The Sun. — London, England, 1839-12-05 00:00:00

EYEN ING EDITION. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THIC MORNING PAPERS OF THlii DAT. (From the Times.) The Palmerston print was ordered last night to get itself out of the scrape it had got into on Monday night. That scrape consisted in its sneering (whether by order of its masters or through its own baseness andignor ance) at a provision of the Constitution which, if violated, would expel the Monarch from the Throne ; calling that provision "perhaps a necessary security when it was passed"—thus intimating that it has grown obsolete—and saying, that " nobody at present looks upon Popery as anything more than a mere watchword, used by the most violent leaders of a faction to impose ! upon the most ignorant of its followers." In rebuking this impudent and iniquitous attack upon the Constitu tion, we called the attention of our readers to the Act of Settlement, 'and to the 9th clause of the Bill of Rights, which, it would seem, we are sorry to say, can not be too frequently brought under the notice of the Ministers and their adherents, and which we therefore re produce here :—" And whereas it hath been found by ex perience that it is inconsistent with the safety and wel fare of this Protestant kingdom to be governed by a Popish Prince, or by any King or Queen marrying a Pa pist, the said Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, Ido further pray that it may be enacted, that all and every person and persons that is, are, or shall be recon ciled to, or shall hold communion with the See or Church of Rome, or shall profess the Popish religion, or shall /marry a Papist, shall be excluded, and be for ever in capable to inherit, possess, or enjoy the Crown and G. o. vernment of this realm, and Ireland, and the dominions thereunto belonging, or any part of the same, or to ha ve, use, or exercise any regal power, authority, orjurisdic tion within the same ; and in all or every such case or cases the people of these realms shall be, and are here by, absolved of their allegiance ; and .the said Crown and Government shall from time to time descend to, and be enjoyed by, suc h p er son or persons, being Pro testants, as should have inherited and en joyed the same, in case the said person or persons so reconciled, holding communion, or professing, or marrying as aforesaid, were naturally dead."—Bill of Rights, clause 9. In this passage we see that Popery, which the " Ministerial print " treats as a mere watchword of modern faction, is held by the Constitution to be something so dangerous to the State, that if the Sovereign profess it, or marry one who does, the people are ipso facto absolved from their allegiance, and the Crown and Government descend to the next in succes sion who is a Protestant. In two ways, each of which is eminently characteristic of the Ministers and their scribes, the Palmerston print endeavours, after 48 hours' meditation, to shelter itself from the indignation, which it has discovered, but too late, that its unconstitutional, false, and flagitious doctrine must provoke from (the Papists excepted) all commonly well-informed and well intentioned persons of whatever party. The first of these ways is the hackneyed one which consists wholly in having recourse to the "enormous lying" machine, and which we therefore pass without further notice. The other, however, includes something besides that, and is deserving of all attention. Assuming that the Ministers had been charged with intending to vio late the Constitution in this particular of the Queen's marriage —which is not true—for the charge was that the Ministerial scribes had made light of such violation, and called Popery a mere watchword ' of modern faction—the Palmerston print proceeds I to give a most remarkable reason why the Mi nisters cannot be charged with any such intention by any man in his senses. And what is this reason ? It lis this,—and we pray our readers to con it well,—that if her present Majesty were to forfeit the crown,—as the print in question admits she would if she were to marry a Papist,—the crown would descend to the King of Hanover, avho would forthwith kick the O'Coneell Cabinet out of office! It is not, therefore, to the inte rest of the Whigs that her Majesty should forfeit the crown, and consequently they cannot be supposed by any body who knows them as well as the Tories know cheat, to be capable of advising her Majesty to any step which would deprive THEM o/ their places and their pay. Was there ever exhibited before brazen impudence and self-proclaimed profligacy like unto this? According to the reason of the Palmerston print, the Constitution is nothing ; the Queen, personally, is to be cared no more for than a cast-off washerwoman ; and the loss of her Majesty's crown is acknowledged to be a matter of no importance whatsoever, except so far as it would carry with it. the loss of the Whig Ministers pay and places ! What next, Cupid ? (From the Morning Chronicle.) We never expected to see the day when the Earl of Liverpool and the Earl of Eldon should be held up as bad Protestants. Yet this is what is implied in the late complaints in the Tory Papers, that all allusion to the Protestantism of Prince Albert was omitted in the Royal Message. When the Earl of Liverpool was Prime Minister, and the Earl of Eldon the Keeper of the Royal Conscience, a number of messages were pre seated to Parliament on the subject of marriages in the Royal Family. The first had reference to the Duke of Cumberland's marriage on 27th June, 1815. In this case the Prince Regent acquaints Parliament, " that a marriage, to which the consent of his Royal Highness was duly given, has been solemnized between his brother, the Duke of Cumberland, and a daughter of the reign ing Duke of Mecklenburg Strelitz, niece to her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and relict of the Prince Sales-Braunfels." Not a word whether the Princess Sales-Braunfels was Protes tant or Catholic, The next case is that of the Princess Charlotte of Wales, on the 14th March 1816. The com munication here is that " the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, having given the Royal consent to a marriage between his daughter, her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte Augusta, and his Serene Highness Leopold George Frederick, Prince of Cobourg of Saalfeld, has thought fit to communicate the same to the House." Not a ward as to the religion of the party, The death of the Prineess Charlotte having put an end to all hopes of direct succession to the Throne, the unmarried brothers of thg Regent were urged to follow the example of the Duke of Cumberland. On the 14th of April, 1818, the Prince Regent thought "it right to inform the House of Commons that treaties of marriage are in negotiation between his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence and the Princess of Saxe Meiningen, eldest daughter of the late reigning Duke of Saxe Meiningen ; and also between his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam bridge and the Princess of Hesse, youngest daughter of the Landgrave Frederick, and niece of the Elector of Hesse." Not a word here about the religion of the Princesses. On the 13th of May, 1818, the Prince Regent acquainted the House of Commons that he had given the Royal consent to a marriage between his Royal Hi g h ness t h e D u k e of K ent and her Serene Highness Mary Louisa Victoria, widow of the late Prince of Leiningen, and sister of the reigning Duke of Saxe Cobourg of Saalfeld, and of his Royal High ness Leopold George Frederick Prince of Cobourg of Saalfeld." No mention here of the religion of the Princess. It will not be pretended that in all these cases, with the exception of that of the Duke of Cumberland, which preceded the death of the Princess Charlotte, succession to the throne was not contemplated. One of the Princesses, the Duchess of Clarence, became Queen Consort, and the daughter of the Duchess of Kent now fills the throne. If the failure to satisfy the nation of the Protestantism of Prince Albert on the Royal marriage be a culpable omission, the same reason applies to all the above cases. No one will pretend that, if the Protestantism of Prince Albert be of material concern to the welfare of the kingdom, the Protestantism of Prince Leopold, the Duchesses of Clarence, Kent, and Cambridge, were of less material concern. It is quite true that it was matter of common notoriety that all these parties were Protestants ; but it is equally matter of common noto riety that Prince Albert is a Protestant. If Popery, therefore, lurk in the omission, in the last Royal mes sage, to specify the religion of the future husband of the Queen, the Earl of Liverpool and the Earl of Eldon were equally chargeable with a design to favour Popery. But we suppose we shall hear no more about the Po pery of Prince Albert : hypocrisy