The Sun. — London, England, 1842-01-22 00:00:00

EVENING SUN the first of January next, will leave the duty at 29 pr • ~•,.1 and af-.. • Ist of .TuJ -. 1942, thee. u; " 1 - of woollens. Thi s exam pl e will serve for other articles subject to ad valorem duties. The assessment under the State Tax law of Mary land, it is estimated will reach above 200 millions of dollars, which at the rate of taxation will produce about 4 00,000 dols. The amount which it is necessary to raise to pay interest on the public debt, &c., is 600 , 000 dols. The Merch an ts' Bank of Baltimore has declared a half Yearly dividend of three per eent. The Western Bank of Baltimore has declared a divi dend of two and a half per cent. for the last half year. The Baltimore and Rapnahannock Steam Packet Com pany has declared a dividend of seven per cent. for the last year.- The Legislature of Maryland, by a most decided vote, have avowed their determination to maintain the faith of the State. A resolution was introduced on Friday to re- Peal the Tax Law, which was voted down, 56 to 21. The Philadelphia ,Papers mention, as a gratifying evidence of commercial activity in at least one article of t rade, that 14,400 barrels of flour were shipped from that ,• Port during the past week. PiticE OF FLOUR AND GRAIN.—At Philadelphia, let inst. Flour, 6 dols. 12c. to 6 dols. 25c. for good brands ~for family use ; Wheat, 1 dol. 30c. ; Corn, yellow, 51c. to 52 ir. ; white, 49c. to 50c.—At Baltimore, Ist, Howard atreet Flour, 5 dols. 87Ic. ; City Mills, 6 dols. Wheat, I _ l del: 28 c . to 1 dol. 35c. Corn, white, 52c. to 53c. ; yel -4°,1; 53c. to 54e.—At Boston, 31st, Genesee common urands Flour were selline. at 6 dols. 25c. ; fancy, 6 dols. ) l ie. 4 mos. ; Georgetown, 6 dols. 41c. for extra—very , at those prices. Corn, new and old yellow, 60c. to t 2 e. ; new and old white, 58c. to 60c. , A meeting of the " Democratic" party was held in Phi : aidelphi a on Thursday evening on the subject of the State • • debt, which was pretty numerously attended. The pro , eeedings, however, were far from harmonious, and but little consequ e nce seems to be attached to the meeting. The doctrines advanced in the resolutions doubtless I Peak the sentiments of but a few reckless spirits, and will be scouted by the mass of the party in whose name they are issued. The resolutions declare, in sub stance, that the present State Debt was contracted. without the sanction of the Constitution, and f pur- Poses at variance with the legitimate designs of Go vertunent—that the people of the Commonwealth are tinder no moral or legal obligation to pay the debt, and that " they would be recreant to every princi ple that should govern freemen" if they consented to bear the burden of taxation for that purpose. It was further:resolved, Lhat they would unitedly resist by all * awful means the collection of the present or any future `kJ that may be levied to pay the principal or interest of t i " State debt—and that "it is the duty of the Legis lature at the earliest possible period of its session to r t ,'""ce provision for the payment out of the money in the krasury, of all persons to whom the Commonwealth I ' indebted for manual labour, and then immediately t 2. pass over to Commissioners, Trustees, or As stgnees, all the property of the Commonwealth, r eserving such only as is 'absolutely essential to t he transaction of the legitimate business of Go vernment, and to provide for the equal distribution of t he proceeds of such property among the so-called State creditors, in proportion to their respective claims ; and to provide f ur th er , that all claims against the State, e xisting prior to such transfer, shall be claims only upon t he fond in the hands of said Trustees, Commissioners, 1 ) ,, r Assigness." The last resolve calls upon the people of the State, in order to compel the banks to resume specie Payments, to receive bank-notes at their specific value °llly, from and after the first of February next. ADDRESS TO THE QUEEN. FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) i,bERBY, JAN. 21.—A public meeting of the inhabitants 11 , 1 the county of Derby was held this day (Friday) at t he County-hall, to congratulate her Majesty on the c ulh of an heir apparent to the Throne. The requisi n to the High Sheriff to coavene the meeting was ' 'elled by the Magistrates and others. The High She flat took the chair. After a few preliminary remarks y the Chairman, the Rev. A. Curzon- came forward to E s ° l l ()se the address, which was seconded by W. Evans, w •l' M.P An attempt was made to carry the address eat the following addition, but it failed. A work ing 'llan stood forward to propose the addition. After the document was read considerable excitement prevailed arnong the a r i s t ocra ti c p ar ty, an d th e y fin a lly ag reed to withdraw the address, and the High Sheriff vacated the chair. A working man was then appointed as chairman, 44 (.1 the address, with the addition, was then put and, carried unanimously. I understand that after the Chair-: man had v aca t e d, t h e gentry an d t h e Sheriff went i"ito t he Grand Jury-room, and there passed their addiess with locked doors. The following is the additional clause : I , "At the same time we cannot but acquaint your Ma- Jesty, that thous.andofvirtutoluies like natural s u n p b o tcts e a d r s e opfassstil:iagw, through without even a pillow whereon to lay their heads, or sustenance to support them; that starvation and misery are pervading the whole land; and we attribute this state of things to Class Legislation, from which have sprung the abominable Corn monopoly ; the iniquitous Poor-law, and all other oppressive law s, w hich have reduced the people to their present wretche d end miser a bl e con diti on; an d th ere f ore , w e pray your oral jesty to instruct your Ministers to pass a law for the al I T 1 immediate repeal of all enactments that have laxantGY to rob the millions for the benefit of the few, hut a i nfe , t hat every male inhabitant, 21 years of age, with crime, may have a vote in the election a and th „—,tatives in the Commons House of Parliament, Th - ,V I II such votes be given by Ballot. pr e 41 ev. T. Sing, Catholic priest, was appointed to sent th e address to her Majesty. RAIL WAY RETURNS. 1:v 1 ,,, ,e extract from the R a il way M agaz i ne the sums foron the principal R a il ways o f Great Britain t j tit*: week ending on the day of the month prefixed "10 „ "-ch. The return includes the money received for ellB3engers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and mer andize W ee k ' Miles Total. ;tided Name of Railway. Opened. £. a. d. tn . 8 Birmingham & Derby Junct. 384 1,339 11 2 14 Birmingham and Gloucester 65 1,327 16 7 •• Brandling Junction 25 No returns ••• Chester and Birkenhead 1 6 Dundee and Arbroath lb Eastern Counties 15 Glasgow and Ayr 40 742 4 4 15 Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenoek 223 602 11 9 :-, 6 Grand J u nct., Chester &Crewe 1031 6,757 10 0 '' 15 Great North of England 1 6 Great Western 15 Hull and Selby , 15 Lanca s t er & P res to n Jun c tio n 201 375 6 2 • 1 7 Liverpool and Manchester 3l 4,057 2 0 ..," 5 London and Birmingham__ 1121 12,407 15 7 40 London and Blackwall 1 5 London and Brighton 5 Ditto Shoreham Branch ,_', B London and Croydon 1 0 London and Greenwich 3s 736 13 7 15 London and South Western 13 'Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 10 580 9 7 1 7 Manchester & Birmingham 1 6 Manchester and Leeds 15 Midland Counties . 1 5 Newcastle and Carlisle ...... 13 Newcastle and North Shields 7 322 6 0 16 Northern and Eastern ... 15 North Midland 1 4 North Union 15 Preston and Wyre 193 161 13 6 1 7 Sheffield and Manchester 7 174 16 16 16 Ulster 15 York and North Midland 23 1,145 18 4 I )I „ZETER MARKETS, FRlDAY.—Cattle—The I,l l tet this morning was very thinly supplied, particu iP' with sheep. The demand, however, was very good, 11 sales were brisk. Fat beef sold readily at from lOs cog s 6d. Cows and calves were not so readily . sold in g •sequence of the high prices asked, as high as eighteen :: eas being demanded in some cases. - There were no sL: P s or oxen shown. There were very few barrener l s l ev er ll, and 7s to 8s per score was asked, and nearly a tl le sold. Best Nether Sheep fetched full eV. per lb.; . Veneral quotatiorr was from 6id to 61d; Ewes, 6d to ..barb Pannier—Vegetables—Sea -kale, 18d per lb; Rhu ' Pe - e,' 2 s 6d per lb; Savoys, ld to 2d each; onions, lid Id r ;'; Celery, ld to 2dper stick ; Carrots and Turnips, u • and' ° 2d per lb ; Potatoes, 7d per score. ro . ry. ...6 ' ;I Game, &c.—Turkeys, 5s to 9s ; Geese, 4s t o - 'i t : °wit, 2s 6s to 3s 6d ; Ducks, 4s to 5s ; Pheasants, 4 w r , to 7;• Snipes, Is 6d per couple; Woodcocks, 6s to ,-,,' ; Ilar ' es, 3s 6d to 4s ; Rabbits, is each. Fruit— s•••B' Is to is 6d per dozen; Apples, 4d to 5d per dozen. .4 8, 14 to 16 a shilling ; Butter, lld to 13d per . lb. at E, ' , ea reases—The supply has been small this morning, qu ut - „,a,dvance in 'price, from 8s 6d to 9s 6d. At this 4 11 - ,1,"o all was readily sold. Corn—There has been bri s k u ndance offered this Morning, and sales rather .6s ' lo t hough at a decline in price of from 7s 3d to Seetiarley an d O a t s rem ain at our l as t quo t a tio ns . imukZ, -u est early Peas. 8d per quart ; Blue Peas, 6d ; Cla b t;;:l arley-, Beans, sd; Toker, Gd ; Broad Windsor, 7d; 5s 9a" b 6 c l to 2s 9d—a large supply ; Beans, 5s 3d to 3s 3d to 3s 9d.— Western Times. 13 ~,E 4.r R OF SIR JOHN DUGDALE ASTLEY, • rol l t-----,We have to record the death of the above Bs.- 1 - 10% 0 , ''',',, expired on Wednesday last, at Everleigh roZ t - ',." j i i t B , in his 64th year. He was created a Ba rearri„,j the United Kingdom in 1821. . The deceased . Pag e — Yu 1 803, Miss Page, daughter of Mr. William, drei. ) : H i s Astle osport, by whom he had issue several chil \eldest son, Francis (now Sir Francis Dugdale d u I Y) ' w as born 1805, and married, in 1826, t fourth Baru re of Sir Thomas B. 1 - 4ethbridge, Bart. T he late f ___ et represented Wiltshire in the House of Commons i-oruiB2o to 1 834. He wets father of Viscountess Torrin gton MESMERIS M psooreteotf the \interesti AND PHRENOLOGY.