The Sun. — London, England, 1844-12-31 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vittat/: ptnton. " In° runs may read." roaxagoa. On Saturday their Majesties the King and Queen of the French received the Austrian and Neapolitan Am ‘liassadors, the Ministers of Prussia and Wirtumberg, M. Sauzet, President of the Chamber of Deputies, the •refects of the Seine and Mayenne, General Sebastiani, the Marquis de Gabriac, the Count de Bondy, and the karvil Lucost, Member of the Chamber of Deputies. The deputies forming part of the Agricultural Com mittee of the Chamber were to meet on Monday, to Consider what measures it was advisable to adopt in order is prevent the epidemy now prevailing among the cattle in Germany from extending its ravages to France. The malady is said to have made its appearance on the fron tiers of Rhenish Prussia and the Dutch Limburg, within a short distance of Belgium. The provincial authorities of that kingdom were taking precautions against the ocetn-ge. ""rhe Gazette of Augsburgh states that both Govern taent and individuals in Italy are restoring to the reli gious orders, more particularly to the Jesuit , the pro perty formerly belonging to them, but which had been secularised. The Jesuits hare been solemnly installed in the Duchy of Nassau, and not only the care of the IJniversity, b u t t h e whole superintendence of education has been confided to their care. Letters from Dresden announce, that at the request of Meyerbeer, the King of Prussia has consented to devote the gross receipts at the Opera House, on the next re presentation of one of \Veber's operas, to the subscrip tion for the Weber monument. Mendelssohn at Berlin, Liszt at Paris, and 13:-nedict in London, have each an bounced their intention of giving a concert, the proceeds of which will be devoted to the same purpose. Letters from Vienna, of the 10th, announce that the Courier from Constantinople, had brought intelligence of the renewal of those attacks of epilepsy, from which the Sultan had so frequently suffered. He had recently had a fit of an alarming character in the mosque, while performing his d e voti o ns, and fe a rs are entertained that ail! at length sink under these attacks. 2.AVW AND POLXCB. s In the Insolvent Court, Alexander B. Blackie, who and been connected in business with Mr. Stead, the Ntentee of the wood pavement, was discharged. At Guildhall, William Bride, a carman in the service Of Messrs. Daukea and Rodick, agents for Guinness's /now, was brought up in custody charged with driving furiously and injuring Charles Tunnathy, Esq., of Cam den -town, while riding in his brougham in Aldersgate- Street. Mr. Alderman Copeland fined the defendant 3 X ) s, and 40s. damages ; in default of payment to be im . Prisoned one month. Edward Singleton, of Shrewsbury-court, Whitecross atreet, charged with selling a spiritous liquid, commonly ?idled " gingered gin," without a license, was convicted !.11 a penalty of 1001 at Clerkenwell, or three months' Pnprisonment. A fortune-teller, named Elizabeth Wilson, was corn tutted for a month from Queen-square. Daniel O'Connell, the landlord of the Yorkshire Grey, White Lion-street, Seven Dials, charged with detaining wpm bonnet of Ann Robins, and assaulting her, was fined 105. and costs at Marlborough-street. At the Thames Police-court, William Hills, the car kenter, and James Morrison, one of the mates of the ship of Poonah, from Madras, charged, on Custom-house Informations, with smuggling cigars, were convicted by • I3roderip in penalties of 1001. each. C OIIXT----FALSE(IO7SAI3LEI. Prince Alexander Lieven, son of the late Ambassador of that name at our Court, and of the Princess Lieven, and suite, arrived at the Clarendon Hotel, on Monday, from the Continent, on a brief visit to this country. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort left Hampton Court on Monday, for their seat in Gloucestershire ; and the Marquis of Worcester and Mr. Culling Smith, on a Visit to the Duke of Wellington at Strathfieldsaye. The Marquis and Marchioness of Douro have arrived In town, from Hatfield House, Herts, the seat of the Marquis of Salisbury, on their way to Strathfieldsaye, Ilarnpsh ire. The Marquis t►ud Marchioness of Normanby have returned to the Clarendon Hotel, from a visit to Viscount kW Viscountess Palmerston, at Broadlands. The Earl and Countess Clanwilliam have joined the assembled on a visit to the Dowager Countess of rtinbroke at Wootton, from Ryde. The Earl and countess are expected to return to the Isle of Wight iarl yin the ensuing week. The Earl and Countess of Ripon and Viscount Gede 'rich hale returned to Carlton-Gardens from a visit to the Right Hon. S. Lushington, at his seat in Kent. Lord and Lady De Roos and the Hon. Miss De Roes hoe gone to Hatfield House to join the circle assembled 1 ,4 that splendid seat on visits to the Marquis of Salisbury. u Captain G. Smith has submitted to the Admiralty the Plan of a boat adapted to screw-propelled steamers, and t ile Board has directed Mr. Cowell, of Woolwich-yard, to build one forthwith. The midship section is similar 1 ° a piddle-box boat, but the boat is fitted to general Purposes, and her bow and stern are alike, se that 4 1 embarking troops, or her crew, from a beach, she loay at once shove off without winding, and thus more quickly get out of a musket fire. Captain Smith has also greatly simplified the mode by which his paddle boats are put into and taken out of the water, the Ii "lble-jointed duvit being got rid of. Thaloerg, accompanied by Miss Dolby, Miss E. Birch, 11 r- Calkin, jun., and Mr. John Parry, will commence Ito extensive tour, on the 20th of January, at Edinburgh. After visiting Glasgow, Newcastle, Liverpool, &c., the Party will proceed to Belfast and Dublin; then return to England, and give concerts at Manchester, Birmingham, Learaington,Worcester, Cheltenham, Bath, Clifton, Ox ford, Brighton, &c. The latest news from Ichaboe is to the effect that snore vessels were lying it anchor there than could pos sibly pick up a freight, even if a former liberal calculation of the gross amount of the penguin and seal relics were found correct; but it appears that a rock has been disco yered under the remaining part of the zoological deposit which will materially reduce the estimate of the quantity. tlere then:we have positive news of the beginning of the end. A grand performance of sacred music will take place text week at Manchester, under the direction of Sir George Smart. The principal singers engaged are Miss - ttainforth and Miss M. B. Hawes, Mr. J. Bennett, and kr. Machin, supported by a very numerous band and '4l,4orus. , On Tuesday morning last the Rev. Dr. Cranmer was knstituted, inducted, and installed as Dean of Carlisle, With all the ceremonial usual on such occasions. Mr. Prebendary Harcourt was the officiating canon. At the Christmas general meeting of the Royal So ciety of Musicians, the sum of 551. was voted to be dis tributed among distressed persons connected with the musical profession having no claim on the funds of the society, SUDDEN DEATH OF MRS. HODSON, OF THE BOWER SALOON.—Yesterday Mr. Carter held an inquest at the Bower Saloon, Lambeth, on the body of Mrs. Cath er i ne M ar y H o d son , landlady of the above house, Whose death was awfully sudden. Miss Eleanor Hodson, i 4 daughter of deceased, said that, on Christmas day Last, between two and three o'clock in the afternoon, she bent into the deceased's bedroom and found her mother 4Pparently asleep. A short time previously witness had assisted to get the deceased into bed, in consequence of Ler being too ill to get in herself. She then complained of being very nervous, and shook as if she was cold. IC% Berrell, a surgeon, had seen her that morning, and bad sent her some medicine. A little after three o'clock, ° ll witness going again to see how deceased was, she found her dead. She went out with her husband the t i revious evening, to Mr. Farebrother's printing-office, in , ow -street, to arrange about the play-bills for the fol lowing week, and on her return home she complained of sickness and feeling unwell. After hearing medical evi "nee, the jury returned a verdict of " Natural death, arisin g from a rupture of the brain." EATAVIA, AUG. 23.—0 n the 31st of July, in the afternoon a fire broke out in the house of a native in the time town of the Regency of Ngrowa, which in a short "we reduced 98 bamboo houses to ashes. The Euro pean houses, the residence of the Regent, and the Go erliment magazines, which were in the immediate aeiyhbourhood, were saved. , RE HAGUE, DEC. 27.—We have received the J " a papers from the 17th to the 28th of August. In t hose of the 27th there is a very detailed account of the funeral of the late Governor-General, Y. Mercus, which took place on the 15th of August, at Soerabaya. STOCKHOLM, DEC. 17.—0 n Friday there was a e?aference of the Members of the Estates, for the discus 'ion of fin anc ial qu e s tions. The number of Members Present was very great, and the discussion animated. The senator Wurn communicated the English Act of Parlia ment relative to the division of the business of the Bank of England. 1 ,, TILE GAME-EAws.—Yesterday, at the Uxbridge etty Sessions, Charles Boddy, a young labouring man, at Ruislip, appeared before Sir W. S. Wiseman, Clarke, the Messrs. 