The Sun. — London, England, 1827-01-06 00:00:00

Low Countries. It is not our intention, in this brief chronicle o hia Royal Highness, to enter into minute, detaiLs respecting his campaign in Holland against the French RepUblican armies : enough to say that, with some few exceptions, they were disastrous. For years subsequent, though he still retained the highest military command that the British Government can bestow, he vet conti nued, with the native modesty of his nature, in a state of almost absolute retirement, until the year 1808, when public attention Was again turned towards him, in consequence of a motion sub witted by one Wardle (a creature now forgotten) to the House of Commons, for an inquiry into his conduct as Commander- in- Chief. It was stated, among other charges, that his Royal High ness had delegated official powers to a Mrs. Clarke, through whose agency promotions were made or retarded. The investigation of these charges lasted for some months, when it was finally de cided, by a majority of 82, that " there were no grounds for charging his Royal Highness with personal corruption or conniv ance at such practices disclosed in the testimony heard at thebar." Towards the close of 1820 his Royal Highness had the misfortunel to lose his Duchess, who expired at Oatlands, , in the 54th year ofl h er age, from which period, up to the present fatal moment, little remains to he told, except anecdotes of his unwearied private ge nerosity, which, however creditable and numerous in themselves, do not yet fall within the pale of public biography. We may, however, assert, without fear of contradiction (for, however par ties may differ on other points of his Royal Highness's character, in this at least they will be unanimous), that his private acts of charity w ere so unbounded, as to merit the charge of profusion : his manner, too, either in sating or doing a kind thing, was so dignified, yet so affable—so condescending, yet so loftily consi derate—that the value of the action was lost in the superior satis faction imparted by the mode of bestowing it. Count Segur has somewhere observed of Napoleon, that if he made a present, he took care to let it he felt that he was makitig it, and that the other individual was receiving it. No such humiliation was ever yet experienced by the objects of his Royal Highness's bounty ; indeed, the princely grandeur of his mind always made the per son obliged feel as if he were the person obliging—a peculiar trait of character which, as Swift shrewdly observes, evinces a lofty nature in the donor. In his military capacity of Commander-in- Chief his Royal highness will never be forgotten ; when the petty squabble 4 of party have subsided,. when the prejudices of circumstance and sitw.tion have gone by, when all that belongs of personal hostility to the individual is subdued, and his actions alon e as a public character are challenged—then it will be tri umphantly recollected that the Duke of York was the first who, despising the shackles of conflicting interests with which, from his situation, he was necessarily surrounded—entered as one man into the personal feelings of another, and, made every Officer his friend, his devoted, lasting, and enthusiastic admirer. The staple of his mind seems to have been shrewd, discriminating sense. Reared under the vigilant superintendence of a strong-minded, but severely judging parent, he had imbibed imperceptibly, as it were, his , s trongest and severest notions ' ; and we all know how principlee ) l t hus early instilled, retain unimpaired all their energies to the last. " Quo semel est imbuta recens servabit odorem " Testa diet." It is to this characteristic trait that we must trace his Royal H ighness's aversion to the Catholic claims. As a brother—' a ' a friend—as a son—it is not for us to vindicate his Royal Highness' s claims to admiration • they speak audibly and sincerely 'n the affectionate recollections of all thus connected with hie :may, however, from our knowledge as.publie journalists, as ,crt, that throughout the English army his death has left a void which may, perhaps, never be tiled up ; and many a poor pen gioner, as he contemplates with gratitude his present happy con dition, will feel that gratitude dashed with a tear, when he reflects that his princely benefactor is no more. We'have the satisfaction of laying before our Readers the official statement of the amount of the Public 111 evenue of gre4 Britain for,tho years and (parte!s r espectively, ended the sth of this month. • The general result of these accounts is, that on the quarter ended yesterday, there is an increase of 142,996 L, as compared with the amount. of the cor responding quarter of last year, and on the year ended sth instant, a decrease of 1,923,1481., as Coin-• - Pared with. the amount of the Revenue of Great Bri tain for the year ended sth January, 1826. The increase on both the quarter and year arises on two heads only, viz :—the Customs and Miscellaneous - -while th ere is a decrease on each of the other bran ches of the Revenue. The increase .in the quarter has not been to the amount we had estimated, in con sequence of the Excise not having proved so productive 4 S had been supposed. In other respects our caleula-, tidn is borne out by the official Accounts, and al though the decrease of Revenue in the year, has been more considerable than the CIiANCELLOR of the Ex eh EquEn . had estimated, still; considering the peCuliar eir cumstances under which the manufaqures and trade of th e country have been placed during the last year, we see no cause of despondency. The increase under the head