The Sun. — London, England, 1842-01-18 00:00:00

EVENING SUN merchants and citizens of London, while providing additional facilities for the commerce of this emporhins of trade, will not forget the principles which actuated him who first founded the Royal Exchange, and at the same time made provision for the indigent, and the promotion of sound literature and useful knowledge.—( Loud cheers.) I beg again to return you my most sincere thanks for the honour you have done me, and beg to drink all your good healths.--(Loud cheers. ) The Loan MAYoa—MI Lords and Gentlemen, I feel con fident that my next toast will be drunk with eathusiasm : it is our brave defenders by land and sea, who have carried the British flag with honour to every clime, and to the admiration of the civilised wor ld—" Th e A rm y aniNavy."—(Cheers.) (The toast was drunk with three times three, and followed by " Rule Britannia.") The LORD MA YOR—My Lords and Gentlemen, the happi ness and prosperity of our beloved country, and especially of her merchants, depends upon the direction of her affairs being in:the hands of a talented and powerful Administration ; this benefit I trust we shall for a long time be permitted to enjoy. With such a Government as the present, under the direction of a statesman so able and experienced as the Right Hon. Baronet, we cannot doubt that, with all other important sub jects, the prosperity of this ancient city, and of our commerce, will receive the utmost encouragement and protection. I beg, therefore, to propose " Long life, health, and happiness, to the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, and the rest of her Majesty's Ministees."--( Great applause. ) Sir R. PEEL, in acknowledging the toast, said, that in his own behalf and the other Ministers of the Crown, he returned their most cordial thanks for the mariner in which their health had been received. It was most grateful to them to have the opportunity of beholding the important ceremony of that day. It was impossißle not to feel that the spot on which they had stood was to be, as it had been in former times, a centre of at traction to the commerce of all nations, and where they would forget all national antipathies and jealousies. His Royal High ness had that day laid the foundation of a building, not merely dedicated to commerce but to peace—(Cheers)—and it was the wish of her Majesty's Government that the future progress of that building should correspond with the favourable auspices under which its foundation was laid.—(Cheers.) On the part of his colleagues he again returned their respectful and cordial thanks for the honour they had done them, and begged to drink all their good healths.—(Loud and continued cheers.) The Lone Maroit—My Lords and Gentlemen, I have now to advert to the interesting ceremony which has taken place this day. It is nearly three centuries since, under Royal pa tronage and encouragement, a splendid edifice was erected for the accommodation of British merchants. As this is not the first time that the Royal Exchange has been destroyed by tire, and hitherto nobler structures have succeeded to the old, so no now I trust that the foundation of a building has been laid which will fully accord with the magnitude of our commer cial operations. The completion of the present undertaking will be hailed by the great mercantile :establishments whose representatives I have now the honour to see around me, and I have no doubt will be a nutter of equally high gratification to my distinguished guests. Your Royal Highness, my Lards, and Gentlemen, will you join with me in drinking " Pros perity to the New Royal Exchange and the Trade of the City of London," and in connexion with this toast the " Health of the Noble Earl the President of the Board of Trade." The Earl of Meow, in returning 'thanks, said it would be an intrusion in hirreif be was to trouble them with more than a passing word in expressing his personal thanks for the honour his Lordship had done him in coupling his name with 'the important ceremony of the day. It was not the first time he had been called upon to thank the citizens of London for similar compliments, and it did so happen the greater part of his life (he found he must say it had not been a very short one) had been passed in duties connected with the commerce of this country, and he should not have ventured to accept the office which he held at present, if he had not previously expe rienced the kindness which the merchants of London had always shown to those who endeavoured honestly to do their duty.—( Loud cheers.) He would not allude to the particular circumstances of this day, after the clear and perspicuous man ner in which they had been described by the Lord Mayor, and alter the eloquent manner in which his Right Hon. Friend, whose health they had drank, had adverted to them. But he must say that it was a circumstance of proud gratification to him to find that they were assembled here in the celebration of such an event in the face of the concentrated representation of the wealth, the honesty, and therefore the power and the commercial integrity of this great empire.—( Cheers.) He would only add, in words that were not his, but which would be addressed to them in a more attractive manner than lie could pretend to—words peculiarly appropriate for the occasion, embodying, as he was sure they did, a sentiment unanimously responded to. His Lordship here apologised to the Lord Mayor for not reading the words with the proper accent, and said the whole of the Scotch song was so very apposite to the present occasion, that he must do himself the pleasure of con. clueing by reading the first verse : " 0 weel may . the boatie row," &c. • (Loud cheers.) Followed by the melody arranged by Mr. Wilson for the occasion. The LORD MAYOR—My Lords and Gentlemen, I have now the honour to propose to you the health of Field Mar shal his Grace the Duke of Wellington, whom I have the extreme gratification to see at this table, and who, whether as a warrior or a statesmen, is justly entitled to the admira tion and gratitude of his country. On an occasion like the present we cannot but remember with feelings of gratitude, that to his Grace the Duke of Wellington the citizens of Lon don are indebted for the grant of 1,000,000/. sterling for public improvements in their ancient city. I would join with this illustrious person the second power of the State, that august assembly from whose collective wisdom our free and noble Con. stitution has derived such important benefits, " Field-Marshal his Grace the Duke of Wellington, and the House of Peers." The Duke of WELLINGTON then rose and said, he begged leave to return them his sincere thanks for the honour they bad dune him in drinking his health, and for the manner in' which the company had thought proper to receive it. This was not the proper time to advert to the circumstances of a former period of his life to which his Lordship (the Lord Mayor) had alluded. He met them there that day to celebrate and promote the arts of peace—( Loud cheers)—and he trusted that in his time he should never again know the celebration of the arts of war.—( Loud cheers.) His Lordship had been pleased to include in the toast he had given, " the House of Lords." On the part of his colleagues who were mem bers of that House, he begged to return their best thanks. The House of Lords was the Conservative branch of the Con stitution ; and he hoped, in modern times at least, that it had fulfilled the effects of its iustitution.—(Cheers.) He was much gratified on receiving the invitation to attend in the City on this occasion , and ho p ed sincerel y that the building of which his Royal Highness had been pleased this day to lay the first stone, would prove not only a monument of the arts of this great nation, and the taste of his Royal Highness, but also a lasting convenience to the commerce of the country and the world--(Loud and continued cheering, followed by the trio from Rooke's opera of Antelie— Dare the foe invade our land," ) S;r R. PEEL then rose and said,—May it please your Royal Highness, ladies, and gentlemen, I have received from the Lord Mayor permission to propose a toast, which will, I trust, be peculiarly acceptable to all. " The health of the Lady Mayoress. "—( Cheers.) Gentleman, I feel satisfied that the 'hospitality and kind attention which we have received this day, and considering the distinguished position in which the Lady Mayoress stands—the head of the female society in the City of London, you would en these accounts alone receive with respect the proposal of her health; but by far the greater portion of the company must know that the Lady Mayoress has ether claims upon public respect. You know that her life has been devoted to the purposes of active Irene volence—(Loud cheers) —and that following her example, acting in concert with the lady on my left hand (Mrs. Fry) whose presence would do honour to any company, s h e h a d visited the abodes of vice and misery, and done all in her power to alleviate human suffering, and diminish eon• tagion by her example.—(Cheers.) It is no satisfaction I am sure, to those distinguished ladies tre have their good deeds brought before the public ; but, after paying a tribute of respect to the services of distinguished men, it would be a reflection on ourselves if we omitted to notice with respect ful acknowledgments the unobtrusive virtues of those who have made the name of the ladies of Great Britain honoured in every country in the world.