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C \. Its • if**l S.. j 4.-NNic•IVN\ Embellished with a Portrait of General D'Arblay, VOLUME FIVE of MADAAIE D'ARBLAY'S DIARY and LETTERS, IS NOW READY. " This volt me has all the merit of its predecessors."— Scotsman. " In tiis fifth volume we have a most li - e-I,ke picture of the Court of George 111. and the host sketches we have ever been of the private life of *lf Monarch and his Contort."—Weekly Chronicle. Henry Celbur,n, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. BETTS' PATENT BRANDY.—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 year 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 Mandy. It is to guard purchasers against the consequences of such attempts, 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. John-street ; where it may be obtained, pale or coloured, at Eighteen Shllings per Gallon, of the highest legal strength. THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION of MONEY DIVIDENDS, AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED 14 HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, contains MONEY DIVIDENDS of R5O, £6O, £7O, £BO, £9O, £lOO, £llO, £129, £l5O, £2OO, £4OO, £6OO, £BOO, £l,OOO, I .500, £5,000, and £25,000 Sterling. Amounting together to z.:72,170 sterling. Direct for PROSPECTUS with full particulars, WITH OUT DELAY, to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, Or, to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. EINE 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 25,0001., 18,0001., 9,0001., 5,000/., and 3,600/. to London; 3,600/., 8001., and 7001. to Edinburgh; 3,600/. to Dublin ; 3,600/. to Beverley ; 3,600/. to Halifax ; 1,2001. to Perthleaven Harbour ; 9001., 700/., and 600 1 . to Liver pool ; 9001. to Hull ; 9004 to Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; 900/. and 900/. to Manchester ; 7001. to East Retford, Nottingham shire; 700/. to Colne, Lancashire ; 7001. to Ryde , Isle of Wight; 600/. to Cork ; 600/. to Bideford ; and 600/. to Bradford, &c., &e., they beg to call the attention of those dtairous to obtain large Money Dividends to the approaching EIGHTEENTH DISTRIBUTION of LUBECK, gua ranteed by the Government. This Distribution offers the possibility of obtaining mere than 25,0001. upon One Share. 2,400 of the Shares obtain Money Dividends of 1/. and upwards. Price of One Share, 11. ; two Shares, 2/. ; three Shares, 3/.; four Shares, 41. ; five Shares, Si. ; six Shares, 61. ; seven Shares, 71. ; eight Shares, 8/. ; nine Shares, 91. ; ten Shares, 101. _... , 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 Heins Brothers. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING, DEC. 21, Will be repeated Shakspeare's Play of THE TEMPEST. Alouso, Mr. Cooper ; Sebastian, Mr. Diddear ; Prospero, Mr. Vandenhoff; Antonio, Mr. J. Vining ; Ferdinand, Mr. C. Pitt ; Caliban, Mr. J. Bland ; Trinculo, Mr. Harley ; Ste phan°, Mr. Bartley. Miranda, Miss Vandenhoff; Ariel, Miss Rainforth. To conclude with Auber's Opera of MASANIELLO ; or, THE DUMB GIRL OF PORTICI. Masaniello, Mr. W. Harrison ; Alphosso, Mr. Travers ; Elvira, Miss Poole ; Fenella, Miss Bailin. 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 Is. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit low, at the Box-office, 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; and of Mr. Sams, Pall Mall. THEATRE ROYAL, HAY-MARKET. THIS EVENING, DEC. 21, Will be performed Congreve's Comedy of THE WAY OF THE WORLD (Adapted for Representation). Period, 1699. Sir Wilfull Witwoul, Mr. W. Farren ; Fainall, Mr. Vining; llilarwoud, Mr. Stuart ; Witwoud, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Petulant, Mr. Buckstone; Waitwell, Mr. Strickland; Mil larnant, Madame Vestris ; Lady Wishfort, Mrs. Glover. After which, a new Drama, called THE BASTILE. Louis Quatorze, Mr. H. Holl ; Fricandeau, Mr. Webster ; the Duchess de Montbazon, Miss Charles; Ninon Labatte, Ma dame Celeste. To conclude with the Farce of MAKE YOUR WILLS ! Joseph Brag, Mr. Buckstone. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, DEC. 21, Will be repeated the new Burletta, entitled THE MER CHANT AND HIS CLERKS. The principal characters Messrs. Lyon, 0. Smith, Paul Bedford. Wright, Maynard, Wc'ieland, Miss Chaplin, Miss Brooks, and Mrs. P. Grattan. Aker which a New Drama, in Two Acts, called YOU KNOW WHAT. The prinvipal Characters by Mr. 0. Smith, Mr. Wright, Mr. Maynard, and Miss Faucit. To .be followed by a Grand Burletta Spectacle, entitled ALMA. Principal Characters by Messrs. Paul Bedford, Wieland, Frampton, Mrs. 11. P. Grattan, and Madams Proche Ginbilei. To conclude with a Comic Burletta, called AN TONY and CLEOPATRA. Antony, Mr. Wright. To conclude with NORMA. Pollio, Mrs. H. P. Grattan ; Norma, Mr. Paul Bedford; Adalgisa, Mr. Wright. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 23. ; Gallery, Is. Doors open at half-past six, commence at seven o'clock. MAP OF CHINA. TIIE 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-F0 0, NINGPO, AND SHANGHAE ; WITH ALL THE LATEST NEWS. Orders received at the SUN OFFICE, 112, Strand and of all News-Agents. W ATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Vormn2.... 2 minutes after 4i Evening 2r minutes after 4. LOI:)ON : WEDNESDAY MOANING, DECEMBER 21, 1842. We have not before found an opportunity of noticing the observations of Mr. HOPE, which the League thought worthy of a prize, on the effects which the Corn-law has had on the farmer. He being an occupying farmer, may be supposed to be intimately acquainted with them, and to be worthy of the confidence of his class. We have on two or three occasions called the attention of the tenantry to the influence of that law in making them promise higher rents than they could ever be enabled to pay. We have adverted to their degradation at being compelled, whenever prices fell, to ask the forbearance of their landlords, and accept a reduction of their claims, as if the farmers were insolvent or pau pers, Here are some of Mr. HOPE'S remarks, which we consider as peculiarly appropriate : " But I need not remind at this period (1822) those poor farmers' who are obliged to sell their crop to pesr a rent which they had agreed to give by calcu- InEing the price of grain at double what they could Theo obtain. Much persuasion surely cannot be re wired to satisfy them of both the danger and folly of attempting to obtain famine prices in ordinary seasons. Neither shall I attempt to convince the wealthy, who could afford to store up their own crop, or buy that of their poorer neighbours, because I acknowledge at once that, for them, this system ' of a hunger and a burst' wrought admirably, whatever wretchedness it produced to other members of society." " I sometimes wonder that my brother farmers have never asked themselves ,this question—` H ave we, as a class o f cap i ta li sts, been more prosperous than other classes of traders ?' Take for instance the grocers, linen -drapers, or innkeepers, of your neighbouring market towns. Take the average of those engaged in an y of th ese t ra d es w i t h a cap i tal of say 2,0001. ; then take the average of farmers, similarly circum stanced, and.l ask you, which party, at the end of a dozen years, upon an avera ge , h as rea li ze d th e most money ? know your answer will be in favour of the grocers, drapers, and innkeepers. How is this to be reconciled with the notion we have been taught to entertain by the landowners, that the farmers are specially protected ? There have been no laws passed under the pretence of giving protection to drapers, an s, or dor i knneepers ; th ere are not a large number oflandlords owning the grocers' shops in Parlia ment professing to watch over their interests • and yet the retail grocers are m ore prosperous as a 'body than you. Surely this is enough to awaken your sus picions of the delusiveness (to use no harsher term) of all those promises which p o liti cal landlords make to you at the hustings, or at agricultural din ners. But let me further ask, did you ever k now the entire body of grocers, or any other , trad e , to be up in arms at the same