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EVENING SUN THE NEW ROMANCE. HENRY DE POMEROY. By MRS. BRAY. Author of " Wbitehoods," " Trelawney," &c. in 3 vols. post Bro, IS NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES. Richard Bentley, New Burlington -street. GEORGE CRUIKSHANK'S OMNIBUS. Subscribers to this Publication are informed that AINSWORTH'S MAGAZINE, in addition to vast resources of its own ) has the ad van t age o f a T ransfer by Mr. GEORGE CRUIKSHANK of all the most attractive features, Serious and Comic, which distinguished his own Work while published in a monthly form. Hugh Cunningham, St. Martin's-place, Trafalgar-square. GRATIS WITH THE " WEEKLY CHRONICLE" OF SATURDAY and SUNDAY the 29th and 30th JAN., ASPLENDID SERIES of ENGRAV INGS, illustrative of the ROYAL CHRISTENING and its attendant Ceremonies. The Series will contain— The Baptismal Procession The Arms of the Sovereign The Ceremony at the Font The Arms of the Prince . The Royal Banquet The Arms of the Knights of St. The Interior of St. George's George, both British and Fo- Chapel reign, The Interior of St. George's Hall And a Splendid Historical Subject, allegorically treated. The whole forming a Magnificent Tableau of nearly 40 Subjects, drawn and engraved by the first Artists of the day. The same Paper also will contain the fullest prrticulars of this in teresting National Event. Sold by all Newsmen in Town and Country. Office, 337, Strand. Price Fivepence TIEI ENGLISH CHARTIST CIR CULAR, No. LII., will be published on SATURDAY NEXT, Jan. 29. PART V., price Sixpence, now ready, contains:— Memoirs of Lord Edward Fitzgerald—Practical Men—Ad dress of the Polish People to the People of England—The Masons' Strike—Sketches of Arnold, the Traitor, and Major Andre—Several Addresses by the Executive of the National Charter Association—The Census and Registration—Life of General Washington—Several Original Articles by Dr. P. M. M'Donell, T. B. Smith, " Pro-Chartist," and others—Poetry —Facts for Engineers, &c. Remember, Sixty closely-printed Columns, being Forty Pages of well-printed matter for Sixpence ! " Conducted with shrewdness and energy."—Spectator. " Thousands have hailed this publication with delight."— Weekly Dispatch. " We recommend this work with delight."—Northern Star. London. Cleave, Shoe-lane, Fleet-street; Heywood, Man chester ; Guest, Birmingham ; and all Booksellers in Town and Country. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, JAN. 26, Will be performed the Tragedy of THE GAMESTER.— Beverley, Mr. Macready ; Lewson, Mr. Anderson ; Jervis, Mr. Elton ; Bates, Mr. G. Bennett ; Stukeley, Mr. Phelps ; Mrs. Beverley, Mrs. Warner; Charlotte, Miss Ellis. After which will be repeated the New Christmas Pantomime, called HARLEQUIN AND DUKE HUMPHREY'S DIN NER ; OR, JACK CADE, THE LORD OF LONDON STONE. Doors 14 be opened at Half. past Six, and the Performance to begin : t Seven o'clock. Boxes 55., Second Price, 2s. 6d. Pit 35., Second Price 2d. Lower Gallery Is. 6d., Second Price is. Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS _ _ _ THIS EVENING, JAN. 26, Will be repeated Mrs. Inchbald's Comedy of WIVES AS THEY WERE AND MAIDS AS THEY ARE.—Lord Priory, Mr. W. Farren ; Sir William Dorillon, Mr. Cooper ; Sir George Evelyn, Mr. G. Vand en h o ff ; M r . Bronzely, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Miss Dorrillon, Mrs. Nisbett ; Lady Mary Raffle, Mrs. Glover ; Lady Priory, Miss Faucit. After which will be repeated - the New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled GUY EARL OF WARWICK ; OR, HARLEQUIN AND THE DUN COW. Doors .to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. 25.; Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167. New Bond-street. To-morrow, Norma, with the New Pantomime. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Amazing attraction. First appearanWYKirs. Norma, and crowded Houses to witness Harlequin and the Ice Queen, the best Pantomime of the Season. THIS EVENING, JAN. 26, Will be acted Haines' wonderfully successful Drama, enti tle4l ELIZABETH LAZARUS, THE JEWESS, founded oe Ceil!ain Glasscock's " Land Sharks and Sea Gulls." After which, MRS. ORNI A, with Bellini's Music. To conclude with a Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE ICE QUEEN; OR, JACK FROST AND KING SHAM.—With gorgeous and charac teristic Scenery, splendid Properties, ludicrous and Quaint Dresses, ingenious Tricks, magnificent Panorama by Brun ning, &c. Hallequin, M. Huline ; Patch, M. Rochet ; Pan taloon, M. Lehman; Flip, Signor Feliz Carlo; Clown, Mr. Buckingham ; Columbine, Miss Sharpe. Private and Public Boxes can be had of Messrs. Sams, Ebers, Mitchell, Andrews, and Seguin, during the run of this popu lar Pantomime. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. Splendid success of Domestic Drama, for which this Theatre stands ucrivalled and alone. THIS EVENING, JAN. 26, Will be performed, a New Domestic Drama, in Three Acts, entitled THE STORY OF GERALDINE ;. OR, THE TWIN ORPHANS OF ST. PRE.—Henri, Mr. E. F. Sa ville ; Huntingdon, Mr. Dale ; Claud, Mr. Seaman ; Jemmy Cottle, Mr. Gardner ; Davy, Mr. Paul; Geraldine, Miss Vin cent, the acknowledged Heroine of Domestic Drama. After which, THE WILD IRISH GlRL.—Shelah o'lllay, Miss Vincent, in which she will dsnce her celebrated Donny brook Rant, and sing several humourous chaunts, and a new Alsailey Epilogue. To conclude with the Grand Romantic Aerial Comic Pan tomime, entitled HARLEQUIN PETER WILKINS ;. OR, THE KING OF THE AIR AND THE FLYING IN DIANS.—With new and extensive Scenery, Dresses, Decora tions, Tricks, Transformations, and Effects—A new Nautical Panorama, to be entitled " Our Native Sea-girt Isle !" con sisting of Maritime Views along the Coast of England. Also, a new Grand Dissolving Diorama, by Childe, the Great Illu sionist ; and the Opening of the Pantomime supported by the Comic Talent of this—the Popular Theatre of London. Boxes, 2s.—Pit, ls.— Gallery, 6d.—Half-price to the Boxes only, at Half-past Eight. COSMORAMA ROOMS (ROOM 7), 209, REGENT. STREET. THE IVORY MODEL OF THE TAGE. 111UHAL, or Crown of Edifices, at AGRA, in the East Indies. " There is at present an Exhibition at 209, Regent-street, as elaborate a Model as was ever perhaps presented to pub lic view. It is a copy , in 'ivory , of the celebrated Tags ,Muhal, one of the most remarkable edifices in modern Agra, erected in 1650 by Khaa Shah Jehan, the fifth Great Mogul, as the cemetery of his favourite wife, Sultana Mehd This mausoleum is built entirely of white marble, and some .dea may be formed of its splendour, when it is stated to have cost in its erection 60 lacs of rupees, or 756,0001 The Model occupies a space of nine square feet, and its height is six feet. It is the work of Indian artists, and while in point of extent it is unmatchable, it is also one of the finest specimens of that minuteness of detail and delicate manipulation for which Indian ivory working is so noted. The amount of labour bestowed on this model must have been immense. It is not 'the hasty pro duct of a day,' but the result of many years' patient applica tion. All the multitudinous carvings and inlayings of the ori ginal building are expressed in the copy with every appearance of 'exactness ; nor is the resemblance limited to the outside alone : the interior is also finished in the same minute style, and contains the tombs of the Shah and his Consort, exqui sitely and elaborately worked. On the whole, this model pre sents a surprising and beautiful effect, and forms one of the most interestin g exhibitions in the metropolis. "—Morn. Chron. Open from Ten to Six o'clock. Admission, ls. Book, 6d. THE RAILWAY S UN IS NOW RE-PUBLISHING, PRICE SIXPENCE. THE CHINA SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Jan. 26, 1842. TILE WEATHER.—Noon, JANUARY 26. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 40 ) Highest 4O) Lowest 26 Barometer 29.x5.77.-.Wilid S.ll, 1- .--...Freezing Point 22 Deg. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW Morning...—. 