The Sun. — London, England, 1844-01-11 00:00:00

L abial east ) al torl allege_A bog.' icatio ad • b e ' lad rr 1. nter trial 0, lame " 'Pe" be 1r tO t e bort l v flO / s , reS, -.) W to t;e 111 or 131' tb 6 ,re c i, A el . '8 0° CE• ink (J. gf c ' eeff i-Pi sce „; tea c o " Pes si rtY ae ftIPI be t(4l. rve de el °'' 003 ,vrti d 11; .) ge d chst ;3(1 0 1 e view 0 Ifo ri ‘ # jo• t ° to loco oil !s ee to halo P r f, flite nr e 0" r of by b 44 Aug l 4 c ll° OtiY gi at t- 01 W e. • 00 1. '• 60 1. 2 )2 5 01; 0 1. l e 6 1. 1;1.4451' is tt-r d tla e' PUBLIC BUILDING S 'MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUA UTER Tr) l'ilhEE. in the Liverpool Market yesterday a large husin.!ss was done in Cotton, and prices were firmly supported. Sales, 5,000 bales on speculation, and altogether 8,000 bales.—The sales in the Share Market were only moderate. Easte:n Counties 10 3-16; Grand Junction, 232; Birmingham, 237 ; South East-in, 353 ; Do. New, 351 1 ; Paris and Lyons, 31. 4s. 6d. ; Do. and Orleans, 314. There were no' .arrivals in the City of importance, either from the British colonies or from the Coatinen', to•day. It would appear from the Report made yesterday of the af fairs of the Louden Joint Stock Bank, that the concern, not viithstanding the low rate of interest that has ruled for so long a time past, is working well. A dividend at the rate of 6 per cent was declared. As this Report appears in another column 'of The Sun, it is not necessary to advert to its contents here, f ur th er than to observe that the system of Joint -Stock Banking is fostered in the City of London, m ligre all the denunciations of the supporters of the p"ivate banking interests, when it was first introduced to the metro- Wis by the London and Westminster Bank manager, Mr. Gilbart. Arneng the indications of an augmentation to the trad e of the port of London, it may be north no ' l iee, that both in the St. Katherine's and the London "neks, additional berths and warehouses fur shipping and goods ' !rein course of formation. There is a good demand for Bri ' " , h manufactures for exportation, and the number of ships • taking in cargoes in the River Thames shows a very consider - able increase on the list at this time last year. The private advices received this morning from Belgium ,state that the manufacturers of that country were becoming ' overstocked with fabrics suitable for exportation, the go-a-head rmeiple of p ro du c tion being too general. It is to be appre ' elided that the same results will be exhibited among our own nn a:kufacturers (a revival of trade having occurred), unless due 'oration be observed. The Commissioners for the Reduction of the Debt made their • purchases in Consols, this morning, at 97, taking very nearly elle same amount as they did yesterday, but of Exchequer Bills leY have net yet taken any into their hands. The market for l b °ek has worn this morning a more buoyant appearance In it did yesterday. Consols for Money have advanced fro I , n - 9 6% to 97, and for the Account to 97, but prices ~,'° new again lower. A move in advance has taken place ~.._ the New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., which have - 10 7, „fled 102, and the Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. of •;. ii• The . purchase yesterday, on account of an Irish bank, i ' 9 1 ,000/. in these Securities has certainly added much to z , e6l 'lllness of prices, and to increase a feeling adverse to the peeprocretnetd. reduction of the interest of those Stocks to three it 27a. Bank Stock has remained at 1864; and India Stock e . 8 ° .large -a remitta - ce as 72,000 dollars baying been re aj)l'ied.' by tf.e Clyde, West India steamer, has very consider- AI Y'enbans7ed the hopes and expectations of the holders of fi i rean I/ ands. It is in fact a most satisfactory feature to , 1 ~ that ,'Chili and Mexico show a strong determination to Ay aid tht credit now. True it is that many years have passed i sk i e ,, e i the interest upon the debts of each were not iiii;',s e but as soon as possible these States have commenced " Ai,.. lating 2 Would that the " repudiating " States of the ex tr ,"de,l Republic" would follow so good, and honest an too rb Pe- The price of Mexican Bonds has been very firm this Th r ,,, -Et ng at `..i2a- to 32a ; Spanish Bonds are heavy ; the 111617 , 'Per Cents. at 217/ 8 . and the Actives at 21/. But a r e ; .vhange has taken place in Dutch Stock. Brazil Bonds A i' ft at 751. .. -,- Dir es . ‘nrther call of 101. a share is quoted in the Great slu r rn Railway Shares, and the premium is now 314 per ta, t. e " The Half-Shares nave receded to 184 premium. terei t. ` ra t Counties are a shade lower than the day before yes st,kelYs notwithstanding the Report of the Directors is favour pi.,,,: The London and Birmingham Shales are at 136 tai - ,, - „ . ' l tin. Manchester and Leeds Shares are worth 30 pre trial.'" The French Railways command a good sale. Aus -14 P. Bank Shares are at a I premium. Colonial Bank at It 'll count ; and Union of London at 4 premium per share. 41 TISI-1 FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. ,„ (From the Official List.) - ,,l'allk Stock '° per Cent. Reduced Annuities 97a4 '3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities :.;, 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities . lo2 3 iTh ,e, ir 34 per Cent. Annuities nnia Bonds, 1,000 i_ Ditto under 1,000 ' 1;011 sels for Opening India Stock ' l4 eher4uer Bills, 14d. 16d. 10001. • 5004 li Ditto Small co, ncIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Itrazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. , Alexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent... ..... .. 32,1 .., Ditto for the Account ....... 32aa kussian Bonds; 1822, 5 per Cent. Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent. Ditto for the Account ..,_bitto Passive Bonds ..- 5% uttto Three per Cent. - , , z Ditto for the Account 3oa I ),tach 2% per Cent Ditto for the Account .. 544 L,ln tlcEseh 5 per Cent. ... —ft OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. gis.- . a A ILWAYS Paid. Per Share. .. to„ , • b:ltham and Derby ... 100 - til t i `tn Eighths ... 14 314 ... to reit ) k ta, s gunta and Gloucester 100 ...... 64 ...... to 634 h tors Counties p,ttrotNw Registered Or nigh and Glasgow 50 _eat vr estarn Alit 75 1064 to if tt n . t ° 4 Shares and Selb 'Antil o Y 50 ...... 56 uOLi and Brighton .... 50 to 11 and Birming h am Nit. and .1.1 " South Western4l% 74% to L -.4 '" and Croydon... **"' kn ew ( Trunk)... 131 141.- to x ,_ e. ter and Carlisle I: ti t:i t , heater ar.sd Leeds .70 :99 ..... to 100 Northern"La Co inties ...... ....• 100 i tii sar p i d_ ?4 o d r r I E e a u n s t e . 0r1 ean5......... .. . . BB 45 53% to -late n and Dover 1r Ditto Scrip 50 25 1,0.. r \ltitrs.4l';ii,t.l.;.ro * Branch*** ******** ** . 25 irnr,utli and Norwich to 24 174...... to Jolte r l3 4ustr 4l al ' 81"1( ""s. Nobtr 1 a ........................... 40 a tolo n i a a i llsi a (New) 1 0... ............ ....... 25 410 4 of London ........... 10 ...... 104.-- to aw Av . `CHESTEA STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 10.—The a re Market has been very quiet to-day, with a general t t ; i nvvlird tendency in prices.—Sheffield and Manches -14i541 ; Paris and Lyons, 3 3.16 ; Eastern Counties, t ft u lli Dublin and Drogheda, 54 to 54i ; Manches nd Itirmingharn, 37-i to 381-. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. _ (FROII OUR CORRESPONDENT.) 1341 t, O LD -'IINS OUT.—How often have we been told i t '341 gentlemen and elderly ladies, that a long and . se at wetter always followed a quantity of wild berries -3.4"it a large crop of haws was a bitter sight for the poor,. Ith e w ho ever saw them so plentiful as this season, one of Belliildtst r:verkeuwn. Our woods and lawns are em sl 1 , 0 e..., " 1 with white thorn trees ; our hedges are corn -1147, °f them and privet, and now, in the middle of 4a -111.3., they are covered with haws and privet-berries. t e a 41 " (10 .. s are nas in May, and wild and I'll flowers are as as g p r l ee ntiful. To see an apple tree Et eai ll i i 2ll!. of season is unnatural, -e a freak of nature on a remark le, but it is of too trifling a nature to require a all t . When compared with a whole country-. Were „Il he t, Lre es in only one orchard to break blossom at lee r4l4 s it would be worth mentioning, but it would a a litl a ku 4 2 bo equal to the unusual appearance of the fields `getr„„`"ens at pre sent. The thermometer is at 57, and the 'tee 30.10. iskpLe Marquis and Marchioness of Sligo and family are Itil ei led to leave Cones about the 16th inst., for la o. 2, Stielr,ld-strret. His Lordship's health has been much , 41 (1 deb - ,,,t 4 by his residence in the Isle of Wight. He "tite r ," ; " t Linw twice every day. his Lordship proposes 41 4' to Cowes for the summer in May next. fr t , to —,'" REPEAL OF THE UNION. leit:i:tlAM DUDLEY, ESQ., ALEXANDRIA, WEXFORD : fk_Peil, " ,, t in' I quite differ from you in opini,in respecting ki "'"oll Id n believe is wor t h one rush to Ireland. no w tnll ,_,,hangs.n o o f that nature which would be useful , vvolld 11.7,!w0 i n 7, 7 di ate Parliaments in Ireland, seven in England, tiniette_. ocotland, for the purpose of relieving the Imperial 4 . . Iviti; t f r°ln the trumpery masses of subordinate legisla :hilleis „‘lllich Parliament is overwhelmed. Ireland is, 1, -41 titryevously oppressed, but certainly . not one jot more * 4° 4l 2 "d• The fault, I fear, lies more in the people ,oti is than in their governors. What Ireland really 1',,,0ei 1 , 4 ,1° have her currency trebled in amount, and . issuing I,..7htitegottsand centres, in loans and accommodations, to b 4 41 2./.