The Sun. — London, England, 1842-01-13 00:00:00

EVENING SUN. T HE EDINBURGH REVIEW ; No. . CL _ . . Will be published ou THURSDAY, the 20th CONTIINTS. I. WHEWELL'S PHILOSOPHY OF THE INDUCTIVE SCIENCES. 1 RUPPELL'S TRAVELS IN ABYSSINIA. 2. LIFE AND WRITINGS- OF THOMAS FULLER. 4. THE KING OF HANOVER AND THE STADE TOLLS. 5. COMBE'S PHRENOLOGICAL ETHICS. 6. CATLIN ON THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 7. THE PICTORIAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND. LORD ALVANLEY ON THE STATE OF IRELAND, AND PAYMENT OF THE CATHOLIC CLERGY. 9. MISS FERRIER'S N OVELS —CORRECTED EDITIONS. 10. FINANCIAL MEASURES OF THE LATE, AND INTEN TIONS OF THE PRESENT, MINISTRY. London: Longman, and Co. Edinburgh: A. and C. Black THE NEW NOVEL. DE MONTF OR T; Or, the OLD ENGLISH NOBLEMAN. In 3 vo!s. post Bvo., IS NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. NEW WORK BY EDWARD HOWARD, ESQ. Just ready, in 3 vols. poet Svo., SIR HENRY MORGAN, THE BUCCANEER. By the Author of " Rattlin the Reefer." " Outward Bound," "Jack Ashore," &c. 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Upper Gallery is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UN 3ER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS, THIS EVENING, JAN. 13, Will be repeated Bellini's Opera of NORMA.—Pollio, Mr. W. Harrison ; Flavius, Mr. Clement White, Oroveso, Mr Lerner ; Adalgisa, Miss Rainforth ; Clotilda, Miss Grant ; and Norma by Miss Adelaide Kemble. After which will be repeated the New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled GUY EARL OF WARWICK ; OR, T-lARLEQUIN AND THE DUN COW. Doors to be opened at half-past Six--the performances to commence at Seiten. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Pri , :e, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Seconi Price. 2s. • Gallery, Is. Ticlets and pl aces f or th e Boxes to be take n of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Tel. till Four. where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had sorely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, New flond-street. To-morrow, Wires ai they were, and Maids as they arc with Guy Earl of Warwick, or Harlequin and the Dun Cow. LOYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGENIENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS TONES. Upwardaof 30,000 persons have witnessed the Pantomime a this Theatre, pronounced the best of the Season. THIS EVENING, JAN. 13. Will be acted a New Domestic Diarna, 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 charac teristic Scenery, splendid Properties, ludicrous and Quaint Dresses, ingenious Tricks, magnificent Panorama by Brun ping, &c. Hai lequin ' M. Huline ; Patch, M. Rochet ; Pan taloon,. M. Lehma n ; Flip, Signor Feliz Carlo ; Clown, Mr. Buckingham ; Columbine, Miss Sharpe. Private and Public Boxes can be had of Messrs. Sams, Ebers, Mitchell, Andrews, and Seguin, during the run of this popu lar Pantomime. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSRALDISTON. Enormous success, and Second Grand Juvenile Week, in con sequence of the thousands of Children that have witnessed the performance of the Pantomime as Second Piece ; and First Week of " Tho Story of Geraldine !" THIS EVENING, JAN. 13, 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 Domestie Drama. After which, a New Grand Romantic Aerial Comic Pan tomime, entitled HARLEQUIN PETER WILKINS; OR, THE KING OF THE AIR AND, THE FLYING IN DIANS.—With new and extensive Scenery, Dresses, Decora tions, Tricks, Transformations, and Effects—A new Nautical Panorama, to be entitled " Our Native Sea-girt Isle !" con sisting of Maritime Views aloe; the Coast of England. Also, a now Grand Dissolving Diorama, by Childe, the Great Illu sionist ; and the Opening of the Pantomime supported by the Comic Talent of this—the Popular Theatre of London. To conclude with THE ILLUSTRIOUS STRANGER.— llowbell, Me. Gardner; Oimbo, Mr. Howard; Aboulifan, Mr. James ; Irza, Mrs. t.ee. Boxes, 2s.—Pit, Is.— Gs.liery, Gd.—Half-price to the Boxes only, at Half-past Eight. THE RAILWAY SUN IS NOW RE-PUBLISHING, PRICE SIXPENCE. THE CHINA SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN 'ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH Sun Office, Jan. 13, 1840. TUE WEATHER.—Noox, JANUARY 13. ROYAL GALLERY OP SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 30 ) Highest...... 41 Lowest 2B Burometer.29.7o.—Wind S.E.—Freezing Point 22 Deg. rilt.M WATER. AT LONDON KRAUSE ' I O_AIOttRO W Morning ..... 29 minutes after 3 I Evening .. 41 minutes after 3 The Publication of the ;Evening Edition of Tax Sun com menced at 10 minutes after Three. * k 4 s ef out 41 4 e 2ry • 4 41,k 1 : 4 , • ' 7" Alt Dt • .4. iit(Wr- "° _ ! ,§un. LONDON: THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1842. If we were not thoroughly convinced that truth and common sense must in the end pre vail over priesteraft, we should begin to despair. for the latter is just now in the ascendant. See ing decrepitude and decay advancing upon it, priestcratt, we are told by one of its admirers, has " called up fresh wants, fresh feelings, a fresh tone of mind, fresh aims and desires, spreading where they are least looked tbr, moving forward in the minds or works of separate individuals, with a strange mixture of union and independence— gradually fastening upon one person after another, orke class after another, one subject after another —theology, philosophy, history, politics—and this with a rapidity almost equally observed on by those who r egard it \vitt' admiration, distrust, or aversion." In the hands . o the priesthood, as a class set apart to educate the community and devote itself to the acquisition of knowkdrre. is . co icon trated touch of th.t 'ear um; o society while it is also master of a that lay kncwiedge which it does not exclusively possess. "fence, now that a necessity has arisen for exertion, to maintain its power it has seized hold of one science alter another ; it has grasped at all the means of influencing the public mind—disdain ing not to use newspapers and penny tracts as aids to the pulpit—which modern art has dis covered, and it uses them all to preserve and extend its dominion. Nor has it been unsuccess ful : it has placed its votaries and slaves in the Cabinet; at least, men have been obliged to pro fess reverence, whether they felt it or not, to obtain political power; and it has secured a firmer hold of all the pecuniary means of educa- Catholic children of Liverpool from the benefit of the Corporation Schools. The immediate re , 'mils of the decision we must tell in the words of the Liverpool Times : Of the hundreds of children who, for the last six years, have been receiving a sound and useful education in the schools, a very large proportion (we believe more Lhan one-half) have already left them, or rather have refused to enter them again. In the North Corporation School there was an average attendance, during the month of December, of 325 boys, and of 259 girls, and we are informed that the attendance yesterday was 173 boys, and only 90 girls, exhibiting a decline of 156 boys And 169 girls ! In the South School we are likewise in formed that the number of boys has decreased from 212 to 115, being a decline of 97. We have no returns as to the state of the North Girl's School, or the Infant Schools, but we understand that the falling off in them is also very great, and they, and all the schools so re cently full of life, happiness, and knowledge, now pre ;ent little better than " a beggarly , account of empty benches." Of the teachers, two in the North School and hree in the South, having refused to take any part in -he attempt to force the consciences of the Roman Ca holic children (supposing that any of them should re .nain in the schools) have been dismissed. This, it must be allowed, is tolerably well for a beginning. Thus, to gratify our Mammon-worshipping ,)riesthood, 4a.) children are at once deprived of he advantages of education, and probably the .vhole 936 will soon be obliged to leave the schools. We regret to see the middle ._!lasses of Liverpool have inflicted this grie vous injury on their poor Roman Catholic neighbours, out of deference to the !)riesthood. The decree proceeds from the rniddle classes, and affects only the lower. It will exclude no gentleman's son or daughter from die advantages of education. It will be regarded ls another class injury inflicted under the in fluence of a priesthood which ought to promote 7eace and good-will on earth ; and