The Sun. — London, England, 1839-01-22 00:00:00

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIP,--I as rather surprised to see in your Pper of the 19.11, a letter addressed by Air. Nicholas Wood, to the Direc tors of the Great Wcoatrn RE.ilway, unaccompanied by any intinmoon of its being published with their authority or con sent ; but as I presume they have thus made it known for the benefit of the proprietary, you will, I hope, allow me as one deeply interested in its contents, to offer a few remarks upon it. From the great resp-ct entertained of Mr. Wood's abiliti, s and impartiality, the Proprietors generally are inte rested in a correct undemanding of the drift of his letter, and as some ( t his expressions are li..ble to misapprehension, Venture, with due di foronce, to point out what appears to me to he their real boaring-. If the letter involved any dis cussicn of profc , ;sional or scient i fic points, it would be quite irrelevant f or me t h in'erfere, but as the question at issue is simply the inference to be drawn from certain facts, it seems to Ole to be ore open to the examination of every Proprietor. To Mr. Wood's charge against the Directors of their " being led to an erroneous conclusion by contrasting- with each other entirely dissimilar experiments," I shall not allude further than to express my surprise that so cautious a man as Mr. Wood should have surmised for an instant, that the Di rectors presented their experiments as similar to those on which Mr. Wood's own conclusions were foUndel. On ex amining the Directors' Report, it appears to me quite clear that they themselves considered the expr;mcrits as entirely dissimilar ; and they specifically state Ow eircuo,=t oleos which caused the difference in their results. On thi, point, however, the Directors will, no doubt, take a proper oi:por Utility of making their own reply. The question of real importance to the Proprietary, and to which, through your kindness, I would call their attention, is this:—Howfar does Mr. Wood's letter affec , the important conclusions in his Repot- i(pp. 34 and 19), •• that a high rate of velocity can only be attained by a very great sacrifice of Power," and " that to effect a mean rate of about 40 mil,s an hour, the load cannot be more than from 15 to 20 tons, with engines of the power qf the North Star." In the R, port itself Mr. Wood forcibly draws attention to these " results of his experi. meats," and in page 35, he adduces an experiment to show, that whilst the North Star Engine could take a load of 33 tons at 37 miles an hour, with a consumption l 4 lb. of coke per ton per mile, as soon as the speed is increased to 41 miles an hour, the load is reduced to only 16 tons, and the consumption of coke is increased to 21 lbs. per ton per mile! This was the conclusion which seems to have startled Mr. Brunel and the Directors, as well it might ; and they very properly te s ted it by other experiments. In making these, a slight alteration in the engine was effected by Mr. Brunel, and the result of the new trials was (whether noting to the alteration in the engine or not, is of slight importance) that a load of 40 tons could be carried at the rate of 40 miles an hour, with a consumption of only nine-tenths of a pound of coke per ton per mile, or less than one-third of the quantity assigned by Mr. Wood for the rate of 41 miles per hour -with 16 tons only ! This result certainly seems at variance :with Mr. Wood's conclusions ; but be now discovers an experiment of his own (or Dr. Lard ner'B), which he seems, strangely enough, to have overlooked when deducing his " results," and by which he shows that the same engine, before alteration by Mr. Brunel, was capable of conveying 41i tons at 384 miles an hour, with a consumption of 1 1.11 lb. of eoke per ton per mile. How was it that the dis crepancy between this experiment and that with only 16 tons did not strike Mr. Wood earlier, and lead him to suspect the i naccuracy of his conclusion, " that a high rate of velocity can Only be attained by a very great sacrifice of power ?" It can not be his meaning that whilst we can carry a load of 40 tons at nearly 40 miles an hour, with a consumption of about llb. Of coke per ton per mile, it will require nearly three times as much fuel to carry one- half this load at a mean velocity of 41 fmiles an h our ? Such a result, I must say, is incredible, un 'ess it be established by much more numerous and act ra te experiments, whilst one single experime it that Contradicts it is as good as a thousand. Mr. Wood's new ly selected experiment may show that the alteration effected in the engine was less important than has been sup. Vise.d., but it c ompl e tely upsets his own conclusions, by esta ,'hing the practicability of carrying a profitable load at a ,ilgo velocity without a sacrifice offuel. may It L readily be allowed that the limit opposed by atmos pheric resistance to the profitable attainment of high velocity la sooner reached than some engineers of great fame have sup r-sed ; b ut, a ll ow i ng even t h at no f urt h er i m p rovements cou ld made in the engines to increase their power and diminish the consumption of fuel, the Proprietors of the Great Western 'll l ailway ha ve ever y rea son to be satisfied with the results csta tished by the experiMents of Mr. Wood and the Directors. here is no diprence between these gentlemen, it now appears, as to the practicability of carrying a profitable load at nearly forty miles an hour, without consuming more than llb. of coke Per ten per mile. Mr. Brunel's experiments give a still more favourable result ; but if we take the fact as above, it is enough to justify all reasonable expectations of the working of the Great Western Railway. The question, we must recollect, is not how little the engines under unfavourable circumstances may some sometimes do, but how much, with proper precau tions they can do. In mechanics, what has once been done can be done again, and no failure can negative a result which has once been clearly attained. From Mr. Wood's report (p. 30), it appears that the consumption of coke by two en gines on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, is very nearly llb. of coke per ton per mile, with a load of twenty-six tons, at the rate of tweniy-nine miles an hour. On the Man chester and Bolton line, the consumption is stated at about I 1-61 b. per ton per mile, Kith an average load of twenty. four tons, at the rate of twenty two milts per hour. If, therefore, a train of forty tons can be conveyed on the Great Western Railway (as it has been) at the rate of forty miles an hou r , with a less consumption than 11b. of coke per ton per 111 4, it is a sufficient proof of the advantages which both the Public and the Proprietors will derive from the principles a dopted in the construction of the engines upon this line, and Vannot but be gratifying to the Proprietors to find that Mr. ( xxl's conclusions, in his report, as to the difficulty of attain g high speed (viz. forty miles an hour) with due economy, ,rea letter to the Directors. We may hope that the discus itn°4 Whi c h thi s subject has now undergone, will lead to further fai Provement in the machinery of locomotives, and that , power as as the viewless antagonist of which we have lately heard a t t i l l rauch, o ur en gineers may ultimately succeed in reducing i s opposition (in a practical sense) to " an airy nothing." I am, Sir, your obedient servant, Jan. 21, 1839. VIGIL. CORN LAWS AND WAGES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sta—Having just run over a report in your Paper of the 1 7th inst., of a meeting of the Ward of Cripplegate Within, on the Corn-laws, I am anxious to correct an error which one of the speakers, Mr. Ambrose Moore, inadvertently fell into sou that occasion. He alluded in the course of his speech to i onic remarks made in a lecture of mine, at which he had been present, on the subject of wages ; and he represents me as saving affirmed, that "as corn rose in price, the wages of the t tanufactnrersfell." Now I never made a statement of that laid as to the money rate of wages; I invariably spoke of the Corn value of wages. The money rate of wages is determined °,,Y principles only dependent contingently on the price of corn. Where is not a single fact connected with the history of in dustry in this country which does nut corroborate the position that the high pri,le of grain, by absorbing a larger proportion of the money wages of labour, lessens the demand for clothing, or other articles of consumption not necessary to the actual Maintenance of life. Other things remaining the same, this diminished demand, by increasing competition, depreciates Profits, and ultimately reduces wages. I have never, however, gone into speculative reasoning in Illy lectures on this subject ; I have invariably appealed to tots ; and I defy the whole host of Corn-law advocates to show, from any history of prices and wages, that the money value of the wages of labour have at any time increased in any thing like the rates in the increase of the value of agricultural • produce. A tabular statement of the history of prices and t); • wages for the last fifty years, would fully substantiate my Position. I will, however, adduce only one fact, which is a sufficient reply to this recklessly vitiated fallacy. The money Wages of labour in 1835-6, when corn was not more than half its present price, were higher in most of the staple branches of industry than they are now, when wheat is 865., in place of • 40 5., a quarter. This fact, of itself, is sufficient to knock the fallacy on the head. As I am just waiting for the train to Wigan, I have . 