4 minutes after 2 I Evening 27 minute s a ft er 2. The Publication of the Evening Edition of TRE Stitt com menced at 15 minutes after Three. caution be observed, with infinitely more safety than in former times. The events of yesterday placed these facts in a striking light, for among the vast crowd that flocked by railway to wit ness The ceremony, we believe not one accident occurred. The ceremony altogether passed off most auspiciously, and we trust this circumstance will be an omen of good to the Illustrious Infant—the Heir Apparent to the Throne— and to the country which, under the bless ing of PROVIDENCE, he is destined to govern. It was gratifying, considering the distress which prevails, to see the affection evinced by the people to the reigning family. Everywhere marks of respect were exhibited in the metropo lis, and all accounts from the provinces agree in announcing the same loyal demonstrations throughout the United Kingdom. There is but one cause of regret. The name given to the Prince of WA LES is, we may say, universally objectionable. All expected that he would have been christened by the name of his grandfather, rendered so illustrious in English annals by the deeds of the EDWARDS, and the public will not be satisfied till assurance is given that when he mounts the throne he shall have the title of EDWARD VII. The Christening of the Prince of WALES, henceforth ALBERT EDWARD, is a national event. It will be recorded in all our books, and be the theme of comment hereafter. It is an epoch in the life of one of those beings whose biography is the history of nations. Accordingly, it has for some days excited, and will, for some time to come, excite the interest of the public. If the ceremony were merely to give a name to a child, it might be appropriately inscribed in the parish register, and, for dignity's sake, he might have a page to himself. It is much more than this. Christian names were, we believe, first given to converted Heathens; they were the marks of the admission of barbarians into a more civilized and advanced community; and their sponsors, like the witnesses with which our remote ancestors were wont to be prepared to repel accusations, were those who pledged themselves for the continuance of the Pagan in Christianity. But whether such be its origin or not, it is appropriately described at present as the admis sion of a child, or a Heathen, into the community of Christians. The great importance of yester day's ceremony to the people springs from the fact that the young Prince is by it enrolled un- der the banners of CHRIST, and is to be guided in all his actions towards the people by Christian morality. Christianity has accompanied civilisation in its progress, and is endeared to mankind as the sign of humanity and to make the Prince of WALES a Christian is to vow for him a life of mercy, love, and justice. Under such an aspect we certainly could have wished that the ceremony had been performed by other agents than the clergy of the State Church. If they are the successors of the Apostles, their lives are totally at variance with the moral precepts of the Gospel. The Standard has lately informed the world that no faith can be placed in two-thirds of them. Oxford nio- rality is, in fact, a bye-word. A more selfish, idly set of men—a set of men more un- Christian in their greediness, more intent on preserving power and dominion, to the injury of the community, more opposed to its moral im provement, does not exist ; and after-ages may regret that the Prince had not been introduced into the Christian community under more fa vourable auspices. The clergy of the State Church, we cannot forget, make it the first duty of the Prince to preserve their power and property, and use Christianity for their own aggrandisement. It would seem as if they lay hands on him to make him the instrument of priestcraft. Unfortu nately for the community, his christening makes him a sectarian, and separates the infant, who, till now, was united to the whole family of the nation,: from the majority of the people. When he comes to the Throne he will reign over Christians of many denominations, and the clergy will try, henceforward, to make him exclusively the member of one sect, to narrow his heart and fill it with jealousy of those who do not profess his limited creed. We are not, at the same time, aware of any means, according to custom and precedent, by which all the denominations of Christians in the empire could have been made participators in the ceremony. The invention of those means is 1 the business of sagacious and far-seeing states men. If they are always to follow routine, of what use are those high and commanding facul ties with which they are said to be endowed? Any well•dressed mutes, to walk in procession, I would answer that end as well as men of great talents. Statesmen are to make precedents suit able to the wants of the age. The Sovereigns of England ought no longer to be sectarians, and their Ministers should devise means for making all the ceremonies of State conform to the new character which the Monarchs have been com pelled to assume since 1829. Some Tory writers, in their zeal to uphold the Corn-laws, object to the exertions which are continually made to lessen the cost of producing commodities. They overflow with tirades against cheapness. They are desirous of keeping at the highest the trouble and difficulty of clothing and feeding the people. They may be right in this view, but they are opposed to the wishes anti exertions of mankind in all ages. At every period and in every country, men have desired to be fed and clothed by the least trouble, and to that end have thought, devised, planned, and executed. They have even com mitted many crimes to attain their object. The whole detestable scheme of slavery grew from the wish of some men to be supplied with the necessaries of life with the least possible labour. The substitution of agriculture—and the con tinual improvements made in that noble art—for hunting; the premiums given for new __ • discoveries and inventions, which produce more by less labour; and the modern employment and extension of powerful machinery—itself the result of a wish to abridge labour, are all speci mens of the general desire and general exertions to lessen the cost of production. If such a wide induction, though we have stated comparatively few instances, does not prove that the Tory writers alluded to are writing and wrangling for a despicable party purpose, against a law of nature, as exemplified by the continual opera tions of the mind in all stages of society, then is the use of the words " Law of Nature" alto gether, erroneous, and no such law can exist. In obedience, however, as we say, to this law of nature, and certainly in conformity to the general disposition and general struggles of man kind, the machine-makers and manufac turers, the inventors, discoverers, and pro jectors with whom our country abounds, since the first happy application of steam-power to lighten human toil, have exerted themselves most assiduously and most successfully to devise and bring into use machines for abridging labour in manufacturing clothing, instruments, and utensils, necessary or useful to man. They have succeeded so well that they have stimu lated all the other nations of the world to imitate them ; who, thereby confirming our general position, practically rendered a profound homage to that pursuit which the ignorant and factious Tories describe as pernicious. We do not say that, in the eagerness to get money, schemes have not been tried, and projects urged, which are valueless ; we do not say that no man has' been too eager to promote his own interest at the expense of others; but we affirm, on the whole, that this striving and struggling to lessen the cost of production, by extending the use of ma chinery, is in accordance with a law of nature, and has been eminently honourable to our coun trymen, and beneficial to mankind at large. One necessary consequence of the continual struggle to lessen the cost of production has been a continual lowering of the price of all the goods which our manufacturers have to sell. The price of cotton twist, of caiAlo, of cutting ci te 43 1 , 4, 1 4 , ."Af4 '•6 , ' Bh 9 l 4 ""Ak $lO 'At:. Jr: , A L " • - t -," r 0.4 ' 4l. ' l6 0 ° ' • ° • • (Mt ,§utt. LONDON! WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1842. Wepublished yesterday in our First Edition, a full account, extending to, several columns, of the splendid ceremonies which took place at Wind sor on the occasion of the Christenit , of the Prince of WALES, and though our report was not sent off from Windsor till after two o'clock, The syn, containing all the particulars, was distri buted over the metropolis in less than three hours a f te r her MAJESTY and her guests had left the Chapel . We mention n o t t hi s f or the purpose o f self-praise (though The Sun was the which gave, in