The Sun. — London, England, 1839-12-19 00:00:00

tO fur I.IIIILI OU titl Uri let U. i :lc ijaS . LiC tended by the Marchioness of Normanby, Hon. Miss Paget, Hon. Miss Anson, Viscount Torrington, and the Earl of Fingal'. The two Maids of Honour, the Hon. Miss Rtget and the Hon. Miss Anson, afterwards drove out in the Park a -out') Is expected to er Inchess Howard, Hon. Paget, Hon. Mis.; Ans countess Forbes, Baroness Lehzen, Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Torrington, Earl of Fingal', Sir Robert Otway, Hon. Colonel Grey, and the Hon. Charles A. Murray. The Duchess of Gloucester vi,ited tho Princess Au gusta yesterday; at Claren . ce Hfluse, St. James's. The Solicitor-General, Mr. Edon. and Mr. Vizard, had interviews with the Marquis of Normanby, yester dav, at the Home Office. The Chaiiman of the Excise had an interview yes terday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at his . offieird residence in Downing-street. Despatches for the Right Hon. C. Poulett Thomson, Governor of the Canadas, were sent off last evening from the Colonial Office. Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence left his residence in St. James's Palace, on Tuesday, on a visit to the Earl of Cardigan, at his seat, Dean Park, Northamptonshire, to meet his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. Lord and Lady Henry Cholmondeley left Farrance.'s Hotel, Belgrave-street, yesterday, on a visit to the Duke of Wellington, at his seat, Strathfieldsaye, Hants. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Sir Bellingham and Lady Graham, at the Carlton Ho tel; Regent-street, from Brighton ; Baron do Roths . child, Mr. Mackinnon, M. P., Admiral Douglas, Mr. Brarnston, M.P., Lady Chetwynd, Mr. E A. Sanford, M.P., the Hon. Captain Hood, Colonel Challoner, the Hon. Mr. St. John, Earl Beauchamp, and Lord Montford. DEPARTURE, Lord and Lady Aylmer, from the Carlton Hotel, Re gent• street, for Winslade House, Exeter, en route for Batb ; Sir Henry Richardson, from Upper Harley -street, for Brighton ; Mr. and Mrs. Rowland Errington, on a Continental tour ; the Hon. Mrs. Murray, for Dover : Earl Campton, for Castle Ashby; Sir Loftus and Lady Otway, for Brighton ; the Hon. Mrs. Collingwood and family, for Dover ; Mr. and Mrs. Hed worth Latnbton, for Leaming ton Spa ; Lord and Lady Montague, for Ditton Park ; the Hon. Keppel Craven, for Combe Abbey ; Earl Spencer, for Althorp ; Col. Parkinson, for Brighton. Lord Craven has returned to Charles-street, Berkeley-square, from a visit to Lord.and Lady Verulam. The Duchess of Gordon is still on a visit to the Rai and Countess of Denbigh, at Nuneham Paddoxs, where a select party is assembled. Viscount and Viscountess Milton have joined the Earl Fitzwiiliam and the family circle at Milton House, Peterborough, from Dalmahoy Castle, where the Viscount and Viscountess have been visiting the Earl and Countess of Morton. Lord and Lady Tankerville will pass the holy days at Mount Felix, near Kingston-upon-Thames, where Count and Countess Sebastiani will proceed on a The Noble Earl will take possession of the Dowager Lady Cowper's mansion in Maddox-street, after Christmas. - - WARWICK CASTLE, WEDNESDAY.—The Right Hon. Sir R. Peel, Bart., M.P., and Lady Peel, arrived this morning on a visit of a few days to the Earl and Countess of Warwick, from Drayton Manor. The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailcsbury have arranged to stay at Paris until the latter end of February. The Noble Marquis enjoys the best of health. Lord Brougham's visit to the French capital is not expected to exceed a fortnight or three weeks. Lady Malet, the only surviving daughter of Lady Brougham, has arrived in Grafton -street, from the Hvgae. Count Alexis Stroganoff, who left Ashburnham House a shot time since with despatches for the Rus sian Embassy at Paris, is not expected to return until the latter end of next month. The youthful Viscount Bangor arrived at Castle Ward, his seat in Downshire, last week, with the inten tion of residing there during the winter. The Marquis of Stafford completes his 11th year to-day, when there will be grand doings at Trent ham Hall, where a brilliant circle are now visiting the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland. MIDDLETON PARK.—Lord and Lady Jersey are entertaining , Lord Shelburne, Lord Norreys, the Hon. ,Captain and Mrs. Augustus Villiers, &c. Much cotn pkny will arrive during the holidays to meet their Royal Hichnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, who are e xpected on a visit. Tile Marquis and Marchioness of Downshire continue in town, but intend to leave shortly for East hampstead Park, accompanied by Lady Charlotte Hill. The Lady Mary Flood and her infant son are going on very favourably. Lord and Lady Seymour, the Right Hon . Edward Ellice, Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Anson , Mr; - Stanley, Hon. George Anson, &c., have been of the natty at Ranton Abbey during the• visit of his Royal llieness the Duke of Sussex to the Earl and Countess of Lichfield. The Earl and Countess of Hillsborough, after kEiving Mr. Cunliffe Offiey's went to Ireland, and were in the early part, of the week on a visit to Mr. M‘Don nen, at Gieni, nu Castle. It was Lord Frederick Fitxclarence who accom panied the Earl or Cardigan to Paris, and not Lord Adolpus, as stated at the time. - Mr. Bond Cabbel is the Conservative candidate for Falmouth. It is generally believed that Dr. Bowstead, the present Bishop of Sodor and Man, will be the new Bishop of Lichfield. The choice would give great satisfaction, for Dr. Bowstead is an excellent man, and his principles are Liberal. DOVER, DEC, 18.—His Excellency Baron Brunow, Ambassador from Russia to this country on a special mission, arrived this morning, from Calais, by her Majesty's packet Ariel, Captain Smithell, and shortly after proceeded for London, under a salute from the Western Heights. Baron Niemann, the Earl of Harborough, and Mr. Ifcath, the Sardinian Consul General, arrived also to-day, from France, and proceeded to London. Lord ar.d Lady Henry Chohnondeley left Bel grave-street yesterday on a visit to the Duke of Wel lington, at his seat, Strathfieldsaye, Hants. The Duke of Cambridge left the residence of the Duke of Beaufort, Badminton, Gloucestershire, on Mon day, on a visit to the Earl of Cardigan, at his seat, Dean-park, Northamptonshire. DUNGENESS LIGHT.—The Directors of the Trinity House intend to place another row of lamps in -the lighthouse as an addition to the present ones, which vyill.increase the brilliancy of t h e li g ht, and assist the m a •rmers in avoiding the dangers of the coast in stormy nigh ts, The lighthouse has been much improved by the preset p,-oprietors. SUNDAY MORNING TRADING IN THE ME- TaopoLis.—An endeavour has recently been made to suppress Sunday trading in the m etropolis upon the vo luntary princip!e' but it has failed. Clare marke t, New port market, and Covent garden market were wholly closed for some time, in the hope that their exa mple would be generally followed. But the result has been that the amount of Sunday trading has not been les sened through it ; for not only has the example not been followed by the street shops, but other places for Sun day trading have been opened, to which the business before done in the markets was being transferred. The consequence of this has been that the market people have returnad to their former practice, which they will continue till the Legislature, by a general la w, or b y making the law ag a i ns t S u nday trading which exists efficient, accomplishes what their example has failed to effect, namely, the total supp ress i o n of Sund a y trading in the metropolis. M R . EwART.—We are authorised to state, that Mr. Ewart, encouraged by increasing assurances of support from the electors, will certainly now offer him ., self as a candidate for their suffrage s at the next elec tion, should General Sharpe retire. He will, at the prener time, explain to them his political sentiments, mfr; es whiclt are alrorly known to the public.-- Courier, Died on the 12th or 13th of May last, i n hi s 19th year, on the north-west coast of Australia, while engaged in an expedition of discovery, Frederic Cooke Smith, a youth of uncommon talent, and the most un daunted courage iii danger and enterprise. He was i the eldest son of Octavius H. Smith, Esq., of Thames bank, Westminster, and grandson of William Smith ( Esq., so long the representative of Norwich. " He died in the bush from exhaustion, and the effects of a previous affection of the bead, about 90 miles to the north of Perth, being the only one of the Australian eap edition who fell a victim to the privations and fa tigues. they had lately undergone. Under circum stances of extraordinary difficulty he afforded great as sistance , 4 0, his companions, and gave many convincing proofs of ceurage and resignation. At Shark's bay, during the hurricane on the night of the 28th of Fe bruary, it was Mr. Smith who swam ashore from the boats with e p r r e ese a r t - - i vation of the whole par t y.”