The Sun. — London, England, 1842-01-07 00:00:00

rer the 3at rs. re- uld rth pril. the Dg. or icb ct jo- [ a te gd the an' at lore 4 here n in gor ►rea l. ;ieti ;O P tb ° • ' Ati °ll ,b 0 .1 1,1 FiCl ;;100 V 0 Dee Jo t to ,fie t I °l le ) 0 1 ' l i ef, 4 o f ho le otb j the ti nces aw! P e ' o; (11 re)' ly t.' -EVENING SUN aarine Stores—We repeat our former quotations for Little appears to have been done in any variety. 13 report eer—Pric es rema i n as b e f ore . We have no sales to ; indeed, scarcely any transactions have taken place since the last mail. Bo ttles —Eighty-six gross have been disposed of at 12 allnaS per dozen. In Other ar ti c l es o f i mport not hi ng seems t o h ave b een d one which requires notice. Lotto EASTERN PRODUCE. n—Prices have advanced inconsequence of large Purchases for the China markets, shipments to which 441. 0 been made to a greater extent than the accounts we aye received would seem to justify. More recently t r ran sactions have b een f ewer, b u t, as ,th e s tocks are not agel holder s d o not yet seem di spose d t o acce pt l ower l s• Surat and Broach may now be quoted at 106 a 12 per cand Dollera and Gogo a 101 a 103, and Oom -1.04,w o.ttee a 1156 a 108. Within the last week 300 candies iCompta have been purchased at 99 a 101 rupees, and 0 0 bales of Gogo at 103 rupees. O phrm.—Prices have given way slightly since our t, and the best qualities may now be obtained at i y B a 720 rupees per chest. The receipt of the China s ubjoin has had little effect in the market for this drug. " • subjoin the official returns : 2,u00 portedßalance o f f o rmer year's importation, ts. 4 0 3 / Irn , ported fr om 3d to t h e 23 d i ns t . , 331 chests.—Total e xported--P rom Stock—Chests, o7th Oct. to 23d Nov., I s 4l , 785 . 1,546. to Coffee —Both Mocha and Berbera have been purchased 12 some extent, the former at 111 rs, and the latter at rs per maund, ungarbled ; very high prices consider '"4'st_he state of markets at home. ca: °°1--- About 100 candies of different sorts have n n 7d hand s, at rates vary i ng f rom 7 5 rs a 110 rs per any Pr Vg. ht s — During the month there has been . scarce for tariation from the rates quoted in our last number be er , r zl°ll, and Liverpool. Vessels for the Clyde have on the , e -ghed at 3/. 155., but at present there is no ship 17 r s ' ft uert h• The rate to China has fluctuated between To L dons, a n d may no w b e put d own at t h e f ormer.— I,4: e n ao ", 31 . 10s. ; Liverpool, 31. 15s. ; China, 17 rs TEE MONEY MARKET. y e repeat o ur f ormer quotat i ons o f th e p r i ces o f Go th_rnMent paper, which have remained stationary during 2,3 7,j900th. Five per Ce n t. Tr a nsfer Loan, 108 a 109 rs; per t ce eper Cent. Loan, par to 4 per cent. prem. ; Four nt. Loan 89 , . at i s Ro ttsE.—Onrs London the rate has been uniformly at tht : °O. for s i x mont h s ' bill s, an d Is . 110. per drafts 0 rt C Y days' s i g ht, s i nce our l as t p u bli ca t ion . 100 r4alcutta the exchange is 98i, and on Madras mitt There is nothing of importance doing in re /3:"'" to Chit , . a. Yalu 814 AnEs —There is no change to notice in the biet°cel3ank Shares ; they are still at 24 per cent. prem. rs 33.0 Bumaort.—Sovereigns, each, 10 13 rs alO 15 - nk of . England Notes, per £, 10 13 rs a 10 15 rs. e a i ii ''NuE or INDI A. —W e h ave h a d an opportun i ty o f ie w - g a dottnnent which gives a very fair and correct th e of the state of the revenue of this country during Year 1 840-1, and of the expenses of the Government 110-4ngland and in India, including Pensions, Interest on shows Debt, Btc., for the same period. The result "ws, that though a careful collection of revenue and the 111 14 24ii. te ! i anee of t wo pro d uct i ve monopo li es h ave aug ei;Tes h :ed the entir e revenue i n one year b y 25 l acs , the 43ave increased t o an extent to l ea ve a deficit of co u ' °23 rupees. It a p pears t h at t h e tota l reven ue of the u .I;_, a trY for th e year 1840-1 was 21,67,51,148 rupees, the ttanursements 19 ,42,57,074 rupees. The difference meets 1.12, enormous home charge (including dividends and the have on the bond debt) of 2,684,430 L, less the sum we .sa,ye stated above as constituting the deficiency. The ',4lef increase of expenditure has arisen in the Civil De ,lttostrne ent, the charges in which have been . 2 . 2 lacs above h.__ the previous year, while the military . charges i n 'we he those of 1839-40 by 9 lacs. The principal neraoase o in the receipts has arisen out of the collections x 1 ,7, m revenue in Bengal and the eastern settlements.— i,6,74, 14, ,,nn, Nov. 13. 'sp, s 7P A ITSE ON THE S.E. PRONG—NARROW The PE OF THE CHILDE HAROLD. Childe Harold. in entering the harbour on .rsday last, grazed t h e rocks on the inner edge of the Thi s Prong, but we believe has sustained no injury. so 'iA is another proof of the necessity of a lighthouse, or 14_e distinguishing beacon of sufficient magnitude , Q f teg Placed on this dangerous reef. Here is the case , ship entering the harbour in chargeight fine cle ar weather, with a smooth sealin too, of a Pilot, an d yet narrowly escapes shipwreck. In the th Pinion o f t h e B om b ay Government, and its officers in e dockyard, the pilot establishment of this port is an effi c i ent one, and no char ge o f i ncompetency f or hi s thoffice can be pointed out against any individual in it. If e Gov ernment b e correct in this opinion —and they relycouldnot have arrived at such a conclusion without It full consideration of the subject—then does the loss of th e Donna Pascoe, on this very reef, and the recent mis hap (which might have ended in shipwreck) of the Childe Harold. each of these vessels being at the time in Charge of a pilot, incontestibly prove the the necessity of an additional lighthouse being erected without delay, to point out the position of these dangerous rocks. If a vessel entering the harbour in mild weather—the sea al most witheut a ripple—and in charge of one of the very efficient Bombay pilot establishment, grazes the rocks, ttnd narrowly escapes being lost, what must be the situa tion of v esse l s attempt i ng to make the harbour in the ; '44t eroll3 weather and hazy atmosphere of the south :an monso on ? Wi t h a strong f l ood tide and t eh bre eze d ur i ng that season, any vessel that h a /Id s on must be far up within the limits of the Doer our before a pilot boat can possibly get out b n e j r n lee, tide. But even if the pilot got safely on ' . lle ' e d , , in what better a position is the ship ? If in ~tillehte.ar weather he cannot steer clear of the rocks, net be l egs, likely will he then be able to do so. The chan "een between the Prongs and Tull Reef, which ou s na L v il , e entrance into our harbour, is rather a danger- In during that season. The t Scyllam qui vult, vitare Charybdim. erection of efficient remedy for these evils would be the t he so,-;:e'r Doti anlight-house on the south-east Prong ; and . o rdered eof Bramah's bronze or iron columns is car goes l e , Tt the better. The value of the ships and 1 1 A, 11 , t en month s on these fatal rocks . within the last I . tir o w h ich N, suffice ten times over to erect a ( t ) .1 1 , 84 , e h disaste rs. ‘ e:lL d d effectually prevent a recurrence `-lovar nraQat I'or the sake of suffering humanity becia" rr e i"u a c '„ u n ght to carry through , this under use li tis not r tC e s e ;offices will not move in the matter their interest to do so.—Bombap Times. LI:VANT MAIL. ___..„,„,_____ EGYPT. 114 tlighness the p ac h, was , by last report, within twent .. Tao., jetaln: hours of Cairo, in which city he intends to ', , n . liairam (the lesser feast of that name). Go.vern ofenottiriislee,svoefr Produc e are still suspended, and business, o in n e . i n y t ;reguithout amend ull. The currency liitYiroens and orders are . isl promulgated, but the effectual re gulation in the shape of an issue of good coin from the Mint has not been put in force. ,4Cithndtl,ran le quiet there ldatest dates are London4th, Paris 6th. Malta k C onstantinop B th instant. Beyrout Bth inst. China , O ct. 10. ) Nov., B ombay Ist inst., C a l cu tt a 21st ALEX ANDRIA. at noon, with pEc. 23.—The steamer Montrose came in yesterday r-- the mails and passengers of the Great Liverpool, which had broken a piston in the Bay of tiscay, and remained at Gibraltar. The India mail from llontbay, Ist inst., arrived at Suez on t h e 20 t h, an d r tlched Al exandria at one o'clock this morning. MALTA. 29.—The Montrose (substituted for the Great Lmail iver arrived here this morning, bringing the India from Alexandria. The Briti s h t roops employed in Syria, consisting of fnth°ulcers, non-commissioned officers, privates, &c., arrived e 23d i nst . , on b oard her Majesty's ship Thunderer, rorn Beyrout. The Rus s i an sc h ooner of war, Jonetz sailed on the 22d ,„.