The Sun. — London, England, 1833-01-25 00:00:00

I PRENCH PAPERS. p asta ( From the Moniteur of Wednesday.) ye sterdl i r,; 414 ' 22 . —The n.ost recent accounts from Con to,4°Ple are V° 0 yo Chao Up to the let of this month. . :vbt it tick ed l e 2lst December, the Grand Vizier having .at drigand Xaajel'br4hina Pacha, in the plain which extends behind ; e we ] 04 0 44 ;4 the action lasted the whole day, and several to di n " y °f th e "rips fought with great intrepidity, but the mass lifi'4 b " tin e ,. orkiah army having given way, the Egypti a n ar e • [he „ rate maycavalry overthrew all that still resisted, and the r°411,1 ' ~i • c omplete Th e Grand Vizi e r, wh o was sur , o ie notion was taken prisoner, as well as a Titular botriber of Pachas, ' among whom are mentioned the Th,'eha, Bishop of Koniah, and Bosnak Ali Pacha. t o s o or-,Ypttan army which, before the battle, amounted l rahl. ), "Cl men, seems to have sustained pretty consi , e f 14, a(01 it has not been learnt that it had advanced. pite bathe Ottom in army, Mehemet Pacha and Achmet EA,' r emained, the one at Alt Siiihr. the other at se kti Shihr, ' coli-et the remains of it. The Porte was and t he l I nto Asia all the recruits that it could command seen) Seraskier was going to take the field. It should thou' Aleb° of sending an agent to Alex inili ia, to treat with I{: 41 ,, ; " Ali; and it was affirmed, that, after the battle phee,'""ll, conferences with the same view had taken lirs uet l'een the Grand Vizier and Ibrahim Pacha. o rr ° 4 l th e ilessuger des C/iambres of Wednesday. atj ) I‘JAtjAN.N. do not wish to excite alarm, 0f,4 , howeve r , our d uty to k eep our rea d ers i n f orme d ipi 4 t ! Passing re l at i ve to B e l g i um , t h e a ff a i rs o f w h ic h, act 3e of cif th e pro j ects of conventions and treaties, do Ailth -aee:4„t° he yet on the point of being terminated. diplomaticthe P aper% which are hawked about from hip d 4 de to London, and from London to Paris, d 9 not 41,7 a report Irmo being generally circulated in Brus thi te occ ordin g to a letter which we have received from th ie ' ci t Y) of a third expedition of ourarmv to the North 'tack e xpedition This news will be . received with !i,loineredibility by many persons. We have doubted 14' 4 still doubt it; but, however, it is spoken of, and lage"eil e xplained how the Belgian head quarters have th, a retrograde movement. This would be to confirm th tt il l t °iterate and pacific views of France, and to prove f the p„ l4 re Wasi no intention of going beyond the limits o sisC'mrention of the 2211 of October, relative to the IZ t °l ,the citadel of Antwerp. 4 , 2 :°i , Measure would he binding for the sequel in case Proh th e "qresaion b y t h e D utc h ; b ut i s suc h an aggress i on ts This is a question which we may be permitted ati l;h rn • int - At Brussels it is announced t in. the affirmative, 4 sth,„' s °Pinio n i s supporte d b y the hostilities which still °lth e ! in th e L ower S cheldt. The retrograde movement Irti te - 4 ,: i ooh and B e l g i an corps i s cons id ere d as a sort o f 44 11 ' l4Ol maybe br o k en on th e fi rs t p re t ex t an d on t h e tes r , event. Cha o I:,'Y any thing, however, it is difficult to reconcile gu e „ 'ter', from Brussels, with the furloughs that are ti4l,4",iti the French army, and especially with the great th t „ l° , 4 in the expense of the War Department, promised /1 tlliget of the year 1834. thely7 President of the Chamber of Deputies wrote to tiai: l °ister of the Interior immediately on the vdtmg of o tdoOo the 21st of January, to request him to ask the i c e - f of , the King respecting the day when the dep.uta `i !fle Chamber could be admitted to present at to Nt; r Je 't3r. The Court of Cessation did no business li r ' a Y; several 'Members attended, but soon withdrew. 4 % 4 ' T rihunal of Commerce did not sit. yesterday, on t of th e ann i versary o f t h e 2 0t h J anuary. e t° 4 4y of death pronounced by the Court of As. "' ° urtion, on the chouans Bernard and Guillet has -°tontuted by the King to 20 years' imprisonment,. [yn (taken ) , „ en f a ro C . a colt of 0 ; arket he % gemen t ' . 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The Government has provided the latter kei, i kl itable w i nter c l ot hi ng. T he Sultan has on this 'l t °4 deviated from the general rule, and has imparted Ise stl e adv antages to those ' called district marines, who, It ti ~'"g to th e o ld regu l at i on , were c l othe d e i ther at 4 4 ' ,:,"'n exp ense or t h at o f t h e di str i cts. He has a l so tOl, O that all soldiers, without exception, who are now 1 1 , p 6it 'l the fleet and engaged in the service on shore, ided with clothing suitable to the present severe qi 0 ' For thi s purpose t h e G overnment h as cause d a sum ih l ° purses (boo,goo piastres) to be a'signed to the t ek.,, a dtninistr a ti on . Th ere i s li tt l e t h at i s f avoura bl e to kft 4' of the Turkish exp edition. Ibrahim% brahim%victories t Mussulmen, and, every step that he advances, „It b as the people under Mahnioud s sceptre. Aceur- N ° the latest accounts, the following were the posi "ta °I , the Turkish army :—The town of Koniah was gped for the general r en d e zv ous o f th e army ; b ut 8 14i tion appeared what tl e Grand Vizier ans t Cotan :(l,%thUught ill adapted for his purpose. The town r t to 'lolfr w as t h erefore c h osen f ur the rendezvous ; and 41,,` troops which necessar il y marc h e d t h roug h hil`"inople and Galapnli, wer e or d ere d thi t h er . A t t h e „ u 'ls, l4l e the G ra nd Vizier ordered Peat Pacha to repair with ltoder his command to Ak Sham, in ease theEgyp ilia:"°uhl be b e f ore K on i a h, to avo id a b att l e, t i ll h e h i m . a t S : I 'Ll arrive to direct the operations in person. The er m Koniah accordingly fell back to Alt Shihr, and „ now there amounts to aheve 60,000 men. P . acha, governor of Tubesond, is advancing at Stmt'rhas time from Siraa towards •Ces a r ea . The Grand arrived at Ak Shihr, and i s ma ki ng t h e necea es:angetnents for a general a tt ac k aga i nst Ir.rabim. 4 11 ) ; ) '' therefore, shorty expect important news from t o t,it at et , of war. Ott i ,hb Hulem Effendi, chief architect to the Govern to 11 1 1 i, made a report to the Sultan on the several new g' and improvements which he had ordered in 14 -4 e'Pit al a year ago. They are the barracks fur ~° e • artillery at Pere. The ere it military 1 4 1E .4 of provisions with the enormous ovens `, 4 1 . 