The Sun. — London, England, 1839-11-23 00:00:00

EVENIN & EDITION. prisoner was about ten men distant from Frost. They halted there. They were coming to Newport. The Magistrates then committed the prisoner for high treason and sedition. ARREST OF A CHARTIST RIOTER IN CANTERBURY. On Friday morning this city was thrown into a con- I siderable state of excitement in consequence of the re- ported arrest of one of the rioters in the late serious 1 outbreak at Newport, at the residence of the Rev. Wil ., ham Davis, of Walling-street, minister of the Baptist 1 Chapel in King-street, in this city. From inquiry it ap pears that a constable of Newport, named Evans, having I ascertained that William Davis, a young man who was i concerned in the late Newport riots, had an uncle re siding in this city, be imagined that he might be coo -1 sealed there, and likewise imagining that Zephaniah IWilliams, for whose apprehension a reward of one ! hundred pounds had been offered, might be with 1 him, lie arrived here on Thursday evening, bringing I with him warrants for the apprehension of both 1 these individuals. After making a few inquiries, Evans j went to the police station-house to procure information 1 and assistance, where he learnt from Superintendent I Clements that Messrs. Benjamin and Thomas Flint, I distillers, of this city, had been to the office during the 1 day for the purpose of seeing the Hue and Cf . y, from I which circumstance, and the fact of these gentlemen I being members of Mr. Davis'a chapel, it was inferred • that one of the parties might be concealed in the 1 promises of those gentlemen. It was therefore deter . mined that if they were unsuccessful in their search at the Rev. Mr. Davis'a house, they s hould proceed to Messrs. Flint's and search their premises. On arriving at the Rev. Gentleman's house, he had just returned Mwith Mrs. Davis f r om chapel, and on Superintendent i Clements stating the object of their visit, the officers v. ere immediately admitted into the house, where they I found one of the objects of their search, William Davi s . Mrs. Davis not entering with her husband, it was con j etured that she had gone to Flint's, for the purpose of giving information to Zephaniah Williams as to what f was going on, in order that he might make his escape. Clement and Evans immediately proceded to Messrs. Flints, leaving a policeman in charge with Davis and his uncle. On arriving at Messrs. Flints , those gentle li m en immediately admitted the officers, and afforded them every facility in making the search, which proved to be unsuccessful. The two prisoners, the Rev. Mr. i Davis and his nephew, William Davis, were then con- I veyed to the station-house. Yesterday morning they I were taken before the Magistrates at the Guild ! hall, when the younger Davis was charged with 1 committing high treason at the late Chartist riots at Newport, and the Rev. Mr. Davis was charged with the same offence, in concealing and secreting hi;nepbew. The younger prisoner was then delivered into the cus tody of Evans, i❑ order to be conveyed to Newport, to undergo his examination before the Magistrates of that place. Evans left Canterbury by the Eagle London coach on the same morning, taking the prisoner with him. Bail was offered to any amount for the Rev. Mr. Davis, which was refused by the Magistrates, who, ou referring to the statutes, found that they had no power to accept it. The Reverend Gentleman was therefore remanded till Monday next in order to give time for a communication with the Home Secretary. ABUSES OF FRANKING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—In your Journal of the 18th instant, a violent attack is made o❑ the Government for not abolishing. Franking, at the same time that postage is to be re duced to fourpence per single letter. I, too, am decidedly for abolishing what is commonly called Franking, which is sending free the private cor- respondenoe of the nobility and gentry ; but, like your Correspondent, who signs himself " One of the People," I, too, am not only one of that number, but a warm rierid of the poor and productive classes. Does your Correspondent desire that petitions to Parliament and Parliamentary papers shall be charged with postage in future ? Surely ❑o friend to liberty—and, as a matter of course, to the poor—would sanction such a charge. But perhaps he is a Chartist, and resolved to petition Parliament no more ; yet even Chartists do not refuse to receive Parliamentary Bills, Returns, Reports, and other public documents, although franked and sent free. On the Government Parliament has devolved tho delicate task of abolishing the abuse of franking, and maiotaitaing its proper and legitimate objects. And this can be no easy matter ; for in all the intercourse I have bad with public men, who, like your Correspondent and myself, are for abolishing franking, I have seldom seen any two agree on how the democratic principle could be maintained, and the aristocratic practice—that is, its acknowledged abuse—be remedied. Along with Penny Postage this desideratum must be attempted by Go vernment ; and as one of your readers and admirers too, I beg to suggest to your Correspondent to enlighten the Government and the public with his views for abo lishing the franking privilege. Does he mean that it should be absolute and complete, to the exclusion of petitions to and papers from Parliament ? If not this, Low is it to he done ? I am, Sir, your obedient servant, ANTI-ABUSE OF FRANKING. MONT.:Y MARKET and CITY NEWS. (FRIDAY EVENING.) TlMES.—Complaints are made at the Stock Ex change of a considerable pressure for money, which, as there appears to be no particular movement in general business to account for it, has created rather an uneasy feeling. The funds were not quite so firm, and the quotations of Consols, as well as of the unfunded debt, have given way, the former slightly. POST.—The Consol Market remains undisturbed at yesterday's quotations, namely, 90i to 90,i for Mo rley and for Account. Exchequer Bills were sold on the less favourable terms of 7s. to ss. dis. Bank Stock ?I:.ift. off at 1781 to 179. A renewal shortly of purchases of Stock by the Commissioners for Savings' Banks is an y tiei p, stted • I T- Continental Exchanges were to-day altogether more in .favour of this country. I? ailurE, s, both in town and the country, have again bean talked of, and we believe some eases of insolvency in one or two t, f the larger cities have occurred ; but, i from all we can ,'earn, they would appear to be of no im portance. At a time like the p:esent every little difii i culty that is heard of is apt to be magnified into some : thing of moment. The City correspondent of the Globe says, in his usual off - hand style, " A morning pi.per states that a banking establishment at Liverpool ) kiss suspended payment." If it be the Post that is here alluded to, we have to reply that the scribe of the Globe reads about as heedlessly as he writes. Our words were, " A banking establishment at Liverpool is said to : l ava stopped payment." Had the rumour applied to a Itr %ding firm of some standing, as it should have done, iv , ; might have been able to confirm it ; but it is inti ' rna, , A to us from a well-informed quarter this evening itliat .the report of a bank having failed at Liverpool is pre i, z a, 'y "an entire mistake:' I c H lONICLE.—The allusion made by a morning papor, of ti le repo rted failure of a bankin g establishment Liverpoc 1, 13, we are happy to say, without foundation. 1 HERA LP.—The Money Market here remains very In a sy and steady, considering the late accounts which iiiive been received of the adverse state of affairs from ,li t : United States. Coming events having cast their s ,, xd s ows before, most unquestionably have lately tried t i, L•trcngth of the commercial interests of this country ; but a s t i •ong hope or impression prevails that the gene ral prui.'enk. e of our merchants and monetary leaders will enable ths'' several great interests of this country to ride over the At. rm with which we have been threatened from the United Stages. On the Continent there is, according to the tenor of the general commercial ad vices, a strong prepondera in favour of British credit as agaiust the mixed securita. Is of the United States, which proves that, at present, Lind, we trust, for a long time to come, British comrnerci..•l relations will remain 1 unimpaired in every part of the w o.-Id. 1 There hi'.s been rather more bus;ness doing in the Continental Exchanges this afternox:. and in most in stances higher rates have been obtained. i In the British Funds there have been no material al lteration t o -d ay , b ut t h e quotat i ons o f yesterday have , been but b are l y ma i nta i ne d . t The exports of silver coin from the 14th to the 20th i November, ac cor di ng to an official statement„ amoun t 1 to 249,86)1 ounces. SUN.—The Foreign Exchanges closed at advanced I ratan this at ,`.ernoon, which has given much satisfaction io the City. Paris advanced to 25. 67i ; Hamburg to 13. 