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

MOItNLN( SUN gel a legalized kind ofslave trad e; an d we mar "el at the pertinacity, amounting to a species of mon omania in .. a class or in the race, with whi ch cert a i n ideas or conditions of the } inr nan Mind for ever recur. We hafe here .riearl Y all the d oc t r i nes o f t h e s l ave-owners substantially rePrOduced, though disguised under different words. Manumission is substi tuted fo r t h e " kind treatment of Christians; " c ontra cts are instead of whips; and the salutary Yok e of civilization to be fixed by the Govern ' • dent, is t o t a k e t h e place of the yoke of the in ,- vidual planter. Those who believe, with BACON ! i d LOCKE, that the mind is mould e d by i mpres l - ,I , ° as on th e senses, will be apt to conclude, from yT „t,flis recurrence of ideas, that there is something air tropical climates, or in the state of society lady existing there, which inevitably produces a love of slavery, or a conviction that society • r arino.t be m a i nta i ne d w i t h out some spec i es of ()r eed and unwilliEux labour. The irksomeness of toil 4 to a white man is probably the main c ause of this state of mind in tropical climates. liesides the moral objections to the Trinidad Planters, new scheme, at which we have hinted, T l7e believe That their political econ om y i s a t f au l t . hey reason as if the labour of the raw unin structed savages impoi:ted from Africa, were at ° nee to be equal to the labour of educated 44 d fre e men. The assumption is erro teoust and the unskilled imports from Africa woul d require, in a state of freedom, Where the Ilinate invites to ease, and where a little labour Buf bees to ob ta i n su b s i stence, several years to be ctile decent labourers, if ever that should come to Pass. If we d o not adm i re the wisdom, nei tier can we praise the humanity of th e T r i n id a d Planters, who desire to s wam p th e present race o f labourers in the co l ony b y a new race, and so l'e,dnce them to the .degraded condition of the S p or ant and n ew l y purc h ased , and manumitted a vPs fro m A fr i ca. W e believe that there is not the slightest chance - that th e pl an o f t h e p.. Immigration Society will be carried into a~and th ere f ore we may spare the serious `1(1 earnest protest we are prepared to enter 41 0 inst it. 11. cc , A u Old East Indian" writes with just o ltlon agai nst t h e appointment of Mr. LYAI f L, son ti the Chairman of the East India Directors, to i tnportant o ffi ce o f Judge-Advocate of India. Se c i s only t we n ty -f our years of age, and con , ,u ently has had no practice at the bar to eti 7 him to fill such a post.. We can make his for th e anx i ety. o f a f at h er to prov id e for eau ls son, and also for the partiality of Tories to prOfessi ng 1 thei r po li t i ca l pr i nc i p l es, 'l _,out these, f ee li ngs cannot justify such a wanton ieParture fruni the rule generally obser ve d if 'nuking" legal' appointments. In England, ft , a young man, merely from his power- Interest, were raised over the heads or c nY others, as i n t hi s i nstance, the b ar would '..° ll sider th emselves insulted and disgraced. Will t ile bar of India, and the millions of inhabitants tha t trust to the Courts of Law for protection, iew this appointment in a different light; or will Their confidence in the Home Government be Itengthenedby such a gross i ns t ance o f j o bbi ng? odia is of too much importance to this country to be treated with such marked contempt; and We therefore confidently trust the Board of Con trol will not sanction the nomination of the Directors. Madrid Papers have been received — of the 3d i • n st. They are destitute of any news of interest. Tile Correspondent of a Contemporary, writing 1 : 10 1n that capital on the 3d, says : The news of the protest of the bills reCnify i ni to . lioradon for the payment of the British Ledidn;z l Ctinsed 17114 4 r a sensation on 'Change to day. I understand,lnW- T'' tver, that the occurrence was accidental, and that the bills question will be regularly paid. The Spanish Govern _ raent, were in no way to blame in the matter. What ' ever promises Surray Hull has hitherto made he has in variably performed. The affair will be quickly righted. The memorial preceding the estim a t e s is r ea dy, an d w ill , read during the week, perhaps to-morrow, in the vhataber. Vives Active, 33a to-day. T 1 „ ere is no news of any political interest in the par's Journals of Monday. T,:e personal quar rel between the King of the FR ENCH and t h e tit !Pertir NI CHOLAS grows stale ; and as neither °I th em are likely to add piquancy t o th e quar rel b „„ y personal invectives, the public nat ura ll y s .r or . • vs tired of it. We cannot but observe how ridi ~, cia ous it is i n a country like France, and an - ieei, td Sovereign like Louis PHILIPPE, to ma nifest b ra- such e xtreme sensitiveness. For what is it to Or . ~ ce t hat the E MPEROR b estows th e h an d s h ; „_ ill (7 daughters upon the enemies of the reign titig 4 b ria aty ? Would the throne of Louis Pin eitivx e less secure, if, instead of a son- of Eu . I A -0 ~,,arr-I:AtIHARNOIS, the EMPEROR had chosen Of b Y the Grand Duchess OLGA to the Duke :'ot a lti) Atlx, or Prince Louis NAPOLEON ? (Jethro- J°.it% LOUIS PHILIPPE can never be dang er n ‘ i but by France. . The only real co ntent to ills dynasty is to be found in the dis ,,, of 16 leis people, provoked by the persecu duet.4 Of 4 , th e Press and the unconstitutional con ofth , eOri e Chamber of Peers. In the September e i i i, ' "Ynasty has a' foe ten thousand titnes for e 0 th It 4Orn,ta ~,,L uss F as mable than twenty Autocrats of all 1 The .• T he cil of Ministers met yesterday at the Tuileries ---” oliov illo . is a letter from Oran of 21st December . 4 44 4- O W -el-lc '...1 f is; Nader is on his march to the Tafna, at the Ilo c h,: "" the troops, and of the contingents of the a.' 'hems th Bordijas id other tribes that remain to hi s e fr Mascara cause• News of this movement has come urn . • reiZenstterdaY Colonel Tempoure, . the superior Com itern., • ' assembled the disposable troops at Oran, and hetwecluttely took thi; field, at the head of a column, of h e l d , 1 ,600 and 1,800 men, horse and foot, with' four h ay. Pieces, proceeding towards the Rio Salador on the _. to the 'raffia, where he will probably be joined (if Ge neral b e ad not been so already) - by the natives under e ` t eo ral Mustapha, who has 1,200 horsemen under his ekniand. - • ' b e.,Tt. is said G eneral Latnoriciere in announcing the march at trait., informs Colonel Tempoure that he follows the . Bal d closely, and indicates a point of junction. It is 4 71 that a similar notice has been sent to General Be-, 4„ll,,,ecnninanding the moveable column of Mostaganem. tz , ,Ntel are the reports in c irculation, which we believe ue not without foundation. t .." It ig said that the Lieut.-Gen. Governor will shortly lie to Oran."—ConstitutionneL 1, 1 van Saturday the Council-General of Commerce assem thee': flz:!1' the purpose of coming . to a resolution relative to i ., ec uliinercial negotiations which have been entered t h i li° 4 ll ,,,bY the Government. No doubt had been enter ofld be favourable, for the Council 67 that the vote ini elit e u a uetnbied%vh '‘ou Council of the three at this rho ich has no interest in prolonging the trhel li hitive system. The result, howev e r, has not - been w ere " was expected. The-propositi ons su b m i tte d to them ( as follows:—The Courieil expresses a hope that tne ofv,ernraent will make every effort to conclude treaties ,„ih,,llllnerce with Foreign Powers. This proposition, Which was certainly a very moderate one, was, after a 11 - 2 7 u Sion of two hours, rejected by a majority of 14 to r o i 4 . P. Deles:ert voted against it, because the Corn ;,ttee, which has assumed the initiative, refused to say ,;`•00d treaties of Commerce. In the same Council a p: s e t itii i O 3, expressive of a desire for a reduction of the .levity,age of letters, was carried by only a very small ma fi,,„• The conduct of the Council is explained if we re . tr ade rs -, at it is composed of as many manufacturers as f, e , and that our large commercial towns are but • Genu Y represented in it. In the sitting of the Council . ti t e .t . a' p r Agriculture, on Saturday, a resolution was owillmously passed in favour of maintaining the duties me rcer from Belgium. The three Councils of Com -44Thi...c! Manufactures, and Agriculture, meet this day. tlcuseussion of the Corn question is among the Orders "e AV.—Courrier Francais. BOURSE —PARIS, MONDAY, JAN. 10. Y Hit Highest Lowest Last I' reli t.. Price Price. Pm., Price. '.. t per Cent 5.......... . 117 CO ... tl7 70 ... 117 60 ... 117 65 ;V ie r ( t.. , ../e/a n t ,:: .......... 101 7 5 5 0 .... 14 4 7 5 5 5 :7 101 . 7 4 . 5. .... 101 7 5( $44 „I.9arit ........................ 7ii 95 ... 78 D 5 .. 78 115 .. 18 9 5 l AN,. ` H P rule,- ............. .350 ...4160 ...I 350 _5360 ".1 ~,, I , l 7 n ic k 1.0001. Si are, 1,..t?0 ...IN° ...T.O „Az 41 :ia 0 5 per c;;;;:s . . ....... ... gi;.? ''' 7601 •..... 