'l'. Dagnall, W. 11. Cox, and 'l'. T. Clarke, ill sitting, Magistrates, on summons under the game raw's. for using on the 24th instant, at Ruislip, a snare or the purpose of taking game, he not having a game certificate. It appearing that the defendant had been b * let before convicted of poaching, the Bench said, that his third appearance before them, they felt it to be default" • r duty to fine him in the full penalty of 51., and in to commit him to hard labour in the House of C orrectio n for two months. The defendant was corn raitted. trikT he Marquis of Londonderry is about to under _ t't at gr ea t ex p ense , t h e en l argemen t o f his port a t " e shatn-hl r b our , by the construction of a new dock of ' t iZ t 'lve acres, in extension of the present south dock, the creased traffic in the coal trade at Seaham-harbour re. g r k i ng additional accommodation. The formation of th;us . al-harbour is one of the noblest private enterprises c° at ever undertaken by a single individual in this t i tint ry. and we trust Lord Londonderry and his descen :nts will for generations derive all the advantages that e en tib ° expected to result from this noble and magnifi t undertaking. find P OSTAL TREATY WITH EGYPT.—We understand kt 4 d t t ,ti o. in much-desired postal treaty between England f ro _'''esypt, with reference to the correspondence to and ehlts"; whener possessions, was on the point of con- A " the last advices , left Alexandria. t w - e . ‘ trotting match took place on Tuesday last be etl:: M r. Speakman's bay horse and Mr. J. Beam's 1.,1/41,r!tted Chesnut cob, three miles on the Braintree flu, lea two sovereigns a side. At starting the cob took 'tar Y Lel ' but was unable to maintain the pace, which was le ngth f t st ' and the ho `Essex Herald. rse won the match by about fifteen IRELAND. REPRESENTATION OF TIPPERARY. DUBLIN, DEC. 29.—The Hon. Mr. Hutchinson, in consequence of the delicate state of his health, declines to accept the representation of Tipperary. It is likely that Mr. Ryan, of Inch House, a deputy-lieutenant of that county, will now be selected. ANTI-TRINITARIAN COLLEGES. Under this heading the Evening Mail gives the follow ing announcement :—" We believe we may now state with certainty that Sir James Graham, and that portion of the Cabinet which encourage everything anti-Pro testant in Ireland, have come to the resolution of found ing two colleges—the one in Ulster, the other in Mun ster ; Belfast and Cork being the localties fixed upon in opposition to, if not in rivalry with Trinity College, DuWin. It is, we understand, decided upon that these new establishments are to be founded and provided for by special charters and Parliamentary grants, indepen dent of all other funds ; and that, for the present, they are to have the power of granting degrees in medicine, law, and arts." INCREASE OF CRIME. We regret to find that crime of a serious character is increasing in towns of the midland counties and in Tip perary. The Leinster Express, of this day, contains the following details. That Tory journal, in describing faction 'fighting in Dunkerrin, where Shinrone police agents had been at work for some months before, admits that the peasantry, on this occasion, were supplied with whiskey by a villain of this description : " MORE FAcTiort FIGHTING.-At the fair of Dun kerrin, on Saturday, we had a renewal of the brutal and baneful system of faction fighting. A fellow, who earned for himself an infamous notoriety at Roscrea during the recent visit of the apostle of temperance to that town, played a prominent part on the present occasion. It is stated that he plied the leaders of one party with whiskey, and then, with a demon-like propensity forevil, furnished the heads of the opposing faction with a supply of the same fiery and maddening fluid. The affray soon com menced, and the fair presented one scene of turbulency, uproar, and riot. The contending factions were the Hickeys and the Lahys—parties who so often fought for the last three months, and as often, we regret to say, escaped, at least from legal punishment. Had these fel lows been made amenable to law when involved in its meshes, faction fights would be more or less suppressed. Leniency towards men of such untameable ferocity is too often an inducement to them to continue their career of crime. " ATTEMPT TO BURN A HOUSE.—On Tuesday even ing the house of Mr. Patrick Savage, Willow-lodge, near Cloughjordan, was observed to be on fire by a man who was passing at the time. He immediately called on one of the servants to know if there was any light in the yard ; the servant having said no, they examined the dwelling-house, and found it in flames. Having given alarm, the fire was quenched before much damage was done. A coal was found in the thatch. This hap pened at the early hour of half-past five o'clock in the evening. " On the night of last Monday, four armed men, two of whom had their faces blackened, entered the dwelling house of a man named Banan, of Clonaganna, near Dun kerrin. One of the miscreants fired a shot into the kitchen. Banan, who had been at his brother's house, a short distance from his own, hearing the report, and conjecturing the cause, whistled and hallooed, as if he had assistance at hand. The ruse had the desired effect; for the ruffians became alarmed, and fearing that they would be set on by a superior force, they decamped. " LATE MURDER OF THE SHEPPARDS.—Some arrests have been made for this barbarous murder, and the parties committed to Parsontown bridewell and Tuna more gaol, for further investigation. " BARBAROUS MURDER IN THE QUEEN ' S COUNTY. — About four o'clock on the 20th instant, a boy who hap pened to be cutting switches in the plantation at Le vally, near Rathdowney, discovered the body of a man who had been brutally murdered. There were five cuts on the head, and on the right side was the appearance of two stabs, inflicted by a bayonet or some sharp instru ment. The murdered man was John Dillon, of Rath downey, and it was the opinion of medical gentlemen who attended, that he must have been five or six hours dead when discovered. John Dillon was upwards of seventy years of age, and a respectable man. It seems he had a rent-charge on some land held by nephews of his, also named Dillon, which, being allowed to run in arrear, he had them served with an ejectment process, that was to be tried at Abbeyleix Quarter Sessions on the 28th instant. On Saturday an inquest was held on view of the body at Rathdowney, by Thomas Budds, Esq., one of the Coroners for the Queen's County ; and Thomas Cannon, R.M., Robert Fitzgerald, Thomas Mosse, and Steele, Esqs., ma gistrates. After the examination of several witnesses, and two medical gentlemen, Doctors llarte and Delany, a verdict of wilful murder was returned against some person or persons unknown, and that James and Robert Dillon were aiding and conspiring in the same. Robert Dillon was arrested on the evening of the murder. There were recent marks of blood on his trousers. In account ing for himself he equivocated very much, and his state ment could not be sustained by facts. Jame Dillon has absconded. The Government has offered, through the hands of Thomas Cannon, Esq., R.M., Maryboroagh, a reward of 801. for the discovery of the murderer. " ATTEMPT TO MURDER.—On Friday night last two armed ruffians entered the house of Kyraa Bergen, at Ballycooled, near Rathdowney. having placed Bergan on his knees, they ordered him to say his prayers and prepare himself for death. While in a kneeling posture one of the miscreants snapped a pistol at him, which, fortunately, missed fire. Bergan, feeling the hopeless ness of his condition, became desperate and reckless. He bounced off his knees, and rushed at the other Rockite, wrested his pistol from him, and acted most manfully, both on the offensive and defensive. Ile at last succeeded in rating both ruffians out of the house. His head has several cuts in it ; hut none of them very dangerous. Government has offered a reward for the apprehension of the perpetrators of the above outrage. " ATTACK ON SIR HENRY CARDEN.—Sir Henry was passing through the streets of Templemore, when he was assailed and knocked down by a blow of a stone ; while down he was struck on the head by another ruffian, also with a stone ; and, but for the exclamation of some chil dren were playing near the spot—that a man was murdering'—there can be little doubt that Sir Henry would have been added to the list of persons whose lives have been sacrificed. " BORRISOKANE, DEC. 26.