` ll ' Legh orn • and the Hecate war-steamer, Commander ward, for Tunis, on the 26th inst. The P e ni n sul a an d Oriental Company's steamerthe Iberia, Lieutenant G. Gr een , R.N., in charge of ,mails, arrived from P a t ras an d t h e lonian Islands on the 29th at noon ; she left Corf u on th e 24th, and has e xperienced most dreadful wind, the wind on the 25th 1441 26th blowing almost a hurricane, right in her teeth; , not withstanding the passage was made in four days, vr° ,..vilg the excellence of the boat. On the 28th the Locust steam tender, Lieut. Lunn, Ara toander, which sailed the day before, it is said, for Th, e Alecto will sail for Marseilles this evening at five n cle tr k o' s with the overland India mail brought by the arrived at noon from Alexandria. t lt is -reported that a Commission is sitting in London f °,. a ssinailat e as nearly as possible the position of Pursers ;`. toe Royal Navy to that of Commissaries of the Army, i th similar allowances and designations. i tn " ) ol England we learn of no naval movements of ve A ri t . t atloe, with the exception of the departure of se -I.rali- sb ports with troops for China. icD:' I tIVALs OF SHIPS of WAR AND PACKETS.—Dec. 23 o'"u3'4l Yacht Squadron schooner Ariel, C. B. Blayds, blessin g ; her Majesty's ship Thunderer, Captain S eatt ri tig, from Bey rout. D ec. 24—French steam-packet 25 andre, Lieut. P. Dupare, from the Levant. Dec. banT ' r aje s ty' s steam-frigate Devastation, Com ste;e? G. J. G or d on, f rom Gibraltar. Jan. 27—French It o "' ; Pcket S esostris, Lieut. P. Cosnier, from Italy and pan se ' ll ". Dee. 28—The O r i enta l an d P en i nsu l ar C om - Ljs steamer Iberia, W. D. Evans, Esq., from the ratal)4,l lands. 1 4e, , 2 4- „ Iv rtTRE OF Sinn OF WAR AND PACKETS.— be e . 2,`•"- - Russian sc h ooner Jonetz, J. Endueyourof. kO4ll, foc—Prench steam-packet Rhameses, Lieut. Gour eve, ~Italy and Marseilles ; her Majesty's steamer A IN o'itfttriander Ward, for Tunis. t.."----The Howe, 120 (bearing the flag of . Rear of Rear Sir P. Mason, K.C.8.) ; Ceylcri, 6 (hearing the 11.,,kh1e, -Admiral Sir John Louis, Bart.) ; Impreg- Zeki, i ; ; Ganges, 84 ; Vanguard, 84 ; Monarch, 8 . 4 ; `7, 4l er r ' T 74 Wasp, 18 ; Wcazel, 10 ; Magpie ; and t st e —fi eu 3 t, Alecto, Polyphemus, Devastation Ib e du.oers Tancrde, Scamandre, and Sesostris rta. vrlental and Peninsular Company's steamer c i rheentta re fr om 700 to 800 poor Roman Catholic Corporatiotrls4sent receiving instruction in the Liverpool Liberals Cy Liberals.ols under the existing open system bala nce T own Council while its majority were lowa NVas ; .ver, since the last elections, when the Point e d with' il , c , ll4 od to Toryism, a Committee was ap riaricling the Lne view of gettinua Rort recom going back to the old exclusives stem' This day is published, in Bvo., price ss. Part V. of THE FARMER'S ENCYCLOP/EDIA , A. and DICTIONARY of RURAL AFFAIRS. By C. W. JOHNSON, Esq. Containing articles en the Uses of Gases to Vegetation, the Refuse Matter of Gas Works as a Fertilizer, Geology, Germination, Grasses, Green Manures, Guano (an important new manure), Gypsum, Harrow (with Engravings of the most approved Harrows), Hop, &c. London: Longman, Brown, and Co. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING , JAN. 7, Will be performed the Play of THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA.—Duke of Milan, Mr. Phelps ; Valentine, Mr. Macready ; Proteus. Mr Anderson ; Thurio, Mr. Comp ton ; Launce, Mr. Keeley : Julia, Miss Fortescue ; Silvia, Miss Ellis ; Lucetta, Miss Turpin. After which will be repeated the New Christmas Pantomime, called HARLEQUIN AND DUKE HUMPHREY'S DIN NER ; OR, JACK CADE, THE LORD OF LONDON STONE. _ . . Doors to be opened at Half past Six, and the Performance to begin at Seven o'clock. Boxes 55.. Second Price, 25. 6cl. Pit 35., Second Price 2s. Lower Gallery Is. 6d., Second Pram Is. Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, JAN. 7, Will be revived Mrs. Inchbald's Comedy of WIVES AS THEY WERE AND MAIDS AS THEY ARE.—Lord Priory, Mr. W. Farren ; Sir William Dorillon, Mr. Cooper ; Sir George Evelyn, Mr. G. Vandenhoff ; Mr. Bronzely, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Miss Dorrill(n, Mrs. Nisbett ; Lady Mary Raffle, Mrs. Glover ; Lady Priory, Miss Faucit (her first ap pearance at this Theatre). After which will be repeated the New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled GUY EARL OF WARWICK ; OR, HARLEQUIN AND THE DUN COW. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second. Price. 25.; Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken f Mr. Grogan, at the Box-office, frem Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167, New Bond-street. To-morrow, Norma, with the New Pantomime. ItOYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Astounding hit—The acknowledged beat Pantomime in Lon don—Hundreds nightly unable to gain admittance—The Sons of Syria and Felix Carlo surprise every one. THIS EVENING, JAN. 7. Will be acted a New Domestic Drama, entitled MADAME LAFFARGE, from Memoirs written by Herself. After which, a Nautical Burletta, entitled JACK JUNK ; or, a SEAMAN'S FIRESIDE. — Jack Junk, with Five Sea 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 ning, &c. Harlequin, AI. Huline ; Patch, M. Rochet ; Pan taloon, M. Lehman ; Flip, Signor Feliz Carlo ; Clown, Mr. Buckingham ; Columbine, Miss Sharpe. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. Grand Juvenile Week ! The Pantomime played as Second Piece ! Novelties unequalled ! Attraction undoubted ! In terest unprecedented! and Success enormous ! THIS EVENING, JAN. 7, Will be acted, SUSAN HOPLEY • or, THE TRIALS AND VICISSITUDES OF A SERVANT GlRL—Wil liam Dean, Mr. E. F. Saville • Dicky Dean, Mr. Paul Susan Hopley, Miss Vincent (tke acknowledged Heroine of Domestic Tragedy), 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 along the Coast of England. Also, a new Grand Dissolving Diorama, by Childe, the Great Illu sionist ' • and the Opening of the Pantomime supported by the Comic Talent of this--the Popular Theatre of London. • To conclude with THE HAUNTED INN. Boxes, 2s.—Pit, Is.—Gallery, 6d.—Half-price to theßoxes only, at Half-put Eight. To-morrow ' Susan Hopley, Harlequin Peter Wilkins, and The Haunted Inn. NEW STRAND THEATRE. OPEN EVERY EVENING. [mmense attracdon,Thunieruof applause, the Public deceived with their eyes open. Mr. JACOBS, the ROYAL VENTRILOQUIST and GREAT MODERN MAGICIAN, having been received on his third visit to the Metropolis in the most gratifying manner, will continue to work his wonderful and sense-deceiving powers during the present season. All are surprised, all astonished, all delighted with the incomprehensible and metamorphistical feats produced ; amazement sits upon the countenances of the spectators, and murmurs of approbation resound throughout the theatre. Visit the temple of this modern chamfer, or you will lose a treat indeed. In addition to the above are added the fol lowing excellent performances :—Mons. ROUSSEUR, the celebrated FRENCH EQUILIBRIST ; the Clasiical group ings of the PATAGONIAN WONDERS ; and Herr KREU- Z ER'S PHANTASMAGORICAL DISSOLVING POR TRAITS. Doors open at Half-past Six, commence at Seven. Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Children, Is. 6d. Pit, Is. 6d. ; Children, Is. Gal lery, 6d. Half-price a Quarter to Nine. Boxes, ls. 6d. Pit, It. Gallery, no half-price. Carriages to be in waiting Ten:Minutes to Eleven. 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. 7, 1842. THE WEATHER.—Noox, JANUARY 7. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer...t 32 ) Highest 35 1 Lowest 24 Barometer 30.12.—Wind N.—Freezing Point 32 Deg. tilfai WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO.AIORROW Morning .3) minutes after 11 I Evening 0 minutes after 0. The Publication of the Evening Edition of Tux SUN com menced at 10 minutes after Three. .. r ' •-• •- r Ito • 4', 1, 4 a l ' i 44, ~.,..,,:,-, ~ , . .. , „ .. .,, ,I , ....., ..,-.:...,..,4 'I. -5,6,,k •,,,,,,. fl, , jt o N.:l j % . -, 0 1 :-S'A ', , T o C 4,..A.1116.