101 ; Amisterdam to 12.4 ; and Antwerp to 12.3 4 4 . On the Royal. Exchange this afternoon there were no additional failures talked of, and confidence appears to have inereastid. The intelligence received that the differences with Persia have been settled., has given much satisfaction to those immedial'ely interested in the prosperity of our Etst Indian possessions. The Stock Markets have not varied much this after noon. Consols for Money left oft at 91, q ; for the Ac count at 90i- Exchequer Bills t 7 discount; and India Stock at 2.51 i for the Account. Bank Stock rose to 179. f busines s Spanish Stock fell, just before the cl ose o , to ; and the Passive Bonds to 6.i. Portuguese, Bra zi"an, and Mexican Stocks did not vary in value this afternoon. Russian Bonds were sold at 111 i . The Great Western Railway Shares have been quoted at 8 dis. ; the Brighton at 144 dis. ; the Midland Coun ties at 28 dis. ; and the North Midland Shares at 7} discount. EA STBOURNE.—The distress which too many of our fishermen have been suffering is considerably al leviated by the success of the herring fishery. During the last week thousands have been caught, and eagerly bought up by the poorer inhabitants, as a winter store. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. (From the Morning Chronicle.) The Times presumes greatly on the character which it has established for itself, of being not only the most unprincipled, but the most blackguard journal in Europe. It enjoys this advantage from the notoriety of its base ness—that no person can possibly apply harsher terms to it than have been applied a hundred times before ; men of all parties and principles have by turns reprobated it as the epitome of all that is most revolting—as the pan der to every low prejudice—as the enemy to every man who endeavours to benefit his country or his kind—as the betrayer of all who ever reposed confidence in it. Those whom it for the time affects to serve know well that if it be cowardly it is cruel, and that though they now command its services, it may in a moment turn round, and plunge its assassin knife in their backs. But all this is as notorious as the sun at noo n -d a y, an d th e Times knows that what is notorious will not be long listened to. For this reason, few care to expend indig nation on the utterly abandoned—the unequivocally base. Junius admitted to Sir William Draper that it was because he was not utterly abandoned, not lost to all sense of shame, that he was selected for attack ; for when men have settled into thorough profligacy, and indifference to the world's opinion, reproach is of course lost on them, an 3 even under a kick on the breech they console themselves with the idea that no bones are broken. And yet there is such an unusual measure of effrontery in the indignation affected by the ruffianly Journal in question, which from its commencement has lived by bullying and libelling, that even those who know the Times may be startled when they hear it lamenting that a Morning Paper " has so far outraged rvery law of decency, and every practice of civilized society, that farther forbearance would be a gross insult to our readers." We are charged with ruffianly brutality by the Times. To the Times answer is unnecessary—it cannot expect any. To our own readers we know that we stand acquitted of any part of the charge brought against us. But really so soon after the indecent attempts to sow dissensions between the present Queen, the Duchess of Kent, and the late King, the Times must presume strangely on the forgetfulness of its readers to dare to enter on such a subject. On the 19th of June, 1837, when King William was suffering from his last illness, the following base and cruel article appeared in the Times : " What intercourse, or whether any, has taken place between the occupants of Windsor and of Kensington Palace on this occasion, which appeals in a manner so affecting to all the kindlier and better feelings of hu manity, the public are not informed. We have not heard that the heiress-presumptive to the Crown, the neice, the well-beloved niece of the stricken Monarch—from whom she had but recently received a touching proof of his ge nerous and paternal affection, has been permitted to show by the offer of even a momentary visit to the chamber of grief that sense of grateful duty, or that desire for a parent's blessing, or that anxiety for one word of parting counsel, by which none who are acquainted with the cha racter of the Princess will doubt that she is deeply moved and actuated. " To the young, of any rank, humble or exalted, there is no spectacle more fraught with wholesome admonition than a death-bed. To the future wearer of an earthly crown there is no lesson so awful as the sure mortality of him who is on the point of surrendering it into the hand which gave it; nor any impression likely to be so indelible as that conveyed by the messenger of death to the royal witness of that act of final arid solemn abdication. " But further, we have not heard that se much as one message of kind or dutiful inquiry after the King's health has been sent, at any period of his Majesty's illness, from the powers' at Kensington, to the afflicted household of Windsor Castle. Whether this was dictated by a becom ing spirit on their part of regard for those laws of decorum and propriety which ought to regulate the proceedings of civilized life, and any marked deviation from which towards the King of England might be ascribed by the public, not initiated in factious motives, alike to the innocent and guilty members of the Royal family, we leave to be determined by others. If the fact be in accordance with the above hy pothesis, it must be considered by every right-minded person as most indecent and revolting. For the rest, it is positively asserted that not the Princess Victoria, but an older personage sent off on Wednesday last a messenger to Lord Durham, being them on his way to England, the pur port of the missive having reference to the formation of a Kent- Coburg Ministry." But this was only one of a series of foul libels, written with the view of running down the Duchess of Kent, and exciting in the various members of the Royal Family the worst feelings towards each other. On the 23d of March, 1837, the Times charged the Duch ess of Kent with an attempt to sacrifice her daughter's happiness, by forcing an improper marriage on her ; and obser►ed " that her Royal Highness is so little cognizant of her own station in this country, and its in cidents, as to entertain the preposterous ambition to play a great part in politics, and to become a species of imaginary Queen-Mother or Regent, after her daughter's maturity, and before his present Majesty's demise." The same course was pursued in subsequent numbers of the Times, particularly on the 14th of April, when it wound up an indictment against the Duchess of Kent with the following base attack : " Even the death of a domestic servant, while the corpse remains unburied, hallows the mansion of death in most civilized countries against the intrusion of gay and heartless dissipation; but here, while the King's child perishes under the Royal roof, others of his Majesty's rela tives (inmates, through his indulgence, of the same habi tation) are advised to hold in contempt the unspeakable sufferings of a wretched widower and his orphans, and to offer to a humane father the most inhuman insult. Can the Court Circular have spoken truth, we again ask? If so, the Duchess of Kent's advisers owe an unpayable re paration to the goodly name of their Royal Mistress, inas much as whatever light such conduct may appear in to those who are capable of the higher and better class of feelings, the entire coarse world—even they who have a soul for nothing beyond outsides—must be shocked by the gross bad taste and callousness to all common decorum which the counsellors of the Duchess of Kent have be trayed on this remarkable occasion. Every right-minded person must now anticipate us in the question—ls this fit training for her who will be one day at the head of Eng lisb manners? Is this the mode in which the Duchess of Kent has been advised to manifest her respect and defe rence for King William ?" Thus did this wicked print labour to sow dissension in the Royal Family—to hold up the mother to the daughter as utterly unworthy of her confidence and affection—to hold up both to the King as not only un grateful for his liberality and kindness, but lost to all decency in their conduct to him when stricken with disease. But are these the only branches of the Royal Family slandered by the Times? The King of Hanover has not, in his gratitude for recent services, forgotten that to the Time: in particular he owes a re putation for much more than can be fairly laid to his charge. Bad enough we know he is ; but he is not so bad as the Times represented him. As a Sovereign, he seems destined to be the scourge of his people, and this country has no small reason to rejoice in the fair prospect which it has that he will ❑ever ascend the Throne of Great Britain. But the Times libelled him as a man— foully libelled him " Indignation and contempt are words of strong mean ing—disgust and abhorrence are stronger still—but we will venture to affirm that a new phraseology must be dis covered before one-half the force scornful execration which the above string of iascalities towards an esteemed and well-beloved