the First Edition, / 4 paper an 0 account of the proceedings), but chiefly t o po i nt out the facilities and advantages caused by the invention of railroads. Formerly the j ourney from Windsor to London was accomplished by the ordinary conveyances in three hours; now It is accomplished in three quarters of an hour by nontus of steam. Independent too of speed, there is almost no limit to the number of passengers that can be conveyed. Thousands now can be conveyed with nearly the same facility as tens, and, if due • • THE SUN, LONDON, instruments, &c., &c., and f unfortunately, the wages of labour, as we are continually told, have fallen from 50 to 200 per cent. within a fewyears. That this has been eminently beneficial in all cases, except the fall of wages, we have not the smallest doubt; but, whether beneficial or not, it is the con sequence of that general struggling after im provement in the means of production which we have described as a law of nature. The fall of wages, under these circumstances, is of much importance. We do 'not consider it to be the consequence of the introduction of machinery, for the effect of that is to give man kind more for less labour, and consequently to augment its rewards. It is the consequence of the mode in which, under the existing right of property, the produce of the machinery is Un equally distributed amongst capitalists and labourers. The general rule for regulating wages, since the abolition of serfdom in Europe, has been what would supply the labourer and his family with the bare necessaries of life. To use the words of Mr. RICA RDO, deduced from and representing the practice in Europe—not the laws of nature—" The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, one with another, to subsist, and to perpetuate their race without increase or diminu tion." That at times some classes of labourers have been successively and temporarily raised above that condition, has been the consequence of new discoveries and new inventions, which have given higher wages to those employed in carrying them out. For example, the demand for gas-fitters, cotton-spinners, &c., as gas and machine spinning came into use, caused high wages to be given in those trades, and propor tionally gave an impulse towards a rise in every department of business. The fall in wages, therefore, or in the price of labour, has not been caused, though latterly it has accompanied, the noble efforts continually made to lessen the cost of production. On the contrary, the meaning of that phrase is, that man, by less labour, gets more from nature ; and consequently a rise in natural wages, and a lessening of the cost of production have an identical meaning, or repre sent the same general fact. The real cause of the fall in wages as the cost of production has fallen, which, duly considered, is a very singular circumstance, is to be found in the laws of the land. Natural wages are all paid by produce, and food, being the most essential of all produce, influences and determines all the rest. Men must have food before they can buy muslin frills or orna mented books. All other produce must, in the last resort, be exchanged for some kind or other of food. Now, while all mankind have been struggling in their individual capacity—for even landlords have essayed to reduce the cost of agri- cultultural produce —our community, in its CO] porate capacity—or rather that part of it in whose hands, for our sins, is placed the scourge of legis lation—has been making and enforcing laws to keep up the cost of producing and supplying the community with food. Our manufacturers strug gle to make cotton and hardware cheap for all the world, but our statute law says that all the world in return shall not struggle to make food cheap for our cotton and hardware manufac turers. An end is thus at once put to reciprocity of exertion and exchange. The plain and pal pable consequence is, that while cotton and hard ware have become more and more abundant, and more and more cheap, the food which, in the course of nature, should be exchanged for them, to obtain which, in fact, they are manufactured,. has not become more an d more a b un d ant, and more and more cheap. The law has prohibited it by prohibiting the reciprocity of exertion. In fact, in relation to the increasing population, to which the extension of our manufactures has hitherto given employment, food, in consequence of the _ _ supply being limited and cut off by the law, has become scarcer and scarcer, and dearer and dearer. There being less and less food to be divided among an increasing number of manu facturers, their produce exchanges for less and less. They receive less food, or less money to buy it, which is the same thing, and the fall of wages is the consequence of the statute law. It interferes with the course of nature, and decrees, contrary to the struggles of mankind in all ages, that food shall not be obtained by Eng lishmen at a less and less cost of production. This is the chief, but not the sole source, of the present distress. In conformity to the law of nature, our manufacturers have striven to pro duce useful commodities at the greatest possible diminution of cost, and have been most eminently ' successful. In opposition to the law of nature our Legislators have decreed that food, the most indispensible of all commodities,shall not be pro duced and had here, in England, at the greatest possible diminution of cost. They have, as far as they could, thwarted the laws of nature ; there is, in consequence, little food for the increasing people—hence little wages and general suffering. There is, in consequence, comparatively little to exchange for the produce of our manufacturers; hence their lessened profits, decay, and great distress. The statute law against making food cheap and abundant is the curse of the community. Some most important considerations arise from this proof that our Legislature thwarts the laws of nature. The circumstance has often been pointed out, but the Legislature, from selfish and sinister motives, refuses to alter its unnatural statutes. That raises the question, whether men are to obey nature, benevolent and wise, or to obey their fellow men, selfish, tyrannical, and ignorant? It raises the question in the minds of the suffering millions, whether such a Legislature be not the opponent of civilization—which has its root in that desire for improvement' which Corn and Provision-laws counteract—whether it be not the antagonist of prosperity, the foe of peace, the promoter of strife, the enemy of human power, grandeur, and happiness ; and whether it be not the duty of men to root out and destroy such a Legislature ? Do we say, raise the question ? We imperfectly represent the fact. Already the masses have instinctively, as the adoption of the Charter evinces, come to the conclusion that such a Legislature ought to be destroyed. It seems to them a complete nuisance which they are called upon to abate, and they lack only the power, which union can any day give them, to carry their conclusions into practical effect. We learn with satisfaction that several com munications have been received by the Secre tary of the Anti-Corn-law Society, recommending the inhabitants of the metropolis to avail them selves of the opportunity offered by the opening of Parliament on Thursday week, which is to be done by her MAJESTY in person, to convey to her their opinion on the subject of the Corn laws. We think the opportunity most favour able ; her MAJESTY goes in procession purposely to see her people and be seen by them; and the voices of perhaps half a million of persons would have a more thrilling and powerful effect than a whole cart-load of memorials placed before her MAJESTY by the Secretary of State or a series of bag-wigged deputations. How often do we hear it said by the poor, "I wish I could speak to her MAJESTY, I am sure she would not suffer it." On Thursday week every poor man, aye, every poor woman and child, not only of the metropolis, but of many miles round, may have an opportunity of telling the QUEEN how she can benefit the poor. It is impossible she can know or have heard any thing of the misery suffered by the starving people of Bolton, Stockport, Leeds, Manchester, Paisley, or her heart would bleed for their deep distress, and she would command her Tory Mi nisters, on pain of her stern displeasure, and dismissal from her !councils, to find means to relieve it. Her MAJESTY, though she be young in years, is wise in