time all over .ng.land. complaining of distress ? You may have known bankruptcies and losses to fall upon particular individuals, but did you ever know the whole body of any particular trade liunighout the kin g dom calling exclusively t o ; such a Parlia ment at the same time to relieve them 4 T' N ` , - • - Vtit ~~J~J~~ Ajar never happened, and never can occur. Yet we I have known the farmers of England, in a body, five ' times complaining of unparalleled distress, since the passing of the famous law for their protection in 1815, and appealing to Parliament for the relief of their sufferings, and this generally happened when trade and manufactures were comparatively prosperous ! Will not such facts as these induce you to doubt whether the law which interferes with your trade, with no better results than these, had not better be totally and immediately repealed ?" How is that want of success and prosperity of the farmers to be accounted for, if the Corn-law does not cause it ? They are a hard-working, frugal, pains-taking race of men, than whom no persons in the community deserve to be snore prosperous and wealthy. They feed the whole of us ; and it is a disgrace to society that they are not at least as easy in their circumstances as retail traders, to say nothing of the land owners, who contribute not at all to the national wealth. Mr. HOPE has not pointed out all the circumstances which make the Corn-law inju rious to the actual working agriculturists, though he has indicated, in the words " poor farmers," the chief source of the evil of such laws. THE WEATHER.—Sux OFFICE, DEc. 21. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 50 ; Highest, 56 : Noon, 55. BAROMETER, 30.40.-WIND,' N.W. 4 stk)N • • E To the poor farmers who are obliged to sell their crop t) pay a rent double what it ought to be, the Corn-laws have, it is plain, been an un mitigated mischief. NOW Mr. HOPE has shown, :n the second paragraph we have quoted, that the bulk of the farmers are poor, Then 'the Corn-laws have been an unmitigated mischief to the bulk of the farmers, conferring advan tages only on those who are the opulent excep tions to the rule. It has always appeared to us to be a benevo lent dispensation of Providence that the cultivators of the soil are made, without any intervention of the Legislature, a dependent and an indebted race. This arises from a natural circumstance, which has not been sufficiently noticed by writers on political economy, namely, the different pe riods required to complete and bring to market the production of different trades and occupa tions. A plough may be made in a few days, and a pair of shoes in forty-eight hours. The tailor completes a coat for the farmer in three or four days at most, and in a few hours the smith shoes his horses, or repairs his broken implements. But the farmer, as th e ru l e , must work from six to eight months at least, between buying the seed for his spring corn and reaping it ; eleven months, or more, between sowing his wheat and selling it ; and if he be a rearer of cattle, he may be obliged to wait two or three years before lie can send his produce to market. It requires a much longer time to perfect his produce than that of other tradesmen. He becomes, in conse_ quence, indebted to all the tradesmen whose work for him is completed in a few hours, or clays, or weeks. All those tradesmen make him pay, not only the wages of their workmen, but the interest of their capital. He also, in the majority of cases, advances the wages of his labourers a whole year, before he ob tains any profit on them ; while the profit of other tradesmen begins when they send their g ,ods home. As a rule, the bulk of the farmers pay their tradesmen's accounts only once, or at most, twice a year ; and in the great majority of cases they must run in debt to those who work for them. They have, 'every Michaelmas, nume rous other obligations to acquit, as well as an ex-• orbitant rent. If they were not an indebted race, and were able to live from year to year without incurring obligations to those whose labours arc perfected in shorter periods than the harvest ri pens, they would have the rest of mankind at their mercy ; that they have not, is the result of the great natural fact we have pointed out, which, in our judgment, is a dispensation of Providence, for which all gratitude is due. Now, the farmers being naturally, and, of necessity, an indebted race, loaded with obliga tions at and before the period of the harvest, what does the Corn-law for them ?It adds to all their obligations. It makes them promise a higher rent. It makes them pay more for seed corn. It enhances the monied price of the wages of the journeymen smiths, tailors, and wheel wrights, which they have to pay ; and they have also to pay pgofits on the larger sum requisi'e to pay those wages. The law cannot secu' e either a good harvest or the price of grain ; tInA remains a contingency. Thus the law increases, with unerring certainty, the farmer's obligations, and leaves him a contingency for remuneration. Experience has proved that the odds are as much against him as against those who de,,l with usurers; and at the end of the game all the ad vantages, as Lord BACON says of usurers, are in the landlord's and the tradesman's till. That is, we believe, the explanation of the circumstance that the farmers have not thriven under a Corn law, which has promised them such great advan tages, equally with the grocers, butchers, and drapers. To the farmers the Corn-law is a great aggravation of all the natural peculiarities of their condition; it increases their obligations, and increases their dependence. The only practical question now remaining. we believe, as to this law is, shall it be totally or partially repealed ? Let the farmers listen to Mr. HOPE on this practical and important ques tion:— " 'Whatever modifications take place short of total repeal, the burden will be thrown, if possible, under all sorts of pretences, upon the farmers. The expe rience of the late changes in the Tariff and the Corn law has shown this pretty plainly. The landowners have laboured to convince you, at your recent agri cultural gatherings, that the alterations in the late ses sion have had little effect upon prices. They still try to assure you that the law will afford you ample pro • tection. But, even if the law did protect you (which it never did and never mill), what guarantee have you that the political landowners will not come to an agreement again in L on d on nex t sess i on, as they did in the last, with Sir Robert Peel, and consent to ea another alt era ti on ? Depend upon it, there is no crhenantaceanodf your s s e o s m o in k tr i ;o a a s y o satisfactory lowt aed interventionstm en tof of politics in your bargains withthe landowners. Politics may b e a "i nning their own arran gements to La_kinee with to the those who have Minister of the day ; but I pity the case of the farmer who reckons any Corn-law for the value of a farthing, in making a bargain for las farm with his landlord. So long as the owners of your farms an point to a law, as a reason for obtaining a certain price for their produce, you will in no case be able to make a s a f e agreement for the use of their land. Get rid of all such interfe rences with your dealings at once. Let the Corn-laws be totally and immediately repealed, and then every tenant throughout the kingdom will .at once be brought on fair terms to a settlement with his land lord. Public opinion and the necessities of the case will then force an equitable adjustment of rents and leases, and the dealings between landlord and tenant will thenceforth settle down into mere matters of bu siness,, with which politics will no longer interfere.' Mr. HOPE is right. Any modification of the laws whatever will only have for its effect to continue the system by which the landlords, under the pretext of protecting the farmers, have extorted from them all their substance, and degraded them into political tools. They want to go on in the same career, and throw all the losses, if any, that accrue from altering their law on the tenants. But the system which lays on them unnecessary obligations, which prevents them getting rich, like grocers and drapers, should, for their sakes, be not only totally but immediately abolished. Modifications of it will only introduce additional uncertainty into all the operations of the agriculturists. GENERAL NOTT.