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va l ,4lob , 4 4bLvt . Ste Just ready, in post Bvo., with Characteristic Illustrations by Leech, THE SECOND SERIES OF T HE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS; Or, MIRTH AND MARVELS. By THOMAS INGOLDSBY, Esq. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THE NEW NOVEL. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., COLLEGE LIFE By J. HEWLETT, M.A. Late of Worcester College, Oxford. Ast.hor of " Peter Priggins," " The Parish Clerk," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. BETT'S PATENT BRANIDY.—The unparal leled and still increasing sale of this favourite beverage, has been attended by its natural consequence—the excitement of envy in every branch of the Spirit trade. Hence, each suc ceeding /gar brings to notice competitors, whose announce ments, under fallacious pretences and high sounding titles, urge upon the public notice articles, whose only distinguishing fea ture is their vast inferiority to the Patent Brandy. It is to guard purchasers against the consequences of such *tempts, and for that reason only, that J. T. Betts and Co. are again induced to state, that the Patent Brandy is manufactured only at the Distillery, No. 7, Smithfield-bars, leading to St. Jobe-street ; where it may be obtained, pale or coloured, at Eiolateen Shillings per Gallon, of the highest legal strength. 9111 E NEXT DISTRIBUTION of MONEY X DIVIDENDS, AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED by HIS MAJESTY the ENIPEROR of AUSTRIA, contains MONEY DIVIDENDS of £5O, £6O, £7O, £BO, £9O, £lOO, £llO, £l2O, £l5O, £2OO, £.lOO, £6OO, £BOO, £l,OOO, £1,500, £5,000, and £25,600 Sterling. Amounting together to £72,170 sterling. Direct for PROSPECTUS with full particulars, WITH 011T DELAY, to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURG H, Or, to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. HEIR; E BROTHERS having remitted during a very short time very large amounts of Money Divi dends to their Correspondents in Great Britain and Ireland; Dividends of 25,000!., 18,000/., 9,0001., 5,000/., and 3,600/. to London; 3,6001., 800/., and 700/. to Edinburgh; 3,600/. to Dublin ; 3,600/. to Beverley ; 3,600/. to Halifax ; 1,2001. to Porthleaven Harbour ; 900/. ' 7001 ., and 6001. to Liver pool ; 9001 . to Hull; 900/. to Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; 9001. and 6001. to Manchester ' • 7001. to East Retford, Nottingham shire; 700/. to Colne, Lancashire ; 600/. to Cork ; and 600/. roßradford, &c., &c., they beg to call the attention of those desirous to obtain large Money Dividends to the approaching EIGHTEENTH DISTRIBUTION of LUBECK, gua ranteed by the Government. This Distribution offers the possibility of obtaining more than p 5,000/. upon One Share. 2,400 of the Shares obtain Money Dividends of IL and upwards. One Share, 1/. ; two Shares, 2/. ; three Shares, 3/.; four Share., 41. • five Shares, 51. ; six Shares, 61 ; seven Shares, 71. ; eight Shares, 81. ; nine Shares, 9/. ; ten Shares, 10/. Direct for• Shares, without delay, to HEINE BROTHERS, at Lubeck. The full Prospectus, with all particulars, may be had gratis, upon addressing a line to Heine Brothers. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING, DEC. 15, Will be presented Bellini's Opera of NORMA. Norma, by Miss Adelaide Kemble ; Pollio, Mr. W. Harrison ; Oroveso, Mr. Giuhilei ; Adalgisa, Miss Rainforth. After which THE TURF. Captain Flatooker, Mr. Walter Lacy; Clovis Culpepper, Mr. Bartley; Gallop, Mr. Meadows ; Aaron Tret, IVIr. Harley ; Mrs. Culpepper, Mrs. Hamby ; Miss Warren, Miss Lee. To conclude with the Farce of THE IRISH TUTOR. Flail, Mr. Meadows; Terry O'Rourke, Mr. G. Hodson ; Rosa, Miss Lee; Mary, Mrs. Humby. Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com mence at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 3d. ; First and Second Circles 55., Second Price 2s. 6d. ; Pit 3s; Second Price 2s. ; Gallery ls. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit low, at the Box-effice, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had. Private Boxes to be had at the Box-office ' • of Messrs. An drews, 167, New Bond-street; Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street; laid of Mr. Sams, Pall Mall. THEATRE ROYAL, HAY-MARKET. THIS EVENING, DEC. 15, Will be repeated the Comedietta of A CURE FOR LOVE. Felix Trimmer, Esq., Mr. W. Farren ; Richard Eadgrove, Eisq., Mr. Buckstone. Mrs. Felix Trimmer, Mrs. Malone Raymond ; Mrs. Major Browne, Mrs. W. Clifford; Miss Bitterton, Mrs. Glover ; Mrs. Tubbs, Mrs. F. Matthews. After which„.THE DOWAGER. Lord Alfred Lyndsay, Mr. Charles Mithews ; Dowager Countess of Tresilian, Madame Vestris. To be followed by Mr. C. Mathews' Burletta of PATTER versus CLATTER. Captain Patter, Mr. Charles Mathews. To which will be added THE PRETTY GIRLS OF STIL BERG. Ernest, Mr. Webster ; Margot, Madame Celeste. To conclude with the laughable Farce of MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, DEC. 15, Will be repeated the new Burletta, entitled THE MER CHANT AND HIS CLERKS. The principal characters /?/ Messrs. Lyon, 0. Smith, Paul Bedford. Wright, Maynard, Wieland, Miss Chaplin, Miss Brooks, and Mrs. P. Grattan. Ater which a New Drama, in Two Acts, called YOU X2.IONWHAT. The principal Characters by Mr. 0. Smith, Mr. Wright, Mr. Maynard, Miss Faucit, and Miss Murray. To be followed by a Grand Burletta Spectaele, entitled ALMA. Principal Characters by Messrs. Paul Bedford, Wieland, Frampton, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, and Madame Proche Giubilei. To conclude with a Comic Burletta, called ANTONY and CLEOPATRA. Antony, Mr. Wright ; Cleopatra, Miss Murray. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, ls. Doors open at half-past six, commence at seven o'clock. MAP OF CHINA. THE NEW CHINA SUN IS NOW ON SALE, CONTAINING EVERYTHING INTERESTING WITH RESPECT TO CHINA, AND A DESCRIPTION OF THE FIVE FREE TRADE PORTS OF CANTON, AMOY, FOO-CHOW-FOO, NIN GPO, AND SHANGHAE ; WITH ALL TEE LATEST NEWS Orders recezved at the SUN-OFFICE, 112, Strand, and of all News-Agents. HL et W ATER AT LONDON BItIDGk THIS DAY. Moaning...... 58 minutes after 11 I Evening 0 minutes after 0. LONDON : THURSDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 15, 1842 The League has much more reason to be pleased than angry wit It the Quarterly Review. It has carefully culled some of the choicest spe cimens of its opinions, and carried them amongst a class which might, but for its efforts, have been left much in the dark as to the nature of the League. It has also informed its readers that the language which it quotes was used by Ma gistrates, by men bearing titles, by opulent ma nufacturers, by rich merchants, by amiable and benevolent members of the Society of Friends, by ministers of the Gospel, by numerous mem belts of the middle class, and that it was warmly ar,p4uuded by the large assemblies of the middle clasSes'to which it was addressed. But for the .eaile with which the Quarterly has distinguished the rank and station of the different gentlemen belonging to the League, the bulk of the Tories might suppose that they were all penniless ad venturers, hunting after mere mob popularity. Now they must be astounded to learn that the League numbers amongst its members many opulent and well educated gentlemen, who, like all their class, aspire to share the honours of the aristocracy; that these gentlemen have left their own homes and their own business, have forgone all their usual habits, have acted against their own aristocratic prejudices, have incurred great risks, have advanced great sums of money, and have not been averse, according to the Review, to overthrow the State, and their own hopes, in order to procure thelrepeal of the Corn-laws. That kind of information, circulated amongst the landowners, who rely on the opulent, well educated, industrious middle classes, to pre serve the State, is well calculated to make thetn' believe that a system Ivliich has such an effect must be most disastrous. klf they now needed any rousing this would rouse them • and the League is muc