of Customs, in the last Quarter, although ' it may in a considerabl e degree a rise from the importation of Foreign Corn, - must be "sewed as an indication of the improving state of our tr ade ; and the diminished amount of the de. cr ease under the other heads of Revenue, as com pared with the decrease of the three preceding quar ters) shows, that even. in those branches, which . a 'e, most affected by the. distress which has ell ated throu g h ou t th e co untry, a visible improve rti e nt is taking place,. We trust, therefore, that- gradual improvement of the Revenue from this time; sha y, ,l be ca l cu l ated upon, and that the great resources of. Particularsuffering causes, at he moment, present are not likelj. , to •be p ermanently impaired. ABSTRACT of the ., , „ G MU io the ,ET Paonuct of the REYENUE of T Barrizs, th ew 1 "U and QUAR TERS ended ~sth January, 1826 and 13•27, o-_______l2_____3 0-He Increase or Decrease on each head thereof. Years ended January 5. .--.......--........__....r.—„ Increase. Decrease. 1826 18t7 Cti., t . ----- 3 Ex,.ums ............ ..... 15,194,254 15 , 766 , 762 79 ' 5 0 8 i j 75,347 - . w ..................... 19,524,1121 17,749,274. 720,219 1.`0,1114 . .................... 6,997,V-1 6,277,014 - - 21,000 et ffice ............... 1,517,000 1,496,0°° - Ta xes N... •• 4 , 990,138 4,702,742 - 287,396 ,iscellanenus ............ 350,574 658,630 308'30 5 ------- 1. 9,573,820 1 46,650,672 I 880,814 I 2,803,V62 Deduct Increase 880,814 • Decrease on th e Y ear Quarters ended Jan. 5. 18"---"."7-6 '--- ir "--- '27 Increase. .Decrease. Custotos .................. 3,702 943 4,03 a Vie ' 330,635' -n. 3tamßxci" .............. ' ... "" 4, 4 ' 70 4 , 469 ' 17 - 4 '" J '' , • ............. • .... 1,636,240 1,502:021 - 1%4,229 Pftt Unice 382 ,000 379,000 - 3,000 Taxes , 02,544 i 9ow 070 - 71"tS M iscellaneous 112,81 -'13;:499 24,913 _______ ,2,361.069 - 72 ,-.,---"-T,---.—. 355,553 ''1 2 , 3 : ,7 Deduct Decra se 0 - 089 - 912,557 ''' ................ Increase on the Qu arter ......... 1 142,996 --=:; W e ear..:.-1 i. , ------- "-. e received, by express, this morning, the Paris Papers of Wednesday, and the Etoile dated Thursday morning. The C onstitutionnel contains an article dated Madrid,! bec. 2S, which states that all the efforts of France and' England for the maintenance of peace, by prevailing on, the Spanish Government to recognise the, Constitutional Government of Portugal, and to make compensation for the injuries sustained by the invasion, have hitherto been exerted t o no purpose, and th4t far from obtaining their ti l t; tow ards the two Cabinets see two divisions thedrontiers of Portugal. The article goes on to RCEZTAwz.?At tsar, that this determination, which up to that date was (problematical,, has now ceased to be so. The forces [amount to 7000 men. The Etoile, after giving from the Quotidienne the ac rcount contained in, that Paper of the answer which FER- 1 DINAND' is said to have made to the demands of Great ;Britain and France, asks how that Journal can pretend to , 'give, as it were, word for word, a secret communication observing, that it is either an abuse of confidence, or little faith can be attached to the truth of its expressions. This' does not amount to a denial on the part of the Etoile of the correctness of the information; but, in fact, adds to the' probability of its authenticity. , If FERDINAND has replied i n th e t erms a tt r ibut e d him, he has thrown down the gauntlet before Great Bri tain, and the honour of this country will require that very different language should be wrung from the Government of Spain. We shall then see with what sincerity France has, united with us in endeavouring to induce FERDINAND to follow the dictates of common sense on this occasion. Extracts from these Papers will be found in another !column. We have just received, by express, the Paris Papers , dif Thursday, and the Etoile dated Friday. The fol jowing are extracts : (From the Quotidienne of Thursday.) PAexs, JAN. 3.—We have giien in the Quotidienne the dig nited and temperate answer made by Ferdinand to the Ultimatum of the British Cabinet. We have every reason to believe that the official copy of it has been received by the French Ministry. (The Quotidienne then enters into a discussion to show that the English Cabinet has mistaken the character of _Ferdinand; and in answer to the observation of the Etoile, it says it did not pretend to give the text of the answer of the Cabinet of'Madrid,' but that it is certain of having given the sense of it.) The Etoile, dated Friday, after a series of observations on tbe articles of the Quota/ileum, cowhides thus : If the answer which the Quotidienne attributes to the Cabinet of Madrid it true, let Spain make war: It will make war alone—for France neither can nor will give it any assistance to support this ,nnjust war. In this case the Spanish -Cabinet wduld give an idea of its sentiments, which we will abstain from characterising. —lf the answer is fictions, .the Quotidienne itself gives a just idea of the peispicsicity and sagacity of its political views; God preserve us from being ever governed in the spirit of the Quotidienne. Let these who would know in what con dition we shall soon be, see the condition of those whom it directs. It is announced that the ,Spaniards who have taken part in the intrigue which we have pointed out, relative to the affairs of Por tugal, have just received orders to quit Paris and the other towns in France in which they were settled. FRENCH FUNDS.—Pasts, JAN. 4.—Five per Cents. 99f. 20c. ; 99f. 40c..; Three per Cents. 