The Sun. — London, England, 1834-01-24 00:00:00

EXPLOSION OF THE REGENERATtbN SYSTEM. A Memorial addressed by Members of the Sheffieild Rege aeration Society to Robert Owen, Eeq., its founder. Kind and Dear Sir,—You tame among ree—a rich man among the poor—and did not call us rabble. This was a phenomenon new to us. There was no sneer on your lips, no covert scorn in the tone of your voice. You met us as a fortunate brother ought to meet his affectionate but suffering brethren. We knew that you had been 'calum niated by our enemies, but ire also knew that whee men go to their great and last account, God will not ask them what men called threet here. We saw benevolence beam ing in your eyes, and from your mouth we heard the words of peace and charity. The spirit in which you eAlressed us was most Christian. You told us that we ought not to blame those who differ from us in opinion ; for men do not believe what they will, but what they must, according to the evidence which has reached them. You told u., that Even when men injure us by acting on erroneous opi nions, we ought to restrain our angry feelings, because in justice itself is only a great mistake. We honour you for these sublime sentiments, for they do honour to our com mon nature. But when you went on to say, that if the trade in corn were to-morrow made free and unshackled as the wind., our wages would fall in exactly the Fame pro portion as food would fall in price, and that no benefit would result to us from the change, we felt that you were in error; because we know that labour pays for all things, and that if a free trade in corn would double the quantity of corn in this market, our wages could not possibly fall in the same ratio as that in which the price of bread would fall, unless we at once doubled our numbers, or at once became four-banded, and employed our four hands as ac tively as we now do our two. However, Sir, like yourself, we blame no man for his opinions. You are not the only good man who has given us bad advice. Dr. Chalmers, though he bids us die un married, does not really wish that the noble race of Watt and Burns, Locke and Milton, should become extinct, and their place be supplied by half-starved Irishmen. In corn finn with other sages he has discovered the essay of Alalthus, but the mare's nest" is his own. William Cobbett (almost a great man, and once our only champion) :cams to be mystifying himself, and trying to mystify others, on the all-important subject of the corn laws; but we do not call him either rogue or fool. Michael Sadler himself found some friends among our suffering brethren at Huddersfield, although he bad, while professing to wish us well, filled .a very large book with arguments in favour of the worst measures of our worst foes. We do not say that Michael Sadler is a treacherous man ; we think he is mistaken, and that he already suspects he is so. But, believing with you that we are on the eve of great changes, and that they will come through the Trades' Unions, we feel it to be of vital importance that those unions act on right principles, and that no man who is wrong in principle he allowed to wield their tremendous power. We cannot believe that a free trade in corn would not benefit us ; provided we obtain it before we cease to be a manufacturing people, and while we have commodities to give in exchange for the agricultural produce of other countries. With a free trade in food, we deny the possibility of there ever being too large a quantity of manufactured goods. The tap-root of our misery is an insufficient supply of food ; and we deny that the quantity of food can be increased by restrict ing labour. We affirm that a directly contrary effect would result from such restriction ; for if, while we la bour 16 hours out of the 24, we can hardly keep the market against our un-bread-taxed rivals, how shall we keep it if we labeur only half that time? We are weary of the conflict of monopoly with monopoly, of mischiefs with mischiefs, still reproducing each other. Our motto is " Free trade, with free labour." We know, indeed, that while the landowners conspire, sve must combine, or give up all our comforts, one by one ; but we deny that such combinations are, in them selves, either necess try or desirable. On the contrary, we believe that in this country Trades' Unions spring out of the corn laws, and in other countries out of similar in sanities. Remove the cause, and the effects will cease. But we also believe that there is only one power on earth which can put the Trades' Unions down. That power is justice. We therefore disapprove your plan of regenera tion. A bad imitation of a bad model, it is equally unjust and unwise. Like the bread tax, it attempts production without reference to the cost. Like the bread tax, it intends to feed the dishonest at the expense of the honest, while it pretends to advocate the general interests. Had you manfully called upon us to aid you in persuading masters and workmen, that, instead of worrying each other, they ought to unite heart and hand against the common enemy for the common good, we could have understood you ; and it would not have been necessary for one of your Commit tee to say, as he did a few evenings ago, "that it would be easier for Mr. Owen to bore a hole with his nose through the stone floor than to work his scheme." But since you have—doubtless with the best intentions, and perhaps guided by light which has not yet reached us— adopted some choice measures, which we think no wise men will act upon, except from necessity, we trust you will not be offended, if we humbly request you to refute what we conceive to be strong objections against your plan for the regeneration of happiness, by restraining I:- hour to eight hours per day—a plan which, in the mean time, we believe to be impracticable. You tell us, first, that your great object in forming an union of masters and workmen for the restriction of la bour is to compel idlers who consume wealth, and an nuitants who no longer produce any, to pay a higher price than they now do for our productions. But you do not tell us how we can compel purchasers to buy