—(Cheers.) I beg, gentlemen, to propose " The health of She Lady Mayoress," with three times three.—( Loud cheers.) The LORD MAYOR—My Lords and Gentlemen, I feel grateful to you for the honour you have done the Lady Mayoress in drinking her health. I think I may venture to say that her great desire is to be useful in her station, not only in dispensing the proper hospitalities of this house, but also in administering comfort, and relief as far as lies in her power to those who are in distress.—( Hear, hear.) The Loan Ma-Yoe—My Lords and Gentlemen, I have aext the honour to . propose to you the health of the Representatives of the Peop:e in the Commons' House of Parliament, and I feel great pleasure in connecting with them the name of the Noble Lord the Secretary for the Colonies—" The Right Hon. Lord Stanley, and the House of Commons."—( Hear, hear. ) Lord STANLEY said, that it was with surprise to himself, and he was sure to others, that in the presence of the Premier an d of other distinguished Members of her Majesty's Government, he heard himself called upon to return thanks on behalf of the House of Commons ; but, at the same time he must say . that the surprise was mingled with gratification at finding himself selected as the organ of a body consisting of the most powerful and influential representatives of the commerce of the United Empire. He did not know how he could return thanks in the name of a body consisting of such discordant materials. Perhaps, indeed, the very circumstance of the conflict of opinions formed one of the great materials for the security of the interests of the community. Every public man was com pelled, not only to give his judgment upon questions of great political importance, but to give his reasons for the course he followed.—( Cheers.) It was impossible for:any one who was present at the imposing ceremony of the day, to witness without admiration the quiet and orderly conduct of the countless molttude—a spectacle not to be seen in any other country in the world. It was impossible to witness that sight without feeling the great importance of the trust reposed in the House of Commons, or - without feeling an increased sense of the magnitude of the commercial interests of ihils great com munity.—( Cheers.) He trusted that whatever conflicts mi g ht take place in that House i ts Members would never be forgetful of the high interests which were intrusted to their care, and that they would always show a devoted attachment to the Con stitution.—( Cheers.) The Lens MaYon—My Lords and Gentlemen, I have great pleasure in proposing the health of Lord Chief Justice Denman, and the rest of her Majesty's Jud g es, who, in the ad ministration of the laws, deal equal jus t ic e to the rich and door —." Lord Chief JUstice Denman, and the rest of her Ma jesty's Judges." Lord DENMAN returned thanks. He believed that the Judges deserved the euloginms passed upon them for the zeal and integrity with which they uniformly acted. The Loan Nlsvoit--My Lords and Gentlemen, I have now to offer another toast, the Members for the City of London, who, I am sure, will do their duty to the entire satisfaction of their constituents—" The Representatives of the City of Lon- don in Parliament." Mr. NIASTF.RMAg returned thanks in the names of him self and his colleagues, and alluded in warm terms to the ceremony which had taken place. The LORD Nlavoa—My Lords and Gentlemen, I beg to propose the health of the Attorney and Solicitor-Generals, and the Bar of England—gentlemen alike eminent for their talent and. their iutlepeudeuee—" The Attorney and Solicitor- Gene rak and the Bar of England." The AproaNLY....ig N F. AL, in a few words, returned thanks. Tfie company tiaen broke up ; and as the Prince and her Majesty's Ministers rose from their seats, the cheering was tremendous. The dinner, which was supplied by Mr. Dever, of Cornhill, was of the most sumptuous description. DEATH OF TIIE REV. HENRY MATURIN. It is our painful duty to announce the death of the Rev Maturin, A.M. , Rector of t h e parish of Cloudel Henry vaddock, in the comity of Donegal. This -melanch o ly event took place a t the Glebe-house on Monda y mornin g ,: the 3d instant, in the 71st year of his a g e, after h av i ng been 44 years Rector of t he p arish. He obtained hisfel lmvship in the :year 1792, having been unanimously elected before he attained the age of twenty-one. Hi s learning and talents Were of the highest order—he had a mind capable of mastering any subject that he applied himself to—and such was the strength of his understand invsnd the beauty of his language, that he was univer aadrestenked and admired as one of the brightest °ma• menta of 30 Clety.—Du6lin Packet. THE WEATHER.—Noow, JANUARY 18. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 28 I Highest 3B I Lowest 24 Barometer 3002..—Wind S.W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg. THE REVOLT OF THE FRENCH PEASANTRY. Just published, in 3 vols. post Sve., /THE JACQUERIE ; or, The Lady and the 1 Page : an Historical Romance. By G. P. R. JAMES Esq., Author of " The Huguenot," " Henry of Guise," &c. The best of Mr.. James's many admirable novels."—St. James's Chronicle. Also, by Mr. James, lately published, THE ANCIENT REGIME. In 3 vols. post Bro. London : Longman, Brown, and Co. p --- fis - MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, naving AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (though hey are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtain ng LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH and•at LUBECK, ore now SELLING ORIGINAL BONDS for the said DlS ritounoNs. Persons desirous to purchase for the Next Distributions lay receive, PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PRO SPECTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing a line to HEINE BROTHERS. The NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains DIVIDENDS of £25,000 £6OO £llO £7O 5,000 400 100 60 1,500 200 90 50 1,000 150 80 Sterling. 800 120 THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, JAN. 18, Will be performed the Play of THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA.—Duke of Milan, Mr. Phelps ; Valentine, Mr. Macread7 ; Proteus, Mr. Anderson ; Thurio, Mr. Gimp ton ; Launce, Mr. Keeley ; Julia, Miss Fortescue ; Miss Ellis"; Lucetta, Miss Turpin. After which will be repeated the New Christmas Pantomime, called HARLEQUIN AND DUKE HUMPHREY'S DIN NER ; OR, JACK CADE, THE LORD OF LONDON STONE. Doors to be opened at Half. past Six, and the Performance to begin it Seven o'clock. Boxes 55., Second Price, 2s. 6d. Pit 35., Second Price 2s. Lower Gallery Is. 6d., Second Price Is. Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTALS. THIS EVENING, JAN. 18, Will be repeated the Opera of ELENA ÜBERTI.—The Character of Elena Überti by Miss Adelaide Kemble ; Count Übaldo, Mr. W. Harrison ; Sigifredo, Mr. Leer; Count Guido, Mr. Stretton ; Boemondo, Mr. Clement White; Gual tiero, Mr. Wifian; Imberga, Miss Grant. After which will be rep eated the New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled G UY EARL OP WARWICK ; OR, '4ARLEQUIN AND THE DUN COW. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s . 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. 25.; Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan, at the Box-office, from Ten till Flour, where Season Tickets may be had open application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167. New Bond-street. To-morrow, Wives a 3 they were, and Maids as they arc with Guy Earl of Warwick, or Harlequin and the Dun Cow. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Harlequin and the Ice Queen, the acknowledged best Panto mime of the Season ; 50,000 persons have already witnessed and applauded it to the echo. THIS EVENING, JAN. 18. Will b. repeated Widnes' New Drama, entitled ELIZA BETH LAZARUS, founded on Captain Glasscock's " Land Sharks and Sea Gulls." Everything New. After which, A SALT-WATER YARN. To conclude with a Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE ICE QUEEN; OR, JACK FROST AND KING SHAM.—With gorgeous and charac teristic Scenery, splendid Properties, ludicrous and Quaint Dresses, ingenious Tricks, magnificent Panorama by Brun &c. flailequin ' M. Huline ; Patch, M. R oc h e t ; Pan taloon, M. Lehman ; Flip, Signor Feliz Carlo ; Clown, Mr. Buckingham ; Columbine, Miss Sharpe. Private and Public Boxes can be had of Messrs. Sams, Ebert, Mitchell, Andrews, and Seguin, during the run of this popu lar Pantomime. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF AR. OSBALDISTON. Enormous success of " Geraldine !" another new and affecting Domestic Drama, for which this Theatre is so widely and so eminently distinguished. THIS EVENING, JAN. 18, Will be performed, a New Domestic Drama, in Three Acts, entitled THE STORY OF GERALDINE OR, THE TWIN ORPHANS OF ST. PRE.—Henri, Mr. E. F. Sa ville ; Huntingdon, Mr. Dale ; Claud, Mr. Seaman ; Jemmy Cottle, Mr. Gardner ; Davy, Mr. Paul; Geraldine, Miss Vin cent, the acknowledged Heroine of Domestic Drama. After which, a New Grand Romantic Aerial Comic Pan tomime, entitled HARLEQUIN PETER WILKINS ; OR, THE KING OF THE AIR AND THE FLYING IN DIANS.