'availed myself of tie few minutes on hand, hastily to correct the statement made by Mr. Moore, as it is of some importance • that we should distinguish between the money and the corn , Value of wages. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, A. W. PAULTON. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIK.—My attention has been directed to a letter which ap peared in your paper of Saturday last, from Mr. Wood, ad dressed to the Directors of the Great Western Railway. Considering that they may not feel called upon to publish an answer thereto, prior to the next half-yearly meeting of the Proprietors, to be held next month, I am induced to be lieve that, as an impartial Journalist, you would willingly point out any material error in Mr. Wood's letter; more especially, if such, remaining unanswered, might cause some shareholders in the line to part with their property at reduced rates—to their own injury—from the consideration that Mr. Wood can not see any great improvement that Mr. Brunel has effected in the North Star engine. Such shareholders might take Mr. Wood's word for it, without examining for themselves the data of the several performances of that engine in Sep tember and Decembar. That the performances of the North Star in December far exceeded what it accomplished in September, is positively the fact, though Mr. Wood cannot see it. I will clearly prove this from his own table, to which he also refers, page 17 of his Report. In his letter Mr. Wood says :--" In table, page 17, you will find a set of experiments (the third) by the North Star engine detailed, showing a load of 41.61 tons, conveyed at the average rate of 38.8 miles an 11,,ur ; the consumption of coke being 1.091b5. per ton per mile " The error I have to point out is that Mr. Wood has quoted incorrectly from his own table. He has taken the rate of speed from the wrong column, and placed the full rate of Sep tember against the mean rate of December. That he intended to quote the mean or average rate, is evi dent from his remarks as above ; but if he had paid sufli , ient attention to his table, he would have found that it was 33.9 miles an hour, instead of 35.3. The trials will really stand thus Mean speed in Coke per ton Tons. miles per hour. per mile. Mean in December...4l 5 39. .925 Mr. Wood's experi- 41 . 65 ment's in Sept.. The result is, that Mr. Brunel has increased the speed of the engine by his improvements, in the proportion of 6 upon 33, or 18 per cent. ; consuming at the same time less coke in drawing the same weight. I have no doubt that Mr. Wood will ere this have perceived the error he has fallen into. I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, Chester, Jan. 21. A SHAREHOLDER. THE COAL MONOPOLY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,—lt is an undeniable fact, the substance of which you lately stated, that not only are the inhabitants of the metropolis at large robbed by the coal monopolists of nearly a million sterling, but the Corporation, in other words, the in habitants of the City, are doubly robbed by the nefarious sys tem cherished and protected by the very men appointed by themselves to watch over their interests. Were the price of coals reduced one-third, that is to 245. the ton, and fair com petition would reduce it still lower, it may be safely calculated that one-half more would be consumed. I have had opportu nities of ascertaining the quantity used by the lower classes in several districts, and I am convinced that not one in a hundred of y our readers, and I should trust, for the sake of humanity, not one of the monopolists, is aware of the fact that, owing to the high price, thousands of families are limited to one cal. per week. Many of the abodes of these poor people are built in the dampest tracts of ground around London. Some that very lately were stagnant marshes, and even now are imper fectly drained, and, with the exception of the room where they dress their sc•nty meals, no fire is seen or felt in the house from the beginning to the end of the year. All these people, and their number is vast, would consume twice the quantity but for the enormous price, so would the classes a grade or two ahove them, and what with these and the increase of manu factures, which are checked by the high price of fuel, the in crease of consumption would to a certainty amount to the proportion I have stated. The annual consumption of coals throughout the metropolis is reckoned 2,500,000 tons a year, which, at the rate of Is. Id. the ton, produces to the Corpo ration an annual revenue of 135400/. Were the cruel res trictions on the trade removed the coal-tax would be increased 67,7001. a year, and that amount consequently saved on the City rates. Would things be as they are if the Corporation was in a healthy state 7 With the exception of the present Lord Mayor all the City functiOnarics, for years, have only thought of their own interests—of getting a share of the half million which is annually spent in keeping up the municipal mock royalty. Fees have been taken under the very noses of the Alderman, to which the recipients had no more right than the thief has to his plunder. The very Courts of Justice are sold to the highest bidder, and none but per sons who have paid the fine are allowed to practice until a fee is given to each of these by the unfortunate citizen who has the misfortune to be a client. No wonder that Reform is hated by the Corporation. But all these are trifles compared with the hardships which this gross mismanagement inflicts on some hundred thousands of the helpless poor of the Metropo lis. Let any one who doubts enter into their miserable habi tations, and he will soon be convinced that a vast proportion of the diseases which prevail in their low neighbourhoods is brought on by cold and damp—in oilier words, by those sordid monopolists, who, for their own selfish purposes, keep up one of the great necessaries of life at a starvation price—" who oppress the poor to increase their riches." Jan. 14. A CHRISTIAN. INFANT EXTINCTION SYSTEM. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Nothing that I ever heard of in the whole course of my life, has astonishel me so much as the fact—now estab lished by yom-authority—that a book really has been published, in England, of the nature described by the Reverend Mr. Stephens, in one rf his recent addresses to his congregation. Though I am not one of those who look upon Mr. Stephens as a monster or a madman. I was satisfied, from the first, that he must have been mistaken in ascribing the authorship of such a book to the Poor-law Commissioners ; and the denial of the Commissioners, consequently, was not necessary to set one right on that point. But I would humbly beg leave to ask, through the medium of your columns, whether the matter is to be allowed to rest in its present most unsatisfactory state 9 There can be little difficulty, I should suppose, in dis covering, if not the author, at any rate the publisher, or printer, of the infamous publication ; and the law must be impotent indeed if it cannot reach the man who has thrown such a fire brand into the midst of the country at a season like the pre sent. The Government, again, can most effectually, cause the law to be put in force. And should no steps be speedily taken by those in power, for the purposes of investigation and punishment, the people must necessarily have strange mis givings on the subject, notwithstanding the fact that no one of the three Poor-law Commissioners has recently been the author of any work. I am, Sir, your very obedient servant, Annan, Jan. 12. JAMES LI rTLE. THE CH ARTISTS. lc, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. I the request of many friend s and admirers of your 'valuable paper, in which request I entirely accord, I write to correct a report (which appeared in your paper of the Bth in ' Want) of a meeting held in this town on the first day of t hi s nth. The object of the meeting is correctly set forth by your correspondent, i• e. " a meeting to pass resolutions in favor 'of the People's Charter," Sze. As the report