°„ri..rj,iltnilies, having the will to borrow it, in sums of -" 'Li twilit sof 1,0001. or 2,0001. each. The er -4,, anent !tieh oft ` nth : would be found safe and profitable, in k e ill hi•;-•_ 'had .industry, ms as soon as such increased issues i t pri eee v . l ! d time 53 produce what are called " remune (S4lete Minister I would not only open the flood-gates r 4 4 7, eC oti °llo Y .. from ' a . thousand . centr . es in Ireland, but I I tni gib e to literally g i ve away five millions sterling in . food, wt.' 411 .,, (1 furniture, to a million of the poorest families in b s ito i ,' I 1 45 gift alo e would ef itself produce an extra con- At ektt r i - ; l nd Productil, of perhaps 20 or 40 millions of the oflife in Ireland in the first year. ti era . I am, dear Sir, your's truly, 14 111 te, 20th N ov ., 1841. T. A f TWOOD. ) 11. 0ct ~,,,,, ----- li -7 40 6, - 4 or ARTS —Last evening, the members of 1" r • li o -e l Met for the irst time during the present season, ,3', readet' IT .P., F • R S presiding. Mr. Wishaw, the sec!e olehhllee4,PaernPeri On R. S., of the new street-sweeping lobgt7leCitY authorities s • ll ie e -- Aleiestre „4 O yd under contract with the Commissioners and Forests in Regent-street, and also their mechanical apparatus,_ 'leek r w ith the efficient ' y esc f n i: S r peration. Mr. Cochrane, tot:livettllsl: Lord wpAaoolyasry Artti n ellt of the Praetieil of e tion for Improved Street- N : ' 4 lElid before the meeting a plan for employing all the oc o r f a t . he metropolis by means of regularly clean it 0 , e street of subj l e i e t t to . which he had drawn the attention edgftwo other papers, on the *o (34_ Of a newly inv ent: r fi a re m esc o a e and a proposed system of trial line sof - which now exists at Vauxhall), ytid.d the busineis of the evening. 41 )14 : ) ccic OF Bonn The illustrious Prince, kir„ rrival fr EAUX.— pr.-otivello° w ri 'd °lll all provincial tour, continues to find nu dellis f do eat with addresses from various parts of France. ft 'll 0 w i n , qttritenedee are amongst the latest presentations :—Charles di; F; c u de Mirabeau, Vicomte le Mirab o e n au e , „..e,c, Fr. Bendel du Faouedic, brancis I d l_ d 1 Z i a e e t Z te de de b a 7 ir , e o g r ar zes , de Cadoudal, Battur, Comte Erin, Vicomte Charles de la Rochefoucauld, I t l Th6edeasY, Marqui s de I3ellenave, Henri de Catheh- Muret, Baron Arnous-Riviere, Marquis de Pile, 11, 0 4 ' de 44' 14 4 de tom azelles, V. 11;i)erto, Vicomte de (iaiyneron, Vicomte de Geres, d e rd e L apari Pes, Le Rebours,. Comte de Lapanouse, Conne ° . ose, Odillon Belard, Baron Belaunay, Comte V e j a _ itomte de Chazelles, Comte de la Laurencie, 444. En es de Reviers de Maul, Comte de la Haye St. 1 1‘10 VP. la et., sl - , of Faversh. . 11, 11.. "" T " i EDFSTRIkNISM —On Monday Mr. E. tialr,R fro ten lei piles within the 'undertook for a trifling wager to walk te four, wearing a pair of dredging boots, 4 apparent ease pounds. . He . accomp is Lath to g be hs te a to the disappointment o. e t six minutes within the given h time,. n 4 / 1 4 1 41 , 4e4 e° of theaPitillanvoraenbl ;,ree,a-ers of the pede-t 'll'7, of many present, who d 1 7 , s tk a ci te . 0 e f , 1 !. 1 , e weather, , and . lini -4,,a Gctzctec h odd , a , ,etis him.— ,;; -'111.11:4! -, i l 'illt:he first .. 1 ": e ' s ' I '•' ' ' • ---- il,-, ' „ , ;', .V! t.. 0 ' l a. Yof Hilary Term the Law and Equity Courts 4 polled in W e Bell with the usual formalities. erk ird ~, , es ast nights N LONDON. There is an evil deslitly it ,ipendinw,:over the fate of all pub;ic buildings ; to d works of art in London. Vexatious as this fu c t. is to all who take an interest in the embellishm el it and grandeur of the finest metropolis in Euro p 2, it is no less cer tainly true. There is no wan :of high intellec- tual perception and classical taste, of vigorous conception and beautiful ada, citation in the de signs contributed by our fetid inn artists for edi fices, statues, pillars, bridges,- -(whatever be the species of public work to be la ndertaken)—when the execution of the affair i s opened ostensibly to public competitioft. Th. tl re is, notoriously, where the expense of the wm :isto be provided for by a municipal tax, a pa aa )chial or a district rate, or a vote of the House o Commons, no lack of money and means for its construction in the first style and with the bes• ; materials of work manship. Let those who Ofeet, with some of our Continental neighbours, ior on the authority of the dogmatic WINCKELM. 117 N, to question the genius and capacity of the Ei hglish for the higher and more imaginative efforts •of art, candidly re view the late exhibition of th e Cartoons in West minster Hall for a complet e refutation of this superficial and arrogant not ie n. For, with re gard to these designs for fresc 33 paintings, it may be truly said that British g ?nius, in a school entirely new to its efforts, has leaped, at a single bound, into the maturity of power and expres sion. But, with all these ele nents of excellence existing among us in abunda xrce, it does happen that, in nine cases out of ten, ti it 'ir effect is marred or missed, diminished or ohs a ured in combina tion. The most beautiful and best adapted ele vations and designs for an excba tnge, or a church, are brought under public new. tice, and stamped with the approbation of the if iighest authority, which that public will recog a ise ; but, in the course of a few months, the act u al structure, as it begins to rise above the surrou - a ding horde, very plainly indicates to the interes tc d spectator that some other plan had been sele c, ted, and is being carried out under some otht :r influence more potential than the principle of Ipmest election, or the marked sanction of the pub' Lit !. Favouritism no toriously prevails in the mock c ou ncilsofmunicipal and other committees to whom tl ie administration of these matters is generally' remitted, on the assumption that they will ha impartially and indifferently dealt with. But it is more difficult to account fbr the persever'LL , g incompetency with which the chances of ex'ai biting a pre-emi nent advance in what we shall+. .call national art, are, year after year, either disr ;•arded or thrown away, carelessly unheeded, or at ore scandalously rejected when offered. Of al 0. the branches of national art, there is none in v rihich it more con cerns the splendour of the cz3 .pital, the scientific reputation of the country, a ticl the improving taste of the people, that th ,e most attainable approval to excellence shout id be secured, than in the architectural producti ons and the sculp ture we speak of. Of all the departments of public duty there is none whit' b is so grossly neg lected by that section of the I Executive to which it is more immediately confide Westminster-bridge requir es few remarks. No party seems to know what is doing, or what is to be done. The Government, or the Bridge Commission e r s , h ave come to no decision hitherto, but prefer leaving the carts, omnibuses, coaches, waggons, and foot passengers to join issue - with the de nounced arches, on a sort of ." benefit of sur vivorship" principle; or, perhaps, it is intended that, if the traffic and passengers continue to pass and re-pass, without tumbling through, the bridge, by its Commissioners, may bring an action of damages for defamation against Mr. BARRY; and, on the other hand, if casualties of the kind apprehended shall some fine morning happen, Mr. BARRY shall be at liberty to remove the ruins of the old, and throw over a new bridge; the latter to be of pointed arches and inferior span, "as prayed." There might be a sort of objection to this future " give-and-take" arrangement, barring the jeopardy, and perhaps sacrifice, of some score of biped and two score of quadruped lives, which it may possibly entail, in the interval, were it not that there is already much too general a disposition :in certain quarters to act upon it. It appears that the new frontage in the British Museum, which is to replace the old French quadrangle, next Russell-street, is very rapidly proceeding with. Have any guarantees been taken for our having an elevation worthy of the design, the contents, and the character of the mag nificent collection and library contained within the walls of the main building'! Was the design opened to public competition ? Has there been any such encouraging excitement attempted with the almost dormant genius of our modern school of architectural design 'as has been recently practised with such. happy results in respect of our youngest school of historical art? We fear that the sort of freehold or fee-simple which SMIRKE has acquired —some how or other—in all the past reparations, addi tions, and erections in the general building of the Museum, have extended to this new façade. Really, to judge from the club-houses, and theatres, and other edifices, with the Greek quoderisms of which Sir ROBERT has long made us so familiar, we feel great despondency about the effect of any new " works" of his. The finest efforts of a genius, which do not exceed the servile appropriation of a Doric portico, how ever good the antique example, and the most timid and monotonous adaptation of thermal fronts and basilican walls to the purposes of modern public buildings, whatever their own uses and objects, are altogether below the cha racter, the energy, and the grandeur of the people upon whom—for some reason or other— their efforts are year atter year iiiflioted. It has been shown, by a Report to the. House of Commons, how it was gravely debated and re commended in Select Committees that the ma jestic preparation of the " Nelson Pillar" should be reduced to so modest and inoffensive a scale as not to crush into a merited, but absolute im perceptibility, the wretched perpetration mis called the " National" Gallery. The absurdi ties consequent on the irreconcilable