The Sun. — London, England, 1844-01-15 00:00:00

ANTI-CORN -LAW MEETING AT EDINBURGH. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JAN. 13. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 39 ; Highest, 45 ; Noon, 41. BAROMETER, 30.1.—WIND, N.W. NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is usually placed opposite 30, and ra i n 91". On Thursday a public meeting was held in the New Music Hall (Assembly Rooms), the largest public hall in Edinburgh, to receive a deputation from the National Ana-Corn-law League, consisting of Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P., John Bright, Esq., M.P., Colonel T. P. Thompson, and R. R. Moore, Esq., the object of the meeting being to promote a subscription in Edinburgh and neighbourhood in aid of the Great League Fund of 100,000/., to be applied in securing the total and imme diate repeal of the corn-laws, the Right Hon. the Lord Provost in the chair; and among those on the platform were, Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P.: John Bright, Esq., M.P. ; Colonel T. P. Thompson; R. R. 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Sargent, 15 s. cloth , THE LIFE and ADVENTURES of JACK of the MILL, commonly called " Lord Othmill ;" created, for his Eminent Services, Baron Waldeck, and Knight of Kitticottie ; a Fireside Story. By WILLIAM HOWIT T. Also, just published, by MARY HOWITT, with Ten Wood :Engravings by G. F. Sargent, price 10s. 6d., THE CHILD'S PICTURE and VERSE BOOK. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. • THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION of MONEY I. DIVIDENDS, A UTil ORISED and GUARANTEED l HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, contains MONEY DIVIDENDS of £5O £6O £7O £BO £9O £lOO £llO £l2O £l5O £2OO £4OO £6OO - £BOO £l,OOO £1,500 £5,000 and £23,000 sterling. Amounting together to £70,170 sterling. Direct for PROSPECTUS with full particulars, WITH. OUT DELAY, to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, Cr, to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING. JANUARY 15, Will be performed CINDERELLA. Felix, Mr. W. Harrison; Cinderella, Mrs. A. Shaw. After which, will be repeated a New Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime;entitlel HARLEQUIN AND KING PEPIN ; or- VALENTINE AND ORSON. Harlequin, Mr.. Howell ; Colum, bine, Miss Carson; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway; Pantaloon, Mr. Blanchard. Dress Boxeli 75., Second Price 3s. 6d. ; Upper Circles al ,Boxes 511., Second Price 3s. ; Pit 3s , Second Price 25.• riLddle t'allcry Vs., l , econd Price Is.; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. M. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS. M. Jullies regrets that he is unable to give a Concert this Evening, Monday, Jan. 15, the Theatre having been let for that evening pre vious to his occupation. TO-MORROW, TUESDAY, JANUARY itt, Will be produced a New Comic Quadrille, by M. Jullien, entitled THE IRISH ECHOS:— Air, Semiramide—Echo, Life let us cherish. Air, Poor Mary Ann—Echo, Nix my dolly Pals. Air, Duncan Grey—Echo, Yankee Doodle. Air, Huntsman's Chorus—Echo, St. Patrick's Day and Rule Britannia The National Air in the Finale will be given with New and Grand Effect, in aid of which Twelve Cornets-a-Piston will be added to the Orchestra. Doors Open at Half-past Seven, commence at Eight o'Clock. Promenade, Is , Upper Boxes, Is.; Dress Circle, 2s. dd. ; Private Poxes, 11. Is. Tickets to be obtained at the Box-office of the Theatre; of Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street; Mr. Andrews, New `Bond-stieet ; Mr. Sams, St. James's-street; and M. Jullien's Office, S t Maddox-street, Bond-street. • THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. MR. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE. RE-ENGAGEMENT OF PROFESSOR RISLEY AND HIS INFANT SON. THIS EVENING,JANUARY 15, Will be repeated the Comedy of THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Strickland; Master Slender, Mr. C. Mathews ; Mr. Ford, Mr. Stuart ; Mr. Page, Mr. Howe; Fenton, Mr. Caulfield; Sir. Hugh Evans, Mr. Webster ; Mrs. Page, Madame Vestris ; Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Niett ; Mrs. Quickly, Mrs. (}lover ; Anne Page, Miss Watley. After which, the Unparalleled Performances of. Professor RISLEY and.hig SON. Co conclude with a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE FAIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS! King Lachrymoso, Mr. J. Bland; Prince Graceful, Miss P. Horton ; Queen Lucidora, Miss-Julia Bennett. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, ss. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery. 25.; Upper Gallery, Is. Ilalf-price —Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. Doors opened at Half.past Six, and the Performances commence at Seven. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr I. T. Archer, at the Box office, from Ten till Five. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL The Best Pantomime ot the Season—Gorgeous Scenery, TUIS'EVENING, JANUARY 15 , The New Drpte,.embracing Extraordinary Effects, Powerful Cast, and Novel Scenic Display, called THI BOHEMIANS; or, The Rogues ot Paris. Principal Cbti'acters by Messrs. Lyon, 0. Smith, Wright, Wieland, Maynard, Mrs. Yates, Miss K Stanley, Mrs. F. Matthews. After which, a New Grand Christmas Pantomime , called HAR LEQUIN BLUE BEARD. or, The Fairy ot the Silver Crescent. Produced with Enormous Splendour and Woudertul Effects! Columbine, Miss Bul en ; Harlequin Quicksilver, by the inimitable 'Vineland ; Clown, by the Grimaldi or the day, Mr. T. Matthews, from the Theatres Royal, Covent-garden and Drury-lane; Pants. loon,. Mr. Johnstone. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is. ; Second price at Nine. Doors open at Six, commences at a Quarter before Seven o'Clock. PRINCESS'S. THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. ,LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. -- THIS EVENING, JANUARY 15, Will tisi performed LUCREZIA BORGIA. Dwi AlOonso, Mr. Burdinl; Gennarro, Mr. Allen ; Mallio Orsini, Mrs. H. P. Grattan; GoWta, Mr. Walton ; Lucrezia Borgia, Maclaine Eugenia Garcia. '• After which, A DAY WELL SPENT. • To conclude with the New Musical Burlesque spectacle, entitled THE MAGIC MIRROR. Sing. Song, Mrs. H. P. Grattan; Poo. Poo, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Sloe.Leat, Miss R. Isaacs. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. As usual, the funniest and most successful Pantomime. THIS, EVENING, JANUARY 15, Will be repeated THE BOHEMIANS OF PARIS. Supported by Messrs. Saville, Hughes, Hicks, R. Homer, Johnson, Smith, Mrs. .H.. Vining, and all the Members of the First Company in the World. After which an entirely new Grand Comic Pantomime, with Splendid Scenery, Superb Dresses, Inimitable Properties and 'ricks, .very thing new and of the most costly description, HARLEQUIN ORAN M AR, or, Lindley Murray,and AEI 0 U. Harlequin, Mr, W. H. Harvey ; Grotesque, Mr. Stilt; Clown, Mr. : Fuller ; Pants. loon, • Mr. Ilawsins,; Columbines (alternately) Miss M. R. Fair. brother and Miss Sharpe. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box. office, from Eleven to Four. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Under the Management of Mr. Batty, Proprietor. Triumphant Success of the Splendid Christmas Holiday Fetes.—West. minster-Bridge is now open—Juvenile Nights. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 15, Will be performed a Grand Comic Pantomime, entitled HARLE QUIN FAM O'SH A NTER, and his STEED MEG; or, The Witches of Alloway Kirk. Harlequin, Mr. Gibson ,• Columbine, Mdlle. Cushnie ; Clown. Mr. King; Pantaloon, Mr. Mathews. New Scenes in the Circle, and unequalled Feats of Horsemanship. To conclude with the splendid French Spectacle of THE TORIES OF MURAT, THE SOLDIER-OF FRANCE; or, The general, Prince, and King. Acting and Stage. Manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Stalls. fis.; Boxes, 45.; Upper Boxes, :3s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is.; Upper Gallery, rd. ox-office open daily from Ten till Four. Stage Boxes One Guinea • Half.peice to Ditto, Halt-a-Guinea. Private BoliaiTwo Guirieas; Half-price. to Ditto, One Guinea. Half.price,• Hail past Eight ROYAL VICIORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 15. Will be p e rformed. an entirely New Domestic Drama, entitled POVERTY ; or, Mary Graham. Leonard, Mr. 'Freer; Jessamy Tacit, Mr. Natitz ; Squire Graham, Mr. ,Dale; Patty Parrot, Bliss' Arden ; Mary graham; Miss Vincent. After which will be produced THE FAIRTAADY; or; the Cabinet of Bronze.. To 'Conclude With HARLEQUIN LINCOLN LUCKY OF LAM. IBETH ; or, The Three Sisters of Witch Willow' 'Dell. Harlequin, Nr. Chapino ; Clown, Mr. Scarbrow; Pantaloon, Mr. ; Columbine, Mies Dl. acbmidt. THE SUN, LONDON, 'MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 15, 1844 der, and could not have incurred a higher amount of penal suffering. Entertaining these views upon this important subject, we regard with no overweening favour or prepossession suggestions for any extension of experiments, the tendencies of which appear to be thus cruel upon individuals in their imme- diate operation, and thus mischievous in their ultimate results on society. In The Sun of Saturday last we published a statement relative to Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S inordinate passion for " model prisons for the country." From this it would appear that the Home Secretary is modestly pressing upon the justices of counties to take into immediate consideration the expe- diency of superseding all the existing prisons of their districts, and erecting one or more in their stead, at an expense of some 157,0001. (no more!) on his last and newest " model" pattern ! on a system, as the " statement" in question well remarks, " which is yet upon trial—which has not yet received the sanction of Parliament—and never, it is to be hoped, will." We certainly concur in the " astonishment" manifested "at the temerity of Sir JAMES GRAHAM, of which no parallel in the conduct of any Minister in this country can be recollected in presuming to re quire, or even to recommend to the justices" the adoption of such a course. But the request has been, already, not to say " scouted" merely, but " kicked out" of the Quarter Sessions of Lancashire and Gloucestershire. As for the latter, GRAY'S " Bard" seems to have been revivified by Sir JAMES'S indiscretion. " Stout Gloucester stood aghast in speechless trance !" Yet not quite speechless, by the bye; for the Chairman of the Gloucester Quarter Ses- sions, in reference to this subject, said, " The Government•could not enforce the plan upon them, and the only way in which the county could be compelled to build. a model prison was by Act of Parliament, which, if the county Mein bens, did their duty, no Government could ever obtain." Of course every body who knows the peculiarly sensitive delicacy of so consistent a - - statesman, so disinterested a politician, as Sir JAMES GRAHAM, will pause ere he attributes the Right Hon. Baronet's remarkable ardour in trying to force this plan on the county juris- . _ dictions to ulterior views of official patronage in his own department, or of accessions of county influence to the Ministerial party. But there is a less equivocal and much more serious reason for the unqualified and indignant rejection of Sir JAMES'S proposals by every Quarter Sessions in the kingdom in the appalling announcement in Sir PETER LAURIE'S letter to the Lei- cestershire Magistrates. He tells them, as President of Bethlehem Hospital, that "although the Model Prison (Pentonville) has been opened so short a time, and although every prisoner is carefully examined, and indeed selected with reference to his health, two pri soners have become I NSANE, and have been transmitted from the Model .Prison to Bethle hem." Would to GOD ! we add, that some of the prime speculators in these " model prisons"—that is to say, on the utmost limits of human endurance and moral energy, under the application of studied mental torture, and a scale of graduated agony, commencing with remorse and terminating with despair—were themselves committed to, and permanently confined in, the incurable ward of the same hospital. They would then learn the amount of the distress they pre- sume to inflict beyond the demands of the law, and up to the mind-and -body-destroying point of practical retribution in the Model Bastille o f Pentonville. - , ft. 4 4, -" • • 'F . - A b..!•;* 71 % *, • ' 4 11 , -"t 4 41 , --‘a •Ally.4ox, ay .,' • 4 .4. ' o '", ' • m • ••••,; ~✓ c ~ LONDON: MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 15, 1844. This morn dawned upon the commencement of a trial, the effect of which, to the Govern ment of the country, to the people of Ireland, and to the well-being of the empire, it is totally impos- sible to calculate. The trial of DANIEL O'CoN- NELL, for a seditious conspiracy, would at any time have excited the liveliest feelings of sym- pathy, and called forth all the anxiety of friend- ship, among those who recognised in him the great assertor of his country's rights, and the regenerator of her religious freedom,—whilst those, whose Orange bigotry saw, as the result of his acts and deeds, the downfal of their own long-continued selfish legislation, would have hoped to witness his` conviction, his punishment, and his disgrace. But at the present time, when the utmost power of a Government has been stretched, to procure, if possible, the certainty of a triumph,— when the bitterness of enmity has sharpened every weapon, and the vehemence of a party, desperate, in proportion to its want of judgment, has called upon the legal officers of the Crown to cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war, upon one, who, whatever his occasional errors, has always been the firm supporter of civil and reli gious liberty all the world over, and who, whilst claiming for himself and his own countrymen en tire freedom, has always been equally ready to con cede it to others—how gratifying to himself must it be to feel, and to every Liberal to know, that let the result of the present trial be what it may, neither punishment nor disgrace can attach to him. The jury must decide upon a conviction— we believe that they must decide rightly, and that conviction of unfair dealing will attach to the prosecutors— acquittal of all offence to the traversers. In our last number, we gave a sketch of the various practices by which the current of jus tice has been sought to be impeded, corrupted, and polluted. Upon the additional means to pro cure a conviction, namely, the exclusion of every Roman Catholic from the jury panel, in a coun try where seven millions of Catholics are found to one million of Protestants, the grand aggre- gate meeting of the Catholics of Ireland, held on Saturday, and which is reported in our columns this day, has pronounced its indignant opinion. In that opinion every honest Liberal will con cur, and denounce the proceeding as the greatest insult to religious feeling, and the grossest in- justice to an entire faith, that even the history of Tory official conduct of political prosecutions can show. The other instance of Tory official manage ment, the suppression of 63 names out of a panel of 780 qualified jurors, proved to have occurred, no matter how—and by a Judge of character un impeachable, declared to be matter for grave suspicion—and yet to have been done in such a way, that no remedy exists for the accused until after conviction, adds burning coals