council, and she is well aware that her throne cannot be safe if her people be distressed and discontented. Whenever she learns that they are so, we feel confident that the monopolists will not dare to thwart her ardent desires to see her throne based on the happiness of the people. While Colonel the Earl of CARDIGAN, his courts-martial and black bottles, are still fresh in public recollection, a case has occurr e d i n the Navy, which shows that both services are alike in the tyranny of the superiors, and the oppression of the subalterns. Mr. ELTON was a midshipman of her Majesty's ship Cambridge. While lying off Beyrout last July, a friend of his, Mr. BAGOT CREWE REID ; a gentleman of fortune, travelling in Syria, came on board the Cambridge to visit him. By an over-sight, very common after dinner, the means of conveying Mr. REID to the shore were over looked, and at an advanced period of the evening it was discovered that no boat had been sent fin• him, and he was to leave Beyrout for the interior on the following morning. In this dilemma, it happened that a Captain WILLIAMS, of the Stromboli, with whom Mr. ELTON had served, was dining on board the Cambridge, and his vessel was lying between the Cambridge and the shore. Mr. ELTON ac cordingly addressed a respectful note to Cap tain WILLIAMS, requesting him to allow his boat, after putting him on board his own ship, to con vey Mr. ELTON'S friend to Beyrout. To this note Captain WILLIAms did not deign to return an answer. Nettled at this contemptuous treatment, Mr. ELTON wrote an improper letter to Captain WILLIAMS, describing his conduct as " un courteous and ungentlemanlike," arid saying that " Captain WILLIAMS screened himself tin der his rank to offer an insult which he would not dare to do were Mr. ELTON not his junior officer." Mr. ELTON soon became sensible of his error, and on the first opportunity wrote a humble apology to Captain WILLIAMS. That did not suffice; he was, in November last, tried by a Court-martial at Malta, Rear-Admiral Sir JOHN Louis, President, and was found guilty of treat ing his superior officer with disrespect, and of provoking him to quarrel. He was sentenced to be dismissed the naval service, and on his arrival in England to be imprisoned six months in some one of her Majesty's gaols. Mr. ELTON was subsequently confined for twenty-five days on 1 board the Howe, and then sent as a prisoner to Gibraltar and England. Such are the facts of the case. They suggest one or two reflections. The offence was committed by an inferior to a superior; the Court was wholly composed of superior officers. There was, at least, suspicion of partiality. The offence was brought under a vague article of war, which means whatever superiors choose to make it mean. Hence a suspicion of injustice. The punishment is severe, unusual, and most degrading; whence we infer, either that insubordination is becoming rife, or that the CARDIGAN race is multiplying in the Navy as well as the Army. Of the individuals who composed the Court-martial we know no thing; but the system which banishes a youth from the service, and sends him to gaol for such a trifling breach of discipline, which Captain WILLIAMS might have put in his pocket, and nobody would have known that it had been com mitted—which enables malice and malignity to find their gratification by the aid of the law, is thoroughly bad. This case, and that of the Earl of CARDIGAN, show that the rules and regulations of both services must be reformed, or they will breed up nothing but hideous tyrants and de crepid slaves. The Madrid Papers received are of the 16th instant, but they bring no news of the slightest interest. The following are the only extracts:— Count Requena, lately sentenced to transportation for the part which he had taken in the revolt of October last, was embarked at Cadiz for Porto Rico on the 7th. The &nail) , of General Concha had received a letter from him, mentioning his having safely reached a foreign country, after escaping the most imminent dangers. It was said that the Duke of San Carlos, another Christino conspirator, had travelled in M. de Salvandy's carriage from Madrid to Bayonne. The Gazette announces that 766 lots of national pro perty were sold in the month of October last, for a sum of 31,920,000 reals. 'The whole of the national property disposed of since the commencement, had pro duced 1,681,644,000 reals. The whole of the Paris Journals of Monday [save reached us, together with the opening of adjourned debate in the Chamber of Deputies on that day on tile right of search question, now the all-absorbing theme of public attention. All parties in the Chamber had been for some time preparing themselves for the struggle on the question of the Treaty of the Five Powers recog nising the pre-existing right of maritime search. The Debats is the great defender of the Ministry, but, strange to say, its defence is not based on the merits of the treaty itself: On the contrary, this journal admits that the right of search is an exorbitant right, and might have been dispensed with in the first instance, viz., in 1831, when the primitive convention between France and England for the suppression of the slave -trade was entered into, at which time, says theDebats, the sympathy excited in France for our fellow-creatures, whose misfortune is to differ from us in the colour of their skin, was so intense that, in the grand work of humanity, all considerations of prudence and precaution, as regarded any real or supposed French interests, disappeared. The principle of the right of search, says the Debats, was esta blished in 1831, at which period not a voice was raised in the Chambers against the proposed means of execution. A second convention was entered into in 1833, and the right of search was on that occasion again recognised and con firmed; but every precaution was taken to conciliate the great sacrifice made in the cause of humanity with the honour and indepen ence of the French flag, and the interests of French trade. To this treaty, says our French Contem porary, M. THIERS was a party, for he was then a member of the Cabinet. The question, there fore, as far as the opposition of M. THIERS and those who vote with him systematically is con cerned, is not whether the right of search ought to have been conceded, but whether in this new treaty the precautions and stipulations which M. TRIERS regarded as all-sufficient, in 1833, are respected or departed from in 1842. The Debats shows that they are not. It says— In order to exercise the right of search, it is not suf ficient that the cruizer should have the warrant of its Government. If it be an English cruizer, it must, to have the right of searching a French ship, be pro vided with a warrant from the French Government. These warrants may be granted or refused by either of the Governments ; the number of them may be extended or restricted. Let us suppose, for example, that the English Government, from a motive of ambition or in opposition to our trade, should desire to augment the number of its cruizers, it would depend upon our Government t o c h ec k i t at once by refusing to deliver any more warrants. W e s h a ll therefore always have in our hands an easy means of fixing the number of English cruizers, and the duration of the warrants is only for one year. During the ten years that the right of search has been mutually practised by England and Fra nce , h as the number of English cruizers considerably exceeded that of French cruizers ? No ! E n gl an d h as h a d 124 cru i ze rs, and ranee 10.1. The bebats then proceeds to mention other guarantees in the treaty againsrthe abuse of the powers of the treaty, but as they are more fully stated in the report of the discussion in the Chamber, it is unnecessary to give t hem h ere. The Presse, although i t is, generally speaking, friendly to the p resen t Ministry, had expressed its disapprobation of the new treaty for the sup pression of the Slave-trade, on the ground of its recognising the right of ma ritime search , which this jo urna l su pp o sed to have been stipu lated for by the English Government, in order to confirm and perpetuate its maritime prepon derance, The Presse, however, professes to be tranquillized by the explanations which have been given on the subject. It says : Although we retain our opinion as to the principle, and could have desired that France should not, in 1831 or 1833, have made a concession which had been so long refused, we must