67f. 75c. ; 41 per Cent. 90f. 50c. ; Bank Stock, 2,018 f. 75c. ; Naples Rentes, 73f. 75c. ; Spanish ditto, 124; Ditto Loan, 48. Exchange on London— One Month, 25f. 33c. ; Three Months, 25f. 20c. THE FUNDS. CITY, (This DAY), Twelve o' Clock. The transactions in the British Funds this morning have been but few, and the opening price of Console was 80f I, nominally they were afterwards thine at 80-1 looking heavy, but have since been at 80i, buyers, and are now sellers at this price. There appears a heavy gloom in the City, at the intelligence which has been more generally spread by the -Morning Papers, of the much lamented decease of his RoyaL Highness the Duke of York ; and although this is an event which has been expected daily, still the occurrence has made a strong impression of feeling and regret on the Citizens, with whom he was decidedly popular. India Bonds maintain their price of yesterday, being 46 8 ; and Exchequer Bills continue at 278 pm. Scarcely any movement has taken place in the Foreign Funds, and it may almost be stated thatno business was done up to the above time; the quotations are, for Mexican. Bonds, 644 5 ; Colombian, 33i 4. ; in Spanish some few bar gains have been made, and they may he quoted at Ist Nothing new crew stated in Shares, which remain quite stagnant.- - - Three per Cent. Consols for account, 801 1 5 j ; Jndia Bonds, 46 8 pm. ; Exchequer Bills, 27 8 pm. FOREIGN Pt;Nns.—Brazilian, 60 2; Buenos Ayres, 60 2 ; Chilian, 37 9 ; Danish, 584 94 ; Colombian, 1824, 33i 44 ; Mexican, 5 per Cent., 53 4 ; Ditto; 6 per Cent., 641 5; Peruvian; 31 3 ; Portuguese, 741 51; Greek; 15 1; Russian, 851 6 ; Spanish, 13+ 1. Mtwas..L—Anglo Mexican, 25 21 411. ; United Mexican, 87 die. ; Tlalpuzahua, 50 60 pna. ; Brazilian, 2 4 pm. ; Bolivar, 21 3i pm.; Colombian, 17 per Share.; Potosi, 64 6 per Share. Two o' aoch. Consols have been •in a feverish state, and have fallen to 80 sellers. and are now buyers. This fall has been caused by the contents of the French Papers, which represent the Bing of Spain to have positively refused to acquiesce in the terms which were submitted to him by the British Government ; for this we have been for , some time fully prepared by the hereditar;• folly of this bigotted Monarch end his priesthood. The Foreign funds continue in the same languid state, and the moat attention is paid to the state of the English funds. Prices of all Foreign StOcks continue the same. THREE 0' CL 0 CK. Consols for Account, 80-1 FOUR o'CLOCK—CLOSING 'PRICE. Consols j Danish Bonds .58.1- Do. for Ac. 801 Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres Do. Greek Do. 1825 154 Mexican Do. 1825, 643 Peruvian Do. Chilian Do. , I Columbian, 1824, :14+, Russian Do. 854 Spanish Do. 144 it is supposed that the Mail Coach direct from Edinburgh has, l been impeded by snow, as it had not reached the General Post- Office at one o'clock this afternoon. • e banke r s o f M anc h ester h ave commence d dis-, cou T ntin h g at 4 per cent., so that there is now no advantage in' doing business with the Branch Bank. A report reached Cloninel yesterday by the Li merick Coach (which we hope will prove to be unfounded), that two men (brothers), whose names we have not heard, were at tacked by f a banditti n ear C a ll er: on Th ursday night, and savagely murdered ! Waterford Chronicle. REFORMATION IN CONNAUGHT.—We under nd that a number of Roman Catholics conformed in Ballivasloe, on Christmas Day, and received the Lord's Supper in the Parish Church. There are a number in Galway ready to do the same, if protection could be afforded to their persons and property.— Gal way Independent. LITERAL INTERPRETATION.--A voting Cam bridge student by no means a Solomon, being told in the Senate House that previous to matriculation he must subscribe to the Thirty nine Articles ; replied with vexation, 1 ‘ I have already subscribed five shillings to about half a dozen poor people ; how ever, as I would not wish to look mean , here's threepence for the other thirty-nine." This is actually a fact. TlME.—Time is the most undefinable, yet para doxical of all things ; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of the lightning, at once exists and expires. Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed. Like space, it is incomprehensible, because it has no limit, and it would be still more so, if it had. -It is more in its source than the Nile, and in its termination than the Niger, and advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent. It gives wings of lightning to pleasure, but feet of lead to pain, and lends expect ation a curb, but enjoyment a spur. It robs beauty of her charms, to bestow them on her picture r and builds a monument to merit, but denies it a house ; it is the transient and deceitful flatterer of false hood, but the tried and final friend of truth. Time is the most subtle, yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take no thing is permitted to take all ; nor can it be satisfied, until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight, and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death. Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools, hut the salutary counsellor of the wise, bringing all they dread to the one, and all they desire to the other; but like Cassandra, it' • warns us with a voice that even the sagest discredit too long, and the silliest believe too Lite. Wisdom walks before it, opportunity" with it, and repentance behind it ; he that has made it his friend , will have little to fear from his.enemies, but he that has made ' it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.