—in our re port on donday Ter.' 1;','Ilioroel the interesting proceedings at the Phrenological evening, we oraitted a very cunous tson:— n Penny Cylopceelia, which was read by Teens, Of this Species of somnambulism, is the transfe renceor- gans to the epigastrium sual and appropriate and l o r t u her p arts of the body— !,e the still more surprising t . it s ie as the extremities of the fi ngersand toes. Another to ulis i t a s eidty faculty of ' Prevision.' By of prevision, it is not meant that soinnambu futurit eV an unlimited power of reading the pages of Precision but merely that they predict. with the greatest ciehissoges that araecetuorateat the different symptoms and Power is sometimes e me in s fu th r e the c r ou e ease. This page 239 col. 1. Penny Cyclopcedia, r x s t e en u d f ed tb ." e — ir CHRI ' , ...._ e STENING OF THE PRINCE OF WALKS.— W can now ; ; pos.t.vely state, that there is intention on the part of the Government to should be opened gratuitously to the that the theatres evening next. No such intention exists eblic on Tuesday ,AW INTELLIGENCE. I.I.A.NUERY COURT-(THIS WALKER V. ASTON. The further arguments in this part-heard case occupied the Court the whole morning. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS The Court was occupied the whole morning disposing of motions, none of which possessed any features of general interest. V ICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) (Before the 'VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.) COCE.BURN V. RAPHAEL. The further arguments in this case, which had been before the Court yesterday, were resumed this morning. Mr. WAKEFIELD contended; on the part of the peti tioner, that the intentions of the founder of the Charity had not been carried out by the members of St. Lazarus to the extent which the funds ad mitted. The annual amount of the trust fund was 1,3801. ; while there had never been more than fourteen boys educated at a time upon the foundation. It appeared that the expenses of the maintenance of each scholar could not amount to more than 251. a-year ; and although the monks had undertaken, in conformity with the wishes of the testator, to translate and print certain books, this charge and others incidentally incurred would not account for the outlay of the sum received. A greater number of boys might still be educated in the charity, and a case had, therefore, been made out for the interference of the Court. His HONOUR, in giving his judgment, said that in his opinion it might be collected from the testator's own will, that he did mean that the charity should be ad ministered at Venice, because he had directed that a gentleman of the name of Pusa should administer the charity, and that he should have the appointment of the parties who were to succeed him. The will was made in the year 1791, and it appeared that Mr. Pusa, who was a monk of St. Lazarus, had, by a document dated in 1792, appointed the Society to which he belonged to be the administrators and depositors of the charity. That was a sufficient indication of the intentions of Mr. Pusa, as to the place where the school should be esta blished. It appeared, too, from a paper which contained a draft of the Master's former report, that the present petitioner, Mr. Alexander Raphael, had appeared before the Master, and that the report had been framed upon his suggestions. He had, therefore, virtually approved of the establishment of the school at St. Lazarus. The Court had adopted and confirmed the Master's re port, making the specific directions contained in the decree for further directions, but giving liberty to apply. It was useless to discuss, upon that occasion, the general law of the Court in cases of foreign charities; because the decree had determined the place where the school now in question should be established ; and as no person had presented a petition for re-hearing, the Court was still bound by that decree. If the decree could not be carried into effect, or if a case of gross mismanage ment had been made out, the Court might no doubt in terfere ; and the real case now before the Court was, whether a sufficient case of maladministration, to necessitate such interference, had been established. He confessed that it did not appear to him that any such case had been brought before the Court. It appeared that there remained in the hands of the ad ministrators, after paying all expenses, a sum of 35,000 Austrian livres, but that was an unreasonably large surplus. It had been explained that a sum of 8,000 livres had been transmitted to Constantinople, but that sum might very properly be devoted to an establish ment in that city for the convenience of the Armenian youths sent from Constantinople to Venice. There was nothing in the conduct of the administrators which ap peared to him flagitious—nothing that required par ticular animadversion or even particular The petition as it seemed to him, had arisen out of what he might call the excessively officious zeal of the peti tioner. He admitted that it was natural that the peti tioner, who was the son of the founder of the charity,' should inquire about the manner of its administration ; but after all the explanations that hid passed between him and the monks, he thought it would have been better to have let the matter drop. It appeared that the petitioner had advanced the administrators 6901. which he had not received from the Accountant-General. That sum should be repaid to him. But taking the petition altogether, he should dismiss it, and dismiss it with costs. Mr. Wakefield, :Mr. Stewart, and Mr. Koe, appeared in the case for the petitioner, and Mr. Bethell for the monks of St. Lazarus and the Archbishop of Venice, the present administrators of the charity. _ (Before Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.) , Some unopposed petitions and short causes were dis posed of in the early part of the morning by his Honour. ffS ) of $ impor' ocPe- Eng•• l cc i arrif hot Brio' 1101105, of Dec' ge, sligh tiy list for „ s sold , e on has Po!' • t -11' le of ifin An d :tr ay 10 115 e: 11 0 " - . be i to 5 WO ent V. ruc tlir : l a s ng • & the jolla r4 ; t . lu BIIR.RIDGE V. ROW . This cause, which has,come before the Court for hear ing on several occasions, : had stt•od over to this day from the early part of the week, to allow time for the parties in the case to determine upon the minutes of the decree to be pronounced by his Honour. Mr. SIMPKINSON, who appeared for the plaintiff, handed up the minutes of the proposed decree to his Honour, who, upon reading them, observed that they were much in substance what he bad intended they should be. Mr. COOPER, for the assignees of Alderman Win chester's estate, having intimated that he had some ob-• servations to make on the minutes of the decree as now framed, a desultory conversation on the subject ensued between the various Counsel in the cause and his Honour, when it was ultimately settled that Mr. Cooper should be heard on the question of the assignment by Row's assignees to Alderman Winchester of his interest in what should be recovered on the policies. POWELL V. WOOLLAM. The plaintiff in this cause was the personalrepresenta tive of a deceased member of a mercantile firm; the defen dants the surviving partners of that firm, and their personal representatives ; and the object of the suit was to obtain an order for an account to be taken as to what was due to the plaintiffs as personal representatives of the deceased partner, Win. Hughes, in respect to his interest in the firm. His HONOUR, all parties consenting, decreed a refe rence to the Master to take an account of the state of the assets, and all dealings and transactions of the firm from the beginning of the partnership to the present time—the Master to distinguish what the state of assets was at the time of the testator's death, and by whom and under what circumstances the trade had been since carried on, and what the present condition of the assets was, with liberty to state special circumstances. (Before Vice-Chancellor WIGRAM.) THE EAST INDIA COMPANY V. THE COOPERS' COMPANY. This part heard case was resumed this morning. After hearing Counsel for the plaintiff, His HONOUR said he was at present strongly inclined to think that his determination must depend upon the conduct of the parties. He very much doubted whether he could consider the execution of the lease as part performance of a parole agreement. The cases of part performance of a parole agreement were those in which the act done was of such a nature that it could not be explained except by supposing that there was some contract between the parties. Taking possession was an act of part performance, because it implied the consent of the lessor, but where an agreement was accompanied with a lease which explained the possession, it was im possible to consider it as part performance. Therefore, as far as the original transaction went, it did not appear to him that there was any act of part per formance which could be relied upon. It had been argued, however, at the bar that the Coopers' Company had had notice of the lease to Mr. Trinder; at the time when it was ranted, and also in 1783, and had per mitted expenditure to go on since, and it was said that he might from those facts infer an original agreement to grant a license. If the Coopers' Company had per mitted the East India Company to spend a fortune upon the premises, the cases which had been cited would apply to the present. Upon the question of notice, his Honour said, he might wish for further information. A second question would be as to the waiver, and a third as to the construction of the Act of Parliament. Upon these two questions he should be spoken to ; but it would very much narrow the case to settle the question of notice ; as, according to his pre sent view, his decision would entirely turn upon the ques tion of conduct. He thought it would be better that the case should stand over till Tuesday, when he would be able to state his opinion on that point. The case was then ordered to stand over generally. