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MORNING SUN - - NEW NOVEL by the AUTHORESS of TEMPTATION. Just ready, in 3 vols. post Bve., THE SCHOOL FOR WIVES By the Authoress of " TEMPTATION ; or, A WIFE'S PERILS." Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. a is MAJ ESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtain :ng LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH and at LUBECK, kre now SELLING ORIGINAL BONDS for the said DIS FRIBU TIONS. Persons desirous to purchase for the Next Distributions uay receive, PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PRO SPECTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing a line to HEINE BROTHERS. The NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains DIVIDENDS of £25,000 £6OO £llO £7O 5,000 400 100 60 1,500 200 90 50 1,000 150 80 Sterling. 800 120 ___________ , -------- -712 THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, JAN. 4, \Vill be performed the Play of THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA.—Duke of Milan, Mr. Phelps ; Valentine, Mr. Macread7 ; Proteus, Mr. Anderson ; Thurio, Mr. Comp ton ; Launce, Mr. Keeley : Julia, Miss Fortescue ; Silvia, Miss Ellis ; Lucetta, Miss Turpin. After which will tie repeated the New Christmas Pantomime, ca lled HARLEQUIN AND DUKE HUMPHREY'S DIN NER OR, JACK CADE, THE LORD OF LONDON STONE. Doors to be opened at Half. past Six, and the Performance to begin at Seven o'clock. Boxes 55., Second Price, 2s. 6d. Pit 35., Second Price 23. 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. 4, Will be repeated Bellini's Opera of NORMA.—Pollio, Mr. W. Harrison ; Flavius, Mr. Clement White Oroveso, Mr. Leffler ; Adalgisa, Miss Rainforth ; Clotilda, Miss rant ; and Norma by Miss Adelaide Kemble. After which will be repeated the New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled GUY EARL OF WARWICK ; OR, HARLEQUIN AND THE DUN COW. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven. Dress Boxer, 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, Wires as they were, and Maids as they arc with Guy Earl of Warwick, or Harlequin and the Dan Cow. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Astounding hit—The acknowledged best Pantomime in Lon don—Hundreds nightly unable to gain admittance—The Sons of Syria and Felix Carlo surprise every one. THIS EVENING, JAN. 4 Will be acted a New Domestic Drama, entitled MADAME LAFFARGE, from Memoirs written by Herself. After which, a Nautical Burletta, entitled JACK JUNK ; or. a SEAMAN'S FIRESIDE.—Jack Junk, with Five Sea Songs, Mr. Walton. To conclude with a Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE ICE QUEEN ; OR, JACK FROST AND KING SHAM.—With gorgeous and charac teristic Scenery, splendid Properties, ludicrous and Quaint Dresses, ingenious Tricks, magnificent Panorama by Brun ning, &c. Hailequin, M. Huline ; Patch, M. Rochet ; Pan taloon, M. Lehman ; Flip, Signor Feliz Carlo ; Clown, Mr. Buckingham ; Columbine, Miss Sharpe. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. Grand Juvenile Week ! The Pantomime played as Second Piece ! Novelties unequalled ! Attraction undoubted ! In terest unprecedented ! and Success enormous ! THIS EVENING, JAN. 4, Will be acted, SUSAN HOPLEY ' • or, THE TRIALS AND VICISSITUDES OF A SERVANT GlRL—Wil liam Dean Mr. E. F. Saville ; Dicky Dean, Mr. Paul; Susan Hopley, Miss Vincent (the acknowledged Heroine of Domeztic Tragedy), After which, a New Grand Romantic Aerial Ceimic:Pau tonlime, entitled HARLEQUIN PETER WILKINS ; OR, THE SING OF THE AIR AND THE FLYING IN DIANS.—With new and extensive Scenery, Dresses, Decora tions, Tricks, Transformations, and Effects—A new Nautical Panorama, to be entitled " Our Native Sea-girt Isle !" con sisting of Maritime Views along the Coast of England. Also, a new Grand Dissolving Diorama, by Childe, the Great Illu sionist ' • and the Opening of the Pantomime supported by the Comic Talent of this—the Popular Theatre of London. To conclude with THE HAUNTED INN. Boxes, 2s.—Pit, h.- Gallerl , 6d.—Half-price to the Boxes only, at Half-past Eight. To-morrow, Susan Hopley, Harlequin Peter Wilkins, and The Haunted Inn. THE RAILWAY SUN JS NOW RE-PUBLISHING, PR ICE SIXPENCE. TBE CHINA SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Jan. 4, 1842. TO CORRESPONDENTS. " A Reader." who writes from Liverpool, does not see that Edition of The Seu in which the closing prices are given, else he could not complain. If he is a sub scriber, he should order the latest Edition. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning. 55 minute.; after 6 I Evening 16 minutes after 7. win _sum LONDON: TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1842. Some persons suppose that Lord ASHBURTON'S rank will recommend him to the Americans, but his Peer's robes are too new and scanty to hide his counting-house sleeves. His patent of nobility will not cover his loan contracts. An ennobled and successful NICHOLAS BIDDLE may excite the envy, not the respect, of the shrewd Ameri cans. It' a Nobleman were required to dazzle them, one should have been selected who can boast of his ancestry and of their deeds. Lord ASHBURTON'S ancestors are unknown beyond the second generation, and all his greatness, derived almost exclusively from money, was achieved by himself and his immediate predecessor. If the Americans honour high rank, they do not honour ennobled wealth, and the new negotiator will be better known in America, and will be treated accordingly, as Mr. BARING, the mer chant, than as Lord ASHBURTON. We dislike his appointment, because we be lieve it is a mere piece of Tory trickery to make the people expect relief from the wrong quarter; Great and undefined expectations have been already excited. The Funds got up from a kin dred feeling and confidence in the monied man. But Lord ASHBURTON will not be able to do much. The affdir of the Caroline is perfectly simple. We are right, and therefore bound to refuse all satisfaction for cutting her out from Schlosser ; or we are wrong, and bound to make instant satisfaction. Negotiation cannot alter that simple fact, nor will it induce the Americans to enter into a compromise. Neither is the Boundary question to be settled by negotiation ; the surveyors and mappers must already have decided it, or it will not be decided at all. As to the right of search, the Americans will not submit to that, the PRESIDENT must yield to the prevalent popular feeling on that subject, which no negotiations can set aside. On this question we consider Lord ASHBURTON an unfit negotiator ; because we have a recol lection that, as Mr. BARING, he expressed opi_ nions unfavourable to our practice, whence it is to be inferred that, as Lord ASHBURTON, he will be a determined stickler for it in its most out- rageous form. But while Lord ASHBURTON is dilly-dallying, Sir It. PEIL will be able to say " Wait till Lord ASHBURTON has concluded his negotiations. The American tariff is soon to undergo revision, and as the Americans would profit by a free trade in corn, let us keep that back and hold it out as a boon or a threat to procure an alteration in the new tariff favourable to our trade. Lord ASHBURTON is gathering much useful information, which will enable us to legis late with much greater certainty and advantage than if we now make an alteration in the Corn law." Lord ASHBURTON'S mission then, which the man, deeply interested as he is in maintain ing the Corn-law, will know how to protract and how to turn to the advantage of those class ini quities of which he is such a strenuous advocate, will be used as a pretext for postponing the dis cussion on the Corn-laws. With respect to the particular right of search, the Quarterly Review recommends negotiation and a convention ; but we venture to assert that the simple suggestion we threw out on Sa turday will do more'to settle the question than any negotiation which does not adopt it. We are aware of the objections that are made to having American officers on board our ships. They are of no importance. American naval officers are well-educated, gentlemanly men; and there would be no more danger of their quarrelling with our officers than there was of the Russian officers quarrel ling, several of whom were on board our ships, during war, for years. Such an objection is idle. The American officer should be of a rank lower than the Commander of the English vessel, and instructed to obey him within the sphere of his duties. There are hundreds of examples of offi cers of different nations serving together on such terms, without any serious quarrels ensuing ; but in the case of one American officer embarked on board one of our ships with strictly defined duties, there would be no chance of disturbance. Those who make the objection must have a worse opinion of officers than we have ; and the officers ought to be told that they must conform. We see no difficulty, therefore, in the two nations coming to an agreement to embark an American officer on board every one of our ships' which is employed to repress the Slave-trade, who shall be instructed and empowered by the American Government to examine every ship which shows American colours, and determine whether she be a genuine American vessel or not, and whether she be en gaged in the Slave-trade. In fact, the prostitu tion of the American flag touches the honour of the United States, and the plan of having ships overhauled by an American officer, will enable him to prevent it being tarnished, while national dig nity would be carefully preserved, by the exami nation being made under the authority of the United States, and by one of their officers. We believe, too, that some common-sense plan, such as this, would settle the other ques tions. The English and American Governments take different views as to the Caroline; why not refer the single point in dispute—namely, whether England had, or had not, a right to burn the Caroline—to a third party? The Boun dary question may not be so easily settled, but where there is a will there is a way, and Govern ment and diplomacy, indeed the whole art ofpoli tics, will stink in the nostrils of the world, if they do not prevent a quarrel between the two nations about such trifling objects, by some easy and simple methods, similar to that we have pointed out. The persons who talk and write about appor tioning labour and capital to land, cannot have formed any accurate idea of what they propose that the Government should undertake. The dispersion of man over the globe, and, conse quently, the apportioning of labour and capital to land, has been going on since the history of man began, and will continue till its termination. What extends so much beyond the sphere of any and every Government can be no part of the duty of any one. But let us see what it implies as to our own Government. On our empire it is justly said the sun never sets, and within its limits are crowded Hin dostan and the unpeopled Southern Continent, the sugar colonies of the West Indies and the wool and wine colony of the Cape of Good Hope, Canada, and the Falkland islands ; and if the principle be once admitted that the Government is bound to appor tion capital and labour to land, or duly dis tribute the people according to some sys matic scheme of colonization, it must do that universally through its dominions, leaving none too much of either here, and none too little there. Emigration must be promoted from India as well as England. It must be directed to the Cape of Good Hope, as well as to New Zealand or Canada. The Government must take into consideration the place where profit and wages are highest, and it must possibly direct emigra tion, not to New Zealand, or to Canada, but to the West India Islands. It will be bound also duly to consider the claims of all the capitalists already established in our different colonies, and not send a labourer more in proportion to Van Diemen's Land than to the Island of Trinidad or Upper Canada. Such a task, implying an intimate knowledge of the capabilities of every acre of soil in every part of her MAJESTY'S dominions, of every creek and harbour, and of the present amount of employment possessed by the labourers in every part of those dominions, would require an emigration-office ten times as extensive as the establishments of the Treasury and the depart ments of the three principal Secretaries of State. That would be a gigantic species of administra tion, even if it did not embrace the whole globe, as we think the principle would; for the appor tioning of capital and labour to land is not limited by political boundaries, and would require the Government which undertook the task, to send capital and labour where they could be most be neficially employed, without regard to the land being under its dominion or not. We say so much in reply to the gigantic folly of requiring the Government, by a systematic scheme of colonization, to apportion capital and labour to land. It is beyond the compass of human power. The practical objections to the Government undertaking a scheme of systematic colonization are quite as great as the theoretical. At present the manufacturers of England are in great distress. According to the Corn-law men the agriculturists are happy and flourishing be yond description. They do not want to go abroad, and cannot be spared. But in almost every co lony agricultural labour and agricultural skill are chiefly in demand. Manufacturingcapital and ma nufacturing skill, could all Manchester be trans ported to New Zealand, would only perish for want of occupation. The mass of the people who go thither must till the ground. Besides the agriculturists, a few mechanics, to make and mend their tools, and build their houses, would be required; but we want to obtain employment and food for the starving weavers and spinners, and their connected trades, of Carlisle, Manches ter, Stockport, Leeds, Macclesfield, and Spital fields; and such people would only be an incum brance to a new colony, and would perish if they were sent thither. So far as they are concerned, the most extensive emigration could give them and the country no relief. They can be as cheaply maintained here as by sending them to Canada or New Zealand. The want and the distress which require relief, exist in the manufacturing districts. But the population there are all parts of a great system of combined labour, of which the workmen and the machines are alike essential portions. To wrench them from their places, to separate them from their fellow-workmen and their tools, is to annihilate their skill. Our manufacturing system must be maintained entire here, expand ing and improving, and those who work it must be fed at home, or they and it will perish to-. gether. Emigration, as a substitute for the total repeal of the Corn-laws—a scheme of gigantic ambition for the practice of justice—may hasten the national decay : it can give our suffering people in their present circumstances no relief. The Irish are a grateful people. The affec tionate regard they still entertain for Lord NOR MANBY, the first Lord Lieutenant that meted out to them even-handed justice, their public demon stration of regret at the departure of Lord EBRINGTON, who followed in his footsteps, and their still warmer attachment to Lord MORPETH, who acted but a subordinate part in the great work of reconciling contending factions, are incontrovertible proofs of their generous and ardent dispositions. The electors of Dublin, on Friday last, paid another high com pliment to this noble and amiable statesman, and seem 'A eterrnined, if they cannot have him as Secretary, to make him at least their represen tative. A private meeting of the friends of the Liberal interest was held on that day, the LORD MAYOR in the chair, when it was unanimously resolved to put Lord MORPETH in nomination, and in a few moments 1,0001. was subscribed to defray the expenses of the election. Will the elec tors of the West Riding of Yorkshire be behind the people of Dublin ? Let them subscribe also, and they will still have him as their repre sentative also in the House of Commons. A great public meeting of the inhabitants of Dub lin was announced for yesterday, when we are convinced such a demonstration was made as will leave little doubt as to the result. Whether Lord MORPETH accept the offer or not, this public mark of respect will be gratifying to his feelings, and do him and the electors of Dublin great honour. At the Manchester meeting on Saturday, re corded in our columns, a part of the petition agreed to prayed the House of Commons to " ap point a Committee to consider in what manner the injured people of Great Britain may be best compensated for the great loss and damage they have for so long a period sustained—whether by a bounty upon the importation of foreign corn, or any other plan which shall, by the supe rior wisdom of Parliament, appear to be best adapted to answer the object in view." The meeting was attended by several gentlemen of pro perty ; but during the discussion one person ap pears to have called out, " Let us have the land," or something to that effect ; to which Mr. FAL VEY of Macclesfield, who was speaking, rejoined, " So