pretensions of a façade which is at once protected and hidden, broken and devoured by its own vaunted portico—(a major absorbed by a minor)—and of a column whose faultless proportions of shaft and capital, as they appeared on the original elevation, would render but more evident and ridiculous the already dwarfed outlines of WILKINS'S fatally accomplished design (its tawdry ugliness was even then, alas! permanent in monumental masonry), these things might have taught parties entrusted with the manage ment of such matters the wisdom of well con sidering their plans, and the aspect and effects of the works, before proceeding to the final business of setting and building them up. But what has been the result ? After a world of preparation, and many flourishes of trumpets,— and statistics carefully collected of the number of sailors who could, at this day, be brought toge ther, survivors of the fight of Trafalgar,— coquet tings with the GoVernor of Greenwich Hospital, about giving leave to these veteran tars to assist at the raising of NELSON'S statue, and at a dinner to be given at its summit, at the feet of the Admiral,—the statue is raised one afternoon impromptu ; the veterans, after being numbered, are never called for. But the colossal image of the great hero has been placed on its pedestal, an effect of mechanical power, achieved with consummate skill and promptitude. By slow degrees, the hoarding has descended, first from around the cocked hat, afterwards from around the limbs, finally from the feet and surface of the figure : when, lo ! some seven or eight weeks having helped them to the conclusion, the managers discover that the coil of cable on which one side of the figure is supported has too massed and rock-like an appearance. Up go the boards again, to favour the secresy of the statuary's mystic chiselliug, for rctifedyiuts, of this defect; the inauguration, which was to. h , avc itikett place on the anniversary of the Trafalgar fight in October last, bids fair tQ . be postponed to _QcO7 THE SETN. LONDON, THURSDA VEI ENING, JANUAR 11, 1844.: , b.:T next. But, as Trafalgar-square begins tog( t up its terraces and walks, new permanent tenants ' --in bronze and marble—take possession of the reserved pedestals! GEORGE IV., mounted on a horse of a much more interesting, and becoming, and distin !Jae air than his rider, is already lo cated at one angle of the raised terrace—GEOßGE IV. by no means bears him like the " finest gentleman in Europe," but resembles one 01 CHA NT REY'S most indifferent sitters, prac tising in a quadrille of equitation at Du- CROW'S. GEORGE. 111. is to be removed bodily, with his two portentous tails, to a pedestal at the corresponding angle. These positions are so well chosen, that the figures look neither at each other, nor up to NELSON, but with a sort of military drill expression of " eyes straight." It is understood that King CHARLES 1., from Charing-cross, and King JAMES 11., from the back of Whitehall Banquetting-house, are to be the next importations into the square. We are curious to know whether they, too, are to look at DRUMMOND'S bank and FA R RANCE'S pastry, like an advanced guard to the two GEORGES ? Or, is King JAMES 11. to be brought with his face opposite to GEORGE 111., as if to read a posthu mous lecture on political as' well as religious bigotry; whilst the " martyred CHARLES" is to contemplate, pensively, the wondrous fortune and quiet end of the voluptuarian successor to his sceptre, and discoverer of his remains at Wind sor? These rumours we give as they have reached us. To us it seems that the general effect of such an arrangement as this—of four such statues—will be at once false in principle, and incongruous in effect. Who, are responsible for these locations? LITERATURE. MAXWELL'S HISTORY OF THE REBEL , _ _ LION IN IRELAND 11.11717-98: Nothing can be more opportune than the sea• son selected for bringing out a work like this, which treats of the most exciting, and (if that which is tragical be so) most interesting portion of the history of that section of the empire, which now engrosses the most anxious attention of, not merely the subjects of the British Throne of all classes and denominations, but also that of European and Trans-atlantic nations. The work, which is to be published periodically in parts, is likely, if we may augur fromj the first number, to prove very interesting; and by no means the least attractive portion of it will be the Illustra tions, by George Cruikshank, two of which are given in the present Number. The subject is one rich in romantic incident, alid in Maxwell's hands ought to illustrate well the trite old saw, that " truth is stranger than fiction." We can- not, however, but regret that the chapter on the " Leaders of the United Irishmen" is so short. It was quite impossible in so brief a space to give anything like a satisfactory notice of the life of each of those misguided, but chivalrous high-mitided men. We quote the following at random : " A curious anecdote, related by Dr. Madden in his biographical notice of Addis Emmet, is cha racteristic of the extent to which political and pro fessional enthusiasm will hurry individuals. Emmet was retained for some persons charged with the ad ministration of unlawful oaths—at the time a capital offence—and was addressing the Court in arrest of judgment. ` lie took up the pleadings in which the words of the oath were recited, and read them in a very de liberate manner, and with all the gravity of a man who felt thut he was binding his soul by the obliga tions of a solemn oath. The words were to the fol lowing effect :—" I, A. 8., in the presence of God, do pledge myself to my country, that I will use all my abilities and influence in the attainment of an im partial and adequate representation of the Irish nation in Parliament; and, as a means of absolute and imme diate necessity in the establishment of this chief go d of Ireland, I will endeavour, as much as lies in my ability, to forward a brotherhood of affection, an identity of interests, a communion of rights, and an union of power, among Irishmen of all religious per suasions, without which every reform in Parliament must be partial, not national, inadequate to the wants, delusive to the wishes, and insufficient to the freedom and happiness of this country." " Having read the test--defended its obligations with a power of reasoning and a display of legal knowledge, in reference to the subject of the dis tinction between legal and illegal oaths, which the counsel for the prosecution described as producing an extraordinary impression—he addressed the Court in the following terms : _ _ _ _ _ " My Lords,—Here, in the presence of this legal Court, this crowded auditory—in the presence of the Being that sees and witnesses, and directs this judicial tribunal—here, my Lords, I, myself, in the presence of God, declare, I take the oath.' " He then took the book that was on the table, kissed it, and sat down. No steps were taken by the Court against the newly-sworn United Irishman : the amazement of its functionaries left them in no fit state of mind either for remonstrance or approval. The prisoners recei ve d a ver y l en i en t sen tence. " BOOK OF BRITISH BALLADS. Part XII. How, London, 1844. The illustrations of this Part are its principal recommendations, the majority of th em b e i ng executed in a very superior style of a r t, an d dis. playing powers of fancy of no ordinary ch aracter. As for the Ballads, they are merely republica tions from Percy, Ritson, Scott, Motherwell, and other well-known collectors of these pleas.. ing old popular poems. ST. JOHN'S NEW CHURCH, NOT TING-HILL, BAYSWATER. The ceremony of laying the first stone of the above church took place on Monday last by the Venerable Archdeacon Sinclair, Vicar of Kensington, in the pre sence of a numerous, and, considering the inclement period of the season, highly respectable and fashionable assemblage. Among those present e e observed the Rev. Messrs. Kennedy, Phillips, Pitman, Sherringham, Theyre Smith, Howlett, Hessey, Burnell, and Rowlatt. The Earl of Hopetoun, Sir John Conroy, Sir Henry Willock, and the Hon. Mr. Lascelles, C. K. Murray, Esq., W. A. Shaw, Esq., (trustees with the Venerable Archdeacon), Richard Roy, Esq. (who has munificently presented the site of the ground on which the edifice is to be erected), Thomas Allason, Esq., and Messrs. Stevens and Alex ander, architects. Shortly after one o'clock the proceedings were com menced by the Venerable Archdeacon Sinclair, who addressed the assembly as follows My Christian Brethren—l have long looked forward to the solemnities of this day with mingled feelings of satisfaction and anxiety—of satisfaction, from the hope that we are about to provide for the grievous spiritual destitution in this neighbourhood ; and of anxiety, .from thg inadequacy of our funds as yet for the completion of the undertaking. That additional church accommoda tion is most urgently required in this portion of the parish, no man can doubt who is at all acquainted with the circumstances of the case ; no man can doubt it who is aware that there is a population of 12,000 persons, after all deductions still connected with our parish church ; th a t f or this vast number only 1,200 sittings are provided, and that of those only 80 are accessible to the poor, so that to our shame one of the most remarkable characteristics of Christianity was well nigh obliterated among us, that to the poor the Gospel should he preached. In considering how the deficiency in our funds may be provided for I am not without hopes that our wants may elicit contributions even from friends and strangers at a distance. From them, however, no great amount of support can be expected. We must look especially to the inhabitants of