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EVENING SUN NEW NOVEL by the AUTHORESS of TEMPTATION. Just ready, in 3 vols. post Svo , THE SCHOOL FOR ;WIVES By the Authoress of " TEMPTATION ; or, A WIFE'S PERILS." Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. 111 S MAJ E S A T U Y STR th m e EMPEROR of , haven" AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtain 'lig LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH and at LUBECK, Ore now SELLING ORIGINAL BONDS for the saidDlS rrtißu TIONS. Persons desirous to purchase for the Next Distributions ass ievive, PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PRO SPECTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressi n g a line to HEINE BROTHERS. The NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains DIVIDENDS of 4:2.5,000 £6OO £llO £7O 5,000 400 100 60 1,500 200 90 50 1,000 150 80 Sterling. 800. 120 -:.--. -__ , — - - - ------ - - - ------.--- "I' THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, JAN. 4, Will be performed the Play of THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VF.RONA.—Duke of Milan, Mr. Phelps ; Valentine, Mr. Macrcad-j ; Proteus, Mr Anderson ; Thurio, Mr. Comp ton ; Launce, Mr. Keeley Julia, Miss Fortescue ; Silv►a, Miss Ellis ; Lucetta, Miss Turpin. After which will be repeated the New Christmas Pantomime, ca led HARLEQUIN AND DUKE HUMPHREY'S DIN NER OR, JACK CADE, THE LORI) OF LONDON STONE. • Doors to be opened at Half past Six, and the Performance to begin at Sexen o'clock. Boxes 55., Second Price, 2,?. 6J. Pit 35., Second Price 2.3. Lower Gallery Is. 6d., Second Pr cc Is. Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENIN(, JAN. 4, Will be tepeated Bellini's Opera of NORMA.—Pollio, Mr. W. Harrison ; Flavius, Mr. Clement White Oroveso, Mr. Leffler ; Adalgisa, Mies Rainforth ; Clotilda, Miss Grant ; and Norma by Miss Adelaide Kemble. After which will be repeated the New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled GUY EARL OF WARWICK ; OR, HARLEQUIN AND THE DUN COW. Doors to te 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. 21.; Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had so'ely of Mr. Andreas, bookseller, 147. New Bond-street. o-morrow, Wives as they were, and Maids as they arc with Guy Earl of Warwick, or Harlequin and the Dun Cow. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS TONES. Astounding hit—The acknowledged best Pantomime in Lon don—Hundreds nightly unable to gain admittance—The Sons of Syria and Felix Carlo surprise every one. THIS EVENING, JAN. 4 Will be acted a New Domestic Mama, 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 sirun ning, &c. Hat lequin, M. 'Wine ; Patch, M. Rochet ; Pan taloon, M. Lehman ; Flip, Signor Feliz Carlo ; Clown, Mr. Buckingham ; Columbine, Miss Sharpe. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSRALDISTON. Gland Juvenile Week ! The Pantomime played as Second Piece ! Novelties unequalled! Attraction undoubted ! In terest unprecedented! and Success enormous! THIS EVENING JAN. 4 , WEI be acted, SUSAN HOPLEY • or, THE TRIALS AZID VICISSITUDES OF A SERVANT GlRL.—Wil ham Dean, Mr. E F. Saville • Dicky Dean, Mr. Paul , Susan Hopley, Miss Vincent (the 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 Ccast of England. Also, a new Grand Diisolving 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 the Boxes only, at Half-past Eight. To-morrow. Susan Hopley, Harlequin Peter Wilkins, and The Haunted Inn. THE RAILWAY . SUN IS NOW RE-PUBLISHING, PRICE SIXPENCE. TIl E CHINA SUN, AND TIIE PARLIAMENTARY SUN ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. San Office, Jan: 4, 1842. THE WEATHER.—NooN, JANUARY 4. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 30 1 Highest 3l Lowest 23 Barometer 29.77.—Wind, N.E.—Freezing Point 22 Deg. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW Morning 3B minutes after 7. I Evening 7 minutes after 8. The Publication of the Evening Edition of TEE Sus com menced at 10 minutes after Three. ,friP„ -4 t. e .7;7 ~. , 4 p., , :? .: t,- ‘,o\ := ,0..,‘ 10-I,milli ‹,... - 4 •,..' ,,, ,. 4 5t:- 1- -I'l7- - " s f.,:' , ,' . --',.. ,k.. 7 -?:: • `•-•".. '-- ~lj ~ ,~>~,~,f,, s - ~~ LONDON: TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1842. Some persons suppose that Lord ASIIBURTON'S rank will recommend him to the Americans, but ]►is Peer's robes are too new and scanty to hide his counting-house sleeves. Hispatent of nobility will not cover his loan contracts. Au ennobled a►►d successful NICHOLAS BIDDLE may excite the envy, not the respect, of the shrewd Ameri cans. If a Nobleman were required to dazile them, one should have been selected who can boast of his ancestry and of their deeds. Lord AsumTnTON'S ancestors are unknown beyond the second generation, and all his greatness, derived almost exclusively from money, was achieved by himself and his immediate predecessor. If tl►e Americans honour high rank, they do not honour ennobled wealth, and the new negotiator will be better known in America, and will be treated accordingly, as Mr. BARING, the mer chant, than as Lord ASHBURTON. We dislike his - appointment, because we be lieve it is a mere piece of Tory trickery to make the petyle expect relief from the wrong quarter. Great and undefined • expectations have been already e x cited. The Funds got up from a kin dred feeling and confidence i❑ the monied man. But Lord Asnupftrox will not be able to do much. The affair of the Caroline is perfectly s i m ple. We are right, and therefore bound to refuse all satisfaction fur cutting her out from Schlosser ; or we are wrong, and bound to make instant satisfaction. Negotiation cannot alter,that simple fact, nor will it induce the Americans to enter i►►to a compromise. - - Neither is the Boundary question to be settled by . .ncgotiatioa ; the surveyors and mappers must alreatiy have decided it, or it will not be decided at all. As to the right of search, the Americans will not ,submit to that, the PRESIDENT must yield to the prevalent popular feeling on that subject, whieb no negotiations can set aside. On this question we consider Lord ASHBIJRTON an unfit negotiator ;''because we have a recol lection that, as Mr. BARING, he expressed opi nions unfavourable to our practice, whence it is to be inferred that, as Lord ASIIBURTON, he w ill be a determined stickler for it in its most out- rageous form., flat while Lord ASUBURTOS is dilly-dallying, Sir U. PEEL will be able to say " Wait till Lord .:I:4unuirroN has concluded his negotiations. 'The American tariff is soon to undergo revision.,, and as the Americans would profit by a free trade, iii corn, let us keep that back and'' hold it out as a boon or a threat to procure an alteration in the new tariff favourable to our trade. Lord AsnBURTON is gathering much useful information, which will enable us to legis late with much grea'er certainty and advantage tharritwe now make an alteration in the Corn law." Lord ASIIBURTON's mission then, which tho man'i deeply interested as he is in maintain ing the,ebrn-law, will know how to protract and how to turn to the advantage of those class ini quities of which he is such a strenuous advocate, will be used as a pretext for postponing the dis cussion on the Corn-laws. With respect to the particular right of search, the Quarterly Review recommends negotiation and a convention ; but we venture to assert that the simple suggestion we threw out on Sa turday will do more'to settle the question than any negotiation which does not adopt it. We are aware of the objections that are made to having American officers on board our ships. They are of no importance. American naval officers are well-educated, gentlemanly men; and there would be no more danger of their quarrelling with our officers than there was of the Russian officers quarrel ling, several of whom were on board our ships, during war, for years. Such an objection is idle. The American officer should be of a rank lower than the Commander of the English vessel, and instructed to obey him within the sphere of his duties. There are hundreds of examples of offi cers of different nations serving together on such terms, without any serious quarrels ensuing ; but in the case of one American officer embarked on board one of our ships with strictly defined duties, there would be no chance of disturbance. Those who make the