' committed extensive forgeries upon certain banks in Philadelphia, in the United States, were re-examined yesterday. The American Consul attended. - Mr. C. Phillips, upon the part of the American Consul, stated, that Colonel Avirrill having received information that the banks of .Philadelphia had been plundered by means of forgeries committed by Maurice Pitcher, and that the brother of that person had aided in, the depre dation, measures were taken to apprehend the two cc • 1 cused persons. Cclonel Aspinall, immediately after their apprehension by Forrester, received from them the most full and undisguised acknowledgment of the offence. In fact, the young men had, by giving up all the property they were in possession of; and confessing the• whole of the iniquitous transaction, made as complete an atonement as it was in their power to offer, and the American Consul, who compassionated their youth and the destitute condition in which they were in a strange and remote country, was unwiring to take any measures against them without receiving express directions to that effect from the Goverament and the bankers of the United States. There were, the Learned Counsel said, such difficulties in the case, as regarded a prosecution in this country, as could not be overcome, for there existed no evidence that they had committed any offence in England. The expense attendant upon sending them back to America, if such a - course were p"acticable, would be of no small amount, and under all the circum stances it was considered advisable to apply for the fur ther remand of the prisoners until Wednesday, as Colo• nel Aspinall might in the interval receive directions for his peremptory guidance with respect to the two young men, who had evidently plunged into the criminal ac t without consideration. _ _ The LORD MAYOR—YOU require that they should be remanded to the Compter for a few days ? Mr. Phillips—Yes. It is merciful to send them to that place, for they are supplied there with the necessaries of life, which they have no earthly means of procuring, for they have given up every farthing, and they are now ut terly destitute and penniless. Maurice Pitcher—My Lord, if you give us our liberty we could soon find means of support. The LORD MAYOR—That is just the thing we enter. tain the most reasonable doubts of. You know nobody here, and your introduction to tills country is not of such a nature as to raise funds for you among strangers. Suppose you were at y our lib er ty, w h a t wou ld you do ? You, I think, had some intention of going into the Aus trian service ? Maurice Pitcher—Yes. It was my de sign to enter into the Austrian army. The LORD MAvon—And is it there you would propose to go now? Maurice Pitcher—Yes, my Lord. The LORD MAYOR—What means have you of going to Austria? Maurice Pitcher—Meansi why, I should work my passage over. The LORD MAYOR—You don't seem to know that, if you go to Vienna, you have a great way to travel by land. Maurice Pitcher—Well, I can work my passage to any other country, and join any other army. Mr. Hobler—How do you know that they want soldiers in Austria? I am sure they would not, under any cir cumstances, take a person who appears so ill adapted to undergo hardship as you.—Here Maurice Pitcher, who is evidently a lad altogether unfit for harsh service of any kind, seemed to be surprised. His brother, George Au gustus, who, although not 18 years of age, is a person of larger dimensions and apparently of much greater strength, hero advanced in front, as if to show that his services would not be rejected anywhere. The LORD MAYOR—It is quite a wild and ridiculous scheme. You are neither of you qualified for service. Such soldiers as you would make are not wanted by any country. I shall remand you till Thursday. In the hands of Colonel Aspinall, you are in the hands of a gentleman distinguished for humanity-, and who has com passion for your youth as well as your destitute condition. Mr. Phillips—Colonel Aspinall will do what is best for them, consistently with his duty to his own Govern ment, and to the commercial men, for the security of whose property he has been exerting himself. The prisoners were then remanded till Thursday. A blunt tradesman, named James Jannoch, whose ut terance soon declared him to be a Scotsman, was brought up, charged - by a City.policeman with having insulted a gentleman named Jones, who was in conver sation with a lady in Bread-street. From the police man's account it appeared that as the defendant was walking along Bread-street, in an inebriated state, on the first night of the New Year, a gentleman, who sub sequently stated his name to be Mr. Jones, and gave his address, was standing on the pavement talking to a lady. The defendant, in a rough manner, desired the gentle man to move out of the way, an address which Mr. Jones resented by pushing aside the person who so unceremo niously attacked his dignity, whereupon the defendant proceeded to apply such language to his assailant as was very difficult to be endured, especially under the obser vation of one of. the fair sex, for the Scotch blood was up, and the owner of it had evidentl7 received the finishing stroke to his education in the vi cin ity o f P e t t i coat -l ane . The scene concluded by the introduction of the defen dant to the station-house., a place wonderfully. calculated to bring a man's pompous thoughts down to the level of common hivnanity. The LORD MAYOR—Pray, where is Mr. Jones? lle ought to be here to substantiate his charge. The policeman said that the gentleman was not in attendance. The LORD MAYOR—WeII, defendant, what have you to say ? Defendant—Why, you see, my Lord, the first day of the new year is a great day with the Scotch ; and I was with a few friends having a bit of jollification. So on my return home through Bread-street, which is, you will observe, my Lord, very narrow in the pavement, this Mr. Jones was discoursing with a lassie. Well; I told him to mak room.for a civil body to pass ; and what Means does he talc to mak room, do you ken ? Why, he shoves me right into the middle of the mud. Well, as I had a leetle drap to see the new year properly in, I for certain did talk a bit to him ; and then up comes this man, and at the desire of Mr. Jones, bundles me off to the station-house. The LORD MAYon—Officer, was there room for the defendant to pass on the pavement at the time. Police man—l should say there was, my Lord. Defendant—ls it not rayther hard, my Lord, for an honest tradesman to be locked up in a station-house for such a trifle as this. If I happened not . to be known in the City, I should have been in custody till this morning —and all for nothimr—all because I said, " tak .yoursell out of my way."