say I : I am as willing as any of you to get possession of the land." The landlords, then, should watch the progress of the sentiments of the manufacturers. They refuse to do justice to the people by repealing the Corn-laws, and the people have already gone a step beyond that, and now demand compensation for the injury the Corn-laws have inflicted on them. !They are beginning, too, it appears, to demand pos session of the land. They are driven, by the obstinacy of the landlords in wrong, to attack the landlords' right of property, which they have most stupidly blended with Corn-laws; and the former, like the latter, is now treated as a legal injustice. If they imagine that their rights, when objected to by the people, can protect themselves, or that they can protect them, they are mistaken. The only security for any rights is the public sanction, and any rights from which this is withdrawn soon fall into desuetude. The landlords may possibly though that is now doubtful—save their estates by giving up the Corn-law ; but it will be impossible to preserve them if they persist in maintaining the law. We may add, that we learn from an Edin burgh paper that both Mr. HUME and Mr. VIL LIERS have declined attending the Anti-Corn law Conference in Edinburgh—the former be cause he is engaged, and the latter because his professional business, and the state of his health, will not allow him to attend. Mr. HUME recom mends, as a general rule, that such meet ings should be confined to persons of the localities, in order to prevent the assertion that they are got up by strangers. Mr. VILLIERS, in declining, justly compliments the members of the Conference, by expressing a doubt whether he could add anything to the sound judgment, in telligence, and information, they are likely to display. The Speech delivered by the Regent of SPAIN, at the opening of the annual session of the Cortes at Madrid, on the 26th ult., published in another part of The Sun, is a well-arranged business document; and its perusal will afford great pleasure to all who take an interest in the consolidation of the peace and the growing prosperity of Spain. There are topics, how ever, upon which it greatly disappoints public curiosity. A mystery is observed respecting the chief originators of the rebellion ; the correspondence between Senor OLOZAGA and Madame Muxoz is not so much as alluded to; nothing is said of the executions that took place ; and the quarrel between Spain and the Holy See is spoken of incidentally as an affair of secondary, or rather of no moment. But upon other, and perhaps more really important, matters the Speech i 3 exceedingly explicit. It announces the conclusion of friendly Treaties between Spain and three of the South American Republics; the negotiation of a treaty with Portugal for the navigation of the Douro, and anothei with France for preventing the violation of the Aldudes. The British Go vernment having given satisfaction to Spain for the cutting out of the vessel at Carthagena, the REGENT has no further ground of complaint on that score. The speech, after briefly noticing the suppression of the late rebellion, and the declaring Barcelona in a state of siege, proceeds to state that the con struction of the public roads, suspended by the civil wars, has been resumed, that bridges have been ordered to be built, and every measure taken to facilitate safe inland communica tion, and' promote the interests of com merce. The Government has also directed its attention to the establishment of normal schools of education ; and various measures are in pre paration for enforcing the execution of justice, and effectual administration of the laws. The proper maintainance of the clergy, the punish ment of frauds in the collection of the pub lic revenue, a general review of the Customs, Tariffs, and other taxes, and the appropriation of funds for honourably discharging the public debt, are all measures recommended to the serious attention of the Cortes. The Courts of justice are to be re-modelled, a necessary and most useful measure, and efforts are to be made to improve the commercial navy of Spain. The only harsh measure recommended in the speech is one for restraining the licentiousness of the Spanish Press—a measure which we are deeply pained to state is loudly called for by the abuses of some of the Spanish Metropolitan Journals. In some of these Papers we have recently seen articles openly advocating another revolution, the suppression of the Regency, and the abolition of the Constitution of 1837. The conclusion of the Speech is full of spirit, and well calculated to make a deep impression on the grave national heart of Spain. Address ing the Cortes, the REGENT says :—" Your mis sion is serious, and tends to regenerate the nation, and the book of immortality reserves you a golden page. Depend upon my efforts and the honest heart of a soldier, who always fought for the liberty and glory of his country. Let us draw closer the bonds of a sincere and consolidat ing union, and let us consolidate the Constitu tional throne of a young QUEEN, whose name has always vanquished the enemies of liberty." This is excellent advice ; and now comes the best possible reason why the Cortes should fol low it. In the REGENT'S continuation we have the very climax of patriotism I have no ambition for myself. My life belongs to my country, and the glory of serving it with honour forms my patrimony. May the existing Consti tution, the Throne of the young ISABELLA, the national independence, and the Government framed according to the wishes of the nation, be the programme of our fidelity, and the point of departure whence to direct the legislative la bours towards the consolidation of a strong and just Government; which, resisting the snares of ambitious factions, may secure for ever the pros perity and happiness of the nation!" This is surely not the language of the man whom the French represented as the betrayer of Queen CHRISTINA, in order to usurp the throne of her august daughter. These, on the contrary are the sentiments of a soldier and a patriot. There was a time when we doubted the honesty of ESPARTERO, but that time has not been since the flight of Madame MuNoz into France. That was a result to which we felt patriotism must have contributed. The speech is silent . on the subject of the differences between the REGENT and M. SAL VANDY, the French Ambassador, respecting the presentation of the latter's credentials. His Ex cellency, to avoid the mortification of an exclu sion from the Ambassadors' seat in the Cortes, visited Toledo and La Granja on the 25th and 26th ult. This whole affair, on the part of France, would be very ridiculous, were it not well understood that the object of the Ambas sador's presentation to the young QUEEN is to • + .'4 fe . „` • • 0;,, . • s r( f.s. Ac 4 • 2 IC- 1 7 '. :4,› IL ( PS• T.;•711,.-X,'AViph. : &,2 o - -• _ ..1111.,r1 ,1111637 THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1842. prepare the way for surrounding her with the French Camarilla, who made such a dupe of her mother. The French Journals have been received. They are chiefly occupied with the Speech of the PRESI DENT of the United States at the opening of Congress. Their comments amount to this : That Great Britain cannot persist in exercis ing a right of search in the case of American vessels engaged in the slave trade, without pro voking a war with that Republic. The Borsenhalle, under date of Stockholm, 14th inst., states that an annual pension of 2,000 rix-dollars bunco of Hamburg, has been granted to Baron Rothschild, for merly envoy at Copenhagen. The Diario di Roma states that the Prince of Monaco was received by the Pope on the 19th inst. The Gazette de France says—" The establishment of a Viceroy in Algiers, in the person of the Duke de Ne mours, is again talked of, and the mission of General de Rumigny is said to be for the purpose of making the ne cessary administrative arrangements." We find the following in the Handelsblad of Amster dam :—" The Governor-General of the Dutch settle ments in the East Indies has announced that, in virtue of a Royal Decree, the Western India Bank at Surinam was again authorised to issue its paper, from which it has been interdicted since 1831. The cholera morbus is making great ravages in the island of Java, and the other islands of the Indian Archipelago, whilst the islands to the north west of Timor are so reduced by fa• mine, that upwards of 300 natives have died from this terrible scourge, although the Government had afforded them large supplies of provisions." The remps says, " A