—With new and extensive Scenery, Dresses, Decora tions, Tricks, Transformations, and Effects—A new Nautical Panorama, to be entitled " Our Native Sea-girt Isle !" con sisting of Maritime Views along the Coast of England. Also, a new Grand Dissolving Diorama, by Childe, the Great Illu sionist ; and the Opening of the Pantomime supported by the Comic Talent of this—the Popular Theatre of London. To conclude with THE. LOTTERY TICKET.—Worm -rood, Mr. Gardner; Capias, Mr. James; Charles, Mr. Sea man ; Susan, Mrs. Howard. Boxes, 23.—Pit, ls.—Gallery, 6d.—Half-price to the Boxes only, at Half-put Eight. To-morrow, Geraldine, Harlequin Peter Wilkins, and The Lottery Ticket. THE RAILWAY SUN IS NOW RE-PUBLISHING, PRICE SIXPENCE. THE CHINA SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SLXPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Jan. 18, 1842. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The Review of Mr. Maillard's book on Texas was writ ten subsequent to a careful perusal of it, by a gentle man wholly unacquainted with the writer's disputes with any party relative to that country. His opinion of it remains unaltered. We cannot, therefore ad mit any controversy in our columns on the subject. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW, Morning...... 12 minutia after II 1 Evening ......30 minutes alter IL fhe Publication of the Evening Edition of TEX SUN COM. mewed at 10 minites after Three. 11,6 It, isitZ LONDON: TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1842. In the domestic history of a great commercial people, the laying of the first stone:of a mercan tile edifice, which will form the centre of the commercial world, is an event worthy of joyous commemoration; and it therefore affords us plea sure to be able to refer to the dinner at the Mansion-house yesterday, at which the Consort of our beloved Sovereign, the Cabinet Ministers, several of the clergy, and the civic dignitaries were present, to show how very generally such an opinion pervades the public mind of England. The enthusiasm manifested by all classes on the occasion of laying the first stone of our new ' Royal Exchange, was a genuine tribute of re spect paid to the spirit of British commerce. Many guests at the Mansion-house dinner, no doubt, thought only of the presence of an illus trious Prince, who is daily more and more endearing himself to the people of his adopted country ; some others went there impelled by an appetite for turtle-soup and champagne; but the majority of the guests, lay and clerical, sought only to con nect their names with the foundation of an edi fice sacred to the principles •f a free commercial intercourse with all the nations on the face of the earth. Whatever the landholders may say, they have here an indication of the avidity with which the Throne and the Altar cling to the ad vantages of peaceful commerce. They may, if they please, call the Royal Exchange the Temple of Moloch; but we challenge them to point out a structure of any other character, at which there was a greater concourse of Tory Cabinet Minis ters, or at which a Tory Prelate more distin guished himself than did the Right Rev. Dr. BLOMFIELD on this occasion. Not but that we highly approve of the conduct of the Cabinet, and his Prelatical Lordship of London. Com merce is the soul of Great Britain, and whatever contributes to elevate its character at home, and to extend its ramifications abroad, claims the countenance and support of the Government, the clergy, and the people of this country. The new Royal Exchange is an emblem of free trade—of the advantages which nations derive from extended commercial intercourse. No blood-stained trophies are destined to defile its walls; and thronged halls will attest the progress of civilization in every part of the world to which its ramifications may extend. Of the speeches delivered at the dinner, the best we can say is that they all breathed an earnest desire for the continuance of peace. The • - nu, ow' • • 4,0' . 10 44, 444.3660/4 .: . . •.. 0 ' THE SUN ) LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY_ lB, 1842 . Duke of WELLINGTON acknowledged that he had seen enough of war, and trusted that the sword would never again be drawn in his day. We cordially reciprocate this wish, which we are well assured is the wish of every honest . man in this country. Lord Mayor's dinners are so proverbial for sumptuousness that no room is left for any comment on yes terday's entertainment at the Mansion-house, save that the Chief Magistrate, despite his party politics, conducted himself with a degree of ur banity towards all his guests, and with a kind ness towards the public Press throughout, which cannot but add to the admiration universally en tertained of his Lordship's excellent private cha racter. We are reminded by the loud complaints of some of our Contemporaries as to the condition of our streets hat we saw at Manchester a few months ago a very ingenious machine for sweep ing the streets. It was a cart, followed, as it were, if we remember right, by revolving scrapers and brooms, which swept up' all the dirt as the cart moved on, and lifted it into the cart. The form of the machine, however, is of little importance; it is sufficient to kiiow that it has been frequently tried and been found completely to answer the intended purpose. It is, we believe, the inven tion of the Messrs. WIIIT*ORTH, who are also the inventors of that celebrated instrument, the iron "Jem Crow," which will hand their names down to a remote posterity with great honour long after the American " Jem Crow" (Mr. RICE), and the English "Jem Crow" (Lord MONTEAGLE), or any other towering politician of our day, shall have been completely forgotten. This street-sweeping machine of the Messrs. WHITWORTH, of which we have been thus re minded, seems to us, looking to the present dis cussion about machinery, to teach a moral lesson well worthy of the public attention. _ Why is not this machine, or some similar ma chine, brought into general use, and the streets swept, at a small cost, two or three times a day? The occupation of street scavengers is at once disgusting and degrading. Almost every one has learnt from experience that these men are as rude as they are dirty. Bespattered, be plastered, and begrimed with mud and filth, they seem to like, when an opportunity offers, to make others share their extreme uncomfort ableness. All their organs, if sense be not wholly obliterated, must be continually offended. Though the vulgar phrase of clean dirt seems strange, it is correct ; but the dirt which they have to remove is the dirtiest of dirt. To get rid of such an offensive, disgusting, and de grading occupation, would be both morally and physically a benefit to society. But there is, in every parish, no inconsiderable number of per sons to be maintained at the expense of the parish, who are fit for no other than this de graded occupation; and if the parish, or the contractors, could not employ such men, they must be sustained in idleness. To introduce street sweeping -machines, would be to deprive them of employment ; and as long as they must be maintained, the use of the machine would scarcely be any saving. The machine is, conse quently, not brought into use, and, to keep indi viduals employed at this disgusting and de grading occupation, the march of mechanical improvement is suspended. The same principle may be generally found at the bottom of most of the obstacles, and most of the objections to the introduction of new and useful machinery. In every walk of life there is a great number of poor and degraded persons whom society think it proper and just to condemn to toiling and noisome occupations, in stead of allowing them to be performed by ma chinery. In that we see an unwise and niggard spirit of economy. Invention gives birth to in vention ; one machine makes way for another ; and it would be' in the end a great saving of wealth to society, as well as a prodigious saving of human feelings, were such men as scavengers pensioned off to live in comfort, when their place can be supplied by machinery, and such noisome and disgusting occupations for ever consigned to the willing and unfeeling exertions of birch and iron. We have given a brief account, all our space allows, of the great Anti-Corn-law Deinonstra. tion which was held at Glasgow on Friday last. There was, first, a meeting of Deputies from all the surrounding towns, at which the reports of the condition of their people were read, which draw a dismal, but accurate picture, of that once flourishing neighbourhood. Numerous examples were given of wide-spread and rapid deteriora tion and decay; and a general opinion was ex pressed, that unless something be done to arrest this downward progress, it must end in convul sion. We miss at the meeting that fervent elo quence which was so honourable to the Conference at Edinburgh, but we meet with more details and more facts, denoting the practical, business pur suits of the parties. But both the moral elo quence of the ministers at the Conference and the facts of the men of business equally lead to the conclusion, confirming and strengthening each other, that the continuance of the present im moral and