Princess—a *oral, earnest, amiable, religious, generous, and charitable woman—will excite throughout the whole community of honest Englishmen before many hours have elapsed." Our readers will ask, is this a quotation from some contemporary paper of the date of the libels against the Duchess of Kent and the Queen, to which we have drawn attention .? No ; but it is a successful parody of some of the invectives which the occasion drew forth. We are sorry to see Queen Adelaide in such foul hands. To those who really regard the Queen Dowager, and deeply regret the attempts of the Tories to revive forgotten recollections, and to fill the people with jealousy and suspicion of her Majesty, the advo cacy of the Times must be inexpressibly revolting. The abuse of the worthless is less to be dreaded than their praise. We dread the effects of the eulogies of the Times on those whose knowledge of the character of Queen Adelaide cannot serve as a preservative against the taint which praise from such a quarter may com municate. In the old legends a saint was ❑ever in greater alarm than when the devil took to commending him for his virtues. (From the Times.) The character of this Government, illustrated by its acts, is a painful and humiliating, but no t an unprofit able, study. When mean minds resort to studied and systematic artifices, their work is flimsy, confused, and incongruous : when they act on the unreflecting propul sions of pure instinct, it is a regular and uniform whole. We have been struck by such observation, on reading Lord Normanby's letter, marked " private," to Mr. Phillipps, late Mayor of Newport, in the Times of yoterday. It will be remarked, that in that letter the Howe Secretary alludes to the services of Mr. Phil. lipps, aid states the distinction of knighthood by w hi c h the Queeo had designed to show her sense of them— services, not at all exaggerated when the Secretary o f State describes them as " admirable," nor in the slight est degree overpaid by the meditated honour of knight hood. In the same letter, the Melbourne Secretary for the Home Department (now, it is said, in transitu to the Woods and Forests, being fit for nothing better) designates the insurrection in Newport as a " daring outbreak" against the lives and properties of her Ma jesty's subjects. Now, can our readers have forgotten the namby-pamby, milk and water terms, in which this same Lord Normanby, not many days before, spoke of the " outrage," which in the subsequent OOP he paints sojustly as a daring outbreak against life and property ? and how he strove to underrate and disparage those same exertions of the Mayor and Magistrates, as hav ing in a " great measure," &c., which in the last " pri vate" Majesty's e'leter he exa lt s as " a d m i ra bl e ," an d rewar d s by documents? favour? WThhaet firstwa s the wss dates soon aftero f contrasted attack by the Chartist s , when it w as man if es tly the ni s t rj as a 1 game well as of b t makeot:brave and loyal light o f the exertions b y danger, w hi c h they were both brought to an end. The second letter was dated—when On the 13th inst., many days after the first, but only a few hours after the appear- THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, gOVEMBER, 23, 1839. ante of an article in this journal, where the igneminious • grovelling malpractices of the gaol de liverer were exposed an d h e ld u p t o p u bli c scorn . It they cannot be goaded by conscience into truth or jus tice, they are at least amenable to the scourge of the executioner. (From the Morning Post.) The Ministerial papers continue to utter their mali cious falsehoods respecting the Queen Dowager. These attempt will recoil upon the heads of the Ministerialists. Already the indignation of the public is aroused to a height which it would require stronger language than we are in the habit of using adequately to express. The Queen Dowager, as we have already said, possesses every quality which the British people are habituated to respect and love ; and it is not because the Ministe rialists are mad with envy of that public favour which they do not possess that her Majesty is to become the victim of their spleen. The Globe of last night, slavishly following in the wake of the Chronicle, which it affects rather to blame, says that— " The Tories have recently, among a host of other in sults on her Majesty, thought proper to set up the Queen Dowager as a rival candidate for the expressions of popu lar regard." The Ministerial paper must know that all this is perfectly untrue—nay, it is ridiculous and absurd. How could the Queen Dowager be set up as a rival candidate to the Sovereign of the country ? The one is treated with respectful affection on account of her eminent virtues, and for the sake of the memory of the late King, her husband ; but this is quite different from the dutiful sentiments of the people towards their So vereign, and it is downright stupidity to attempt to com pare the one with the other. As for the ilirorning Chronicle, it would appear that some one who is obliged to be the tool of the paltry creatures of the Radical Corporation of Leicester has enough of influence in that paper to cause it to disgrace itself by malignant slander of the Queen Dowager of England. to the Established Church, Thus speak:: a " Reverend" ranter, named Legge— " It may suit Churchmen, groat and small, it ho swal low the Bock of Common Player, the Thirty-nine Articles, and the Anthasian',Creed—(Laughter)—it may suit them, too, to mock at the consciences of Dissenters—aye, and it may suit some Dissenters too—white-livered, pigeon -hearted, addle-headed, power-worshipping, rank-admiring, money loving, knee-cringing, mealy-mouthed, lick-spittle Dis senters—( Loud laughter and cheers)—it may suit such as they to sneer at the consciences of other Dissenters; but I am sure there is not an individual here who will echo the sneer. —(Cheers.) However these may sneer about con science, there is such a thing, and John Thorogood has rightly exemplified its power. He feared God more tnan man. He would not sanction a system which, calling it self apostolic, branded him and his minister as vile schis matics, guilty of a crime worse than drunkenness. He would not give his sanction to a system which, in its union with the State, is the master-piece of hell—(Loud cheers) —which is pervaded by the spirit of Anti-Christ ; which, while arrogating to itself the exclusive possession of Chris tianity, has left the greater part of the land in worse than heathen darkness—( Hear)—the fountain of all heathen principles ; the great obstacle to the progress of true re ligion ; the fosterer of all feuds amongst the disciples of Jesus."--( Cheers.) PROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the Globe.) The Tories were more liberal ten years back, when the long possession of office had given their leaders power to preserve discipline, and when they could re inforce moderate and official Toryism by Whig aid —the Tories were more liberal five years back, when they bid for Doubtful* and Waverers, than they are now, or possibly can be, in their present posi tion. The experiment of Liberal Toryism with Whig volunteer aid, was tried, and succeeded neither worse nor better than might be expected. The Duke per formed a stunning surprise one day on his No-Popery janissaries, and with his household troops, and Whig levies, succeeded as well as Sultan Mahmoud. But the stroke was fatal to Liberal Toryism. It had made one large step in defiance of the party which formed its real, though inert, strength amongst the community. It had thrown itself on the tolerance of its new allies in the Liberal camp. Political tolerance, like political gra titude, is founded on expectation of future favours. 'if the Tories would have conceded Reform, after Emancipation, they would have had Liberal aid in carrying through that next. " improvement required by the age." But they could not have done this without losing the " good will" of their remaining con nexion. They could not have moved on without forfeit ing all that remained of their party character. We do not blame them for stopping ; but we say that they then gave the measure of their utmost Liberalism—aad even thus, with all the advantage of a long unquestioned possessio❑ of power, they fell—because their preceding measures, however required by national policy, had beet, destructive to the principle of union in their own party. What possible reason have we to believe that the party is more disposed now it was then, to permit its leaders ta, carry on " the improvements which are required by the age ?" On the contrary, the party of Resistance, nay of Retrogradation, is the only one whose voice has been heard at all their late gatherings. The virtual or direct repeal of the Act of Emancipation—the rejection of Ro man Catholics from all places of trust and power—the prostration of Dissent beneath the triumphal wheels of the Church-militant—the undoing of all that has beer, done these ten years for civil and religious liberty—such is the sole programme and prospect which can be held out to Tory assemblages with any chance of calling forth their responsive applauses. This exclusive re• sort to the most outrageous