The Sun. — London, England, 1842-12-15 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR. IVINDson, WEDNEsDAy.—The Queen and Prime Albert walked this morning in the Home Park. Afterwards his Royal Highness rode to Swinley, at tended by Viscount Sydney and Sir Edward Bowater, where, as is usual at Swinley, the Royal party had most excellent sport. Lord Rossmore (late Hon. Mr. Westenra) had the honour of joining the Prince and his suite at this sport at Swinley. The Royal party returned to the Castle to lunch. Viscount Canning took leave this morning, Her Majesty and the Prince rode out in a pony pllanton, his Royal Highness driving, attended by the Viscountess Canning, Hon. Amelia Murray, by Colonel Grey, and Sir Edward Bowater. On the re turn of the august party from their drive, her Majesty and Prince Albert walked for some time in the garden of the East Terrace, the afternoon being very fine. His Excellency the Belgian Minister, and Madame Van de Weyer, arrived to-day at the Castle, on a visit to her Majesty. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Fanny Howard, and Sir George Couper, will join the Royal dinner circle at the Castle this evening. V n de Wy eyer, is also the Earl e of Liverd to include M. aViscountess nd Madame Canning,,,_ Viscount Sydney, the two Maids of Honour , the Groom and the Equerry in Waiting on the gueen, and the Equerry in Waiting on Prince Albert. Covers are laid for sixteen. Her Majesty's ifrivate band and the band of the Foot Guards will attend at the Castle this evening. General Alva, the Spanish Minister, visited the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday, at the Foreign-office. The Attorney-General had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. A meeting of the Customs' Revenue Commission Was held at twelve o'clock yesterday, at wyclyr House, Whitehall. Lord Granville Somerset, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, and other Commission -2114 attended the meeting. The Commission sat some noun. Sir Henry Hardinge has left town for his seat, South Park, Penhurst. The Chancellor of the Exchequer had an interview With Sir J. Graham yesterday, at the Home-office. At a C o urt of Bailiffs, Wardens, and Assistants of t he Weavers' Company, in Basinghall-street, Under sheriff Hardwick was unanimously elected Clerk of the Company, in the place of Mr. John Phipps, re- Sighed. A GREAT ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE FUND. — '''. ll 3r_attempt to give the aggregate amount of sub scriptions hitherto received by the League from various quarters would be vain, even if it were practicable ; 4.. 11141 undesirable at present, because premature. But r may notice the state of the subscription in some of I4 e, large towns of Lancashire and Yorkshire,—the only two counties that have hitherto moved in this s Ubscription. Manchester in two days contributed Upwards of 4,000/. ; since which the subscription is roceeding; but, as the collecting-books are in the ds of various gentlemen, it is impossible to state the amount since received. In Liverpool, up to Mon : leY evening, the amount subscribed was 1,5271. In ftochdal e , the total amount up to yesterday exceeded 1 , 8 001 ! In Yorkshire also the subscription is pro teding ; that of Leeds exceeding 1,0001., and that of 'auddersfield amounting, at the beginning of this Leek, to upwards of 1,3001. We have named only e towns, the aggregate subscriptions of which, at therefore moment, considerably exceed 10,0001. Five towns, erefore, have raised already more than one fifth of e total sum of 50,0001. The aggregate amount of e great ftind thus raised will be made known at the !fleeting on the 30th January.—Manchester Guardian. Mr. John Parry's concert on Monday evening, at 41 tackney, was very fully attended by a highly ele- Pin and respectable company. Thalberg performed ly° of his fantasias with his accustomed matchless ter, also the duet from Norma with Madame cken, on two of Erard's grand pianofortes, which elicited the most rapturous applause. ' 4l r. Lazarus played a solo on the clarionet excel- Eln tlY• A great variety of popular songs and duets liiere mast successfully sung by Madame and Signor enconi, Miss Dolby, Miss Rainforth, Mr. Hobbs, and Mr. John Parry. Signor Negri presided at the fPianoforte w ith gr e a t ta c t and ability. It was late efOrC Miss Rainforth arrived, owing to her perform- A l g in The Merry Wives of Windsor at Covent Garden. . REPORTED ELOPEMENT.—A paragraph appeared !II the ne ws p a p ers o f S a turday last, under the head Elopement," giving a detailed account of the e lopement of a " Miss Manners, a young lady, aged 23 , of great beauty, and possessing a fortune of 5,000/., the house of her brother, near Sidcup, Kent, with 4 Policeman of the R division,"; and subsequent mar age of the parties at Woolwich church. On inquiry, I t appears there is not the slightest ground for as trting that such a marriage took place at Woolwich 'lurch, and, if that part of the report is proved to el incorrect, it is probable the whole story of the upement and marriage is equally without founda -44u. At all events, one circumstance is certain—the Policeman of the R division, said to be one of the parties, !till performs his duty at the Dock-yard, as if no such 7 , ( irtunate occurrence had taken place as to become The husband of a young lady of great beauty, with a • fortu ne of 5,000/. SUTUERLANDSIIIRE, THURSDAY, DEC. B.—The pro pitious state of the weather since Monday of last Week, is truly astonishing at such a season of the Year, every day of this week having been remarkably e aloa and genial. Snow has almost totally dis- Ppeared from the highest summits, and the 'and is now so dry and pliant, that it is seldom in 4 _such a condition at seed time. Frost peeps in at in tervals but is as soon driven away by salubrious and ' b r iny breezes from the high penchant mountains of "ester Ross. Cattle and sheep were never in better c ondition at such a period, there being a sufficient S upply of fodder, and an abundance of turnip. Farmers re got their cattle of every description in prime endition.—Ross -shire Advertiser. PLATTERY OVERDONE. — The Commerce observes, t hat M. Thiers, the great planner of the Church of the Madeleine, has carried his love of flattery so far as to decorate the niches of the church with statues of saint s , th e p a trons of the numerous family of Or leans. At the gates are placed the statues of St. Outs and St. Philip, in the interior those of St. t. Rand St. Aurelia, patronesses of the Queen, and aphael, patron of the Duke de Nemours. If ' 4l e temple of the Madeleine has been elevated to the t he of God, it was likewise intended not a little for 'tie glory of the Orleans family." BISHOPRIC OF ST. ASAPH AND BANGOR.—The 11 .., 1 un of the two sees of St. Asaph and Bangor, which Rill take place unless that portion of the Act 6 and 7 Wlrl. IV., relating to the subject is repealed, meets Veith strenuous opposition. A highly respectable and t tatnerous meeting was held last Tuesday at Carnar /13,u, when petitions to Parliament were agreed to, in l ynich, after pointing out the increased necessity for .Itiscopal su p er intendence, the petitioners say—" The 13 ishoprics of St. Asaph and Bangor have been; from / 2 1 7 ancient times, endowed with funds solemnly de feated to the maintenance of the Church in North Wales ; and they cannot feel it consistent with the Interests of religion or with the demands of justice, or !yen with the report of the Ecclesiastical Commis "euers, to unite these sees in order to divert a portion 4 ,f . these funds to the endowment of a Bishopric in a district unconnected with Wales, and one of the W ealthiest in the empire." TRE 'STATISTICAL SOCIETY.—This Society has pre- Pared some curious statistical records from a recent survey. In a parish containing 1,500 houses, there are n o less than 700 children in arms, giving the enor mous average of nearly half a baby to each house ; and in calculating the number of street door bells, a : 4 11larger result is arrived at. Of seven hundred and t wenty knockers, there are six hundred and Zenty out of the reach of a child , eigh t y -nine want painting, thirty-two are in tolerable repa i r , a nd ite remaining one has been wrenched off since the Society' s last survey. Out of seven families occu pying nine rooms, four had paid their re nt, two had Zroe idea of doing so, and the remaining one had made a point of always running away with the goods, 14 anticipation of any harsh proceeding on the p art of 4, landlord.—Punch. LONGEVITY IN MANCHESTER.