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY•) THE QUEEN V. THE INHABITANTS OF RISHWORTH. This was an appeal from an order of Sessions for the removal of a pauper from the parish of Rishworth, in Yorkshire, to the parish of Staley-bridge, in L ancashire. Mr. Wortley appeared on behalf of the appellants, and Mr. Baines on behalf of the respondents. The arguments turned chiefly upon the question of whether there was sufficient legal evidence of the birth of the pauper, and of the other facts in, the case, to autho rise the Justices at Sessions to make the order in ques tion. There was nothing of public interest in the case, the arguments being directed to the construction of the various Acts of Parliament for regulating the settlement and removal of paupers: INSOLVENT COURTS-THIS DAY• TN THE MATTER OF THE REV. WE. BAILEY. The insolvent in this case was the clergyman of a chapel of ease at Tunbridge Wells, and had received his license to preach there, but several creditors against the Rev. Gentleman having sued him for the building of the same chapel, he was compelled to seek the benefit of the Act. After some conversation between Commissioner Bowen and Mr. Nicholls the case was ordered to stand for hear ing on Wednesday week. NATIONAL ANTI-CORN-LAW CONFERENCE. —We call attention to the great movement which is an nounced in our advertising columns. We trust our fel low-citizens will do their best to give a warm welcome to the deputies from the provinces, and to prove to them that,the metropolis responds to the enthusiasm of the country. Arrangements, we hope, will be made, by the City repealers, to accommodate the deputies during their stay, in their own houses, as was done at Manchester. DISTRESSING CASE.—George Hastie, shoe maker, Gullane, left home on Saturdny morning the Bth ult., and went to Musselburgh to purchase leather. After having settled business, and got his leather, he was not again seen or heard of till Wednesday last week, when his body was found on the sea-beach, a little beyond Port Seaton by a carter. It is supposed that from the darkness he had wandered from the road into the sea, and from confusion of mind had been unable to extricate himself, and was drowned.—Edinburgh paper. EXTRAORDINARY SHOT. —We understand thai as James Agars, gamekeeper to A. Bosville, Esq., of Thorpe, was shooting on the 6th inst, with a double barrelled gun, a woodcock and a bittern rose at the same time, when he killed them both, being one with each bar rel.— y o rh Courant. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1842. THE ROYAL CHRISTENING. WINDSOR, FRIDAY. OF THE STATE APARTMENTS AS THEY ARE PREPARED AND EMBELLISHED FOR THE RECEPTION OF THE KING OF PRUSSIA, THE DEJEUNE A LA FOUR- CHETTE, THE GRAND BANQUET IN THE EVENING, &C. 1. The Grand Vestibule, leading to the whole suite of State apartments.—ln this apartment, through which the Royal visitors will pass to the banquet in St. George's Hall, proceeding up the grand staircase, the yeomen of the Queen's guard, under the command of their Captain, the Marquis of Lothian, will assemble. The angles of the vestibule . (which is sixteen yards in length, nine yards wide, and nearly fifty feet in height) are occupied by numerous slender columns, supporting a vaulting of richly-designed fan work, ornamented with tracery, terminating with the Royal arms and the date of its execution (1834), which are encircled with the garter in the centre of an octagonal lantern. Upon brackets, about twenty feet from the floor, there are six suits of armour of the time of Elizabeth. Two com partments of the walls, and also one over the fire place, and another over the door leading to the Waterloo Chamber, are ornamented with flags and trophies of the same character. 2. The Grand Staircase, communicating with the ves tibule, contains, in a deeply recessed arch, a splendid and most noble statue of the late George IV., executed by the late Sir Francis Chantrey. In each o the spandrils there are several specimens of ancient armour, beauti fully arranged. Around the stone railing, at the top of the staircase, magnificent Gothic chandeliers are to be placed. The ceiling and lantern, which are of wood, are painted to imitate stone, and formed into panels by mas sive mouldings. The centres are filled with boldly-carved shields. 3. The Waterloo Chamber.—This spacious apartment (which is 98 feet long and 47 feet broad) has been appro priated for the music-room after the banquet. The two galleries, at either end, will be filled with instrumental performers. The portraits in this room (37 in number) are those of the Sovereigns who reigned, the most cele brated commanders who fought, and the statesmen who were at the head of affairs, at the period of the battle of Waterloo. " This alone," observes Mr. Jesse, " will always occasion this gallery to be viewed with feel ings of no common interest." Here his late Majesty William IV. gave his dinners in commemoration of that battle, surrounded by the warriors who had fought and bled or their country. It was in this apartment that that Sovereign lay in state. Amongst the portraits is one of Frederick 111., of Prussia, the father of her Majesty's illustrious visitor. The carpet, which is a dark morone, is panelled and figured with the stars of the Order of the Bath, encircled by the motto of the order, " Tria juncta in uno." The five massive chande liers of ormulu have been embellished and enriched ex pressly for the occasion. This room contains some of the most beautifully executed carvings by the celebrated Gibbon. The panelling, doors, and chimney-pieces are in Gibbon's first style. The galleries are formed of oak, also richly carved. The various mouldings are embel lished with lions, masks, grotesque heads, &c. The fur niture, which is of oak, is covered with rich crimson plush. In various panels, at each end of the chamber, are stars, with the initials " W. R.," surrounded with the rose, shamrock, and thistle. The whole of the portraits with which the walls are decorated, with only five excep tions, are painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence. 4. The Throne Ante-room.—The furniture of this apartment is of crimson damask, and the carpet of crim son plush. It contains a splendid cabinet of exquisite workmanship. 5. The Throne Room.—The chair of State has been eitirely re-gilt and embellished, and is placed on a raised dais at the west end of the apartment. The back and cushion, edged round with deep gold lace, are of rich purple velvet, upon which is embossed the star of the order of the Garter. Upon the drapery and canopy of the throne are borne, in gold, the rose, shamrock, and thistle ; the tassels and fringe are extremely mas sive. The carpet, which has been manufactured ex pressly for the occasion of the royal christening, is of plush, with a deep purple ground, covered over with medallions of a yellow colour, of the collar and star of the order of the Garter, surrounded with the motto, " Boni soft qui mai y pense." Four splendidly carved and gilt candelabra, upwards of four feet high, have been completed for this room. The base is supported by lions claws, and each column by three lions beautifully carved. The walls are chiefly of highly-polished oak, relieved by carvings of fruit, flowers, &c., by Gibbon. The room contains a: painting by West of the installation of the Knights of the Garter, and portraits of George George IV., and Willi:.-:n IV., by Gainsborough, Sir Thomas Lawrence, and Sir M. A. Shee. 6. The Ball Room.—Magnificent French doors open from this apartment into the Waterloo Gallery, St. George's Hall, and the Throne Room. The furniture is of the most splendid description, the chair:; and couches being solidly gilt, and covered with rich crimson damask. This room will be used for the assembling of the Knights of the Garter upon the day of the installation of the King of Prussia. A magnificent gothic window of plate glass occupies nearly the whole of the north end. This spacious apartment is 90 feet in length and 34 feet in width. The room is in the style of Louis XIV. The walls are hung with Gobelin tapestry, representing the story of Jason and the Golden Fleece. This is said to be the same tapestry which Louis XVI. sent to decorate the room occupied by his unfortunate Queen, Marie Antoinette, when she first arrived in France. It was afterwards presented to George IV. Four splendid chandeliers are suspended from the ceiling, of ormolu, interspersed with cut glass branches and pendants. The ceiling is enriched with ornamented scroll-work of the most beautiful description, consisting of birds, the royal arms, and over the two fireplaces and the doors the let ters "G. R." Other portions of the room are occupied by splendid looking-glasses and costly carved work. The North Corridor is occupied by eleven cabinets of ancient armour, which have been fitted up with great taste by Mr. Stacey, from the Ordnance Department in the Tower. These cabinets contain a most valuable and unique collection of swords, guns, battle-axes, match locks, helmets, &c. Amongst this collection are the fol lowing :--a large quantity of Asiatic swords, with mas sive silver handles of immense value, received as pre sents by George IV. ; Asiatic guns with curiously finished matchlocks, a sword, which belonged to Henry Prince of Wales, in 1716 ; three beautiful swords, worn by George 111. ; the sword presented by the Emperor Charles VI. to the great Duke of Marlborough ; the dress sword worn by the Chevalier de St. George, in Scotland, in the year 1715, and also by his son the Pre tender, in 1746,—presented to the Prince Regent by John Ewen, Esq., Feb. 17, 1811. The only portion of ,the armour, Sac., with which several of the apartments and vestibules of the Castle have been embellished, which have been sent from the Tower, are merely a few spears, a small portion of the ancient armour, and the flags and banners. This corridor is the communication between the private and state apartments. Her Majesty will proceed through the corridor to the Ball-room, where the Queen will receive the Royal and illustrious personages before entering St. George's Hall, to the grand banquet on Tuesday evening. The King's Drawing Room has been appropriated for the reception of his Majesty the King of Prussia. A splendid carpet has been expressly manufactured ; it has a rich crimson ground, covered with medallions, in which are the intitials V. R. The hangings and furniture are of superb crimson damask. It contains some beautiful japan and buhl cabinets, which were the property of George IV. A large oriel.window, of beautiful tracery, terminated the north end of the room. The sides are ornamented with four magnificent pier glasses. The silk hangings, it should have been observed, are elegantly ornamented with the arms of England, encircled by the collar of the order of the Garter. In this apartment is placed the exquisitely-executed vase, which was pre sented by the father of the present King of Prussia tz George IV. It was in this room that George IV. lay in state. There are ten paintings, the whole of which are by Rubens, and comprise the celebrated portraits of himself and of his first wife. The King's Council Room has also been appropriated for the use of the King of Prussia, and a new carpet ex pressly manufactured of the same pattern as the one in the King's drawing-room. The furniture and hangings aro of crimson silk, ornamented with the crown and sceptre; the rose, shamrock, and thistle; and with nume rous acorns and oak leaves. The ceiling is embellished with the arms of Charles 11., which are on a circular shield, encompassed with the Garter and the motto of the order—the whole encircled with a palm wreath. Five cabinets of exquisite workmanship have been placed in this apartment, which contains 35 paintings by Corregio, Leonardo daVinci, Guercino, and other esteemed master, The King's Closet.