The Sun. — London, England, 1842-01-27 00:00:00

ri) 14:6 ; ofil ri e tis t h o Aong' n lye 6 the p i;toii s our a nd ciph e „„ it. !) 0-tan' ll gh t be i„rii .4 1 tan itc h that - o efl , ref ft C-00111° ri d cm', t be bs oss al.rl t"hun foot , gnest e , ao e en v gs ile gists br ius e t ats, he :he F ac e() .e p i le e , d3O OOl, e 0 1 '; aitole e ~ce tiOn: btO be MORNING SUN llle wine proceeded, the band playing the Prussian national anthem, " Vaterland." r l he Lord Steward gave, as the next toast, " Her Majesty the given." Again all stood, her Majesty a mong the number, returning her thanks by . the most graceful and animated bows. The band playing " God ea' a the Queen." Aloee next toast was, " His Royal Hi g hness P r in c e !r rt," when the same ceremony was repeated by all s ent• Th e b an d p l ay i ng the " Co b urg March , ' in most exq u i s i te sty l e : the bugle notes being most skilfully and exquisitely introduced. table a quarter t o ten o ' c l oc k h er M a j esty rose f rom and this was a signal for the ladies of her cot:n nerYte do th e same. Her Ma j esty wa i te d t ill t h ey grouped around her, and then returned to the grand R eception' -room. His Royal Highness the Prince i llbert t h en took the chair which her Majesty had ~acated, b etween the King of Prussia and the Duke of Tlssex, and the wine circulated freely for a short period. oth , R . ing of P russ i a, t h e P r i nces, t h e A m b assa d ors , an d cr net guests; then j o i ne d h er Majesty, and this termi ed the banquet which, whether we consider the high I.4 Pk and station of those who attended it, the splendour 101 their dresses (civil and military), the magnificence of h ta bles, beaufets, and the whole apartments, has per µ' never before been equalled. The gallery was filled j'Ali the domestics of the Royal Household, and many ca'reriaeds 8 7 1 es from the neighbourhood. The heat was so exces ot°utdifastirnetsinsga.n, and even to cause one lady to be THE CHRISTENING CAKE. c'lThe doo rs of the 'Waterloo Gallery were now thrown 3 p for the reception of the company. A grand musi -41,41 Performance then took place ; and it was in this 111 ' among the refreshments offered to the guests, that 4 Christening Cake was publicly exhibited. It is on stasneldtle of magnitude and magnificence quite unrivalled, i s, -8 On a aver plateau of 30 inches in diameter, and ,w t ,'th its figured ornaments, about four feet high. ofs "neat its ornaments it would appear like a Colosseum r o o t t i g a r• The base is ornamented with the rose, sham sill and thistle. Immediately above are medallions in •. uf the Q dP • all around alternating with t ueen an rince, 4r he Prince of Wales's plume. Over the medallions peeaPlaced the Royal arms, while above the•feathers ap wthe arms an d em bl ems ( t h e h arp an d l ee k) ilk," al es. The uppe r edge of the cake is cor six an orn amen t a l 'scroll. Above this are permPeditnents, with three pedestals on the up res„ on which are placed female figures re 10'1i -ti ling Ceres, Justice, and Plenty, and on yet prince er pedestals appear Britannia bearing the infant b a , Clio with her historic pencil in hand, and St. e‘ld with his harp invoking a blessing on the child. th e tire ell these three last figures is the baptismal font, the whole being executed in a style of exquisite art by k at „, e ,h,ie Yeoman of her Maesty's Confectionary, Mr. 8 1(4' 4 ' 4. Besides this chef d'truvre of contrivance and there •ofs o „, ere ondifferent in the sariuures, and other emblematic devices, executed of style, though not of the same magnitude. All er n appeared as bright as the purest alabaster. 1,, THE FRUITS AND CHINA. slice u• its were of eve r y d escr iption—oranges in st _Be f'''its Peaches w i t h a ll t h e f res h ness o f natura l bl oom , rarawberries, raspberries, and every description of cur alj mod e ll e d i n sugar, and so adm i ra bl y execute d as siti on. out to d e f y the possibility of detecting their compo 4„The Rocki ng h am China ordered by Will i am IV., ma aetured by B r i t i sh artists, and valued at between ex pressly and 5 ,000/. was brought fr om Buckingham Palace for the occasion. The service had never been used befor e at the Castle. There are pictures on each of l he Plates remarkable alike for their elegance of de and for their beauty of execution. Some of the 0 titre pieces, of considerable height, were tastefully ornamented by Mr. Mawditt with bonbons and every bP r e e,_ies of fruits in crystallized sugar. The Royal party t he up delighted with the admirable style in which all e proceedings had been conducted. eo e have been informed that the King of Prussia, ac e2uPanied by his suite, after attending Divine service Sunday next at St. Paul's, inte n d s t o h onour t h e lu rd on or with his compa n y a t the Mansion-house to eneon. STATE APARTMENTS OF THE KING OF PRUSSIA. Iu addition to the extensive embellishments and deco rations which have been carried into execution in the thole of the State Rooms, opened on Tuesd a y, some o f adjoining apart men t s (forming part of the suite) ap trupriated for the occupation of his Prussian Majesty, ave been refitted with equal splendour. Ills Majesty the King of Prussia's reception-room, ante-room, and sitting-room, are all furnished in the tone colours, crimson and sold. In the reception-room til e draperies and furniture are of silk damask, new for this occasion, as is also the carpet, which on its crimson ground has medallions enclosing the Queen's cypher. 1 11 addition to the ordinary furniture of a State apart ment, this room contained some very beautiful Cabi net clocks and vases, two small statuettes of the Lao ,e°ou and th e P rome th eus , a nd seven fine gallery . pic ` s u t r es by Rubens, namely, the Battle of Nordlingen, i-m dividing ' his Cloak, portrait . of Rubens, a Holy hp r in t il Y , and Equestrian Portrait of the Archduke Al of-o°Yernor of the Netherlands, and two landscapes onQ linter a , and Summer. This room is illuminated by the % - n g : e , 4 t Mass chandelier. It is generally known as The ur alving-room, and looks on the North terrace. copti nn 7c - roora corresponds in its furniture to the re %tie 111 , the hangings and draperies are of the it:4itute.aadteorri:lsi,t and finished with gold trimmings. The whi c h r e is carved, and very richly gilt. The cabinets are more antique in their character, ~, 'i e :no es t i t l ußee throuof vertu are distributed in all appropriate ghout this apartment. The ceiling is of th e c ° " 1 1 elegant devices, with the moulding' gilt. In trete" °f the ceiling are shields, with the Royal Arms T he az ; °fled on them. It is lighted by a cut glass lustre. , Cha r l ) ' et . r u res which decorate this room are a Portrait . of a St, " lt., by Sir Peter Lely ; a Landscape, by Poussin; b y „John, b y Correggio ; Jonas thrown into the Sea, ar Poussin ; Cl eopa t ra . by Guido ; Interior of a St. t Z ho nse, by T en i ers ; two L an d sca p es , by Cl au d e ; Arraign S, by Dominichino ; and a Figure of Silence, by Carracei. d e sittin g - room of his Prussian Majesty is the same riese eo ration as t h e ante-room, the hang i ngs an d drape rich?! crimson silk damask and gold, and the furniture ti re " carved or gilt. The pictures in this room are very 1 1 ,,ern.. gin and with the exception of a Holy Family, by 4410 —r ev ' O , and one or two others,, are of the cabinet size. qui ii - c ,g them is the celebrated picture of the Misers, by 1 1 ,4ti 0r , 11 .latsys; an Ecce Homo, and a Madonna, a corn- Inctnre, by Carlo Dolce ; a St. Catherine, by ria t -k; an Encampment, by Wouvermans ; a St. Cathe bY iftl l)°l nirliC h iLl - n0; and an Officer of the Papal Guard, Thi:eleano. 4 1)pe a e u - rnom of the King forms a strong contrast . in fa N ; r ance to his other apartments. The hangings and w ith 4l n re are of pale blue silk, very tastefully embroidered hugm°wers. The couch itself resembles somewhat a l g e l s - ten t. It is surmounted by an oblong dome, which , (I , o la c e7. ne d hY a waving plume of ostrich feathers. This the h a - „ es ,ts upon a cornice richly gilt, from which depend tr harng` n gs• The colour of the bed is also blue, and ~- c d with gold. The ornaments. about the frame of e ti e rpe ° t lle h also tend to give it a military character... The fror e is light, and wrought in very brilliant . colours l 'ery l a *v erY elegant pattern. The mirrors, which Fe dec - e ;,,, r ge, are framed in silver, and the pictures which Nrc`Le this apartment, comprising specimens of almost thoirtisehool of art, are framed with the same material, e a 4 01 '7 relieved with bosses of gold. Among them a 1 , e 4121 7 - by Vandyke ; two Italian Seaports by a a ris ; a portrait, by Rembrandt; two landhcap_es_, ard : V",.`te ; miniature portraits of Henry VIII., Ed and the Duke of Norfolk, by Holbein . ; a polr kary Leonardi da Vinci • an Infant Christ,by Bishop Atitwretti the Nativity, by ' Baroccio ; the D .nd f 1. ), by Rubens ; a portrait, by Gerard ow , a Y 1'441 4, by Sebastian del Piombo. ) BURY-LANE THEATRE. 1 : , Ile rti d: disappointment was experienced at this house on 4CY 'light in consequence of the sudden indisposition to i tio ;,, 4 Ilel en F auc it, who was announced in the bills the t r as Bertha, in the Point of Honour. From t,,tirt a ir'etnent of Mr. Serle, who appeared before the 1 1 t o communicate the fact, it appeared that to Perf ei r - , w ass actually on her way . to the theatre t he When she was seized with illness, and re t_hat after been compelled to return home. The play, vvirh:t.,quarter of an hour's delay,. was then proceeded kis 0 part of Bertha having been undertaken by B tlll:''i, u nis• At the conclusion, the National Anthem was 4 gre - e -- b Y, tile vocalists connected with the theatre. An th er , le trifle, in-one act, entitled the Windmill, was to rl i t PtaYed for the first time. It afforded a fine oppord krsY for a display of the excellent acting of Mr. an . L i tt th,,! iee , l eY• The story is soon told. The period is re 'gn of Charles 11. Sampson Low (Mr.fK e u e . ey . ) . 