rumour was current yesterday evening, that an ex-Deputy, who is now Editor of an ultra-Radical Paper, bad been arrested in consequence of the new investigations of the Court of Peers. This rumour does not appear to us to be probable. We be lieve that all the persons who have been arrested belong to the working classes. We are assured that in the course of yesterday the Court ordered new arrests. Owing to the rumours in circulation, the approaches to the Luxembourg have been crowded with curious per sons. The Journals which have announced the removal of the prisoners from the Luxembourg for Doullens and Mont St. Michel have been misinformed as to the mode in which they have been disposed of. According to the order of the Court of Peers, Dupoty, Bazin, Boggio, and Mallet have been sent to Doullens ; and Petit, Jarrasse, Dufour, and Launois. to Mont St. Michel." The Debats states that the wife of Colombier was interrogated yes terday by Baron Pasquier. A few days ago, says a Brussels paper, as two men who had dug up some carrots in a field at Mariakerke, and were preparing to carry them off, a man armed with a fowling-piece made his appearance, and desired the thieves to lay down their booty and retire. On their refusal he fired, and one of them fell. He died of his wounds on the following day, and the other thief has been arrested. The Journal de Bruges contains an account of the murder of a poor woman, aged 69, at Saint Req u i ers , during the absence of her husband, who was at church. The murderers carried off a sum of ten sous, which was all the money in the possession of this poor couple. A good deal of snow has recently fallen on the Jura, and in some places on the Lyons and Geneva road it has drifted from 15 to 20 feet in depth. Cardinal Mattei, the Minister of the Interior, and Pre sident of the Board of Health at Rome, has lately issued an ordonnance whereby the physicians and surgeons of all the public establishments in the Papal dominions are bound to vaccinate all persons admitted into these re spective houses. The same is to be done for the troops and persons confined in prisons. Days are appointed for the vaccination of the poor gratuitously, and measures are prescribed for isolating all persons affected with the small. pox. A letter from Ajaccio mentions that a notorious ban dit, named Stefanini, of Sari d'Orcin o , i n C ors i ca , w h o had taken refuge in Sardinia, had returued to the island with another bandit, and carried off by force the Mayor of Sari, demanding 4,400£ for his ransom. Orders had been given for a company of the Corsican Voltigeurs to go in search of the malefactors, but they had been un successful, and the Mayor still remained in the hands of Stefanini. About four months ago, Letang, a chaser by trade, married a young woman from mutual affection. The bride was so brought up that she had a peculiar horror of drunkenness, and perceiving., three days ago, that her husband was, when he came home to her in the evening, somewhat heated with liquor, determined to watch him. Next day she went to the shop where he worked to in quire for him, and learnt that he had not been there for two days. This intelligence had such an effect upon her that she lost her reason, and determined to destroy her self. Instead of returning home, site first went up the stairs of a house in the Rue Maubuee, but, not finding it suit her purpose, came down again, and, entering No. 43, in the Rue des Blanes Manteaux, ascended to the fourth story, opened the window on the landing-place, bound a handkerchief over her eyes, and threw herself down into the street. This did not cause immediate death, but she was carried, with both her legs broken, to the Hotel-Dieu, where she has undergone amputation, and now lies in imminent danger. The architectural and internal decorations of the new Chamber of Peers are all finished, except the allegorical paintings of the Conference-room, but the sittings will not be held in the new hall till the middle of next month. The construction of this building has cost 300,000 f., and the ornamental sculpture and paintings 800,000 E It was commenced in 1837, and has been four years in execution. The new Chamber in which the sittings are to be held is placed between the archives-rootn and a spacious library, with windows looking into the gar den. The cabinets for the President and the Grand Re ferendary, and the committee-rooms, are to the right and left of the Chamber. The ceiling is both rich and grand. The four pendentives are ornamented with figures of Wisdow, Law, Justice, and th e country, executed by M. Abel de Pujol. The three grand medallions, and the six window compartments, representing Prudence, Truth, and Confidence, and the six most illustrious law-givers of the ancients--Moses, Draco, Solon, Lycurgus, Numa, and Justinian, are by M. Vauchelet. On each side of the semicircle, in which the President's chair is to be placed, are two allegorical paintings by M. Blondel. To wards the centre of the ceiling, in six medallions round the opening, to permit the passage of the chandelier, are the profiles in bronze of Charles V., Louis XII., ran cols 1., Louis XIV., Napoleon, and Louis XVIII. The gilding and accessory ornaments by Messrs. Adam Bro thers. The Minister of Public Works, the Commission of Monuments, and a great number of Peers and Depu ties, hare highly congratulated M. Gisors, under whose direction the whole has been accomplished. BOURSE—PARIS, FRIDAY, DEC. 31. !lest Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price. French 5 per ; Ild 60 116 65 ... 116 55 116 60 3 per Contr. ex div 78 kl) .... 78 25 ... 78 15 78 15 Loan ex d1r....» 74 70 ... 78 70 ••• 78 70 78 78 Bank of France Latfitte Bank:1,000f. Shares 1017 50 ...1007 50 ...1007 50 ...1007 50 Aminan Bank Belgian 5 per Cent'., 1840 102% ... 102 8 i ... 102% ... 102 X Active OOOOOOO O Y 5 .•• 254 ... 24% .6 2 5 % ... 5% ... 5% 5 % Portugueses per Cents. ...... 28% ... 28% ... 285 i ... 484 Dutch 2% per Cents. 53% 533f i ... 53% ... 53 % doirian lO3 ... 103 ... 103 103 RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles. L.B 212 50 212 50 „. 207 50 ... 2:0 K. B 340 340 3:38 75 ... 340 Rouen 00000000 •••••••••••••••••••••• 457 50 ••• 457 50 ... 457 54) .•• 457 50 Orleans . 512 50 517 50 ... 512 50 ... 517 50 Itrasburg to Bahr 232 50 .. 23.5 ... 232 50 ... 233 75 The Marylebone Vestry have come to the sage conclusion of postponing the question of wood pavement for Oxford-street for a period of three years. This was carried by a majority of only two. We recommend the inhabitants to resent this insult offered to the deputation by calling a public meeting without delay. Let them persevere, and they will compel this speechifying vestry to act as well as to speak. To postpone the consideration of such an important subject for so long a period, is a disgrace to the inhabitants of this large district. THE TEN HOURS' FACTORY QUESTION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR—After the amusing description which has been given of the interview of the Ten Hours' Deputation with the Minister, it remains only to anticipate the time when the manufacturing capitalists shall present themselves to the Grand Vizier of the hour, with a corresponding request to have the evils of the agricultural management looked into, and repressed by the strong fingers of the law. When this time comes, how pathetic will the remonstrants be, on the evils, physical and moral, which always arise from agriculture where the manufacturing interest has not a controller on the spot. To say nothing of the toils of harvest women, and the total absence of care, for the fingers of female and infant weeders, when the thermometer is below 40, the moral view alone will be terrible and sad. Our popular poetry is full of little but the moral dangers inseparable from the encouragement of an agricultural population. The bush, the brake, the " rigs o' barley," and the "rushes green," have each their several temptations, leading all one way, and calling for pensive reflection on the legislator and the parish officer. Shall there be no balm for this, while an active superintendence on the part of a moral and religious manufactur ing public might do so much to prevent the ap prehended evils? Why not appoint an inspector of hay-fields ? Do the landlords properly box off all dangerous places? Are these matters to be left to adjust themselves ? or ought the law to in terfere to ensure the doing right? The require ments of humanity imperatively demand it. The landlords may find out some time, that it is just as easy for one set of men to plague and vilify another, as was the converse. Of course it will be understood, that if the question has been treated here with levity, it was in the full per suasion that what is called the Ten Hours' ques tion, after making the needful reservations for well-meaning blunder, is a fraud directed to the preservation of the evils it pretends to remedy, and by the active operation and encouragement of those who made and maintain the evils for the sake of their own personal and dishonest gain. Yours very sincerely, T. PERRONET THOMPSON. Blackheath, Jan. 3, 1842. SUMMARY OF NEW AND Public Opinion. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The most interesting foreign event reported this morning is the Speech of the Regent of Spain at open ing the Cortes of the Kingdom on the 26th ult. This speech is very pacific, and altogether of a most satis factory character. New Year's-day in Paris is a festival never dese crated by any public business, so that our accounts from the capital of that date are but records of courtly and official visits and addresses to which we have only space for a passing reference. The Univers states that orders have been sent to M. de Salvandy to demand his passports immediately, and to return to France with all the persons of his embassy, if Espartero dues not withdraw his pretensions in refus ing to the French Ambassador the right of delivering his credentials to the Queen of Spain in person. A commission, composed of three Peers, and of Messrs. Pinsonniere, Jouffroy, Felix Real, De Corcelles, d'Ar blay, Gustave de Beaumont, Dumon (du Lot et Garonne), Laurence, Filleau de Sainte Hilaire, Director of Colo nies at the Ministry of the Marine, General Bellonet, of the Engineers, and M. Linguay, as Secretary, has been appointed to take into consideration all questions relat ing to the colonisation of Algeria. A letter from Berlin of the 22d ult. says :---The de parture of the King of Prussia for London is now defini tively fixed for the 16th of January next. He sups the first night in Magdeburg, whence he proceeds to Hagen, and arrives on the 19th, by way of Aix-la-Chapelle, at Liege. On the 20th he will reach Ostend, where a Go vernment steamer will be in readiness to receive him, and he will reach London on the 21st. The suite of his Ma jesty will not be so numerous as several German papers have represented. It will consist of Generals Ratzmer and Von Neuman, the celebrated traveller and author Alexander Von Humboldt, and Count Stolberg, the Ca binet Councillor Muller and the Marshal of the Palace Von Meyerinck. Accounts from Lisbon of the 27th ult, report that the elections have terminated in Portugal in the complete triumph of the Ministers. PUBLIC OPINION. The Morning Chronicle contains an article the hints for which have been furnished by Sir James Graham's late speech at Dorchester. In this article our Contem porary says :—" The paltry trickery of Sir James Gra ham will be but of slender benefit to his leader. The country is not now in a mood to be trifled with. Sir Robert Peel must make his election between the people and the Monopolists. He is in a false position, from which he cannot, by any degree of ingenuity be ex tricated." With reference to an article in the New Farmer's Journal, which is one of the organs of the landed in terest, the Advertiser observes :—"The Monopolists are not wanting in sufficient foresight to perceive that it is a dangerous thing to make even a show of reform in the details of a bad system ; their policy, therefore, is to resist, as long as they can hold out the approach of even a fallacious reform." The Morning _Herald recommends the Dublin electors to lose not a moment in selecting some stiff-necked Tory to represent them in Parliament • and specially exhorts them to oppose Lord Morpeth's election by every means in their power. The Times is exceedingly out of humour with the Anti-Corn-law agitators, and says:—" We can tell these gentry that the snore fiercely they preach a crusade against the landed interest, the more absolutely do they detach from all sympathy with them and their exertions the large class of honourable and respectable British merchants who are as ardent as themselves in their oppo sition to the Corn-laws." The Liverpool Chronicle, commenting upon the pom pous announcement of the Morning Herald on the " fa mily residence of the Lyndhursts," observes :—" That Lord Lyndhurst has advanced himself from a mud cot tage to Great George -street is much to his credit. We admire him for it, and we can afford to say it as we ad mire him for nothing else, but still that does not at all lessen the folly and absurdity of the Morning Herald. We marvel too who composed the select party."" • The growth of Anti-Corn-law principles and their gradual extension in England is dwelt upon by the South Wales Advertiser thus:—" It is not many months since our Parliament refused even to consider the ques tion relating to the effects of the Corn-laws—they would not hear evidence as to their operation, neither would they consent with any degree of patience to their discus sion. Now, how stands the case? Why, one of the most in fluential supporters of those laws, a County Conservative Member, stands up before a meeting of landowners and says-6 Parliament is now obliged to entertain the ques tion, and whatever we may think as to the prudence or policy of Parliament entering into this discussion, it is not in our power any longer to resist it. I would ask you, as practical men, as men not merely well acquainted with agriculture, but well versed in general public affairs, can you, in the present state of public feeling, rqiiise any longer to consider in detail the existing Corn-laws.' " The Bristol Mercury in dilating upon class distinctions of the first, second, and third class Railway trains, re marks—" On our Great Western Railway, how admirably are the gradations of society preserved I The thirty-shil ling aristocrats 101 l upon luxurious couches, securely , protected from wind and weather ; the one-anit twenty-shilling shopocrats sit upon uncovered seats, exposed to all the: .‘ skyey influences,' antici pating that draughts will lead to draughts, and indulging in doleful visions of stiff necks, sore throats, coughs, catarrhs, doctors, and doctors', bills ; whilst the twelve-shilling mobocracy, coming under the denomina tion of 'the swinish multitude,' are appropriately packed off with the pi g s in the luggage-tr a i n I N or d oes th e distinction end here. The two firmer classes are whirled the whole distance in four hours, whilst those to whom time is, emphatically, money, are detained on the road for twelve I ' The distress in Paisley, and the methods now using towards its relief are thus stated by the Scotsman of Saturday:—" Amidst the overwhelming sufferings to which this town unit its neighbourhood has for these last six months been exposed, it is even a satisfaction to ob serve that the last week's increase of applicants for sup plies of food is only sixty-three—which makes the total number depending upon the Relief Committee for a very bare subsistence, 13,303. To-morrow is the day appointed by the Presbytery of Edinburgh for an extra ordinary collection to be made, forenoon and afternoon, in all the Established Churches of the city and neigh bourhood." The meeting held at Dublin, last Friday, on the ap proaching election for that city, and the conduct of the Liberals in their fervent display for the cause of Lord Morpeth, is highly eulogised by the Dublin Evening Post, which thus continues:—" The resolutions of that meeting will be read in every part of Ireland—in every part of England, and in Yorkshire particularly, with exultation. There is no second opinion as to the propriety and the policy of selecting the Nominee—for Candidate he can not be called. His high talents—his noble character — his eminently amiable demeanour—these are qualities and attributes acknowledged by all, and by none more readily than the gentlemen of the Conservative party." MONEY-Ta&DE-COMMERCE. A silk manufacturer at Basle, in Switzerland, writes that in that town all the silk-trade houses are busy to the utmost, and remarks that as good workmen are get ting scarce and troublesome there, our own factories might send a reinforcement. _ _ At a meeting of the unemployed Spitalfields weavers, held at Bethnal•green on Saturday, the hardship of putting weavers to stone-breaking at the poor-house was bitterly complained of. A representation was unani mously resolved to be made to the Poor-law Com missioners. Six French vessels laden with wheat