our goods dear when they can buy other goods cheap. You go on, it is true, to tell us that it is not your intention to confine your union to this country. You propose to invite the co-operation of other nations. Well, let us suppose your invitation to be accepted. Not in the minutest par. titular would that circumstance alter our unfortunate position. You forget that we are bread taxed, that our rivals are not bread-taxed ; that they would still be able to obtain as much food for four hours' labour as we obtain for eight ; and that, in the end, they would drive us out of every market. What occasion, then, could there be to restrict labour, when it is as plain as figures could show it, that we should soon have no work to perform, except that of eating each other in the agonies of famine ? It is impossible to get the same wages for eight hours' labour as 'for twelve without robbery of some kind, and we deny that the public can gain by robbery of any kind, though individuals may and do, as we know too well. Wealth is the result of labour, and you propose to labour eight hours instead of twelve. Then, you propose to produce one third less wealth than you now produce, mystifying yourself at the same time with the supposition that, by making fewer goods, but of better quality, the labour of eight hours will be worth that of twelve. You forget that you cannot work without materials; that you can only buy raw cotton by selling your wrought cottons; and that, however excel lent your improved article might be, your cbeap.food rivals could always sell a better article cheaper. Consequently, you could not sell your wrought cottons; consequently you could not buy raw cotton ; consequently you must cease to manufacture ; and consequently your plan is already a failure, even in theory. Many of our enemies already spend their incomes in the midst of our un-bread-taxed rivals. Would not your plan, if all other manufacturing countries did not join in it—and remember, you could not compel any country to join in it—be another and a fatal tax on British labour? Would it not be, in fact, the last nail driven through the coffin-lid of our prosperity? You will not answer this question by telling us that your ultimate object is univer sal barter. We may think with you, and with others, that a metallic currency is a dear tool ; but all trade is barter, whether measured by money or not. Did it never strike your mercantile mind, that the taxing of annuitants and absentees would be completely effected by returning to the infamous inconvertible paper money, which at last converted our prosperity into a bread tax ,Ve by no k means advocate the re-enactment of the ••i . Ii N anous Bank Restriction Act; but we fearlessly assert, that a depre ciated currency would effectually tax annuitants We and absentees, an d th at your p l an would not. won der that you never seem to have thought of a tax on rent, as an entirely unobjectionable means of relieving the distresses of all honest and useful men. Is it not time that the greatest tax-eaters in the world should themselves begin to pay taxes ? If the bread tax has already cost us more than all the lands are worth at the bread tax price, surely the State (the aggre • gate of victims) must have a right to tax them, and carry the proceeds to the utterly unbalanced account of restitu tion. But perhaps you are yourself a great landowner. Pardon us, excellent man, we do not suspect you of traitorously fighting the battle of the enemy under our colours. No. If it were possible for you intentionally to deceive a single human being, nature has written a lie on your countenance. But we believe you are entirely wrong, and, we trust, not at all dangerous. You will have no followers among the thinkers of any class; and they, if time be vouchsafed them—that is to say, if the corn laws be not ordained by an inscrutable Providence to precipitate the national ruin—will lead the rest. But why should the co-operation of so good a man as you be worse than undesir able ? Monopoly is in the agonies of death, but her convul sions are terrible; and it is quite possible that we mayperish 4 ;r before her. Would you'prolong her struggles until they involve our destruction ? Or do you come in at the last hour, not to adorn the corpse for interment, but encumber the doctor with kelp, and mock the bed of sickness with flowers from New Harmony ? Do you not know that we live only by suf ferance? That we have so far escaped utter impoverish ment, solely in consequence of the faults of our rivals, and their imitation of our restrictive follies? Do you not know that if they take the lead in establishing a free trade system, our fall is certain, and perhaps irretrievable ? Why have we not a mighty ally in you, rather than a mistaken friend ? Oh ! aid us to strike a last blow at the expiring , monster of msnopoly—" or ever the silver cord of our prosperity be loosed, the golden bowl of our strength be broken, ere the grasshopper is a burden to our trade left and uncommercial weakness !" Do this, and it shall be written on your grave by our children, " in the land of castes, Owen was a en in."--We remain, kind and dear Sir, your frien2s and brethren, EBENEZER ELLIOTT, JOSEPH ODDY HUSTLER, JAMES SOMERSET, THOMAS SHELDON, THOMAS JONES CADWALLADER. Sheffield, Jan. 15. PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE FROM SHIP• WRECK DURING THE LATE GALES. (From the Liverpool Albion.) The last few weeks have been so productive of melancholy results in the loss of life and property, that occurrences which would appear of a striking character in ordinary times are lost its the mass of injury which has been sustained by the shipping in terest generally. There appears to us, however, in the following recital something which so thoroughly establishes, for the commander of the vessel in ques tion, the character of a man of extraordinary cool ness, judgment, and energy, that we cannot forbear presenting it to public notice. The facts, which are communicated directly to ourselves, are from so un questionable a source, that we trust Captain Hays will excuse our speaking of himself, his