It beholden to the Review for making the character and station of the, men who support repeal, and the nature of the arguments and language they use widely known amongst its Tory readers. Such useful knowledge will not be coun timeeracted by the abas e of the Quarterly. The i s gone by, and thi s generation has seen t what the Tories call the Law and the Consti tution, too often set aside or overuled; it has seen too many examples of agitation, stigmatised by Tory writers as illegal and unconstitutional, succeed in compelling the Legislature to do justice, for any men, even the most ultra- !A:b. - • 4- ' t. 14, (1 L 14 4 , U 41 , 4 \ t. Tory, far less those engaged in a good cause, to place the least value on loud assertions that language is seditious, and that conduct is illegal and unconstitutional. All the charges that are vehemently made by the Quarterly only mean that the League has discomfited the bread taxers. The League will disdain to reply to them, and if we were to undertake so unneces sary a task we should retort the charges. We should say that the first Anti-Corn-law Society was not formed in Manchester till after the landlords, conscious of an overwhelming majority in Parliament, had treated with contempt the prayers of the people to be only heard against the law. That the League was not formed till every reasonable exertion had been made to influence the Legislature, without the least avail. It had shown itself equally insensible to the decay of the masters and the starvation of the workmen. A careless Prime Minister had pro nounced it madness to abolish a system which openly decreed fraud, and consecrated in justice. Yet he was more friendly to their views than the man who was seeking his post by the help of the monopolists. The justification of the League, and of every strong term it has used, admitting the correctness of the Reviewer, is to be found in the fact, that the leading states men of both parties were allied with the mono polists, that the Legislature was pledged to a great wrong, and that the League could have no hope of obtaining justice but by its own exertions. Even the Quarterly Review will admit that there is a degree of tyranny which calls for re sistance, and justifies rebellion. Degrees of tyranny short of the greatest enormity, require to be met with corresponding degrees of opposi tion and rebuke. From what the Quarterly calls the " unappeasable greediness of gain," which " has created and sustained the per severing activity" and union of the landowners, they set at defiance, years ago, all the principles of the Constitution, and to enrich themselves ex clusively the law-makers taxed the bread of the people. Obstinately did they persist, in spite of petitions, prayers, and remonstrances, to main tain a great violation of everything which ought to be law. They adhered, we admit, to the forms of the law and the Constitution, only the more securely to trample the substance of both under their ft et. The true defence of the League, if any person care to defend it against the abuse of the Review, is to be found in the conduct of the Legislature. The one was the natural conse quence of the other. Only energy approaching to violence is a fit match for the hardhearted, unrelenting, systematic extortion which the landlords have practised, and still practise, by their power of making the laws. COWtT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The Queen and Prince 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, Tier Majesty and the Prince rode out in a pony phaeton, his Royal Highness driving, attended by the Viscountess Canning, Hon. Amelia Murray, Hon. 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. The party is also expected to include M. and Madame Van de Weyer, the Earl of Liverpool, the Viscountess Canning, Viscount Sydney, the two Maids of Honour, the Groom and the Equerry in Waiti ng on th e Queen, and the Equerry in Waiting on Prince Albert. Covers are laid for sixteen. Her Majesty's private 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 Gwydyr House, Whitehall. L or d G ranv ill e Somerset, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, and other Commission ers attended the meeting. The Commission sat some hours. Sir Henry Hardinge has left town for his seal South Park, Penhurst. ~... The Chancellor of the Exchequer had an interview with Sir J. Graham yesterday, at the Home-office. LONGEVITY IN MANCIIESTER.—In the midst of much exaggeration and misrepresentations as to the assumed unhealthiness of Manchester, as a place of residence, and especially as to the vitally destruc tive effects of the employments of our operatives, it may be worth while to place on record such facts as the following, which we believe may be relied on. On Saturday last, there met accidently, at the shop of Mr. David Appleton, hairdresser, Ashton-street, London-road, five per sons, all inhabitants of Manchester, namely, three men and two women, whose unit e d ages amount to four hundred and twelve years! The age of the oldest man is 87 years ; and he is truly entitled to be ranked as one of the labouring classes, as he has spent no less than 57 years of his life in the service of one firm, in whose employment he has filled various subordinate offices, including that of watchman of the premises. The next of the party to this patriarch, in point of seniority, is another working man of 82 years ; he is, and has long been, a hand-loom weaver. The third man is aged 81 years, and he too is a hand-loom weaver. One of the women, aged 81 years, is the wife of the weaver of 82 years ; and she also pursues that occupa tion when she can obtain work. The fifth individual of the party is a poor widow of 81, who nurses children for a livelihood ; her subsistence being eked out by the aid of some little parochial relief. All these individuals, then, are of the poorer working class ; and they all live within half a mile of each other, all within the town of Manchester, or, to be more exact, within the townships of Manchester and Ardwick, but all in the town, none of them residi ng e sufficientl y i n the suburbs to b said to have a rural habitation. — Manchest er Guardian. in R EPORTED ELOPEMENT --A paragraph app eare d " Elopement,' giving a detailedaa,aocuuconudnelrt d th y s , aged ool" o e f he th ad e nge ofa 0 elopement of a " Mi ss Manners, a st 23, of great beauty, and possessing e. i r ortu n from the house of her brother, nea r Sidcup,Keni with , a policeman of the R division,"'„ and subsequent mar riage of the parties at Woolwich church. On inquiry, it appears there is not the slightest ground for as serting that such a marriage took place at Woolwich Church, and, if that part of the report is proved to be incorrect, it is probable the whole story of the elopement and marriage is equally without founda tion. At all events, one circumstance is certain—the policeman of the R division, said to be one of the parties, still performs his duty at the Dock-yard, as if no such fortunate occurrence had taken place as to become the husband of a young lady of great beauty, with a fortune of 5,0001. BISHOPRIC Or ST. ASAPII AND BANGOR.—The union of the two sees of St. Asaph and Bangor, which will take place unless that portion of the Act 6 and 7 Wm. IV., relating to the subject is repealed, meets with strenuous opposition. A highly respectable and numerous meeting was held last Tuesday at Carnar von, when petitions to Parliament were agreed to, in which, after pointing out the increased necessity for episcopal superintendence, the petitioners say—" The Bishoprics of St. Asaph and Bangor have been, from very ancient times, endowed with funds solemnly de dicated 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 even with the report of the Ecclesiastical Commis sioners, to unite these sees in order to divert a portion of these funds to the endowment of a Bishopric in a district unconnected with Wales, and one of the wealthiest in the empire." FLATTERY OVERDONE.