of fire upon the heads of the Irish officers of the Crown. And thus, to sum up all, the trial in which justice is pretended to be about to be administered, has this day commenced, with a total denial of every thing that is worthy of the name; and the sacred temple of the laws is attempted to be polluted by a perversion of that justice which it is the boast of Britons, that it belongs to their very soil, and is inherent in the very spirit of their con stitution. No correct copy of the indictment supplied to them, contrary to law and to English practice ; the names, of the witnesses withheld, contrary to law and to English practice ;—the witnesses sworn in secret, and not in open court, contrary to law both in England and Ireland ;—the striking off the jury of all men of the Catholic faith, contrary to Christian charity and common justice ;--and the suppression of nearly one-tenth of the entirejury panel, contrary to law, princi ple, and all fair dealing,—these are the pre parations for a great act of justice, in the year 1844, in the time of a Tory Government, but after all—and greatest shame of all—in the Premiership of Sir ROBERT PEEL. We had hoped better things from him, but it appears we hoped in vain ; the regret is now ours,—the eter nal infamy which these proceedings must entail upon their concoctors, will attach equally to their abettors, and will be his. The jury have now committed to them, the care for the interests of justice, which Tory officials have shown they totally disregard. The jurors sworn to determine upon the evidence sub mitted to them, may still keep from degradation an Irish tribunal. They must decide, whether the traversers are guilty of doing acts, with any such intentions as the Crown officers impute to them. No matter what those acts may be, it is the intent that affixes their guilt or innocence. The intention to do an illegal act must first exist, before any criminality can attach to that act. No act can amount to a crime unless it be proved to be committed in fulfilment of a premeditated intention, and the establish ment of an act, is no establishment of an intention to commit that crime. There can be no doubt, that if multitudes as semble, with intent, by force and violence, to compel the repeal of any law, a crime is thereby committed; but if the intent be, to produce the repeal of the law, without force or violence, no crime is committed by the assembling of multi tudes, however numerous. The law deals with intents, not with numbers; and -jurors will—all jurors must—remember that no suspicion, or pro bability, or chance of guilt, will suffice, but proof, clear and indisputable, of guilt and intent pre existent, is requisite to enable them to pronounce an accused party guilty, in accordance with their oaths. The Anti-Corn-law League goes forth, as was observed of NAPOLEON, " conquering and to conquer." It is enlisting recruits in all quarters, even among those who, four years since, were its bitterest opponents. On Wednesday last, its two most eminent members, Messrs. COBDEN and BRIGHT, attended at a grand Free Trade Banquet, which was given them in the City Hall at Glasgow, on which occasion not less than two thousand individuals were present. Mr. Fox MAULE, who was among the guests, and who— asl.our readers are perhaps aware—is the son and heir 'of one of the richest and most influential landholders, in all Scotland, spoke out in straightforward and energetic terms on the subject of free trade, and, as will be seen by the fOlfowing passage, which we quote from his speech, condensed a vast deal of signi- ficant meaning within the smallest possible com pass :—" I think it stands to reason," said the Hon. Gentleman, " that that system is best, and promotes to the greatest extent the well-being of all, which shall give us the easiest enjoyment of that which the rest of the world produces, and which shall convey back in return the pro duce of our own industry. Now these are the principles upon which I wish to see legislation con ducted, and not in one pointonly but in all. In fact, I wish to see no taxation which is not solely for the purpose of maintaining our national credit, and answering our national engagements; and I further wish to see the taxation so levied that its pressure may be equal on all classes, and no one class have exemption at the expense of another." In these few but comprehensive words we have an admirable digest of the principles of free trade—principles which it is the object of the League to popularise, and whose full and perfect triumph it is ere long destined to accomplish. The monopolists are well aware of this; hence the secret of their present exacerbation—hence their mean and calumnious attacks on the Leaguers, which, however, in consequence of their excessive virulence, invariably fall wide of the mark. The opponents of free trade should learn to be discreet in their slanders; they should impart to them an air of plausibility, so that they may look something like truths, instead of out raging common sense; otherwise their clumsy falsehoods—as indeed has been the case hitherto— will only recoil on their own heads. We specially re commend this consideration to the attention of the Rev. Mr. FISHER, of Wavington, who, at a recent Anti-League demonstration at Newport Pagnel, did not deem it unbecoming his clerical cha racter to indulge in language like this :—" There were many things which the League had done, which he could not advise the meeting to imitate. He could not advise Drummondizing ; he could not recommend assasssination and street murder. Let the League carry on their warfare as they would, they would carry on theirs as Christians. He did not like to cast accusations, but he really thought lie had seen too strong an occa sion to suspect that the late incendiary fires, if not instigated, were encouraged by the League." Assassination, street-murder, incen diarism ! Such are the charges which a Minis ter of the Gospel of peace and charity has the hardihood and effrontery to bring against a great popular confederacy, which—as its leaders have asserted a hundred times, and acted up to the assertion—desires no converts but such as are made by argument—no triumphs but such as are achieved by peaceful and constitutional means. And while boldly bringing these charges against the League, the Rev. Gentleman, in the true spirit of Pharisaical cant, professes his dislike "to cast accusations !" In the very same sentence that he deprecates the idea of slander, he slanders the members of an orderly, constitutional confederacy in the grossest terms possible. Fortunately, the very virulence of the calumny supplies its own refutation, for what sane man will believe for an instant, even on the representation of a Minister of the Gospel, that the League would countenance the perpetration of deeds which, if proved to have originated in their suggestions, would dishonour them for ever in the eyes of their countrymen, and deprive them of all their moral influence ? As we said just now, the opponents of free trade should learn to be discreet in the exercise of their slanders, and impart to their inventions something like an appearance of pro bability. The world may then, perhaps, be tempted to place some little faith in their calum nies, whereas at present it repudiates them with contempt, as the gross falsehoods of a jaundiced, desperate, and unprincipled faction. Among the most offensive pruriencies of modern legislation, we cannot refrain from reckoning the mania for " Prisoners' classifica tion," " Prison discipline," and " Prison build ing," as perhaps the-favourite type of the law making mania. In no other instance is the tran sition from soundness of principle to abuse of practice so abrupt or unfortunate as that which our statesmen generally make, from the