The Sun. — London, England, 1836-01-22 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Sir Francis Burdett, having nothing better to do, as a frost having interrupted the sports of the field," has addressed a letter (It will be found in another co- ' lumn) to the independent Electors of Westminster, in answer to the last epistle of Mr. O'Connell from Derrynane. We really do not think that either the Elec tors of Westminster or the people of Ireland (for part of the letter is addressed to them) will be much bene- Etted by this nerveless production. Does Sir Francis really believe that the people of Ireland have not en graven on their hearts the services done to them by .Mr. O'Connell? We are far from thinking the Ho nourable and Learnd Member for Dublin a perfect character ; we have more than once differed in opi nion with him ; and with respect to the Repeal ques tion in particular, he was triumphantly driven from every position he took up by Mr. Spring Rice. But because Mr. O'Connell is not infallible, are we to deny that it was chiefly to his great ability, talents for business, and extraordinary energy, thai the Irish are indebted for that altitude which enabled them to strike terror into the hearts of the proud Oligarchy of England, and compel the Duke of Wellington to de clare that he was forced against his wish to break the fetters of the Catholics ? It is paltry special pleading in Sir Francis to torture a sentence of Mr. O'Connell into an admission that the Catholic Relief Bill was only beneficial to a few Noblemen and Gentlemen. Mr. O'Connell's meaning was that the Relief Bill alone, without following it out into its consequences, was only beneficial to a few Noblemen and Gentlemen, But the exclusion of the Catholics from civil rights stood in the way of all improvement : and having obt3ined Emancipation, every other improvement became pos sible. There is this difference between Mr. O'Con nell and Sir Francis Burdett—that Mr. O'Connell not merely wrote and spoke incessantly in favour of Emancipation, but formed the combinations by which it was ultimately carried : while Sir Francis Burdett seemed to have no other object in view than to make a .speech on Parliamentary Reform once a year in Parliament, and occasionally at the Crown and Anchor and Palace-yard ; and really seemed to be sorry when Reform was carried, as he was thereby de prived of the theme on which he had been accustomed to speak, and his constitutional indolence would not allow him to study the merits of any other question. But, in truth, the two men are as opposite as fire and water. Mr. O'Connell is active and energetic, and though possessed of quick discernment, and shrewd, like most men of sanguine temperament, is too much under the dominion of impulse. Sir Francis, on the other hand, is cold and inactive, living, like an Au tocrat, merely to the day, having no generous aspira tions, and caring little for the welfare of any other portion of the human species than himself. He is more a passive than an active character. To escape importunity, or impelled by superior energy, he may be driven to do a generous action ; but of his own accord, he would not readily think of doing good. If he is without the faults of Mr. O'Connell, he is also without the redeeming q.ualities which atone for those faults. Sir Francis shows how completely he is clay in the hands of the potter, by the impression which the 77»zes has evidently made on him. In fact, his letter is a mere echo of the lucuhrations of that journal for tile last twelve months, which he has received without examination. 112 is indebted for every one of his topics to the Times, even the distinction between the purity of the ancient faith of Ireland and the Popery introduced from England. Fla has allowed himself to be persuaded, also, that Ireland is rapidly sinking into barbarism and poverty under the influence of Mr. O'Connell : In fact (he says) Ireland seems to be relapsing into a state of barbarism under his influence, and whatever may be the march of mind in other countries, there it appears to be retrograde ; the whole state of society is unhinged by it ; it depresses all industry, drives fiom the country that which it most stands in need of—capital ; dries up the sources of employment ; plu6l:s the heart out of all enterprise, and leaves a miserable superabundant population without re source, and almost without hope of relief." We are far from saying that the condition of Ireland is what it ought to be. The eels of ages of misgo vernment are not to be cured in aday. But Sir Francis, following his blind guide, does not know that Ireland is more prosperous at this moment than it ever was since its first connection with England ; that, notwith standing the devastating system pursued bY several unfeeling landlords, who wish to show their attach ment to Sir Francis's pure Christianity, by depriving Catholics of the means of existence-notwithstand ing the Protestant Clergy have been more anxious to distribute swan-shot among their parishioners than the truths of the Gospel--still the people ale rapidly improving in industry under the upright and impartial Government of Lord IVlulgrave, and the pro fits of industry are fast attracting capital to the country. The Scotsman of Saturday last, in an able article, shows from Parliamentary Papers the wonderful in crease which has taken place in the Customs of Ire land. The following account of the gross receipts of Customs at the principal ports of Ireland in 1833 and 1834, places the rapidity of the increase beyond a doubt: -- _ _ _ . --- . 1833. 1834. Baltimore Belfast Coleraine Cork Drogheda Dublin 654,765 768,632 Dundalk 4,515 4,497 Galway Limerick 117,798 136,910 Londonderry Newry ... .. . 43,426. 51,083 Sligo Waterford Westport 437 597 Wexford The following are the sensible inferences which the Scotsman draws from the comparison : " The trade of Ireland is rapidly extending. The in crease in 1834, compared with 1833, is fully one-seventh, and if it continues at this rate, it will be doubled in less than seven years. In all the ports except Coleraine, Dundalk, and Wexford, which are small, there is an in crease, and in most of them it is important. This is one symptom among many which show that the seeds of im provement have taken root in the country, and that it would advance rapidly, if the political questions which disturb society and shake mercantile confidence were settled in a satisfactory manner." So much for Sir Francis's knowledge of Ireland. The time is fast approaching when agitation will cease, by the removal of the causes. ' Equal justice —the abolition of all distinctions founded on creeds will allow the people to concentrate their energies on objects beneficial to their country. Ireland is not re trograding, and will not retrograde. In a few years it will be one of the most flourishing divisions of the empire.