The Sun. — London, England, 1839-01-08 00:00:00

... HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning l4 minutes after 8I Evening 42 minutes after 8 - The publication of Tillt SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock yam, ~ ~~~~. , fl 9, ) ,v " ) • WITH WHICH THE ‘, TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED. LONDON : TUESDAY EVENING JANUARY 8, 1839. The Chronicle of this morning praises its Manches• ter Reporter very much " for diligence in obtaining information, and for sound judgment in appreciating it," and on his reports comes to the cohclusion that " there has been very great exaggeration as to the state of excitement in Manchester and its neighbourhood." In the same column it publishes a violent extract from the speeches of a Mr. HANSON and a Mr. HARNEY at Carlisle, at a meeting, called to take into considera tion the propriety of addressing the Earl of DURHAM, all which violent language refers wholly to STEPHENS, to his arrest, and to the conduct of the Ministers in relation thereto. Now, when it is considered who and what Mr. STEPHENS is, a dissenting political parson, whom Dr. PHILLPOTTS would consider as unworthy to unlatch his shoes—that he has kept dragoons, magis trates, reporters, and editors of the-Provincial as well as Metropolitan Press, fully occupied for the last ten days, we must conclude that nothing short of an open rebellion passes for excitement on the Canada-drugged palate of our Contemporary. It may be, and we hope is true, as he states, that the number of those who really approve of the violent course recommended by STEPHENS, OASTLER, and others, farms " but a small fraction of the working po pulation." We believe that it certainly was true before STEPHENS was arrested, but at the Carlisle meeting, which was so crowded that the Town-hall would not hold the multitude, a resolution, deprecating physical violence, which was submitted to the meeting, did not find a seconder, and the use of physical force, in con tradistinction from moral force, was loudly applauded. We are convinced that our Contemporary's description is now less correct than it would have been a fortnight ago, and the alteration has been entirely caused by the injudicious arrest of STEPHENS. The agitation and excitement since then have increased, but the Chartist agitation, which has never till now been meddled with, is nearly considered in Scotland, according to the Chronicle, at an end. Can we, therefore, supply a stronger proof of the impolicy of the proceeding than is to be found in the same column of the Chro nicle—proof that violent language—the only offence of Mr. STEPHENS—is more atrocious than ever ; and proof that the Chartist agitation was subsiding before he was arrested. We wish to guard our readers against the incorrect representations of our Contemporaries on this point, because the public generally are very apt to believe what they wish. They wish for tranquillity, and if tranquillity be not at the moment interrupted by the arrest of Mr. STEPHENS, they will probably demand more such arrests, producing more provocatives to vio lence, from an opinion that " the authors of violent language ought not to escape." For our parts, having learnt, from the conduct and language of the congre gated masses throughout the country, from Merthyr Tydvil to Norwich, from Brighton to Aberdeen, from Dorchester to Glasgow, that all love for our institu tions, all attachment to the laws, all respect for the upper classes, and for the whole body of the Legisla ture, is clean swept out of their hearts, we deprecate all such coercion as that of the arrest of Mr. STEPHENS, thinking it in the end fraught with the most ruinous consequences, whether it succeed and reduce the manu facturing labourers to the same dependent poverty and hopeless slavery as the agricultural labourers, or whether it fail and the whole system be destroyed, by their stout and successful resistance. Tire sentiment which we borrowed from the Scotsman on Friday cannot be too earnestly impressed on the ruling classes, " THEY MAY PUT DOWN OPEN RESIST ANCE BY THE STRONG ARM OF THE LAW, BUT ,-cr.e.7. - - ''''-e.-• y .....,,,,,_,...., *:';', 7 ?!. Z'l, ~ ;'.: 4- M. • (...r..... _ _.',4 ''''. • ~,,r ~,-,-;,-, ,--,,,,. ts':i.,:e4-:..... THE SECRET VIOLENCE OF DESPERATE MEN CANNOT BE SUPPRESSED, AND THE CONCEN TRATED MASS WILL BUT DISPERSE IN A MILLION OF INCENDIARIES." Whatever may be the taste of others, we have no wish that the free and merrie land of our forefathers should become a prey to the complicated honors of West India slavery. We have, in conclusion, one word to say as to the accuracy and knowledge of the reporter upon whom the Chronicle founds its opinion. In his yesterday's report from Manchester he referred with considerable indignation to a speech of Mr. DEEGAN, referring to s book which recommends a sweeping system of infan ticide, and he censured the orator very severely for coining such a tale, and he mocked at the ignorant people for believing the wicked fable. His own humanity would not allow him to believe in the possible'e istence of such a work, nevertheless it exists. Mr. DEEGAN said not a word of it which is not warranted; and as long ago as November 24, we denounced the abominable recommendation of the theory of the painless extinction of infant life. So much for the ignorance of the Chronicle's reporter, on which alone he condemns the language and ignorance of others. Mr. STEPHENS also referred to that book in his sermon at Ashton, as reported in our Paper on Friday, and he gave us, horrifying as his state ment was, no information concerning it, except that it was written by A Pooß-LAW COMMISSIONER, which we did not before possess. If that be so, we can find in his proper and overwhelming indignation almost an excuse for the thrilling curse which he then denounced against those who should obey the Mo loch law of such a demon as the author. It is in f.. cumbent on the Government, we can assure it, if it would not excite in the mass of the community a sentiment of horror and detesta tion which no pen nor tongue can describe, to cleanse itself with the Poor-law Commissioners from the supposition that it ever countenanced, encouraged, or was privy to the publication of this murder-recom mending book. We are for equal justice, and if Mr. STEPHENS is to be punished for his language, with out reference to the state of mind of his auditory and its cause, this Poor-law Commissioner, and any Ministers who countenance him, ought at once to be torn in pieces. In our columns of this day will-be found a long ex tract from a very clever article in the January Number of the British and Foreign Review, on the political bearing of the recently adopted Austrian and Turkish Commercial Treaties, which we recommend to the