1a 0 ,,a a foundling, in the service of the miller of icn , the grandfather of Marian (Mrs. Keeley), who . is to Zrself an orphan, is earnestly recommended by him to her grandchild to manage the mill, which he performs kou v r r prok and satisfaction. Both parties are ena deel e d teach other, but Sampson cannot find courage to li t ar e, his passion. This gives rise to some most emus • ant i and by-play, which kept the house in a roar. the Mari all 's reputation for beauty does not escape th e n.otice of an old Marqais living in the en*irons,- 7 44Marquis de Roueville (Mr. Morris Barnett), but his 14 es are frustrated, and, indeed, urge Sampson to e a formal declaration. But, Just as the union is ti o , i u t l to take . place, poor Sampson, who in a fit of vexa to ~_rad previously enlisted into the army, was directed v i i rt hto h ead-quarters. The Marchioness de Roue (Mrs. Selb y ), who had d i scovere d the attempted qua•gue nte of her husband, and who had been made ac with dby Marian that Sampson had enlisted, enters is no °, Is dis Charge, by direction of the King, and there th e longer any impediment to the union. At the fall of Tio_eurtam 111 r. and Mrs. Keeley .app, , ared, and he trou nced the the farce for repetition on Friday and Saturday. of t he evening a respectable young woman, \i n i ame of Martha Tickney, a servant in the employ r. tedbourne, picture frame-maker, of the Vaux th hall -14 " 4 d, committed self-destruction. It appears that e unfortunate young woman had formed an attachment tj i l. a Yung man who had paid his addresses to her, and . the Were to have been married about five weeks since, L's'c bann s had been published, the consent of her parents ku obtain ed, and she was to have left her situation for the rpose of being married, when all of a sudden her Ilvaithless lover left her without assigning any cause, and eat to settle in Birmingham ; from that period' a de eilcie c d 'chang e h a d b een observed in her manners. About sh e was 'c o'clock on Tue s d ay n i ght she told her mistress that determined to think no more about her cruel a 'W illiam," and r equeste d , about an hour after, leave for nta,,f.echw moments to go an d purchase a pair of boots, was granted, and s h e l e f t home. She proceeded t 9 threw water side, and, whe n near l y facing the gas works, herself in, and was instantly carried out by the tide and perisked. A RO YAL CHRISTENING IN SCOTLAND. CHRISTENING OF PRINCE FREDERIC HENRY, ELDEST SON OF KING JAMES VI., AT STIR- LING.—,(From Beattie's Illustrated Scotland.) The Castle of Stirling acquired most of its artificial embellishment from the taste and munificence of James V. who, as well as his daughter, was crowned here, and built the royal palace—a:square building of hewn stone, withinuch statuary and sculpture, surrounding a small court where the King's lions are said to have been kept, still familiarly known as the " Lion's Den." The Palace comprised many large and elegant apartments, of which those on the lower story are converted into barrack rooms, and the upper into lodgings for the officers of the garrison. Opposite the Palace on the north stands the chapel, built, as already mentioned, by James VI., for the christening of his eldest son, Prince Henry. Of this pageant, one of the most extraordinary on record, a few particulars may here be not unacceptable as characteristic of the monarch and the times, when " spectacle" was em ployed for state purposes as well as for pleasure. The despatches to foreign Courts, announcing the birth of a son and heir to the throne, on the 19th of February, had been so well received, that Ambassadors Extraordinary arrived from the King of Denmark, the Queen's father — from Brunswick, Magdeburg, Holland. France, and Eng land. The latter was represented by the Earl of Sussex ; and with presents and congratulations, all had met at Stir ling by the end of August. In the meantime the prepa • rations were going on under the personal superintend ence of his Majesty, while the Ambassadors were enter tained at Court in the most sumptuous manner. The chase, and other field sports, or amusements within the Palace—were the business of the day. The evenings were spent in balls, masks, and banquets. Tournaments and tilting were practised in the " valley," which was lined with guards in splendid new uniforms. On one side, a scaffolding was erected for the Queen, her Ladies, and the Foreign Ambassadors ; and to this constellation every performer on entering the arena made a profound obeis ance. On the 30th of August, the ceremony of baptism was performed with a splendour and pomp never before wit nessed in Scotland. The new Chapel Royal was hung with the richest andmost costly tapestries, with every attendant embellishment of costume and ceremony which could heighten the effect. When all the necessary pre parations were completed, his Majesty, 'attended by the Nobility;and Privy Councillors, entered - the chapel, and took his place on the throne. The Foreign Ambassa dors then repaired to the Prince's chamber, where they found the Royal infant laid upon a bed of state, the fur niture of which was embroidered with the " Labours of Hercules." The ascent to the platform on which the bed stood was by steps covered with tapestry wrought in gold. A large cloth of lawn covered both bed and steps, and reached a good way over the floor. As soon as the Ambassadors and other officers had assembled, the Dowager Countess of Marr approached the bed, and mak ing a low obeisance, took up the Prince, and delivered him into the hands of the Duke of Lennox, who imme diately presented him to the English Ambassador, whose office was to carry him into the chapel. After a va riety of minute ceremonies, too tedious to recapitulate in this place, the procession set out in magnificent order, preceded by the Lyon-King-at-Arms, and the other He ralds in their State uniforms, all the Nobility and foreign Ambassadors, and was received in the Chapel Royal, when a sermon was delivered by his Majesty's Chaplain, and followed by an appropriate address in Latin, spoken by the Bishop of Aberdeen. The King, leaving his seat, and followed by the Ambassadors, advanced towards the pulpit, while the Duke of Lennox, again receiving the Prince from the Lady Marr, delivered him to the English Ambassador, who held him in his arms during the per formance of the sacred ceremony. The child was chris tened by the names of Frederic Henry, which were no sooner pronounced than they were thrice repeated aloud by the Lyon-King-at-Arms, and confirmed by the infe rior Heralds with a flourish of trumpets. Various other ceremonies being duly performed, the Royal family, at .tended by the same gorgeous retinue, retired to the great hall, or " Parliament House," already named, under con tinued salvos of artillery from the Castle, answered by volleys of small arms from the troops lining the ram parts. When the procession halted, the Duke of Lennox, again receiving the Prince from the English Ambassador, presented him to the King, who dubbed him a Knight, the Earl of Marr touching him with the spur. He was next created a Duke, with various other ancient titles attached, all of which were proclaimed by Heralds at an open window of the hall, and followed with the same flourish of trumpets. The Prince was then carried by the English Ambassador to his Chamber in the Palace, where all the guests of distinction now approached with their baptismal offerings, styled propines. The ceremony concluded with that of knighting a great number of gentle men present, and was succeeded by a sumptuous banquet at eight o'clock, at which their Majesties presided. Here, however, we must omit many curious particulars. When the first course had been removed, the company was sur prised by the whimsical spectacle of a Moor, harnessed by numerous gold chains to a triumphal car, with which he advanced to the sound of trumpets and hautboys. The chariot bore a table richly covered with fruits and confectionary, and attended by six damsels, three of whom were robed in white satin, three in crimson satin, covered with gold and silver spangles, a. garland on the head, the hair flowing luxuriantly over the shoulders, and bedecked with feathers, pearls, and jewels. In front stood Ceres. holding a sickle in one hand, and a bunch of corn in the other, and surrounded by numerous emble matical and allegorical figures, each with classic costume and well selected devices. The precious desert which freighted the celestial wain was distributed by the dam sels in silence to the great Nobility in immediate at tendance. After this a second spectacle, equally original, entered the hall, consisting of a ship full rigm d, placed upon wheels, moved by invisible springs, and having a length of 18 feet in the keel, with a breadth of deck or 8 feet. The highest flag, which was lowered on passing through the door of the hall, was 40 feet ; the masts were rut! ; the tackle and cordage silk of the same colour ; and the pulleys of gold. Her brass ordnance consisted of 36 pieces, elegantly mounted. The sails were of white taf fety, and the anchors tipped with silver. In the foresail was a compass, with this device—quouscunque per undas. On the mainsail were painted the joint arms of Scotland and Denmark. All the sails, flags, and streamers, were embroidered with gold and jewels. The mariners, six in number, were clad in variegated Spanish taffety. The pilot, dressed in cloth of gold, moved the ship at will ; and 14 musicians, with Anion and his harp, performed their dulcet office on board. Upon the forecastle stood Neptune, clad in Indian silk embroidered with silver, holding his trident, and wearing a crown. Next stood Thetis, with her mace ; and at her right hand, Triton, with his shell and the scroll— Velis votes ventis. Around the vessel wero three Syrens, accommodating their ges tures to the music, and repeating classic verses. The vessel was decked with pearls, corals, shells, and other marine productions. At sound of trumpet, the ship moved majestically forward into the hall, making sail at the blast of Triton's shell and the pilot's whistle, and discharging her ordnance, till she had reached the table. Certain officers of the Court received the cargo of sweet meats in crystal vessels, curiously painted with gold and azure, and representing various fishes. While the mimic ship was unlading, Anion, sitting upon the prow, shaped like the fabled dolphin, struck his harp, at which haut