---CA The 11:onD 111titon—You ought not to have got drunk, my friend. Teat generally carries its punishment along with it. The defendant—l admit I was not sober, but there was no room to pass on the pavement. The Loup MAYon—Ah, we know very well how large a pavement must be to suit the capacity of a drunken Seotehmam--(G reat laughter.) Defendant—But your Lordship will allow that my punishment was too severe fur my offence, The Loan MAyon— Why I certainly think it was ; but as a philosopher you will derive advantage from the circumstance. If you.do get drunk any more you will, I dare say, keep a more civil tongue in your bead, especi ally when you speak to anybody in the street who has a lady tinder his protection. You are discharged ; and I can tell you one thing for your information, it is, that I shall never see you. in such a situation again. —(A laugh.)—The defendant, who seemed to feel the kind lecture of the Lord ,Mayor iu the right way, then towed and retired. GUIL.IIIIALL. A poor creature, named Wil liams, was charged with stealing a leg of pork in Shoe-lane. . In reply to flirt worthy Alderman, the prisoner said he was forced by hunger to take the meat, and it was quite a matter of indifference to him whether he was seen or not, as any fate would be better than wandering the streets night after-night, with nothing sate the flag of a hall door to sit on. —Committed for trial. The number of unfortunate beings who were brought before the Bench in a state of destitution was appalling. The greater number of them broke windows or lamp; for the purpose of being sent to gaol to get shelter and a morsel of bread. CROYDON POLICE, Jan. 3. Enoch Clarke, tuitt Thoraas Clark, two boys, the first 13 and the other 11, were,brought before Mr. SUTHER LAND, charged with felony; under very aggravated cir cumstances:— • %Villain Field, a boy nine years old, stated thathe was engaged in minding his master's sheep, on Ramsey green, near Croydon, when the prisoner:: came up to him and asked him . if he hail got a knife, and when he told them he had not, they said they must have his comforter and his smock frock. • Ile was about to call for assistance, when they both attacked him and threw him down, and one of the prisoners held his hand over his mouth while the other took his shoes off, and was proceeding to strip him, hut hearing some one approach ing, they desisted, and ran away, •taking his shoes with them. A person soon afterwards came up, and he gave • him information of what had taken place, and he rode after the prisoners, and they were taken into custudv. John Glover stated that hearing the boy Field cry out, he went to him and found him very much frightened and his face, was bleeding. lie told him he had been assaulted and robbed by two railway boys, and witness having ascertained in what direction they had gone, went after them, and he found the prisoners walking in the road towards Croydon, and he stopped and questioned them. They at first denied • having com mitted any robbery, but a t l eng th th e p r i soner Enoch admitted that he took the shoes from the boy Field, and he said he did so because they were better than his own. The prisoners said nothing in their defence, and the Magristrate, having ascertained that they bore a very bad character, directed that they should be committed to the county gaol to take their trial. A short time siuce, as some labourers were ex cavating gravel in a field at Groat Conard, near Sudbury, they dug up a human skeleton, which was lying about two feet below the surface, and from the position in which it was found, it appeared to have been hastily thrown, uncoffined, into the earth. A week or two after, a second was discovered, in a field about a stone's-throw from the first, and the village gossips hastily ransacked their memories for all who had been "missing without leave," in order to account for this mystetious circum stance, and connected it with tales of "Bloody ineu, Whose deeds tradition saves ; Of lonely folk cut off unseen, And hid in sudden graves ! ". In all human probability, these sk e l e t ons were the re mains of some stragglers from one of the battles which have been fought in this neighbourhood, between the Saxons and the Danes, who probably died of their wounds on their retreat from the fatal field, and were hastily buried by their comrades where they fell.—Essex Standard. PUSEYISM. (From L'Amide la Re • - . An Eoglis s h newspaper has lttely be 7n as that it was unjust to wtribute .conciliatory opinions to the Oxford seool. and that it has altogether a gratuitous assumption, that the learned divines of that so justly celebrated University bad any desire to see the Anglican Church make any approaches to the Roman Catholic Church. Ia reply to this rash declaration we proceed to cite, without. any comment, a letter recently addressed to the Rev. Norbert Woolfrey, whose solid discourses have during the month of S.:rember last bcea listened to with interest by a great number of the English in the Church of St. Peer de Chi!lot at Paris:— , "As you wish me to sand you some information re specting the Pusnyites, and I have just now some par ticulars to communicate which will be highly gratifying to you, I have made up my mind to send you the fol lowing lines : " Aboat 10days ago two Puseyite clergymen dined with us in the refectory, in company with Dr. Pagani, Mr. Furlong, and Mr. Pniliips. Oae of these was Me. Bloxam#, of Oxford ; the other, whose namet I have forgotten, is an officiating minister at Lichfield, a very amiable man, of great piety and profound learning, He is of a very good family. Last Sunday he taught the Ave Maria to the school chil Iron in his church. He said grace with us after dinner, made the sign of the cross, took some holy wt ter on entering the church, prostrated himself to adore the holy sacrament in the tabernacle, and did this a second time on approaching the high altar. Mr. Bloxham was more reserved with respect to these outward demonstrations for several good reasons which Mr. P. explained to me afterwards. To return to the clergyman from Lichfield ; he several times spoke of his Confessor :in short he is quite a Cathol;c. He told me that it was a great pity that Mr. O'Con nell had not made use of his inflaeace while the Whigs were in power to obtain a bishopric for some Puseyite clergyman, and added, We would have sent him to Rome to arrange matters with the Pope.' I answered, what would you do if the bishops were to refuse their consent ? We would compel them,' he replied, by a pressure from without.' (Nous les y contraindrous, repondit-il, par une force exterieure.) And what do you con ceive would be the principal obstacle to this re-union ? ' His answer was, The State.' He did not, however, appear to think that the Queen would make any great difficulty about giving up her supremacy. N With respect to the celibacy of the clergy, he told me that they had all made up their minds ; only it was hoped that the Pope would not compel those who were already married to put away their wives, wad then they would be bound to leave certain of the sacerdotal func tions to be performed by unmarried priests. They are, moreover, he assured me, well disposed to submit to re ordination subconditione, all the time asserting his own belief that their present order was valid _ "At his list visit this clergyman from Lichfield brought with