—Morning Chronicle. Another letter from Sir Francis Burdett to the electors of Westminster will be found in this day's Times. Our own sentiments upon the case, and the questions which have arisen out of the Hon. Baronet's first Address to Brookes's Club, have been already stated, and so much in detail, that our readers will be not ill-pleased at our sparing them the trouble of a re petition. It gives us, however, no small satisfaction to find in this new record of the feelings of Sir Francis, a corroboration so clear and strong of the first impres sion made upon ourselves by the proceedings of the Whig O'Connells as they first came out before the world. Nothing, as it appeared to us, could be meaner or more base than for O'Connell's adherents to transform a question which in itself was purely social and personal, into one of a political and party nature —toput a gag in the mouth of every man , and strike p him dumb as to all the offences against civilized so ciety perpetrated by one who usurps the name of gentleman, lest a certain party in the State should he exp ose d t o the political vengeance of the individual thus offending. The imputation affixed to O'Connell himself by sueh a treatment of the proposal made by Sir Francis is described with great force in the letter of the Hon. Baronet. If Ole says in substance) O'Connell can be provoked to change his course of politics on account of any measure adopted towards him by a private club, of what value are his political vrinciples P There is no answer to such an observa tion as this. If O'Connell be, what he calls li:mself, a patriot—if he be an honest Irishman, strug gl;ng to obtain great benefits for his country, anti earning the enormous contributions he levies on her by a " disinterested" devotion to her ser • vice, does any one imagine that such a " patriot" would be diverted from that freely chosen, vir tuous course which he had adopted, professedly, for the good of Ireland, out of mere resentment at any con temptuous usage experienced by himself, not from Ire land, or even from Irishmen, but from a private circle of • gentlemen in another country, altogether independent of Irish interests and motives ? What a pitiful huckster does this make of Mr. Daniel O'Connell ! To what a sordid and filthy source does it assign all his boasted exertions "on behalf of the people of Ireland !" Into what despicable elements does it resolve his most arro gant boastings of the vast advantages which he has achieved, and of those which he puts on the semblance of still demanding I If his support of Ministers be worth a straw, it must be by reason of the conscientious integrity and public principle on which that support was founded. It must be be cause through good report and evil—under generous or ungrateful usage—under blandishment or scorn— , unmoved by discouraging circumstances— unprovoked by harsh or injurious conduct from others, he pursues for its own sake what he believes to be right. But how opposite to this is the understanding on which the Ministers and their Radical organs proceed in cal culating the results of Sir Francis Burdett's proposi tion, and the motives by which the lofty Daniel is actuated I How shocking, they exclaim, in the Hon. Baronet to move the expulsion of O'Connell from Brookes's, thus sowing dissensions among the Liberal party, attempting to deprive the Whig Ministers of the political support of so powerful an ally as O'Con nell, and doing that by which the Conservatives only can gain ! We ask, therefore, why should, or how could, the political conduct of any honest man in the House of Commons be dependent on his relation to Brookes's Club ? If an honour so strictly personal were to ope rate as a bribe, which is taken for granted by the declaimers against Sir Francis Burdett, who abuse him for risking the alienation of O'Connell by expelling him, and who submit to the indignity of retaining that noxious personage in the club, for no earthly reason hut the fear of his revolting from their po litical alliance, with what face can he or they dare again to brag about public principle, or to exclude the most frivolous and grovelling selfishness from among their grounds of action ? We had like to have forgotten one point in the letter of the Hon. Baronet, which re lates to an accusation brought against him by O'Con nell, implying the g rossest ignorance ; or, what is more certain, the most foul suppression of what that ca lumniator must have been aware of. He charged Sir Francis with " odious blasphemy," for having talked of the " Constitution being crucified between two thieves," as if that had been a phrase originating with the Member for Westminster, whereas every body knows, and O'Connell, if he had ever taken up any literary memoir of the last century, could not fail to have read that it was an expression of Ralph, the' old Radical historian, who applied it specifically in the exact sense in which it was quoted by Sir Francis, comparing the Whigs and Tories of those days to the thieves of the sacred volume. The letter of the Hon. Baronet will not be read with much pleasure, we sur mise, by the Ministerial worshippers of O'Connell, though for the insolence of affected ribaldry we are well prepared.-7'imes. As the day of Parliamentary conflict approaches, the misgivings of the Whig-Radical press with regard to the stability of the 0' ;onnell-Melbourne Adminis tration, are evinced by an odd sort of mixed vapouring and despondency, which is perfectly ludicrous. Ela borate boastings about the strength of the Govern ment, in which the plainest indications of conscious feebleness are intermingled, with threats of the pains and penalties of a dissolution of Parliament to the Whig-Radical :Members, if they should fail to give their leader, little John, and his master, the Robin Hood of Ireland, their full allegiance and submissive support ! The House of Lords were threatened last Session, ,Find after it, for daring to exercise their Constitutional power in resisting the demands of the bold free-booter of Ireland for the plunder of the Protestant Church. The House of Commons are now threatened with extinction if they do not rally with all the servile alacrity of O'Connell':; " tail," to support O'Connell's Ministry I These look like the last desperate struggles of faction, the more violent, as the whole system is pervaded by the agonies of approaching death. But such Whig- Radical Members as have hitherto given a support, not very cordial or sincere, to the O'Connellised Ministry, and now with the pi udent sagacity of animals instinc tively wise in their generation, would get clear in time of the rubbish of a falling house, need not be alarmed at the threat of a dissolution of Parliament. The King will have a word to say upon that subject, when the crisis arrives, as well as his Ministers ;and no reasonable man can believe so absurd a thing of his Majesty as that, in the event of the O'Connell Ministry being beaten, he will consent to dissolve Parliament, and put the whole empire in a state of agitation, to give the routed incapables another trial. No ; such consum mate weakness is not to be predicted of William IV.; therefore, let not those Whig-Radical Members who are anxious to get out of their present company, and to wash their hands of the purifying process which Mi nisters intend for the Raphael and O'Connell job— let not those Members, we say, be alarmed. The defeat of the present Ministry, instead of accelerating a dissolution of Parliament, will be the means of pro longing the existence of the present House of Com mons. If it be demonstrated