were entered at the Plymouth Custom-house last Monday. Their car goes amounted to 458 tons. The duty is now 225. Bd. per qr. COMMERCIAL REFORM. At a Corn-law meeting last week at Maidstone, a letter from a resident gentleman was read, stating that sixteen families in that locality had refused to sign the petition for a repeal of the Corn laws " because to do so," they said, " would lose them their election money." ECCLESIASTICAL. The monastery on Mount Carmel is to be repaired, and the King and Queen of the French have given 1,500 francs for that purpose. ELECTIONEERING. The signatures to the West Riding address of York shire to be presented to Lord Morpeth on his return to this country, already numbers 25,050, and the subscrip tions amount to 1,430 E 9s. aid. The succession of Lord Boscawen (son of the late Earl of Falmouth) to his father's honours, creates 2 vacancy in the representation of West Cornwall. About twenty individuals of the citizens of Dublin, at a meeting held there last Friday, subscribed 1,0001. to secure Lord Morpeth's return. The determination ex hibited by the Liberals to start bis Lordship has caused Mr. Vance to retire. The Lord Mayor is active in these admirable proceedings. NAVAL AND lIIILITAILT. A Liverpool man last week, anxious to enter the East India service, but unqualified by being one-eighth of an inch under the standard height, fixed a ball of wax covered with hair on his head, avid thereby passed, but on detection was discharged from the corps. fahe decoration of the Red Eagle has been conferred on Admiral Walker, of the Turkish service, by the King of Prussia. MAW AND POLICE. The session for the Central Criminal Court commenced yesterday at the Old Bailey, being the 87th, and third during the present Mayoralty. The calendar contains about 120 prisoners : two cases are of a very serious na ture, the others are chiefly comm on larcenies. FINE ARTS. Charles 11., when pensioner of the French Court, had given orders that the n a ti ona l b ust of Britannia for the coin of the realm should be an exact likeness of the Duchess of Portsmouth, the French Courtezan, and her Grace was about to sit for it, but Nell Gwynne prostrated herself in th e King's way, and admonished him against it. Accordingly the bust of Miss Byron, a celebrated beauty and virtuous lady, was adopted in its stead. This coin is esteemed a gem. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. A scientific soiree was held by Dr. Mantell on Clap ham Common last week-250 persons were present. Of Literary Ambassadors, three have of late been very eminent men, viz. Niebuhr, the historian at the Court of Rome; Dr. Bunser, his successor, author of " The Ro man Forum," whose wife, Madame Bunsen, is an English woman, and one of the co-heiresses of a wealthy Welsh iron-master, the other daughter married Sir Benjamin Hall, the Member for Marylebone ; and, lastly, Mr. Eve rett, one of the most distinguished of the American literati, the new Minister for the Cabinet of the United States. SPORTING. • Lord Rendlesbam, while pheasant shooting at Camp sey Ash last week, shot away the forefinger of his right hand, and grazed his eye, while - reloading his gun, which accidentally went off. C 0 UR.T---PAS H X 0 NA.B L Z . The Duke and Duchess of Bedford arrived in Bel grave •square on Saturday from Woburn. The Marquis of Tavistock leaves town to-day for Woburn. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort arrived at Hamp ton Court on Saturday, on a visit to Mr. and Lady Anne Culling Smith. The Earl of Aberdeen has been elected President of the Aberdeenshire Spalding Club. The Earl and Countess of Wilton have gone to Egerton Lodge, Melton Mowbray. Lord and Lady J. Russell left Bowood Park yesterday. Lord and Lady Palmerston have left Broadlands for Bowood Park, Wilts. The Marquis of Kildare has accepted the Shrievalty of the county of Kildare. The Earl and Countess of Ilurdwicke have been re ceiving company during the week at Wimpole Hall, Cam bridgeshire. Viscount Melbourne arrived in town on Friday even ing, from Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire, and, on Satur day afternoon, departed for 'Windsor Castle, on a visit to her Majesty. MISCELLILNEOIIS. The Duke of Bordeaux has recovered from his late accident, so as to receive visits in his arm-chair from the nobility and gentry at Vienna. It is a remarkable circumstance that the heirs of three Earldoms should, after only enjoying seats in the Lower House during the short session of last autumn, lose their seats by succeeding to Peerages—we allude to the pre sent Earl of Falmouth, the present Earl of Elgin, and the present Earl of Malmesbury. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, MONDAY.—The Queen anti Prince Albert walked this morning on the Terrace of the Castle and in the Slopes. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent also took walking exercise, attended by Lady Fanny Howard. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shooting to Norfolk Farm, attended by Viscount Melbourne, Colonel Bouverie, and Mr. George E. Anson. The Earl and Countess De la Warr and Lady Eliza beth West, and Earl Jersey, are expected this evening on a visit to her Majesty. Her Majesty honoured Mr. Partridge by sitting to him to-day, for the whole length portrait which he is painting by command. - Mr. and - Mrs. Harcourt (St. Leonard's-on-Hill), and Mr. George Edward Anson, will have the honour of joining the Royal dinner circle at the Castle this afternoon. His Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured Mr. Sievier this morning with another sitting. Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence left his residence in St. James's Palace yesterday, for Beau-desert, Staffordshire, the residence of the Marquis of Anglesey, to join a party invited to meet his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. The Marchioness of Queensbery left Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave-street, yesterday, on a visit to Lady Mary Lennox, at Wood-end, Chichester. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left his residence at Kew, on Saturday, on a visit to Sir Robert Peel, at his seat, Drayton Manor, Staffordshire. His Royal Highness took his departure from Sir Robert's residence yesterday, to honour the Marquis of Anglesey with a visit at his seat, Beaudesert, Staffordshire. Sir Charles Fitzroy and Mr. Martyn, M.P., had inter views with Lord Stanley yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Baron Brunow, the Russian Minister, and the Chev. Bunsen, the Prussian Minister, on a special mission, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign -office. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, MONDAY EVENING. _ _ The Stock Markets to-day presented an animated ap pearance, and prices rose both for the British and Fo reign investments. Altogether we had very satisfactory accounts both from Spain and Portugal, and it only re quires the affair of M. Salvencly to be amicably settled in order that the confidence of the bondholders may be materially restored. We only hope that no unforeseen disappointment may again deceive the hopes entertained. Consols for the opening were done as high as 89f to 89a, at which they closed. This is full i f per cent. rise on Saturday's value. Exchequer Bills were more dealt in, perhaps, than at any period since the forgeries were first suspected, and they advanced 2s. to 45., being at 16s. to 21 s. premium. East India Bonds were worth 4s. to 7s. prem. The Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. were firm at 994 to 991, and the Three per Cents. at 891 to 89+. Bank Stock brought 1661 to 1664, and the Long Annuities were at 12 9-16 to 121. Spanish Active Bonds were 25+ to 251, a rise of nearly f per cent. Portuguese New Five per Cents., without the dividend for the half year, were at 321, being an im provement of 1 per cent. on Saturday's rates ; the Three per Cents. were at 19g. Colombian Bonds got up to 221 to 23, and Mexican were done as high as 294 to 30 ; Chilian Stock was marked 72 ; Brazilian 631, and Peruvian 15A, Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. brought 51f to 51* ex-dividend, and French Five per Cent. Rentes 116 r. 25c. _ _ Shares did not participate in the improvement of Stocks. Great Western were 21i to 221 ; Birmingham 79, and the South Western 19-; 4 1 prem. Brighton were 194 to 1 Blackwell 13, and Eastern Counties 131 clis. (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JAN. L—An extremely limited business has been done in the Cotton Market to-day, the sales not amounting to more than 2,000 hales, chiefly American description to the trade. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JAN. I.—The business at the Stock Exchange to-day has been merely nominal, nothing having transpired of any moment in any de• scription of Stock. Present prices for the Stock most in demand are—Grand Junction, 196 ; Eastern Counties, 81 ; Great Western, 861 ; London and Birmingham Quarter Shares, 254 ; Ditto New, 281. The English Securities opened firm this morning at the leaving off price of Saturday. Consols 891 1 for the opening ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 891 ; Three-and a•Half ditto, 9941 ; Exchequer Bills, 15 17 prem. In the Foreign Market an advance of # per cent. has taken place in Spanish Active Stock, the quotation being now 254 4 ; Portuguese Five per Cents. are 321 33 ex. div. ; Ditto Threes, 1941. Very little business doing at present. There has been a good deal of business transacted in the Stock Exchange this morning, and prices have further advanced. Consols are now 8911 for the Opening ; Three per Cents. Reduced 891 /' • Three and-a-Half per Cents., ditto, 991 ; Bank Stock, 1661* ; India Bonds, 4 prem. ; Exchequer Bills, 16 19. The following are the quotations in the Foreign Mar ket :—Brazilian, 631 ; Chilian, 72 ; Colombian Bonds, 224 23 ; Mexican, 294 30 ; Peruvian, 154 16 ; Portu guese Five per Cents. 324 ex div. ; Ditto, Threes, 191 ; Spanish Active Stock, 2.51 11 4 ; Deferred 13 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 51%* ; Ditto, Fives, 100. Very little doing in Shares, and quotations are rather lower :—Great Western, 861 ; Birmingham and Glou cester, 631 1/ ; Eastern Counties, 9 ; London and Brigh ton, 39/ ; South Eastern and Dover, 224 The Markets are very firm at the above quotations. Consols, Account, 894 ; Exchequer Bills 19 21 • Co lombian, 224 ; Mexican, 291 30 ; Spanish, 254 The Tea Market is very firm to-day, although of course some doubt must prevail as to the news the Overland Mail expected this week will bring to us from China. Prices are even rather on the advance at present, and the public sale this morning went off briskly at Id. per lb. rise on Congous. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 1664 (India Stock 894 Ditto B on d s 7pm 3 3 Ditto Old Annuities per per Cent Cent Red. Cons 34 per Cent Red 994 Ditto New Annuities... Hew 34 per Cent — Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2}41 21 pm New 5 per Cent Ditto 5001.... 2l pm Long Annuities toespire Ditto Small. 21 pm Jan 1860 ;Bank Stock for Acct... Oct 1859 Jan. 1860. Consols for Open B9 FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian 80nd5.... 634 jPrussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres, 6 per cei Russian, 5 per cent Chilian, 6 per cent..... 72 Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per cent.. 224 Spanish, 5 per cent 254 Ditto, 1824. — Ditto, Deferred ... 134 Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent.ll6l. 25e. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange —f. —c. Mexican, 5 per cent.... 30 French, 3 percent —f. --c Ditto, 6 per cent, 1837 Dutch, 24 per cent sli Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct. 154 Ditto, 5 per cent. SHARES. Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p) 64 Ditto New Shares (71 paid) Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) Great Western Railway( 65 paid) Ditto New Shares (50 paid) ......... 604 Ditto Fifth (4 paid) ................... .. 10 London and Brighton (50 paid ),. ........ 38! London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid)... 12 London and Birmingham (90) ......... 169 Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) oonnddoonn Ditto London and Gre enwic h R a i lway (20 pd) — 7 London and Croydon SP.o u(t6hl\e pVa R i sdt a e) i Railway a y (T run k) sB} Manchester a n d L ee d s (70 paid) .•• 121 " . Ditto Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) ... Alanchester and Birmingham (40 paid) ... 28% Northern and Eastern (40 paid) North Midland Railway (100) Ditto Thirds (15 paid) South Eastern and Dover (43 paid)......., 22% Ditto New Shares ( 5 paid ll POST OFFICE. MONTHLY STATEMENT OF LETTERS DELIVERED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM : Week ending Dec. 19, 1841 . 3 ,938 , 755 Week ending Dec. 20, 1840 . . 3,435,326 Week ending Nov. 24, 1839 . . 1,585,973 Increase since 1840, on the week's letters . Increase since 1839, on the week's letters . . . 2,352,782 503,429 "MADAME DE SEVIGNE AND HER CON TEMPORARIES."—The work under the above title, is just now most seasonably produced, for a more attractive new year's gift to a lady need hardly be required. The Literary Gazette observes,—" To all who are not familiar with the mass of French memoirs, these sketches will furnish much amusing food, tending to illustrate a cen tury of such social exhibition as the Court and aristo cracy of France produced from the time of Richelieu to the date of a hundred years ago. These biographies are always characteristic, often personally curious, and historically instructive ; and the brilliant epigrams, jeuz d'esprit, &c. which sparkle over the whole, give the work a piquancy likely to reader it weediagly popular." MORNING SUN PUBLIC IIIEiTING AT MAN• CHESTER, A meeting of Deputies from operative A n ti-Corn-V I Associations was held on Sat ur d a y (N ew Y ear ' s -day), , s e the rooms of the League, whi c h h a d b een l en t for Is', purpose. Deputies from many of the principal towns t England and Scotland attended. A considerable nunib e of communications were also r ece i ve d f rom Associatio to which are not able to bear the expense of sending re sentatives to the meeting. Afterwards a public meeting of the inhabitants of Manchester was held at twelve o'clock, in the Town the large room of which was Vied to overflowing. ir meeting was held for the purpose of petitioning PI formingment against the Corn-laws. Th e Ch ar ti s t s we re pre . „ in a considerabl e b o dy, about one-fifth of IP entire number; and on John Brooks,-Esq., being posed as chairman, raised a great clamour, but were o H titnately restored to tolerable order on one of their lead declaring that they were in a decided minority. After speeches from the Chairman, Mr. Rawson, , Falvey of Macclesfield, and t wo o th er gen tlemen, . 1 0; following petition was carried by a gre a t m a jority tile loud cheers:— " To the Honourable the Commons of Great Britain Ireland in Parliament assembled. " The humble petition of the inhabitants of Manch/ ter in public meeting assembled : 0 "Sheweth,—That your petitioners conceive that class in the community ought to be protected by la w , the perpetration of injustice ; that no individual or cl a has a right (under the protection of a L eg i s l a ture wbi l i ought to be the representative of impartial justice , all), to live without labour, eat of th e p ro du c e of the 0 of any other individual or class; and, therefore, as it 11 : 1 often been declared by Parliament that the wages of working men cannot be raised, maint a ined, or fi%e ,'L % law, it is inconsistent and unjust by law to raise, ole min, or fix the price of the food of the workin,. man; and as they know it has been proved beforetub Committees of your Honourable House that corn can grown in Great Britain and sold by British fanner% 1 40s. a quarter, or 245. a quarter less than th e price v' lll ,, it is the intention of the Corn-laws to fix it at ; and, e k ,' that by the evidence of Mr. J. D. Hume, given also 1 . ; fore the Committee of your Honourable House, it P io been proved that the Corn and Provision-laws inflict 1 annual burthen upon the people of at least 58,000, 0 0 , a sum three times as great as is the entire al io wages of all the persons engaged in the cotton man u „ . ol Lure, and more than twice as great as the whole aro°' - j of the annual wages paid to the millions of the best P e ' agricultural labourers ; they do most earnestly F; your Honourable House will immediately obey the l' ci o k of justice, by the total abolition of the unchristian tag immoral Corn and Provision-laws, and thus show tollo disposed otherwise to doubt it, that you are the supP;ol of right, even though it may be upheld by wealth th e power, and not the upholders by the abuse of law ofli tyranny and injustice of a small but rich and poife P fraction of the community.