exaggerated the cumbers, I wish to set you and your readers right on the subject. Your correspondent states " that there were not less than maven thousand persons present, among whom were many females ;" where:ls, notwithstanding every exertion used—the Well placarded wa;ls, the novelty of the sight, the adventi tious aid of a bane', and the imposing appearance of two mighty banners, measeiring nearly three feet square—the num ber present at any period of the meeting, at the most liberal estimate, did not exceed seven hundred persons, inclusive of Women and children, and these attending from curiosity. The parish of Trevethin, in which Ponty Pool is situate, etuprises a population of seventeen thousand, and contains nearly six hundred registered voters for the county, and if a contested election were to take place to•morrow, the Tory interest could not command a dozen votes. Th e ReOrmcrs of Ponty Pool give way to no person in a 'desire to eeocfit the working classes, but cannot reconcile themselves 1..1 assist the Chartist, or any other party, in ad vancing the irkeerest of one party in the State to the prejudice of all the rest. Not only did the meeting fall short of what was stated, but It is a fact that t be attempt to increase their numbers, and enlist the sympathy of the town, proved an utter failure. The favour of ins erring this letter will much oblige your humble servant, A LUVER OF FAIR PLAY, AND AN OLD SUBSCRIBER, Ponty Pool, lan. 13, 1O- ~~i"~ i,l r .=~ `~ I l : Y a~~ to urge nat RS ds iOl rt . s , but ~F ~o~~nall. ,noo/ to I , AI is i:, the t• e l,k - ,1(1 , 2r by virtue t ii to the Ic R?St!nt :his writ 3 an affi vlbo has lodged Lt is deli• of elec efore the election iers, and past, and t after a then ad 'xeeeding n, and no 3 be kept and five' f her Mt' included the Hon. t the nffi' IC treet. hancellor , fohn Rug' ncellor of rd Hol k. Th° )eck, we pt turning to noes on $ ;t. AsaP h ' l are wi t, ' t Kinrocif A mbassP lice. ) u s iness s' vial Office sterday At h Ambas• ioard fronl !sterday ot Alexander .orris 1 by Loll arter e Strati• remain at proceed to Bucking' ly vault '% l ely as 1)00' d in tow° Male Teri departure his seat , t season II!, afford'hii- a(ly WVpl ing, Ke" rrived in )n at TUr Michae l his e ldest the bone- 'y intend belgrave' re arrive d •11y, M. at 0 say t ha t of gci" ,ert vzastle an ny. Lona ° h esscs Courts v mournillg arterobe r g' i ht o f tb e F :late 0f late discir D be pr e ' tio aw of he -hes in t g the Tre at ' inseriptit liberte , '" e last do b ? of whit i ; d as ennh as the i! c .; sion of Hl' tters 1 1 ° 6 m all pa r ' with ass n .,; ,ociatioll I" • Iwpor' f Durbs° ed by the is fixe d ut 7d.)--4 vlioirn the . PTe mes , , f the 0 ° Lre a nxiou s )ne of th a " allowed eo t o u the iumpph 130 no longe" prices ii f f be 12th ° e expertly ;ongleto° n Rai lwsf or sbury, f test berg calf years' 's packet louse yo' rom Hain' per the I has bee ° Ticane paper, bu papers t o i Standar d e, and th ° started bi le sum P r concern; pecuniart • heads, I` ir," unde r ble death d for uP; 3 : it ha d :td by Pr' idication net Tor never ISLE OF WIGHT. YARMOUTH, JANUARY 21.—A strong wind from the Southward and Westward has driven hack most of the ships which passed out of the Needles on Friday and last night, within a few minutes of eleven o'clock. The Fulmer, collier, from Newcastle for Cmistantinople, with coals, and five other vessels, in attemptinr , the Needles' passage, took the Shingles —it was blowing fresh and very thick, but they have all pro videntially been got off without serious damage, excepting anchors and cables, to replace which they have proceeded to Cowes. COWES —We have had numerous reports during the day of ships on shore on different parts of the Wight, but as no thing positive is yet known (five P.M.), we hope they may have originated in the ships which were on the Shingles which aro all off. The Earl of Yarborough is still at his seat, Appuldercombe, Isle of Wight, where he enjoys excellent health. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL' S-Y RSTERDir THE DERBY. The room this afternoon was crowded from an early hour until long after the usual time of closing, and a great deal of business done, but without any very important results. The Duke of Cleveland's Kremlin, upon whom a large amount was laid out, rose several points. We suljoin the latest prices :- 7 to I agst Lord Jersey's lot—taken 12 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Bro. to Bay Middleton—taken 16 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Flambeac —taken 17 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Erin-go-Bragh—taken 18 to I agst Colonel Peel's Dcv of Algiers—taken 23 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's lot—taken 24 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Zimmerman—taken 25 to 1 agst Lord Lichfield's Gulnare colt—taken 2.5 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Ilderim 27 to 1 agst Lord Albemarle's Tros—taken 28 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Epidaurus—taken 30 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's The Lord Mayor—taken 30 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Westonian—taken 30 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Bulwark—taken 40 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Wapiti 1000 to 25 agst Mr. Thornhill's lot—taken 42 to 1 agst Duke of Cleveland's Kremlin—taken 50 to 1 agst Duke of Grafton's !Ether (Pastille colt)—taken 50 to 1 agst Mr. Ford's Brother to Quo Minus--taken 50 to 1 agst Sir. - Dixon's Cammellino—taken, 50 to 1 agst Mr. Dixon's Mo , intaineer 1000 to 15 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Valaincourt—taken 1000 to 15 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Chimborazo—taken 1000 to 15 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Oronooko—taken 1000 to 5 agsc Mr. Dixon's Hyllus—taken 1000 even on Tres agst Ilderirn—taken 200 even between Epidaurus and Accelerator—taken 200 even Accelerator agst Ilderim We have seen a white mole, which was taken on the farm of Mr. Yule, of Loirston, on the 31st ult., by James Fl em ing, mole-catcher, Bridge of Dee. The fur feels like the softest velvet, and has the peculiarity of changing its hue from white to cream, and in some lights to a bright canary co lour. —Aberdeen Herald. THREE LIVES LOST.—The Scotsman states that three persons were drowned in the loch at Duddingstone, by the ice suddenly giving . way. Yesterday a meeting of the freeholders of th e county of Middlesex was held at the Freemasons' Tavern, when mea sures were proposed and adopted to promote the election of William Burchell, Esq., Under- Sheriff of the county, to the I Coronership for the Western Division of Middlesex. 7 THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1839. TILE LONDON COFFEE and EATING HOUSE KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION. The third half-yearly meeting of the members of this excel. lent Institution was held last evening at Anderton's Hotel, Fleet-street, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Committee, and also to take into consideration the propriety of petitioning both Houses of Parliament for the repeal of the Corn-laws. At sever, o'clock, J. B. Hournagy, Esq., was unanimously called to the chair. Mr. FORBES, the Honorary Secretary to the Society, then read the following Report : THE THIRD HALF-YEARLY REPORT, JAN. 21, 1839. " Your Committee, in making this their third half-yearly Report to you, have great pleasure in stating the success which has attended their exertions in behalf of this lustitutioa for the last half year, which has even exceeded that of the preceding periods when they before reported progress to you. The prosperity of the Institution hoe been progressing gra dually, but surely; every week has been adding to the eum ber of its members, and adding to the amount of is funds ; and its principles and objects are now so widely disseminated, and so well known in both branches of the trade, that your Committee confidently rely that every successive half-yearly Report will be more cheering than its predecessor. " Your Committee have likewise the pleasure of reporting that both the excursion and ball have been sources of profit to the funds of the Institution, and your Committee have in structed the trustees to place 2001. in the hands of the Com missioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, and the Committee feel proud that they have thus been enabled to form a nucleus for ~chat they hope will ultimately be alarge and increas ing fund, always applicable to the purposes of the Institution. Your Committee, in.,using every exertion in their power to extend the support of this Institution amongst the trade, have not lost sight of that collateral support which they had every reason to expectirom parties with whom the trade is more immediately connected, the most prominent of which is the Press. Your Committee accordingly appointed a de putation to wait on the proprietors of the daily, weekly. and periodical Press of the metropolis, and to solicit their assistance in carrying out the charitable and benevolent objects of this Association ; and your Committee have great pleasure in stating that, with one solitary exception, they have not met with one direct refusal. Soma have subscribed cheerfully and liberally, and from the rest (with the single exception alluded to) they have received promises of future assistance. In ad dition to the munificent annual subscription of Murdo Young, Esq., the Proprietor of The Sun, your Committee have re• ceived from the Proprietors of the Morning Post a donation of 10/. Ios., and a subscription of 2/. 