that the Incapables can not go on with the Government by the assistance of the present House of Commons, the King knows that there are Statesmen who can—Statesmen who will not allow all the great interests of the country to fall to pieces while they are engaged in low cabals and dirty intrigues, to keep their places under the protec tion of the Irish Agitator and his priests. The ambi tious incapacity of Lord Melbourne must yield to the commanding abilities of Sir Robert Peel, and Lord Palmerston resign from his feeble hands the reins of our foreign policy, despised as he has made it in the eyes of the world, to the masculine grasp and veteran energy of the illustrious 'Wellington. Nor will the cause of reform be impeded—on the contrary, it will be advanced. It must be obvious to every man who is not a blind and . obdurate partisan of the faction now in power, that the return of that faction to power last year stopped the progress of comprehen sive and efficient, but safe and salutary reform in Church and State, of which Sir Robert Peel had given the luminous programme to the nation. The moment the Melbourne Ministry regained office, the dangerous and degrading influence by which they regained it, and which still governs them, was seen in all their measures. The great object of their Irish ally and patron being not the reform, but the destruction of our institutions —of course, the cause of Constitu tional Reform was made to give way to the cause of Papal and democratic destruction. The only question beside the destruction of the Irish Church, upon which Ministers exhibited very extraordinary zeal, was the Municipal Reform Bill, which their journalists now ac knowledge, with unblushing effrontery, was not so much for the purpose of procuring good local government for the people, as to strengthen the hands of the Whig-Ra dical Government, by exercising such an undue and corrupt influence over the election of Members of Par liament, as was charged as a crime of the first magni tude against the old Corporations. Even that Bill Ministers would have made a Bill of penalties and confiscation against the " freemen" of the boroughs whose rights had been solemnly guaranteed by the Reform Act, if it had not been for the saving interpo sition of the House of Lords. England is heartily sick of the agitating and destructive policy of the de generate Whigs. She wants Statesmen who can im prove, not destroy her institutions—who can consoli date her energies for great national purposes—who are disposed to bring her peace at home and make her re spected abroad.—Mornin g Herald. The Melbourne Government are evidently in terror of losing the darling places for sake of which they have not scrupled to sacrifice whatever reputation for public spirit and integrity they once enjoyed, by be coming the mere drudges and slaves of an Irish agi tator, whom, so long as they could do without him, they justly deemed one of the most dangerous public enemies that ever existed in any state.. After all the boasting we have heard of the junction of the Liberal Protestant gentry of Ireland with the Popish dema gogues of ti at country, for the purpose of keeping Lord Melbourne and his colleagues in place ; after all the vaunted addresses—got up by the jobbers of the newcor porations, who are looking out for little births in the Cus toms and Excise for their sons, brothers, or cousins— in support of the present Ministry ; after every effort to create an impression that the A dministration of the O'Connell-Whigs might meet Parliament with a confident reliance upon their own strength and popu larity, to what do we now find these foolish and empty braggarts reduced, as the last desperate expedient by which they vainly hope to secure a majority in the Legislature ? To the threat of a dissolution ? Yes, it is even so. The Whig-Radical Administrati▪ on, in the consciousness that they do not deserve, and would not obtain, the free and willing support of Parli▪ ament in the approaching Session, already begin to mutter the menace, the silly, ineffectual, and insulting menace, that in case they should be in a minority in the House of Commons (as they will be, we suspect, before the Session is a fortnight old), they will punish the Mem bers by putting them to the trouble and expense of a new election. This is no gratuitous assumption of ours, as we are about to show by the production of good Ministerial authority. The Globe put forth last night, after half a column or so of that kind of brag which is the habitual resource of discomfited and dejected imposture, the following official announce ment : " But, overlooking the facts fora moment, and supposing that the Tories should succeed in coaxing to their party the existing Liberal majority, the assumption that Ministers would resign in such an event, if altogether gratu i tous. If this improbable case were to occur it does by no means fol low—will not follow—(the italics are in the original)— that the present Cabinet resigns." There can be no mistake as to the meaning of this. Ministers feel that they are in the unfortunate condi tion in which they cannot make themselves worse by shaking the rod of dissolution over the House of Com mons. This is satisfactory. As to the threat, it will of course be as futile as it is insolent. What should a " Liberal majority" of the House of Commons do but follow the sense of the country ? And as the " Tories" have succeeded in " coaxing" the country to their party, what have the Liberal majority, who adjust their conduct to the predominant opinion of the nation, to apprehend from a dissolution.—Morn. Post. The attention of all parties is now fixed on the 4th of February—the commencement of the Session, and of a struggle which must decide the question at issue between the principles of elective and hereditary legis lation—between the representatives of the people's will and the enemies of the people's rights—to decide, in fact, whether the laws and government of the country are to be instituted for the general good of the nation, or for the aggrandisement of faction, for the protection or for the plunder of the community. From the array presented on the opening of the ,list, will be augured, not the result of the contest, for the triumph of jus tice and the people is certain, but the amount of in jury which the common enemy may be able to inflict. The Tories are mustering all their forces for the on slaught. The effort will be desperate, because they feel it to be a dying one. To the Liberal Members of the House—those who really represent public opi nion—we shall merely say, " the eyes of yoeurpeecoitis stituencies are upon you, and England x every man to do his duty." The Tories, know ing that a successful cause, whether right or wrong, will secure partisans, with the shrewd ness of fools intent on evil, affect to believe their victory certain, and with must ludicrous absurdity dispose of the Ministry and the people of England with a facility that would put a Bobadil to the blush. Here is the order of bat& ; " the House of Com mons," from what cause does not appear, " is to fail in its support of the Ministry—the King is to refuse his consent to a dissolUtion of Parliament —resignation or dismissal of Ministers follows, as