this parish. I trust that all, to whatever district they may belong, will feel the strong ties of interest and sympathy which should unite them to their fellow parishioners, and induce them to co-operate in this work. I look with greater confidence to those who have attended at the parish church, many of whom have shown an example which I sincerely wish all will follow. I trust above all to the in habitants of this neighbourhood—to those whose spiritual wants we are about to provide for— to those who hope here to worship—here to be instructed in the truths of religion—here to be prepared for heaven. We read in Holy Scripture, that when Moses was about to erect a tabernacle in the wilderness, he called the congregation of the. children of Israel to gether, and gave commandment that whosoever had a willing heart should bring an offering to the sanctuary of God. The result of this commandment is ever me morable. The liberality of the people went beyond the exigency of the case, and it was actually necessary to issue a proclamation throughout the camp, forbidding them to give more. Again, when David was preparing to build the temple, we read that he also called a solemn assembly, and demanded of them, " Which of you is willing, this day, to consecrate his service unto heaven?" The result, again, was ever memorable. The people, in a burst of generous enthusiasm, outvied each other in bringing gold, and silver, and brass, and precious stones of all kinds, into the treasury of God, and instead of claiming merit for this unexampled liberality, they returned thanks to God for the opportu nity afforded them of expressing their gratitude for his mercies, and in the humblest terms of adoration ex claimed—" All things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee !" And what, my Christain brethren, were the blessings which the children of Israel so eagerly and so magnificently acknowledged ? Their social pri vileges and advantages, their redemption from the bon dage of Egypt, their prospect of a Messiah. And do not we, as citizens of Great Britain, enjoy social privi leges beyond any nation that ever lived under heaven ? Have not we, as Christians, been delivered from an in finitely more galling yoke than that of Egypt, and are not we, as Christians, in full possession of those glorious promises of which the Jews saw only the shadows and the types ? Let us not, then, submit to be outdone by them in Christian liberality. Let us remember the ap peal of the Apostle to our Christian sensibilities—" Ye Ye are not red eeme d with are bought with a price corruptible things"—" Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich yet for your sakes he became poor, that we, through his poverty, might become rich." After a prayer from the Venerable Archdeacon, the cere mony of laying the stone took place, and the proceedings were concluded by prayer and a benediction from the Venerable Archdeacon. THE CURRENCY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SECOND LETTER. Stu,—The great deficiency in our present currency, to meet the high tax-included prices of the United Kingdom, has become quite palpable all over the coun try ; and it has been proposed by the currency-men of Birmingham to extend the currency, by raising the mint price of the precious metals 50 per cent. ; (wining the crown-piece into 7s. 6d. ; or, in other words, by re ducing the size of the coins in that proportion. But this would be no remedy. It must be clear to every man of common sense, that the only effect of such mea sure would be, to deprive every creditor by one-third of his debt without payment or satisfaction. But the cause of truth and justice never, in any case, can be aided by such means as the commission of one act of robbery as a set off against another. In the present case, it would not operate, in the very nature of things, as a sound means of extending the currency, for ls. 6d. would then be demanded for every shilling in the in trinsic portion of price at present, there being a neces sary connexion between the natural prices of commodi ties and the precious metals. The raising of the mint price of these metals, by reducing the size of the coins, will never, it is clear, increase the limit of these metals in the least degree. The remaining two thirds of the taxes, which at present enter into prices, would still raise prices above the limit of the precious metals, and therefore they could not form a sound medium of exchange. Even if such reduction in the size of the coins of this country could be supposed to have the effect of increasing the limit of these metals, it would be productive of no remedy, for the limit of the precious metals being the universal standard all over the world, anything effecting a change in that standard would produce no remedy, for the prices of commodities in this country being still artificially in creased, to the extent of the two-thirds of the present taxes that would still remain beyond the natural amount of these prices, to which alone the precious metals are applicable as the measure of value, a currency of these metals would still be unsound, because insufficient in quantity. The proper remedy is evidently the taxing of the cur rency itself, in the same ratio as the prices of commodi ties are found on the average to be taxed or increased by our system of taxation, above their natural amount ; for then the currency and the commodity being alike artifi cially raised, or increased, the oise above the natural limit of the precious metals, and the other above th e natural or intrinsic amount f price, they would in that way become fair and just equivalents for one another, and bear the same relation to one another as before taxes were first imposed on commodities. In no other way can they may be made fair and just equivalents, without dis turbing the universal standard of value among all civilised nations. Sir Robert Peel laments the sufferings of the labour ing classes, but says that the Legislature can do nothing to help them —cannot raise wages by Act of Parliament —and that wages, like all other things, even if the la bouring classes should die of starvation, must be left to find their own level. He falsely asserts that the cur rency has nothing whatever to do with the present dis tress, that the distress is caused by over-banking, over-production, over -speculation, over-population, and over this and over that ; but all these over doings are evidently brought forward, as every sensible man must have seen from the begin ning, for the mere purpose of deception. True, wages aught to be left to find their own level. Why, then, does Sir R. Peel, taking advantage of the ignorance of the labour ing classes, and their incapacity for abstruse reflection, put in a secret hidden pin in his machinery, the existence of which he knows they are unable to detect, to prevent wages from finding their own level ? The precious metals being capable of measuring the prices of commo dities at their natural extent only, without taxes, if the domestic currency, whether of paper or gold, established by law, be insufficient, even to the extent of sixpence in the pound, to cover these prices, with the whole taxes thrown into them, to the extent of that sixpence, it is quite evident, is the labourer effectually defrauded of his hire. Because, the taxes being a certain portion of the precious metals, are evidently the immoveable part of price, and the wages of labour, therefore, must give way, and they are forced to give way, and are expelled from price, to make room for the taxes ; and this is the whole secret of the present distress. The Bullion Committee of 1818, occupied their time endeavouring to prove that the value of the Bank of England's notes were depreciated, in reference to the value of gold and silver moqey as they existed in other countries where our system of indirect taxation had no place, which could not well be disputed. But that was not the question before them. The question at issue was, whether the Bank of England notes were depre ciated in reference to the high artificial, because tax included, prices of commodities, as then existiug in this country ; and whether, in that the true point of view, they were a departure from the universal standard of the precious metals. That they were not exchangeable for gold was nothing to the purpose; they were exchange able for commodities bearing very high artificial prices, 125 per cent, at least, upon the average, above their na tural amount. They were, indeed, a departure from the universal standard, but in the opposive direction from that alleged; for, numerous as the notes of the Bank were, they were still insufficient fairly to meet those very high artificial prices ; and, consequently, short of their due relation to the universal standard. The tendency of a return to specie payments, there fore, recommended by that deeply interested Committee, was not to cause a rise of 4 or 5 per cent. only in the value of the then existing currency, as the cunning men who sat upon it falsely pretended. It did not create a rise in the value of the currency of 30 or 40 per cent. only, as the currency men of Birmingham afterwards erroneously asserted was the actual result of that mea sure; but the direct tendency of the return to specie payments was, to raise the value of money full 125 per cent. above its then value, that being the average amount to which the prices of all commodities had been artifici ally increased by taxation, as compared with thei r na tural or intrinsic prices without taxation. Because, the precious metals being limited by nature as already ob served, in amount, and incapable of measuring the prices of commodities except at their natural amount, the taxes fell either to be thrown back upon the producers of taxed