him a young man, the son of a Protestant clergyman, who was on the point of setting out for Rome to read there, preparatory to taking holy orders. They both came to us into the fieldS, where the harvest was going on. They told us that the Pope had written a very paternal letter encouraging them to persevere in their endeavours ; and further assured us that among the Protestant clergy a great number were complete Jacobins, and rather heathens than Christians. As for them,' this clergyman added, ' as soon as the re union shall have been effected, we will send them about their business (` Nous les renverrous') as well as all those who refuse to join us (ainsi que tout ceux, qui rcfuseront de so joindre a nous')." In order to show our readers how this Catholic movement in the bosom of the Anglican Church is ap preciated at Rome, we will transcribe a few words of the Learned Abbe De Luca, Editor of " Annales des Sciences Religieuses." " There is no need to go over again the doctrines maintained by the new school of theology in the Uni versity of Oxford, which is called after the name of its leader, the School of Pusey.§ We have several times enumerated the remarkable concessions made to the Catholies by this rising generation of Protestant theo logians, either more open or better informed, than their predecessors. We have even mentioned the Tracts for the Times,' published periodically by the partisans of the new doctrines There can be no doubt that it is the intention of the celebrated Professor Pusey to bring about, if he and his party can muster strengat enough, the reunion of the two churches of Eoglacaand Rome. * The Rev. J. Blozam, Fellow of Magdalen College. -1- The Rev. F. D. Wackerbarth, who has recently joined the Church of Rome. His " Tuba Concordise" is mentioned in the course of the letter. This gentleman is probably Ambrose L. Phillips, Esq., Lord Shrewsbury's correspondent. He became a Romanist some 15 years ago. § Mr. Newman is the real leader of the party, not Dr. Pusey, who has no more right to give a name to it, than Ame • ricus Vespasius had to give a name to the new world. PUSETISM. TO THE MOST RETEREND FATHER IN GOD, HIS GRACE THE LORD ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, PRIMATE OF ALL ENGLAND AND METROPOLITAN. We, the subscribed, lay inhabitants of Cheltenham and devoted Episcopalians, regarding with dismay the recent development of the views inculcated by the tuthors of the " Tracts for the Times," venture to ad dress sour Grace, as the chief ecclesiastical guardian of the Church of Chaim. in England, persuaded that many of tteir writings are utterly repugnant to the Word of _God, at variance with the plain meaning of the Arti cles, Liturgy, and Homilies of the Church of England, and contain the essence of many of the most fatal errors of the Church of Rome. We therefore humbly entreat your Grace to take such measures as to your Grace may seem most advisable for the Episcopal Bench to declare, authoritatively, their uni'ei disapprobation of those opinions, which have already been separately condemned by many of the Bishops at their triennial visitations, as we doubt not they would have been by the remainder, bad similar oc casions pres..noed themselves. We do not pre.ume to dictate to your Grace, but pres:mt our request in solemn earnestness!, as to one to whom the charge and oversight of the flock of Christ in this rcatm has been committed by the Chief Shep herd and Bishop of our souls. We, the subscribed, with every sentiment of respect, humbly beg to declare ourselves your Grace's most obedient and fa'thful servants. Lambeth, Dec. 24, 1841. GENTLEMEN—I have to ackno•nledge the receipt of your letter •ot the 23d of this month, accompanied by an address very numerously signed by many of the laity of Chdtunit:im, and I beg to essurc you, that in compliance with the wish expressed by the petitioners, I shad give my grave con:ideratioa to this document. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your most obedient. servant, John Lewis, Esq., &c. W. CANTUAR. ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY.—The first meet ing for the season was held on Saturday afternoon, the Right Hon. Sir Alexander Johnson, Bart., in the Chair. A letter waa-read from Captain Newbold on the ancient mounds of scoriated ashes in Southern India. Many conjectures had been made as to their origin, and amongst others it was considered that they were the re sult of volcanic action. The improbability of this was, however, pointed out, - .as there was even no vestige of volcanic action in the neighbourhood. Many of- these burrows were of some extent, one, which was mea sured, being of the dimensions of 34 yards by 29. It %vas the author's opinion that they were ashes princi pally of slave, or of those slain in the bAtt!e-field, which was also interestingly confirmed by the fact, that on analysis they , were found to contain largely phospho ric acid. . Sacrificial rites with human bodies were prat-. tised by the ancient Hindoos on a very large scale, to propitiate success in war, agficultnre, &c. On one occa sion it is recorded that no fewer than 1,000 human sacri fices were offered, and in another instance 1,000 ele phants and an equal number of sheep. Th e Ilindoos were,however, not the only people characterised by human sacrifices, as the same was practised by the ancient Druids only a few centuries before the Great .lified, by the nomades of Tartary, and in some of the ceremonies of Greece and Rome. The practice still exists amongst the Komis, from which it is likely, how ever, to be rooted out, by the vigorous measures of Lord Elphinstone. In the course of a subsequent conversation it wa:; stated that there were no of volcanoes, either active or extinct, to be met with Between the Himalaya :nonntains and Cape Cormorin. front of common souseugg agseo of the misery it has insult ani l ia ' p A p T il A y L gr - 1 0 ‘ 1 7 n :D i E n N i T rite o n N sit 7 GREAT WEST ERN RIILNYA.Y.—With such ; examples before us, each for human beings to caused, can - any it is the best place for t the much as to call it the safest—place train is a fit—for mweansilaly,ntohta be pat ? We can conceive that the pockets of a Company, who ma y have to pay for the goods they may damage on the ways and not for the lives they may destroy ; but unless in the greater - risk to life and limb, we can see nothing to be gained by the pas sengers, and we seriously hope, if the Companies do not one and all take warning by ate c alamitous event just happened, and provide better for the poorer public, that the Legislature will do it for them. The public pay for a safe conveyance, and have a right to it, and they who attempt to prejudice that right, ar e as much enemies to the railways as they are to th e pu blic. For our part we have always upheld railways, as the safest of all modes of transit hitherto invented, and we feel our indignation rising when we see it affected by ignorance or wilful ness, or dogmatic pertinacity in favour of absurd or dan gerous practices. We do not mean to say that accidents would be totally prevent e d by running passengers' trucks behind the goods—f or the Null and Selby acci dent rises up before us as a p ro of that carelessness may frustrate the wisest P• 1 ans---but we say, that the elements of accidents are more nurnerons in front than in the rear of a train, and that it is no less the interest than the duty of every Company to give their c ustomers the safest place their conveyance admits of.