crew, and his ship, its the terms which they all merit. On the 26th December the schooner Crescent, Captain C. D. Hays, sailed from this port, bound to the Medi terranean. On the morning of the 27th it came on to blow very bard, and Captain Hays ran for Ramsay Bay, in the Isle of Min ; where the Crescent was still at anchor during the tremendous hurricane—which will not soon be forgotten in this quarter—that which terminated the last year. Of twelve or thirteen vessels then at anchor, the Crescent was the only one that rode out the gale in the bay ; all the rest being compelled to run out— several of them dragged—and some, as we have since learnt, were lost on the coast from hence to Scotland. Op the 2d of January the Crescent sailed from Ramsay Bay, and was becalmed off Douglas; but at nine, p.m., it came on a heavy gale from the south west ; and Captain Hays again bore up for Ramsay Bay, at midnight. She remained there until the morning of the sth of January, when she again got under weigh, with the wind at south, moderate. In the afternoon of the 6th a renewal of the gales compelled Captain Hays to bear up for Dublin Bay, and he brought the Crescent to anchor in Kingston harbour at six in the evening. The vessel lay there until noon of Sunday the 12th instant, when she once more went to sea. Alestat seven P, M. the wind came round from the westward ; and all Monday it blew a hurricane from that quarter. On Wednesday she had got down about 30 miles west of Tuskar, when it blew so strong from the S.W. that Captain Hays deter mined to bear up for Milford Haven. He made land be tween five and six P.M., blowing fresh, but still clear enough to make out the !and when pretty near. At six o'clock passed round Rat Island for Milford Haven, when the gale increased, and it came on suddenly so thick and dark that nothing could be discovered a bowsprit's length ahead. The first intimation they had of danger was finding themselves in a bay near the mouth of the harbour, with breakers so close under the bows, that on their return they broke over the foremast head. There was a general exclamation that the vessel had struck. Captain Hays instantly put the helm a-lee; and the wind shifting suddenly from S.W. to S. by E. enabled the vessel to stand out of the bay, without risking another tack. At this moment they were so close in with the land that, whilst the vessel was in stays, a tremendous sea, re bounding from the rocks, struck the vessel on the bow, washing the mate forward to the bowsprit end, wheie he fortunately caught hold of a rope; the same sea also send.. ing two men aft with such force, that one of them was driven over the windlass, and the other was washed across the deck, over the stern of the long boat, and pitched between the pumps. This last man was the only one of the crew disabled. Captain Hays then reduced bis canvass to close reefed fore-anal-afters; and in consequence of the wind continuing to blow from the same quarter, the vessel was enabled to reach along the land for seven or eight miles, continuing to improve her offing, when the gale increased in a sudden squall, and about half-past eight the wind shifted again to the S.W., at which time the ship was so close home to the rocks, running from the land towards the Smalls, that she could not have weathered Saint Gowen's Head on the other tack. She was therefore obliged to drag along in the hope of weathering the Smalls light; to accomplish this the topsail and jib were set, which in less than half an hour carried away the fore-top -mast, bringing all sails alongside, and the jib under the forefoot. At this time (about ten, p.m.) the Smalls light was discovered about two points under the lee bow, distant about four or five miles. This was an awful moment far Captain Hays and his crew—to leeward nothing but reefs of rocks stretching away from St. Ann's-head to the light, with two or three narrow passages tbrouv,h them, difficult I enough to make ev en i n mo d era t e weat h er ; b ut i n suc h a gale, and, from the darkness of the night, the total impos sibility of deciding what was to leeward, impressed them with all but the certainty of destruction. They still dragged on, in hopes of some change of wind, to enable them to weather the rocks, until they got within a little more than a mile of the light-house, when it was seen to be impossible to get round. Captain Hays then deter mined, as the only alternative to save the ship and her crew, to put her before the wind, in hopes of running through clear between the rocks,—the sea being then so high that it was manifest where the ship could not go the sea must break. Captain Hays was then at the helm, and the mate in the fore rigging. In a few minutes the mate called out—" Breakers close en the larboard bow." Cap. tain Hays, trusting to Providence to rescue them from their dreadful situation, put the helm up, running as close to the breakers which were on the weather bow as he judged he could do with safety, which, from the extreme darkness of the night, was a task of no small difficulty, as keeping close to the weather danger was the only chance of avoiding that on the lee, then within about a quarter of a mile. This was about half past 12, a.m., on Thursday last; and, as the gale was in no degree di minished, the sea broke frightfully upon the Crescent's weather quarter during the whole course through the rocks, which stretch north and south for a mile and a half. Just as the ship had got safely through the passage, a tremen doua sea struck her under the counter, unshipped the mainboom, thus depriving her of the use of the mainsail, (the foresail being then split), carried away some of the bulwarks, and left nothing to run with but the inner jib, hanging only by a few banks. So imminent was their danger, and so doubtful the successful passage through the rocks, that Captain Hays, as a measure of necessary precaution, ordered the long boat to be cleared away, with the chance, if the ship had struck, she might have floated from the chocks, the last small hope that would, in that case, have been left for saving their lives. During the whole of this severe