and desperate topics, if connived at by the Tory leaders, proves they have nothing better to put into the mouths of their par. tisans, as grounds of attack on the Government—if discountenanced by them, proves that they have again lost all command of that ultra spirit which, ten years back, zealously assisted in their overthrow. (From the Standard.) A correspondent using the signature " Britannicus," has addressed to us a letter of reproach, complaining of the tone in which we have met the Morning Chronicle's attack upon the Queen Dowager. We elsewhere insert our correspondent's letter, because we respect his feelings, and because, if we have fallen short of our duty from error in judgment—as is very probably the case—that letter will go far in making good our defi ciency. As this is not the first occasion upon which we have been charged by our friends with coldness—let us offer a word of apology. It is our conviction—the effect, perhaps, of temperament at first, but certainly confirmed by some experience —that the use of what is called strong language, and the recourse to strong measures, though very convenient, where falsehood and wicked designs are contemplated, arc always rather injurious than otherwise to a good cause. The advocates of such a cause ought always, we think, to address themselves to the reason of thoughtful and good men, and they will, question less, before such judges, find the advantage of so guarding their language and their acts as to be sure not to commit injustice. It is always more effectual as well as more becoming to prove bad men to be villains than to call them by the name. This conviction, which we have always felt very strongly, forces itself upon us with unusual weight at the present moment. We hear from all the Whig-Radicals and Romanists just now one concerted yell of treason, &c., against the Conservatives ; but not one word attempting to prove, what indeed it would be impossible to prove, that the Conservative party does not compre hend every really loyal subject whom Queen Vic toria possesses. No, let us leave to Mr. O'Con nell and to the Ministerial journals the exclusive exercise of the fraud that always seems to lurk and that almost always is involved in impassioned charges and vague generalities. Let us leave also to the party to which Mr. O'Connell and these Jour nals belong, the exclusive resort to libel prosecutions. What imaginable advantage can accrue to any virtuous woman or honest man from obtaining a conviction or a verdict of damages in circumstances in which the most worthless member of society would obtai❑ the same conviction or verdict ? The Libel Laws are avail able only for the bad, and let none bat the bad make use of them. (From the Courier.) The power brought to bear on the whole machine of Government, whether in its internal or external action, by the Slave-trade question, has increased so prodi giously, znd its effects are becoming nationally so pre judicial on various grounds, that it becomes a matter of pressing obligation to ascertain the extent and the consistency of the meshes of the system in which we have been gradually enveloped, and the nature of the sub-anti-slavery agency which is reigning so despo tically now in most of our public departments. It is notorious that, day by day, our relatio ns with Foreign Powers become more complicated, and mis understandings more frequent, on the account solely and wholly of an interference in respect of the Slave trade, capricious, arbitrary, and insufferable, by any thing in the shape of a nation, with even the most ragged remnant of pretension to independence of character. Our conduct is to the last degree grinding and insup portable to the lesser powers with which this great em pire descends into the arena to squabble, call names, and plant the seeds of future hostility ; and our demeanour towards the higher powers, on the same question, is only less offensive, because the want ofequal daring and bravado and the forward display of accommodating meanness, as in the practical cases of American and Russian slave shipping, are much more calculated to provoke con tempt than resentment. Whilst such is our involvement in foreign quarters, we do not seem to fare better, even if so well, at home; for our colonies are all, with scarcely an ex ception, to use mild terms, in a situation of great con fusion and undeniable distress. And this state of things is not confined to what were the Slave Colonies only, but is found to extend to those far removed from the conta mination of property so unhallowed. For the Canadas, and Upper Canada in particular, are even more perturbed than the West India islands. LEAMINGTON SPA, TIIURSDAY.—The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, accompanied by the Mar quis of Stafford and the Ladies Leveson Gower, took their departure on Tuesday, for Lilleshall, their seat in Shropshire. The first of our winter subscription balls was given at the Royal Assembly Rooms, and among the company were Lord and Lady Harley, Vis count and Viscountess Eastnor, Sir Edward and Lady Mostyn, Lady Annabelle Macleod, Lady Teynham, Sir John and Lady Gerard, Major and Mrs. Bishopp, Sir Edward an d L a d y H am il ton , Miss Hamilton, Col. and Miss Clements, and upwards of 150 of the leading fashionables residing at the Spa. The Earl and Countess of Belmore have arrived from CastlF Coole, their seat i n I re l and. The N o bl e E ar l isin an impaired state of h ea l t h . Lady Cameron, J. Bailey , r Esq. M.P ~ and Mrs. B a il ey, Sir C. and Lady D Oyley, Major Vivian, M. P ., &c., are among our recent arrivals. Ladg A nna M aria Cust and M r . Quintin Dick, h ave left aft er a b r i ef stay. The next win t er b a ll takes place on Wednesday, the 4th of flex!, month, under the patronage of Lady Mostyn and Major Bishopp, K. H. DREADFUL COAL PIT ACCIDENT.-011 Fri day morning the 15th instant, as four men, Henry Kent, John Heap, John Harvey, and William Tay lor, were descending a coal pit shaft, situate at Swami lincote, in Derbyshire, the chain broke, and precipitated them t o t h e b ottom, a depth of 15 0 yar d s . A scaffold had b een erected across the shaft towar d s t h e bottom, for the p urpose of getting a shallower coal, but such was the violence of the fall, that the scaffold gave way before it. There was a considerable quantity of water at the bottom of the shaft, and although assistanc e was at hand, the bodies of the unfortunate men were not re covered until late in the afternoon. They presented a horrid spectacle. All were dreadfully mutilated, but one was literally crushed to pieces. An inquest was held on the bodies on Monday last. The jury pro ceeded to the colliery, and inspected the chain minutely, and after a protracted examination of witnesses, came to the conclusio n that the chain was not so thoroughly efficient as it ought to have been. They therefore re turned a verdict that the deceased were killed by the accidental breaking of the chain, and imposed a deo dand of 5 /.—Derby Mercury. TREASURY MINUTE AisiD PENNY A TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Permit me, as Chairman of the late Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into 11Ir. Hill's plan of penny postage, to request the inser tion of the following in an early Number of The Sun. Having received numerous letters of inquiry, and still more expressive of alarm and doubt, respecting the real object of the Government in bringing forward the mea sure which has been intimated by a Treasury Minute, I beg to give the following reply to those who have already addressed me on that subject, or who might think of doing me that honour : I believe the Government is perfectly sincere in de claring the measure as set forth in the Treasury Minute as preparatory only to penny postage ; and, in so far as I am a judge, I consider the temporary plan, as pro posed, to be not only unobjectionable, but salutary and judicious. I believe charging letters by weight does require considerable practice, in order to enable those employed in the manipulation departments to perform them on the new plan with the accuracy and expedition which will be so essential when the full measure of penny postage is introduced. I have not a doubt that faith will be strictly kept with Parliament and the people by Government bringing for ward, as soon as possible, the uniform penny postage with the use of stamps. I have no information whatever, direct or indirect, as to the use of stamps, or the mode in which they are likely to be applied. In utter ignorance, then, of the contents of the 3,000 proposals, which it is said have been deposited with the Treasury, I adhere to the view I stated in the House of Commons when the Penny Postage Bill was read the second time, viz. : That there should be sheets of stamped paper, half sheets of stamped paper, and loose single stamps, for being attached to any kind or size of paper ; those three modes will accommodate rich and poor, as well as meet the freaks and prejudices of the ignorant ; and, so far as I can see, they will even meet the objections of the sordid, self-interested crew, who would evidently sacrifice every thing which is generous and truly good in this great national measure, rather