has overshot the stark here. (From the Morning Advertiser.) The great anti-Corn-law inference of Dr. Bowring's late declaration to the Manchester Chamber of Com merce, assumes every day a character of more alarming and urgent importance. It is a mos t no t e - wor thy fact thatd h Dr. Bowring (after a p ro l onge d C ont i nenta l tour, anaving been o ffi cially d e p u t e d b y G overnment to at tend the m eeting of the Prussian Commercial League) istates that there is no unfriendly feeling among the members of that League towards the English, but the contrary. " The C ontinentslists," he says, " waited long, but in vain, for a relaxation of the duties on their corn ; and they formed, only in self-defence, a league, now co m milpr esising of surf 26,0 a ce," 00,000 of p eop l e, and about 5,000 square This l eague cannot readily be broken, it posseses vast power, and it tells us that it must increase the duties on our manufacture, un -1 less we diminish those imposed on their corn. On the other hand, it is willing to meet us, even in a gradual change, if our Legislature will not at once abolish the destructive impost. It is a momentous ' consideration that the mischief, in this case, i s pro _ gressive ; that unless strong remedial measures be adopted, things must become much wors e . W e are arrived, theref o re, a t a gr eat crisis. T h e present is h favourable time for e ff or t s of some ki nd i n t he cause of free trade ; and the deplorable state and prospects of tile manufacturing operatives, ought to urge all who can do anything in this treat and good cause to re eouhle t h e i r exertions. Our foreign cuitomers,dis gusted by the gross selfishness of our Legislature, i are rapidly t a ki ng means to supply their %vents indepen dently of us, and the many thousands whore the foreign trade has hitherto provided with a subsitance have now no prospect before them but lingering sta!va• tion and a premature grave ; while every branch of our complicated interests is deeply suffering from the ope ra:ion of the same dreadful system. We are persuaded that dear bread is one of the chief incentives to crim a and insubordination. Dear bread is under any 10: m an unmitigated evil. It is not, however, so much in O ‘7""e7 their immediate as their remoter effects that the Corn-1 law operates as an incentive to revolution and crime. It is the fearful paroxysms of commercial distress and famine produced by them which constitute their chief atrocity. On commerce the population of our large towns depend for subsistence. The Corn-law; not only shut us out of the wealthiest marts of Europe, by denying us the means of commercial exchange with them, but they subject our home trade to ruinous fluc tuations, by destroying the demand for our products at the very time that its utmost activity is required to supply our wants. Can any commercial man, who re flects upon the state of the country, doubt for one mo ment as to the causes that have produced the present stagnation of trade, and the utter disorganization of every branch of industry ? Is not the cause palpable in the fact, that upwards of twenty millions more money have been paid for bread alone, (luring the past year, than were paid in 1835? The home demand for our manufactures mus have been proportionably lessened ; and if we add another twenty millions as the increased cost of other kinds of agricultural produce, we have a sum equal to forty millions suddenly withdrawn from the internal trade of the country. It is not, how ever, the loss of trade only consequent upon the ab straction of such an immense amount of demand—the glut produced both in the home and foreign market has depreciated British wares below the cost produc tion, and entailed not only a loss of profit, but on many hands an incalculable sacrifice of capital. To make confusion worse confounded under such circum stances, English traders are suddenly compelled to car- Ty their gold to other countries for corn ; thus raising the rate of interest and doubling our difficulties at the very time that our home market is closed against us, and our capital piled up in warehouses groaning beneath the unsaleable products of the hand loom and steam engine. The commercial panic of the past year has been but one of a series of similar shocks that have recurred periodically, with constantly increasing violence, for the last five and twenty years. There is not a single instance on record of commercial panic in connexion with a low price of food. These destructive vitiations of the ba lance of trade are produced only by the impious and ab surd policy that restricts onr population to a limited soil, and a single climate for its food, denying us the full benefit of those advantages which the bounty of Providence has placed at our command, and building up feelings of hostility, hatred, and rivalry between nations who had else, " Like kindred drops, mingled into one." (From the Morning Post.) The new regulations with respect to the postage of letters come into force this day, and great we have no doubt will be the increase of the work at the Post-office this evening. Business correspondence will probably not suffer much alteration, at least at the beginning, for no one would have postponed a business letter until to-day merely on account of getting it conveyed at a cheaper rate. But the first rush of increased private corre spondence will probably be immense. In this vast metropolis there are probably many thousands who have for the last week postponed the letters they would other wise have sent, in order to despatch them on the first day of the cheap postage. Every one almost will be eager for some short time to enjoy epistolary communi cation with distant friends at the small charge of four pence, but before long the fourpenny impulse will lose much of its power. The trouble of writing letters will once more occur to the indol e nt, or those who have some- thing ,else to do, and the floods of business at the Post office will subside. Had the regulations which come into force this day been framed honestly and judiciously, they would have afforded every possible inducement to the public to adjust their correspondence in the mode least onerous to the Post-office clerks, for, whatever the re sult may be by and bye, the immediate result will un doubtedly be a press of business which the c:erks will have great difficulty in getting through. But the real object aimed at in the forming of the new regulations boems to has been an increase of letters greater than hat which mere diminution of postage would occasion. A premium of at least five-and-twenty per cent. is of fensd to every banker, merchant ; broker, attorney, or she pkeeper, who inas , live money or papers to ine'o - re in his letters, to send two or three, where one would serve hit; purpose far better. E.ers one having a letter to send, with enclosures which make it exceed an ounce, wi 'lout exceeding an ounce and a half, will save twenty fiv e per cent. of the postage by sending the enclosures in two or three letters instead of in one ! The new rages arc, that on letters not exceeding half an ounce weight there will be taken one rate of post• age or fourpence. On letters above h a lf an ounce , and not exceeding an ounce, two rates of post age, or eightpence, will be taken. Thus all letters not. exeeding an ounce have the benefit of the first prin ciple, that is fourpence per half ounce weight, and, if the half he not exceeded, only one postage will be t aken. But, presently, " postmasters" are ordered to "bear in mind that after the first ounce, no distinction it; so be made between the ounce and the fraction of an ounce. A letter, for instance, which turns the ounce tvs!ight is liable to four rates of postage, and a letter ws ighing a fraction above two ounces is liable to six rat es of postage, and so on." Thus it will be seen that, im mediately upon passing the ounce, the principle of foe irpence per half ounce is given up. Two half ounces will have to pay but two fourpences, yet three half ounces (if in one letter) will have to pay four fourpences ; n a: r, the minutest fraction above one ounce will have to pay as much as the whole ounce of which it is the mil lute fraction. As soon as you go beyond the ounce, ir.s teed of having your letter conveyed at fourpence p e . r half ounce, with which principle you start, you rr ir iy have to pay eightpence for five grains. N N here is the sense of this ? Can any one believe t hat a regulation bearing inequality and absurdity upon I Lc face of it (unless the multiplication of letters were 'As real object) would have been adopted without some si ich purpose ? Letters not exceeding an ounce are a 'lowed an advantage which is not allowed to letters I ,bove an ounce. In other words, a premium is offered • to the dividing of large letters into small ones, and a consequent burdening of the Post-office with a