—From the Perth (Western hy thisthe fineaht mtoaiwhihyicchhhtthreihuptrionvgistioontshew Australia) Gazette, May 25, 1839. THE GENUINE HIGHLANDER. --Mr. James *Kay died, on the 19th ult., at Wester Strathan, • Lord Reay's country, at the very advanced age of 102. IMr. M'Kay was a fine o f the b old sample sons of the mountain. He was distinguished , I during his )j oined Protracted life, for intellectual acuteness, and, to such, eart, a afunnddnoll'iirirLitih senseof . racy humour, a w arm and generou s h tk grity and principle. 1 John o'Grout Journal. F.,U,1.V1 0 U TI! ELI 'ION Al.Alk/t) 111, 1 io l• The contest may now be said to be fairly commenced. The Tory candidate is Mr. Cabbell, the gentleman who, in 137, stood for St. Alban's, and was defeated. Mr. Hutchings, the Liberal candidate, came from Truro w PH , met al . P,nryn hv Hotel of pert, ii?foro Pow,-II Mr. Howlimos briefly addressed the electors, speaking generally as to his large commercial connec tions with the county of Glamorgan, which was inti mately connected, in its mining operations and its coal fields, with this county; He said that the firm, at the head of which was his uncle, Sir John Guest, employed 5,000 men, and he should be happy if he could at all extend the commercial prosperity of the borough which he then sought to represent. The Hon. Gentle. man then declared his conviction that an alteration in the Corn-laws would be a great benefit to the manu facturing intorest ; he thought that at present they were injurious to all classes. He would support her Majesty's Government in all measures that he considered would be for the welfare of the country ; and to the Tories, whom he denounced as the enemies of the Queen, he declared that he would give his most decided opposition. The only other topic on which be touched was the Poor-law, to the principles of which he said he was favourable, but he objected to one or two points in its operation, such act parting the husband and wife. These and other points should have his consideration, and whenever be found that an alteration would be bene ficial, that alteration he would endeavour to promote. The Hon. Gentleman was repeatedly cheered. Sir John Guest, M.P., was loudly called for, and he addressed a few words to the electors, after which the Hon. Candidate and his friends left for this town. NEWARK ELECTION. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) NEWARK, DEC. 18. After the example set them by the Reformers, the Tories here are trying hard to patch up a Conservative Association, the prosperous nature of which may be learned from the fact that in one of the most populous parts of the town, a meeting was held the other even ing, when not more than five and twenty were present ; and we are credibly informed that this was the strongest collection they could muster, other meetings being com posed of a dozen, and in some places eight. The usual stale clap-traps are not lost sight of, and more than one appeal has been made to the religionists to come forward and assist in the destruction of " a Popish and infidel Government." The neutrals—a large body composed of such of the honest electors as heretofore havo voted for the Tories, but whose honesty forbids them entering into the present affair—have also been addressed in most sympathetic and bewail ing tones, and are entreated for the love they bear to the Queen, the honour they have for their religion, the regard they have for the Consti tutioq, to abandon their neutrality and join the quaking Tories. Nor, in enumerating the varied phases already assumed by Toryism during the struggle, must we omit to mention the fact that Mr. Gladstone, "the recognised nominee" of the Duke, has visited the town, but as he remained incog., we are left to surmise the object of his visit. It is whispered, however, that it was produced by certain doubts of the honesty of his own friends ; and certain leers, naturally enough produced by the conduct of his party, that at the gene ral election Mr. Thesiger woad be a dangerous rival. Well may Mr. Gladstone be suspicious, for we can aver, upon the most honourable testimony, that the agents of the Clumber Duke are canvassing, and that they constantly remind the electors that Ihe Duke is not neutral, that he is favourable to Mr. Thesiger's re turn ; this is done, too, in defiance of the Duke's public declaration that he took no part in the election. To sum up the prospects of Toryism : they arc poor, spirit less, and disunited ; the Dissenters will not be cajoled into coalition with their worst enemies, and the neutrals despise the underhand attempts which have been made to deceive them. Happ;ly, the state of the Liberal cause can be described in a few words, and with out any equivocation. The Liberal Society numbers many hundred members ; meetings are almost nightly held, at all of which is ex hibited the utmost enthusiasm. They have enrolled in their ranks, many, who on all former occa sions have been their decided opponents, and some of the wealthiest and most respectable inhabitants are included. Minor differences, which have too often de prived them of the assistance of valued friends, are now forgotten or looked over, and the unanimity and spirit which are manifested under all circumstances jus tify us in the assertion that the Serjeant's return was never more secure. Let his friends continue as , they have begun, and their efforts will be crowned with suc cess, the most honourable, and which, in a degree, will be equalled only by the confusion of their enemies. THE POOR MAN'S CHURCH. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) . . - . . There is in the parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields a Ladies' Lying-in Charity, the receipts of which for the year 1832 were 301. 15s. 9d., which was expended in the following manner :- 70 cases relieved . . . . £7 0 0 40 letters for attendance of a midwife 5 5 63 cases gift on returning linen clean and correct . • • . . 4 14 (; Baby-linen to give away , at the same time . . . . . . 1 8 21 Registering and churching! !! . . 60 0 Matron, for care of linen, &c. . . 3> 0 0 Printing cards, &c. . . . . 2 2 8 Extra washing and sundries . . 1 5 41. X3O 15 9 Thus of this small charity the Church grasps one-fifth of the whole receipts ; it takes the tenth of the corn, the wine, and the oil, and the one fifth of the charity fund ! Yet this is the Establishment that vaunts itself the Poor Man's Church. THE ARCHIMEDES STEAMER. (From the Inventors' Advocate.) Oa Thursday, the 28th ult., the Archimedes left London for the Texel and Amsterdam, where she was bound to exhibit her powers to the Dutch Government as a tug, on the North Holland Canal, for large mer chant vessels, &c. (which is usually done by horses), and to show the general applicability of her plan for canal purposes, in consequence of its not causing that swell and disturbance in the water that paddle-wheels do, and which at present prohibit their use on canals. The Archimedes had reached a little below Graves end, when one of the feed pumps got out of order by the plunger having collapsed, which, on exami nation, proved to be of much thinner metal than is usual in their construction. This accident de tained the vessel till Friday morning, when she again started with a perfect gale in her teeth, and had not proceeded farther than Sea-Reach, when she was doomed to undergo a more serious misfortune by the breaking of the crank-shaft, which, being made of cast iron instead of wrought, snapped like glass ; and before the engines could be stopped, the piston, from being too suddenly liberated, destroyed the cylinder-cover, and materially injured other parts of the engine and framing. The escape of steam from the cylinder rendered the stopping of the engine a very difficult and dangerous task. The sails were immediately hoisted, and the screw disconnected, when the Archimedes had an oppor tunity of exhibiting one of the principal objects she was intended to effect, by passing everything while coming up the river, although it blew a double-reef breeze. Really the projector of this important invention seems destined to undergo nothing but disappointment and delay—not from any defects in the plan of propulsion, which is too simple to be subject to much derangement —but from continual failures and imperfections in the engines, which have nothing to do with the principle of the invention. It will be recollected that, after waiting a long time after the contract for the engines, and within a month after the starting of the Archimedes (which was in May last) a fatal accident occurred by the bursting of the boilers. These have been since replaced by new ones by a different maker ; but from th e general inefficiency of the engines, and the many alterations thereby caused, she was not con sidered s ufficiently perfect to undertake the trip to Hol landthe time above-mentioned. From the space the recent repairdamage, much valuable lost, and the Archimedes will not be ready time w ill be . . ly in the ensuing spri. for sea again until ear h. required until t We cannot but sympathise ie withMr, Smith in his cruel misfortunes, over which lie evidently has no con trol. his next experiment will prove We ore fully c onvinced of the value of his inven tion, and sincerely hope more successful in its issue. Smith, the ma k er or makers of such [We r ea lly think that in commeohninjaueshtiicneerytoouMghrt. to make good all the losses and expense caused by their defective engines.