—This room is designated to be the private cabinet of the Prussian Sovereign. The car pet, which is new, is crimson, as are also the silk hang ings, into which are beautifully interwoven the initials W. R., which are entwined with the rose, shamrock, and thistle. Forty paintings by the old masters occupy three sides of the room. In the centre of the ceiling is the star of St. George, with oak branches, surrounded by a cable. The anchor and trident, and other devices emblematical of our naval superiority, form the most conspicuous orna ments of the ceiling.. Three cabinets in this apartment are of marqueterie, and one India japanned. The Queen's Closet.—This room, which is oblong (the hangings of which are of light blue silk, upon which are displayed, in damask silk, the initials A. R., and the crown), has been selected as the sleeping apartment of his Majesty. The bed and hangings formed a por tion of the splendid furniture at Carlton House. The hangings are of blue silk damask, splendidly embroi dered and brocaded. The elegant and magnificent canopy is surmounted by a plume of feathers. The chairs are covered with blue silk, elaborately embroi dered. The carpet is new, and of colours in harmony with the other furniture. This apartment is distinguished by two immense-sized glasses, with massive silver frames. The room contains 25 exquisitely-executed cabinet and other paintings by the old masters. The Queen's Drawing (or Zuccarelli) Room has been set apart for the exclusive use of the personages forming the suite of the King of Prussia. The hangings are of crimson silk damask, upon which are wrought the arms of the late King and the Queen Dowager. The new carpet is also of the same colour. This room is deco rated with various shields, scrolls of foliage, wreaths of flowers, all richly etched with gold. The walls are em bellished with seven landscapes of Italian scenery by Zuccarelli, and three scriptural subjects. The ceiling is of stucco, richly embellished with margins of oak and palm entwined. The State Ante-room, communicating with the King's and Queen's drawing-rooms.—The principal decorations of this apartment are several pieces of beautiful tapestry, the subjects taken from heathen mythology, some splen did carvings, by Gibbon, of fish, game, flowers, fruit, &c, ; and on the ceiling a painting of the banquet of the gods. There is a recess over the chimney-piece, inwhich is a painting on glass of George 111., in his coronation robes, after Sir Joshua Reynolds. The Guard Chamber.—ln this apartment will assem ble the Knights of the Garter, and also the honourable band of gentlemen pensioners. The four whole-length figures, clothed in armour, with their lances, standing on brackets, are worthy of particular notice. The coats of mail in which they are clothed, are amongst the earliest and most perfect specimens in this country. The ancient armour with which this chamber is decorated includes that worn by Charles Prince of Wales, in 1620 ; Lord Howard, in 1588 ; Duke of Brunswick, in 1530 ; Lord Essex, in 1596 ; and Prince Rupert, in 1635. At the south end, on a portion 'of the mast of the Victory, stands a splendid colossal bust of Lord Nelson, executed by the late Sir F. Chantrey. There are also busts of the Duke of Marl borough and the Duke of Wellington, with the tributary banners, over the head of each, from Blenheim and Strathfieldsaye. In a glass cabinet,, over the mantel piece, is the beautiful silver shield, inlaid with gold, exe cuted by Cellini, and presented, by Francis, the French monarch, on the Field of the Cloth of Gold, to Henry VIII. The gentlemen pensioners, after'first assembling in this chamber, will then proceed to the grand vestibule. St. George's Hall.—ln this magnificent apartment, which is 200 feet in length and 34 in width, the grand banquet.. will take place on the evening of Tuesday. The gallery at the west end will be occupied by the bands of the Royal Horse Guards and the 72d Highlanders. An entirely new carpet, of velvet pile, has been manufactured expressly for the occasion, which will be laid down to-morrow. The ' covering of the seats are of crimson plush damask. The new ceiling is in the Gothic style—viz., a flat Gothic arch, the ribs, or mouldings, which divide 'its compartments, spring ing from corbels on the walls. The entire ceil ing is divided into thirteen bays, each of which is sub divided into twenty-four smaller ones. Each of these contains two shields, emblazoned with the armorial bear ings of all the Knights of the Garter, from the institu tion of the order. On each of the corbels are two knights represented in a complete suit of armour. The two at the east end represent the founder, Edward 111., and his son, the Black Prince. On the north side are full-length portraits of the last eleven Sovereigns of England, from James I. to George IV. In panels along the sides of the hall are numerous shields, upon which the arms of the late and present Knights are emblazoned. In the spaces between the portraits there are large brass shields, with the cross of St. George, encircled by the garter and motto of the order. Beaufets, upwards of 15 feet in height, • 36 . feet long, and 18 feet wide, have been constructed at each end of the hall, upon which will be exhibited the most magnificent collection of plate ever perhaps witnessed in this or any other country at one time. It is expected that 120 guests will dine in the hall on Tuesday. The dejeuner, after the ceremony of the christening, will take place in the three following rooms:— The Vandyke Room, containing some of the most finished productions of the artist whose name it bears. The ceiling is of stucco, formed into lozenge-shaped plu mb, the margins composedof the shamrock. The royal arms, surrounded with palm , branches, are in the centre. The chairs are of crimson damask. The Queen's Audience Chamber.—On the ceiling of this apartment, Queen Catharine, personified as Britan nia, is represented sitting in a triumphal car drawn by . swans, and attewled by Flora, Ceres, P omona , an d other goddesses. This room contains several curious cabinets and richly-ornamented sideboards. The Queen's Presence Chamber.—The walls of this room are decorated with four large and splendid speci mens of Gobelin tapestry, the subject from Queen Esther, viz., the " Banquet," The Intercession for the Jews," " Mordecai's Obstinacy," and " Haman's Downfal." The hangings and furniture of this room are of crimson damask silk. This list includes the whole of the state apartments which will be used by the distinguished guests of her Majesty. The two regiments whose attendance was counter manded, in consequence of the anticipated review having been postponed, as stated yesterday, were the 13th light dragoons and the 11th (or Prince. Albert's) hussars. The rocket brigade, under the command of Major T. F. Strangways (who was in charge of that brigade at the battle of Leipsic on the 16th, 18th, and 19th of October, 1813, and who, for his eminent services, had conferred upon him the Swedish order of the Sword), will accompany the horse artillery from Woolwich. The rocket brigade and.artillery are to form part of the arma ment at Windsor which will be here during the visit of the King of Prussia to her Majesty. They will be quar tered at Staines, Colnbrook, and their environs. The display of these rockets will take place before the King of Prussia and her Majesty's illustrious visitors in the Great Park. It has not yet been determined upon what day the presentation of colours to the 72d Highlanders will take place. The day will not be known until after the arrival of the King of Prussia. at present sent. A moderate fixed duty on their I flour, by opening a safe, market for a portion of their surplus produce, would supply them with the means of obtaining this increase—would give employment to the artisan now unemployed and dependent on the rates or on charity, and furnish him with the means of purchasing that food which now he must either beg or steal : while the merchant, the manufacturer, the artisan, and the rate-payer, would thus be benefited. I know no class amongst us that could be injured. As a rate-payer, the farmer would derive a large share of the benefits, nor need he be alarmed at its effect on prices; as long as the English farmer canna supply his countrymen with a suf ficient quantity of food s it must be obtained elsewhere, or the people must starve; and surely it is as much the in terest of the farmer as any one else, that this supply should come from a nation who will give it in exchange for the labour of our artisans, rather than from those parts of the world whose rival manufactures are doing mach to throw them out of employment. The interests of the landowner being identical with those of the farmer, he would, of course, be benefited by the same policy. The ex pense of bringing flour from America is in itself a great protection to the English farmer. The expense on the flour above referred to was 38 per cent. on the selling price, but as an unusually high freight was paid in this instance it would not be a fair criterion, neither have I any data whereby to judge accurately of the average expense of bringing American flour here, but I do not think it can podsibly be less than 20 per cent., probably 25 per cent. would be near the mark, or it may reach 30 per cent. I find that the expense of importing wheat from America, is estimated in ' Mr. M'Culloch's Dictionary of Com merce,' page 435, at about 37 per cent. on the cost. The average price in New York being one dollar and twelve cents the bushel, it would cost the importer in London 495. 