than see the Tightest hazard to their own pecuniary interests. To carry penny postage into practice is, as I under stand, in the immediate department of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. I have had constant communication a•ith Mr. Baring ever since he became Secretary to the Treasury. I have at all times found him an excellent man of business, which he conducted with the most ;rank sincerity and scrupulous integrity. Mr. Baring is now Chancellor of the Exchequer, and penny postage, and the use of stamps are, in my humble judgment, quite safe in his hands ;—so I firmly believe, Ind on this will I act, until I see good cause to enter tain doubts, or alter my opinion. When speaking on the second reading of the Penny Postage Bill, I certainly mentioned the sth of January as the time it appeared to me the Act should come into 'ore° ; but I had no authority for this—no data to go by. I was replying to an objection taken by Sir R. Peel, regarding the probable deficit in the years' reve nue ; and with this in mind said, that the change, if made on the sth of January, which was the earliest pe riod I contemplated, would only affect one quarter of this year's revenue, Respecting the time the Penny Postage Act shall t•ome into play, of course I can know nothing ; but I see no good reason for its exceeding the sth of January, or at the very most that day month, which would taring it into use when Parliament meets, if it shall assemble at the usual period ; and I feel very confident, if there should be good reason for delaying it until Februa7y, that the temporary measure which will commence on the sth of December will be found in the meantime to be of much practical benefit to the Post-office department, and consequently to the public. I hope to be excused for resorting to this method of answering queries which I felt a desire to reply to, but could not possibly overtake in proper time by corres pondence. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, ROBERT WALLACE. Kelly, Nov. 20, 1839. (From the Morning Advertiser.) While the foul and calumnious Tory journals evince a morbid sensitiveness of the slightest inculpatory allu sion to Queen Adelaide, upon whom their elaborate eulogies are calculated to cast more odium than could be excited by the direct application of the grossest ca lumny from any other portion of the press, they insi nuate and openly express the most. black and treasonable slanders against Queen Victoria, to whom not only is their allegiance more especially due, but whose youth, sex and station—independently of the many virtues and admirable qualities which adorn her character infinitely more than her exalted rank—are calculated to elicit from all but the reckless and depraved, the most pro found respect and most ardent sympathy. As the ' direct and overstrained panegyrics of the Tory organs are calculated to attract towards the Dowager Queen an opprobrious attention from which otherwise she might have escaped, so are their indirect and ma ' ' lignant imputations against the reigning Queen de , signed to convey charges which even their iniquitous hardihood dare not express, and to attach obloquy which their most open slanders would fail to convey. As an instance of this indirect assassination of the Royal reputation, we may adduce an article in yester day's Standard, wherein, with a disgusting affectation ' of sympathy and condolence with the Queen, a com plaint is made of the " cruel injustice" of attempting to contrast her Majesty with Queen Adelaide, as if such “ contrast" would place the Sovereign in a light of most painful degradation. The Standard evinces its sym pathy much in the same way as a public executioner would condole with a criminal upon whom he was about to inflict the last penalty of the law, in the fol lowing strain :—" And now let us once again complain of the cruel injustice to the reigning Queen, involved in the attempt to contrast her with one of the best of human beings." Now, admitting, as is here assumed, that Queen Adelaide is " the best of human beings," we do not perceive the " cruel injustice" which Queen ' Victoria would suffer by the contrast. We are not aware of any awful crimes her Majesty has committed except the never-to-be-forgiven offence of refusing to become the puppet of a Tory faction. Lest the gross implication just quoted might be misinterpreted, the Standard thus continues its disloyal and insulting com mentary :—" Though we feel how strongly public in dignation would be directed against the calumniators of Queen Adelaide, and know that that indignation must in the end take a political direction—we should regret to see anything likely to produce an alienation between Queen Victoria and a Princess from whose example she may learn whatever can adorn the character of a woman and a Sovereign." This is the most regicidal observation of all ; for if public " indignation must in the end take a political direction," whatever may be the private virtues of the Royal Dowager, what would be come of Queen Victoria were the example of the Con sort of William the Fourth to be taken as a model for the Royal guidance ? Should the Tories, by an unex pected casualty, obtain possession of Downing -street, her Majesty must feel highly complimented in having her Royal Aunt paraded as the standard by which the Sovereign's conduct must be regulated. The Courier appears disposed to exempt those with whom it generally coincides from the just and indignant denunciation which it hurled against all, of whatever political creed, who would excite dissension between such high an d illustrious parties as have been so indecently made the subject of factious and treasonable recrimina tion ; but we should like to learn the grounds upon which, with all its ingenuity and zeal, the Courier can take exception to including its colleague—the Standard—after the extracts we have just quoted, in the " universal reprobation" which it invokes against those who would make " assassin-like assaults against the honoueand character of the highest personages in the realm ?" the Courier bespeaks our loyalty for the ad vent of a Conservative Ministry, and expresses a hope that such event will not provoke such an outrageous want of decency on our part, as it implies we have in sinuated against other quarters. In reply, we have only to assure our Contemporary that our allegiance is not regulated by the contingencies of factious ascen dancy, and that in condemning the cause with which it has associated itself we respect the rectitude of feeling and genuine sense of honour which have marked its condemnatory observations on the libellous and trea sonable animadversions of its political colleagues. With a slight change of phraseology we would apply to the Courier the observation of Woisey in his last extremity —Would that it hadl served,the country with half the zeal and ability it. now serves its cause, and it would not be thus deserted in its old age. (From the Morning Herald.) A great meeting of conspirators against the Esta blished Church has been recently held in the town of Leicester. The avowed object was to take into consi deration the case of John Thorogood, a contumacious cobbler of Chelmsford, who has refused to pay his Church-rates—and who has calculated, no doubt, on converting that refusal into an effective claim on the purses of the general body of " friends to religious liberty." The impudent cant which these advocates of the " rights of conscience" utter, is unutterably disgust !rig. This man Thorogood owes five shillings and six pence, the amount of his Church-rates. He refuses to pay. He does not plead inability. He refuses pay ment, simply because " his conscience" will not be easy, unless he be permitted to rob the Church Such is the result of the " concessions" that have for the last fifteen years, been made to Dissenters of all kinds. At first, these enemies of the Church pleaded only for " toleration"—for permission "to worship in their own fashion." Now, they deem themselves oppressed, in being called on to contribute to the Church, funds, which belong to the Church, and which do not belong to the recusants for " conscience sake." Church-rates affect an immense mass of property ; and that property has been in the vast majority of cases bought subject to the burden of Church-rates. Dissen ters, therefore, paying Church -rates, contribute, in reality, nothing out of their own stores, to the mainte nance of the Establishment. Church-rates are not theirs to withhold ; and the act of withholding Church-rates is neither more nor less on their part, than an act of robbery. If John Thorogood's " conscience" prompts him to refuse payment of Church-rates to an establish ment, of which he disapproves, John Frost's conscience, we dare say, has often pro mpte d hi m to refuse:paymen; ' of taxes to any but a Chartist Government ;—and if John Thorogood's " conscience" is to have scope, why not John Frost's ? Nay, if the non-payment of debts justly due, is, henceforward, to constitute a claim to public admiration, her Majesty's gaols will, for a long time to come, be found to contain martyrs innumerable for " conscience sake." Tithes and Church-rates are the property of the Established