commodities, who had advanced them, or the wages of labour were to be expelled from prices, to make room for the taxes; and the money owner, therefore, was , benefited to the whole extent of the taxes, at the expense of the industry of the country, his money being available to him to the extent of 125 per cent. beyond what it had ever been available before. Had the Currency Bill of 1819, which carried the re commendation of the Bullion Committee into effect, borne its true title, describing its real objects, as it ought to have done, it would have run thus, " A Bill to confiscate the means of every debtor in the United Kingdon, for the benefit of his creditor, to the extent of 125 per cent. on the amount of the debt which he owed, irrespective of the true and lawful payment of the debt itself ; to increase the whole public burdens of the country, for the benefit of fundholders, and other recipients of those burdens, 125 per cent. above their present amount ; to make over in perpetual slavery the whole of the labour ing classes, without any pretext whatever, or any con sideration in return, to the class of money capitalists, to the extent of four-ninth parts of their whole labour, and to render their condition worse than ever was that of the black slaves of Jamaica before their emancipa tion ; and, finally, to•cut up industry by the roots, and to sacrifice the country to foreign nations." This was the true title of that Bill, and had it borne this its true title, neither the plausible super ficial arguments of Sir Robert Peel, nor all the bayonets which the Duke of Wellington commanded, could have passed that Bill. But Sir Robert Peel knew that he addressed himself to willing hearers, who re quired no argument of his, but a pretext merely for passing that fatal measure. It is now seen by every one, that this is the true description of that deadly Bill, for one and all of these objects have been, and are fast being carried into execution. Let us, for a moment, compare the condition of the black slaves of Jamaica before their emancipation with the present white slaves of England, and it will at once appear that the difference in their condition is greatly in favour of the former. The former had their whole la bour made over to their owners out and out, but coupled with this important condition, that the owners were le gally bound for their comfort, able subsistence, in food, clothing, and house accomm o d a ti on ; an d th e bligation by law was strengthened by its being also the interest of the owners themselves to (see to those things, for by attention to the comforts of their slaves only could they hope to make the most of their labour. The power of the slave-owner over his slave was, no doubt, sometimes abused, but that was the exception, not the rule, for the very reason that the interest of the slave-owner lay in treating his slave with kindness. What is now th e con- dition of the w hite slaves of England. They v have five-ninth parts of their whole labour confisca ted to the money-owner, through an insufficient currency, which necessarily expels their wages to that extent from the prices of commodities the produce of that labour, and they are compelled to pay, out of the four-ninth part of their labour remaining, the whole indirect taxes of the country, falling on them as con sumers of the taxed necessaries of life, before they can command these necessaries ; and what remains is utterly inadequate for their subsistence, even in the meanest way. The white slave-owner, the monoy capitalist, is entitled by law to draw five-ninth parts of the labour of his slave, absolutely and without any drawback, or de duction or abatement whatever ; and the white slave of England may rot upon a dunghill for him. Look at the condition of the silk weavers of Spitalfields, who were among the first victims of the new system of currency— of the hand-loom weavers all over the country—and even of the power-loom weavers now—of the common sailor—ot the agricultural labourer, who is now busy burning the ricks of his employer, out of revenge—and of all classes of labourers, without discrimination or ex- ception, whose wages are now utterly insufficient for their subsistence in any way whatever ; while the prices of the necessaries of life, and of all other commodities, are still, by reason of taxation, beyond what they are in any other country. Look at the condition of the entire population of Ireland, who have all been reduced by the same means to the lowest state of destitution and degra dation. When the Currency Bill of 1819 was introduced into the House of Commons, the money power fixed upon Sir Robert Peel to carry it through that House for them. He was then a young man, but as yet unknown to fame. Being of ignoble birth, he saw that his road to power lay through the wealthy classes, and not through the ancient nobility ; and, notwithstanding of his own ample for tune, ho stooped to be the mean tool of the money power, and to pander to their lusts, and to their sordid, avaricious, and greedy desires ; and he accomplished for them the passing of that deadly measure—their Cur-. Bill ti,ar year, a measure of which he still boasts. See, Gentlemen (has he often said to them since), what, I have done for you. It was I who carried your. Currency Bill cf 1819, „;bach / las doubled the fortunes of every one of yo u ! ;, indeed, doubled their fortunes, but at whose e xpen se ? At t h e expense of the humble but .try of hi s country. At the expense of the honest sons of the se very men through whose toil, and the sweat of - whose brows his fathermade m a d e t h at ample fot 'tale wh;_ch he now inherits. Whether his re ward be a cornricA and a pension, to which he, no doubt, looks for yard .. to as the crowning reward of his services to the mo ney ;Dower, or whatever may be his fate in this world, tilt t nary le of Sir Robert Peel will descend to pos terity wi ;h w idying and unenviable fame.—l am, Sir, your mos t obe dicta servant, JAMES PEDIE. Edinburgh, Old Broughton, Jan. 8, 1844. THE CURRENCY. 'O 7 HE EDITOR OF THE SUN. -" l 3 eirniard," I presume, will admit that the Bank of England is compelled to redeem its notes, in gold, at 31. 17s. 103 d. per oz. This granted, it is a /natter of very little importance whether its notes are made payable to bearer in grains of wohl, or in sovereigns of full weight and fineness. Either a 'banker's note is or is not not referable to a fixed ...and determined standard of value. The law say s the standard is gold. Now, if a banker's not is not referable to gold it is clear it cannot be r eferable to paper ONLY, paper not being a stall( lard, and intrinsically worth little or nothing. N or can it be referable either to wine or sugar, n &tiler of these articles being standards of value. Though the Bank of England note " did not go down" in London it certainly did go down in Paris and other European capitals, and, most assuredly, would h ave gone down to a very con siderable d iscount in England, had not Parlia ment provi ided against it. Now, if m bar.ker's note, with reference to gold or silver al; .sta.9 'dards, falls to a discount is not the note thereby depreciated ? :Yours, &c., GERMANICUS. Manches tel Jan. 10, 1844. MR. MUNTZ. TO 2'l!E EDITOR OF THE SUN. - ye ry much regret that Mr. Muntz should have :taken my remarks, on his proposi tion for raising the silver coin from ss. 2d. to 7s. Gd. per ounce, otherwise than as badinage, or that the quott. ttion used was a purposed insult on the town or Birmingham. Had Mr. Muntz re sided in any other town, and a quotation had entered my • memory at the moment, which I fancied would have dove-tailed, I should have used it prei fisely as I did the one I adopted. There is no I sett er test as to the value of a pro - position than ; ridicule, for if it will not stand such test, the: :proposer may be satisfied that that which he in troduced is valueless. While I wrote I smiled t—l did not sneer. If Mr. Muntz imagined I intended to hit him hard personally, no doubt no he considers that he has revenged himself by hi -3 letter to you on my jeu d'esprit, so, at any re .te, we may now cry quits; and I trust, that ;any observations I may make in future on 1M r. Muntz's proposition, will be in great goc , d humour, and in kindly feel ing between. each of us, for I purpose at an early period to address you on the sub ject of raisi ag the coin, with the intention of demonstratii ig that it would be a DIABOLICAL ROBBERY to discharge debts, contracted in the present mea sure of our coins, in the tale of silver coin raised i i•om ss. 2d. to 7s. Gd. per ounce. And in doing so, I shall have no more intention to insult Mr. - Aluntz, than the editor of the Times intended a personal insult to Mr. A ttwood, when he assertedthat " for a nation to evade the pay ment of a debt, by legislating to change the value of the terms in which the bargain is ex pressed, is a piece of rascality not, we trust, in reserve for an English Parliament." By your ]eading articles, I perceive your opinions on money differs from my own, there fore your iusertion of my lucubrations on this subject shoxs your impartiality i and your inser tion of currency articles, originally communi cated to editors of other newspapers, so concen trates the •arguments for and against various pro positions on this affair, as to mak e y our j ourna l doubly valuable. Therefore, I trust you will continue to copy, in The Sun, the communica tions made to other newspapers, on the very in teresting subject of monetary affairs.