objection must have a worse opinion of officers than we have ; and the officers ought to be told that they must conform. We see no difficulty, therefore, in the two nations coining to an agreement to embark an American officer on board every one of our ships which is employed to repress the Slave-trade, who shall be instructed and empowered by the American Government to examine every ship which shows American colours, and determine whether she be a genuine American vessel or not, and whether she be en gaged in the Slave-trade. In fact, the prostitu tion of the American flag touches the honour of the United States, and the plan of having ships overhauled by an American officer, will enable him to prevent it being tarnished, while national dig nity would be carefully preserved, by the exami nation being made under the authority of the United States, and by one of their officers. We believe, too, that some common-sense plan, such as this, would settle the other ques tions. The English and American Governments take different views as to the Caroline; why not refer the single point in dispute—namely, whether England had, or had not, a right to burn the Caroline—to a third party? The Boun dary question may not be so easily settled, but where there is a will there is a way, and Govern ment and diplomacy, indeed the whole art ofpoli tics, will stink in the nostrils of the world, if they do not prevent a quarrel between the two nations about such trifling objects, by some easy and simple methods, similar to that we have pointed out. The persons who talk and write about appor tioning labour and capital to land, cannot have formed any accurate idea of what they propose that the Government should undertake. The dispersion of man over the globe, and, conse quently, the apportioning of labour and capital to land, has been going on since the history of man began, and will continue till its termination. What extends so much beyond the sphere of any and every Government can be no part of the duty of any one. But let us see what it implies as to our own Government. On our empire it is justly said the sun never sets, and within its limits are crowded Hin dostan and the unpeopled Southern Continent, the sugar colonies of the West Indies and the wool and wine colony of the Cape of Good Hope, Canada, and the Falkland islands; and if the principle be once admitted that the Government is bound to appor tion capital and labour to land, or duly dis tribute the people according to some sys matic scheme of colonization, it must do that universally through its dominions, leaving none too much of either here, and none too little there. Emigration must be promoted from India as well as England. It must be directed to the Cape of Good Hope, as well as to New Zealand or Canada. The Government must take into consideration the place where profit and wages are highest, and it must possibly direct emigra tion, not to New Zealand, or to Canada, but to the West India Islands. It will be bound also duly to consider the claims of all the capitalists already established in our different colonies, and not send a labourer more in proportion to Van Diemen's Land than to the Island of Trinidad or Upper Canada. Such a task, implying an intimate knowledge of the capabilities of every acre of soil in every part of her MAJESTY'S dominions, of every creek and harbour, and of the present amount of employment possessed by the labourers in every part of those dominions, _would require an emigration-office ten times as extensive as the establishments of the Treasury and the depart ments of the three principal Secretaries of State. That would be a gigantic species of administra tion, even if it did not embrace the whole globe, as we think the principle would; for the appor tioning of capital and labour to land is not limited by political boundaries, and would require the Government which undertook the task, to send capital and labour where they could be most be neficially employed, without regard to the land being under its dominion or not. We say so much in reply to the gigantic folly of requiring the Government, by a systematic scheme of colonization, to apportion capital and labour to land. It is beyond the compass of human power. The practical objections to the Government undertaking a scheme of systematic colonization are quite as great as the theoretical. At present the manufacturers of England are in great distress. According to the Corn-law men the agriculturists are happy and flourishing be yond description. They do Jot want to go abroad, and cannot be spared. But in almost every co lony agricultural labour and agricultural skill are chiefly in demand. Manufacturingcapital and ma nufacturing skill, could all Manchester be trans ported to New Zealand, would only perish for want of occupation. The mass of the people who go thither must till the ground. Besides the agriculturists, a few mechanics, to make and mend their tools, and build their houses, would be required; but we want to obtain employment and food for the starving weavers and spinners, and their connected trades, of Carlisle, Manches ter, Stockport, Leeds, Macclesfield, and Spital fields ; and such people would only be an incum brance to a new colony, and would perish if they were sent thither. So far as they 'are concerned, the most extensive emigration could give them and the country no relief. They can be as cheaply maintained here as by sending them to Canada or New Zealand. The want and the distress which require relief, exist in the manufacturing districts. But the population there are all parts of a great system of combined labour, of which the workmen and the machines are alike essential portions. To wrench them from their places, to separate them from their fellow-workmen and their tools, is to annihilate their skill. Our manufacturing system must be maintained entire here, expand ing and improving, and those who work it must be fed at home, or they and it will perish to gether. Emigration, as a substitute for the total repeal of the Corn-laws—a scheme of gigantic ambition for the practice of justice—may hasten the national decay : it can give our suffering people in their present circumstances no relief. At the Manchester meeting on Saturday, re corded in our columns, a part of the petition agreed to prayed the House of Commons to " ap point a Committee to consider in what manner the injured people of Great Britain may be best compensated for the great loss and damage they have for so long a period sustained—whether by a bounty upon the importation of foreign corn, or any other plan which shall, by the supe rior wisdom of Parliament, appear to be best adapted to answer the object in view." The meeting wa^, attended by several gentlemen of pro perty ; but during the discussion one person ap pears to have called out, " Let us have the land," or something to that effect ; to which Mr. FAL- THE SUN,. -LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1842. vEy of Macclesfield, who was speaking, rejoined, "So say I : I am as willing as any of you to get possession of the 'land." The landlords, then, should watch the progress of the sentiments of the manufacturers. They refuse to do justice to the people by repealing the , Corn-laws, and the people have already gone a step beyond that, and now demand compensation for the injury the Corn-laws have inflicted on them. :They are beginning, too, it appears, to demand pos session of the land. They are driven, by the obstinacy of the landlords in wrong, to attack the landlords' right of propeity, which they have most stupidly blended with Corn-laws; and the former, like the latter, is now treated as a legal, injustice. If they imagine that their rights, when objected to by the people, can protect themselves, or that they can protect them, they are mistaken. The only security for any rights is the public sanction, and any rights from which this is withdrawn soon fall into desuetude. The landlords may possibly' though that now doubtful—save their estates by giving up the Corn-law ; but it will be impossible to preserve them if they persist in maintaining the law. We may add, that we learn from an Edin burgh paper that both Mr. HUME and Mr. VIL LIERS have declined attending the Anti-Corn law Conference in Edinburgh—the former be cause he is engaged, and the latter because his professional business, and