perfectly needless addition of business, at the very time when every inducement should have been given to a directly contrary course. If the new regulations had adjudged a premium of five and twenty per cent. to such letters as were above an ounce, it might well have been justified on the ground that to make the correspondence as compact as possible was a desirable object when commencing with a new system which was likely very much to increase the business of the Post office clerks ; but what justification there can be of the plan which mulcts the public in proportion as the public endeavours to save the Post-office trouble we cannot conceive. The reason of such a re gulation we believe to be, that a fictitious appearance of increase of correspondence upon the reduction of; postage may be given to the working of the system ; but we are far from considering this a justification. Another of the new regulations is that " all letters • exceeding the weight of an ounce (with the exception of - letters addressed to France) must have the postage I )aid in advance. Should the postage not be paid in a dvance, the letters must be charged with double the r rtes to which they would otherwise be liable." Here it . another inducement, and perhaps a more powerful one t nan that already adverted to, for dividing large letters i ato small, and thus heaping a needless addition of work 'upon the Post Office. The number of letters every evening containing money or papers above an ounce - which the bankers, merchants, and solicitors of London have occasion to send by post must be immense. It is contrary to their rules and habits of business to pay the postage on such letters in advance, and yet they will not like to subject their correspondents to a fine of a hun dred per cent. for not doing so. But the rule only applies• to letters which exceed an ounce. Break the letter into two or three letters, and not only will the five-and-twenty per cent. be caved as already described, but the rule about paying in advance will be completely • evaded. It will no longer apply. The Post-office clerks will be the sufferers, and the correspondence of the country will appear to have wonderfully in creased. But the Post-office clerks will not be the only sufferers. In the transmission of every letter there is undoubtedly some risk, and as undoubtedly ) there is more risk in the transmission of two or 1 three letters than in the transmission of one. The greatest risk is in respect of letters containing en closures, but it is with respect to such letters that the new regulations provide a penalty upon not di viding them. So far as risk is concerned, it is the i nterest of the sender of money or papers to put the e nclosure under one cover, and, as that is for the c onvenience of the Post-office as well, it might hays b een expected that that mode would • be encouraged. I lut neither the interest of the public nor the conve x lience of the Post-office has been consulted. The in- I crease in the number of letters is the one thing thought i . of, and for this, common sense, public convenience, and \ general safety have been sacificed. It were much to be \ , v i shed that the notice issued by the Post-offic e had said suomettling distinct about the future postage on foreign 'totters, and especially letters to France. The notifies / tion is that the single rate of inland postage on all general post letters, transmitted between places in the United Kingdom, will be the uniform rate of four p ence, I I 'xcept in the case of foreign letters transmitted by packet, c ts which the rate of inland postage at present taken n list be continued, although the charge must be calcu li eed in both cases by weight, and not by inclosure. W e 3; qspose this means that there is to be certainly no re d action in the postage upon French letters ; but it would II aye been far better to have said so at once. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER.—Ye.s -\ A erd a y Th omas D a il ey , a sa il or on board the Bella - I . a v.et, sel to th e next t i er , s li ppc d, and fell a height of up wart is of twenty f ee t, i n t o a coa l barge beneath. He was ~!, . .,, k en up i n a state o f i nsens ibili ty, an d remav A to the LCndo n Hospital, where he died in a few minutes after hi% at :mission. ruld An n , co lli er vesse l, w hil s t cross i ng a plank from his N'AGRO \ ll IT.—A clergyman once undertook ) to •convi..‘rt a n e cro, who was all but incorri:zible. As ian argWilentzon a, I hominent, he told Cuffy that the / vir ! ked did not liva half their days. " Dat dare is (Jo ~ , er," said Cuffy ; 4‘1,,tal no lib him d a y, h a h. W c ll, Lif n I s'pose him die,uou.t leben o'clo c k f orenoon I" THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1839. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. (From the Essex Herald.) At a meeting of the Magistrates at the Shire Hall, on Friday, the informations laid by Mr. Stoneham, the Inspector of Weights for the Chelmsford district, were proceeded with. T. W. Bramston, Esq. took the chair, and there were present J. J. Tufnell, J. R. S. Phillips, and R. C. Haselfoot, Esqrs., and the Revs. B. H. Bridges and J. Bramston. Win. Wilson, baker, of Little Beddow, was charged with having a 21b. weight, deficient a quarter of an ounce, a lb. one drachm, and both were unstamped. The defendant said he did not use them ; but the Inspector stated he found them in the bake-house. Ti'e Chairman told him the offence was having them in his possession ; he was liable to a penalty of 5/. for having them in his possession,' and 51. for their being unstamped. He was lined 10s. for each offence, with 12s. costs. Augustus Ager, of Danbury, grocer, had a 1 lb. de ficient one drachm, and two 4 lbs. deficient two drachms each.—Fined 15s. and costs. William Dodd, of Danbury, dealer in pork, had 2 lbs. deficient two drachms, 1 lb. two drachms, lb. one drachm, 4 lb. one drachm and a half, and three of these were unstamped. It appeared the wife had been in the habit of cleaning some of them, which might have lightened them, and she said two or three years ago she sent them to be stamped, but the inspector could not do them, as they were iron. He was fined 11. for one offence, and 15s. for the other, with 12s. costs. John Stubbing, of Boreham, dealer in pork, had a klb. four drachms deficient, two others one drachm each, Vb. three drachms, and a two-ounce half a drachm, all unstamped. Defendant said he had lately bought them of another shopkeeper, and thought they were all right. Fined fi. for the deficiency in the weights, and 11. for being unstamped, with costs. Robert Marsh, of Boreham, had several weights deficient, and a pair of scales with a false balance. The defendant's wife appeared, and said they did not keep a shop—they had nothing to sell ; the scales and weights were brought to her house some time since, a person in the neighbourhood having on one occasion asked her to sell part of a pig for him. The Bench not considering her in the light of a ge neral shopkeeper, mitigated the penalty to 2s. 6d.— costs, 12s. Erancis Harrington, baker, of Great Bad dow, had a pair of improper scales. Defendant said he never used them, as he had two pair of very good scales. Mr. Lareher said he valued everything to defendant when he took the business, and he then said he should not have these scales, as they were of no use, and witness threw them aside amongst other rubbish, where they had since lain ; he had been in the shop hundreds of times and never saw them used. The Chairman said it appeared he had not used them, but they must enforce the law for having them in his possession ; they, however, mitigated the penalty to 2s. 6d. and costs. Hardy, of Broomfield, a grocer, had a 7lbs. weight four drachms deficient, a l4lbs. a quarter of an ounce, and both unstamped. Defendant said he sent them some time ago to be stamped, but was obliged to have them back again before they could be done ; he always thought them very good. He was fined 1/. for each offence and costs. William Wilkinson, of Great Leighs, shopkeeper, had a peck measure a quarter of a pint deficient, and a quarter of a peck which was deficient. He said he only used them to feed his own pigs with, but it was stated they were fouad in the same room with the other measures. Fined ten shillings for each offence, and thirteen shillings costs. John Francis, of Great Leighs, butcher, had a 4 lbs. weight two drachm:, deficient, and six pieces of lead used as weights, some of them being a quarter of an deficitait in 2 lbs. He said he found some of them on his premises, but did not use them, except the small ones, as he had a pair of steelyards. He was fined 1/. for the deficiency and U. for their being unstamped, with costs. John Milbank, beer-shopkeeper, at Little Waltham, was charged with having several weights deficient and unstamped ; he satisfactorily proved that they belonged