140'k to it, a cannon foundry, a manufactory of I) lll l s ,, A vt and saltpetre, entirely hewn stone, with other 4L4 'i t „ ipr ' n difices, chiefly for military . purposes, are among mentioned of Constantinople. In addition to the iriC h '''ntion e d buildings, the new pavement of the "ci,"l streets is to be reckoned, which is highly can ts lEtrs and health. i h ttie r) 4N. 14.—A French courier, from Con i;ttlt arrived here with the news of a great f t abrt t 'essli4oniali and the passes of Mount Taurus, (' l :tea ' a ° 01' veiny of the Gr,nd Vizier was de (;')1 , 5 u Y the Egyptians, and the Grand Vaier himself ri ' ° "er- The details of this event are not known. Ol) e ,t er f rom Belgard of Jan. 8, which we have just 't (l op. "' likewise annou ' nces the defeat of the Grand Vizier, not mention his being made prisoner.) I) It s GREECE. ibrlthPrivate communication fr o m N a p o li, o f the Bth of a t .,, t lla to " On the Leipzig Journal), there is the follow th't, 0 1 ' The Greek Senate, with all its archives, a, t4 te t n t he 17th (29th) of November to Sp e zzio, and 4 Aatros, and has there formed a separat e Govern iNieo'''th Generl Co'ocotrini at its head, who, on all p iptt 3 '. has distinguished himself by acting in his own Las commence d w i t h an i nsu l t i ng proc l amat i on s tl ll . eth i ' l n n e of th e th ree a lli e d p owers ." to t o but the sp ee dy arr i va l o f t h e R egency can put a l' llll s 4'h scen es . Th e present G enera l , G ue h eneue, tiel t th q ln elo the Mores, has presented, in thename of the i t , to ,O v ernenent, 2,000 francs to the Military School, o" O rphan-house, at Egina, both of which were 4 1 th °44 test distress. Colonel C., Commander of the s tic 'e s i a ;:illery, h as , i n lik e manner, presente d to t h e "re, I,boo francs, to prevent the sale of some • 4 14, ) °- "41;. 14.—Five per Cent. INletalliques 89 fiNee,,' Per Cent. '77/ ; Bank Shares 1,169 k.— hs 4h t . ts,,, 2 -sitting, Jan. 10. t ke 4 l le ; J UNE 9.—Solemn thanksgivings will be cele lies 5 'eW days in the Church of Marialiilf, for the 1, 11 1 t he young Ki ng o f H u ng ar y, on w hi c h o cca- Por ta ' Petiai Court will be p resen t. 'ota t "'e, 4 pLin Di e t h a s not y e t d one any thi ng o f im fur I Wi le we hear no more of the new war ; the mo a t A 4 ' 11 4 411 the world wants to borrow is nut favourable a ws ° Peration. Si nce th e th un d er o f t h e cannon C'oe';et h a 4 ceased, the rumours of war have died 11 ke, 4 , / s e t , l , la considers peace as secure.—Nuremburg J tn. 17e cook - 4 .( 01.,1 L to4(lpW'ritEß arrived at Nice on the 11th from the aouth of Italy to England. His IA 4 e 0 4 ,1' to leave Nice on the 13th. 6 79, 14 1, ;`,l lll eree of O s t en d h as nit l c h increas e d. 'Ater44 numher of vessels entering that port was go° ng were 666. In 1832, 972 vessels °aa,'k's , ll,l sail e d, the s t ;'` , l, or FRIENDS OF SIR C. FORBES, ki)krtrt'nierous and highly respectable meeting of t ioe t 0 .. 1 1e 4 .$ °I Sir Crissittss Tonnes in the late contest due t of "lfa, t ' 'vas held Yesterday, to take into coesidera o f the ~t L e si tn 'aos of testifying their respect for the con e?naot'ut,tetia°,4nourahle Baronet. Resolutions, expressive bei t. a nd ~''PPrObatio rl 01 Sir C. Foitsixa's general wer e , re a ,, gr 'oe late election, were paused, pith a view 1141 to krn „tl'd to the Honourable Baronet. Thanks a i arman, and the meeting adjourned. Y at go'' — a t ter': Patha o ' -at h 31(.1). it l';e4'6; !lately' Lt West , l ' noch Ow I Fithia n iattinK nr iitY at Br idge ; '7" at the rnhill Gi 1Y a 1 7 Sadier o.g at St° at Pr::t ~in g to‘ o , :„ll Ly, at I" turdsY, n Tue! wly 1 / 4 ; Elyforo at CoV 1 MI ICettle ti and Sst at -at 11• at or' t the a t CI at the ha lf-P?' ? mon t' lest Cl Ipish 3 ' l , ' a ir' °' m nis Stud' n ~'~` ty at ; g el 'il? ath ; , Y , At C Ut s Bur) s cei 101 / .761' .11 0 1 ) ' ( 1141 0 be 11 ....." LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25, 1833. We understand, from authority, that the state. ment made by a Sunday contemporary of a de putation having waited upon the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, and received from him certain assurances with reference to the pro posed reduction or repeal of the taxes on know. ledge, was utterly unfounded, and that up to the present moment Lord ALTHORP has made no official communication on the subject. From an authentic source, however, we learn that the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER has no intention at present (public opinion plainly declared may alter his views) of propos. ing the repeal of the stamp duties on news papers, or of goi ng b eyon d hi s former pledge to the country, viz., reducing the stamp duty to twopence ; and that he is by no means decided as to the reduction of the oppressive, unequal, and unjust duty upon advertisements. His Lordship is even afraid that the House of Commons will insist upon so extensive a re duction of the assessed taxes as to prevent his affording even to redeem his former pledges on the subject of the newspaper stamp duty. What his Lordship means by affording, we know not, unless he .means that the amount of the re quired reduction of the assessed taxes will swal low up all the improvement which the past year • has exhibited in the revenue. It painful to speak of so amiable and well meaning a man as Lord ALTHORP, otherwise than with respect and approbiatiom We have a duty, however, to perform to the public, more important than any claim which his Lordship can possibly have on our forbearance. If Lord AL ' THORP has committed a gross financial error, he must be told of his imprudence. 