2s. a-year, from the Proprietors of the Standard a donation of 101. 103., of the Courier 51. 5s , and of the Weekly Dispatch 51. ss. ; and from the Crown 11. Is. ; from the Proprietors of the Sunday Times an annual subscription of 51. ; from the Age 11. Is. ; from the Mirror IL Is. ; and from Dr. Lardner, the Proprie tor of the Monthly Chronicle magazine, an at.nual subscription of Si. ss. ; and your Committee confidently hope that the rest of the Metropolitan Press will follow such a laudable example. " In conclusion, your Committee have again to congratu late the Asociation on its success, and on both branches of the trade (the coffee and eating-house.keepers) being now conso lidated and wo: king together with zeal and perseverance in this (the holiest of all objects) charity and benevolence." Mr. MARSHALL, ill moving that the report should be re ceived, expressed his sorrow to find that a Newspaper, from which they had every thing to expect, had declined to come forward to support their interests. He alluded to the Morn ing Chronicle. Same of the other Newspaper proprietors had come forward most handsomely, especially Mr. Young, the proprietor of The Sun—(Cheers)---to whom the Society owed a debt of gratitude it could never repay.—( Cheers. ) He trusted the Society would support those Newspapers which upheld them ; but at the same time they must look to them selves, and not depend too much upon the exertions of the Press. Union was strength, and it only wanted strenuous exertions to mike their Society second to none in Europe. Mr. HARE, in seconding the motion for receiving the Re port, observed they must not rely too much on the Press, their own exertions were what they should look to, and he was sorry to say the trade had not exerted themselves as they ought to have done. District Committees ought to be formed in every part of the metropolis. It was true that some por tions of the Press had supported them most liberally, and they were specially bound to express their gratitude to Mr. Young, the proprietor of The Sun, for his munificent annual dona tion—(Great cheering)—and he trusted that so excellent an example would be generally followed.--( Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN, in putting the report to the approval of the meeting, was sorry to say that some portion of the Press had not come forward on their behalf in a manner that they had a right to expect. They were indebted beyond expression to that Potentate of the Press, Mr. Young—(Great cheering) —whose princely donation he trusted would be responded to by the Society in a manner that it deserved.—( Cheers.) He was delighted to see that gentleman among them that night, and he had no doubt the trade would evince their sense of his generous conduct, and the value of his exertions in their be half, by supporting him in a manner of which he was worthy. He believed that that gentleman had already met with a proof of the estimate in which the Coffee-house Keepers held him, and his hupe was, that by their exertions the circulation of his Newspaper would be increased to double its present ex tent, large as it was.—(Cheers.) The report was then received. The CHAIRMAN said he had now to acknowledge the very handsome donation of 100 guineas from Murdo Young, Esq., the proprietor of The Sun..—( Excessive cheering.) . . Mr. YOUNG rose, amid loud cheers, to return thanks for the kind approbation he had received. He begged the meeting to recollect that in supporting them he was only supporting himself. He was afraid they had laid too much stress upon what the Press could dO for them.—(Cheers.) They must depend chiefly on their own exertions. They were themselves their best friends, if they only preserved union. --(Cheers.) The Press could do much for them, but they could do more for. themselves.—(Cheers ) District Committees should be appointed to carry out the excellent objects they had in view ; and those who accomplished most in a district should have some honorary reward, in order to stimulate them to further exertions.—(Cheers.) The more they exerted themselves, the more independent of the Press they would become.— ( Cheers. ) Ile felt most grateful to them for their promise to raise him to a height to which no Journal had hitherto attained ; but ha hoped they would not raise him up too high, because, should he fall, great would be the fall thereof.— ( Cheers and laughter.) He was glad that their steam-boat excursions and their balls had been attended with success.—. (Cheers.) He truved that their balls every year would in crease, as the ball of snow.--(Cheers.) In conclusion, he would only say, that if they ever found The Sun not answer ing their expectations, let them turn it out —( Cheers.) He wished to be tiled by his merits, and those alone.—( Cheers. ) The CHAIRMAN said he had now to acknowledge one year's subscription from the proprietors of the Operat:ve Newspaper, together with a donation of 200 shares of ss. each in that undertaking. Mr. BINMIRE proposed a vote of thanks to Murdo Young, Esq., and that part of the Press who had supported their Institution. Mr BaowNLow seconded the motion. Mr. MARSIIALL observed ihat he had waited on the Morning Advertiser, and he felt no doubt that ultimately they would get an excellent subscription from that establishment. The CHAIRMAN could not but admit that the advice given them by Mr. Young, to look to themselves, was excellent in itself; but he could not agree with him, that it was not neces sary to look to the Press for support. The excellent manner in which The Sun was conducted compelled him, week after week and month after month,to look to it for support. ( Cheers. ) And such was the avidity of his readers to obtain a sight of it, that he was frequently obliged to have additional copies, especially for his London readers. Between 400 and 500 persons came to his house every week, and three-fourths of that number were readers of The Sun. The Chairman then put the resolution to the meeting, and declared it to be car ried unanimously. Mr. YOUNG returred thanks. He was sorry to hear that any portion of the Press was obnoxious to them. He could not but think there must be some mistake. Perhaps the de putation had called on a rainy day or before dinner.—( Laugh ter.) He would advise them to call again when the sun was shining brighter and the days were longer, and he had no doubt they would then either have a double sheet or a large donation. —( Great laughter. ) The CHAIRMAN said that he believed they had now got through the whole of the business connected with the Asso ciation ; but before he left his post of honour there was one subject he wished to mention. There had been such great success at ending their annual dinners, that they con templated having another in the ensuing March, and he would then be happy to receive the names of any gentlemen who would volunteer to act in the capacity of stewards upon the occasion. Upon the motion of Mr. MARSHALL a vote of thanks was passed to the Chairman with acclamation. The CHAIRMAN felt grateful for that mark of their confi dence. He could only thank them and assure them that when his humble abilities could serve the interests of the Society in any way, they might command him. The business of the Society having been finished, the Meeting resolved itsclt into one to take into consideration the oppressive nature of the Corn-laws, Mr. HUMPHREY was again unanimously called upon to pre side. He claimed their indulgence because he was not accus tomed to preside at such respectable large public meetings. The question they had now to consider, however, was one of importance to all, and no time could be better than that to em bark in so good a cause. The object they had particularly in view was to agree to a petition to the Legislature, for the total and unconditional repeal of the Corn-laws.