Church ; and unless the Government is disposed to leave all property with out protection, the Government is bound to enforce payment of Church -rates, and of Tithes. The Dissenting conspirators talk about the beauty of a Church supperted by voluntary " contributions." They forget that nearly all the endowments of the Church of England have proceeded from the piety of private individuals. They forget, therefore, that it is most false to represent the Church of England as pressing heavily upon the purses, or upon the " con sciences" of the poor. Dissenters are now allowed to bold forth, undisturbed, in their respective conventi cies ; thay are merely restrained from " dissenting" so far from the rules of honesty, as to indulge in pillaging the Established Church. This restraint, however, as we have seen, impels some of them to shout forth that the rights of conscience are invaded I But such is " the march"—such, the tendencies of " Liberalism I" The policy of " toleration" has been fully tried ; and the advocates of “ toleration" demand now that the Established Ch urc h shall be " tolerated " no longer. The p e l l e o n d c — r o o a r c lit the Church s iof i s Dissentmust, doomo d to subversion raging e around w d calculator us. John in hi T s ge neration. this complexion has it come at last, and no good can re r esult from shutting our eyes to the great truth involved isobvior, h To in the struggle doubtglethat i n s ot r g i , a s ner ation. He has weighed well, i n a ll probabil i ty, t h e profits of his present " martyrdom"— an d will rem ain in Tho rogood is, gaol so long as he may hope to extract a shilling from the pockets of " the friends of religious liberty." It may be instructive to note the tone adopted by the advocates of the " rights of conscience," at Leicester, in reference SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. HAMPTON VICTORIA CLUB COURSING MEETING. The first meeting this season of the Victoria Club took place on Thursday in the Home Park, but in consequence of the doubtful state of the weather, was not so numerously attended as usual ; the sport on the whole was good, and was protracted until near five o'clock by several undecided courses. The fol lowing are particulars : TILE PUPPY CUP. Mr. Clarke's r b Cameo, beat Mr. Cox's r b Elfine. Mr. Dingwall's bd d St. Andrew, beat Mr. Sperring's bk b Violet. Mr. G. Evan's r and w d Abercrombie, beat Mr. Dringwell's f b Auricula. Dr. Scott's bk b Sister to Bab, beat Mr. Bragg's bd b Lady Nickleby. Mr. S. Grave's bl d Blue, beat Mr. Harvey's bk andw b Half and-Half. Mr. Charrington's f b Comet, beat Mr. Sheppard's bk and w b Bee's-wing. Mr. Meseley's w d Bloomsbury, beat Mr. Bragg's r b Miss Nickleby. Dr. Scott's yel. b Sprite, beat Mr. Patient's bk b Ruby. Mr. Dyson's r d Crib, beat Mr. R. Coombes's w d Don John. Mr. Elmore's f and w d Euclid, beat Mr. Pheil's bk d Bob. Mr. Collins's f d Cadet, beat Mr. S. Hodson') r d Critic. Mr. J. Hodsdon's r b Victoria, beat Mr. J. Harvey's r b Lucetta. Mr. Bacon's yel. and w d Spring, beat Mr. Dingwall's f d Anson. Mr. W. Silcock's f b Madge, beat Mr. Minton's w d Windsor. Mr. Dansey's y d Dangerous, beat Mr. Brown's f b Kate Nickleby, Mr. Jessop's bl d beat Mr. Barford's bk b Fly. The ties will be run off on Thursday next. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Her Majesty's staghounds will meet on Monday, at Fowey Hill; Wednesday, at Stoke Common; Friday, at the Horse shoes, Warfield—at eleven. The Brighton harriers Monday, at Patcham ; Wednesday, at the Race-course ; Friday, at the Dyke—at a quarter-past ten. The Brookside harriers Monday, at Newmarket Hill ; Thursday, at Telacombe Tye. The Cheshire hounds Monday, at Kingsley Windmill ; Tuesday, at Somerford Park ; Wednesay, at Tatton Park ; Thursday, at Siddissgton Toll Bar ; Saturday, at the Manor House—at half-past ten. The Whitehaven harriers Monday, at Rose Hill ; Wednes day, at Sandwith—at half-past nine. The Tickham hounds Monday, at Rodmersbam Place ; Thursday, at Long Beach—at half-past ten. The East Kent hounds Monday, at Rein.den ; Wednesday, at Mockbeggar ' • Friday, at Black Mill— a t h a lf- past t en. The Wynyard and Durham foxhounds, Monday, at Long Newton; Thursday, at Fishburn ; Saturday, at Embleton—at half-past ten. The Shropshire hounds Monday, at Styche ; Wednesday, at the Fifth Milestone ,• Friday, at Lee Bridge—at half-past ten. Mr. Giles's hounds, Monday at Roughhorough ; Friday, at Bosbury Turnpike—at ten. Mr. Archer's hounds Monday, at Callington New Bridge ; Thursday, at Tumerton Bridge. The East Sussex hounds Monday, at Sheffield Park ; Thurs day, at Ratton ; Saturday, at the Qld Ship —at a quarter to eleven. The Northumberland and North Durham hounds Monday, at Haggerston ; Wednesday, at Nisbet Whin ; Friday, at Longridge ; Saturday, at West Newton—at half-past ten. Sir T. Boughey's hounds Moatay, at Blackbrook ; Wed nesday, at Highgate; Friday, at Hilton—at half-past ten. The Findon foxhounds Monday, at Poyning's Common ; Wednesday, at Hookland Firs; Saturday, at Patching Pond— at eleven. Sir R. Sutton's hounds Monday, at Eagle Wood ; Tuesday, at Kettlethorp ; Thursday, at l3ranston Wood ; Friday, at Wickenby ; Saturday, at Harpswell—at eleven. The Marquis of Hastings's hounds Monday, at Swarkstone Bridge ; Wednesday, at Chaddes;den Hall ; Friday, at Clifton Village. Mr. Meynell's hounds Monday, at Drakelow ; Thursday, at Ingleby ; Saturday, at Blithfield. Sir C. Constable's staghounds Monday, at Coniston; Wed nesday, at Preston ; Friday, at Hal sham—at eleven. The Cottesmore hounds Monday, at Empingham Wood ; Tuesday, at Cole's Lodge ; Thursday, at Castle Bytham- : —at a quarter to eleven. Major- General Wyndham's hoe nds Monday, at Shillinglee ; Wednesday, at Five Oaks ; Friday, at Henley Park—at half past ten. _ _ Mr. Tudway's hounds Monday, at Chilcompton ; Thursday, at the Kennel ; Saturday, at Re dlynch Gate. Mr. A. Smith's hounds Monday, at Oare Hill ' • Tuesday, at Longstock ; Th urs d a y, a t Redenham House ; Friday, at Porton Firs—at eleven. Earl Fitzwilliam's hounds M onday, at Holme Wood ; Wed nesday, at Weybridge Wood ;I'hursday, at the Kennel—at ten. The Earl of Yarborough's hounds Monday, at Aylesby Mill ; Thursday, at Redbuiai Hall ; Saturday, at Ormisby Mill—at eleven. Lord Portman's hounds Tvesday, at Stock House ; Friday, at Hinton St. Mary. The B. V. H. Wednesday, at Pulham ; Saturday, at Thorn Hill Obelisk. THE ROYAL MARRIAGE.--It is said th a t her Majesty has caused the whole of her Privy Council to be summoned to attend her on Saturday next, and that she will then anno unce to them her intended mar riage with Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg. Har Majesty's Privy Council consists of upwards of 200, and is composed of Nobles, Statesmen, Judges, civilians, &c., and although it may appear strange that a young lady should announce to some 200 gentlemen at once that she is going forthwith to enter into the holy state of matrimony, yet it will be found that if she does so her Majesty is following as near as may be the precedent of the reign of King George the Third. In the year 1761 there was much speculation as to who King George the Third would marry, some saying that he would marry a forrign Princess, others as serting that he would espouse one of his own subjects. However, on the Bth of July, 1761, all doubts were put an end to by his Majesty calling the whole of his Privy Council together, and making the communication to them, which was published by the Royal authority, in a London Gazelle extraordinary, on the same day. The marriage ceremony on that occasion was that contained in the Book of Common Prayer, a part of which seems to b e not app li ca bl e t o t h e marr iage of a reigning Queen whose husband will be her s ubject, as it would appear to b e rat h er anom alous that a l a dy should vow at the altar to obey one who, by the very act of their marriage, becomes under her Government as one of her subjects. A s a foreigner Prince Albert owes no allegiance to the, Queen, but as the husband of a Queen Regnant he is one of her sub jects.