specula tions of their Cabinets to the Bills which they introduce into Parliament on the " Better Ma nagement of Prisons." No object can be pro posed of more intrinsic humanity, or of sounder administrative wisdom, than to establish a system of careful inspection, at undefined periods, of moral and responsible management, of good order and impressive regulation, providing at once for the due physical subsistence, and (of such as desire it) for religious instruction and counsel, as to all prisoners confined under sen tence by lawfUl authority. It is not merely " well " it is not only " proper " that due care should lie shown for the health, and the orderly deportment of prisoners, but it is just, equitable, and right, that in their confinement they should not be deprived of the advantages of such superintendence. Imprison ment is the whole, or a part of the penalty, which the law of the land has decreed against them for this or that violation of it. If it be but part and parcel of that penalty, the law carefully pro nounces, by the mouth of the Court, the precise character and extent of the additional punish ment which shall be superadded to imprison ment. If this latter sentence involve the whole of the atonement which the law will exact for the offence committed or wrong done, it is contrary, not merely to the spirit, but to the letter of the law itself to exceed the pain of imprisonment by any superadded visitation on the prisoner. In neither case was it ever the intention of the common law, or of statutes, to invest individual functionaries (especially such as are not judges or executive officers of its own jurisdictions) with power to aggravate the term or the nature of the punishment decreed, excepting only as to such alterations thereof as may have been subse quently incurred, through personal misconduct or delinquency on the part of the prisoner, ac cording to the directions of the Acts for the better enforcement of prison discipline. But there is a large class of pseudo-philanthropists and legislators, who are never satisfied with such securities as these,. They are for enforcing on all prisoners—aye, even upon prisoners for debt—a course of penitentiary and cumulative suffering, ingeniously protracted and aggravated beyond the amount of expiation demanded by the law. The law in the eyes of these men does not un derstand its own objects. It cannot accomplish its own purposes. They step in, professedly to work in the heart of the prisoner that moral expiation which human law never can accom plish. They seek to touch and soften the heart, by afflicting the senses and breaking down the native energies, mental and bodily, of those whom the law would restore to their free agency after inflicting on them a certain amount of bodily suffering, or personal restraint, with or without pe cuniary fine. In thisattemptthe very first absurdity they commit, because it is an inevitable result of an impracticable system, is to confound different classes of criminals and different degrees of crime under one and the same category of searching, spirit-breaking, unrelaxing, uncom proinising, unremitted "discipline." This height ened discipline, like Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S low ered "dietary," is to be applied to all-alike, and without distinction. The deeper and more des perate criminal, if he be liberated at all, leaves the " model prison," not moved and melted into kindlier feelings for his fellowmen, by a con scious sense of having received kindlier treat ment and more charitable usage than he had at all merited; but breathing inextinguishable hatred against, and devising schemes of future vengeance upon, that society, under the ordi nances of which he has been made to .endure such excesses of abject humiliation and mental torture beyond that penalty of the law which the sentence solemnly pronounced in open court had apprised him that he had incurred. The minor offender, of feelings less seared and delinquencies far less criminal, quits the walls that have wit nessed his aggravated punishment, and shame, ,and misery, with the dangerous impression that had lie sinned more gravely against " Heaven and man," he must have realised a larger plun- Sir JAMES GRAHAM evidently assumes tim the law does not go far enough. He would strike, by punishments beyond the law, at those deficiencies—(still left in the moral nature of men whose crimes have been legally visited) — which no human law can ever strike. He would penetrate but to punish the guilty secrets of that consciousness which is potent only to the individual delinquent and his MASER; for the guilt, of which human institutions could take cognisance, human laws have already exacted their vengeance for. To what end, if not for this inhuman and presumptuous purpose, does the Home Secretary of State thus attach him self to his " model" system, with its dreary cells —its compulsory silence—its monotonous misery —its leisure for maddening remorse—its prompt ings to . self-destruction its solicitations to hopeless despondency or desperate despair? Does lie reflect that the certain failure, for which this terrible machinery is set in motion, must be worked out, not by mere bo dily privation, captivity, and di sgrace , b u t by th e cwithdrawaltabuse l of all signs o f h uman gym- Ir e ec t ickwohfmh tyrants Godlik e , or i g i na l endow nv-in rantshave not hitherto presumed to tamper with, which, ev en th e torment o f t h e rack, was not directed agai ns t, w hi c h t h e axe of the headsman an d the cord of the ha ngman may be said to respect amidst the pangs of co r p orea l death. The forcible restraints m thes e " mo d e l" the horror of u n b ro k en s il ence, the cells on the e xpression of all emo ti on , the aylex tinction of all curiosity, the p ro hibi t i on o f a ll a pathy, the spirits, brutify the mind, destroy life, but the object of punishing what the law cannot —of reclaiming whom the ordinary course of imprisonment cannot—will never be achieved to such an extent as t o j ust if y t h e means resorted to in the attempt. Let us put the case to Sir J. GRAHAM of some grave offences, not cognisable at law—yet of everyday occurrence—and ask how he would proceed with them? How would he deal with a man (let us suppose) notorious for his faithl essness to part i es, his forgetfulness of principles, his abandonment of early conne xions, his vi o l a ti on o f often-re corded 'pledges, his transient friendships, his enduring enmities ? How would he denounce, and visit with signal penalties, the abjurer of his political leaders and his private companions for the sordid purposes of his interested selfishness; a traitor to the cause of these, a renegade from the doctrines of those? What the " model" process by which lie would silence for ever that perverted eloquence once loud in the champion ship of liberal institutions and popular rights, but afterwards, like BELIAL'S, perverted, " To make the worse appear the better reason?" Would Sir JAMES GRAHAM press the extremity of the refined and more than legal vengeance of his" model prison punishments" against such a man, in addition to the penalty that would have been already paid by the offender, on the score of his former and the distrust of his present con nexions; in the forfeited good opinion of manly, honest, and consistent antagonists, his former associates; and the loud but shameful plaudits of those for whom he had betrayed them; of these, to whom he was bound by the obedience rather of a suspected servant, than the confiding equality of a trusted friend ? No man knows better than Sir J. GRAHAM that such offences —infinitely to be reprobated as they are by the upright and the wise—are not punishable, and cannot be punished, at law. No man, we are sure, would be less inclined than Sir JAMES