to a person who had occupied his shop, and that no business requiring weights was now carried on there, and the information was dismissed. Wm. French, of Great Waltham, glazier, had a 71bs. weight six ounces deficient, and two pieces of lead used as weights, one being too light, and a 4lbs. an ounce and a quarter too heavy, being unstamped. Defendant, said the piece they called a 41bs. weight was cast as " a dummy" for a pin -cushion, and was only used for bruising rosin. He was fined 1/. for each offence, and costs. Mary Saltwell, of Roswell, general shopkeeper, had a pair of flour scales, that in which the flour was put being a quarter of a pound heavier than the other. Defendant said the Inspectors appointed for the Manor of Writtle came to the shop and examined her weights, and said they were right, and she gave them Is. as the others did ; she did not think they looked at these scales ; they came oftener than once a year. She had lost her son, who assisted to manage the bu siness within the last eight months. The Court fined her 11. and costs. William Duffield, grocer, of Great Baddow, had a 1 lb. one drachm deficient, and a lb. half a drachm. It appeared that Mr. Duffield had sent his weights to the Inspector to be adjusted and stamped, but had not been able to get them done, and having compared these weights with those of another shop-keeper, which had been tested, he thought ho might venture to use them till he could get his regular weights back again, In consequence of these circumstances the Bench miti gated the penalty to ss. Samuel Rernmington, of High Ongar, shop-keeper, had 11 weights deficient, one of them 9 drachms, and several two drachms. He was fined 2/. and costs. John Simmonds, of Little Baddow, corn-dealer, had several weights used for the sale of poll( deficient, and one a quarter of an ounce too heavy. He was fined 1/. and costs. 96, CHEAPSIDE, AND 39, ALBEMARLE-STREET, PICCADILLY. DEAFNESS AND DEFECTIVE VISION.—At length those dreadful maladies are completely obviated, without torture and serious risk by medical treatment. The Messrs. S. and B. Summons, Opticians and Aurists to their Majesties the King and Queen of Hanover, and their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Augusta and Sophia, &c. &c., have constructed a Voice Conductor, and newly invented Spectacle Lenses, which will be found in most extreme cases to effect instant relief. It is seldom or ever that an invention of striking merit is laid before the pub lic that ignorant pretenders do not start forth. In no case is this more observable than in Ireland, as well as England, by!persons who not only assume the name of Solomons, but actually as having a connexion with their house. Numerous ladies and gentlemen are daily calling who have been misled by these pretenders, and who have made purchases of their spurious imitations, which they term Voice-Conductors and Spectacles, supposing them to be the Messrs. Solomons' invention, which not only proved to be useless, but pro ductive of very ill effects. The Messrs. Solomons do not employ any agents or travellers. Their improvements in the materials are secret to themselves, and are solely con ined to their establishments, 39, Albemarle.street, and 96, Cheapside. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—On Tuesday even ing an inquest was held before Mr. Payne, at St. Bartholemew's Hospital, on the body of George Simon, aged 37, whose death was occasioned in the following manner :—Thomas Barnes, city police constable, 96, stated that about five o'clock on the afternoon of Thurs day last, he was on duty on Blackfriars-bridge, when a person told him that a man, pointing out deceased, had been attempting to throw himself off into the river. Witness was in the act of crossing over to the western side of the bridge, where the deceased was standing, when the deceased observing him pitched himself over the wooden temporary railing under the wheel of a light cart which was passing at the moment, and which went over his head. He was pick e d u p an d b roug ht t o th e hospital. On his way the d ecease d s p o k e i nco h eren tl y , and continued exclaimin g , " pray k eep th em o ff my chest—give me 3s. 6d., and I shall be all right." By the Coroner—The deceased did not fall under the wheel of the cart by accident, but precipitated him self over the rail purposely. Two of the deceased's brothers stated that he was a printer by trade, and was a married man, and they felt convinced that he was at times deranged by ardent spirit drinking, consequent on the ill-usage he had received from his wife, who, a week before this occurrence, had eloped with a butcher, and the effects of the brain fever with which he was attacked about four months since. As a proof that the deceased had meditated suicide, a paper was produced by the police constable, which had been found in the King Arms, at the foot of Blackfriars bridge, bearing the signature, " George Simon, 24, Lambeth-street (the address of his brothers), where I shall be owned." The Surgeon to the hospital stated that the deceased was brought in with a superficial cut on the face and on the upper lip. He complained of pains of his head, and from the redness of his eyes there were symptoms of inflammation of the brain. Delirium tremens ensued, and he died at half-past twelve o'clock on Monday. He made a post mortem examination, and found extensive inflammation which had caused death ; but it might or might not have resulted from the injury. Verdict, "Died from the inflammation of he brain." SouTH CHESHIRE.—The Tories are trying to persuade Mr. Toll ‘mac h e t h at at t h e ne xt election they can put him in th e place now occup;ed by Mr. G. Wilbraham, whose votes they pronounce " revolu tionary." A requisition to Mr. Tollemache has been got up- The Antwerp papers report the Great Belgian after it vv,is opened many persons travelled out of curio losing c on cern. Soon Railway to ha ve turned o ut a very pity ; but since the fares have been raised the traffic ha diminished so much as to leave all excess of charges ove the receipts. CHARACTER OF M. SAUZET. (From Timon's Etudes sur les Orateurs.) An orator does not show a mere side-face like an author, but a full front. He arranges his dra pery, gesticulates, begins his oration on a stage, and before an audience, who examine him from head to foot, like an actor. Of an author we re quire nothing but his thoughts ; of an orator we require figure also. The bodily frame of M. Sauzet is rather effemi nate and negligee, and he is neither muscular not well-knit. His complexion is pale, and he has but little colour. His forehead is wide, and his ele vated eyes speak nothing but sweetness. He seems a mixture of man and woman. When he appeared in the Chamber a smile strayed upon his lips ; and, whether his affability was natural or got up, lie wished to please every body, and the Ministers above all. With his looks he caressed, one after another, the gloomy figures on that bank of grief, where he was impatient to sit, and annoyed that he did not sit there already. M. Sauzet has what may be called good means —namely, a sonorous organ, an open countenance, a vast memory, a quick understanding, and a fluent delivery. His voice is full, and envelopes his whole audi tory, though there are some chords that do not tell, and his cadences always fall fatigued with his periods. M. Sauzet is mild, polished, affable, and mode rate. He tries to engage the goodwill of others. and communicate to them his own. In his figure, his sentiments, and his language, there is something frank and engaging, which charms and attracts. With more ideas, more positive matter, he has nearly all the lively flowers and the " cadenced" mo dulations of another orator, the demi-god of poesy. He is, in fact, M. de Lamartine made into a man. The principal agent of his eloquence is his me mory. When he was ten years old, he recited word for word a chapter of Telemachus, which he had read but once. While he is speaking, he can suppress whole pas sages of a speech, and supply their place by new bits, which he can fit into the same texture as neatly as if he did it with pins. His mind is naturally sharpened to a point, and puns are so familiar to him in conversation, that when he speaks at the tribune, he has to drive them away like a troublesome fly which buzzes in one's ear. M. Sauzet is a type of a provincial orator. His balloon-like discourse gives plenty of wind, and is rather inflated than full, flattering the ear while it does not touch the soul. It might be said that M. Sauzet has been spoiled by frequenting the Court of Assizes. He lavishes by handsful brilliant flowers of language, vibra tions of harmony, swelling epithets, college meta phors, and worn out rhetoric, which has no longer title or value in trade or in eloquence. We do not blame M. Sauzet for having recourse to these vulgar means to save