&70:\ .. ' m° ' - ' '-' - , , (Mg _Atit. LONDON: FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1842. The official accounts which we this day publish of the capture of Amoy and the success of the British arms in China, fully bear out all the statements from private sources of informa tion which appeared in The Sun of yester day. Sir HENRY POTTINGER appears to be a Plenipotentiary of the right stamp, and in Admiral PARKER and Sir Huon GOUGH, his Excellency has found kindred spirits in decision and in gallantry. Amoy was taken in four hours, but it is quite clear, from the official reports, that had the state of the fortress been known to the Commander-in. Chief it would have fallen in two hours, or even less. It is by storming the Chinese works that our brave fellows may expect to carry them ; and in the next engagement that takes place there will be less cannonading, and a speedier appeal to the bayonet. The capture of Amoy is of very great importance to us. The anchorage in the bay is excellent, the harbour is large, deep, and well•sheltered, and the sur rounding country very healthy. By occupying theisland of Koo-lang-soo, the British may, at any moment, take possession of Amoy, without the risk of weakening the force on board the ships, by withdrawing the number of troops necessary to garrison so extensive a city. The Chinese fought well—some of them with the energy of despair ; but they were no match for the disci plined troops under the command of Sir H. GOUGH. But though beaten, the Chinese, in their re port to the EMPEROR, a translation of which we have quoted from the Canton Register, claim a complete victory over the outside barbarians. A Bombay Correspondent doubts the authenticity of the Chinese report, but to us there appears no thing at all doubtful about it. Had the writer confessed to defeat he must have died under the torture, and he preferred a lie which might gratify the Imperial vanity, to the loss of his own life. The truth, however, cannot be long concealed from the EMPEROR, so that before the squadron will have reached the mouth of the Peiho River, his Celestial MAJESTY will be fully sensible of the mistake he made in coming to a rupture with the English. The Burmese Monarch Tit ARAWADDIE is amusing himself with pageants at Rangoon, so that nothing more is to be dreaded from that quarter. In Central Asia we regret to state that our affairs wear an ominous appearance. Per haps the only great act of Lord AUCKLAND'S policy, of which from the first we disapproved, was the restoration of SHAH SOOJAH, and already has it proved to us a most unfortunate business. The SHAH was a coward, a tyrant, and a fool, and lost his throne because he deserved to lose it. To afford him a safe asylum in British India Was highly creditable to the British name but to restore him to a throne occupied by a sagacious popular Prince, at the immense and almost impassable distance that Cabool is from the seat of the British Government in India, always appeared to us exceedingly ill advised. Already, besides the loss of twenty-five officers killed, and an equal number carried off by the climate of Cabool, the SHAH SOOJAH affair has cost the Treasury of India from twenty to twenty-five millions sterling—a sad set-off against the recent success of our arms in China. It is not denied by the Tory Journals that the " public distress has had some influence on the revenue, and if it have not produced the whole or any considerable part of the Excise decrease, it has prevented an increase." But there is little doubt that the distress of the lower classes is the main cause of the falling off in the revenue. They contribute little or nothing to the Assessed "Taxes," and this branch of the revenue is flourishing, but they contribute a large propor tion of the Excise duties, in which the deficiency is the greatest; we must, therefore, tell the land lords, who in general have the disbursement and enjoyment of the revenue, that they cannot have their funds both in meal and in malt, cannot both levy a heavy tax on the necessaries of life for their own especial use, and taxes on luxuries and comfbrts for the use of the State. At the conference of the working-classes held at Manchester on New Year's Day, from which emanated that excellent Address to the Radical Reformers of Great Britain and Ireland which we published in our afternoon edition yesterday, a considerable body of facts were brought for ward to illustrate the present condition of the working-classes, some of which we shall quote to show its effects on the revenue. It is scarcely necessary to remind the reader that in the majo rity of cases people do not limit their consump tion of bread and meat till after they have limited, or totally put a stop to their consumption of to bacco and spirituous liquors. At that meeting there were Deputies from various parts of the kingdom, and Mr. JOHN ADAM, weaver, from Forfar, gave in a report of the working-classes in that town., of which the following is an extract : There were visited in Forfar 510 families, consisting of 1,727 individuals, nearly all of whom were employed. After deducting for rent, fire, and light, they had only the following sums per day, respectively, on which to subsist, viz.:-40 individuals, from 6d. to Bd. per day; 61 from sd. to 5f d.• 116 from 4d. to 414.; 247 from 3d. to 311; 567 from id. to 111; and 118 from id. to Id. The greater part of the last number are single women, employed as winders. Only 42 of the entire number are unemployed. In 1836, the population of Forfar was 8,780; the number of cattle killed was 825, which gave an average allowance, per diem, to each individual, of 1 ounce 13f drachms. In 1841 the population was 9,605; and the number of cattle killed, 483, which afforded to each individual an average daily supply of 151 drachms. The consumption of other necessaries, bread, clothing, &c., diminished in the same proportion. That is the condition of the people in a remote part of Scotland; their condition in the heart of England was thus described : In Nottingham the working classes were in great distress. He (Mr. Murray) had counted 117 stout, healthy men, engaged in " making a hole, and filling it up again." They were employed at the forest in remov ing a bank of red sandstone, in order that they might re ceive parish pay. Eleven of them were harnessed to the gravel cart, like beasts of burden. That was not a suit able occupation for human beings. The children in the workhouse of Nottingham died so rapidly that a coro• ner's inquest was held to ascertain the cause. It was then found, that, in consequence of the crowded state of the workhouse, the mortality was five-fold greater in it than outside. Of Halifax a carefully drawn up report stated, Sixty-two families have been forced from their homes into lodgings, where there are two, and three, and even four small families in one small house of two rooms, with scarcely a vestige of furniture. Some are lying upon straw, on the cold ground ; others had been without fire in their houses for two or three days, and not a morsel of flour, meal, or oth e r food in the house. One poor woman declared she had not eaten a morsel for two days. In one house, containing two families, was a female, in a corner of the room, clothed in rags, near her confinement, and actually famishing for bread. Though the aristocracy, by drawing- their cur tains close, and shutting their double-doors, may keep the complaints of the people from pe netrating into their clubs and drawing-rooms, and may therefore remain in blissful ignorance of what the people say and think, they must not suppose, we can assure them, that such statements can be made to crowded meetings of the work ing classes, and can be recorded by many of the Journals, without having a considerable effect on their minds. One consequence of such state ments is to make • them feel doubly indignant against the bread-taxers, and hence the demand for compensation for past injury, as well as a guarantee against future wrong,, is becoming quite popular amongst them. At that meeting a Mr. WATKINS said— If the large assembly which he had the honour to re present were polled through, scarcely an individual would be found who would not assert the principle that the people were entitled to receive compensation from the aristocracy who had fattened themselves on their sufferings. The propriety of making this claim was not first suggested by young and inexperienced men, who did not understand the matter—it was first proposed by the father of the Anti-Corn-law agitation—the author of the Anti-Corn-law Catechism—Colonel Thompson ; and the claim was considered just and legitimate by the Rev. Patrick Brewster, who, in a letter addressed to him (Mr. Watkins) a few weeks ago, used these words :-- "I cannot help expressing my satisfaction that the work ing men getting up the meeting have the sense and spirit to demand compensation. Would that the League had the courage to join them in that claim !