GRAHAM to press against them that sort of penalty so much beyond the law, which we have just now feebly described. At no period, perhaps, Since the , appearance of Mr. HosiossoN's pamphlet in 1810, entitled " The Question of Depreciation Stated and Ex amined," and the discussions upon PEEL'S Bill of 1819, have questions connected with the monetary condition of this country been. dis cussed with more eagerness and ability than at the present moment. Letters, pamphlets, and _other communications on these vital subjects, pour in upon us so fast, that we are unable to keep pace with, or find room for, these addenda to our stock of knowledge on the actual condition and prospects of our currency. On this account it is, that we have not yet been able to devote by any means so large a share of notice as we could have desired to afford, to either of the two antagonistic tracts to which we have recently referred, namely, " The Minister Mistaken," and Mr. HUBBARD'S " Currency of the Country." But in a few days we may probably light upon an opportunity for re viewing these, mor e at large, tonther w ith a remarkable brochure, a copy of which (the second edition) is now before us, entitled " Currency fallacies refuted and Paper-money vindicated; by the author of an Essay on Money," &c. This last we shall warmly commend to the best atten tion of our readers. In the meanwhile it may not be unprofitable to consider the startling evidences which, on every side, attest the alarming fact that there does exist, somewhere, in our monetary system a principle of present disintegration,—a tendency to early decay—the consequences of which, if not averted by timely legislation, must be calculated to over whelm the industrial energy and commer cial prosperity of the empire in ap palling ruin. If we look to the great home marts of labour and manufactures, Manchester, Leeds, Huddersfield, &c., we find the phenomenon of increased activity without any corresponding improvement in the social condition of the masses. The demand for hands has unquestionably increased ; the quantity and the quality of the subsistence consumed in the localities where the operative population is most dense, remain absolutely unaltered, if compared in a ratio corresponding with that of the addi tional labour called into action. Wages manifest little disposition to rise above the disastrous level to which they had fallen just prior to the last season of stagnation. In some of the mining districts, as we have recently been called upon to show, labourers seem content to balance the oss and injury they sustain by getting their sup- plies on the "truck system" and from " tommy shops" (so they are called), rather than embroil themselves with their masters, by enforcing their legal claim to the payment of money wages, the minimum scale of which could not compensate them for the inconvenience and hazard they would incur by vindicating that claim. The bankrupts' and insolvents' lists afford weekly demonstration of the languishing condition of retail trade in our provincial towns; and mer- cantile enterprise seems to be gradually closing up various ancient channels of foreign commerce, heretofore extensive and productive. If we re gard the increase in the population of the United Kingdom, and take into account the re ductions of duties and taxes which have occurred since the Census of 1831, we must admit that the Excise and Customs returns—with here and there a transient symptom of rally and revival — do yet leave us to infer, that the power of con sumptfon has retrograded instead of advanced, regard being had to the numerical increase of those who ought to be consumers. Then, the incessant transfers of real and chattel property, which have so much enriched our principal estate agents and auctioneers within the last few years,—how strong a confirmation do they give to the presumption, that men in much higher classes than the artisans, the miners, the tradesmen we have spoken of, but who have not the good fortune to be persons of fixed incomes, annuitants, or mort gagees, are compelled to succumb to a pressure 1 which, by an indirect, but certain operation, un settles, and finally impairs, the absolute value of their nominal incomes f The landlords, both those in the highest and those in the lower scales of that important community, get in their nominal rents only by annual and very extensive de ductions and allowances to their tenants; and in this respect come within the same category of those who suffer this process of money depletion. • It would be almost a work of supererogation, at this time of day, to show that the cause of these derangements is identified with a vicious system of currency, which system, by despotically controlling prices, operates directly upon wages. By fraudulently enhancing mortgage debts and rent charges and annuities,—contracted in a cheap currency with high prices, and made, by an ex post facto law; repayable in a dear currency with low prices,—it ruins the heirs of many a fine pro perty, who represent the original mortgagors ; it encumbers estates that, at the time their liabilities were incurred, seemed well able to defray the amount of them, with pay ments which are fast impoverishing (by the unnaturally exaggerated value of the currency in which they are now to be satisfied) the successors of those who contracted the in cumbrances. But we may point to these and other circumstances as proving the main grounds of the case upon which the opponents of the Currency Bill of 1819 are urging upon the public mind, so anxiously and ably, the necessity for repealing that measure, and refortning, expand ing, and consolidating the bases of our monetary system. In looking back to the history of the opinions and transactions which led to the fatal currency tampering of 1819, it is impossible not to per ceive that the Bank of England has had, through out the discussions of that period, and ever since, very hard and very unjust measure dealt to it. It is not our purpose or wish to vindicate every part of the conduct of that vast establishment in dealing with the enormous power which the ignorance, or the fears, of successive Govern ments may have placed at its disposal, since the commencement of the late war in 1803. But it is now pretty certain that the whole clamour which was raised in 1810 and 1811 about the enormous depreciation of its paper, and the ex travagance of its issues, was founded on no sub stantial data, but on crude and precipitate, though plausible, conclusions, from ill under stood premises. Even the writer of the celebrated paper on the " Bullion Question" (generally supposed to have been the late Mr. HORNER, M.P.), in the Edinburgh Review of that time, in his elaborate argument to establish the fact of the great depreciation of the Bank paper, in order to justify the then urgently demanded establishment of a metallic currency at the ear liest practicable period which might offer after the establishment of peace ; admitted that the assumed depreciation of 17} per cent. was " in credible, if not impossible ;" and demonstrated at the same time, that the highly unfavourable state of the exchanges against this country, which all parties have concurred in attributin , n , to the same cause, was not anything like the printed lists' report, which report was grounded on a fallacy very easily explained, and very clearly exemplified by the Reviewer. Now the depreciation of the Bank paper was, itself, in sisted upon as the result of sudden and excessive over-issues of it, at a time immediately preceding the article on the Bullion Question in 1811, and again at a time just antecedent to PEEL'S Bill in 1819. But we suppose it will be conceded, first, that whilst there was little or no metallic currency in the country wherewith to pay one fourth even