90. per quarter free from duty. I would observe that in the session of Congress which has just com menced, the question of duties on our manufactures necessarily comes before them, as the law imposing the present rates expires on the Ist of June, 1842; and there can be no doubt that the future rate would be in a great measure regulated by the course our Government may pursue in reference to the Corn-laws." In corroboration of these views, Mr. Cripps read extracts from the New York Weekly Herald of the 18th December, as follow: " The western banks in the interest of the millers and flour speculators have been obliged to curtail their circu • lation very rapidly, to sustain themselves against the re turn of drafts from this city, caused by the fall in flour. The millers and their organs resorted to the most despe rate expedients to force up the price of flour, in order to save themselves and the banks, but they havel thus far been ineffectual. The supply of produce in all the Atlan tic cities has been far greater than the demand, notwith standing the ridiculous twaddle about ' the banks not being able to assist the forwarding of produce to market.' The fact is the contrary. The banks of Western New York have endeavoured to prevent flour from coming to market, in order to keep up the price to protect the paper they have discounted for the speculators. They have discounted no business paper, the wants of flour specula tors absorb all their means, and but a, short time must elapse before a general explosion. The last arrival has caused a further fall in the price of flour. * * * " This country is an agricultural one, and must for years continue as such. That is, its agricultural pro ducts are greater than can be consumed by its own in habitants. Of course the surplus must be destroyed or exported. If they are exported payment must be re ceived in the peculiar products of the country which pur chases them. If France buy 100,000 barrels of flour per annum, silks and wines must be taken in exchange. England and colonies took last year 1,000,000 barrels of flour, valued at 6,000,000 dollars. Payment was re ceived in British manufactures at less prices than those fabrics could be made for in this country, with the addi tion of 30 per cent. duty. If these fabrics had been excluded by high duties, not only would the farmers here have had to pay double price for what they bought, but their means of buying would have been diminished, by 6,000,000 dollars. This purchase of flour for goods is actually made a cause of complaint by the high tariff men, who seek to exclude, by high duties, the medium of payment for our produce. In the same proportion they seek to deprive the great agricultural interests of their markets. * " The same principles are spreading rapidly through out the United States. The Governor of Indiana, in his message, admits that that State cannot pay now, but hopes that it will be able to pay hereafter. This is undoubtedly tile - truth. The people are small farmers, and never can spare thirty dollars per annum in cash for each voter. The produce of these farmers is rejected from the English markets by prohi bition laws to protect the landed interests of those who are mostly holders of these stocks. " There is one way, however, in which the debts, might be paid beneficially to all parties ; that is, by taking payment in kind, at fair market prices. For in stance, the joint debts of' Indiana and Illinois are 37,000,000 dols. ; of this, 30,000,000 dols. is held abroad. The interest is about 2,000,000 dols. per annum. Now, let the holders have a meeting, and appoint one agent to receive pork, lead, corn, wheat, and flour, in payment, and obtain a dispensation from the English Government of the produce so collected. In that shape interest and principal would be paid regularly, and the profits on the transaction would yield to the land owners more than sufficient to pay the expenses of col lection and transportation. The interest of the two States would amount to 250,000 quarters of wheat, which would realise in the English markets 3,750,000 dollars, or nearly 100 per cent., which would cover the expenses, great as they necessarily would be, and yield a profit beside. " If the Federal Government really wishes the States to pay their debts, let it exert itself to extend the markets for their produce, instead of hoping that they will be able to pay.' If foreign Governments wish to ob tain payment, let them facilitate the means of getting it. Unless some change in our commercial relations takes place, not a dollar will ever be paid." Having laid before our readers a report of this inter view, they will immediately see that the most vigorous measures are necessary to induce the Government to carry out the views of the Deputation. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. TIMES.—We transcribe, in another column, from a Morning Contemporary, what it justly calls " the afflict ing intelligence" respecting the Niger Expedition, and which is considered to be the official anti-slavery account of the matter. The result of that enterprise has been sadly correspondent with what all reasonable men must have augured, and what we ourselves have alway pre dicted. Three vessels have gone about 320 miles up the Niger and Chadds, and have come down again. A mo del farm some 300 miles from the coast has been bought, stocked, and abandoned ; treaties hate been made with the two negro Princes of Eboe and Iddah for the aboli tion of the slave trade and of human sacrifices, and then they have been left to their own practices ; and this at an expense of health and life which is not indeed dis tinctly stated, but may well be divined from the account given by our Contemporary, to whose statements we will add an extract from a letter written on board the Ethiope on the 21st of October:— " We entered the Nun onlthe 10th:inst., and proceeded up the river the next morning, and fell in with the Albert on the evening of the 13th inst. at Stirling Island, about 24 miles below Eboe. We found her in a worse state than the Wilberforce ; all hands down with fever but Drs. Al' William, Stanger, a scientific gentleman, a marine, the boatswain's -mate, and a servant. Captain Trotter very weak, Captain Bird Allen (who is since dead) very low ; no engineers; Dr. Stanger was endeavouring to work the engine the best way he could. We sent our head engi neer on board, and the Albert followed the Ethiope to the coast. Capt. Becroft then went on board the Albert, and took her to Fernando Po. The people at the model, farm, including its manager, Mr. Carr, were all sick, and have been brought down by the Albert." So it would appear that, had it not been for the gene rous assistance afforded them voluntarily by the vessel of a private merchant—an assistance which the planners of the expedition had not provided, and on which they had no right to calculate—it is but too likely that we never should have seen again either the Albert or any part of its enterprising crew. Such would have been— rather such has been—the end of this unhappy affair, projected and announced with so much Exeter-hall en- 1 thusiasm, among speeches from Prince Albert, Sir Robert Peel, Lord Howick, and Sir Fowell Buxton ; letters of sympathy from Illustrious and Right Re verend personages ; promises of civilisation, and trade, and agriculture, and alliances with native c-hie&, and missionary success, and pride, and in dignation. It has ended in nothing strange or unex pected—nothing but what might have been and was foretold, if its projectors would have listened to reason —nothing but the sacrifice of the lives of our country men. We are far from wishing to cast any slur on the generous feelings of those distinguished personages who gave the support of their names to this enterprise. They had other things to think of than to examine its imprac ticable details. It had a generous object, and came to them supported by respectable names ; and so they lent it the weight of their characters ; yet still it does sug gest feelings not favourable to the slap-dash, rhetorical, showy meetings to which the people crowd to be amused, and to clap their hands, and to hear fine sentences, and to give their guineas for objects which neither they nor any of the fluent gentlemen who entertain them know anything about. Good enough amusements to them, but death to others, on whom it falls to carry out, at their own risk, and at the expense of their own proper lives, what these Societies talk of so glibly, and listen to so complacently. We confess it is with little patience that we hear smooth gentlemen, borne luxuri ously along on the easy gale of popular enthusiasm, taking full advantake of the opportunity given them to display in full dress their costly sensibilities, but mean while quite forgetting to enquire what is the real worth of the scheme they advocate—what the dangers to which they are are urging other less ornamental, butperhaps not less valuable, members of society than themselves—what prospect of advantage,what are the warnings ofexperience, what the opinion of those practical men whose opi nion is really worth having. But this is the order of the day, and must be borne, it seems, in spite of its quackery. Everybody must have a finger in everything ; and everything must appeal to and be managed by every body ; and the consequence is, that instead of sober forethought and knowledge, and calm chastised deter mination, our undertakings have to be recommended by eloquent appeals and piercing statements, and fluency and clap-traps for the ladies. Instead of a scheme quietly calculated by one or two or three sober and earnest men, prepared themselves to take part in the dangers they re commend, and unfettered by any necessity of approving it to the imaginations of an audience, we have such wild, ill-considered, showy projects as everybody can embrace at a glance, with nothing but novelty and a popular ob ject to recommend them. Is it wonderful that those who heedlessly employ their talents in supporting such schemes should find now and then, what we hope they will now realize, that they were taking shares in a most heavy responsibility, affecting the lives of their fellow creatures, while they thought of nothing more than making an impression on the fair auditory which sur rounded them ? HERALD.