the state of his health, will not allow him to attend. Mr. HUME recom mends, as a general rule, that such meet ings should be confined to persons of the localities, in order to prevent the assertion that they are got up by strangers. Mr. VILLIERS, in declining, justly compliments the members of the Conference, by expressing a doubt whether he could add anything to the sound judgment, in telligence, and information, they are likely to display. The official columns of the .Moniteur of Sun day are filled with the New Year's-day Ad dresses presented to the King of the FRENCH, with the answers of his MAJESTY thereto. The main subject of most of these is, GOD knows, as hacknied as it is deplorable. They have, for the most part, but this burthen :—That all who ap proach the foot of the throne are rejoiced that he who_ sits upon it has passed another year without being assassinated, in which sentiment the KING of course cordially joins. The diplo matic body has always, as its organ, the oldest Ambassador, and accordingly, on this occasion, the Marquis de BRIGNOLE SALE, the Sardinian Envoy, read the Address to his MAJESTY. Apart from congratulations on the escape of .the Kixo and the Royal Princes, it merely contains the following allusion to the Treaty of the Great Powers :—" This year has also seen the union of the Cabinets more closely together Lan union so necessary for the repose of the people and the preservation of peace." There is no error on the side of frankness in such a diplomatic com mon-place as this. The KING, in his answer, is more explicit. His MAJESTY says :—" The year 1841 bequeaths us happy results. It has seen the Cabinets afford by their accord a fresh pledge of general peace, and I have the confidence that we shall preserve it from every assault." We reciprocate this benevolent wish. After twenty six years of peace, Europe never stood more in need of its continuance than now, and several recent acts of the French Government prove the wishes of the KING to be sincere. The Address, of the Peers is less commonplace than usual, probably because it was written as well as read by the Duke DE BROGLIE, who aims at the repu tation of a philosopher. Why Baron PAsQUIER had not such a task assigned him we cannot tell. We quote this Address : Sire,—To found a free and regular Government is a laborious work. The wisdom of Princes, the interest of the people, and the enlightened vigilance of the public powers do not alone suffice for it. The protection of God is also necessary, and the help of time. What man be gins time alone completes and strengthens. We bless this new year, which has just increased the number of the years that your reign already comprises. We return thanks to Him, whose goodness has preserved your life for us, and preserved your children for our children. The past is a guarantee to us fur the future. We have a good cause, and we shall have good success. There is nothing, moreover, in the aspect of the times which seems to an nounce fresh storms, and nothing interdicts us from the joys and hopes of such a day as this. To-morrow we shall resume our labours, and this day we are bearers to you of the good wishes of France. To which the KING replies:— It was, as you state, a laborious work to found in France a free and regular Government. The support that I have always found in the Chamber of Peers has been one of the greatest means at arriving at this end. This Government will receive by its duration that con secration of stability which, by discouraging the factious, will finish by confirming, on authority, the necessary rigour to maintain the laws, to cause the rights of all to be respected, and to repress those incessant attacks on property which might shake society to its very founda tion. The noble attitude of the Chamber of Peers ought to inspire salutary confidence that the throne to which France has raised me, for the guarantee of her laws and of her liberties, cannot be attacked by these mise rable attempts, and that we shall continue to disconcert the guilty secret practices of those who turn to account a credulous ignorance to accredit the success of their sinister projects. _ _ _ Had any foreign representative body dared to apply such language to France, as is here ad dressed to her by the Court of Peers and the KING, what a shout of execration would be raised from Brest to Strasburg, and from Dunkirk to Toulon! What a fury would seize the Press ! How the Deputies would storm! and how the cry of "To arms, and crush the foul libeller of the most civilized people in the world, would resound throughout France ! It is wholesome for people sometimes to know what their friends think of them, and France may not be the worse for learning what is thought of her boasted civilization by her KING and her Cham ber of Peers. The Address of the Deputies is a sort of congratulatory political hodge-podge, framed on the model of an answer to a Speech from the Throne. It really looks as if every member of the Committee concocted a para graph to suit his own views. We quote it, as a curiosity of its kind : In offering our felicities to your Majesty, the Cham ber of Deputies includes in the same wishes the future of the constitutional throne and public prosperity. The country, Sire, comprehends this binding together, the enemies of social order understand it also when they undertake to strike civilisation itself, now by royalty, and by the dearest hopes of the dynasty. Their efforts will be vain. The arm of Providence is more indefatigable - than crime, and society is stronger than the conspiracies:-. The entire nation repulses them with horror, andlhe, labouring classes, which it is at tempted to mislead, are neither the last. nor the least in terested to curse them. _ _ _ It is because they know, Sire, that order is profitable for all citizens, and that the weakest are certain to find amongst the greatest powers of the State that paternal solicitude which was always the sentiment of good Kings and of enlightened Governments. France can also recal with joy the moral improve ments realised in a few years ; the abolition of lotteries, the suppression of public gaming tables, the foundation of savings' banks, the refuge for the destitute. and the regulation of the factories for children, and primary in struction, organised on a vast scale, the ways opened to labour and intelligence, in fact opened everywhere. Labour, Sire, is honoured everywhere in this coun— try:—The authority of religion, which consecrates it by its divine moral ; our institutions of legal equality, of conservatism, and of progress, so well calculated to insure the fruits of industry which is completed, and to encourage the hopes ofindustry which commences; filially, the nobl examples which your august family will never allow to be wanting in France. This was severely testing theßoyal gravity. But Louis PHILIPPE is too clever a dealer in hyper bole to be outdone by M. SAUZET. His MA JESTY therefore replied to the Address of the Deputies in the following Munchausen strain : I accept, to the whole extent, the binding together of one and all which you allude to ; I believe that it exists in fact, and that it is essential that its existence should be acknowledged; for it is only by reciprocal confidence, and in lending a national aid, that the various powers of the State can acquire that freedom of action which constitutes their force, and enables them to fulfil their high mission. A ll the prerogatives are then respected, the exercise of all the rights is guaranteed by the general security, and it is thus that is realised what I announced more than eleven years since, when I said that the Charter should henceforth be d truth. However, Gentlemen, these are the benefits that it is wished to deprive us of, by spreading vain fears, and by propagating odious mistrust ! But with your legal concurrence, we shall know how to triumph over all these attacks on social order, on property, and all that is dear to man, and to guarantee to France the maintenance of her repose, and the development of her prosperity. Besides the Moniteur, the Courrier Francais, the Quotidienne, and the Commerce, are the only Papers which appeared in Paris on Sunday. They contain no general news, except that M. DE SALVANDY and his suite had left Madrid on their return to France. Only a Secretary of Legation was left to represent