a matter of course ; and then hurra for I 3 rime Minister Peel I" The silly schemer who draws up his programme—so simple on paper but impracticable in fact—does not condescend to say what share the people are to take in the combat. But the Tories never take the people into account. Some, however, are so besotted as to confide in the success of the arrangement ; and even the Standard, from whom we expected more astuteness, already argues, or rather raves,• as if Sir Robert Peel was the actual Premier of England. In regard to the probability of a dissolution, the Standard observes, " It cannot be forgotten, that Sir R. Peel declined to dissolve the House of Commons, even when it outvoted him ; and when his Majesty would have been placed in no awkward or incon sistent position by such an exercise of the prerogative. We, therefore, do not scruple to assume that Sir R. Peel will go on with the present House of Com mons." How gratifying and consolatory this assump tion must be to all those Members who have before their eyes the dread and fear of meeting their consti tuents at a general election ! This is a sop to catch the waverers. It cannot be forgotten that the present Parliament was called together under the auspices of Sir Robert. Peel, and that all the powers of Heaven, Earth, and, though last not least efficient in Tory tactics, Hell itself, were invoked to influence the re turn of Tory Members to the House of Commons. Faction gained a considerable accession, but the spirit of good prevailed, and• the sorcerer summoned his agents of evil to be merely the witnesses of his fall. Never again will the Tories number so many sup porters as they do now in the Commons' House of Parliament ; but even now they cannot maintain an efficient opposition in that assembly. Reform will ever have a majority in the House of Commons, and if a dissolution of Parliament should become neces sary, it will not be for the purpose of carrying salutary measures through that branch of the Legislature, but of carrying them with such a majority as will scare the Lords from opposition, by showing them that if they should force the people to the last appeal, their utter extinction must be the inevitable consequence.— Morning Advertiser. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1836. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL' S. THE DERBY. 10 to 1 agst Ld Jersey's Bro. to Nell Gwynne—taken 12 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Brother to Maria—offered 15 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Babel colt—taken 17 to 1 agst Mr. Batson's Taishteer—offered 24 to 1 agst Mr.Chifney's Brother to Emiliana—offered ~ 2,000 to 50 agst Lord Chesterfield's Weighton—taken Just at the close of the room 15 to 1 was betted against Maria to a very small sum ; this, however, can scarcely be looked upon as the market price. OAKS. 7 to 1 agst Lord Wilton's Grenada (Bequest filly)—taken The attendance was thin, and the betting flat. Two Steeple Chaces are announced to take place at Liver pool on the 29th of February ; the inhabitants having subscribed for the purpose of adding liberal purses to each of them. They are open to horses of all denominations. PIGEON SHOOTING. The match between Mr. George Chantry and Mr. William son, for 20/. a-side, at twenty-one birds each, twenty-one yards from the trap, which was announced to take place yesterday, at Chalk Farm, did not come off. The ground was well at tended, and considerable disappointment prevailed. Mr. Bloodsworth's handicapped match with Mr. Miles, in which he gives five dead birds out of the twenty-one ' is the best sporting match up at present. Bloodsworth is the favourite at 5 to 4. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. The Brighton Harriers meet every Monday at Pateham ; Wed nesdays, at the Race Course; Fridays, at the Dyke. The Brookside Harriers on Mondays at Newmarket Hill ; Wed nesdays, at Lewes Race Course; Fridays, at Telscombe Tye—half past 10. The Thanet Harriers meet on Monday at Monkton Sea Mark ; Wednesday, at Minster Mills ; Friday, at Nash Court Hill—at 10. The East Kent Hounds on Monday at Gorsley ; Wednesday, al Newing Green ; Friday, at the Thorn, Stone-street ; Monday, Feb. 1, at Ashley; Wednesday, at Swetch Gate; Friday, at Acrise Mil —half-past 10. The Tickham Hounds on Monday at Doddington ; Thursday, al Norton Court—hf-p.lO. Mr. Hall's Hounds on Monday at Sandford Farm • Tuesday, al Annis Hills ; S a t ur d ay, at Downside Kenne l ; Tuesday, at Chaff combe Wood—half-past 10. The Burton Vale Hounds on Tuesdayat Toomer Farm. The Langport Harriers on Monday at Somerton Hill ; Friday, at Whitehill—at 10. Lord Petre's Hounds on Monday at Langdon Hills; Thursday, at the Ship at Stock ; Saturday, at Dunton Blacksmith ; Monday, Feb. 1, at Nossey Wood ; Thursday, at Woodhain Workhouse ; Soturday, at Southall Bride—half-past 10. Mr. Meynell's Hounds en Monday at Longford; Thursday, at Henhurst ; Saturday, at Blethbury—half-past 10. The Cambridgeshire Hounds on Monday at Childerley Gate ; Friday, at the Hardwicke Hrms—hf-p. 10. Mr. Mures Hounds on Tuesday at Stowlingtoft Spinney ; Thurs day, at Bournbridge—hf - .p. 10 Earl Fitzwilliam's Houn ds on Monda y at Avers ly Wood ; Wednes day, at Bythorn Toll Bar ; T hursda y , at Cas tar Hanglands-10. Mr. A. Smythe's Hounds on Monda y a t Oare Hill ; Tuesday, at Everleigh House ; Thursday, at Hurstbourn Tarrant ; Friday, at Tedworth House-11. ;CAN EDFrPION s 4 , • SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. rHE LONDON GAZETTE THIS EVENING. WAR-OFFICE, JAN. 22, 1836. 2d Regiment of Dragoons—Cornet Randal Foot, from the half pay of the 6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards, to be Cornet without purchase, Jan. 21 ; C. Craven, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Foot, who retires, Jan. 22. 7th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Lieut. A. A. Cotton to be Captain, by purchase, vice Tower, who retires ; Cornet A. B. Savile to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Cotton ; H. J. Percy, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Savile, Jan. 2 2. 7th Regiment of Foot—Ensign W. Nixon, from the 33d Regi: ment of Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lord Antrim, who retires, Jan. 22. Bth Foot--C. Holder, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Gordon, appointed to the 59th Regiment of Foot, Jan. 22. 31st , Foot—D. I.Vl'llveen, Gent., to be Ensign, bypurchase, vice Gregory, who retires, Jan. 22. 32d Foot—E. Winnington, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Nixon, promoted in the 7th Regiment of Foot, Jan. 22. 63d Foot--H. Pilleau, Gent. to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Russell, eppointed to the 73d Regiment of Foot, Jan. 22. 73d Foot--Assistant-Surgeon J. J. Russell, from the 62d Regi ment of Foot, to be Assistant- Surgeon, vice C. M. Vow ell, who retires upon half-pay, Jan. 22. 80th Foot—Lieutenant H. A. Jackson to be Captain, without purchase, vice Dedshire, deceased ; Ensign M. D. Taylor to be Lieutenant, vice Jaokson, Dec. 18; Ensign G. Connolly, from the half-pay of the 104th Regiment of Foot, to be Ensign, vice Taylor, Jan. 21 ; S. T. Cristie, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Amireaux, who retires, Jan. 22. OF6ICE OF ORDNANCE, JAN, 20. Riding-House Establishment in the Royal Regiment of Artillery —Serjeant-Major A. Nl‘Pherson to be Lieutenant, vice Gibbons, placed on the Retired List, Jan. 1. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. EDWARD SARGEANT, chemist, Stamford. JOHN BORLASE JENKINS, merchant, Swansea. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. JOHN ROWLANDS, draper, Hereford. THOMAS SADD, grocer, Bungay, Suffolk. BANRUPTS. CHARLES ELLIS, coal-merchant, Stockwell Green, Surrey, to surrender Feb. 2, at two, and March 4, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Jordeson and Webb, High-street, Southwark; Gould, Great St. Helen's, Bishopsgate-street ; Whitmore, official as signee, Basinghall-street. RUBANS MARTIN, grocer, Sydenham, Kent, Feb. 2, at twelve, and March 4, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Ed waaxls, Paneras-lane, official assignee ; Lofty and Potter, King street, Cheapside. WILLIAM FRAZER HOYL AND, tea-dealer, Bradford, York ; Feb. 11, and March 4, at eleven, at the Sun Inn, Brad ford. Jaques, Battye, and Edwards, Ely-place, London ; Crossley, Bradford, York. FRANCIS HUTCHINSON, dealer and chapman, Heworth Chemical Works, Durham ; Feb. 15, at eleven, and March 4, at one, at the Bankrupt Commitsion-room, Royal Arcade, Newcastle upon-Tyne. Hoyle, Mosley-street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; 'Meg gison, Pringle, and Manisty, King's-road, Bedford-road, London. THOMAS CRACKNELL, grocer, Birmingham, Feb. 2, and March 4, at eleven, at the New New Royal Hotel, New-street, Birmingham. Norton and Chaplin, Gray's Inn-square, London ; Harrison, Edmund-street, Birmingham. GEORGE ACKLAM, coach-builder, Cheltenham, Feb. 9, and March 4, at twelve, at the Fleece Inn, Cheltenham. Broughton and Briggs, Falcon-square, London ; Watson, Cheltenham. ' DAVID PRICE, cattle-dealer, Llanwrthwl, Brecon, Feb. 16, and March 4, at one, at the Castle Hotel, Brecon. White and Whitmore, Bedford-row, London ; Bevan and Brittan, Bristol. JOHN CHEESE WRIGHT, stationer, Bristol, Jan. 30, and March 4, at one, at the Commercial-Rooms, Bristol. Tanner and Son, Bristol ; Hicks and Braikenridge, Bartlett's - buildings, London. JOHN STEVENSON, saddler, Bishop Wearmouth, Durham, Jan. 29, at 12, and March 4, at 11, at Kay's Hotel, in Bishop Wearmouth. Stevens and Co., Little Saint Thomas Apostle ; Fell, Bishop Wearmouth. EDWARD W. GAEBEL, merchant, Liverpool, Feb. 4, and March 4, at 11, at the Clarendon-Rooms, Liverpool. Holden, South John-street, Liverpool ; Walmsley and Co., Chancery-lane. rnlcE OF SUGAR, The Average Price of Brown or Muscovatin Sugar, computed from the Returns made in the week ending the 113th day 01 January, 1636, ,s 33, 110. per Hundred Weight, exclusiteUf the Dutielof Custems paid or payable thereon on the Imp , irtation thereof into Great Britain. COURSE OF EXCH. Amsterdam ....... C.F 12 7 .... . Ditto, at sight Rotterdam 2 U. 12 7% Antwerp l2 7 Hamburg II B l3 14!4 Altona Paris, 3 days' sglit 25 75 att.() 2 Us. 26 0 Bordeaux . .0 Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M. 153% PetersbUigh, ruble 3 Us. 10 0 Berlin Vienna, effective fl '2 M. 10 13 Triesto ditto l Ol9 Madrid— Cadiz Bilboa ... •~s~ Barep l .na S , lville i G tbraltar NGE.-( THIS DAY.) 26 0 Leghorn. Genoa Milan..„ . Venice -10!4 Palermo per oz. 129. Li: bon 55 5(;; 37 Oporto Rio Janeiro Bahia Buenos Ayres Dublin, 21 days' sight Cork PRICE OF BULLION, PER OZ. Portugal Gold, coin £0 11 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 9 New Doubloons _ _ Nev; Dollars Silver, bars, standard 0 4 11% LONDON MARKETS-THIS DAY. (From the New London Price Current.) SUGAR.-The Market for West India .Muscovadoes has again been very quiet ; little business has been done, and the prices may be considered 6d. to Is. lower : the holders, as is usually the case in a heavy Market, evince no disposition to realise but at full prices; 101 hhds. Barbadoes at public sale Tuesday sold 6d. below the currency of the previous sale 643. 6d. to 675. 6d. This afternoon the estimate of sales of Sugar for the week are only 1,400 hhds. and trs., at a general reduction in the prices of Gd. to Is. per cwt., as we have stated. The Re fined Market, during the week, has been very flat, and the prices are 6d. lower. There is no alteration in Refined goods this afternoon. MAuraTrus.—There are no purchases to report by private cantract ; the Market is without briskness, the attention of the trade being drawn to the public sale of this forenoon, which consisted of 3,299 bags:, the whole sold at an average of 6d. per cwt. lower, good yellow, 645. to 663.' low yellow, 635. to 635. 6d., browns, 61s. to 625., making the late reduction Is. per cwt. EAST INDlA.—There is no alteration to notice in East India Sugars ; there is some request for Manilla at former rates. A cargo of Manilla Sugar is reported to be sold at 335. de liverable at Amsterdam. By pnblic sales this day 999 bags Bengal and 100 bags Siam Sugar, the former nearly all taken in 37s to 395, for good white, held we believe at 40s ; the damp sold lower, 36s to 37s ; the Siams sold 31s 6d to 34s 6d, steady prices. FOREIGN. -There arc no purchases privately in Foreign Sugars, The public sales have contained 310 boxes white and 1,432 boxes yellow Havannah ; 273 chests and 144 barrels Brazil ; the Havannah was all withdrawn. Since the sale one lot of soft quality white sold at 50s. ; low to good colory yel low 365. to 375. ; ]3ahia sold 335. 6d. to 38s. for low to good greyish white, 265. 6d. to 295. 6d. for mid. to fine brown, being about ls. 6d. higher than they were previously valued : Pernambuco low to good mid. white 325. 6d. to 365. 6d., low to good brown 235. to 265. 6d. ; Pernams. sold at a decline of about Is. per cwt. It is reported this day that small parcels of Bahia have been sold privately, brown 275. to 285., white 345. 6d. By public sale this afternoon, 276 chests 33 brls. Bahia Sugars-fine strong white sold at 365. 6d., grey 325. to 355. 6d., good brown to ord. yellow 28s. to 28s. 6d., fine 295. 6d. ; a consi eerable portion of the yellow taken in, what sold went at full market prices. WEST INDIA MOLASSES.--A public sale was brought for ward on Wednesday last ; the whole was taken in, Demerara at 285., St. Vincents at 265. ; it was a very ordinary parcel. COFFEE.-The market for British Plantation descriptions is very dull, and Dutch have declined 2s. to 3s. only ; only about one fourth of the quantity brought forward publicly has been sold, mid Demerara, 955. Considerable public sales have taken place in East India Coffee, which have generally found buyers ; Ceylon fair even quality 555. 6d. to 565. : Mocha sold from 625. up to 80s. 6d.: Mysore 58s. to 655.; fair quantity Sumatra 425. 6d. Of Foreign Coffee the sales are large; Brazil 1,000 bags at 525. a 545. being a shade higher. By public sale this day 545 bags Ceylon Coffee of good fair quality, all sold 565. to 575., full market prices. Rum, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.-There is little alteration in Rum ; the purchases reported are chiefly Leewards, 35 and 36 over, 3s. sd. ; 29 over, 3s. 3d. ; 29 over in hhds., 3s. sd. ; and parcels of proof Leewards, 1 to 2 over, sold at 2s. 3d. In Brandy and Geneva there is no alteration. IRISH Paovisioris.