iniquitous system of Corn-law legisla tion is an impossibility. The Ministers, strong as they may be in Parliament, and strong as they may be in the country, are deplorably weak, from the unrighteousness of their cause, and they must give up the system or involve all our insti tutions in one common ruin. We respectfully solicit the attention of the Tory Premier and his supporters to the evidence which the meeting at Glasgow affords of the incompatibility of mono poly with the national welfare, and of the impos sibility of continuing it. The meeting of the Deputies was followed by a Grand Banquet in the evening, at which up wards of 2,000 persons were present. More would have attended had there been room. Lord BELHAVEN and Sir J. GIBSON CRAIG were snowed up, and could not get to Glasgow ; the Marquis of BREA DALBANE had other engage ments ; but there was a considerable show of Members of Parliament. The banquet set the seal to the opinions of the Deputies and minis ters, and cautious pziliticians, who have hitherto taken a different view, found it necessary to fall in with the demand for the total and immediate repeal. There was a time, Mr. °swam: , said, when less would have contented them, but now their demand is for justice, and they will take nothing less than justice. At the banquet, as well as at the meeting of Deputies, it was intimated that the farmers in various districts are made sensible, through their own pockets, that the► Corn-laws are not for their advantage. Let. us hope, therefore, that these gentlemen will no longer sacrifice their industrious countrymen and themselves, in order to foster the bloated wealth, extravagance, and pride, of the owners of rent. A brighter day is dawning on our country, from the union of all industrious and useful classes to resist the unjust arrogance of the mischievous and the idle classes, At both meetings the language was bold and energetic ; and as we are convinced that it is only necessary for sincere and honest men man fully to speak their thoughts to attain their just ends, we infer from the manner in which the Anti-Corn-law party have begun to speak out that the day of their triumph is not far distant. On important Saturday an m w e e e e t k i n ; e i t ) . u t h h l e i s I h v e o d o l a l e n n a l c n c a o n u u n f t a c 0 .. 1 turers at Bath, which amply confirmed the de plorable accounts we have from time to time published of the falling off of the woollen manu facture in Yorkshire. We shall not, we pre sume, be accused of exaggerating the import ance of this manufacture, when we content our selves with borrowing the following notice of it from the Devizes Gazette, a Tory paper : The woollen manufacture of England must, indeed, be a subject of deep anxiety, not merely to those en gaged in it, but to every one who feels an interest in the happiness and greatness of his country. For a long series of centuries it has contributed to that greatness and that happiness. Its raw material is the produce of our own fields, and of the labour of our own rural popu lation, and the conversion of that material into clothing first raised our hamlets into villages, and our villages into thriving towns. As it grew and flourished, and gave greater and greater employment to capital and in- • dustry, it enabled England to extend her supply beyond her own limits ; while the supply of our own growing population still continued to be its great and principal object. The population employed in the woollen manu facture has always been intimately con nec t e d w ith the population employed in the production of wool ; a bond of union between them has' been formed by palpable community of interest, and the strong sense of reciprocal dependence. Whatever may be the case of the cotton manu facture, then, with the prosperity of the woollen manufacture the prosperity of the agriculturists is deeply.and firmly entwined. To them, therefore, it must be of great, though sorrowful interest, to learn, from the circular of a respectable firm of wool-brokers in Liverpool, dated the Eth instant, that a contract for th 6 deliveryof upwards ofloo,ooo Pieces of woollen goods for the East India market has been . taken by a continental house on terms far below any English manufacturer's tenders. Perhaps our agriculturists will think themselves compensated for this, by selling the bulk of their wool abroad, which will probably come to pass. The circular says : The exports of wool to France, Belgium, and. America, have risen from 1,690 cwt. in 1840, to 7,210 cwt. from Liverpool alone; and including 5,856 cwt. from the port of London, the exports of wool to our rivals in manufac tures amount, in 1841, to 13,066 cwt. exchisive of the exports of combing wool direct from the port of Dublin, which are regular and very considerable. When we state besides, that the prices paid for these wools are such as to be quite out of the reach of the English manufac turer, we cannot look upon our position, as essentially - a manufacturing country, without apprehension and alarm, The prices of wool, then, are now higher abroad than at home, and the flockmasters may be certain that as long as we continue to export wool, such will be the case. The price abroad, in fact, will, in a great measure, rule the price at home ; for, if a higher price could be got from English manufacturers, the wool would not be sent abroad. Here, then, we find one large and important product of agriculture already reduced in price below the continental level; while its cost of production, owing to landlords' taxes, is much above the cost of production on the Continent. Wool helps to pay rent as well as wheat. By checking the prosperity of the woollen manufactures, the price of the farmer's wool falls below the price on the Continent; while, by keeping up the Corn-laws, all the farmer's out-goings are determined by the higher scale of English expenditure: That will tend to impoverish all the farmers who keep sheep. There is another and a very numerous class of our countrymen, for whose welfare great concern is professed, deeply interested in the question. The circular says : The present consumption of wool, both British and Fo reign, is much reduced, and from various causes. , The revolution in the stuff trade of Yorkshire, produced by the disuse of hogg warps, and the substitution of the cheaper cotton warps to a vast extent, has rendered hogg wool nearly unsaleable, and barely equal in value to wethers of similar fineness. Failures to a large amount, amongst the consumers of fine yarns, in Scotland and elsewhere, have for the present, depressed the value and checked the consumption of all super English and Colonial combing wools. But the increase of foreign ma nufacturing establishments, supported in.many instances by British capital, superintended by British workmen, consuming British wool, out-bidding .British buyers in the German, Spanish, and almost every other foreign wool market, and supplanting British manufactures in almost every market abroad, becomes every year more felt, and admitted to be a main cause of the present de pression of British manufactures.. At the Cape of Good Hope, in New South Wales, in Australia, and in Van Diemen's Land, the colonists have for years past devoted their attention chiefly to cultivating sheep, so that wool has become one of their staple exports. Much of the prosperity of those colonies must depend on the market they find for their wool, and they will suffer even more than the English farmers from the decline of the woollen maim facture. If they should find, as they will to some extent, a market on the Continent for their wool, they must of necessity take the manufac tured goods of the Continent in exchange. Those " vast and expanding markets," therefore, which are to be extended at the cost of our people, by the Government promoting a systematic scheme of emigration, while it persists in destroying our manuthetures by accursed Corn-laws, will be, as the United States, another ancient colony of ours is fast becoming, vast markets for the manu facturing industry of the Continent, and we shall plant our colonies in vain. Both the colonies and the mother country, both the manufacturers and the farmers, will be deeply and permanently injured by that decay of our woollen manufac tures which is now unhappily in progress. We have received the Paris papers of Sunday, together with Madrid journals of the 9th instant. All the important paragraphs contained in them are given in our Foreign Summary. The following is the article for which the re sponsible Editor and Printer of the Charivari— ent, the form er to two years ' impri sthonemGPnreavtis gt punch"—have been con d emne d b y the e a r n nni da fine of 1601., an d t h e l atter to s i x months' imprisonment and a f ine o f 801.: —•- " The cross of the Legion of Honour has just been given to M. Hebert ; there is a talk of granting the same to the executioner. This is the recompense for his efforts in procuring the condemnation of Dupoty—an easy b t r y i u t Ibnapt mixturehe jury would no t h ave b een convinced of gall, bile, absurdity, and h . T extra vagance, M. Hebert's requisitory. But the Court of Peers being an exceptional tribunal, could not be con vinced by eloquence and logic, both exceptional. So that M. Hebert's was an easy triumph, and