declare in good faith that, after having attentively listened to the different speakers, we regard the nature of the concession as changed by the clauses of the late treaty as they are stated by the Minister for Foreign Affairs. The Constitutio nne l g ives an analysis of the debate, in the course of which it repeats its cen.. sure of the treaty. This journal describes the speech of M. TRIERS as one of great power, and declares that "the feeble reply of M. GUIZOT did not destroy one of his arguments." The Chain ber, adds the Constitutionnel, " was evidently under the impression of a sense of a great duty to the country, and the majority appearing doubt- WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1842, ful, an adjournment to Monday was loudly called for from the Ministerial benches." This state meat does not exactly coincide with what passed in the Chamber. M. GUIZOT having replied to M. TRIERS, and M. BERRYER having signified his intention of speaking, there was a call for an adjournment to Monday. The Debats states that the first call for adjournment was from the Left, and that there came immediately from the Mi nisterial benches a call for a division at once. This is a very different statement from that of the Constitutionnel. The Courrier Francais, al though as violent as ever in its opposition to the exercise of the right of search, and declaring that it is not convinced by anything that M. GUIZOT has said, admits that his speech was one of great ability. Of the other Opposition jour_ nals, we may briefly observe that they repeat the expressions of disapprobation which they used when the treaty was first announced. The Globe, although on most other other subjects a supporter of the Ministry, abuses. it harshly enough on this, for the Globe is the organ of the West India interests, and violently opposes the attempt of what it ironically calls "pious Eng-. land," to put an end to the slavery of a portion of the human race. The Marseilles Papers state that criminal proceedings have been commenced against General Levasseur, and all the parties concerned in the late fatal duel with Com mandant Arrighi, in that place. The Reparateur of Lyons states that the notary, whose absconding has already been mentioned by us, is M. Ro 'zier. He is said to have left his affairs in great disorder, with a large defalcation. The Minister of the Interior has just granted an annual pension of 1,500 f. to the widow of the late M. Alexandre Duval, the author. The Minister Of Was has just decided that all sol diers whose time of service will expire at the end of this year, and who are now with their families on furlough, together with all the men of the class of 1835, not now incorporated and remaining with their families for a legal cause, shall remain at home until their time of li beration from service expires. Those who have re-en gaged themselVes are, of course, excepted from this re gulation. PARIS, JAN. 23.—The King has received from his Ma jesty the Emperor of Austria the answer to the letters recalling the Count de St. Aulaire. His Majesty has likewise received from the Diet of the German Confederation the answer to the letters re calling the Baron Deffaudis. These two letters were delivered to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, by M. de Thom, Charge d'Affaires of his Imperial Majesty.—Le Moniteur. La Presse says that General Butenieff has just hired a hotel in the suburb of St. Honore, which he has fur nished with great magnificence. M. Dupoty is succeeded in the . editorship of the Journal du Peuple . by M. Felix Avril. The laws rela tive to the Press are made in such a manner that it has been necessary to pay into the Treasury another sum of 100,000 franca as security. The preceding security of 100,000 francs will not be returned till three months afterwards. And it is while the laws against the editors of journals are so severe, and when such securities are required from them that it is wished to make the prin ters responsible. Quenisset, Colombier, and Brazier leave Paris to-day (the 23d) or to-morrow. Though condemned to hard labour for life, we are assured that Colombier is to be taken to Mont St. Michel, with Quenisset. Bourcheron goes to Derelefis. BOURSE-PARIS, MONDAY, JAN. 24. First Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price. French 5 per Cents llB 10 ... 118 10 ... 1.8 ... 118 5 4y4 ter Cents. 4 per Cents lO2 50 ... 102 50 ... 102 50 ... 102 50 3 per Cents 79 10 .... 79 5 ... 79 ... 79 5 Loan lank of France Laflitte Bank 1,0001. Shares 1025 ...1025 ...1025 ...1C25 5,000 C Shares 5027 LO 50 ...5020 nelgian Bank Belgian 5 per Cents. __ lO4 ... 104 104_ .. 1(14 5 der Cents., 1840 i 05% ... 105% ... 105% ... 105% Spanish Active F.5% ... 25% ... 25% ... 25% New Deferred Portuguese 5 per Cents., 29 ... L 9 ... 29 ... 29 Scapoiitan, lO7 70 ... MS ... 107 70 ... 108 Roman.... lO4 ... 104 ... 104 ... 104 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain ---- - iiii 50 ... 872 50 ... 870 ... 870 Versa Wes. K. B 945 ... 345 ... 945 ... 945 L.B 2lO ... 212 50 ... 210 ... 212 50 Rouen 485 ... 490 ... 485 ... 490 Orleans . . 5lO ... 540 ... 595 ... 536 Strasburg to Bale 230 ... 230 ... 290 ... 230 AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VtunNA, JAN. 15. Five per Conts.Metalliques Four per Ccnts • IOOX Three pr Cents. Bank shares 16 _ ,2 —Allgemeine Zettung. Jan. 19. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CI7Y, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL JAN. 25.—This day being kept a close holiday, there is no Cotton or Share Market to report. By the arrival of the Isabella Watson, from the Cape of Good Hope, papers to the 2d of December have been received at the North and South American Coffee house, but they do not contain any news of the least interest. No intelligence from the frontier. THE FUNDS. There has been but little business transacted up to the present time. Consols are 8914 for Money, and 89t- i for the Account ; Exchequer Bills 17 19 prem. Spanish Active Stock opened pretty firm at 25i I; Portuguese ,Five per Cents. are 33f 34 ; Ditto Threes, 19i 20 i. PRIC foiS OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ORE. It .II WAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great North of England .. .. 90 Great Western Liverpool and Mancheste r ..... 100 ......198 * to 198 London and Brighton 5O 37i to 37 London and Birmingham 90 l7O ...... to 169 Ditto New London and South Western 3B/ 5B-A to 59 Louden and Croydon (Trunk)... 13f l2 ..... to alidland C 3Unties .. North Midland . ...100 - , Ditto New . . COURSE OF EXCHA2 Amsterdam ......0 F 12 7i Ditto, at sight Rotterdam .2 U. 12 8 Antwerp Hamburgh ......11'1. B l3 13i Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 60 Ditto, 3 months.. 25 85 Marseilles Bourdeaux Frankfort on Maine... 150 k Petersburgh, 3 Us ... 37 Berlin. Vienna, effec. 11. 3 M 953 Trieste, ditto , 954 Madrid Cadiz Bilbao Barcelona Seville GE—t. YESTERDAY. ) Gibraltar 46 Leghorn ..... 30 30 Genoa 25 90 Milan Venice Naples ... 40 Palermo, per ez 119* Lisbon 52 Oporto 52 Rio Janeiro 27 Bahia Buenos Ayres New York, 21 says sight 46i Philadelphia 46 PRICES OP BULLION, PER OZ. Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Com ...3 17 5 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars... 0 4 9i Silver in Bars 0 4 11 HALF-PAST ONE. The English Market continues steady, with but a very moderate business doing. Consols for Money are 89* ; and for the Account, 891 ; Bank Stock, 168 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 89i I; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 991 ; New Three end-a-Half per Cents., 984 ; Exchequer Bills,. 17s. to 19s. premium. In the Foreign Market the operations have been very limited, and without variation. Spanish Active Stock is 25i ! ; Mexican 29i ; Russian 115 : a ; Dutch Two-and a-l-lalf per Cent ;. 511 a ; and the Five per Cents. 101/ t. The Share Market presents no alteration, and scarcely anything done. Great Western are quoted 86* ; Liver pool and Manchester, 198 ; London and Brighton, 37 ; London and 'Uirmingham, 169 ; London and South Western, 59. HALF-PAST TWO. Consols, Money, 891 ; Ditto Account, 898 ; Colom bian, 21/ 22/ Mexican, 298 ; Spanish, 25i t. QUARTER TO THREE. The trade of the ports of Boulogne and Calais appears to have very steadily increased for some years past, and last year there was again an augmentation. The Customs' revenue of the formex port was in 1840 1,566,000 fran(:ts, and in 1841 1,815,000 francs. For Calais, it amo - anted to 990,000 francs in 1840, and to 1,359,000 fran cs last year. The number of vessels visiting the port of Flushing last year was 2,751, of which 218 were British, 266 Bel gian, and 159 Ilamburgh. THE 11 , 1,4RKETS.