—The Commerce observes, that " 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 saints, the patrons of the numerous family of Or leans. At the gates are placed the statues of St. Louis and St. Philip, in the interior those of St. Mary and St. Aurelia, patronesses of the Queen, and St. Raphael, patron of the Duke de Nemours. If the temple of the Madeleine has been elevated to the glory of God, it was likewise intended not a little for the glory of the Orleans family." DUBLIN, DEC. 12.----This day the usual half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of Bank Stock was held in the Bank, the Governor in the chair. In announcing the usual dividend of 4 per cent, for the half-year ending the 25th instant, the Governor regretted he had to state that in order to enable the bank to pay the dividend it became necessary to draw on the "rest" to the effect of 15,0001. ! This announcement caused great consternation amongst the holders of Bank Stock. THE BOMBARDMENT OF BAR CELONA. The following are the proclamations published by the Captain-General and the political chief of Cata lonia, addressed to the inhabitants of Barcelona : " BARCELONA, DEC. 4. VAN HALEN'S PROCLAMATION. "In the morning of this day Barcelona submitted to the legitimate Government. The authors and chief participators in the scandalous sedition which has spread consternation throughout this province, and the entire nation, shall be tried and visited with all the rigour of the laws. The industrious Barcelona, I pledge myself, shall not become again the theatre of sanguinary conflicts, nor shall the laws be again trampled under foot, nor shall the Constitution sworn to by the nation be attacked. " The good sense of the Catalonian people will in duce them to resist the machinations of the enemies of their prosperity, who, blinded by ambition, pre sume to sow in this classic soil of liberty, disorder and anarchy, in order to prepare the introduction of despotism. Catalonians ! be watchful and on your guard against seduction and perfidy. Prevent the hoisting again of a banner which has entailed such disasters on your country, and place entire confidence in the zeal of your authorities, and particularly in that of your Captain-General." On the sth General Van Haien issued the following order:— " It being indispensable for the good of the service to know and appreciate the conduct observed since the 15th ult. (on which day the insurrection commenced) until the present day by the military of all ranks and the officers of the Government who have not followed the army, in virtue of the powers confided to me I have ordered and decreed— " 1. That the military men of all classes and ranks who took the oath to the revolutionary Junta, or par ticipated in the revolt, shall present themselves to the military Governor of the place, or to the Chief in com mand of it. Those belonging to the navy shall pre sent themselves to the superior Chief of that depart ment. Public functionaries of all ranks, who have done the like, shall appear before their respective chiefs—those belonging to the Home Department, before the Political Chief of the province ; those within the jurisdiction of the Financial Department, before the Intendant of the Rentes ; and those attached to the Department of Justice, before the Regent of the audience. " 2. That the individuals mentioned in the preced ing article be tried by a court-martial, which is to be installed on this day. " 3. That those of the above-mentioned classes who shall fail to present themselves within the precise space of 24 hours, shall be shot, if arrested after the expira tion of that delay. "4. That the owners of the houses in which those individuals shall be found concealed shall likewise be visited with the same penalty. "5. That the military men of all ranks who, with out having recognized the Junta, or taken any part in the insurrection, remained in the place after the 24th ult., when, in consequence of my application, the revolutionary Junta gave notice to such as wished to join the army that they were at liberty to do so, shall likewise present themselves before the military Governor. Public officers, in similar circumstances, shall present themselves before the authorities of their respective departments, as stipulated in the Ist article. "6. That the individuals comprised in the sth article shall, for the very act of having remained among the revolters, be deprived of their offices, at the same time that they shall be held to prove satis. factorily that it had been impossible for them to quit the place, after the authorisation granted by the Junta on the 24th ult." This is followed by a list of the officers who were to compose the military commission (court-martial), and which was to be presided over by Brigadier Jose Munoz. The following, of the Political Chief, is dated the sth : " Inhabitants of the province of Barcelona—Your political authority addressed you on the 19th ult., and placed before you in the most faithful manner the events which took place in the unhappy days of the 13th and 14th. When I published that manifesto the rebels had not hoisted any standard ; the revolutionary Junta had contented itself with putting forth a few general ideas, taking care to conceal their real inten tions. On the same day the Junta half threw off the mask, and uttered seditious cries against the Cortes and the invincible Duke Regent of the kingdom ; against him who possesses more civic virtues than any other man; who has sacrificed his repose and shed his blood in a thousand combats for the defence of liberty and your rights ; who, forgetting the habits of military command, which are most frequently necessarily arbi trary, subjected himself to the precepts imposed by the fundamental law of the State, leaving his responsible Councillors to act. Citizens of the province of Barce lona, may , those who will succeed to this loyal and vir tuous citizen, in the supreme command of the nation, have the same respect for our fundamental law, and defend with the same constancy and enthusiasm the rights of Spaniards. The cry of rebellion against legislative and executive power raised by the Junta, which at that time represented only a miserable mutiny, was the prelude of a frightful revolution, the true object of which it sought to conceal, and soon laying aside all hypocrisy, and casting off the mask, it raised its standard, and made its war cry, Long live Christina,' a name cherished in other days, when the vices and the ambition of Christina were not known to us, but now a name of horror and dread, as it recall to us the idea of re-action and of dis astrous scenes, which could only lead us t o d es p o ti sm . Who would believe, people of Barcelona, that at the name of Christina—the mother of our innocent Queen —were about to commence theft, pillage, assassinations, and a more frightful anarchy than could be met with in a nation of savages ? You have seen this, you have suffered it until convinced that your ruin was certain ; with the aid of the alcaldes and your most honourable citizen s , you threw off the yoke imposed up on you b y a vile rabble, whom you disarmed in delivering up this fine city to your legitimate authorities. When the Government and the Captain-General saw you exposed to the most abominable anarchy, after the non-accom plishment of the promises which you had made to them, and convinced of the imperious necessity of sub jecting this unhappy town to the empire of the laws, and of thus saving the majority of its inhabitants, then with grief depicted in their countenances, for they are Spaniards, they ordered that the town should be fired upon, but the shots re-echoed pain fully in the hearts of the besiegers, and they seized the first pretext to put an end to the bombardment. The authorities, who had been ill-treated in person and property, and the troops who had seen their innocent comrades and beloved chiefs bite the dust, have en tered the town not as conquerors, but as brothers, and have only thought how they were to remedy evils, and assure the liberty and welfare of every one ; very different from those who, flying like cowards from the punishment that awaits them, have flung them selves amongst the populations of the coast, exciting anew the