—(Cheers.) Every member of their trade must be aware of how heavily those laws were now pressing upon themselves, but, unfortu nately, they were also acquainted with the cruel manner in which they pressed upon the poor. Some resolutions had been prepared ; they would be submitted to the meeting, and he hoped agreed to. Mr. HARE was suddenly called upon to move the first reso lution, but he fe.t less diaience in doing so, because he was quite aware that all who heard him felt the oppression of the Corn-laws. The resolution be held in his hand was to the effect that those laws proved a heavy burden upon all, but more especially upon coffee-house and eating house keepers. The resolution spoke only a melancholy truth. Those laws did oppress them, for it mattered not to them whether the loaf was 'lid. or Is. ; they were obli ge d to g i ve t h e same cuts. It most certainly might never to be higher than for the comfort of the poorer classes a n d t h e wel fare of the country. The Corn-laws benefitted only a few ; they did not benefit the cultivator of the soil— they merely benefitted a few large landowners. The cul tivator benefitted nothing from them—the farmer was poor when the corn was high, and he was poor when it was low, for the landlord regulated his rent accordingly. When he stated that, in his little business, it made a difference to him of 44/. a year, when he bought the loaf at Bd., and when he bought it at a shilling, it was time for him to look around for a cause. The taker could and did regulate the price of bread according to the !mice he bad to pay for his flour, but those in his trade could not regulate their charges according to those of the baker. He, however, would put the question upon the broad principle of oppression to the poor.—(Applause.) He bad been opposed to the question being brought forward as one of oppression to their trade, but the Committee thought other wise, and he agreed with them. He agreed in every word of the resolution undoubtedly, but it was a question which peculiarly afrected the poor man, who had to work hard for his paltry wages of eight or nine shillings a week. The question to him, what was the price of flour, was indeed a momentous one. His existence almost depends upon bread. His firm con viction was that the price of labour would always be regulated by the demand, and he felt equally persuaded that if the Corn_law continued to exist in this country, the manufactu r i ng interest would be deeply depressed, because it would be im possible for us to contend with other countries. Foreigners were now fast getting our machinery, and were even now able to compete with us in many things. Unless the present struggle were successful, it would be found out too late that England was no longer what she used to be and ought to be. However, when he looked into the columns of The Sun, and saw the repo r t s o f mee tings from Manch es t er , Liverpool, and every other great town in the kingdom ; when he saw them subscribing their 1,000/. each ; when he saw them raise from 4,0001. to 5,000/. in one day, he had great hopes of success. The question was not now a political one,',but it would soon become so ; and if the Ministers were in their places three months hence, it would be the duty of the people to support them, by petitioning for the total and abso lute repeal of the Corn-laws. He had much pleasure in moving the resolution, and hoped it would meet with their sanction and approval. Mr. DEACON seconded the motion. He would not enter into the question of whether it was better for the trade to pe litton as a trade, or to join the Society for the Abolition of the Corn-laws ; but it is quite clear that, whatever they did, they must not be quiet upon the question.—( Cheers.) The repeal of the Corn-laws would not benefit them alone, but all classes of the community. The country could not now exist as a manu facturing one, without the repeal of those laws. All would be benefited by it, even the great landowners themselves. He cordially seconded the motion, which was put and carried unanimously. Mr. PAURMERE said he was not in the habit of addressing assemblies of his fellow-tradesmen, but it was with satisfaction that he rose to move that the meeting entirely attributed the present high price of bread, and the consequent misery and starvation arising therefrom amongst the poorer classes, to the unjust and oppressive operation of the Corn-laws. He consi dered there could be no difference of opinion upon the point, especially in their trade there could not be a dissentient voice. Every one must agree that the misery and starvation of the poor arose from the high price of bread. He approved of the trade making an appeal to Parliament, for the total repeal of such obnoxious and oppressive laws—for no one knew their oppression better. A total repeal—no modification—was the only thing which would do good for the country. It was impossible for the landowners to stand against the tide of public opinion which was now set ting in against them Either the Ministry must be compelled:to bring in an efficient measure of relief, or the voice of the country would compel them to retire for another Ministry, whom th e people would press to give a total repeal of the Bread Tax. Mr. MARSHALL seconded the motion. The high price of bread was a severe loSe, not only them but to their customers, who found the penny loaf much reduced in size. The cus tomers were dissatisfied with the small quantity they got for their money, and they (the coffee-house keepers) had good reason to be dissatisfied with their small profits. The CHAIRMAN-The oppression of the Corn-laws was proved by its making very diffident tradesmen eloquent in their denunciation. In their trade they had the most appal ling effects of the incubus which pressed upon the country. They were stewards, as it were, of th ese l aws , an d t h ey were daily in the way of seeing the grinding nature of them. It was evident that the labourer was not able to wovide for his wife and family from his wages at the present high prices, not only of the staple article of food, but of every thing else. It was, indeed, appalling to hear the bitter complaints of the poor. He had been in the country lately, not more than 20 miles from London, and observing the starving condition of the children of the labourers, he asked the wife of an opulent farmer, and she assured him that the labourer was not able to give his family meat ten times out of the 365 days— they were unable now even to make their flour dumplings as they used to do, and as a substitute they were obliged to put up with occasionally a something made out of Swedish turnips, which were left out in the fields for the cattle. These laws also operated equally against the interests of the inhabitants of foreign nations. Such immense consumers of corn es me were, they were nut allowed to supply us out of their abun dance ; the consequence was, that they now grew no more than was sufficient for themselves, as it would not repay them for the outlay of their capital to wait till we were in a starving state. They had found the price of bread rise most unnaturally, and in consequence of the demand the prices rose unna turally in foreign countries also. The beneficial operation of the laws was confined to raising an enormous rental for a few large landowners. In taking up The Sun he saw the manner in which it was spent—there was the Duke of Bueeleugh at Florence, my Lord Marquis at Rome, and the N tble Earl at Naples. The immense majority of our nobility and land owners were spending their money abroad, %%hie+ money was wrung out of the bones and sinews of the poor labourer who was starving, with perhaps seven or eight children, upon is. a-week. It was worse than slavery, for the slave when he existed, was well fed. The poor in this country are, in fact, slaves, and are starved into the bargain. The abolition of the Corn-laws would not only lcwer the price of bread, but of every other article of food, which would reduce tha price of labour to that of foreign nations, and so allow us to be, as we had been, a great manufac.uring and happy nation.—( Hear, hear, hear.) It was in consequence of the immense manu facturing population of the country that the heavy taxa tion had been paid. His attention had been particularly at tracted to the question by the alarming statements which he had read in The Sun as being made by the Manchester ma nufacturers. When it, was found that the orders for cutlery from our Indian possessions, in place of being sent to Shef field as before, now found their way to Belgium or Saxony —when they found that in the article of stockings. in place of sending large quantities to Saxony, we imported them, and they wete sold in our markets 20 per cent. under our own manufacturers—surely when these things came before them, it was time that something should be done to raise England to its old standing. That could only be done by the entire abo lition of the Corn-laws, which he trusted he would soon see. —(Cheers.) The resolution was then put and passed unanimously. Mr. TUCKETT moved the following resolution :—" That this meeting are of opinion that those unjust and oppressive laws should be immediately and entirely repealed. The Corn laws had placed the country in a most desperate state, and it was only by their repeal that a sufficient stock of corn could be kept in the country to supply its wants." Mr. OSMOND seconded the resolution. He differed from Mr. Hire in thinking that the Society ought not to petition in a body. The Members of the Association were very much oppresse 1 by the law, and he therefore could not see why they should not petition in a body. Every town and every trade had taken up the question, and he thought the time was not far d , stant when every individual would do it.