—1 have just a moment be fore the post goes out to inform you that a frighttul at tempt at murder has been made in this part of unhappy Tipperary, at an early hour yesterday evening. This occurrence took place in the parish of Terryglass, within pistol-shot of the village of Carrigahovig, and five miles of Borrisokane. The circumstances are as follow :—A Mrs. Going (a widow) was some time ago ejected from a small farm which she held at or near Carrigahovig. A respectable farmer, named Cleary, got into possession of it. He was served with threatening notices, but did not mind them. Yesterday evening, when going to his own house, and quite hard by it, a gun, charged with a vast quantity of heavy shot, was fired at him. At the moment the deadly weapon was discharged, Cleary had his hands in his breeches pockets, and in his left hand, the one next the assassin, he held a bunch of keys, with some pence and halfpence, which he had just got from a neighbour. The shot struck his left hand, carried off three of his fingers, smashed the ring of the keys, bat tered the money, and tore away his pockets and linen. The abdomen is untouched, but his left thigh is much lacerated. Hopes are entertained of his recovery, and never was there so narrow, so providential an escape." TIIE ROMAN CATIIOLIC CLERGY. The Leinster Express, a Tory journal, eulogises the Rev. Mr. Nolan, parish priest of Dunkerrin, and other Roman Catholic clergymen of the district, for their in defatigable exertions in repressing outrage, and in ob taining fire-arms from the peasantry, which had been delivered to the,authorities. THE SCOTCH BANKS. The London correspondent of the Mercantile Adver tiser states, under date of Wednesday—" I think I may announce, with confidence, that Sir Robert Peel has yielded to the remonstrances of the Scotch people, of all parties, by abandoning, for the coming session at least, his threatened project for the regulation of bank ing and currency in Scotland, the main feature of which was the suppression of the small note system in that part of the empire. As you must be aware, all Scot land bas been in motion in defence of its banking sys tem; but, probably, by this time, the agitation has been somewhat calmed down by an official intimation from the Government that the contemplated changes will not be proposed during the session of 1845." THE VANGUARD STEAMER. — The Cork Examiner of yesterday says, " We hate the pleasure to announce that the Vanguard has been most successfully removed, her leaks staunched, and that she is placed in safety on a smooth sand-bank, from which she is to be removed next tide to Passage, in order to get finally repaired." COERCION ACT FOR IRELAND. (From the Dublin Evening Post.) The Leinster Express calls upon Government for a Coercion Act. Certainly, the extent of crime is deeply to be deplored, and means of repression should be used, in co-operation with the Catholic Clergy ; for the horri ble system of outrage must be stopped, no matter how apparent may be the causes. But, can a remedy be found in a Coercion Act ? That experiment has already been often tried and found totally unavailing. The renewal of faction fights, through the instru mentality of agents who supply the peasantry with whisky, to involve them once more in brutal intemper ance, is one of the worst features of the present dis turbances. It is worthy of note that such miscreants dare nut have shown themselves whilst the late Govern ment were in office. During the six or seven years that Lord Normanby and Lord Fortescue presided over the Government, and Lord Morpeth held the office of Chief Secretary, Ireland continued in the most profound tran quillity, and Tipperary had been less disturbed than Yorkshire or Middlesex. If the landlords of Ireland understood their own interests, they would have cast faction to the winds, and have upheld a Government which had been enabled to secure such a priceless bless ing to the country. Then there was no hired ♦illains prowling about, debasing the peasantry with whisky. If such wretches ventured to appear, the constabulary, under the able administration of the late Thomas Drum mond, would at once secure them for the vengeance of the law. How is it that they now stalk abroad, prac tising their hellish trade with impunity? After the re velations about the Shinrone conspiracy, concocted in the very district where most of the present outrages were committed, can we wonder at these crimes, no matter how deeply we may deplore them? THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 3L 184 t. CHARITABLE BEQUESTS ACT. The opposition to this Act has been revived, and now appears to be carried on with more energy than before, in consequence of the statements that have been put forth in the newspapers respecting negotiations of the British Government at Rome, on the subject of the ap pointment of Roman Catholic Bishops in Ireland. The night Rev. Dr. COEN, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clonfert, attended a very crowded meeting in Loughrt a on Monday, and spoke in the most decided manner. against the Charitable Bequests Act. Dr. Coen, on taking the chair, said—" The friends and advocates of this obnoxious measure attempt to produce arguments in its favour, as if, by gilding the pill, they fancy themselves able to make its bitterness and nauseous ness somewhat palatable to the the patients. Some of them say that it is a boon, that it is a distinct proof of the friendly disposition of the Premier towards the Irish people. A boon, ineeed! oh, what hypocrisy to call that a boon which, if its provisions are carried out, can only be considered like that which the Greeks bestowed upon their enemies, the Trojans of old, when they wished to introduce within the walls of Troy, the wooden horse filled with incendiaries, who were ordered to creep out in the dark and set the city on fire. —(Cheers.) That is what we may consider this mis called boon, which the Premier intends to offer to the Catholic inhabitants of Ireland as a new year's gift.— (Hear, hear.) A boon, forsooth ! Oh, no ! we cannot look upon it in that light. Can we so regard such a measure, which insults the hierarchy and clergy of Ire land, and strips them of their vested rights and privileges in their respective dioceses? Is that a boon which sows the seeds of distraction, distrust, and division between the priests and their flocks?—(Cheers.) Is it, in fine, a boon which proscribes and wished for the extermination of the regular clergy of Ireland—a learned, pious class of men, who are our aealous co-operators in the vineyard of the Lord ?—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) But it is said that we ought to be satisfied with this Charities Bequests Art, because, as they allege, it is better than the old penal enactment. I say emphatically no—on the contrary, it is more dangerous in its consequences, more injurious to religion, than all the Acts passed in the angry days of persecution. And why ? Because the times are now changed—direct persecution for religious opinions has ceased ; the enlightened Protestants never looked back with pleasure to the penal code—they wish its remembrance to be buried in oblivion.—(Hear.) But not so this new penal enactment ; it is not intended by its framers to be a dead letter on the statute book.— (Hear, and cheers.) And in order to give it the appear ance of liberality, what have they done ? They have exerted every nerve to enlist as members of the commis sion a few of the prelates—persons of most exemplary conduct among the hierarchy of Ireland.—(Hear.) But at the same time that they have succeeded in entrapping a few, as if to conceal the venom of the pill by gilding it, they also take care to - have the majority on the board members of the Protestant communion, who, if they be true and faithful to their faith—that faith which they publicly avow and proclaim—cannot conscientiously de cide in favour of grants for Catholic purposes.—(Hear.) Caa it be expectee that they, the majority, would decide in favour of that religion which they have been taught from their childhood to condemn, and which they have sworn to be damnable and idolatrous ?"—(No, no.) The Cork Examiner contains a long report of a meet ing of the Boman Catholic citizens, held on Friday, to protest against the Charitable Bequests Act. The Mayor presided. Mr. D. Callaghan, M.P., was amongst the speakers. The provincial papers received to-day contain various other accounts of meetings to protest against the Act, which is denounced in terms the most unqualified. THE LATE EARL OF LIMERICK. Lord Monteagle has addressed the following to the editor of the Limerick Chronicle : " Sir,—l enclose you a memorandum in contradiction of the account given in the last Reporter of some of the occurrences at the late Earl of Limerick's funeral. " I am, Sir, your very obedient servant, " MONTEAGLE." The statement published in the Limerick Reporter, respecting the funeral of the late Earl of Limerick, is in correct in several particulars relating to others, as well as to myself. It is in its relation with myself that I feel bound to give it an immediate and an authoritative con tradiction. " It is stated in the Reporter, that Lord Monteagle, either intending to accompany the remains of the de ceased into the cathedral, or, fearing that his carriage would be upset, descended, but was jostled by the crowd, that he took refuge in a public-house, and concealed him self under a bed.' The paragraph adds, that a troop of horse, with drawn swords, galloped towards the public house where Lord Monteagle was in durance;' and it concludes by stating, that Lord Monteagle left his hiding-place, and entered a carriage, in which were Sir Aubrey de Vere and other gentlemen.' " ' There is not one of these four assertions which is not unfounded. A simple statement of the facts will be sufficient to show their inaccuracy. " On approaching the cathedral, in my carriage, I