'lmportant as the reduction of the assessed taxes must be to a large portion of the public, Lord ALTIIORP should not forget that the demand for a reduc tion, or rather for the repeal, of the taxes on knowledge, rests on a different footing. If he reduces the house and window tax, the loss to the revenue will be according to the amount of the reduction; the deficiency will not be made up by extra houses and windows. It is different with an article of consumption. A reduced rate of duty is fre quently more productive than the large amount ; and in the case of. newspapers, it is probable that a reduction of even three-fourths of the stamp and advertisement duties would produce an increase .to the revenue. But, if there were even a loss, do•not LordALTHORP and his col leagues owe so much to the press, without which they would not now be in office, that they are bound, independently of the public demand for reduction, to remove those restrictions by which the energies of the press are cramped, and its influence lon the public mind is unfairly restricted ? The reduction of the taxes on knowledge should even precede that of the assessed taxes, and if Lord A LTHOM' is not statesman enough to grasp the question on general grounds, he ought not to lose sight of the important services which the press has rendered to him and to the country. If the clamour for the reduction of the taxes on know- lge is not as great as that for the reduction of the assessed taxes, it is because the public, re collecting the pledge made by his Lordship, last year, consider the first question as good as settled. It is quite absurd to suppose they care nothing about it. Lord ALTIIORP tells us that he cannot afford to make a large reduction of both the taxes on knowledge and the assessed taxes—that if we must have both, each will be in small propor tion. This looks like an attempt to strangle one of the proposed measures—to disap point the nation on the subject of the assessed taxes, or to give a little more in that way and deny the demand for a greater diffusion of public knowledge; if we would have the light of nature at a cheaper rate, we must give up our claim to the light of intellect. We may put something into our purse by his reducing the assessed taxes, but our minds must be left to roam in ignorance. He cannot afford to abolish the tax on in tellect ! Certainly not if on every branch where economy might be effectual there is to be no retrenchment ; but if Lord ALTIIORP would make good the deficiency which this abolition or deduction would occasion, let him look at the constitution of every public office—at lazy commissioners, paid 1,2001. each per annum to read the Morning Post and abuse Ministers—at chief clerks, as they are called, who lounge attendance for an hour or two in the day, and draw annually a salary of from 7001. to 1,0001. per annum. Let him go to the Treasury, to the Foreign office, the Colonial-office, the Custom-house, So merset-house, the Excise-office, and there, with out cutting off clerks who have only from 1001. to 300/. a year, he may at once effect a saving which would return more to the Treasury than he could lose by a total abolition of the taxes on knowledge and a great reduction of the assessed taxes; or, if he has any influence with the First Lord of the Treasury, let him obtain a minute for reducing the standing army to that footing at least which even the Anti-reform Duke of WELLINGTON considered sufficient for every fair purpose. Whilst all this is practicable, Lord ALTHORP must not say he cannot afford to repeal the taxes on knowledge. Colonel COTTER, an officer of distinction, who served during the Peninsular campaign in the Portuguese service, has arrived in London from Cork, where he has been recruiting for Don PEDRo. A number of fine young men will sail in the course of a few days for Oporto; on their arrival they are to be formed into a legion to be called the Queen's Own Irish Le gion, over which Colonel C. will have the command. The Prussian State Gazette, of the 19th inst., contains the following article, which is impor tant, as showing a pacific disposition : " BERLIN, JAN. 18.-The occasion having ceased which induced his Majesty the King, according to the de claration in the States-General of the 14 of November last year, to order the assetaling of a corps of observa tion on the Meuse, his Majesty has now issued orders for the dissolution of that corps, and the return of the troops to their garrisons. • " PRUSSIAN FUNDS, JAN. B.—St, Scheid. Sch. Four per Cent., 93k; Prussian English Loan, 1818, Five per Cent., 103; ditto, 1822, Five per Cent., 103 ; Prussian English Bonds, 1830, Four per Cent., 80i." We have received the Paris Papers of Wed, nesday morning and evening. ___ The Moniteur contains accounts from Con stantinople of the Ist instant, confirming the news of the defeat of the GRAND VIZIER by IBRA HIM PACHA, and it is said that after the battle a disposition had been shown by the SULTAN to treat with AIEHEMET ALI. It appears, however, by some of the accounts from Paris, that a Russian Agent had arrived in Constanti nople for the purpose of offering the assistance of the Emperor NICHOLAS against the Egyptians. this is quite in Russian policy. NICHOLAS is sure that the acceptance of his offer ,will be followed, in the,event of the defeat or triumph of the SULTAN, with advantages to himself— he will extend his influence either in Turkey or Egypt, or perhaps in both, as a conqueror or a mediator. We - trust, however, that the SULTAN will have sufficient good sense to decline the offer of his assistance. The grasp of friendship of such a man as the Emperor of RUSSIA differs little from the clutch of destruction. Extracts from the Paris Papers will be found under the proper head. We remember reading, a short time since, i❑ a volume of amusing reminiscences, the singular `case of an old gentleman who was brought up to a Police-office, charged with having " wilfully, and with malice aforethought," committed petty larceny on his own wig ! In our paper of to-day a still more singular circumstance, though _ _ of the same genus, will be found, where a man is found guilty of feloniously eloping with his own box. In the former case the defendant was let off' with a grave rebuke, redolent in every line, of magisterial wisdom and benignity ; in the latter he is condemned to fourteen years' transportation—so much safer is it to make free with one's own wig, than one's own box " The case," says the gentleman who reported it, " excited considerable interest, as it involved a rather singular and novel question, namely, whether the person had or had not, been guilty of stealing his own property." It turned out that he had ; on which the Jury desired