The Sun. — London, England, 1839-01-11 00:00:00

THE ARMY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sut,—The government of the Army has been at all times a subject of deep interest with the public, and this feeling is not likely to be diminished by passing events. That a spirit of emulation is necessary to the well-being of every army, those, who b es t un d ers t an d th e cons titution of armies will at once admit; without this spirit, duties are per formed sluggishly, and the whole body gradually falls into decay. A commission is now sitting, at the head. of which is the "like of Wellington, to inquire into the state of the promo tion of the Navy, Army, Ordnance, and Marines. The re port of this Commission is looked for by all those branches With great anxiety. The Commission was appointed last session, in c onsequence o f a mot i on ma d e by L or d G. Lennox, ~e c alling on th e H ouse o f C ommons to i nqu i re int o the cause of 1 „o slow p romot i on o f t h e Mar i nes, w i t h , I b e li eve , a pet i t i on trona the Officers of that corps. The motion was very pro perly resisted by th e Mi n i s t r y, w ho considered that the Marines were not in a wore condition than the other services. , The statem en t o f Si r Ed war d C o d r i ng t on to which y ou lately adverted, that there were eighteen Generals lately pro_ meted who had not been more than twelve years in the ranks of Colonel and Lieutenant-Colonel, I think must have been made in error, because the Lieutenant-Colonels of 1813, 1 814, and 1813, are not yet Generals. In the years 1837 and 1835, there was what is called Bre vet Promotions, and I wish it to be particularly remarked by Sir Edward Codrington, as well as by those Members of the House who take an interest in our military establishments, that in these years, about one hundred Colonels were made Penerals, and that out of the hundred Colonels so promoted, four or five only were taken from the actual army of cavalry and infant r y o f t h e li ne ; a ll t h e rest were f rom t h e G uar d s , toe Marines, and Ordnance, but chiefly from the half-pay, many from the latter list, who had not performed one day's service during the last twenty-five years or, the better to be u nderstood, I shall say since the peace of Paris, in the year 181 5- This, then, is what is called promotion to the army on her Majesty's coronation. One thing is certain, that the Army do not consider those Brevets as promotion, and that the system has engendered so strong a feeling of dissatisfac tion and disappointment among the higher ranks of those em ployed, that is to say, those who are held responsible for the discipline and order of the Army, that the question must now be decided whether when an officer arrives at the head of a regiment, be is to be told so far mayest thou go, but no fur ther, By the present system, the Regimental Field Officer is excluded from the rewards and honors of his profession. All Staff employments are from the half-pay list, and many of those Staff Officers attain the rank of full Colonel whilst hold ing very minor situations, such as Town Majors and Town Adjutants, appointments which belong to the rank of Captain and Subaltern, and not to that of Colonel, whose duties cor respond with those of a General Officer, and whose rank is degraded by holding a subordinate situation. The Military Staff Departments, and the Brigade Majors, the latter also the appointment of a Captain, arc filled up in the same man ner, hence a Regimental Officer has but little chance of ever succeeding to a higher command than his regiment, by which he might hope to acquire some knowledge of the higher duties of his profession. A Brigade Major succeeded to the temporary government, first at Van Diemen's Land, then at New South Wales ; a Town Major succeeds in other places, and commands the garrisons of which he is commissioned as Town Major or Adjutant. Is Staff Officer was placed over the heads of all the Regimental Officers employed in the Kaffir war, at the Cape of Good Hope. A Staff Officer was the first to command, and the first to fail, in Canada. What chance has a Regimental Lieutenant-Colonel in any of the borne districts, what chance in any of our foreign stations? The fag and responsibility of the service are indeed his, but the rewards and emoluments belong to others ! It was not always so—Wellington, Moore, Hill, and the two Pagets, were Regimental and not Staff Officers. It is not the Staff and half-pay alone which overtops the regimental officer. The Guards, the Marines, and Engineers have their share. It is an every-day occurrence for a Captain of Marines to be Promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel, over the heads of every Major in her Majesty's service. Let th e Com mission take an average of the services of the Majors at home and abroad ; let them be compared with those of the Marine Captains at home and abroad, and it will be found a difficult task to persuade the Army that there is so much value in the one over the other, as to warrant the Marine Captains being thrust over the