found, to my astonishment, that by some extraordinary order, the iron gates were closed. It was thus rendered impossible for the procession to advance, and my car riage, as well as the carriages of others, was left in the midst of a violent and exasperated crowd. No one con stable, no municipal authority, was available at the spot at this time, to preserve order. Finding it impossible to proceed towards the cathedral, I, in common with others, left my carriage. From the want of any con stable, or police regulations, it was impossible, however, to reach the cathedral gates. I lad no sooner quitted my carriage than I found myself surrounded by a few humble but resolute citizens, who, far from jostling' or assaulting me, carried me into a house opposite the ca thedral, where I and several other gentlemen were re ceived with true Irish hospitality and kindness. It is wholly and most notoriously false to state, that I was concealed under a bed,' or concealed at all. I remained in a room with upwards of twenty persons of both sexes. To that room the mayor, the high sheriff; and many other persons, had access, and can contradict the false as sertion. It is equally false that ' a troop of dra goons, with drawn swords,' rescued me from what is called 'my hiding place: When the excitement had somewhat subsided, and before any soldiers arrived, I crossed over to the cathedral with my friends, and en tered my carriage without difficulty or, concealment; nor did I see a single soldier till I reached the bridge, where Colonel Mansell met me, and asked me whether I required any protection. I informed him that I did nor, and returned to my hotel without the slightest mo lestation. " It has thus been shown that in the case of each of these four assertions the writer in the Reporter is inac curate in every particular. " I pass over altogether the political imputations cast on myself. If my public services to the city and its in habitants are not a sufficient refutation to such an attack, I disdain suggesting any arguments in self-de fence. To the intelligent people of Limerick, of all creeds, and of all parties—to the gentry, clergy, mer chants, traders, and labourers, I am willing to leave the judgment, whether I have been guilty of any treachery or deception towards them ; or whether I laboured faith fully to promote their interests. But I will not accept as judges of my political conduct an excited crowd, which could forget the reverence due to death, and the sym pathy which every manly and generous spirit ought to have felt for a daughter and a widow attending the ob sequies of a parent, a husband, and a sister. From a tribunal -like this no judgment can proceed to which 1 feel disposed to attach the slightest importance. "Dec. 26; " " MON'rEAGLE. The Limerick Chronicle adds the following paragraphs: " Lady Gleutworth, Lady Russell, and George Lake Russell, Esq., left this city on Thursday morning for Lon don, after attending the obsequies of their deceased rela tive, the Earl of Limerick. The llon. Edmund Pery, son of his Lordship, and uncle of the present Earl of Limerick, left this yesterday for London, after the same mournful duty. Upon the front of Limerick House, Henry-street, there is affixed an escutcheon, or hatch ment, of the family arms of the deceased Peer as a me morial of his death. " Appropriation made by the executors of the Earl of Limerick, in fulfilment of the trust devolved on them of his Lordship's charity:—County Infirmary, 1001.; Bar rington's Ilospital, 1001.; Fever Hospital, 100/.; Pro testant Orphan Society, 50/.; Sisters of Mercy, 50/.; Convalescent Dispensary, 501.; Presentation Schools, 501." DISTURBANCES IN TIPPERARY. The 7'ipperau Vindicator contains the following:— " We have every reason to think that the suggestion as to townland meetings is likely to be acted upon with out further loss of time. The people, thank God, are beginning to awake to the peril of apathy. They know that the innocent, not the guilty, should necessarily be the sufferers if matters go on in utter defiance of the laws of man and the decrees of Providence. They will be obedient, therefore, to the stera dictates of their own consciences; and to the advice of their clergy—and, hurl. ing defiance at the miscreant hirelings who are desirous of establishing a reign of terror in the country, they will assemble and resolve to discountenance crime and criminals, and to put down the abominable ruffians who seek a trade in the people's misfortunes." WRECK AT CLIFDEN. The Galway Vindicator contains the following account of the wreck of the Lady Grace : CLIFDEN, DEC. 23.—This schooner, bound from Glas gow to Kilrush and Limerick, consigned to both places, laden with iron, delf, pottery, &c., was, about six o'clock this morning, driven upon the rock " Carrigcumbe," north of Slimehead, and about one league from shore, on the coast of Connemara, where she remained for some time, her crew in a most perilous condition, the breakers rolling over them at intervals, and had it not been fur the praiseworthy exertions and timely aid of the inha bitants of Erismore, who, at the extreme risk of their lives, got out their row boats, and went to the rescue of these poor souls, they would in a few hours have perished every one of them. The crew was taken front the wreck by heaving lines from the row boats to which they tied themselves, and were pulled through the breakers, shortly after which the vessel was driven by a sea off the rock, when she sank to the bottom in about twelve to sixteen fathoms of water. She was 110 tons burthen, 66 tons register, crew five in number, viz., Captain John Michael, a Welshman ; James Grunt, Kilrush, mate ; Timothy Kelly, Kilrush, Davy Duvis and John Owens, Welsh men, sailors'. During the night of the morning it blew a gale, wind about south-east. It appeared they were keeping the land aboa.Td, to encounter the gale ; at day light, while trying to put to sea, the vessel misstayed, and in attempting to wear her, she ran upon this rock." IRISH NAVAL SQUADRON. LIMERICK, DEc. 28.--The Pluto steamer, Commander Crozier, arrived here on hlonddy, and after discharging ordnance stores, left for Cork on Christmas eve. It is expected that this vessel 'will return and occupy the late station of the Tart arils in the pool. The Stromboli. steam-sloop, Commander Hon. E. Plunket, is ordered from Cork to the Shannon. The Tartarus steamer, Captain James Wolfe, was paid wages at Plymouth, and has arrived at Cork to re assume her surv' ey on the Southern corst. The Alban, -steam-transport vessel, Lieut.-Commander Lowe, is orde, ed from the Irish stat►on to Woolwich, to have her del , acts made good. Slit ROI ,ERT SALE AND SIR HENRY POTTINGEIL— Londond.er ry claims the honour of giving birth to the former, as id Belfast to the latter of those distinguished men. Th Ea rl of Pomfret is on a visit to Sir E. and Lady EV-zabeth _Borough, at Dublin. Sir George De La Poer Beresford, late M.P. for Ath lone, whose cos has been for some months in the Insolvent Court, has come out with an offer of two shillings in the pound to his creditors. The hearing of his petition is adjourned to the 6th of January. CHRISTMAS SONG of the POOR MAN BY ELIZA COOK. "A merry Christmas, Gentlemen," 'Tis thus the ancient ditty runs, But minstrels chime no hailing rhyme, - - For Poverty's low, haggard - sons. A merry Christmas to ye all, Who sit beneath the green-twin'i roof, To mark how fast the snow flakes fall, Or listen to the ringing hoof. A pleasant tune the north wind hums, When that's without, and ye within; But like a serpent's fang it comes Upon the poor man's naked skin. A merry Christmas to ye all, Who fold warm robes o'er limb and breast, Who sleep enclosed by curtain'd wall, With blankets on your couch of rest. But I—the poor man—what shall be The merry Christmas tide to me? I've seen men her the log trunk through, I've seen them bear the holly by, To pile upon the sparkling hearth, And grace the stall'd ox smoking high. The oak-root is a mighty thing, And beauteous the berry red, But hollow is the joy they bring, To eyes that dimly look for bread. The poor man's fire!—pshaw! how should ho Feel such a strange, luxurious want? The poor man's meal !