103 .... W 3 ,ter cetstt.;llW... 10334 . .. .. 103% -. WA ••• 1L 3 % Sp anii , 3 per Ce nt.......... .. 70 SO ... 70 80 ... 71 , 80 ... 7u 80 .. Active ................. V:...% ... 25% .-• :,5% ••• .' ' .61 , 4 Pal ol •e. ...... .. ....... .. 6% . 6 ... 5% ••• "".'" t , ort.. Old Deferred ...... 6 ... 6 ... 6 ... ."., tN4,Zes5 per c ent 5....... 27% Lig —2N ... z 2 1,,,, it)4.,4n4t+n ................. ..... it.'6 D0'.. ... Pf 6 90 ... Ir 6 DO ... .r 6 90 Itch ', ..... • ........... ..... 1( 3!G • ... 11)3% ... 11-33¢ ... 10 : 3 % '. Per Cent 5 .. ........ 52,4 ... 52% ... 52).i ... 5 2 3‘ 4t ce ,BAILWAY SHARES Veria.iritinalh ..................... 830 .. 83e . 830 ... fro ~, to.n.. .................. 337 50 .., 337 50 ~. 337 50 ... 337 ..n , 91k,,,.... L.B ........... ........ 2.2 50 .. 203 75 ... 202 50 .- 203 75 t„,..7,..... ........................ 41t. ,„ 480 ... 480 ... 480 , ta 41 ,,,, t t..,,,,:i.i, ............ .... 512 f i g ..: il,!? 50 ... 5 1 2 50 ... 512 . 5 1 fit1.6.1...4.3"4 NDS- 1 3 . 14:;'1,.'1 5 : 1 TAN 3. 25 . Actual Debt, 2Si per Cent. .. . . 54‘ ItothschilcPsl,3ll S per c.tit. .... ...... .. .... " ..... WI% Loan of Thirty 2 1:11ions, 4 per.Ve ....... ....... Wsi --. 3per Cent „. Thirt-'~---~• - 000000 71% 000000000000000000 10'2 Loan of City, 1 v3.4 per Cent. ........... 9 5 Society ef Cornmorce, 4 4 per Cent .. ... ......« 97, Bank of Belgium:), .per Cent.. ..... .. .......... At rationalS4ciety. .. . Exchange on Lontio'n ..................... ...Brussels Pajers, Jan. .z) ........ titled bl LttendU ,rly two ;atholia. influen c e a mai °. iately Set miests. .. e . is to tn u u Wei in of t he the Same i t !! Yes' ittee sval -Counc il ' ted,its re' cons*ler ,iverpoolr ;:trengt h i sonic ( 1 g is the liberties e Ronan c bene fit .diate re; words ° e last s i% edues tO heve w ore rither 11 ! ve orpors po e il luring girls,an W wc! W a ifs f 156 - kewise / 5 from eturns Iv in thet o wig so re' now. pt now of e' Ichoo,_„ 1,011 0 ny P B fry 'omen 5110 131 " is, it /Jl' shipo. d 0' -wive bly th e 0 l e3° IS g l Catholic tO theomit Werc, ter i r f e ll 4 Mega the li r rao .e pro • 11 add W exis o le bilte rne ntod, l d that i f one the t hi yOl , e b ChUt a t ed a o 60 0 g' r.. SUMMARY OF NEVIS AND Petbitr OPtntOlt• " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The news from the United States is to the 23d of Dec., being seven days later than the last arrivals. The Secretary of the Navy in his 'Report, recom mends a larg i e increase in the number of war steamers and heavy frigates, but none of ships of the line. The Postmaster-General in his Report states that, the expenditure in his department has exceeded the in come during the last year. But how does he propose to cover the deficiency ? By increasing, as the Tories talk of doing, the rates of postage? 0 no ! By reducing the salaries of the servants of the Post-office. The " Right of Search" question is producing quite a ferment in the United States. From the President down to the humblest labourer at the foot of the Rocky moun tains all are resolved to resist any attempt to overhaul American merchant-vessels, or to compel them to exhibit their papers. The question is indeed a very troublesome one, and pernaps had better be at once abandoned. The ship Creole, from Richmond (Virginia) to New Orleans, with 135 slaves on board, put into Nassau (New Providence), on the 14th ultimo, when it was found that the slaves had, for the purpose of obtaining their freedom, murdered the captain, the owner, and one or two others. They then insisted that the ship should be taken to Nassau. She was so, and all the slaves set free according to English law, except a few who were in culpated in the mutiny and murder. The American Consul demanded the slaves as cargo, but the authorities of the island could only consider them as passengers, and there fore free to go where they pleased, and most of them ac cordingly•shipped for Jamaica. The point chiefly dis cussed is the ltueration of the slaves ; and the Southern Papers are very warm upon the subject, and urge it as a topic for the immediate consideration of Congress, as well as the claim of search. The Mexican Papers state that the whole of the Texan Santa; Fe expedition, consisting of several hundred men, had been captured ; but adviees from Galveston doubt the truth of the report. Two arrivals from Vera Cruz and Havannah, however, seem to confirm the capture in a very circutnstantial manner. The Courier and Enquirer states that the union of Texas with the United States would be brought under the consideration of Congress during the session. The packet-ship She r id an , from Liverpool for New York, struck on the Jersey shore on the night of the 17th ult., during a snow storm, but happily was got off, after throwing about 40 tons of zinc overboard. From France the news is not important. The Courrier .du Bas Rhin of the Bth inst. states, that the members of the bar at Colmar had entered a protest against the sen tence pronounced by the Court of Peers m the case of M. Dupoty, and forwarded it to M. Marie, Chairman of the Bar of Paris. Toulon letters mention the loss of the new French steamer Brandon, lately equipped at Rochefort. It was lose at Mahon, all the crew saved. In a letter from Vienna of the 3d inst. we find the fol lowing news relative to Turkey :—" The elevation of the Grand Vizier Izzet Mehemed Pacha has produced a crisis. The Porte is dreaming of her power and glory in former times, confirmed in those illusions, it would appear, by false friends. She already anticipates a re-conquest of Greece. The apprehension of an explosion is so strong here, that Prince Metter nich has felt himself called upon to despatch a note to the Divan, recommending them to abandon their hostile demonstrations against Greece, as the Five Powers were determined not to suffer any, attack: to be made on thltt kingdom. The question is, can the Sultan adopt this advice whilst he finds himself surrounded by fanatic and ambitious Musselmans anxious to raise the banner of former days? The opinion universally enter tained in the best informed political circles in this city is, that the idea of p eace , an d or d er h av i ng b een re-es tablished in the East is vain and premature." PUBLIC OPINION. _ The Herald, in commenting on the Emigration ques nn, states that the wisdom and expediency of Govern- Bent establishing the machinery of a national plan of emigration, "to be worked by the voluntary and spon taneous agency of the people themselves, have obtained a strong hold of the public mind." The Post has a leading article, the object of - which is to show that the manufacturing system may be overdone, Our Contemporary observes, " the Manchester warp houses are full,. the cupboards of the Manchester work people are too empty. Because the masters in Leicester have produced too many stockings, the workmen cannot earn the means of providing their children with the stock jugs which they require." The Times, in an article suggested by the death of the 131 - SEO — p — Tii — Chichester, observes that the present is a ,p2.9inent .of very serious import to the Church; and that .411eleinent which has lain in the Establishment almost *noticed by observers, has sprung up in the course of ,-tenye.ars into unparalleled energy, and its sudden ap pearance has induced a contest on which the most san guine must look with no slight apprehension. Our Con temporury adds—alluding of course to the progress of Puseyism---" We cannot modify our feeling that in the history of the English Church the present is one of those Cardinal occasions which may affect its character for centuries." The Advertiser is of opinion that Sir Robert Peel must be seriously einbarassed by his junction with Sir James Graham and the Duke o f B uc ki ng h am ; and adds, that Sir James, in particular, is likely, before many months. have passed, to be the destruction of the Tory Cabinet, " assuming that no other cause shall expedite the catastrophe." _ The Chronicle, speculating on the probability of the Duke of Buckingham's surrendering his prejudices on the.subject of the Coro-laws, and regarding it with Sir Robert Peel's eyes, says :--‘‘ A report, which has been current for some days, and is now very generally ere= dited, induces us_.to think that the bargain has been made on these terms—that we are speedily to have the happiness of counting-the Duke of Buckingham among the friends of free trade ; and that henceforth he is not to be considered the mere Farmer's Friend,' but rather The Farmer's Judicious Friend.' This report is, that . . it is suddenly discovered that Lord Cowley is upwards of seventy years of age ; that an Ambassador ut Paris, in these days of quarrelsome etiquette, ought to be in the vigour of life and intellect ; and hat the Duke of Buekiii'gham, the Farmer's Friend, is to be Ambassador at Paris.' MONEY—TRADE—COIVIDTERCE. The annual produce of the private gold mines and gold works in Siberia, has increased since 1829 to a weight of 8,5001 b. English. ZOCZESIASTIC.A.X.. The