es pecial attention of our readers. All Treaties are in their effects upon the interests of nations more or less political ; and never, perhaps, were Treaties adopted for commercial purposes, more essentially political in all their collateral bearings than the two to which Eng land, Austria, and the Porte, are the high contracting parties. Vigorously executed, their moral influence will be felt throughout Europe ; but if we suffer them to remain parchment trophies of our triumphs over the machinations of Russia, then will it be better for Eng land that they hail never been written. They involve the highest national responsibility ; and we will add, if the national will be consulted, the result will be as glorious as the adoption of a contrary policy must be disgraceful. But we cannot suppose that Ministers will make themselves the laughing-stock of Europe by relinquishing the advantages which they have just gained, when they must be aware of the answer which, Parliament would make to an appeal to its patriotism against the aggressive pretensions of Russia. With the British Parliament and people to cheer them on, the British Cabinet can have nothing to fear from setting the AUTOCRAT at defiance, when such a step is necessary to the maintenance of our national honour, and the rights of our commercial intercourse with in dependent States in any part of the world. Besides, Lord PALMERSTON must have known enough of the policy of Russia to be prepared for an appeal to the sword before signing Treaties which he well knew the CZAR would move heaven and earth to render a dead letter. His Lordship must have been sensible that he was dealing a death-blow at the treacherous influ ence of Russia both in Austria and Turkey ; and he must have been equally well aware that the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh must either parry this blow, retort it, or adopt a modification of system fatal to the principles which are the props and pillars of the Autocracy. With the abandonment of the Austrian and Tulkish Commercial Treaties, or even with the waiving of the shadow of an iota of a right which they give us, do we abandon the East and West to the tender mercies of the CZAR and his barbarian hordes. But this cannot be. England roused from her lethargy will nobly do her duty. Even at the eleventh hour the humbling of Russia in the Baltic, the Black Sea, and on the Danube, would cost us but a momentary effort. Poland now prostrate, wallowing in her own blood, would regain her feet with the first roar of British cannon along the shores of the Black Sea, and even Austria would stand more proudly erect at beholding her frontier freed from the presence of an ally in whose good faith she has never for a moment reposed confidence. While we are writing upon the subject of the Aus strian Commercial Treaty, it may be as well to notice a very material error to which a grave currency was given in a long article which appeared a few days ago in the Manchester Guardian—namely, that for this treaty the country is indebted to the zeal of the Right Honourable the President of the Board of Trade. We are aware that Mr. POULETT THONISON would gladly have it thought that every popular measure originates with himself, how little soecer he may have done to promote it ; and there fore we are not surprised that in his unscrupulousness, he grasps at the merit of being the author of a Treaty which found in him rather an opponent than a supporter. Notwithstanding, then, the gravity of the Right Honourable Gentleman's preten sions—set forth, no doubt, in an article of his own manufacture—we can assert on the very best authority that this country is not indebted to Mr. POULETT THomsox for the Austrian Commercial Treaty, nor for any other service more important, that we are aware of, than is usually implied in the quarterly ac ceptance of an official salary. We know the name of the gentleman who drew up the Treaty, and are acquainted with the various steps taken to render it palatable to the Austrian Cabi net ;—although at present we are not at liberty to publish the details. As for Mr. POULETT THOMSON, the very little be did. was to re tard a measure which he had not patriotism to frame, although he has the littleness—now that it is popular—to represent it as a sort of Board-of-Trade behest to the nation. Our readers will find in aiiothercolumn an article com municated by an intelligent Correspondent, on the merits of the Commercial Treaty recently made between Great Britain and Turkey. In giving it insertion, we do not adopt the conclusions of the writer, which, upon several points, are at issue with those at which we have arrived. But it is a principle with us, in treating of questions of national interest, to afford all the facilities in our power to the expression of the opinions of every party. When our Correspondent has communicated all that he pro poses to write upon this Treaty, we shall take occasion to state explicitly the grounds upon which we differ from him. Mr. EasKINE is to be the new Judge. The Chief ship of the Court of Review will not be filled up. We also understand that it is settled Mr. IVIAuLE shall be raised to the Bench, and that Mr. Sergeant WYLDE will be promoted. - In a leading article in this Paper, which appeared about ten weeks ago, we animadverted on the rhap sodies of the great Organ of the Protestant Church, the Times NeWspaper, about Popish treason having " scaled the Palace walls or burst the gates," and on the inconsistency of the supporters of the Protestant Church, who fear only O'CONNELL and the Popa, and are " blind to the growing spirit of Popery which rankles in the bosom of our own Church." We also expressed our fiim belief that the time was not far dis tant when the meetings at Exeter-Hall would have a more powerful enemy to contend with than either PETER DENS or Father M'HALE, or any open.enemy of the Protestant faith, and that " there could be no security for the Protestant reformed religion, w hil e the sources whence Protestantism ought to be drawn were polluted, and the teachers of youth at Oxford were sloping their way backward to the Mother of Harlots." Every passing day furnishes new proofs of the truth of these assertions. The Oxford heretics, or, more properly speaking, Romanists, advocate openly some of the most dangerous doctrines of the Church of Rome. They are teaching these doctrines to the rising generation—to those who will one day fill the sacred office of the Priesthood—to those who will be the teachers of youth in our schools, academies, and universities, and to those who in a few years will be Legislators in our great National Assemby. The danger has become so imminent, and the desire to ac knowledge the POPE as the Head of the Church has been so openly avowed by men of learning