the recompense not very brilliant. A Cross of the Legion of Honour is the pay for consigning to the dungeons of Doullens a writer of the independent press of Paris, as a moral conspirator. A cross of honour for each head crushed by the hydra of the press—such is the Ministerial offer. Who wants a cross ? The Procureur-General must have expected something 'better. A mere star and cross is not pay enough for having invented a new crime, which brings down condemnation, and requires no proof of moral crime. Richelieu paid Laubardement better ; he may have des pised him, but he enriched him. Why not enrich M. Hebert ? I)eutz got 400,000 f. for betraying- the Duchess of Berry ? Why, then, give so little as a riband to the lawyer that has caught Dupoty ? An orator like Hebert is not to be had every day, who perorates so freely his criminal rhetoric, and who leads his audi tors through a series of clap -traps and fear-traps, lulling them with sounds of the scaffold, and with flowers of eloquence all savouring of blood. This is not to be bought by a riband, but with gold. He would have preferred a nteful grain of millet. We saw yesterday a veteran of our armies, who tore off his cross, and clashed it on the ground with disdain, exclaiming, " Never will I wear it again ; I might be mistaken for the Procureur-General Hebert.' " The Department of Finance has just published the statements of the amount of the receipts of the indirect taxes in 1641, compared with that of 1839 and 1840. The following is the general summary : The first nine months of 1840 show an increase of 43,525,000 f. above the same period of 1839. The last quarter shows an increase of 14,759,000 f. above the last quarter of 1839 ; total increase 50,284,000 f. The re ceipts in 1840 having exceeded that of 1839, the increase in 1841 above 1840 is 33,038,000 f. THE DUKE OF CLEVELAND. The following is a copy of the bulletin issued this day at noon : "His Grace the Duke of Cleveland is in much the same state as yesterday, having passed an indifferent night.--" St. James's-square, Jan. 18, 1842," FOLLIES ON ,t MACHINERY." TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—In a late conference with some of the working classes in one of the manufacturing towns, it was ascertained from them that the following was among their articles of faith ; sb far at least as a derisive hum on its being sub mitted as apocryphal, may be considered as evidence. " That if a stop were put to the use of stamps or machinery in printing cottons, the same quan tity would be manufactured as at present, and the working classes employed to paint them all by hand." When a prime minister makes his stand on the question of Machinery, the operatives must not be questioned t oo narrowly on the use they have made of their opportunities of knowledge. But the inference from the wanderings of both will be, that this will make a fine subject on which to overturn the general Alliance of the " Ex tinguishers" whether rich or poor within our land, Yours very sincerely, T. PERRONET THOMPSON. Blackeath, Jan. 18, 1842. MEMORIAL FROM THE WOMEN OF TU E KINGDOM TO THE QUEEN, —The canvass for signatures is nearly completed in Manchester ; the total number will exceed seventy thousand. Throughout the country ladies are forming committees and proceeding with such spirit that we have every reason to expect that, when ready for presentation, the memorial will contain the signatures of all who feel that the Corn-laws are unjust, and who desire to accomplish their total and i mmed i ate repeal. Information upon the subject is rapidly gaining ground ; objections and proposals for delay and change are felt to be frivolous, and the whole country is fast com ing to the conviction that the Corn-laws must be abolished. —Manchester Times. s u :4ARY F S AND tittbitc t9ptitton. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The following is the King of the French's reply to the Address of the Chamber of Peers, in answer to the Speech from the Throne :--" You know the value I set on the sentiments which you have just expressed. They form a new pledge, added to the many you have already given to France, of the confidence which the nation has a right to place in that salutary union of all the powers of the State, which constitutes the strength of our institutions, and demonstrates the impotence of those who may still dream of their overthrow. With that union, with your loyal co-operation, we shall continue to follow the line pointed out to us by our duties and our oaths, and thereby secure to our country the enjoy ment of all the blessings and advantages which Provi dence has bestowed on it." A French Cabinet Council has discussed the question whether the Chamber of Peers will condemn M. Chain bolle, the Editor as well as the gerant of the Steele. The result was to inform the leaders of the Upper Chamber that the Ministry was ready to engage in the combat for them or the Deputies, and demand permission to imprison M. Chambolle, Deputy of La Vendee, nay, that they were pretty sure to get the permission voted, but that the Ministry must leave the responsibility and initiative to the Peers. Count Mole is said to have gone to the King and dissuaded an attack of the kind on so eminent a member of the dynastic Opposition. The Augsburgh Gazette publishes instructions for the Censors, issued by the Prussian Government, forbidding them " to obstruct any serious and discreet inquiry after truth," and reminds them of the edict of 1819, which bids them " repress all that outsteps the common bounds of religion, which is against morals and good habits, all fanatical introduction of religion into politics, and all that may affect the security of the Prussian State and that of the Germanic Confederation." A free expression of all that respects the circumstances of the country is to be permitt e d. Al so a ll f a i r cr i t i c i sm on the adminis tration. This well-meaning, though unmeaning edict, is dated Berlin the 24th, and signed Rochow, Eichlen, and Maltzahn. The Leipsic Gazette states that the Qttoman Porte had just received intelligence of an insurrection having broken out at Damascus. The troops sent against the rebels were repulsed, and forced to take refuge in the citadel, whence the Governor was bombarding the town. The Christians and Israelites took no part in the insur rection. The following project of law has been presented to the Spanish Cortes:— " Art. I. All the interest of the Home Consolidated Debt, as well as of that in circulation abroad, due and to fall due at the half-yearly terms anterior to the Ist of January, 1843, shall be capitalised. " Art. 2. In exchange for these interests, there shall be delivered from the National Sinking Fund Annuities to the bearer, at 3 per cent., for a sum equal to the whole of those which are at present in circulation. " Art. 3. These annuities will commence to take effect from the Ist of January, 1842, for those who shall demand the capitalisation of the interest of 1841 and 1842, before the 30th June next ; those who shall make their demand after that date, shall only have an option for the second half yearly term, provided they make it in the course of that term ; and the same shall be the case with the following half-yearly terms. " PEDRO SURRA Y BULL. "Madrid, Dec. 31, 1841." PUBLIC, OPINION. _ The object of the principal leading articles in the Morning Post is to uphold our colonial trade, and con demn the manufacturing system, which, we are assured, is " rotten from top to bottom. In order to create this hideous fabric," adds the Post, " we have most grossly neglected the interests of our colonies. In order to prop up this hideous fabric beyond the period of its natural downfal, we are modesty required to sacrifice the very foundations of our home trade." The Times makes a clumsy defence of its unluck article on Saturday respecting the King of Prussia's visit, and takes the opportunity of loading his Majesty with a vast deal of superfluous panegyric. In another article, our Contempofary, alluding to the late Con ference at Edinburgh of the Scotch Dissenting Minis ters on the subject of the Corn-laws, hints pretty broadly that it would not be amiss if the Legislature were to punish them for sedition 1 The Advertiser is of opinion that the Ministerial Anti- Corn-law meeting in Edinburgh is one of the marked signs of the times, which, if Sir Robert Peel be his own friend or the friend of his country, he will not disregard. The Herald contains an article on the affair of the Creole, wherein it states that neither war nor diplomacy will settle the distressing question arising out of the Slave-trade and slavery ; and that " there is but one mode by which they will cease to plague the Government of either country, and that is, the abolition of slavery in the United States. To this it must come at last—the sooner it is accomplished the safer it will be." The Chronicle thus alludes to the article in the Timei of Saturday on the subject of the King of Prussia. " The Times believed that an attack on him might not be dis agreeable to its party ; while for that Journal the sub ject had the peculiar attraction of affording it an oppor tunity of flattering the most vulgar prejudices, which it sometimes dignifies by the name of national feeling, of the lowest class of