—LacoN. ANECDOTE OF SHERIDAN_ Taylor, of the Opera House, used to say of Sheridan, that he could not pull off his hat to him in the street without its costing him fifty pounds; and if he stopped to speak to him, it was a hundred. No one could be a stronger instance than he was of what is called living from hand to mouth. He was always in want of money, though he received vast sums which he must have disbursed; and yet nobody can tell what became of them, for he paid nobody. He spent his wife's fortune (sixteen hundred pounds) in a six weeks' jaunt to Bath, and returned to town as poor as a rat. Whenever he and his son were invited out into the country they always went in two post-chaises and four ; he in one, and his son Tom following in another. This is the se cret of those who live in a round of extravagance, and are at the same time always in debt and difficulty—they throw away all the ready money they get upon any new=fangled whim or project that comes in their way, and never think of paying off old scores, which of course accumulate to a dreadful amount. " Such gain the cap 'of him who makes them fine, yet keeps his book un crossed." Sheridan once wanted to take Mrs. Sheridan a very handsome dress down into, the country, and went to Barber and Nunn's to order it, saying he niu4 have it by such a day, but promising they should have ready money. Mrs. Barber (I think it was) made answer that the titne was short, but that ready money was a very charming thing, and that he should have it. Accordingly, at the time appointed she brought the dress, which came to five-and-twenty pounds, and it was sent in to Mr. She ridan, who sent out a Mr, Grimm (one of his jackal's) to say he, admired it exceedingly, and that he Was sure Mrs. Sheridan' would be delighted with it, but hi was sorry to have nothing, under a hundred pound bank-note in the house. She said she had come provided for such an accident, and could give change) for a hundred, two hundred, or five 'mocked pound note, if it were necessary. Grimm then went back to his principal for' farther instructions, who made an excuse that he had no stamped receipt by him. For this Mrs. B. said she was also provided; she had brought one in her pocket. At each message she could hear them laughing heartily in the next room at the idea of hav ing met with their match for once : and, presently after, Sheri dan came out in high good humour, and paid her the amount of her bill in ten, five, and one pounds. Once when a creditor brought him a bill for payment, which had often been presented before, and the man complained of its soiled and tattered state, and said he was quite ashamed to see it, " I'll tell you what I'd advise you to do with it, my friend," said Sheridan, " take it home, and write it upon parchment 1" • He once mounted a horse which a horse-dealer was showing off near a coffee-house at the bottom of St. James's-street, rode it to Tattersall's, and sold it, and walked quietly back to the spot from which he set out. The owner was furious, swore he would be the death of him ; and, in a quarter of an hour afterwards, they were seen sitting together over a bottle of wine in the coffee-house, the horse-jockey with the tears running down his face at Sheridan's jokes, and almost ready to hug him as an honest fellow. Sheridan's house and 1 lobby were beset with duns every morning, who were told that Mr. Sheridan was not yet up, and shown into the several rooms on each side of the entrance. As soon as he had breakfasted he asked " Are those doors all shut, John ?" and, being assured they, were, marched out very deliberately between them, to the asto nishment of his self-invited guests, who soon found the bird was flown. I have heard one of his old City friends declare, that such was the effect of his frank, cordial manner, and insinuating eloquence, that he was always afraid to go to ask him for a debt of long standing, lest he should borrow twice as much. A play had been put off one night, or a favourite actor did not appear, and the audience demanded to have their money back again ; but, when they came to the door, they were told by the check-takers there was none for them, for that Mr. Sheridan had been in the mean time, and had carried off ,all the money in the till. lie used often to get the old cobler who kept a stall under the ruins of Drury-lane to broil a beef-steak for him, and take their dinner together. On the night that Drury-lane was burnt down, She ridan was in the House of Commons, making a speech, though he could hardly stand without leaning his hands on the table, and it was with some difficulty he was forced away, urging the plea, " What signified the,concerns of a private individual corn-, pared to the good of the state ?" When he got to Covent-garden' he went into the Piazza Coffee-house, to steady himself with, another bottle, and then strolled out to the end of the Piazza to look at the progress of the - fire. here he was accosted by; Charles Kemble and Fawcett, . WhO complimented him on the calmness with which lie seemed to regard so great a loss. He declined this praise, and said—" Gentlemen, there are but'three things in human life that in` mlLoxinion"liuglit to disturb a Wise, man's patience. The' first 'of thesd'is 'hodily pain , and tha t ' ' (whatever the ancient stoics may have said to the contrary) is', too much for any man to bear without. flinching. This I have felt severely, and I know it to be the case. The second is the toss of a friend whom you have dearly loved; that, gentlemen, is a great evil, a very great evil, too much for any man to endure the reflection of; but that" (laying his hand upon his heart), "but that, thank God, I have never felt !" 