innocent people. The spectacle of a weeping wife who embraces the altars of justice and of mercy, the piercing cries of remorse, the fine heads of young men which fall under the knife, like lilies of the spring cut down by the ploughshare; broken sighs, complaints, sup plications; the touching images of a young family which demands its father, and, if he perish, will perish too ; or of an old man crowned with white locks, who throws himself on his knees to expiate the involuntary crime of a mistaken son—all this has its foundation in nature, and has told very well in its time ; and moreover still has weight with Juries and novices, who are easily moved, who, though unfamiliar with eloquence, are sensible to its charms, and the moving scenes of its dramas. But the dishes of oratory must not be served to the Deputies, who are surfeited with intellectual delicacies, and whose stomach is palled unless the seasoning is new and piquant M. Sauzet is not a decided Legitimatist, Tiers Parti, Dynastic, nor Republican, but something of all these in turn. He sat by M. Berryer, would march willingly with M. Dupin, would support Odillon Barrot's Ministry, and not completely turn his back on M. Gamier Pages. He has one of those good, happy, and pliant dispositions which Heaven in its treasures of mercy, reserved for the devouring experiments of our beloved Monarch. It is said that M. Sauzet has no principles ; but, prithee, where is the pleading advocate that has ? After working for true and false for 20 years of one's life, and being solely occupied in stitching up the holes in clients' cloaks that their fraud and ma lice may not peep through, it is difficult, nay, im possible, to retain very fixed principles. M. Sauzet cannot write ; his style is that of a rhetorician, inflated and weak. His logic is not strict, and does not fit consequences to premises. When M. Sauzet clasped the statutes of justice with supplicating arms —when he struck his breast and talked of what he owed to his cradle and the claims of his native country—when he invoked the shades of his ancestors, and exhibited to the Cham ber the still smoking ruins of Lyons, who would have guessed that he was merely pleading for some broken windows ! It is a false and dry sensibility that warms up and laments for bits of wall, and garrets shattered by bullets, and remains cold at the slaughter of aged men and weak women. He was very anxious to roof a cracked building, when the people were crying for hunger, and one was asking for a father, and another for a husband. The orators who dart into the course, with reins loose, the flashes of a solemn voice, the crowding of accentuated tropes, the abundant diction which carries along light and shade—all these have their due effect on the provincials, who are persons of little taste. Even persons of esprit, academicians and courtiers, are sometimes to be taken. When M. Sauzet, after his brilliant debut, descended from the tribune, panting and with his mane hanging like that of a courser which has just left the Hippo drome, the good and naif M. Laborde said, " Room, gentlemen I make way for the greatest orator in the Chamber, who is going to change his shirt." Whether it be a natural tendency, or the result of imitation, or even of calculation, M. Sauzet is of the school of M. de Martignac. Less tempe rate, less graceful, less elegant, less clever than his master, he is more copious, more vehement, more pathetic, and more highly coloured. Like M. de Martignac, he parries with address and evades the blow of the lance. He is not easily thrown from his saddle, and rather slips to the ground than falls. Like M. de Martignac, lie is an adorer of those representative forms, and that dreaming and meta physical constitutionalism, which is called the ba lanced government of the three powers. With what profound science, with what judg ment, with what skilful reasoning did he conduct the debate on the law of the mines I Pompous as his words are when he begins, they are simple and elegant when he discusses. He does not forget a single grave objection, and replies on the instant. He is never afraid of falling, because he always knows where to set his foot. He does not allow himself to be betrayed into injurious personalities —does not substitute epigrams for arguments, nor hypotheses for the realities of the question. He preserves his firmness and his presence of mind, and his course is always progressive, logical, and firm. M. Sauzet may console himself for his oratorical downfalls, for he can be, if he will, the first busi ness orator in the Chamber—and what is higher than that ? • I am not surprised that his superiority was so marked when he presided over the Council of State. He should have been left at the head of that great administrativ e body, for there was his place—there he was in a fine position. I do not think that since M. de Martignac I ever heard a more eloquent or a more intelligent reporter (rapporteur), and M. Sauzet owes this advantage to the union of the three qualities that constitute eminent reporters—namely , perspicuity, memory, and moderation. His moderation ! And since I wrote the above lines M. Sauzet has been the reporter of the laws of September. His mo dera tion ! And, alas for m e , who once said before the framing of these said laws, " No, we refuse to believe it— we will not believe it. M. Sauzet was not made to abjure his whole life and to baffle our hopes, to falsify the generous impulses of his disposition, to pollute himself by a contact with the Ministers, to spoil, to destroy in the trade of sophism the pure and brilliant inspirations of his youth and talents." Vain words M. Sauzet could not keep on the bank, but slipped into the torrent, and was caught up by the waves of the Doctrinaires, which after wards cast him off like their foam. M Sauzet did not know how to give the amnesty in good time, and this was one of the greatest blun ders ever committed. Fallen as a Minister h° I wished to rise as an orator, and was unfortunate enough to speak after the head of the Cabinet on the Spanish war. Who cared for the opinion of M. Sau zet, a Minister of Justice, on the Spanish war, and who asked for it ? He did nothing but sift anew some common-places, double M. Pelet, lengthen M. Passy, and discolour M. Thiers. When he got through his rosary head by head, the whole Chamber began to yawn, and they shouted from all sides—" When will you have done ? Leave off your paternosters, and let us have our dinner I" You will see that he who might be one of the best tenors of the company will be sent to the chorus, and that instead of having a value of his own, and signifying something, M. Sauzet will soon be no more than a second-rate piece of utility, only fit, at most, to make a Keeper of the Seals. Where is M. Sauzet sitting now ? On what benches ? With whom ? What are his doctrines ? Who are his friends ? What does he follow or conduct ? Has he a beginning or a character ? Beginning by demanding the amnesty, and end ing by voting for the confiscation of the press and the outrageous transportations of Salazie, what a commencement, and what a downfall I Who will remember that M. Sauzet has been a Minister ; and, after all, what is a Minister ?—a Minister of the suite, a botcher of the Cabinet, a servant of a Camarilla, a beadle of a sacristy, and everybody's friend, without system, and without a will of his own ? Who, on the other hand, will not recollect that M. Sauzet was the reporter of the laws of September—a cruel and blighting remem brance, which should poison the rest of his life ? The Doctrinnaires, now he has played his part, have turned their backs upon him and left him in the lurch. They shrug their shoulders, as they go to the foot of the tribune, while he beats the big drum, and, to show their pity, do not even honour him with their insolent murmurs. Make terror a profit to these gentlemen ? Deliver yourself up to these demons, sell them your body and soul Is M. Sauzet sufficiently punished ? There he is in a corner, the poor forgotten king of a stage, who twists his arms and his face, and who struts on a booth in his fine purple robe, without money, and without even an audience. BERLIOZ'S NEW DRAMATIC SYM- PHONY. An extraordinary degree of excitement has been produced in the Parisian musical world by the per , formance of a colossal work, which may be said to be of a new species in music. For though it re sembles, in some measure, the great smphonies of Beethoven, yet Berlioz has gone further than even Beethoven in rendering an instrumental orchestra the organ of descriptive and poetical language. On the 24th ult., "Romeo and Juliet, a dra matic symphony, with choruses, vocal solos, and prologue in harmonic recitative, founded on the tra gedy of Shakspeare," was performed in the concert room of the Conservatoire by a hundred instruments and a hundred voices. The impression produced on a