flames of discord, purchasing aid to continue disorder, and seeking to seduce the masses in order to persuade them to second the Carlo-Christino move ment. Mistaken and ill-intentioned men, who have been now so terribly undeceived when your intentions were known, you were at once abandoned, and the National Guards of all the towns of the province have replied to your cry of war by that of legal order and submission to the Government and the autho rities. Profit by this severe and salutary lesson, and hide your heads if you still retain any sentiment of shame ; and if you desire to be restored to power, wage E nobl e an d h ones t war, b y l ega l , h onoura b le, and t‘N Parliamentary means. Already y ou h ave a tt emp t e d o insurrections--that of Oct. 7, 1841, and that of Nov. 13. What have you obtained ? You have demo ralised the people, covered the towns with mourning, and caused a destruction of pr.operty. You have encou raged a pa r t y w hi c h , R r ep ve u nl b u l ir. ica e n ri , m a e s you style yourself Moderate, hags itself shown calling us it l possesses itoat n inec o nd t a single virtue, and h as for patrimony e vice. Read over again th e p l an of o in the Republican° journal, whi c h k ept on explaining it until the very day it was put i n pract i m ' then at beholding that image of the cap of liberty and e that bell, of which the industrious inhabitants of Bar celona will not easily forget the call to sedition. This plan, the author of which has been expelled from the Spanish soil as unworthy of his country, came from the other side of the Pyrenees. You had justly abandoned the hope of beholding the virtuous and enthusiastic army abandon their constitutional colours, and you for the first time appealed to the masses. New and terrible disappointment! You have gathered, as fruits of your attempt, only contempt and ridicule. Inhabi tants of the province of Barcelona, let this mass of unhappy circumstances occurring in the capital be always - a lesson to you. Remain faithful to your oaths to the Constitution. Remain faithful to our in- nocent Queen, and to the regency of the invincible Duke of Vittoria during her minority. Distrust the snares of the Carlo-Christino Republican party; be submissive to the Government and the lawful au thorities; second their efforts to restore public order in this fine capital ; the exceptional state in which it is placed shall not be prolonged beyond what your welfare and necessity require, and shall only be felt by the enemies of your felicity and repose; the pa triotism arid generosity of the authorities placed at your head give you the assurance of this fact. Your political chief, " JUAN GUTIERREZ." MESMERIC OPERATION.—In addition to this extra ordinary feat in surgery (Mr. Ward's) we have to add that an operation took place in this parish on the 19th of August, when a medical gentleman, to cure a contraction in the knee joint, put a female in a mes meric trance, and while she was in that state divided the hamstring muscles without her being conscious of the circumstance; and we are happy to add that the individual now walks with facility. —Hampshire Tele graph. S ‘6 N ‘ k\ - AIN/t-. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15, 1842. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DEC. 15. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 45 ; Highest, : Noon, 53. BAROMETER, 30.22.-WIND, S.W. 3511,nd. - ivuonV9Zbition SUN OFFICE Three o'Cloch. The great grievance of the Income- tax is not so much the amount of the rate, as the harsh, unfair, and inquisitorial mode of assessing it. The vic tim is submitted to a cross-examination, like a doubtful witness on a trial, or a prisoner before a French Criminal Court, and when he ventures to assert thath ism turn is more correct than that given by the assessor, he is virtually told that he is not speaking the truth, and sometimes is dismissed with the laeonicrebuke, " No remarks are allowed here." This is a cruel and unjust way of raising money, and we fear is attri butable, not so much to the Commissioners, as to the instructions furnished from head quarters. The Premier is using every means to patch up the revenue for the present quarter, and his agents are not very scrupulous in carrying his plans into effect. Attempts are even made to get the second half-yearly pay ment by offering a discount of four per cent. on the money if paid in advance. When the meaning of any complicated clause in the Act is doubtful, the Commissioners, I as in the case of commercial travellers, rather lean to the side of severity than mercy, and the assessors fi►ithfully imitate the example. A Correspondent informs us that in one district of the metropolis the assessors have actu ally laid on ten per cent. on the full rental paid to the landlord ; thus making the tenant pay on ten per cent. more than the value; and, in some instances, fifty or a hundred per cent. have been charged. Appeal was made in vain, for the Commissioners only replied that the assessors had fixed the value of the houses, thereby intimating that these functionaries were better judges of the fact than either the landlord or tenant. Persons of the highest respectability are insulted in this manner, and robbed, that Ministers at the opening of the session may boast of their financial skill, and draw a glorious con trast between themselves and the bun gling, impoverished Whigs. " Put money in the Exchequer," is the order of the day. If it can be got honestly, good and well, but money must be had. " Put money in the Exchequer." If there were any general combination on the part of the public to make false returns, and if the Act were not sufficiently stringent, there might be some excuse for the Com missioners ; but no such pleas exist. The penalties for offenders against the law are extremely heavy, and no man in his senses, and lease of all persons of character and property, would run the risk of detection and punishment. The amount, too, which will flow into the Exchequer, ac cording to the opinion of well-informed parties, will far exceed that anticipated by Sir R. PEEL, and therefore the severity admits of no excuse on the ground of an anticipated deficiency in the revenue. The Minister calculated the amount at between 3,000,000/. and 4,000,0001., but it will probably exceed that by at least 2,000,000/. which, taking into account the 5,000,000/. to be paid by China, will furnish the Chancellor of the Exchequer with more money than he can make a good use of. We have learned on good autho rity, that so confidently is a much larger su:n an ticipated than that reckoned on by Sir R. PEEL, that an offer had been made to Government by a wealthy house in the city to pay five millions a-year, for the privilege of farming the tax. Facts like these, we trust, will only make the people more impatient under the burden, and rouse them to cry out with one voice for its speedy repeal. The indications, which are neither few nor faint, of a furth er modification, if not total aboli tion, of the Corn-laws, remind us of those which are said to precede the breaking u p o f t h e i ce i n the Polar seas. First, one icebe rg , s l ow l y an d reluctantly, as it were, detaches itself from the main body—then a second—then a third—then a fourth, fifth, sixth, and so on—until, at last, the whole vast mass, weakened by so many disrup tions, and unable longer to contend against the altered state of the seasons, breaks up suddenly with a crash like thunder. Just so is it at present with the Corn-law mono poly. First, an ESCOTT separates himself from the main body of its supporters,—then an Acta ND—then a DICKINSON; and these desertions, which, as a matter of course, will be followed by others, will have the effect of weakening the monopolist party to such a de gree, that the whole concern will have no other alternative left than to break up, and that at no distant period. The monopolists, antici pating this untoward upshot, are of course highly indignant at the idea of any agriculturist pre suming to think for himself and quit their ranks, and are specially wroth with Messrs. ESCOTT and