---I am, Sir, your's, &c. GORDIUS. Ilfracombe, Jan. 10, 1844. HAYMARKET THEATRE. The comedy of The Merry Wives of Windsor was revived as this theatre last evening, Strick land appearing as Sir John Falstaff for the first time. The character of Falstaff is the most per fectly comic character that ever was drawn ; but it is also the most difficult character to embody' in the whole range of the drama. A wit, a hu mourist, a sensualist, a man of expensive habits, but of slender means, mixing on familiar terms with men of all ranks, from the prince to the tapster, and yet, while associating with tapsters, never forgetting that be might be the companion of princes; a gentleman by birth (his grandfather could write himself armiger, or what right bad he to a seal ring ?), by education (he bad been page to Thomas Moubray, Duke of Norfolk), and by station (he was a knight in days when knighthood could only be won by military ser vice)—Falstaff was yet, at times, compelled by his necessities, " to leave the fear of God on the left hand," and to live by his wits. To the world —however much he might indulge his rolicking, social humour, among his more immediate asso ciates—to the world he always kept up his dig nity—" Jack to my familiars—Sir John to the rest of Europe." Thi s l a tt er part o f t h e sentence is in general too much disregarded by our actors. They make him Jack to everybody; there is no ‘ rest of Europe" to whom he is Sir John. This is not what Shakspeare intended, and we are happy to say that it is a fault into which Mr. Strickland did not fall. Mr. Strickland has added immensely to his already high reputation as a Shaksperian actor by his Falstaff of last evening. To say that his is the best Falstaff on the stage is not doing justice to the merits of his very admi rable delineation—it is the only truly Shaksperian Falstaff that we have ever seen. The humours of the character are brought out in strong relief— the wit overflows from the heart ; he is witty, not because he is anxious to shine, but because it is his nature—he cannot help it—and throughout the whole character it is evident that he is a man who has been used to good society. His very love-making, sensual and absurd as it is, is yet gentlemanly withal, and we cannot but feel that, could he have knocked some twenty years off his age, and some ten stone off his weight, Master Ford's jealousy might not have been altogether causeless. His air throughout was that of one , who having been in his youth a man, a bonnes fortunes, could not bring himself to believe but there must have been some error in the date of his birth as recorded in the parish register, and that, as in him grey hairs were not the signs of wisdom, so neither were they the signs of age. It is usnal in noticing the first appearance of an actor in a new character to mention the various points he made. Be it Strickland's great praise that lie made no point, technically so called. The cha racter from beginning to end was so admirably and so equally sustained, that it would be impossible to select any one part for particular commendation, without being guilty of injustice towards every other part which was left unmentioned. Strick land has long stood unrivalled as the delineator of Shakspeare's humorists—(who that has ever seen it can forget his Sir Toby Belch),—and his Falstaff is by far his greatest and his best charac ter. He was called for at the fall of the cur tain, and announced the play for repetition every evening, amidst the rapturous applause of one of the most crowded audiences ever assembled within the walls of the Haymarket. The comedy is, in other respects, very strongly cast. We had Madame Vestris and Mrs. Nisbett as the wives, Charles Mathews as Slender, Mrs. Glover as Mrs. Quickly, and James Bland as Doctor Caius. Webster, as Sir Hugh Evans, was irresistibly comic. He is the only Sir Hugh who gives us anything like the dialect of the Welsh parson. The duelling scene was admirable. Stuart made more of Mr. Ford than we have before seen made of that victim of the green-eyed mon ster. In Stuart's hands Ford becomes really a character, and we feel an in terest in his fate, although we laugh at his unfounded fears. The interspersed music was prettily given, and Madame Vestris and Miss Matley were encored in the duet " I know a bank." The Gambols of Oberon and Puck followed, introducing Professor Risley and his son. The audience were delighted with the truly elegant and classical performances of this won derfully graceful boy. We scarcely know how to designate these unique performances. " The poetry of motion," which would be perhaps the most proper term to give them, is too hack neyed to be applied to that which is so unique, so original, and so inimitable. Master Risley, in fact, performs an aerial ballet, for, supported on the hands or feet of his father, lie accomplishes all the most perfect of ballet dancers -could accomplish on the stage—graceful poses—sta tesque attitudes—intricate and elaborate pas tours de force, astonishing equally by their ease and elegance—tour d'adresse, accomplished with the most exquisite neatness and precision— Such are the performances of this wonderfully graceful child. The applause was rapturous throughout, and at the conclusion the father and son were again called forward to receive the cordial greetings of the audience. The Fair COURT CIRCULAR His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shooting yesterday in the grounds and preserves in the vicinity o f Claremont. His Royal Highness was attended by Major- General Sir Edward Bowater and Mr. George Edward .: . .nson. The Royal party returned to lunch. The unfavourable state of the weather yesterday morn ing prevented her Majesty taking her accustomed early walk. Major-General Sir Robert and Lady Gardiner had the honour of dining Ishii her Majesty yesterday evening at Claremont. A deputation on the subject of the Chester and Holy head Railway, consisting of Mr. R. H. Collett, Mr. W. H. Thomas, and Mr. Duff; - had an interview yesterday with Sir Robert Peel, Sir James Graham, and the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The d potation were accompanied Mr. George Carr Glyn, Chairman of the London and Birmingham Railway, Mr. W. H. Moss, Director of the Grand Junction Railway, Mr. Creed, and Mr. Tynne. Mr. J. Walker also attended the omiference. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone arrived in town yes terday afternoon from Hawarden Castle, Flintshire, the scat of Sir Stephen Glynne. Colonel Malcolm transacted business at the Foreign office on Tuesday. Sir Henry Hardinge, Secretary at War, visited Sir James Graham yesterday, at the Home-office. Th ,, Hon. Robert Clive transacted business yesterday at the Treasury. Sir J. Graham and Sir Thomas Freemantle had inter views yesterday with Sir Robert Peel. Several of the Cabinet Ministers dined with the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday evening, at his Lordship's resi dence, in Argyle-street. The Earl and Countess of Ducie and Lord Moreton arrived at Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave-square, on Tues day evening, from Rufford Hall. ENLARGEMENT OF THE LONDON DOCKS.—The ex tensive alterations making in this great emporium of shipping, wealth, and the produce of all parts of the globe, are proceeding rapidly. The splendid entrance will soon be finished, as the foundation is now nearly completed, and workmen are busily engaged in pulling down the building recently occupied by the Government emigration agent, Lieutenant James Sedgwiek Lean, of the Royal Navy, to make way for the improvements. The old entrance and the store-shops on the southern side will be levelled to the ground as soon as the new buildings are se far advanced as to permit of their being demolished; on whose site will be erected a most commodious range of warehouses. The building for the commissioners, committee-room, and superintendent's offices are to be on a very large scale, and, when finished, the London Dock will be one of the finest com mercial buildings in the world. Notwithstanding that this is the dull season of the year, there are no less than 30 to 35 vessels fitting out for foreign ports. Yesterday Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an adjourned inquest at the Middlesex Hospital, on the body of Johannah Mahoney, aged 51, a fruit-woman. It appeared in evidence that early on Friday evening last deceased, whilst crossing Regent• street, near Conduit-street, was knocked down by one of Pickford's vans, in which were two men named Hewitt and Crundell. She was knocked down by the pole, but the van did nut pass over any part of her person. She was picked up in a state of fright, and led to the Shakspeare public-house, Tyler street, where for same time every attention was paid to her. It being seen, however, that she was lapsing into insensibility, she was removed about eight o'clock to the Middlesex Hospital, in which she died in about an hour after her admission. Mr. Corfe, the house-apothecary, who had opened the body, said she died of apoplexy, caused by a sudden shock to the system, for there was no external or other injury, the effect of violence. The van was going slowly when it knocked her down, and the jury, attributing no blame to the driver or his companion, re turned a verdict—" That deceased died of effusion of Wood on the brain, from having been accidentally knocked down by a van." BRIGHTON.—COMMENCEMENT OF THE MACKEREL FISHERY.—Within the last few days several of the Brighton boats have left for Plymouth, to commence the mackerel fishery. Some of the Hastings boats have also shot their nets off that town, and on Monday two of them brought in the first mackerel caught this season; one boat having taken 1,300 and another 600, which fetched on the beach at Hastings 545. per 100. They were bought up for the London marker. Up wards of 200 sail of French fishing boats are reported off Erightwi dial trw otiglibuuibu , ,d, and having Htly flown a di:vmition to vccroa,b, 7 2,1,:j.,61)'6 brig N.utilui, Lieute nant Paulson, has been sent round to protect our boats, and is now cruising in the Channel. On Monday the Nautilus an , chored 'off Drighteu. FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, JAN. 7.