new Bishop of Ossory will most likely be Dr. Tonson: Archdeacon Stopford taking the see of Mlleloe. MEDICAL. The Times of Tuesday says, " Chamber's Edinburgh Journal, in an article of great length, makes the amende to Dr. Turnbull for its former attacks upon his system of practice. We are induced, from information within our own knowledge, to concur with the editors in the conclusion at which they have arrived, that Dr. Turnbull has, by patience and ingenuity, obtained a grasp of certain new medicaments and methods calculated to cure cases of deafness such as were never cured before ; and certainly, the fact that he has made no secret of his re medial means, but has always invitod the investigations of his professional brethren into their nature and efficacy, affords, prima. facie, a very favourable presumption for him in any controversy about the legitimacy or value of his system.' " NAVAL AND MILITARY.. During the "christening week " there will be a grand review in the Great Park, and new colours will be pre- Sented on the same day to the 72d Highlanders. LAW AND POLICE. • At the Mansion-house on Tuesday, Captain Fife ap peared upon a summons to account for a deficiency in four chests of indigo, which had lately been shipped for Rotterdam in the Ocean steamer. A lengthened inquiry took place, and, at the conclusion, Sir Peter Laurie said Captain Fife was, in his opinion, exonerated from all blame. A strong suspicion, however, prevailed, that the persons who had charge of the lighters at Rotterdam, in which the goods were landed, were not quite so honest as they should be. At Bow-street on Tuesday, John Souter, a deserter from the Royal Sappers and Miners, was fully com mitted to take his trial for stealing a gold watch, value 40 guineas, the property of Lieut. De Coste, of the Royal Engineers. At Guildhall, James Duncan, a boy 13 years of age. in the employ of the. Parcels Delivery Company, was charged with stealing a parcel containing a gold watch, value 18L; and his lather was charged with receiving it, knowing it to be stolen. As there was reason to believe this was not the only parcel stolen, the prisoners were remanded till to-morrow. 00111ZT 7 ---FASHIONABLE. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort have left Beaufort House for Bretby Hall, on a visit to the Earl and Coun tess of Chesterfield. The Marchioness of Conyngham is passing the winter at Richmond. The Marquis is at Saine Castle, inlreland. The Earl of Liverpool leaves Buxted Park, near Uck field, on Saturday next, for Fife House. The Earl and Countess of Westmoreland left Harley street on Monday last for Brighton. The Dowager Countess of Clare arrived in Belgrave square on Tuesday from Mount Shannon, Ireland. The Dowager . Countess of Essex and Miss Johnstone are expected to leave Paris early in March, on their re turn home. Sir James Graham has taken the mansion recently occupied by the Marquis of Normanby in Hill-street. MISCELLANEOUS. On Monday last, another giraffe in Wombwell's col lection—the last but one—broke its back in a fall from the carriage -van, and has since died. The ancient castle of Wartburg is about to be restored by the Duke of Weimar. It was erected about 1069, by Count Ludwig the leaper. It is most worthy of recol lection to Englishmen, as being the residence of Luther from May 1521 to March 1522. Yesterday died at Zurich, in Switzerland, Lavater, the celebrated physicrnomist, from the effects of a wound received from a grenadier in the attack on that city by Massone. His work on ‘• Physiognomic Fragments" has been translated, abridged, and illustrated in every variety of form. Since the setting in of the severe weather, six lives have been lost upon the ice ponds at Birmingham. The cold at Paris for some days has been intense. On Sunday morning the thermometer stood at 15, and at noon, it had risen only to 21 Fahrenheit. The Seine is covered with floating ice, and the canals of St. Denis and St. Martin are entirely frozen. The total number in the upper ward of Renfrewshire depending on charity for subsistence, amounts to nearly 15,000 persons. On Tuesday nearly 200 Irish labourers assembled at the doors of the Marylebone workhouse for the purpose of obtaining parochial relief, wh en they w ere informed Tl_22,l=L_LcNky; NUARY 13, -1842. that they had no l e g a l se ttl ement i n E ngland, and alight be passed to their own country. This they refused, and went away without relief. Thirty-six poor persons also applied at the Clerkenwell workhouse for relief, but as none of them belonged to that pariah they were advised to'go to their native places, where they could demand a maintenance. RUMOURS OP THE D Alt On occasion of the Royal christening, a batch of Peers and Baronets will be created. It is generally rumoured, also, that a batch of gentle men of the Chancery Bar are to receive silk gowns. The following have been mentioned :—Messrs. James Russell, Teed, Anderton, Mathews, Wilbraham, Loftns W4.),-rarn, Coe, Roupel, Walker, Purvis, Kenyon Parker, and Lowndei. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING. ' In the public securities business to-day has been again inclining towards the selling side, and the consequence is, that the public are indisposed to operate, and the market exhibited a decline. Money has been in some request, and the continuation to the next account was per cent. Consols, for immediate transfer, were marked 884 to 88k, and for the Account 88:-1..to 89. Exchequer Bills were rather lower, viz., -17 s. to 19s. premium ; but India Bonds advanced to 11s. premium..' Bank Stock realised 167, and India Stock 2464. Reduced Three and-a-Half per Cents. ranged from 988 to 99k. Neither in Spanish or South American Bonds was there much business transacted to-day. Active Spanish Bonds realised 25 to k; and Portuguese Three per Cents. 194, with scarcely anything doing; Mexican Bonds were flat #t a decline to 28i ; Chili= Stock was not higher than 69 ; Duteh Two-and-a-Half per Cents. were at 51. In the Share Market the quotations were generally steady, at about the following rates :—Great Western Were 22 ; Birmingham, 791, the New 261, and Y or k and Nort Midland 42 premium ; Brighton were 12-g- ; Croydon 2 ; Midland Counties 14 ; North Midland 28, and South Eastern and Dover 21 discount ; Colonial Bank Shares were 4 premium, ex dividend. (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JAN. 11. We have had a fair demand for Cotton to-day from the trade, the sales comprising 3,000 bales, with a steady market and firm prices ; nothing to_report in export or speculation. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JAN. 11.—Grand Junc tion Half Shares, 97 ; Liverpool and Manchester Half do. 92 ; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, 51 ; North Midland, Half Shares, 36_,• Thirds, 161. MANCHESTER .STOCK EXCHANGE, 11.—There has been rather more doing in Shares to-day, and prices continue firm :—Lancaster add Preston, 27 ; Manchester and Leeds, 71 ; Manchester and Salford Banks, 10k to 10 3-16ths ' • London and South W es t ern , 58 to 59 ; Man chester and Birmingham 28 to 281. By the arrival of. the Liverpool packet-ship. New York, papers have been received up to the .23d ult., six days later than the former accounts. A further decline had taken place in nearly all de scriptions of stock. Money was very scarce. No altera tion to notice in the rate of exchange upon England. Some considerable sales of Money Stock were effected durit , yesterday, which caused a further decline i n th e English Funds, .Consols for Money closing at 88-i- 89, and opened this morning still flatter at 88:I for Money and Account ; Exchequer Bills, 18 20 prem. The Foreign Securities are equally flat and heavy. Spanish Active Stock opened at 24 25 ; Passive, 54 4 ; Deferred, 12i ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 32f ; Threes, 19f. _ _ The Government broker has been in the Market aga. to-day to sell stock, but ro alteration .of moment - has taken place in the quotations since the opening, Consols remaining flat at 881 i ; Exchequer Bills 17 19 prem. ; Three per Cents: Reduced. 89* ¢ ; Three,and-a-Half Ditto 98i ; Bank Stock 167 ; India Ditto 246:i ;' Ditto. Bonds 11 prem. Scarcely any business has been transacted in the Foreign Market. The following are the only quotations: Chilian Bonds, 69; Mexican, 28i; Spanish Bonds, 25; Passive, 5,1 •, Dutch Five per Cents., 100* Very little doing in Shares. Eastern Counties are quoted :at 9 ; Great Western, 87 ; Ditto Fifths, 10 ; London and *rightcn, 371 ; London and Birmingham 1691; Midland Counties,B4 ; York and North Midland, 92, Consols, Account, 88i 89 ; Ditto February, 89/ s ; Mexican, 29/ ; Spanish, 25* I. The feeling in the City upon the Right of Search dis pute between us and America has been rather depressed by the news relative to the excitement at New York, and in the southern cities of the 'United States since the release of the slaves whii escaped to NasSau. It is, however, the persuasion of the best informed, that, as regards the African question, the Government at Washington must make its own Commodore suffer, if he does wrong by en tering into an agreement concerning us and the right of search. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. .133nk Stock 167 ! India Stock .... ..... —.2461 3 per Cent Red B9} I Ditto Bonds ll pm 3 per Cent Cons. BB4 !Ditto Old Annuities 3i per Cent Red.. 99 Ditto New Annuities — New 3i per Cent 9S Ez. Bills, 1,0001....2}d 19 pm New 5 per Cent Ditto 500/ l7 pm Long Annuities toexpire Ditto Small l9 pm Jan. 1860 I2B ,Bank Stock for Acct... Oct 1859 l2 7-16 India Stock for Acct.... Jan. 1860 FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent lOll Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian Bonds. Buenos Ayres, 6 per cei !Russian, 5 per cent — Chian 6 percent..... 69 Ditto, Nletallie Colombian, 6 per cent.. !Spanish, 6 per cent 2SA Ditto, 1824. . ... Ditto , Deferred . 12i Danish, 3 per cent French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange —f. —c. Mexican, 5 per cent.... French, 3 per cent —f. —c Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 2! per cent 5l Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. Ditto, b per cent. . 100 k SHARES. Eastern Counties Railway (23 raid) .... Bl Great Western Railway( 65 paid') 67 Ditto Fifth (4 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) 374 London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid)... 111 London and Birmingham (90) ......... ... .. 169 k Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) ... ........ ... 28k London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) lli Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... ... .. 71 Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) Northern and Eastern (40 paid) North Midland Railway (100) South Eastern and Dover (48 paid) 27 York and North Midland Railway (50 paid) 92 Ditto New Shares (15 paid 3l} COURT -CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert arrived ,at Claremont Park, at five o'clock, on Tuesday af ternoon, escorted by a party of Hussars, from Windsor Castle. The Royal Suite followed, con sisting of the Countess of Sandwich, Hon. Miss Murray, Hon. Miss Paget, lion. Miss Lister, Lord Byron, Hon. C. A. Murray, Lord Charles Wellesley, and Colonel Bouverie. Early in the forenoon, yesterday, her Majesty and Prince Albert walked in' Claremont Park. Afterwards his Roval Highness Prince Albert passed some time shooting in -the park, at tended by Colonel Bouverie, Mr. George Ed ward Anson, Hon. C. A. Murray, and Lord Charles Wellesley. The Duke of. Wellington gave a dinner to the • Cabinet Ministers last evening at Apsley-house. All the members of the Cabinet-were present. Major-General Bell had an interview with Lord Stanley, yesterday, at the Colonial•oiee. Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the - Stamps and Taxes, had an into - view with the Chaneellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residenc e in Downinm-street. Despatches from the 'Governor of the Mauritius were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. That intensely affecting, though somewhat heavy, ;ragedy, The Gamester, was performed at this theatre last evening, with the following remarkably strong-cast : Beverley Mr. Macready Lewson Mr. Anderson. • Stuk!ley Mr. Phelps. Jarvis Mr. Elton. Bates Mr. G. Bennet. Dawson Mr. Lynne. Mrs. Beverley Mrs. Wainer. Charlotte Miss Ellis. We doubt whether, as a whole, the tragedy has ever been more efficiently put upon the stage, and we are bound to do Mr. Macready the justice to say, that in thus casting this' tragedy; he has given earnest of his inten tion to redeem to the letter, the pledge he gave when he first assumed the management of this theatre, ; that hiS primary object should be to represent every drama he might produce in the most .efficient manner in which it could be represented. Macready's Beverley, although not entirely free from mannerism, is, a rtowerful,and picturesque piece of acting, and, in the latter scenes, especially worthy of commendation. It has always struck us that th e pl a y wou ld b e greatly improved, if the last scene were somewhat shortened. Macready, however, last night did all for it that could be done, and was throughout most painfully true to nature. He was admirably supported by Mrs. Warner, as Mrs. Beverley; and when performed as it was performed last night we know nothing throughout the whole range of the drama more agonizing than the closing scene of the Gamester. Phelps's • Stokely, although somewhat coarse, was a sterling performance. The scene with Lewson was excellently given; every sneer was made to tell. Mrs. Warner's Mrs. Beverley is the best on the stage at the present.. day. In the celebrated scene with Stukely she was loudly and deservedly applauded. The sudden transition from the agony of grief to the high dignity of virtuous indignation, was admirably given; and the manner in which she spurned Stokely from her pre sence was a perfect personification of contemptuous loath ing. Anderson's Lewson was a fine, manly performance ; and G. Ben ne tt, as B a tes, made more of the character than we have ever before seen made of it. - Mr. Lynne, who was Dawson, is an actor new, we believe, to the London boards ; he declaims with taste and judgment, and what little he had to do was very well done. Elton was Jarvis, the old steward, and most beautifully he acted it. It is a part which has hitherto been entrusted to an infe rior actor, mid until last evening we were not aware of its capabilities. In Elton's bands it became a character. The little touches of pathos with which the part is re plete, were beautifully brought 'out, and Elton has added greatly to his well-earned reputation by the manner in which he acted the part of Jarvis. The audience ap preciated his exertions, and he was frequently and most deservedly applauded. The character of Charlotte was well supported by Miss Ellis. Macready was called for at the fall of the..curtain, and loudly applauded ; and Anderson announced the piece for repetition on Wednes day. The pantomime concluded. the evening's amuse ments. The house was crowded. rauthor asserts but, on the contrary, was I born in the middle classes, and lived for the best part of his life (except indeed for a few short months, when, for political rea -1 sons, he w as not i ce d b y t h e h eads of the-Oppo sition), among those classes. In the second vo lume De Montfort describes his visit to the Court of Prussia, when Frederick the Great was in all his glory ; and this enables him to introduce his readers to the celebrated Baron Trenck, who, it may be remembered, was imprisoned for nearly ten years in the fortress of Magdeburg, where he was subjected daily to every species of priva tion and ignominy, for having presumed to aspire to the hand of the King's favourite sister, the Princess Amelia. Of this Princess, long after her beauty had departed, and when grief; antici pating the work of time, had brought on prema ture old age, we have this vivid description : Her head and hands were frightfully palsied ; 'indeed every member of her frame appeared to have a convulsive motion. Her face was inde_ scribahly contorted; the skin, seamed with innu merable wrinkles, had the dry, yellow, hue of parchment; and what rendered this countenance , whereon premature old age had set its st amp , st il l . _ _ • - more hideous, was the excessive protruding of the eyes, which had started so far out of their sockets, that it was painful to look at them." On reading this description, we are reminded of Ovid's brief, but striking allusion to the once lovely Helen, in the winter of her life : " net quoque, ut in speculo ragas aspexit aniles Pyndaris, et secum, cur sit bis rapta, requirit." A PILGRIMAGE TO AUVERGNE. 