to know, " whether it was a felony for a man to steal his own goods." This being decided in the affirmative, the defendant was found guilty, and informed that he was liable to be transported for life ; '' but," added the Magistrate, " the Court would not go that length. Still, how ever, considering the address he ban' displayed, they could not do less than transport him for fourteen years !" With the other particulars of this case we do not quarrel. There seems, notwithstanding the air of absurdity that pervades it, to have been some little roguery at work•, hut the terms in which the Magistrate passed sentence,. deserve a pass ing word of animadversion. It .seems, accord ing to his reading of the criminal statute, that !he question of felony resolves itself into one of skill, rather than of immorality. That the talent with which it' is executed makes all the difference in the amount of its delinquency. Had the defendant in the present case, for in. stance, stolen his own goods and chattels' in bungling manner, yet nevertheless effected the suicidal felony, lie would have been a criminal of mere average iniquity. But the rogue has done it in an artist-like fashion ; he has displayed " astute intellect," as the chairman told him, and herein lies the deep enormity of his crime. The bun gler might possibly be pardoned, but the artist must pay the full penalty of his science. We had always imagined till now that a felony was a felony, whether committed by a blockhead or a proficient, but this bright Magistrate has shown the fallacy of our opinions. He has established the startling fact that petty larceny is a question not of principle but of ability, and should be visited accordingly. " Lord, how this world improves as we grow older," says COLMAN, to which we readily respond—Amen ! It does not appear that any direct or official communication has been received by our Cabinet from the Dutch Government by the last arrivals from the Hague. There are letters, however, from our Charge d'Affaires, at the Hague, to Lotd PALMERSTON, giving his opinion from what has transpired in the course of different interviews with the Dutch Minister for Foreign Affairs as to what ex tent, the King of HOLLAND may be ex pected to make concessions ; but we undetstand that nothing decisive can be collected even from these letters. The Lord of the Isles steamer left the Rive yesterday with 200 men for Oporto, but we have no heard that she carries out any officers of distinction. We find the following just observation in the Town of Sunday last:—" Mr. BENTLEY is pursuing a prudent but a beneficial course—hitherto, the books he has sent forth to the world, have, with scarcely an excep tion, been successful, because they have deserved success. One has not been followed too rapidly by another—each has had a fair chance—and the writers and the public have been satisfied. He has, therefore, a right to demani at our bands such aid as we can give him. To all who have the interests of literature at heart, the subject is one of no small importance. To encourace and support a just and enterprising publisher, is to advocate and uuhold the interests of the author—the one can only exist so long as the other flourishes—and if the speculations of the one should fail, the wellbeing of the other is in more than SAMUEL AUSTIN, a brother of the protege of her late MAJESTY, has written to a daily paper, refuting the statements which have appeared in most of the journals reflecting on the character of his parents. He says it is true that his mother applied for parish relief at the hands of the officers of Sr. Mary's, Whitechapel, but that she never received any thing. His father, he states, was the most opposite to being a profligate man, having for several years held a situation of 801 per annum, in the Customs, and brought up a family of seven children, besides the son adopted by Queen CAROLINE; and he adds, that the smallness of his income is the best possible answer to the charge of extravagance. • It is confidently reported that an M.P., the proprietor of considerable property at Brighton, which takes the name of its owner, addressed a letter to the Se cretary of the highest Personage in the realm, desiring to know the cause why he (the M.P.) was not invited to the entertainment given in celebration of the birthday of a Royal Duke some few evenings age. Rumour does not unite whether any answer was returnetl.—Mirn. Herald. The families of the Marquis of LONDON DERRY, Sir HENRY HARDINOE, Colon-1 Woon, of Lit tleton, M.P., Lady Selina Kerr, Lord CHARLES FITZ - ROY, and Lady AIATILDA WARD, have been placed in mourning by the death of FRANCES, Dowager Mii chioness of LONDONDERRY. Her Ladyship survived bet- Lord, ROBERT, the first Marquis, twelve years, his Lordship having flied in April, 1821. ROBERT HENRY, the second and eel- brated Marquis, was not the issue of her Lady ship's union with the first Marquis, that ill-fated States man being the only child of Lady SARAH FRANCES SET. MOUR, daughter of THOMAS, first Marquis of HERT FORD, who died in three years after her union with his Lordship's father. The early days of Lord BROUGHAM were re markable for the sallies of wit; before the dignity of office had put a restraint on inclination, his social habits often led him into parties of conviviality. At one of those, when the bottle had been circulating with more than ordi nary rapidity, one of his party, not distinguished for his shrewdness, was requested to sing, but excused himself by declaring music was not in his composition. " Non sense," said JEFittY, who was one of his party, " every one can see you have a singing face." " Aye," responded Baouctram, " the notes of music are even developed theie, for I cin see A flat in it." The length of the paved streets and roads in England and Wales is calculated at 20,000 miles ! that of the roads which are not paved at about 100,000 miles. The extent of the turnpike roads, as appears by Parliamen tary documents, in 1823, was 241,531 miles. The officers of the Innisk illen Dragoons have presented Lord Gxoaoa LENNox, their late Colonel, with a piece of plat , , " in token of their affectionate regard for his invariable kindness to every individual during the time they had the pleasure of being under his command." The ceremony