—( Cheers. ) Mr. HARE said that he had originally differed from the Committee, but lie now agreed with them. The resolution waa carried unanimously. Mr. 13esmoits moved--" That a petition founded on the foregoing resolution should be prepared and presented to both Houses of Parliament. He hoped that in the present in stance the signatures to the petition would be numerous in the extreme. The Coffee and Eating-house Keepers were, in his opinion, the real retailers of bread. Mr. Hare had said that they should support the Government upon this question. Now he was not prepared to say that the Government would take the question under its consideration. It was true he bad heard that Lord John Russell intended to put a standing duty of los. per quarter on foteign corn ; if he did, in his opinion, the sooner Lord John Russell was got rid of the better.—( Great cheering.) If such a duty was to be put on foreign corn, how, he would ask, was it to be paid. The fact was, that foreigners could not grow corn on the Continent, and sell it a much less price than they could in this country. The Coffee and Eating-house Keepers had suffered more from the Corn laws than any other body ,of men in the metropolis. It was true that the penny loaf made no difference to the Coffee-house was lid., while four years ago it was only 6d., and the Keepers, b u t th e quartern loaf did. The quartern loaf now consequen ce was , that they were obliged to sharpen their knives a littl e mo re, ill order to cut their slices a little thinner. —(Cheers.) Where the Coffee and Eating-house Keepers lost 1001. by the rise .in bread, he was sorry to say the con sumers lost upwards of 2001.--( Cheers.) And the conse quence was, they were obliged to send their customers away with half a mea l. The effect of - the rise in corn produced a corresponding rise i n every article of lif e , an d t h e l a b our i ng man in the country could hardly live. He understood in De vonshire that beasts were hardly to be got for money ; and he bad heard it remarked among the farmers there, that they did nut know how they would be enabled to stock their farms next Spring. Beasts were so dear that they would not be able to purchase them, and if they could not stock their farms, how, he would ask, were they to pay their rents ?—( Cheers.) The high price of grant prevented the tillage of the earth, because when the rents were paid the farmers had no money to purchase seed or to expend in cultivation.—( Ch eers.) Then came t h e question how was the mone y to be obtained for that purpose ? Why, it could only be g ot by selling their beasts. Conse quently, the supOlY became short and the prices high.— ( Cheers.) If they bad no Corn-laws, they would have a suf ficient supply from foreign ports. He trusted that every one would exert themselves to get rid of such obnoxious laws, which had been made only for the benefit of a few of the great landowners—( Shame)—of which the present Liberal Adminis tration, as it was called, formed no inconsiderable part.— ( Laughter.) He trusted if the Ministers proposed a standing duty of 103. on foreign corn that every exertion would be mede by the people to do away with such a duty altogether, or throw out the Ministers altogether.—(Great cheering.) Only b t them have free trade in corn, and the country would fleur'sb.—( Cheers. ) Mr. Ateems seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously. Mr. FoßnEs—lt was not to be expected that a body of harleotking tradesmen could enter into the mirutim of the manner in which these Corn-laws operated upon all the great interests of the country. They were perfectly well aware that they pressed very heavily upon them, their customers, and the mass of the communit; at large. Their duty was to show that the lawn were a grievance to them and to the commu nity, and that would justify them in pressing for their total abolition. He had much pleasure in moving the adoption of a petition to both Houses of Parliament, founded on the fore going resolutions. The CHAIRMAN thought the Coffee-house Keepers had much to do with the other parts of the community. They were the stewards of the Corn-laws to the poor. They knew that the poor were now obliged to work twelve hours a day, and pay nearly a shilling for his loaf. The foreigner got his leaf for 6.1. So that, unless something was done, they would have to bring themselves to work 24 hours. That was not a likely thing, and therefore they must do all in their power to abate the cause. The draft of the petition was unanimously agreed to. THE COAL TRADE. Mr. Haas said their trade were interested, not only in corn, but also in coals, They were not only large consumers of bread, but they were very considerable consumers of coals. Every one should do as much good to the community as he could. The Lord Mayor, since he commenced his Maycralty, had done much to break down the frightful monopoly which had so long existed in the coal trade. He had there:tire risen to move that the thanks of the meeting were eminently due, and were given, to the Right Hon. Lord Mayor for his zeal, and assiduity, and firmness in combatting so stoutly fur the benefit of the community. He bad exerted himself nobly in breaking up the coal monopoly, which was second only to the obnoxious bread tax. The tax upon coals, by the monopoly, was not only an injury to the consumer of ten tons, but it pressed even more heavily upon the poor, who bought them in their basket, and did not know whether they got weight or not. —( Cheers.) All were aware that his Lordship had nobly at tacked a body of men that few of his predecessors would have dared to meddle with, and therefore he thought he was en titled to the thanks of all London. He had much pleasure in movin the vote of thank Mr. g s. FORUES seconded the motion. He thought such a vote came well from such a body as them. They had tried themselves to do what the Lord Mayor had nearly accom plished, but the body was too strong for them. Mr. HoLmEs had considered that as a public meeting, and had attended to assist them in their laudable endeavours. He was not at all acquainted with, or connected with the Society, but as so interesting a topic as the coal trade had been started, he hoped they would allow him to give them some information upon it. He wished merely to state that a Company was being now formed, and was in a forward state, by which he trusted, by the power of the Press and the patriotism of the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, great good would be effected for the community at large. They were aware that any ship going to a wharf would meet with no obstruction, but might discharge immediately; but those who said so forgot to tell the public that that was a boon of no value whatever—it was literally good for nothing ; for no wharf near London bad accommodation for discharging a ship. The coals must be put into barges, and so the old expense was incurred. The objects of the Company he had alluded to was to form a Depot for Coals ia the Isle of Dogs. They proposed to have a mile and a-half of wharfage, where the ships would be dis charged by machinery at much less cost than they were now. No ship would be detained more than three days, for they proposed to discharge even the largest ship in one day, where they now took seven. When the coals were discharged the Company would provide large ware houses where they would stow them, at 3d. per ton per month. It was exvected that gentlemen who were such large consumers would purchase from the merchants and remove them them selves from the warehouse, and so get rid of those dreadfully oppressive charges which pressed so heavily upon the public. It was a moderate calculation to suppose that there would be a saving of 6s. a ton, which in one year would amount to the trifling sum of 900,000/. in London upon one article alone—upon the single article of coals. He was only sorry that he had known of the meeting so late, as he would have been better prepared, but if he was furnished with a list he would take care that each member should within one week hare a prospectus of the Company. The shares were only 201., and p-obably not the half of that sum would be called up. He had taken a journey to Newcastle upon the husiness; he had seen the coal-owners, and an extraordinary set of men they were most certainly. They said they sold the coals to the ship, but that was not true. He had seen the ship owners also, but they said they could not charge less freight, because they had so many ships. The great coal aristocracy of Newcastle and Durham had said that they could not lower the price of their coals, because vessels could not make on an average more than eight voyages a year. What, he would ask, was the average period of a voyage from Newcastle to Durham ? Why, only three days ; hut then they lay in the river waiting high prices. When Sunderland coals were at 225. a ton, 40 ships were only allowed to enter the port of London ; when they were 235. 