-In our Price Current of the sth inst., we stated that some of the shippers of Bacon had stopped payment, by way of cancelling their forward shipments made at low prices, since which time our market became much de] pressed ; the shippers entertaining an idea that the prices would again rally, authorized their agents to get their forward contracts cancelled on the best terms, who rushed into the m arket with such avidity, that not only frustrated their object, but caused an immediate advance, insomuch that some of the cheesemongers who would not purchase last week at 375. per cwt. landed, have since become buyers for former shipments at 41s. for February, 425. for March and April, and 435. for May ; and as the opinion is very general that spring prices will be very high, we have no doubt a further advance will take place. The Butter Market is still firm ; the demand for the manufacturing districts is very great, and as all parties are in full employ, there is no probability of a decline. BUTTER. BACON. Stock. Delivery. St" 11 •' Delivery. 1835 78,800 firks 9,280, firks 14,380 bales 2,930 bales 1836 54,402 7,754 9,982 :2,389 The imports: of . Butter are Irish 172 firks. Foreign 2,887 casks. ; Bacon 100 bales. SPICES.-At public sale 105 bags :Malabar Pepper of good heavy quality were taken in at 4id. The prices of Pimento are a little lower; publicly 300 bags chiefly of fair quality sold 4d. to 4id. In Cassia Lignnea no business to report. Tar,Low.-The transactions in Tallow are very extensive, the trade buying very largely for the home consumption of the cou ntry ; the advance in prices is fully maintained ; the im porters appear to meet the buyers very freely. COLCHESTER REFORM ASSOCIATION.—The first annual dinner of this Association, which was established just after the last general election, took place on Thursday, the 14th inst., at te Red Lion Inn, in that Borough. H. Tuffnell, Esq., Secretary to the Admiralty, and a can didate at the last Borough election, took the Chair. A press of matter precludes to-day the report of the proceedings. The typhus fever is at present very prevalent in Rochdale,•especially in the township of Castleton. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. 1 GERMANIC HONOURS GRANTED TO BRITISH SUBJECTS. Q UEEN-SQ UARE. Yesterday a young woman, apparently about eighteen years of age, who gave her name Elizabeth Thompson, was brought before Mr. GREGORIE, charged with attempting to drown herself in the canal in St. James's Park. She was saved by a gardener. The girl intimated that the mode of life she had unhap pily led for some time past had preyed upon her spirits, and that her life had-become a burden to her. The MAGISTRATE ordered her to be detained until in quiries hould be made respecting her connections, which were said to be very reputable. It subsequently appeared that her friends live at Newcastle, to which place the poor girl expressed her anxiety to go ; and Mr. Gregorie, with great humanity, gave directions that she should be for warded thither without loss of time, and stated that he would himself defray the expenses of the journey. Charles Howlett, a carman, in the employment of Mr. Dixon, a coal-merchant, residing at Providence-wharf, Bel videre-road, Lambeth, was charged, before Messrs. GRE GORIE and WHITE, with wilfully damaging the carriage of the Countess of Ashburnham. George Cook, the coachman of the Countess, deposed that he was turning from Spring-gardens to Charing-cross, and while in the centre of the road a waggon, driven by the defendant, was coming up at a canter. He immediately called upon the driver to stop the horses, which he did not do, and the consequence was that the waggon came in con tact with the carriage, and very much damaged one of the panels. Charles Coney, the footman of Lady Ashburnham, Mr. Butt, a highly-respectable gentleman, and George Radini, the porter of Messrs. Drummond, Charing-cross, all of whom had witnessed the accident, swore that the carman was to blame in not having checked his horses before they came in contact with the carriage, he having had sufficient warning to do so. The clerk of Mr. Hobson, coach-builder, proved that tho damage done amounted to 8/. The defendant called more than an equal number of per sons, who positively swore that the accident was occasioned by the conduct of the coachman in carelessly driving. Mr. GREGORIE, after investigating the matter in every possible shape, said that he could not feel satisfied that it was the fault of the defendant. There was such a mass of contradictory evidence, that he thought he ought not to ad judicate upon it. The parties must have recourse to another tribunal.—The defendant was then discharged, " L'Almanack Imperial" of Vienna for this year subjoins the following list of English families in the enjoyment of hereditary honours granted by the Emperors of Germany , of which the patents (diplomas) are deposited at Vienna t-- George Chur c hill, Duke of Marlborough, Prince of the Empire. John Churchill, the first Duke, created a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire by the Emperor Leopold the First, 1705. Henry Benedict, Lord Arundel, Count of the Holy Ro man Empire. Granted to Thomas, the first Lord Arun.. del, 1595, by the Emperor Rodolph 11. - Basil Fielding, Earl of Denbigh, Count of the Empire• Descends from the Imperial House of the Counts of Haps' burgh. This diploma is not extant. Count Delafield. John, Count Delafield, created a Count of the Holy Roman Empire after the battle Of Zenta by the Emperor Leopold 1., 1697. Pierre Leopold, Earl of Cowper. George Nassau, the late Earl, created a Count of the Holy Roman Empire bY. the Emperor Joseph, 1778. Francis Taaffe, Viscount Taaffe, in Ireland, Count of the Holy Roman Empire. His grandfather, Nicholag Taaffe, a Lieutenant-General in the Imperial service! created by the Emperor Leopold 11. a Count of the Empire. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUS TOM-HOUSE, JAN. 21. The Earl of Liverpool, Lomax, from Ostend; Neptune , Languehart, Cherbourg; Liberia, Watts, St. Michael's;, Dandy, Clark, ditto ; Gulnare, Metcalf, Canton, Cape °I Good Hope, and St. Helena; Mary Bulmer, Cant, Jamaica; Mountaineer, Jones, Demerara ; Marquis of Chandos, Gaylor, ditto ; Senator, Taggart, Copenhagen and Elsineur ; Io Sostre, Bay, Nyrsted ; Julius, Miles, Demerara; Lois, Thom son, ditto; Charles, Skipseg, Memel; Majestic, Moir,'Tarra' gona ; Killigreen, Noye, Seville ; Amizade, Musqueto, Oporto 2 • Lowestoft, Co6k, Smyrna; Latona, Watson, Bet' muda ; Bure, Symonds, Charente ; Egham, Turner, Cadiz; Amity, Fudge, Guernsey ; Adams, Mills, Cape of Good Hop • and St. Helena; Malvina, Buckell, Leghorn ; belfast, dleton, Calais. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING, JAN. 21: The Ocean, Fell, for Tobago. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO, JAN. 21., The Addingham, Sedgwick, for Swan River and Cape Good Hope ; Pilgrim, Owen, Antwerp; Jemirna, John* Lisbon ; Charles Hayes, Nantes ; Le Broionteur, Menniourf St. Maio's; Tamerlane, M'Kellar, Calcutta; Neptune, Freer, Emder and Leer. CLEARED OUTWARDS IN. BALLAST, AN. 21: The Flora, Manning, for Harlingen. • ARRIVED AT LIVERPOOL, JAW. 20. The Sir Robert H. Dick, Hamrn, from St. John's, NeW Brunswick ; Abercrombie, Kirkby, St. Andrew's, Nes t Brunswick; Mercurius, Seepe, Amsterdam; Priscilla, Mac kenzie, St. John's New Brunswick. ENTERED FOR LOADING, JAN. 20. The Johnstone, M'Pherson, Demerara; Victoria, Minn , New Orleans. CLEARED OUTWARDS, JAN. 20. The Chatham, Graham, for Boston ; Mary, Ball, Smyrna% John Black, M'Kenzie, Barbadoes ; Adventurer, Hodgson, Genoa, &c. ; Glenarm, Gurslem, Rio Janiero ; Melby, Eden, Pernambuco; Swift, Hopper, Lisbon; Liverpool, Londoot Bahia. SAILED, JAN. 20. The Montezuma, Barnett, for Vera Cruz ; Jessie Ritehief M'Lachlun, Hayti,; Munford, Cleveland, Valparaiso; Bar badian, Hutchinson, Barbadoes ; Ingleborough, Ricket, bay ; Monticello, Lawton, New Orleans; Montezuma, Barry _ . TELEGRAPHED; Off port, the George, from Maranham. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEg. NVheat. Barley. Oats. 15 CA II S. Peaale•_ . „ ^•••••••••.' Per Quarter. s. to s. s. s. s. to s. s. to s. s. to Blandford —.. 36 40 28 33 23 44 Brigg- 25 40 '2O 29 18 25 26 40 37 28 16 30 31 Chard 35 38 26 28 16 19 36 33 32 36 44 26 31 15 19 29 40 I:3ng Sutton.—. '2B 38 10 20 30 34 Louth 33 38 25 28 15 17 31 37 Lynn 32 8 22 31 15 20 30 32 32 4 .2 Newark 34 38 24 30 18 23 32 44 Nottingham 34 :9 28 31 19 28 35 42 Peterborough 24 37 22 29 15 23 32 40 Plymouth 40 50 30 34 20 23 Poach 67 43 27 43 Slea font 65 70 36 38 22 28 41 43 -- Uppingliam 34 38 24 20 18 28 32 44 -- Wisbech 33 12 20 i 30 32 DEVIZES CORN MARKET.—Jan. 21. 21 0 to 22 0 Barley 25 0 to 32 P vv er he Sa t ck. s. d. s. d. Per Quarter. s. 8. s. do 17 0 19 0 Oats l3 0 2, 5 , 0 Thirds l4 0 :6 0 Beans (per sack)... 17 0 1151 Sacks of Wheat soldl (ner haol 07 n 30 0 First MARKET.—Jan. 21, Per Quarter. s. d. s• 0 Barley 25 0 to 38 0 Oats lll 0 25 0 Beans (per sack) l7 0 0 Flour (per bag) 27 0 30 Bread (per gall.) 0 9 1151 Sacks of Wheat sold} IR 4 at the average of LEEDS CORN MARKET.—Jan. 19. Wheat, Norfolk and SW94 k, 60th. - York. and Lincoln. 601 b. 31., to 441. .1 Barley, Norfolk and Sitilidk Yorkshire and Lincolnshire - Grinding Beans Oats, Potatoe Vs. to 2 40 ' , ---Mealing, For. 12d. to 13:1 • Eng. 10d. to 114. per :toil . Shelling Rapeseed, English, Wt. to :)7,. ..... Foreign, —l. to —l. per 1!.,...-• CATTLE MARKET 20. O r ' The supply S of L Beasts, Sheep, Calves, and Porkers,. —Jan. to this day's t oP ket was moderately good. There wa s a moderate attendance of ,61 and cot,ntry buyers, and the trade w a s dull, at the following P" per stone of Sib, to sink the offals:— 1 I Beef Mutton 3 6 4 6 Pork 3 2 4 : 4 of Beasts, 269; Sheep, 1,303; Calves, 49; Pig s , 65. A s m a ll portiO" the supply left the market unsold _...../. ROMFORD MARKET.—Jan. 20. (i' s. il.tos. d. a. d, to .1 . q Beef 3 4 4 6 Veal Mutton Suckling Calves, 12s. to 285.; Quarter old Store Pigs, 12s. to 2 06 ' Mulch Cows, with their small Calf, 11/.os. to 181. Os. Supply moderate, and trade rather dull _......" HAILSHAM MARKET—Jan. 20. Mutton 3 Beef 3s. Bd. to 4 4 s. Bd. I Pot, 3 4 3 " Ott' Veal 4s. 4d. to 0 0 .. 6 Supply good, and trade very dull. CHICHESTER MARKET—Jan. 20. Beef Mutton 3 6 4 4 Pork Supply of fat stock m A era t e l y goo d , an d tra d e r33asthedr.dtuolll.s. (13. I MEETING OF CREDITORS TO—MORROW. is G. T. Clough, baker, George-street, Blackfriars STEAM v. I - lORSES.—It has been said tua- Great Britain there are above a million of horses engeg jg , in various ways in the transport of passengers and go, 0 and that to support each horse requires as much land is would upon an av erage supp or t e i g ht men . If t io r quantity of anim a l p ower were di sp l ace d by stePthe engines, and the means of transport drawn frog' it. bowels of the earth, instead of being raised upon of surface, then supposing the above calculation correl' h e much land would b ecome ava il a bl e f or th e support 01 "of man beings, as would suffice for an additional populatio n l y eight millions ; or, what amou n t s t o th e same, wou ld i v crease the means of support of the present population n j about one-third of the present available means. The la ; : e which now supports horses would then support men, or P T duce corn for food.—Lardner's Steam Engine. • (ADVERTISEMENT.)—PRIZE CUPS.--A few sec °l3 4 hand silver Cups of variou s s i zes f or sa l e a t T . COX SAV O R I Working Silversmith, G o ld sm ith, an d Watchmaker, 47, Corn London. pla te N. B. A pamphlet contained a d e t a il e d li s t o f t h e pr i ces o f Plated Goods, Watches, Clocks, &c. may be had gratis. BIR THS. ~ At Shottesbrook Park, the lady of Colonel Sir Henry S 11 C.B. On the 20th inst., in Grosvenor-square, the Countess of v kiold Samsoe, of a daughter. e t, * On the 20th inst., the lady of J. White, E va , Prinees_st r ' o Great-George-street, Westminster, of a son. MARRIED. Re d On the 21st inst., at St. Jam es ' s Ch urc h , W estminster, the Charles Rawlins, to Charlotte Hill, youngest daughter of the G. Rickards, Esq.. of Piccadilly. On the 20th ult., a t St . G eorge ' s Church, Camberwell, A., r : jo be Blundell, of Liverpool, to Sarah, third daughter of the late Humpston, of Buntingford, Herts. DIED. A „hlei On the 14th i ns t . , at P ar i s , th e H on . Anthony Lionel Cooper, youngest son of the Earl of Shaftesbury. 6.6, On the 19th inst., at Upton House, near Southampton, age Susan, relict of C. Barker, Esq., of Chandos-street. 5 544 On the 21st inst., aged 35, Mary, the wife of J. Minors, Lower Brook-street, Grosvenor-square. 10' On the 21st., inst., in Conduit-street, Hanover-square, Jarvis, of Kilburn, aged 56 . J. On the 10th inst., at the Brewery, Hatfield, Herts, aged 6 "' Field, Esq. „est , On the 19th inst., aged 68 , Francis Lovell, Esq., of Sloane -51' Chelsea. On the 18th inst., at Carshalton, T. Bonton, Esq. f On the 18th inst., at 2 , Bedford-place, Johan na , widow °- late John Relph, M. D. On the 18th inst., at Brighton, Chri s t op h er Maltby, -r-'s'd . Lawrence Pounteney-lane. _ _ On the 10th inst., Mr. John Oats, seedsman, Salisbury. de r of On the 29th August, at sea, C ommodore Norton, Comma° the Brazilian Navy, aged 46. Da vie° On the 2d inst., at Builth, M rs. Price, aged 84; Sarah eeci aged 80; and Ann Daniel, aged ?.;2. Such a singular coino as the above three aged females dying on the same day, 1155 iitlk been before known in th e memory of the oldest i n h a bi tant o f Bu A• On Thursday last, at Orgill, near Egremont, aged 84, M r ' Grayson, yeoman. On the 16th inst., at Egremont, Mrs. E. Dawson, aged 8 2 1 : te of On Sunday l ast, at the Pitts, Egremont, M r. R. iKilner, M:lton Moor, Westmorland, aged 85. On the 11th inst., at Milntliorpe, aged 83, Mr. J. Turtle!' be ll' On the 11th inst., at Kirkby Stephen, aged 83, Mrs. O a Miller. London : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, °f 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the °°- of Middlesex. CORONER'S INQUEST. DEATH FROM WANT.