1 have been told that these were nearly the very words, except that he appealed to the ?liens conscia recti very emphatically three or four times over, by an excellent authority, Mr. Mathews, the player, who was on the spot at the time, a gentleman whom the public admire de- Xervedly, but with whose real talents and nice discrimination of character his friends only are acquainted. Sheridan's reply to the watchman who had picked him up in the street, and who wanted to know who he was, "I am Mr. Wilberforce !"—is well known, and shows that, however frequently he might be at a loss for money, he tic eer wanted wit !--Monthly and European Ma gazine. . , MRS. STUBBS AT HOME. Mrs. Stubbs, a rich widow, some three nights ago Gave a splendid " at home" to her friends in the Row, A few stars from the West came to shine at her feast, Together with all the wise men of the East— Oh, the flower of each sex, from Cheapside to Hag Fair, Assembled by wholesale in Salisbuty-square. From eight until ten to this Vanity mart, Roll'd on the loud thunders of carriage and cart ; Mr. Dobbs came on foot, Mr. Foote upon horse, And the two Misses Strutt in a carriage of course ; While Higgins and Wiggins, an exquisite pair, Dashed up in a buggy to Salisbury-square. The party assembled, confusion begins— " Excuse me, good Sir, but you're kicking my shins"— " So poor Jenny bawson has lost her Mama " There's Billy"—" good gracious! how like his papa." " Is this here, Mrs: Stubbs, Madam ?"—"No, Sir, the ere To the right's our good lady of Salisbury-square." • But hark ! the clock strikes and like sheep to the fold, Down rtulyto their supper the young and the old, Mrs. Stubbs led the way, followed close by Miss Poole, Hanging light on the arm 'of Sir Phelim - O'Toole; Who whispe.-ed soft vows in her ear, 'till you'd ! swear, He was Cupid transplanted to Salisbury-square.. How swift from the dish flew each turkey away! : • - HoW faded each tart, like a ghost from the fray! ' One moment in beauty an apple-pie shone ; The next both the pie and the apples were gone ; Fowl, cutlet, and custard all vanished in air— So much for the magic of Salisbury-square. The supper concluded,' Sir Plielim O'Toole, Quitting (faithless apostate) the side of Miss Poole, Sidled up to his hostess, and, looking her thro' With his only black eye that did business for two, Heaved sighs from a heart that seemed broken by care— What a sight for the widow of Salisbury- square ! Surprised.she looked up as he slowly drew nigh, And caught the fond glance of his jolly black eye, She *trove hard to blush, but her cheek was o'erspread With a yellow suffusion in lieu of a red ; Yet spite of this failure, she cried with 4 stare, ",Welcome, Sir Phelim to Salisbury squar e ." Then she drank to his n hes,lth 'till the party broke up, • With a drop in her eyelike the drop in her cup, And ere the next sun gilt the church of Saint Bride, The newspaper columns announced far and wide, That Sir Phelim O'ToOle from the town of Clontaire, Had espoused the rich widow of Salisbury square. - A RECENT OCCURRENCE.—Two Italian posti lions, each driving a portly German in a little open carriage, ac cidentally met in a very narrow road, and it was of course a point of honour, in this confined passage, to dispute the right of prece dency. The postilions soon came to mutual abuse and menace ; when one of theirs aiming a tremendous blow with his whip, in flicted a severe cut cm the unfortunate traveller in the other car riage. The postilion of the latter immedi a t e l y exc l a i me d—" You rascal, if you presume to strike my German, your's shall not lescape, I promise you!" The former, upon this, redoubled his blows, the nther returned with equal violence, both displaying the utmost courage and dexterity, and it was not till after the exchange of numerous blows that the ill-fated Germans were en abled to put a stop . to a combat in which they were the only suf_ farers... 7 -Le Meieure de Londres. FASHIQYABLE INTELLIGENCE. The Duke of Sussex arrived at the Duke of Rut land's house as early as nine o'clock yesterday morning, and the Duke of ClarPnce at twelve o'clock, to visit their afflicted relative. Their ttoyal Highnesses remained with their Royal Brother till eight o'clock, when the Duke of Clarence left , for the Kiog'F Palace at Kensington. Sir Astley Cooper and the rest of the- medical at- I teadants came to visit their Royal Patient at eight o'clock yester (lay morning, and remained for a short time. Sir Astley Cooper, Sir Henry Halrord, - Doctors M , Michael, Mr. 111'Grigor, . and Mr. Simpson, assembled again soon after eleven o'clock, and continued in attendance during the . 1 whole of the day. A Board of the• Lords of the Treasury was held yesterday at the Treasury Chambers, when the account of the Re. venue during the last quarter was laid before their Lordships. Earl Gower has given 2001. towards the erection of the new Infirmary, for the county of Salop.' Colonel Dalton, of Hemingford Hall, Yorkshire, ati his rent day, on Monday week, returned 20 per cent. to all the l tenants on his property. John Smith Daintry, Esq. of Rode Hall, at hisj rent day on the 20th ult. returned to each of his tenants 12 per cent. upon their rentals, being the excess of poor rates paid 1, • them in the last year over the preceding one. CONSCIENCE.--A singular scene occurred in New !ark church, on Sunday week ; a child was presented to the offi ciating minister, to be baptized, and afl:•er he had proceeded as far as that part of the service wherein the minister says, " Dost thou in the name of this child renounce the devil and all his works ?" c. on the question being put, the sponsors could not, they said, take such a task upon them ; the ceremony here ended and the parties returned home.