2 Vols. Bentley, London, 1842. Miss Costello is one of the liveliest and most observant of our modern travellers. We do not forget her " Summeramong the Bocages and the Vines," where, in the most attractive man ner possible, she made us familiar with all the strange, wild local legends of the picturesque districts through which she passed, and described their towns and hamlets, and the peculiar cus toms of their inhabitants, with a minuteness and accuracy which betokened how extensive and careful was her observation. In the volumes before us, which are the results of a tour made, in the year 1841, through Artois, Valois, Cham pagne, Burgundy, and Auvergne, she exhibits much of the same laudable, inquisitive spirit; all that is worth visiting and inquiring about, she examines with particular attention, and being, apparently, well versed in the copious, tradi tional literature of France, and having a quick eye to the beauties of landscape scenery, her descriptions are never wanting in truth and vivacity. In the spring of 1841 she left Calais, she tells us, for St. Omer, which, though in former times celebrated for its gaiety, and the splendour of its public buildings, is now one of th e dullest towns in France. Here she made but a brief stay, and then continued her route, which pointed to Champagne, by Bethune, pass ing over one of those celebrated Roman roads which are still the admiration and wonder of all who see them. " These Roman ways, however," says our authoress, " are now only followed by the peasantry from village to village, and to them are known the secrets of their construction by the Father of Evil, who once exerted his skill in these parts, hoping to obtain possession of the soul of a young farmer, who imprudently taunted him with inability to make a paved road of a certain extent between midnight—the hour at which they probably met on the march—and cock crow. So rapidly did the Evil One set to work, and so solid and far-spreading became the road he made, that but for the presence of mind of the young man's wife, his soul must have fallen a prey to the Destroyer ; she, however, hit upon the notable expedient of pulling the cock by the tail as he sat at roost, and thus caused him to utter his shrill salutation to day earlier than usual. The artful one was defeated, and his road on the very verge of completion, left as a monument to after'ages, of the triumph of female wit." This is not the only instance in which woman's wit has proved more than a match for the Devil. While in the neigh bourhood, of course Miss Costello did not 4am t paying a visit to the famous castle of Peronne, so well known in the annals of the feuds between France and Burgundy, and where Charles the Simple met his death, and that crafty, politic tyrant, Louis the Eleventh, was very nearly en countering a similar destiny. The castle is now in a most dilapidated state, but the apartment wherein Louis was confined, by order of his rival the Duke of Burgundy, is still in tolerable pre servation, and was eagerly explored by our authoress, who says of it, " hideous and fearful is the room, lighted by one narrow window, to which a chain and bars are still attached ; a breach in the flooring at one end discloses a grate, through the thick, iron bars of which the waters of the dull, black river roll along, making the gloom still more horrible by its plashing sound." Every reader of Sir Walter Scott will remember the admirable use he has made of this fact, in his romance of Quentin Durward. Of the castle of Ham, where Prince Louis Napo leon is now confined, Miss Costello tells us that few travellers are allowed to approach the walls, and least of all the English, who, the French persist in thinking, instigated the unfortunate Prince to his crazy enterprise. The second vo lume, which is the fullest in point of description, is, for the most part occupied with sketches of the grand mountain scenery of Auvergne, the Swisserland of France. We subjoin our travel ler's account of the ascent of the Puy de Dome —a mountain of enormous elevation, and the loftiest in the country : While we were conversing a loud shout was heard above us, and she started up, imagining that her hushand was coming down : she hurried before us, smiling and looking quite delighted; but called out in an altered voice that it was not him, only a mountaineer with his cows. Presently we reached the spot where the pair stood, and a more savage-looking apparition I never beheld than the herdsman before me. He was sunburnt, with black bright eyes, and a quantity of long wild black hair flying about his face from under his large broad edged beaver hat ; his shaggy cloak was hanging in drapery round him ; he held a long staff, and was throw ing his arms about with vehement gestures. 'When I approached, i he rushed towards me, and, casting himself down on the grass nearly at my feet, began talking in a very high key, and using forcible gesticulations. I felt quite startled, as I feared he was offended at something and appealed to the old woman, who, in a reproving voice, told him in patois not to make so much noise— " son Anglaises." At this word our wild man uttered a shout and clapped his hinds ; he could speak a few words of French, from whiefrl gathered'that he was de sirous of affording us assistance, and '•would with the greatest pleasure carry us in his arms up the remainder of the mountain. I felt afraid of being seized upon and borne away in spite of' myself by my Orson-like champion, and with grateful acknowledgments declined his offer. He seemed surprised, but, after a little more conversation with our guide, saluted us, and scrambled up a steep path, where we soon lost sight of him. " There is no harm in him," 'laid our old lady, who nevertheless looked a little scared; " but these people have no education" We soon after met her husband with his party of three gentlemen, one of whom had a handkercief tied round his head, as the wind had carried off his hat on the summit of the Puy. They were amazed at our in tending to go further ; but though we required a hand at this moment to help us over a difficult pass, in the usual style of modern French gallantry they seemed resolved to take care of themselves only, and 'hurried away, while the husband called after us many bon courages, to en courage our attempt. Just where we met them a magnificent point of view opened before us. We were on a level with the Petit Puy, and beheld a panorama of the greatest beaut, stretched out as far as we could gaze ;—rocks on rocks mountains on mountains, plains, valleys, and forests at our feet, peaks whose craters seemed still yawning, with all their chasms, unseen in the distance, clearly visible, and opening their huge jaws like some antediluvian mon sters. The Nid de la Poule is the most conspicuous, and presents a large hollow crater of most singular appearance. We had now arrived at the part from whence the as cent is the most difficult: to the crest of the mountain it appeared almost perpendicular, and all the way was strewn with the white ashes of its ancient eruption. We had now a very difficult task, and were obliged to exert all our energies to, reach the summit, which after great exertion we at length accomplished. The wind roared round us, and was icy cold; and we hurried to throw ourselves down in a hollow of the irregular plateau which crowns the Puy, at the foot of an erection placed there for observations. In a few minutes we were able to look about us, and magnificent was the prospect which burst upon our sight All the wide extent of La Marche and Le Limousin was beneath us as in a map; the first elevations of the chain of the Mouts Domes running far into the distance, and those of the Monts DQresi the expanse of Lake Aydat ; and the vast basin of La Li magne, through wh i ch runs tlw silver line of the Allier, which the eye may follow into the Bourbonnais. An this, and much more which we were assured we could see, we were not permitted long to gaze- on ; for almost in an instant clouds gathered over the mountain, spreading in all directions as if at tracted towards it ; the blast howled furiously, and a dense vapour closed us in, shutting the landscape from us entirely. There )vas no hope of its clearing again, but some chance of a storm, which we had little inclina tion to witness ; therefore, hastily gathering up some pieces of calcined rock, and a few leaves as souvenirs of the wondrous volcano, we began our descent. P.HRENOTIPIC CHRONOLOGY. By Mr. C. Williams. The title of this volume cannot fail to attract the attention, and rouse - the curiosity, of any one whO has attended the lectures of Major Beni owski, on his improved system of Mnemonics, for which he invented the new name, " Phre notypics, or Brain Printing." Those who have heal d his exposition of his system recognise, in its novelty and originality, the necessity ofa new designation,whereby it maybe distinguished from that of Feinagle, the absurdities of which the learned Major has altogether rejected, whilst he has simplified and improved all that was useful in it, or practicable. When this new term, there fore, invented only (as Beniowski states in a recent pamphlet) on the sth of July last, ap pears as the title of the book before us, and is repeated six times in the title page—where Mr. W. is described as author of phrenotypic geo graphy, phrenotypic grammar, &c. —one must naturally suppose at once that the book contains a development of the new system—of Beniowski's system. Of the latter the most favourable, al though slowly and cautiously formed, opi nions have been expressed in The Sun, after continued attendance at the Major's lectures and observation of his classes at the Adelaide Gal lery. The titles adopted by Mr. Williams, are calculated to mislead our readers into the be lief that the " Master of the Westminster Aca demy" expounds the principles, which in this paper have been so much commended, and no t those ofFeinagle, which we had, from experience, rejected and condemned. But Mr. Williams has done Beniowski a greater injustice than the mere plagiary of terms, in transferring them to a se ries of contrivances long since exploded, as use less and absurd. In the first two maps in the present volume Mr. Williams gives us one hundred incongruous and unmeaning symbols, the perfect committal of which to memory is the first step in the organisation of his system, and which must be for ever associated