boys, violins, and flutes continued to join, till the music deepened into a full concert. When the banquet had ended, thanksgiving was pronounced by the Bishop or Chaplain; then the 139th Psalm was su n g , in seven parts, by fourteen voices ; and finally, at the sound of Triton's shell and the pilot's whistle, the ship weighed anchor, and made sail, till she had got outside the hall. Such was the concluding scene of this brilliant, but strange mixture of Christian devotion and Pagan panto mime. The hull of the vessel is still preserved in the chapel, now the armoury of the fortress. It is impossi ble, on perusal of this gorgeous but whimsical ceremony, not to observe the painful contrast it offers•to that which accompanied the monarch himself, when his ill-fated mo ther presented him at the same altar. TORY FALSEHOODS. The following letter has been sent to the Editors of the West of England Conservative and Devonport Inde pendent, from the latter of whom we have received an early copy : TO THE EDITOR OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND CONSERVATIVE. SlR—Your Paper of Wednesday, the 12th inst., has been sent me, with a paragraph marked, in order that it may attract my attention. In the paragraph to which I refer, it is stated that " just previous to the over throw of the Whig-Radical Government, a large batch of youngsters, mostly from Cornwall, were placed in the Royal Military Academy by the Master-General of the Ordnance ;" and " that in consequence of the Master having complained of the inconveniently crowded state of the School, the higher authorities had ordered the dismisFal of several of the new corners." Upon this pa ragraph, I shall merely observe that it is as unjust to the present as it is to the late Master-General. Even if the Academy were too crowded (which is not the case), Sir George Murray is much too just, and too good a man, to dismiss any cadets for the purpose of making more room only, or without having good reason for so doing ; and as to. the imputation meant to be conveyed against me, by the assertion that the " last batch were mostly from . Cornwall," the fact is, that of the twenty seven ordered for re-examination (I have the list now before me) I really do not believe there is one having any connection whatever with the county. That I thought it necessary to augment the number of cadets at the Academy, I am quite ready to admit , and if any one doubts the existence of such necessity, I would refer him to the number of vacatit commissions, both in the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers. The supply, under the former establishment of the Academy, was not, in fact, equal to the demand.* But that I ever, in any way, unworthily used the patronage for political pur poses, as you, Mr. Editor, would have your readers be lieve, I utterly and positively deny. Bodinin l a 7 j m a , n. Sir, yours, 1542 . &c., VIVIAN. • I should s t a t e th a t I h a d begun increasing the establish ment at the Academy very long before I went out of office. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, BETTING AT MANCHESTER-TUESDAY. CHESTER CUP.--14 V) 1 agst ianercost (t.)-15 to 1 agst the Squire -15 to 1 agst Rory O'More-17 to 1 agst Beßona. (t.)-26 to 1 agst Jolly Tar (t.)-23 to 1 agst Alice Hawthorne (t.)-25 to 1 agst Marshal Soult (0-25 to 1 agst Rhodanthe (t.)-27 to 1 agst Re triever-27 to 1 apt Una -27 to 1 agst Cruiskeen -200 to 6 agst Satirist -1,000 to 50 agst Marquis of Westminster's two, with an acceptance with both (t.)- 4 to 1 agst Scott's lot -500 to 30 agst Lord G. Ben tinck's lot (t.) DERBY.-7i to 1 agst Attila-10 to 1 agst Chatham -23 to 1 agst Wiseacre— 28 to 1 agst Joanna.c. (t. freely) —2B to 1 agst Robert de Gorham -45 to 1 agst ,Meteor —45 to 1 ayst Espartero (0-50 to 1 agst Moss-trooper —offers to take 3 to 1 about Scott's lot. OAKS.—Nothing done. ,ES. o giv e °lir odour, the ales of art )re us. 1° _ a, a nd to plate, Yr o thers /15 _ ar readers► apartment :he sit. Ince of t : d fron l , a screeP' dth of!: )4::, dam') a ted shie l k to li t "! Is Aroun d late, to sal e vhich to dese ll ". - table, s ilver es the l as ;alt-ee l . 19rs hanehers; polish ° Lrhih thei etween an , labra other, wo or of la r g e di e oi the r than the jabra, Qt, i n g Of Wer e lo fie lds ing sh d " the td, an - A s o c ellar , the P °s 5'25 e 11 .. w near o re ng tt ref nee he eP e f i t tera fly crier St auns, t he nongst THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1842. TORY LOYALTY at PORTSMOUTH TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sni,—This, of all the days of a public character, has been the most extraordinary with us. The shops have been closed for a holiday, the employed paid their day's wages by their masters, the gun-wharf, the Customs, and the convicts have observed the christening of the Prince of Wales; the heads of departments celebrate the occa sion by a dinner this evening, the corporation and bur gesses dine together, a tradesman's ball to-night, the poor of Portsea and Portsmouth workhouses have been regaled with roast beef, plum pudding, and liberty, the felons and prisoners of the gaol feasted ! but not a Union Jack or Royal Standard, under the orders of the Admiralty, have been hoisted—a salute fired, troops paraded, or any demonstration of the event suffered to transpire, whilst the whole of the p eo pl e an d o ffi c ers of the Dock-yard have been the whole day at their duty as usual ! Surely inquiry ought to be made how it is that these precious exclusively loyal Tories have dared to act in so marked a manner on an occasion that fills every loyal Englishman's heart with increased attachment to our So vereign and the Royal dynasty. So marked an insult to Royalty never was known at Portsmouth. No— " Not a gun was heard, not a joyful note, As the Prince to the font was carried - Not a labourer allowed to re t rea t t o his cot, At Portsmouth, whose mirth seemed buried." Yours, &c., TRUTH. Portsmouth, Jan. 25, 1842. ABOLITION OF SLAVERY . Happily for the best interests of mankind, the gloomy anticipations of the colonists have, in a great measure, been dispelled. The d angerous exper i men t o f conferring freedom on a race of men ten times out-numbering their European masters, * has been accomplished with perfect safety. In dealing out this measure of justice to the long degraded African, not a single life has been sacri ficed, not a drop of blood has been shed in anger. THE RECENT HISTORY OF THE ISLAND OF PUERTO Rzco.—T.his island, while Spain possessed her magnifi cent continental empire in South America, was entirely neglected by the mother country. It was used as a pe nal settlement, and merely supplied its own wants. It had no European trade, and the chief occupation of its inhabitants was smuggling to and from the Spanish Main. The fertility of the soil, however, and the fa vourable situation of the island for the contraband trade, attracted by degrees a considerable population, by far the greater number of whom were adventurers of European origin. Its growing importance at length attracted the attention of the Spanish Government, and in the year 1815, its trade was established under a new code of re gulations of an extremely liberal kind. The unoccu pied land, of which there was great abundance, was granted to settlers free of all charges, according to their capital and means of cultivation. Produce was freed from export duties ; tithes were remitted for fifteen years ; other local taxes were remitted for a similar period ; and all direct commerce with Spain or Spanish colonies was declared free. The astonishing (progress of the island, under this liberal system, will appear in credible to those unacquainted with the mighty influences of commercial freedom. The popula tion of the colony doubled in the space of twenty years ; and it must be remembered that, in the same period, that of the French and British West India islands, either remained stationary, or decreased. The value of its exported produce rose in a still more extra ordinary degree. In 1810, it amounted to 65,672 dollars ; in 1832, it exceeded three millions ; or, in other words, in the space of twenty-two years, it increased in value more than forty-fold. A memorable instance of the en ormous powers of unrestricted industry.f The emancipated negro has advanced, not retrogaded, in the scale of beings. His wants have increased with freedom ; and in order to gratify these wants, he must be content to labour. The comforts of European life are within his reach ; and he has shown himself ambi tious of attaining them. His dress and personal appear ance have greatly improved ; and the feeling of self respect evinced in his deportment, both to his equals and superiors, is not the least pleasing feature of the change. His moral condition has been amelio rated in a still greater degree. The marriage tie, which was formerly quite disregarded, is now assuming its just and civilising influences. The blessings of education have begun to be appreciated ; and the attendance on the ordinances of religion has been most exemplary. It may, in short, be .safely af firmed, that no peasantry in the world are, at the present , time, in a more prosperous condition than those of our West India colonies. t.—Letter to Lord Stanley on Afri can Immigration. * The slave population of the British West Indies, .previous to the Emancipation, amounted to about 800,000 ; the free, to about 80,000. t See the late work of General Flinter, ou this inte resting island, page 271. Since the publication of his work in 1834, the exports of Puerto Rico have increased considerably. See Mr. Gurney's Winter in the West Indies, 1840. TORY FAIR PLAY.—MORE OF IT.—We understand that Mr. James Hope, jun., W.S., was some time ago appointed agent for the officers of State, by Sir William Rae; and he has recently also been appointed agent for the Treasury in Scotland by the Government. This last office was held by a respectable professional gentleman (a Whig), who has been displaced to make way for Mr. Hope, although the office was understood to be a permanent one.—Caledonian Mercury. THE REGISTRY OF . THE BIRTH OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.