of the amount of its taxation, the Bank of England was bound to maintain a cir culation of its paper proportioned, in some fair degree, to the amount of the domestic and commercial wants of the public, as well as the coincident taxation ; and, second, that, 80 long as the Bank paper did not exceed this fair proportion, its issues cannot be 'said to have been excessive. We find in 1811, the distinguished authority we allude to, thus unfairly blinking this principle of apprecia tion. He says that, " whilst the excess of the market above the Mint price of gold" (conse quent on the drain of the war, and the payment of our armaments and subsidies) "is such as to treble the foreign exchanges against us, the issues of the Bank of England's paper, taking the whole of it in circulation, amount to fully one-third more than its amount at any former time." On reference to the appendix of the Re port on the Bullion Committee, it will be found, that whereas, in the period from 1798 to 1804, the average annual taxation being 30,146,0001., the amount of Bank notes in circulation was 15,151,0001., or 50 per cent. in proportion to the taxation, the proportion having been fifty-seven per cent. from 1791 to 1797), in the period from 1805 to 1811, the taxation averaging annually 47,436,0001., the Bank notes were 19,751,0001., or in the proportion of 42/. per cent. only. This difference shows the equitable mode in which the circulation was regulated by the 13ank, according to the taxation. A•gain, years from 1812 'to 1819, when the annual ave rage of taxation was 53,105,C00/., that of Bat* notes was 26,292,000/.; the proportion being in creased to 50 per cent. And with good reason, surely, was this only available circulation, to such a colossal extent, expanded—but not be yond a fair proportionate limit—to the demands of such a colossal .taxation. Since the gold stan dard, which tidied in 1797, after exactly one century's trial, was re-established in 1819, the withdrawal of, upon an average, 30,000,0001. of Bank of England paper from eirculaiion, has aggravated the burden of taxes upon the payers, who have now to provide the means of payment under an enhanced valae of gold, to a degree which nothing short of the process of stating the calculation in detail, could satisfy those who are not aware of the fact, to have really been the case. The objections to a gold standard exclusively —such as is now legalised among us,—multiply upon our conviction with the experience ()revery day. We have shown in former articles liaw fluctuating and uncertain is the natural produc tion even, of this metai, to which the Legisla ture has been pleased to give a fixed, permanent, unalterable, statute value—as if' it were unity ; and how unascertained and precarious are the proportions of all known quantities of it raised and in existence, in bullion or coin, or to be raised—to all known quantities or tuture pro. ducts of silver in like manner. Here, then, is as organic deficiency in a standard which surely ought to Possess some more appreciable elements of intrinsic, certain value. These elerneots might have been approximated to, at least, by adopting a conjoint standard of silver as well as gold. Yet, so far from this being the case, the same legislation sanctions the coinage and gives lawful currency and value thereto, of' the one pound of silver bullion, purchasable in the market at,fis. per oz., into 665. in place of 605., every 20s. of which 665. may lawfully pur chase one sovereign of gold of the standard value and Mint weight. Thus the Legislature facilitates and sanctions the disturbance of its own standard of value by facilitatiag the en s grossing, or buying up of the scarcer metal of the national metallic currency with the more abundant metal of the same currency. It gives, in short, a premium of ten per cent. to whoever may be rich enough to drive the Bank to an act of bankruptcy by exhausting its stock of gold bullion or coin. For, it' one pound of silver bullion can be purchased for 60s. and coined at the Mint into 665., minus the fractional charge of a few pence for its conversion into pieces, it follows that repeated operations to any convenient amount would not only at last buy up every sovereign and ingot of gold, but realise an inordinate profit to the speculator upon his bargain. Here, for the present, we must pause ; but we cannot leave the subject without drawing attention to the following extract front the " Currency Fallacies refuted," as remarkable for the earnestness and honesty of' its tone, although perhaps we may regard its anticipations as some what brighter than any prospects which our own hopes cal ry us to, looking at the stupendous evils which the Act of ISI9 has bequeathed to all the really great interests of the empire,— whilst it has so usuriously benefited a few classes of annuitants and capitalists No credit is due to the sagacity of any one for the employment of paper as an instrument of taxation ; tor we resisted its use as 1 ng as we could : we tried to do without it sooner than we were ab e; and should we at last acquiesce in its adoption, it is because we have no other refuge from national bankruptcy and a revolution. The r niggle to return to the old system has been fatal to the fortunes, health, and lives of millions of our countrymen, but we remain un con vim en of our error : yet the iielay has had some good effects ; and ,f in the end we are forced to take that only course which Pro. vidence has opened out for us, we shall be recompensed. A scene of peace, order, and plenty will succeed to the terrible distractions of the late, and the frightful forebodings of the present period. Other countries, following our example, will attain a gi eater degree of free do.n and ease than the world has witnessed under any form of vernment for near 3,000 yews. The slavery of the soul—thA worst of slavery—will cease Every man will sit u .der his own vine and fig tree, none making him :maid. Mammon's empire will be de. stroyed ; for no one will cal, for riches, where all may easily have enough. Art, science, and literature will present their treasures freely to all people ; and those who have a taste for their enjoyment will not want means or leisure to indulge it. Above all, charity and true piety, having then ample scope and op,ortunity for action, will be found, we may hope, in every breast, since all must be sensiile what great movies they have had bestowed upon them by Divine Providence, and how necessary it is that they should show their gra. titude to the Giver of all good, by endeavouriiig to extend the be. nefits and bl ss:ngs which they themselves enjoy to others iu distant r egions, who are less fortunately circumstanced in regaid to civiusa. ion, religion, and liberty. The Madrid papers of the sth are very burr,u of intelligence. On the 4th, Count BRE.,SON had an audienceof the QUEEN, and delivered an auto. graph letter from LOUIS PHILIPPE, ill reply to her communication which contained the declara tion of her majority. The Ministerial papers are most violent against the liberal electors of Madrid for proposing ARGUELLES and OLozAG♦ as candidates. " The choice made by the Pro gressist electors of M. ARGUELLES and M. OLo znaA," says the Castellano,"is a real insult. The former has acted the tyrant over Queen ISABELLA since the departure of her august mother from Spain; the latter has just committed towards . her MAJESTY an outrage which has excited the indignation of the whole nation. Au evening journal is right in saying that this nomi nation is a death blow to the Progressist party, for the enemies of the throne who are to be found amongst that party should nut be styled by any other name than Republican ; Messrs. Alt- GUELLES and OLOZAGA are incompatible with ISABELLA II." A great deal of business was done