— Ea. SUN.] The HAGUE, DEC. 16.—1 n the sitting of the Second Chamber of the States' General on Saturday, the central section brought up its report on the project of a law for a loan to be charged in the Colonies in In dia. It occupies 13 full columns of the States Courant, and is followed by a note of the Government in reply to the observations of the sections, and making some alterations in the project of lnw, the debate on whi ch was fixed for the 18th instant. We learn from our Irish correspondent that it is quite certain Mr. Corbally, Lord Fing a l' s brother-in law, wi.l be returned tor Meath, on the vacancy created by Mr. Morgan O'Connell 's resignation. H e kill be supported, we understand, by that powerfully influential body the Meath Independent Club.—Clironicle. The General team Navigation Company's Steam ship Columbine, Captain W. Norwood, arrived off the Custom-house, from Rotterdam, 1414 day, a f ter a favourable passage of twenty-four hours. TO THE EnITOR (91 7 TPE SIR-- i you _ circulating journal the following . remarks The use of chicorie is becoming so glaring now that the .honest man has no chance. It is used .in this part to an immense extent, mixed one-half with ground coffee, by this means the revenue is losing sd. on each noti6(l t!vit s Fzok: as a substitute for cofft,e, owl th,t, pL; c•orit.. toot.) y used il)no. Why riot re- u: ~..~_.t:~. working "or the article than duce foreign coffee to 9d. per pound, instead of allowing it to be smuggled by way of the Cape, putting other merchants to the expense, as well as encouraging an improper trade? Why not make a, general reduction in the duty on coffee? &larger amount of revenue would be certain to accrue if it was adopted, as well as girittg a stimulus to the shipping interest and commerce in general. Your inserting the above will much oblige, A GROCER, AND TEA-DEALER. Sheffield, Dec. 17th, 1839. THE NEWPORT RIOTS. MONMOUTH, TUESDAY. The list of the witnesses was not de!ivered to the prisoners yesterday, as had been intended ; it requires vast consideration, care, and attention, because not only must the names be inserted, but the full description of each witness, and if there is the slightest error, that witness cannot be examined. The difficulty may be imagined by taking the following as an example : " William Parfitt Powell, surgeon, assistant to Wil liam Brewer, of the parish of St. Woolas, in the borough of Newport, in the county of Monmouth, and abiding at the house of William Phillips, grocer i❑ the said parish of St. Woolas, in the said borough of Newport, in the said county of Monmouth." There are no less than 236 witnesses on behalf of the prosecution, and a copy of them is to be delivered to each prisoner. Although all the prisoners charged with high treason are included in one indictment, yet it does not follow that they should be all tried at the same t:me. The probability is that one or two of the ring leaders may be tried separately, and that the others will be classed in such a manner that the same witnesses may be called to prove the distinct facts against them ; other wise it would be impossible for any Jury to keep the proofs that relate to each particular case apart in their minds from those of the other parties. The delivery of a list containing the names of so many witnesses may tend to embarrass the prisoners : for instance, Frost will be unable to tell which out of the 236 will be called against him ; all he can know will be, that none other than those named can be called ; however, if the intended defence, that the prisoners were not present, be true, the above circumstances can make no difference. I conceive that the spirits of the prisoners must be softy depressed when they perceive the names of some of the persons who are to testily against them, and nothing, I think, will strike a more deadly blow to Chartism than when the real dupes dis cover that some by whom they were incited and led on, whose violent and treacherous speeches induced them to enrol their names as rebels, and afterwards to act as such, but who, as bad hearts always do, turned cowards at the crisis, and either remained at home, or fled on the first approach of outbreak, have turned traitors, ay, doubly traitors, first to their Queen, and then to those they had misled, have betrayed them, and will be the first to state the share that each unhappy man took, and having pointed out their persons, j i and sworn to their acts, shall be permitted to retire to freedom, and perhaps upon leaving sonic it least of their victims to bear the punishment which they themselves ought to suffer. Surely this will be a lesson to those who are at large, and teach them that to attend to the inflammatory speeches of these men is to do that which may lead them to the most condign punishment, even if it should not subject them to the last and extreme penalty of the law. Let them look back to other times, and they will always find that these who had been their chief leaders and inciters in the roam, have either deserted them on their march of mad ness, or have fled on the first approach of danger. I have reason to believe that on the trial facts will tran spire which will prove this in the most pointed manner, and although it may appear hard upon those now ac cused, yet it may ultimately be attended with great good, and show the misguided that rebellion and outrage only tend to misery and woe. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Brighton Gazette.) POSTSMOUTII.—The Blenheim, 72, Captain Sir Humphrey Senhouse, is come into this harbour from the Lisbon station, to have a new foremast, a nd t o b e prepared to proceed to the East Indies. It is also ex pected that the frigates Blonde; 46, 'lnconstant, 36, and Pique, 26, will be sent to that quarter, together with the large steam-ship Cyclops, and brigs Wanderer, 18, and Fantome, 16, with the corvette Nimrod, 20. The frigate Madacascar, 46, and Belviderzl, 42, with the Harrier, 18, are expected to be commissioned here next week. • The Persian, 16, and Pylades, 18, are under orders for the pendant at Plymouth. The Talavera, 72, Captain Mends, from the Medi terranean fleet, has arrived at Plymouth, where she is to be paid off, having been nearly four years in Com mission. Having left Malta so long since as the 23d October, and maing a circuitous route, she brings no news whatever. The Pembroke, 72, Captain Moresby, is ordered to be paid off in this harbour, and her arrival _from the Mediterranean is daily looked for. She has been up-: wards of three years and a half in commission. Considerable anxiety is felt in consequence of a IT port of the loss of the Tribune, 24, Captain Williams, off Barcelona, during a hurricane on the 28th Novem ber. It is sincerely hoped that the crew were saved. The Andromache, 28, Captain Baynes, has arrived from the North America and West India station, last from Bermuda, which she left 20th November, having been retarded in "her progress home by easterly wands. She has been ashore for several hours on the Magda lens, and requires docking. Remains at Spithead await ing orders. Vice-Admiral Harvey arrived from Hali fax at Bermuda in the Winchester frigate on the 29th October, intending to winter there. The Etna, receiving ship, Lieutenant Wilson, and Meoter steamer, Lieutenant Pritchard, have proceeded to the eastward. By a recent Admiralty regulation, all candidates must be examined at the Royal Naval College, Ports mouth, previously to receiving commissions in the corps of Roy al Marines. This is a most necessary ordeal, but somewhat tardily adopted. The new steamer Vesuvius is ordered for commission in the river, having been to Glasgow for her machinery. The cutters Cracker and Raven are undergoing a refit in Portsmouth harbour, the former to return to the Jersey station, and the latter to Sheerness. The troop ship Jupiter, Mr. Milton, master, may be expected home from the East Indies about the end of January, with the 61st Regiment, and also unservice able stores from Trincomalee dockyard. At Spithead—Andromache, 28. In Harbour—Britannia, Victory, Blenheim, Blonde, Pique, Royal George yacht, Excellent, Cracker, Raven, Messenger, and flag tenders. DEC. 17.—Orders have arrived for the Andromache, 26, Captain Baynes, C. 8., to be docked and refitted at this port, and she is accordingly come into the harbour for that purpose. The ftlenleim, 72, is ordered to be expedited for the East Indies, to join the Admiral, Sir F. Maitland. The steam-vessel Alecto, Lieut. Hoseason, has ar rived from the river, and having embarked Mr. Lyall, purser, to join the Tyne, 28, also Mr. W. Minchin, As sistant• Surgeon, and received dispatches for Sir R. Stopford, proceeded, after a few hours' delay, to the Mediterranean. The Dolphin schooner, of 3 guns, in command of Lieutenant Holland, has arrived from the West Coast of Africa to be paid off, and goes to Sheerness "for that purpose. She brings no news. Rear-Admiral Elliott was at the Cape of Good Hope in the Melville, 78, with the Corvette Modeste, 18, and Childers, 18 ; the latter had recently arrived out from Plymouth. The Dolphin has suffered much from fever, and been very successful in the capture of slave vessels, having a short time since detained two under the American flag. The Harlequin, 16, and Wolverine, 18, are the next ships ordered to proceed home. SERIOUS PARCEL ROBBERY.