its readers. Your genuine bully, however, is not without his share of cunning, and so the article of Saturday was framed so as to afford an oppor tunity of sneaking out of it, should it appear advisable to do so." MONEY — TRADE—COMMERCE. From statistics already laid before the Glasgow Con vention now sitting, the following appear, among other facts:—At Dundee, out of a total of d 3,331 weavers, there are 554 partially employed, 1,458 unemployed. At Aberdeen two mills, one, employing 500 and the other 300 hands, had stopped within the last two months, while the decrease in the custom-duties was 2,000/. for the first time. At Kirriemuir, 400 unemployed, and po verty very great. At Bankfoot, 273 without means of support: at Largs 176. Examination was again proceeded with yesterday be fore the Bankruptcy Commissioner into the affairs of William Hitchcock, linendraper, and further hearing adjourned to eleven o'clock on Friday next. The equalisation of the duty between East and West India sugars, has increased the shipment of that article 250 per cent., while, at the same tune, the whole of the Presidency of Bengal has consumed its own produce, the 'importation of the foreign product being wholly prohibited. PUBLXC MPROVEMENTS. The proposed improvements at the West-end are to commence at Lady-day, or as soon after that period as possible. The line of Coventry-street, through Oran bourne-alley, will be continued, and a vast number of houses on the Marquis of Salisbury's estate will be pulled down. The line of the intended new street will be com menced in Cdstle-street, Long-acre, where the houses,will be first pulled down. ELECTIONEERING. Sir Charles Lemon has new positively announced him self a candidate for West Cornwall; the requisition was signed by 1,700 electors, besides whom there are many who have given promises to vote. NAVAL. AND MILITARY. A strong snow-storm and wind drove no less than 14 vessels ashore on Thursday upon the Sunderland coast. The damage they sustained is great, and two of the crews were saved by the life-boat. From the report read at the meeting of the Royal Naval Benevolent Society yesterday, it appeared that the receipts and disbursements left a clear balance of 7281. 3s. 4d. General Scott, of bialleny, the oldest officer in the British army, attained his 97th year on Thursday last, which was celebrated by a dinner at Balerno. He is five years the senior of even Lord Lynedoch, and has served in most quarters of the globe. LAW AND POLICE. The new Police-court in Bow-street was opened yes terday for the despatch of business. It is very commo dious, and forms an agreeable contrast to the old, ill ventilated, dark, and confined chamber so long the chief police-office of the metropolis. At Clerkenwell, James Laywall, aged 42, was charged ith having deserted and cruelly treated his wife and children. It appeared that the poor woman, who refused to enter the workhouse, was in a dying state through starvation, and though she had three young children in the hovel in which she. lived crying for bread, the hus band would make no exertions to provide for them. He was committed to the House of Correction to be kept at hard labour for a month. Two starved farm-labourers, who came from Ashford, Kent, were brought before ifr. Ravvlinson, at Maryle bone, charged with stealing a quartern loaf'. On en tering a baker's shop one of them asked for a " big one," broke it in two, handed one-half to his hungry comrade, and both commenced eating it with great avidity. They had no money, could get no work, and took the bread to save themselves from starvation. They were remanded. Two men were charged at Lambeth-street with driv ing a gig at a furious rate on Sunday night along the:East India Dock Road. The horse, it appeared, in attempting to clear a side-bar, got entangled and broke its legs in two or three places. The men were both intoxicated, and one was fined ss. for being drunk, and the other 21. for furious driving. At Union-hall, William Yates, charged with com mitting between thirty and forty frauds on charitable institutions and private ,individuals, was committed for trial. PINE A.R. Wood-carving, which has been TS long in neglect, 'is re viving in France, and some highly -wrought specimens now adorn the church of St. Germain l'Auxerrois, and theporch of St. Germain des Pres. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. Mr. Conder has invented a new " Messenger propel ling engine," the uses of which are likely to be important on railways. The species of propulsion which distinguishes it, will entirely supersede the machinery which is always at work on the Blackwell and other railways, where 18 miles of rope are constantly being wound and unwound. The French G overnment have already appointed a Com mission to examine the engine, with a view to adapt it to the new lines of road in France. VOURT-FASHIONABLE. The Marquis of Anglesea arrived at Uxbridge House on Saturday,:from Beaudesert. Earl Grosvenor arrived yesterday from Motcomiie Park, and in a day or two proceeds to Eaton Hall, Cheshire. The Earl and Countess of Carlisle leave Castle :oward on the 26th for town. The Earl and Countess Delawarr arrived in Upper Grosvenor-street yesterday, from - Buekhurst, Sussex. Mr. Hope returned to Mansfield-street last week, from Deepdene. Tile Earl and Countess of Eglinton arrived at the Clarendon last night, from Beaufort Castle. MISCELLANEOUS. Sir Robert Peel, at the Mansion-house banquet yester day, paid a high compliment to the Lady Mayoress, who stood, as he expressed himself, "at the head of the female society in the City of London;" and, speaking of the benevolent Mrs. Fry, who sat at his left hand, he observed, " Her presence would do honour to any com pany: she had visited the abodes of vice and misery, and done all in her power to alleviate human suffering, and diminish contagion." 31171120173 LS OP THE DAY. It is confidently rumoured in the diplomatic circles, that Prince Ferdinand, consort of her Majesty the Queen of Portugal, has been invited to be present at the ap proaching Royal christening, and that his Serene High ness is daily expected in London. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS, CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JAN. 17.—The busi ness in the Cotton Market to-day has be en ver y d u ll, the sales scarcely reachin g 3,000 bales, of which 500 have been taken for export. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JAN. 17.—The transac tions at the Stock Exchange this day comprise —Eastern Counties, Debentures, 101. 9s. 2d. ; Liverpool and Man chester, 1971 ; Ditto, 32/. New Shares„ 57i ; Midland Counties, 89 ; North Midland, Thirds, 164 ; Paris and Rouen, 134. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 17.—The market has been dull and very little business transacted. London and Brighton, 37 to 38; Manchester and Bir mingham, 274 to 28; Manchester and Leeds 71i to 72k; ditto Quarters, 31. 16s. to 31, 17s. THE FUNDS. Consols opened at 884 89 for Money, and 89*, ` for the Account ; Three per Cents. R e d uce d 89i ; itto Three-and-a-half Ditto,. 99 ; Exchequer Bills 15 17 premium. Spanish Active Stock, 24'25 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 33+ 1 ; Ditto Threes, 191 20i ; Mexican Bonds, 29i f. Very little business doing. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Bristol and Exeter 6O 25i to 25 London and Brighton 59 38i to London and Birmin g h am . 9 0 Ditto New ..: 2 ...... 29 London and South Western 3Bl 59 to HALF-PAST ONE. The English Stock Market is firm. Consols have ad vanced to 89i for Money, and psi for the Account ; Three per Cents. Reduced are 8011 ;;Ditto;Three-and-a- Half, 99+ ; Exchequer Bills, 15 17 ; and India Bonds, 10 12 prem. Spanish Active Stock is steady at 24i ; Deferred, 12i ; Colombian, 22i ; Portuguese Five per Cents. 34k; Ditto, Threes, 201 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 50i 51 ; Ditto, Fives, 100/. The following are the only transactions in the Share Market during the morning :L--London and Brighton, 381 ; Ditto, South Western, 59 ; Bristol and Exeter, 25. HALF PAST TWO. Consols, Money, 89 to 89k; Account, 89 89i i; Mexi can, 29 i; Colombian,-22i. k; Portuguese, 341 i; Spa nish, 24i 25. QUARTER TO THREE. There are rather satisfactory accounts from the manufacturing districts to-day, and .it is pro bable that we are gradually progressing to wards a better state of 'things. Money here, in the London market, has fluctuated to some extant lately, but on the whole we now call it easy. It is clear the private bankers are in a safe and unembarrassed position, as they have been the chief takers of the heavy amount of stock, in all more than one million sterling, sold in a few days by the Government broker. It is supposed too, that the Provincial Banks are less straitened than they were, the partial run upon them in some districts having ceased. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, JAN. 18.—Wind this day at noon S.W. RAMSGATE, JAN. 17.—The Eden, Kennison, from Poole to Newcastle, struck on the Kentish Knock yester day, but came off and sank in seventeen fathoms water. Crew saved. DEAL, JAN. 17.—Wind W.N.W., moderate.—Arrd. General Palmer (transport), Westward. Arabella, Mau ritius, sailed Oct. 8. Arrd. from the River, Haidee, St. Vincent's ; Robert and Pet, Malta. OFF DOVER, JAN. 17.