in the Three per Cents., and at a considerable advance. The transactions amounted to near 74,000,000 ma's, and were ' concluded at 24 9-16 for cash, and at 25 at 60 days. The Five per Cents sold for 19 at GO days. On Wednesday evening, at nine o'clock, a grand deputation of the French Chamber of Peers were received by the KING at the Tuileries, and presented the address in reply to the royal speech. A great number of other Peers accom panied the deputation to the Palace. The Duke DE NEMOURS, Prince DE JOIN VILLE, Duke • DE MONTPENSIER, Queen CHRISTINA, and several other high personages, stood around the Throne. The Chancellor, Bar-in PASQUIER, read the ad dress, to which his MAJESTY made the following reply :—" I am most happy to receive your con gratulations on the state of the country—on the increasing prosperity which France at present enjoys—on the security which is everywhere diffused by the new guarantees given us of the maintenance of peace abroad, and of general tranquillity. At home, as you express it, the empire of the laws is well established—factions are put down--and the vain demonstrations which they cart make will only serve to prove their impotence. My family and myself are altogether at the service of France, and she will always find us ready to 'surmount our own troubles and grief to listen only to tl.e voice of our country, whenever we may be able to serve her. lam touched with the sentiments which the Chamber of Peers expresses in reference to my son, the Prince DE J OINVILLE, and the comforts• which GOD has accorded me by so happy an addition ,to my family." Loud cries of Vim le Roi ! greeted his MAJESTY at the con clusion of this reply. We learn from the papers, that according to letters from Vienna of the 3d, accounts had been received from Goritz, announcing the serious illness of the Duke of Artoou LEME. The French Funds at the opening of the Bourse on Thursday, declined a little, and finally closed—the Three per Cents. at 89f. 55c., and the Fives at 124 f. 50c. 13OURSE-PARIS, THURSDAY, JAN. 11. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Pries. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. 124 1b... 124 03... 124 10 .. 124 30 4 1 ,6 per Cents 112 ... 1!2 112 112 Threes B2 40... 82 50... 82 35., 82 40 Bank of France. 3250 —.3250 ...3250 ...3250 Latfitte Bank I,ooof 1110 —lllO ...1110 ...1110 Belgian Bank ..... 660 ... 680 .. 660 660 1841 lOB - ...1080 ...1080 ...1080 Belgian Fives 1840-- 108 i ... 10831 —. 108 k —. 1066 Portuguese Fives ... Neapolitan :-“man ...... ............ 105 ... 105% .. 105 ... 105% RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, R. 8... ...... 310 ... 310 .. 310 ... 310 L 8... .... 157 50... 160 ... 153 75... 158 75 Rouen Rouen te Havre tie.: 50... 652 50... 650 ... 650 Orleans. Strasburg to 8a1e ... Avignon to Marseilles 662 50... 665 ... 662 50... 665 RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT. Versailles, L. Rouen 825 ... 825 ... 825 ... 825 Roden to Havre 650 ... 652 50... 650 .. 650 Orleans Strasburg to Bale 215 ... 220 ... 215 ... 220 Arigooll to nuboilies t 62 DO.. 665 ,i. 661 DO', 062 • oc,f 0 Tti S tii"A 4 bt ad; . 4.1 AND Vtib Cptatton. ' 11'10 ...a:H.', apt: .01s:114ZIGN. Lady Cowley gays a grand ball and supper at the British Erni:lass\ on Wednesday night. It was very numerously and fashionably attended ; upwards of 1,200 persons were present. Amongst the company we noticed Prince Tufiaki*, the Duchesses Decazes and de Noailles, Gaud% Mole, Hamlin:Amu. and d'Argoui, the corps diplomatique and their ladies ' M. Guixot, the Marquis of bluntly, tne Chevalier de Zeal3er niudez. and several British naval and military officers and Members of Parliament. The ladies wore a profus,on of diamonds. The supper-rooms were thrown open at about one, and the refreshments consisted of every delicacy. Dandy; was kept up till near six in the morning. The committee on the Address in the Chamber of Deputies met the same day at four o'clock, to hear read the draft of that document, a•- prepared by Ai. Saint blare tairardin. Lord Brougham had left Paris for London. • A letter from Cayenne states that the colony has been at , tatki d with infi.enza, which has committed great ravages amongst aged persons and the black population. Amongst those wt.o have perisbed is M. Gem ste, ex-page of Louis Xt. , who, at a later perio , i, hail served under Lafayette, iu America. His age was eighty-eight. A letter from Saint Pierre, Martinique, dated Nov. 2 3, states that the yellow lever was raging there, and had caused a great number of deaths, principally among the crews of the ves.als lying in the harbour. The Minister of the Interior bas just ordered from M. David two colosnd figures fsr the entrance to the tomb of Nipt,lenn. A letter from Naples, Dec: 26, Eats—" The fleet which ha aecompamed the Empress of Brazil to Rio Jai eiro ' bias just returned. The Count d'Aquila, who was on board, imnav diately repaired to Caserta, where the King. his 'brother, Wd At the moment. The &rip., ss was received with the otisiest joy. but the officers had uo occasion to be pleased with fikeir treatment at Ctrart, as, in place of the presents . which the? expected, they only received decorations. NIF aU i• ICE" • Mrs. Georgiana Dorey, wife of a shopkeeper, is Oxford , street, underwent a long examination before the Lord May ;r• at the Mansion-house, on the charge of being an accomplice la the lace forgeries of wills, and was remanded till Monday Week. A great body of evidence is yet to be produced against the accused parties. At Ulerkeuwell Ann Perring, charged by George Perrings her husband, a tailor, residing in Leigh-street, Rest square, with having stabbed him with a table-knife, was brougbi up for re-examination, when the husband now made his ar pearaace, and said he was perfectly recovered. He did pd wish to pre .s the charge against the 'prisoner. They were both to blame. She was a good wife, with the exception offs little " trailty" in her temper. She was discharged. At Lambeth-street, Nehemiah Shakspeare, late an engineet in the employment of Mr. Hubert John.ton, cigar-manufa c• turer, 35, Glouces er-street, Commercial-road EaSt„surren e dyed to his bail, and appeared befcre Ifr. ninon for field el' amination, on a charge of having wilfully and .malicious l t caused the explosion of a steam-boiler, by which the lives or upwards of 70 individuals were placed in the greatest possib le jeopardy. Two engineers were examined, who stated that tb:i explosion was caused by the high pressure of the steam, s e ., that no blame could be attached to the defendant, when be immediately discharged. Mr. David Murray, the master of the brig Coquette, 4ing in he London Dock, appeared before Mr. Ballantine, at h. Thames Police .court, to answer a charge preferred against of having wilfully and wrongfully forced on shore and left be: hind, on the we:tern coast of Africa, Thomas Duncan, a Britis! subject, and was held to bail to take his trial at the Del . sessions. COURT —rAsl-110N11.337.E. The Duke of Bordeaux visited the various departments ati Chatham, on the 12th, and next day embarked for Ostend , ° ll his return to Germany. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland's guests st wick Castle comprise Lora and Lady Glenlyon, Bishop o f C' lisle and Mrs. Percy, Viscount and Viscountess Holt:fleet Mr. Dawnay, Mr. J. H. Hi n de, M.P., Misses Percy, ' 1 ":1 Drummond, Mr. and Mrs. Hodgson, &c. The Duke s u Duchess leave Alnwick Castle early in next month. Earl Fitzwilliam is surrou n d e d by a family circle at Milt°, ° Park, near Peterborough. The Dowager Selina Viseount e '• Milton and daughter arrived there on Tuesday last, from warke Park, near Doncaster. Viscount and Viscounleo Milton shortly leave for town, intendior from thence to go t° Brighton for some weeks It is rumoured that his Royal Highness Prince Albert ell stand sponsor to the infant son of the Duke and D u chess ° Sutherland, who has nearly, recovered from his serious illneis' and who, it is understood, will be christened Albert Lee.