—Nottingham Review. A . REAL ENGLISH BULL.—Two brothers were amusing themselves, something in the style of William the Con queror's sons, by throwing water in each other's faces. The elder one took a true aim, and seldom missed his mark; the younger one as constantly failed. At last he could bear it no longer, and cried out, in great vexation, " I declare now, Frank, it's not fair ; for, see, you are ever so much nearer to me than I am to you!"-- Literary Gazette. BREWING.—In a late assault case against an emi nent brewer, the following ingenious argument was used :-. 7 " If there he any charge made against the beer (said Mr. L.), rebuft it." It was this clench in jest which led to the assault in earnest —so that neither your if nor your but is a certain peace-maker.--1 Literary Gazette. We understand from a gentleman who left Florence, l the last week of November, th;t notwithstanding the fine weather which we have had in this country, that experienced on the con tinent has been of a very different description. The country about Lyons was all under water, and during the time that he remained in Paris, which was nearly a fortnight, it rained incessantly. A FACT.—A cutter or hewer of stone statues, not fifty miles from Glasgow, was lately employed to cut a likeness of Mr. Canning, and, in order to avoid the inclemency of the weather he resolved to finish the bust in his own room. A brother of thr trade, or rather a mason, from near the Tweed, chancing one day to call at a public-house in the neighbourhood, became rather " owre fon to gang his lane," and, by the greatest good fortune, came in contact with the sculptor, who very humanely took, him to his lodging, and gave him a share of his bed. His guest %yap then too, drunk to observe the statue, and on his awakening in the, morning, quite ignorant of where he was domiciled, he was asked by the sculptor, who lay " ayont" him in the bed, to what place lie was going. " Home," was the reply. " Take care, then,7 said his host, " that you do not upset George Canning." " Good God," exclaimed the sobered man, starting and looking round him,, " am I in the House of Commons?"— Glasgow Free Press. ' The following appears oh the outside of a tailor's shop in the Kent-road :—Messieurs habiliments fashionably fabricated, invisibly renovated, metamorphosed and deprecated, by Samuel ,* *, Cosmopolitan.—Mirror of Literature. .t - VR RIVA L s.—The Princess Esterbazy i at Chandos House; Earl O'Neill, in Dover-street; Colonel Robarts, in Gros ; venor-street ; Mr: and Mrs. Sheldon, in Park-street; Earl of Strathaven, at the Marqtiis of Conyngham's, in Hamilton-place; Colonel Norton, in Albemarle-street, from Bath; Mr. Otway Cave in St. James's-street ; Hon. George Petre, at the Clarendon I Hotel, from Yorkshire; Colonel Magennis, in Montagu-square; ICapt. Mit6hell, in Charles-street, Berkeley-square, fronfThelTar-1 (pis of Hertford's, Sudhourne, Suffolk ; Sir George Thomas, Bart. at Nerot's Hotels, Clifford and Cork Streets; E. F.' Wo r t-I lei, Esq. and Ladies, at ditto; W. Payne, Esq. at ditto; Lady Julia Howard, at her house in Park-street, Grosvenorsquarc, from the Earl of Carlisle's seat in Yorkshire; Captain and Mrs. Wade, in Old Burlington-street, from the Continent; Lord Mon caster and J. Gilbert, Esq. at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Melton Mowbray; the Rev. Mr. Sneyd, at the Royal Hotel, St. James's-street, from his seat in Surrey; J. B. Morritt, Esq. and the two Misses Morritt, at Kirkham's Hotel, Lower Brook street, from their seat, Rokehy Park, Yorkshire; Count Flahault, and the Countess of Keith, at Mivares Hotel, Lower Brook street, from Brighton ; John Poulett, Esq. at, ditto, from Shrop shire; John Dauncey, Esq. _at ditto, from his 'seat in Bucking hamshire. CHANGES.—The Earl of Beauchamp, for Madres field Court, Worcester ; the Earl of Aboyne, from the South of France, to Paris ; Captain Rutherford, front Manchester, for Portsmouth; Captain Seabrooke, from Manchester, fos. Dublin; De Marquis de Nadaillac and le Comte Rohan, from Charles. street, Berke'ley-square, for Paris; F. G. Banks, Esq. and Ladies, from Nerot's Hotel, for Bath ; Mrs. and the Misses Hamilton, from ditto ; Mr. and Miss Ellison, from the Royal' Hotel, St. James's-street, for Northumberland; J. Vivian, Esq. front ditto, ft r York • Hon. F. Fiennes, from ditto, for Kent ; Colonel Vansittart and Son, from Fenton's Hotel, St. James's street, for their scat us Berks; Captain Hyde Parker, R.N. from ditto, for his seat in Hants ; J. Eardley, Esti. from ditto, for his i seat in Somersetshire; Major Ricketts, frosts ditto, on a tour; Captain Miclethwaite, from ditto, on a tour. " THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE NEVER DID RUN SMOOTII."—A most instance of this pathetic aphorism, occurred a few days since in Whitechapel-road. Mr. Helsham,/ surgeon and apothecary, in that Oriental district, had a servant maid, lavely, pensive, and twenty-seven ; whose charms had taken forcible possession of the heart of his apprentice, a young man,l 'thin, languishing, and nineteen. Now it so happened, that this! amiable couple, though gifted abundantly with those virtues whichi lovers are apt to have, yet possessed, like Othello, one tragic defect, which being by degrees dropped into the " pure fountain of their hearts," Completely neutralized its purity. The servant maid—we gr i e ve to state it—conceived suspicions injurious to the innocence of her sweet-heart—her sweet-heart on the other hand, imagined it possible that snow might excel his mistress in purity, so that you may naturally suppose how exceedingly wretched this susceptible but mistaken couple must have made themselves. It came to pass, however, that one day their affliction reached its climax.