—OR Tuesday the correspondent at Bolton of a Sheffield house trans mitted a parcel through the medium of railway and coach to this town, containing notes to the amount of 185/. The parcel arrived here the same evening, but was not delivered until the afternoon of the following day, when, from the loose condition it was io, suspicion arose in the mind of one of tha firm that all was not right, and he called in a witness, to examine its con tents. A letter broken open was found which had con tained the cash above stated. Several other documents were also found torn in pieces, evidently to ascertain what they contained. Immediately a gentleman con ne•cted with the concern started for Manchester to in vestigate the matter. Upon application to Sir Charles Shaw, every facility which the police possessed was readily afforded, and the result was (it is believed) that the parcel had been safely delivered at the coach-office at Manchester. Further inquiry was going on here yester day before the police authorities, but at the present stage of the business iz i t forbear saying more.—Sheffield Iris. FRIGHTFUE DEATH.---On Sabbath evening last the body of an old woman, residinc , in the Castle Cable, Pertb, who was in the practice of leading about an idiot female, soliciting charity, was found in her own house literally burnt to ashes. It is said that she had been intoxicated for several days, and in this case she must have accidentally set fire to some portion of her clothes. When the remains of the wretched woman were discovered on Sabbath evening, the poor idiot was found cowering a short distance from them, apparently unconscious of what had happened. The body when touched actually crumbled into pieces. —Caledonian Afercury. ;P;RIT of thet PUBLIC JOURNALS. di:P.Nitii.= PAVERS Ok".CHIS DAY. (From the Morning Chronicle.) Although there must be endless diversity in the way in which people strike the balance between money on the one hand and feeling on the other, yet it is very extraordinary that any men should choose, for the sake of any amount of money, to continue In the relative position of ti,se who profit by, and uphold the Corn laws. Supposing them unable to perceive their real and permanent interest, and its harmony with the prosperity of the community, still the wonder is that their common human sympathies do not torture them into some sacri fice of gain for the sake of peace and good will, of kind ness and mercy. It must be a horrible reflection that rise of rents is the falling of the poor man's means of subsistence. They thrive at the expense of his daily bread. When their looks glisten with gladness, his eye is dimmed, and his cheek grows pale and hollow. Their prosperity is the measure of industrial adversity. The shout from the tavern sounds like the tolling of a knell in the factory. And in their satisfaction and hopefulness, men read a fearful prophecy of famine. It is strange, we repeat, that any class should have a taste for this sort of relation towards their fellow.. creatures arid countrymen ; or that any sordid conside. rations should reconcile them to its endurance. - It is true there are kidnappers, and slave drivers, and Thugs, and other monstrosities of human nature, who have grown to relish their occupation as if it were the most innocent in the world. But then they are much more isolated from the common mass of mankind than the British landoWner. He lives amongst those whom his legal monopoly deprives of halt . their bread and all their meat. He is within reach-of,the multi tudes whom he helps to reduce from independent work men into a wretched surplus of the labour market. On the well-gravelled - roads of his fine domain he may sec young children breaking stones or otherwise prema turely toiling, that the saving of their school money and the pittance of their earning m a y replace the slice which his tax cuts from the cottage loaf. He stands it all ; he -soothes his mind with some pitiful sophism about agricultural morality ; he is kept in countenance by the County Association. He remembers the Parliamentary cheering at Peel's last tissue of scarcely plausible fallacies ; and thus he stands it all ; and that he can do so is the won der. There are symptoms that the coming winter will be a trying one for the self-satisfaction and self delusion of this class. They have not yet faced the worst. Full expression has net been given to the emotions -they excite. If they have been unable to learn from their own hearts the abomination of their social position, they will ere long, be compelled to read it in the faces of multitudes, and to hear it in their execrations. The tide of popular indignation was stopped last year, as it rolled towards them, by a breakwater of delusion that cannot again be interposed. Neither Chartism nor the anti-Poor-law feeling will serve their turn again. The coming effort for Corn-law repeal will not be scoffed at, like the former, as a middle class agitation ; it will spread deep and wide beyond that or any other single class into a national ferment. The Address, which we inserted on Tuesday, from " the working men of Sheffield to the working me chanics, artizans, and agricultural labourers of Great Britain and Ireland," is a document worth atten tion for its facts and reasonings ; and indepen dently of these, it has a deep and impressive signi ficance. It is the earnest utterance of toil and suffering. This is no sport of intellectual gladiator ship, like so many senatorial speeches on the same sub ject. It is no trick of faction, like the hollow and hypo critical declamations of godless orators on the truth and the peril of the Protestant religion. The words of that document represent realities. Its sentences- sound on the ear like the reports or shottcd cannon. It portends a heated s!suggle, and not the sham fight of a Parlia- mentary field-day. The simple mention of the occasion of the meeting from which this address emanated is worth balei of eloquence. " This meeting arose from various causes, the principal of which were the want of employ ment and the want of the common necessaries of life by the greater part of the working population of this town." There is a cause fora public meeting of mechanics. Can. any man deny its sufficiency ? If some meet because they say the Constitution is in danger, and others because they say the Church is in danger, is it not time for men to meet whose bread is in danger ? They suffer under "want of employment." They cannot get " leave to toil." They lack " the commonest necessaries of life," And, at this very moment, Dukes are discussing, at agricultural association dinners, the practicability of doing till next harvest without further importations. Rising bread at home, declining markets abroad, want of work and want of necessaries—these are materials for meetings and addresses. that demand no ordinary degree of serious consideration. 'rhit portion of the address which ap peals to.,the.agricuitural labourers is another feature in the composition not to be disregarded. It is clearly and cogently expressed. There is in it something of the spirit of:those popular sermons by which the . primi.: tine missionaries of. Methodism first made their way to the uncultured and neglected souls whom they prose lyted. That may be applied to the one which was often said of the other, " it comes from the heart and goes to the heart:". .These classes are likely to understand one ; alley share a common lot, and speak a common 'The fact that the geld labourer is' not less injured than the factory labourer, by the'Corn-laws, has often been proved. What is now to be observed - is not the fact itself, but the circumstance that its exposition to the'ruitia is undertaken by the mechanic. The rise iethusindieated of a new sort of " Mutual InStruction Society." Any - Could put the qu estion- to the farm Have their wages been doubled since 1836, veraised in vqual proportion to the increased price; of breat! ?". From many quarters.. the inquiry, if made, might pass unheeded ; but when it is,.putby, one set of toil-worn men, whose bellies are 'Pinched by hunger, to another set of toil-worn men , w h ose - bellies . are also pinched by hunger, such questioning becomes' quite a different matter. Nor should the, readers of this ad dress overlook the remarkably scriptural character of some of its passages. Its authors are not open to the imputations which, rightly or wrongly, have been made by the Tory Papers against the Welch Chartists. No pupil of the National Schools can know his Bible 'better than these Anti-Corn-law mechanics of Shr.ffield. Here is no refolutionary infidel mania, calling for the