crowded audience was immense, and the Paris journals have been vieing with each other in giving elaborate criticisms and descriptions of this extra ordinary production—all of them agreeing, however, in pronouncing it a work of astonishing power and genius. In order to obviate the objection to descriptive music, derived from its vagueness, Berlioz intro duces his symphony by a prologue, consisting of a chorus in what he calls " harmonic recitative," be cause it is written in three or four parts, which re cites the argument of the poem, and serves as a key to the instrumental movements which follow. The effect of this is described as very impressive ; the • more so as the words of this recitation, notwith standing the number of voices, were so well articu lated as to be perfectly understood. The subject of the first instrumental movement is the mutual ha tred of the Capulets and the Montagues. It opens with a rapid and energetic fugue, which rises to a climax of tumult and confusion ; there is . a sudden pause ; the grave and majestic notes of the trom bones announce the appearance of the Prince, and the instrumental storm gradually subsides into a calm. The fete given by old Capulet, with the first meeting of the lovers, is represented by the andante and allegro, in which a delicious strain, breathing tenderness and passion, is blended with the gay and brilliant music of the ball. The festivi ties seem to draw to a close ; the sounds wax faint ; but 'still the love-breathing strain is heard, mingled with snatches of the joyous airs which the youthful guests are singing to themselves as they depart. This scene (as it may be called) was received with three rounds of applause, and acclamations of de light. Then there is the scherzo, embodying Mgr cutio's description of Queen Mab ; and the move ment is described as most fantastic and singular, but at the same time exquisitely delicate and charm ing. This concludes the first part of the symphony, or (in other words) the first act of this new species of musical drama. The second part, like the first, is opened by a prologue. It is shotter and less varied than the first part. It consists of Juliet's burial, expressed by a fugued funeral march ; the tragic scene at the tomb of Juliet, and tke concluding chorus of the whole voices and instruments representing the re conciliation, at the exhortation of Friar Lawrence, of the hostile families, over the lifeless remains of the lovers. This finale is described as being full of power and grandeur. Such is this gigantic work, which will probably form an era in the history of music. Berlioz ap pears to have made good the opinion of Paganini, who accompanied his princely gift of twenty thou. sand francs to the young composer, with the deck ration that, since the death of Beethoven, it was on Berlioz alone that his mantle had descended. It is a striking circumstance that Berlioz,though struggling with adversity when he received that gift, has made use of the greatest part of it in defraying the enormous expence of bringing out this work, and paying the host of vocal and instrumental per formers employed in it. Till now, the merits of Berlioz have not been acknowledged ; his efforts have been chilled by neglect, and thwarted by hos tility. His faults have been mercilessly magnified, and his talents either wholly denied, or coldly and partially admitted. But the full tide of success ap pears now to have swept away all impediments in his road to greatness. " The terrible game," says Jules Janin, in the Journal des De6ats, ,, which Berlioz has had to play, is won. Those who abandoned him, betrayed him, treated his opera with contempt—those who neither understood him nor felt for him—the great singer who was not manly enough to support him, and left him by the way side--•-what will they say now ? All that they can say is, ' I bite my thumb,' like the Capulets to the Montagues." _ _ The London public as yet know nothing of Berlioz ; and for this (we repeat what we have long ago said) our professional body are greatly to blame. The Philharmonic Society, especially, oHght long ere now to have performed one of his great works with all the care of which they are capable. Berlioz may perhaps not deserve his re putation, but he has gained it and it is the duty of such an establishment as the Philharmonic So ciety to enable the public on this point to judge for themselves. The Parisians, moreover, are excel lent judges and their judgment, so emphatically given, on this occasion, creates a presumption al most amounting to a proo of the transcendent merit at all events, of his latest work. Of his former compositions we have heard but little ; but that little has been sufficient to impress us with a high idea of his genius. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.—In conse quence of the success of the first performance of Solo mon in Exeter Hall, it will he repeated to-morrow (Friday) evening. The many fine double ehorusses with which this Oratorio abounds, render it peculiarly adapted for displaying the resources of this Society. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, DEC. 2.—Tlae flannel market has been in a very de pressed state to-day, and many who have sold have been obliged to take lower prices. Work begins to be more scarce ; and, if there is not a speedy change in the market, manly hands in the woollen business will be shortly unemployed. The wool market has also been dull and heavy, and prices rather tending downwards. HUDDER.6FIELD MARKET, DEC. 3.—This market was rather more buoyant than of late, there being some buyers who purchased low plain and fancy woollens pretty extensively, but at very unsatisfactory prices. The inquiry after wools is greater than for some weeks past, but we do not hear of any advance in price. Light fancy goods, and superfine woollens, are little in demand. On the whole, considering the season, and the state of the money market, there is not much cause for degpondency. The beginning of a new year is expected to usher in more favourable auspices. Busi ness in the warehouses is rather better, and the shop. keepers are in higher spirits. LAW INTELLIGENCE. .-~ -- COURT OF EXCHEQUER, DEc. 4 . (Sittings at Nisi Prins, before Lord ABINGER and a Special Jury.) DAVIES V. BROWN. At the sitting of the Court this morning, Mr. ERLE addressed the Jury for the defendant in a very able and animated speech. He had no doubt he had the honour of addressing gentlemen who had had some experience in Courts of Justice ; if so, he would ask them whether they had ever seen a more shameless proceeding than the action then before them, or attempted to be supported by more unblushing and unscrupulous means, he would fearlessly ask them if, in all their experience, they had ever seen a' case of greater fraud supported by a greater crime. He would not for a moment attempt to cast the slightest reflection upon the evidence given by the respectable tradesmen whom the Jury had seen in the box ; there was no ques tion of the character of the plaintiff, but there was just as little doubt that they had been made his dupes. He began first in a small way, kept up his payments until he got into good credit, and then when it was conve nient for his purposes they became his dupes. There was no donbt he had got their goods, but would the Jury for a moment believe that they were disposed of in a fair and regular mercantile way ? Who had ever heard of Mr. Morris as a fur merchant, or as a potatoe dealer, or as an importer of butter? Did they not rather believe that all the goods of these unfortunate gentlemen found their way into the hands of a gang who were very unscrupulous as to the manner of disposing of them, they never having the slightest intention of paying for them. After severely dissecting the evidence, especially that given by Tomlinson, the brother-in-law of the plaintiff and Le Grange, he said the case presented to the Jury was so tinged with fraud, that he anticipated the Jury would be of opinion that the arrest was collusive—that the whole was a plan got up for the purpose of defraud ing the Warden by a gross conspiracy, and that they would at once find for his client. Lord ABINGER summed up in favour of the de fendant, being of opinion that the whole had been a plan concocted fraudulently for the purpose of fixing the Warden. The Jury immediately found a verdict for the de fendent. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Dsc. 4. (Sittings at Nisi Prius before Mr. Justice Ensums.) HOULTON V. GODING. This was an action brought to recover damages for loss sustained by the plaintiff of the services of a young woman, his sister-in-law, through an accident of the following nature :—She was passing up Wych-street at the time one of the Messrs. Goding's (the well known brewers) drays was passing ; and by a collision with a coal waggon, the dray was jerked on the pave ment, and the poor girl being knocked down, the heavy wheel went over her ancle, and crushed her foot so dreadfully, that immediate amputation was necessary, and she was in the hospital for three months. Appli cation had been made to the defendants for some com pensation, but they referred plaintiff to their attorney. Mr. Sergeant ANDIEWS and Mr. PETERSDORFF were for the plaintiff ; Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD and Mr. TOMLINSON for the defendants. The plaintiff's witnesses spoke to the negligence of the draymeu. They, on the other hand, swore posi tively, of course, that " it was not their fault." The Learned JUDGE told the Jury that they must only now consider the damage the plaintiff had sus tained by the loss of the girl's services for a few months, and not the personal suffering of the girl, for which she could hereafter bring a separate action. The Jury found for the plaintiff.—Damages, 101. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. FRUITS OF DRUNKENNESS.—W m. Willey was yester day placed at the bar, remanded from Tuesday, charged with assaultimg Mr. Stephen Lacy. On Monday night Mr. Lacy was passing along Smithfield, when the prisoner came up to him and knocked him down without any provocation, and on his getting up prisoner knocked him down a second time. The prisoner was intoxicated. The prisoner in his defence said he had stumbled against defendant by accident, and he had been remanded to produce witnesses to his character. Yesterday, however, the witnesses were not forthcom ing, although he had written to them. The prisoner stated that he was a coaehmaker, and had been out of employment for two months,_. during which time he had received 15s. a-week from his society, and that he had just procured employment, which he should lose if he were detained longer. Mr. Alderman JOHNSON said that he must remand him until to-day, to produce those witnesses, and, in the meantime directed inquiries to be made of his master, and of the secretary of the society. HATTON.GARDEN. John Teesdale, landlord of the Grapes, public-house, Albemarle-street, Clerkenwell, appeared to a sum mons to answer the complaint of Sergeant Stanner, of G division, for having kept his house open for the sale of liquors beyond the hour prescribed by law. The evidence went to prove that at half-past twelve o'clock, on Sunday morning last, the officers entered the defendant's parlour, and found a few respectable per sons sitting down, finishing their pipes of tobacco and what they had been served with, and when the police entered the defendant ordered his customers out. The prisoner admitted that there were persons in the parlour at the time, but they were merely talking over some business, and had nothing before them but the remains of what they called for before the hour of 12 o'clock. He had suggested the necessity of their leaving before the police entered, and they were about to depart. He assured the Bench that they were highly respectable tradesmen, and he appealed to the officers as to whether his house was not as respectably conducted as any in the neighbourhood. Waddington and other officers bore testimony as to the regular conduct of the house, which was visited by respectable tradesmen, &c. The defendant was informed that he bad no right to keep his house open after 12 o'clock, and he was con victed in the penalty of 30s. and costs, which he reluc tantly paid. At the outside of the Court several licensed victuallers questioned the right of being inter fered with for keeping open after 12 o'clock, if they closed at one ; and expressed their determination to have the opinion of Counsel as to whether it was Sun day morning before one o'clock, as the Act of Parlia ment specified that the house should not be kept open on Sundays before the hour of one in the afternoon, &c. MRS. TROLLOPE'S MICHAEL ARMSTRONG —We are glad to find that Mr. Colburn has come to the determination of publishing forthwith a complete edi tion of this most interesting work without waiting for its termination in the ordinary course of monthly num bers, which will continue to appear as usual. The com plete edition will form three volumes of the post Bvo. size, adapted for libraries, and will contain all the illus trations by Hervieu, Buss, Onwhyn, &c. The price of the three volumes will be 255. bound. DUNFERMLINE.—In consequence of the late alarming news from America respecting the state o f the money market there, and the want of confidence throughout the commercial classes of the States, a con siderable dampness and depression has been thrown on a particular branch of the table linen trade of Dunferm line. This branch of the trade consists of what is called whitey-browns and coloured damasks, partly linen and cotton, for day table covers, bed quilts, window hang. ings, bed curtains, &c. About twenty-eight years ago, this kind of damask was begun here. The first consists of the first-rate patterns usually woven on the finest table linen, transferred to cloths of the coarsest yarn, and of a narrow breadth, suited to country use and the under classes of society. The warp of this fabric is bleached, and the well is of the natu ral colour ; hence the cloth is called whitey brown. The coloured damasks are of all colours in the weft ; and the patterns of figures are displayed most distinctl y to the eye, and are truly picturesque. These two kinds of cloth, from a small beginning, have from year to year increased rapidly in popular favour, so that a very great proportion of the looms here weave nothing else. Now, these kinds of goods were, for by far the greater part, sent to America, and by merchants, hawkers, and other wise, distributed all over the American States. But the panic has taken place, a want of confidence hes r: be-en sued, and our manufa c t urers are a l arm ed, n ginning to pay off th e i r operat i ves in these bran ches o ie f the trade. This will b e severe ly felt here dur in g the winter.—Scotsman. RAILWAY. —TheGLASGOW, prospects of t s h L e E Y dom A p N a D AY ny R a re of the most passengers carried i n a I p m r e ov a e l d rea b d e y fo o re pened, cheering kind. The number of . g is iv m en ore tim th e an up s o ix n ttihmeespotrhteionnuomf btheer Par liament during the p rogres s of the Company' s Bill through the House of very best ground s for Commons;andwhenitisborne ''n mind that there are thebelieving that the whole undertaking will be completed within the estimate's., we think it will be admitted that few spaculations of tha kind promise to b e mote remunera tive to the enterprising promoters.—Railway IMPORTANT TO BAKERS. —On Friday Richard Sharman, baker, of Exeter, was brought before the Magistrates of that town, charged with having sent out bread for sale which proved to be of light weight, and for further sending out such bread without sending beam and scales to weigh it, which the 7th section of the Act of Parliament imperatively requires, under a penalty of .5/. for neglecting to do so. The case was fully made out ; but the Magistrates, taking into con sideration that it was his first offence, mitigated the penalty to 505., to be paid in a fortnight. One-half of the penalty goes to the informer, and the other to the county rate. ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF SHIPPING. —Yesterday morning the Pool presented a very ani mated appearance, by the arrival and departure of ark immense quantity of merchantmen that had been de tained in the river on account of the dense fogs. ETENING EDITION. THE WEATHER-CORN, AND OTHER CR,..)1'6. The weather in London, for the last four or five days, has been foggy. Yesterday there was less fog, the air was frosty, and the sun shone out with unwonted brilliancy. FIRST SNOW.—Winter bestowed upon us his first fruits, in a fall of snow during the night of Wednesday, and on Thursday morning the ground and trees were completely whitened ; but the snow dissolved in the course of the day.—Lincoln Gazette. The weather for the last two or three days has been extremely foggy, so much so that in many parts of the town the gas has had to be kept burning in the shops, there not being sufficient daylight for the ordinary pur poses of business.—Tuesday's Tyne Pilot. No ice in Largs, the Montpelier of Scotland, until Wednesday morning last, the thermometer during the night havin g been as low as 30 deg. Although n one of the ponds approached the bearing point, the c urlers were not to be cheated out of their sport, and accord ingly mustered in considerable force on the artificial rink, furnished to them by the liberality of that well known and enthusiastic veteran curler, J. Cairnie, Esq. They enjoyed a day's excellent curling, and continued their amusement on the following day, until the snow interrupted the game.