—flailivaY Magazine. AN EMBRYO CONSERVATIVE. —A young gentleman was asked the other day if his father was not giving him a liberal education. o No, indignantly re plied the young cockatrice, ‘. My father is not giving ine - d Liberal; education ;-h e i s g iving me a Conservative 1 education, Sir.' HANOVER. i I The following is the text of th A l lres preserved I to ,the King of H ,hover by the two Cn.9au ers of the St •Jes, as we n:n - e - itiaeed a feN de.l,s ago Tne faithful SA'C3 unite with your Majesty in sincerely deploring the great loss which their auew.e. Sovereign and all his faithful Hanoverians, have expe rienced in the death of her late Majesty the Queen. They honour the just grief which has prevented your Majesty from personally pointing out to your faithful States the duties of their important vocation, and which has pre vented them front having the happiness of con-vincing themselves of the state of the precious health of your Ma jesty. Respectfully convinced that only motives of the first importance could have to so hasty a convoca tion, the faithful States of the Kingdom have readily assembled round the- throne of your Majesty. The more they are numerous, in spite of the difficulties oc casioned by the supreme order of the sth November of this year, as also by the extension given to paragraph 196. of the law of the Constitution of the country, the more they are confident of meriting the good graees of your Majesty. The faithful States intreat your Majesty to accept their respectful thanks for having called upon them to exercise the rights and duties attributed to them by the Constitution, in deciding upon matters so important as justice and administration, which have in part been waiting their accomplish men t f or se lera l years ; and the States also acknoevledge the necessity of giving their attention in particular to those new ways of communication which open such valuable sources of nat;onal prosperity, and the development of intelligence. Every lover of his country must have viewed iv ith satis faction, during the late embarrassments, the national force and union displayed by the Princes and people devoted to Germany, in firmly defending its honour and its safety against the common danger with which it was threatened. The faithful States animated by such sen timents, after a conscientious examination of the de mands which may be addressed to them, will zealously contribute by their constitutional co-operation to the fulfilment of the obligations of your Majesty, which are stipulated in the military constitution of the Germanic Confederation, well persuaded, as they are, on the other hand, that the force of the States does not reside alone in the force of armies, and that they ought to regard themselves as called upon to take into consideration all the means necessary for diminishing the burdens of subjects. Above all things they address the most ar dent prayers to Heaven that the Almighty may pour his blessings on the head of your Majesty and on the country, and that he may still grant many years to their august Monarch, for the happiness of the brave Hanoverian people, whose unshaken devotion for the father of their country was so gloriously shown in recent circumstances. They add their sacred promise that, conformably with their oath, they will faithfully fulfil their duties, having no other object in their discussions than the inseparable welfare of their King and their country, and they will use every effort to strengthen more and more the bonds of confidence established be tween the Government of your 111 tjesty and the people, remaining, with the most profound respect, your Ma jesty's very humble and very faithful States-General of the Kingdom." T►,e Leipsic Gazelle says that this address was sent to the King, his Majesty having refused to receive it by the medium of a deputation, on account of his being in mourning, and that, in consequence of this, no reply from the Crown will be given to it. The document was signed by the Prince Royal and all the Members of both Chambers. It ivas said that his Royal Highness and two Members of the First Chamber added to their sig natures the mention that they had voted against this address. THE BItAGANZA STEAMER. We have received from the Directors of the Peninsu lar and Oriental Steam Navigation Company a counter statement to the letter which was recently published in The Sun by some passengers in this vessel when she was forced back to Falmouth. This document is in the form of a letter from the Se cretary of the Company; the following facts, extracted from it, will sufficiently answer the object in view:- 1. It is stated that previously to the publication of the passengers' statement, some of those whose names appear to it had made claims on the Company, accompanied by threats of publication, under the head of tavern expenses, &c., which, being altogether unusual under such circum stances, the Directors refused to accede to. 2. That the boilers of the Braganza were not defec tive; that they had only been in use 18 months (the average duration of boilers being four years); that the accident was occasioned by tho breaking of some of the stays which secure the boilers, and, was caused by the violent pitching of the vessel in the heavy gale which she encountered; that the boilers are now being secured, and the vessel will be in an efficient state for service in the course of a few days. To refute the statement of the deficiency of the boilers, official Reports and certificates of the Surveyors of the Admiralty, and of the engineers and Marine Superin tendant of the Company are given. And ire contradiction of the assertion that this Company were in the habit of sending to sea vessels " wholly unfit," and that "an effi cient con trol over the proceedings of this Company" is want ing. a clause in the Company', contract with the Govern ment is quoted, to the following effect : And that the said Commissioners shall also have full power, whenever, and as often as they may deem it re te, to survey, by any other of their officers or agents, ail and every the vessels employed, and to be employed in the performance of this contract, and the hull thereof', the engines, machinery, furnicure, tackle, apparel, stores, and equipment of every vessel, the said vessels to be opened in their hulls, whenever the said offieers may re- quire." • The Secretary then proceeds with his statment, as follows : No vessel can be, or ever has begin, placed in this ser vice, even for a temporary period, without having been previously submitted to the examination of the Admi ralty