sole cure of scriptural education. The starving labourers have read the holy book, and say, it is on their side. They could bandy texts with the Bishop of Exeter. They feel their mouths muzzled by dear bread and low wages. When told to read their Bibles, they reply from its pages, " Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn." And they append a very pithy commentary : Our Legislature con siders man of far less value than the ox ; for these laws muzzle him effectually, b 3 preventinc , him from exchang ing the product of his skill and industry with countries where tens of thousands of acres of the finest corn land in the world are lying waste." It would be difficult to deny the aptness of the quotation, or the justice of the exposition. There is that in the addressykich will make it felt as a voice of truth, a cry of human nature against grievous wrong. Against such a cry, it is neither wise nor safe to interpose, whatever profits it may put to peril. The attempt is sheer infatuation when, as in the pre eat instance, it can be demonstrated that the best measure of the value of the land is in the commercial prosperity of the country. (From the Morning Advertiser.) The almanacs for the ensuing year, though filled with prophetic revelations concerning mundane affairs and skicy influences in 1840:are yet less confident in their tone and less marvellous in their predictions, than the heralds of Tory triumphs and the chronicles of Carl tonian rumours. • The latest of these rumours gives to Sir Robert Peel an immediate working majority of five in the present House of Commons when it assembles in January ; and for this, it seems, the country will be called upon to thank the constituencies of Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, and other Gattons upon a grand scale, or Old Sarums yet in their youth. The Francis Moores of Toryism are setting up a rather novel claim to confidence in their present predictions. They argue from what has not been, to what is to be. Be cause their prophecies of last year are unfulfilled, their prognostications of this year are to be received as in fallible. A majority must be obtained in 1840, in virtue of a minority in 1839. Their Leader is the hero of a hundred defeats, and therefore " victory sits on his helm,' hatching chickens (we may add) that are always prematurely counted. Peel, according to the specu lations of his soothsayers, is an abstract of the whole human race : " Peel never is, but always to be blest." One excuse may certainly be made for these false pro phets—that they have never deceived the country, in asmuch as the country never reposed faith in them.; but it is strikingly c haracteristic of the modest nature of Tories to rest their pretensions to credibility now on the falshood of their past assertions. There is no parallel to a political cheat in the moral world. What bold-faced experimentalist ever hoped to ensnare a vic tim with the assurance, " I lisped lies in my cradle, and therefore I call upon you to trust to my veracity." No impostor, in the annals of that species of knavery which in the world political is called Toryism, ever conjured up sufficient effrontery to say, " I admit that I have tricked and plundered you all my life—but confide in me, deliver into my hands your untold gold." There are Snakes in abundance on the great stage who flourish on the badness of their characters ; but among the Tories a re troops of specula tors, who o seefktthoeir integrity and certificat es of t ur n the proofs of their roguer y i n t o unex ceptionable character. This is going rather too far. The authority on which rest these predictions of the Carltouian soothsayers, touching a certain majority of five votes to begin with in January, is assuredly not at all suspicious a uthority ; it must improve before it can be su s p ecte d, b e ing at present far too b a d f or that. Butin w s h p i i c t i e l of co nittsainexsescermabeleo all quality it find s p eo ple, in a world sorts, not ashamed to become vouchers of its excellence. There are a few waverers between the meanness of Tory-Radicalism and the madness of Chartist policy, who implicitly t believe in what they devoutly wish, the attainment of t! , e, threatened majority, and the - efficacy of some trap, either in the House or upon the hustings, by which the specified five may be caught. But we must find corn , fort in the hope that among those Tory-Radicals who back and echo the prophecy, there are none who have it in their power to ensure its fulfilment, by offering their . own votes to constitute the five. History relates but one instance of an enthusiast, who, having foretold that he should die on a certain day, starved himself with rigid punctuality, and fulfilled his prediction to the letter. Should any Reformer in Parliament, how ever, be in the habit of declaring himself quite certain that Ministers will be thus critically beaten, it could do no great harm to suspect him of an intention to verify . the statement brhis vote. The Tories are rather in clined to superstition—it is an old fashioned doctrine, as old as tyranny. They have dislikes to certain days, and partialities for certain numbers—especially for number one. There is, perhaps, something in the date of the present - year utfravourable to their predictions and plottings.- They may like 40 better than 39. The maxim that there is luck in odd numbers is an Irish maxim ; they hate all Irish maxims, as they' hate everything Irish, except the Irish Church. Nine has. Certainly not been a ." tuneful" number to them ; it has brought to them more discord than has ever been associated with it since the birth-day of the Muses. For example, in .this present but expiring 39, in May last, .there was the false step of their leader, the vaulting ambition of the Premier-elect overleaping itself, and falling " the other side"—the old Opposition side, where so many scores of candidates for. place are so. heart-weary of sitting gazing at the promised -land, but tasting neither milk nor honey. This has been a wofully discordant year to the party. Then there was the year 29, the " fatal year," as it is called by the majority to this day—the year in which the great Duke himself suddenly appeared, to the eyes of - his startled followers, transformed from the living likeness of St. George of England even into tini very Dragon ; when Lyndhurst was a hydra with rather more heads than are assigned to O'Connell in the present day ; and when to lay to the charge ci Peel crimes of no greater magnittide, and of no deadlier dye, than those of which Frost is accused; would have been almost equal to passing him by un suspected and unspotted. This was beyond all ques tion a disastrous year to the Tories. Going back yet ten years farther, we alight on the field of Saint Peter at Manchester, and sicken at the bare contemplation - ol that inhuman and unprecedented onslaught upon the peaceable Parliamentary Reformers of that day, for which the thanks of the Tory GOVernment were so un blushingly tendered. 'lt was in -this year, and 'by thii act, that Toryism - certainly acquired its deepeSt stair and . most enduring odium. It was a year of incalculably more hazard than security, more retrogresaion that, advancement,' to thi - Tories. It is not exactly one of those .years that the Tories of to-day would like to recal—not that they would for an instant shesitate to re-enact its horrors, at Manchester or elsewhere. if expediency pointed that way. But as it does not follow that the opposite of wrong should be right. so the even number is riot necessarily lucky because the odd one brings with it ill omens. We have no faith in omens ourselves ; but for the curious and credulous that way, it may be as well to turn from the nines to the tens, with the view of testing. as far as such " coincidences" can, the value of Tory prophecies for 1840. In 1820 the Regency termi nated—the first of a series of events, all tending by regular gradations to the narrowing of the bounders of Toryism—an event that was immediately followee by a persecution, in the form of a Bill of Pains and Penalties, that net merely entailed temporary difficulty and confusion upon its authors, but published their in faaly wherever the Engligh language was known. What ever the King might feel, that was undoubtedly ae " untoward" year for the Tories. In 1830 they lost their George the Fourth, and the accession of the Royal Reformer constituted that, as events instantly turned out, anything but an auspicious year for the principle of Government they had maintained. That principls received a shock throughout Europe—a death-blow in some instances—from the great revolution in France that immediately followed ; this being succeeded by the independence of the people of Belgum. Following this came the grand stride of liberty in our own country, the bright day in our calendar, when the bandage was torn from the eyes of Parliamentary Justice, and she be held the misery and ruin which her blind decrees had in flicted. It was in this year that the people of these king doms gave sigris indeed of a spirit equally discriminating and determined—of a heart