—It is highly amusing to observe how anxious many are to lower, as far as possible, the families of the heroes of Affghanistan. We can state, from the very best authority, that Major- General Sir William Nott is a native of Wiltshire, and of a respez.table family. H e o bt a i ne d a com missionin the East India Company's service, and left England at the early age of fifteen. His elder brother remained in England, and was a gentleman farmer; and his younger brother (who has been dead for many years) was a lieutenant in her Majesty's army. 'TIE GIANT FlGllT.—Yesterday morning this long pending fight was brought to a termi nation in favour of Freeman, afte r fi g h t i ng thirty eight rounds. The Father Thames s t eamer was engaged for the occasion, and started from London bridge to North Point, on the Kentish coast, just below Gravesend. Nearly 400 persons were present. It was fought in the short space of thirty-nine minutes. Neither men were at all injured. The Earl Fitzwilliarn has appointed the Rev. J. A. Beaumont, 13. A., F.C.P.S., of Trinity Colleg e , Cam bridge, and curate of Hunslet, Leeds, to be his Lord -shiP 5 domestic chaplain. TilE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 21, (842 Bourse of the 12th inst. at 21 0-16 cash, and 22 at 60 days. The Fives at 26 cash, and 26i at 60 days. Certificates of the debt without interest at at 60 days. The Paris papers contain farther accounts of attempts at insurrection in Spain, but they arc always put down at once, showing that the peo ple take no part in them. The latest is contained in the following dispatch, addressed to the French Government from Seville, 'but without a date : —" Two battalions of the National Guards spon taneously got under arms in the night of the Bth instant, and demanded that the troops of the gar rison should be withdrawn. Martial law was proclaimed, and on the following day order was restored." This appeared in a Government paper, and the Presse, the organ of the ex- Regent, also states that a rising at Girona, in Catalonia, was anticipated. That journal, no doubt, is well informed on subjects of this kind; but, unfortunately, for its party, these risings only injure their cause. The writer is aware of the fact, and thus, with the usual hatred of Eng land, mourns over the results : ts. not then - England yet satisfied ? Has she not yet caused blood enough to be shed in Spain ? It is announced that Zurbano has been ordered to march on Girona, where some agitation has manifested itself, and it is well known that it was the presence of this man that brought about the insurrection at Barcelona. Must then all the manufacturing towns of Catalonia be submitted to the same fate, which has just de stroyed the prosperity of their capital ? Is not the terror sufficient in Spain for the treaty of commerce to be consummated ? The Constitutionnel blames the English and Spanish journals for attacking the French Consul, and for the view which they have taken of the proceedings at Barcelona. We simply ask, who began the attack ? Before a word against either the Consul or the French Government appeared in any English journal, strong denunciations were made in the Paris papers against the British Consul for his inhumanity towards the Spanish refugees, and stories were published, announcing that the English ships were sent to that quarter for the purpose of supplying VAN HALEN with ammunition, and battering down Barcelona. The French cannot expect us to be silent under such grievous accusations. That journal in a grave mood thus defends itself and the French press : \Ve compel ourselves to observe the most mode rate and just language in'our observations on the late events at Barcelona, and this has not been an easy task in the midst of the just indignation which has been raised in France at the bombardment of that city. In spite, however, of our sympathies for the Spanish Government, and our sincere desire to see a firm hand re-establish order in the Peninsula, we cannot, without an energetic protest, read the attacks which the Madrid journals make on the French Con sul—a man whose conduct has been, throughout the whole affair, dictated by the noblest feelings of huma nity. We are not astonished at the attitude assumed by the English press, for whom the catastrophe of Barcelona has simply this advantage, to suppress an obstacle to the conclusion of the treaty of commerce. But if we can understand the inhuman joy of the English, we cannot permit them to fal3ify the truth, and to take a text from the disastrous events of Cata lonia to calumniate France. In the eyes of civilised Europe, it is not to them, but to us that the best cha racter belongs in that deplorable affair. The Journal des Debats publishes a letter from Perpignan, announcing that TERRADAS is at the bead of from 500 to 600 men in the mountains,and that ColJnel Pant, a deputy of the Cortes, was endeavouring to raise the district called Campo de Tarragona. "Although the details are want ing," it adds, " we are inclined to believe that there is some foundation for these rumours, as we find that ESPARTERO is prolonging his resi dence at Sarria, where he continued on the 13th instant. He no doubt does not wish to quit Cata lonia until he shall have extinguished all traces of revolt. •As soon as the troops which have been dispatched from the interior of Spain shall have arrived, he will commence his operations in the provinces." BOURSE—PAzus. MONDAY, DECEMBER 19. First Highest _.ovvest Last Price. Price Price. Price. French Five per Cents. 119 5... 191 25... 119 5... 119 10 Four per Cents. 100 95... 100 95... 100 95... 100 9i) Threes . 78 90... 73 95... 78 90.. 78 95 Bank of France 3340 ...3340 ...3320 ...3330 Laffitte Bank I,ooof 1050 —lO5O ...1050 —.1050 5,000 f 5080 ...5080 —.5080 _5OBO Belgian Bank, 1811 .. 1075 —.1075 ...1075 ...1075 Belgian Fives 1034 ... 103 k 103 k 103 k 1840 1043 ... 104 k 104 g 104 g. Spanish Active. . 24 ... 24 ... 24 ... 24 Passive 4 ... 4 ... 4 ... 4 Portuguese Fives 32/ ... 328 ... 323 ... 32g Neapolitan Romin lo4k ... 104 k ... 104 k ... 104 k RAILWAY SHARES - Versailles, L.B. R. B 2BO ... 280 ... 275 ... 275 Rouen Orleans. 621 2-3... 622 50... 615 ... 615 Strasburg to Bale 203 75... 203 75... 203 75... 203 75 HAMBURGH BORSEN HALLE, Dec. TO. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares 1640 Anglo-Russian Loan Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate...." 1024 Inscription, let series Russian 5 per Cent. hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series — Ditto in Certificates New 4 per Cent. (1840). B9 86 Dutch Actual Debt, a% per Cent. Ditto 5 per Cent. - _ Polish Bonds .. — New Tickets — Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. — 82 Spanish, New 5 p .r Cents. — EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURGII, Dec. 16 —l3 9';.‘, Two months 1:3 7N. PETERSBURG, Nov. 29.—Three months, 37% pence. Rum, DEc 10. ...Three Months, 3i% STOCKHOLM, 1 tve. 9. Seventy-five days, 12 13. VIENNA, Nov. 29.—Three months. 9. 4/i. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, DEG. VS. Bills. Money St. Sehuld Sch., 4 per cent. Prussian English Bond:, 1630, t per cent 109.% 1 , 2 Exchange on London -g 24 1 .Prussian Slate Gazette, Dec. 16. DEATH OF A POLICE SERGEANT WHEN ON DUTY. —Mr. IVakley held an inquest yesterday at the King's Arms, Frederick's-street, Regent's -park, on the body of Andrew Allen, a sergeant of the S division of police. It appeared from the evidence that the de ceased, who generally enjoyed good health, went on duty on Saturday night last, shortly after which he was proceeding, accompanied by one of his men, along the Hampstead-road, when opposite the Reservoir he suddenly began coughing, and spat up a quantity of blood. Continuing to do so, and complaining of feel ing very ill, he was assisted towards home, which he had reached within a few yards, when he sank down upon the ground. He was immediately carried in doors, where he evinced no signs of animation, and on a surgeon being sent for, life was pronounced to be extinct. • Verdict, "Natural Death." EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF POISONING OF SEVEN CHILDREN.