—Considerable discussion has lately taken place at the Board of Guardians and other meet ings of the parochial authorities of St. Martin-in-the- Fields, in consequence of the Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages of St. George's, Hanover-square, having attended at Buckingham Palace,and registered the births of the Princess Royal, and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, in his register, consequently making their Royal Highnesses parishioners of that aristocratic parish. That proceeding the St. Martin's officers contend was illegal, the Heir-Apparent and the Princess Royal, as they as sert, being born in their parish ; the accouchement of her Majesty, in both instances, having taken place in the northern wing of Buckingham . Palace, which, accord ing to the boundary line, is in St. Martin-in-the-Fields. A very amusing contest is likely to take place on the subject, between the two parishes. The parties at Wolverhampton who petitioned the Privy Council to permit the importation of foreign corn at a nominal duty, tobe paid for them from a fund raised to relieve the distresses of the poor in' that town, have received a reply to their memorial, to the effect that although the Privy Council deeply regret the distress prevailing in Wolverhampton, they do not pos sess any authority enabling . jhem to comply .with their request. SUDDEN DEATH OF A LADY.—An inquest was held on Tuesday before Mr. Wakley, at the Crown Tavern, Pentonville, on view of the body of Mrs. Ann Fincham, aged 51, a married female, who died under awfully sudden circumstances. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased's residence was at No. 14, Queen's-row, Pentonville. She had enjoyed good health up to Thursday last. Between eleven and twelve o'clock on the forenoon of the above day she had given her orders to the different tradespeople who called, at which time she appeared as usual. Having occa sion to go into the kitchen to speak to the servant, she was returning up stairs, when she was seen to stagger. One of her sons, a youth, about fourteen years old, ran to her, into whose arms she fell apparently lifsiess. She was carried into the parlour, and placed on the sofa. Mr. Hunter, surgeon, of Claremont-square, was sent for, and promptly attended; but before his arrival the unfor tunate lady breathed her last. Air. Hunter gave his opinion that the deceased's death was probably occa sioned by the rupture of some important vessel in the region of the heart. Verdict—" Died by the visitation of God." ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.—A very full meeting was held on Monday evening, amongst the company being the Bish op o f Norwich, Sir R. H. Inglis, and several other distinguished members. Amongst the presents were 22 charts of the coast of France, and several other maps from the Depot de la Marine at Paris, and the communications read were of a very interesting character. The first was the result of a new chain of observations made to determine the depression of the Dead Sea, by Lieutenant . Symons, in which he proved that this was at least 1,400 feet below the Mediterranean. A letter was read from Captain Simons, dated Aut;kland, New Zealand, October 4, 1841. He had traced the sources of several rivers on the north east part of that island, where he found the natives very different to what they had been described to him at home. In their behaviour they are fickle and'captious, and rob only in anger, but will not attack Europeans. He also described the chain of hot springs running across the north-east part of the island. A paper from. Sir James Alexander gave an account of the sandy plains to the west of the Rocky Mountains in North America, where he had been engaged in fixing the boundary line between this country and the United States. He described having heard of a tribe of Indians of fair complexion, who possessed a superior knowledge of the arts, and speak a language of their own. Those were supposed to be the remnants of the Welsh colony, who, if they existed. anywhere, would probably be found about the 42d parallel of latitude. In the August of last year Mr. Evans, a Welsh gentleman from New York, had set out to go to Santa Fe, from whence he Would start with the first caravan across the Rocky Mountains, in order to endeavour to find this lost race of his coun trymen, who left Wales under Prince Madoch in 1169. An interesting communication was next read from the Rev. Mr. Yetta, on three singular nomadic tribes in habiting Asia Minor. __ FIRE AT THE Hozso RN UNION WORK. ROUSE.—Tuesday night, at nine o'clock, the inmates of the Holborn Union workhouse, Little Gray's Inn-lane, were much alarmed in consequence of the discovery that a fire had broken out in the kitchen. Upon the master being informed of it, 'he proceeded there, where he fotind a dense smoke issuing through the walls ad joining the steam apparatus for cooking, and above the kitchen range. Ile instantly despatched a mes senger to the engine station, upon which the Holborn engine promptly arrived, which was followed by other engines, and that from I'Vatlitig-street, with Mr. Braid wood. The firemen cut into the wall with their axes, i when the cause of t he fire_ irougli th e ki tchen flue, was and found to pr ocee d f rom a piece of timber that passed t which was in a short time taken out, when th e fi re was extinguished. That part of the b u ildi ng has been built about 100 years. H t ad h fire have broken out later, the effect would have possibly been the destruction of the entire range of the edifice. ANY MUTTON FOR MARINERS.--A few days since, some mariners belongij2g . to this port, were driven by stress of weather into .Tilbury Fort. Wi s hi ng t o make the most of the few hours they rema i ned there, they proceeded to a butchers h i ' shop t o purchase a joint iveight or qu a lity b y t h e of meat. A particula rl y fine looking l eg of mutton, and i which lost nothing either n eloquence of the butchers _ wife, struck t h e i r fancy, and they inquired the price. This was found to be so ae exor bitant, that they expresecl and mon g curiosity abo u t th e particulars of the leg , other v er y p er ti nen t inquiries, when the sheep was killed. "It warn't kilt at all," said the good dame ; " it died yestere'n in the fields, and that's good enough mutton for mariners." Our worthy mariners , it a pp ea red, had t oo muc h re spect for the dead to des ecrate i t by p o t or sp i t, an d l e f t the good dame in possession of the only leg she had to stand on for the next comers.—lpswich Express ARRIVAL OF CON VI CTS.-- T ues d ay morn i ng the York mail train arrived at the Euston-square terminus of de London and Birmingham Railway, at a quarter-past nine (it ought to hav e come in four hours earlier, but its progress was impeded by frost and snow), bringing up thirty-three convicts, heavily ironed, and in custody of constables, for the purpose of being conveyed to Woolwich, preparatory to their leaving the country for various periods ; a nd on the p rev i ous day several other convicts arrived by the same railway, from Coven try and other places. ST. JAMES'S, WESTMINSTE R .---A t a meet ing of the parochial authorities, held in the vestry-room, Piccadilly, on Monday evening, it appeared that in the last three days upwards of 500/. had been collected from house to house through the parish, for the relief of the numerous necessitous poor suffering from the general scarcity of employment and the inclemency of the season, which was ordered to be forthwith distributed, chiefly in coals, and food, and clothing, ia cuts of emez:gsacf. MISERIES OF EDITORS. 1. A kind visitor, whom you would make almost any sacrifice to rather than offend—without the least ill intention in the world, but merely moved and instigated by mother Eve's fatal vice, curiosity, rumaging your private desk, if it happen to be com modiously open, examining your letters and other correspondence ; resorting to your composition drawer, on the ground of intimate acquaintance; deranging and inspecting manuscripts, when you had as lief he had intruded into your wife's dress ing-room ; or peeping over the cases, and inter rupting compositors, to see the original articles, which you did not intend to show him, or anybody else, except through the medium of the press. 2. Receiving a manuscript, of which it seems doubtful whether the writer intended to represent European, Chaldaic, or Chinese characters ; and, after patient attempts to decypher the hieroglyphics, resorting to the author, and hearing his unfeigned expression of astonishment that you did not find all as plain and legible as a new tin pan. 3. Just as you are in the busiest part of your daily duties, in preparing your paper, having an obliging call, with a very verbose communication of a private nature, which you are required not only to receive, but to hear read, amid the din of other calls—;" Proof is ready 1"—" Waiting for proof, Sir !"—and the prospect of a late paper, and sub sequent complaint in anticipation grinding on your feelings. 4. Inquiries—" Who wrote that article ?" when you have no fair right to inform, when it seems un kind to refuse, and incredulous to say you do not know. 5. In a busy moment receiving a personal lam poon, which you are resolved not to publish, yet wish to give your reasons, without time to explain them. N.B.—The writer, full of the justice of his cause, and perfectly incredulous that there are two sides of a question. 6. A modest request from a good friend, just as your paper ought to be at press, that you would prepare a special article for his particular view. 7. And lastly, for the present, a quick succes sion of complaints, such as—" Why was our ad vertisement omitted ?—That communication will be too late next week.—The other papers have that news more in detail—l wonder you should publish so many light articles, and leave out commercial ones—This is an important time, and politics ought to be your principal object—Literary articles ought to claim a part of your attention ;" till, with forlorn gaze, you measure with your eye the extent of the columns of your paper, an wistfully exclaim— " Ye Gods ! annihilateut time and space, And make us printers happy." POSTSCRIPT Anotherdreadful misery.