—The extraordinary consignments of cast-iron fi om Liege to Germany are terminated. It seems that the whole quantity is 12 millions of kilo grammes, not from 20 to 25 millions, as at first spoken of. It is probable, however, that the proposed augmen tation of the import duty in the States of the Customs Union having been put off, the proprietors of the iron works of Liege have thought it most advisable to limit their consignments, in order not to overstock the market. The King will not return from Ardenne till next week. BRUSSELS, JAN. B.—For some years past the Govern ment has caused a species of hops to be cultivated which is new to this country. It is called Kent hops, and proves to be so superior to all other kinds, that we think we ought to recommend it to the growers. Those who wish to obtain plants, may have them grati s by a pplyi ng to the experimental farm belonging to the State at Forest. The total receipt of the iron railway during the month of November last, was 788,266 francs. The quantity of goods conveyed was very near 44 millions of kilogrammes, about 10 millions more than during the preceding month. To-morrow another vessel (the Jan Van Eyck) is to leave Antwerp for our colony of St. Thomas, in Guate mala. It has on board 120 passengers, most of them re lations of those who are already settled there. POSEN, DEC. 28 . — Considerable sensation has been occasioned here by an attempt made on Christmas night by two Poles, W. V. L. and V. M., said to be political prisoners, to escape by flight. The affair is in volved in some obscurity. Several young Poles, neither natives of the province, nor possessed of pro perty in it, have been living here, who, by their lan guage in public places, attracted the notice of the police officers,who, after repeated warnings having been disregarded by the young men, thought it necessary to arrest them. 'Whether they are emissaries of what is called " Young Poland" is uncertain. Two of them, the above mentioned, V. L. and V. M. (a third V. D., be longing to a distinguished family in Poland, is said to be confined in our citadel), attempted to escape from the third story of the police office ; V. L. succeeded, but V. M. fell on the pavement of the street where he was soon found weltering in his blood. He is now in the hospital and hopes are entertained of his recovery. An old ukase has lately been promulgated in the kingdom of Poland which is of considerable importance; it ordains that no person in office in the kingdom shall be promoted to the higher depa-tments of the Adminis tration unless he can prove that he has previously been in the service of the State for five years in the Government of Great Russia. The effect of this will be to throw the whole of the administration into -the hands of Russians or of Poles who have already become wholly or partly Russians.—Allgenzei ne Zeitung, Jan. 4. THE COMET NOW VISIBLE A FERI01)1C ONE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE " TIMES. " Sir,—l have great pleasure in transmitting you the transla tion of a letter which I yesterday received from my friend Professor Schumacher, and doubt not you will think a corner of the Times well occupied in diffusing over the civilised world a knowledge of the fact that the comet recently disco vered by Al. Faye in the constellation of Orion actually belongs t 3 our system. In a postscript to his letter the Professor tells me thatits period is six years and 219 days. It is much to be regretted, that owing to extraordinary unfavourable weather, which, since its discovery, seems to have pervaded not only Great Britain, but even Europe, the observations of it are so few. Since my communication to you, published in the Times of November 30, I have seen it but once ; and in Ireland mat ters are still worse, for neither the Earl of Rosse nor Dr. Robinson has obtained even a glimpse of it. Observatory, Kensington, Jan. 10. JAMES SOUTH. ( Translation. ) "The importance of the intelligence contained in the follow ing letter of Professor Gauss, induces me to communicate it to astronomers without delay. " Altona, Jan. 5, 1844. " SCHUMACHER." LETTER FROM PROESSOR GAUSS, DIRECTOR OF THE OB SERVATORY OF GOTTINGEN, TO THE EDITOR OF THE Astron. Nachrichten. " The attempts of Mr. Peterson to reconcile the apparent motion of the Comet with a parabolic orbit having given un satisfactory results, I have induced Dr. Goldschmidt to com pute one independent of that hypothesis, from the observations of November 24, December 1, and December 9, and he has ob tained from them the following elliptic elements :- " Epoch of mean longitude 1843, December, 211876 mean time at Berlin, 58 deg. 31 M. 39 sec. (reckoned from the ap parent equinox). " Mean daily motion 535 sec. 7079 " Perihelion " Angle of eccentricity 3l deg. 29 in. 39 sec. " Log. of semi-axis-major " Node 7 Inclination ... " Motion direct. "If the elements thus derived from observations made during so short an interval as 15 days can be confided in, the orbit of this comet approaches nearer to a circular one than that of any other yet known. " The accordance of the observations hitherto made with Dr. Goldschmidt's calculations stands as follow :-the sign + indicating that the calculated places are in excess :- AR. Decl. sec. sec. Nov. 24.- 0.4 - 4.4 Paris. 26.-21.4 + 6.8 Paris. 27.-13.3 + 7.3 Paris. 28.-12.4 -11.8 Paris. 29. + 3.7 1.1 Paris. Dec. 1. + 3.6 + 5.6 Altona. 2. + 0.3 - 5.5 Paris. 4. + 5.4 _ 0.2 Altona. 9.- 9.6 - 4.9 Altona. - 1 -10.2 Alton a (Merid. Obs.). 10. -1a.5 -20.1 Alton a . - 9.3 -24.8 Altona (Merid.Obs.). 11. -33.3 -30.9 Paris. -14.0 -24.7 Altona. -14.4 -22.4 Altona (Merid. Obs.), 12. -25.8 -38.4 Paris. 13. - 7.3 -27.0 Altona. -23.1 -22.8 Gottingen. " From the 13th of December till this day the weather has been Constantly cloudy. " Gottingen, Jan. 2. C. F. GAUSS." icklitro, i; . ;1(1 Mr. joiw Thoi•uton, Deputy _chairman of the Stamps and Taxes, had inter views with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence, in Downing-street, . One with the Golden Lochs concluded the even. inn's performances. The house was crowded to the ceiling. Long before the rising of the curtain every place was occupied, so tlsit there was not even standing room, 2,ATTINY on BOARD an- EMIGRA TION SHIP at COVE. Informations were taken before Edward Millett, Esq., J.P., county Cork, on the Ist of January, against the crew for mutiny on board the Sea Queen, Government emigration barque, lying at Cove ; and also at the in stance of Mr. Curtis, Surgeon Superintendent of the said vessel, against one of the crew, named James Thomas, for assaulting him, and threatening to take his life. The ship, which was bound for Port Philip is taking out over 200 emig ran t s ; when staving ateleiverpool, the chief mate was dismissed the vessel . for immoral conduct, aed making use of the most infamous language (which was also practised by the crew) before the female emigrants. The crew then exhibited the first symptoms of insubor dination, declaring they would not go to sea if the mato was not reinstated. Four of the men left the ship the next evening without leave, but returned on the follow ing morning. At this time a most determined spirit of animosity existed amongst the crew against the Surgeon Superintendent, which they took no pains to conceal from the Surgeon, using every means of thwarting him in the execution of his duty on board. The assault was committed on him under the following circumstances :—On the afternoon of Sunday the 30th Dec., the Surgeon Superintendent had occasion to visit the agents on shore on a point of duty, and for this pur pose he was accompanied by the Chief Officer, (who had joined at Cork in the room of the one disnieste at Ply mouth) with four hands in the jolly-boat, ofThich num ber this James Thomas formed one. When the Sur geon's business on shore was concluded, he and the Chief Officer returned to the boat, but as the men wereeihtent the Chief Officer proceeded in search of them. As - soon as lie lefethe Surgeon, Thomas, who it appears was await ing a suitable opportunity, rushed down Irene the heights above to the beach rising the moee dreadful im precations to the Surgeon ; stating that had obtekined leave to come on shore for the solo purpose of rev&ging himself and others upon the Surgeon Superinterelent ; that lie had long earnestly desired such an.opportunity, and that in what he now said he expressed the oreelon of the whole crew. A scuffle took ,place between them in which the Surgeon had the advantage, BLit on re turning on board, Thomas again attacked Sir. Curtis with a knife, but was again overpowered, and put in irons till the next rnorting, when he was given into the custody of the shore police. The wind being fair, the Captain gave orders to weigh anchor, but the crew refused unless another man was shipped ill the place of Thomas. In this emergency he celled a con sultation with the Surgeon-Superintendent and officers, and it was determined to signalise the ships of war in the harbour. The Captain complains loudly, and seems to have just cause in so doing, against the conduct of the officers of the three men-of-war, lying in the har bour, in not giving him assistance after having made the following signals :—At daylight we hoisted the Ensign LTnion downwards forwards—a signal well known to be one of urgent distress, requiring imme diate assistance. No notice of any kind whatever was taken of this. We next hoisted No. 3,240 of Marryat's signals, implying " Mutiny on board," a signal which, flying at the main, could not have escaped the notice of the flag officers, or the officers of the other shiers of war, since it was distinctly perceived all d made out on shore. At eight o'clock A. M. , no assistance of any kind arriving, we fired a gun. At nine o'clock no sign of a boat or answering the signal, we fired another gun. At ten o'clock we fired a third gun, in the hope of attreetinee the notice of the Ad m i ra l, b ut a ll to no purpose, althenera the signals were flying until noon. Signals as the captain said, had the fiercest mutiny existed on board of us—had the vessel been sinking with 250 souls on board—it would have been the same ;we could not have made signals of more urgent distress, even in those cases, and in them alike we should have received no assistance from the ships of war in harbour. A boat now arrived from the shore, and it became a question whether we should apply to the Admiral or to the Civil authorities, and it was decided that, as we had signalised the flag ship, it would, perhaps, be the proper course to go on board and explain the matter there. Being disappointed of any assistance from the Admiral, Mr. Curtis and the chief officer proceeded to shore, and a warrant was immediately granted by Edward Millet, Esq., for the apprehension of the crew. A strong party of armed police proceeded on board the Sea Queen, and arrested the men, taking them on shor e kin custody. The men we tried at the police-offi ce "'thee same day by Messrs. 