with all ideas to be afterwards acquired in literature, in science, or in art. The Tower of Babel (not unaptly the first symbol)—a grotesque Elephant—a pair of Fighting Cocks—Robinson Crusoe—and ninety seven other unmeaning figures, located each in a separate compartment of a cruciform diagram, must be committed to memory in its exact place, together with the exact number of its compart ment, before the student can proceed to learn " My name is Norval," on the Multiplication table, upon these strictly Feinaglian Mnemo nics. Let us ask, even if the aid thus afforded to the memory were effective and permanent (as we know by experience it is not), of what use is it to remember the words of a poem, or of all the poems of the world, if they must all be re called to the mind in association with images so grotesque, instead of those for the revival of which alone in the imagination the recollection of the words is sought ? Now, those symbols are entirely rejected in the system calleciThreno typics; and it is unfair, therefore, to Beniowski, to the large portion of the press who have praised him, and to the public, to adopt his title in this manner. It is far from agreeable to find so much fault with Mr. C. Williams, who is really a clever man and a useful teacher. Indeed, except the Hills.of Bruce Castle and Hazelwood, there is no family of schoolmasters who have done more than that of Mr. MT. to elevate the business of school-keeping from a trade to a profession. But justice to a suffering and persecuted, as well as . learned and ingenious man, requires that the wrong done him in the present instance should be pointed out and censured. DEATH OF GENERAL MAiN- WARING. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) COWES, JAN. 11, 1842.—At eight o'clock this morning, died Lieutenant-General Mainivarin,,, , r aged eighty years, universally respected and regretted. A better man, or a more charitable one, could not possibly exist ; his hand was ever open to the untbrtunate, as was that of his ex cellent lady, to whom he had been married above fifty years, and all who had the good fortune to know him, or came within reach of his boun tiful band, sincerely sympathise in her bereave ment. Lieutenant-General Mainwaring served at the reduction of Martinique, in 1794 ; accom panied the 51st regiment to Corunna, in 1808 ; the expedition to Walcheren, in 1809, where he took two eight-pounders, and many prisoners ; served in the Peninsula in 1811 ; and was pre sent at the battle of Fuentos d'Onor, and the second siege of Badajoz. The City prisons never were so full as 'at the present time. They are in consequence much inconve nienced, owing to there not being sufficient room in the House of Correction. Yesterday morning there were 202 prisoners confined, whereas there was only sufficient, room for 150, and four or five prisoners were put toge ther in one cell, where there ought only to be one con fined. A tunny, weighing 100Ibs., was caught off Dunkirk a few days ago. The appearance in the Channel of this fish, which always inhabits the Mediterranetn, is uite a phenomenon. EDWARD OXFORD.--This individual, who is detained an inmate for life in Bethlem Hospital under her Majesty's warrant as a criminal lunatic, beguiles the tedium of his confinement by reading, drawing, &c., and does not exhibit the slightest symptom of aberration of intellect. For some months after his confinement the applications to Lord Shaftesbury and other governors to see him were very numerous, but the public curiosity appears to have died away, and few strangers now solicit permission to see Oxford. When spoken to on the sub ject of firing at her Majesty, he invariably declares the pistol was not loaded with ball. Captain Gold, one of the maniac intruders into Buckingham Palace, is also detained in Bethlem under her Majesty's warrant. RESIGNATION OF MR. JUSTICE BOSAN QUET.—Mr. Justice Bosanquet, in consequence of conti nued ill health, has sent in his resignation to e the Lord Chancellor. His Lord s hip' s successor, as' one of the Judges of the Common Pleas, is not yet known. In Westminster-hall, yesterday, Mr. Sergeant Merewe ther, Mr. Law (Recorder of London), and Mr : Sergeant Goulburn, are each mentioned as like ly to be raised to the Bench. trt TRUTH TO SHAME THE TORIES.--( From the Revue des Deux Itiondes.)—A question has arisen in the English press, to know whether the merit of the new Slavery Convention belongs to Lord Palmerston or Lord Aberdeen. Justice makes us admit that the Con vention belongs to Lord Palmerston. France might have signed it before the fall of Lord Melbourne, and would have signed it, had the French Cabinet not a grudge against Lord Palmerston. A Scotch piper was pursued by a wolf; he threw him, scrap by scrap, every individual content of his wallet ; still the wolf followed. Having no other re source, he struck up his bagpipes—the wolf fled incon tinently, " Ho, ho," cried Davie, "If I'd known ye to be so fond o' the pipes, ye should hae had the music be fore your supper." It is related by the Rev. C. B. Townsend, in his highly interesting work on Mesmerism, that Dr. Parr once magnetised William Pitt with his eye ; and the Dr. used to boast that his eye saved the nation. Pitt was going to bring forward some measure which was cal mlated to produce much harm to the country, and the Doctor having been informed of the evil intentions of the great Premier, went to the House of Commons. " I fixed, Sir," said Parr, "my eye upon Pitt. I gave him one of my looks (everybody knows my looks), and he could not utter a word, Sir. He rose, stammered, and sat down again ; and there I kept him off his legs till Fox had possession of the ear of the House ; and so the measure, when brought forward, was nugatory. Yes, yes, I think I may say that my eye saved the nation." RAILROADS IN FRANCE.--The Boulogne Gazette has commenced a series of articles on railroads in France, and complains that every town is endeavour ing to obtain some benefit from these undertakings, and forgets nationality for private interests. The editor, therefore, humbly submits that the Government should not attend to such schemers, but follow out a general and comprehensive plan f or th e goo d o f t h e country at large, and as one part of this plan recommends that a line should :be carried from Paris to Calais by Beauvais, Amiens, and Boulogne, the town of Arras is exerting every energy to have the line drawn through its vicinity, and Boulogne and Arras, therefore, are at war for their own Interests, forgetting alike nationality and public benefit. It is certain that the King of Prussia will re turn from London by way of Calais and Paris, upon which occasion a really Royal reception will be given by the King of the French.—Correspondent of an Even ing Paper. MORNING SUN RAILWAYS IN FRANCE. - - a The question of railroads in France is discussed at great length in one of the French cOmmercial papers, chiefly with reference to the clause in the Speech ,from the Throne, in which the King declared that the Chambers should consider the means of restoring an equilibrium betwee n the receipts and expenses of the State, without touching the military organization of the country, or deferring the execution of the great public works, which are understood to mean the iiiilrOads. The article in question would show that the preserva tion of military organization in its present state- ie in consistent with the completion of the public works, and the restoration of equilibrium to the bndget, now that the sinking fund is pledged for five years, and tbat recourse has just been had to a new . loan, the terms of which have still ten months to run. The plan, w hi c h is attributed to the Minister of Public Work; begin s by classifying several grand lines of railway as lignes dela', or " Government lines," which ought to be in the hands of Government, like all Royal road,. Of these line:, there are five proposed, and they connect Paris, from which they all commence, respectively with the Belgian frontier (with a branch to Boulogne and Calais), with the Mediterranean by Lyons, and Marseilles, with the ocean by Tours and Nantes, with the Spanish frontier by Bordeaux and Bayonne, and with the Eastern frontier by Strasburg. With respect to the particular portions that are to be accom plished first, the Minister proposes the Anglo-Belgian line, which is preferred to all the rest, and the two ex tremities of the line from Paris to the Meliterranean —that is to say, the part from Paris to Chalon-sur- Saone by Dijon, and the part from Tarascon to Mar seilles. Subsequently, however, the line from Paris *to Chalon-sur Saone seems to have been deferred for fear of rendering the Eastern departments discontented, as they might conceive the direct line from Paris to Stras burg was abandoned. The localities interested in the roads would, according to this plan, contribute the land, the Government wool.] execute the terrace work, stations, &c., while private speculators would lay cloven the rails an.l furnish the engines. The choice of the particular lines which are to be first completed is disap proved by the paper in question. With respect to-the priority which is g:vcn to the line from Paris to the northern frontier, it is observed that Belgium is already cote:ed with railroads, and „hat by this new line An twerp might gain at the expense of the French port!. The line from Paris to Ly ens is considered to be far more important. The means of executing the project are spoken of merely as a roundabout way of returning to the system of carrying on these works by the Go vernment, which was rejected by the Deputies five years ago. Thus the part reserved fo♦ private specula tion is thought to be a mere illusion, on account of the groat improbability of a Company being formed merely to lay down rail , . If the Government begins to make the terrace. work, it will be compelled to lay down rails to transport the materials, so that, however specious the proposal may be, it must end in a Government under taking. ..