50 ships were allowed to enter ; and when they were .245., then seventy ships migl t enter. So that the people were fed exactly according to the demand.—( Cheers.) The combination in the north was only to be broke up by bringing coals from other ports in the kingdom. For instance from Wales. It was true that voy ages could only be made eight months in the year there, but if there was a depot, sufficient might be stored up to serve for the remaining four months. By this means the patriotic people of Newcastle, could be kept down. He could not see why coals could not be brought to this country as cheaply as Aberdeen granite; for that only Os. a ton was charged, while 7s. was paid for coals from Newcastle. —( Cheers.) He would transmit to the St.ciety a detailed prospectus of the Company, which, he was sure, would meet with their support, as it would have the effect of reducing the price of an article of such importance to the public. After a few observ,,tions from Mr. DEACON. the resolution was put to the meeting, and declared by the Chairman to be carried unanimously. A vote of thanks was then given to the Chairman, and the meeting separated. IRELAND. TIPPERARY COMMISSION, JAN. 18. APPEARING IN ARMS, &c. &c.—.lohn Burke was found guilty of appearing armed at a place called Bahaha, on the 7th of August last, and also for attacking the house of John Dwyer. SHOOTING AT WITH INTENT TO KlLL.—Daniel Kellti was given in charge for shooting at, with intent to kill, Philip Ryan, at Killeen, on the 21st of November last. The Learned Judge, after the evidence was completed, told the Jury that the indictment stated, in one count, that the pistol was loaded with some destructive substance ; and, in another count, that it was loaded generally. In order to sustain that indictment, the Jury should be satisfied that the pistol was so loaded, and that if, when fired, and if the shot had taken effect, that death would have ensued, or that grievous bodily injury would be in flicted. The Jury retired for a few minutes, and brought in a verdict of Not Guilty. ROBBERY OF FIRE-ARMS.—The next prisoners given in charge were 'limas Neil, Martin Kennedy, and Patrick Flynn, for stealing a gun from Samuel Harrison, at Fort- Mayne, on the 2d of December last. The Jury, after a few minutes' deliberation, found the prisoner Flynn Guilty, and acquitted Neil and Kennedy. MURDER.—John Corkran was found guilty of the murder of Patrick Goonery, who died from a fractured skull. The de ceased, it appeared, went to execute a Civil Bill decree on Patrick Corkran, seized a caw, and received a blow from behind, which proved fatal. The Commission, we believe, concluded on Saturday after noon. The Court adjourned until eleven o'clock on Monday morning, when the prisoners who were convicted will receive their sentences. There were, we b,?lieve, but two cases tried on Saturday. One a trial for murder, in which no motive for the act was assigned or ascertained. The other the trial of a person of comparative respectability and s.ane education, for having written a letter to Mr. Lanigan, the agent of Mr. Otway Cave, with a view to terrify him into the resignition of his agency, or to interfere with Mr. Otway Cave to reinstate the prisoner in the possession of certain lands, of which he had been deprived, as well as of his situation of steward. The Corh Southern Reporter, in allusion to the proceed. ings under the Special Commission, has the following obser vations :—" In the first case tried, Hickey and Walshe for the murder of Mr. Cooper and Mr. Wayland—there was a capital conviction, and no man who read the evidence could anticipate any other result : nor can any one assert, or affect to believe, that they do not deserve to meet the fate which certainly awaits them, who is not for giving a license to murder to every individual who has a real or fancied cause of complaint or grievance against the individual whom he selects as the object of his vengeance. That it was not intended to murder Mr. Cooper detracts nothing from the crime of which these men have been convicted. The mu' der of Mr. Wayland was plotted and perpetrated, and it was in the attack upon him that the former, who happened to be travelling in his com pany, was shot. The conduct of Wayland, or his father, to his tenant Ryan, the approver, was far from kind, considerate, or blameless ; but it is not to be endured, even if it were twenty times more unfeeling than it was represented by Ryan himself in his evidence, that he should be doomed to death by the de cree of those persons to whom Ryan related the hardship of his case—whom he first excited and seduced to commit the murder, and then, to save his own wretched existance, PRO SECUTED TO CONVICTION. Here is an instructive lesson, adding another to the countless ones that have gone before, teaching those who will not be restrained from the commission of crime by feelings of humanity or morality, and who enter into confederacies to perpetrate it, that there is no safety in such inhuman leagues, and that the first to encourage is almost in every case the first to betray." MURDER OF LOkD NORDURY. —An equally incredible and atrocious rumour has got into circulation to the effect that Lord Norbury was murdered by one of his own family." According to a letter in a Dublin paper, " the late Lord Nor bury had a:serious misunderstanding with his son, some three or four years back, and in a moment of temporary excitement he made a will, absolutely disinheriting his son, the present Lord. God permitted this son to arrive in time sufficient for mutual explanations and forgiveness, and he has the consolation of feel ing that his lamented father did not depart this life without bestowing upon him th e parenta l bl ess i ng. " It is said that the present Earl of Norbury has but an en tailed estate of 3,0001. a year, having been cut off by the will alluded to above. - The second son of Sir Thomas Stanley, Bart., to whom Mr. Errington, the uncle of the late Mrs. Fitzher bert, bequeathed his whole property, resided for a series of years in the house next the Green Park, in the Stableyard, St. James's, now the abode of Lord Berwick. It was in this mansion that Mrs. Fitzherbert was married to the Prince of \Voles. 'SELF RELIANCE.—BiIIs are placarded over Ports mouth, inviting petty officers and seamen to join the Powerful, " a fine ship, commanded by Captain Napier, and in case of a war, capable of taking her own part." OVERLAND FROM INDIA. (From the Delhi Gazette Extraordinary, November 16.) We hasten to lay before our readers the following important Government Notification this instant received, which cannot fail to be perused with great interest : ORDERS BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA. SECRET DEPARTMENT. CAMP DE BUDDEE, THE BTH NovEmena.—The Right Hon. the Governor. General of India is pleased to publish, for ge neral information, the subjoined extract of a letter from Lieut.