—III the midst of "Quell exaggeration and misrepresentations as to the assumed unhealthiness of Manchester, as a place of I:Fsidence, and especially as to the vitally destruc tive effects of the employments of our operativ es, 4aay be worth while to place on record su ch rets as the following, which we believe may ue relied on. On Saturday last, there met a ccidently, at the shop of Mr. David Appleton, haird resser, Ashton-street, London-road, five per sons, all inhabitants of Manchester, namely, three j'en and two women, whose united ages amount tan hundred and twelve years! The age of the oldest "lan is 87 years ; and he is truly entitled to be ranked one of the labouring classes, as he has spent no less B ali 57 years of his life in the service of one firm, i I 'whos e employment he has filled various subordinate ' l ,ees, including that of watchman of the premises. , T he next of the party to this patriarch, in point of ~nior] y i , s another working man of 82 years ; he is, a ria has long been, a hand-loom weaver. The third 11 0 144 is aged 81 years, and he too is a hand - loom weaver. of the women, aged 81 years, is the wife of the .%‘ : e4 Yer of 82 years ; and she also pursues that occupa tion wh en s h e can obtain work. The fifth individual the p arty i s a poor w id o w of 81, who nurses ildren for a livelihood ; her subsistence being eked °l.t by the aid of some little parochial relief. All these individuals, then, are of the poorer working (A Z's and they all live within half a mile of each "er, all within the town of Manchester, or, to he In ure exact within the townships of Manchester and Ar "iek, but all in the town, none of them residing t i f b fieien n the suburbs to be said to have a rural itatiotlny . i —Manchester Guardian. THE REVOLT AT BARCELONA. The following particulars of this affair furnished by the correspondent of a Conte ni orary at Perpignan will be read with interest : _ On the morning of the 14th matters came to an issue. The crowds in the Plaza San Jayme were so numerous and so tumultuous that it became absolutely necessary to dislodge them. The advance was sounded; orders were given ; and the troops proceeded au pas de charge against the mob. The National Guards were prepared for battle, shots were fired, and the combat soon became general. The military, though greatly out-numbered, fought with much steadiness and bravery, and there is little or no doubt that the victory would have remained with them were it not for some acts of pillage which in the mean time took place. Three houses belonging to the principal goldsmiths in the Calle Plateria were broken into and plundered ; it went about that Zur bano had given orders to his soldiers to do so. Whe ther that General be justly or unjustly accused, the tidings of this act of violence went like lightning through the streets, and the feelings of the populace were lashed into the highest pitch of fury. Every man turned out, and prepared himself to defend his house and family against military lawlessness. In less than three-quarters of an hour the entire city was put into such a state of defence that each street became a fortress; every window, every bal cony, became a bulwark ; and, as the military passed beneath, tables, beds, chests, benches, tiles, stones, hot water, boiling oil, melted lead, were showered down upon them. Every article of furniture, the most precious as well as the most worthless which could cause death or inflict injury, was flung down on the defenceless head of the unhappy soldier. The very children crawled along the house-tops for the purpose of stripping the tiles and chimneys to keep up the supply of missiles. When every article was exhausted in the work of death, the women flung the pucker°, the earthern pot in which thf afternoon meal is cooked, with its contents of lard, cabbage, garhansos, and soup, scalding hot, into the faces and eyes of the officers. Whilst this fierce warfare was going on, orders were given that the assembly should beat through the streets, to call the entire force of the National Guards to arms. They at once responded to the call. They rushed to their barracks ; from this position they opened a deadly fire on the troops, who, notwithstand ing the resistance they met with, were gaining ground, and gradually approaching the Plaza San Jayme. They would, beyond any doubt, have taken possession of this important position in a short time, had not an operative, named Manfalls, rushed to the cathedral, mounted to the loftiest turret, and then commenced ringing the somaten a rebato—the tocsin, the alarm bell which rouses all to arms. It is necessary to have spent some time amongst the mountains of Catalonia, and to be conversant with the habits and usages of the wild people who inhabit them, in order to appreciate the effect produced when this dreadful summons is heard. There is a sort of superstitious awe mingled with the feeling which its sound calls into existence; and the Catalan who would remain by his hill side unmoved by its echoes, would be accursed in himself and his posterity. The fiery cross in days of yore, speeding on its fierce and flaming course, never called the Highlands of Scot land into wilder life and tumult than the somaten a rebato the mountains and fastnesses of Catalonia. It is believed to be the voice of God himself which awakens the Catalan, and summons him to the defence of his fueros, and his customs, and the ashes of his fathers. The combat deepened in ferocity and in bloodshed the moment the roar of that " horrid bell " opened from the Cathedral. The battle was fought with the utmost desperation, until the soldiers, seeing their best and bravest officers lying dead or dying in the streets, began to retire along the Rambla, towards the citadel, and in the direction of the sea wall. While in the act of retreating by this point, they un fortunately, through haste or imprudence, formed a dense mass, and thereby presented a mark to the enemy, of which they were not slow to take advantage. The first battalion of National Guards, whose barracks are close to the wall, lifted their pieces as one man, and [threw a volley into the thick of the fugitives. More than 600 bullets carried death and destruction amongst them. This was the last attempt at serious resistance on the part of the military. Van Halen, perceiving the state of affairs, now thought proper to retire into the citadel with the troops. He was, however, soon attacked in this strong hold by the people and the nationals, and with such vast effect, that he had to make his retreat at half-past two o'clock in the morning by a particular outlet, no doubt intended for so sad a purpose, and called the Puerto del Socorro. _ . The insurgents remained complete masters of the town before the day dawned, and of the troops that as yet remained in it. In the interest of truth it must be told that they did not abuse their victory by any ill-treatment of their prisoners. The soldiers and officers who had been unable to effect their retreat were those who occupied the barracks, called, from its vicinity to the University, the Quartel de los Estu dios, and the fort of Atarrazanas. Seeing themselves thus isolated, and completely cut off from their com panions, they were forced to capitulate. The officer commanding them, and who signed the capitulation, was Brigadier de Castro, whose arrival here, having been threatened to be shot by Van Halen for that act, I have already noticed. On the troops who thus remained, the most friendly attentions were lavished. Their necessities, which were great, for they had scarcely eaten, drunk, or slept for the two days previous, were supplied in abun dance. Money was also issued to them. The officers were regaled at the cafes and hotels in the most sumptuous manner by the fiercest of the young Re publicans. A supreme popular directive junta was imme diately formed after this victory. It was composed almost entirely of young men of Republican prin ciples, and they proceeded to discuss plans for the establishment of order and tranquillity in the town, which had been entirely left without any governing authority, the Political Chief having retired with the General and the troops, to take measures of defence against the force under Van Halen, which was block.- ading the city from San Felix. Various flags of truce were sent, and several in terviews were held with the General by Commis sioners from the insurgents, in order to restore tran quillity ; and Van Halen, pledged himself, in case he was not attacked, not to inflict any unnecessary injury on the place, at least, until further notice. In addition to the attack in the Plaza San Jayme, there were other combats more or less important in the Plaza Santa Anna, particularly one in which a colonel of infantry was killed ; in the new walk oppo site the citadel, where, it appears, acts of the most audacious valour, and worthy of a better cause, were performed. At a short distance from the gate of the citadel, in the garden called Jardin del General, a battery of artillery was captured by a party of the populace. It was turned on the retreating troops by them, and caused much destruction. Something more than 1,000, between killed and wounded, formed the loss of the military. Amongst the civilians and National Guard, about half the number. Prom the period of the evacuation of the citadel by Van Halen, to the 27th, nothing worthy of particular observation occurred. The letters from this place addressed to you will have completed the sketch from the 27th to the pre sent date. PERPIGNAN, DEC. 7.