trial the crew behaved remarkably well; and another instance was added to the many that have come under our notice, of the firmness and philosophy of a well-regulated female mind, at most critical periods, and under circumstances of extreme peril. Mrs. Hays was on board during the scenes we have described ; and, at the moments of the greatest danger, instead of giving way to the effects of terror, was calmly aiding Captain Hays in his observations upon the chart, and in doing everything that could contribute to his comfort or self-possession in the awful situation in which they were all placed. When the vessel had passed through the rocks in the way we have described, relying on a single jib to keep her on her course, Captain Hays sent all his crew, except a single hand, down below for rest and refreshment, as they were completely exhausted, having been without food since the preceding morning. At daylight they set to work to clear the wreck, and things were a little to rights by five p.m., when they managed to get sails up sufficient to set close-reefed mainsail, foresail, and jib. At seven pm. made South Stack lighthouse; and on Friday morning at daylight the Crescent was six or seven miles from the floating light, still blowing a heavy gale, with strong Equally and thick weather. Stood close into the land ;at ten a.m. got a pilot on board, off the west end of the Hoyle Bank; and at three p.m. was safely moored in Brunswick Deck. Captain Hays, who has made many voyages to various parts of the world, and among others to the East Indies, declares that he never encountered so bad weather for such a continuance; and, with his crew, is grateful to that bountiful Providence which has guarded them through dangers so imminent as those to which they were for a long period exposed. Captain Hays has reason to apprehend that some vessel must have foundered between the Smalls and Bardsey Island, as, when abreast of the latter, the Crescent passed a boat, bottom upwardq, painted lead colour or rusty black, about twenty feet long, clinch-work built; and five minut,s afterwards observed something like a man's jacket, immediately in the track of the boat; but it was blowing so hard, and the vessel with so few sails, that he was on. able to make more obhervation. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ()N o'c Lo,K. Rank Str,tas 214 % Nrcw 5 per Cent. ...... ~.... 3 pc* Cent. Red. BB% 914 India Stock 3 ter Cent. Cons. 88% 3414 % Ditto Bonds 27 pm. 314 per Cent 9614 South Sea Stock 98% 0 Ito Red. 96% 7 1 , 1 old Annuities — New3l4 per Cent. 9 5 /8 Gl4 New Ditto -- 3 i.r.‘r Cent. Any'. 172 ti .... 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 -- 4 per Cent. 1826 1C3%14 Ex. Bilis, £l,OOO 46 47 pre. II .: , :k Long Ann. to expire i Ditto 500 46 471. m. "' . 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Due. 0 America 0 0 Hamburg 0 0 Brazil 0 Buenos Ayres 0 0 Jamaica 0 0 Carthagena 0 0 Leeward Islands ... 0 I Dublin 0 0 Lisbon 0 0 Flanders 0 0 Malta .... ............ ... 0 0 France... ....... 0 Cuerosev &Jersey.. 1 1 Waterford HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning ...13 minutes 'after 2. I Evening...4o minutes after 2, s 7 ( I l i' II LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 1834. Earl GREY, Mr. STANLEY, and the other Cabinet Ministers, left town this morning for the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, to attend a Privy Council, which the KING will hold this day, at three o'clock. In the evening the Ministers will dine with their MAJESTIES. At a late Durham Conservative dinner the Rev. G. TOWNSEND, Prebendary of Durham, made, what the Cambridge Chronicle is pleased to call, an " admirable speech ;"—that is to say, a speech distinguished by its more than prelatic hostility to all effective Church Reform. To be sure, the Rev. Gentleman would have the " Bishops be always on the alert, and the clergy exert themselves to the utmost," but beyond this fine parade of zeal—which means something or nothing as the case may be—he would have the Church still stick to its good old abuses. He would have the Rev. Bench still free to thwart all the best intentions of Government in the House of Lords ; and pluralists to squeeze their darling tenths from the parishioners of a living which they seldom or never vouchsafe to edify by their presence. Such, at least, is the impression made on our minds by a perusal of the Reve rend Gentleman's speech. Yet he must be aware that the time has gone by when the Church could safely adopt his advice, and resist all substantial Reform. He must see that the tithes are doomed ; that the system of pluralities is at its last gasp ; that high Protestant bigotry totters weakly upon crutches ; that the knell of the Bishops in the House of Lords is rung. Mr. TOWNSEND cannot but see this; what mad ness, then, is it in him to think to check the tide which is now setting in so strongly against every species of ecclesiastical abuse ! He might just as well attempt to arrest an avalanche by throwing himself in its way. One concession, however, the altered circum stances of the timos have wrung from him. It is but a straw, yet it serves to show how the wind blows. He has discovered that it " is with churches as it is with individuals, none can be perfect." Now, though this be nothing more than a common-place, yet it is only within the last two or three years that a beneficed clergyman could have been found to utter it. Before the present Ministry came into office, the cry was, Mother Church is immacu late and needs no reform. Now it is found out that she is not quite so sinless as she might be ; but that it is just possible that she may need some little improvement. Yet this improve ment Mr. TOWNSEND would discreetly confine to her discipline. He is horror-struck at the idea of a reform in her revenues, and opines that none but an Atheist could think for a moment of such an atrocity. But we tell the Rev. Gentle man that ecclesiastical reform to be really useful, must, in a great degree, touch the pockets of the clergy, —more especially of the higher orders. The purse of Episcopacy must be