—oh, let it be Some scrap, ungarnish'd, cold and scant. " A merry Christmas, Gentlemen," 'Tis thus the ancient ditty runs; But nought we hear of welcome cheer. For Poverty's low, haggard sons, Nor malt, nor meat, nor fruit, nor wine, Oh, a merry Christmas will be mine. A rapid ding-dong swelloth round, The giant steeples shake with glee, And mistletoe is gaily bound With branches from the laurel tree. The midnight gloom is deep—but, hark! The tones of kindly custom flow, Sweet music cometh in the dark, With voices greeting, as they go, " A merry Christmas, Gentlemen." Aye, great ones, it is all your own, The hour is sung, the harp is strung, Where Plenty flings her treasures down: What has the poor man got to do With bells and bay-wreaths, songs and mirth? Let me creep on with Misery's crew, 'Twist piercing sky and frozen earth; Nor malt, nor meat, nor fruit, nor wine, Oh, a merry Christmas tide is mine. The rich man's boy laughs loud to find Thick ice upon the streamlet's tide; His round cheeks freshen in the wind, His warm feet bound along the slide. But little loves the poor man's heir Upon the stagnant rill to look; He crouches from the biting air, His thin blood curdles with the brook. The well-born daughter smiles to think How gay the lighted room will seem When friends shall meet to dance and drink, And all be glad as fairy dream. The poor man's girl shall only care To hug her tatter'd garment tight, To wring the hoar frost from her hair, And pray that sleep may come with night. Pale children of a pauper slave, Rare Christmas gambols ye will have. " A merry Christmas, Gentlemen," Fill, fill your glasses high and fast; The north wind's shriek is fiercely bleak, What matter! let it rattle past. " A merry Christmas, Gentlemen," Feast on and chaunt a blythesome strain, The cutting chill grows bleaker still, What matter! till the glass again, Stir up the blaze—rejoice arid feed, Shout and be happy as ye can, — My groan arrests ye! take no heed, 'Tis but a hungry fellow-man." " A merry Christmas, Gentlemen," 'Tis thus the ancient ditty runs, No tongue shall sing, no bells shall ring, For Poverty's low, haggard sons; Nor malt, nor meat, nor fruit, nor wine, Oh, a merry Christmas tide is mine! —Dispatch. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. E Italiana in Algieri, one of the most delightful of Rossini's buffa operas, was produced at this theatre last evening, in an English dress, under the title of The Italian in Algiers, with all that minute attention to the mist en scene for which this management has ever been so remarkable, and which, by the com pleteness which it gives to a dramatic production as a whole, contributes so essentially to its success. The following was the cast :—Mustapha (Dey of Algiers) Alr. P. Corti; Lindor (a young Italian), Mr. Allen ; faddeo (an Italian, and guardian to Isabella), Mr. Leffler; Hely, Mr. Mattacks ; Isabella (in love with Lindor), Madlle. H. Condell; Elvira (wife to the Dey), Nliss Grant ; Zulma (her attendant), Miss Brentnall. Of the Lindor of Mr. Allen it is impossible to speak in terms of too high praise. The delicious aria which he sings immediately that he comes upon the stage was given with exquisite delicacy of expression. There was a thrilling pathos in his tone that re minded us not unfrequently of Rubini, and Mr. Allen did not suffer by the remiuisciences thus ex cited. There is no other English tenor singer who could have given this exquisite morceau so delight fully. Throughout the opera he was equally good. It was evident that he felt, appreciated, and under stood the beautiful music of Rossini, and that it was to him a labour of love to do full justice to it. 111 r. P. Corti, as the Dey, has taken a giant's stride in his professional career. He is not only an ad mirable buffo, but a very good musician. The far-famed " Papatari" received full justice at his hands, and kept the audience in a roar of laughter. He was well supported by Leffler, who was in excel lent voice, and, as Taddeo, was most humorous and laughter-moving. The part of Isabella was well sustained by Miss Helen Condell, while Miss Grant, whom we are glad to see once more on the boards of this theatre, made an excellent Elvira. Her opening scene in the second act was most effective. It was loudly applauded, and narrowly escaped an encore. Great praise is due to Mr. W. L. Phillips, the chorus master of this establishment, for the excellent drilling which he gives his chorus singers, who not only sing but act, thus adding greatly to the vraisemblance of the scene. The principal artistes were honoured with the usual ovation at the fall of the curtain, and it is needless to add that the opera was completely suc cessful. ASTLEY'S AMPHITHEATRE. The first of " Batty's Equestrian Morning Fetes and Fashionable Day Performances, commencing at half-past one and terminating at half-past three," was given yesterday. The spectators were principally those for whose accommodation the hour was chosen, viz., the members of the rising generation, who are now home enjoying the festivities of Christmas, and seeing the sights of the season. The programme of yesterday was a good one—there were the first ap pearance of M. Pierre, in a novel and olympic act of horsemanship; Mademoiselle Helene, the celebrated French equestrian artiste, on a spirited steed in a grace ful scene of equitation; M. Genges, the juggler of Marseilles; Mr. Wells, who introduced two dwarf well-trained steeds ; the Southern American Minstrels, Messrs. Woolest, Hobbins, Parker, and Ring; Mr. H. Smith, and the steed Taglioni. After them came a Polka dance on horseback, by Mr. Newsome and Miss Isabella, and finally a variety of equestrian quadrilles, said to be of " the moyen age," which were capitally performed both by the horses and riders ; the evolu tions being perfectly carried through, and the gallo pades in the best style. The audience, which was more select than the usual evening audiences at this theatre, seemed highly delighted, and we have no doubt but the speculation will answer. The idea of giving day performances for the juveniles is a capital one, and we were glad to see that the public supported the undertaking by a numerous attendance. The theatre was brilliantly illuminated, as for an evening per formance. CURABILITY OF CONSUMPTION.—Under this title has just appeared a letter, addressed to Dr. Forbes, editor of a medical periodical, and consulting physician to the Hospital for Consnmption, l3rompton. The author of the letter is Dr. Cronin, of the Strand Dispen sary for Consumption, and if he has dealt with the cele brated practitioner above-named with considerable seve rity, there is abundant reason shown in the letter for the course pursued in the treatment Dr. Cronin states be has received at the hands of his opponent. " When doctors differ, who is to decide ?" Globe. ELECTRIC TELEGRAPII.—The work of laying down the Patent Electric Telegraph on the South- Western Railway, from London to Gosport, is nearly completed. The posts for sustaining the wires, which are fixed at about fifty yards distance, are put down nearly the whole distance, and the fixing of the wires is being rapidly proceeded with. The cost of the work, about 24,0001., is, we understand, borne in equal pro portions by the Company and by the Board of Admi ralty.—Rampshire Telegraph, ANOTHER WRIT OF HABEAS IN JERSEY. (From a Second Edition of the Jersey Gazette.) We hare returned to Jersey at last ; and happily, for many and various reasons, with a peremptory writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum, issued by Baron Rolfe, and returnable in the Queen's Bench. 'We served the writ to-day on Mr. Kandich personally, and a copy of it duly on the Viscount. The follow ing is the order of Court directing the issue of the writ : " R. M. Rolfe.—Upon hearing Mr. Peacock, for Charles Carus Wilson, and upon reading the several affidavits of William A. Langdale, and of William Russell, and the exhibits thereto annexed, I do order that a writ of Habeas Corpus ad Subjiciendum issue directed to John Kandich, gaoler of Jersey, and to John Le Couteur, Viscount of the said island, to bring up to the Court of Queen's Bench the body of Charles Carus Wilson, returnable on the 18th day of January, 1845. " Dated the 23d day of December, 1844." The following is an exact copy of the writ and en dorsements : " AD. SUB. " Victoria, by the grace of God of the United King dom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, to John Kandich, keeper of our gaol of Jersey, in the Island of Jersey, and to John Le Cou teur, Viscount of said island, greeting, we command you that you have the body of Charles Carus Wilson, detained in our prison under your custody as it is said, together with the day and cause of his being taken and detained, by whatsoever name he may be called or known, in our Court before us at Westmin ster, on the eighteenth day of January next, to un dergo and receive all and singular such matters and things which our said Court shall then and there con sider of him in this behalf and have there then this writ. Witness Thomas Lord Denman, at Westmin ster, the twenty-third day of December, in the eighth year of our reign. " By the Court, " ROBINSON. "Endorsed by the Judge : At the instance of Charles Carus 'Wilson. (Signed) " R. M. ROLFE. " Mr. A. Langdale, 7, Gray's Inn-square, London, attorney for the said Charles Carus Wilson, 23d December, 1844." ___ _ The efforts of the Viscount and his subordinates to day to avoid service were most ludicrous. We were not obliged to serve a copy upon the Viscount per sonally at all, but as counsel suggested that it might be as well to endeavour to do so, we proceeded about twelve o'clock to that gentleman's residence, St. Aubin's,rang the bell, and, in answer to our inquiry, were told by a middle-aged man servant, that the Viscount was at home, but too ill to see any person. We then desired him to inform his master that we were there with a peremptory writ of habeas corpus, to bring up the body of Charles Carus Wilson to the Queen's Bench, England ; at the same time exhibit ing the original writ and copy. The man departed on his errand, and presently returning, told us the Colonel could say nothing about it, finishing with " I beg your pardon, sir, but I must shut the door. Ha! ha! ha !" Truly