—The news of the surrender of Barcelona, and the entry of the troops, is con firmed by arrivals late last night from Port Vendres. The respectable portion of the National Guards, all who had a house and some property and a family to defend, were compelled (it is said without any stipu lation) to throw open the gates of the city to the soldiers, in order to protect themselves against the rabble they themselves had armed against the Go vernment. You may form an idea of the ferocity, acts of plunder, and licentiousness, which must have been perpetrated by an armed mob, when the mis guided, but, it would appear, now repentant, insur gents, were forced to fly for protection into the arms of the enemy that was bombarding their city, rather than be plundered and massacred by their own men. During the evening of the 3d and the morning of the 4th the mob, casting aside all regard for anything like discipline or order, and ans wer i ng w ith menaces the remonstrances of their leaders, attacked the Town-house, where, it seems, the treasure of the mu nicipality was deposited. They broke open the chests, which, in a short time, were emptied of their con tents. They then proceeded to other houses, where, it was supposed, a similar booty could be obtained, and repeated the same acts. During the whole of that night nothing could surpass the confusion and violence which reigned everywhere. It is stated that the amount in money thus plun dered by the rabble is upwards of 200,000 dollars, independently of articles of plate, jewels, Sce., whi c h could easily be carried off. It is possible that the amount thus stated may be exaggerated, but it is a fact that the National Guards of Barcelona threw open their gates to the Regent, for the purpose of saving their properties from plun der and themselves from massacre. It is not said whether Espartero himself has as yet entered the city or not. The destruction of houses and property in Barce lona, caused by the shells, was at first very much ex. aggerated here. It was stated that all Barcelona was one ruin. The fact. is that very little mischief was done to the houses. , Several shells fell that did not burst at all, and many, very many, burst in the air, and the fragments reached the ground without doing any harm. The greatest injury appears to have been done to the Consistorial-house —but that occurred from a peculiar cause. A magazine containing am munition is quite close to that edifice,—a shell fell and ignited the powder. The explosion was terrific, and its effects were such as to inflict much injury on the Town-house. The greatest consists, however, in the destruction by the flames of the papers, documents, and archives of the city, which were there deposited. Beyond that, the injury done to the town has been trifling in proportion to the number of shells thrown, and the time during which the bombardment lasted. I have just seen letters which have been received by one of the refugees here, who had himself commanded in the free corps, from some friends in Seville and Cordova. They speak of the perfect tranquillity the south enjoys ; they add that there is a determination to participate in no movement which has for its object provincial or peculiar interests ; the only thing likely to excite them would be any attempt against the con stitutional liberty established in Spain. Navarre is quiet ; not a sound nor stir is heard in the Basque provinces. " Wild Biscay "is in repose, and not a discordant voice is heard from Sarragossa. If the majority of the Spanish people detest Espartero they have a most curious, a most extraordinary mode of showing that feeling. I should have mentioned in its place, that it is be lieved by the Spanish refugees that the trifling effect produced by the shells was intentionally produced, and it was arranged so as that the greater part should fall harmless. Such seems to be the feeling of all parties amongst the Spaniards. If this be true, it is highly favourable in every point of view to Espartero. EIGHT o'CLock, P.m.—The entry of the troops into Barcelona was effected in the most peaceable manner. It had all the appearance of a quiet parade. The Na tional Guards and the soldiers embraced each other, and fraternised together in the most amicable manner. Over 900 shots were fired into the city during the bombardment. There was little loss of life ; and the public edifices, with the exception of the Consistorial house, did not suffer much. Several private dwell ing-house's were, however, much injured. In the Hotel des Quatre Nations alone six shells fell, five of which took effect. Sixty-nine shells burst in the air. There are at this moment something more than 10,000 troops in the city and forts. The foreign Con suls have returned to their houses. Fortunately the warehouses and manufactories have suffered but little. The latest accounts from Barcelona are up to four o'clock on the evening of the sth. NEW SOUTH WALES. By the the George IV. arrived at Liverpool yester day, accounts have been received from New South Wales to the 25th of June. The markets generally had been inactive. A cargo of sugar, tea, and coffee, per the Georgiana, from Manilla, had changed hands within the preceding week ; but at what rates is not reported, though the Congous are stated to have been all re-sold at 101. per 62 catties. Upwards of 90 tons of Manilla sugar had been disposed of at 24/. and 251. per ton, and about 30 tons Bourbon, at 281. per ton. In manufactured goods, several invoices had fetched from 25 to 30 per cent. advance. In other articles there was no altera tion, the sales having been so trivial that they were not worth recording. Prime Irish mess pork was selling at 51. ss. per barrel ; Hamburgh at 4/. 4s. The bill for the incorporation of Sydney was read a first time on the 21st of June, and stood for a second reading on the 28th. A bill had likewise been laid before the Council founded on a recent alteration in the English law relating to banking companies, ren dering it compulsory upon them to fill up vacancies. The police and public works bill was still a source of discontent, the Governor appearing, in the opinions of some, too hasty in pressing it upon the legislature. THE CHINA TREATY. (From the Glasgow• Courier.) UNTO THE RIGHT HON. SIR ROBERT PEEL, BART., FIRST LORD OF HER MAJESTY'S TREASURY, &C. GLASGOW, DEC. s.—The memorial of the East In dia Association of Glasgow humbly showeth— That your memorialists being deeply interested in the trade with the East, beg to submit to' your Lord ship the following considerations arising from the treaty just formed with the Emperor of China, and the excitement caused thereby in our markets in ex pectation of a very enlarged trade with the Chinese empire. Your memorialists, in common with all her Ma jesty's subjects, heartily rejoice in the treaty thus made, but have many misgivings as to the immediate beneficial effects so generally and ardently antici pated, for the following reasons :- Ist. The direct trade of this country to China has seldom exceeded 1,200,0001. per annum . . 2d. The annual trade from China has seldom ex ceeded 4,000,0001., both sums being exclusive of what passes through the medium of America and Australasia. 3d. The difference between these has hitherto been made good chiefly by the opium and cotton exported from British India, the former to the annual value of 3,000,0001., and the latter of upwards of 1,000,0001., while the balance of trade against China has been paid in bullion. 4th. The supply of opium and cotton is not likely to be materially reduced under the new arrangements. sth. The silk of China is constantly losing ground in competition with that of Italy; the miscellaneous articles admit of little increase ; and tea, the ()Teat staple of China, is already imported to as greaq an extent as the consumption, limited by high price, requires. 6th. Great Britain, therefore, already exports about as much to China, direct, and from India, as she re ceives, or can receive, of the produce of the latter. 7th. It is accordingly evident that as yet there is no room for an additional export trade to any consider able extent; because, although there be such an im mense territory, and such an almost boundless popu lation in China, and admitting also their entire wil lingness to accept our productions, yet they have not produce to give which we can at present take in re turn, as is clearly proved by the large quantity of bullion required from China in order to adjust the balance of trade. Bth. The duty charged by our Tariff on teais equal to 200 per cent. on the shipping cost, viz. 2s. Id. per lb. on an article which, at an average, costs on board about ls.; and while a tariff is negotiating in China for the admission of our productions, it is but reason able to expect that the Chinese will keep in view the monstrous duty charged in England on their staple. 