—The Niger Expedition is at an end. Sir Fowell Buxton has had his say; his philanthropic scheme has been fairly tried ; Government has "led and felt the way," as Lord Brougham recommended, into the in terior of Africa by its great natural highway ; 100,000/. more have been expended by the British nation on what is-termed 11 frican civilisation ; and the establishment of factories and the acquisition of land have been attempted; the result is sad and mournful disapointment. On the 20th of August last the three fine steamers, the Soudan, the Wilberforce, and the Albert, built for the pur pose, commenced the ascent of the Quorra ; ere six days had elapsed they received warning of the fate which impended over them ; death was already hovering about his victims. Before a month had closed, one vessel—the Soudan—was converted into an hospital for the sick, and compelled to descend from the regions of disease to the open sea. Two more days had not gone by until one—the Wilberforce—of the re maining ascending steamers had likewise to turn its head down the stream with a dying cargo ; thirteen days longer did the Albert persevere, but in vain ; the " belt of malaria,"—the boulevart of death is perhaps the more appropriate description—Lord Btougham's in genious suggestion—was not to be passed through ; and after forty-six days of dreadful suffering from the commencement of the ascent, the Albert' was also compelled to return, and the expedition was baffled by disease and death. The three steamers, with the surviving commanders, officers, and men—how small a minority of those who left England we do not stop to detail—are now gasping and inhaling the purer at mosphere of the Ascension Island and Clarence Cove. They will doubtless, in due course, record the melan choly detail of this last sacrifice to the schemes of dreamers,—to the worst, because the most injudicious, friends of Africa. The Albert, under Captain Trotter's gallant command, ascended between 50 and 60 miles beyond the confluence of the Chadda and the Niger, and about 320 miles from the sea. The ascent to that point ; the selection of a spot for a model farm, never to be cul tivated, a little above the confluence ; the purchase of treaties with the rulers of Eboe and Iddah for the suppres sion of the slave trade, which legitimate commerce had previously driven from the Bight of Biafra and the months of the Quorra; and the abolition of human sacrifices — treaties which will be implemented, so far as the inter nal traffic is concerned, only by the pressure of personal influence ;—and a better acquaintance with the course of the Quorra and the countries through which it flows —such are the costly achievements of this ill-fated expe dition, to which continental extravagance had assigned the subjection of the African continent to British domi nion. Entirely failed the expedition has not, because its precise objects it would be difficult to state—it was, per haps, to be regarded as a pioneering attempt—though in that respect the equally disastrous enterprise of Laird and Oldfield had rendered it unnecessary. The know ledge gained will, doubtless. be a contribution, however small and infinitesimal, to the information of Europe. But that the expedition is a disappointment in the most mournful and desolating shape, cannot be denied by its promoters, and their dupe, Lord John Russell. Malaria and death have practically refuted the scheme of the African Colonisation Society. If the civilisation of Africa depend on European expeditions up the Quorra, that great continent is destined to remain In darkness, in desolation, and paganism. COMMERCIAL REFORM. On Thursday we gave an account of the interview which Mr. Cripps, and Mr. Heard, of Nottingham, and Mr. Mitchell, the High Sheriff of Leicestershire, had with Sir Robert Peel, respecting the operation of the Corn-law and Commercial Reform. The following ad ditional particulars, with the docutient which the Duke of Rutland forwarded to Sir Robert on these subjects, we extract from the Nottingham Mercury of this day : The Deputation were:received by Sir Robert with the utmost courtesy, and paid the greatest attention to their statements ; at the close he expressed a strong desire to be furnished with information and suggestions. 'Qe Deputation, in' a few brief and forcible remarks, shows that the " sliding scale," under almost any mo dification, would be unfair towards distant countries, and more especially injurious to the trade with the United States of America • and, therefore, urged upon the at tention of the Right Honourable Baronet the adoption of a moderate fixed duty, whereby the importation of grain from America might be rendered a safe operation for the merchant. The deputation proceeded to show that if such fixed duty were adopted we should furnish the Americans with the means of paying for an increased amount of British goods, and thus accomplish two im portant objects—obtain a supply of food for our opera tives, and the employment of their labour in purchasingit. Sir Robert Peel, after cautioning the members of the Deputation against drawing any other inference from such questions as he might put, than that he was desirous of obtaining every possible information on the subject, asked them whether an improved mode of taking the averages, and such a modification of the sliding scale as would lessen materially the extent and suddenness of the fluctuations, would not meet the case ? In reply, the Deputation assured the Right Hon. Baronet, that it was the almost unanimous conviction of those engaged in commerce, that a fluctuating duty was essentially mischievous ; but at the same time sug gested that if Government were determined to adhere to a fluctuating duty, its effects might to some extent be counteracted, if time tvere allowed to exporters from dis tant countries to bring their corn into the British market without being subjected to any higher rate of duty than that charged on the earlier importations from the Con tinent of Europe. Sir Robert Observed that such an arrangement might be a contravention of exi s ti ng t reat i es w ith Continental Powers, with whom, as for instance with Denmark, it had been stipulated " that no other duty should be charged on their grain than was charged on that coming froth the most favoured nation." The Deputation replied that such a stipulation was certainly a very conclusive argument in favour of a moderate fixed duty. Sir Robert gave expression to his strong desire to encourage our trade with the United States—promised to give his attention to the statements the deputation had then made, as well as to any suggestions they might hereafter think proper to make to him—and the Deputa tion then withdrew, The very important document which Mr. Cripps read to the Right Honourable Baronet, and which he sub sequently desired the Deputation to leave with him, is as follows : " The United States of America take as large a quan tity of our manufactured goods as they can pay for : if we could increase their means of payment, we could safely increase our exports to that country. At present, their shipments of cotton, tobacco, ashes, &c., do not furnish a sufficient supply of bills to meet the pay . - meats for our manufactures. The consequence is .that merchants are now remitting from thence in gold. The last' Circular to Bankers' states the amount to be about six millions of dollars within the last few weeks. This, it is to be feared, will 'alarm the specie paying banks, and induce them to contract their discounts, thereby producing a renewal of recent em barrassments, and materially checking the demand for our manufactures. If, however, in addition to their cot ton, toinlcoo, 49" e., n u outaltl s- , ec-ivAc their,ttour, the ople of the United States would be thereby upplied wi pe th the means of purchasing, and the merchant with the means of remitting for our manufacturers. The ' sliding scale' acts to a great extent as a prohibition of flour from the United States, and our best customer is thus placed on a worse footing than our manufacturing rivals on the Continent ; the latter being near at hand can bring their corn here before any material alteration can take place in the averages, but flour canno t or di nar ily be received in this country from America, in much less time than three months from the date of the order. To show . the unfortunate operation a the sliding scale,' I will adveit to my own experience, only premising that it operates prejudicially to the American merchant in a twofold manner; first, by the uncertainty in which he is held as to the amount of duty he is to pay, and, secondly, to the certainty that if he has to pay a high rate of duty, it will be because he must submit to a low price for his flour ; his gains or losses may by this means be increased twenty-fold, and then that which is in itself one of the most legitimate operations in which a merchant can en gage, is rendered a hazard fit only for the desperate spe culator or gambler. Between the 18th of April and 15th. of May, last year, Messrs. Brow n , Shipley, and Co., sold for my account 6,624 barrels of flour, received from the United States; duty was Pala on 1,949 barrels, amounting to 8011. 