it will add to the many sources of alienation already existing )etwixt the middle and lower classes, the bitter ingredient of religious persecution. It is very sad to see even this momentary triumph of bigotry, for we are persuaded that it an be only mometary. It is, however, one of the painful results of the renewed activity of the driesthood which now pervades the whole body, .vh ether they profess HigltChurch or Low Church tenets, and which is now especially directed to obtain a complete control over the education and 'nind of society. The plan of the Trinidad Immigration and Agri cultural Society fbr putting an end to the slave trade in the Brazils and Cuba, to which we -al .uded on Tuesday, is as follows. It is asserted "that 4uch is the fertility of Trinidad that it can pro luce sugar at a cheaper rate than Cuba or Bra zil ; that a cultivation of only one-seventh part ,f the lands held by the Crown would produce more than sufficient for the consumption of Great Britain, and that nothing more is required for the accomplishment of this object, by which the differential duty on sugar would become a dead letter, and the slave trade be extinguished, than the permission of the Government to pro cure labour wherever it can be most advan tageously obtained." These opinions were una nimously adopted at one of the largest meetings ever held in the colony, and express, therefore, the general opinion of the planters, is well as the opinion of the Immigration Corn mittee. After examining the several places where la bour is redundant, and deciding that "no European race will snit as labourers in the co lony—that the Asiatics would answer," they con clude that the natives of Africa are to be pre erred. The Committee, therefore, suggest that t sufficient number of suitable free labourers may be engaged in Africa, and, should that sufficient lumber not be f mnd willing to emigrate, the Com mittee proposes that " some of the unhappy persons held there in bondage should be pur- Thased and manumitted, to be imported into the colony as free labourers. Though the Committee say that the parties ,nanumitted for the purpose of being conveyed to our colonies, would only be removed by their own free will and consent, it is impossible to be lieve that the generous planters of Trinidad Tould purchase slaves and set them free on the chance of their immediately consenting to leave Africa for the unknown land of the white men, to which they are probably aware that their brethren are dragged in chains. Should a per mission to import manumitted slaves be con ceded, it would not be possible to watch the whole coast of Africa, or every slave depot, and not possible for the Governuent which gave the per mission to prevent a multitude of scenes of vio- fence and fraud by which the manumitted would be compelled or seduced on board the planter's ,hip, never again to visit the land of their birtl: Arrived in the colony, the victim of fraud o olence would be perfectly helpless, subject to a rigid contract law, which the Committee call for, and compelled to submit to the salutary yoke of our civilisation, which means that, whereas the free labourers of Trinidad now re ceive for their labour sixpence per hour, they shall only receive, as in Ireland and Tortola, six pence per day. Very generous and kind are the Trinidad planters to the labourers already exist . ing in the colony, and to the new race of manu mitted slaves they are anxious to import ! An objection already made to this new plan of a modified slave trade is that it would give a sti mulus to the internal slave trade of Africa; but the Committee contend that their plan will'dimi nish, and ultimately annihilate, the profits on which the slave trade depends. They say that the production of more sugar in our colonies will keep down the price of sugar, and so diminish the profit of the cultivation of sugar by slaves. They say also that if a hundred labourers be conveyed as freemen from Africa to Trinidad, the same number will generally be found at the end of the year in health and strength; while the same number imported into Brazils ani. Cuba more than one-half will be lost in the first year. Au African lauded at Trinidad would cost only sixty dollars, while a slave cost s a t l east 3,30. The Committee conclude, therefore, that the planters of Trinidad could not only make double the quantity of sugar with the same num ber of imported labourers, but at a greatly re duced ce st. They would furnish sugar abun dantly and cheaply!, so as to lower the profit of the slave owner, and diminish the stimulus to the internal slave trade Visions of mountains of free labour sugar thereupon crowd into the minds of the Tri nidad planters. The planters of Cuba and tion. Its latest triumph has been achieved at Liverpool; its next, probably, , will be on the 3d of February, when its vassals will doubtless say, in the Speech which the QUEEN will read, that an extension of priestcraft is necessary to im prove the morals and the happiness of the people. When the Town Council of Liverpool was composed of Liberals, it reformed the Corpora tion Schools, on the principles which Lord STANLEY adopted when he was a 'Whig—for giving a common education to the Protestants and Catholics of Ireland ; and by allowing the use of extracts from the Bible, in which both Catholics and Protestants agree, instead of in sisting on the whole Bible being read, it opened the Corporation schools to the children of Catho lics. This wise and liberal plan was justified lay its results. The number of children attendifig the schools was 1,570, and of these nearly two thirds, 936, were children of Roman Catholics. The late - municipal elections, by the influence of the priesthood, gave the Tory party a majo rity in the Tam Council, which immediately set about giving effect to the wishes of the priests. One of its first acts, accordingly, was to re commend, through an Education Committee, that " none but the authorised version of the Bible shall be used in schools, and that the same shall be used without restriction and limit." Yes terday week the Report of this Committee was taken into consideration by the Town-Council, and after two amendments had been rejected,its re commendations were adopted by a very consider able majority. Thus theTown-Council of Liverpool, under the influence of that revived and strength ened priesteraft which is the delight of some of our Contemporaries, who in their more vigorous days would have been ashamed of lending them selves to its machinations against the liberties of mankind, has virtually excluded all the Roman Brazil will be, they say, unable to purchase slaves ; the emigration from Africa will all be to the free-labour colonies.; till, finally the natural increase of population in our West Indian colonies will render a further supply pa two to the Company of the Aigle, and two to the )e Company. The number of passengers from England who landed at Ostend from the steam-packets in 1841 was 5,584, and the number of those who embarked, 5,385. In consequence of the treaty of commerce between France and Holland, there were imported into Stras bourg, from 30th September last to the end of December, not less than 287,348 kilogrammes (about 25 tons) of cotton, 49,265 bags of coffee, and 8,031 kilogrammes of indigo. It appears from a statement in the Brussels papers that the materiel of the different Belgian railways at this moment consists of 122 locomotives, 117 tenders, 95 diligences, -179 char-a-bane, 235 waggons for passengers, 854 carriages for goods, and 202 waggons for materiel of the roads, &c. "An .instance of spontaneous combustion occurred," says the Journal de Limhourg, " at Groninguen, on New Year's-day. A woman of 55, much addicted to drink ing, having approached near a fire, her breath, strongly impregnated with alcohol, is supposed to have caused in ternal ignition, and her body was found half carbonised." The Marseilles papers state that the weather is un usually cold and frosty in the south of France. The funeral of the Archbishop of Tours took place in that city with great pomp, a few days ago. All the civil and military authorities, the Archbishop of Bordeaux, the Bishops of Mans and Chalcedonium, with the Vicars- General, formed part of the cortege. Numerous detach ments of troops were on duty upon this occasion. The inhabitants of Toulon have been greatly excited by the following act of sacrilege committed a few nights ago. A man having learnt that two persons belonging to wealthy families had been