and ability _by Doctors of Divinity, and by Members of Par liament professing the Protestant and Reformed Reli gion, that all true believers begin to tremble like men placed over a volcano, and even the avowed, the determined, and the least scrupulous advocates of the High Church party, for the sake of consistency, are compelled to raise their voices against these dang,erous innovations in the heart of the Established Church. The Journal that for some time liss been exercising the functions of " Defender of the Faith," abusing the Prime Mi nister for encouraging Popery, and not sparing even Royalty, has at last proclaimed that tire Church is in danger, not so much from open enemies, as from per jured Protestants, pretending friends, and conceal, d enemies. The Times, after raging for four years against the Popish designs of O'CONNELL and the Whig Ministry, and even praising latterly the writings of Mr. GLADSTONE, who seems thoroughly im bued with the Oxford heresies, last week made a new tack, and opened all its religious artillery against this gentleman and the teachers of our young Aristocracy, and many who, till now, had been considered the very bulwarks of the Protestant faith. " The dangers of Romanism," it boldly asserts " sink into insignificance, when com pared with the extensive and systematic conspiracy, now in actual operation in Great Britain, for re-esta- THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1830. Wishing the spiritual atrllr,riti of tila Papal See ;" and where lies the scene of this conspiracy ?—in the bosom of our Established Church. The conspirators are the Oxford Jesuits—the men that expelled Sir ROBERT PEEL from the University—the supposed enemies of every remnant of Popery. These are the men by whom the most monstrous assumptions and super stitions of Rome are openly vindicated at Oxford from Protestant pulpits and University chairs." These are the men who are meanly endeavouring toyef feet within the Church, what Mr. SPEI4CER more honestly attempts out of it,—" who devour and desecrate the show-bread of Christ," and to whom he " infamy of perjury, as identified with the viola ion of Protestant vows, is adhering in its most odious 'orm." Whal such a wide-spread conspiracy exists ;o overthrow the Protestant fai.h—when, in a few fears, the wholeNifiblir youth, that one day must legis late for the ChurNillifill become imbued with the most Jesuitical doctrin - etVLlkernost monstrous assump tions and superstitions of Itibme—unless this perjured system be at once rooted up, what is the Arch- bishop of CANTERBURY about, and the pious Bishop of LONDON, and the `other great heads of the Church who receive princelY‘iKomes for de-. fending the purity of her doctrines ? When, a tote for Church-rates was proposA, they met in con clave at Lambeth Palace, and hurried down to the House of Lords in breathless haste to denounce the plan as an attempt to undermine the Protestant faith. Are we to infer from their silence now, from their taking no steps to put down this horrible conspiracy, that they are abettors of the conspirators, and that Dr. PUSEY and his coadjutors are, with their consent, preparing the way for acknowledging the POPE as the head of the Church ? We must either come to this conclusion, or to another, that they grossly neglect their most sacred functions, and in either case are totally unfit to be entrusted with the guardianship of our reformed religion. And how comes it that the daily organ of the pure reformed Church — the incessant assailant of Popery—has filled page after page with long extracts from the Quarterly Review, and with loud denunciations of his own against the Archbishop of COLOGNE and foreign Jesuits, while we have had only one blast against the Oxford Je suists, and those abominable doctrines, compared with which, according to his own admission, " the dangers of Romanisrn sink into insignificance." The com plexion of the times, we confess, augurs ill, not only for the purity of the English, but of the Scottish Es tablished Church. We, however, hope that late pro ceedings have opened the eyes of changeable theolo gians, and changeable politicians, but well-meaning men, such as the Edinburgh Professor of Divinity, the missionary who volunteered his services to preach up Episcopacy in England, Dr. CIIAL• MERS, and that he and many others now begin to see that the old woman who denounced it as " flat Popery," knew more -of its dangerous spirit some two hundred years ago, than they knew of it in 1838. If he has, however,. any doubts on the subject, we think the following Jesuitical doctrine laid down by Mr. GLADsToNE;;NiII fulqceonvince him. When did O'CoN NEL t. or StrElL,..pr ouNtsuit, ever advance a doctrine so' daisg,erous to the established Church of Scotland as this—.“ livery E N tnicopal Senator, although bound officially to fulfil the state treaties with the Scottish Church, which stipulate for her maintenance and extension, is iniperativelY obliged as an individual to endeavour to restore the Apostolical system," that is, says the Times-- 7 " to overturn her existing Church." We wish the Pro fes3or of Divinity joy of his present position, and his new associates. Twocheap, three-and-sixpenny Conservative dinners took place on Friday last—one at Oldham, and the other at Buckingham. The three shillings, we sup pose, was the charge made for the eating and drinking part of the business ; and the odd sixpence was for the privilege of hearing the speeches—which, considering that only a few small Lords " gave tongue" at either place, we cannot help looking on as a most extrava gant demand. We can understand a man being charged sixpence—and gladly paying it too—for the luxury of getting out of the way, when such an orator as Lord FRANCIS EGERTON is about to indulge in a long speech ; but we cannot understand his being charged that sum for the privilege of listening to his Lordship, especially when he waddles away in such a sleepy, prolix style as he did last Friday at Oldham. Not one ray of intelligence illumined his speech on this occasion. He urged no argument—he volunteered no suggestion—he threw out nothing from which his party might be likely to derive a useful, practical hint—but contented himself with abusing Ministers, and expatiating on the highly impres sive and momentous fact that he was a martyr in the sacred cause of Toryism, inasmuch as he he had had all " his windows broken" for refusing to illuminate during the Reform struggle I Such as was Lord EGERTON at Oldham, was the Marquis of CHANDOS at Buckingham, with this only difference, that the latter did contrive to stammer out a few faint, cautious common-places respecting , the Corn-laws, though he did not venture to moot the subject till the company had imbibed a sufficient quantity of tavern wine to enable them to bear up against the infliction. But if the Noble Marquis was thus tame, and barren of all but the vaguest and tritest sophistry, in his ad dress to the Buckingham " thaw-bacons," not so those twin stars—the Castor and Pollux of the High Church galaxy—the Rev. Messrs. COKER and MARS HAM, the former of whom proposed to tran quillize Canada by converting all the rebels to the creed of uncompromising Protestantism ; while the latter, resolved not to he outdone in absurdity, com pared Sir ROBERT PEEL, and the Conservative Members of the House of Commons, to LEONIDAS and his three hundred patriots I We have noticed these Tory dinners—brief as our notice is—at far greater length than they deserve; for at neither was there any one argument urged which it would be pos sible to lay hold of, for the purposes of discussion. All was "dull, flat, and barren," like the road from Dan to Beersheba. THE WEATHER, IN SCOTLAND.