to hope, of a head to think, of a concord and an energy to execute. It was in this year, on the 16th November, that the Tory Government re signed, and on the 22d the . Reformers were in posses sion of the strong-hold of Downing-street. This, un .deniably, undoubtedly —this was not a lucky year for the Tories. And now for the speculations concerning 1840, Ten more years bare elapsed, and the Crown is on the head of a Sovereign, who, not by her sex, nor by her youth, nor. by her. unexampled inexperience .and difficulties, but by her education, by her natural gifts, by her character, ready-formed for the Throne, wins the confidence of her subjects e who, in the first place, by her intelligence, her firmness, and her sympathy with those opinions which arc, in a stronger or a weaker de gree, the opinions of the great majority ; and, in the next place, by the unmanly calumnies and the traitorous aspersions of the -Tory faction—has secured popular ad miration and: affection), Thus we stand upon the thres hold of 1840. What of auspiciousness to Toryism is there, in this position ? Judging from the past, we have a fair ground for concluding that as the odd number has been unlucky to the Tories, the even number will again be lucky to the Liberals.. And, apart from the circum stances cited in our favour, we confess to a secret liking for the look of 1840—though coming events throw no dismal shadows before._ -A Sovereign's marriage is to all loyal subjects (the Tories were loyal once) a plea santer spectacle to behold, by anticipttion,than a Royal funeral ? and with the blessing to be pronounced on the Royal Bride next year will be mingled and identified the prayers and the hopes of the greatest people that the sun shines upon. The marriage of such a Queen — the hopeful and happy marriage of a Soverign thus as sociated with the enlightened sentiments that pervade her realm—cannot be a source of joyful anticipation to Tories. Whatever majorities of five one way or other, before or after, may decide, that event, with King Er nest, keen-eyed, in the 'distance, cannot betoken to the Tories a year of grace and fruitfulness. Of this threatened majority of five, not only is there no cause of fear, but there is no fear. There is hope on the other side, and there may be belief ; the Tory traders in false hoods may at last put faith is their own prophecies, but there is no truth in them. They are disciples of that fabled truth which is always at the bottom of the well— lying there I (From the Morning Post.) As the meeting of Parliament approaches the Minis terialists appear quite frantic with fear of the overthrow of their patrons. The throes of desperation in the Chronicle every morning are painful for even the Tories to behold. We are not so hard-hearted as to regard with out pity such convulsions of impotent rage. The per sonal abuse of Sir Robert Peel is indeed very disgusting —disgusting we presume to all decent Whigs as well as to us; but the miserable apprehension of defeat with which it is combined is truly pitiable. The great outcry now is that the Tories mean to compel Sir Robert Peel to propose the repeal of the Romanist Emancipation Act, and that Sir Robert has no choice but to yeld to this com pulsion, or bid adieu to his position as head of the Tory party. Is it possible to conceive more extravagant non sense? Who but the commonest fools can give it credence for one moment ? And yet this is the shift of false hood to which the Ministerialists in their state of desperation are reduced ! Such is the nonsensical false hood theY'assume, and then they cry piteously to the a Irish millions" for help. Ay, let. them cry. The Irish millions are indeed the only people who have any synipathy for them. The lazy, dirty, superstitious, priest-ridden " Irish millions" may possibly regard them with some favour, but all men of sound sense and sober honesty—all men who have understanding to judge be tween right and wrong, and a heart to feel the blessing of rational freedom and faithfully-supported law-- detest their want of principle, and despise their mean ness. The Tories do not want the Emancipation Act repealed, though they have been compelled by the perfidious treachery of the Romanists to regret its enactment. What the Tories want is that the Emancipation Act shall be fairly and honestly ad ministered, and its purpose be fairly and honestly carried out. Several years ago Sir Robert Peel ad mitted that the Emancipation Act was felt by him and his party to be irrevocable with respect to the privileges it conferred upon Romanists, but he at the same time as serted that it was equally irrevocable "with respect to the assurances which it gave to Protestants." These assurances' the perfidious Romanists have shamlessly trampled upon ; and the existing Government, being palpably dependent upon the Romanists, has basely aided and abetted the insolent and encroaching perfidy. That which the Tories expect from Sir Robert Peel is that, so far as in him lies, he will not suffer the Romanists, through their tools, the present Mi nisters of the Crown, .aby longer to disregard and trample upon " the assurances which the Roman Catholic Emancipation Act gave to Protestants." Sir Robert Peel, in' his place in the House of Com mons (see debate of April 2, 1835), has openly recog nised and pledged himself to these assurances. Th e Tories only expect of him that he will steadily, yes, and sternly too, now that the time has come, carry for ward his own declared views. The hone s t i n di mnation of all England calls aloud to him to do thi s , a n d we trust and believe he will concur in the reasona b leness of the call, and d o as England wish es t h at he should. The British public do not want the civil privileges of the Romanists to be taken aw ay but they do re quire that the Romanist system of hostility to the Established Church, which has been effec tually worked into the system of the present Go vernment, shall be stopped. The indignation of England cannot hear it, an d stoppe d it must be. Let the education questi on b e remem bered. That is an exclus ively English question. A large majority of the representatives of England in the House of Coin. mons, and a very l arge ma j or ity o f th e H ouse o f L or d s I have decided upon that view of the question which is agreeable to the Established Church. The Govern ment, relying solely upon the assistance of Irish Ro manism, has taken a course of the bitterest hostility to the Established Church. The British public say that for such conduct the existing Government ought to be driven out of office by any and every means which the Constitution and the law admit of being used. They say that the Government deserves no forbearance, and should find none. The Rorcanist influence under which it acts is the manifest and the monstrous evil. This it is that Sir Robert Peel is called upon to take the lead in crushing. The voice of England demands that that shall be accomplished. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the Globe.) W e find in the Christian Guardian and Church of England Magazine an article on the subject of National Education, which presents a gratifying contrast to the tirades of the Tory Church militant. Those prints of the party which showed so much solicitude to disclaim the other Church Magazine as a veritable organ of the national hierarchy, appear, by their silence, not to be by any means anxious to claim credit for liberality by the recognition of the views before us. While they disown thorough-going intolerance, OD account of the odium which they know attends it, they cannot afford to recognize the more liberal• sentiments which are sometimes put forth even amongst zealous Churchmen, as that would deprive them of the indispensable pretexts for attacking the measures of Government. Being resolved to use the Church as their cat's-paw, in spite of its own honester mem bers, they turn a deaf ear to all that is said, even on their . own side, which they cannot make subserve to the factious ends of the moment., The Tory organs have been affecting prodigious anxiety for the better religious instruction of the victims of Chartist delu sions. The hollowness of this affectation is evident from their factious hostility to the only practical means of effecting the object they profess to desire. When those means arc sincerely set before them, even by Conserva tive Chnrchmen, they bestow not the slightest notice on the subject, and leave it to Liberal journalists to acquaint the public that there are Churchmen who, although by no means Ministerialists, arc yet capable of post poning party bitterness to the honest promotion of the object which, with the others, is a mere pretext — and nothing more. The Christian Guardian, after eking due credit to the present exertions of the Presbyterians, Baptists ; Independents, and Methodists, in our mining and manufacturing districts, proceeds to say that, " unless some far more decidedly ag gressive atracks are made on these neglected regions. it is impossible to forbode the miseries which mus! shortly result from the combined effects of infidelity, popery, licentiousness, and