—Last evening an inquisition was held at the George, Castle-street, Westminster, before Mr. Higgs, on view of the body of James Weeks, aged 50, who was found in a state of destitution, and was afterwards conveyed to St. Martin's Workhouse, where he died. The Jury viewed the body at the workhouse, which pre sented a shocking appearance. W. Sullivan, C 120, deposed that he did not know the deceased. On Tuesday night, about a quarter-past eleven o'clock, witness was on duty in Coventry-street, when he observed the deceased at the corner of the Black Horse, leaning against the railings, soliciting charity. Witness perceiving him in a deplorable state of destitution, shivering all over, and hearing from him that be had no home, took him to the station-house. He was so feeble as scarcely to b able to walk. In walking along he said that he had ao:ne from Wiltshire, and had been in London four days, anl that he bad been to several workhouses, where he was reused food, and that for three days he had not eaten anything. He then gave the deceased some some victuals this he (witness) had with him. At the station-house he (th 3 deceased), by order of the inspector, was placed in front of the fire, while the charge was taken down. He was then taken below, in a room where the beadle formerly .vied to live, a fire was there lit, and he was provided with twc pillows and a great coat, and the inspector gave orders tht..t he should be looked after every ten minutes. The de ceased did not complain of illness, but with difficulty arti cult.ted that he was thirsty. There was a fur upon his tongue, which appeared parched. Witness left him at the station-house and returned to his beat. By the CORONER—He told the inspector his name, and stated that he came from Wiltshire. He was not searched. When witness went to lay hold of his arm, it was as if he only touched the bone. There was no substance. The next morning he was placed on a stretcher and taken to St. Martin's workhouse, where directions were given for putting him to bed, by order of the parish surgeon, but he died before it was possible to undress him. The Foreman said that this man had perished in a Christian eountry, and driven from workhouse to work house, not being able to find any asylum ; and yet a per son must not beg but with the risk of being sent to prison. This was a result arising from the Poor Law Bill. The CORONER charged the Jury, who immediately re turned a verdict—" That the deceased died from the want of the common necessaries of life." DENS'S THEOLOGY. (From the Caledonian Mercury.) REV. MR. CUNNINGHAM AGAIN. Mr. Editor,—ln reading this evening (and such things I seldom read), the Rev. Mr. Cunningham's speeCh at the meeting of the Protestant Association, December Oa, as printed in Blackwood's pamphlet, I find the Rev. Gentleman delivering himself a I follows :—" You have all heard of Dens's Theology. do not mean to show how the Doctors of the Romish Church in Ireland are responsible for the doctrines of that book. In the end of the last century, when Mr. Pitt was Prime Minister of Great Britain, he consulted the Theological Faculties on the Continent, whether the Romish Church held the doctrines of persecuting heretics and of deposing Princes, and he received solemn disclaimers of all the doctrines imputed to them. Now the curious fact is, that while Dens's Theology contains all these intolerant doctrines, Dens himself at the time was a Professor in the Univer sity of Louvain, and Dens was a member of that very Faculty." (Loud cheering.) But will the following statement justify these cheers. Dens published his work a little after the middle of the last century, a time when re ligious differences were unfortunately fruitful in acrimo nious feelings, and when penal laws against Catholics were enforced with no little rigor in almost all the Pro testant States of Christendom. The dedication of his book was dated from the seminary of Mechlin, in which he was a functionary on the 12th of January, 1758. He was not a Doctor, but a mere licentiate of Louvain, and, therefore not a member of the Faculty. It does not ap pear that ever he taught at Louvain, o r that ever he gave up his office in Mec hlin, in whic h town , (accord ing to Feller's Historical Dictionar y , Paris, 1833) he died in the year 1775, aged 85 years. The disclaimers referred to from Louvain and other Continental Universities were addressed to Mr. Pitt in the end of the year 1788. Of so little authority is this terrible book of Dens among Catholics, that I do not remember to have ever heard of it before the late famous Exeter meeting.—l am, &c. AND. CARRUTHERS, Catholic Bishop. Edinburgh, January 4, 1836. We have just heard of the death, at Edinburgh, of Colonel Alexander Mair,:Deputy Governor of Fort George. —Courier. DARING BURGLARY BY, AND RE-CAPTURE OF, AN ESCAPED CONVICT.—On Friday last information was received at the station-house, Greenwich, that a con vict named Robert Berkensall, had escaped from the Jus titia hulk, Woolwich, to which place he was conveyed a few weeks since, having been found guilty of a burglary in Preston, Lancashire, and sentenced to transportation for life in October last. Orders were promptly issued by Mr. Superintendent Mallieu to the constables in the district to recapture the convict, if possible, and on Saturday morn ing, about four o'clock, Richard Skinner, R 162, while on duty in the Woolwich-road, observed a man dressed in a rough white top-coat pass him, when he fancied that he heard the chinking of irons, and suspecting that he might be the convict who had escaped, followed him for the pur pose of asking him some questions, but they had not gone far when the convict drew out a large dinner knife, very sharp at the point, and made a desperate attempt to stab the constable, accompanying the act with a dreadful oath that he would murder him. A scuffle ensued between the officer and the convict, in which the latter got the better, but fortunately the constable had his cutlass with him, which he drew, and prevented Berkensall from committing murder, which there is very little doubt would have been the case, as he is considered a most desperate ruffian. Skinner having obtained assistance, the knife was taken from the convict, and he was conveyed to the station house, when it was discovered that he was heavily ironed on each leg, and on searching him a chi se l, a h ammer , an d other tools for striking off his irons were found in his pos session, together with a bunch of keys, a pearl-handled knife, and various articles. On inquiry it was ascertained that the articles were stolen from a house in Plumstead that had been entered on Friday night, and on further in vestigation it appeared that the convict immediately after his escape from the hulk, which he effected by scaling a twenty-feet wall (and in doing which the iron round his waist broke,) proceeded to the house in question, and having obtained an entrance by the cellar-flap, he proceeded to a room up stairs where two young men were in bed, and stole the articles above d escr ib e d with the great coat , a pair of trowsers, and a hat which he had on when captured. The convict's dress was afterwards discovered in the garden ad joining the house that had been broken open. He was sent in charge of the police back to the hulks, when he was se verely flogged. At the station-house lie told inspector Thomas that he wastried for his life, and if not very shortly sent out of this country, he should commit suicide. The convict was again flogged on Monday. 4