buried, and expecting that some ornaments of value were interred with them, went in the night to the cemetery with the intent to rob their graves. By some unaccountable mistake, he opened the common fosse, and took up two bodies which were com pletely devoid of anything of value. The other graves were untouched. The Memorial de Rouen relates that the :Captain of a merchant vessel moored off that place some nights since, and who had previously shown decided symptoms of in sanity, being left alone but for a few minutes, mutilated himself in a dreadful manner, rushed from his cabin to the poop, and threw himself overboard. He was imme dLtely almost taken out of the water, but died soon after of his wounds. of people from Africa unnecessary, and the slave trade and slavery will be for ever extinguished. The system is to be attended with another ad vantage; our cruising squadron might be imme diately withdrawn from the coast of Africa, where we have no right to exercise a maritime jurisdiction, and so the planters would be quite at liberty to deal with the manumitted slaves at their pleasure. To our judgment, this is little or nothing more than a legalized kind ofslave trade; and we mar vel at the pertinacity, amounting to a species of monomania in a class or in the race, with which certain ideas or conditions of the human mind fqr ever recur. We have here nearly all the doctrines of the slave-owners substantially reproduced, though disguised under different words. Manumission is substi tuted for the "kind treatment of Christians ;'•' contracts are instead of whips; and the salutary yoke of civilization to be fixed by the Govern ment, is to take the place of the yoke of the in dividual planter. Those who believe, with BACON !id LOCKE, t' at the mind is moulded by impres4 sions on the senses, will be apt to conclude, from this recurrence of ideas, that there is something in tropical climates, or in the state of society already existing there, which inevitably produces a love of slavery, or a conviction that society cannot be maintained without some species of forced and unwilling labour. The irksomeness of toil to a white man is probably the main cause of this state of mind in tropical climates. Besides the moral objections to the Trinidad planters' new scheme, at which we have hinted, we believe that their political economy is at fault. They reason as if the labour of the raw unin structed savages imported from Africa, were at once to be equal to the labour of educated and free men. The assumption is erro neous, and the unskilled imports from Africa would require, in a state of freedom, where the climate invites to case; and where a little labour suffices to obtain subsistence, several years to be coMe decent labourers, if ever that should come to pass. If we do not admire the wisdom, nei ther can we praise the humanity of the Trinidad planters, who desire to swamp the present race of labourers in the colony by a new race, and so reduce them to the degraded condition of the ignorant and newly purchased and manumitted slaves from Africa. We believe that, there is not the slightest chance that the plan of the Trinidad Immigration Society will be carried into effect; and therefore we may spare the serious and eardest protest we are prepared to enter against it. There is now living at Verdun a man 102 years of age, who retains all his mental faculties, and is so strong and active that he takes a walk every day, and, when occasion requires, saws and cleaves his own fire-wood. Ho has been temperate and regular in his habits throughout his life. He is niarried and has a family, is small and thin, and so remerkably upright that no one would believe him to Le older than 80. A few days ago, says the Courrier du Pas de Calais, a soldier of the Ist Regiment of Engineers, who had gone to bed in a violent fever, being thirsty during the night, put out his hand and swallowed the contents of a jug which was near him, and which he supposed to be water. It was unfortuately a mixture of water, chalk, and white lead, which he was in the habit of using for cleaning his accoutrements, and death was the result of his error. The Paris and Dijon mail was overturned, on Friday, between Saint Seine and Val Seizon, in consequence of the road being deeply covered with snow. It required eleven horses to drag it out, and the vehicle did not ar rive at Dijon till eight next morning. Fortunately no one was injured. The Gazette des Tribunaux states that Prioul, who was acquitted by the Court of Peers in the affair of Que nisset, has been arrested, and imprisoned at Ste. Pelagie, as being a debtor to the State for more than 20,000 f., to the payment of which he was condemned in conse quence of the events of 12th May, 1838. The Charivari states that its responsible EditOr has been summoned to appear before the examining magis trate, but for what cause is not mentioned —a circum stance, it maliciously adds, the more to be regretted, since, according to the new system of moral and indirect complicity, it may be for some supposed offence commit ted six or seven years ago. A letter from Toulon, of the 6th of January, says— " Captain de Lasseaux, commandant of packet boats, went this morning on board the steamer Tonnerre, to raise, if possible, the Brandon steamer which was sunk off fort St. Philip, at the entrance of the. port of Mahon. We have received the very extraordinary in telligence from Paris that Lord ABERDEEN has declared in favour of the claim set up by the French Ambassador at Madrid to present his credentials to the young QUEEN, and not to the REGENT:, as the Spanish Constitution authorises, and that the resignation of Mr. ASTON, our Am bassador at Madrid, may in consequence be hourly expected. Louis PHILIPPE, it appears, made a complete dupe of our deaf A inbassador, Lord COWLEY, and his Lordship lost no time in prevailing upon the Noble Foreign Secretary to fall into the snare so adroitly laid for him by the CITIZEN KING. Thus, by the force of mere stupidity, has our Government contrived to be placed i the most offensive position with respect to France. We had no business to mix o urselves up in any way with the disputes of France and Spain about a point of etiquette. Had circumstances compelled us to inter fere, it should only have been as medi ators ; f Ind above all, we should have borne in mind tt tat Spain looked to us for support in maintait ling the inviolability of the Constitution and the dignity Of the REGENT. That Mr. ASTON will condescend to perform in Ma drid tl le part of an attachee of Lord CowLEN 's Embassy is not to be expected, and if tb e Government replace him by another Ambass actor, it will be compelled to offer a se. cond it isult to Spain, by taking precisely the same g round with France as regards the deli very of izredentials. Altogether we never met with a ir tore blundering, ill-considered piece of business. At all events he . ;vill direct the necessary measure of the salvage of the vessel, and the preservation of . it s ma chines which are said to be but little damaged." Letters from Paris announces that orders are going to be forwarded to disarm two ships of the line. The Ministry believe, perhaps, that the English are diminish ing their squadron in the Mediterranean, because some of their ships have left Malta, steering to the coast of Spain, but we know that other ships will come in their stead, and that besides a great number are stationed in the Tagus, at Cadiz, an d Gib ra ltar.—Commerce. The .NEniteur of the 11th has no official part. We find the following passage in a journal :—" Sin gular details transpire respecting the proceeding of the Committee which prepared the Address of the Chamber of Peers. Messrs. Mole d'Argout, and successively six members of the Committee, are said to have refused to undertake the report, which, in consequence, fell to M. Merilhou." • The Committee for drawing up the Address of the Chamber of Deputies will meet to-morrow, or the day following, to hear the draught of the Address read. The Address may be read in a public sitting at the end of this week, and the Chamber will probably com mence the debate on Monday next. The manager of the journal Le Progres has been con demned by the tribunal at Rennes to a months imprison ment and 500 francs fine, fur having published an ac count of a secret sitting of the Court of Peers.—Consti tutionnel. • • BOURSE—PARIS, TUESDAY, JAN. 11. first Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pricy. Prier. irre,neh 5 per Cents ...... .... • 117 75 ... 