9th. The duty so charged in England falls chiefly on the poor, who are the largest consumers, and it falls the more heavily that they use the low-priced teas. From these premises your memorialists draw the following inferences :- Ist. That the present high duty on tea restricts very materially the consumption, avid by thus limiting the quantity which can be imported, limits also the amount of our exports, which can scarcely therefore, under existing circumstances, be extended beyond the point already attained, and shows the existing excitement to be founded in delusion, certain to pro duce the most ruinous results. _ 2d. That our high duties are sure to have a corres ponding effect in China, not only in the duty charge able on our manufactures, but probably also in an increased export duty on tea, besides the chance of future troubles arising from such an unnatural posi tion of affairs. 3d. That the intercourse with China having here tofore been confined to a single inconvenient port, and even there to only a few llong merchants, could not be so extended as to increase the quantity of tea taken in return so much as might enable her Ma jesty's Government to reduce the duty, and yet main tain the revenue; but seeing that these hindrances are removed, that the article can probably be supplied to a very large extent, and that we are now to have access to Fuchoo, the nearest port to the principal place of growth, it is evident that the period has ar rived when such a reduction is imperatively called for; and that, unless it be made, there is little prospect of commercial advantage to Great Britain from her late achievements. 4th. That a reduction of the duty on black teas by one-half would not only facilitate the formation of a fair tariff with China, and increase the amount of our exports, but would greatly add to the comfort, espe cially of the poorer class of British subjects, would not (at least, it would only partially, and for a time) injure the revenue, and would, moreover, materially increase the consumption of sugar, another article of vast importance to the Exchequer. Your memorialists do therefore humbly, but ear nestly, commend this subject to your Lordship's most serious consideration ; and further entreat that her Majesty's Government will instruct the Plenipten tiary to pay most particular attention to the subject of inland or transit duties, as provided for by the treaty, seeing that this has hitherto been one great hindrance to our trade, and that, without a well-ar ranged system of transit duties, any system of direct import duties (however excellent in itself) will avail but little. May it therefore please your Lordship to consider this subject, with a view to a material reduction in the duty on tea, and the establishment of a fair reci procity between this country and China; and your memorialists will ever pray.—Signed in name and in behalf of the Glasgow East India Association, HUGH COGAN, Chairman. A. WARDROP, Secretary. PROSPECT of CHINESE DEMAND FOR BRITISH GOODS. It must be recollected, that, since the invention of machinery, goods that were formerly inaccessible, ex cept to the wealthier classes, are now open to the most humble. Two hundred years ago, nankeen and similar articles were sold at much lower prices in China than British cotton could possibly be ; but this native manufacture can neither have greatly increased or diminished in cost for centuries, depending merely on the momentary price of labour, and years of scarcity or plenty ; whilst the march of science has enabled European goods that formerly cost ten dollars in England, to be sold at the present day for two on the coast of China. Mandarins and people of wealth were necessarily then the only consumers ; but now a now and numerous body, viz., the bulk of the popula- THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 15, 1842. tion, would become purchasers ; for it is evident, when they can possess themselves of an article similar and superior to their own at a far cheaper rate, they will be drawn into the market, while their energies must be turned into some other channel of employment to obtain subsistence and the means of purchasing. Teas, raw and manufactured silks, would, in all probability, be shipped in exchange from the Chekiang, Fokian, and Keangnan coast for woollens and broad cloths, thus lowering the price of tea, and admitting a poorer class of consumers in England. Some of us, who had an opportunity of visiting the northern pro vinces, saw what a ready mart woollens and warm olothing would be likely to meet with in a country liable to such changes of temperature. No possible average can be taken of what would be the demand ; for the great loss of coasting junks, and the expenses of inland carriage, prevent the inhabitants from feeling the effect ofour diminished prices ; btit, when it is taken into consideration that a quantity of European manu factures finds a sale on the western coast of South America, where there are but nine millions of people, equal to what is now sold on the coast of China, in which country there are supposed to be three hundred millions, the supply in China must be very far short of the actual demand. If this argu ment is fair, an enormous increase in the consumption may be expected ; and should the Mandarins find out, as they no doubt would, that a profit is to be obtained by a monopoly of the trade, perhaps at last their own interest will lead them in reality to encourage what hitherto they have blindly driven away.—Lord Joce lyn's Six Months with the Chinese Expedition. WIFE SHOT BY HER HUSBAND. On Friday night, between six and seven o'clock, John Hunt, who keeps a public-house in Waterbeach Fen, near Cambridge, went into his house with a loaded gun, which he discharged at his wife, and in £tantly escaped. The gun was discharged at the poor woman's head, and the charge blew away part of her lower jaw, and, passing in an oblique direction, also took off and lacerated the upper part of her shoulder Mr Pinchard, surgeon, of Cottenham, was called in with all possible speed, and he extracted two large pieces of bone from the lower jaw, and dressed the wounds, but it was not thought possible the poor creature could long survive the extensive injuries she had received. There were two other men in the house when the murderous attempt was made, but they were too pa. ralysed by the occurrence to secure Hunt, who in stantly made his escape, and has not since been heard of, although diligent search was made at an early hour this morning. It appears that it was a feeling of jealousy that prompted the wretched man to the com mittal of the diabolical act; he had, we understand, many times threatened to take away the life of his wife, and had been absent from his home for several days pant. The parties had been married twenty-six yearn, and have three children, the eldest being mar ried, and Hunt is supposed to have got through a deal of property. Mrs. Hunt is the daughter of an old gentleman named Newton, who left the scene of the tragedy only a few minutes before the arrival of the infuriated husband. Hunt is about forty-five years of age; and it is generally supposed at IVaterbeach that he had com mitted suicide, and search has been made in the river which runs near the house, but without success. The Cambridge Independent Press, in noticing this melancholy occurrence in a second edition, states that this is the fifth attempt at murder in the town and neighbourhood of Cambridge, within the last three weeks. The attempt made by the green-grocer, in the market-place of the town, to cut his wife's throat very recently, proceeded from the same cause of jealousy which it appears was the origin of the Water beach tragedy. The last account relative to the latter occurrence, which reached Cambridge on Monday night, stated that the unfortunate woman still lingered in the most excruciating agony, without any hope being entertained of her recovery. APPREHENSION OF THE PRISONER. Yesterday, at about ten o'clock in the morning, Hunt was apprehended at Six-mile-Bottom, on his road to London. He was conveyed to the Cambridge station-house, and will be remanded to-day, by a Magistrate, until Saturday next, when he will under go an examination at the Town-hall.—Cambridge Advertiser of to-day. A General Meeting of the Subscribers of Lloyd's was held yesterday at the South Sea House, G. R. Robinson, Esq., in the chair, when, after the business connected with the internal arrangements of the esta blishment had been disposed of, the following votes from the funds were unanimously agreed to, viz.:- 121. to twelve fishermen for saving the crew of the barque Watt, from Quebec to Plymouth, run on shore near Eastbourne, 26th October; 121. to twelve inha bitants of Biarrets, near Bayonne, for rescuing the crew of the Restigouche packet, from Gibraltar to Bilboa, wrecked near that port, 24th October. RETURNED EMIGRANTS.—AIthough it iS usual during the latter part of the year for numbers of persons to return in the steerages of the ships from New York, this year the number has been much greater than usual. The majority of them arc people who emigrated early in the year, and who, dis appointed on their arrival in the United States at not getting employment, have returned, many of them in a state of utter destitution. The Liberty, which arrived in the early part of the week, brought 120 in the steerage, and the Hottinguer, which ar rived on Friday, brought 200. From the scarcity of employment in the cities on the seaboard, it is likely that hundreds of disappointed emigrants will yet re turn.