3s. sd. ; the remainder was sold in bond, but at the same rate it would have amounted to 2,720/. Had a speculator been the owner of this flour, he would probably have held it till the end of August or beginning of September, when the duty would have been only 5201. ; he thus has a great advantage over the mer chant, who, having received the flour as a remittance to e provide for his coming payments, can not h o ld i t f or t h e favourable turn in the market, by which the speculator frequently obtains a much higher price, and consequently pays a much lower duty. "The duty, then, in May on the abo ve l o t o f fl our was 2,720/. ; in the first week in September it would have been 5204 ; in the first week in October, 4,1121. Bs. ; in the first week in December, 5,1331. 12s. ; so that if I' had given orders in June for a similar quantity, in the expectation that it would arrive earl y in September, and I had accordingly received it at that time, the duty would have been only 5201., but if from head winds or any other cause the arrival of the ship had been delayed till October, the duty would have been 4,1121. Bs. I need not say that, with my past expe r i ence , I d are not attempt to bring flour from America, subject to the ope artion of a sliding scale.' But if we cannot increase our imports from thence, it is folly to look for an increase of our experts, or for a profitable return on the amount STATE OF TRADE. LEEDS, JAN. 21.—A slight improvement has been observable in the Foreign Wool Trade this week, and the prospects for the future are rather more favourable. The new year has not yet brought any increased activity in the sales of English Wool. Prices remain stationary. We are still without any inprovement in the demand for goods at our Cloth-halls this week, the quantity sold being quite as small as for the last few weeks past, and prices continue to be unremunerating. In the ware houses business continues equally dull ; very few buyers having been in the market since the commencement of the year. MANCHESTER, JAN. 20. —Our Cloth Market is again nearly as dull as ever it has been known, and the excep tions are so few, and the variation in value so very small, that it can hardly be said of the manufacturers generally, that their condition is the least improved. Many are buoying themselves up with the hope that the opening of the new Parliament will give an impetus to the dull ness that exists, whilst the more sober part think that there is nothing but a war of competition to be waged with our foreign rivals, and that things, if they perma nently improve at all, will do so but very slowly. Yarns are also dull sale, and quantitiescannot be sold even at old rates.—Leeds Mercury. HOP INTELLIGENCE. WORCESTER, JAN. 21.—We have scarcely any new Hops offering for sale in our 'market, the planters having sold their growths early in the season. The few parcels left on hand command firm prices, and choice samples are scarce to be met with. We have had more demand for Old Hops since ChriStmas. BOROUGH, JAN. 20.—We have had more business doing than is usual at this season of the year, and higher rates are expected as the Spring demand comes on. SUPPOSED CASE OF BURNING A CHILD TO DEATH. Yesterday an investigation was commenced before W. Carter, Esq., at the Ship Tavern, Walcot-place, Lam beth, respecting the death of an infant, Ann Christmas Crowne, aged 16 months, the daughter of one of the chief clerks in Somerset House. Mr. Charles Crowne, the father of the child, was examined. He stated that, on the 24th of December, he left home as usual at ten o'clock. The deceased child was left in the care of Juliana Easter, his servant, Mrs. Crowne having to meet him at Bloomsbury, which she did. in Museum-street, at four o'clock. Upon their re turn home he found the child in the girl's arms, but it had evidently cried very much. The child was trembling in a dreadful manner. His wife took the child from the girl, and tried to pacify her, but she could not succeed, and he took her in his arms, the child still trembling violently. He endeavoured to quiet her but could not. He was induced to examine the back part of the child and found it covered with large blisters. The CORONER—Did you ask the girl what she had done to the child ?—I did, of course, but she said she bad done nothing. Was medical aid called in ?—Yes. Mt Scott attended first, and afterwards Mr. Howitt, of Apollo-buildings, Walworth, who attended her until she died on Monday. And what do you suppose was the cause of the poor child's death ?—She has been burnt or scalded ; Ido not know which. Mr. Scott, surgeon, stated that he found extensive wounds on the child, but whether caused by burning or scalding he could not tell. Mr. Howitt was afterwards called in, and to his care the case was left. The CORONER asked if Mr. Howitt was in attendance, and being answered in the negative, stated that he could not conclude a case such as this without the evidence of Mrs. Crowne as well as Mr. Howitt. The girl was then asked what explanation she had to give, but she said nothing. The CORONER—This is a very serious case,. and I must adjourn the inquiry. lam quite willing to adjourn it to any time the Jury wish. I must now direct the girl to be taken into custody by the beadle. I have no desire that she be given in charge of the police ; she can be taken to the workhouse, but on the adjournment day she must be here, and the beadle must be answerable. The inquiry was then formally adjourned, and the girl was placed in custody. "At Algiers, on the 2d instant," says the Constitutionnel, " ice and snow were seen in the streets. The thermometer was at two degrees of Reaumur below zero, or nearly 28 degrees Fahrenheit. The oldest inha bitants do not remember such a cold season." FOOT RACE.—A foot race of 400 yards. for 50/. aside, came off on the Ist inst., on Pity-me-flats, half way between Durham and Chester-le-Street, be tween John Atkinson, of Durham, and John Cooper, of Chester-le-Street, and from the known celebrity of the men, the betting was spirited, and about four thousand persons were present. All preliminaries being settled, the nimble footed ones appeared at the scratch, and on stripping the symmetry and muscular powers of Atkinson called forth general admiration ; the betting had pre viously been 6 to 4, but now rose to 2 to 1 in his favour. After three false starts, away they went at a great pace, Atkinson with the lead, which he increased at every stride, and at the end of 400 yards, he was full 20 yards in advance, Cooper struggling to regain his lost ground, but Atkinson came in an easy winner by at least 15 yards.—York Courant. On Thursday an inquest wet held before Mr. Carter, at the Marquis of Granby, Red-hill, on view of the body of Mr. John Jupp, aged 52 years. It appears from the evidence that the deceased was for many years officer to the Sheriff for Surrey, and until within a few weeks since the landlord of the Great Crown Inn, Rei gate. On Sunday afternoon last, the unfortunate man ran down the embankment on the London and Brighton Railway, at Red-hill, directly in front of the five o'clock up-train, and was in an instant killed. Various rumours are given for the commission of the rash act, but pecu niary embarrassment is supposed to be the cause of it. The Jury returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity." On Tuesday last, as the Rev. Henry Sweeting, only son of Henry Sweeting, Esq., solicitor, of Hunting don, was shooting in Godmanchester, in passing through a hedge his gun went off, and the charge passed through his left wrist. It was found necessary to amputate below the elbow, from which operation Mr. Sweeting we hear, is likely to du well.—Stamford Mercury. On. Wednesday morning a fine female infant, about eight weeks old, was found in a pledging box in the shop of Mr. Sharp, pawnbroker, Broadway, Deptford. In the bosom of the child was a letter stating that the mother was a native of Gravesend, only 16 years of age, and that the father was a pawnbroker of Deptford. It likewise intimated that the mother would return for the child if the father refused to support it. LONGEVITY.—A few days since a respectable farmer, named Cummins, residing within a few miles of Carlow, died at the advanced age of 111 years. His re mains were attended to the grave by a numerous pos terity, amongst whom was a cousin of the deceased, who has attained the equally patriarchal age of 102.—Carlow Paper. At the Bankruptcy Court yesterday, Messrs. Axman and Christ, formerly wine-merchants in Mark lane, and Mr. Robert Kendall, draper, at Newton Abbott, Devonshire, underwent their final examinations, and were discharged. The Abbe thasset, who died lately at Bagneres, aged 97, has left a perpetual rent of 600 f., to be divided annually between the three persons whom a jury, com posed of the Bishop, the Prefect, and the Mayors of Tarbes and Bagneres, shall declare to have performed the most meritorious actions. EVENING SUN THE NIGER EXPEDITION. The public mind has been already prepared for the afflicting intelligence respecting the Niger Expedition, which it i s t h e o bj ect o f t hi s art i cle to communicate. It is, therefore, only necessary that we should preface the narrative with the assurance that the facts about to be stated may be entirely relied on, having been drawnfrom letters and other documents of unquestionable authority. On the 20th of August the vessels of the expedition commenced the ascent of the river, having passed safely over the bar six days previously. This Clelay was oc casioned by the necessity they were under of repairing what is technically termed " the tails " of their rudders, which had been damaged during their passage from Accra to the mouth of the stream. On the 26th they anchored opposite to Eboe, a place situated at the upper angle of the Delta, and distant 120 miles from the sea. Thus far no case of sickness had occurred amongst the Europeans which did not immediately yield to medical treatment. The weather was remarkably favourable, the thermometer ranging from 74 degrees to 84 degrees, with a clear sky and occasional refreshing showers. After receiving a visit from Obi, the King of Eboe, on which occasion a treaty was concluded with him for the total abolition of the slave trade and human sacri fices, the expedition proceeded on its course, arriving at Iddah, 100 miles higher up, on the 2d of September. Here for the first time the African fever broke out amongst the crew with violence, commencing on board the Albert, and rapidly spreading to the Wilberforce and the Soudan. Captain Trotter, however, considered it his duty still to persevere. In this resolve