° Gower. The family circle assembled at Howick Htll includes vie' count and 'Viscountess Howick, Earl of Durham, and Hot' Colond Grey, Lady Caroline Barrington, Hon. Captain Gi l l' Lady Elizabeth liulteel, Lady Georgians Grey, Ice. ,„ 0 Viscount and Viscountess V inlets have arrived at uP`"4 Ho us e, Warwickshire, !roan Drayton Manor, after a lengthe rl ' visit to Lady Peel. ; th' The Duke of Wellington is not expected to return to Strs field-aye until the close of the ensuing month, when his CWT ° gives his annual banquet to the juog, s on the Western Circo , '. t he lion. Mrs. Norton has returned to town, after a sh' r visit with her children to Brighton. IVIISCELLANEO On Friday the Bev. J. S. M. Anderson, of Brighton. Al sleeted Preacher of Lincoln's Inn, Lord Brougham was pr esa on the occasion. At a meeting of the reporters of the Dublin press, and tr e correspondents of the London journals, held in Dublin on t a . 10;h, a strong protest was adopted against summoning r" porters for journals to give evidence in State trials. 0 1 ° Ernst has se-igned his appointment as concert master t o King of Hanover. The reason of which is said to be , having been ordered to attend his Majesty at a private int e ': view, he presented hims. If at the Palace at the stated 1 0 0 1 when after waiting two hours beyond the hour fixed, ho 0O P " rec,ived. The Bengal Government has just reported to the Government at home, in answer to their long-pending incl 4 ' .l l that no p.edge whatever was originally given for the ean g- d, money payment of 6,0001. to the Temple of Juggernaut, sil o consequently, that there is no pretext for its continuance. 11 own landed revenue will, of course, continue, but its n'a votaries ard patrons must henceforth supply the means, in not the British nation. Thalberg intends visiting Rome and Florence, and then '‘ i „ repair to Paris, in which city he remains till the end of . M oc o ; and afterwards, according to his present determination , P r ceeds to the nd States. Cerit U o, ite after having fulfilled her present engager° in Italy, proceeds to Brussels and London. • MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.--We are glad find Trott) the returns fur the week ending Sat u rday. 7, 0 6th January, that there is a great diminution 1 11 number of deaths as compared with the preceb% thitugh two additional districts, Wandtiw?6,4 and Clapham, are included. On the pref l 9", week the number was 1,007. ; while, on the succeedl it fell to 933, or 76 below the average. The numbe r deaths reported from the n ,, w districts is 15. The t i e 0 number of deaths from small-pox is 16, 12 of + lll ' ° o had not been vaccinated. There is a great decrease deaths from diseases of the lungs. DREADFUL EXPLOSION IN A COAL-PIT I/ ELEVEN LIVES LOST.—We stop the press to 13_,jg nounce a dreadful explosion of fire-damp, which K i r , place in Duke Pit, Whitehaven, on Thursday afternocer, between three and f.itir o'clock. The whole of the Ind in the pit at the time, eleven in number, were kill,te) There were also eleven horses killed.—Carlisle .1( 0. ' Saturday. (ANOTHER ACCOUNT.) v eh'te' Intelligence has been received in town from y' haven announcing a terrible coal-pit explosion, aceA"-ii: pulled by fearful loss of human life, which oceu rre " the vicinity of that town, between the hours of fi ve fll' o lc six on Thursday evening last. The dreadful event teia place at a colliery called Duke's Pit, at the time it v ire full operation, and arose, it was supposed, from the o ,t damp becoming ignited and exploding in the lowerfuero gallery in the pit, where no feu er than sixteen i p K ere at work, and eleven horses, all of whom Wer e a te stuntly hurled into eternity. Most of the unfortueoo sufferers, we regret to say, are married men, a nd t heir left large families, totally unprovided for, to lament 0 11 dreadful fate. Up to ten o'clock on Friday morning eight out of the sixteen bodies had been recovered.. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. , r ed LoNnow, JAN. 13.—Moderate breezes from N." cloudy. It rained hard last night. , DEAL, JAN. 12, A.M., Wind, light and variable. -- ;;rci , S. S.W., fresh.—Sld. Alvirna and Clara, Pernambuco., (or Stad Gwolle, Amsterdam, for Surinam ; Antoinette, u‘Vieo Texas. A brig, name unknown , got on the Goodwin 'deli this morning, during a fog , but was assist e d off , and p roce towards the North Foreland. for Orr HASTINGS. JAN. 12 .—Godfrey , Hamb urg"' Valparaiso. 4rri/' P ORTS MOUTH, JAN. 12--Wind E.S.E. to S S.W.": . tor Arminitis, Otto. Port RU Prince, for Bremen, leaky sides; Hendrik Hudson, London, for New York; 51.1%lickau, Hobart Town, sailed Sept. 15 ; - 14avannah, for liandurgh. COWES, JAN. 12.—Arrd. Aurelian, Quebec. , Orr BRIGHTON, JAN. 12.—Eliza Ann, Batavia , or sterdam. eti . ' FALMOUTH. JAN. 12.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Per Headberry, Laguna. OP. RATHMULLIN LOUGH SWILLY), JAN. 8.-""Arra. Stevenson, —, with damage, having been in contact °tb as sth instant, off Tory bland, with a schooner, which seen afterwards. Lod: GALWAY, GALWAY, JAN. 9.—The John Boge , boun d to 40-$ which grounded in leaving the harbour, 4th inst, tide, without damage, and proceeded. Cif jer S TUDWA LL ROADS.—Arrd. and proceeded Haideesroils.to to St. Vincent's ; William Russell, Liverpool to the S r asie " RAMSGATE, JAN. 1 2 .—The Pomon a, from Arne ° b oa New York, and the Dolores, from Havannah to 11$°1 ' have been surveyed, and must d i schar g e. - e4erateFt/moon, JAN. 12—Wind S. to N. W., InriJle.l,' I- Arrd. Eliza, Woolley. Valparaiso (Oct. B.)' ; MarX , Honduras ; Isaac, Allerton , Natchez ; Emblem DY" 8 01 6 ,, ard, Hill, Sobieski. Greay , Swatara, Davies, and Ess_l!torisne, New Orleans. Sid. Ana, Joven Pernta, and Joven /I d AO Havannah ; Harriet Rockwell, Mobile; Barbadian, ez i _ Jane, Jamaica. Cha r of ot CORK. JAN. 1 0 .—S 1 d. F reeman, Jamaica; John,. 031 03 ton. Off, Ceres, Smith , Honduras ; Martha, Steef'oe Fundy, with loss of sai l s , bulwarks, stanchions, I°P. gO. overboard, having been stru ck b y a sea in Ist. 41, (0, SHIELDS, JAN d. Stark Clon. b A LDIOROUGH , JAN. SI 10.—The , fish ey Nes°ing smack gen s be Long, of sandwich, foundered yesterday b^tween Fitt Knock and the Largstone, baying been in cordite, oh Rebecca, of South Sheilds. 011 , VESELS SI'OKEN WlTH.—Nellor Cowes to Ge o 09 7 tilt., off Tarifa; Henderson, Liverpool to Gibraltat:,s_oovi, the Mary Ridley , arri ved at Liver p ool. Barque U ; f0 inst., lat. 46, lon. 12, b y the Ph e en i x, arrived off Ff: 2e ,lst• g Warren Hastings, Liverpool to New Orleans, NO. q , 10 °. do lon. 87 ; Isabella, from London, 9th inst., lat. '' c reti s 'a Racer, from London, 10th, lat. 49, lon. 7, by the LP vo n ton rived at Falmouth. Lady Rowena, of Liverpt, fles„, ed London, 1 lth ult., let. 13 N., lon. 29 W. • Cha. e ,h'ig to Calcutta, 16th. A ship, No. 3,571.1, clistingin or o b, dant, standing W.. lat. 38, lon. 23; Earl Esses, , , ll . IP from Liverpool to Buones Ayres, 4th inst,, lat. 46, i v the Eliza Ann, off Brighton. Mr. Palrenhaun, the new 800 - op f,c'oo to the Unite d States, carries o u t with him, it i s f e Ord stated, full instructions to negoti ate a settlemtnt of ti' territory dispute. ..••••..••••• 5 i 0! The the ma proveu'. 116 ; y ter and Paris a „ 3.1 atOctior ” 4. Ityv ey , ' l,l '° of , fo r cutti " I - 1; an Meri Illeh ge V 'Nil " To Ai " I this lets ill ~ r is no e Still ye bubli n Sial)eh Let ds, I : t~~.v S; he.v :~ to;,": 1 ; Jan. t. • 4.1 D I tglit i -,... 4 C L h .. .1, ii c W ide tobie 4 o, ~ rois;