--Morning Herald. PHRE7“LLociicAL I The first meeting of the Phrenological Society was held at the house of Dr. Elliotson, on Monday, the 4th inst. The President laid before the meet ing casts of the head of Marchant, the footman who was lately executed for the murder of his fellow-ser vant in Cadocrart-place, and of Willis, the soldier who was lately executed for the murder of Sergeant- Major Shepherd at Woolwich. The east of Mar chant had been exquisitely taken by Mr. Butler, the sculptor, of Gower-place. The fore and intellectual portion of Marchant's head was well developed, but the greatest size was at the sides of the middle of the head— covetiveness, cunning, destructiveness. The lateral portions of the coronal surface, from its posterior to its anterior extremity,—a region large in consci entious persons, was very small, so that it had a keel shape Veneration was large, as well as self-esteem, love of notoriety, and attachment ; amativeness and courage were small. The character of the youth agreed with this or ganization. Though he was supposed to have at tempted rape, it was ascertained that he never had sexual connection in his life, and, though momen tarily excited on the fatal occasion, it was with a person to whom he was attached, and he presently desisted. His want of courage—his extreme fear when his victim threatened to tell of him, appeared to have urged him to the murder, his conscientious ness being small and his destructiveness and cauti ousness large. His large covetiveness and small conscientiousness were demonstrated by his having stolen a five-pound note on one occasion and a sove• reign and a half on two others from a gentleman with whom he formerly lived. His large 'vene ration on the one hand and small courage on the other explained the great impression made upon him by the clergyman, by which he was induced to send for his former master and confess his thefts, and to confess all the circumstances of his last crime. It was doubtful, from his small conscientiousness, that moral feeling co-operated with religious in this particular. His attach ment was shown not only as regarded his vic tim, but his mother, to whom he had been in the habit of giving portions of his wages and behaving most affectionately, and by the attachment of dif ferent animals to him. His self-esteem was mani fested in his conceit that he could do all things better than any one else, and in his always behaving as if he wag superior to others of his rank. His secretiveness was shown by his power of lying, in the coolest manner, when inquiry was made respecting the money lost in his former place, so that he had never been sus pected and was always thought well of. He had been for some time servant at the Brompton Dispen sary, and then was clever and attentive and very studious,.as might be expected from the good de velopment of his forehead and the smallness of the back of his head. The head of Willis was that of the genuine mur derer. It closely resembled those of many mur derers on the table ; and the resemblance of the faces, also, was very striking. The President re marked that murderers were of different classes, and a very numerous class comprehended persons of wretched intellect and the most brutal feelings, and to this Willis had belonged. The forehead was very retreating ; the head rose higher and higher from the front to the back part of the crown, and was very broad at the lowest central por tions of the sides ; consequently the intellectual or gans and benevolence were small, while firmness and destructiveness were very large : as also were self esteem and love of approbation. The lateral por tions of the coronal surface were small, so that it also was rather keel shaped. The murder ap peared to have been the result of wounded pride and love of approbation, in a person of extreme firmness and violence, wretched intellect, and very little conscientiousness. The moderate develop ment of veneration, conscientiousness, and benevo lence, together with his great pride and firmness, ex plained his absence of contrition to the last. To the moment of his execution he absurdly, in spite of all assurance to the contrary, expected a reprieve ; yet with this intense manifestation of hope, the organ of hope was moderate. The President said that the doctrine of an organ of hope was not Gall's, but one of those numerous additions made by others, and, as he thought, with no foundation ; and that it would be well if phrenologists would satisfy them selves by rigid observation of the truth of all Gall's observations before they adopted those of others also, as many do with but little inquiry. He be lieved that some would adopt half-a-dozen more or gans or faculties than the disciples of even Spurz helm and Combo speak of, if half-a-dozen more were put down in the books. He doubted, with Gall, whether hope was a distinct faculty. He believed that we hope for what we desire ; and in proportion as we desire it we hope for it—we think it likely to be obtained ; and this the more, accordingly as our circumspection and our intellect are small. A parent hopes for the recovery of a child, when all around see but little ground for hope, and the medical attendant, if endowed with an equal portion of circumspection as the rest, sees no ground at all,—does not hope in the least, having not only not the intense desire of the parent, but possesing a knowledge of the circumstances which the rest have not, superiority of informa tion being tantamount to superiority of intellectual development over persons with equal means of in formation. Mr. Granger presented to the Society a cast of the head of the mate of a Prussian vessel, executed for the murder of his captain. The man and a boy were connected in the deed, but the boy turned Queen's evidence, and the man denied the crime to the last. The head was one of great power, and totally different from that of the other two murderers. The organs of the intellectual, the moral, and the lower feelings were all ver ) large. The man might have committed the murder, but he was capable also of the most praiseworthy conduct. HAMBURG MAIL. STOCKHOLM, Nov. B.—Our finances were never in so favourable a state as at this moment. In the years 1834 to 1836, that is, during the period of the last Diet, the Riksgalds-Condor (i. e. the General Chamber of the Public Debt and Sinking Fund) had to "pay debts of long standing to the amount of 2,600,000 rix-dollars banco money, and now its debts amount to no more than 160,000 rix-dollars, while it has at its disposal a million of rix-dollars in ready money, being the surplus of the sums granted it by the Diet. HANOVER, Nov. 17.—As his Majesty had reserved to himself in the law on the formation of the Coun cil of State, the faculty of granting suitable salaries to three of its members, he has now, as we hear, granted to Prince Bernhard of Solms Braunfells, the Presi dent, an annual salary of 6,000 dollars. It is rumoured that the Crown Prince of Prussia, accompanied by two of his brothers, will pay a visit to this Court. The Princes are expected on Saturday, and they will stay here two days. The King is gone to-day to Brunswick and will return with the Prussian Princes and the Duke of Brunswick. The young Count Mun ster, son of the late Hereditary Marshal, who is on his travels, has fallen dangerously ill at Geneva. He is only son of the late Count, but not being of a ge, has not yet taken tha o ffi ce of Marshal. Should he die, the male line of family would be extinct, and a new Marshal would have to be chosen.—Hamburg Papers, Nov. 19. Yesterday morning, between nine and ten o'clock, Richard Jones, a young man, 24 years of age, the foot man of Mrs. Harcourt, in Baker-street, Portman-square, shot himself with a pistol through the mouth. The ball passed obliquely, and shattered his left jawbone in a dreadful manner, but hopes are entertained of his re covery. The cause of his committing the act is stated to have bean that he had pawned a portion of his mis tress's plate, which he was requested to produce. THE YEAR 1840.—The Gazette de Fran ce contains the following remarks on the various prophe cies which are said to have bee n made relativ e toth e year 1840 :—" For a length of time the year 1840 has been looked upon , witho ut any positive reason being assigned, as a critical period in modern history. 'Phis opinion has prevailed for the last fifty years from one end of France to the other. We have been told that the brother of Count Capo d'lstrias, the Go vernor of Greece, read an inscription on a tomb in the mosque of St. Sophia, Turks ofeminence would be drivenwrote from a, in 1519, th a t th e Constantinople in 1840. A person rot .r erecenti y from America, stat ing that the opinionent oferta the entertained, i n importance rteannicye in nf America, the year 1840 wasgenerally but also in Asia, Ancient and modern history have fur nished us with very singular facts, which may really be called popular presentiments, and we have oursek es seen a book, which w as p r i n t e d at the commencement of the 17th century, in which the writer, Pavillon, amuses himself at the expense of those who sought to attach importance to the year 1789. These rumours, however, respecting 1840 prove one remarkable fact, that peopl e ' s minds are almost universally engaged in speculating upon it." EVENING EDIT .ON . . • OFFICIAL AN': OIJNCEMENT °C,W HEiz. MAJESTY'S INTEND . i,II MARRIAGE. The Privy Council will meet this day at Buck. ingham Palace, for the purpose of receiving an iru portant communication from her Majesty. Summonses have been issued to all the mem tiers of the Council, but comparatively few of th at numerous body will be present. Of those mem bers whose politics are in accordance with th e present Government there_ will be an unusua ll y full attendance, but of those who may be consi dered as decidedly opposed to the Government a few of the more prominent members only will b e present. After some little matter of ordinary moment has been gone through, her Majesty will be graciously pleased to inform her right trusty and well-belove d Councillors that, entertaining a purpose to contract a marriage with his Serene Highness the Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg, &c., she has called the present Council, in order that she may have its ad' vice and assistance thereupon. A member