--On Thursday we had anwher of those stormy clays alluded to in our last. The wind was so high as to render it almost unsafe to walk the streets, and the gusts were occasionally accompanied by heavy mina. So boisterous was the see, too, that the Kirkcaldy boat Irad to return to that port after basing been a good way on its passage to Newha‘en, and the Dundee mail could not be conveyed across the Fritii of Forth till long after the usual period for its arrival. Toward Friday morning, however, the wind fell, but was succeeded by a eon,ii'erable fall of snow and sleet, which continued at short interv,Os during the whole of yesterday.—Scotsman. STATE OF TIIE NAVY.--One of our local Con temporaries has been labouring earnestly to prove that the British Navy is now in a more effective condition than it er has been, and as evidence of the fact has almost bodily transferred the lists and rates of ships from the Navy List to its own columns. We are disposed to rely rather in Lord Minto's declaration on the subject, than on this nu merical detail, which after all might be but a mere show of empty boxes. We cannot but regard the catalogue as ex tremely deceptive, more particularly after so many compe tent naval officers, who can have no possible motive for mis representation, have pronounced it to be so, and have loudly pealed an alarm as to the inefficiency of the Navy.— Devonpor t Independent. MONTGOMERYSIIIRE.—The Chartists of Newton and Llanidlocs held a public meeting at Caersws, on Christ mas-day, when the People's Charter was adopted unani mously, The yeomanry cavalry were called out , but not hin g occurred to require their serviccl. MANSION - -HOUSE.-(THIS DAY.) SIIOCKING DEPRAVITY.—Sarah Bean, a•girl only 14 years of age, was brought before the LORD MAYOR under the fol lowing distressing and disgraceful circumstances. Her father, who is a waterman, said that the conduct of the prisoner had been very bad for a considerable time, and that on Sunday she left his house, and he saw no more of her until tcn o'clock last night, when he found her in a house of ill fame. He went to the house again about ten o'clock this morning, in consequence of the girl's petticoat and apron having been pledged, and at that hour, in one of the rooms he found nine or ten boys and girls all in bed. He had not the least doubt that his daughter had been sleeping in the same room. The policeman into whose charge the prisoner had been given said that she told him she met with a woman named Sullivan, who took her to the Woolpack, in the Minories, and afterwards to the house where she was found in Blue Anchor yard, Rosemary-lane. The next morning the woman of the house asked her to pay for her breakfast and bed ; and as she had no money, her petticoat was taken to pledge. The LORD MAYOR—Do you prefer living in the court to your father's house ? Prisoner—l had rather live in the court. The LORD MAYOR—Do you know any of the boys there ? Prisoner—Yes, I know Jack Hines, Harry Hines, and Dick Farrell. Mr. HOBLER—What are they? Pickpockets? Prisoner— They deal in handkerchiefs.—( Laughter. ) The LORD MAYOR—How are you supported? Prisoler— When I am there the girls give me something. The LORD MAYOR—How many girls are there? Prisoner —Five; we all sleep in the same room, in which there arc three beds. The LORD MAYOR remanded her, in order that further in quiries might be made. Hannah Wright and Charlotte Cook, who were laq week brought up, charged with having defrauded the City of Lon. don Poor law Union, were again placed at the bar. Mr. Thwaites, one of the relieving officers, said that as was not possible to ascertain to which parish the old woman belonged, an arrangement would be made to maintain her be tween them, and she would be sent to Stopney. The LOUD MAYOR thought that was the best course, and discharged the parties. BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) John She elan, a plasterer, was brought up by Mr. Inspector Rawlins of the E division, chargedon suspicion with stealing a gold watch and a silver watch, value 101., the property of Mr. William Alexander Gott, of St. Pancras-place, from his dwelling house. It appeared from the evidence, that in the month of No vember last, the prisoner was employed by the prosecutor to execute some work in a room where a desk lay containing the property, but no suspicion was entertained that be bad com mitted the robbery until a few days before Christmas, when it was discovered that the watches bad been taken away. On the 28th November the prisoner went into the shop of Mr. Chamberlayne, optician, High•street, St. Giles, re questing to have the gold watch case produced, touched with aquafortis, for the purpose of ascertaining if it was really gold, as he said he had a wager staked upon the result. Being questioned how be obtained pos session of it, he said he had picked it up in the streets a few days before. Mr. Chamberlayne told him that it was evidently the property of some person of conse quence, and if he would accompany him to the station-house, the proper owner would probably be found, to which the pri soner agreed ; but on turning round to get his hat the prisoner darted out of the shop, and was not seen again until yester day, when lit was given into custody, after being identified by a young man named Poison, who happened to be standing in the shop when he came to have the genuineness of the watch case proved. The prosecutor proved that the case was part of a gold watch which he bad purchased, together with a silver watch, in France, both of which were stolen from the room in which the prisoner had been at work. The. prisoner stoutly denied any knowledge of the circum stance, and he was ordered to be remanded for a week. stone. LITERATURE PETER PILGRIM. 