laughable was this absurd ex pedient to avoid the service of a writ. Returning immediately to town, we entered the Viscount's office, and served the clerks there (Messrs. Sullivan and Binet) with copies of the writ and order. Those young and sensitive gentlemen were even more alarmed than their master, and very de cidedly refused to receive the dreaded papers. Nay, in excess of zeal, Mr. Bit - let threw the copies after us as we descended the stairs. Curious this, for a lawyer's office. About ten minutes afterwards the writ was served upon Mr. Kandich, who took such a mere matter of course quietly and reasonably. It may be perhaps as well to mention that the ex• hibits mentioned in the rule of Court were the " rule" obtained by the Solicitor-General, and the affidavits of Mr. Wilson and the Procureur-General. It will require more than ordinary impudence, therefore, to assert on this occasion that the Judge has been sur prised into granting the writ. Is there no limit to the jurisdiction of the Jersey Royal Court ? None ! We believe if the eleven Apostles were to revisit earth, and light upon Jersey, Judas himself, all the while in England, could throw them into Jersey gaol, and that our Royal Court would be glad to pluck them. One Captain It—, an Englishman, lately visited Jersey from Caen; owing nothing to any man in England or in Jersey. An alien—a Frenchman—seeing him here, ordered the Deputy Viscount of Jersey to arrest Captain R—, which the Deputy Viscount did—with a constable's staff, having a crown at the end of it, and he did this, mark ye, " in the Queen's name," as if the captain were a criminal, and without warrant — without an affidavit of debt—without any security from the alien Frenchman that he would appear and prosecute his suit. And in the Queen's name this Deputy Viscount lodged his prisoner in the Jersey debtors' prison. In the Queen's name/ We appre hend that without warrant the Queen's name might have been invoked with a poignard equally lawfully by the defendant, MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. (From the Limerick Chronicle of Saturday.) The 72d, or Albany Highlanders, under Lieut.-Colonel Lord A. Lennox, by the Resistance, troop-ship, from Cork, were landed at Gibraltar, on the 13th December, and played into barracks by the bands of the Ist, 7th, 38th, and 79th, to the tune of " Auld lang syne." The third and last division of the 67th, under Major Orange, has landed in Dublin from Woolwich. Captain Stokes's company, 6th Battalion Royal Artil lery, has embarked at Cork for Bristol, en route to Woolwich. Major Harrison's company of Royal Artillery has embarked at Kingstown for Cork, and arrived yesterday per Dee steamer. The troops ordered to O'Brien's-bridge, Silvermines, Castle Connell, Cappaghmore, Cloghjordan, Borriso leigh, are countermanded for the present. The detachment of the 4th Dragoon Guards, ordered to march for Killaloe and Nenagh, is countermanded for the present. Assistant-Surgeon Stack, 23d depot, Cork, is on leave of absence to the 31st December. Colonel Chatterton, 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, and Mrs. Chatterton, left the Rev. Richard Dickson's yesterday, fur Cahir. Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Michael Creagh, 11th Regi ment, at Chatham, is on leave. The regiment only re• quires thirty men to complete its strength. Lieutenant- General Sir Thomas Arbuthnot, com mander of the district, attended the Manchester public dinner last week to Sir Henry Pottinger ; also, Lieute nant-Colonel White, 70th, and Major Westenra, sth Dragoon Guards. Lieutenant Vansittart, of the Ist, from Barbadoes, and Captain White and Lieutenant Forbes, 77th, from Jamaica, have landed at Southampton by the West India mail steamer, Thames. The i3lands were gene rally healthy. The Sergeant-Major of the 16th Lancers is promoted to a cornetcy in the regiment, without purchase. Lieutenant Grogan, 7th, Lieutenant-ColunelCockburn, 60th, and Lieutenant Shirley, 87th, sold out of the ser vice last week. The Senior-Lieutenant of the 7th Fusilecrs, and Pay master of its depot, has sold out of the service. Captain Norman's Company, 54th, has arrived at Ballinanaore; county Leitrim, from Mullingar, head quarters. FRIGHTFUL SCAFFOLD ACCIDENT IN JERMYN.• STREET, ST. JAMES'S.—Yesterday forenoon, a dreadful accident, attended with fatal consequences, occurred at a new building in the progress of erection, situate at the corner of Jermyn-street, and Duke-street, St. James's square, belonging to Mr. Slater, butcher to her Majesty. It appears that Mr. Archbutt, builder, of Hanover-street, Chelsea, superintended the erection of the building, which is chiefly built of stone. On Saturday evening last, prior to the workmen leaving their work, two mas sive stones, each weighing about 500 cwt., forming a coping between the third and fourth stories, was hoisted on to the scaffold, where it was allowed to remain until Monday morning, when the men returned to their work. Shortly after nine o'clock, a mason, named John Smith, was engaged with his chisel, making a hole on one of the sides of the stones as it lay on the scaffold, when the putlocks which supported it, broke away, and the scaffold, the two stones, Smith, and two other workmen, named William Francis, and Rolna Perry, were precipitated to the basement, a depth of seventy feet, the coping stones in their descent, carrying with them about twelve feet of the stone balcony. Francis, one of the three men, fell head foremost upon one of the stones which had lodged on the edge of a well which had been covered over with boards ; but the weight of the stone had dis placed one or two of them, and through the opening the unfortunate men had fallen a further depth of thirty-six feet. Assistance was immediately procured, and on being got up from the bottom his skull was found to be extensively fractured, and life quite extinct. Smith, another workman, was discovered lying a few yards from him insensible, and bleeding profusely from several wounds in the head ; and a short distance from the latter lay Perry sensible, but bleeding from several wounds in the scalp, and covered with bruises and con tusions. Francis was conveyed to the Unicorn public house opposite, where the body now lies ; and Smith and Perry were immediately removed to St. George's Hospital, where but slight hopes are entertained of Smith's recovery. An inquest was held last evening at the Unicorn, Jermyn-street, before Mr. Iliggs, upon the body of William Francis, and the jury, after hearing the facts as above related, returned a verdict of " Acci dental Death." The jury appended an opinion that an excessive weight had been placed on the scaffold, and that better precautions ought to have been taken. COMMUNICATION BETWEEN EGYPT AND INDIA. — It is satisfactory to be able to inform our readers that Mr. Galloway, the engineer (whose pamphlet on the Cairo and Suez Railroad, as noticed in the Westminster Review, we referred to in connexion with the Indian railways on Friday last) has just left Paris, en route to Egypt, to commence this great work, projected by his brother, the Bey, ten years ago. This work must be looked upon as the first link of the grand chain of rail , way communication from the Mediterranean so gene rally advocated, and so obviously necessary between England and her Indian possessions, and her recently acquired colony in China.—Morning Paper. AMERICAN AFFAIRS. NEW YORK, DEC. 14.—8 y the steamer which brings you this letter you will receive, if you have not previously received it, the President's Message at the opening of Congress. Accompanying this mes sage, are numerous documents of great importance in relation to Mexico, Texas, &c. As these papers will all be in your possession, I have deemed com ments on them unnecessary. A new source of discontent and collision has oc curred between the States of Massachusetts and South Carolina. Some years ago the State of South Caro lina passed a law prohibiting free negroes from coming into the state, and subjecting them to pains and penalties for a violation of this law. On different occasions free blacks, employed as seamen, were brought into the state. They were immediately im prisoned, and kept in prison until the sailing of the vessel to which they belonged. Some of these men, it is alleged, were citizens of Massachusetts. Recently the Legislature of that State authorised the appoint ment of a Commissioner to proceed to South Caro lina, and ascertain the precise state of the facts. A Mr. Hoar was selected to perform this duty. On his arrival he notified to the Governor of South Carolina the character of his mission, and that the object was to try the constitutionality of the State law in the Supreme Court of the United States. The Legislature of South Carolina being in session, the Governor transmitted to that body the communication of Mr. Hoar. Upon its receipt a Bill was introduced, and passed in a few hours through all the forms of a law, authorising the in stantaneous expulsion of Mr. Hoar from the State ; and he was, without delay, expelled as an incendiary. Rumour adds, that the presence of a young lady, his daughter, who was travelling with him, was his only protection from personal violence. The next step, on the part of