—it would sooner bring your unfeeling oppressors to their senses." — (Cheers.) Though that claim had been put forward by a few, yet backed as it was by two men whom all per ties respected, it was surely entitled to the consideration of the meeting. His opinions were thus echoed : Mr. Murray, of Nottingham, was of opinion that com pensation, in some shape or other, should be had. The aristocracy had proclaimed to the world, through their organs, that they were worth 3,000,000,0001. of money ; and he thought that, as they had saddled the country with 1,000,000,000/. of a National Debt, they should be called on to liquidate it by paying 6s. 8(1. to the pound for one year. He would forgive them all their bygone robbery, if they paid that debt. They might discharge it in ten years by paying Bd. to the pound on their boasted capital. That was the compensation he would demand from them ; and surely, after charging the people 30 per cent. on their food beyond its real value, they (the aristocracy) had no reason to grumble at the proposition. Such are the thoughts and such is the language of the working-classes, dictated by their deep distress ; and such thoughts and such language are spreading further and wider, while indignation against the law-makers is becoming more intense every day. Unfortunately for them, science and the statistical accounts which they order to be collected for their own information or amuse ment, justify the workmen's statements, confirm those indications of decay and, distreas which we find in the Revenue accounts. In a paper on the increase of mortality, in that useful periodical, called Facts and Figures, No. 4, we find the following passage : The rate of mortality throughout England was — In the year ending 30th June, 1839, ono in 46 . 21, or 216 in 10,000 of the population. In the year ending 30th June, 1840, one in 44'28, or 225 in 10,000 of the population ; showing an increase of 9 on 216, or 4'16 per cent. It was in 1839 1840 Leicestershire ....... lin 48'06 Nottinghamshire West Riding, Yorkshire lin 44.11 Cheshire Warwickshire Staffordshire 1 in 53.04 Lancashire The above seven counties lin 41.82 All England In each 10,000 of the population the deaths have there fore been, 1839. 1840. Difference. In the seven manufactur- 239 262 9.62 per cent. e. in counties 3 In the remaining counties 206 209 1'45 „ In all England In the counties of Leicester, Nottingham, and Lan caster, the deaths have been in each 10,000 of the population : 1839. 1840. Difference. Leicester Nottingham 2lO 282 34.28 „ Lancaster 283 315 11.30 „ The extreme high rate of mortality in both years in Lancashire seems to indicate that causes adverse to prosperity came earlier into operation in that county than elsewhere : the rate of mortality, then, has been higher than that of the whole kingdom by 31 per cent. in 1839, and 43 per cent. in 1840. When we consider that the value of life among the upper and middling classes has been decidedly improved, as shown by the alterations in insurance policies, as well as by general observation, how fearful must be the in crease of disease and mortality amongst the poor ! Fearful, indeed—it must be fearful; and the people begin to be quite sensible that those who call them " canaille," and the " swinish multi tude," have a serious and settled design on their lives. They say that they are to be starved ont THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1842. of existence, as the Red men of America have been swept away; with this difference, that the latter have been annihilated by the progress of a more industrious and skilful race, while they are to make way for those who have neither in dustry nor skill, and who will themselves decay and perish, should they succeed in their present object of starving the working classes. We know, too, that they see with unmitigated dis gust the present conduct of the clergy in advo cating the immoral system which aims at de stroying them. The bribed priesthood now meet them in every path; and as writers of letters, as editors of newspapers, as getters up of journals for the working classes, as well as in their capacity of preachers, they zealously endeavour to prevent the escape of the people from the bog of cruel oppression in which they are immersed. If they should succeed, it will end in depriving themselves of congregations; and if they should not succeed, they will find that in making religion the ally of an unjust and immoral system of politics, they have weakened its influence, and have for ever destroyed their own. We have received a Madrid letter to the 29th ultimo. In the sittings of the Chamber on that day the organisation of the bu reaux was definitely settled, and the re sult was a triumph for the eraltado fraction of the Chamber; all the Members, with the ex ception of M. ACUNHA, belonging to that opi nion. Numerous meetings pf Deputies have been held. The tbllowing is the defini tive organization of the bureaux : President —M. PEDRO ACUNHA. Vice Presidents—MM. VA DILLO, CABELLO, CANTERO, and PEDRO GILL; Secretaries—MM.HunLvEs, MIGUEL RODA, Do- MENICII, and GOMEZ DE LA FERNA. It is not expected the address will be passed without some stormy debates, particularly that para graph relative to the late events at Barcelona. The amount of business transacted on. the Bourse ex ceeded 190,000/. sterling, and prices closed at 33 for cash sellers, and 3311 a 334 for sixty days. The Three per Cents., including the dividend duo the Ist' of January next, 23k. The French Journalsof Wednesday have all reached us. The following paragraph from the :Sloniteur Parisien, explaining the absence of the Russian Envoy from the Palace on New Year's-day, is among the most important of the very common-place items of intelligence con tained in them : " According to the information we have collected, we believe the following tb be the truth. M. de Pahlen, the Russian Ambassador in France, was re called in November by his Government, and the un disputed motive of his recal was that the Emperor of Russia wished to avoid M. de Pahlen's having, as Senior Resident of the Diplomatic Corps, to harangue the King on New Year's-day. On DecemberlB, the Emperor's fete day, M. Perier, and the other persons attached to the French embassy at St. Petersburg, finding themselves indisposed, did not present themselves at the Imperial Palace. M. de Kisseleff equally found himself indis posed on the Ist instant, and did not appear at the Tuilleries." The Moniteur of the sth publishes in its official part a Royal ordinance, containing several judicial appoint ments. An ordinance of the 4th approves the election, made by the Academy of Moral and Political Science, of M. Gustave de Beaumont, to fill the place in the Moral section, vacant by the death of the Count de Cessac. Messrs. Pasquier and Decazes had a long conference with the King yesterday. The Commission of Inquiry into the crime of 13th September, met yesterday at tho Luxemburg, and re quired that four of the individuals condemned and sent to the prison of Mont St. Michel, should be immediately brought back to Paris. The Committee of the Chamber of Deputies ap pointed to draw up the address, met yesterday at one o'clock in the' Cabinet of the President of the Chum ber, who, by the regulation of 1814, is ex officio a Mem ber of this Committee, which makes the whole number of Members ten. All the Members of the Committee, as organs of the bureaux, agreed to require of the Minister, the most simple communication that could be made respecting the Convention of the 13th of July, the Treaty relative to piracy and the right of search, and explanations respect ing the commercial negotiations in Belgium. It was also agreed that the Minister of Foreign Af fairs, of \Var, the Interior, Finance, and:Public Works should bo respectively invited to attend the Committee, in order to give information, as well on the matter above specified, as on the state of our armaments, the situation of Algiers, the state of the Finance, and the means which the Government think to employ in order to equalise the revenue and the expenditure of the State. —ConstitutionneL We have the following letter from Toulon, of 31st December:—" We have announced the departure of the corvettes Embuscade and Baussole, with troops on board. These vessels were detained in sight of the Channel for a part of the day, in consequence of the arrival of des patches sent by estafette from Paris. This circumstance was much talked of yesterday in the port. The com manders of the two cornttes have sealed despatches, which they are not to open till they have passed the Straits of Gibraltar. We know that these vessels have eight or nine points to touch at.—Cornnitrce. BOURSE—PAnis, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 5. First Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Prier. French 5 ner Cents ll7 20 ... 117 30 ... 117 15 ... 117 30 4% per Cents .... 106 7 ... 101 75 ... 106 75 ... 106 75 4 per Cents lOl 50 ... 101 50 ... 101 50 ... 101 5(1 3 per Cents. ex div 7B 40 ... 78 45 ~. 78 35 ... 71 43 Loan Bank of ?lance ..... ....... Waite Bank:.l,ooof. Shares 1007 50 ...leo7 10 ...1007 50 ...1007 50 5,000 f. Shares 5015 ...5015 ...5015 ...5015 Valid:in Bank Belgian 5 per Cents. 5 per Cents., 1840 l O3ll ... 103% .... 1 03 % • "' ..." Dutch 2% per Cents. 53% ... 53,4 .. 53% ... 53 / 4 simmsh Acure ij% ... V. 6 ... '25% ••• . )5 it Passive 5% ... 574 ... 5% 53 4 New Deferred ... Ills ... 124 Neapolitan R0man...... 103% ... 103% ... 