surveyors, and approved of by the Lords Commis sioners of the Admiralty. In lamenting, therefore, the want of " an efficient control over the proceedings of this and other Companies,"it is tolerably clear that these pas sengers were offering an opinion on a matter of which they knew very little ; and that this control, combined, perhaps, with the very obvious motives which the Direc tors of the establishment have for maintaining the repu tation of its vessels in the public estimation, has not been ineflictual in guaranteeing both the regular performance of the mail service and the " personal security" of pas sengers, the two following facts will, I have no doubt, convince every unprejudiced mind : The. vessels of this Company have been employed four years and three months in carrying on the mail service between England and the Peninsula. They have had to start punctually on a certain day every week, and in all seasons of the year, and have to make their passages, both going and coming, across the Bay of Biscay, so long noted hitherto for its dangers. They have, during this period, which in cludes five winter seasons, made 444 passages, forming a total of near 700,000 miles. Out of these 444 passages there have only six instances occurred in which the ves sels put back ' • two of them were in consequence of hull damage, and four from damage to machinery, and none of them were productive of any injury further than the interruption ofa week in the regular course of the mails. This is my first fact. The second is, that since the foun • dation of this establishment as the " London and Dub lin Steam Company," which subsequently extended it self into the " Peninsular Company," in 1837, and since September, 1840, has been incorporated as the " Penin sular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company" for ex tending steam communication to the East Indies, the original proprietors continuing still to be the largest holders of its stock, and retaining a full share in its di rection, upwards of 200,000 passengers have been con veyed in their steam•vessels without the loss of a single or causing a personal injury of any kind by acci dent. Can any land conveyance produce a parallel to this ? The two cases of the Wilberforce and Itoyt.l Tar, to which these gentlemen refer with an apparent air of triumph, may be very shortly disposed of. The Wilberforce, a vessel approved by the Admiralty, encountered last winter a tremendous gale Of wind on her outward passage, and was in consequence thereof; together with an attempt of the Commander to succour a vessel in distress, detained at Vigo for repairs, and was therefore a week longer in arriving at Lisbon, but whence she took home in regular course the return mail. The Royal Tar, in her last homeward passage, having also sustained the violenee of the heavy gales which have lately been so prevalent, both on her outward and home ward passages, sprang a leak, but of so unimportant a nature that only two passengers and the Admiralty agent on board, beside the Commander and officers,•were cog nizant of it ; she brought the mails in regular course. The story of the passengers baling out the water with their hats is really too ridiculous for grave notice. The Royal Tar is nearly 800 tons burden, and her depth of hold being 18 feet 4 inches, it would require each hatful of water to be brought up a 19 feet ladder to reach the deck, thence to be carried to the ship's side fbr ejection, and to descend again by the same lengthy process for repletion. It h a s been reported that an " old sailor," at Falmouth, stated this by way of " hoax." I do not know that such was the fact, but I mention it from its probability in accounting for so absurd a state ment, and in extenuation of it, although-this, and the mixture of hardihood and ignorance evinced by the assertion that the vessel was going fire knots an hour, against a head gale, with only seven revolutions a minute, together with the repeated reference to the working of the pumps, and which was merely to put water into the boiler, scarcely admits of an excuse. This Company, so far from having shrunk from the due execution of their snail contract, which was obtained by them in the face of a public competition, have actu al-1y furnished vessels of an aggregate power of 500 horses over and above what their contract requires —five vessels of 140 horse power each, in all 700 horses, whereas the power of the vessels employed amounts to 1,200 horses. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, JAMES ALLAN, Secretary. Peninsular and Oriental Steam-Navigation_Dec._Company's. offices, No. 51, St. Mary-axe, London, 23. ------ A CASE OF DISTRESS.—I visited a distressed family the other night, brought to destitution through the man being out of empl oyment . A s i n many otaer cases, the bailiffs had taken all they had. They mere living in a damp cellar 'with a l a rge coll ec ti on o f stagnan t water at the dour. There was the man, his wife, and three children; but one stool was their only furniture; a few crusts of bread, which the woman had begged, their only stock of food; and two bundles of straw on the floor, without a shred of a sheet, blanket, or cover, was the only bed for the night.—The Struggle, a spirited little Anti , Corn-law paper publishe4 at rre4tOnt I STATE OF THE 1101SICY AND LACE TRADES. (Froea ; :e'vetie z t ; eeie Mle ilea:end ter pi .;;.+ iTehiii ace by no iii ic4IIS keeps pace with the • supply, whicb is itic: - e isin t e, it is said iiv persons who have the best ineaus of kiioxing, to an extent which is pregnant with ruinous consequencee. Tile number of machines worked by power are about equal in the Wcs:ern and Midland counties ; and we believe both are suffering from the want of demand. In this state of affairs common prudence says that to avoid an extensive stoppage, it would be wise for the factory owners to work only half hours. A total stoppage would be fatal indeed to the workmen, espe cially in the Midland counties, who have in general no other employment to resort to. We have heard as yet but of four power factories on the Continent, viz, one tel St. Quentin, consisting of sixty-seven machines, one et Douay, employing twenty-three machine?, one at Hattlia, in Saxony, employing eleven machines, and one at Litterwitz, in Moravia, containing about 14.5 machines. These factories do not require English hands, only as setters-up, or overlookers, women being employed in many of them. A considerable hosiery firm in this town, have given notice to their workmen that they intend to reduce the prices for making full-wrought cotton hose from six pence to two shillings per dozen, according to quality. This has caused a considerable sensation in the villages north of Nottingham. A meeting was held at Arneld on Monday, which appointed a deputation to wait upon the house in question, as many of the hands, contrary t expectation, seemed determined to strike, and, ac cording to the usual custom in that branch, bring in their frames to the warehouse. Upon hearing this the