—While you are collecting news from a dozen or twenty dif ferent papers, when you have to keep in your mind's eye the leading features of all, to have your papers misplaced, and your arrangements all broken in upon by the busy interference of half-a-dozen good. natured, friendly loungers, who after having ago nised your feelings into a high fever, retire, one after another, humming a tune, " What's this dull town to me ?" or giving some other indication of their idle propensity or negligentaire.—Neu York New Era. GRAY'S INN, JAN. 26.--llr. Samuel John Partridge was this day tailed to the Degree of Barrister at-law by the Hon. Society of Gray's Inn. ENCROACHMENTS OF THE SEA.—It is well known that there have been extensive and extraor dinary encroachments of the sea, washing away the Suffolk coast, and if they continue Heaven knows what will become of this snug little island. In this month's number of the Philosophical Magazine there is an account of further inroads of old Nep tune in this quarter. A letter was read before the Geological Society, from Captain Alexander, F.G.S., " on the annual destruction of land at Easton, Ha vent Cliff, near Southwold, on the Suffolk coast." From careful observations made during the last five . years, Captain Alexander states it to be his opinion that the local representations of " 350 yards in breadth having been destroyed (or washed away by the action of the sea) at Eastern Cliff in about 35 years, are not much over-rated, as, during that period, a nearly square field, containing 121 acres, has been entirely removed by the sea, and only three acres remaining of another which consisted of 18i. This ratio of loss, he adds, has ex tended along the whole range of the Cliff. According to Captain Alexander's observations, there has been an annual loss of seven yards in breadth. AWFUL VISITATION.—On Friday forenoon, at ten o'clock, a Coroner's inquest was held at the Crown, Museum-street, Bloomsbury, before Mr. Wak ley, M.P., on the body of George Hopkins, aged 47, who died under the following awful circumstances It appeared from the evidence of the widow, who is left with four young children, that the deceased had been above thirty years in the service (as foreman) of Mr. Spencer, mattrass-manufacturer, Holborn. He had been for twenty years asthmatical. On Monday night he went to bed about nine o'clock, not making any particular complaint. About six o'clock, the following morn ing she awoke and found him in convulsions. He was then insensible. Mr. Hunter, a medical gentleman who was sent to, arrived, but said he could do nothing for him. Her unfortunate husband died between nine and ten o'clock. Mr. Wakley said that the deceased was the first witness he examined after he became Coroper. It further appeared that the inquest was held upon a relative of the deceased's master, and that the landlord of the Crown was the foreman of the Jury on that occasion. Verdict, " Natural death." Two mornings ago, about two o'clock, a porter of a diligence office, in the Rue de Bouloi, was found lying senseless at the entrance of the Passage Vero-Dodat, in the Rue Montesquieu. He was taken to a guard house, but before medical assistance could be obtained he ex pired. He was an habitual drunkard. POOLEWE, JAN. 15.—DISTRESSING OCCUR RENCE.-4 young man of the name of Macphail, from Portlair, in Torridon, having gone in company with two of his neighbours on Old Christmas-day, with his gun, in search of ptarmigan to Benaligin, while attempting to cross a narrow come over a wreath of snow, lost his foot ing, and was precipitated over a rock , upwards of 200 feet high, and was found by his companion (one of whom was his father) in a dreadfully mutilated state, and life quite extinct.—lnvernass Paper. Buckingham-house, on the site of which Buck ingham Palace now stands, was purchased by Queen Charlotte, the Queen of George 111., in January, 1775. It was built in 1703, and after being rebuilt was in tended to be converted into a Palace by George IV. Buckingham-house %as generally occupied by the King and Queen at those times when drawing-rooms were held at St. James's Palace. An order has been issued to the authorities of Greenwich Hospital to make immediate arrangements for the reception of his Majesty the King of Prussia, who, together with several members of the Royal Family of England, has expressed his intention of paying a visit to that noble institution, for the purpose of inspecting its many attractions. MELANCHOLY DEATHS OF A MOTHER AND CHILD.—On Tuesday afternoon Mr. Payne held an in quest at the Commerial Tavern, Sherborne-lane, City, on the body of Elizabeth Lindsey, aged 38. In our im pression of Thursday last appeared the report of an in quest on the body of deceased's infant, the probable cause of whose death was exposure to cold in travelling by railroad from Bristol. At that inquest deceased was to appear as a witness, and whilst waiting to be called, 1 in a room next to that in which the inquest was held, she suddenly expired. On the assembling of the Jury last evening Mr. Payne and the foreman read several letters from relations of deceased. By them it appeared that she was a native of Hereford, and had married about eleven years ago a travelling groom, whose domi cile was at Ackworth, near Pontefract. Five years ago he left her, and has not since been heard of. She sup ported herself by nursing sick persons, and in September last, without assigning any reason to her husband's re• latives, she left Ackworth, and proceeded to Bristol, where, about a month ago, at her aunt's house, she gave birth to an illegitimate child, now, as well as herself, dead. On account of her seeming neglect of the child on her arrival at the above tavern from Bristol, on Sunday week, and the agitation she manifested when she found that an inquest would be held on the body of the infant, the Jury considered that they could not come to a satis factory decision unless a post mortem examination of the body were made. Adjourned for that purpose to Thurs day ne'x A dreadful accident happened at Stubbington, a short distance from Fareham, a day or two ago. A poor woman, who went out to daily labour, left three very young children locked in a room. One of them, by some means or other, obtained possession of a lucifer match, and set fire to some stubble which was lying about the room, and all three children were suffocated. NOVEL MODE OF PROVING IDENTITY. When the last overland mail arrived from India, a son of Neptune, still in receipt of her. Majesty's pay a s purser in the Royal Navy , and now a flourishing ship owner and merchant at Liverpool, happened to be in London. He was most anxious to take time by the fore lock, and get possession of his letters without waiting for them to travel to Liverpool and back. For this purpose the son of the deep presented himself at St. Martin's-le- Grand, and made known his wishes. The letters were found and tendered to him on condition of the payment of the postage, with the fee for stopping them in transitu, and proving that he was the real veritable person he re presented himself to be. The latter point was the diffi culty. He knew plenty of people who could easily do this if the Post office would allow him time ; but the clerk said, Twenty minutes, Sir, and the letters must be re-bagged, and on the way to Liverpool." " Twenty minutes !" echoed the merchant purser, "if I were to set all sail I could not fetch a friend and be back in time. Twenty minutes !" he exclaimed again, striking his hand against his forehead. After a moment's pause he tri umphantly cried out, " I h ave it ! I can prove my o wn identity !" when he forthwith drew out and presented to the astonished man in office the tail of his shirt with his name and address the re o n i n c l ear an d distinct charac- The clerk could not deny such evidence, and the letters were immediately delivered. THE BLOW-UP. The herald of the Ki r k rebels has announced, in a demi-official paragraph, that "the liberum arbitrium may be regarded as now fairly and finally set aside. Any proposal (it says) for a settlement on that footing, has never been enter tained, except with extreme reluctance, on the part of those intrusted with the management of the Church's affairs, and only when it seemed to be pressed upon them, and they could not avoid giving a deliverance regarding it." Now, this is positively one of the most perfect specimens of sheer impudence that we recollect to have met with in all our experience. It is only a short week ago that we proved, by extracts from Dr. Chalmers's Letters, and the minutes of this same Non-Intrusion Committee, as recorded in the published Correspondence with Lord Aberdeen two years ago, that the liberum arbitrium was brought forth by Dr. Chalmers, then the Convener of that Com mittee—that it was swaddled and cradled by Messrs. Dunlop and Candlish, as the leading members and secretaries of the Committee— that the Committee adopted it as their own bantling—and that instead of being pressed upon its godfathers and godmothers (for some men wear petticoats) it was by them pressed upon Lord Aberdeen with a pertinacity and petulance which could only be found exemplified in a co terie of self-sufficient parsons and their Waristons. It is not many weeks since this identical Committee published a supplementary statement to their former memorial to Government, in which the liberum arbitrium was explicitly brought under the consideration of Government, as one of three modes in which they proposed that an adjust ment of all controversy should be effected. 'Tis true that they intimated that they preferred the veto and the call to it; but they declared their readiness to work the liberum arbitrium, if Government would bring it forward, " upon its own responsibility," (a phrase which we do not pretend to comprehend), be cause it would constrain them to give up their benefices ! This to be sure, was a most pious and praiseworthy motive, which their countrymen will estimate at its true value ; but until these worthies bring forth evidence that this monstrous proposition to establish a naked and atrocious system of clerical tyranny was pressed upon the Non-Intrusion Committee ab extra (as Dr. Chalmers has it), we repeat our asseveration, that the statements now put forth by that body are a finished specimen of unblush ingaudacity and falsehood.