• • - The Chancellor of the Exchequer had a long interview with Sir James Graham at the Home-Whe r e yesterday morning. . . There are rumours current in the Clubs in London, that lliclutrd Arkwright, Esq., of Willersley Castle, Derbyshiro, is about to be elevated to the Peer. age under the title of Baron Willersley, of Willersloy ; and our highly-esteemed neighbour, Wilbraham Egerton, Esq., of Tatton Park, under the title of Earl of Tattom, of Tatton Park, in this county.—Stockport Advertiser. Trig ARMY.—The 4th Dragoons are ordered home from Bombay ; the 36th Foot from New Bruns wick, the 37th from Nova Scotia, and the 75th from the Cape. INCREASED DEMAND FOR HORSES.—LATI FAIRS.—A short time ago the Government of France came to the resolution of selling in the home market 15,000 cavalry horses, and replacing, as speedily as pos sible, so goodly a stud by the better bree,ls of England, Seotjand, and Ireland. in the contract entered into, the Nvell-known Mr. 11. E. Phillips, army agent, London, has been associated with two Frenchmen, and in the exer cise of his vocation has been advertising right and left for particular kind, of troopers. From a hand-bill be fore us, we observe he is to be in Carlisle on the 15th current, and invites farmers and dealers to bring 'for, ward 200 steeds ; one half from three to six years old, " blood-like and sound, and standing 15 hands high," and the other moiety "strong, short-legged horses, fit h fo ig r h t , h ne nd a ;,1 ) , - o t t ij i c , t , c r tps, (f the 4 same age, broken orn9tof froms o e l ()n t s o 16 eque h n r e ds .i. As the same person intends to visit the Dumfries Candlemas Horse Fair, we think it right to give our agricultural readers timely warning. Already his ope -rations have 'given a great fillip to the trade in horse: flesh, as was proved from what Occurred .at the mar. kets held at Lancaster and Preston on the Ist and 3tl current. At time two said fairs about 8,000 horses of all description , : were shown ; and though the demand may have been enough for the inferior sorts, all likely animals, whether for yoke or saddle, went ofi: briskly at advant..ed prie2s. In many cases the roads were * besieged many miles beyond Lancaster and' Pres ton, and the best steeds immediately picked np; on terms highly sati:factory to the sellers. On both the occasions alluded to, Mr. Phillips bought largely —say from.two three hundred horses—tu t terms varying. front 201. to 301. and upwards. Ayr Horse Fair, held on the 6th, was also a selling one, the show of Cattle being pretty good, and the am utiance of dealers creditably numerous, —Dumfries Cow i , !r. The Gonstitutionnel has the following nu 111e1MIS deputation, composed recn-s, Deputies, Generals, F among whom it is said, were three Marshals, and mem bers of the Municipal Council and Chamber of. Com merce of Strasburg-, waited, on Saturday morning, upon the President of the Council and the Minister of Public Works, to confer on the projected railroad between Paris anti Strasburg direct, and to expres the unanimous wish of the inhabitants of the eastern department for the establishment of a communication which will contribute so essentially to the military defence of France. The question was discussed in a strategic point of view, and also with regard to its commercial advantages, by..the military men, merchants, and landowners present, and all of them retired extremely gratified with the recep tion of the President of the Council." The National maintains the truth of its state ment concerning a collision between the soldiers of the 59th of the Line and the Second Light Infantry, which has been contradicted by the Ministerial evening paper, and says that a soldier of the corps, who died of his wounds, was interred on Friday. Several others, it adds, are in a state of danger.—The Temps mentions a report, that, during the collision in question, a soldier of the Second Light Infantry was thrown from the wirdow of a Iluse, near the Barrier, into the street. This Journal, in contradiction to the Mesßager,• says that it was the 59th of the Line, and not the 11th, which was concerned • in the fray ; and that this corps is waiting every dad for marching orders,' for which other motives of a poli tical nature have given cause. A file-maker, named Choqu in, was arrested on Saturday under a warrant from the Chancellor, and con ducted to the prison at the 'Luxembourg. Besides Mal let, who, as we hare stated, had been brought from Douellens, and immediately interrogated by the Chan cellor, Just-Brazier and Colombier were also interrogated by Baron Pasquier on Saturday. DISTRESS AT LIVERPOOL-At a meeting of the inhabitants of Lime-street Ward, Liverpool, on iNic;ntlay, to 'Consider the means of relieving the distress, Mr. C. llawlinS stated, that he had spent . ne,arly . the whole of Sunday and that d a y i n v i s i t i ng the poorer parts of Rodney-street Ward. In the CmiTge•ollifs'visits he had - 'found compiiSing aboutt individuals, in such a state 'of destitution, • that 'no man, possessed of the comniOn 'feenivs'of'hUtat,tnity, could have looked upon' it without' feeling' imperiously called upon to . put his hand in his pocket, ''Amongstthe number of persons mentioned; • he ascertained that there 'were only five , blankets. There- were five women, from within a week to fl month- of confine ment, and only two of them 'had any : baby linen; Three had got the assistance of the Ladies' Charity, and the other two Were - seeking it, though without very strong hopes of obtaining it. The distress, , as compared' with this lime last' year, he might, as a commercial man, de scribe as 50 per cent. worse. Some cases that came under his observation were of • a peculiarly lamentable kind. One than had on Saturday sold the bedstead. from under • his sick wife, in order to provide food for his family. There were fifty-four families destitute .of blankets, and having nothing to corer them during the cold nights but a bit of carpet or sacking, or some such thing, in addition to their ordinary clothing. This desti tution, he felt bound to say, did not arise altogether front the season. Many of the working men had been out of employment from three week ';to three months, and he had found one class of me n s u ff er i ng f rom want of l em ployment who had before been exempt—he Meant the coopers. It would require the poor people to be in work for weeks, and in some cases for months, to 'obtain the articles absolutely necessary for their comfortable sub sistence.--Liverpool Times. We find the following in the Constitutionnel, on the demonstration of Friday last, by some students and workmen in favour of M. de Lamennais ..—.. , ,‘,Qur tno2urs publiqucs are not those of England. With (lc without reason, alarm is felt in France at every noisy demonstration, and even the temporary anxiety of peaceable citizens is taken advantage of by those in the Government who hate liberty, and avail themselves of everything for its destruction. A conviction of this fact makes us regret deeply what passed on Fridayoo the occasion of the release of M. de Lamennais from We are far from being admirers of the doctrines of LW! , writer, and we have reason to think that tbayoun elff! who got up an ovation in honour of him on_Fridayt will be of our way of thinking when they shall h ave ba d ae t t h e if experience of age and of the realities of o lif e. tis Radical the pupils of the schools wished to give t o prisoa. writer a public proof of their sympi c it we think, have done better if they abs t s theyo abstained would,f ro k c a n y t 11. de L ameniar and yet they have of the police for ce . 0 grea_ the public, and led to a t those outward demonstrations .wh l ic i h la crented alarm i certainlyTh promote the views o f the Mi• istry which retained him in . . Leonseiously done so by giving to it as auxiliaties all n w o h t o n, t i v s e h nt to tocomp d p li i m p son, those interests which take alarm at everything ap proaching to street tumult. LLO Y D'S SHIPPING LONDON, JAN. 12.—Wind this day at noon, S.E. RAMSGATE, JAN. 11.—Arrd. the Elizabeth, London, for Sierra Leone. DEAL, JAN. 11 A. M., Wind S.W.; P. M., W., modc rate.