—The following extraordinary case of poi soning seven children, belonging to St. Saviour's Charity School, in the Borough, occurred yesterday morning, and in one instance has already terminated fatally, while the lives of six others have been put in great jeopardy. It appears that a boy named Wm. Chambers, belonging to the school, who lives with his parents in Castle-street, in the Borough, was going thither, and on his way he picked up a small p ac k e t in the street, which contained a considerable quantity of powder of a yellowish cast. He took it with him to the school, and having tasted some of it himself, and finding it to be sweet, he gave a portion of it to six others, named Westwood, Lester, Clark, Field, Wood, and Tallby, who also partook of it. On their leaving school, at twelve o'clock, the boys were severally taken ill with sickness and vomiting, and acu t e pa i ns i n t h e bowels. Mr. Wood, surgeon, of Worcester -street, was immediately sent for, and a portion of the powder shown to him, which he pronounced to be arsenic. Prompt measures were adopted, and the usual antidotes administered, but 'Westwood, having taken a greater quantity than the others, sunk under it, and expired in the latter part of the day. Chambers, the boy who found the powder, and another named Lester, lie in a very dangerous condition. The four other boys, who had partaken more sparingly of it, are in a very ex hausted state, although strong hopes are entertained that they will recover. DESTITUTION.-011 Friday, the inhabit tuts of the eastern portion of the city, particularly in Monteith row, were put into a state of alarm by a crowd of up wards of 200 miserable individuals walking en masse, with a board exhibited before them, having a placard affixed " Public Begging." A committee of three were in front with a tin box in their possession, having an aperture in the lid, and a strong padlock in front, which was presented at each door as the cavalcade moved along. The leading parties were, on the complaint of the inhabitants, taken to the police-office, which had the effect of dispersing the crowd. We understand this course was resolved on on Monday evening, and that nightly meetings were to be held to divide the proceeds. Seven of the most active of the parties were taken to the police-office, and, on Saturday, brought before Bailie Hastie, charged with the offence of public begging. They pleaded destitution as their only excuse; and the ease was remanded for farther consideration.—Glas ow The Great Western steamer, which is now laid up at Bristol, is to make her first voyage for 1843, via Madeira, on the 11th of Feb. L` ► ~►Z\ 'A COURT CIRCULAR. WrN - Dsoß, TUESDAY.—The Duke of Wellington arrived to-day at the Castle on a visit to her Majesty, The Queen and Prince Albert walked out this afternoon in the Home Park. His Royal Highness Prince Albert drove in a pony phaeton to Frogmore, to visit her Royal High ness the Duchess of Kent, who returned with the Prince to the Castle. Sir Henry Wheatley took his departure from the Castle to-day. The Marquis of Ormonde has arrived to succeed Viscount Sydney as the Lord in Waiting on the Queen. Captain Meynell has also arrived to succeed the Hon. Captain Duncombe as the Groom in Wait ing on her Majesty. Lord and Lady Haddo will have the honour of foining the, Royal dinner party at the Castle this evening. Her Majesty's private band and the band of the Foot Guards will be in attendance at the Castle during the evening. Her Majesty's Royal bounties were distributed on Monday and Tuesday to upwards of 800 poor old distressed persons residing in and about London, who had been previously recommended by the Clergy, Nobility, and Gentry, residing in the various parishes. The bounty is limited to persons who are above the age of GO years, and the exception to the rule is made in favour of the blind, and those who are afflicted with severe bodily infirmity. The Royal Gate Alms to 168 persons, each receiv ing thirteen shillings, were also distributed. These bounties were distributed by Joseph llanby, Esq., Secretary and Yeoman of her Majesty's Al monry, under the immediate orders of his Grace the Lord Archbishop of York, Lord High Almoner. A meeting of the Ecclesiastical Commission was held yesterday at the Office in Whitehall-place. The following Commissioners were present :—the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Winchester,! the Bishop of .Llandaff, Sir James Graham, and Sir Herbert Jenner Fust. Count Reventlow, the Danish Minister, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. His Excel lency also transacted business at the office of the Board of Trade. Lord Bloomfield transacted business yesterday at the Home. office. THE MARQUESAS ISLANDS. The Jloniteur of Monday publishes the report of the occupation of the Mgrquesas Islands, addressed by Rear-Admiral Dupetit Thouars to the Minister of Marine, " dated on board the Reine Blanche frigate, Bay of Taiohae, June 18, 1842." He states that he reached Fatuiva (the southernmost of these islands) on the 26th of April. On the 28th he anchored on the western coast of Tahuata, where he was immediately afterwards waited upon by M. Francois de Paule, the superior of the French missionaries in the Pacific, and King Yotete. The subjects of the latter, it appears, had been guilty of some outrages against some Ame rican whalers, and, fearing reprisals, he applied for protection to the French. The Admiral replied that he would land a portion of his men and a few pieces of artillery for that purpose, provided that the King consented to recognise the sovereignty of King Louis Philippe. This proposal was accepted, and it was agreed between them that the occupation should take place on the Ist of May. On that day, accordingly, the Admi ral landed with his staff and a guard of honour, and after formally taking possession of the island of Ta huata and of the south-east group of the Marquesas, the tri coloured flag was unfurled. The act of sub mission was signed by Yotete. On the same day, M. Dupetit Thouars, accompanied by the latter, pro• seeded to select the spot on which the French esta blishment should be formed; and the next day the works were commenced and carried on with so much activity, that on the 22d the barrack for the accom modation of the 120th company of Marines, which con stituted the garrison, a large storehouse, an oven, and a gunpowder magazine, were completed. On the 23d, just as the Reine Blanche was preparing to sail for Nukuhiva, the Admiralhaving heard that a Spaniard whom he had engaged as an interpreter had been assailed by an individual well known to be the blind instrument of the will of the King, he immediately waited on the King, and told the assailant in his presence, that if he offered another insult to any in dividual of the establishment, he would transport him to some distant region, whence he would never re turn to his country. The same man having two days afterwards pursued an Englishman into the garden of the Catholic missionary, where he would have killed him, but for the timely interference of the supe rior, M. Dupetit Thouars r e pair e d to the King's resi dence, and not finding him, sent for his nephew, who spoke good English, and bade him tell his uncle that if he did not return forthwith, he would depose him, and make him (the nephew) King in his stead. This young man set out in search of Yotete, and found him concealed in a wooded ravine, near the bay of llanamiliai, and delivered to him his message. The King, however, refused to follow him, and re plicd that he would only return in the company of the superior of the mission. M. Francois de Paule did not hesitate to undertake that mission, and re turned soon after with the King, his wife, and their eldest son. Yotete confessed his guilt, and admitted