rebellion " • (From the Courier.) It must be presumed that no one would attempt to dispute the advantages to be derived by this country. and by British India, from the establishment of an ex tensive system of steam navigation. If it has been con sidered desirable by the Legislature that, for the pur pose of procuring quick communication by railway for the three miles between the City of London And the East India Docks at Blackwell, all sorts of pri vate interests should be invaded, all sorts of damage and inconvenience on individuals should be inflicted, and that oven the urgent remonstrances of the Corporation of the City of London should be disregarded, a fortiori it is incumbent on the Legislature to provide facilities for rapid and cheap communication with our distant posses sions in India, by which intercourse is to be accelerated not by a few minutes of time but by many weeks ; and in which project are involved not the comparatively unimportant profits of individual speculators, but thr vast interests of Great Britain in the security and web being of her East Indian dominions. It must be consi dered as a point settled that the country will be satisfied with nothing less than the most extensive and the most perfect system of steam communication with India that can be devised. The only question that remains for nuquiry, is, what plan and what route, under all the cir. cumstances—political, commercial, and social—are the best to be adopted ? This is an enquiry which the country expects Parliament to enter on without delay ; ind it is to be hoped that the subject will be discussed dispassionately, and without reference to party consi derations. (From the Standard.) The Duke of Palmeila caused the letter, of which the following is a translation, to he published in the Lisbon Government Gazette of the 10th inst.:— " Lisbon, Dec. 9, 1839. . _ " An assertion, as extraordinary as it is faise, in which my name is compromised, as also those of two high personages (both of them deserving the greatest respect). was published in one of the last days of the last month in the Morning Chronicle, and copied from that paper into others, both in London and Paris. Those journals to which I allude declare, that when her Majesty Queen Adelaide was at this Court she entered into c.mversation with rule and wEth other persons, in the course of which she used expressions of censure towards her august niece, the reigning Queen of Eng land. As such an imputation, in the highest degree injurious to the high personage to whom it is attributed, is not only fahe, hut without the smallest shade of founda tion, I have thought it my duty to take such means as offer theinselv , s to me to contradict it without delay is the face of the Portuguese public, and to declare it calumnious, before the contradiction can appear in the English Jow - - na/s, to which I am going to address it. "I am, &e., " DUKE DE PALMELLA." This letter leaves nothing to be added in refuta tion of the slanders upon Queen Adelaide. It will be remembered, that the first version laid the scene of. the Queen's objectionable discourse in the Duke of Palmella's house, and when it was discovered that her Majesty had not been in the Duke's house at all, during her visit to Lisbon, the first misstate ment was excused on the ground that if not in the Duke's house, the discourse complained of was had in the Duke of Palmella's presence. The Duke himself sets both stories at rest. Now, we ask, what would be said of the Conservative Journal that had deliberately published, and pertinaciously adhered to, a falsehood so malignant and so groundless as this ? Would it not be said, and justly said, that such a journal deserved to be excluded from the home and hands of every one pretending to call himself an honest man? The thing will, however, be passed over very lightly in the case of a Whig journal. There is some reason in this seeming partiality in the indulgence allowed to the newspapers of the several parties. The public wishes to read on -both sides of every question—to read truth, no doubt, for choice—but still to read on both sides. Now the Whig journals can no more keep their columns free from falsehood than the Whig party can support itself without " enormous lying," the very basis, as a very clever Whig, Mr. Charles Buller, has acknowledged, of the party's existence. Mr. Charles Kemble has just arrived in Paris rom Italy, where his daughter remains. We are sorry, fas all who know Mr. Kemble will be, to find that his health is seriously affected. DEATH OF A MlSER.—Tuesday afternoon an old shoemaker, who resided at Brook -street, Lower Deptford, named Allen, died from the effects of an asthma, leaving 6,0001. in cash and notes, and a similar sum invested in the Bank of England. The deceased lived in the most penurious manner, and during his ill ness would not apply for medical advice, nor have any one to attend upon him, for fear of the expense. On examining the boxes and drawers in his house, money and documents were found to the amount of 12,0001. The notes were discovered hidden between the leaves of books, and in some bags were penny-pieces and farthings to the amount of 40/., which, must have been hoarded up for many years, as most of them were mildewed. A. will was also found, bequeathing the whole of his im mense treasures to his relatives, about ten in number. The old man was a bachelor, and a native of Scotland, and in the 70th year of bis age. The Waterford Chronicle states that a vast in crease of epistolatory communication has taken place through the Waterford post-office since the reduction in the amount of postage on letters, but that , there has still been a great falling off in the amount of the receipts as compared with the . corresponding period of last year. On Friday evening a very large and beautiful meteor was observed from the New Bridge in this town. Its direction was from the zenith die north, but as the lower part of the atmosphere was cloudy, the latter part of its course was obscured. It bad the appearance and magnitude of a rocket, its motion, however, being down wards ; and it left in its train brilliant corruscations.— Dover Chronicle. SUNDAY NEWSPAPERS.--F rom a Correspon dent.)—A c omm i ttee cons i st i ng of f o urteen of the most extensive and respectable newsvenders of the metropolis, have prepared a memorial, the purport of which is to solicit the proprietors of the Sunday press to publish their papers on Saturday only ; and it is said they have been so far successful in accomplishing their purpose, as to induce all the London journals, except two, to act upon the principle they advocate. The memorial states that "newsvenders' servants, as is well known, have to rise at five, four, and even three o'clock on Sunday mornings, notwithstanding the fatigues of the previous w eek." —Morning. Herald. HALF HANGED FOR A WAGER.--A few days since a person from Horton was in the New Inn, along with some companions, when the conversation turned upon hanging, and the person in question offered, for a small wager, to be drawn up and suspended. The wager was closed, a rope procured, and a noose formed, into which he thrust his neck, and was thus drawn up to the ceiling by the rope, which passed over a hook, which providentially broke and let him d own, else the most disastrous consequences would have en. sued ; for, as it was, he was half hanged, and hi s neck was very much injured.—Leeds Times. SALFORD MECHANICS' EXHI BITION.—The total number who have passed through the exhibition, up to Tuesday night, is twenty-two thousand five hundred and sixty-nine,--,41/toitchesto. Guardian. MONEY MARKET and CITY NE Iv M. (WEDNESDAY EVENING.) TIMES.—Our old friend Spring Rice,. now " Lord Montcagle," makes rather an awkward debut to• day in ' the Money Market, in his other new chdtacter of Con troller of the Exchequer. Some commercial' Exche quer Bills, which bear his signature, have been sold at 275. discount. This depreciation, after his miserable management of that department, ought to excite no surprise ; but the brokers have been literally astounded at another circumstance which occurred in the courge of the day, being the appearance of a commercial bill dated as far back as the 3d of April last, which bears also the signature of " Monteagle," though several months before Jim's elevation to the Peerage. Some say that his mind was probably so full of the honours which he then had in prospect, that he wrote his future instead of his present name, but this will hardly get him out of the difficulty, as the proper sig nature would be that of the Controller of the Exchequer, then Sir J. Newport. Others conjecture that the Ex chequer Bill inquestion may be a forgery, but then the insuperable difficulty presents itself of explaining how a forgery could be committed of a name which had no ex istence, and which, after all, if a sort of second sight ( had revealed the future peerage, was not the name of the proper person. Without presuming to 'set this matter right, the conclusive remark is, that when people once cultivate the art of legerdemain, it sticks by them in one shape or other to the last. All the June bills, have th e s i gnature o f Si r J. N ewport . it appears, These brought into the market to-day, and " legiti- f mately" signed " Mont eagle," are dated in September. I CHRONICLE.