reduced in bulk. It is far too un-apostolic ill its size. The various sinecures, too, attached to our cathedrals, must undergo the same searching revision. We say nothing of Mr. TOWNSEND'S sneers at our alliance with France, with which he seems to think—and we know not where he finds warrant for his opinion in the Scripture —we should be in a constant state of warfare; because We give in another column a memorial ad dressed to Mr. OWEN, the philanthropist, by certain Members of the Sheffield Regeneration Society, which he had established. We should with great pleasure have inserted it on Tuesday last, had not the parcel in which it was sent miscarried. Its object is to show the futility of Mr. OWEN'S scheme for regenerating society ; and it is impossible not to feel that it attains that object most completely. We hope, however, that it will have the much more important effect of making the landowners aware of their true position. There is no concealing the fact that, in spite of the losses they themselves sustain both directly and in4from the corn l a w s , the impres s i on i s b e lxed in the minds of the labouring classes that it is to the cupidity of the owners of land they are to attribute their own increasing wretchedness. And have they not reason for so thinking ? Those that are mar ried find they cannot get food sufficient to sup port themselves and families in return for the labour they are willing to give. Those who are unmarried feel that, from the operation of the same causes, the taking a partner, instead of bringing increase of comfort and happiness, will produce to them augmented misery. They can make cloth to an unlimited extent ; but have not food : their neighbours have corn ; but are naked. Both are willing to make the exchange that will so improve the condition of both ; but the owner of land steps in between them and forbids the barter, fancying that his half-starved fellow-countrymen, wrought to death, prohibited from marrying, or enjoying any of the comforts of life, must be a better cus tomer than if permitted to increase and multiply upon corn brought from abroad ! Can it be matter of astonishment, we say, that the working classes, seeing these things, should begin to con sider the laws of the landowners as having been made for their own benefit alone ? The hints the memorial contains of the state of desperation to which the victims of the corn laws are re duced, should be taken by the monopolists as warnings of the violence of the flood, which will sweep them away if they permit it to accumulate by further opposition. It is when we consider the ruin and desolatio which would fall upon the innocent as well as upon the guilty from a sudden outbreaking of a long enduring people, that we particularly rejoice at the formation of the Anti-Corn Law Societies, which are all over the country collecting and guiding public opinion. It is this combination of the middle classes—of those who feel the effect of the corn laws in the diminished pro fits of capital, in the difficulty of settling their sons and daughters in life, with those who feel their effect in the more pressing form of a diffi culty in saving themselves from starvation, that gives us our hope of the bread-tax being safely as well as surely removed. The enlightened portion of the agriculturists them selves, know that compelling their senseless partners to open their eyes to the danger which threatens them is the only safe course left open to them. The following paragraph, taken from the morning papers, contains a statement which we hope to see made of other agricultural districts:— " An agricultural meeting was held on Tuesday at Cow bridge, Herefordshire, Colonel Morgan, of Landough Castle, in the chair, to petition Parliament for the repeal of the corn laws. Several gentlemen spoke on the sub ject, and a committee having been appointed to carry the objects of the meeting into effect, the parties separated." We are sorry that we have not a more de tailed report of the proceedings, for the speeches coming from persons interested exclusively in land must have appealed to the reason of farmers,—an appeal likely to be of more avail, now that their fears compel them to listen, than heretofore, when they rested in ignorant security upon their imaginary " protection." It is stated that the rate of the proposed in. corporation of this borough will exceed 2,5001. per annum. The inhabitants of Dudley are about to petition against the incorporation of that place on account of the expense.— Wolverhampton Chronicle. The papers from Freemantle, Western Aus tralia, to the 21st of August, show the astonishing high price of their colonial productions, mutton being Is. 6d. per lb. ; fowls, sa. each ; fresh butter, 35. per lb. ; po tatoes, 4d. per lb. ; pork, Is. 6d. per lb. ; eggs, 43. per dozen s hay, 101. per ton ; and vegetables, 3d, per dish. There was no fresh beef. A very violent storm, attended with vivid flashes of lightning and tremendous peals of thunder, was experienced in this neighbourhood early on Sunday morn. ing, which is rather extraordinary, considering the season of the year. 7he wind was very boisterous, so much so that at Woolwich three sentry boxes were blown down with their inmates.—Maidstone Journal. We understand the subject of the " acted Oratorio" this Lent at Covent•garden is to be Jephtha's Daughter, which subject Ali a Jtophino Lacy is at present engaged upon, selecting appropriate introductions, chiefly from Handel. A few days ago a hare, perfectly white, was coursed and killed near Penkridge, by a dog belonging to a gentleman at Wolverhampton. Mr. Combe mentions a porter who, when drunk, left a parcel at a wrong door; on becoming sober, be was told of his mistake, but could not remember what he had done with it until the next time he got drunk, when he at once called to mind the house, and went and recovered the parcel. The country papers from all parts of the island contain paragraphs exemplifying the extraordinary mildness of the weather in the early appearance of flowers and vegetables. EXTRAORDINARY MILDNESS OF THE SEASON.