117 SO ... 117 70 ... 117 75 4 per Cents lO2 ... 102 ... 102 ... 102 3 per Cents 7B 55 .... 78 60 ... 78 50 ... 78 55 Loan fink of franc.- Laffitte Sank 1.0001. Shares 1020 ...1020 _lO2O —lO2O 5,040 f. Shares 5025 ...5030 ...5025 ...50.30 ieleian flank Belgian 5 per Cents. 5 per Cents., 1840 103% ... 103% ... 103% ... 103% 3 per Cents 7l ... 71 ... 71 ... 71 Dutch 2% per Cents. 5 2!4 ... 52% ... 525 ... 5254 tp....:.h AC:illt rA ... 26% ... 254 ... 25% Passive 574 ... 5% ... 5% ... 5% ileapolitan Roman.... .... 100% ... 103% ... 103% ... 103% itAILWAY SHARES. It. Germain ..... ~.. ........ .... 833 ... 832 50 ... 830 ... 832 50 Vel.iilles, H. is •••••• 840 .. 2 40 ... 397 50 ... 337 50 LB 2 , - ,3 7 5 .. 203 ... 203 75 ... 05 tOILIQII ....,..... .......... ..•••••••••• 480 ••• 480 ... 475 ... 4,75 512 50 -• L l 5 - ... 512 5n ... 515 .)mean, .. Strasburgto Bale 247 50 227 50 ... 2245 25 . 228 25 We hr tve received the whole of the French Papers .of Tuesday. Their contents are not of much :political importance. The draft of the Peers' answer to the speech from the Throne was real 1 in the Chamber on Tuesday, and the debate- upon it was proceeding when the mails 1 eft for London. The speakers were the Pa 'ace DE LA MOSKWA, son of Mar shal NI ty, who denounced the Treaty of the 13th of July, and especially the alliance with England ; and the Marquis DE BOISSY, whose only con - plaint against the Government was, that it WF .s riot despotic enough. The Ministers only prosy cuted the Press—M. DE BOISSY would crush it t tutright. The Noble Peer next libelled the Spani sh RECENT, whom he called an " exe cutioner,'" and who, he said, aspired to the Throne expressions which M. GUIZOT com pelled hi, n to withdraw before descending from the tribe ne. From such a beginning we may infer a a t ther interesting debate in the Chamber of Peers 1 tefore the address is voted. The L T sited Councils of Agriculture, Manu factures, and Commerce, met on Monday for the discu, , sion of the iron question. Amongst other pro; iositions which were brought forward was one i 'or permitting Belgian iron to enter France, it competition with Freisch iron, for the constructi on of the great lines of railway which are proje cted. On this occasion the following calculations were brought forward :—" The total system of railroads now proposed to be con structed i n France is to extend to 400 leagues, which wil l require 200,000 tons of wrought iron. The constructing of these roads will occupy ten years, am I therefore the annual consumption of iron, wrot' fight and cast, will be only 25,000 tons. Belgium r ►lone can produce 200,000 tons per an num ; am as the demand in France would be only 25,01 30, it results that Belgium, with only the eighth part of what she produces, could coin PRIESTS AND PEOPLE,--AR account app e ared in The Sun some time since of the persecution inflicted upon a farm labou rer o f ' t h e name o f Key by the minister of Barry, a p ar i s h i n the neighbourhood of Arbroath, which has excited much indignation and sympathy among the people of Scotland. The minister, and those who took part with him, were hooted -in their own stronghold, the Presbytery, and were obliged to take shelter is a public house, where they proposed to discuss, with closed doors, a charge brought against the clergy man, but the complainant declined their authority and appealed to a higher Court. Key, it will be remembered, had buried his child on a Sunday, and for this sa cred duty he was denied Church privileges. The people to a man joined with hina against this priestly tyranny, and numerous subscrip tions have been raised in his behalf. The mer chants on the Royal Exchange at Glasgow, on reading the account, held a meeting on the spot, and in a few minutes subscribed mil. for Key, .to mark their hatred of such wanton oppression. LLO YD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, JAN. 13.—Wind this day at noon, S. DEAL, JAN. 12.—Wind, moderate.—Arrd. from the River, Sir Robert Peel, for Singapore ; Persian, Cal cutta ; Sea Witch, River Gambia ; Forester, Tobago. RAMSGATE, JAN. 12.—Arrd. Hannah, London for Rio. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 12.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Renewal Corsica ; Burlington, Charleston. Sid. Ritchie, Bombay Tremont, and Hero of Acre, New Orleans ; Catherine Mobile ; Hebron, Baltimore ; Anna Liffey, New York John, Cape Verds. Aral. - off; Wetherall, Singapore Johnston, Calcutta ; Argyle, Bombay ; Confederacioii, ny, Mansfield,ciomp Java.Atiac. Valparaiso ; Charles, B u e nos Ay res ; Delia Walker, Savannah ; Circassian ,AN.l 2 B. n A b a n 12.—Anthony, OFF DOVER, JAN. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 12.—W ind S. to S.W.—Arrd. Banca, Fincham, Batavia, for Amsterdam, sailed Sept. 15, St. Helena L Nov. 27 ; Lusitano, Astolfe, T r i es t e . PLYMOUTH, JAN. 12.—Wind variable.—Arrd. Planter, Manning, New Zealand, in 94 days ; Jesse, Richards, Demerara. FALMOUTH, JAN. 11.—Wind S.S.E. to S.S.W.—Arrd. Petrel packet, West Indies, sailed from St. Thomas 20th ult.; Grace and Essex, Odessa; Panther, Shepherd, Leghorn. Arrd. off, Vemlia, Burton, Sierra Leone, sailed Nov. 23. The Hope packet, with mails for this port, left St. Thomas, four days previous to the Petrel packet, arrived here to-day. OFF HASTINGS, JAN. 12.—Claudine, Brewer, Madras, sailed from Cape Oct. 30 ; Candahar, Ridley, Bombay. OFF ROMNEY, JAN. 12.—Stanna, Sandersan, Singapore. PENZANCE, JAN. 11.—A boat marked .‘ Mary Ann and Martha, of Dundalk, Charles Roddick," was picked up off the Wolf Rock this morning. COWES, JAN. 12.—Arrd. Fortitude, Lombock, sld. Aug. 22, and Cap'. Oct. 31 ; Star, Rio. POOLE, JAN. 12.—The Hebe, Thomson, of Liverpool, is in Studland Bay, with damage, having been in contact with the Reward, from Plymouth to Monte Video ; the latter sank—crew saved. CARLINGFORD, JAN. 10.—The Diana, Peebbles, from Sligo to Liverpool, came ashore last night to the north wttr% of the lighthouse, near Cransfied; cargo discharging. SWANSEA, JAN. 11.—Arrd. Circassian, Mann, Cuba. CORK, JAN. 10.—Arrd. Caroline, Buenos Ayres. PETERHEAD, JAN. 10.—The William Turcan, from Alloa to St. Thomas, ashore on Rattray Head, is not expected to be got off; spars, sails, &c., nearly all saved. SourrriwoLD, JAN. 12 .—The Elizabeth and Ann, of Boston, stranded at this place 19th November, has un dergone repairs, and proceeded to-day. pletely in vade the French market, to the great prejudice of French manufacturers. Several per sons havin ig pretended that French manufactories were mutt )1c to furnish' rails enough for forty leagues p er annum, it has been shown, on the other sidi e, that from 1838 to the 31st of last month, th e period at which the contracts made between A he Companies lately created and the principal manufactories expired, there were fur nished by the latter rails enough for 195 leagues, and this ti 'o with a fall of 20 per cent. in the price of the irol 1." The Cot incil-General of Commerce, at its sit• Ing of Su mday, was engaged in the considers. ti9n of th e commercial treaty with Belgium. M. Ducos , Deputy, expressed a desire that the Government would, by every means i 9 its power, favour t h e foreign commerce of France, and enter into treaties, not with Belgium alone, but with all ; t commercial and manufacturing States of tb .e world. This proposition was warmly supported by M. ARLES Dupoun, Delegate from Lyons, and the members of the Committee; but was oppose !1.1 by M. GoutN, Minister of Com merce in tb e Cabinet of the Ist of March, and by M. B MING DE LANCASTEL, and was re jected, the votes being equally divided-13 for and 13 age ;just the proposition. The Council voted a re( :ommendation of a reduction in the postage of letters, but the majority was very The annnal increase in the number of travellers on the Rhine is a striking proof of the effect of the intro duction of me re rapid means of communication. In 1827 the number ( ,f passengers on the Rhine by the Cologne steamers was between 18,000 and 19,000, and this was thought cow iderable, but in 1839 the number had in creased to 48' 7,000 ; in 1840 to 636,000; and in 1841 it has been estin sated at 750,000. In the course of the pre sent year th ere will be thirty-five steamers oh the Rhine, of why 3h sixteen bel ong to t h e C o l ogne C ompany, seven to ti ,a Company of the Netherlands, six to the Dusseldorf S j ompany, two to the Rhine vnd Yessel Com- ASYLUM FOR DECAYED FREEMASONS...