having concealed himself from fear. The Admiral re proached him with want of confidence in him, and told him that he was not accountable for the crime of another, if he had not acted by his orders. Ile then enjoined him to give up the offender, promising that he would merely detain him on board for a few days, and do him no harm, and said that he would keep his son as a hostage until he fulfilled that condition. Yotete was very much affected by that resolve, and landed with the apparent intention of satisfying the Admiral ; but two days having gone by, and Paanau, the individual in question, not being delivered up, the Reine Blanche sailed for the Bay of Taiohae, in the island of Nukuhiva, bringing with him young fimao, the son of the King, and the superior of the mission, who was anxious to know the fate of some clergymen who had gone to Nukuhiva and Uapou. The frigate having anchored in the bay of Ilakahan, the residence of the King of Uapou, a boat was sent ashore, and brought back intelligence that M. Caret and the missionaries had been driven from the island three months before. On the 31st of May M. Dupe tit Thouars cast anchor in the bay of Taiohae, and sent for the King, who hastened to repair on board. After conversing for some time with him, through the medium of M. Francois de Paule, he proposed to him to recognise King Louis Philippe, offering to leave a garrison in the bay for his defence, and to compel the tribe of Taoias to make peace with him, and restore his wife, whom they had carried off by surprise. The King readily consented, and on the Ist of June the principal chiefs of the latter having met the French, peace was concluded, the sovereignty of Louis Phi lippe was recognised, and on the next day formal pos session was taken of the island of Nukuhiva, and of the north western group of the Marquesas. On the same day the French pitched their tents in the bay of Kakapehi, at the foot of Mount Tahiva, where they immediately set about constructing a fort, called Collet (the name of the Captain of a corvette of the expedition, who was appointed commander of that sec tion of the archipelago). On the 4th, the Reine Blanche was joined by the Triomphante corvette, which had recently visited the islands Gambier, where the Catholic missionaries had just erected a church, at the inauguration of which the crew of the corvette had assisted. On the ith the Julius Cmsar arrived, with eight months' provisions for the personnel of the two establishments, between which th e ar till ery and cannoneers who reached in the Triomphante were equally divided. On the 9th M. Dupetit Th ouars , accompan i e d b y the superior of the mission, visited the dominions of King Temoana, renewed with the chiefs of the Traoias the treaty concluded on board the frigate, and M. Francois de Paule suc cee d e d b y his exhortation to in duce Taipis, the wife of Temoana (who, it appears, became enamoured, during her captivity, of a young Taoia chief) to return with her husband. The Julius Cresar having brought a stallion, two mares with foal, and a number of asses, M. Dupetit Thouars made a present of the former to Temoana. The Gazette of last night contains an Order in Council declaring that Austrian vessels and their car goes, consisting of such of the produce of Galicia as can be legally imported into the United Kingdom and the British possessions abroad, from the ports of Austria, by the said vessels shall, when coming from Odessa, be admitted into the ports of the United Kingdom, and of the British possessions abroad, in as full and ample a manner as if the port of Odessa were within the dominions of Austria ; and such vessels shall be permitted to import the produce above men tioned upon the same terms on which the said produce might be imported if coming from Austrian ports. ST. PAUL'S Sc H ooL.—The di s t r ib u ti on of the prizes took place yesterday. That for Latin lyrics was gained by Mr. Brien, and that for the best Latin prose translation, the subject being Lord Strafford's defence, from Hume, was claimed equally by Messrs. Vincent and Clay. After the prizes had been awarded the usual winter speeches were delivered, and most of the young gentlemen distinguished themselves in a manner that was highly creditable both to themselves and their tutors. On Monday evening last, a very interesting girl, 11 years of age, the daughter of John L e e, tailor, Bath Parade, fell head foremost into a copper of boil ing wort, no one being in the brewhouse at the time but a girl about the same age, who immediately ran out and gave an alarm ; when assistance arrived, the whole body appeared immersed, the legs only being visible. The unfortunate sufferer expired in the course of a few hours. As the parents are suffering the greatest privations for want of employment, we earnestly recommend their case to the Christian sym pathy and prompt attention of a benevolent public. An inquest was held on Wednesday_Verdict, Acci dental death.—„Adifax Guardian. *tronb/Vattion BUN OFFICE Three o'Cloch. Though the Prime Minister has not yet ac quired much fame as a doctor, he surpasses all others of the present day as a conjuror. The miracles of Prince HOIIENLOE, and the conver sions made by Father MATREW, all sink into the shade when compared with those of Sir ROBERT PEEL. But twelve months ago, landlords, farm ers, and clodhoppers shouted, with one voice, " Protection to agriculture," " Support the Farmers' Friend," "No surrender." These sounds have died away, or if any wreck is left behind, it is heard only in the domains of BUCK INGHAM, who stands alone in his glory, and mo nopolises the title of Farmers' Friend. Now the cry is changed, and at all the agricultural meetings frum John O'Groat's to the Land's End, the same parties as lustily exclaim " No protection," " Improve your land," " Help yourselves," and " Trust neither to PEEL nor Parliament." Any man who last year had fore told such a change would have been regarded as an idle dreamer, a visionary anti-monopolist, or a fit subject for Bedlam. PEEL has done it all ; for though the seasons and the enormous fail ures in the corn-trade have conspired to aid the cause, he still has the sole merit of originating this great system of conversion. But it is only in progress, and if we are to believe his Tory sup. porters, next session will produce still greater won ders. The Minister, with praiseworthy caution, keeps his secret well, to the great annoyance of his friends, but a feather shows how the wind blows. Lord CLIVE, a candidate for the ultra-Tory county of Salop, saw more changes coming; and Mr. ACLAND, the Member for another county of the same stamp, is aware that things cannot re main as they are. In a speech, quoted by Earl FonTEscun, at the Devon agricultural meeting, he said," They must not rely too much upon the Legislature for what was called protection against foreign competition; for the time was conic when the best security for all interests was in increased intelligence and perseverance ; so that they might produce the best articles at the lowest rates," and added, " whatever changes have taken place, or might take place, they would, looking to the balance of interests work for the good of all." Earl FORTESCUE, also, who is no mean authority in political mat ters, bears similar testimony, and calls upon the landlords and farmers of Devonshire, as wise and prudent men, to hold themselves ready for further regulations for the admission of foreign corn. " I ask," said his Lordship, "those who are in the habit of watching the poli tical horizon, whether they are not themselves prepared for further changes ?" These are all good omens; and with the spirit now abroad in the country, and the calm reason displayed by tens of thousands, who, only six months ago, saw no hopes of safety but in monopoly, th e predictions must be fulfilled. The enemies of free trade arc in complete rout; their general led them into dangerous ground, and they must rally under a new banner. But the landlords are not the only parties on whom the great conjuror is to operate. The people want cheap sugar as well as cheap bread. Hone monopoly