of laying the first stone of the intended New English Opera House will, it is expected, take place o❑ the Ist of March next, should nothing un foreseen occur to prevent it. The entire building is to be completed in the almost incredible short space of time of four months, and to open for the reception of the public by the Ist of July. The roof and interior carpentry, owing to the liberality of the proprietors of Vauxhall Gardens, who have given the loan of their spacious rotunda fur the purpose, will proceed simultaneously with the building, so that no doubt is entertained by those concerned of its due completion within the given time. RECQRDS OF My LIFE," BY THE LATE Joass TAYLoa —" Mr. TAYLOR," says the Spectator, " had a kind of celebrity for witty sayings, smart replies and a flow of gentle buffoonery, powerful at melting the reserve of a party of wits, sitting in mutual awe of each other's reputations. TAYLOR sprung in with a hop skip and a jump, and pushed the punctilious from their stools of formality. ' Records of my Life,' contain some of these sayings, but they are chiefly the sayings and doings of those with whom he spent his life. Names and persons are naturally the ideas mostly occupying a brain of his descrip. lion, it was, therefore, his most natural plan of writing his life to put down the names of all the remarkab'e per sons he had ever known, and under each head ledger ing all he recollected concerning them. Thus these Records,' are the Index of JACK TAYLOR'S friends for threescore years and more. They form a pretty good pic ture of the society of London wits, theatrical and political, during the latter part of the last century and the beginning of this : and everybody interested in the time, or, indeed, those whose acquaintance with his heroes is but s►ight, cannot fail to be amused by the good stories be tells of them all." A regiment of 550 men has been raised in Ireland, under the direction of Col. COTTER, and this corps is to be shipped off to Portugal in transports, unless the emergency should be pressing, in which case steam vessels will be taken up to convey them to the Douro. Many of the men composing this corps have been old catnpaigons, and Col. COTTER is at present in town, making final arrangements for supplying them wiih ac mitreinents. The owner of the vessels which are pro posed to be taken up as transports is said to be one of the most extensive ship-owners in the city, who has not he sitated to lend the ships for the undertaking. 011 Wednesday afternoon, between 4 and 5 o'clock, the family of Mr. LANE, of No. 5 Beaufoy-ter race, Edgeware-road, was alarmed by hearing the report of fire-arms in front of the house, awl at the same instant several panes of glass in the parlour window were smashed by a quantity of shot. Fortunately no person was in the room at the time, the family, contrary to their general custom, being at dinner in the back parlour. A number of larg e shots or slugs were found on the floor, and lodged in different articles of furniture in the apartment. It appears iron the shot-holes in the window that the firing must have been from a field adjoining the other side of the road, where, at that time of the evening, no person had any busines s to be. It is evident that it could not have happened by a person carrying a gun on the foot-path by the road side, which might have accidentully gone off. No trace of the offender has been (Mind. CONSECRATION OF TIIE GENERAL CE• ASETERY.--This ceremony took place yesterday at the grounds at Kensall Green. Tile beautiful chapel, for a design of which a premium of 100 guineas had been given by the Company, has not been erected ; and until some building was there it is understood that the Bishop of LONDON objected to the consecration. A temporary one has accordingly been run up, and the ceremony was yes terday performed. The Bishop of LONDON, attended by four of the Directors, some of the officers of the Society', and a few other individuals, walked round part of the . grounds at twelve o'clock, and then read the form of con secration in the chapel. The whole of the grounds en- . closed withi n t h e walls were consecrated, and a space of fifteen acres on the other side of the Canal is left for those who are not of the Church of England. Some of the vaults are nearly ready for their intended purposes. THE HON. MISS EDEN. We have received the following letters en the subject of the intended subscription in honour of the above•named Lady " Mr. Ewington presents his compliments to the Editor, and begs leave to subjoin a copy of a litter he has just received from the Honourable Arthur Eden, declin ing, in his sister's name, the honou r proposed of pre senting her with a vase.' In consequenc e of this request no further subscription will be received, and those who have already subscribed will, on application to Nlessru. W. and J. Lawson and Co., the treasurers, receive back their respective contribution., which, in two days, have amounted to upwards of 801.—a p'easing proof of the public feeling on this occasion. " Halfmoon-street, Wednesday." rcE. PRICER OF STOCKS THI flank Stock .. - l'Per Cent. Red 3 Per Gat Cons. ..... '6' 4 .si 3 1 4 per Cent. - Ditto Red.... - tiew 334 per Cent. 9 4 14 3 per Cent. Ann. 172 n .... - , per Cent. 11+2F 102}¢% Rank Long Ann. to expire Jan 5,1& 1 7 1,i 1-16 Oct. in, 1859 16 14-16 Jan 5, 1860 - Jan. 5, 1880 - April.s, 1880 - Jan. 5, 1870 , PRICES OF FOREIGN' FUNDS Austrian Bonds 1 1411,4 Belgian Bonds 77 1 4 Ditto Account 77L Brazilian Bonds 51% Ditto Account 51 Buenos Ayres Bonds 21% Ditto Account 2l Chilian Bonds 16% Ditto Account Columbian Bonds Ditto Account — Ditto Bonds, 1824 11; i0 Ditto Account — Danish Bonds 72 1 414 Ditto Account 7216 Greek 80nd5...... 261 Ditto Bonds, 1825 Ditto Account 10 29 E Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent 2l Ditto Account Ditto, fi per cent Ditto Account !kleapolitan PRICES OF SHARES THIS, _ _—, DAT AT ONI O"CLocK. Paid. Per Share. Anglo Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 51. pm.) £lOO 94 Bolanos Mining Comparm £l5O 145 Brazilian imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) £2O 50% 51% Ditto National 17% 11N Ditto St. John Del R e y Ditto Cocaes. British Iron Mining Company £5O 19;4 Columbian Mining Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) 494 7 !S English Mining Company IN 25 General Mining Association ll Real del Monte Mining C 0...., — United Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 2/. um.) 41) Ditto New Set ip 5 Alliance Fire Insurance Comp lO Protector Instirance Comp. Australian Co. Canada Company .......... ............ . l7 General Steam Navigation Co. Provincial Bank of Ireland 2.5 19 20 "13;4 194 10 94 .1:1 5 6 75 91i 291,i PRICES OP IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, JAN. 22 . Bank Stock 197 ,St. Patrick lnsur.(perShare) Consols, 3 ner cent Gov. Stock, %,', per cent. 93)4 !National Ditto 24 Ditto, New 93% Patriotic Ditto — 1 per Cent. — Hibernian Bank t;ov. Deb. 34 percent.... 87% Provincial Ditto Royal Canal Stock —Royal Irish Mine — Grand Canal Stock — Imperial Mine City Deb. 4 per cent - ?lining Co. of Ireland Ballast Office Deb. 40. c. --- 'Commercial Buildings — 2(.1. ILS. krrived. Due. Arrived. Due: 0 America 0 0 Hamburg 0 Brazil 0 Buenos Ayres 0 0 Jamaica... ........ .... 0 0 Cart hagena 0 0 Leeward Islands ... 0 1 Dublin 0 0 Lisbon 2 0 Flanders 0 I 0 Malta 0 1 France 0 0 Sweden 0 Guernsey &Jersey.. 0 1 Waterford HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. vforning...lB minutes after 5. I Evening...3s minutes after 5. 4.,f , , - - ' ' Olt-rt ": , . ' 4111 i i r . . , __,..., ...., .... •.,.,,,,,.. , vita • 1. , 'AN. , , - _,--- -C." ' • •.--"' ._:. 1--.. :S DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. slew 5 per - Cent. --- NI India Slack Ditto Bouds 33 pm. South Sea Stock Old Annuities — New Ditto ............ • :3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 Ex. Bills, £l,OOO 47 46 pm. Ditto 560 47 46 pm. Ditto Small Ditto Commercial pm. Ditto Advertised — pro. Bank for Account India for Account Cons. for Feb. 27 86% 7 1 THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds Ditto Account , Portuguese Bonds 505 Ditto Account 50 4914 50 1 Regency Scrip q dis. Ditto Account 4if dis. Prussian Bonds . — Ditto Account — Ditto Bonds, 1822 ... Russian Bonds, 1822 1024 Ditto Account _ New Loan 94 Spanish Bonds, 1821 16% Ditto Account 16);, Ditto Bonds, !S&i 1 Ditto Aceouilt French Renter, sp. c. —f —c. —.Exchange --f —c. per cent —f c. Exchange 'Dutch Scrip 44 374 Ditto Account 4t 344 N French Scrip 4Sz pm. (eorv.) " Wimbledon, Jan. 22. " Dear Sir,—My sister, Miss Eden, bees me to say that she is much pleased and flattered by the kindness of those Gentlemen who hare done her the honour to propose pre senting her with a vasty, upon the occasion of the late ac cident at Hampton Court. It would be a memorial of a melancholy scene so painful to her feelings that she wishes me to decline it for her with her beat thanks; :grid she begs me to add that she will always retain the most grate ful recollection of the generous intention.—l remain, dear Sir, very faithfully yours, " ARTHUR EDEN , " William Ewington, Esq. 30, Halfmoon-street, Piccadilly." SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY, FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, J AN . 24.—Wind E.S.E.—His Majesty's ship StteHite, sailed this morning to :the westward ; and at noon his Majesty's ships, Stag and Flora, with a French frigate, to the eastward, en a cruise. The Britannia shamer, with troops, for Portugal, towing, and smack, passed through, from the river, at 1 a. m. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 24.—Wind E. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 23.—Wind E.—Arrived the Eliza. both, Andrews, from the Mauritius. Sailed, Oct. 15, the Minerva, from St. Michael's; and the Ruby, Far rant, from Palermo. LIVERPOOL, JAW. 23.—Arrived the Lowell and the Gloriat, from Charleston ; the Duke of Athol, from Chi. rents ; the Leopold, from Ostend ; the Garland, from Alacaio ; the George Clinton, from New Orleans; the Industry, front St. Michael's : the Isaac Hicks, from Sa vannah ; the Countess of Airlie, and the George Canning, from London. The Ajax, from New York, is supposed to have arrived off the port. The Rose, Wallis, bound to Liverpool, is totally wrecked on Bayshannon Bar—part of the cargo and materials saved. The Hendrica Elizabeth, Mirracks, from Smyrna to Rotterdam, which was detained at Gibraltar, and libera ted by the Admiralty Court, under the orders in Council, of the 2d ult., put into this port on the 21st inst., for supplies, has been stopped by the Collectors of Customs, under the explanatory order, in Council, of the sth ult , having on board a few cases of opium, go its' wool, and some other trifling articles, which are not in their nature perishable; and she has been ordered to the quarantine an chorage. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. The Abberton, Shuttleworth, frotnlras, has arrived off Fowey, sailed Sept. 30, and from St. Helena Dee. 5. The Childrens, Durochier, from Madras, has arrived off Fahnouth, sailed Oct. 16. ARRIVALS AT MADRAS -His Majesty's ship Imogene, Blackwood, from Malacca, Aug. 16, with troops, and siiled Aug. 17, for Masulipatam ; Tropique, Roy, from Bordeaux, Aug. 20 ; Resource, Warren, Aug. 21, ano Ahherron, Shuttleworth, Aug. 24, from London ; hi, Majesty's Migator, Lambert, from Penang, Aug. 25 ; Euphrates, Buckham, and Alexander, Waugh, Aug. 27. from London : Royal William, Arbuthnot, from Malacca and Penang, Aug. 28; Coromandel, Boyes, from Landon, Sept. 16 Drongan, APKenzie, from the Mauritius, Sept. 18 ; London, Wimble, Sept. 19, and Hindostan, Redman, Sept. 22, from London ; Burrell, Metcalf, from New South Wales, Sept. 22 ; his Majesty's ship Ina.gene, Blackwood, from Trincomalee ; Lord Hungerford, Far quharson. TIIE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK The Eitafette from Paris brings a confirmation of the defeat experienced by the Grand Vizier, and the advance of the Egyptian forces towards Constantinople. THE FUNDS. The news from the Continent this morning continues to be of a pacific description. The nature of the de, spatches received from Holland has not as yet transpired, but the Dutch funds come higher. Consols opened at the same price they left off, 86% 67, with little or nothing doing as yet. The Account has gone off more favourably than was expected, as we do not heir of any drafts having been returned. A vessel has arrived at Liverpool