it is some comfort to know that the other officers of the squadron fully concurred. Accordingiy, after the ratification of a treaty similar to the one already described, with the Attah (King) of Iddah, and the purchase from him of a piece of land, to be chosen higher up the stream, for the establishment of a model farm (the selection of which was left to the Commissioners, the three com manders, and Mr. Cook) the vessels ascended to the con fluence of the Niger and the Chadds., 270 miles above the sea. This they reached on the 11th September. A tract of land having been fixed on, not far from this point, for the farm, and having been duly made over by accredited agents of the Attah, the stores were landed, and the persons originally appointed to the office left in charge of them. In the meantime disease continued its afflict ing ravages. To such an extent, indeed, did it spread, that on the 19th it was resolved to put the sick, now amounting to 46, on board the Soudan, and to dispatch her to the sea. Lieut. Fishbourne, of the Albert, was placed in charge of her, while her commander, Capt. B. Allen, removed on board the Albert. With regard to the Soudan we need only further remark that at the mouth of the river she happily fell in with her Majesty's steamer Dolphin, to which the sufferers were trans ferred, and which proceeded with them direct to the island of Ascension, while the Soudan continued her course to Fernando Po. Meanwhile it was deter mined by the commanders of the vessels still up the river to prosecute their voyage, the Wilberforce as cending the Chadda, and the Albert the Niger. The particulars thus far recounted have, by scraps, been for the most part before the public for the last three weeks. It seems necessary, however, briefly to recapitulate them, in order to a perfect understanding of the re mainder of this sad narrative. By sunset on the evening of the 19th (the day on which the Soudan sailed from the confluence) several entirely new cases of fever had broken out on board the Wilberforce ; the history of which vessel, now about to be separated from her consort, we shall take up first. Amongst these were her com mander, Captain William Allen, her master and purser; also the botanist and the mineralogist attached to the expedition. To ascend the Chadda under these circum stances would, of course, have been madness; to stay at the confluence but little less. No alternative remained except that of turning the vessel's head down the stream and following in the track of the Soudan. Accordingly immediate preparations were made for carrying into effect this new change of plan, and on the morning of the 21st the Wilberforce began her downward voyage, having previously taken on board sundry fresh patients from the Albert. Owing to various stoppages occasioned by the necessity of pro curing supplies of wood, a duty of peculiar difficulty in the weak-handed condition of the vessel, she did not reach the open sea until the 29th. On the morning of October the 2d, however, by the blessing of Almighty God, she anchored safely in the port of Clarence, Fernando Po. During her passage to the mouth of the river she lost her purser, Mr. Wakehain, and after her arrival at Clarence, Mr, Harvey, the master of the Albert, and Mr. Coltman, assistant-surgeon of the Soudan. Here it affords us the greatest pleasure to record an instance of that noble generosity which we trust and believe marks the character of the British merchant and the British sailor. Mr.'Jamieson, of Liverpool, the owner of several vessels tradiiig on the western coast of Africa, had sent out instructions to the ship-masters in his employ to ren der all the assistance in their power to the officers and crews of the Niger expedition. Accordingly, on the 6th of October, the Ethiope steamer, one of the vessels alluded to, made her appearance at Fernando Po, and her commander, Mr. Becroft, at the solicitation of Cap tain William Allen, instantly turned his vessel's head towards the Niger, with an intent to ascend in search of the Albert, and render her any assistance she might appear to require. On the 9th the Wilberforce again weighed anchor and set sail for Ascension, where she arrived after a tedious passage of more than five weeks, on the 17th of Novem ber. During the former part of this passage she was accompanied by her Majesty's steamer Pluto, which, in various ways, rendered her effective assistance. The last accounts received from the Wilberforce convey the gra tifying intelli g ence that the fever appeared to have been almost subdued, for that no serious case of illness re mained on board. We now return to the Albert, which we left on the eve of her departure from the confluence to ascend the Niger. This, as we have already said, was on the 21st of September. On the 28th she arrived at Egga, situ ated between 50 and 60 miles above the junction of the Chadda and 320 from the sea. During this short passage she lost two of her seamen, whilst several others were taken ill; nor did the officers escape—Capt. Bird Allen was attacked within four hours after the departure of the Wilberforce, and Capt. Trotter himself whilst the ves sel lay at Egga. At this place the Krooznen were em ployed in takin4 , a large quantity of firewood. This ne cessary duty, of course, occupied considerable time. As soon as it was completed Captain Trotter, who now saw clearly the necessity of abandoning the enterprise, and whose judgment was confirmed by that of the surgeon, Dr. ll'-William, gave the necessary orders for returning down the river. On the 4th of October, therefore, the steam was once more got up, and the Albert followed her consorts to the sea. Her condition at this period may be judged of by the fact that she had but a single officer and two or three European seamen capable of performing their duty. The confluence was passed upon the 9th, and immediately afterwards the model farm, where, finding the Europeans all ill of the fever, Captain Trotter took them on board, and continued to pursue his melancholy voyage. On the 12th the vessel anchored off Eboe, and was sup plied by King Obi with a quantity of wood, which he had previously got ready for her, and which with great kindness, he put on board with the least possible delay. Here Mr. Itingdon, the clerk of the Soudan, died. He had remained ashore at the farm during the Albert's absence at Egga, and was dangerously ill at the period of his re-embarkation. Thus far the Albert had made , her way in safety, through the merciful Providence of God; but her poor suffering imnates could not forget the dangerous bar which was still to be passed before they could leave the region of pestilence and death behind them. Happily, their anxieties on this head were destined to a speedy termination, for in the afternoon of the 13th their eyes were gladdened with the sight of the Ethiope's smoke as she steamed rapidly up the water of the Delta. Capt. Becroft at once put his first engineer on board the unfortunate Albert, and by incessant exertions both vessels crossed the bar soon after sunrise on the 16th, and cast anchor in Clarence Cove late in the even ing of the following day. Next morning 28 patients were taken ashore, and kindly received into various private houses. Amongst the sufferers were Captains Trotter and Bird Allen— the former happily convalescent, the latter, alas, fast sinking into the grave. On the 25th, at half-past nine, A.M., his brave and gentle spirit exchanged a world of sorrow for one of unmixed and unchanging soy. Of the condition of the remaining patients our accounts are too general to enable us to spea k with anything like cer tainty ; as the Lady Combernrre , which sailed from Clarence on the 26th, and by which we have received the accounts communicated above, left but nine days after the return of the Albert from the Niger, it could not of course be expected that she should bring intelligence of so sa tisfactory a kind as we may hope, and, we would fain trust, look for by the next arrivals. Such is the melancholy story which it has become our duty to set before the public. DIED.—On the 20th instant, at Dale Park, near Arundel, Sussex, John Smith, Esq., in the 75th year of his age. COACH ACCIDENT.—(From a Correspondent.) —An accident occurred to the Norwich Magnet, be tween twelve and one o'clock on Wednesday morning, which, but for great caution on the part of Bonnet, the coachman, might have led to serious results. The fog being thick he had been driving very gently, and per ceiving a malt-waggon approach when near Bourn bridge, lie pulled off as near the proper side of the road as possible; the waggoner, however, is supposed to have been asleep (a very common thing with these gentry), and his horses proceeded unchecked—the wheel of the wag gon caught the hind wheels of the coach, forced it back several yards, and overturned it. Bonnet and the guard were very severely bruised, and one of the coach horses s.) much injured that it has since been killed ; the pas sengers escaped with slight bruises. Not the slightest blame is attached to the coachman, who is one of the steadiest and most experienced drivers on the line. It is the intention of the proprietors to prosecute the waggoner. As a young man was returning home to his apartment in the Faubourg du Roule, between eleven and twelve o'clock two nights ago, he observed that he was followed by two suspicious looking men, and was upon his guard ; but was surprised on reaching the Place La borde by finding hirhselt stopped by a third man of high stature and powerful frame, who made an attempt to seize him by the collar. The young man preserved his presence of mind, took out a pistol, and, levelling it clos e to the head of the assailant, declared in a firm tone that he would fire if he did not suffer him to pass. This un expected threat so alarmed the man that he fell on the pavement. The young man profited by the opportunity and ran home closely pursued for some distance by the two others behind, who had not observed the discomfi ture of their confederate. LONDON SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF YOUNG FEMALES.—The Court of Directors of the Honourable East India Company have just presented to this . Society a donation of twenty pounds.---01fice, 9, Throgmorton-street. 1 i