heads of every Major in the army. A lazy Guardsman, who perhaps never passed a day on foreign duty, is at once promoted from Captain to Lieutenant- Colonel; why should be possess this advant a g e to the p re j udice of those who are toiling in every clime ? Look at the com fortable dwellings of the different divisions of Marines, and at the splendid houses of the Engineers, and then enter the hovel of the commissioned officer of any regiment, and the ad vantages the former possess will be at once seen. A subaltern of Engineers abroad has as much pay as a Ma jor, of Infantry, and a very superior quarter. The Captain of Engineers has more pay than a Colonel commanding a regi ment, and a splendid house. The commissioned officer of Engineers, in any station, is better paid and better lodged than a General Officer on the staff. All the services ought to be placed in point of rank on an and equalit y; exclus i ve pr i v il eges ar e v iewed with jealousy Fvee rtplaces, dis satisfaction. Staff Officers should be kept in their p ß r r o e for which alone they are commissioned. All Promotions, if at all given, should be to those who are Serving. Commands ought not to be invariably snatched from those Who have formed the Army, and who are the responsible agents of its discipline. Town Adjutants commanding an army is a burlesque upon the profession ; their duty is to look after the pioneers, to see that cleanliness is kept about the garrison, and that the guards have their orders correctly A higher range is required to fit a man for command. W. R. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. would at once have called upon the Editor of the Times to insert this letter, in answer to a paragraph which ,PPeared in that paper of Monday, did I not know that pre- Mice would render my object futile; such being the case, I ask Journalist to i you as an impartial give publicity to the fol iL owing statements. It would be inconsistent in me to enter I _, ll to the merits or demerits of Mesmerism, but when it is ad duced as the only means of slandering and vilifying a man so far ab ove his enem i es, I f ee l t h a t I s h a ll not b e tre s passing beyond the bounds, when I ask 4 , Whether the fact of Dr. Elliotson Pursuing (as he conscientiously thinks) a new science, forms s fi . cient grounds for the Council to act in such a manner as to compel him to resign ?" se } The h The —outwit urges in its defence that the interests of the t ruth and h osp i ta l d eman d t hi s interference. I deny the :nth of thi s pa l try subterfuge, an d as k w h e th er the increased r uMber o f pupils entered to the class o f M e di c i ne and the s' active of the hospital has any tendency to support their litatement ? With all the " hole and corner" proceedings resorted to by t he enemies of D r . E ., sufficient gratitude existed in the stu dents :4;) constitute a majority in his favour, which would have e en min i: great er h a d i t no t b ee n for the indecent andilli beral eneou'rsgement given by " certain" Professors to the op ticslte party. One of these Professors in the triumph of sa vated e nvY, endeavoured in the lecture - room to ri dicule one _ so lately had beenhis colleague INo doubt he expected de ceived of applause 11;r this generous act, but the result de , Yr l 4 The hisses of his class plainly told him, that tith - "gu theirmindsmight be prejudiced, they were n o t wholly d e b ased ad Th e Council have taken little or no c..otice of the resolutions opted at our last meeting thereby castioq additional insult sep:ta those whose interests ' they pretend so . carefully ... to pro s • it is for the students to revenge this injustice, and I J.' e lik advisedly when I say that the Council will, ere long, rI y regret their tampering w i th t h e independence of those wvoin alone their institution owes its very existence: It may be thought that lam a friend of Dr. E.'s. Tb sot the Caw. I have never spoken to him, except in his cepa - ItYof lectures and physician ; but I think that to be robbed of nIY foreintrusion. e s Money ant; instruction at the same time is sufficient cause I am, Sir, yours, &c. AN UNIVERSITY STUDENT. -- PicTuRES AT GREENWICH fIOSPITAL. t TO THE EDITOR OF TH E SUZY. s a,- -On Thursday last I availed myself of the opening of t.l Greenwich Railway to that piaeg to show the magnificent : 1 1 1 ' 1 1 , }lLvital, and its Pictures and Chazpel, to two nephews, aucl) werls' Paying me a visit during the Christmas holidays; Much nclighted were we all with it. My dbject, however, In u a a n d a dr i e ss i ng .. vou, is to call your attention to the payment de " of thos, - . who wish to see the fine old records of our al engagements, 'Tis true that only 3d. is the amount se nia nued; but how ,many a mechanic, and s ho p kee p er, or :ant, holiday-making, can ill-afford , if at all, to pay this MY attention was drawn to the c ircumstance on the ill _ e present occasion, by observing a boy of abo ut twelve years of 7 closely following me, to hear my account of the different selgfagements; and on asking him how he came there by him said his father (a small shopkeeper) and two sisters Should the outside, but could not afford to lay out so much. _ this be so 1 A charge of Id. would keep out idlers, gud double the revenue. Your obedient AN Servant, OLD SAILOR. ENOCRATIC - ASSOCIATION. , TO TIFF EDITOR OF THE SUN. inform you, that is with ' much pleasure I have to yo a vote of thanks was unanimously pissed to you for ~.!le best ac e:" manly and impartial conduct in giving _ li g e nt and of the proceedings against the noble-mimieJ ', i e h calumniated Stephens, by the Members of the First S ection of the London Democratic Association, who meet _. 