DICKINSON, both of whom, because they have seen fit to exercise those faculties of common sense with which nature has endowed them, have been fiercely denounced as traitors, apostates, &c., besides being pelted with such choice Billingsgate mud, as those rarely fail to have recourse to, who entertain an awkward sort of secret misgiving that they themselves are in the wrong. We congratulate these gentlemen on the abuse they have sustained at the hands of the monopolists. It is at once a voucher for their good sense, and a testimony, however unsavoury, to their liberality. The speech recently delivered by Mr. DICKINSON at Glastonbury will, we take for granted, incense the Corn-law bigots more furiously against him than ever, if only for these re - marks—" The general course of things was against restriction, and he did not think those represent ing the agricultural interest could stop it; he thought that the agriculturists should rather en deavour to lend themselves to the state of things than to oppose them fruitlessly. He also advised them to unite together, and to adopt improve ments for the increase of produce, in order to meet the altered circumstances of the times, as the best and most safe course to be pursued." There is so much calm, steady conimon sense in this advice, that, as a matter of course, it will be rejected with contempt by the Somersetshire monopolists. The accounts from Madrid are to the 6th. Several fresh regiments had arrived, to replace those which had accompanied the REGENT to Barcelona. The National Guard appeared animated by the best spirit, and the city enjoyed perfect tranquillity. The Three per Cents. were done at 211- for cash, and 22 at 60 days ; and the Five per Cents. at 26 at CO days, a n d the certificates of the debt bearing no interest at .51 for cash. The Paris papers they cont a i n ----.1.1".--- are still occupied with the bombardment o f B arcelona, but, with one ex ception,pct. It would app ear, though they d o not ad mitnothing new on that sub the facts, that the city had suffered very little from the shells, the General purposely causing them to bu rst i n the a i r, or f a ll w h ere they could do little i n j ury to life or p ro p er t y . Notwithstanding this, the journals rave as if the whole city had been destroyed, and the madmen, who had killed and wounded a thousand of their ojournals. to T 0 were as innocent as babes. This applies u e t n he Ministerial as well as the Opposi tion the former the Qnotidienne makes a pithy reply, cl countrymen, showing that ESPAR TERO only followed the example set by the rulers of France. " ESPARTERO and VAN HALEN," says that journal, " are only putting in practice in th e S pan ish manner the materialist and atroci ous d octr i ne of the Con servatives of France, contained in the words, enforce the law. Wh en a ll mora l principle, all rules of authority, superior to brute force, have ceased in governme n t s , i t i s c l ear that the only f f b order i l l is t i t , p hil oso py of revolu cmoauxldimbeo tions? Is it not i n v i rtue o f this law that M, l e le at b h o e m is b t . 'What other could GUIZOT, the most pitiless of sectarians, gave the order to cast Lyon. ,- .5 into the Rhone? Is it not in virtue of the same law that he has got Paris sur rounded with citadels? .INlountehanks and hy pocrites! you bewail destruction, you who give yourselves the mission to destroy !" The proclamation of VAN HALEN on entering the city, and that of the political Chief GUTIERREZ, in office previous to the insurrection, are given in another place. The Moniteur publishes a royal ordonnance, dated the 10th inst., abolishing the transit duty hitherto chargeable on foreign merchandise pas sing from one part of France to another, without leaving the French territory. The French Government have received the following telegraphic dispatch, bringing news from Barcelona of the Bth. Like all the rest, we have no doubt it is greatly exaggerated : " The disarmament still continues. The delay of twenty-four hours allowed for it not being considered enough, forty-eight hours have been accorded. The order comprises all arms and classes, and extends to guns for sport and pistols ; the theatres have even been obliged to give up their stock of swords. There are twelve thousand soldiers here; the barracks are full, the citizens' houses likewise; and troops seem to increase and arrive, not diminish. " About four hundred arrests have taken place, and the prisoners are brought to the citadel, where the court-martial is in permanence. Execution follows condemnation. The Regent remains at Sarria." BOURSE—PARIS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13. First Highest ~ ..owest Last Price. Price . Price. Price. French Five per Cents. 119 45... 191 55 .19 45... 119 50 4 1 ,4 per Cents. 106 60... 106 60.. 106 60... 106 60 Four per Cents. 101 ... 101 ... 101 ... 101 Threes, ex div. 79 15... 79 20... 79 10.. 79 20 Bank of France 3350 —.3350 ...3350 ...3350 Laffitte Bank I,ooof 1055 ..1055 ...1055 ...1055 5,000 f 5080 —.5080 —.5080 ..5080 Belgian Bank BO7 50... 810 ... 807 50... 810 1841 lO7O ...1070 ...1070 _lO7O Belgian Fives ... ... 103 i ... 103# ... 103 k ... 103 k 1840 104 g ... 1044 ... 104 i 104 i Spanish Active. . 231 ... 23 ... • 23A Passive 3i ... 3 ... 3; ... 3E Ne vr Deferred 94 ... 9 ... 9 ... Neapolitan Roman lO4 ... 104 A ... 104 ... 104 k RAILWAY SHARES. • - - St. Germain B5O ... 850 ... 845 ... 845 Versailles, L.B ll O... 110 ... 107 50... 110 R.B 270 ... 270 ... 270 ~. 270 Rouen Orleans. 622 50... 625 ... 622 50... 622 50 Strasburg to Bale 202 50... 203 75... 202 50... 203 75 AMERICAN NEWS EXPRESS FROM LI VERPOOL. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY NIGHT. We Lave this afternoon received papers from New York to the 25th ultimo. They are five days later than those by the Hottinguer, and were brought by the packet-ship Roscius, Capt. Collins, who has made an excellent passage of eighteen days. This vessel had thirty cabin, and a large number of steerage passengers. We learn from these papers that a dreadful gale had caused the loss of several lives, and done considerable damage to shipping on Lake Erie. Our late Consul at Havannah, Mr. Turnbull, bad again visited that place. His visit had caused considerable excitement, and on his de parture for Nassau and England on the 6th inst., it was intimated that his return would be any thing but agreeable to the authorities. The following letter from Havannah of the Bth ult., gives an account of his release :-- "Our community has been thrown into a great state of excitement within the last three days, by the arrival and safe conduct to this place of D. Turnbull, Esq., formerly English Consul here, but who was removed in consequence of the earnest and repeated solicita tions of this Government. He was brought here on board the Spanish steamer of war Congress, from Neuvitas, and it spread like wild-fire, accompanied by every rumour possible ta invent against him. "Mr. Turnbull's plea was admitted, and he was pro nounced " lunatic' (in order to save trouble), and he shipped on the 6th, per steamer Thames, for Nassau and England, with an intimation that if he ever set foot again on the Island of Cuba, he would be treated as a disturber of the peace. He expressed his inten tion of leaving the steamer at Nassau, and doing all in his power to ameliorate (as he calls it) . the condi tion of the poor Africans in bonds in Cuba. This means, I presume, inciting them to cut their masters' throats, and then take to the mountains, to be hunted like wild beasts with dogs, and shot by whoever sees them. It is uncertain by what process of logic he arrives at the conclusion that that would ameliorate their condition, but it is presumed to be by a peculiar one of his own." The Mexican expedition destined for Yucaton, comprised 3,000 men. The blockade of the latter country had been declared. The island of Carmen was, however, excepted, and provisions, &c., were al lowed to be landed there. We learn that the Riverista squadron, consisting of a barque and a brig, has been destr o y e d by a division of the Buenos