—(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of all Grain since Monday have been small. There wus very little doing in any article, and prices remain an on Monday. Flour very dull sale. COLONIAL MARKETS. There was little business transacted, either for home consumption or export, but prices were fully sustained. TEA MARKET. The demand wins good, and full rates were paid. Com pany's Congou Is. 10id. cash. T.ALLOW MARKET. Prices continue firm, with a good demand, at 48s. 6d. on the spot, and 48s. 6d. to 48s. 9d. for delivery. METAL MARKET. Iron in good request, at firm rates. Lead sold slowly, but prices firm. ).3pelter in good request at 381. per ton. MUM SPORTKNG INTELLIGENCE, BETTING AT MANCHESTER —TUESDAY. CHESTER CUP.---14 to 1 agst Lanercost (t.)-15 to 1 agst the Squire -15 to 1 agst Rory O'More-17 to 1 agst Bellona (t.)----26 to 1 agst Jolly Tar (t.)-23 to .1 agst Alice Hawthorne (t.)-25 to 1 agst Marshal Soult (t.)-25 to 1 aglit Rhodanthe (t.)-27 to 1 agst Re triever-27 to 1 agst Una-27 to 1 agst Cruiskeen -200 to 6 agst Satirist-1,000 to 50 agst Marquis of Westminster's two, with an acceptance with both (t.)- 4 to 1 agst Scots lot-500 to 30 agst Lord G. Ben tinck's lot (t.) DERBY.-7iI:o 1 agst Attila-10 to 1 agst Chatham -23 to 1 agst Wiseacre— 28 to 1 agst Joanna C. (t. freely) —2B to 1 agst ?Robert de Gorham-45 to 1 agst Meteor —45 to 1 agst Espartero (t.)-50 to 1 agst Moss-trooper —offers to take 3 to 1 about Scott's lot. coAxs.—No thing done. Buckingham-house, on the site of which Buck ingham Palace now stands, was purchased by Queen Charlotte, the Queen of George 111., in January, 1775. It was built in 1703, and after being rebuilt was in tended to be converted into ii Palace by George IV. Buckingham-house was generally occupied by the King and Queen at those times when drawing-rooms were held at 6t. James's Palace. 4%d er 1 ?A, AND Public Optutou. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The French Chamber of Deputies was occupied on Monday with the Right of Search question. M. Berryer delivered a very powerful speech against it. Several of the Paris Journals state that a Royal or donnance, promoting the Prince de Joinville to the rank of fear-Admiral was issued on Saturday. The Moniteur is silent on the subject. All the influence of the French Cabinet was exercised to keep M. de Salvapdy from making a fool of himself by reading his despatches on the Etiquette question in the Chamber of Deputies. A Government which owes its existence to the hurling of the paving stones of Paris at the heads of the champions of legitimacy naturally shrunk from such a test of ridicule. As the Cameleon, French Government steamer, was on her way from Alexandria to Toulon, she fell in with and took in tow, off Cape Sepet, the Mermaid, from Liverpool for Leghorn, which had been disabled by a storm. The Journal du Havre mentions a rumour that the British schooner Camilla, which used to ply with passen gers during the winter between that port and Southamp ton, was run down a few days since in the Channel by a three-masted vessel, in a thick fog. The Captain and all the crew of the Camilla are said to have perished. PUBLIC OPINION. In an article on the subject of the Oxford Professor ship of Poetry, the Morning Post takes occasion to ex press its regret for the defeat of Mr. Williams, observing, " We think that he and his academical friends had fair reason to look for another result. But as to the great theological cause with7hich the late contest has been associated, the result of the late Poetry Professorship election matters not a jot. Theological truth is not all dependent on popularity." The Advertiser, contrasting the rejoicings at Windsor yesterday with the distresses existing at Manchester, Bolton, and elsewhere, states that this frightful state of things is wholly the effect of class legislation—the result of passing laws for the benefit of the few, instead of for the interest of the many. "It is the adoption," adds the Advertiser, "by Parliament of those narrow monopolist principles by the Premier, and embodied in his measures, which has produced the appalling commercial crisis in which the country is now placed." The Times, alluding to the stability of our institutions, in an artiele suggested by the Royal Christening, says, " The continuance of our prosperity must be expected to depend on the fidelity of ourselves and our rulers to our Protestant faith ; and the prayer that our Prince may lead the rest of his life according to the beginning, which he made yesterday, is one in which not only every cha ritable Christian, and every loyal subject, but every real patriot, must fervently join." The subject of the principal leading article in the Herald is the Royal Christening, wherein, speaking of the visit of the King of Prussia, our Contemporary re marks that immedi a t e p o liti ca l or commercial results are not to be expected ; but if there be not hereafter a kinder there will most certainly be a more thorough under standing between England and Germany, for that the reception given to his Majesty will have, for the greater part of Germany, a national interest. The Chronicle contains a leading article, suggested by a memorial addressed to Sir Robert Peel by the American Chamber of commerce at Liverpool, from which we make the following extract :—" The plain question is, shall we allow the great agricultural people of the United States to take our manufactures ? What a question to be mooted, while both capitalists and work people are in their present condition ! The discussion should be cut short by the procession of starving thou sands to church to thank God for the existence of such a market for the products of their industry. v But we cannot choose as to the medium of payment. We must be content to exchange for that which they have to offer. And the hungry wretch who cannot get work or potatoes, would be well content to labour for American flour. You shall not,' is the reply of Monopoly." Tho Hants Independent observes :—"Poor-laws and not Corn-laws keep up the standard of wages. The latter aggravate ten-fold the severity of the former but Corn-laws render P oor -l aws t h e more necessary. It is the only protection the labourer has against starvation, for where a legal provision for the poor exists, wages, however excessive the supply over d eman d , cannot fall so low as to produce actual famine." The Cambridge Advertiser thus alludes to the mis government of the Tories:—" The late Government cannot be justly blamed for the financial deficiencies of the country. If, the saddle is to be placed upon the right horse, the burden of the blame must rest exclu sively upon the Tory Governments, to whom 'the people are indebted for those legislative enactments, of which it is the professed object to advance the interests of particular individuals, to the total exclusion of whatever is beneficial to the great bulk of the community." The Brighton Guardian observes, in an article sug gested by the late ceremony of laying the first stone of the Royal Exchange :—" But while the heads of the State and the public mind honour commerce, we find the Mi nisters, both of the Throne and of Religion, conspiring to put an end by law to one great branch of trade. They have passed laws to prevent as much as possible all trade in corn between England and other countries. In doinc , that, they violate the very p r in c ipl es t h ey consecrated' onMonday week, and prove that they are most incon sistent." We take the followingfrom the Dublin Pilot:—" Lord Eliot and family sailed for England on Saturday even ing. It is said that his Lordship has been so disgusted with the rampant Orangeism of the law department— as manifested in the advice tendered to the Lord Lieu tenant in reference to the removal of Sheriffs Porter and Browne—that he will not return to this country. It was very generally rumoured yesterday that a serious dif ference of opinion had arisen between Lord Eliot and the Lord Lieutenant, respecting the propriety of substi tuting Sir Edward Borough for the present Sheriffs." CONXIVICERCIAL.ILEPORNI. At a meeting of the West Hackney Anti-Corn-law Association, held on Dionday, more than 150 females attended the