1 7 Monday evening at the Barley-mow, Upper Thames street, vial s , ror th e purpose of gaining by all lawful means Univer uffrage, Annnal Parliaments, Vote by Ballot, &c. THOMAS SHERMAN, Chairman. In the course of a charge of embezzlement by a etY4nt, preferred on Tuesday at Guildhall, Sir P. Laurie ask ed the Complainant if inquiry was made as to the pri ,air's ch aracter b e f ore h e was hired. The complainant h t 1?• Sir Peter thought that the Magistra t es would o o bliged to come by and by to the determination to giv6 H pr otection t o mas t ers who Carolessly admitted persons "It their service withput inquiry int 9 $1 it character, f Lcr terday ;count Lord Vlitito, mick. it four i Rate Elgokl, - etary, of the sworn ige at lenelg nclud . John .of the 'as :ic. trans- Aus at the Most Dham. There ice of Vice. Ex r. Jus. I Mr. tang. r. Ber geants Tnitu- latan,* .68 pm. 8 pm. ..68 pm. ....... -- . 904 it.. _ 333( ....... . 17% [Of. 75c. 25f: 40c. -f. --c. .... 5416 arties, til the rtain- cshire. rays a his oc lance]. :e, Sir Cecil a erous ntend family itinuO Id has ich he ismit, .ent of among red 31. ook of Grace Ana tve to :astlC- S resi kne.-- ' lazza g the that The for a araCe e far- 300 in Irigoi [CAD Dnday !re to !dnes- Into!" Lord- istin urn of Lord, n the unify etng ?aria m of that tr as ACCOMMODATION-THE POOR MAN'S CHURCH. TO THE EDITO - 1? OF THE SUN. SIR,— I believe that a very general outcry in the Church of England "as by law established," is—" The Church is in danger." It would really be useful to its interests if it were so much in danger as to teach its managers the Christian virtue of common civility. How a set of selfish males and females, clad in externals which give reason to believe that they are of the respectable and educated ranks of life, forsooth, can sit during the whole Church service, and apathetically gaze upon a fellow-Christian standing in their passage for the whole pe riod of that service and sermon without exhibiting the smallest indication of a wish to accommodate a stranger, I will net try to examine. The Church of England is, I believe, the only Church in Europe where such an exhibition would be tole rated as I shall now describe. On Sunday last I had occasion to be professionally in the vicinity of Mary lebone Parish Church, and entered, expecting the same courtesy (willing to pay for it, as I find the custom is) as I hope every stranger meets in this parish, but I was mistaken. Whether the pexv.opener has very lately (for it must be very lately if it is so) been prevented from selling her means of accommodation, or whether the Churchwardens are asleep on their posts, I know not, but I saw one pew en tirely empty near where I was standing, and others with only a luxuriously nodding few in them, while I stood during the whole of the service a butt for the pointed stare of the pew openers. Were a contrast required to this disgusting practice, I might paint to the delicate, unassuming attention shown in Dr. Hol loway's Chapel, London -street, where the pew-opener, being offered a gratuity, refused it, with " Thank you, Sir, I am• for bidden to take it." Again, the Whitfield Chapel, Tottenham court-road : when was a stranger seen standing in its passages when its pews were but half-filled ? At St. Giles's Church I observe much attention is paid to seating strangers; also at St. Dunstan's, Fleet-street, St. Mary's, Strand, &c. Do not suppose that the writer of this is some Roman Ca tholic, complaining for party purposes. No, I was bred i,s the doctrines of the Protestant Church, and revere its tenets ; I therefore conceive myself entitled to assert the fact as it exists. I will not now trespass any further on your valuable space, Mr. Editor, but briefly refer to the habitually dogged, hoggish insolence of some of the menials employed during divine ser. vice in Westminster Abbey, and to the shameful fact of a great part of the congregation in that place of worship (amongst whom I observed delicate females and children) being seated with nothing under their wet feet but the cold, tesselated, marble pavement. I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, WM. WILSON, Surgeon. 