which left New York on the 28th ult. ; papers not yet received. The Foreign Market is in the same state as that of the British—no business of consequence doing. HALF-PAST ONE. The reports are ♦arious in respect to the despatches received from Holland. By the well-informed it is asserted that they are favourable, and that the tonnage duty for the Scheldt is nearly settled; but other accounts state, that his Dutch Majesty still wavers on the grand question,—that is, who is to give way first for the opening of the Scheldt. The defeat of the Grand Vizier is the general topic of conversation in the City, and looked upon as the downfall of the Ottoman Empire, if the Foreign Powers do not immediately interfere. An extraordinary Envoy was sent off last week by our Government to Constantinople, no doubt connected with the above subject. We hear from goad authority, that great exertions are making to reinforce Don Pedro's army both in men and money ; 3,000 good troops are in preparation for pro ceeding to Oporto. Consols have continued the whole of the morning at 86j to 87 for the Account, with little or nothing doing. In the Foreign Market Stocks are rather heavy. The private letters from Holland are pacific. THREE O'CLOCK Consols for the Account, 86i to 87. CLOSING PRICES.—FOUR O'CLOCK. Consols Ditto for Account S6i Brazilian Bonds 50i Buenos Ayres... Chilian Ditto.... Columbian 1824 11i Danish Greek Mexican Peruvian Russian 1024 Spanish Mr. FA RQUIIARSON.—The ATTORNEY.. GE NE RA Mr. BETHEL!, and Mr. WHITLOCK, have with a liberality that deserves the highest praise, returned their fees in the case of this gentleman, which has lately been much before the public. The Venerable Lord STOWELL, now in the 67th year of his age, remains in a very precarious state at his seat Early C,urt, near Reading. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JAN.23,_ 3,500 biles are the estimated sales of cotton to-day, con sisting of 250 Brazils, in Pernams at 9d. ; Baliias,7id. to 83-d., Maranharns, at ; 300 Surats, from 4iil. to sd. ; and about 3,000 in Arnetican descriptions, from till. to 9d. By an order recently issued by the Commis sioners of Bankrupts, solicitors are required to make out their bilk on paper the size of the fist, and leave them with the registrar for taxation two days p. for to the audit. The Marquis of AMESBURY and one of the L►dies BRUDENELL BKIICE are still in Paris, but they are expected in Grosvenor-square the beginning of next week. Eat! BitticE, his Lordship's eldest son, who is a permanent absentee, is at pres....nt resident in the French metropolis. Mr. Justice GASELEE is the Judge who re mains in town (luring the ensuing circuit. RENINANET FEES.—Though part of these fees have been withdrawn, that to the Sheriff, we are in swirled, still colitinues, who exacts a fee of 14s. every Term, for summoning the Jury; though it is generally six or seven Terms before he cn. have any Jury to summon. EXTRAORDINARY SUlClDE.—Yesterday au inquest was held at the Flying Horse, Crown-street, Fins bury. on the body of Mr. F. Szix, aged 37, who kept a tea warehouse i❑ that street. On Tuesday morning the deceased was found extended upon his back on the stone floor of the kitchen, his head and the upper part of his clothing quite wet, and water upon the bur, which ap peared to have run from the clothes. It is supposed he had attempted to throw himself head foremost into a large water butt which stood in the kitchen, but the space being insufficient to admit the whole of his person he had re mained with his head immersed, so as to produce suffoca tion, and in his dying struggles he had fallen back upon the fiber. The deceased, who was married, had l a te;y been very desponding, in consequence of losses in trade. Verdict..." Temporary Insanity." VICE-CHANCERY COURT• ;THIS DAY.) HOLTDATB AN') S/TIINGS. His Howoua, on coming into Court, informed the Bar that he had been with the Lord Chancellor, to arrange the seals and holydays. The term ending on Thursday next, the first seal would not take place till that day se'smight ; the sittings would then be continued to Wednesday, the 3d of April, on which day the Court would rise for the Easter recess, and would not sit again till the first day of Easter Term. In the interval between the last day of the present Term and the first Seal, his Honour will sit at Lincoln's Inn to hear motions. MORGAN V. RHODES. The arguments in this part-heard case were then pro ceeded with, and appear likely to occupy the whole of the day. KING'S BENCH-(THIS DAY.) SHAW V. ANDERSON. This was an action in which the plaintiff, a labouring man, sought to recover from the defendant, a farmer, a certain sum of money as wages for a period of eleven years. The nature of the defence was, that as to a great portion of the money, the Statute of Limitations operated as a bar to the claim, and as to the rest, the plaintiff had from time to time received money from the defendant. The cause was tried at the last Assizes fit Lincoln, and a verdict found for 351., being half the amount claimed. A rule Nisi having been granted on a former day for a new trial, on the ground that the verdict was against the evidence, the motion came on to-day for argument. Mr. Sergeant ADAMS and Mr. CLARK, jun. having been heard ag :lust the rule, and Mr. HUMPHREY in support of it, Mr. Justice LirrLEDALE said, as no evidence had been given of the receipt of the money by the plaintiff, and as the work and labour were proved to have been done, it would not be fit to disturb the verdict. Mr. Justice PArrzsorr observed, that the Jury were chiefly farmers, and although the verdict was one which, perhaps, he would not have given, yet they were the best judges of the matter. The rule for a new trial was then discharged. EXCHEQUER COURT.