demonstration against the Corn-laws. PUBLIC IMPAOVEIVIENTS. At the fourth annual meeting of the Adult Instruction Institution, held in the Commercial-road, on Monday evening, it was stated, that since the last report, 108 ad ditional scholars had been admitted to the school, many of whom on admission could neither read nor write. Of men, 145 had attended the writing and other classes. PUBLIC IZEIOICrNGS. The residence of the Chevalier Bunsen, the Prussian Ambassador, at Carlton-gardens, was brilliantly illu minated last night, Its base was formed of the Prussian motto—" Gott mit uns," " God with us," in white lamps. The debtors yesterday in Whitecross-street prison were feasted to the number of 382 ; in the Marshalsea from 45 to 50 were regaled with beer ; in the Fleet there are about 130 ; in the Queen's Bench, 140 ; in the City prisons the Lord Mayor's bounty was also distri buted ; no allowance was made in Horsemonger-gaol, where there are about 120. Holidays, roast beef, and plum-pudding, were yester day given to the boys and girls of the following charita ble institutions :—Christ's Hospital, 750 children; Welsh Charity School, 190 ; Freemasons School, 65 ; Philan thropic Society's School, 50; Yorkshire Society's School, 50; Deaf and Dumb School, 280; School for the Indigent Blind, 140; Caledonian Asylum, 78; Marylebone School, 115; St. Ann's School, Brixton, 300; Foundli ng H osp i tal, 250 •British Orphan School, Claph am , 100 • Clapton Wan s al rw Naval th , lc Asylum,aph ana , Greenwich,. Richmond,e e n h Orphan Asylum, 450 ; Westminster National' School, a 5 s 0 0 also; t the e thole of at thewrn Roy Kingston, Kew, &c. &c. ELECTIONEERING;. The Dublin election was to have commenced its poll• ing yesterday. Lord Morpeth was proposed by the Hon H. Caulfield, and Mr. Gregory by Sir J. K. James. ECICLESZASTICAL. The annual value of the see of Chichester, to which Dr. Gilbert will be shortly consecrated, is 4,2001 per annum. LAW AND Pozacm. At Marylebone Police Court yesterday', Mr. Hutch ings, landlord of the Coach and Horses, Welbeck-street, appeared on an information of Miller, an inspector, who charged him with keeping his house open for the sale of liquors before one in the afternoon of Sunday, the 16th instant. A sergeant and a police-constable were ex amined, and a number of respectable witnesses, were called to prove that no liquors were sold, when Mr. Raw linson dismissed the case. Joseph Morgan, the youth charged with wounding dangerously Mrs. Brown, the wife of a carpenter, while shooting at sparrows, again appeared on his bail at Lambeth-street. The unfortunate woman was carried into Court, and appeared to be suffering much, when the Magistrate expressed his regret that she had been brought out in such a condition, and remanded the pri soner for a month. James Murphy, a man about 40 years of age, whose clothes were in a most ragged condition, was committed at Thames -street Police-court, on a charge of stealing a half quartern loaf. When searched, the police-constable found on him Is. gd. in money, six red herrings, and five pounds of potatoes. The plea of hunger was there fore disproved, and the Magistrate, after stating that the practice of stealing bread from shops was become very common said, he should commit the prisoner to Newgate, and bind over the witnesses to prosecute. PINE ARTS. 'n the Faubourg St. Germain is a noble mansion, within the walls of which are accumulated innumerable reasures of the times of Louis XIII. and Louis XIV., and among the paintings is the celebrated picture of Lady Jane Grey, which has raised the tame and fortune of Paul Delaroche. Here the Princess Matilda de Demi doff is now daily giving grand concerts. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. . Mr. Fox, the British Minister at present.resident in America, and a near relative of Lord Holland, is up wards of 60 years of lige ; he has th e reputat i on of being learned, and is rarely out of his house, except when tempted by book-auctions. He is a good entomologist, and has frequently correspondence and cases Of insects sent him from most parts of the world. MISCELLANEOUS. The reporter of a Morning Contemporary, in his de scription of the Royal Christening, after stating that the heart-stirring cheers of the people rent the air with an emulative ardour," and that at the sight of the young Prince they " burst forth with a joy almost fran tic," modestly adds, " we d e not pretend to be any judges of fine or precocious 'children, but several old ladies near us protested that a finer boy they had never laid eyes on than the Prince."—There is a good deal of the old lady in this description, which is remarkable for its superannuated eloquence. To-morrow will be the anniversary of the birth of the Duke of 'Sussex, who was born in 1773 ; and Friday will , EVENING SUN he the anniversary of the death of Peter the Great, who' died in 1723. The Court of King's Beuch, in April, 1788, decided that a womanis competent to serve the office of overseer of the poor. A Morning Contemporary gives the followinc , imPo r tant national intelligence :—" The Duke of Wellington retired to rest at ten o'clock, rose yesterday at six o'clock' and breakfasted at eight o'clock!!!" The Augsburg Gazette says, " the village of Madan* in Wallachia, has been inhabited by women only f n d r the last thirty years !"—A philosopher fond of pence an quiet, and hating gossip, could not do better than take up his residence in this she-village I Baron Humboldt, in accordance with the wishes of many men of science in this country, was waited upon by Mr. Murchison, for the purpose of requesting him t . ° fix a day to commemorate his arrival by a public fest' val,but he declined, as his stay was limited with theiiing of Prussia to but eight or nine days. After the Christening yesterday, crowds of persons dipped their handkerchiefs in the font, in order to preserve a sort of imaginary relic of the water of the river Jordan!,, in which the Prince had been baptized. This water brought over to this country by Mr. Scoles, of Argo place, who in the year 1825 travelled in the East. G;:i LAW IN ELLICF-C.g,' - - CHANCERY COURT-(THIS DA- 1 0; The Lord Chancellor did no t s i t i n hi s C our t at Ni r e s '' minster to-day until a quar t er past twe l ve o ' c lock, 11 ' . having arrived from Windsor. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. WIMBORNE SCHOOL. The SOLICITOR. G ENERAL , u p on t hi s case b e ing called on, stated that he did n o t thi n k i t wou ld b e nece ssary L to e trouble the Court with go i ng i n t o t h e discussion. The question in this case a rose upon the proper con structiT .. : of two charters grant e d i n th e time of Q ueen Elizabet h, by which the tithes of the parish of Wimb° l l, were granted to a cor p orat i on to b e select ed out of the inhabitants of the parish, the object of was for carrying on a school at Wimborne. The 011 ; struction that had been put u p on th e Ch arter for yeaf was, that the tithes were t o b e a p p li e d b y the perso; named for the benefit of the school, and that so mu ch was not required for that p ur p ose was to b e applledfor the benefit of the inhabitants of the parish, and io way the charity had been administered for a long serie s " - ie d, . of years. Upon an i n f ormat i on, h owever, being ~ the present Master of the Rolls decided that the tru.. construction of the Charter was, that the whole tithhee should be applied f or th e purposes of the char i t y present trustees being now satisfied that the constrne;:, tiOn which had been put by the Master of the Rolls oPf le ; the Charter was .a p r op er one , were content to f o reg° t A,, appeal, and it had b een arrange d t h at as t h e y had t r , ministered the charity in th e wa y i t h a d b een done their predecessors, they should be allowed their co s '`' that part of the order of the Master o f th e Rolls di rec ing them to p a y cos t s b e i ng di sc h arge d b y arran getueo ,„ HERRING V. CLOBERRY. .r e The further arguments in thi s p ar t-h ear d a ppeal , ' then proceeded with, and occupied his Lordship the r e- _ mainder of the day. 1.0 0 ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DA Y • ) GREEN V. MAITLAND. The further arguments in thi s case occup i e d the C° r , the whole of the morning. At their conclusion ship said he would read over the whole of the affida'' and defer his judgment to a future day. His Lordship disposed of several unopposed Pettlioul4 Y~~ : V I OE-CHANCERY.