of the Ministry will then state that his Serene Highness is a Protestant, and will enter into some genealogical details, showing the intimate nit' tural connection in blood between her Majesty and her intended consort, and the long continuance of friendly relations between the Sovereign House of Saxe-Coburg and the Court of St. James's, and also the connections of the same House with other Sovereign states. A regular minute will be then made by the Clerk, to the effect " that her Most Gracious MajcstY hvving been pleased to communicate to this Conn cil her intention of contracting marriage with his Serene Highness Prince Albert of Saxe -Coburg , &c., most heartily recommend her Majesty to carry her gracious intention into effect, the Council be in g convinced that such marriage will tend to her Mir jesty's happiness, and to promote the peace, happi ness, wealth, and prosperity of her people. This Journal alone was enabled to state t h a t the intended marriage would take place in April no l ' What was then probable is now d e t erm ined ; ea r l in April Prince Albert will return to this countrY' ;: and the marriage will take place shortly after. t There is a good deal of misconception on the R s ' of the unlearned public as to the particular positron of his Serene Highness as consort of the Qu een regnant of England. There is a very curious ano maly in this respect in comparing the positions , r e`, 4 ,, Queen-consort and the Queen's consort. 1 "" Queen-consort is the first subject of the ICi n g . The Queen's consort has no rank whatever such. The Queen-consort has by common law" many high immunities and valuable privileg es i :: The Queen's consort has none. Whatever or' and privilege the Queen's consort may attain 0 15 t be from the grace and favour of his Illustrious CO sort, and it may naturally be supposed that marks of her Majesty's affection will be neither fev ' nor unimportant. His Serene Highness will in the first place ha ve ' the title of Royal Highness con f e rred upon him i :; This will give him rank in all s tate ceremon ia immediately after his Royal Highness the Duke Cambridge, but confer no political power or ran i : , and it i 3 not likely that his Sere n e Hi g hness will l ; created a Peer of Parliament. The Prince's real' position will be that of a Prince of the blood, before,: created a Peer of Parliament, as the late Du ke o 1 York, whose title was previously Bishop o f Ostir burg, and King William the Fourth, who was onl y ' Prince William Henry. The Prince will succes.‘ sively be created a Knight of the Garter, a Gene'' ral and Field-Marshal in the Army, and, after hi. I appointment to military rank, a Knight Commands ' of the Bath.—Court Journal of this day. FONDNESS OF GEORGE 111. AN r QUEEN CHARLOTTE FOR THE THEATRES. To TIE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE. SIR,—In your paper of this day you have glanced a the paltry attacks of the Tories on the character of be r Mejesty, for her supposed fonduess for theatrical eP tertainments, certainly the most rational of all publi amusements. The very urging of so ridiculous a,charg e serves to show how utterly destitute they are of an Y real ground of complaint. You justly refer to the es ample of King George the Third, to which ) 3 " might have added that of his Queen (the T 1 pattern of royalty in woman, until it served il ; turn to set up Adelaide instead), and of All h ., family. There lies before me at present in Gentleman's Magazine for 1800, a di ary o f_ thein rest dance of the Royal F am ily a t W eym atAlt year, from which it app ears th a t i n t h e two n i °, 11 . t 1 , 116 of their sojourn there (from A ugus t sth `to Oct. i'" their Majesties and the Prin c es ses (Augutta, Elizabeth' Mary, Sophia, and Amelia) went to the theatre no lest than two and twenty times. These visits were frequentuiff three, and sometmes even four in a week, a nd one ut them was on the occasion of their wedding-day ° who ever thought of objecting to them? Be it observe(' that both the Queen and King were then past ai% t .Y r years of age, and that they took with them thel young unmarried daughters, no doubt with * si n ; cere conviction, that the amusement to be deriver. from theatrical performances was mingled Wit" more of profitable instruction than any other recreation that could have been substituted for it. I s'aould neve r have dreamed of troubling you with this, d;.d I not heat this contemptible acusation so coostantl•i urged, " frs r fault of a better," and dwelt upon as a crime o f the deepest dye, in all Tory societies, in which detestation (I do not uEe too strong a word. to express the feeling exhibited) of our young and trite-hearted Queen is the distinguishnig mark. Yours, &c., Nov. 21, 1839. DRAMATICUS. P.S.—On turning back to the previo us y ear , I ti oc t that the King, Queen, and Princesses visited the tbestil' no les, than thirtzy times 'in the course of less than to' months, viz. from August 17th to October 14th. LLO YD'S SHIPPING.-(THISD.A.I') ../X..- DEAL, Nov. 23.—Wi n d N . E. , strong b reezes , • 0 .....-Ss l/d the Medora, Arthur, for Trinidad. the LIVERPOOL, Nov. 22.—Wind N.E.—Ar rived r. - ea Bootle, Tusker, from Trinidad—sailed 20th ult. ; , i ''' e - c : Boness, Savaniila—sailed 10th ult. ; Ann II 411, Q t1 ,7, -- n d i . Thustie, Sampson, ditto ; and Elizabeth, Iv iewfourloSir, Sailed the Mersey, Clarke, for Jamai , : a . ; • Brilliant, J. 5, nett, Barbadoea ; Eugene, Alibeit, Mimic o; Ann -R ochester Nii Car ton, Pollock, Nw Orleans ; Emerald, f3avanilla ;1,4,,,, r oa dhouse , f i e e o , garet Boyle, Smith, ditto ; York ; South America, Bailey, di tto , Mary end B Of Joy, Smyrna ; and Triton,, Arto -el Bab"' of port the Montezuma, from Phi d m " 'and Dever Quebec. a elphia. ; e OPORTM UTII, NOV. 22,—Wind E. N - ..E.-- -Arr l clto' Quebec. ;„ d tb Joana Emeline, Horel, kern Havannab.. Sailed th - post patra, steamer, Sanders, for Bombay ; Cather i ll., e ' ~;,,wirr ditto ; Cross Indian, Blom, Batavia..; and °les.— Pratt, New York. e nil' __ VESSELS SPOKEN wiITII. Hero, London to N-5'16 13 0 land, lat. 43, lou. 32 ; Lady East, LoAclan to g° lllb4 ; le t ' ult., lat. 13, lon. 26 ; Hope, from Rio Jansiiro , 15t- '9" . 15, lon. 28, by the Huskisson, arrived at Li verpool ; . 1; nobia, London to Calcutta, 20th ult., lat. 7' li,, loc.,; er , Boline, 26th, lat 12, lon. 25 ; Thalie, Calcutta to 141130' pool, 4th inst., lat. 27, lon. 29 ; Highlander, Cly de W ived merara, 9th, lat. 39, lon. 25, by the Ge.,,„ Brock, 111r o u, in the river ; Antonio, Speelman, A msfx,r dam to surie_A, 12th ult., lat. 25, lon. 29; Robert Br r ns frors Li verP T;t. 26th, lat. 42, lon. 20; Amelia, :tor', ' Liverpool, 2 81 , h ',„ i p, 44, ion. 16; Hannah, Gregory, 1- t and from Wh i lf, S. the out fifty-one days, in the 'd o f chideur, by It, Zillah, arrived at Gloucester •; Havre ay Havre to Novi Youth lat. 48, lon. 22 ; Martha,' Quebec , to Newcastle' is o l. loss of deck load, 15 th i'list , lat. 4i, lon. 18, by t he iii i bucto, 17th ult., bit. 46, cutta, M`Kemoll, arrived at . Cork , Paulinus, New o f to ‘ Bremen, dism aste d , 12th inst., lat.. 27, lon. 47, „.,11;,,be lango, arrived at P,avre •En nd Livanson, to) ''''" at. rived at Newport; Javars Welv s u en - Rickels, Amete rd 01, r , a IVE to Batavia, 3oth ult., lat. 7 N. ; Versniging , .•° a ti- A msterdam to 'Batavia, 26th ult., Teat. 46, lon. 11; loo'' lumbi T.''lon land b ' y the Silksviortb, so a, Liv er p ool to Newfoundland, 23 i ult., lat. 45 ,: al 44, by the Eliza, Trail, arrived :at Bristol ; RP"' b I W., Liverpool to Bombay, 2oth ult., lat. 8 N., lon. 24 the John, Woodall, arrived at Liveryool. a Oa Viscount Bridport has given. 251. donation , five gui neas a year, to the Dioces an. Board of Educe: : L I CONSERVA TIVE D INNE R.--The annua l 01 7; ner of the Colchester Conberrative Club took Pla c e b/i the Cups Hot e l on T ues d a y l ast , an d was attenaeu about 120 gentlemen of the county. ti o• The report is again prtvalent of her Maj es 0 - intention to have a marine residence at B,r, i nsgatv. „ D I deed, it has been said that a plan and design of a BA - ;; Li t edifice has actually been submitted fr,r approval ; that her Majesty prefers the site of the West ( the (whence she can have a view of die shipping in t he Royal Harbour) to that of the Ei.st Cliff, where marine panorama is not seen. Clifi House and grout S ao, with the contiguous property, are pointed out as eligible spot for the erection, biting sheltered frotv, I ei cold wind ; and they might, 'with little cost or troobt be secluded fret the public gaze.—Kentish Obsory EXTENSIVE FlRE.—This morning, at t o'clock an alarming and destructive fire broke ou t.,!1 die extensive oil and floor cloth manufactory, No. • St. John-street Road, Clerk enwe ll. A grea t nun stet of fire engines sooon arrived, and though there wai of e xcellent supply of water, the combu s tible nature t the goods on the premises was such that the fire IT; no t subdued before five o'clock, and th e w hole . t "; premises (which were of wood) with the stock, I t er-- reduced to ruins. The prop e rty was i n sureei in ,t h Independent West Middl esex Fi re Offi ce . Tb j°e the first loss sustained by this Insurance Company.