is put down, all the rest must follow. The West India planters, aware of this, are putting their house in order ; they will in good time follow the example of the agriculturists, and call upon one another to trust to themselves, and not to selfish and ruinous re strictions. For these changes, so full of promise, and so necessary to the welfare of all classes, Sir ROBERT PEEL deserves the praise and the thanks of the country. We have long entertained a notion that Ma gistrates in gen er al, and Police Magistrat es i n particular, are by no m eans prodigie s o f w i s d om, and seldom does a week pass without some cir cumstance or other occurring, as if fur the ex press purpose of corroborating our theory. For instance, a day or two since three young men, named FLACK, GREAVES, and PacscoTT, were honoured with a special introduction to Mr. GREENWOOD, the Magistrate, by a consi derate and attentive policeman, who charged them " with loitering about the streets, with the intention to commit a felony." When evidence was gone into against them, it was proved that they " looked in at a watch maker's window, then walked on, and then walked back again." This fact, it will be at once admitted, was suspicious; but how much more suspicious—how much blacker in its dye, is the following !—"Policeman watched them very nar rowly, and when they noticed him, they went into the King's Arms public-house. In a few minutes afterwards he saw them going towards Clerkenwell." Going towards Clerkenwell ! Can there be more conclusive evidence than this ? " What could they," as our Con temporary, the Times, justly asks, " what could they want at Clerkenwell ?" Un happy Clerkenwell, whose locality is so tainted, that even to " go towards" you, is proof' positive that the individual thus " going," is no better than he should be ! It was our lot, some few months since, to see no less distinguished a per sonage than the Right Hon. HENRY GOULBURN, Chancellor of her MAJESTY'S Exchequer, " go ing" towards Clerkenwell, an d we will now frankly confess that we bitterly regret not hav ing given him into the custody of a policeman, for it is manifest that he could have been " go ing" into that contraband locality for no good; and a discreet Magistrate would at once have com mitted him for the act. But though " going to Clerkenwell" stamps a man as a rogue and a vagabond, yet it is still More to his dis credit when he is proved to have " looked in at a watchmaker's window!" Hear the sapient GREENWOOD on this point :—" There is no doubt that you were all three out fbr the purpose of committing a felony. For what other purpose could you be looking in at watchmakers' windows?" Well may the Magistrate have put this acute interrogatory ! The prisoners could have peeped into the watchmaker's window for ly good. There was burglary in the very act of gazing. When a magpie peeps into a marrow-bone, every man with two ideas in his head knows right well that the bird is not eye to the dainty, unctuous matter that may l m m e p r p e e ly n gtorabtiefylg his curiosity, but has a shrewd within that bone ; so when a man peeps into a watchmaker's window, it is equally gratify no mere optical pre dilections, l a e n c i t f i e o s n t s that it t o i s to give free scope to the develop ment of his burglarious capabilities. He peeps with a view to prig. So argues the logical GREENWOOD, and far be it from us to in sinuate that magisterial logic is not the perfection of reasoning. We conclude with a word of advice to all London peripatetics, which "going we append by way o f mora l to our re ma r k s — Never be seen towards Clerkenwell," or looking in at " watchmakers' windows!" If, however, like the Chancellor of the Exchequer, necess ity forces you i n t h at di scre dit a ble direc tion, hide your blushe s i n a cab; and if your curiosity cannot be controlled, and yon must needs "look in at a w atc h ma k er ' s w i n dow," take care that Policeman 344 N. is not standing "in plain clothes" close behind you! Madrid journals of the 12th hare been rc. ceived, and are chiefly occupied with the state and the conduct of the R EGENT ; the one part y d escr ibi ng it as heartless of affairs in Catalonia, and cruel, and the other justifying it as the only maans of putting dow n t h e re b e llion. The house of BARING and Co. are said to have advanced to the Alinister of Finance the sum of forty millions of re a l s on the security of quick silver, and that age n t s f rom some o ther English capitalists were expected at Madrid to make ar rangements fo i the other part of the loan of 600 millions o irea. The tranquillity of the capital has not been disturbed. The Three per Cents. were done on the Madrid SW , tiiiARY OF NEWS AND Vublit Optntott. " Who runs may reed.' FOREIGN. Our private letters from Paris announce that M. Casimir Perier has been appointed Minister Plenipo tentiary to Hanover. The Moniteur publishes a table of the production and consumption of home-made sugar since the com mencement of the season 1842-3, showing the situa tion of the manufactures at the end of the month of November, 1842, and the duties levied on the article during that year. The former amount to 400 ' • the quantity of sugar manufactured to 2,266,000 kilo- . . grammes, and the duties to 1,889,000 f. The Regent of Spain has issued a decree, pro viding that none of the inhabitants of Catalonia who . . had repaired to France, no matter for what motive, since the 15th ult., shall be permitted to return to Spain without a judiciary investigation of the cause . . of their migration. It is reported, says the Frankfort Journal, that the King of Hanover intends to visit England after the marriage of the Prince Royal, for the purpose of coti stiltino• his former physician Sir Henry Halford, his confidence in German physicians having diminished considerably since the death of Stieglitz. We learn from Coburg, Dec. 13, that the Heredi tary Princess has been attacked by scarlet fever, but that hopes were entertained of a prompt cure. Riraat Pacha, the Turkish Ambassador at the Court of Austria, arrived at Vienna on the 11th instant, and had a conference with Prince Metternich the fol lowing day. The postal convention, between Austria and Saxony, for an uniform rate of postage, will come into opera tion, says a letter from Dresden, on the Ist of April next. The Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt has con, ferred the Grand Cross of the Order of Philip the Generous on Baron C. M. Rothschild, son of Baron Charles de Rothschild. PUBLIC OPINION. The Chronicle, in reference to the honour conferred on the French Consul at Barcelona, says—"We are acquainted with the secret of M. Lesseps' hasty pro motion to the rank of officer of the Legion of Honour. This was the special and personal act of the Kin g ; ; an act which his Ministers durst not gainsay, though they thought it rash. And we could designate a house and a society of French Ministerialists, where this coup de tete of Louis Philippe was stigmatised as rash and un constitutional. The fact is, that the whole affair of' • Barcelona, and of the general movement intended in Catalonia, was known to the French Court, and un known to M. Guizot. It was managed by the French Home-office and its agents, unknown ;to the French Foreign-office. The French frontier police played a notable part in the business. The French telegraph sufficiently spoke the hopes and mortification of Gene ral Castellane. M. Lesseps did his bidding with zeal, and he was rewarded for it. Having here touched upon • a subject which we do not often permit ourselves to do, viz., the personal interference of King Louis Phi lippe in politics —we cannot quit it without expressing regret, profound regret, to find a monarch, so pacific in the early days of his reign, now abandon himself, towards its close, to a succession of schemes, any one of which is enough to set Europe on fire. One of these schemes is the absorption of Belgium by France, first, in a commercial sense ; but this merely is a prelude to political absorption. Whilst all French statesmen stand aghast at such hardihood and at its consequences, the