1 03 % ••• 183 - -- RAILWAY 3HARE3. St. Germain Versailles, H. 13 207 50 207 g) 206 25 ... 2.06 25 340 —. 340 310 ... 510 Rouan 485 490 485 ... 495 01 lean e . itraliburg to Bale. 230 ... 230 227 50 227 50 CAPTURE OF CANTON. We learn that the Queen has been pleased to grant to the forces employed at the capture of the outworks of Canton, out of the sums received under the Convention, a donation equal to ono year's amount of the Indian allowance known by the namo of " Batta.” The shares of Colonels will be 900/. each ; of Lieute nant-Colonels, 7201. ; of Majors, 540/ ; of Captains, 2161. ; of Lieutenants, 1441, &c.; the officers of the navy sharing according to their relative rank with those of the army. Those who were not present at the operations against Canton, but who were engaged in other operations of the war, such as the taking of Chusan, are to receive six months' Batta.—Times. THE BURMESE WAR. The Governor-General has published an order from the Court of Directors, authorising the payment of a further portion of the booty captured in the last Bur mese war. The whole amount to be distributed is up wards of nine lacs. Of this, rejecting fractions, the naval and military Commanders-in-Chief get 28,570 rupees each ; general officers, 9,523 ; brigadiers, field officers. &c., 1,785 ; captains and surgeons, 255 ; subal terns and assistant-surgeons, 117 ; warrant officers, na tive commissioned officers, and sergeants, 26 ; rank and file, &c., 4 rupees. Officers and others on the staff of the army, or belonging to her Majesty's or the Indian navy, share in the same proportion as the above, in re fiqenee to their relative rank.---,BombayCquricr., , LLOYD'S . S Ei I PPINCit LONDON, JAN. 7.—Wind this day at noon N. RAMSGATE, JAN. 6.—The Angelique, from Copen hagen to Cadiz, which was ashore on Margate Sands, with loss of mainmast, &c., has put in here. OFF DovEn, JAN. 6.--Janet G ibson, Rio forHamburgh • SALCOMBE, JAN, s.—Arrd. Victoria, London for the Azores. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 6.—Wind N.E.—Sld. her Majesty's ship At Isis, South America. F N.E.JAN. Nt o E.N.E.—SId, lleis b i e w ith part of the cargo of the Orient. Lzto L urr on u d , on, painted, with a A vessel ' schooner riggedova terlo gg ed, s tern out of water, n re o d moulding, mine, but the supposed Castle t o of I h -l a a se M , btrg en h run down, was fallen in with this morning about fire miles E.S.E. of the Manacles. CROOKHAVEN, JAN. 3.—A wreck, supposed d schooner, was passed 31st ult. in ]at. 44, long. 15, by the Teri, Dawe, arrived here from Terceira. DEAL, JAN. 6.—Wind fresh.—Arrd. from the River and Md., Princess Victoria, Calcutta ; Bencoolen, Sydney; Delhi, Cape ; Lady Hilda., Barbadoes. Arrd., Mandane, Sunderland, and sld. for the Cap. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 6.—Wind N.— Arrd. Little Won der, Terceira. Sld., St. Lawrence, Bombay ; Sweet Home, Rio Grande ' • Andes, Bahia ; Sp r i ng fi e ld a nd Emerald, Savannah; Champion and Susan Drew, Phila delphia ; Scotland, Charleston; Joseph Ycoward, Malta. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 6.--Wind N.N.E.--Sld., Pomona, St. Michael's. CLYDE, JAN. s.—Arrd. Rainbow, Scott, Montreal. Salus, Demerara ; Louisa and Matthew, King, Tri nidad ; Metaxa, New York ; Minerva, C a p e . KINGSTOWN, JAN. 5. The Aurora, Jaraner, from Liverpool, was fallen in with about mid-Channel, with a flag of distress, and supplied with provisions by her Ma jesty's steamer Urgent. BRISTOL, JAN. 4.—Sld. Hannah, Africa. OFF SCILLY, JAN. 3.—Jolin Esdaile, Ockey, Quebec. CARDIFF, JAN. Sld. Charles, Leghorn. BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGES. — We understand that Mr. Blur's, of Essex-street, Strand, the solicitor for the plaintiff in the recent cause of " Dar bon v. Rosser," has a cause in embryo of another breach of promise, a gentleman against a lady, the age just the opposite of Darbon and Rosser. The damagep are laid at 20,0004—Courier. IMMARY OF NEWS AND Vubltr eptutoit. " Who runs may read." ronzruaw. The loss of the Chinese at the capture of Amoy is estimated at 150, including several Mandarins. The British had only nine wounded, one of whom, a boy, afterwards died. The number of guns taken and de stroyed was 500. All the war junks seized were burned within sight of the city. The sudden assemblage of 8,000 troops, and ten vessels of war, in the neighbourhood of Rangoon, had had its effect upon King Thar a w a ddi e , w h o appears to have directed his march homeward with all convenient speed. General Sir R. Sale, in endeavouring to make his way from Cabool to India, with a brigade nearly 3,000 strong, including artillery, has been all but defeated in the Koord Cabool pass. He was first assailed on the 9th October, and from that time to the 24th was incessantly engaged with the enemy. In the course of 16 days he was only able to force his way fifty or sixty miles of ground ; 250 men have been killed and wounded on our side, amongst these are ten officers wounded and three killed ; the most difficult of his ground is still to be forced. His escape from total destruction seems to have been most extraordinary. The French Consul-General in Egypt, Count Chabat, has received a splendid dessert service, valued at about 3,0001., to be transmitted to the Pacha as a present from the King of France ; each plate contains a representa tion of some Moorish chieftain, most beautifully exe cuted, and the centre piece, which is valued at 8001., is a most chaste and elegant piece of workmanship. PUBLIC OPINION. The Times reverts to the question of the African Slave-trade and the right of search, and the altercation with the American Government respecting this right, and adds :—" It is no question in which English interests alone are concerned ; it concerns the enforcement of a necessary right, which we claim as inherent in all nations equally, and which we are as ready to submit to, as we are determined not to yield." In another article, describ ing the disorganized state of Carlow, during the late elections, the Times states that it is exceedingly " shocked at the savagery of our fellow-creatures." In an article pointing out the nature and advantages of free-trade, the Advertiser remarks, that it is out of the question to treat the theme as one of party interest, and that a national principle, a law affecting the condition of a whole empire cannot, unless through aberration of in tellect, be supposed to militate against particular classes. The Chronicle, speaking of the manufacturing system, is of opinion that whatever amendments may be made in/it, must come from the repeal of the food monopoly, which has vitiated the system ; adding, " manufacturing Reform is an egg on which Sir Robert Peel may sit very long without hatching anything, not even a tax." The Post insists that it has never contended for the finality of the Corn-law, or any other law, but that the principle for which it has contended as a permanent prin ciple, and for which it will continue to contend, is that of adequate protection to our agricultural industry from the competition of foreigners. The Herald, commenting on a recent letter, by Mr. Macdonnell:to the American Envoy in England, wherein allusions are made to the Irish Repeal question, says that the late Ministers, whether Whig or Tory, deserve re prehension for the remiss way in which they have re garded the discussion of this factious question. The Dublin Pilot observes, with reference to the ap proaching Dublin election :—" Such is the state of the constituency, from an increase of Liberal registries since the last election, th at even without the weight of Lord Mor peth's personal character—without the advantage of paid up taxes by the Liberals from the late municipal elec tions—without the strength derived from the extinction of the influence and organization of the old Tory cor poration, and the existence of the countervailing in fluence of the new and Liberal corporation—without these advantages, there is on the muster roll of the cox stituency enough to beat any Tory candidate with any Liberal one whatever." The Kent Herald says :—" To Toryism we must sub mit, until the excesses into which its possession of power will in time inevitably lead it, disgusts the people and rouses a spirit of opposition and resistance, which, ex asperated by distress, may cement the various classes of the community into a mass of anti-Toryism too strong for the governance of the privileged few. In the in terim we hope that party men will make politics a study —hitherto they have been an impulse, a prejudice, or a trade." The following is from the Plymouth Journal :—" The advice to Congress of a revision of the Tariff, is to us most important, and its discussion will involve the settle ment anew of the principles of our international com merce. 