-,-Ellison, Brown, Sierra Leone, Nelson, Le Gresley, Rio. OFF MARGATE, JAN. 17.—Amelia, Nieholl; , Calcutta ; Sabine, Dorie, Messina ; City of RochesrerPodessa. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 17.—Wind W.NlW ( Xima her Majesty's ship Hastings, Lisbon. ArtHed of Earl of Clare, Capei sailed Nov. 9. Coyne; JAN. I7,—Arrd. Francis Lawson, Sierra Leo* vilvh loss of main-yard ; Nile, Havre for Ame riea;;*a main= and sprung. LIVERPOOL, J AN. Hamburgh brig, from St. Übes to Rio, which wo=in contact with the Frances Ann, arrived here from f the Mauritius, was the Emma Louisa, and not the Albert, as reported. GLOUCESTER, JAN. 7.—Arrd. Galloviden, Malta. POOLE, JAN. 15.—Arrd. Nelson, Newfoundland. OFF SALCOMBE, JAN. 16.—E. D., Pares. DARTMOUTH,• JAN. 16.— Arrd. Courier, Gallipoli. The Oak, from London, which was off port 14th inst., with loss of bowsprit and other damage, has been towed in. PLYMOUTH,JAN. 17.—Wind N.W. to N.—Arrd. the Manley, Ridles, Ancona. Sid. Louisa Campbell, New Zealand. FALMOUTH, JAN. 16.—Wind S.W. to N.W..—Arrd. Midas, Kier, London for Batavia and Singapore, with loss of three boats, bulwarks. &c., 12th inst., in ion. 9. Eleanor, Clark, Odessa, leaky, cargo heated, and with loss of bulwarks; Conte Ortemberg, Vuvocich, Trieste; Margaret, Southampton, for Vigo. CLYDE, JAN. 18.—S1d. John Mun, Savannah. CORK, JAN. 15.—Arrd. Earl. Grey, Douglas, Malta ; Majestic, Rowland, Messina. Sld. Elva, Newfoundland. DUNDEE, JAN. 15.—S1d. Helen Symers, Havannah. Hum., JAN. 17.—Wind fresh.--Sld. Niagara, Cole, New Orleans. SOUTHWOLD, JAN. 17.—The Mary and J. Marsden, Crooks, which was stranded 18th November, has been repaired, and proceeded. YARMOUTH, JAN. 17.—The Spring, Thomson, from Hull to London, was in contact with the Mary,Williams, of North Shields, this morning off Cromer, the former lost mainmast and bulwarks, the latter had stern and - jib-boom injured, &c. The Spring was towed into the Roads by the Mary, and has since been brought into the harbour. NEW LIGHTHOUSE AT CALAIS. The following has been received at Lloyd's :-- " Admiralty, Jan. 14. " Sir—l am commanded by my Lords. Commissioners of the Admiralty, to transmit to you herewith copies of a translation of a letter received from the French Go vernment of the erection of a new Light. to be shown at the end of the West Pier of Calais Harbour, on and after Ist Jan. 1842.-1 am, Sir, your most obedient servant, "To the Secretary, Lloyd's. "JNO. BARROW. " NOTICE TO MARINERS. " Hydrographic-office, Admiralty, Jan. 1, 1842. NEWPALAISILIGHT.—The French Government has given notice that on the Western Jetty Head of Calais Harbour, which has been recently extended 269 yards, a small fixed light is now exhibited, and is visible at three miles disiance ; but in bad weather it may he im possible to approach the extreme end of the Jetty, and in that case it will not be lighted. Until the Ist of May next this light will be shown and extinguished at the same time as the tide-light on Fort Rouge, but after that date the new light will continue all night.' " THE MARKETS.—(THIS DAY.) TEA MARKET. The demand was good, and prices were firm; ls. 10/d. he lowest rate for Congou cash; Company's wanted at Ls. 104 d. per lb. SUGAR MARKET. Prices firm for all sorts of Raw Sugar, and the de mand good from the Home trade ; Brown West India 58s. 6d. to 61s. ; Yellow, 625. to 725. per cwt. ; standard lumps 81s. 6d. per cwt. TALLOW MARKET. P. Y. Candle 48s. 3d. on the spot, and 48s. 9d. for de. ivery, with a firm market. The demand good. WHITECHAPEL. The supply of Hay and Clover far exceeded the de mand; the trade dull. The supply of Straw was middling, the demand good. Clover 21. 10s. to 51. 8s ; Hay, 21. 10s. to 41. 6s. ; Straw, 1/. 12s. to 11. 16s. SNOW STORM, DETENTION OF THE MAILS.— The weather, during the whole of the past week, has been exceedingly severe. The frost, which sot in with unusual keenness, continued with unabated severity until Thursday, and yesterday morning our streets were covered with snow to a depth of two or three inches. The Carlisle mail failed to arrive, and we then entertained no doubt that the snow must have been unusually heavy at both extremities of the county. About five o'clock in the afternoon the mail from the north, by way of Carlisle, arrived, being two hours after its time, and we then learned that the. Lon don mail had been five hours behind its time in reaching Carlisle, though we could not ,ascertain on what part of the road the principal interruption had taken place. The Ulverston mail 4 which is due about half-past ten in the morning, has not yet arrived, although, at the time we write, it is three o'clock on Saturday s morning.— White haven Herald. CHURCH-RATES.—MONITION.--Last week, twenty-four inhabitants of,Headcorn were summoned to Bearstead Petty Sessions, for non-payment of a Church-rate made by the minority in vestry on a mo' nition. Mr. Boykett attended for the defendants. Proof of the making of the rate after it had been re fused by 33 to 14, was put in. Mr. Boykett said it was much to be regretted that the minister and churchwardens of a parish so small, and, compara tively, so poor, as that of Headcorn, should have deter mined to try the question (if, indeed, they had so deter mined) of the power of a minority of parishioners to make a Church-rate in opposition to the vote of the majority ; and hoped that the Bench would deem it ex pedient to adjourn the further consideration of these summonses until a decision of the Courts bad been ob tained'on the Braintree and Bradford cases. The Court refused. Mr. Boykett then put in a formal objection to the validity of the rate; and the cases were consequently dismissed, to be taken to the Ecclesiastical Court.— Essex Herald. 1 — The 13th Light Dragoons left this town oil Friday last, on their route for Windsor. They, in can junction with various other regiments, are destined to form a guard of honour to the Kin g o f P russ i a $ n his arrival. The stay of the 13th, it is understood, will be protracted for a month, or at lea s t d ur i ng t h e so j ourn o f the distinguished visitors to the Queen. Should the weather prove favourable, a grand review, with its bril lien and exciting accessories, will be held in Windsor Great Park, in honour of th e Ki ng an d t h e o ther dis tinguished visitors to her Majesty.--Ipswich Express. EVENING SUN LAW INTELLIGENCE. CHANCERY COURT -(THIS NEW QUEEN'S COUNSEL. f o l On the Lord Chancellor taking his seat to-day the • lowing gentlemen w e re ca ll e d w ithi n the bar by ship in con sequence o f th e i r h av i ng been appointer. Queen's Counsel:—Mr.Wilbraham, Mr. Matthews , Koe, Mr. T.ed, an d M r . L own d es . his Larci, WARD V. ALSAGER. This case stood on the paper to-day in order to e' ut io able the Solicitor-General to conclude his reply b consequence of the hoarseness of the Learned Gentle lr the further arguments were postponed to Friday. TOLEDO V. META. This case came before the Court upon m otion . lo t the discharge of an order p ron o u n ce d by the Vice; Chancellor of England, by which his Honour directed thi!e an injunction which had been granted, restraining T r , transfer of stock, should be dissolved, unless the 5 . 4 1 1 viving plaintiff, Colonel Toledo, filed a supplementa l v is „ on or before this day. The original snit was instituted Colonel Toledo, who was the natural son and conunitr according to the laws of Spain, of the Gate Duke del i f r fantado, and the object of that suit was to obtain an 1 1 1 1 ; junction, restraining the defendant Vieta, who win' , 0 physician of the late Duke, from transferring a s i i ; 'l l of 10,0001., standing in his name in the 'Eng?,b Funds, in trust for a lady who had lived o ,', the Duke and his children. It was alleged by 0 %, plaintiff that the amount in question had been „ tamed from the Duke when h e w a s in an i m becile st et of mind. On the case coming on before the Vice- o ' a ; cellor of England, he granted the injunction, a nd that decision the defendant appealed. During the li en ing of that appeal the Duke d e l Inf an t a d o di e d, and t suit became abated. Upon this event taking P lite e e : the order was made which it was now sought to dischog a The LORD CHANCELLOR ordered the motion to stars t over for five weeks, in order to give th e p ar ties time ° obtain certain documents from Mad r id, th e injunction to be continued in the meantime. IN THE MATTER OF WILKINS, A LUNATIC. “ f The rest of the morning was occupied by the fan arguments in this part heard Lunatic petition, the question in which was, whether a farm ought to 114 ' been let for 1001. or 1301. a-year. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY• . IN RE STEWART—COLMAN V. STEWART. e Mr. PEMBERTON applied to the Court for the dischar . g o of this defendant, he having been committed to pri.', e a under the following circumstanc es : —A bill h a d b ee n t, i ' in Chancery against him, to w hi c h h e h a d neglecter make any answer, and in con sequence an e tt ac htee to 41, was issued on the 11th of May, 1840. I n J un e, 1S the he was served with a notice to enter an answe r t© t ip bill within fourteen days from the dat e o f th e notice• ` co consequence of this the defendant cause d an appearnuo to be entered, and he was discharged from custody" the ground that defendant ought never to have been . e ° mitted. He. (Mr. Pemberton), r e f erre d hi s Lordsail ) 1 .4 the case of Lewis r. Evans, which came before the D°. Chancellor Cottenham lately, in which the d e fendant in the case had been committed to prison for want of 4 0 pearance, but an appearance was entered s u bsequent , 1 , the attachment, and on th a t g r oun d th e L or d Chenc'ea for discharged the prisoner. Th e a pp earance h a d be e s made in the present case, and the q ue sti on was , c ould defendant legally / be detained in custody. His LORDSHIP said if the defendant had really' itr o peared, it would be his Lordship's duty to order liiin put in his answer, and, if he had not appeared, the e ,,,, Lordship must order an appearance. Wh en h e first 1, peered in Court he should have had an appearance e ty tered for him at that time ; and if he then paid costs he would have been entitled to his discharge ; in his neglect to pay the costs, he was properly e ° ,. mitted to custody. Th e que stio n now was , h a d he hi tered his appearance voluntarily, and it app eare d to that it was not, as he had entered his appearance in c° sequence of a notice served upon him in the Fleet. 40 Mr. CRAIG, who opposed th e d e f en d ant, sa id, t hat defendant had not \ proceeded upon that notice, o ho called upon the defendant to ente r an a pp earance Wit 0 fourteen days, and the appearance of the defendant w entered two days after that notice had expired. 0 .. His LORDSHIP said that' became a voluntary OP° ance, and would be something to proceed upon. t, Mr. PEMBERTON read the affidavit of the defen o i( which stated that he believed, from that notice, the l i to he did not enter an appearance, it wo u ld b e p re j u dicif, his interests, and he therefore ent ere d an a ppears within sixteen days after the date of the notice. Mr. CRAlG—Therefore, that wou ld b e a voluntar,37 /4). pearance. His LORDSHIP said th a t t h e quest i on was, w heth er that notice was involuntary, if Mr. Pemberton rep thought so, he would ord er hi s di sc h arge. His Lorcl?r,;s addressed the defendant, an d as k e d hi m what wig reason he had not made his answer to the bill ? The defendant said he had not the means. a sh His LORDSHIP—COM B up t o th e t a bl e , an d MO r $0 of that fact, and you shall have means to enable you put in your answer. Mr. PEMBERTON inquired if the defendant Was charged ? His LORDSHIP said he was sent ba c k t o th e Fleet, 1 3 1 would remain there till the Master had inquired into,tor means, and if they were found as he had stated, a solicl ior would be found for him, and every thing necessary him to put in his answer to the bill. LIEFE V. BISHOP OF LONDON. _• Of Mr. PEMBERTON stated that Mr. Liefe, a na n til e r 4, Scotland, did, on 3d July, 1838, execute a deed ceo ing to the forms of Scottish law, by which he collie certain Scotch herit a ble bond s t o certa i n trustees, Ora the year 1835 h e execu t e d a w il l according to thQ A te• lish law, by whieh Ate - deviseer - utte-reetd: Otis -- a d One-quarter he gave to the plaintiff - himself, two-fourths to the Reverend the Dean of YCO t ,": - ster, the Bishop of London, and th e Ch a i rman and 4.,.a5t, Chairman of the Hudson's Bay Company, upon "oh that they should invest the same i n th e f un d s , in s o i , manner as they should think most desirable, the t t z e dends to be applied for the purpose of establishinPi rob Christian religion, according to the Protestant t0,,,a amongst the Indians in that part of North America 0 1. Rupert's Land or the Hudson's Bay territory. The ren t s ing one quarter of his estate to be di v id e d among st his. sisters. It appeared t hat two trustees had declined t ° t so cept the trust. The plaintiff had also declined, but air Bishop of London, and the Chairman and Vice•C h o pt man of the Hudson's Bay Company, were willing to ac ro . the trusts. A question would arise as to whether the P a . perty could be applied to th e p u rp oses name d, but the plication he (Mr. Pemberton) had to make was, that to t trustees should furnish the plaintiff with a full ace° of all theproperties and monies of the decea se d. I d After some discussion between the parties it wa s ag l , at that the funds shpuld be applied as st a t e d, provide", to accounts were supplied to the plaintiff, and referre d d, the Master, in order th a t new t rustees m i ght b e appoint VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY) , (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND.) LORD STUART V. LORD WHARNCLIFFK. .0 This case came before the Court, up on excePt i .. o • made on the part of L o rd Wh arnc liff e t o th e Masters to port, as to the sufficiency of his Lordship's answele. certain interrogatories put to him by order of the Cli It appeared that John Lord Bute, who died in a o year 1793, having willed his right i n a eer l ia 7. o .• colliery, and the debts due to him from the P tb e perty, the present Lord Stuart de Roth sa y ~it a residuary legatee. Lord B u t e h a d b ut a t" . o f shire of the property in questkon. The right eb the legatee under the will had b een t h e su bj ec t of 0311 d, legal discussion, but that right w as u lti mate l y co nfirtn e and in the year.lBlB a decr e e was grante d , re f e rring, 1 ., to the Master to take an ac couu t o f t h e spec ifi e d a rticl e The colliery had in th e mean ti me come into the Para; sion of Lord Wha rnc liff e , Lord Ravensworth, and 7: A: Bowles. By order of the Master, Lord Wharncliffe 1 1 7. i in the year 1828, put in - answers to six interrogater l a, relating to the accounts of the property at the dea d of' Lord Bute. The Master certified that the answe:. w w e e r r e e n a taken ffici n to that a th t at s c t o o artillfictahteei;ntaenrdrogasatotroies. the E s e x e c o e n p d t overruled. fop interrogatories og a Lord tori e l s V w h h a i r e ll h eii fr had C 1: 1 1 i t n h i f r o d r t a i n t e s r w a e l r i s s , w tt o • ot answersto was the been previously answered to the satisfaction of the Coq, .The Master, however, certified that the answers to' l 4 last questions were insufficient, These answers were tot effect that Lord Wharncliffe had applied to his partae o 'd for permission to, examine the books,• but, as they k a refused that permission; he could not furnish the acconPro, required. Lord Wharncliffe excepted to the certinr. of the Master declaring this answer insufficient. His Hosfoun said that the answer of Lord Wharne' O t. did not appear to him to be sufficient. There wallow' enough to show that his Lordship might not baVe'ri o lt ceeded to examine the hooks without having at all t r d,' the permission of his co-partners.. He was, there - 0 , of opinion that the examination was still insufficiellf-'_' BURRIDGE V. ROW. ' This cause which came on for hearing onfurtber tions and costs, engaged the Court the greater por t of the day, and was totally devoid of interest. • • (Before Vice-Chancellor nucE.) • th e . Some motions of no interest were disposed of 0 1 . early part of the morning. to, His HONOUR then called the following gentleme n , the Inner Bar, who took their seats accordingly g r . Wilbraham, Mr. M a th ews , M r. K oe, M r. Tee d , a m', Lowndes. (Before Vice-Chancellor WIGRAM.) , PERKINS V. BRADLEY. His HONOUR gave judgment in this cause. Perkins was p ossesse d o f a sum o f 6 7 5 1. Three-ai r Half per Cent. Annuities. On the 13th of Febrnbr 1838, he mortgaged that stock to Henry 'BradleP te cl the purpo s e o f secur i ng t o hi m th e sum o f 2.5/., reel her in the deed t o h ave b een th en a d vance d, an d flirted sums intended and expected to be advanced, not W e i l". ing 25/. It was admitted in the cause that 25/. was fie fee paid to M r . K e lly f or t h e pur p ose o f defen ds Henry Perkins on his t r i a l f or f e l on y. On the 21st o rl February in the same ye ar , ano th er mortgage W 54 et; , cuted by Henry Perkins, su bj ec t t o th e prior 01( :- ; ;;1 gage, to Henry Bradley, for the sum of 428 1 t he', Two persons having put a distringas ° n ov el stock, proceedings were had in the Court of : c ost for the purpose of having it removed, and the resu lt t i e g that it was discharged. On the 7th of March a m e es ent 1, 4 took place between the parties, at which were P r t he: ii the defendant, Henry Bradley, and James Perkins!Aley, father . of • the plaintiff: At that meeting. Henry 13 7 d, a suggested that, the distringas having been remoseriso letter should be written to Henry Perkins, th pp en w i e n r i o ' f:a t- r at Cambridge, requesting him to execute a torney enabling them to receive the stock. Tha t Troll' was executed, and on the 12th of March, 183 8, o ted Bradley received the money. If the matters had r , be in that state, no difficulty at all would have arisen as the tween the plaintiff and Henry Bradley. " li be ing 14th •of March, however, Henry Bradley per gone to Cambridge, obtained for Henry 00 kins another deed, by which he charged ale ' Co o with a further sum not exceeding 100/. Another 111 go tb Iv ( the rie • Alf to the _d ue Pea that Vta f Ntv DT I Teed morn 4, P ert „ t lecla _(}3rfri f 84, ,Av e t`' Yin, i Th QC 1 ;. Thi ti hoize I rst, house „Allege being . was that t had n, °lt the 4 14 f w , SI • bf