2 Vols. Bentley, London, 1838. For these volumes we are indebted to the pen of Dr. Bird, an American author of much versatility of talent, whose spirited tale of " Nick of the Woods" was one of the ablest and most popular that appeared last year. His present work is a collection of stories and legends, chiefly trans-atlantic, told for the most part with skid and viva city. There is, however. a want of character in them all, which is to be regretted, for in his former tale, Dr. Bird showed him self fully competent to delineate that strange medley of he roism and meanness, strength and weakness, prejudice and enlightenment, which we call human nature. Our author's first story is by far the best,being a genuine American legend, rich in description, concise and exciting in incident, and insinuating—rather than thrusting it officiously under the reader's nose—a very serviceable moral. This tale is called " Merry the . Miner," and details the adventures of a lazy, good natured sort of 'camp—such as in Scotland they ca ll a " ne'er-do-weel"—who, instead of attending to his house hold duties, and birching his young boys when they stand in need of such wholesome discipline, spends his whole time in vagabondizing among the American glens and forests, in the hope of discovering mines of gold, which may make him a man of consequence in his district. For years toge ther, whether the season be hot or cold, wet or dry, Merry the Miner perseveres in these idle wanderings ; and at last, to his inexpressible delight and astonishment, he dis covers an enormous cavern, wherein are myriads of human beings, evidently of antidiluvian growth, who are all stif fened to stone, and encrusted with the continual crystal droppings of the cave. From some of these grotesque pe trifactions, Merry, made audacious by his intolerable thirst for gold, chips off with his axe the stony dress that envelopes them, and finds underneath, as he had antici pated, rich necklaces, bracelets, armlets, amulets, &c., all of pure gold, which are fastened round their necks, arm* and foreheads. Unluckily, however, the cavern is an or chanted one, like that into which Aladdin so unwittingly popped his head, and poor Merry is, in consequence, com pelled to pay the penalty of his unhallowed intrusion. With his new-found treasures in his sack, he is just about to sour a discreet retreat from the magic cave, when— A sudden palsy seized upon his body ; there was a nut-ohne" or stiffness in every joint, and it was if.creasing every moment' A terrible idea entered his mind—his heart leaped with pertur' bation—it seemed almost the only muscle capable of motion' He looked down upon his limbs. They were already thicklf crusted over with spar, which the humid atmosphere of the cave was depositing round them with fearful rapidity. He felt the cold stone stiffening on his fingers, and freezing on hit cheeks. He also was becoming a petrifaction—a man of stone, like all around him. His treasures, his darling trea sures, attacked by the subtle vapour, had already vanished fro ) his eyes. But what cared Merry for treasure now ? Terror and anguish seized on his spirit ; he gathered all his e nergiel a , •to an effort, and struggled furiously to burst his bonds of As well might the vriUgoat struggle in the embraces of an anaconda—a fly in the n7shes of a spider I The incrus tation crackled round him, and was then firmer than ever. 11 ,1 could neither move hand nor foot. He was a rock—part an y parcel of • the rock on which he sato. Thus a prisoner, breathing corpse, Merry gave himself up to despair, and rave and shrieked, until affrighted at the echo of his own voice' But shrieks and struggles were alike vain ; and by and bye b ° found himself deprived of the power even of uttering a ell' The stony concretion was gathering round his throat and ill and mounting to his lips; where, though his warm breath ha as yet repelled the insidious vapour, it threatened soon to 04 tack him with suffocation. In a few moments, and what sow remain of Merry the Miner ? • Just, however, as lie is on the verge of suffocatio , Merry is rescued by the sudden interposition of the SO' ti of the Care, who, hearing him feebly murmur a pr a y d; tells him that this last act of grace has saved him, and b i him hasten out of the enchanted spot. Of course the Min e d, complies, and never once stops running at hi s u t mos t spee i „, till he reaches' his own abode, when, fill e d w ith g ratittlw r for his miraculous escape, be becomes a " sadder and Wil le t man," and dies at a good old age, in the course of one ° his eccentric mountain and forest wanderi n gs. The f e ; mAinder of the tales in these volumes call for no partial ° notice. THE ARABIAN NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENi'S PARTS I. and IL Smith. This is a new and beautiful edition of Foster's trat lsl° ; tion of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, so well latg", to, and so justly the admiration of every scho o l-boy. work will he completed in ten monthly parts, embellished W i ,", twenty-four handsome engravings, from designs by Salir'; The tribute of our admiration is due to Mr. Smith for tbir cheap and elegant editions of Standard Works recently P u a i lished by him, and we trust that their circulation will e9 6 d ., his claims to the patronage of the reading public. His e - tions of Froissart and Burnett are the hest we have see n these Standard Works. SPORTING REVIEW. The editor of this periodical is Mr. Apperton- -4 e r4 Nimrod—the most popular writer of his day on all mat t es t connected with the sports of the field. The clev er h o articles in the nuMbpr are, cs might be anticipated , ell own ; and we hope he will long continue to wield his P e , with as much skill, as some years since he wielded his O ti e f The engravings are three in number; one is a portrait, the editor ; and another is called the " Student," anti presents a young collegian with his trencher-cap on at' head, busy in cleaning his gun, while on the floor are s c o j tied various sporting articles ; and prints of birds, I/ boxers, and horses, line the walls. THE ARCHITECTURAL MAGAZINE. Longman and Co. A be A well-conducted periodical, especially devoted O r " progress of a taste for architectural greatness in the eo l a t.ion of public edifices in the United Kingdom. f present number contains an article on the suitableness monument to the memory of Sir Walter Scott, whic h recommend to the notice of the citizens of Edinburgh' THE LAW MAGAZINE. Richards and ‘l ' 0 1 ,1 We are nev er a t a l oss f or equa l di v i s i ons o f 0 0 " and bad politics in this periodical. After a s bovve r op o abuse of the Radical majority of the House of Com° O i l we have a dissertation worthy of the pen of a Judge, ° Il " Extinction of Copyholds." The biographical sket eb it e# Lord Stowell displays in every sentence an intimate quaintance with his