'Will that discussion be in the spirit of retalia tion, and the policy recommemded be that of protection to the American interests ? Though we much fear this, yet we would venture to hope that a system, seen and felt to be so palpably unjust and injurious to British in terests and to the British nation, would be rejected as unworthy of enlightened legislation." MONEY—Tat.axiis—comxwalscas. A railroad between - Lucca and Pisa, to be connected with that between the latter place and Leghorn, is now carrying into execution. The port of Antwerp has been entered by 67 ships during the last month. On the first day of the year there were 273 ships in the basins, canals, and quays of the city. PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. Since the fatal accidents on the railroads have become so frequent, and it has been ascertained that the cala mities fall chiefly on the passengers in the open car riages some of the Companies are improving their second and third class carriages. On the Grand Junction Rail way the second class have glass doors and sides, and the Directors of the Hull and Selby, Manchester and Leeds, and the Great Western, we hear, are imitating the good example. BOCIfESIASTECAL. The statutes of Magdalen College, Oxford, are said to contain nothing that will prevent Mr. Sibthorp, now a Roman Catholio priest, from holding his fellowship. The statutes of the same College require the performance of prayers for the dead. NAVAL AND MILITARY. _ _ By order of her Majesty the forces employed at the capture of the outworks of Canton are to receive out of the money obtained from the Chinese, a donation equal to one year's amount of the India allowance called " Batta." The Court of Directors of the East India Company have also ordered the payment of a further portion of the booty captured during the Burmese war. The naval and military Commanders-in-Chief are to receive about 2,8001. each, general officers 900/. and the rest in the same proportion, in reference to their relative ranks. • LAW AND POLICE. At Clerkenwell, William Harris, a cabriolet driver was charged with furious driving, and other misconduct. It apreared the prisoner was driving on Wednesday morning his cab and horse at a rapid rate in Guildford street, with two persons on the roof, four inside, one man on the horses back urging him on, making in all eight persons, and at the corner of Greville-street, the under wheels were dashed off on coming against a post, and the whole party except the rider were thrown down on the pavement. The Magistrate ordered the defendant to pay a penalty of 405., rind in default of payment to be committed to hard labour for a month. On the evidence of a police constable, the driver of one of Powell's omnibuses, and the driver of one of Old field's were fined at Kensington Police Court 20s. each for racing on the high road. Thomas Hewett, the Chartist, indicted at the Norwich Quarter Sessions for creating a disturbance and obstruct ing the Bishop at the consecration of Catton church, was found guilty of a rout but not a riot, and ordered to be im prisoned for two months, and to bind himself in fixed se curities. At Marlborough-street, yesterday, Mr. Hardwick was applied to by a solicitor to admit to bail Mr. Pennington, the young man who had been committed for three months as a rogue and a vagabond, for disgraceful con duct at the Haymarket Theatre. His object was to en able the prisoner to appeal to the Sessions against the con viction. After some inquiry the Magistrate consented to release the offender, on his giving security, himself in 5001., and two others in 250/. each. The Rev. Mr. Pen nington, Rector of Thorley, Hertford, the defendant's grandfather, and Mr. Egg, the gun-smith, were the 511 reties. PINSI ARTS. At a Committee held at the Mansion-house yesterday to consult upon the completion of the equestrian statue of the;Duke of Wellington, left unfinished by Sir Francis Chantrey, Messrs. Cunningham and Weekes were chosen to perfect it, and it is to bo placed at the west end of the 'loyal Exchange, on the site of the Bank-buildings, which are to come down. The Warsaw monument, erected and inaugurated to the honour of the " loyal Poles," properly called the " traitor Poles," who fell in defence of the Russian Go vernment in November, 1830, is guarded by about 600 soldiers distributed in four guardhouses. The iron em ployed in this monument weighs 3,460 cwt., and the bell-metal 4,5001b5. A monument has been erected at Nauplia, near the sea shore, to the memory of the Bavarians who have fallen in the service of Greece and Greek independence. It was inaugurated on the 19th ult., and built at the expense of the King of Bavaria. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. A large quantity of Saxon coins or stycas were dis covered last week in Hexham churchyard, most of them r epresentative of various monarchs and prelates of that early -period. THEATRICAL. Yesterda.7 the Princess's Theatre was submitted to public compe:ition by Messrs. Foster and Sons at the Auction Mart, And knocked down for 19,400/. The name of the purchaser did not transpire. Mr. Lumley, we understand, has succeeded in retain ing the following singers for the Italian Opera—Madame Molteni, and Signors Sariti, Guasco, and George Ron coni. Rubini has promised to sing for a limited number of nights, for which he is to receive a thousand pounds Several new pieces are to be brought out, among which is La Vesta e, by Mercadante. The theatre will be opened on Saturday, Feb. 26. Mr. Yates, the manager of the Adelphi, has just left Paris, where he has been witnessing the new piece at the Grand Opera, the Queen of Cyprus. The fashionable topic in Paris is the performance of Vi:pliere's comedy of the Misanthrope, by amateurs, on New )ear's day. 000'RT-WASHIONA3X.E. The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailelibury intend to re main at ByaZu House till the first week in the ensuing month. The Duke and f.;:uchess of Sutherland are spending their Christmas at Trentham. INIZSC ZI•Zo.A.NEOUS. Mr. Ballautine stated, xesterday, in the Thames Police Court, that he bad rem%) 51., ffir the relief of the poor, from a Noble Earl, whose name he was not at li berty to disclose, and he understood that the benevolent nobleman had sent a similar sum to each police office. RUMOUR 01' THE DAT. We understand that certain Members of the ex-Cabi net, greatly interested in the Corn-law question, have engaged the services of the boy Jones, to go down to Stowe, and report the heads of th e c onversation now taking place there between Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, and the Duke of B uc ki ng h am . S evera l cur i o us revela tions are expected, which will not tend to increase the public veneration for Sir James Graham's consistency. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CI7'Y, 'TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JAN. 6.—We have had a fair business doi4 in the Cotton Market to-day, comprising 4,000 bales, all to the trade at steady prices. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JAN. 6.—We have had very limited business at the Stock Exchange this day. The transactions are—Grand Junction Half Shares, 97i; London and Birmingham, 281- ; Midland Counties,. 85. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 6.—There is very little doing in our Share Market, and prices have a downward tendency :—Midland Counties, 851 ; Man chester and Birmingham, 284 ; Manchester and Leeds, par. to 1Y prem.; Ditto Halves, par, to !, 1 - prem.; Eastern Counties, 9 ; Bank of Manchester, 41. 35.; Birmingham Plate Glass, 11. 12s, 6d. THE FUNDS. Consols opened at 891 i for money, ex div., and 59-1-2 for the Account ; Exchequer Bills, 18 20 prem. Spanish Active Stock, 25-1 fo Passive, 5i 6; Deferred, 12i 13i; Portuguese Five per Cents., 3211; Ditto Three per Cents., 191 A. Very little bu , iness doing. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT 0 ItAlLwAys. Paid. Per Share. London and Brighton 5O ...... 3s3i ... to London and Blackwell London and Birmingham ...... ... 90 Ditto i Shares .. Midland Counties lOO Ditto i Shares - to North Midland ...100 Ditto Thirds ~ 15 South Eastern and Doter HALF-PAST ONE. The transactions in the English Funds have been very limited during the morning, without any variation in rice. Consols for the Account may be now quoted 89* s ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 89f 1. Exchequer Bills, 18 20 prem. In the Foreign Market there has also been but little doing. Spanish Stock continues steady, at 25+ -a, Pas sive 5i G, Portuguese Five per Cents. 32f 4, ditto Three per Cents. 