Massachusetts, will be, it is said, an ap peal to the Courts of the United States. " The glorious uncertainty of the law" will, most probably, hang up this case. But suppose the decision to be against South Carolina, what then ? Why, nothing. In the proceedings f Congrest you will notice a most extraordinary and unexpected change of opinion since last session in regard to abolition petitions. The rule which prohibited their reception by the House has, on the motion of Mr. Adams, without debate, been repealed by a majority of twenty-eight votes. Petitions have accordingly been received, praying the abolition of the slave-trade in the district of Columbia, and referred to the Committee on the district. I offer no opinion as to the cause which has tended to produce this change. Indeed, I have not heard any assigned that was even plausible, except that the rule was a bad rule, and kept the House in a conti nued state oft' excitement, while its effect was to strengthen, rather than to weaken, the abolition party. Indeed, I have been unable to account for the pertinacity with which the south adhered to this rule, seeing that it gave great dissatisfaction to many of their best friends in the north, who were warmly op • posed to the doctrine of abolition, but firm supporters of the right of petition. Mr. M‘Duffie, agreeably to the recommendation of the President, has introduced into the Senate a series of resolutions, to be passed by both Houses of Con gress, annexing Texas to the United States. Mr. M‘Duffie made no remarks ; but on motion they were referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. For this procedure there is no precedent under the Federal Constitution ; but the doctrine of its authors is, that for its adoption it requires only a majority of each branch of the national Legislature. On the next clay, the 11th inst., Mr. Benton intro duced a Bill, which was substantially the - same:as the one he offered last session, annexing Texas to the United States, with the assent of Mexico, which Bill, without debate, was also referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. Mr. Ingersoll's resolution in the House, for an nexation, similar to Mr. M`Duffie's in the Senate, was made the order of ,the, day for „Monday, the 23d inst. Mr. Allen, of Ohio, offered in the Senate the fol lowing resolution : "Resolved,—That the President: be !requested to lay before the Senate, if in his judgment it may be done without prejudice to the public interests, a copy of any instructions, which may have been given to the American Minister in England, on the:subject of the title and occupation of the territory of Oregon, since the 4th of March, 1841 ; also a copy of any correspondence which may have passed between this Government and that of Great Britain, or between either of the two Governments and the Minister of the other, in relation to that subject since that time." This resolution was adopted, after some opposition from Mr. Archer, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, by a vote of—ayes 24, nays 16. Mr. Allen is a strong advocate for immediate action on this subject. After giving to the Government of Great Britain the required notice (twelve months), he is for taking forcible possession, if force should be found necessary. It is confidently asserted that Mr. Adams has ex pressed an opinion that the annexation of Texas with out a war with Mexico will take place ; that Great Britain will do nothing more than protest ; but that she will probably, by an arrangement with Spain, take possession of Cuba. Now, without possessing any knowledge on the subject (notwithstanding the boldness with which the statement is made), I have no hesitation in expressing my unbelief of the rumour. But if it be true that Mr. Adams has given such an opinion as that above stated, I take leave to differ with him. Great efforts will be made to secure the annexation, but I yet think it cannot be accomplished while the present Senate is in power. No movement has yet been made in Congress on the subject of the tariff. The south—but more espe cially South Carolina—is grumbling, and threaten ing the most direful consequences to the nation if the tariff of 1842 is not uprooted. But, on the other hand, the President, and his Secretary of State (Mr. Calhoun), are far more interested in the question of annexation. Besides, a portion of the west have mounted, thus early in the session, their hobby, and seem determined to ride it pell-mell. I refer to a bill for reducing and graduating the price of the public lands. In this scramble lam beginning to think that the tariff will escape with little effective notice. By the late accounts from the Holy City, Nauvoo, the Mormons appear to have settled down into a state of tranquillity. They boast that their great and magnificent temple will be completed in a few months. A GENEVESE TRAVELLER. —Times. FURTHER EXTRACTS FROM THE AMERICAN PAPERS. PHILADELPHIA, DEC. 13, FIVE P.M.—PENNS/L -VANIA LoAN.—I have just received the subjoined im portant information from an .authentic source, re specting the interest on the State Loan. The balance is so much larger than was anticipated until very re cently, that there now exists not a single doubt but the interest will be paid punctually when it falls due in February, without the aid of a loan for that purpose. Indeed, it is now highly probable that the interest will also be paid in August, and regularly thereafter. The amount of outstanding taxes for 1843 and 1844 is very large—the domestic debt has nearly disappeared, and we will, in 1845, be in the receipt of the mill-tax.--Courier and Enquirer. " OHIO.—The message of the out-going, and the inaugural of the in-c(ming, Governor Bartley, of Ohio, reach us in the Cincinnati papers. The former states the amount of money in the Treasury at 123,822 dollars ; the total amount of the Canal Fund is 1,233,339 dollars, of which 25,000 dollars is applied to the Sinking Fund, 1,167,444 dollars to pay the interest on the State debt, and the balance to keep the public works in repair. The taxable property in the State is 136,142,666 dolls., and the aggregate amount of taxation is 15 mills on the dollar. The public improvements are nearly completed. The pre sent condition of the resources of Ohio is represented as highly flattering. The aggregate foreign debt is 19,276,751 dolls. INDIANA VIRTUALLY REPUDIATES. Governor Whitcomb's message to the Legislature gives no hopes to the holders of the bonds of the State that she can or will make any attempt to pay the interest on her public debt at present. He nominally condemns repudiation, but states explicitly that the people are unable to meet the payment of t he interest. His language is, that "the interest on our public debt cannot be paid." A resolution was offered in the Legislature by Mr. Defrees to fund the public debt and interest, with a year's interest in advance, and so issue three per cent. bonds, with 25 years to run to take up the present bonds, pledging all possible resources of the State to meet the interest, and the residue to be raised by taxation. This manly proposition was laid on the table, 30 to 19 ! The whole debt of the State is short of 15,000,000 dollars, and the wealth of the State, which has now a popula lation of near a million, is estimated at 150,000,000 dollars, and yet she pretends before the world that she cannot pay an annual interest of 600,000 dollars. It is a monstrous iniquity—a subterfuge which would disgrace a tribe of savages. In fact, Indiana herself would inflict summary punishment upon any one of her old tribes which should in like manner seek to evade its just responsibilities to her.—Newark Daily Advertiser. The Hon. William Prescott, of Boston, who has filled conspicuous situations at the bar and on the bench, died recently at his residence in that city, at an advanced age. The immediate cause of his death was a fit of apoplexy. He has left a family, among which is W. H. Prescott, LL.D., an eminent historian. Among the changes produced by the organisation of a party under the name of Native American, we notice that the city of Boston, which gave a majority over all , the others of 3,500 votes for Clay at the Pre sidential election, has failed to choose a mayor by the people at the first trial. The notorious English thief, William Hoppy, has at last been arrested, and is now believed to b. secured. The ship Massasoit (of Plymouth, near Boston), from Calcutta for Boston, was lost in a severe gale at the entrance of Boston Harbour, and three persons perished. The ship and cargo are a total loss, esti mated at 70,000 dollars. By means of Morse's Magnetic Telegraph the pro- ceedings of Congress are made known in Baltimore as soon as they occur in Washington. The distance is 40 miles, and the communication instantaneous and infallible. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, MONDAY.—The Queen and Prince Al bert walked for some time this forenoon previous to his Royal Highness going to shoot in the royal pre serves, attended by Lord Charles, Wellesley, Mr. Anson, and Sir Edward Bowater. The royal party returned early in the afternoon to the Castle. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken on the Castle Terrace and in the pleasure-grounds this morning. Sir Henry Wheatley arrived at the Castle to-day, on a visit to her Majesty. Mr. Baring, M.P. for Marlborough, had an inter- , view with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday at the Board of Trade, on the subject of a memorial from the town of Marlborough in favour of the railway to Basingstoke, projected by the London and South- Western Railway Company. Dispatches from Sir Charles Metcalfe, Governor- General of Canada, and also from the Governors of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, were received yes terday at the Colonial-office. Dispatches were also received from the Governor of the Mauritius. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Sir Brooke and Lady Bridges, at the Clarendon Hotel, Bond-street, from their seat, Goodnestone, Kent; the Countess and the Ladies Augusts And Honoria Cadogan, at Queensberry House, from ti visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Anglesey, at Beaudesert, Staffordshire ; Captain H. J. Denny, Enniskillen Dragoons, at the Cavendish Hotel, Jerrnyn-street, from the Cavalry Barracks, at Brighton ; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Beauclerk, from Northamptonshire ; Lady Alicia Gordon, at the Hon. Captain IV. Gordon's, at the Admiralty, from the Ranger's House, Blackheath; P. R. Wybault, Esq., in Dover-street, from Glenville, near South ampton; Lady Morgan, at her house in town, from a tour of visits in the north; Sir John Tyrrell, Bart., M.P., at the Waterloo Hotel, Jermynlstreet, St. James's. DEPARTURES. Earl Cadogan, from Queensberry House, on a Visit to Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Charles Drummond, at Newsells, near Royston, Herts ; Mrs. Dawkins Pen nant, from %Vimpole-street, on a visit to Lord Heytes bury and the Hon. Miss A'Court, at Dublin Castle ; Mr. Myddleton Bidduiph, from the Clarendon Hotel, for Chirk Castle, Denbighshire ; Lieut. J. S. S. Stuart, Ist Dragoon Guards, from the Cavendish Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Canterbury ; Charles Fraser, Esq., from ditto, for Berkshire ; Mr. Mor daunt Fen wick, Ist Dragoon Guards, from ditto, for Canterbury. CHANGES. The Hon. Captain A. G. F. Jocelyn, 6th Dragoon Guards, on a visit to the Dowager Countess of Roden, at Bath ; Mr. Henry and Lady Sophia Devereux, at Drake Southall, Derbyshire, from a visit to the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, at Bretby Park ; the Hon. G. Smythe, M.P., from the Bedford Hotel, Brighton, on a tour ; Sir Alexander and Lady Hood, at Bath, from their seat, in Somersetshire ; Sir Hugh Stewart, Bart., and family, from Dublin, for their seat, Ballygawley, Tyrone. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN: 27, Berners 7 street, Dec. 30. Mrs. Rainforth presents her respectful compliments to the editor of The Sun, and will feel extremely obliged by the insertion of the accompanying copy of a letter addressed by her to the editor of the Observer : " TO THE EDITOR OF THE OBSERVER. " Sir,—My attention has been directed to a paragraph in your paper of yesterday, announcing the marriage of Miss Rainforth. As the mother of that young lady, I request that you will, in your paper of Sunday next, give the most unqualified contradiction to such a gross fabri cation.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, " ELIZABETH W. RAD/FORTH. " 27, Berners-street, Dec. 30." CHARITABLE DONATIONS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—In your account of Charitable Donations for Christmas, you have noticed Sir John Bayley's name, the M.P. for the city of Worcester, as giving relief to two thousand persons, in beef, warm clothing, &c. I beg leave to say it is an error: there was some beef given, and likewise bread, to about 500 persons, but those were mostly to such persons as had voted for him, but as to clothing nothing has been heard of it. I understand Sir T. Wilde has sent 2001. to be given generally for charitable purposes. You will please to notice the same in your next.—Yours, respectfully, C. KNOWLES. Worcester, Dec. 31, 1844. WINTER ASSIZES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Some of the past Assize Grand Jury, have put out a feeler against continuing a winter commission. If it be somewhat inconvenient for the gentry of the " grand inquest" to attend a winter assize, a very easy relief may be found for them. by abolishing the grand jury system, and, sure, I am, that the public would re joice at it. I expected the gentry of the grand inquest would find fault (though their duty is by far less than the petty jury), and also ,expected that, "my Lords Judges," the " high sheriff," and the gentlemen of the " long robe," would put their shoulders to the wheel, and assist in raising a prejudice against so desirable a thing as a winter gaol delivery. Dec. 31, 1844. OBSERVER. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 29.—Commander C. J. P. Newton, from the Steam Laboratory, at the Lock-yard, Woolwich, who commissioned the Lily, on Monday, the 23d inst., succeeded in two days in volunteering fifty picked able seamen and petty officers, This fine brig of 16 guns, and 130 men, is still in waist of a few ss-amen to complete her complement. STATE OF TRADE.—The market, both for cloth and yarn, has been quite as active as is generally the ease at this period of the year. Indeed, where parties have been disposed to meet the demand, stocks of both cloth and yarn are quite cleared out; many in fact are working under contract. Some, however, refuse to sell, except at an advance, choosing rather to wait the de mand for the spring trade. The year closes upon the commercial interests with a prospect of good things to come; which nothing indeed but some untoward event, as a failure of the harvest, or a war, can blight. Money, the sinews of all business, is plentiful and cheap; so also is cotton, the staple, almost as essential as corn itself. Then the condition of the labouring classes is greatly ameliorated, the demand for labour and wages having alike improved. We should think, also, the Government will be constrained early to lighten the oppressive bur dens of the people by a total repeal or a considerable re duction of those fiscal imposts which press mainly on the industrious classess. On the whole, is e may congratu late the trading community on the wide fields of enter prise which have opened on them in the East, and which have greatly tended to the improved state of business; as also on the far more profitable results of their trade in the latter compared with the former period of the year, when unwarrantable speculations in cotton totally overcast our dawning advancement; and we have but to express a hope that the ensuing may be a year gratefully remembered alike by master and operative. —Manchester Times. SurrosEn MURDER.—Yesterday, at the conclusion of the general business at Worship-street, several re spectable -looking persons attended before Mr. Brough ton, the sitting Magistrate, to make a statement touch ing the mysterious disappearance of Mr. William May, a silk-manufacturer on a minor scale, resident in New. Ring-street, near Bonner's Hall, Bethnal-green, who had been missing since the 9th instant under circumstances which induced his friends to believe that he had been murdered. A large printed bill, offering ten guineas reward for discovery, and which had already been ex tensively circulated in the district, was handed to the Magistrate. In this it was stated that Mr. May was last seen on the night of the 9th instant, between the hours of ten and eleven, near the police-station in Chapel-yard, Spitaltields, by some person who knew him, and the fol lowing morning his hat and handkerchief were found in a field near the Twig Folly-bridge, near the Angel and Crown, at Twig Folly. From that time nothing fur ther could be ascertained respecting him, and it was added, that he was therefore supposed to have been mur dered. He was described as about 44 years of age, 5 feet 3 inches high, of fair complexion , marked with the small pox, was dressed in a brown Taglioni coat, black satin waistcoat, black trousers, with black satin stock, and his linen walked .` W. M.," and he had about him 61. . and a pair of blue steel spectacles in green case, mounted , with silver. CYTAternra.—ln anticipation of an increased de mand for railway iron, Mr. William Crawshay has de cided upon the erection of an extensive steam rail-mill, ca pable, if necessary, of the completion of 2,500 tons of rails per month. The estimated cost of the extensive project is about 2 5 , 0001 , while it is ill be the means of affording employment to 300 persons, in addition to the large number already employed in this gentleman's im . mense establishment.—Cambrian. SUPPLY OF CoaLs.—We are glad to report, on un doubted authority, that the directory of the London and Birmingham Railway have determined, to carry coals at Id. per mile per ton. The waggons and earriagaa for the conveyance of those Naluable commodities arc in progress, and will shortly he ready for use. Our para graph last week on the subject has elicited this informa tion, which our numerous friends will be glad to receive. ,—Bedford Mercury. Kin% srrivi [or 0 VOW. been , tiVel :oult' )ndlii go. 0u 51 5; °' l yoy, of 3t 00 r hiCh .1181.