France at the SPinish Court. Who, after this, will admit that it is possible to equal the absurdities of the etiquette of diplomacy? Poor departed SIMPSON, so long the glory and the pride of Vauxhall ! What an ad mirable figure he would have cut in the annals of French diplomacy. The following article may attract notice by its extravagance. We quote it from the Com merce:— In an interesting essay on the progress of the armies in the East, and in Africa, the Sentinelle takes a retro spective view of what might have happened if our Go vernment had encouraged Mehemet Ali, and left our fleet in the Levant. " Let us be permitted (says the Journal) to call to mind on this occasion the plan proposed by Admiral La lande to M. Thiers. Admiral Lalande was at Tenedos, near the mouth of the Dardanelles, with ten ships of the line, and ten English ships of the line, under Rear-Ad miral Louis, were at their anchorage. Admiral Louis detached two of them to Syria immediately. Admiral Lalande, who was just informed of the treaty of the 15th July, wrote to M. Thiers, that exemplary vengeance 'might be taken of the British bad faith; that he engaged to burn the eight English ships of the line that were anchored near him, then to take the two others that were de tached to Syria ; that he would complete the equipment of the eleven Egyptian and nine Turkish ships of the line then in the port of Alexandria, and would bring them to Touloun, where a corps of 30,000 men might be assembled, under the pretext of reinforcing the army in Africa-; that France having, all included, 35 or 40 ships of the line, might then land 30,000 men on the coast- of Ireland, and take the English by surprise ; and that two naval divisions would then go and seize on the settlements of- Great Britain in India. It is self-evident that this plan would not meet with the slightest obsta cle, and, if it had been executed, the English power would have been overthrown. Such an oppor tunity will perhaps not occur for three cen turies. Napoleon would hare understood Admi ral Lalande, he would have given him all necessary instructions, and would have made him High Admiral. You know what M. Thiers,did—he sent a packet-boat to Admiral Lalande, inviting him to profit by its return to come back immediately to France. For some days after wards the Levant squadron was recalled to Toulon, and the Ministerial Deputies had the effrontery to say, in the tribune, without being contradicted; that the ships, which were within reach of the Telegraph, were nearer to Egypt than if they had remained at Smyrna or Ourlac. PLYMOUTH, SUNDAY, JAN. 2.—Wind N.E.— This afternoon the Conway, 26, Captain Bethune, from China, having on board two millions of dollars, anchored in the Sound about six o'clock. Her destination was Portsmouth, but a change of wind having taken place, she was compelled to come in here. She entered at the eastern end of the Breakwater, and it being after sunset she did not salute the Admiral's flag. She brings home many invalids from the squadron in the China seas. She was at the Cape of Good Hope on the Ist of October. It is reported that she will be paid off at Portsmouth. Of course she brings . no intelligence that has not previously reached England. THE TEN HOURS' FACTORY QUESTION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR—After the amusing description which has been given of the interview of the Ten Hours' Deputation' with the Minister, it remains only to anticipate the time when the manufacturing capitalists :shall present themselves to the Grand Vizier of the hour, with a corresponding request to have the evils of the agricultural management looked into, and repressed by the strong fingers of the law. When this time comes, how pathetic will the remonstrants be, on the evils physical and moral, which always arise from agriculture where the manufacturing interest has not a controller on the spot. To say nothing of the toils of harvest women, and the total absence of care for the fingers of female and infant weeders when the thermometer is below 40, the moral view alone will be terrible and sad. Our popular poetry is full of little but the moral dangers inseparable from the encouragement of an agricultural population. The bush, the brake, the " rigs o' barle„y," and the " rushes green," have each their several temptations, leading all one way, and calling for pensive reflection on the legislator and the parish officer. Shall there be no balm for this, while an active superintendence on the part of a moral and religious manufactur ing public might do so much to prevent the ap prehended evils? Why not appoint an inspector of hay-fields ? Do the landlords properly box off all dangerous places? Are these matters to be left to adjust theniselves ; or ought the law to in terfere to ensure the doing right? The require ments of humanity imperatively demand it. The landlords may find out some time, that it is just as easy for one set of men to plague and vilify another, as was the converse. Of course it will be understood, that if the question has been treated here with levity, it was in the full per suasion that what is called the Ten Hours' ques tion, after making the needful reservations for well-meaning blunder, is a fraud directed to the preservation of the evils it pretends to remedy, and by the active operation and encouragement of those who made and maintain the evils for the sake of their own personal and dishonest gain. Yours very sincerely, T. PERRONET THOMPSON. Blackheath, Jan. 3, 1842. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CI7 Y, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JAN. 3.—The sales to day are 4,000 hales, all to the trade. Prices are firm without alteration. __ LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JAN. 3.—Grand Junc tion, 196 ; Ditto half Shares, 97i ; London and Birm ingham, 170 ; Quarter Shares, 25f ; Manchester and Leeds, Quarter Shares, 4 ; Midland Counties, 85 ; North Midland, Thirds, 18/. . MANCHESTER STOCK EPCIANGE, JAN. 3.—We com mence the new year with a fair day's 'business, and the demand for Railway Stock has been considerable. Prices have still an upward tendency. The following are our sales :—Dublin and Drogheda (30 paid), 128 ; Lancaster and Preston Three-quarter Shares, 168 ; London and South Western, 598 ; Hull and Selby, 408 ; Manchester and Birmingham Quarter Shares, 281 ; North Midland Halves, 361 ; Manchester and Leeds, 72 ; Half ditto, 31; Quarter ditto, 31 and 31. 193.; South Eastern, 23 and 23i; Bank of Manchester, 41 ; Manchester Assurance, 98. TIIE FUNDS. Both Markets opened firm this morning. Exchequer Bills, have further advanced to 20 22 prem. Consols arc 891 1 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 89/ ; Three-and a-Half ditto, 991 1. Spanish Active Stock opened at 251 1 • Passive, 5i 6/ ; Deferred, 131 ; Mexican Bonds, 291; 30 ; Portu guese Five per Cents., 321 33 ex. div. ; Ditto Three per Cents., 191 /- 4 . PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Eastern Counties Great Western 65 Ditto Fifths i London and Brighton 5O _3Bi ... to London and Biriningham 90 16 9 -:..... to Manchester and Leeds Ditto New Shares South Eastern and Dover York and North Midland... HALF-PAST ONE. Exchequer Bills continue to advance, they are now 23 24 prem. India Bonds have also improved to 5 8 prem. Consols 894 4; Three per Cents. Reduced, 891 1 1 ; Bank Stock, 1¢744. • The Foreign Securities are not quite so firm as at the opening. Spanish Active is now 254; Passive, 5i ; Mexi can, 294; Colombian, 22; Portuguese Fives, 34 ex.-div.; Dutch Two-end•a-Half per Cents. 51k ex.-div. Very little doing in Shares, and no material ahem , tion to notice :—Great Western, 87 ; Do. Fifths, 10 k ; London and Birmingham, 169 ; South Eastern and Do ver, 224 ; York And -North Midland, 92. QUARTER TO THREE. The French, while viewing our naval preparations with much jealousy and suspicion, undoubtedly magnify them far beyond the bounds of truth, but they contrive to tell us some bitter truths with. regard to our commercial code, which makes us alike the . prey and sport of all the continental na tions. Thus they draw a lively picture of the injury thousand d an n seven hundred done to our shipping interests by the high price of food and labour at home, compared to what it is in the North of Europe, fact that out example, the French truly state, with vessels employed to bring the recent heavy cargos of foreign Wheat to this country, only 300 were British ! The fact is, as the o. ono tits, our Corn, Timber, and Sugar-laws against us, we can neither build norisail our vessels, feed our people, nor sell our manufactures so cheap as our rivals. Consols, 89 i I ; C olom bi an , 22; ; Mexican, 29/ ; Spanish, 25i i. ___........ PETERSFIELD BANK. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) In consequence of the very sa tisfactory arrangement s which have been made relative t o Messrs. Hec tor and Lacy, Petersfield and Hampshire Bankin g Establish ment, preparations are makingupon an extensive scale by many of the principal creditors of the late firm to invite the above gentlemen to a dinner on the 7th inst., at the Dolphin Hotel. Sir Harry Featherston, Bart., of Up-park, has in a most handsome manner engaged, un asolldiei attendance, and th roug h the spirited exertions of protvide does, military band w ill a l so be i in o t es, and twelve pheasant s the t the C te o w m h m e i h tt d ee e , d n ja e e a e r e ly t ticketsylOdages.The leading concoctors have been di spose d o f of the steek mischief ß eaerehiqeug Companyi.techofalle have tak en t o then since the London and Joint Lacy, and paid all demands books of Messrs. Hector and in full. HOSIERY TRADE•_— I tthe • • SILK! --OSIERY is intention of the operative silk stocking-makers to memorialize his Royal Highness Prince Albert to renew the once pre vailing fashion of wearing silk hose fur ordinary as well as Court dress.—Leeds Mercury. sJAYOF NEWS AND o,puiton. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. We have no foreign news this morning of any interest, except the annual New Year's-day addresses presented to the King of the French, and published in the Moniteur of Sunday. The Parisians were pleased with them. M. de Salvandy, the French Ambassador has left Madrid with his suite on his return to France. According to the returns of the operations of the Savings'-banks of Paris, in 1841, published in the Alioni teur of Sunday, the investments amounted during the year to 40,041,548 francs, and the reimbursements to 26.911,458 francs, leaving a surplus in the banks of 13,130,089 francs. On the Ist of January, 1842, the sums deposited in the Savings '- banks of Paris amounted to 83,485,427 francs, belonging to 134,843 individuals, 90,000 of whom were either labourers or servants. PUBLIC OPINION. The Advertiser observes, that the speech of Sir James Graham to his constituents at Dorchester, is just what might have been expected from a hardened renegade, whom nothing can shame ; and adds, "he is dissociated from his former political friends, and by them disowned and despised ; he has gone openly over to those who were the deadly haters of the Grey Government ; and yet, though the brand of a renegade of the first magni tude be thus visibly imprinted on his forehead, he has the surpassing barefacedness to glorify himself in the very outset of his speech, on having been a m e mber of the Ministry of Earl Grey ! Surely the force of cool assurance can no further go !" The object of the principal article in the Herald is to point out the fallacy of some of the reasonings of the Corn-law Repealers, whom it calls "prophetic alarmists," and whose arguments it vainly endeavours to controvert, by quotinc , a passage respecting the " existing tariff of duties," from President Tyler's late Message to Congress. The Post contains a le;dino' article, suggested by the Emigration question, in which it states that this ques tion is decidedly of Whig origin, observing, " to Whig- Radical projectors do we owe ohr modern theories of emigration—to a Whig-Radical Government do we owe the attempt to embody these theories in action." In the course of some comments on Sir James Gra ham's speech at Dorchester, the Chronicle intimates its opinion that new taxes will be laid on which will " make the people feel," and that this is the first distinct dis closure of projected measures which any Member of the Cabinet has made. The Times, in a leading article on the subject of Sir James Graham's Dorchester speech, warns him to review his declarations and intentions on the question of the Poor-law, and depart from his former judgments, and brave the imputation of inconsistency, rather than ne glect his public duty. MONEY-Z-TRADE—COMMERCE. A corn merchant and a manufacturer in Glasgow, both in extensive business, have stopped payment. The debts of the two are said to exceed 400,0004'. An old and re spectable ship-building firm in Leith has also become insolvent. The Hastings boats have commenced the mackerel fishery with success. It is stated that the East India Company's order of 15,000 pieces of cloth, usually sent to an eminent manu facturing establishment in Leeds, has this year been given to a house at Aix-la-Chapelle, on the ground that the quality of the Continental fabric is equally good with that of Leeds, and much cheaper. ECCLESIASTICAL. One of the new Cardinals spoken of, is Monsignore Charles Acton, son of the quondam Minister of Naples. The new Episcopal College in Scotland is to be called the " College of the Undivided Trinity," to be erected when the subscriptions shall amount to 20,0001., of which 6,0001. are already collected. The site will probably be in the neighbourhood of Perth. __ _ NAVAL AND MILITARY. Forty convicts for a penal colony, as also those for Van Diemen's Land, were embarked on board the Isa belle, on Saturday, for transportation. LAW AND POLICE. At the Thames Police Court Archibald Leslie, a Scotchman, about thirty years of age, of respectable ap pearance and good address, was committed to take his trial for defrauding Michael Henry Hart, a Jew slop seller, of 201. in goods and cash, by means of a forged order, partly written and partly printed, purporting to be an award in favour of William Bouch, by the British and Portuguese Mixed Commission, for his services during the war of liberation in Portugal. William Robinson was also committed to Newgate, on the charge of administering oxalic acid to his wife in the town of Greenwich on Christmas eve. It did not appear that the unfortunate woman had taken any of the poison, but as she was dying of consumption her deposition was taken by the Magistrate. At Union-hall yesterday William Yates, a man ad vanced in yeurs, was brought before Mr. Trail!, charged with obtaining various sums of money by means of forged cheques, from several charitable institutions, amongst which were those of the Magdalen Hospital, the London Asylum for the Protection of Young Females, the Found ling Hospital, and the Seamen's Hospital. He was soon recognized by Mr. Knevit, the Secretary to theMendi city Society, as the notorious begging letter-writer, and had been discharged from gaol only about a week before he changed his made of " doing business." After one case had been proved against him, the forging of the name of Sir H. Fletcher, of Ashley Park, Walton-on- Thames, he was remanded fur a week. lIXOCCTIONEERING. Rumour states that Sir A. B. Brooke, Bart., is likely to be raised to the Peerage ; in which case there will be a new election for the county of Fermanagh. rrbrzwAIFLTS. Lord Sudley's portrait, by Sir Martin Archer Shee, has just been presented by his Lordship to the town ol Tewkesbury for the Town-hall. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. The death of Mr. J. T. Allen, M.A. of Cambridge, eldest son of the late Member for Bridgewater, leaves a vacancy in the wardenship of Dulwich College. Accord ing to the statutes of this College, his successor must be elected on the 17th inst., and no person can become a can didate for this appointment unless he be named Alley n, or Allen, and unmarried. A new literary periodical, under the patronage of the Empress of Russia, was to appear in St. Petersburgh on the first of the new year, entitled the St. Petersburgh English Review. SPORTING. _ _ . A veterinary surgeon to the artillery at Montreal, is master of the foxhounds, and gives the garrison good sport. He has started a cab cpmpany there and at Kingston, which supersedes the old caleche; he has also put these vehicles on sleigh-runners, for winter-work. c OURT-71 1 .a.SHIONILIME. The Earl and Countess of Wicklow have returned to Shelton Abbey. The Earl of Aberdeen, in consequence of the press of business in his department of the State, will remain in town during the winter. The Earl and Countess of Kinnoul have, during the past week,received company at Dupplin Castle, Perthshire. Earl Fitzhardinge has removed from Berkeley Castle to his villa at Cheltenham. Sir W. W. Wynn is staying at Bath. Sir Robert and Lady Peel have a select circle visiting them at Drayton Manor. Viscount Canterbury arrived in town yesterday from Gunton Park. Lord Foley returned to town yesterday from a visit to the Countess of Berkeley at Cranford Lodge. Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence left town yesterday for Beaudesert, Staffordshire, the seat of the Marquis of Anglesea. MISCELLANEOUS. Limerick will shortly be raised by the Customs depart ment to a first-class port. The visitors to the ruins of the Tower armouries, dur ing the week ending with New Year's-day, were in num ')er 2,498. The crown and regalia still remain at Messrs. Rundell and Bridge's. POST OFFICE. MONTHLY STATEMENT OF LETTERS DELIVERED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM : Week ending Dec. 19, 1841 . . 3,938,755 Week ending Dec. 20, 1840 . . 3,435,326 Week ending Nov. 24, 1839 . . 1,585,973 Increase since 1840, on the week's letters . . . • . . 503,429 Increase since 1839, on the week's letters . . . . . . 2,352,782 LEICESTER BOROUGH SESSIONS.—Richard Crane, a commercial traveller, was convicted before J. Hildyard, Esq., the Recorder at the above Sessions, on the 3d inst., on a charge of stealing a quantity of plate, the property of John George Briggs, of the George Hotel, Leicester. A report of the case appeared in The Sun at the time, and a description of the prisoner's per son ; several innkeepers afterwards came forward, and identified the prisoner as the same person who had been at their houses and conducted himself in a similar man ner, whereupon he was fully committed for trial. The gaoler of Worcester proved a previous conviction against the prisoner for a similar offence, for which he was sen tenced to seven years' transportation, but the punishment was afterwards commuted to twelve months' imprison ment. A letter was presented to the Recorder, written by the prisoner, stating his previous mode of life, but the Learned Gentleman said he could papa° attention to it, and forthwith sentenced him to fifteen years trans portation. THE CHRISTENING ON THE PRINCE ON WALas.—The Royal Chapel of St. George's will be closed on Monday next, to enable the necessary prepara tions being made for the important and interesting ceremony n waes ceremony of the christening of the _r which is now fixed, we believe, for the 25 t h of t h is month. The royal and illustrious persons will not proceed, as h as been stated, to the chapel on foot , but will be conveyed in cafriages.— Windsor Express. ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY. -.. WOOL WICH, JAN. 3.—The final examination of the gentlemen cadets of the first glass, studying in the Royal Arsenal, is appointed to take place to-morrow, when the following students will obtain cotmnissior.s, having completed their course of study in a satisfactory manner:—James Brown, Eustace Bourchier, Adolphus Connell, Joseph Childs, Charles Franklin, John Grant, Henry Grain, Andrew Green, William Grant, Alexander Hawkins, James Hill, George Johnson, Barclay Lawson, Valentine Mairis, Horace Montague, Charles Morris, Niel M. M'Kay, .Fierce Parson, Algernon Peter Herbert Patton, Fitzroy Somer set, Edward Williams. COMMENCEMENT OF THE MACKEREL FISHERY.—Last week one of the Hastings boats, being the first on the southern coast, put off to fish for mac kerel, and succeeded in catching 200, which readily sold at the high price of 41. 10s. per hundred. SECONDARIES'-(THIS DAY.) CRIM. CON.-TUCKER V. GOOCH, The plaintiff; Mr. Thomas Stannyford Tucker, who is Secretary and Librarian to the Southwark Literary Institution, brought this action to recover from Mr. Thomas Gooch, a timber merchant, residing at Dalsten, compensation in damages for the seduction of his (plain tiff's) wife. Judgment had been allowed to go by de fault. The damages were laid at 1,0001. Mr. PEARSON appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. CUARNOCK for the defendant. Previous to the case being called on, a consultation took place, in which the counsel for the plaintiff agreed to accept a verdict for 50/. The SECONDARY said he was rejoiced to hear this, as it would prevent disclosures of a painful nature. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COUR T. CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT.— William Satchel!, aged 17, an exceedingly well-dressed young man, was placed in the dock charged with embezzling and stealing divers sums of money of Thomas Reed and others, his masters. The prosecutors are floor-cleth manufacturers in the Do ver road, and the prisoner was in their employ as collector. On the 21st December last he received sums of money on his employers' account in two different instances, and when asked if he had received them denied that he had done so. On the 22d the prisoner was given into cus tody, it having been .discovered that the money had been paid to him. The prisoner had previously main tained a good character. . Mr. PRICE addressed the Jury for the prisoner. The RECORDER summed up, and .the Jury found the prisoner Guilty, with a recommendation to mercy on ac count of his youth and previous good character. He was sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour. Charles White, aged 11, William Wright, aged 12, and John Cole, aged 12, three little urchins, whose heads scarcely reached above the bar, a ere charged with stealing one copper flinnel, the property of Joseph Shaw, in a vessel on the river Thames. The prosecutor is master of the sloop Joseph and Mary Ann, which was lying at Bermondsey on the 21st of December. The prosecutor's wife was sitting in the cabin, when she heard a noise upon deck ; she went up, and saw White, who had taken the cabin funnel, in the act of handing it to the other two prisoners, who were in a boat alongside. When the prisoners saw the prosecutor's wife come on deck;• they threw the funnel overboard. Mrs. Shaw raised a cry of police, and the prisoners were taken into custody on the river, after having made a fruitless attempt to induce a waterman named Messenger to take them into his wherry and put them on shore; which he very properly refused to do, and, instead, sent an officer of the Thames Police to the spot, who took them into custody. The Jury found the prisoners Guilty. The policeman Lewis, in answer to questions from the Recorder, said that the prisoners belonged to a regular gang of tier-rangers, and - bad all been previously sum marily convicted. It fuither appeared from his state ment that, during the last week, upwards of fourteen funnels had been stolen from vessels in the river. The RECORDER, addiessing the prisoners said, that it was their youth alone which prevented his sentencing them to transportation. The sentence of the Court was that they be each imprisoned for twelve months in the House of Correction, and kept to hard labour. HODSEBREABING.—John Clarke, aged 20, was in dicted for breaking into the shop of George George, and stealing six dozen knives and forks, and other articles, value 301.—The prisoner pleaded Guilty. The RECORDER advised the prisoner to consider well before pleading /guilty, The offence was one of great magnitude, and the fact of his pleading guilty would make no difference in the sentence which the Court would feel bound to pass upon him. The Prisoner—l plead guilty, because lam guilty. The RECORDER after expatiating on the enormity of the offence which the prisoner had committed, and on the immense quantity of property stolen, sentenced the prisoner to ten years' transportation. George Rivers was indicted for stealing a pair of boots, the property of George Castle. The prosecutor is a boot maker, and the prisoner entered his shop, and ran off with the boots in questiglu He was stopped by a po liceman with the boo& in his possession. The Jury found him Guilty. A previous conviction having been proved against him, he was sentenced to one year's im prisonment with hard labour. The prisoner in personal appearance and expression of countenance bore a remarkable resemblance to the por trait of Jack Sheppard, and wore his black hair close cropped after the favourite fashion of Mr. Ainsworth's hero. NE CO U RT. William Pearce, afecl 45, described in the calendar as a servant, pleaded Guilty to an indictment charging him: with stealing two pair of reins, two back-bands, a pair of stirrup leathers, and other articles, the property of his master, Basil George Wood, and was sentenced to seven years_ transportation, he having been before convicted of a similar offence.