19+ Dutch Two•and-a-Half 51,-1 The Share Market presents no variation with the ex ception of London and Brighton Railway Shares, which have declined from 381 to 384. London and Bla,ckwall are 1 ; South-Eastern and Dover 22k. _QUARTER TO THREE. _ . _ It is satisfactory to find that there is a prospect of the commerce between this country and the continental States being carried on more to our advantage during the ensuing season than was the case last year, when such a struggle was experienced by the Bank of England, to keep itself from u drain upon its stock of specie. As far as present appearances justify an opinion we shall have the Exchanges more in our favour, but of course much de pends upon the anticipations of a good harvest. The arrivals of specie from South America have latterly been of some importance. From Valparaiso a private ship brings se veral boxes of silver and one of gold, and part of the Can ton ransom money is probably already in London. Consols, 89f ; Mexican, 28t 29 ; Spanish, 251 1. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. STEALING COALS.—James Irons and Sarah Irons, father and daughter,were placed at the bar, charged with stealing a quantity of coals, the property of Wil liam Knight, of Regent's•square. It appeared from the evidence that the female prisoner had lived with the prosecutor, as servant, and that the male prisoner had gone down into the area of the house, where the female prisoner had given him the coals in question. They were caught in the fact, and immediately given into custody. The RECORDER, in summing up said, that the secret of the great consumption of coals in families was, the open area gate, through which servants supplied their friends. The Jury found the prisoners Guilty, and they were each sentenced to three months' imprisonment, with hard labour. George Langley, aged 13, was indicted for embezzling and stealing various sums of money, the property of George John Poacher, his master. The prosecutor is a stationer, and the prisoner, who was in his employment as errand boy, had, on various occasions, received different sums of money from cus tomers on his master's aceount, for which he had never accounted. _ _ The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, but recom mended him to mercy, in which recommendation the prosecutor joined, on account of the excellent character borne by the prisoner's parents. He was sentenced to be imprisoned for two months, and kept to• hard labour, and to be once privately whipped. - It appeared, from what fell froM Mr. Justice Manic in passing sentence, that during the time the pri soner had been in Newgate, he had been greatly mis conducting himself. NEW COURT. John Jones, a young man of respectable appearance, was indicted for breaking and entering the dwelling house of Henry Squires, and stealing three sovereigns and four shillings. Mr. PHILLIPS defended the prisoner, and in the course of his examination of the prosecutor elicited from him that he could not swear that he lost three sovereigns, but inferred it from there being found on the prisoner, with other moneys, which he was able to identity. The evidence on the part of the prosecution being con cluded, the Jury found the prisoner Guilty, and The COURT sentenced him to 10 years' transportation. The three sovereigns were handed over to the Sheriff: Joseph Johnson was indicted for stealing a parcel from a common stage waggon, from Abingdon to London, di rected to a firm in King William-street, City. The examination of witnesses had not proceeded far before the prisoner cut the matter short by admitting that he stole the parcel. A verdict of Guilty was there fore recorded, and The COURT sentenced him to three months' imprison ment and hard labour. John Boyle was convicted of stealing a great coat on the 28th of December, the property of William Sams bury, and sentenced to three months' imprisonment and hard labour. George Drake, aged 28, a shoemaker, was convicted of stealing one shawl, 30 lbs. of beef, value 365., and money, value 2s. sd., the property of Andrew William Osborne. The COURT sentenced him to six months' imprison ment and hard labour. THE MARKETS.—(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The supplies since Monday have been small. Wheat and Barley very heavy, and hardly supp6rts Monday's prices. Beans and Pease as last reported. Oats met a better demand at Mo SMITH nday FIELD. 's terms. Flour heavy sale. The supply of Beasts and Sheep was large, the de mand heavy, and the annexed prices were with difficulty obtained. Of Calves and Pigs the supply was mid dling, and the demand good. Beasts, 651 ; Sheep, 3,510 ; Pigs, 487 ; Calves. 146. Beef, 3s. 6d. to 4s. Bd.; Mutton, 4s. to ss. ; Veal, 4s. Gd. to ss. 6d. ; Pork, 4s. 6d. to ss. 6d. per stone. COLONIAL MARKET. The operations were fair, both for home use and ex port, and prices were firm. TEA MARKET. The demand was limited, and prices looked downward. Company's Congou, Is. 9id. cash. TALLOW MARKET. A good demand for P.Y. Candle, at 48s. 3d. to 48s. 61 on the spot, and 495. for delivery. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, THURSDAY. The Queen and Prince Albert walked both in the forenoon and afternoon in the Home Park and Slopes. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent also took walking exercise. Thellion. sliss Paget arrived at the Castle on a visit to her Majesty. The Earl of Jersey a nd the Right lion. Sir Robert Peel took their departure from the Castle to-day. Mr. Catlin had the honour of exhibiting to her Majesty and Prince Albert his Model of the Falls of Niagara, and of explaining personally the character of them, of which her Majesty and his Royal Highness expressed their high approbation. Her Majesty honoured Mr. Partridge by sit ting for her portrait to-day. His Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured Mr. Lucas with another sitting to-day, for a full length portrait. Sir John Buchan, Sir Henry Watson, and Sir Henry Pynn transacted business at the Foreign office yesterday, on behalf of the claims of British officers that served in the Portuguese army during the Peninsular war. Sir Robert Peel arrived at his residence in Whitehall-gardens yesterday morning, from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. The Lord Chancellor will receive the Judges, Queen's Counsel, &c., on Tuesday next, the first day of Hilary Term, at his Lordship's residence in George-street. _ _ Mr. Thornton, the Chairman of the Spanish and Portuguese Committee, transacted business at the Foreign-office yesterday. An occurrence of a most distressing description took place on Wednesday afternoon, which has plunged a highly respectable family of St. Columb into the deepest affliction. The eldest son of T. Whitford, Esq., solici tor, a most promising youth, was shooting with two others near Nantwhyden. As he was getting over a hedge, his gun went off, when the whole charge passed through his head, and carried his cap to a considerable distance. He was found by his companions immediately after, quite dead.—Sherborne Journal. The sympathy exhibited towards the suffering poor of the town is most honourable to humanity, and it Is hoped will go on increasing, to meet the vast accumu lation of applications from the destitute pressing for food. The Gas Company have given fifty tons of coke, and we observe that nearly nine thousand persons have received, during the present week, supplies of soup and bread.— Nottingham Review, EVENING SUN LITEtRAT URE. BLACK R'OOD'S LADIES' MAGAZIAE. A periodical well adapted to the tastes of fe male readers, and containing, inter alb, one .or two agreeable prose tales. CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCIIITEC7"S' JOURNAL, The superiority of the new - American pile driving engine over our machines in ordinary use, is proposed in a forthcoming Number to be scientitieally inquired into; meanwhile diagrams elucidate its make and action. The constant use .of gold-frames round pictures is shown fre quently to be hostile to the harmonies of colour ing, and vari-coloured frames suggested. " Has Atlantic Steam Navigation been successful ?" is a question proposed, but, after some pages' dis sertation, leaves the reader, from the copious facts adduced, to draw his own inference. THE SURVEYOR, ENGINEER, AND ARCHITECT. The members of the Comnifttee appointed to promote the Fine Arts are here approved of both individually and collectively, but complaint made that no one Professor of Tine .Art enters into its constitution. A number of localities where improvements might be effected on the borders of the Thames, are suggested in an ar ticle on that topic. The necessity of a harbour of refuge on the south-east coast of England is pointed out, and the draw-backs and capabilities of the coast for that purpose examined into. HOPE'S BRITISH MONTHLY. The paper on " The Colonies" urges the advi sability of cutting asunder all the existing pre indices on the part of the Indian Government, and disallowing its immediate support to the idol ism ofJuggernaut. A parallel is drawn between Puseyism and Dissent in a " Review of Profes sor Sewell's Christian Morals." Its nature is declamatnry rather than argumentative ; and the controversialist, while eulogizing the unqua lified integrity of his own sect, brands his oppo nents as heretics, and fastens on them the worst stigmas of Papacy. The struggles of the two conflicting parties in the Scottish Church, and the opinions of the local press on the questions in agitation, form a concluding paper. SPORTING RE VIE IV. The Curragh Summer Races at Kildare at tract the Editor in the sporting season, but his disappointment betrays itself in the remark that though in no country ou earth sporting forms so popular a conversation-subject as in Ireland, it is nowhere less carried artistically into effect. Two plates, a plain and coloured, represent " Midsummer and Mosquito," the Earl of Strad broke's celebrated greyhounds, and the royal paddock. In " Cambridge arid Cambridge men," the various sporting characters an d p ac k s i n th a t vicinity of late years are noticed : the hounds are accounted good, but the country is unfavourable both to them and horses, being in many places rotten, and abounding in awkward grips. VENTNOR,„ ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) JAN. 6, 1842.