— The servant maid had just done scouring the stove, and the ap prentice had just prepared an elixir (two penn'orth of laudanum) intended to despatch some unoffending patient into a happier and better world, when a Miss , a visitor at Mr. Belsham's, (who had enjoined his apprentice, whenever she should call, to pay her every attention) suddenly knocked at the door. The amiable lyouth, obedient to his master's commands, ,who happened to be !out at the time, proceeded to pay this young lady every befitting attention—he helped her to take off her cloak, assisted her to bread and butter, handed her the tea, and eke the toast, and, in short, did the agreeable to the best of his ability. All this while the poor servant maid was weeping al on e,and deserted in the kitchen. Suddenly, however, she felt herself inspired with demoniac phrenzy, indignantly threw down the hearth-broom, with which (since the 'truth must be told) she bad been sweeping the cobwebs, rushed into the shop,—and by dispatching a due proportion of poison, added thereby one more to the numerous list of 4 2 Esculapiaii martyrs. While thus engaged, her moans reached the ears of her lover, who, naturally bolting in at the shop-door to ascertain the cause, beheld _Oh, heavens and earth !—his love faint and dying, from the effects of wounded affection." Struck with the extent of her sacri fice, he passionately exclaimed, " she's drunk it all by jingo; howsomdever, she sha'nt get nothing by it, for I'll drink it too" ; so tippled the remainder, and then laid himself down by her side. . Meanwhile Miss ll had made the best of her way to wards an adjoining shop; and what is very singular in her conduct, and of course very unfashionable, had contrived to tell her story to the neighbours without . a single hysteric., Assistance was immediately procured, and however destruct tive it may be to a tale like this of sentiment, yet a regard for historic truth obliges us to confess that the stomach ptinip was resorted to; which after duly dislodging at least three " noggins" of poison, happily resuscitated the suicides. Our reporter who gave us this " domestic drama," (a promising young man in the accident line) assures it was quite affecting to see th lovers:3 they lay, calmly and tranquilly side by side, clasped ii each other's arms. The youth in particurar furnished a very happy illustration of Romeo in the agony of death, with the slight exception, that his shirt was not quite so clean as it might hay ; been. But who, we ask, is perfect ? POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILIMIALL—(Tnis DAY.) Mary Clifton, a woman advanced in years, and apparently an experienced thief, was charged by a young married woman of the name of Johanna Kelly with stealing from her one pair of blan kets, a pair of sheets, a wine glass, and a knife. A few days ago, the prisoner came to Mrs. Kelly, and said she was informed she had a room to let ; she said she had. The prisoner looked at it, seemed very much pleased with it, and agreed to pay her ss. a week for it. Mrs. Kelly put herself to some inconvenience in furnishing the room, and making things comfortable for her. In two or three days afterwards she was detected carrying away the blankets and sheets. Upon her person were found a great number of duplicates of different articles, which it appeared she bad taken from other lodgings. The ALDERMAN thought this was a very aggravated case, and accordingly committed her. " BOW-STREgT—(Tuts DAY). Robert Mullin and a Mr. Baron, the first a journeyman, and the other a master plumber, were committed ; the first for steal , l ing, and the other for receiving, a quantity of lead, the property of Mr. Parker, plumber, of Spur-street, Leicester-square. Mr. Baron has lived respectably as a plumber, in St. Martin's-lane, for several years, and a great number of his friends attended, and he was bailed out immediately. A cool Irishman was charged with trying to open the boot of ' A Mr. Booth's carriage, in Oxford -street, and afterwards " rescu ing _himself" from an officer. Being asked what he had to say, h e replied—" I can only say that they have perjured themselves, and 1 suppose you won't believe that."—Committed. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—(Tms DAY.) There were several cases of disorderlies disposed of this =ru in, but none of any interest. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, JAN. 6.—On the 24th of December Messrs. Robt. Wm. Goodenough, Wm. Emmanuel Page, Frede rick Biscoe, John Robert Hall, and Henry Pattington, were admitted actual Students of Christ Church, haying been elected from Westminster in May last. On Sunk, December 24, the . Lord Bishop of London admitted Messrs. Thomas Davey, Ralph Etesor6 and Chas. Friend, to the order of. Deacons; and the Rev. Messrs. G. Steers Faught, C. F. teasel, and Wm. Yate, Ito that of Priests; as Missionaries of the Church Missionary Society. • At an Ordination held by the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, in the Cathedral Church of Wells, ou Sunday last, the following persons were ordained : DEACONS. George Baker, B.A. Wadhaui coll. Oxford. Edward Nares Henning, B.A. Worcester coll. Oxfcri. Caleb Rockett, B.A. St. Peter's coll. Cambridge. Henry Penneck, B.A. St. Peter's coll. Cambridge. Thomas Hope, 8.A . . University coll. Oxford. PRIESTS. William Jeffrys Allen, B.A. Pembroke coll. Cambridge. Geo. Warwick Barnpfylde Daniell, B.A. Trinity coll. Camb. Henry Peter Daniell, B.A. Trinity cell. Cambridge. John Barnaby Lewis, B.A. St. Alban hull, Oxfbrd. Thomas Earle Pipon, B.A. St. John's coll. Cambridge. William Wickenden, B.A. St. John's coll. Cambridge. Reuben Spry Rendle, B.A. Jesus coll. Cambridge. ECCLESIA STICA L ',REMOUNTS. The Rev. F. Baker to the Rectory of Wyley, Wilts. The Rey. L R. Brown, A.M. to the Rectory of Sax mundhum : patron, D. L. North, Esq. of Little Glemham Hall.