—Liverpool Albion. THE TURKISH AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO WEST MINSTER BRlDEwELL.—Shortly before one o'clock on Tuesday his Excellency the Turkish. Ambassador accompanied by Monsieur De Place and his Excel lency's dragoman, inspected very minutely the differ ent departments of this establishment. His Excellency expressed great admiration of the cleanliness and good order of the establishment, and was pleased to com pliment Lieut. Tracy in very high terms, remarking that the excellence of the arrangements exceeded any thing of the kind he had ever before witnessed. His Excellency is a young man, about 25 years of age, possessing a very pleasing manner and countenance. He has been Ambassador at the Court of Great Bri tain about six months. TIIE MODEL PRISON.—The Commissioners for the government of Pentonville Prison held a meeting ox Monday. There were present the Duke of Rich mond, the Earl of Devon, the Earl of Chichester, Lord John, Russell, Sir Benjamin Brodie, Dr. Fer gusson, Major Jebb, Mr. Crawford, and Mr. Russell. It is understood that the rules and dietary are finally settled, and that the prison will be occupied in the course of the present week. TIIE POWERFUL EFFECTS OF A DREAM.—On Saturday morning last, between two and three o'clock, when Mr. Robert Tempest, of Howell-croft, butcher, was sleeping in bed with his wife, he dreamed that she had gone out of her mind and become insane, which had such an effect upon him, that he got out of bed and jumped through the room window, breaking eight panes of glass, together with the frame. He alighted on the pavement in the street, and in a short time rose up and walked into the house. He has re ceived a severe fall, and now lies in a weak state. He was attended by Dr. Bancroft, who paid every atten tion in dressing and attending to his wounds.--Bolton Free Press. MANCHESTER, DEC. 9.—An odd illustration of the present working of the mails between Hull and Man chester, occurred here yesterday. A steam-boat ar rived at Hull from Hamburgh, on Wednesday after noon, with a very valuable cow for a gentleman in this town, the steamer bringing also at the same time her Majesty's mail bags, containing a letter of advice to have some one one on the spot to receive her. The mail-bags, in conformity with the new arrangements, remained at Hull all night ; but the cow having been disembarked, was immediately forwarded by railway to Manchester, where she arrived a t t en o clock tho same night. o one, however, kno w i ng to whom she belonged, she was sent to a stable, where she remained until near noon on Friday, at which time the letter of advice that arrived at llull with the cow was received in Manchester by the mail! Her Majesty's mail was thus fairly outstripped by the cow by about four teen hours ! PROGRESS OF THE GOSPEL IN THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS.—Nothing in the history of the human race can appear to the reflecting mind more gratifying or extraordinary than the establishment of a mission under the auspices of the chiefs in the islands of the South Sea for the propagation of the Gospel. It may be granted that their notions of the Christian system were far from being enlightened, while their motives unquestionably retained a strong mixture of earthly ingredients. That this was the case to a very consi derable extent, is not concealed by their instructors, who, in reference more especially to the two clusters of the Society Archipelago, describe the religion of the greater part of the people as being at first merely nominal ; and that at the time they assumed the pro fession of Christianity, they knew little more of it than that it enjoined the worship of one God instead of many, required no human sacrifices, no offering except prayer, and abstinence from labour every seventh day. The change applied almost solely to the outward observance, and had not yet reached either the decisions of the understanding or the feelings of the heart. Still it was a most important revolution, which must necessarily be followed by a movement in advance. Idolatry could not again resume its empire; the chain of the captive had been broken ; and the appetite for new views both in human arts and divine knowledge would necessarily seek gratification at all hazards. The result corresponds in no small degree with this anticipation ; the tree planted among them by the missionaries has brought forth fruit both good and evil ; tares have grown up with the wheat, but the land is no longer a desert ; and the ample produce denotes as least the inherent powers of the soil.— Edinburgh Cabinet Library, No. XXXIIY. Polynesia SCOTCH BANKING. i To resume with the Scotch banking system. R D., our Edinburgh correspondent, who charges himself with, and approves himself fully competent to, its championship, thus resumes and contrasts the merits of that system with the demerits of the English joint ' stock system. The point of departure is not exactly selected in the most impartial taste, but let that pass. " The Scottish banks add much to the powers of capital by bringing the smallest surplus into a situa tion rendering it accessible. They add also doubt less to the volume of capital, in so far as their current' in use may exceed the actual capital deposited wan them, and so far they save the expense of coin. But they do not lend themselves to raising up men of straw to compete with and ruin actual capitalists; they do not lend themselves to deranging business by creating goods beyond the fair wants of the home , or rushing injudiciously int o th e f ore i gn markets. They assist business, but do not create it, nor by undue assistance derange it. They are money changers merely, not co-partners in commercial gambling at a fixed profit." There is questionless only too much truth in the charges here resumed in the comparison between the two against the English joint-stock banks ; so far however, and so far only, as the more rotten among them ; those, for example, which have gone to the wall already, or which may be in an unsound condition and conducted upon a corrupt system, of which one or more instances might be cited, were it necessary or expedient, at this present time in the metropolitan county as in one of the ridings of Yorkshire. It may be sufficient to observe now incidentally of these, that their doings do not escape attention although they may not be animadverted upon. But although the Scottish bank may not " lend themselves to raise up men of straw ; ** * * to deranging business by creating goods be yond the fair wants of the home, or rushing injudis ciously into the foreign markets," like the notorious Bank of Manchester ; although in the commercial sense they may not do this, yet upon their system they may do, add do, what is tantamount to the same mischievous result in the agricultural sense. By loans upon mortgage they contribute largely to sus tain the value of land in Scotland ; by their loans and small note circulation they have contributed largely to raise the value of land there, and the prices of stock and provisions both there and here. "'hey have created a stronger competition for the possession and tenantry of land than what in the natural order of things could have arisen ; and they have assisted in raising up compa rative " men of straw" to compete with and injure the actual and industrious farming capitalist. The injury thus inflicted upon Scotland has re-acted to a large extent doubtless upon England by raising and sustaining rents, and stimulating an excessive concurrence for the occupation of land. The results of bank loans on landed securities and of a one-pound note circulation hare, although not to the same excess, produced the same effects in Scotland as, under a similar system of bank management and circulating accommodation, were developed in England during the war, and ultimately eventuated in the universal catastrophe consequent on the Currency Bill of Sir Robert Peel. It requires no power of second sight now to foresee the time approaching when, with (without even) the extinction of that local and excep tional small note circulation on the artificial and insecure foundations of which they have been too exclusively built up, the prosperity prices and rents of land and the produce of land in Scotland, must descend from their high estate and find a lower level. When, as the prices of produce decline through the operation of that larger and less trammelled compe tition of similar foreign products ; of the corn of the Baltic and the Black Sea, the beeves of Holstein, Mecklenburg, and Spain, and the pork and pi g g er y imports en masse of th e United States, which now and henceforth may be looked for and must be reckoned with ; the wary Scotch . banks recal their loans on land, and the signal it will be to which all other the capitalist mortgagees of land will hastily respond, then will come the day of trial for