—At the village of Stourton Caundle there is at this time a peach tree in full and perfect blossom, and, what is still more extraordinary, it faces a North Eastern aspect, and is of the late kind, which does not commonly blossom before the month of May. The blossom has been standing for the last fortnight,— Sherborne Journal. ,PETER SIMPLE AT COURT.---All illustrious personage is said to have perused Capt. Marryat's amusing adventures of " Peter Simple" with a peculiar relish, many of the scenes depicted having a locale which, from early habits and associations must be dwelt upon with consider. able pleasure even in his present mired station. At Brussels, (luring the last year, there were 3,983 births—namely, 2,052 males, and 1,931 females; 866 marriages, and 1 divorce; and 4,277 deaths, viz. 2,092 males, and 2,185 females. we are convinced that our readers' disgust at the idea of a " messenger of peace" doing his best to cherish the seeds of dissension between state and state, will render any remarks of ours super fluous. We refer our readers to the letter of " Inves tigator" on Friendly Societies, inserted in another column. The animus appears to us sufficiently interesting to induce discussion. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY, The Kourad, Scholberg, from Batavia to Rotterdam, was totally wrecked near Rye yesterday morning —four a the crew drowned. Departures from Midras_The Resolution, for Ennore, on the 25th of August; the Drongin, and the Sir Charles Malcolm, for Calcutta, on the 26th ; the Wiliam IV., for Masulipatam, on the 29th; his Majesty's ship Alliga tor, for a cruise, the David Barclay, for Calcutta, the Ruby, for Covelong, and the Antoinette, for Pondicherry, on the Ist Sept. ; and the Lady M'Nagbten, for Calcutta, on the 6th. Arrivals at St. Helena—The Kent, from Bombay, on the 3d of December, and sailed on the 10th for London; the Spence, from Bombay, on the 4tb, and sailed on the 10th for London; his Majesty's ship Pelorus, from the Cape of Good Hope, on the 7tb, and sailed on the Bth for Ascension; the Gentos, from Bengal, on the 9th, and sailed on the 10th for London; the Mona, from the Mau ritius, on the 9th, and sailed on the 10th for London ; the African, from the Mauritius, on the 10th, and sailed for Bristol ; the Copia, from Batavia, on the 10th, and sailed on the 12th for Amsterdam ; the Zemenshoof, from Batavia, on the 11th, and sailed on the 12th for Bengal; the Orontes, from Bengal, on the 11th; and the Tre pique, from Bourbon, on the 11th, and sailed for Bor deaux. Departure from Sr. Helena—The John Taylor, for Liverpool, on the 3d of December. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK Four Foreign mails are still due ; consequently we have no express from Paris as yet; but it is hourly expected. There is some anxiety for further information from Spain, which, no doubt, will be interesting. We have received the Bengal Hurkarus to the 24th August, but we do not find them of importance. They contain letters from Bangulore, stating that the poor natives are flocking in from the adjacent villages, in a state of starvation, and that a monthly subscription has been set afloat for their relief. Aladras has been less healthy during the past three weeks. Owing to the rainy weather the prospect of the indigo crop has been bad. THE FUNDS. The city is very dull as yet, owing to our being de prived of foreign intelligence. Consols, which left off yesterd,y at 88a for the Account, opened at the Sane price, and went up to £3Bii ; at present they are 881, with little doing. . . Spanish 2414 ; Portuguese 58H ; Dutch 494 HALF-PAST ONE. We still continue to the present hour without any Foreign arrivals, owing to which there is no political news to communicate. A vessel has arrived at Liverpool from Lisbon, but we do not hear she brings later information than the previous accounts by the last packet. We have a report this morning that there will be a change in the French Ministry; that Broglie and Guizot are to retire. Consols, which were in the early part of the morning al 88i I, have receded to 888 1; little doing. In the Foreign Market, Spanish 244 Dutch, 49k Portuguese 561 0, Brazil 69 to 8. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for Account 88i I. SEDUCTION.—On Tuesday night last, a younger daughter of very respectable parents in this town privately withdrew from her father's house at a very late hour. She bad been absent about two hours when she was missed, and on search being made, she was accidentally met returning home from the direction of the barracks, where she bad been in the room of a young officer of the 30th Regiment at present quartered in this town. It i s probable that the circumstance will come before a Jury ' a s the father of the girl set out on Friday for D u bli n to in stitute legal proceedings.— Galway Free Press. SALISBURY. Considerable apprehensions were entertained on Wednesday night, that Fishe&ton Anger, near this city, would have been overflown, owing to the rapid rising of the waters, occasioned by the late h eav y rains. Happily, towards morning, the waters slowly subsided, and relieved the inhabitants from their state of anxiety and alarm—The meadows, &e., in the vicinity presented t o v i ew one vast sheet of water. 'Early on Fridty morni ng , a tremendous storm of wind and rain passed o ver thi s c i ty, doing considerable damage to the roofs of se vera l of the houses. The gusts of wind were absolutely terr ifi c, and came upon the ear with a sound resembling lo u d pea l s of thunder.—Salisbury Journal. The seawalls of Romney Marsh, near Dym church, have suffered to a great extent by the late heavy gales. The foundation of Sandgate Castle has also be, n laid bare, and a considerable outlay will be required to put the Castle into a state of security. AN AMERICAN.—During the storm that oc curred one night, Dr. Barstow, of Susquehanna, with his wife and one or two children, were travelling a few miles above Tunkhannock, in a carriage drawn by two horses. When the storm was at the top of its fury, and while the carriage was passing a part of the road skirted by trees, a hemlock tree, two feet or more in diameter, fell suddenly, and with a tremendous crash, between the horses and the carriage, without doing further injury to either than to break off the tongue. Had it fallen but one instant sooner, the horses must have been killed, or had it been delayed one instant longer, it would doubtless have crushed into atoms every individual in the carriage !