Lordship's character and abilitieo' THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZ-- D O t iff As usual, this periodical has reached us so l a te 00 have hardly an instant to glance at its contents. Fr°lo cursory view which we have been able to take ( V articles of a literary c h arac t er , we are di spose d to prop° it an excellent Number. THE CHURCHES OF LONDON. be' This is a useful work to the lover of antiquities, b e t th e history and description of the ecclesi as ti ca l e difices ° c oot Metropolis. The Editor is Mr. Godwin, a rising Je architect, who is assisted in his labours by that mos t fatigable honk-maker. Mr. Britton. ALDINE MAGAZINE. of' t One of the numerous cheap periodicals of the dsP oo tli which an idle half hour or so m a y b e passed pleas enough. ASTORIA. Bentley, London, 1 839. A republication of Washin;zton Irving's last ro-,,or work, and formitg the second volume of B en tley's St' a " t borl Library. The book contli n s rt'strikin:! likeness of the au CHRISTIAN Iih,FORMER. Sherwood and Cc. This is an excellent Number. The contents arc A t he ther a more miscell aneous c h aracter t h an usua l, aau,der, is none of the artic' e s w hi c h w ill no t we ll repay the r e- j kip r , perusal. The first paper is entitled, " \Yarning t o rica on the Subject of Political Liberty." It is a e a t s sermon by the pastor of an American congregatioo , bpi' sioned by the destruction of Pennsylvania Hall, O c t 0 01 ", mob, but by an assembly of citizens, on the 16th 0 ' ore,' 1848. Our readers are aware that this atrocity, s° ,, whelmingly disgraceful to a community having fari kelf, tensions to civilization, was committed by the 3 00; sylvanians, because they di sa pp rove d o f the °Oh!: of the Slavery-Abolition qnestion, the friends ° righteous cause having held their meetings in the b u i te j alluded to. The address of Mr. Furness has been f r o - c o ar, but not published, in Pennsylvania. Why, let the a,°,.. l ,l s tin ( of American liberty answer. The Editor of the " 1 - 1 ,.";, - 11 01/ A Reformer" makes the following remarks on this ifi n rdiv i i sign of the times, in a country held up as the very Pa l i . ; 0 11 :4 1 of civil and religious freedom :—" The Abolitioe ls 7bif ie be imprudent—their measures may be premature ; f ,* c ord matter for inquiry and discussion : b u t woe to tile d , of the United States if they gi v e u p p ro perty, 13 " a a' t 1 ); liberty to the populace ! Th e o th er d a y at IP L ',.3 11/1 4 - fires blazed against Popery ; on thi s occas i o n the O r- tit raised against Negro emancip a ti on ; th e nex t burilla,slo" consist of the houses and persons of c Ameri an s favou r i° tha n eutrality, and the o b servance o f the rightsofnatioos affair of Canada ; an d henceforward all sects and, : ; duals in the United States that offend the prejo w .,,, c- o t; ;' passion of the masses, may be, according to cust a `l,oo:l prescription, the victims of Lynch-law and mob vif ic .- A ti°;! These reflections are just, - and of universal aPP' The address itself is an eloquent and fearless protes t i s :e l those lawless and savage proceedings, 9ndapowerf ui in favour of freedom of political opinion. We have not left ourselves space to do more t le t tion the title s o f some o f t h e ot h er art i c l es . The 0 0 10' (cresting of these are " Sketches by Dr. B wring►,_ ° Mahometan and other Oriental. Religions"—to%sti c ," l tinned, " The Hazlitt Papers," and Eccles': use Forgeries, No. 1." The Review department is P -1. , lady full and rich this month. GRACE DARLING. • 'A -Jotter has been received from Grace Darling, addressed to the Seen tary at Lloyd's, returning her grateful tb trks for the liberal donation given by the subscribers, of which the following: is a copy verbatim : Kind Sir,-1 am very much obliged to the gentlemen who have given me the sum of 201., and I hope you will let them know that I feel very grateful to them who have so liberally rewarded me ; and I thank God who enabled me to do so much. I thought it a duty, as no other assistance could be had ; but still I feel sorry I could do no more. Please, Sir, I will thank }mi . to pay the money into Messrs. Ridley's Bank, at Alnvvick,'in my name. " Ypuri very much obliged humble servant, " GRACE H. DARLING. tone Light, Dec. 28, 1838." " Lonl LI.4OYI)'S DA.Y DEAL, JAN. 7.—Strong brenes from W. to W. S. W., it biro' hard all last night from S. S. W., with heavy squalls and rain. Several of the outward bound drove, but sustained no damage ; 7 30 P. M., Wind W. N, W., noderate.—Arrive•l and proceeded for the River, the Margaret, Lauder, from Rio Janeiro ; Sprightly, St. Michael's. Came down from the River, the Dundee Merchant, Fife, for Gibraltar; Caroline, for St. Michael's. _ _ PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 7.—lt blew a heavy gale all lest night from W. S. W , and veered this morning to W. N. W., still blowing a gale. The Aid-de-Camp drove at Spitbead but brought up again with a second anchor; the ships at the Motherbank, are also riding with two anchors down.--Arrived her Majesty's ship Electra, from Rio; sailed 22d November, having about 25,0001. in specie on board; same day conveyed the Judith, which had put in to Rio with damage, from Valpa raiso, for Liverpool, hav!ng 350,000 dollars en board; Jett her next day off Cape Fr i, with a fair wind. On the Ist Decem ber, lat. 16.30, long. 29.54, W., captured the bri g antine Diligenti, from Benguela, for Rio aid Mozambique, having 302 slay, s on board, and sent her to Rio ; she at first showed Monte Video colours, and afterwards Portuguese. On the 28th of December, off the Western Islands—spoke the Alert packet from Rio, for Fain , outh. Sailed 18th November, the Lapwing packet. Arrived at Rio the same day as the Electra sailed. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 7.—Put back the Ruby, for Gibral.ar. with loss of fore-topmast ; Mojestic, New Orleans ; and Mary Bibby, Trieste Sailed the Monkey, Bain, and Swift, Ed wards, for Gibraltar; and Hartware, Lisbon. RAMSGATE, JAN. 7.—Arrived the Glace Darling, Crockett, from Dundee ; Jeanette and Mary, Douglas, Leith ; William Conier, and Eclipse, Munden, from London; and Neptune, Shields. . MARGATE, JAN. 7.—Arrived off port the Alert, Lloyd, from London, with loss of anchor and chain, having been on the Hook. COWES, JAN. 7.—Arrived the Devonshire Packet, "Mills, from London. POOLE, JAN. 7.—Arrived the Olive Branch, from New foundland: WREXHAM, JAN. 7.—lt blew a ereadful gale all night from W. S. W. CIA DE, JAN. 4 —Arrived the Skinner, Michols, from Bar badoes ; Ganges, Crawford, Bay Chaleur ; Revive, Marseilles, PLYMOUTH, JAN. 6.—Wind W. S.W.—Arrived the Iler cules (steamer), from Cork. It has blown very hard all night. the Gazelle, Bensham, from Dundee to St. Domingo, drove and tailed on shore, but is being hove off, without apparent damage. FALMOUTH, JAN. 6.