hesier retroeradel from his original purpose, a n d proposed to only' abate one description of hose 3d. per dozen, but the wary manufacturer artfully pro posed that the workmen should increase their hose in width half a size, which is nearly equal to a shilling per dozen in fine stockings. Such is th e s t a te o f exc it ement that a meeting of delgates from the numerous villages in which this manufacture is carried on, is called to meet next Monday at noon, at the Cross Keys, in Bayard lane. Another meeting, we understand, is called at the Nag's Head, Mansfiell-road, at the same time of the hands who work for the house proposing the reduction. So great has been the gradual encroaching peeulations of the hosiers in respect of the size and width, than three whole sizes have been imposed on the workmen since 1821 A report has reached us, of the intention of establish ing a power lace factory in the United States, and we have heard that some parties have an intention of form ing a joint-stock-lace manufactory at Patterson, where there are already some considerable cotton factories, the capital to consist of 600,000 dollars, to be subscribed in shares. The project is to build 200 power bobbin net machines, a factory to contain them, and a spinning and doubling establishment, to supply the machines with thread ; the whole is to be propelled by water, Patter son being admirably situated, having a constant supply and fall of w a t er f or any purpose. It is certain, that a master smith in this town has stated that he has been °Geed 4004 per annum to superintend the erection of the lace machinery. It is grievous to state, that there is no visible im provement iu the drawer, glove, plain silk hose, or knotted branches. It is as mysterious to know what has become of one part of the workmen, as to conjecture haw the others manage to exist. A very singular lot of frames was offered by auction, by Mr. W. Wright, at the Plough and Harrow, con sisting of a number of frames from Godalming, in Surrey ; many of them arc more than 120 years old. Among the rest, we were sorry to observe the cele brated frame " Magog," the widest stocking-fraMe in the world, it being 54 inches on the needles. This giant frame was built by Mr. Horton, the noted pa tentee, in London, about the year 1777. It was ori ginally a knotted frame, and was calculated to make silk breeches, then in the height of fashion. About the year 1790, Mr. Horton being a partner, it was removed to the Keeley factory, Godalming, where it made fleecy blankets and great coats until the year 1838, a period of 48 years. So great was the width, that the London giant frightened all the Nottingham purchasers. and there was never a bid for poor old Magog. When. this is known, " half Godalming will be in tears," as he is known to be a " reglar good-un." The sale of these frames shows the vicissitude of human affairs. Though the stocking-frame was invented at Calverton, yet stocking-frames were worked in Godalming before they were in Nottingham, as in 1665 there was only ono shop in the place. In the reign of Anne there were nearly as many stocking-frames in Godalming, Guild ford, and 17 villages round, as in London. DREADFUL SITUATION OF THE COUNTRY. (From the British Queen.) Our readers must be aware that we do not rank among those who, since the late change in the Go vernment of this country, have been proclaiming distress and starvation throughout the land, from mere party motives, in order to accomplish party purposes. O n th e contrary, we have been willing to believe that distress was not generally prevalent, and that although money might bear a high rate of in terest, still there eras work as well as wages for the working man. We were sorrowfully mistaken in the sober view which we took of the matter ; for if we may trust to the personal information of a gentleman who has had ample means of knowledge upon the subject, the country was never in a more distressed condition, nor the working man more shorn, not of the comforts, but of the necessaries, of life. In Paisley and in Glasgow, the weaver is cut down, with a wife and family of eight children, to 4s. per week— in Stockport, one-third of the shops are to be led-- four thousand houses arid cottages are in the same plight ; while, four years ago, there was neither house nor shop to be had ! The mills are shut up, and the cotton-spinning, the skirting, the printing, and the yarn trades, are almost extinguished. Of Black burn, Bolton, and Rochdale (a great flannel manu foctory), we can give no better account. Their facto ries are either a matter of great loss, or they are shut up—tire same expenses being incurred ; but, instead of a profit of 50/. per week, there being a loss of 2001. ! Of course, we speak of firms of considerable import ance ; hut, as an additional confirmation of what we have stated upon the best authority, we may add that a large house in the city was compelled, in consequence of the oppressed state of trade, to sell at 3d. a yard under prima cost, and at the same time to give notice to the manuf2cturer that they could not furnish any further orders for goods, unless the price was reduced billow that amount of loss! In other inbtinces, where the benevolence of the manufacturer induces him to keep his mill open, three days' work only are allowed ; but even these three days are allowed simply because the manufacturer hopes for better times, and the machinery in his mills would rust and be rendered valueless by a cessation of its em ployment. We have gathered these facts, as we have men tioned, not from exaggerated newspaper reports, but from practical men, who are fully aware of the truth of what they have stated to us ; and what, we ask, is the cause of this dreadful state of things, and what the remedy ? The cause is easily to be found in the laws which impose unnecessary taxes upon the people, and injudicious restrictions upon our domestic and foreign trade ; the remedy, in the reduction of tie one, and modification or abolition of the other. It is therefore with an earnestness which we trust will not be undervalued, that we aro anxious to press upon Sir Robert Peel's attention an inquiry into every portion of our comm erc i a l co d e , an d t h e most judicious mode of making such alterations in it, as without materially damaging existing interests, may give that free course to trade which is the only foundation of its prosperity. We are not the advocates of violent changes either in the Constitution or in the liws which regulate either our external or internal trade ; but it is as clear as the sun at noonday that this country is in a most distressed condition, and that great changes must be made, in order to enable us to meet the dangerous competition of foreigners. In our island position—in our coal and iron and other mines—in our facilities of internal and external communications, we hate means of wealth unsurpassed in the world, and it only requires a ma9ter mind to encourage them not only to retrieve past errors, but still to maintain & g l an d i n