-- • • William Elhrson, a shoemaker, pleaded guilty of stealing various articles-, the property of James Sawyer, and was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment and hard labour. James Collins pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with stealing a pair of trowsers, value 93., and was sentenced to seven years' transportation, he having been several times convicted previously. EMBEZZLEMENT.—Thomas Parker, a most respectable looking man, pleaded to an indictment charging him with embezzling the money of his employers, Messrs. Kent and Co., the brush-makers, of Falcon-square. After the prisoner had pleaded guilty, he begged of the Court to allow him to withdraw his plea, Counsel on his behalf having been employed. The Court granted the prisoner's request, but shortly afterwards he stated that it was his determination to persevere in his plea of guilty. From the statements of Mr. Kent it appeared that the prisoner had been employed by him as his clerk and book-keeper for many years, and that he appeared to have adopted a regular system for years by which, even on scrutinising his books, his embezzlement could not be discovered. The prosecutor considered that he had lost upwards of 700/. through the prisoner's delinquencies. The COMMON SEARGEANT did not consider he should be doing his duty to the public unless he passed a severe sentence upon the prisoner. His embezzlements were to a large amount, and had been conducted in a manner calculated to escape detection. The sentence of the Court was that he should be transported for seven years. The prisoner born his sentence with considerable firmness. Wollianz Clements, 15, was convicted of stealing 131 cigars, value 75., the property of Thomas Mansford, and was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. Thomas Humber, 31, was indicted with stealing seven dozen of hose, the property of Isaac Wilson and another, his masters. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner was the warehouseman of Messrs. Wilson and Co., who carry on a large hosiery business at 35, Milk street, and also at Nottingham and Derby. He had been in their employ for two years and upwards, and while there had committed the depredations with which he was charged. It appeared that the prisoner after committing the depredation offered the stockings for sale to a person named Leman, who kept an old clothes shop in Beer-lane, Spitalfields, and that from the infor mation given by Leman to Messrs. Wilson the robbery was discovered. The prisoner also offered a pair of the stockings to Mr. Dewey, the landlord of the Swan with-Two-Necks tap, for Is., and the price asked appear ing to him inadequate, he suspected that the prisoner had not come honestly by the property, and caused him to be apprehended. Mr. Phillips conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Ba.llantyne, defended the prisoner, and called several persons who gave gave him an excellent character. The COMMON SERGEANT summed up, and the Jury, after a short consultation, found the prisoner Guilty, but recommended him to mercy. The Comm sentenced him to nine months' imprison ment and hard labour. The prisoner begged that the latter part of the sen tence might be remitted, as lie was in an ill state of health from rupture. The COMMON SERGEANT observed that the visiting Magistrates would remit that part of the sentence if it was found necessary., GUILDHALL.—(THIS DAY.) Sarah Williams, a woman about 46 years of age, bear ing all the lineaments of a gypsy, was placed at the bar before Mr. Alderman COPELAND under the following extraordinary circumstances : Elizabeth Goldsmith said, the prisoner came to the house, No. 37, Green-street, where she (witness) lived as housemaid, and inquired if she wished to purchase any lace or small articles of millinery. Being an swered in the negative, she then asked it' she wanted her fortune told, and said she could tell, what kind of a husband was fated for her—whether he was rich or pcor, fair or dark, long or short, 84c. &c. Not long able to resist a temptation so alluring to witness (she was a pretty little girl about 17 years of age), the prisoner was brought down to the kitchen and feasted as fortune-tellers usually are ; after which she said she should be unable to rule the stars "in her favour unless she had some Of her dresses for a short time, and that a watch would be necessary to ensure the greater certainty in the incantations she was about to perform. The witness then got her three dresses of her own, worth about 31, and went up to the room of a lodger, " One Mr. Thomas Brown," and brought down his watch, worth 51., which was ticking over the mantel-shelf, and handed them over to the sybil, who went through a number of mummeries, when she tied up the whole in a bundle, saying, it should not be touched for some time, or the charm would be unavailing. She then departed after p g r e o t t s i e n e g u x s o t m i n e t i t h l ing arrestedh ot, " by a nd the e never m s n seen A s maybwpaosliythbee well guessed, upon opening the bundle the watch was gone. The watch bore an oak tree as a crest, and the initials W.C. Two fellow-serrants of the prosecutrix, swore to the prisoner's identity, and that she was at that moment wearing her (prosecutrix's) clothes, and also Joseph Dal ton, the constable who arrested her. She was fully cora tnitted for trial, and the parties bound over to prosecute. DEATH BY DROWNING.—Last evening an inquest was held before Mr. Payne, the City Coroner, at the Vestry Hall, St. John's, Horsleydown, on the body of George Wade, aged 39. It appeared by the evidence that, on the evening of Friday last, the de deased was at work on a barge at Mr. Brandon's Wharf, Horsleydown, when he suddenly fell overboard. A great deal of exertion was made to save him, but with out effect. It being clear that his death was entirely ac• cidental, the Jury returned a verdict to that effect. THE EXCHEQUER BILL ForwEay.--Tes terday an order was sent to Newgate from the Home office for the removal of Edward Beaumont Smith to the hulks, in pursuance of his sentence. Ile was accord ingly placed in a carriage, and conveyed to Woolwich where he was put on board the usual receiving hulk. F- t EVENING 'SITht- LLOYD'S SHIPPING_(THIS DAY). LONDON, JAN. 4.—Wind at noon, various and light. RAMSGATE, JAN. 3.—Sa Juno, New York ; beth, Leghorn. The Magnet, Picard, has been placed on the patent slip. OFF THE GALLOPER, DEC. 25.—Godfrey, New Orleans. DEAL, JIN. 3.—Wind N.E. by N. moderate.—Arrd. from the River and sld. ' St. Vincent's, Bomb a y ; Wave, Sierra Leone ; Dibdi n , Mobile. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 3.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Oriental, Buenos Ayres; Thomas Mellor, Maranham—sld. Nov. 27,- Laurina, Laguna ; Resolution, Quebec. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 3.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrd. her Ma jesty's steamer Megmra, from Barbadoes. OFF DOVER, JAN. 3.—Caesar and Helene, Hamburg , ' for Havannah. ..- - FALMOUTH, JAN. 2.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrd. Elizabeth, Shields, for Jamaica. Sld. Oriental steamer, Alexandria. CARDIFF, JAN. l.—Sld. Hannah,.Booth, Malta. SCARBOROUGH, JAN. 2.—The Palestine, Thomson, from Sunderland to Lynn, came ashoie south of Filey yesterday morning during a fog, but got off after throw ing about one keel of coals overboard, and proceeded with assistance. DUNDALK, JAN. I.—The 'Eden, illienzie, of Aber deen, in proceeding to sea struck on the Bar, but came off without damage. ABERDEEN, DEC. 31.—The sloop Alexander, Asp)", has arrived here from Spalding, much strained, with loss of bulwarks, and nearly the whole of her cargo damaged, having grounded on Marion Sands, a nd b een s truck twice by a sea. The Workington, from Honduras, is supposed to have arrived off Lymington. • THE MARKETS.