-. The usual quarterly general meeting of the Governors and Subscribers to this benevolent and excellent Insti tution, was held last evening, pursuant to advertis ement, at Radley's Hot e l, B r id ge - street , Blackfriars ; the Rev. Dr. Crucifix in the Chair. There was no busi ness of any moment entered on, save the passing of the quar terly accounts, from which we were glad to obserie that there is a considerable sum of money at present in the hands of the Treasurer, as well as a large sum invested in the funds. THE SUN, LON DON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1842. AND " Who runs may read." FOZLEIGN. ilifilinnV OF NEWS Vtgbltt Opt neon. The draft of the Address to the Chamber of Peers, in answer to the Speech from the Throne, was read in the Chamber on Tuesday. Several Members of the French Cabinet were present. It is a mere echo of the Speedh, interspersed with a few fulsome compliments to the King, at the expense of truth and modesty. The Prince de la Moskwa, son of Marshal Ney, in speaking upon the Address, made a violent attack upon England, whom he accused of having always been the enemy of France. We freely acknowledge that the Prince personally has but too much cause to entertain no kindly feeling towards this country. He opposed the Address. The Marquis de Boissy was the second orator on Tues day. Like a schoolboy with his theme he spread out his manuscript, and read more shameful libels out of it in a quarter of an hour than we have met with in the Journal du Peuple for five years. He had the insolence to denounce the Regent of Spain as a traitor and an executioner ; he branded the Public Press as blasphe mous and immoral ; and he demanded the establishment of a social despotism for the repression of all freedom of opinion. M. Guizot had the good taste to insist - upon a withdrawal of the offensive epithets applied to the Re gent of Spain, but not a voice was lilted up in condem nation of the cowardly libeller of the Press. The National states that, although the Ministerial Journals thought proper to deny that a serious battle had taken place between some regiments belonging to the garrison of Paris, it appears from a return of the wounded remaining in the hospital of the Gros-Caillor on the 9th inst., that the 11th Regiment of the Line ha, 17 wounded, the 19th Regiment 13, the 59th Regimen 21, the -2d Light Infantry 11, the 22d Light Infantry 9.. the 3d Lancers 9, the 3d Artillery 3, Invalids 3, sun dry others 7—total 93. The consumption of butcher's meat in Paris, for the year 1841, amounted to 69,164 oxen, 22,050 cows, 66,845 calves, and 432,657 sheep; being a diminution, as com pared with the year 1840, of 2,405 oxen, 4,954 calves, and an increase of 1,129 cows, and 117 sheep. This diminution represents 2,000,0001 b. weight of meat, or a little more than 2 per cent. on the consumption compared with the year 1840 ; or, in other words the annual consumption of a to wn o f 20,000 inhabitants. This diminution shows the dreadful condition of the working classes in Paris; for it is to be borne in mind that up wards of 5,000 labourers from the provinces were during the greater part of the last year employed upon the for tifications. La Presse states, that the police, having received infor mation that a manufactory of forged English and Prus sian bank notes was at full work in Paris, surrounded a house at Passy on Monday where it was suspected the persons resided who were occupied in this fraudulent pursuit. The printing press used in fabricating those notes was discovered, together with a number of forged bank-notes. The Soho steam-boat, which arrived at Antwerp on Sunday, had on board Mr. Charles Brindle, in the ser vice of the Court at Windsor, who was the bearer of despatches for the Belgian Government. Lord Westmoreland, the Ambassador of the Queen of Great Britain at the Court of Berlin, accompanied by his son, Lord Burghersh, arrived at Brussels on Monday, and after having visited the curiosities of that city, proceeded on their way to London. PITELIC OPINION. The Times contains an article on the Rural Police sys tem, to which it is strongly opposed, describing it as a very unnecessary innovation, which has augmented local burdens without diminishing crime. " Public opinion," adds our Contemporary, " may be expected, sooner or later, to put an end to this rural nuisance ; but in order to furnish it with fitting dispatch, its opponents must form themselves into active Committees in every part of the kingdom, and thus bring their influence to bear against it in a constitutional way." The chronicle reverts to the engrossing question of the Coin-laws, observing ;that these laws prevent the people getting the more work which it is allowed they want ; that the work-provider is growing corn across the sea, and the landowners intercept the exchange ; and that they 'a ill not let the people have the more work that is wanted, both by the would-be employer and the would be workman. The Herald, in noticing a Puseyite tract, just put forth by the Rev. Francis Wackerbarth, declares of this noisy tract, that it has perused nothing so utterly shock ing to every notion of decency, of common sense, of good taste, of Christian feeling, of mere worldly pru dence. The tract, it seems, is dedicated to St. Athana sius— a most appropriate Saint for a Puseyite pam phleteer to dedicate to. The Post states that the report of the Duke of Buck ingham being likely to replace Lord Cowley as Am bassador to the Court of France, is utterly unfounded. " Lord Cowley," says the Post, "is not about to leave Paris, the Duke- of Buckingham is not about to quit the Cabinet, nor has there been, for a single moment, an) idea of a separation between the Duke and his col leagues, ,or the slightest circumstance frOm which such an idea could have sprung." The Advertiser asserts that there can be no question that Sir Robert Peel means to do something, with the view of modifying the Corn monopoly, and acids—" Sir Robert will soon find, to his cost, if he seek to steer a middle course between the monopolists and the country, that he will only forfeit the friendship and the confidence of the former, while he will not obtain the approbation or support of the latter." The Dublin Evening Post thus alludes to the Tory candidate • for that city :—" They have hooked the lad.' Five thousand for a beginning. Mr. Gregory is beginning early. His father has only come into his granduncle's estate, and he forks out a year's rental at once. Though young, it is said he is a distinguished member of the Turf. Is it possible that he has no friends ? Is there no one to be found, who will ha;ve the common charity to tell him, that a Dublin election is the worst betting-book he ever opened ?" The York Courant, speaking of the present Ministry, says :—" They are do-nothings where the interests of the people are concerned, but they have ever shown them selves ready hands at finding their way into the pockets of the people. It cannot be denied that the finances of the country are in a depressed and a deranged state, from which the measures proposed by the late Government would have given them an immediate turn for the better, and a gradual arrival at a healthy permanency." In reference to the Irish - Tory Government the Chel tenham Examiner remarks as follows : "From the stubborn nature of his Irish supporters it is not improba ble that Sir Robert Peel may yet find Ireland his chief difficulty. Like all trimmers, it seems Lord de Grey's fate to please neither party. Strike high or low, there is no pleasing Paddy. The Noble Viceroy, a few weeks since, in bestowing an appointment, passed over the claims of Mr. West, M.P. for Dublin, and so chagrined were the Dublin Tories with the slight, that they forth-. with dissolved their Registration Society out of pure re venge l—a truly Hibernian notion of vengeance 1" ZULOB TET — TRAD.7.—COMIXERCM. The progress of manufactures in Europe is well in stanced, in a lecture delivered at Paris, by M. Blanquis, the traveller. "In Russia," said he, " I found exactly the contrary of what I expected to find, viz., immense manufactures scattered on all points. In the heart of Turkey I found an old Pacha, an ancient chief of Janis saries, who had hung up his terrible yataghan againsl 'te wall, devote himself to commerce and arts." COMIV/EN, CL&L nuporam. The great Anti-Corn-law Bazaar at Manchester 11, be held in the Theatre Royal there on Monday, the 31s and it is now fitting up for stalls, saloons, &c. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. Mr. Foulston, the well-known Plymouth architect, died at the age of 69 last Thursday. The visit of Baron Von Humboldt to this country with the King of Prussia, is looked. forward to in the scientific world with considerable interest. The Report of the Commission on the plans and de ' signs for the tomb of Napoleon is expected to be pub lished this weekin Paris. NAVAL, AND '2VIILITARY. The Commandership of the Dover Garrison has been given to .Lieut.-Col. Blockley, of the Royal Artillery. The, steam-vessel Avon, while about .30 miles from land ; in St. George's Channel, with her crew and 140 volunteers on board, caught fire by spontaneous combus tion a few days since, and had her deck burnt fore and aft from,l2 to 14 feet. Fortunately the passengers suf fered no injury, and the vessel after great exertions on the part of the crew for six hours, was at last brought into,bi.ilford. It will take a fortnight to repair the damage. LAW AND POLICE. Ten or twelve young men were brought before Alder man Wilson yesterday, at the Mansion House, for enter ing into the shop of Mr. Church, baker, in Cannon street, City, and helping themselves to about four shillings' worth of bread, biscuits, and cakes, which they also distributed among thirty or forty others outside. They pleaded starvation, and had been refused relief. No resistance was . offered by them when taken into custody, and they were remanded to wait the Lord Mayor's ,opinion as - to their committal. Government has ordered the reward of 1001., offered , for the apprehension of Blakesley, to be paid to the two Hertfordshire constables stationed at llitchin. At Bow-street yesterday, a young man, of respectable appearance, who gave the name of James Adams, was charged with- uttering a forged cheque for the sum of 90/., with intent to defraud Messrs. Child and Co., ban kers, of Temple-bar. Ample evidence was given that the prisoner presented a forged cheque, but he said he was merely the agent of a Mr. Holland, who lived at Green's Hotel, Lincoln's Inn, and he knew nothing what ever of the forgery. The Magistrate said the prisoner's statement bore all the appearance of truth, but under all the circumstances, he would remand him till Satur day. A question then was started as to the place of con finement, for though the entrance to Child's bank is east of Temple-bar, one half of the house is in the Strand. The prisoner was finally taken to a station house in the City. A motion was made in the nail Court yesterday, be fore Mr. Justice Williams, for a writ of habeas corpus, to bring u p th e b ody of Bernard Cavanagh from the gaol at Reading, on the ground that the commitment was bad (as the lawyers say) upon the face of it, and the Judge required time to consider. To-day the writ was granted. The further examination of Mr. Carew, the sculptor, at the Insolvent Debtors' Court, was again postponed yesterday, till Saturday, the 29th instant, on account of the indisposition of the Chief Commissioner. THEATRICAL. Madame Vestris, who has for some days been unwell at her villa at Fulham, came to town yesterday, to be present at the rehearsal of Elena Mertz. Miss Emma Bingley has performed the arduous cha racter of La Sonnambula, at the theatre at Naples, with great success. Fanny Elssler, the celebrated danseuse, has made 80,000 dollars by her professional visit to America, wL.ro, she still remains. courair--aASHIONA33I.E. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland leave Lillies Hall to-morrow, for Trciitham ; and on Tuesday next the family will return to town for the season. The Earl and Countess of Rosebe ry were expected to leave Dalmeny Park yesterday, for Warren Wood, Herts. The Earl and Countess of Beverley arrived in Port man-square, yesterday, from Lord Redesdale's seat in Gloucestershire. Bucichurst Park, the seat of the Earl Delawarr, has been a scene of much gaiety during the week. Viscount' and Viscountess Duncan have arrived in Bath, from Wester House, Warwickshire. Lord Dalmeny arrived on Monday from Scotland, and yesterday he left town tor Brighton. The Queen Dowager is expected at Marlborough House on Friday, the 21st inst. VIZSCEZILII ?az o us .. To supply a sheet of ice to the inhabitants of Brighton, a drain; was opened with the intention of overflowing the Brighton Level, which is about ten acres in extent. But on the attempt being made the water rose above the Level, and threw some cellars three feet deep in water. The plan has been since abandoned. A briliiant and splendid concert was given on Monday evening last in Paris .by the Duke and Duchess of Orleans.. Lord and Lady Cowley were among the com, pany. Persiani, Tamburini, Lablache, and other singers were engaged on the occasion. It ma — y be regarded as a sign of the times, that two of the old drinking-houses at Monmouth have been con verted into eating-houses. R.VIVIOUrt Or THE DAY. Sergeant Merewether, Mr. Law, the Recorder, and Sergeant Goulburn, are each spoken of as likely to suc ceed Mr. Justice Bosanquet as a Judge of the Common Pleas. d r.. *- CORN-LAW PROTESTANTISM. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sits—The author of a keen and trenchant " octavo of four pages," entitled A Letter to Wilbraham Egerton, Esq., by a Member of the Anti-Corn-law League, has fbrwarded to me as pabulum for our correspondence, a Letter to the same quarter in reply, which he informS me, I imagine upon public notoriety or report, is the production of a reverend orator of " over good Protestant" celebrity. As the reverend orator, about the period Of the late elections, was pleased to pick me out for less of marked civility than it would be my desire to bestow on an individual of opposite • political opinions, there appears no p ower f u l reason why anything .like a self-denying ordi nance should be passed on the present occasion. And first, I feel taken with a fit of Protest autism, which forces me to protest against a writer's signing himself " An incessant, labo rious, and withal a happily contented OPER A TIVE, in my lawful calling," if the fact is, that he is a vigorous ecclesiastic looking perhaps to lawn sleeves. Without contesting whether this was meant to deceive, it does deceive. Befbre being introduced to the reality, I had met with well-meaning citizens, whose minds were racked with the idea that a letter of dreadful import had been written to Sir Wilbraham, which had caused the dumb to speak in the person of an operative torn by imperious patriotism from his loom. And small in comparison would probably have been the alarm, if the reverend person in ques tion had been known to be the trumpeter. The object of the reply, so far as it is compressi ble, appears to be to confound bad laws and no laws, and make the first to pass under the terror of the other. "Tom, and Dick, and Harry," are lectured on the dreadful consequences of having no laws at ail; and then they are expected to go home, and be heard praying fin. the preservation of the squires and the Corn-laws. Harry is touched also on the subject of his wife; in the hope that in some way he will identify her with a tax upon his bread. Law, we are assured, in volves Order; and the Infidel and the Anti-Corn law League desire Equality. From which it is presented to - the Working Classes as a neces sary corollary, that the squires should have a duty on foreign corn to keep it out, al - d.l)ot the industrious classes .have a bounty to britkikio. The French Revolution is referred to, both by first letter 7 writer and the second. -* the first, - as holiling - out , a lesson to those:who per seVeringly , oppress;- and by the second, to those whom any possible. Oppression shall drive into resistance. Certain unkn own h orror s to the wives and ,daughters - of. the French, over which history draws. a veil in trembling agony," are mainly relied on for the interest of the traf. - ,:dy.. Is not the real fact, that the ultimate cause- quences of the Revolution, thiongli 'many suf ferings, have been to raise the French..peoVe in the scale of comfort and happiness, -- to'ati extent of which the less is said the better, in countries where the power of the church and aristocracy is yet unchecked?. If the Anti-Corn-law League have no (.€ metal more attractive," they could not do better Than publish both sides of the enrrespOndence with which the lord of Tatton Park has, mcdaPe been favoured. Yours very sincerely, T. PERRONET THOMPSbN. Blackheath, Jan. 13, 1842. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. GPI Y, TWELVE O'CLO.C.K. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JAN. 12. The de mand for Cotton to-day has been very moderate, the. sales scarcely amounting to 3,000 bales ; all of whi c h have been taken by the trad e a t s t ea d y prices. LIVERPOOL- SHARE MARKET, JAN. 12.—The transac tions at the Stock Exchange this day, are—Eastern COuntiee, 88; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 48; Great West ern, New, 61 ; London and Birmingham, New, 28i ; London and Brighton, 38i. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 12.—Frices continue firm, and for want of Stock very little business has been done. -Our sales are :— . --North Midland, 723 ; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, 51i ; Manchester and Birmingham, 28; Manchester and Leeds, Quarter Shares, 31.165. • Tier Majesty's packet Petrel has arrived with a mail from the West Indies: the dates are, from Jamaica lath, Trinidad Ist, Demerara 3d, and Barbadoes 4th Dec. The advices, however, are not of importance ; nothing parti cular had transpired in the House of Assembly at Jamaica. The accounts from Trinidad state that the labourers are workihg well, especially on such estates as pay money alone, and where the last relic of barbarism and slavery has been abolished, viz., the truck sptem. The canes in general are looking well. THE FUNDS. ' Scarcely a bargain has been transacted up to the pre sent time, and the Market remains flat at the leaving off price of yesterday—Consols being quoted at 884 i ; Ex chequer Bills, 17 19 prem. Spanish Active Stock, 25i 4 ; Passive, 54 6 ; Portu guese. Five per Cents., 324 i ; ditto Threes, 191 i; Mexi can Bonds, 284 294. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Sham. B:rmingham and Derby IOO Ditto Thirds London and Brighton 5O . . 37} to London and South Western 3BL s6i to Manchester and Leeds _704 ___ to HALF-PAST ONE. A public meeting of Proprietors and Representatives of Estates took place. at Demerara, on the Ist December, at which the fact was elicited, to be laid formally be fore the Governor, that on sixty-two estates (two having been added to the sixty) selected indiscriminately from the district of Demerara and Essequibo the average cost of producing a cask of Sugar was 12 dollars 41 cents. above its average market price. The intelligent labourers themselves cannot expect that Sugar will continue to be raised under such a system. The Government broker has been in the market again this .morning, and effected. some further sales of eonso!s at 88i- and 84, which was full lower than the opening price. The following are the quotations of Consols during the morning :-884 ; I ex. div. Money ; 88i for the Ac count. Three per Cents. Reduced are now quoted at 89 ; India Bonds, 9 11 prem. ; Exchequer Bills, 15 17. There has been but little business transacted in the Foreign Securities. Spani s h A c ti ve S toc k i s quoted at 25e ; Portuguese Three per Cents., 19i ; Dutch Two and-a-Half Per Cents., sli ; Ditto, Fives, 1001. There ore only three quotations to notice in the Share Market :—London and Brighton, 371 ; South Western, 58 ; Manchester and Leeds, 70i. HALF-PAST TWO. Consols, 88125 ; Ditto February, 89i ; M ex i can, 291- ; Spanish, 6. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) COLONIAL MARKET. The operations were fair and at full rates. Raw and Refined Sugar sold freely at previous rates. Spices firm, with an increased demand for Pepper. Rice dull. Rum in good request. TEA MARKET. The demand good, and prices fully supported. Com pany's Congou, Is. 94 cash. TALLOW MARKET. The Market firm and the demand good. P.Y. Can dle 48s. 3d. to 48s. 6d. on the spot, and 495. for delivery. WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET. The supply was moderate, the demand very middling, andprices without alteration. Clover, 21. 10s. to 5/. Bs. ; Hay, 2L 10s. to 4/. 6s. ; Straw, 1/. 12s. to 1/. 16s. THE SONNING-HILL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. —Mr. Robert Palmer, the Lord of the Manor on whose estate the recent accident on the Great W estern Rail way, at Sonning-hill, occurred,in consequence of a state ment which has appeared in the papers, to the effect that the deodand awarded by the Coroner's Jur7 was about to be paid to him, and that it was his intention to divide it in certain :proportions amongst the poor suf ferers, has received several applications setting forth their claims. lie has, ther e f ore , i n order to prevent dis appointment, published a letter, in which he says it is at present questionable whether the deodand will belong to him or not, and that, under any circumstances, the state ment referred to is premature. EVENING SUN LA W IN TELT 4P; CHANCERY COURT-(THIS DAY) WARD V. ALSAGER.—WARD V. WARD. This case came before the Co ur t u p on cause and cross cause. The bill was filed by Mr. Ge orge Henry v against Messrs. Alsager and other persons, the assignees of the estate of Mr. W. Ward, who, some years back' was Member for the City of London, but against whew, in April, 1836, a fi at of bankruptcy issued'. Th e other defendants to th e bill were the children of Mr. F' Ward. The object of the plaintiff in filing his bill wt i. l get himself removed from the trust of a deed execute' by his father, Mr. Georg e W ar d, an d a l to to o btain tilt declaration of the Court that he had not comm ittelia4, breach of trust, a n d th at t h ere f ore h i s estate was not boned to make good any losses that had taken place. The eir cumstanees of the case may be thus shortly stated Mr. George Ward, the father of the plaintiff; and A' t William Wrard, was in, and prior to the year 1811 ' merchant of eminence .in the City of London, and sub sequently resided at Nortwood Park, at Cows, in the Isle of Wight. ,Mr. George W ar d b e i ng desirous of doing something for the benefit of his sons,. entered, is the year 1811, into partnership with him then, and M r :, Thompson, who was a clerk in hi s h ous e. M r . Geo r g e Ward wds to find 100,0001., which was to be the oaln7, of the partnership, and the t wo sons an d M r. Thon l l 3s° l ; were to be the active partners. E ac h party was to ttra'4o. out yearly 500/., and the remainder of the profi t ' was to go to the ca pit a l. Th e • partners hip t , carried on with various a lt era ti ons i n i ts mem b e rs, the Dec. 1825, when Mr. W m . W ar d a l one • rema i ne d in t' business. Upon winding up the partnership accoll the profits were found to b e 93,0001. an d upwar d s , which . was divided equally amo ng a ll t h e part i es. M r. GoOrF Ward's share, the plaintiff and two other gentlemen, we re by the deed he had exec u t e d, th e trustees upon trust fb ,. the benefit of his two so ns , an d a f ter their death for the children of William Ward. At the time of his hank; ruptcy a great portion of thi s f un d was i n t h e h a nds ". William Ward, and by the cross bill filed by the children of that gentleman, it was sought to charge Mr. Georg' Henry Ward with the loss occasioned by the bankruptl. of their father, on the gro un d th at h e had committed:'' breach of trust, in allowing the money to remain in I°4 hands. The plaintiff, to relieve himself from the t ense' quences of an act, which had been done out of kintineo to his brother,"filed the present bill. TheSolicitor-General, Mr. Gi r dl es te ne , an d M r . Calg bell appeared, for the plaintiff in the original suit of , George Henry Ward. Mr. Bethell, Mr. Piggott, and Mr. Fisher, were CO llO-1 sel for the children of Mr. Wm. Ward. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL addressed the Court at --_,,, siderable length on behalf of th e pl a i nt iff; contenkt that he had done all he could to obtain payment of money from his brother ; that he had even institutt a i' suit in Chancery against hi m f or t h at purpose ; an d he had only been restrained from proceeding with Lim - f. suit through the interposition of Mr. Justice Patter it who acted as their mutual friend. The Learned Counsel had not concluded when /I ' e went to press. - ROLLS' COURT.