the which pos has tion existedof being the greatest commer c i a l empor i um either in ancient or mo d ern t i mes. i CORONER'S INQUEST. ni . l6t in, 1 , 1,_•,* was h('-ad at the Edinburgh ( Str:(. , ;(l, on t:!, h,(l . y (3 t._:!a'rotte Clos-(,:n, aged 6 3 . Mrs. i),i,o(-ali Jul( ,;((o. 3i, 'Xi:he llart-street, Drury' 1:1;10 said that she met the cle.,Tased aceident.dly abut three weeks ago. She was talking to a person witneS l knew. She stated that she was very hungry, when, witness took h er h ome . an d gave h er a cup of tea an some bread and butter. She called to see witness at her tea-time several times since. On Saturday she calkd again, when she appeared almost in a dying state, and she stated that she had not had anything to eat all that day. She could scarcely hold her cup of test and witnes3 thought every moment she was there she would die. Witness offered her a red-herring to eaf when she stated that she was too far gone to cat. Wit'ness then observed to her that a person in her state 0110 8 to go to the workhouse. During the conversation she observed that she knew Mr. Short, proprietor of So' merset House Tavern, Strand. Witness and her sister had led deceased as thr as the passage to take her there/. when she died in their arms. By the CORONEkt—I sent to the deceased's sister, who lives in Tipper Bland-street, a letter on the SaturdaYt in which she was told that the deceased was dying from want. The letter was returned, and some pieces of printed paper were pasted on it, to the following effect Peat' tent sinner ! On ear th to-(lay, to-morrow in hell. Seek pardon—delay not." When she read the cot , ' tents she was almost immediately seized with death. Witness has since seen the sister, who stated that the' deceased left her husband thirty-five years ago with two children, and that she had been frequently relieved by them. She was brought to the state she was in owing W. her own misconduct. Other witnesses %were examined, when it appeared that she was bequeathed 500/. at her father's death, and that she had been supported by her family, from whom she had alienated herself by her own misbehaviour. Verdict—That deceased died from want, brought 00 by her own stubborn temper. TH Ships arri E COAL M ived since LRKETS. A RKET. last marKet day, 10, Buddle's West Hartley., Cr, es tor Main NVylam Walls End Brown's Walls End Clark and Co. S. I 16 01Walls End Hedley ....... 2O u 17 Oralls End Geange 3 18 16 ( Walls End Stewart's 8 0 Walls End Tee% Hetton 27 ... 16 01Blythe l5 " COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. Barley. Oats. Beans. Pease. 6. to S. 46 3 - 5 i 0 35 3 4 a. d s. d• 0 0 i ii 0 t., 56 0 0 9 u 10 4 9 0 N. 9 0 14. 8 0 14. Wheat. Per Quarter Carlisle Hexham Morpeth 1 Penrith Sheffield — 66 Winchester 62 68 Per Bushel. ,s. d. s. d. I Carmarthen 7 0 81 , Cowbritige . 7 6 80, iwansea • J 7 6 8 ii Per 8011. Barnardcastl 16 0 19 0 8 9 9 0 Durham 'l2 6061 8 6 901 Richmond l2 6 IS 0 10 0 11 Stockton l5 0 19 6 9 0 9 NEWCASTLE COA s. to s. 53 73 Cf) 70 5t (6 s. to s. 33 36 39 30 32 27 ;..1) s.d. s.d. 00 40 00 4 1 40 4 4 S. to s. •3 28 19 kt 20 26 s. d. s. d. 00 23 0 0 3 0 26 301 S. to 8. 46 40 42 - 40 42 s. d. s. d 56 0 0 50 53 56 60 1 40 7 4 9 6 110 59 69 ' 00 1116 60 7410 0 12 0 6 0 7 0 9 0 11 6 __N EXCHANGE. Red. White. Wheat, Northurolserland s4s. 665. sss. ass.' --- Norfolk and Suffolk 6ss. 683 Ms. 70s. Berwick and Scotch 503. 645 . ' 545. 665. Foreign 663 705....... Os. Th. Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk Foreign 363 42s —s. —s. Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk... 31s. 35s —s. —s. - Grinding and Feeding 'as 3,13. Malt, Norfolk and SurfOlk 1.`,63 60s. —e. —.T. Beaus, Small 4os 445....... —s. --a. Tick 4os. Cs. - - Pease, White 42s 445.. ••• ...4. ••••••-•-• D ray . • 32s 345. ...11. --4. Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe 2ts. 26s -.41. .--F. ••••••••••• --•-••••••••-•-•-....• Feed Foreign - s Flour (per sack) 439. M SCOTCH MARKETS. Wheat. Barley. Oats. . Beans. Oster' --- -- ----- --!-----,- ---- -':,, 4bcrdeen —. 60 to 70 28 to 29 15 to 21 —to 33 to Berwick 35 45 15 23 15 21 130 35 ,3 1 0 , e, oldstream 4O 52 22 24 17 19 128 30 28 5' Cupar (Fife' 48 65 126 31 18 22 121 26 —•-• ' Dunbar.. Elgin Inverness Kelso . ...., 35 47 17 '24 16 18 30 32 • Kirkaldy Perth 6O 37 30 40 25 35 41 -44 fr,". The size of the measure varies throughout the country. i - lADDINOFON CORN MARKET. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Berns 1 pease. First G93 Cid 34s Od 265 831 42s Od —s Od Second 5B: Od 293 i d 233 Od 31s Od —3 0_ ~ i ' Third Los Od 2is Od 21s Od 30 3 Od • --S' 09 Average 2/. 17, 113.9.1210,. GLASOO NV CORN Al! RKET. Wheat, per 2401 b. s. d. s. d. Oat?, per 2641 b. 3. d. 1 - ( f, 6ritish, (Ad 3lO to 37 6 lri.b l7 oto 21v ------ new — 0 O British l9 0 20 ° amide, free 0 0 Beans, per 26010. Irish Barley, per 32010. Scottish 21 0 , 0 , English 25 6 27 6 Pe a se, S co tti s h ..... 2.2 6 x,; Sc ottish 2l 0 26 6 Oatme a l, per 1f.01b.... 17,6 Lv 0 Dish - -•---- DALKEITH CO: Wheat. ' Mar cy. Firgi 6O, Oa 338 Od Second 598 Od 20s fd Third 2Ss Od 224 Od , RN MARKET. lOats. Peaxe. Besn'• 25s 44 :8, Od 38s OA 22, Si 111 35< Od 351 12s Od I 32s Cd I 32 6d HAMBURG MARKETS. GRAIN. Wneat, Matks 420 to 519 Barley, Mecklenbargh 1 . '2 to 1-- Magdeburg 3!-tti to 525-- Magdeburgh... 177 to t': • Anima, while 444 to 525 1 ---- Holstein ------ red .., ;i93 to 525 --- Odeibruck 1-5 . 'l6B to .„ ---- Brunswick 420 to :.12 O a t s , Eid er -- Mecklenburg.. 378 to 519 -- Mecklenburg Mecklenburg -- Polish 456 to :46 -- Holstein l :3 to 'T3 -- Holstein - U p l an d ' ‘ u. Rye, Mecklenburg .... 246 to 2SBiPoase, Mecklenburg 43 ---- M. rks 258 to 302 Beans 258 to 2- -- Elbing and Ku_ Buck Wheat 231 to 05 nigsburg tie ' O 4 to 236 Rapeseed, Hanover -- Pomeranian 246 to 124: Malt 7 0 • -- Anhalt corroN. Carolina and Tennessee 7 1 41.0 9% Marnham 6% tot Qeorgia, let soil 7% 7 M a d ras s } sl b.. 2d 6 14 6% Surati„ 3d and 4th .., 5} ( , t4 Domingo t 5 6 COF FEE. Heel's., 13 to 13% Denting° Batavia Sumatra l'urto Rico 5% 7 %. Rio :.;4 5 l lavannah 4 . • Bahia . ... .. (Wit' 1-Tavannah, White :1 to fi % Brown 24, 2% Rio, White 2' 7B 4 Brown Manilla. Brows 8% Discount.) ' Bahia, White • Frown 116 Pernambuco, White l% Brown I% 2% to 24 ~. . " MADAM E DE S EVIGNE AND HER (.;014# TEMPORARIES."—The work tinder the above title, is jug now most seasonably produced, for a more attractive new year's gift to a lady need hardly be required. Th e Literary Gazette observes,----" To all who are not familiar, with the mass of French memo i rs , these sketches will furnish much amusing food, tending to illustrate a cell' tury of such social exhibition as the Court and aristo cracy of France produced from the time of Richelieu to the date of a hundred years ago. These biographic; are always characteristic, often personally curious, and historically instructive ; and the brilliant epigrams! jeuz d'esprit, &c. which sparkle over the whole, g ive thc work a piquancy likely to render it exceedingly popular. DEAFNESS.