—Edinburgh Observer. MORNING SUN ANTI-CORN-LAW METING AT DERBY, J. 24 . _D A E most Y nLerous meeting was held to-day, pursuant to requisition the - to Mayor, to petition for a total and immdiate repeal of the Corn laws. The Lancasterian School, in which the great Midland Counties meeting was held, was filled to the roof with nearly three thousand persons. The platform was occupied by the principal manufacturers of the town, and our respected Member, Edward Strutt, Esq., among them. The Rev. Mr. JONES proposed the petition. Although their former appeals to tile Legislative body had been treated with so much disrespect—although they had had disregard and contumely thrown upon their petitions, yet, for the sake of their wives, their children, and them selves, he begged of them to make one more effort to rouse the Government to some state of activity and earnestness on the subject.—(Loud cheers). He need not detail to them the ill working of the Corn-laws. His only object was to beg that they would make one last effort for a repeal of laws which were fast sapping the foundations of the institutions of the country—ruining the peace of all classes—starving the poor, and which threatened, ere long, to involve the whole country in one mass of ruin and desolation. He concluded by moving the adoption of a petition to both Houses of Parliament for the immediate repeal of the Corn-laws. The petition was then read. Mr. MORLEY, a large manufacturer, seconded the motion for its adoption. A working man, named HENRY KNOTT, then stood forward, and wished to move an amendment before the motion was put. He was handed up to the platform by the gentlemen present, and put in a conspicuous position. The Chartists immediately received him with loud cheers. He did not oppose the petition on the ground that it was needless, or that he believed the Corn-laws were a good to the country ; far from it, he believed that they had done material injury ; but the reason he stood forward with an amendment was, because he deemed that greater injuries first demanded their atten tion, and in the attainment of which the Corn-laws would be involved.—(Cheers.) If the Repealers would join us in obtaining the Charter they would at once gain their object. Mr. Knott concluded by moving as an amendment, " That although this meeting deeply and sincerely regret the evil workings of the Corn-laws, and believe them bad and iniquitous, yet theydo not believe they, shall obtain their full measure of justice till the People's Charter becomes the law of the land." JOHN _Moss, another working man, seconded it. Mr. JOHNSON, a manufacturer of Derby, addressed the meeting in refutation of the arguments of Knott. A working man wished to correct the Chartists in one great error. They said machinery had caused all the distress ; now he denied it. He had for forty years worked a stocking frame ; that species of frame had not been altered by machinery during that whole time—it had not been touched in the march of steam—it made only one stocking as it did forty years ago—it employed one man to each frame a s it did 40 years ago.—(Cheers.) How was it, then, that he himself did not earn one-third of what he did 40 years ago—that the wages of all stockingers had fallen to starvation prices ? It could not be from machinery ; it was for want of a market.— (Vehement cheers.) Let England have the world for a market, and the whole of its inhabitants for customers, — the change would bring peace and joy to every town and hamlet—to every fireside, and to every English heart. (All the meeting immediately cheered the old man, who had evidently turned the tide of public opinion by his plain open eloquence.) The MAYOR said he could not, consistently with ht duty, put the amendment, as the meeting was caAed for a specific purpose—namely, to adopt a petition to Par liament. The Chartists might negative the petition if they liked, but he could not put any amendment. The petition must stand or fall. KNorr inquired (amid great uproar, and cries of "Put the petition—No Charter—Down with the Corn-laws") whether, if he withdrew his amendment, the meeting would agree to support the Charter next year, provided that the Parliament refused the prayer of their petition this session ? This the leaders of the meeting declined. The MAYOR then took a show of hands on the peti tion ; a forest of hands rose for it—not one against it, and it was declared carried unanimously amid a volley of cheers that shook the very building. It was then agreed that the Members for the tom, present the petition and be requested to support its prayer. EDWARD STRUTT, Esq., M.P., expressed his willing ness and the honour he felt to do both, and said that km% before the Corn-laws were considered to weigh so mate rially on the country he had opposed them in the House, and ever should do so while he had a seat in it.—(llear.) The meeting then separated. 1 RE LAND. CITY OF DUBLIN ELECTION. DUBLIN, JAN. 24.—The nomination took place this norning. Bad as were the arrangements last election, they are now infinitely worse. The increase of the con stituency rendered it necessary to increase the booths, six hundred voters being allowed bylaw to each. At the last election there were sixteen booths, there are seven teen at this.. But what have the Government Sheriffs done? They have given the additional booth to the Tory freemen! The last booth in the list is 0. 2. The great majority of voters in that booth are Tories ; and only 444 are to poll in it altogether. In another freeman's booth (T. U.) there arc but 475 voters, almost all Tories. Upon the other hand, the smallest and the most incon venient booth of the entire is letter M, in which there are nineteen hundred and sixty-six voters! This booth has been placed in the open street, and in a filthy and narrow street, in the depth of a severe win ter! Sixteen hundred of those voters in letter M are Li berals. Not one half of them can poll ! The law pre scribes COO voters fur each booth ; there should, there fore, have been at least three booths for the voters in letter M. But ingtead of three booths, the Government Sheriffs have given the very worst booth, fitted up with every possible regard to inconvenience, obstruction, and absence of defence against the weather ! It is under such circumstances that the Reformers enter upon the contest. This scandalous partisanship gives the Tories fearful odds against the friends of Lord Morpeth ; but they are animated by a most determined spirit, and rendered for midable by the most thorough union, and they are con fident of victory.. At half-past nine o'clock the Court was opened to the public, and in two or three minutes it was crowded to excess. Cheer after cheer arose for Lord Morpeth ; for some minutes the most deafening acclamations. resounded through the Court, whilst the " Kentish fire " of the Tory party was scarcely heard at intervals in the tumult of applause. At ten minutes past ten the Lord Mayor appeared, when enthusiastic cheers were given. A rumour was heard that the Hon. Mr. Howard. brother of Lord Morpeth, had arrived in town. The mention of his name acted like a spell upon the multi tude, and loud cheers were given. In the Tory gallery the Rev. Tresham Gregg, who has been denouncing the Roman Catholics as idolaters during the past week, oc cupied a conspicuous place, and took a chief part in the demonstrations of the faction. The lion. HENRY CAULFIELD, brother to the Earl of Charlemont, rose amid long continued applause. When silence was obtained, he said—The vacancy in this city, which you have been called upon by her Majesty's writ to fill up, has occurred by the demise of your former re presentative, and when he mentioned the name of Mr. West it was for the purpose of expressing his deep re gret at the loss sustained by his family, his friends, and the profession with which he was connected.—(Hear, hear.) It was now his duty to recommend the Noble Lord who would be put in nomination as their represen tative. He could not claim him as his countryman ; but if he was not, he did not apprehend that a single politi cal opponent would be found to deny that his Lordship had a thoroughly Irish heart.—(Cheers.) From' the first time he came into public life, his constant object was the amelioration of the condition of the Irish people— (Cheers)—and this course he followed up from one step to another until he accomplished much that he sought for.—(Applause.) He need hardly remind the meeting that the manners of the Noble Lord are most amiable, and that he was accessible at all times to those who sought him. His talents are of the highest order—his extensive knowledge and profound skill rendered him a most desirable person to represent the important inte rests of this great city in the Imperial Legislature.— (Cheers.) Theta were the grounds on which he recom mended the Noble Lord to the consideration of the elec tors of Dublin, as a fit and proper person to represent them in Parliament.—(Continued cheers.) The Right Hen. the LORD MAYOR rose, and when the cheering with which he was greeted subsided, he said he rose with feelings of unalloyed pleasure to second the motion made by the brother of the living Charlemont— (Cheers)—the son of the late Charlemont—(Renewed cheers)—a name that will live in the memory of Irish patriotism long as the island is surrounded by the sea.— (Applause.) The name of that man who was foremost in the gallant band that set the foreign enemy at defiL. ante—that secured the stability of the Throne against the combined armies and navies of Europe—that pre served Ireland to British connection, and gave to Ireland legislative independence.—(Protracted cheers.) He could assure all present, that it was not affectation when he proclaimed that he felt deep sorrow for the occasion which brought them here. if lie had an angry feeling towards their late representative, it was purely on poli tical grounds, and now that he was in his cold grave he recollected only his most amiable qualities, and in his sorrow for the individual he buried every portion of poli tical feud, which a long opposition may have created.— (Hear.) He now came to the immediate subject for consideration. Ile might be asked whom he wished to fill the vacant scat. To which lie would reply, a Re pealer certainly—no doubt of that—(Cheers)—next, he would prefer an Irishman.