—In the absence of arty' extensive business, the Consol Market shows a disposition to ad vance, as also the heavy stocks, all of which leave off at improved prices. Exchequer Bills, on the contrary, are I s. lower. _ The last list of bankruptcies in yesterday's Gatete, and the increased gloom which pervades the aceoun••ts•of the state of trade throughout -the , manufacturing dis= tricts, attract much interest throughout th e city. The Woollen and Yarn trades seem to be most severely affected ; but all descriptions are suffering, and prices continue to fall. In Huddersfield and Bradford every thing is depicted. despondingly, and in the former a fact is stated which we formerly noticed—that what with failures, and the sacrifices made in getting rid of stock, both in the raw material and manufttetured goods, there had been no parallel since 1826 ; while at the same time the pressure has been increased during the last month, in consequence of the different Banks • having been compelled to draw the reins tighter and tighter every wear. Pius is also in accordance with what we previously remarked, .that, while the restrictive policy of the Bank of England was experienced in the metropolis to the greatest extent, money - was • not of nearly so mud] value in the provinces, owing to the fettered position in which the Bank of England' 'stood vith certain country Banks of issue, which thwarted her own exertions to control the circulation, and tvort it would require some time before the screw in the Lon don • market • would extend its ir.fiuence with full force in- the manufacturing districts. That time has evidently now arrived ; and when money is declared to no comparatively easy in the London market,- the com plaints from the country on . account of its scarcity are iouder than ever. So:aa parties tazdeve that the period ior which the Burk of Ene!und had contracted with the Banks to which we nae alluded has expired, and that this causes the , inereitF:ed scarcity of money in the coun try ; and: we understand .tintt some .of these accounts have run cue, but not the tvi.oie of, them. We believe, nowever, the the cheerless.: aspect presented for the .sinter niontl:s, and the derangement of our monetary ,ysttrit," arc only now being felt is 'their' entire vigour. But while- the low price of goods must be attended with ooiotts evils and loss to our manufacturers, yet it may produce good by inducing a demand from the Conti nent, mud thus revive our export trade towards the Spring ; and the influx of raw cotton from America will facilitate employment through the winter. It is Ame rica, indeed, to which we must turn our attention un der existing;• circumstances, as the quarter from which to expect assistance ; but crippled as all international intercourse new is, through tariffs, Sec., our exporta irons will, we fear, be doomed to considerable disap pointment. HERALD.—No circumstance of 'the Slightest poli tical moment has transpired here to-day. The Money .111arket ,coctinues very easy, both in the discount Mar ket and on the Stock Exchange. 'lna letters which- we're'•reeeived from the Liverpool And Manehebtcr Share Markets this morning haying ,Aollouuced some renewed speculation in Railway Shares, with an improvement in some instances of the quOtatios, bare caused' considerably "More jobbing in Shares here than v have quoted for some time. Great Western Railway SLares have advanced to 7f a 6 dis., and the ditto New Shares to . -1 : Brighton are. ; Blackwall are dis. ; Birmingham 52 'prom., Croydon Trunk are 3t. 18S. .6d. dis., and the Scrip ft prem., Manchester and Leeds are 8 prem., and York and North Midland 9 a :4 'prem.' SU N.—The Funds left off rather fi- mly- this after nof n, Consols for tlie . opening having touched 94 to Exchequer Bilis and East India Bonds rema ned the 0.11-le as in the morning. In the Foreign Bonds not much business was done. Spanish Actives closed at an advance to 23i ; Portu guese New Five per Cents at Oh ; , Colombian at 25, French Three per Cents. at SO ; Exchange 25 40. The Railway Shares were rather higher in conse quence of the speculation going on at Liverpool, es •pcciaily in the Great .Western and Brighton Shares. The former rallied here to 6 discount, and the latter t.O 141 - discount. Manchester and Lreds Shares proved to 8 prem. Na arrivals were announced during the afterno'n. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, DEC. I.—The facts I am about to communicate to you are of a nature so extraordinary that I shall premise thrm by u solemn avernment of their correctness. When the laughter they will occa sion shall have subsided, you will be impressed with their real gravity. The En peror has just issued an ukase, directing the.t for the future, under pains and penalties, every p"-ma who writes must, as we are all taught, slope hi', letters from the left to right by drawing his pen frorr, the right to the left. This curious ordinance was `'.educed in this way :—His Majesty lately received freru one of the most distinguished officers of his Government a memorial on the finances of the empire. It was written is that way which men who are left-hand:,--d can only write—that is, the letters were sloped cer.ttary to the usual and correct form. The reading of this memorial so teased his Majesty that he instantly directed the ukase above re ferred to. You will remember, that some years since his Majesty isswd an ordinance against the adoption of " goats, " Jewish," or " French," beards by his subjects. Two young noblemen, who had just returned from a tour of Europe, presented themselves early last Month to pay their homage to the Emperor. One of them had a beard. which displeased him exceedingly. The other was more unfortunate, forlais face was adorned after the fashioe,of our ill-fated first Charles. He wore moustachious and a tuft—l think you call it an imperial —on his chin. This was too much for the Emperor. He rushed upon the offender, seized hint by the tuft,. and shook him Jio lently by it, nor in fact did lie relonse it till he tore. it by the roots from the young man's face. The young nobleman, smarting under. bodily -pain.atid a sense of the indignity, retired with his friend. Both demanded passports to withdraw from the empire, but, although they are respectively members of most di s. tinguished families, they were refused, and are at this moment living retired on their estates at Moscow.. These matters have n a turally suggested the near.ap preach of a climax which you must lona - ;moe.have con, s]derc , d inzvitahl6. It is superflUous to add that the outrage I have just narrated has caused an immense: sJisation. THE RIGHT HON. HENRY LABOUatiERE,— The President of the Board of Trade arrived here, we believe, on Monday evening, from Lord Hatherton's, at Tcddesley Pork, Penkridge, and is expected to stay in, this neighbourhood somi two or three days lone. The 'tight Hon. Gentleman is the guest of Mark ph!.. bps, Esq., M.P., at the Park ; and we see by. the Liver pool papers that he is expc. - dod to dine with the Mayor and a numcrcus party the Town Hall there on Fri day. Mr. Laboueacre, in company w ith hi s host, made his A ppearance on 'Change yesterday, about half-pakt coo (;'clock, and was introduced to a considerable num ber of the principal merchants and m anufacturers there Luna")lcd.-11lanchestcr Guardian. Lord Howden has arrived in Hereford-street from Paris, on his way to Grimston Park, Yorkshire, ro remain until the meeting of Parliament. We are lap:ppy residehealthais t m G u r e z. aw h a r .a . r o p v a e r d k . r ie h r ea L r a t d h ) a ,s t bi L p ad e y on H tin o t :v e d ; to en's with a small circle of relatives. The principal theare at Bourclearix on Thurs day night presented an unusual scene of disorder. The audience had become offended at the appearance of a performer named Troy, as Lord Effort, in the Domino Non', under the evident, influence of an over-liberal allowance of wine, and, he was reprimanded by a general The actor retorted with violent gestures, and advancing tov.o.ras the lamps, called out, " Yes, God `lnn Uputl this a storm of hisses broke out, and he was filreed ;AT the stage by his brother actors. lu the second act Lc again came forward ; and the audience were all in a ferment, and the hisses prevented the piece from going on. The tuanaqer at length made his appearance, and, with the assistance of some of the company, endeavoured to f)ree the cause of riot from the stage. The latte r , however, resisted, struck ore of the actors, a contest the curtain was let down, the police interfered, and M. Tre,y was taheo into custody. Apologies were made by the manager to the audience, and, another actor having assumed the part, the entertainments of the evening, nroeeeded without further interruption,—. Gali g nana's Messenger. • - ri!VI4:NEN(I i4:DIT/()N. ~. TT-VT' STN, LONDON. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19.1P39. EV.EN INC, EDITION.