--Solllld Magnifiers, and Invisible Operative Voice Conductors, to enable persons at an advanc-el age, and of old standing extreme deafness, to join in gener* conversation, and to catch the sound of a distant low speike f at a publie assembly; they are th e s i ze o f a very small g old seven shilling piece, and when in the cavity of the ears, Abel . are not in the least perceptible nor more uncomfortable lbg! having a small piece of fine wool in its 'place ; they arc compose" , of a metal to collect sound, peculiar to the Messrs. S.. and 13 ' Solomons themselves ; and although they are so extremely wall yet they enable those afflicted with extreme, deafness, and, those who are only slightly dull of hearing to hear in e very respect equal to those of most acute bearing. Messrs. S. ate B. Solomons, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, opp o site the York Hotel, and 76, King William-street, City. Newly-Invente d Spectacles, immediately they are placed before imperfect visions . either by day or candlelight, that mist and. dullness wlijC h appears before the eyes is at once removed, every object beer ming clear and distinct ; so that the most aged defective eye.sight be: comes bright and brilliant, and is brought to its yoithibl, natura l and original state. Those valuable inventions hive gained th e patronage of th e R oyal Family, and the unmial fi ed approbation 01 above 400 of the principal members of the medical profession, an d numerous individuals of high distinction, who have been grail,' benefited by their use. To be had only at 39, Albemayle.stree t, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel, and 7fl, King William.stree City.—No connexion with persons of the same name. . SILVER PLATED CORNER DISHES. -- A. B. SAVORY and SONS, Manufacturing Silversmiths, 14 ' Cornhill, London, oppos i te t h e B ank of England, submit 11 1 prices of th e f o ll ow i ng patterns of strongly-plated CORNIO7 DISEIES, with silver ha n dl es an d e d ges , an d s il ver s hi e ld, engraving the crest or coat of arms : The Gadroon Pattern. The Flower Pattern. Fou , strongly-, lated cor Four extra strongly ner Dishes and Covers ....CIO 10 plated Corner Dishes Four cxtrs strongly.pl a t d an d Covers Corner Dishes aildt overs I'2 N.B. The Covers are made with moveable handles so that they form extra dishes. Drawings of the above are forwarded to any part of Great Britain or Ireland, postage free. B IRTHS. On the 3d i ns t., at Larkhill, near Liverpool, the Hon. Mrs , Richard Denman, of a son. On the 9th ult., at Malta, Mrs. L. Dickson, of a daughter. On the 3d inst., at Harley-street, Cavendish-square, the lady of Lieutenant-General Sir Lewis Grant, of it daughter. NEW MODE OF PLAYING TRAGEDY.—On Saturday night last, the domestic tragedy of George Barnwell, and other entertainments, were played at our theatre to an audience cons i st i ng of about twenty people, and played in a style which, we will wager a trifle, never was and never will be equalled on any stage in her Ma jesty's dominions —several of the performers reading their parts from books or manuscripts, and the greater part of the tragedy being accompanied by the orchestra in a style at once original and appropriate. For instance, when Barnwell makes his passionate protestations of at tachment to Milwood, the tune was " Thee, thee, only thee ;" when she leaves him in a pretended pet, the ap propriate air was " Timugh you leave me here in sor row ;" and when Milwood pretends to be in great grief and tribulation, her sorrows were soothed by the gentle air of " Hush thee, my darling I" Again, when the un fortunate apprentice steals into his uncle's grounds, the band struck up " Meet me by moonlight, alone !"--at the moment the murder was committed, "O cruel I' burst from every instrument in the orchestra—and when Milwood's villany was detected, she led off to the tune of .--------- . . " Off she goes." All this was no doubt highly diverting, DIED. and afforded infinite amusement to the audience, amongst On the 28th ult., at Mertoun, Berwickshire, the Right Ate' whom was the manager himself.— Wh;tehaven Herald. Lord Polwarth, aged 84. On the 29th ult., at G rea t Ealing, H. J. Penn, Esq. • ADELAIDE GALLERY.—Last evenin, S. On the 31st u., at -square, Brompton, Georg e ' Logan, Bs q ., of th e Ph reno l og i ca l Society, delivered an Osgood, Esq., aged Alexand r-s 64. introductory l ec t ure t o a course on Ph reno l ogy, fi xed for On the 31st ult., Mr. P. Jay, of Long Melford, aged 61. succeeding Monday even i ngs . Th e Lecturer, after ha v i ng On the 31st ult., in Tredegar-square, - Bow, Mr. George Far taken a view of the various metaphysical and physiogno- rinjiton, aged 45. Rev. On the h 31st alt., at the Rectory House, Orsett, Essex,. th e 'laical systems of the ancients, described the discovery of phrenology by Dr. Gall, as also the fundamental princi- ; il J ti o le n Frederick Osko, aged 81. pies upon which it is founded. The lectures, if we street, Wes l tn as s t ie , r, M a r g . ed W 7 i o ll . iam Berridge, sen., of Millhank may judge by the attendance and attention of the audi- ence,Ahe novelty of the subject, and numerous illustra- London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUT:4O, tions, promise to be a source of great attraction to the No. 112, Strand, at The Suit. Office, No. 112, Strand, Is visitors of thi s i ns tructing and a mus i ng I nst i tut i on. the County of Middlesex, Tuesday, January 4, 1842. tin the 2d inst., at Brighton, the lady of the Hon. Charles Hanbury Tracy, of a daughter. On the 31st ult., at Glen Cottage, near Southampton, the lady of Joseph J. P. Hoare, Esq., of a son. On the 291 h ult., at M an t on H ouse , near D over, the l a dy o f Digby Murray, EN., of a daughter. On the ht inst., at Walton-on-the-Naze, the lady of Cog' mander Newton, R.N., of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 10th of November last, at Charleston, South Caro' lina, United States, the Rev. J. Obcar, of Vermont, to Joli lt ' youngest daughter of the late T. N. Saffery, Esq., Canterbury; On the Ist inst., a t St. J ames ' s , Pi cca d i ll y, M t. W i ls hi ns Hayes, Middlesex, to Julia, fifth daughter of the Tate Henri Gray, Esq., of Dean's. court, Doctors' -commons, and Still hope-place, Hyde -park. On the 29th ult., at Wharton, Lancashire, F. Pyner, Esq't Captain sth Fusiliers, to Alice Jane, relict of D. Davison , and eldest daughter of John Bolden, Esq., of Hyuing the same county. On the Ist inst., at Woolwich Church, Frederick Davie! • Esq., Upper Gower. street, to Mary Gay, second daughter 0 ' the late Lieutenant-Colonel Payne, of the Royal Artillery. EVENTNG SUN' Till SUN, 1j)141ION' TUESDAY, JANUARY 16442. EVENTING STJ I ILA this poi.; TaN o'cl, N o . —__. ofi they In L i'l7B:__ and. c OM, ho` tutsT no sn own and , Pattel (free Na ant 39; 76,, I; S' Zeir] °Pi In th e 1‘ INvi "which is not the ea able n By its 'Niel ( jesties Hesse! ess t her G th e A Allne 39, In 11 ecesi Estab S . t Pli 'letC Aorta SO L' Cal at cess the o Th rate Men. and tion, disoa