—(A voice, from the Conser vative side, " There's one behind you.") There is a crooked finger to that—(Laughter)—ever man is not an Irishman that is born in Ireland.—(Hear.) If I thought that in this contest there was a chance of rallying together the friends of Reform of all shades of opinions ours thorough Irishman of talent, I would feel it muy.:ie) no t support him in preference to Lord Morpeth; b u t now believe at present that could be accomplish_c_ fi Mr. Gre make an offer to you (to the Conserva o tir o s?! honour as a gory come forward, and pledge his l• gentleman that he will vote for repe al' "to the candidate myself to support him in preferenc e If we cannot whom I am flow seconding. —( Ch eers.) to an the next best. person to get a Repealer, let us e w ho ii choice between Lord Mor peth We have now o nl y I hereby pledge come an e a h l s t a t h v ic o e h ug d h im it eu i l s tie n s su k a s a l yw n . f o f o u w r l peth and Mr. G'regpr s .) ; '• crisis in public affair exaggerate do more than beset the n ation, draw your at tention that whic plain to every man who takes ending or making some inquiry.' Nothing public speakers . canwill not e m ore to unsatisfactory for British interests than the e. France, with her overgrOwntirmy, has assumed a dangerous position—she is strong inher s t t h a e t et trouble E bl u e r o o f p r mili tary force, but far from being great in moral or religious qualitiet a 6 is dreaming of retribution for Waterloo, DESTITUTION IN GLASGOW. On Saturday one of the most heart-rending spectacles we have ever witnessed was exhibited in the Police court of this city. Nearly seventy individuals, of both sexes, and of all ages, who had during the previous night voluntarily sought protection under the roof of the office, were placed at the bar, for the purpose of having their cases inquired into by the Magistrate. The party presented an appearance of filth, degrada tion, and misery absolutely sickening, and afforded but too positive proof of the dreadful amount of wretched ness now so prevalent. Want, in its most direful form, was marked upon every visage; the clothing of many of the poor outcasts was scarcely sufficient to cover their nakedness ; none of them had a home to go to ; and, impelled by their necessities, the protection of the Police-office was the only refuge left them in their dis tress. The amount of misery which these poor creatures exhibited seemed utterly to appal the Magistrate, Bailie Bogle, whose term of service has not been long enough to make him acquainted with the degree of wretched ness so familiar to those who have been longer in the Magistracy ; and, like every Magistrate in similar circumstances, he was evidently puzzled how to act. Af ter some consultation, it was resolved to submit the case of each to the examination of the parish-officers, with a view to relief being granted where the parties belonged to Glasgow, and having the others sent off to their respec tive parishes. This was perhaps all that could be done in the circumstances, but we need not say that it is utterly inadequate to meet the evil. It is proper to state that, with the exception of two or three indivi• duals, none of the unfortunate parties referred to above are known in the Police-office as cri minals— poverty alone sent them within its precincts ; but it requires no prophetic vision to foretel that, sooner or later, their names .will go to swell up the list of delin quents who tenant its cells, unless the horrors to which they arc subjected prevent the commission of crime, by the awful alternative of shortening their lives. While on this subject, we may take the opportunity of mentioning the startling fact, that there are at present in Bridewell no fewer than fifty-two voluntary priSoners, who have come forward and re quested admission to that establishment. Many of these are persons who have petitioned to be allowed to remain after the expiry of their sentences ; others, after going out, but who have been unsuccessful in procuring employ ment, have returned begging for admission ; but many of them have never been convicted of crime, and have peti tioned to be admitted, subject to all the rules and regula tions of the prison. Perhaps this single fact proves, more clearly than any other which could be adduced, the fallen and helpless condition of our suffering poor. Persons who have never been convicted of crime go voluntarily forward, and petition to be' subjected to all the rules and regulations of Bridewell, rather than remain in the possession of their freedom, accompanied with all the evils of starvation. This fact we can state on the authority of Mr. Brebner, the humane and en lightened governor of our prisons ; and it is one of such a startling nature, as must at once attract no small shard of public observation. The distress, now so unhappily prevalent all over the country, presents many features of fearful interest, the most striking of which are the rapidly demoralising effects produced in the lower walks of society ; and perhaps nothing has occurred to show more clearly the sinking condition of that class of our fellow-citizens than the significant fact we have recorded above.—Glasgow Paper. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian.) The unfavourable weather, and the great uncertainty existing as to the financial and commercial views of the present Government, continue to exercise an unfavour able influence on this Market. Yesterday the demand was extremely limited ; and, low as were prices previously, most of those who were under thd necessity of selling found themselves compelled to accept lower prices yesterday. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, JAN. 24. There has been another dull market to-day, with prices similar to those of last Monday. In the wool-market there has been very little doing at any prices. THE ANTI-CORN-LAW BAZAAR. (Abridged from the Manchester Guardian.) Since our last, every thing has been progressing in a way that promises well for the complete success of the bazaar ; at least, so far as regards its immense stock in trade. The consideration of customers—purchasers, will doubtless be the great one ; and every facility should be given in the way of attraction, railway conveyance, &c., to induce distant friends to visit Manchester on the occasion. The opponents of the Corn-laws, in this town and neighbourhood, are giving their contributions most liberally, both i n abour, time, materials articles, and money. The arti c l es deposited in the house in Foun tain-street, occupied by the bazaar committee, are insured against loss from fire. The receipt of packages, hampers, boxes, chests, hogsheads, &c., containing articles for the bazaar, has been very considerable, especially during Monday and yesterday. Amongst the contributions one extremely curious and valuable series has been presented by Mark Phillips, Esq., M.P. It consists of a collection of the letters and signatures of French Minis nisters, statesmen, savans and litteraires, and is peculiarly rich in the autographs of the Marshals and Generals of Napoleon. Amongst the Marshals are two Royal per sonages, Joachim Murat, King of Naples, and Berna dotte, King of Sweden ; also Ney, Soult, Augereau (Due de Castiglione), Maret (Due de Bassano), Massena (Duc de Rivoli and Prince d'Essling), Ber thier, Junot (Duc d'Abrantes), Suchet (Due d'Al bufera), Bethune (Duc de Sully) ; Generals Toy, Gourgaud, Condorcet, Petion, &c. Amongst states men's autographs are those of Cardinal Richelieu, Car dinal Mazarin, Necker, Turgot, and Guizot. Amongss other distinguished characters there are attograph lettert of the Countess de Geniis, Madame Campan, the Count de Polignac (we believe father to Prince Polignac, the Minister of Charles the Tenth, late a prisoner in the Castle of Ham), Bernardin de Saint Pierre (author of " The Studies of Nature"), L'Abbe Sieyes, President of the National Institute during the Republic • J. B. Say, Talma, th e F renc h trage di an ; an d David, the painter. Nor are there wanting valuable English autographs of various periods. Some liberal contributions have been received ; from Lord Brougham, and various others, in addition to those noticed last week. There is also an original poem by poor Lander, the African traveller. Amongst other autographs of literary and other characters are those of Mrs. Somerville, Miss Adelaide Kemble, Hon. Mrs. Norton, Miss Agnes Strickland, Mrs. Bulwer (" Rosina Lytton Bulwer,") Mrs."C. F. Gore, authoress of " Mothers and Daughters," &c. ; Rev. H. H. Milman, author.of " History of the Jews, and of Christianity ;" Profes`sor Babbage, Samuel Rogers, Morier, author of " Hujji Baba," &c., Richard Monckton Milnes, Samuel Lover, Sir John Ross, the Polar navigator, &c. There are the autographs of Lord John Russell, and a great number of his contem poraries, on both sides the House of Commons. One autograph will be looked at with great interest. It is a piasectele, Jan. 19, 18 o f paper, bearing the words, "Albert, Windsor Castle, This evening Wednesday, the theatre closes for dra matic entertainments till after the bazaar. At twelve o'clock to-night, the various parties employed by the Bazaar Committee commence their work in the theatre, to fit it up for the occasion. Mr. Edwards is the builder and joiner; Mr.:Doveston, the upholsterer and decorator. The extreme interior length of the theatre, from Foun tain-street to Back Mosley-street, is 125 feet; its width, 65 feet inside measure. The stage is very nearly a square; being 66 feet wide, from side to side; and 65 feet deep, from the back wall to the orchestra. It extends as far back from the " foot-lights," as the centre box-door of the dress-circle is distant from them in front. The dimensions of the pit are 38ft. 5 inches, by 36ft. 6 inches. We described on Saturday the proposed disposition of the stalls, of which there will be 30 to 35 altogether. Of these, 23 extend round the walls of the stage, or occupy the dress circle of boxes. The smallest stall on the stage will be loft, by Bft. The centre double range of stalls, ex t en di ng across the floor from the ba c k o f the stage to the centre box, so as to form the space ,for the promenade into a sort of circle around it, will be 70ft. in length, 10ft, wide, and will comprise eight double stalls—the frontage of each stall being seven feet nine inches. It is intended, in the week after the bazaar, to have a grand ball in the theatre ; and doubtless there will be other amusements announced in due time, for the other evenings of that week. STAGE-COACH ADVENTURES.