'Holmes and Millet. James Thomas was seri tenced to pay a fine of 51. or to be imprisoned for six weeks and kept to hard labour. The crew were sen tenced to be imprisoned /tr ten days, with hard labour, and forfeiture of any wages duo. The ship is under a penalty of 20/. a day demurrage, beside the enormous expenses of victualling so large a number Of emigrants. PICCADILLY IMPROVRSIENTS.—The Commissioners •f the Woods and Forests, on the meeting of Parliament., in tend to apply for a Bill to carry into effect the long-projected improvements in the above street. Government, we under stand, has offered to pay the whole expense of widening the street from the mansion, formerly the Marquis of Hertford's, where the road is only thirty-one feet wide, to riamilten-plaoes taking the ground from the Green-park, and making the whole of a uniform with of seventy feet; and the parishes of St. Mar , tin and St. George are to keep it in repair. SINGULAR ASTRONOMICAL 1 lIENOMENON. Air. William Lassell, of Starfield, in a letter to the editor of the Liverpool Times, calla the attention of the astronomical readers of that journal, to a rare and beautiful exhibition of the planets which will in a few days adorn the south-western sky. 11e states that, "on Saturday, the 13th inst., all the planets of our system will be clustered together, and if the atmosphere be clear, may be all seen with the naked eye, except the vitro Most distant, Saturn and the Georgium Sidus. The former of these will be a little too near the sun to allow its pale light to be dis cerned, and the latter under any cireumstauees requires a powerful telescope to recognise it distinctly. \ eons from its surpassing brillian c y, w ill first appear, and may b e eaily seen shortly after four o clock, or about sunset, having an altitude of about 12 or 13 degrees. About seven degrees west of her, and at a lower altitude, Mercury will appear, S a t urn being about 13 degrees west of Mercury, and too close to the horizon to be seen. About 12 degrees east of Venus will be the place of Jupiter. and 23 degrees east of Jupiter, Mars sill appear. About six degrees further to the east than Mars will be the place of the Georgium Sidus, which at sunset will have an alti tude of about 31 degrees. So that if an imaginary line he drawn in the sky about 65 degrees long, one end of which shall touch the sun when in the horizon, and the other end terminate eastward at an altitude of 31 degrees, the planets will all be situated nearly in that line, with the exception of Venus, which will be situated some two degrees south of it." A printed notice to the following effect was peefod yesterday at the Custom-house, and at the several docks, which is very important to merchants and persons haling business at the Custom-house:—" Tho Board of Customs having caused to be printed and published a compilation of the genqral orders and minutes, iaued by them in the month of Septembbr, which affects the importation and exportation of goods, and prescribe regulations for the conduct of those who have business to transact at the Custom-house, notice is hereby, given, that copies of the same may be had upon application at the collec tor ssoffice, and on payment of the sum of 4d. A similar work will be published monthly in future, and may be had at the before-mentioned office." The above order is in consequence of a recommendation of the Revenue Inquiry Commission. LICENSED VICTUALLERS AND TILE MILITARY Au.; THORITIM—The four desperate and brutal ruffians of Ma . - rines, named Jackson, Kirby, Johnson, and Reid, who were committed for fourteen days for a savage attack upon Mr. Sons nex, a licensed victualler and landlord of the Duke on Horse back public-house, High-street, es well as upon Sergeants Payne and Gladwell, 37 R, returned yesterday to the garrison from Maidstone, and as soon as they reached Woolwich they immediately went to Mr. Sonnex's house, sehere they made use of the most dreadful imprecations, and said they would have another turn with the landlord and the b------ polite When they mustered strong enough. Mr. Sonnex refused to serve them, and they left the house, but a short time afterwards Jackson returned and tried to knock up a fight, but could not do so. It is fully expected to-night that another outrage will be committed by them upon any one that indiscriminately comes in their way, especially the Royal Artillery ; they, how ever, have taken the precaution not to go singly about, but in bodies, to repel their ruffianly assailants, should it be required. LosaioN JOURNEYMEN BAKERS PROVIDENT Ps.. STITUTION.—On Tuesday evening a public meeting of the sub scribers to the above Institution was held at Mr. James's, the Coach and Horses, High Holborn, Mr. Dwemble in the chair, for the purpose of raising funds towards the erection of an asylum for the relief and reception of aged and infirm journey men bakers and their widows and orphans. Mr. Cruickahanks, the secretary, read several letters from millers, master bakers, &c., pledging themselves to support the proposed Asylum, and several resolutions favourable to the charity having been adopted, upwards of 160 millers, master tethers, &c., enrolled themselves members, after which thanks were voted to the Chairman, and the meeting adjourned. Why was Murphy in danger of being frozen to death on the 7th inst. ?—Because be was oast in tit* coldest weather. CONSUMPTION OF BREAD AND FLOUR IN T/111 AIETRoPoLis,—It is estimated that 30,000 sacks of ficur are consumed weekly in the metropolitan districts, the population of which, according to the last census, is 1,870,727; the con sumption of bread, allowing bibs. weekly to meta person, is 2,338,409 loaves, each weighing 4lbs.; and admitting that sack of flour is manufactured into 93 of these !caves it re quires 25,144 sacks to yield a su ffi cient quantity of breed for the metropolis, leaving, 4,856 sacks for puddings, biscuit, pastry, and other manufactures. RAILWAY COMMUNICATION WITH IRELAND.—'-Yes terday Mr. G. C. Glyn, Chairman of the Directors of the London and Birmingham Railway Company, and Mr. Cased, , ; Secretary ,• Mr. R. H. Collett, M.P., Mr. W. H. Vtomas„ and Mr. Duff, Directors of the Chester and Holyhead Rail- way ; W. H. Moss, chairman of the Grand Jlauction Railway; and some other gentlemen interested In railway companies, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Sir George Clerk, at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The deputation was Lheaded by Mr. Collett, M.P. Shortly after the members of the deputation had met, Sir Robert Peel and Sir James Graham joined the meeting. Tho object of the interview was to obtain the assistance c Government in facilitating the communication between England and Ireland. The deputation entered into the details of their plan, the prin cipal point of which was the continuation of the railway line from Chester to Holyhead, by which means the jotirney be tween the two capitals would be diminished by some hours. Sir R. Peel listened with greit interest to all that was urged by the deputation, and manifested the most perfect acqtaiptance with the subject. No decision was come to, but the deputation left highly satisfied with the reception they had met. TIIE HERRING Ftsminy.—This week the Mid • Quay has been the scene of unussral bustle and activity, by the arrival of a number of vessels from the Kyles of Bute, loaded with fresh herrings. It appears that the fishing has been so productive that the fishermen have been glad to find purchasers on the ground at led. per 120. Yesterday the herrings th ere were selling at Is. 4d., and retailing at sin apenny. The eheaps nets of herrings and potatoes is a great 'sieving to the .... Greenock Advertiser. UNWHOLESOME MEAT.— T) aster sessions, At his, just held, a butcher there was indicted for sorneretering apqu a to two stall unwholesome mutton for stle, months' imprisonment and a fin s e ta o te l' d b t /. ua a t tad oiftahneyCrone"eillse The Recorder, on passing sentence , s awardthe, rei. f a tie r More s It convictedvere before punishment.him fo r s same keoffropeeed that the, he should example new made will be a warning to butdhers aping log off bad meat on - the public.. • • Iww eet. od irst her ast, it srs.' an& )ad. 6d- E.: ta k e Ig st eta tpio4 7f) r. bi l/ sd ' to: treat , it la' ittesai • sts at Ir, a' tholle plaifr ,ce be, er de• Y•) bir► .sou