King, and the King alone, pressed it, careless and defiant of risk. The same restless and quarrelsome spirit actuates Louis Philippe towards Spain. He has a personal hatred for Espartero, a hatred which he is determined to indulge by every means and at every hazard. And if the Liberals are fools enough, and influenced enough to fan French jealousy of Spain, and to aid him in his design, Louis Philippe will go the length of a military invasion of the Peninsula. Two or three times has he been on the point of dis missing M. Guizot for interposing, like Talleyrand of old, his grave and dissuasive counsel in this matter. If Louis Philipp was the personage five years back to be most depended on for keeping peace, there is on the contrary, now no potentate more likely to break it. The loss of the Duke of Orleans, instead of ren dering him more circumspect, more careful of the prospects of his dynasty, has infused a kind of des perate current into his thoughts, which his oldest friends are puzzled to account for. Of recent Spanish news the French Ministerial papers assure us, that the Republican Terradas keeps up his band in the Lampourdan, and that Colonel Prim is endeavouring to raise the Campo de Tarragona. It is, perhaps, for the purpose of intercepting the daughters and family of Captain-General Van Halen, that the French Consul despatched them to so safe a place of refuge." The _Herald says, in an article on prison discipline : —" While the Magistrates of Middlesex are congratu lating each other upon the prospect of a considerable reduction in the cost of prosecuting and punishing crime, the Magistrates of other counties are bewailing its rapid increase, and casting about for devices to arrest it. This proves, if such a maxim of every , day life requires proof, that the best management is always the cheapest. In the House of Correction for Middlesex, the prisoners enjoy comparative plenty, but they also, in a still greater degree, enjoy good health. In the same prison an able practitioner, whose liberal salary ensures his constant attention, keeps dis ease at bay by being ever present to grapple with it, while in Gloucestershire the periodical visits of a medical officer at ten pounds a year—and ' surpassing rich' at twenty—cannot prevent it from running riot ; and the miserable savings which accrue from the fre quency of deaths do not compensate for an ever crowded sick-list. It is the same in diet, in disci pline, in everything connected with the economy of a prison ; for parsimony is not always economy in a prison, any more than it is elsewhere, to say nothing of the penny wisdom and pound folly of first convert ing a casual pauper into a criminal, and then render ing him, by the emaciating regimen of a prison, a help less pauper for life. The present penny is saved to the county rate, and the pound ultimately paid out of the poor-rate." We take the following from the Post :—" The re • presentatives of the deceased faction which, under the name of Whig was, during its lifetime, so long a nuisance to the country, feel a moody, melancholy satisfaction in witnessing what their disturbed ima ginations take for'symptoms of dissolution' amongst the triumphant Tories. Because Conservative journalists assert and exercise the right of thinking and speaking for themselves on questions affecting the political vitality of the empire, it is coolly alleged that Government must be on the brink of ruin—that its supporters are disorganised—disaffected —on the eve of open rebellion' against Ministers. Sheer imper ' tinence all this. Conservative journalists cannot rebel against a Minister to whom th e y h ave never owe d any allegiance, except that which was demanded by the principles to which they believed him friendly. Their remonstrances against such portions of his po licy as do not meet their approbation are more ho nourable to him, and to them, than could be any mere servile indiscriminate adulation, that should look to what was to be, instead of to what ought to be. The independent tone of the Ministerial press proves, on the one hand, that the Government of the day, if mistaken in some of its measures, is honest and con scientious in its adoption of them—else why maintain the ' even tenor of its way,' malgre the not unfre quent expressions of dissatisfaction that proceed from its sincere friends; and, again, there can be no more telling testimony to the general character of the Ad mikistrAtion than the frank and manly support of those, who, by the strong and emphatic manner in which they condemn whatever appears to them to be ob jectionable, must clearly evince that soul-felt con viction is the actuating rule by which alone they are influenced." The Times contains the following observations : " There is something not at all unamusing in the enormous variety of suggestion, abuse, menace, and sarcasm, of advice, economical, legal, agricultural, and scientific, with which the brains of the unhappy farmers are at present being bombarded. People who know about as much of farming as the agricul turists do about spherical trigonometry are discharging nostrum after nostrum in stunning succession upon the heads of these devoted classes. Poor men! they have quite enough to do in speculating on that great revolution which has already taken place, and the greater one which is rolling down upon them to sweep off those restrictive laws on which they rely for protection to their industry. Long leases, large farms, new manures, two-horse ploughs, fresh enclosures, wholesale drainings, and a host of other specifics, are shot forth at random by any writer or speaker who has education enough to read the leading article of a Scotch newspaper, or the title 'draining' in a penny eyclopmdia. A lite rary gentleman who has never realised sixpence from an acre of his own, or, it may be, has never been far enough from Mile-end to have seen with his own eyes the piece of machinery commonly called a plough, thinks himself quite competent to lecture the whole host of practical agriculturists of England upon the muddiness of their brains, the clumsiness of their ex pedients, their lack of enterprise, and misdirection of capital. Long leases are one great specific by which the English farmer is suddenly to be inspired with all the sharpness and energy of a Manchester manufac turer—which are to make him feed up his horses, lighten his ploughs, and import bone -dust." MONEY-TRADM - CO3OTMERCE. A numerous meeting of the advocates of free trade was held last night at the Marquis of Granby tavern, Grosvenor-square, when it was resolved to form a branch association to be called " The South Audley-street Anti-Corn-law Association." LAW AND Po=oz. The Admiralty Court awarded 1,2001. and costs yesterday to the crew of three fishing smacks, for salving the Louisa a French vessel, which was found abandoned in the North Sea, with a cargo and pro perty to the amount of 4,0001. The sum of 851. which had been awarded as pro • portion to the captain and crew, out of the sum of 5001., and the rest to the owners, for salvage services, done by the Copeland steam-tug to the Beulah, off/ Dover, was adjudged, upon a re-application, to be , divided rateably among the first parties, according to the amount of wages received. TINE ARTS. A meeting of the members of the Living Model Academy took place on Monday evening, among whom were W. Collett, M.P., W. Etty, R.A., &c. The Report of the state of the Society's funds was highly favourable, and votes were passed to employ a sum of money towards making a variety of improve ments for the future comfort of the models. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. The annual Christmas speeches were delivered yes terday at. St. Paul's school, by the senior pupils. Sir Robert Inglis, M.P., and several persons of dist tion, were present. The Latin lyrics by Mr. Brien, and a Latin prose translation from Hume's History of England, by Mr. Vincent, gained the prizes. THEATRICAL. Miss Murray, whose decease was stated in The Sun of yesterday, first appeared at the Olympic during the management of Madame Vestris. During the seasons of 1833-4, she joined the Covent.garden and Drury lane theatres, then under the direction of Mr. Bunn, and subsequently the Queen's Theatre, in the lessee ship of Mrs. Nisbett. Miss Murray then retired, and did not again appear in public till the last season at Covent-garden. pOlTELT—rAsszoNiumx. The Duke and Duchess of Leeds left the Clarendon Hotel, yesterday, for Hornby Castle, Yorkshire. The 11Iarquis and Marchioness of Abercorn are expected at Dudley House, Park-lane, before the e nd of the next month, for her Ladyship's accouchement, from Baron's Court, Strabane. The Marquis of Northampton has left town for Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire. The Earl of Charleville has returned to Charleville Forest from Dublin. The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield have arri v L ia visa and Genoa from Paris, whence they proceed , via and Lucca, to Rome, where they intend to winter. Earl and Countess Cadoan and the Lady Augusta Cadogan have arrived at Rome, and after the carnival, purpose going to The Earl ofYarborough intends residing at APP 111 " dercombe during the Christmas holidays. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston leave Carlton house-terrace, to-day, for Broitdlands, the Noble V is count's seat, near Romsey, Hants, with th e intention of passing the holidays there. Baroness North and family have come to town from Col. North's villa at Putney, and will rem ain in Ar lington-street until after Christmas, when they go to W roxton Abbey. Sir J. Copley, Bart., has arrived in tow n from Ap-. puldercombe, the seat of the Earl of Yarborough at the Isle of Wight. ?MISCELLANEOUS. A meeting was held at Glasgow on 'Wedne sda y , at tended by a number of influential noblemen andh gentlemen, for the purpose of taking steps towards the e erection of a marble statue to the memory of th e Mr. Kirkman Finlay. A committee was formed in furtherance of the object. Accounts from all parts of the country state that the crops of wheat promise to be much earlier than usual next year, and productive of a very plent har vest. iful LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY) LONDON, DEC. 21.—Wind N.W., light and hazy . k DEAL, Dm. 20.—Wind S.W. modera te. Stratheden, for Sydney. Bell ' BRISTOL, 20.—Arrd. Lood Colli n g wood, and Ganges, Corkan, Quebec ; Surpris e, Hill, New' foundland ; Mayflower, Fay al. SHIELDS, DEC. 18.—Arrd. Adelina, Chambers, —Pt bank Quebec. Sld. Bella Lucia, Rio Grande ; Louise Sophie, Brazil. RAMSGATE, DEC. 20.—The True Love, from M all : ritius to Amsterdam, has been surveyed, and must dischare. PORTS g MOUTH, DEC. 20.—Wind W.--Arrd• God" froy, Hamburgh for Monte Video ; Rapid, London for Jamaica ; George Stewart, ditto, for New Orlean and DARTMOUTH, DEC. 20.--Arid. Amity, Ferris/ Vulture, Gilbert, Newfoundland. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 20.—Wind W.N.W.---Arrd. Emelie, Fleusberg, for St. Thomas. FALMOUTH, DEC. 20.—Wind W., fresh breezes. 7. One of the West India steamers, homeward-bound, 15 off port. Sld. Royal Tar packet, Gibraltar. On HOLYHEAD, DEC. 19.—Hannah, of Working ton, Quebec, with loss of boat, bulwarks, &e. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 20. — Wind N.W., moderate al .-- Arrd. Star, Clementson, Macao, sld. Ist ult.; Ml, Hawkins, Demerara; Wanderer, Dixon, Naracaibo sld. Oct. 24; Scotland, Merryman, New O rleans and Savannah ; John. Jardine, Horton, Richebucto, with part of cargo thrown overboard, having been ashoro on the bar; Aberdeen, Duffy, and Auckland, A.tkinss Quebec—sailed 23d ult. ; Indian Chief, Montreal. KINGSTON, DEC. 19.—Arrd. Cleveland, Man,leY' Cape of Good Hope. Sid. Harmony, Monkey, 11-c" rald, Mexican packet, and Plata. CORK, Dm 18.—Arrd. Caledonia, Robinson, 31" maica ; Bravo, Brown, Miratnichi; Welcome, Jackson, Newfoundland ; Ocean Queen, London for Mauritius. pearCe WHITEHAVEN, DEC. 19.—Arrd. Alexander, Bermuda and St. John ' s, N.B. S ld. British Queen Kennedy, Antigua. - ASCENSION, OCT. 22.—Arrd. Hindust an, Moresby , Southampton. J a cobs OFF THE NORTH FORELAND, DEC . 17. Marrina, Vanderwoord, Surinam for AmsterdamAmsterd am Glasgow, Somerville, Quebec. PENZANCE, DEC. 17.—Arrd. Agnes, Nassau. - - - SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCLIESTER.--TVESDAI. DERBY.— 8 to 1 agst British Yeoman, 20 to 1 AO Murat, 25 to 1 agst Aristides (t), 30 to 1 agst Winesour (offered), 30 to 1 ag3t Progress colt, 40 to 1 a&st Anl°' Prop rino (t), 40 to 1 agst Sirikol, 40 to 1 agst Black (t), 50 to 1 agst Chesterfield (t), 50 to 1 agst St. Aralen tine, 50 to 1 agst Everton, 50 to 1 agst Oxygen 50 to 1 agst Languish colt, 50 to 1 a g st Dump G• (offered), 5 to 1 agst Scott's lot , 15 to 1 agst Sir Ll' colt (0 , Heathcote's lot. ___• , ....... M...• _ ~. MR. GREENWOOD, THE MAWS" TRATE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUIV: SIR—As I have always found you foremost in am cause of the oppressed, you would do me. (and 1 w 1 sure many others) a favour by inform in g me ho could forward my mite to- the widow whose s on No . ' so cruelly and unjustly imprisoned by wood, for endeavouring to obtain a livelihood in an honest way. Can there not some means adoptna_ by which the public can express their indignationbof this " man dressed in a little brief authority ?" to y does not he fly at higher game, and not condescendn visit with his magisterial vengeance a poor forlor_ a widow child, the only son of his mother, and she Manchester, Dec. 20,1842. ANTI-TYRA r T ;ho [Send it to Clerkenwell Police-office • the a mother now has not the support of her son , gistrate probably would be happy to receive c" tri- Mr. Greene: butions to keep her out of the workhouse.] CORN-LAWS. PROTECT THE IVIANUFACTITRER !! TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUIV. _ s defiance of the long •winded artici.ae "against a free-trade in corn," and still more, of tn ri short-sighted views of the monopolists, I vvill di deavour to put a case , parallel at least in absur. Y 9 to that stated by a orn-grovv e r," in your Evening Edition of the 19th instant : 1 of I am a manufacturer, and have a large st°°- oods on hand unsold, owing to the operation of th . e French tariff, which led to a glut of linen Yarn' in our home markets. Prices of course declined UT. inendously in cloths as well as yarns , and 8113' consequence, suffering a loss of twenty-five per d e ar on every sale of my goods. Therefore it is as el, as mud that I have a right to be so " protected" LI Acts of Parliament, that I may obtain fr om the On' sumer the same price for my goods no w, as two years or ten years ago ; and the loss of one-fourth part of my property be m prevented. I a, your Constant Rea der, SIS Manchester, Dec. 20, 1842. MANCUNIEN STRANDED WINE.—One hundred and forty-II: hogsheads of claret (being about 70 0 gallons) havd been picked up between Jury's Gap and Dover, ane lodged in the store-houses of the Lord Warden. Sl°, of the claret is of superior quality. It is suppose" have formed part of the cargo of a polacre-rillge vessel, from the circumstance of a mast and rigging belonging to such a description of vessel ha ve also been . picked up. As yet no part of the wine has been claimear The marks can be ascertained at the Custom-hous e i Dover, and possibly the owners or consignees rnaY come forward.—Dover Telegraph. the TuE HINDOSTAN STEAM-SHlP.—Letters from - commander and some of the passengers of tn,V va& steamer, have been received in town, dated Oct. 2: 4 , off the Island of Ascension, advising the i r arri there, all well. The Hindostan, after replenish in g her stock of fuel there, by taking on board a quantq a of patent fuel from the Government store, quart proceed to her next stage, the Cape of Good lloPel and thence to the Mauritius, Ceylon, Madras, an d ' Calcutta, steaming the whole distance from England to India via the Cape of Good Hope. She is ex to at Suez from Calcutta, &c., on Feb. 1. INCOME-TAX.—At the meeting of the New Council on Wednesday, Mr. W. A. Mitchell gave notice that he would move—" That the Council 61 7 petition Parliament for the total and immediat e re p eal of the Property and Income-tax."—Tyne Alercial•