-L(THIS DA (Before Vice-Chancellor WIGRAM.) WILKINSON C. PAGE. hAfOr e In this cause, the f ac t s o f w hi c h are already re the public, his Honour delivered judgment. Aft er the citing the origin and progress of the dispute between parties, and the proceedings prior to the award, be His HONOUR said the parties thought it wouldtion more for their benefit to refer this matter to arbitr i a - e a than to further prosecute the suit ; and, according l y' ea the 10th of September, 1841, an order was ob tal , at the Rolls, by which it was ordered that all mat,t e .. s r ja difference mentioned and referred to in the Plen clin ' - 'oo' the suit should be referred to the award and arbitrati,.. A ft e r of Edward Goulburn„ Esq., Sergeartt-at-Law. paw this order of reference had been made, the P thought that their interests would be best consulteu taking out of the arbitration the mere question of seu — . , t aae of partnership dealings, and an agreement dst et : ii ' e ef' 23d of Nov e mb er , 1841 , was entered into between ; t ee' by which it was agreed that, in the event 01 iia t arbitrator awarding a dissolution, the n ec- e e• sli'dtilalie taken by a gentl eman o f t h e name o f /30 d deti It was also agreed between them that Mr. Be w h ir, should receive the o u tst an di ng assets of the partners and pay the same t o th e jo i n t account o f the plainant and defendant, into• the banking-W s- t ee Messrs. Glynn and Company, to b e fi rs t applied nie pt in paypent of the partnership debts, th en in the PaT g o f of incidental expenses, and aft e r w a r d s on the font in t 7o the. settled accounts. Now the Learned Serg ee/ - 1 10 whom the case was referred, ma d e hi s awar d t a b e dis io on November, 1841. In point of f ac t, h e awar ded . nart iet lution, awarded certain act s t o b e d one by th e r re d and made a special declaration as to th e 7501. seen 0 600 the note. In the month of December, 1841, a ul . , was made on the part of Mr. Page to make the av , qtr h ot order of Court. As it then appeared that there been a mistake in practice, he gave the plaintiff on t ie portunity of making a cross motion to set aside, c o award, and the case h a d accor di ng l y b een heard the motion and cross motion. Now, from the terms of i,eo award it appeared first, th a t th e arbitrator:had taken the 7501. already paid by Mr. Page out of the P art co u tite , ship account, and awarded that s um to be Paid Ist of January have instant, without reference•to the questions, whether the accounts should at that time -- gr a.' taken by Mr. Bowden or no t ; secon dly, that the yajt trator had not awarded pay men t o f th e balance, might be found by Mr. Bowden, nor provided f or f,a case of the assets being insufficient to wind up the r 0; nership concerns; thirdly, that he had in general i i T h.s a, directed a guarantee to be given, without saying 10 0 its nature should be. With respect to the per,,,,,ict money, he declared that the 7501. paid should be rur - t io by Mr. Wilkinson to Mr. Page, and then he mad e ten el following declaration :—" I declarathat I do not in to affect, or in any wise to vary, any liab of the said William Sagon Page, in respect of t, ll ?„ te ir promiss or y no t e for 7504' but it is my wish and tin tion that any s uc h li a bili t i es o f t h e sa id d e fends t os io that respect, as b e t ween hi m an d t h e plaintiff, rep l t heo wholly unaffected by this my award." There irn s ho ld a general dire c ti on t h at t h e part i es upon request 5 .. - 4 not execute to each oth er mutua l re l eases of all matte^;sol, mentioned in the aw ar d. Wi t h respect to the..lo which had bee n p a id as part of the 1,500/. la& money of a moiety of the partnership concern, " 40 11 been argued for the plaintiff, that the amount n 2 : jo sa insisted that that ought to form an it e m i n the ammi, between the parties, and that the arbitrator had o sid wrong, therefore, in ordering that sum to b e without reference to the accoun t s ; an d with resr,Ltioo the other 7501., it was contended th a t the fin es whether Mr. Page was or was not ultimately 1 - 1 10 0 was a matter in difference between the parties_ A , bad. that consequently th e ar bit rator ma ki ng hi s await for left open one of th e very quest i ons re f erre d to BP - no settlement. Upon some of these points he 11 t he difficulty whatever in pronouncing an o pi n ion. ~,.eta paid by Mr. Page to Mr. P earson , an d the ri t T er s and liabilities of the parties in res p ec t o f i t, we re m at 110 in difference between the parties at the reference' t o would have had great difficulty in treating that ark, error in law not affecting the validity of the a w t hat Upon the second point he could not help thinking ip the Learned Counsel had over-rated the difficul t y a n supposing that the Court would hesitate to Ina l ' c u ats award for the payment o f a n y b a l ance w hi c h the aenvil might show to be due from Mr. Page to Mr. a nd kinson, or from. Mr. Wilkinson to Mr, Page d ; cL ae if that were not so h e wou ld h es i tate to ena• that the award was invalid, on acc oun t o f th e i 3 ture of the remedy. The strong inclination of an opinion was, that the authorities obliged him to yin's' i l l' intendment in favour of th e awar d . Upon the reilhe, ing objection he had experienced great difficulty. I v arbitrator stated that the whole sum of 1,500 11v 1 4 matter in difference ; h e th en procee d e d to Ll A w that the 7501., part of that sum , s h ou ld be psi T o , Mr. Wilkinson to Mr. Page, on or before the Ist of inst.; and he then declared that he did not. intend tO,' t he or affect any liabilities of Mr. Page, in respect O f „, r . promissory note for 7501. The ques ti on whether. i ibi it . Wilkinson or Mr. Page was the party ultimately li a oec i upon the note, was a matter in difference, inen ti „ ° tfi te and referred to in th e pl ea di ngs i n the cause. The i t y of that qu es ti on was s i mp l y th i s :—The primary of each party to Mr. Pearson was admitted, in tue le. Bence of special ci rcumstances ; but if the -listT gation of fraud could b e made out ogal,;t Mr. Wilkinson, he would be liable for the faY ll3 bi of the wh o l e 1,5001. H e was of opinion that the (I , : c ei trator meant to decide that th e special circunist a ; e ta' relied upon by Mr. Page o ug ht no t t o a ff e ct Mr. rt ic l natural liability upon the notes both to Mr. Pearson a t Mr. Wilkinson ; but the arbit r at or h a d d e clared T he Mr. Page's liability should be wholly unaffected h.Y un award, leaving the question raised by the pleading s h a d decided. The mutual releases which the ar bitrater;w awarded could not help the case, f or th e y would affect a subject which he did not intend to affect' l id was with great regret, therefor e , th a t h e wa s color * o f to refuse the defendant's motio n , and accede to that the the plaintiff ; but he gave no cos t s u p on e ith e r motio ll JONES V. HUGHES. . ta His HONOUR delivered judg men t i n thi s ca se, gran b. the injunction, with liberty t o th e pl a i nt iff t o take s . it i o proceedings as he might be advised, to perfect his at law. EXCHEQUER.—(THIS DAY 2, JP" THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. THE EASTERN AND 5-- *ASTERN RAILWAY COMPANIES. 110 r This was a special case, sent b y th e L o rd Chan ce the to obtain the opinion of the Court, as to w hether b y Railway Companies were en titl e d, un d er the A cts in which they were established, to cover over a ce ' .- ~ta of street or way, called Goddard's-rents, in the Pari s : ,, a. Christ Church, Spitalfields , for the purpose of rnakiti railway station over the w a y i n quest i on . The case,r been already before the C our t on S a t ur day, and t '" au guments having been brought to a conclusion this W ing, their Lordships postponed their decision. the The Attorney-General and Mr. Koe appeared for a t Commissioners of the parish ; an d th e Solicitor-Gener and Mr. Butt for the Railway Companies. • • oi An order has been issued to the author i t ies Greenwich Hospital to make immediate arrarr i nss ell a ° for the reception of his Majesty the King of ' 1 1; who, together with several members of the Royal Filal i l s f D of England, has expressed his intention of paying • fl its to that noble institution, for the purpose of inspeano many attractions. -,.. LLI QF Chin; upset R A St a y, run ?. ? , T. • Ar r( i for the eye and Olaz of t he he T the th bi Pt