—O n the even ing of Thursday, the 13th, as the Gainsborough coach was proceeding to Lincoln, and had passed Tillbridge Inn, the wind blew off the hat of the coachman, who, indiscreetly resigning his hold of the reins that he might recover it, the horses set off and left him behind. There were no outside pas sengers, and only two inside; one of whom shortly after wards putting out his head, the door was forced open, and he fell and was left too. The horses proceeded without a driver until they arrived at the usual halting place, the Lion and Snake, above hill, where they stopped, having tra velled seven miles and turned four or five corners without any accident. The coach was then driven down hill to the Queen's Head, and a chaise was despatched in search of the coachman, who, it was expected, had fallen from the box, but who was met trudging homeward, safe and sound. There was a female inside the coach with the person that fell out ; she fortunately sat still, not know ing otherwise than that the coachman was driving. -- Lincoln Mercury. FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS. While an English family, resident at St. Omer, were, a few evenings ago, at supper, they were suddcnly alarmed by a terrible explosion from the fire-place—the wood and ashes being thrown out into the room, and some of the furniture damaged. When they recovered from the shock, and sought for the cause, they found that one of the brass lobes fixed on the dogs had burst and caused the mischief. No doubt was entertained that the air within the ball had been expanded by the heat, until it could no longer be compressed, and had blown the ball to pieces. _ Two nights ago an accoucheur, in the Rue St. Jacques, hearing the cries of a female in the street, hastened down and discovered a young woman suffering from the pains of labour, and in such a state that she could not be re moved. Having completed the delivery on the spot, the accoucheur had the mother and her infant conveyed to the Hospice de la Maternity, where they had every care and attention paid them. A boy, ten years of age, slipped out of a sky-light window in the roof of a house, Rue du Faubourg St. Antoine, on Saturday morning, and rolling towards the eaves of the roof was caught by the gutter-pipe. I tere he remained suspended for some time, in the most immi nent danger of falling and being dashed to pieces ; but a man succeeded in approaching him with a rope, and in hauling him up safely into the house. The boy's mother was so much affected that she swooned away, and was a a long time in a state of total insensibility. The Indicateur of Bordeaux relates that the Toulouse mail was stopped, on the 18th instant, near Agen, by a band of Spanish refugees, who were harboured by the keeper of a public-house of bad repute. The postilion was wounded in several places. The courier got down armed with a poignard, courageously fought with the robbers, and severely wounded several, but was at length stunned by a violent blow on the head. As assistance came up, nine of the Spaniards and their landlord were arrested. The courier was so far recovered as to be able to proceed with the mail, but the postilion was left in an alarming condition. _ _ The Courrier du Nord relates that a few days since, at Saulchy, in that department, a girl, not thirteen years of age, fell into a well from her foot having slipped on some ice at the edge. She was not injured by the fall, but contrived, by means of the bucket-chain, to make her way to the top. Here, however, her hands became so cold, that she was obliged to let go, and fell again to the bottom. She succeeded a second time in mounting by means of a chain, and was aided by another girl, who had heard her cries, in getting out of the well. According to Article 170 of the Civil Code, a marriage, contracted in a foreign country, between two French persons, or between a French person and a foreigner, is valid, if it be celebrated according to the laws and customs of that country, and provided it be preceded by the publications prescribed by Art. 63 of the same Code, and the French person has not contra vened any of the provisions of the preceding chapter. An intimacy was some years ago formed between the families of Miss Fanny Villiers, a young English lady, and M. Charles Claudon, the son of a French physician, and who was himself destined for the same profession. The intimacy of the two young people grew into mutual love, and they plighted their faith to each other, but agreed to postpone their union until the young man was admitted into the faculty of medicine. In September, 1840, Miss Villiers was obliged to go to London, and M. C. Claudon accompanied her, unknown to his mother, who had become a widow. On 12th October they were married in due form, according to the ritual of English Church, at St. George's, Hanover-square, and on the 14th they received the benediction of a French Catholic priest. M. C. Claudon wrote to his mother, informing her of what had taken place, and he received her answer, in which, although she reproached him for having acted without her consent, she tacitly acceded to the mar riage. After the return of M. and Mme. C. Claudon to Paris, the widow Claudon, for a time, refused to see her new daughter-in-law, but, at length, was induced to re ceive her three several times. Notwithstanding this, Mme. Claudon, the mother, became determined to annul the marriage of her son, if possible, and instituted a suit in the Tribunal de Premiere Instance on the ground of the want of the publication required by the French Code. The tribunal, however, decided for the validity of the marriage, considering that, at the time it was con tracted, M. C. Claudon was twenty-five years of age, and the publication was not indispensable. Against this decision, Mane. Claudon, the mother, appealed to the Cour Royale. The case was heard on the three last Saturdays. The Court, at length, delivered its judgment decreeing that, although the non-observance of the article 170 of the Code might have been good cause for an annulment of the marriage, yet, considering that the appellant had, after she knew of the marriage, received her daughter-in-law several times in her own house, wherefrom, as well as from other , documents in the case, it resulted that she had consented to the marriage, therefore, the appeal should be dismissed, and the deci sion of the Tribunal de Premiere Instance confirmed. PROJECTED VISITS OF THE KING Of I PRUSSIA * —Great preparations are making for the re - caption of his Majesty the King of Prussia, at the late 1 residence of the Duke of Cumberland, in the Stable yard, St. James's. When his Majesty landed at Green wich on Saturday last, he expressed a wish to examine that splendid and national edifice. Preparations are making by the gallant Governor, Admiral Sir Robert Stopford, to receive his Majes t y, when all the old vete rans, and the children of the Naval School, will pass in review order before his Majesty and suite, who will be attended by the Dukes of Sussex, Cambridge, the Lords of the Admiralty, Sir Charles Napier, and other distin guished naval officers. His Majesty will also visit the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, when a dejeune will be given by the Master-General of the Ordnance, the Right Honourable Sir George Murray, G.C.B. Lord Bloom field and the whole of the staff will accompany the King over the Foundry, the Arsenal, and the Dock-yard ; and should the weather be propitious, a grand review will take place of the Royal Artillery, when they will go through their finest manoeuvres and rocket firing, and many experiments will be made before his Majesty of the new improvements lately introduced in the Ordnance department of this country. llis Majesty will also visit the Thames Tunnel, which is now nearly finished. Great preparations are making by Sir Isambert Brunel, the indefatigable engineer, who has at last accomplished this wonderful sub-marine excavagation, under the most commercial river in the, world. It will be fully lighted up with gas on the occasion. DISTRESS IN BOLTON.—The following facts, which we have received from an authentic source, will enable our readers to form some idea of the pressure of distress in Bolton. During the four weeks, ending Jan. 22, 1842, the number of applications for relief to the Bolton Benevolent Society amounted to 6,095 ; and the average income of the applicants was only thirteen pence per head per week. Of these, 828 have been re jected, as not coming within the limits fixed by the Society. Of the remaining 6,157, who have been re lieved, the average income per head per week was only elevenpence three-farthings. All this is in addition to the rehef granted by the Guardians, which has increased enormously with the dullness of trade. In the year end ing March, 1836, the total sum paid for the relief of the poor of Great Bolton was 1,5581. In the year ending March, 1841, the sum paid for the relief of the poor was 6,2681. ; an increase of 300 per cent.—Manchester Guardian. BEFORE I'D BE BURIED, I'D DIE FIRST ! —" What do you say ?" said a woman one day to her neighbour, speaking of an old acquaintance, who from affluent circumstances was reduced to a state of abject poverty, so that she sought, with great earnestness, a refuge or asylum in what is generally called a work house ; here she found the comforts to which .she had long been a total stranger ; however, from the severity of the winter, together with an aged and shattered consti tution, she at last sunk, and death seized her mortal frame. No friend, no relative, attended her mortal re mains to their last home ; she was indebted to the parish for her grave. " What do you say—she was buried by the parish ? oh, the mean contemptible wretch 1" said her old acquaintance ; " before I'd bs buried by the pa rish, I'd die fiat, that I would." tube r. " ~~ 1 ~,