--(THIS DAY•) IN RE LAW. Mr. TINNEY stated that the petition prayed toe he t proper person should b e appo i nte d as a trustee in ,24 place of the late Mr. J. P r i ce, i n th i s matter. In . a marriage was agreed upon between Mr. Francis Ds. and MisS Elizabeth Evans. Th e f ortune o f M i ss Evn , ' consisted of stock to the amount o f 3 , 2 00 1 ., w hi c h 0; held in Three per Cent. Consols, and 21,600 rupees s certain Bengal loans. It was agreed that this sum sh°l l ., be transferred into the j o i n t h an d s o f trustees, an d 1‘ J. Price was one and Mr. J. Beaumont the other, 311 , Mr. Thoma s P r i ce w as s ub sequent l y appo i nted anothi, t ; t The stock was t rans f erre d i nto t h e i r h an d s on trus t the lady duri ng h er lif e . Th e trust upon which tb§ stock was to be held p rov id e d t h at after the death of ti;' 1 ; wife the trust stock should be allowed to accumulate f ° o the benefit of the child ren , with no life interest Iv the husband, and the usual power for appointing " e l trustees. It also provid e d th a t t h e w if e, t h e husban;', or the survivor, should have the power of appointing t , new trustee. The petitioner then went on •to sea J that 10,400 rupees we re b roug h t over to Engh% and invested in the Three per Cent. Consols ; this sn being part of the 21,000 r up ees i n t h e Bengal loan. 31r : Law died on the 21st of November, 1827, without ing exercised 'her appointment, and leaving one clu In 1834 the death of one o f th e trustees occurre d. ng the 18th of September, 1834, a deed was executed b a tween Mr. F. Law, the h us b an d, , an d t h e executrix, ant which recited that the dividends and interest on the fund had, siocethe death of M rs . L aw , accumu l a t e d, a n t which accumulation had ca use d t h e pr i nc i pa l to aano- to 6,7871. Three per Cent. Consols, and 1;1,000 rue jtind the deed witn e s se d th at Th omas Price was appoint t,, joint trustee, and the' funds were thereby transferre d ; him jointly upon trust. In 1839 the - two Prices becan i t the only truste e s, an d on t h e d eath of Mr. Beanallit, Mr.. F. Law being desirous of carr yi ng out t h e provisl%. of the trust-deed, requested Mr. George Law, the p e e, tioner, to proceed to the a pp o i n t ment o f a new t r uste e anal he accordingly wrote to M r . J. P r i ce f or th a t purr?„o-, Mr. PEMBERTON objected to the title of th e petitl'of Which should have stated, in the matter of the Act Parliament. His LORDSHIP said that the title of the petition ''';j fi4 decidedly incorrect and irreg u l ar ; b u t h e h a d consul, na his Honour the Vi ce -Ch ance ll or of Eng'er and he thought th e o bj ec ti on cou ld b e ( ! st'- '• p ruled. Mr. Tinney might g o on :with ,the etttn) then, or have it amended, hut if he "proceeded then ue must stand or fall by it. The parties preparing the P 7, don evidently wish e d t o try an experiment, there“)- they put a new titl e to th e pet i t i on. The subject-matet., ter of the petition was a marr i age settlement, an d t ; Court had to act upon the Act of Parliament, but li Lordship was far from thinking the point essential. A I Afr. TINNEY then p rocee d e d w i t h t h e petition, wu'"-t0 stated that Mr. Thom as P r i ce re f use d to b e a parc) the the appointment of a new t rus t ee , as di recte d by - 01 , trust deed. Respecting the costs, the petitioners prali,a that inasmuch as the neglect of Thomas Price and J ° t o Price in acting on the power of attorney, they ouP, ec i pay the costs of this application ; and then it Poi,b o that the whole fund might be t rans f erre d to t h e name °I to three trustees. Now if the whole fund were transferred ,t the names of the trustees, of course the cos t s c ould n h i g be deducted out of that f u nd. Th e costs o f cases of et kind were compreh en d e d i n th e 25t h sect i on o f t he •t" - of Parliament (Si r -Ed war d S ug d en ' s A ct), wh i c h st3tiled f that the , disposing of th e cos t s was i n t h e di scre tion " the Lord Chancellor and the Court. t Mr. PEainEwrox replied, and expressed his rekr r e e that an. ar r a n g emen t h a d not b een made be!°,,ja the parties came into Court, and whi c h course nub have been adopted ; and it appeared to him to b e , r , matter taken up with m uc h asper i ty by the pe tition; , against the defendants. Th e petition states that the ", e , fendants had imputed to the petitioner a conspirac?' defraud the e s t a t e . Th ey had done no such thing, tileit.l had never dreamed of such a thing. What they s ' f :a was, that th e pet i t i oner was not entitled to an; amount out of this es t a t e f or t h e ma i ntenanc e his child by a f ormer marr i age, an d w hi ch he denun a , and as the disc r etio nar y p ower o f c h oos i ng a tru iii ` e was vested in him, he refused to agree to the app° l o , went of a trustee unless they were granted. The go,, t , tion was, whether there was any jurisdiction in this 0 4, ter. If his Lordship would refer to the Act of Pnru ;it meat, there was a provision there made that it refusal for neglect to comply with the recli l . e be made in writing within thirty-one days after L O , application was made, then the Court had a jurisdiet u 2 l ,, But the party making that appliCation must have an 'he terest in the trust. Mr. Law had. no such tbingl 1 , 0 was a stranger to the trust, therefore the Court had J jurisdiction. He had no obj ect i on, an d he felt incli o 7, o to recommend to these gent l emen the Messrs. Pr i c e, agree to Some arrangement. Mr. TINNEY said that perhaps his Lordship iy ° ,l, o allow this case to • s t an d over, to ascertain whether " arrangement could be made. l ot His Loansnip s a id he thought that was the best Pl an to adopt, for he th oug h t there were some misappre lle i; sions between the parties. With respect to the c osts, 0 , could make no orde r u p on th e d e f endants ; it was c° c 1 trary to all rule ; but as fr om w h ence the costs s hoa l come, he could make no specific order till the arra n g e meat, if agreed to, was made. The case was then adjourned, Y•) VICE CHANCERY—(THIS DA (Before the Vice-Chancellor of ENGLAND.) FAITH AND CATTERWELL V. GIBBS AND C °. This was a motion to dissolve an exparte iUJ e . restraining Emanuel Aguilla or his agents, from r el ., 'ceiving or collecting any part of the out-standing 1) 1 4 0 sonal estate of Domingo Mattel, in England ; and - to restraining the defendants, Gibbs, from paying nve r , ho Emanuel Aguilla, or any other person, save under the direction of the Court, any sum of money due to t" -. estate of Mattei. It appeared that the defendants, Gibbs and Co., w i l l : made the present application, were merc h ants i n City, and the agents of Emanuel Aguilla, the personi.e representative of Domingo Mattei, deceased. In T o year 1834, Mattei, wh o res id e d a t S a i n t J ose , in the Brazils, sold his claim to the woods in a certain fet, is , in that country to an E ng li s h man , o f th e name of P;` ~,e Moore, on condition that he sh ou ld hi mse lf reve l 10,000 quintals of the wood. M a tt e i trans ferred 11 % claim he thus acquired to Edward Wallens,t e ,, the agent of Messrs. Faith an d C atterwe ll, the P., 31 /, tiffs in the present suit, f or a cons id erat i on o f 591 0 ~ye This sum was mad e p a y a bl e i n t h ree bill s o f e xchal for 2,0001., 1,9001., and 1,8001., drawn by Walleaste ill ,;:ja the plaintiffs. Th e woo d , however, never reach' country. Moore having cut 14,000 quintals of it, tl e; 1 were seized by th e B raz ili an G overnment before ~' were embarked ; but the grounds of this seizure did ere appear from the documents before the Court, and t ther s ae& was consequently no means of determining re st .;. Mattei had or had not o r i g i na lly a goo d titl e to the 1(-) 0 , 0 he had sold. In the meantime, Mattei had sent over the bills of exchange to the Messrs. Gibbs in London, f br f o r purpose of o bt a ining pay men t o f th em . Th e bill it , a 1,900/. had been parted with by the M essrs . Gibb . ids third party, for a valuable consideration, and the plat t ' tbe r were in consequence obliged to pay that bill. l'h e %bs; two bills were still in th hands of the Messrs. oi t and the object of the injunction which it was now sc A , l O,: to dissolve, had been to prev e nt th e d e f en dants ti ts, transferring those bills to Aguilla. The defend s however, had no personal interest in the matter. 01' His HONOUR said that h e did no t f ee l th a t he c 0 t he dissolve the injunction as regarded the first part, i ; di absence of Aguilla, agai ns t w hom it was principa i `Ytbe rected ; and he could no t gran t the a ppli cat i o ns t o t o f second part, inasmuch as it m i g ht l ea d to a contour t bat Court. But he should make an order to the effe ct fro ai the injunction should not prevent the defendants proceeding with the actions at law. (Before Vice-Chancellor BRUCE,) SAMUEL V. 13IGGS. • 11: 1 Ilis HoNoun, was engaged throughout the dsl b o titto„ B4l 13 d rr ie ckty tile I'4l the frii ee o , c th I I Th• 1. Is