—Wind W. S. W. to S. W., strong breezes, with rain.—Arrived the Alert picket, Lieut. Norrhu gion, from Rio Janeiro, sailed 18th Nov., on freight 8,0001. ; Johanna, Welstron, from Valparaiso, sailed 6th July, crew laid up with scurvy; Galatea, Proudfoot, from London. Passed a barque, shewing English colours, standing to the W.N. W. on the 22d Dec., in Lt. 32. 53., lon. 32. 17. W., shewing Marryatt's signal.., No. 237, by the Alert packet. The brig Richard, sailed from Rio Janeiro, Nov. 16 ; the brig Sirene, for Bahia, on the same day, and the Mina for London on the 18th Nov. YARNIOUTII, JAN. 7.—Arrived the William Francis, Knight, from Lynn, assisted in with the loss of anchor and windlass damaged. ROADS, JAN. 7.—Francis Jeffry, from Dunkirk; Strachan, from Newcastle. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY HUNGERFORD MARKET. There were fair supplies to-day at market of Fish, Meat, and Vegetables. and es the weather has much improved, there was a good business done. Prices remain much as we last quoted them, this being a retail market. HAYMARKETS. Supplies to-day were but moderate, particularly of Straw. The demand for all descriptions of dry provender was good. Ha) 80 , , to 100 s. 110 s. and 115 s. Clove: 80s. to 120 s. Straw 304. to 40s. per load. PROVISION MARKET. Stocks of most kinds are considerable rather than otherwise. But a moderate business is doing, and prices may generally be regarded as a little easier without_being positively lower. SPIRIT MARKET. But very little is passing in any branch of this department, and prices of Brandy, Rum, and Geneva, are without varia tion. British Corn Spirits are now 10s. 6d. per gallon. QUARTERLY TEA SALE.—SECOND DAY. This sale was resumed again this morning, in presence of a fsir muster of the trade. The sale progresses better than was previously expected; and, althouei it is too early yet to state with accuracy the prices of the present sale as compared with those of the last, the general impression is, that prices (except for the higher sorts) where they differ from those of last sale, are lower ; but still not so much lower, as was ex pected. Up to the time of our leaving the sale room, about 16,000 packages had passed, and somewhere about one-third of that number sold. COLONIAL MARKETS. _ _ To day we had public sales of 3,670 bags Bengal Sugar, 197 of Mauritius, and 100 hhds. of Barbadoes. The whole of the Bengal did not sell, but that which did, together with both the other sorts, fetched about previous rates, which were from 535. 6d. to 68s. 6d. for Bengal, and from 445. 6cl. to 655. for Mauritius. B. P. Sugar moves steadily at previous rates. Coffee, 200 casks and 150 bags B. P. were put and must be sold at priests much about those previously obtained. It is thought that Pepper, Pimento, and East India Ginger will ad vance in price, owing to the stocks being ,so small. For to morrow we have public sales of 900 bags Coffee at the 9d. duty, and 626 barrels and 400 bags at the 6:.1. ; 100 bales Mocha ; 3,500 bags Mauritius Sugar; 2,600 Siam ; and 1,000 bags Black Pepper. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL 'NEWS. CITY (TIIIS DAY), TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARRILT, JAN. 7.—The demand for Cotton continues to be extensive to-day. Sales are 6,000 bags, about one-half of which were on speculation, at rather higher prices. We have received Montreal Papers to the 15th December, from which we copy the following : The Upper Canada mail of last evening was barren of any news from the West, to which all eyes are now turned for brigand movements. The Court-martial at Kingston is getting en briskly with the trials of the pirates by dozens. No more executions had taken place up to Tuesday last. A dreadful explosion had taken place on board the steam. boat General Brown , on the 25th last month, at Helena , on the NEssissippi. Its force was so great as to throw two of the boilers out of the boat upon the bank, Sixteen passergers were killed and others ,severely scalded. The Captain, two mates, and three engineers were killed. We have received Quebec Papers to the 13th of December. The news they contain is anticipated by the American Papers received yesterday. (Demerara Papers to the 29th Nov.) We this day give another speculation on the much-debated currency question by our fellow-citizen Mr. Donald Smith ; he proposes to issue a new silver currency, to be expressly coined in London, to the amount of 200,0001. sterling, or considerably exceeding the present amount of paper in circu lation. TUE . FUNDS. Owing to the boisterous state of the weather we have few arrivals.rthis morning ; • and we are sorry to announce that 'Lloyd's books to day exhibit , dreadful losses at Liver pool by the severe hurricane which took place on the night of the 6th instant, the particulars of which will be found in another part of the Paper. The destruction of life, property, shipping, and buildings blown down, must have been to a great extent. 1 his calamity has caused great sensation in the city, and is the general topic of conversation amongst the mercantile community. Consols which closed yesterday at 94 to 94+ for the opening, opened at the same price ; soon after, ninety thousand Consols were sold by an eminent broker, .at 924 Ex-dividends for money ; but to the present time the above sale has not had any effect on the market ; Exchequer Bills, 66 68; India Bonds, 63 65; Bank Stock, 202} 203}; India Stock, 2561 251 Ex-dividend. Spanish Active as they closed, 171 ; Portuguese same, 321 '331 ; Three per Cents, 214 ; Belgian, 99 3 ; Mexican, 234 24* ; Colombian, 274 281; Brazilian, 77 78 ; Dutch Two and-a-half per Cents, 541 4-. . PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 203 25(, India Stock 3 per Cent. Red. ... ...... . .... ...03%., , , Ditto Bonds - 63 pm. 3 per Cent. Cons. 92% % South Sea Stock — :3,0 per Cent Old Annuities — Ditto Red. 100!(,% New Ditto New 3l per Cent 100%'4 3 per Cent.. Annuities, 1751... New 5 per Cent. Bank Long A nnuitiestoexpire Ditto 500 66 68 pm. Jan. 5, 1860 14 15-16 Ditto Small 66 63 pm Oct. 10, 1859. —l Ditto Commercial pm. Jan. 5, 1560. — Ditto Advertised Jan. 5, 188 , 1 , Bank Stock for Account — April 5, MI r India Stock for Account — Jan. 5. 1870 f Consols for Account giVi PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds i Peruvian Bonds — Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds . ...... - —' Ditto , 3 pe r Cent. Ditto Account — Ditto Account Chilian Bonds I ) tto Account Columbian Bonds Ditto Account Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, 1824...26i 71 8 7! Spanish Bonds Ditto Account '26% 7 ) Ditto Account — Danish Bonds Ditto Account 1 Ditto Accot It. Greek Bonds — French, 5 per cent. —f. —e. Ditto Bonds, 1825 4 per cent —f. —c. Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent — Exchange.......... —f. —c. Ditto Account Dutch, 2% per cent. 54 % % Ditto, 6 per Cent , Ditto Account Ditto Account Neapolitan i Ditto Account ...... .....-::. 10VA I'ItIOES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per ' , has e. Brighton• Railway , ... L ndon and Birmingham Railway Company 9O 169 London and Southampton Railway Company London and Croydon Railway Company 2O 13 12A Bitumen, Bastenne and Gaujae Colonial Bank --- ------- HALF-PAST ONE. Her Majesty's packet from Rio, the Electra, has arrived, sailed the 22d November; fell in with the brig Judith, from Valparaiso, in distress, with 250,000 dollars on board; on her sailing again fell in with the Portuguese brigantine Diligente, with 302 slaves on board, which she captured and took into Rio—it appears they were destined for Rio. Exchange as per last packet ~,,,,_ Consols may be quoted at present 9211 ex-dividend ; Re &Ad, 94.1. • The Government broker purchased six thou ..salia Reduced at 934. Exchequer Bills, 66 68; India Bonds, 68 ; Bank Stock lower, 203 2021 ; India ,Stock, for opening, 256. 2571; Spanish Active, 174 ; Portuguese, 324 33 ; Three per Cents., 211 ; Belgian, 994 : 3 :, ; Colombian, 2n 284 ; Mexican, 234 244 ; Dutch Two..and.a. Half per Cents.,s4l:l ; Five per Cents., 1024. , Scarcely any thing doing in the Share Market. Prices much the same as yesterday. THE FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES BRITISH FUNDS. - 7 Bank Stock 203 llndia Stock ' , i7ya 3 per - ent. Red 3 per Cent. Cc.is • , ,..A Ditto Old Annuities — 3t6 per Cent. Red 100.54, Ditto New Annuities 1 , 1z.v. 3,4 per Cent ON Ex. Bills, 1 1 Me... «2 .-' 2 ,1 '; ' pm. New 5 per Cent Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5001.. , le, pm. Jan. 186 ' ... 14 15-16 Bank Stock for Act. .:.....wit' Oct. 1850 Jan. 161(0 FOREIGN FUNDS ' ~ Austnan, 5 per cent Portuguese' ond T , ., 5 per cent.. - Belgian, 5 per cent D it t o, . New D itto B ra zilian Bonds 77%lPrussian;,b ptr cent Buenos Ayr. s, 6 per cent. Chilian, 6 per cent Ditto, meta)tic. Colomb,an, 6 per cent Spanish, 5 per cent i7l;, Ditto, 1824 2 7 li Ditto, Consolidated Danish, 3 per cent 7SA French,.s per cent f. c. Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per cent. Exchange Mexican, 5 per cent. l4 French, 3 per cent —f. • Ditto, 6 per cent.. 1825 24 Dutch, 24.61%er cent. Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent 17% Ditto, 5 per cent...... MIA (CLOSING PRICE OF SHARES.—(THIS DAY.); Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway , 9 Hull and Selby II London and Brighton Railway London and Illackwall Railway ' 7% London and Birmingham Railway London and Southampton Railway London and Croydon Railway Manchester and Birmingham Railway Ditto Ditto Extension North Midland Railway..... Dr. Birkbeck, we are happy to state, is pronounced to be out of danger by his medical attendants. The death of James O'Hara, Esq., of Galway, formerly M.P. for that. town, and son-in-law of the Arch bishop of Tuam, has made vacant the office of Recorder of Ga'way. his BELVOIR CASTLE JAN. 4.—To-dayGrace completed his 60th year, and the banqueting hall will re sound again with the sounds of festivity to celebrwe the joyous occasion. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, at tended by the Hon. Miss Kerr, arrived last evening, from town. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge ar rived the previous evening. Sir Robert and Lady Peel h ye arrived from Drayton Manor, Staffordshire, to pass - several days with the Duke of Rutland. The Earl and Ceuntess of Wilton arrived yesterday from their hunting 'lodge, at Melton Mowbray. The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield have just arrived from town. Lord Forester, Marquis of Granby, Hon. C. Stuart, and Lady Emily Wortley, Lord Charles Manners, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Lady Emily Trench, Hon. Miss Forrester, Mr. and Lady E. U ummond, Earl Clare, Hon. G. Forester, &c., have jnined the party. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Augusta, Marquis of Granby, Earl and Countess of Wilton, Earl and Countess - of Chesterfield, Earl of Clare, Lord Charles Manners, Lord Forester, Sir Redhert and Lady Pect, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Hon. Charles Stuart and Lady Emily Wort ley,•Hon. G. C. Forester, Hon. Miss Forester, Hon. Mr. • Bathurst, Lady Emily Trench, Mr. and Lady E. Drum mond, &e., will be included in the dinner party this even ing. It is uncertain whether the Duke of Wellington will visit the Duke of Rutland this year. The Gallant Duke has not yet arrived. The grand ball takes place to-night ; shout 9.00 mbers of the beau monde are expected. BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY FOR JANUARY.—OIIe f the most Int resting features of Bentley's Miscellany tor the present month, is the imposing list of New Works, from the press of its proprietor, which is prefixed to it, red which seems to leave those of rival booksellers quite in the shade. The Chem! de Bataille of the Number is " Jack Sheppard," a romance, by Mr. W. H. Ains s-orth, author of " Rookwood." " A Vi-it to the Ca-tie of C;iLon " is a most agreeable paper ; although frequently described before, it has never been described so well. The Twin Doomed" is a vivid sketch, by Hoffman. Mr. Lover's b dlad, " The Sun to his Mother," is full of beauti ful feeling. " Handy Andy's Adventures," by the saute Author, is one of those lively and graphic pictures of Irish (canners, for which this agreeable writer is so deservedly celebrated. " Merrie England in the Olden Time" is well timed, whilst the " Lora Mayor's Day" is a happy bur lesque of Dryden's well-known Ode. This publicetion in joys the largest circulation, with the exception of Blackwood, of any Magazine of the daY.—United Service Gazette. Yesterday morning, between seven and eight o'clock, Quinby, the grave digger, of Newington, on going into the church-yard, discovssed in rather a secluded spot the body of a new-born female child, which was in a state of decom position. The parish surgeon, Mr. Boddy, states it to be an eight months' child, and has every appearance of having born alive. It had on a blue striped frock, and very coarse cap. Information of the circumstance has been forwarded to Mr. Carter, the Coroner. CIIURCII-RATES.—Last week at Leicester the Church Marty were defeated. The local Mercury, referr ing to the victory, says :—" We congratulate the Vestry on their spirited resistance to the u nreasonable demands of the Churchwardens ; and we hope that, if they do notsuc ceed in the Court of Queen's Bench, they will still refuse to levy this iniquitous impost."