—The Rev. William Browne, A.B. Rector of Marla ford, to the Rectory of Little Glemham, with the Perpetual Curacy of Glemham annexed, in Suffolk; patron, D. L. North, Esq. The Rev. Henry Alford, M.A. to the Rectory of Hamp ton, Suffolk, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Joseph Cotterill, M.A.; Patron, the Right Hon. Lord Calthorpe. The Rev. C. Day, Vicar of Rushmere, Suffolk, to the Perpetual Curacy of Playford, in the same county. The Rev. John M'Dougal to the Second Charge a the parish of Campbeltown. Rev! Mr. Nisbet to be Missionary and representative of the Church of Scotland, at Bombay. —Douglas- Cheape, Esq.' Advocate, has been appointed Professor of Civil Law in the University of Edinburgh. EXTRAORDINARY RECOVERY OF SIGHT. In the recently published Part of the Philosophical Transactions for the present year, is inserted an account of a remarkably curious case of the recovery of sight by a lady, born blind, at the age of 46, by means of an opera don performed, by Mr. Wardrop. This singular occurrence is of great interest, both in a), surgical and in a more general and philosophical point of view, especially with reference to the first sensations of thir individual on receiving the use of her eyes, which ure all accurately recorded. The first impressionc were vague and imperfect, and the patient seemed quite bewildered by the multiplicity of objects with which she was surrounded, and quite unable to connect the sensations thus acquired with those she formerly possessed. After some time Mr. W. began to examine her sensations with accuracy, and has !described all the principal particulars which he felt curious to ascertain. She had, after eighteen days, become very sen sible to difference of colour, and named the colours cor rectly. She had considerable difficulty in directing her eye to any object, and it was net effected without moving her whole head, and even then by many trials. She had not by this time perfectly learned to connect the ideas of the forms of bodies, as seen with those derived from feel ing ; of which at first she was totally incapable. She had great difficulty in judging of distances : for when an object was placed close to her eye, she would search for it byH stretching out one hand far beyond it ; whilst on other oe-1 icasions she groped close to her, face for a thing far removed from her. After forty-two days she, still found a great.' difficulty in distinguishing the forms of bodies, but c9kb urs seemed particularly to attract her notice, especially red, THE MARKETS. COVENT-GARDEN MARK ET.—(Tkirs DA Y. ) The frozen state of the ground having been instrumental to a short supply, each kind of Vegetable experienced a yery consi derable advance, in some instances last week's prices were nearly doubled. Apples and Pears were also a shade higher than ou this day se'nnight ; in prices of Foreign Fruit little if any al teration. Quinces have almost disappeared. s. 0. to s. 0. Potatoes (per cwt.) 3 6 7 0 Cabbages (12 beads) 1 6 3 0 Ditto lied 0 0 0 0 Savoys 2 0 4 0 Horse Radish (bundle) 3 6 5 0 Brocoli 2 0 4 0 ,celery Carrots (12 bundles) Turnips Coleworts or Greens 2 6 - 5 0 Leeks ISpinage (half-sieve) 1 6 2 6 'Onions 2 6 4 0 s. d. toe. d. Pears (half-sieve) N 0 6 0 Apples, Common .2 U 3 0' Ditto, Choice 4 U 8 0 Quinces ranges (IOU) Lemons English Walnuts . I 0 V 0 SpanishChesnuts(pecit) 3 0 sj• 0 French ditto 3 6 3 o French Walnuts •••••• V 3 4 U Spanish Hailenuts Filberts (121b5.).....„, 8 8 12 0 Grapes 9 0 II Q HAY MARKET: (At per Load c ST. JA Lowland Meadow Ifayi:l 10 to 4 10 Upland Ditto ........... ,4 40 510 flye-grans Hay •,,,cw 410 510 New Meadow HaY .•••• 4 5 5 5 SMITH, Lowland Meadow Hay £ 3 sto 4 5 Uplan d Ditto Bye-grans Hay K ew Meadow Hay ,„, 0 I' 5 0 c:Sl4foC \ .36lE— v a °s h t 'vl i rT t r: :: : : H .: : ; : . 3 7:"...::".::::! 4 da t "l a l: `""to .. ,,`.. lis 1a [FIELD, Clover Hay generally it le to 6 0 Do. ottramlinary floe 0 0 610 Oat Straw , Wheat Ditto LIVING PICTURES._The manager of one of the theatres co, altiopri: accompanying Berlin has well-known representation carried l pictures, e fte b e yb t the y m groups'll si singular a r analogous livingidea p e et: f so imi tatingtnhs,etahned subject. emJbar nan Steen, e by , one of Catch's choruses ; " The Crowning of Apollo," after Schinker, is accom paniedn by a d ue t o f . W e b er ' s , f rom hi s o p era o f Epimenides; " Joseph b e f ore Pharoah," after Raphael, by the celebrated ro mance of Joseph in Egypt, by Mehul; " The finding of Moses , after Raphael, by a chorus by Naumann ; " A Sale of Cu p ids, " after a Herculaneum bas-relief, by the grand trio in Rossini 's Armida ; " Mars, victory, and Bacchantes," anoth er r e main s of Herculaneum, by a chorus in Meant's Uthal ; " A'p ro eession of the Muses," by one of Naumann's choruses; " Th e Prince of Geldern condemning. his "TheF ather.vi t,oopiiii-iisponl;;era, after' f , te , lit by a chorus of peasants, by Weber, &c. B'c•. . This new ki n d o f , Scotsman, spectacle appears to delight the public of Berlin exceedingly...—