--(THIS DAY.) • .i COLONIAL MARKET. There was only a moderate business transacted,- but !. prices were sustained for all articles. The imports were . small. Raw Sugar sold slowly • Jamaica fine and goo d Yellow 665. to 71s. ; low to middling 60s. to 655. per cwt. TEA MARKET. The operations were fair in all sorts of Tea,'end prices were firm ; Company's Congou ls. 10d. cash, - TALLOW MARKET. There was little business done in P.Y. Candle, either on the spot or for delivery, but prices were supported, 48s. 6d. to 495. OIL MARKET. Prices were barely supported, and the market was dull. Cod Oil, 311., an d P a l e S ea l, 42 1 . 10s. per tutu Linseed Oil, 36s. per cwt. WHITECHAPEL MARKET. The supply was plentiful, the trade for the second and inferior qualities was middling ; but fine sorts were in demand, and the present prices were well supported. Clover, 21. 10s. to 51. Ss. ; Hay, 21. to 41. 6 ;' Strata► 1/. 10s, to 11. 14s. LITERATURE. COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE MAGA -2,'- EVE. As this Magazine has been, under the old title, confounded with a weekly Tory newspaper from the similarity of the titles, the publisher; has adopted a slight alteration in the name, in order to prevent mistakes, and for the future it will be designated " Colburn's United Service Maga zine, and:Naval and Military Journal."' Though the name is changed the character of the work remains the same. We have the same consist• ency and regard for the interests of the two' services of which it professes to be the organ. The paper on the .Military Force of Great Bri tain, by Henry Marshall, Esq., Deputy Inspector General of Army; Hospitals, will be read with interest. It treats, lmong other subjects, of en.' listment ; vices and virtues of soldiers; .and edu. cation; and in discussing the latter the author' points out as one cause why common soldiers in the British army are not promoted to the rank °fall . - cuss° frequently as in France, their want of that instruction requisite to qualifythem for promotion. In this, country from 30 to 50 per cent. of the . .. men who enlist are unable to read, for any use ful purpose, while in France the case is quite dd.' ferent, as the conscription forces into the artrik . men nearly of all ranks and classes. Besides this the present Number contains two other good articles, one on the Navy and the other on the Army, past, present, and future, with the distii- . bution of the Army and the Stations of the, Royal Navy in Commission on th e Ist January' , 1842, with the years when built, and dates 4,, commission of the officers in com man d. • . Lin r! ,4 ,1 3 ..,di- t f); BRITISH MAGAZINE. - c!ol fi Thereligion of the RosicrUcians, it ml ht sonably have been thou g ht, had altogether lost its vitality, in the persons of its latest disciples, Reuel'lin and Prince Mirandulanus. Several papers, however, of late, in this Magazine,. nifest its embers to be still on the sparkle.; a nd. the present article, " Macrocosm and Micro'' cosm," forms pari of a series. This school/ known long on the Continent as that of " RO O l Cross," and whose disciples were once multittl' dinous in the East, has been greatly deteriorated in modern times by its triple admixture with astrology, freemasonry, and the 'Welch bardisU These have muffled its originally clear features in enigma and intricacy, and the doctrines ap' pertaining to it have been so 'thoroughly dis' guised, and their textual readings interpolated , that it has become scarcely possible to discover. among them, the intelligent system anciently taught under the orange-shades of Babylon and Jerusalem, by the elders and rabbis of those people. Au elaborate p a p er on t h e ." Ti mes o f , the Reformation," adduces proofs from the Contemporary pulpit, on the spread of imrno - among the London population . at that period. The complaints of the clericals,,of the day form a' perfect Jeremiad. The books rhea read are wofully stigmatised, most particularli, those little black-letter d uo d ec i mos , f u ll' 0' •popish legends and tales of enchantment, whielj changed hands with incredible ra pidi t y, all were " cheaply purchased for their weight l° gold." _The poets were inspired by no .1 101 Y: thoughts, but had their fancies sublimed only by " sack and claret." Eight theatres were °P t .°, every Sunday—th e Theatre, the Curtain, t he Globe; and five others playing twice and th r ice s i week, realised a revenue o f 2,000/ . a year, all; were little " palaces of pleasure" that swarme d with depravity. On this day also' " silver-gatues' drinking, dancing, and dicing" were among th e corn monest profanities, and the only penalty of the offenders herein, was a flap with a fox s• tail. Even the Queen, whose accession was hailed hY, Reformers as the risin g o f a " b r i g h t acc id en ta l star" fell under the general ban. Elizabeth sys 9 found to lead no life of faith. '' The field, the dance, the bear-garden, and the stage, succeede d so constantly and rapidly on her morning studies, in theology, that it seem s s t range h ow any bu t courtiers could imagine that they had calmed her mind, and made her happiness.- She was s gay, worldly, schemine , woman. The Papists hated her for what she did : the Reformer s doubted - her for what she did not. The Queen's popularity in the early part of her reign was itself an evil, when it made fashionable the oaths sh e swore, and the dilapidation and sacrilege she -in' dulged in." Lastly, to consummate the scene , there existed, even among the clergy themselves!. a species of " di v i sum i mperium " on the score 0 ' conduct and immorality. While one Bishop blesses the En g li s h Ch urc h i n i ts t h en pres e nt state, and comfortably believes that it is "crown ed with infinite stars, who are the good professor s of the word," a rival Archdeacon pitiably cool' plains that " a man now-a-days makes himself minister to get a piece of a living, and sinV stoutly for the stipend only." The Christenn° Rose," being a charming subject, should inspired more glow , and colour to the " The Five Articles of Perth" give an hist . ,,, t , of sketch of the introduction of a few reli g i o us 01.- s chetsamong the Scottish Episcopalians by iatne I. They certainly appear very innocent orditlat i ; ces, and only the most ludicrous fanaticism cool"' find in them anything to deprecate. Neverthe- - less Calderwood, the chronicler, states that when the Perth articles were touched by the sceptre for ratification, lightning flashed; that the : was marked as "Black Saturday;" and the cannon from the Castle of Edinburgh, in theirdischargelv " began with fire from the earth in the morq ing, and ended with fire from Heaven in to evening." It is agreeable to Observe that SPOI . tiswood, whom th e P res b yter i ans assa iled with lampoons and lib e l s t o p er p e t u i ty , i s otherWl!4f regarded by the writer as'a pious, mild, andY" , .. tuous prelate. Among its medley of correspl . ... Bence the Editor denies the charge made by Golightly, of this Magazine being an engine In the hands of the Oxford tractarians: it has dO,, cussed many Paseyite convictions, and refute', more. CHURCH OF ENGLAND QUARTERLY REVIEW. In this Number we find, among other shrei but sophistical articles, one which takes for theme " The State of the Nation," a subject which it descants with more than ordinary tior i t irony. The writer of this rabid diatribe sets 45 1,;' with observing, that all the distresses under virb,,ier'' the country now labours are directly attributaffti to the misconduct of the late Government; 011- - yet, immediately afterwards, it neutralises tP 4 !, force of this assertion by addi ng , " fi e, A r t ' anxious to guard against a popular error, , always finds currency even In good times, br which is yet more popular, and still more frO!'',. quently resorted to, in bad ti mes . W e a llude. `m— the popular error whi c h ascr ib es , i n difficult times, . every existing evil to the Govern ment! Now, even in absolute times, _til l. habit of ascribing all evils to the 4 - I . 4 r i vernment is still indefensible ; for it 1 , 1 % be easy to show, that there are many cause' of evil over which no human Government, h o v ,; ever perfect, can have an absolute control. If this be the case—and we are far from meaning k We lo g i ca ;now ] eritie a t eem Plet es co,tjaw receive Beripti ( "I ;Toll ei H ind fo You e at LE usuallj itre no ' ,AL.I Th ' 1 484 km I:sq