Ayrean squadron, commanded by Ad miral Brown, after a severe action. We also learn that a great stir had been observable in the Marine and War Departments at Buenos Ayres, and every thing combines to induce the belief that an early opening of the campaign was anticipated by the Ar gentine Government. The crew and officers of her Britannic Majesty's steamer Spitfire were left at Jamaica by the brig Annawan, and not at New York, as was incorrectly stated by the papers previously received from that city. From Rio Janeiro we learn that the rebellion in the provinces of St. Paul and the Mines is en tirely quelled, and the state of affairs at Rio Grande is more cheering. Her Majesty's ship Spartan, the Hon. Captain Elliot, with the Bishop of Newfoundland on board, was off Bermuda on the sth November. The health of Sir Charles Begot was considerably improved. He rode out on horseback on the 16th ult., but his physicians strongly advised his return to England, and it was generally anticipated that he would comply with their wishes. There was a large business done it, State Stocks on the 24th ult. at rather higher prices. Cotton was more noticed, but on somewhat lower terms, and flour was in moderate demand, at steady rates. Foreign Exchanges were firm, and the supply of bills moderate at 1061 on England, and sf. 40c. on France. The Montreal and St. James from London, and the Stephen Whitney from Liverpool, were entering the port when the Roscius left. GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY. Traffic returns for the week ending Dec. 10, 1842 : - PaS sengers Alerchandise 547 13 8 X 1,182 1 2 Corresponding week last year ...£1,147 13 9 Darlington. Dee. 14. W. O'BRIEN. Secretary. FRENCH PLAYS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Mr. Mitchell has issued a prospectus of this entertainment for the approaching season. The subscription is to consist of forty representations ; the first performance to take place on Monday, the 16th of January, when Madame Albert will make her appearance.' From the list of performers engaged, the company will be a strong one, comprising the most distinguished actors and actresses from the principal Parisian theatres. The regime is to be a female one; the celebrated Ma demoiselle Eliza Forgeot being announced as Direc-1 trice. Our theatrical readers will remember that these entertainments, last season, were carried on with great spirit and success; and Mr. Mitchell's prepara tions for his second season are highly promising. • BRIGHTON WEDNESDAY.—We have h a d a poll here this week for a Church-rate. The numbers were declared this afternoon. The anti-Church party were successful, entirely through the apathy of the Church party, who would have had no difficulty in carrying the rate if they had bestirred themselves. The num bers were—For the rate, 869; against it, 1,079: ma jority against the rate, 210.—. Post. BRITISH PENITENT FEMALE _REFUGE.—Yesterday evening, a numerous and highly respectable meeting of the governors, friends, and suppoil.ers of this ex cellent and praiseworthy Institution, wag held on the occasion of the opening of the new ylumr, situate at Cambridge-heath, Hackney; the Rev. Dr. Fletcher in the chair. The object of the Society is to afford protection to innocent females who may be exposed to imminent temptation and danger, as well as to assist in the restoration of those who have fallen into sin, and are desirous of returning to the paths of virtue, and those admitted into the Institution are suit ably employed, with a view to fit them for useful service, and religiously instructed, in order to their permanent recovery and spiritual ben'fit. The So ciety was commenced in 1829 ; since that period 734 females have participated in its advantages. There is now a total of 68 on the foundation, who, by the timely aid of the Society, have been rescued from ruin. With regard to the finances, the committee have been enabled, during the past year, to reduce their liabilities upwards 3001. The internal condition of the Asylum, ancr the health and conduct of the inmates generally, w ere subjects of favourable report. The business haA ring been gone through, thanks were voted to the +airman, and the meeting separated. The Earl and Countess of Minto are staying with Lord John Russell, in Chesham-place, until after Lady John's recovery fr•om her accouchement. Her Lady ship and infant son tikre both doing well. SUM MARY 07 AND Vitt)lir f 4 ptittou. " Who runs may read.' porm According to accounts from the United States of the 25th ult., the winter had set in with great seve rity, accompanied with strong gales! which had done considerable damage to the shipping on Lake Erie. Sir Charles Bagot's health was still in a precarious state ; an early change was recommended by his physicians, and it was said he would soon return to England. Mr. Turnbull, who had been arrested at Cuba for interfering with some slave-owners, had been released. The King of the French returned from Fontaine bleau to the Tuileries, at 12 o'clock on Monday night. Two new barracks are to be shortly erected within the walls of Paris, one in the Rue Cherche Midi, and the other on the space occupied by the ancient convent of the Bernardins, Rue de Ponteise. During the last fifty years, 89 vessels have gone down in the Seine, between Caudebec and Havre, without any of them being as yet taken up, except the Telemaque. Amongst the number lost were -1 Russian, 1 Norwegian, 1 Swedish, 5 Dutch, and 7 English. The nations of 10 others could not be ascertained, and the rest are French. The Commerce states, that since the month of Oc tober last upwards of 5,000 men were embarked at Toulon for Algeria, and that as many more would join the army ofoccupation before the month of March next. Reports were current in Paris on Tuesday after noon that the conduct of M. ..Lessops, the French Consul, in the events of Barcelona, had not been cha racterised with the strict regard to the non-interven tion observed by the English Consul, and that diplo matic representations would be made, both from the Spanish and English Cabinets, respecting certain pro ceedings of M. Lessops. Paris consumed, during the month of November last, 5,208 oxen, 1,762 cows, 4,661 calves, and 38,145 sheep. As compared with the consumption of the corresponding month of 1841, there is a diminution of 348 oxen and 365 cows, and an increase of 104 calves and 2,841 sheep. • It is stated in a letter from Alexandria that Me hemet Ali has just paid to the Sultan the whole amount of the tribute due, according to the,arrange ment made between them. Independently of the large sums of money expended last year in improving the navigation of the Moselle and the Sarre, the Prussian Government has just as signed the sum of 40,000 thalers to deepen the Lahn. The navigation of this branch of the Rhine will be particularly advantageous to Coblentz. Advices from Pesth, in Hungary, of the 3d inst., state that an Austrian army of 30,000 men was to be concentrated on the frontiers of Servia, and that Aus tria would, in all probability, espouse the cause of Prince Michael, should Russia support the pretensions of Prince Alexander. PUBLIC OPINION. The Times has the following just remarks on the French Press and the bombardment of Barcelona : " Of all the events which have furnished subjects for the extravagant ddlamations of the French papers against this country in the course of the last thirty months, none appear to have produced so violent an effect in distorting the judgments and disturbing the temper of our neighbours as the bombardment of Barcelona. To connect this calamity in any way with England and the policy of this country, is so wild an absurdity that we are at a loss to treat such imputations with any patience or gravity. Yet this absurdity is, if possible, increased, when we remember that the sympathy thus prodigally and indiscriminately expressed by the French has been called forth by a ferocious mob at the height of all the excesses which political and private passion could prompt. The second city in Spain has been treated, we are told, with more un sparing barbarity