Scotch agriculture and the day of peril for Scotch banks. The one pound-note circulation, if still permitted an existence, will then prove an embarrassment rather than a con venience of power and profit. The Scottish system in its purity, if so it may be called, would be inapplicable in England if only for the vicious quality of the circulating medium compos ing an inherent portion of it. That, however, is not the only objection which may be urged against it; its ntrtgage investments alone are a standing sore in the system. Far from admiring, moreover, the open or cash-credit practice under that system, there is reason to deprecate its introduction into this coun try however well generally it may have worked in Scotland, where so long established. A cash credit is conceded to an applicant of fair character and sup posed means on the strength and :security of two approved bondsmen, and upon this cash credit the party is entitled to operate to the extent. The question here arises, whether advances thus made upon a bonded security alone possess an equality or a superiority of guarantee over bills of exchange, with one or more endorsers, presented for discount, and, according to the practice of English banks, discounted. It will scarcely admit of doubt that a bill is a more perfect representative of value than a bond, and more readily recoverable on default of one party against the others superscribing. The bill represents a real trans action consummated ; the bond represents transac tions to come, in progress, or in the end completed. In the case of the bill the bank has at the moment the nature of the transaction before it, as well as the agents in that transaction, but the bond leaves the Scotch bank with the immediate agents only before it, and of the nature of their transanctions it can only be imperfectly informed. The bonds men stand moreover towards each other, and to wards the bank, in the position of three parties to an accommodation bill, which, according to the more pru dential practice of English banking, where fairly car ried out, would be tainted by the fact and scouted at once. And the three parties to the bond may after all, and doubtless often do, represent but one security. For if A and B become bound for C in a cash credit at one Scotch bank, C must return the compliment to both at another bank, and so on A for B and B for A. The three compose a leash and run together for good or for harm, they sink or swim together. The bank of A may have some cognisance of what he is doing so far at least as the credit is operated upon ; but how is he to overhaul the accounts and the business of B and C for whom A is bound, and whose credits are opened with other banks ? The comparison, it may however he observed and conceded, scarcely holds good as between advances on joint bond and bills discounted. The practice of ad vances, however, by English banks, though apparently less guaranteed, appears to possess equal if not more solid elements of security. Take a bank located in an agricultural district. It is a part of their business to loan money to the farming interest. The farmer re quires an advance, say for rent-day, for the purchase of seed, or of stock. He has no bondsmen to offer, but he refers to his stacks of corn, or hay, or turuips, or stock fatted for market, for which the demand is sure, although it would be detrimental to force them all on glutted markets at once.—Herald. CITY OF WESTMINSTER LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC, AND MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.—HIS Royal High ness Prince Albert has just presented twenty guineas to the funds of this useful Institution, of which he is the Illustrious Patron. The Duke of Northumber land, the Duke of Buccleuch, the Duke of Suther land, the Marquis of Lansdowne, and the Marquis of Westminster are also among the distinguished donors to this Institution. OULD NICK'S SECURITY FOR HIS RENT.—" I ' m afther thinking, yer honor, it's yersilf can be letting ould Nick O'Brien a bit of a cabin, to hould his wife and childer," said a wild-looking Irishman, from the mountains of Connaught, as he entered the office of one of our house-factors. " And who will be caution ing old Nick, fur the payment of his rent ?" asked the factor, eyeing him as no bad impersonation of the character whose name he had so coolly assumed. " Och ! if it's the matther of caution you mane, no body but his honour, the gintleman of the Savings' Bank, will do that for ould Nick," said the wild looking mountain man, as he threw down a well fingered Savings' Bank pass-book. On examining this document, the house-factor found that Nicholas —for such was his real name—had been for a good while a regular depositor in the Savings' Bank, and had saved a number of pounds. On being asked how he managed ,to save so much money in these hard times, Nicholas replied, "I found my wife Judy be ginning to stick hard to the tay, and the shugar, and the swate buther, and the potheen, like her Scotch neighbours, jist as if she'd been the wife of yer honor ; so I said, this is not honour to Ould Nick, and I tuk to spind the money mysilf, and to stick to the stir-about, and the praties and bacon, and thin I could call and see his honour at the Bank now and again ov a Saturday, and lave a crown." Judging Nicholas by his bank pass-book, and the de scription of his household economy, to be an honest and prudent man, though somewhat rough in his ap pearance, the house-factor let him a house. But no sooner was Nicholas settled in his new house than one after another of the previous tenants called to ascertain what kind of man they had got for a neighbour. Instead, however, of saying anything of him, the factor asked what they had to say of him. To this they could only reply,— " Oh, nothing ; but he looks so queer, and they call him Nick ; and he is always banning the tea, and the sugar, and the fresh butter, and the whisky, as things only for the gentry." Nicholas, however, had a heart to be kind, as well as a mind to be industrious and saving, and by bestowing or lending a shilling to his less provident neighbours in their times of distress, he very soon convinced them, that Ould Nick was but a misnomer for one that was honest, industrious, econo mical, prudent, and generous —one that was all this by means of the Savings' Bank.—Glasgow Argus. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TUESDAY. DERBY.-8 to 1 agst A British Yeoman (0-20 to 1 agst Murat-28 to 1 agst Progress colt (0-30 to 1 agst Winesour-30 to 1 agst Aristides (0-40 to 1 agst Blackdrop (0-40 to 1 agst Amorino (t)—.45 to 1 agst Sirikol-40 to 1 agst Napier-50 to 1 agst Chesterfield —l,OOO to 15 agst Jamal-1,000 to 15 agst Lang iish colt-5 to 1 against Scott's lot-12 to 1 agst Col. Pool's lot-15 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's lot-18 to 1 agst Kent's lot. COURSING. RIDGWAY COURSI NG C LUB M EETING , AT SOUTH PORT, DEc. 8 AND 9.—The Ridgway Challenge Cup (16 dogs) was won by Mr. Garven's Gambler, beating, in the deciding course, Mr. Knowles's Kate. The Puppy Cup (16 Subs.) was won by Mr. Knowles's Eau de Vie, beat ing, in the deciding course, Mr. Shaw's So-sly. The Martindale Stakes, for 16 dogs, were won by Mr. Uns worth's Unknown—Mr. Garven's Gust ran up. The Southport Stakes were *on by Mr. Slater's Sandy. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The report contained in your paper of Sa turday, the 10th instant, of the examination of Mr. W. Carter before the Insolvent Debtors' Court, is now before me. The statements contained in that document, " espe cially those respecting the Carlton Club," and alleged " diplomatic employments," so obviously and impera tively demand immodiate notice and refutation from me, that I cannot doubt you will do me the favour to insert the few words which are necessary for that purpose. - Air. Carter introduced himself to me about eight years ago as a rich West India proprietor, who wished to thank me for exertions which I had then recently made in behalf of the West Indian colonies. An ac quaintance, which continued on general and friendly terms, grew out of this. I knew nothing of Mr. Carter's having taken the benefit of the Insolvent Debtor's Act in 1832 ; and the first occasion on which money was mentioned between us was, that of an application last year on his part, that I would lend him 50/. ; with this I regretted I could not comply. Shortly afterwards he asked me to sign a bill of exchange for that amount in his accommoda tion. I did so; and similar liabilities gradually in creased. lie also at various times received from me sums of money ; and it was not until those sums had become considerable, and those liabilities very heavy, that Mr. Carter signed for me the bills specified in his caminaton. With respect to the statement of Mr. Carter that a sum of " 3,0001.," or any other sum, was ever represented by me as being set apart or " reserved" " by the Carlton Club" for my use, on "account of elections," or on any other account, it is utterly without foundation. No conversation I ever held with him could, by any ingenuity, be