—We are now in the hcighth of our season, and the most of our houses are let, yet we feel the effect of the times ; Money is not circulated so freely as usual, and to make things worse some heavy runs have been made on the banks. The long-continued southerly gales drove some of our company away, hut the wind having now set in from the north many will wish themselves back again under our sheltered cliff's. Much has of late been done to accommodate the visitors, but much remains to be done in this Madeira of Eng land; our flowers are even now in blossom, spite of the northern gales, but we have too few of them to please the eye of the invalid, and too much of stone and sea —scarcely an evergreen shrub can be found. The white cliffs, the white roads, and the white stone-houses, with our mild air, may make the stranger almost con ceive he is in ie parched-up regions of still warmer climes ; but he would be better pleased was he also to see the beautiful myrtles, bays, arbutus, laurels, evergreen oaks, and other lofty evergreens, in that wild luxuriance in wlich they at every turn meet the eye in the neigh bourhood of Cowes, where they are exposed to the wild north and east, while here they would be sheltered from it. This, and the removal of some of the hills which lie between this town and Newport and Ryde, and are rather too much in a state of nature, would be a great improvement. The island has suffered more from fail ures in the past year than in any former one, which, added to the wet season, has crippled its trade. New- . port has suffered the most, and Cowes next—the latter place has her shipwrights, rope-makers, and sail-makers unemployed. AUSTRALIA. SOUTH A UST R A LIAN MIRKETS.—The following ac counts are taken from the Adelaide Price Current: — Wheat per bushel, 14s. to IGs. ; barley, per ditto, ss. to 6s. ; wool, per lb., Is. to Is. 4d. ; whalebone, per ton, 9CI. to 100/. ; soap, per ten, 48/. ; tea, hyson skin, per chest, 141. ; coffee, per lb., 10d. to Is. Gd. ; sugar (Mauritius), per ton, 321. ; ditto (East India), per ton, 26/. ; tobacco (in bond), per lb., Is. Gd. to 2s. ; oil (sperm), per,irnperial turf, 701 ; ditto (black), per tun, 251. ; beef (salt), per cask. 41. ; ditto (fresh), per lb., 3d. to Gd. ; bread, 41b. loaf, Is. 2d. ; butter (Irish) per' lb., 10d. to Is. 3d. ; ditto (Colonia), is. 3d. to Is. 6d. ; cigars, per 1,000, 31. Os. 10d. ; potatoes (Van Diemen's Land), per ton, 161. to 21L; Colonial ditto, 161. to 241. Sydney Monitor, Aug. 23. SYDNEY SHIP NEws.—The Eleanor sailed from Cork on the 18th of April, having on board 253 emigrants, besides a number of cabin and intermediate passengers. While in the Bay of Biscay, she fell in with a heavy gale, in which she lost several of her spars. The hatches were compelled to be battened down during the time the gale lasted, when the first case of fever was no . ticeci. She afterwards put into Teneriffe for supplies and repairs, and sailed again early in May. During the passage, there . were as many as eighty cases at one time, but most of them of a trifling nature, the only deaths being six adults and seven children. When she arrived here, she was completely out of provisions and medicine, there having been only four months provi sions put on board, and the vessel being four months and three days on her passage. On her arrival at this port there were only two cases of a severe nature, and she was placed in quarantine, fearing any fresh cases might make their appearance. Since the vessel has been in quarantine, we have not heard any account of the state of the emigrants. SWAN RIVER SHIP NEWS.—The Trusty, Captain Elsdon, arrived at Swan River, from London, on the 31st of May ; passengers, Mr. and Mrs. Stringer and two children, and Messrs. Hazlewood, Ray, and Pearce, with seven in the steerage. The Kilinauns arrived from Port Phillip on the 4th of June ; the Vixen, from Sou rabaya, on the 29th of May; and the True Love, from Sydney, on the 24th of May. The following were also lying there, viz.: —The Henry, from London ; the Hero ine, - from Rangoon ; the Union, from Timour, and the William, from Sydney Tile Elizabeth, from Liverpool, 29th of April, arrived yesterday"eVening with 350 bounty immigrants, under the superintendence of Dr. Fallon, and shipped by the house of A. B. Smith and Co., Liverpool. Two adults and nine children died during the passage—the rest are reported to be in good health. About one-half of the immigrants are from the towns of Liverpool and Man chester, the remaining portion from Cork and the adja cent country ; upwards of seventy young children are included in the number. The Adam Lodge was to sail with immigrants from Liverpool, for this port, three days after the Elizabeth. She spoke no vessels connected with these colonies during the passage. EXPENSI YE AMUSEMENT.—On Thursday night, some disciples of the Marquis of Waterford, played off some of their pranks in this town, by break ing a number of lamp glasses, wrenching off a few door knockers, and engaging in other innocent and aristocratic pastimes. Fortunately they were but young hands at the fun, for next morning one of them was so " jolly green" as to confess the whole affair, and criminate his accomplices, by which means they were all, four in number', by the aid of warrants, prevailed on to attend at the Ma gistrate's office, where, after a lengthened investigation, they were ordered to pay 261. for damage done, and were , further fined in the sum of 51. each, being at the low price of 411. for the evening's entertainment. —Cheltenham .Ezantiner. Mr. Palmer, the Lord of the Manor where the fatal accident on the Great Western line of Railway took place, we have heard, will give 1001. to the rela tives of each of the persons killed, out of the 1,0001. deodand to which he is entitled, and divide the re • mainder among the sufferers who survived this dreadful calamity. Rather a serious disturbance took place a short time ago at the Ecole Polytechnique. Last year the con duct of many of the elder pupils was so turbulent, and the punishments inflicted were found so inadequate, that Marshal Soult, a month ago, issued a new set of regula tions for the government of the school, in which it was stated, that in the event of any fresh acts of insubordina tion, the offenders of the last year, whether proved to have taken a part in them or not, should be expelled, or otherwise severely punished, as the old offenders were considered to be the soul of all rebellion ; it was hoped • that, as they would not under these new regulations be able to incite the junior members to revolt with.. out bearing themselves the penalty, they would keep within bounds ; the result, however, was very different from what the Marshal expected. The school rose en masse; and sonic of, the ringleaders having been taken into custody, a plan was formed for their for cible liberation. In vain did the great officers of the establishment alternately menace and exhort ; the pupils would listen to no arguments, and loudly Oemanded the release of their comrades and the revocation of the reFu lations. In this state of things the Marshal was waited upon by the heads of the school, and, after a long confe.. e s e e n r t i t; nee, ce , it prisoners was resolved liberty. y t . o S withdrawinee tthen n t htehree pupils s av a:ti h c t quiet, but it is not likely that the ir triumph oyer t _ he old warrior will make them more tractahle.Parts Letter. The Right Hon. Henry Holihouse, formerly Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, has been appointed on the Com mission of Inquiry into the Exchequer Bill F raud, 80., in th e room of Lord. Ashbutton. ..