—Susquehanna Democrat. FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, JAN. 23.—Wind S.W., squally.—Arrived the Arab, Sparks, from Bengal—sailed 22d August. Arrived from the River, and remain, the Colosseum, Stodart, for China, and Boston, Wheatland, from Charleston. The outward bound remain. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 23.—A heavy gale last night and to-day from S.W. to W. by N.—Off port the President, from New York. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 22,—Wind W., squally.—Arrived off port the President, from New York. FALMOUTH, JAN. 22.—Wind W.S.W. to W.N.W, fresh breezes and squally. Cow.Es, JAN. 23 . —Arrived the Echo, Rhausen, from Bottage, with damage. GREENOCK, JAN. 21. Arrived the Providence, 3.l‘Gowan, from Quebec, dismasted. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 22 . —Arriv e d the J. 11. Albury, Bass, from Liverpool, Nova Scotia; and Adelaide, Mil man, fron► Lisbon. STANGATE CREEK, JAN. 23 . —Arrived the Mtrgaret, Famolaro, from Messina. LONDONDERRY, JAN. 21.—Arrived the Lord Dirndls, Scott, and Acorn, JameQ, from Riga. NEWRY, JAN. 21.—Arrived the Hunter, Adams, from Alicante. MAHAN, JAN. 22.—Arrived the Guarditn, Percy, from Sr. Andrew's, New Brunswick. PANTRY BAY, JAN. 22.--Arrived the Dorcas, Savage Milligan, Wilmington, and Hope, Savage, from St. Mi. chael's. KENMARE, JAN. 21.—Arrived the Thetis, Stewart, from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. ABERDEEN, JAN. 21.—Arrived off port the Ark wright, Birnie, from Savannah. HUMBER, JAN. 22.—Arrived the Cane Grove, Estele, from Wyburg. MILFORD, JAN. 22.—The master of the Shannon packet, of Limerick, reports having passed on the Bth inst., between Lundy and Caldy Hand, a wreck apparently of about 200 tons, with her foremast gone a little below the top, wad the hull under water ; six miles west of Caldy, passed a boom and other wreak. PENZANCE, JAN. 22.—A sea chest has been washed on shore in the Bay, con t a i n i ng wear i ng apparel, & c., and some letters addressed to " Captain W. 0. Ojen, of the brig Nidelvin," at different parts of Ireland. The Hebe, from St. Domingo to Liverpool, was spoken on the 14th inst., in lat. 49. long. 16., with toss of bul. warks, stanchions, &c. The Rosina, Pritchard, from Chester to Cork, was totally wrecked at the Isle of Man on the 20th inst.—the master and one of the crew drowned. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. The Partridge, from the South.. Seas, has arrived off Margate—sailed from St. Helena in December. Arrivals at Madras—The Sir Charles Malcolm, from Bombay, on the 20th of August ; the Magicienne, from Calcutta, on the 18th ; the Lady M'Naghten, from Lon don and the Mauritius, on the 25th ; the Antoinette, from the Mauritius, on the 27th; his Majesty's ship Melville, from Trincomalee, on the 29th ; the Ruby, from the Mauritius, the Protector, from London and the Cape of Good Hope, the David Barclay, from Sunderland, and the Lady Wilmot Horton, from Ceylon, on the 31st ; the Drongan, from Covelong, and the Copernicus, from Cey lon, on the Ist of September ; the General Gascoyne, from Calcutta, on the 2d; the Royal William, from Gravesend, on the 41h; and the Grecian, from Colombo, on the 6th. COURT OF CHANCERY,-(THIS DAY, LEITH V. IRVINE. Mr. BURGE stated that in this case, which had beet 'ong litigated, the parties had at length come to a corn promise, and agreed to refer certain matters to arbitration He was, therefore, instructed to apply to his Lordshil that that reference might be made a rule of Court.-- Granted. RIPON V. HOBART. The LORD CHANCELLOR proceeded imtnediatelyoo taking his seat to hear the resumed arguments, whirh occupied the whole of the day. VICE CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS DAY, SITTINGS Or TIIE COURT. His Honour the VicE•CrlANcEtto tt , on Coming in! Court, stated that he had seen the Lord Ch mcellor, ani had made an arrangement with his Lordship as t o th Seals and the sitting of the Judicial Committee, whirl he would have to attend. The Term would end on th 31st of the present month, on the next day, Saturday and on the Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of the fo!lowing week, the Court would sit at Lincoln's In' to hear motions ; on Friday his Honour would attend OA .ItudFeial Committee, and the first seal would he on Thur* day, the 13th of February, so that there would be five days for motions, the remaining five days would be devoted ti the Judickl Committee, and the bar would have nearly 1 week's holiday from this Court. MONEY ORDERS. Hie Horrouct said, that in consequence of a questi having been raised with respect to what were mow orders, and what not, he had spoken to the Accountao General who agreed with him that the term " mont order" meant orders directing money to be paid out Court, and that that term was never intended to apply orders directing money to be paid into Court. COURT OF KING'S BENCH.--( THIS DAY The Court were occupied all the morning in hearin arguments on a part•heard case in the special pape Nothing of public interest occurred up to our reporter leaving. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) THOMPSON V. CAMPBELL. Mr. MILLAR stated the case. The defendant, an old lady, occupied certain premises in Walbeck-street from thl plaintiff, under an unstamped agreement, for three year* with a clause permitting her to continue in possessiod after that term if she pleased, giving three months' n otice to quit. The defendant continued in possession for a shoe! period after the three years, and then gave three mo nths notice to quit. The Learned Gentleman contended tbatt, at the expirati on o f th e t h ree years, the defendant had become a yearly tenant, and was entitled to pay a year's rent, or, at least, she should have given notice for the end of the year. After some witnesses had been examined, Mr. PoLLoe‘ addressed the Jury for the defendants. He would prove that the plaintiff had received the premises from the de' rendant in good faith, in pursuance of a notice s erved upon him, and that Le had permitted her to go out 0 pos-e.sion, Witnesses were then called, who deposed to these fact' , and the Court observed that there was a sufficient answer to the case set up by Mr. Millar, The plaintiff was nonsuited, and the Court observe d that it was an action which should never bare bee! brought. BENT V. BANIM. Mr. POLLOCK said this was an action of trover, to r cover the value of a small quantity of goods left i n tl deferalint'.: possession, which be had refused to deliver tt The CounT, upon looking at the record, said the was no issue for the Jury to try. The defendant bad nev , received possession in trust, nor had he ever promised 1 deliver the gcods up. After some consultation with counsel on the other silt Mr. POLLOCK said he would consent to the Jury !oil' discharged. SAVAGE AND ANOTHER V. JONES. Mr. ALEXANDER stated the case. The plaintiffs we' l l cerpenters and builders, residing in Gray's Inn-terrace' and the defendants were a brother and sister, who kept li n eating-house on Holborn-hill. The plaintiffs were Or ployed to do various repairs to the amount of 751., which formed the subject of the present action. He had a yell long carpenter's bill, which it would he necessary to prove' as also the repeated applications of the plaintiff's attorney' and the answers received by him. The COURT said this was a matter which they though t might be arranged out of Court. The defendants' Counsel assented to this proposition , and the Jury found for the plaintiff, subject to the decision of certain arbitrators. This being the last case on his Lordship's paper, the Court rose at one o'clock. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY-(THIS DAY MR. DAVIDGE'S BANKRUPTCY. This morning, at 12 o'clock, a meeting of creditor* under the fiat of Bankruptcy awarded against Mr. Da; vidge, the late proprietor of the Coburg Theatre, was bell before Mr. Commissioner WILLIAMS. Mr. Davidge attended to pass his last examination, and after some debts had been proved, he was highly compli' minted by the Learned Commissioner for the manner ill which he had kept his books of account, showing for every week a profit and loss on his speculations. The debts owing by Mr. Davidge amounted to between 700/. and 800/., and be expected that his property would realize a handsome dividend. Mr. Carter, the proprietor of the Rotunda in the Black' friar's-road, wished to state that he was not the part , : alluded to as the only creditor hostile to Mr. Davidge ° interests. He had been much annoyed on the subject' He was wilting to let Mr. Davidge the theatre, and tvoi, c ‘ufideut tha., in s t ea d o f a pest as i t h ad been, it wou l d have assumed an appearance of respectability. Mr. Davidge said he did not wish to divulge the naco s of the person who had pursued him with vindictive feeling!' Mr. Commissioner WILLIAMS said it was very manly 0 Mr. Carter coming forward, anti the manner in which Mr. Davidge had acted. His books were a credit to MO and he only regretted that mercantile men did not adop t his course. • Mr. Davidge passed his last examination, and receive :he congratulations of his friends. thatPaAgVenlttlmOaNn named We understand n h S tre e t d engaged at and will shortly make his first app earance as Othello th e t r e t a a Rumour speaks highly of his tragic talent. MR. INCLEDON'S CONCERT.—On Wednes' day evening Mr. C. lacledon gave a Concert at the Citi of London Tavern, the main object of which was to in' troduce to the notice of the public, for the first time, bit son, a youth of about twelve years of age; and cettainlft from that specimen of his performances, we should sag that the very favourable rumours of his vocal talent* as displayed before many fashionable private parties, wet! most fully confirmed. His voice is remarkably sweet and melodious, and we doubt not that in a short time be will become an acquisition to our list of native vocalists. The duet " Ob, Poland ! my country," by him and his father , i t , v i a ni s amnudchMiss shi applauded r reff ! that was of enthusiastically ' n know encored. a Alto', " i b gether his reception was of a flattering description. Mr' Broadhurst's " Through life as I've passed" was also encored; as was Miss Betts in two songs, "The Deep, Deep Sea," and " Cease your Funning." A variety of other songs, duets , and glees, were sung by Messrs. Hawes, Fitzwilliarot, Hobbs, E. Taylor, and Mrs. G. Wood, an d th e w h o ' e 0' the entertainments appeared to give great satisfaction to very crowded and fashionable audience. The arrange' ments were under the able superintendence of Sir George Smart, who presided at the pianoforte. It is said that Captain Johnstone, the indivi' dual once known all over Europe as "Johnstone, the smug' tiler" but now a pensioner upon the Government with the rank of post-captain in the British navy, has made a pro' posal to the Pacha of Egypt to enter his service, and employ in it, if necessary, his extraordinary sub.marioe vessel, by which lie is enabled to navigate under water' and to affix to the bottoms of ships a torpedo, which explodes at a certain time, regulated by machinery, earl' ing entire destruction before it. The vessel in which the torpedo is conveyed, contains sufficient air for the use of s 4 men during a period of six hours, and is moved with perfect ease from spot to spot. As there is nothing to indicate the approach of the vess e l, i t i s i mposs ibl e to guar d against it. The captain says, th at i n a fortn i ght he cou ld destroy the wholenavy of Russia. The torpedo a ppear° to be on a simihir principle to the infernal machine w itb which the life of Napoleon was attempted. He was lateli in treaty with the D Itch Government for the use of the vessel and his own services, and two or three torpedoes were supplied; but the treaty went off in consequence of some al isunderstauding as to terms.