than is permitted in open, unre lenting war. The fact remains to be proved; but admitting it to be true, 'it must also be admitted to be true that the second city of Spain had been for three weeks in the hands of rebels ; that the respectable inhabitants, and even the more conspicu ous leaders of the republican party had fled from it in • despair ; that this insurrection had been commenced by many hours of fighting in the streets of the city, followed by the defeat of the Queen's troops, and at tended at the very outset by the loss of more than 1,000 lives ; that Barcelona still resisted the summons of the head of the State, though backed with a power ful army, and evidently held out with the expectation that the insurrection would spread through the province till the conflagration should become general, and the whole of Catalonia and Arragon become one scene of anarchy and bloodshed. We adhere to our opinion that, under such circumstances as these, the measures taken by the Regent and Van:Helen were not only the most effectual, but the most merciful which could be resorted to. It appears, from accounts received be fore the real amount of damage could be accurately computed, that the loss of life had been astonishingly small, that vast numbers of shells thrown from the fort burst in the air, and that even the injury done to the buildings was less than could have been supposed. To the mercantile classes, and, indeed, to all the friends of order . and tranquillity, even the bombard ment of the city was a less evil than its permanent occupation by a band of ruffians, living without any restraint of law or authority, plundering on every side, threatening the lives of those who counselled submission to the Queen's Government, and devoting themselves and everything around them to common destruction. These are the beings for whom the French Consul at Barcelona interceded—these are the men whom he condescended to encourage by his ad vice and to recognize as a municipal government in the midst of the most horrible tumult—these are the desperadoes to whom, as the Journal des Debats piteously exclaims, 'No shadow of amnesty was pre sented by the Regent,' whom they defied." The following observations are from the Post :-- " Simultaneously with our publication of the case of Mr. Knight Bruce and the blasphemy venders, in yesterday's paper, we expressed our warmest feelings of enthusiastic admiration for the more than manly-- the nobly Christian—conduct of the yoting gentle man named, in making a spirited and decided attack on a foul and pestilent den of hideous profligacy. In certain cases, the letter of the law, whether through some verbal ambiguity or the remissness of those who are charged with its administration, may be found inadequate to grapple with a crying and notorious evil, and here it is that we can best appreciate the value of the comparatively few members of any com munity who, at personal inconvenience, step out from the common herd, and initiate the business which all admit ought to be d one , b u t o f which very few wish Ito take on themselves the risk and trouble. Every one will approve of the course adopted by the Magis trate, in dealing with the case upon its substantial merits, instead of measuring it by the strict rule of legal technicality. It is, indeed, disgraceful that, for so long a time, and, in so public a place, a vaunting parade should have been made of the most awful and contaminating impurities and impieties." The Chronicle says :—" The Cabinet has come to a wise, though not a very consistent conclusion, on the question of Irish education. The National Board established by the Whig Government will continue to receive support from a Parliamentary grant, and aid will not be given to any rival or antagonist institu tion. Unless they had made up their minds that the principle of ,united education should be wholly aban boned, this decision was inevitable. Nevertheless, it is a decision at variance with the very ardent protesta tions we heard, while these good folk were. out of office, of attachment to principles and obligations which must always maintain the same power over honest minds, whatever changes of place or fortune may occur. Such discrepancy, however, between profession and practice, in high places, will not occa sion very general surprise now. Familiarity has laid that sentiment asleep. The Tcries,' says the Dublin Evening Mail, indignantly—' The Tories give us all the Whigs promised.' This is not quite as true as we should wish it to be; but it is true enough to make ft evident that the Tories would rather give all, and more than all, the Whigs promised, than let go the advantages of power and place, to which they raised themselves by every species hypocrisy and fraud." The following is from the Herald:—" Lord Auck land's advocates and defenders, repulsed from every other point, are once more compelled to justify the in vasion of Affghanistan by asserting that Dost Ma homed was unpopular, and that the exceeding popu larity in 1838 of the thrice-ejected Shah, our pen sioner Soojah-001-Moolk, excused the assault the late Governor-General made on a friendly people. If this plea were as true as it is false, it would not con stitute the slightest palliation of Lord Auckland's offence. What right has the Indian Government to depose a neighbouring chief because of his unpopula rityh amongst his own people.? Toexerci se power is an act of unmitigated tyra nn any y .Ap su p e ly thewerandprincipleld, all E h e u r r e o i p n e wouldanv oled v conf t e o (ler t a he te to w e a s n t e n r i n . T I e a t h e a t v h e e a S t ttaht the present that t to put imore e s n e t o t e p r assume c t i c e. 1 that Louis Philippe is unpo i p ef ul in ar in the Auckland had for his ofbelief Dost Mahomed ; yet , were his Lordship to propo se the invasion of Frarce,hssfr withiendsa anndaydmveirryersexwaoluteldd not, we presume, be i impressed S th t e a r te e s in be the recognised I no tions of his sanity f non-interference i n th e in . teimergadoefefuetrirhenEg Prince was Asiatic countrie s po t e r r n m a y l a e ff f a i E r s n g o l f a n E d r w r ohpaeta is that made interference h t necessary h b o n the nlg globenladni a di n n; atnh Go vernment discovering t asa qr a ar nt Lord Auckland p erpetrated elsewhere, in Empire , would be q uic kl y b lotted out of di s lik e d?; The worltdhiws f d a i n d ta w s e tie in t d r u ie l k g s e tthhee map p ti e sh f muope,, ....e.1.........0.1 ECCLESIASTICAL. At Brighton yesterday a Church-rate svas refused by a majority of 210. ELECTZONEERING. Lord Viscount Clive is expected to come forward for the representation of the northern division of Shrshire, in the room of Sir Rowland (now Lord Hill. TINE ARTS. Mr. Park, the sculptor, is at present engaged on a colossal representation of Ixion on the wleel. The imaginative artist, instead of binding him to the wheel with cords, lashes him to it with serpents. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. Count D'Orsay has just published, through the me dium of Mr. Mitchell, of Bond-street, a Livraison, containing six animated sketches of the Marquis of Worcester, the late Marquis Wellesley, Count Ester hazy, Dwarkanauth Tagore, the Luc de Guiche, and the Comte de Grammont. At Arcetri, on the road to Florence, is the tower of Galileo, with a peasant's cottage and rustic obser vatory, where the great astronomer dwelt ten years, and died. Towards the close of his life he received the youthful Milton here, then only a scholar and an elegiac poet. Milton, when old and blind, rec urred in his " Paradise Lost" to the " Tuscan artist" at his labours. Newton was born the year that Galileo died. SPORTING. The Marquis of Hastings, with a small part , in two days' shooting, last week, at Donnington ark, bagged upwards of 640 head of game. COURT-FASHIONABLE. The Duke of Richmond and family leave town to day for Goodwood Park, Sussex. The Earl and Countess of Minto are staying w ith Lord John Russell, in Chesbam-place, until after Lady John's recovery from her accouchement. Her Ladyship and infant son are both doing remarkably well. The Earl 'and Countess of Chesterfield leave the Hotel Bristol, Paris, to-morrow, for Genoa. The Earl and Countess of Wilton pass the Christ' mas at Melton Mowbray. The Earl and Countess Grosvenor leave town to morrow, accompanied by Viscount Beignive' for Eaton Hall, Cheshire. se at, Sir Henry Hardin ge h as l e ft town for hi s South Park, Pensh urs t. Lord and Lady P ar k er l eave this day for the s eat of the Marquis of Westminster in Cheshire. Lord and Lady Prudhoe leave Stanwick Park in a few days for Alnwick C as tl e . Lady Whichcote leaves Stratford House to-morrow for Aswarby Park, Lincolnshire. for Lord Foley left M e lt on M ow bray yesterday , Abbey. Lord and Lady Willi am P au lett have returned t° Downham Hall, Suffolk, from a tour. LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS PAY) LONDON, D.Ec. 15.