- Colonel S•oddart, dated Herat, the 10th of September, 1838, and addressed to the Secretary to the Government of India:— " I haze the honour, by direction of her Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, and the lion. East India Company's Envoy at the Court of Persia, to acquaint you, for the information of the Right Hon. the Governor-General of India in Council, that his Majesty the Shah of Persia yesterday raised the siege of this city, and with the whole of the Royal Camp marched to Sangbust, about twelve miles, on his return to his own dominions. His Majesty proceeds without delay by Tocrbut, Shehhi Jaunt and Iffeshid, to Tehran." " This is in fulfilment of his Majesty's compliance with the demands of the British Government, which I had the honour of delivering on the I2th instant, arid of the whole of which his Majesty announced his acceptance on the 14th of August. His Majesty Shah Kamran, and his Vuzeer Yar Maho. med Khan, and the whole city feel sensible of the sincerity of the friendship of the British Government, and Mr. Pottinger and myself fully participate in their gratitude to Providence for the happy event I have now the honour to report." In giving publicity to this important intelligence, the Go. vernor- General deems it proper at the same time to notify, that while he regards the relinquishment by the Shah of Persia of his hostile designs upon Herat. as a just cause of congratulation to the Government of British India and its. allies, he will continue to prosecute with vigour the measures which have been announced, with a view to the substitution of a friendly, for a hostile pori cr, in the Eastern Provinces of Afghanistan, and to the establishment of a permanent barrier against schemes of aggressions upon our North West Frontier. The Right Hon. the Governor-General is pleased to ap point Lieutenant Eldred Pottinger, of the Bombay Artillery, to be Political Agent at Herat, subject to the Orders of the Envoy and Miniver at the Court of Shah Shooja 00l Moolk. This appointment is to have effect from the 9th of September last, the date on which the siege of Herat was raised by the Shah of Persia. In conferring the above appointment upon Lieut. Pottinger, the Governor- General is glad of the opportunity afforded him of bestowing the high applause which is due to the signal merits of that officer, who was present in Herat during the whole period of its protracted siege, and who under circum stances of peculiar danger and difficulty, has, by his forti tude, ability, and judgment, honourably sustained the repu tation and interests of his country. By Order of the Right Honourable the Governor-General of India. W. H. MACNAGHTEN, Secretary to the Governor of India, with the Goi , ernor-General. " The troops under Sir John Keane embarked at Bombay on the 23d November, in steamers, to proceed up the Indus to Skakarpoor, where they will meet the Bengal troops, or rather a division of them, as it was understood that Sir H. Fane, the Commander-in-Chief of India, would return to Bengal, with a large part of the Bengal troops, as Sir John Keane's army was thought sufficient to place Shah Shoojah in possession of Cabdul. Whether the movements of the Nepaul ese and Burmese may have hastened the return of Sir H. Fane, is not known; but the peace with Persia and Elerat has rendered fewer troops necessary to place Shah Shoojah at Cabul." HURRICANE AT BENGAL. LOSS OF THE " PROTECTOR" EAST INDIA MAN, WITH MOST OF HER CREW AND PASSENGERS. We regret to announce this dreadful slipwreck, the fol lowing particulars of which are extracted from the Calcutta Courier : The effects of the late gale have been most disastrous; three or four vessels have been dismasted and otherwise greatly damaged, one wrecked, &c. - By the following detailed account it will be seen that very little hopes can row be entertained of the fate of the passen ge-s that were on board that unfortunate vessel the Protector. Two men (the ship's cook and a private) have been picked up. The man who was picked up first says, that he saw the captain and some other persons get off in the ship's boat:— " I beg leave positively to report the loss of the London ship Protector, Dixon, as corroborated by Private James Mcekin, one of the recruits on board that late vessel, picked up by me floating on two pieces of timber on the 21st instant, at seven , p.m., four miles N.N. W. of the F. L. V. Elope, who states as follows, viz:—The ship Protector Anchored on Thursday morning last before daylight in 4i fathoms water, a,d struck a b o ut an h our a f ter anchoring, and went to pieces, which was abut five, A. M. I saw the clotain and several other persons leaving in a boat at the time I was precipitated ovt.rboard ; I succeeded in gaining the two Omits on which I was floated. At about six A. M., totally lost sight of the ship, and saw nothing around me but floating loxes of cargo. I saw nothing else until I was picked up by your boat. " He states that there was on board the ship Protector a detachment of 116 privates and non-commissioned officers under charge of a Captain Monk, and there was a doctor on board belonging to the troops, who had his wife with him, but no family. He also states the passengers to be a Captain Mar tin and a Mr. Smith. The lady passengers were Mrs. Cooper and a child, and four other ladies (names unknown). The doctor belonging to the ship was a Mr. Law, the chief officer's name unknown, who he states to be a gallant man in danger, cheering them up to the last. The second officer was a Mr. Illuett. There were also about ten women belonging to the detachment and about seven children. The recruit appears to be a very sensible man, and I think his statement of the fate of the ship Protector is but too true. " I have to add that the Eastern Channel is covered with floating wrecks. Several boxes have been picked up, all marked Protector,' as well as part of the stern frame of her long-boat, with Protector, London,' on the outside of it, and Thomas Buttenshave in the inside. Among one of the pack ages picked up by myself is one of a full -length picture of a barrister pleading in his robes; the outside of the package is addressed to James Cullen, Esq., Messrs. Mackillop, and Co." Stewart, We derive the following statement from a commercial house in the City : A distressing loss has been announced to-day by the over land mail. The merchant ship Protector, Captain Dixon, from London to Calcutta, was totally wrecked at the Sand Ileads, near her place of destination. The loss of life was great. The following is the list of passengers, recruits, and crew. The only persons saved were seven recruits and one seaman Mr. and Mrs. Evans. Captain Martin. Miss Martin. Captain Monk.* Mrs. Cooper. • Mr 3. Hobson. Mr. Smith. One servant. 1 Captain Dixon. [* 'Captain Monk is the office leading Colonel Gardner's irrc of Arican at the period of the la had previously been in the regul Company, and, at the period to sanction of the Indian Governs corps above-mentioned.] 36 Crew, 116 Men, 16 Women, Company of 6 Children, Recruits. 178 Total on board. 8 Saved. 170 Total drowned. :r who distinguished himself by egular horse through the forest Lst Burmese war. The Captain lar military service of the Hon. which we refer, was, with the ment, Adjutant of the irregular T URKEV. CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 28.—A Turkish frigate arrived during the week from Tripoli with the treaty lately concluded between Askar Paaha's Lieutenant, Tossoon Pasha, and the Sheiks of the Arab tribes in the interior of the Regency. It is stipulated by the first article that the Arab populations within the confines of the Tripolitan Regency shall acknow ledge the Sultan as their lawful sovereign, and shall pay him as token of their allegiance an annual tribute of 75,000 Spa nish dollars. The internal administration, in virtue of . the second article, shall be entirely confided to the elders and mu nicipal officers appointed by each tribe. The third article pro vides for the unrestricted freedom of commerce throughout the country. A transit duty of 3 per cent. will be levied on imports by the Turkish customs along the coast, and .one of 9 per cent. on exports. The Porte pledges herself by the fourth article to withdraw the garrisons she now maintains in the interior, and not to send, in future, troops on the Arab territory. Hussein Mirza Khan, the Persian Ambassador to London, left this on the 23d for Trieste. On the eve of his departure he partook of a splendid entertainment offered him by the Rus sian envoy at Pera, and was so pleased with the urbanity and good cheer of his Amphytrion, as not to leave his palace be fore five in the morning. Letters from Beirout mention the arrival of a Russian brig of-war, with a General and officers sent on a secret mission to Ibrahim Pacha. The French steamer which brought this intelligence saw the wreck of an English vessel at Cape St. Angelo, and another off the island of Mytelene. Several vessels, among which is an English brig, are reported to have been lost in the Black Sea. A vessel from Circassia having 70 passengers on board, was thrown on the coast near Sinope. The palace intended for the Sultan's daughter, about being given in marriage, was entirely destroyed by fire on the 26th instant. This accident, which the whole Osmanli population has looked upon as a highly portentous omen, has spread great consternation in the Seraglio. On the 24th instant, to the great satisfaction of the English residing in this capital, the British chapel lately built at Pera was opened for the first time. An impressive sermon suited to the occasion was read by the chaplain of the embassy, the. Rev. Dr. Bennett. EFFECT OF THE LATE STORM ON THE LEICES TER TRADE. —We are informed that, in consequence of the great destruction of manufactured goods in the late storm, an extra amount of work has been done in those branches in which fresh orders hare been received or expected.—Leices tershire Mercury. INCENDIARISM.—There are seven persons con fined in Abingdon Gaol under charges of incendiarism, two of whom arc women.