tortured into such a meaning; and with respect to any diplomatic appointment, his as sertion also is worse than a simple untruth—it is a gross and malignant invention. With respect to the assertion that " attempts had been made to subpoena me in vain," it is perfectly untrue. I had put Mr. Carter into communication with my agent previously to my leaving London, and he knew he would readily and at any time com mand my attendance. He even (I know not if wil lingly) prevented my attendance, or attendance on my behalf, by stating to my agent that on account of the number of cases on the list preceding his, his exa mination would certainly not take place until, at the least, a month or six weeks after the day for which it had been fixed, and on which it actually occurred. But for this my evidence should have been given in Court, and you would have been spared this com munication. I am, Sir, yours most faithfully, London, Dec. 13. PETER BORTHWICK. SINGULAR CASES OF RECOVERY OF HAIR, AFTER 15, 25, AND 26 YEARS' LOSS. A few attestations (selected from numberless others, received during the last 40 years) to the virtues of ROWLAND'S MACASSAR OIL ; the originals of which may be seen at the Proprietors. To Messrs. Rowland and Son, 20, Hatton-garden, London. Hummums Hotel, Covent-garden, Feb. 26, 1802. Gentlemen,--In announcing to you the following cor roboration of the efficacy of your Macassar Oil, if by your making it public it will be of any service, I shall consider myself but returning in a very small degree the great obligation I feel I lie under to you, and shall be most happy during my stay in London to satisfy any Gentleman who may feel interested in the truth of the following :—ln the year 1776 I went to India, and shortly after my arrival there my hair fell off in consi derable quantities, so that I soon became entirely bald ; in which state I remained until my arrival last year in America, and at Boston was induced by reading one of your Advertisements to make trial of your Macassar Oil, though I confess with but little hope of success. After the use of one bottle I found my hitherto bald head covered with a sort of down, continuing the use of the Oil, much to my surprise and gratification, I have now the pleasure to inform you, withont exaggeration or vanity, that I can boast of as fine a head of hair as any one need to have. I am, Gentlemen, your grateful Servant, A. MACKENZIE. Extract of a Letter directed to Mr. Oldroyd, Merchant of London, from a friend at Naples, dated May 6, 1823. . . I must turn your attention to the following. :—Captain Kranshair, of the 4th Regiment of Line, in the service of his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Austria, aged 44 years, has been bald ever since the age of 18. He was recommended to try " Rowlands' Macassar Oil," by a Gentleman who had already experienced its good effects : he bought some of me of the last quantity I received from England, and persevered in applying it. In less than two months his hair grew on the bald parts, ankis now very thick. The Captain is highly pleased, and has spread its fame. I assure you the demand for that article is very great, and must beg you to send me a fresh supply without loss of time. Gentlemen,—l consider it almost an imperative duty to state the efficacy of your most excellent Macassar Oil. For the last fifteen years I have been bald, occasioned by a most dreadful fever whilst in India. I have used almost every means to procure a head of hair again, but all my efforts seemed fruitless,-until, accidentally, a friend advised the use of your valuable Hair Restorer —(I can give it no better name)—and, after using a 3s. 6d. bottle, every symptom of a new head of hair began to show itself, to the joy, not only of myself, but my children. I resolved on having another, and obtained a 7s. bottle, and, before the whole of which was used, I had, and have now, as handsome a head of hair as ever man enjoyed, and I earnestly recommend all who have not tried this most excellent Oil, will not fail to do so. I am, Sirs, your most grateful and obedient servant, J. WALKER, Colonel. WhittlyLodge, near Taunton, May 10, 1836. ROWLANI)'S MACASSAR OIL prevents hair from falling off or turning Grey ; Changes Grey Hair to its Original Colour ; frees it from Scurf and Dandriff, and makes it beautifully soft and curly. *** Ask for " ROWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL," And see that those words are on the wrapper. Price 3s. 6d. ; 7s. ; Family Bottlgs (equal to four small), 10s. 6d. ; and double that size, 21s. per bottle. Sold by them, and by Chemists and Perfumers. AN ADVENTURE A T SEA.-011 the 25th of last month, the Meg Lee, of Sunderland, while proceeding down the Cattegat, on her voyage from Dantzic to London, was happily the means of saving the crew of a small Danish vessel. The following graphic ac count, in a sailor's own words, will best relate the mode in which the men were saved :—" At 10 a.m., next morning, saw a small sloop making for us, with a signal of distress flying. I immediately shortened sail, and brought the ship by the wind. At this time it was blowing a strong gale from the S.E., and a thick snow drift (and you know, I presume, that it is not • only cold at such a time, especially with wet clothes on, but rather bad to look to wind ward) ; and \as the ship had been under a press of canvass, before I could get the necessary quantity of sail reduced, we had run past the sloop. We wore ship—came round upon the other tack—and again ran past, and saw the poor fellows waxing their hands in the most frantic manner. Whilst I was giving some orders about the sails, the man at the helm called out that the sloop had gone down. The hands being up at the time reefing the foretopsail, I roared out to them to come down, and we got sail made in the direction of the sloop. After a few minutes we had the pleasure to see the crew in a little boat, only ten feet long. They kept their head to the sea, and I brought the ship close to them, and succeeded in getting them on board, three in number. Immediately the boat filled with water. They had put a few of their most valuable things into the boat, which were all lost."—Gateshetal Observer. The bank of Messrs. J. D. and T. Lydall, of Henley-on-Thames, which suspended payment on the il4th of last month, has commenced paying a dividend of ten shillings in the pound ; there is no doubt of the creditors receiving their full demands by two other dividends in February or March next. THE NEW • CHAPEL ROYAL, AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE.—The works, which were inspected by Prince Albert on his visit to town on Saturday last, are in a forward state. It is of handsome dimensions, sup , ported and extremely well lighted. The door in the middle of entranceby for columns , her Majesty is by a the north side of the chapel ; the entrance for the Royal ,household is immediately underneath. The edifice, which, , it is understood, will be consecrated with the usual ceremony either by the Archbishop of Canterbury or the Bishop of London, will be finished by the return of the Court to town in February. THE PATENT CHIMNEY-SWEEPING MAcitm. Mr. St. Clair Trotter, secretary to the Ramoneur Association, in Foley-place, attended by Mr. George Walter, waited on the Lord Mayor yesterday, t o ex hibit the models of the patent chimey sweeping ma chine, and to request permission to sweep the chimneys of the Mansion-house. The machine consists of square brushes acting on spiral springs, which con tract and expand according to the dimensions of the chimney, its universal joints attaching the rods, so as to pass at right angles. It has been exhibited and approved by many of the public establishments, and to-morrow they are to be exhibited, by appointment of the Board of Qrdnance, at the Tower. The Lord Mayor immediately gave orders that an experiment should be made of the efficacy of the machine in the chimneys of the Mansion-house. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—Attention has been drawn of late by some of our Contemporaries to the subject of blas phemous and immoral publications, which, it seems, are exposed for sale to a very great extent in the metropolis, without any sufficient means being taken to check so monstrous an evil. When the party now in power were in opposition, they used to cry out against the Government on account of its alleged apathy to the propagation of Socialist principles, though the result has proved that the Whigs exercised a sound discretion in leaving the sect to the insignifi cane from which it was temporarily raised by the pious efforts of the Bishop of Exeter. The evil of Socialism was one which carried within itself the elements of self-destruction ; and to leave it to itself was, therefore, the surest, and probably the shortest way to get rid of it. Since the Bishop of Exeter has left it alone, its publications have been discon tinued, its establishments have been broken up, and its founder or chief has withdrawn from the scene of his folly. It is, however, a very different matter with regard to the blasphemous andimmoral publications, which are thrust with iinpunity beneath the observation of the public. They are not only calculated to plunge the vicious still lower in degradation, but to contami nate the weak-minded, and to offend those who are incapable of feeling anything but disgust for the outrage against religion and morals, which the vendors or exhibitors of the publications alluded to are daily allowed to ,perpetrate. It is cer tainly the duty of the authorities to stir them selves against a nuisance of so amazing a character, and one which does not confine itself to the haunts where those who have evil inclinations may go in search of it, but which is openly forced into the sight of the well-disposed portion of the commu nity. Our readers will probably have noticed a police report, in which the son of one of the Vice-Chancellors was charged with having given way to a very natural impulse, in breaking the windows of a shop in which two blasphemous placards were shamelessly exhibited. The Magis trate inflicted no fine, but the gentleman paid the amount of the damage, and was congra tulated on having done an act which would probably lead to a prosecution of the individual whose windows he had broken. This is all very well ; but is it right that a foul and disgusting nuisance should be left unpunished until a private individual, giving way to a very creditable feeling of irritation, proceeds to a lawless act, of which a breach of the peace might have been the consequence, and by which he might have become involved in a very serious dilemma ? We do not think that the respectable part of the public should have no other protection against annoy ance from blasphemous publications, than to go about breaking windows in order to attract the attention of the persons whose duty it is to put an end to the nuisance. STANDARD.—We have unusual gratification in directing the attention of our readers to the proceed ings yesterday at the police-office, Bow-street. It has been observed w ith pa i n b y all well-disposed in habitants of the metropolis, that the number of shops opened for the sale of blasphemous and impure publi cations has greatly increased during the last five or six years. As the character of the periodical press through all its denominations has improved, the improvement has been counteracted in its effect by the increase of these odious repositories of im piety and filth. One of the worst of the abomi nations, if not the very worst, is situated in Holy well-street, Strand. Several attempts have been made to eradicate this fontes of moral pestilence, but the supineness of policemen, the timidity of Magis trates, and, above all, the inefficiency of the libel law so powerful to aid speculating swindlers against honest and solvent men, but utterly powerless to resist desperate paupers warring upon society, have caused all these efforts to fail. Yesterday the abomination was attacked in the right way—attacked par vole de fait. Mr. Lewis Knight Bruce, son of the Vice- Chancellor (and the father of such a son is to be envied), passing through Holywell-street was shocked by the display of several atrocious insults to the Majesty of Heaven, in the window of the den of blasphemy to which we have referred. He instantly commanded the shopkeeper in attendance to remove the abominable papers. That person refused, and upon the refusal Mr. Bruce broke two panes of the shop-window, and succeeded in carrying off one paper. In the attempt to secure a second he failed. He then surrendered to a policeman, and was by him, at the i ns t ance o f th e vendor ofblas phemy, brought before Mr. Jardine, the Magistrate at the time presiding at Bow-street. Mr. Jardine having heard the case, and examined the paper seized by Mr. Bruce, most justly complimented that gentleman upon ljs conduct, declined to impose any fine upon him, and impounded the money which he was obliged to exact for the broken glass, with a significant hint, that if the proprietor of the blasphemy shop should come to demand it, he would be prosecuted for the offence of which he would thus furnish evidence against him self. Thus, a mode is pointed out by which the detestable trade of these corruptors of the minds of the young and ignorant may be promptly suppressed at a trifling cost. Several years ago, a gen tleman—for the honour of Israel let it be told he was a Jew—broke a window in the shop of the then notorious Carlile, for the purpose of causing to be removed a disgusting cari cature of the Almighty:For this, Mr. Levy, the gentle. , man in question, was fined, though, as we remember, in a small sum, and, like Mr. Bruce, required to pay for the broken glass. Unfortunately, the imposition of a fine in the case stamped Mr. Levy's act with ille gality, and deterred others from imitating his excellent example. Accordingly, the caricature of the Almighty continued to be exhibited for many years —as long, indeed, as Carlile kept a shop in Fleet street. Mr. Jardine's decision yesterday is a most important step in advance of the decision in Mr. Levy's case. It virtually determines that blasphemy is a sufficient provocation to justify the resenting it by force, and leaves the blasphemer to seek his remedy for the civil injury. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. TIMES.—It has been already stated that the pros pect of a reduction of the Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Stocks chiefly causes the announced Canada loan to be regarded with interest. Those holders of the heavy stocks who would like to see their present an• nuities continued for twenty years more, are anxi ously calculating the price at which they could pur chase the Canada Four per Cents. to yield them the same return. The value of 106, which was mentioned yesterday, is not the full value of 100 of Four per Cent. Stock, if 3f per cent. interest is to be obtained, though it is thought likely that price will be offered in the tenders. On the other hand, several calcula tions have been made giving far too high a value to the Canada stock, and, according to these, the price of 115 would represent the value of 100 at 3f per cent. This calculation is right, supposing the an nuity to be interminable ; but its fallacy consists in overlooking the fact that the Canada stock is redeem able in twenty years, which gives it a very different value. The following calculations, based on the cur rent interest tables, have been made by an intelligent member of the Stock Exchange, and will serve to give a clear view of the subject. It must be borne in mind through the whole calculation, that it is made on the assumption that interest is at 31 per cent.: — The value of 1/. per annum for 20 years is, by the tables This multiplied by 4 gives The value of 1001., receivable in 20 yeart, supposing the stock to be redeemed, is .. 60.257 107.105 Leaving out the third decimal as unimportant, we find that the value of 100/. Canada stock is about 1071. 2s. The premium on gold at Paris is 14 per mille, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10-id. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25 50k, and the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25 65, it follows that gold is 0.58 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburgh, the price of gold is 431 i per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 81, and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13 10, it follows that gold is 0.80 per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburgh. According to further letters received this morning from Madrid, being of the 4th instant, the competi tion for the quicksilver contract had much increased in earnestness on the part of all who were engaged in it ; and as the circumstances are important to all the creditors of Spain, through the bearing they have on the credit and resources of the Government, it is well worth while under this head to keep them in view. Connected with this contract, a new offer had been made by the Bank of San Fernando for the loan re quired of 40,000,000 reals (400,0001.), proposing if that offer was favourably received, to take the quick silver of the Almaden mines at the price of 75 dollars the quintal—terms which before had never been thought of by any competitor. The house of Roths -1 child, who have hitherto enjoyed something like the monopoly of this contract, as well as the current finan cial business of the Spanish Government, and un doubtedly, on many occasions, had rendered the most timely and essential service, were becoming uneasy at the interference with them, not only by the Bank of San Fernando, but by the agents of various foreign capitalists, French and English, and had in structed Mr. Wiesweller, who transacts their business in Madrid, to address a protest to the Minister of Finance against the efforts of rival houses to break up the good undertaking so long subsisting between them and the Spanish Government, and to request or rather demand to be informed of their highest offers, engaging in that case to give liollar higher than the highest bidder. This very simple document had,