—Arrd. Shalford, Mauritius. Arid. from the River Iris, for Ceylon ; Sion and Glennlvon, St. Thomas William StoveldLeghorn ; Julia, Africa ; Persian, Cal cutta ; Sir Robert Peel, Singapore. Put back, Con queror, for Madras ; Hendrik - Hudson,.Nov York. OFF BEACHY HEAD, JAN. B.—Minerva, Van Bugge. DOVER, JAN. 11.—The Arab, M`Queen, from New castle to Galway, has put back with loss of bowsprit, figure-head, sails, and rigging, having been in contact with a large barque off Dungeness. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 11.—Wind S.E., moderate.—Arrd. Portland, Bombay, sailed from St. Helena 27th Nov. ; Tinamara, Wilson, Ceara, sailed 7th ult. ; Panoke, Leg horn. Sld. Camerton, 13arbadoes ; Venilia, St. Thomas ; Washington, Mobile i Eagle,.. Apalachicola ; Ayrshire Lass, Ancona. Arrd. 'off; Argyle, Bombay ; Renewal, Africa. The John Taylor, hence to New Orleans, which was on shore on the south side of Cuba, was got off pre vious to 4th ult, and would probably proceed to her des tination. The Molitiwk, Berry, hence to Boston, was wrecked on Point Alderston, 17th ult., crew saved, cargo is expected to be sated. The Catherine, M'Donald, hence to Boston, which put into Lisbon 30th ult. leaky, must dischargo part of her cargo. MARGATE, JAN. 10.—A mainmast, apparently of a barque or ship, with rigging attached, has been picked up near Margate Sands. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 11.—Wind Easterly.—Arrd. Louisa Campbell, London, for New Zealand ; Jane, Ancona. FALMOUTH . , JAN. 10.—Wind variable.—Arrd. Jane, Watkins, Mauritius—sailed Oct. 23. Sld. Braganza steamer, Vigo. Arrd. off, Fortitude, Button, Singa pore ; Curraghmore, Ball, Mauritius. OFF HOYLYL—Cnsade, Inglis, Caleutta—sailed from Mauritius Sept. 30. OFF Conic, JAN. 9.—Columbine, Monte Video. VESSELS SPOKEN WITYL—The Columbus, from Li verpool to New York, 24th ult., lat. 40, long. 7 ; Mans field, Africa to Liverpool, Bth inst., lat. 5, long. 9, by the New York, arrived at Liverpool. Eugene, from New York, 7th ult., lat. 6, long. 23 ; Cologne, bound to Rio, 3d inst,, lat. 48, long. 8 ; two large steamers, sth inst., lat. 49, long. 7, by the Jane, arrived at Falmouth. Plan tagenet, Cape to Calcutta, 23d Oct. ; a barque, supposed the Mary Campbell, from the Clyde, 31st, going into Table Bay ; Rifleman, London for South- Seas ; .Royal George, London to Sydney, 28th Nov., lat. 1 N., long. 22 ; Norval, Newfoundland to Pernambuco, 12th ult., lat. 22 ; Marianne, bound to Baltimore, sth inst., off Scilly, by the Fortitude, arrived off Falmouth. Josephine, Cape de Yards to Bahia, 7th ult., lat. 5 N., long. 21, by the Curraghmore, arrived off Falmouth. A brig, supposed the Fifth, from Quebec to Liverpool, 29th ult. Consti tution, of Bremen, for New York, 6th inst., lat. 49, long. 13, by the Columbine, arrived off Cork. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrivals—Jane, Watkins, from Mauritius, off Fal mouth, sailed Oct, 23 ; .Curraghmore, Ball, from Mau ritius, off Falmouth, sailed Oct. 23 ; Crusader, Inglis, from Bengal, off Hayre, sailed July 7, Mauritius Sept. 30, St. Helena, Nov, 22 ; Fortitude, Hutton, from Lulu bock, off Falmouth, sailed Aug. 22, Mauritius Sept. 27, Cape Nov. 1, St. Helena Nov. 17, Arrivals at Mauritius—Ranger, Proudfoot, Oct. 14, from Calcutta • Auguste, Boutruche, from St. M a l o ; Triton, Schneiders, 15th, from Batavia to Amsterdam Adele, Norman, 17th, from Bombay and Cochin; Ta merlane, M'Kenzie, from Calcutta ; Kingfisher, Harris, from Maranset ; Jean Frederic, Amouroux, from Bour bon to Calcutta ; Laurel, Wilkinson ' 23d, from Clyde. Departures from Mauritius—Axle', Oct. 14, to Mada gascar ; Gustave, Laporte, to Bourbon ; Gratitude, Harvey, 19th, to Calcutta; Queen, Labury, to Maranset. Departures from St, Helena—William Gales, Nov. 26, and Success, Gordon, to London ; Caledonia, to Liver pool ; Formosa, to sail 28th to Liverpool, LORD MORPETII,-...A correspondent of the Morning Chronicle suggests that the sum of 1,4001., collected in the West Riding, for the purpose of presenting a testimonial to his Lord ship, should be handed over to the Dublin Com mittee towards the expenses of the election. This is good advice. The Tories have laid down 8,0001. to oppose Lord Morpeth, and we trust the Liberals will not be outdone when they have a candidate so generally I?eloyed LITERAT URE. OLIVER AND BOYD'S - NEY EDINBURGH ALMANAC, 184'). Simphin, Marshall, and Co., London. The publishers commenced a new series of the Edinburgh Alnianac in 1837 ; from year to year they made improvements and additions, which the public, as the extensive sale of the work proves, duly appreciated, and we are glad to find that success has not weakened, hut, on the con trary, "given additional impulse to their exer- ,ons, as the present number contains more no velty and displays betterarrangement than any which has preceded it. This arises partly from circumstances of which they have judiciously taken advantage. The Census of 1841, the New Ministry, and the New Parliament, with all the consequent changes in appointments at home and abroad, the late Promotions in the Army and Navy, and the vast and increasing extension of railroads have afforded scope for a publication of this kind which very rarely occurs. An opportu nity has thus been afforded of compiling a valu: able Repertory of political, • ecclesiastical, legal, commercial, and statistical knowledge. The in formation respecting almost every Subject con nected with-Scotland is remarkably copious, per haps more so than the general reception of an Almanac not intended to be local would justify: For instance, the account of the numerous in stitutions, Societies, and companies of the 'city of Edinburgh might, without any incon venience be considerably abridged, and room made for, more ample, historicaL'and personal de tails of the English and Irish peerage. This and other general to many intelligence would be accept able English and Irish readers as well as to great numbers in Scotland who take little in terest in minute particulars, which have reference chiefly to the inhabitants of the northern capital. When so much is given, however, it wodld be unjust to raise any serious objection to the plan which the compilers have judged proper; and we have merely thrown out the hint for their consi deration. The more remarkable features of this number we have already adverted to. The digest of the Census for Scotland, which must have been procured with much labour and expense, de serves especial 'notice. - Besides the official re turns for the English and Welsh counties in 1841, we have the population of the counties, cities, and burghs of Scotland, with the popula tion of every parish given separately, and lists of the clergy of the Established Church, and of Dissenting bodies of every. sect. As usual, there i 5 a complete Army and Navy List, with the respec tive stations of the regiments and vessels, accord ing to the latest accounts. The work is printed in a beautiful clear type, and published at a moderate price. DE MONT.POR7'. 3 Vol,. Bentley, London, 1842 The author of this tale states in his preface that it was commenced several years ago, when he was very young and had little literary expe rience. He mentions this fact, of course, by way of apology for, what he calls, the meagreness of design visible throughout the narrative; but we think he need not have been so scrupulous, for t by no means tion, or r iou e i rna g r h ka ' b ' D le e f o A r l f c o i t r y t' o ' i f s c certainly onstrue adroit ness in the working out of incident, yet there is no want'of entertaining matter in it; the scenes shift as often as those in a pantomime ; and the diction is unifbrmly spirited, concise, and collo -1 w ith o ut being too h omely. quia , The narrative assumes the form of a biograph y — , and is related in the first person by the hero, De Montfort, an English nobleman, who was born in the year 1742 —so that, of course, the leading events are laid in the last century_and details the particulars of his somewhat chequered career, i n a piquant style of mingled earnestness and vivacity. The cold, sel: fish habits engendered in boyhood by the aristo cratic system of exclusiveness are forcibly pointed out in the earlier chapters of the work, and show how closely allied in some natures pride is with meanness. As the story progresses, and the young nobleman's character developes itself, the interest increases in proportion : and there is 4 scene where, after the death of his mother, the Countess, De Montfort makes dishonourable over. tures to a young country girl, named Cecily, the dependant and favourite, of his deceased parent, which is of a very eaVileSt and exciting character. There are also several graphic sketches of the political state of England about the period, or shortly after, of the accession of George the Third to the crown; and, in particular, a spirited sketch of the famous mob-leader, Wilkes, who was not, however, "born and bred in the ITT hot-b 4 9,f aristocracy" —as the til l ; C U the