—Glasgow Chronicle. (From the Dumfries Courier of Tuesday.) A sharp frost, preceded by snow showers, set in °I I Wednesday, the 27 in ult. ; and again the country, after a respite of not a few months, wore the livery of winte r. It is painful to see it s t a t e d th a t three-fourths or the corn crops are still, or were v er y re cently egposed , in a portion of P e rthshire, about t we l ve miles long by f rom two to four in bre a dth, w hi c h t a k es th e name of Strath band. Stooks subjected to su c h lengthened batt ering ' can be of little use on th e b arn floor, and we could have hardly conceived su c h a thi ng p oss ible in the wildest portion of broad Scotl an d. Th e potato crop, fortu nately, had proved very a b un d an t— o f it s elf a greatcom fort ; and a seccnd one, th e h um idity which, how disastrous in other respects, e n a bl es cattle to fend with out fodder. About 4,000 bolls of pot a t oe s have already been, shipped from Fifeshire to Newcastle, and other parts of. England at 6s. 6d. The boll contains 4 cwt., w hich makes the price merely a s h a d e hi g her than the r ates current in Dumfriesshire and G a ll owa y. But an opi nion prevails, that so nec e s sar y an art i c l e w ill m ount as the of season advances, and th a t not so muc h f rom shortness , yield, as the extent to whi c h it e nt ers i n t o the food off cattle. Even in the provincial markets prime b ee brings 7d. per lb. ; stock too has become scarce from neglect of breeding and the extra attention Pa id to sheep, and we know many butchers who would at be their wits end were it not for the steamers that bring them bullocks from Liverpool. Since the above was written the frost has returned ; but it is moderate as yet, and where not over-keen is t he best weather we can have in December. Yesterday °T ea : ing, what is called a Noah's Ark appeared in the sky,. m e certain sign, according to the weather-wise, that .te_. frost will either pass away in twenty-four hours or Is" from eight to ten days. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAG PRICES — OF BRITISH CO rt , r4 ,, i 's a For the Week ended Nov. 29, 1539, made up from the Re i t t .' - a - a utl the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Eng' a— Wales, per Imperial Quarter. 53. la Wheat 67s. hi. I Oats Barley 431. lid. I Rye IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF I THE , li WEP PRECEDING. 455. "' Wheat ...... ... 675. sd. I Oats Barley 4ls led. I Rye ... 37s Pd. I Pease ......... 404 DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. . 2 4 . 0.1 Wheat llss Sc!. Oats 2s. ogr I Barley THE MARKETS• COAL rri ... s, di e. l d. alls , ‘ ‘N v:" EndEEEno da d B L H H :e a r I s t t 'c u vl o Ye t i 1 1 0 1 I n ' .. e .. . t . .. t n •. 216 Walls End Pembert on ..... Walls End Russell's Hetton 24 6 Walls End Stewart ' s . 3 Walls Whitwell 0 3 6 Walls End Hartlepool .......• End Walls End South Durham 22 a" Walls End Tees Walls End Tees Hetton . 111 Howard's Netherton Main 19 last market -day. 1. rIARKET. Chester Carr's Hartley 2O 6 Holywell Main 2l I' Original Windsor's Pontop 2-1 0 Ord's lledhugh Pontop Windsor Russell's High Main Tanfield Moor 23 ti West Hartley 2l 6 Walls Ci vl Bell and Brown 22 6 Walls End Clarke and Co l9 l.) Walls e'nd Heaton .. 22 t Walls End Hilda Walls End Hotspur Alps arriswd since COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. Wheat. Barley. I Oats. Beans. Pea1e........ - Per Ouar.er. s. to s. I s. to ~ 3. to S. S. to S. it to 4E Baton B r aintree B ighton 24 76 44 47 26 29 44 46 —. i f) Crrtiihridge — C:8 45 26 55 Chichester 65 72 38 44 28 29 43 44 41 I; Dunmow 62 76 39 51 26 33 36 41 1.2 Grantham Grimsby ' 4s 6 6 35 39 22 26 42 4 n 4 "" 4F HaUsham 63 70 26 32 22 29 .1", Hitchin 6l 70 34 46 24 32 25 0- -- 4g Ipswich 64 7 2 36 32 24 28 5 8 40 28 .... Lewes 6B 43 22 29 31 40 -"" Lpill ..... M a idstone 66 75 36 89 26 32 40 50 """ 44 Norwich Pe,worth Romcord 5B 76 08 48 t 24 32 34 42 38 t Sandwich 5B 77 28 32 17 28 40 0 Thetford - 42 24 30 40 42 3S Wishech Witham C4 '75 31 47 28 34 3,8 46 44 TA Yarmouth 62 70 33 35 28 32 3',1 40 40 "" CHELTENHAM MARKETS. • Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d. Pei lb. d. tz , 6 . Wheat b a rl e y 4 U 6Of Mutton O a ts 3 3 4 0 Veal 7 S Beans . 5 0 6 8 Pork I"case 5 0 9 0 Lamb 5S 70 28 46 66 75 36 59 CO 16 35 43 C 3 '74 28 36 58 76 38 48 58 77 28 32 C 6 70 39 - 42 58 72 36 42 C 4 '75 38 47 63 70 33 35 CHELTENHAM ;hel. s. d. to s. (1. . 7 9 9 n 13531.. j . 4 U 6 0 Mutton 3 3 4 0 Vaal 5 0 6 R Pork 5 0 9 0 Lamb ,Lay 21.105. to 7!. 01. Od. per ton. CANTERBURY MARKET. 68s. to 7 55. re.r.w.• Old —s. to --s• 605. to 165 OS& to 365. to 465. Grinding.. —5. toto —s. s• —5 to —5 .--. 445. to 475. 435. to 45. i. 405. to 425. Wheat, WI Barley, M, Oats .--.. Beans .... Pease ...... CHELMSFORD MARKET. Wheat, White B7 to ',5 Oats 26 to 3 '' Red B3 0 Pease, Gray . 4l 4 ,! Barley Chevalier ........35 48 Beans, Tick , 5 45 Grinding L.VERPOOL CORN MARKET.—Dec. 3. WHEAT, lish, White, per 701 b. —.---- Eng --- Red --- Scotch, Welch, and Manx Irish, White 8 6 6 —.7 3 8 0 ---- Red. 8 9 12 3 Foreign ...... _ O ATS , English, Welsh, and Scotc h, p er 451 b —.— Irish 3ll 4 2 -- Foreign 0 0 0 0 BAXLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 45 A 51 0 —. Scotch and Irish, pet 60Ibs ---- Feeding 4 6 4 9 B EA NS, English, per Imperial quarter 43 0 54 I -- Irish, &c. -- Foreign PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 43 0 50 0 Foreign FLOUR, English, per 2301 b. SS 0 62 d Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs 33 0 37 a INDIAN CORM, per 46011). ..„. 44 0 48 0 RYE, per Imperial quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter . _ - - HULL CORN MARKET Wheat, White (per Quarter) Bed sos. Ws. 645. Foreign Ms. 645. 745. Barley, Malting -8..9. -"14 Grinding Oats, British Foreign (in bond) 466. Beans 345. 366. 37 , - Pease, Grey... .. Blue and White 8..--s. ---6 ' Linseed ... 395. 408 43a. . 50s. 550, Flour (per sack)... •. 221. W. 251. Rapeseed (per 10 quarters) Charles Kean's success at the New York theatre has been of the most flattering description. Th e entlitt siasm with which he was received on again appearing after his severe illness was beyond all parallel, the theatre having been nightly thronged during his engage ment. A New York Paper thus speaks of his Pe : " formance :—" It has been, in our duty to the Pub lic ; our constant task to review all novelt ies, whether o! pieces or performers. Tnis task, during the engagente° of Charles Kern, has been a most pleasing one, a nd we have thus seen his Hamlet, Lear, Claude Melnottel _ g h r a e v iav e teps g tr o no n zoo e fr. i eo li it g a. htly to banquet o n his delineations. we Sir Giles Overreach, Richard the Third, Othello, an' Macbeth. Of these, all most rare performances, geae'° p o i l e e c r e an ; ge of the drama, is, Hamlet is our especial favourite. This most difficu lt s n t m h z e is w te i r ' character to e rnb K od e y a , n i , but be is, in ell in our opinion, if we except a very brief portion of Macbeth? others, unequalled by any performer upon the stage. WINTER STRAWBERRIES. On Sunday las t ' a correspondent informs us, that two bran Ches of rip e strawberries were plucked in time prevalent. A change, h - owever, has come 0 Mr. Joseph Nicholson, of Underbarrow. This ill a the garden belonging ripe spirit of the times. (We write on Thursday, 20thcNeratvb"; t n he d G m a il z d et w te e . ath , r which has been for some —.got _ OO PLATE SU TITED FOR PRESENTAT IO N Committ ees or pr i vate i n di v id ua l s requ i r i n g splendid or 5. ' - ` articles of PLATE for presentation. may, by addressingo paid letter as under, have drawit gs sent for their approval. is desirable letters should state about the sum intended to be expended. T. COX SAVORY, urch' Silversmith, &c., 47, Cornhill ( Seven doors from Gracecb street), London BIRTHS. f ° On the 30th ult., at Somerton, Somersetshire, the WY Captain W. V. Hewett, of a son. l a dy • f On the 4th inst., in Upper Grosvenor - st reet, the James Weir Hogg, Esq., MP., of a son. W a lkers On the 4th inst., at Upper Clapton, Mrs. George of a daughter. --------------' MARR. On the 4th inst., by the Rev. IED Soloman Herschel, Mr• Meyars, of Great Alie-street, to Isabella, fourth daughter 0 B. Solomons, Esq., of 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. On the 28th ult., at Methley, near • Wakefield, Jonas At"l , son, Esq., of Highbury , to Miss Smirthwaito, of Hazel-house in :he former DIED. On the 3d inst. ,in Charles-street, Berkeley-square, 111.1„ ' 1 ' Beadon, relict of the late Lord Bisho p of Bath and We ' aged 82. aod On the 3d of J une, at Manilla, on his return to Engl of from Canton, George, second son of John Woolley, Esq•' Beckenham, Kent, aged 22. Jon es On the 3:1 inst., at Crane.court, Doctor's-commons , Howard Kandell, Esq. ; aged 78. London Printed and Published by I%IEJRDO YOUNG;4 No. •112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No tie, Strand , in county of Aliddlesex.—Thursday, December 5, 18.39.