-(THIS DAY.) AEID V. WATSOK. This action was called upon at the late assizes for Dur ham, when it was referred to a gentleman at Newcastle, named Plummer. An agreement was entered into be tween the parties that no legal gen!lernan should be em ployed before the arbitration. Two or three meetings took place, but at one of them V'e defendant found out that the arbitrator had been receiving evidence from the plaintiff in his absence, in the shape of a letter from plaintiff's attorney, containing counsel's opinion upon the case, and desiring that if he (the arbitrat”r, did nit act upon that opinion he would make no award. Defendant requested to see the letter, but it was refused him; he then requested that, as he had received legal opinion upon one side, he would hear his attorney in answer, but this was also refused. Defendant finding that an award was , o be made under such circumstances, revoked his sub. mission, and would go before a Jury. Early in the term, Mr. CuEsswxtt.ohtained a rule Nisi to enter the original verdict fir the plaintiff, and that he .hould pay all the expenses of both the award and that application. - Mr. RICHA RDS this morning showed cause against the rule, upon affidavits which disclosed the :,hole facts. He contended that the rule must he discharged with costs. Mr. CRESSWELL in support of the rule, submitted, that though he might not succeed upon the whole of it, will his client WAS entitled to that pa: t of it which applied to the coats. The COURT were of opinion that the pl.Liatiff had him self, by his own conduct, obliged the defendant to take the course he had done; therefore the rule, as it was roared with costs, 'must also be discharged with costs. Rule discharged accordingly. MEETING OF THE PAPER TRADE. (From the Dublin Freemanis .I , urnal of Wednesday ) Yesterday a meeting of this trade was holden in tba Commercial Buildings. The LORD MAYOR in toe Cuair. Mr. Humetinars was appointed Secretary. In moving the first resolution, Mr. flultrustars said no cause could be assigned for the gradual decrease of the paper trade in Dublin, except the very oppressive duty, and the equally oppressive manner in which that duty was collected. Resolved—That the paper manufacture in this conntry:is daily declining, the cause of which is mainly owing to the opprissive duty, and the mode of collection. The resolution was seconded by Mr..B. Sullivan, and passed unanimously. The second resolution was proposed by Mr. Power, and seconded by John M'Donnell, and passed unanimously. Resolved—That no trade is more calculated to afford em. ployment—a vast number being engage-II in collecting the materials independent of those necessary to the menu ficture of the article—and the consequence of its destruc. :ion would be the reduction of thousands to beggary. Mr. RICYMILDs regretted that nearly every newspaper in Dublin was printed on English paper. He also re cretted to bear that Englishmen were said to be the pro prietors of some Irish newspapers, and lie (Mr. R.) supposed tbey would soon become the editors of them, and send over articles written upon Ireland.—(Laughter.) The following resolutions were then agreed to. Moved by Mr. Edward M‘Donnell : seconded by Mr. John lll'Donnell Resolved, That the imposition of this duty is very un equal—all coarse pipers (with the exception of those made tram rope) being su! . ject to as high an excise as fine—fre quently amounting to a charge of 100 per cent. on the t;lrmer, while sometimes it does not amount to 5 per cent. on the latter. Moved by Mr. Bartholomew Sullivan; seconded by Mr. Philip Dixon Hardy : Resolved, That this duty must be a serious obqtacle to the diffusion of knowledge, inasmuch as the description of paper principally used in school-books pays a duty of nearly 100 per cent. Moved by Mr. William Brad.havv; seconded by Mr. A. J. Maley: Resolved; That the excise prosecutions against the per sons engaged in the Paper Trade are most ruinous and de structive ; so that, in the event of a verdict being bad for the defendant, he is obliged to pay his own costs, which will amount al least to 70/. and in some ems to upwards of 1201. Moved by Mr. M. Flower ; seconded by Mr. Philip D. ardv : Resolved, That a petition (a copy of which is now before the Meeting) be intrusted to the Representatives of Trinity College for presentation, and that they be re nested to advocate its prayer. Mr. RtrzsimoN, M.P. said, that although the petition teas iutrusteit to the o , llege Members, yet he would have great pleasure in supporting it.—(Applause.) Mr. Fttszsimon moved a vote of thinks to the Lord Mayor, which, having been seconded, was carried, and the meet jug adjourned. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY). CORN EACHANGE. There are moderate arrivals of most descriptions of Grain thiii week, and not much Flour. The Wheat trade remains firm price, but our buyers purchase with gre it caution, as Flour is not likely to advance. Barley, Beaus, and Pease, are dull at last quotations. Oats find buyers slowly at former prices. Flour as last reported. ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Flour. English Irish - - I 3,310 -- Foreign - - - -- SMITHFIELD MARKET. - • In this day's market, which was but indiarently supplied, both as to nnuabers and quality. prime Beef, Mutton, and Veal, went oft' with some degree of briskness at an advanee of 2d. per stone ; but with inferior kinds, and with P or k , t h e trade was very dull, at barely Monday's quotations. Milch Cows were in demand at their last week's prices ; a useful Short-horns, with her small Calf, producing from 214. to 22/. PRICES PER STONE OF 81.135. TO SINK THE OFFALS. s. d. tot. d. s. tt, cos. d. Inferior Beasts 2 2 2 4 Large Lemur 0 0 0 0 Second quality ditto 2 6 3 0 Prime small ditto 0 0 0 0 Prime large Oxen... 310 4 4 Large coarse Calves 3 6 4 4 Prime Scots, &C..... 4 6 4 5 i'rime small ditto 5 0 51U Inferior Sheep 2 4 210 Large Hogs Second quality .titto 3 6 310 Small Porkers 4 2 410 Coarse•woolled ditto 4 4 4 61 S:tckling Calves 125.t0n6,.ea.b, Southdown Wethers 410 5 2, Quarter nit] Pigs 12s. to 182. each. SUPPLY, AS PER CLERK'S STATEMENT. Beasts. I Sheep. Calves. Pigs. 397 2,640 I 90 NEWGATE AND Lr.ADLINii.A.,... At per atone, by the Carcass. s. d. to a. d. Jeer, inferior 202 9 I Mutton, inferior... - middling 2 2 2 6 - -- prime large 2lO 3 2 ---. prime - prime small 3 4 3 8 t'ork, lare Veal 3 0 4 8 ----small s. &tor. d. 22 2 4 2 4 210 36 4 0 34 3 $ 40 4 8 We learn, by th e accuunts from Russia, that a Uksse had been issued on thw 14th of Nor, tuber, grant• ing to the free case of the empire the riy,;l3 of senior Cn.wn lands, hired for a cersain tone, fir the establish. !swot of o,anuf,etories, &0., on t ontiiiion of paying a cer taia tax, conformably to the exi4ting laws regulating sada Le viers, i