—(Applause.) f o ie " And your petitioners would further express to Honourable House, that the Corn and Provison-lao?'0 the present or a similar form, have taken at 1 1 0 , 58,000,0001. per annum out of the pockets of the i 0 "0 trious and suffining portion of the community fo r 1 years, and thus have inflicted a total burtheutij 1,300,000,0001., which vast sum has enriched and ove r b e the landowners of the country at the expense of..:a; misery and privation of the people and premature fifri by legal famine of vast numbers. Therefore your ri , tioners would humbly suggest to your Honours House the immediate appointment of a Comm i li whose task it should be to ascertain, in what manner injured people of Great Britain and Ireland may be 0 compensated for the great loss and damage they h i ri for so long a period sustained, whether by a bounty ° the importation of foreign corn, or by any other o r , which shall, by the superior wisdom of Parliameo pear to be best adapted to answer the object in view. " And your petitioners, in conclusion, would 011 the attention of your Honourable House to the prey unjustifiable small amount of the burdens of the 00,4 frayed by the land -tax; and would hurnbl pray 'I/ as the rental of land has risen enormously since the ir , position of the present tax upon it, the tax may b e o ot creased in proportion ; and that thus about 20,00 0, d per annum may be taken off the shoulders of labou r placed upon the rich proprietors of the soil. It was tken moved and seconded, that the petitioli presented to the Commons by the Members for j borough, and to the Lords by the Earl of Radnor , the motion was carried without opposition. MEETING OF SPITALFIELO SILK WEAVERS. On Saturday night a general meeting of the tril clB oo the Spitalfields silk weavers was held at the Crovv ll ", Anchor, Waterloo-town Bethnal-green, for the P ll s° of receiving the report of the actin g C omm itt ee a pPV to investigate the state and condition of the silk 1 41 ' in that district. Several females were present. 5 0 1 ' Mr. BRITTI having been appointed to the chair 0 , 0 1 11 that he was sorry he was under the necessity of Nil having to address them on the subject of their PV state of starvation. There was 500 or 600 niell t bel that night, many of whoin had not a dinner for e families to-morrow. This is a most distres s ing cs s ,Ppli, have no food for your wives and f am ili es , an d if yot'" j o to the parish what do you get? Stone-breaking I e h e s a man who has a wife and four childr en , w h a t cal" 9r, at that ? He must go again and again to the'stoi l, a " - t hi!, before he can earn a shilling. A weaver known at all about stone-breaking ; he is not fit for its f - A sent to the stone-yard if he applies for relief, an he is confined and locked up. itr we Mr. Fox said, that at the last meeting they ~ formed that three of the Committee would pee of f j ' to the district, and which had been done. pee 0 1 , Fox), Mr. Claisse, the Secretary, and Mr. Horn* visited nearly 800 families in three days, and thef t found that their previous account as to the state 13 4) distress was not at all exaggerated.--(Hear„y They had seen many instances where children lie d crying for bread. One-half the looms were utietolnd while those at work were not fully so ; there were ° or' houses, also, which were unoccupied where there ;rid to be weavers who had their looms. There wer e wile, ral cases where a weaver had formerly his loore s w decent furniture, but it was gone, and he was 0 4 b , without bed or clothing for his large family. The( o / seen Mr. Millar, Secretary to the Committee in O f " nication with th Lord Mayor, at Mr. Hanbury's Oh . ; ery, and he informed them that an early meeting l a fol Committee would take place to make arrangesol the distribution of the funds raised for their relit% th e was glad that some allusion had been made cruelties of the stone-yard. It was an act of to put a man who had been brought up to O l e n th e trade to the task of stone breaking.—(Hear.) Ab year 1837 there was a special order that no ms l2 t or was engaged in the silk trade should be put to e breaking, and the reas on was , that if, on leaYi e g,, 0 : workhouse, they had wor k, t h e y cou ld no t d o it (/ " D tilt count of the stat e o f t h e i r hands.--{Hear.) Tha t Or Was obtained in consequence of certain diselcitire e co us e at a meetin g h e ld at t h e C am d en H ea d. Their 0 5 ' was taken up by the press, and the consequeoeV that there was a special meeting of the Board of o n e dians to inquire into the case, and that a speeledo° th e was made that no silk-weaver should be put St em g stone-yard. But time had gone on, and the old ';1. 4 " had come round again. He knew that the parish 5 11 c; difficulties, and that it was impossible for them tg ro l‘e' port the poor they had. But if the weavers were oil itf' down by poverty, they might be treated with bil ls coe r Afeer soma further discussion the report of th e mittee was then unanimously received, and Jed, • Mr. Hotorsny moved, and Mr. CLAissE secc' rl ipts 4 l , resolution pledging the meeting to oppose the cra e oic" tice of sending the silk-weavers to the stone-yard , was unanimously agreed to. of' FRIGHTFUL MURDER of an 1D- f th e i We copy from the Monitor an account of one, in see, most diabolical outrages that ever was perpettateu,; t irk e. country, even amongst savage tribes. It is - the I ",bocoi of a poor idiot, under circumstances of the me st ,,:liti ° ,l ing barbarity. Unwilling to believe in the possw i e l be; such . a fiendish crime, the perpetrators being dt fi r as military gentlemen, on a visit near Philipste' ho "'for e expressed our disbelief of the statement. But je s „ t ia - crse f going to press, we learned, with horror, that toe - 1 3 y actually occurred, and that the description give' Contemporary is correct in all material partieul ti g ;os A It seems that a mock inquest was held—tha t t, 7, 4 the delinquents have fled, and that the Upor„ e o n t irc7., far as we are yet apprised from offici a ror owe' - rpt chr has taken no step for the arrest of the diabolical Iv` - oil' concerned in this most dreadful murder. -Dublin ing Post. pO6 [The following is the statement referred te• u s 1 , of the particulars appeared in The Sun last week , b hoti lo appeared so incredible t h a t an atrocity of the kinds dos be passed over or hushed up in a Christian count* we attached little credit to it. —ED. Sua.] THE PHILIPSTOWN MURDER. o f The horrible murder of the poor idiot, by aP. tb e gentlemen who were sojourning at a country sea t immediate vicinity of Philipstown, and to whi c 9 9 _ A a dverted on Tuesday l as t, h as b een consideno wholly incredible. So horrible are the facts: . bar scarcely any per son i s willing to believe that 50' 1 01e' barons cruelty co u ld b e prac tised by a party of g e o , to men in a Christian country. It is our duty,11 0 1:1 tak e reiterate ou r s t atement . Th e h orr ibl e murder di d place; but we have received additional informati on, „. 0 e states that the idiot murdered was not a boy but afr o llli was besmeared over with oil and turpentine, and a w ell ° roasted to death. An inquest was held—a mock o ne, . en ' led to believe, from the fact that one of the P arti ,v b 0 gaged in the murder sat on the inquest ! been squandered in profusion to hush the inatt,end or almost all the parties have decamped to Eng' 6 (l , elsewhere. The majority of them were of fi cers, $ 0 suppose, are now with their respective regirnents'il u po l : will the Government do in this matter ? We Ca be :,P e Lord Eliot to send a stipendiary Magistrate t o , Gr ego r to inquire into the matter—we ask Colonel M bio whether the police in the district made any report_i°o3olce on the subject ?—we call upon the Government, t u „ i d the proceedings of the Coroner's inquest public. .t , o der foul and barbarous murder has been cominittedi d circumstances of aggravated barbarity, uneqUal: titer' the horrible atrocities of Indian cruelty, and p. o jai' have been taken to bring the savage perpetrator s tice.—Dublin Monitor. family A CASE OF DISTRESS.—I the other night,b h d ' t rung t to destitution visited a dist res° g - ti thr the man being out of employment. As in nianY w e ,° cases, the hail's had taken all they had. Th e J living in a damp cellar,iwith a large collection of stag l a d water at the door. There was the man, his wife , three children ; but one stool was their only furnitos'eit few crusts of bread, which the woman bad begged , 00 0 6 only stock of food; and two bundles of straw on the co ll without a shred of a sheet, blanket, or cove r, was theiviii bed for the night. — The Struggle, a spirited hal' Corn-law paper published at Yreston. an Ze b 3 i sub Pet hat ilgs IV (ta J Br ] ] Fr