—Wind this day at 11 ° 011 ' S.W., light and fine clear weather. MARGATE, DEC. 14.—The Trinidad, 80491/ Honduras, was f a ll en i n w ith I s t inst., !Lb"' miles to the n or th war d o f St. Michael's, with dec ks swept, loss of sails, bulwarks, stanchions, &c., and by feet of water in her hold, and the crew taken off the Hawk, Morris. DEAL, DEC. 14.—Wind S.W. to S.S.N. mod. Arrd. Jean Graham, for Sierra Leone ; Dian a ' o Berbice ; Eleanor, for Barbadoes ; Charles, for 9: bago ; Lerwick, Rapid, Thistle, Waterlily• and Monarch, for Jamaica ; Louisa, for Sld. Pilgrim, for Rio Janeiro ; Pakenhan3, for Ver a Cruz, and others. STANGATE CREEK, DEC. 13.—Arrd. Emulous, Allen, Cephalonia, with boat stove and other damage, having shipped a sea in a gale,. 28th ult. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 14.—Wind S.S.E. to . D .P..-"c t, Sld. Hortensia, Cape of Good Hope; HighwaY, Vincent's; Norna, Sierra Leone. es. FALMOUTH DEC. 14.—Wind S.S.W..strongbreez —Arrd. Bet t y, Schyth, Rio Janeiro. Elva Ann, M'Causland, Newfoundland, sailed 22d ult. BulloF.k xi c ant. OFF DOVER, D EC . 14.—Ellen, Gillman, breeze' HULL, DEC. 14.—Wi n d S.W. by S. strong —Sid. Progress, Pernambuco. - r f Ora PENZANCE, DEC. 13.—The Aimwell, Sh a p ter, Newport t o N an t es , h as come u p to the pier leag: with head of mainmast gone, and loss of sails' beel; The Stadt, Barth, from Cardiff for Ancona, has obliged to run f or th e p i er, b e i ng much strained Pa leaky. MONTROSE, Dim 13.—The Mary, Lawson , bay . Belfast to this port, was driven ashore in this # r; yesterday i n a disabled state, and is fu ll of wail° crew saved. ULL, DEC. 14.—The Juno, hence t o Stettin, is lost in the North Sea ; crew saved. T • ort, YARMOUTH, DEC. 14.—The Arnie. of .1N got on the Holm Sand yesterday morning, ad,,r__ mains. The Newcastle, of Newcastle, and nyin of Shields, are in the Roads, with damage, Willa. been in contact, but will proceed. Arrd• LivEapooL, m D.14.--Wind S., moderate.-- 1,.„_ MaYP O Huntress, Lima, sld. Sept. 6 ; John Brr"' n. Lockhart, Porto Cabello, sld. Oct. 29; Eliz a 3 . o ";: p 6 Jamaica ; Roscius, Collins, New York - re Poster, _Wilson, St. Andrew's ; Agnes Michaels, D a lh ous i e ; Eli za b e th, Montreal. An off; Brigand, , Sld. Conservative, Cape of ug. Hope ; Alpha, Monte Video ; Chaos, and Ann ap e fery, New O r l eans; A von , an d Covenanter, S.t.t.kio, nah ; Bl a k e , an d L or d P a l mers t on , Charlesto n ; Rio Janeiro ; Camerton, Havannah. r i a tinet MILFORD, DEC. 14.—The John and ms a the Davies, from Bangor to Swansea, was wrecked an d • entrance of Salvo harbour 12th instant--aew materials saved. MEssr•NA, Nov. 28.—The Maria Caroline, TraPill:,..ee; hence to Liverp oo l, p u t i n to Syracuse with danuis• but has been repaired and proceeded. DUNKIRK, DEC. 9.—The Louis Rennin, bound to Nantes, and the Bonne steamer, Calboppg went ashore near the entrance of the port duri ng thick fog this morning. THE JA CK O'L ANTERN .—The first Place ute living writ ers o f fi c ti on b e l o ngs, without dis pel deii. r. Fenimor e C oo r.` He has conceived an we l l neated, better than any other man, the poetry wo adorns the life of the forest and the sea. Did bes t ver alone, therefore, in his country, America could liters' be said to want a lit er ature. His works a rea ; „ 1 0 11 - the ture of themselves ; the " Borderers" occull'• - ° , 3 i i is place of the epic, while the other offspring of his g e ,b a t a _ ut group themselves, like a tragic sisterhood, h° b . OO inimitable performance. Full justice has neve r ,, f or done to this writer by criticism. " The Jack nevi -I% r tern" is by no means unworthy to rank with his .floc mer productions. Although the materials are . 6 4 new, they are here so skilfully and cunninKlY gr.". on that they must inevitably produce on the imagln" the effect of novelty. Our brave countrymen ar L 3 the" hibited in their true dimensions—that is to sat, most gallant, chivalrous, and generous of mans' iliv and this is unquestionably the conviction that bits Mr. Cooper's heart of hearts. The scen e 11 . ff e cf the rocky islet, where in calm and silence the wotte Raoul yields up his spirit, with his eyes fi xed -nr s the stars, is admirably conceived, and prodscece'w, powerful effect upon the imagination. Th e ex an tion of Caraccioli, also, to which Nelso n was, ,ic interest of these volumes, which will be happily, a consenting party, deepens the tf lb the greatest avidity by all who delight in stirring romantic fiction. The superior qualities of the styr s; will very greatly enhance their pleasure. Th er e , occasionally, when the object is to exhibit atmosphe' phenomena, a positive transparency in the languat: which seems to glitter over the ideal basis of the " s tens' ject, as the luminous air of Italy shines and glis rate read vvy over its landscapes. Yet it is not always by elsb4 ct . descriptions that Mr. Cooper produces this e" 10 . The whole is sometimes the result of a few m a terly touches. Thus, in the pursuit of Raoul 's 3: 0 11 1' by the boats of the Proserpine, the whole c oast, A 4L ni . Amalfi northward to the entrance of the BeY sn i pies, is presented, even through the darkness of to the mind's eye, so that he who has one beheld : s l , can recognise every point. We have said, w e 0 . 13 i l t enough to recommend this work to our readrs, I n should be thought to need any recommendation. 1-, our opinion the name of Fenimore Coope r on the title page is enough.—Sunday Times. f. of CHARITIES FOR THE BLIND. —A general Cour the Governors of this charity, established in c onnee ; tion with the Painters' Company, under the Willg o the late Mr. John Stock and others, was held day at the Painters' Hall, Queenhithe, Mr. Robert* the master, in the chair. The report stated that eft charity was instituted in 1797, for the benefit of aged blind men and women, who, to hecor aa qualified for pensioners, must be upwards' of 60 years of age, have been totally blind for three years, and unable to maintain themselves. The institution now extended its aid to all - persons of this class through" out England, on reeeiving a certificate from th e minister of the -parish. At present there were 150 pensioners on, its funds. After some routine business, relating graerally to the affairs of the institution, an election Yester-, 'co fill up vacancies on the list of pensioners took r' ace, and the meeting broke up. me Journal du Havre contains a let ter, dated the ri 1 th inst., from M. David, a highly respectable las-. l oitant of that place, in which, after stating that he hos been present at the whole of the process of raising mail examining the hull of the Telemaque, he says can affrm, without fear of being contradicted, with truth, that no barrel or chest of any kind has been yet taken out of that vessel. As to the results which have been arrived at, it is for the engineer alone, who has the direction of the operations, to give en account of them ; but, I may add, that on the 20th ult., at two o'clock in the afternoon, I -acquired a profound conviction that the vessel really does contain objects of gold or gilded silver. This fact was ascei." tained in the presenct of several persons at the instant of the discovery, and at the spot where the experi _ - meat was made."