55, Upper Charlotte -street, Fitzroy-square. THE POOR. LAWS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. confidently trust to the impartiality for which I have always given you credit, for your insertion of the following. For a series of years I have agreed with you to the full in al most every point, except your support of the new Poor-law— feelin sure that there is a large body of your readers and friends' in the same predicament; giving you, however, credit for fair and humane intentions, or we should neither read nor address you. Whilst I approve your zeal, I scarcely thought the charge about " child-murder " worth answering. Whoever told that to Mr. Stephens—who, however intemperate and injudicious, appears to be an " honest" man—either was absurdly imposed upon, or told a wilful falsehood. No one in England would dare recommend open and " technical" murder, whether he were a Poor-law official, or an:opponent of the " Ten-hours' Bill." No doubt separation of natural ties, degradation, hard work, ronfinement, and poor diet, may lead to as virtual mur ders as if they were effected by public execution. And there is no doubt now, and I am sure there will be none hereafter, that thousands of lives have yearly been brought to a close by the new Poor-law. But, Sir, I confess that it deeply moved —not my " bile," but my " sorrow," to see you call the Com missioners " humane" men ! Why, Sir, until very lately, at any rate, they would scarcely have thanked you for this mode of defence. Humanity was a thing with which they desired to have nothing to do. Unbending, and far more than kingly supremacy, was the attribute they claimed. Have they not in every instance refused requests of mitigation and indulgence by Boards of Guardians, even so lately as last Chrismas-day, forbidding (at Gloucester) a dinner to the poor—a thing which, whilst it is almost unimaginable in stoicality and heartlessness in England, speaks " libraries" for the hearts of the originators. Did not one of their most favourite Assist ants say to the inhabitants of a large metropolitan parish, " You must have no pity or feeling for any one I". lam not using the language of declamation, but appealing to facts. It is possible that, now they see the heart of the nation is roused, they may from policy simulate, or actually use a little lidding. But, Sir, let me candidly ask you, though you may still differ with us, would you advise us, " retaining our opinions," to trust or give way to them—to pull down the barriers of humanity we are raising against their experienced despotism, and once more trust the poor in their power? I cannot think you would. I will be fair—for, like you, I pre. fer candour. I will not deny that they may have what they consider a conscientious adherence to a system (though as much might be said for an Inquisition, or a Nicholas of Rus sia), but that system excludes " humanity." Yours respectfully, AN OLD READER AND WELL-WISHER. Jan. 10, 1828. Mr. Mott, St. George's, Southwark. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. The installation of his Excellency George Milner Stephen, ;Esq., as acting Governor of the province, took place on Saturday, the 14th July, the oaths being admi nistered by the Judge in the presence of the principal officers of the Government, landholders, and colonists. Immediately after the Proclamation announcing that his Excellency had been installed into office had been read by the Sheriff, Mr. Stephen addressed the gentlemen present in a speech of considerable length. After paying a high compliment to the character of his predecessor in the Go vernment, Mr. Stephen said that " he owed it to his own official character, now of ten years' standing, to confess openly the pOsition in which the Colonial Government is now placed." The following extract from his Excellency's speech will best explain the position in which the free pro vince is placid, and the gloomy prospect under which Mr. Stephen has assumed the reins of Government : ,‘ I have first to announce with regret that there are no funds whatever in the Treasury, and that the quarter's salaries due to the whole of the public servants on the 20th June last, are at this day unpaid. We have therefore to fear that the tempting remuneration held out for the exercise of ability in private undertakings in this province, added to the distress which they are beginning to experience from the want of mo ney, will induce many indispensable public officers to leave the service of the Government. " Secondly—By the departure of the Marines in H. H. S. Alligator, this province, with a population exceeding 4,000 persons, is abandoned to the protection of 18 policemen, lately embodied by Governor Hindmarsh, while there are now 21 pri soners confined in the weather boarded building used as a gaol 1 and perhaps double that number of desperate runaway. convicts in the neighbourhood of the town. At the same time, as I have observed, there are no funds for the support of the force now constituting our only protection ; and the Resident Commissioner is restricted by his instructions from providing money fur such purpose. And, although our critical circum stances would seem to warrant the course, I shall scarcely dare to take upon myself the responsibility of drawing upon the Lord; of her Majesty's Treasury for their maintenance, unless the general voice of the community shall require it. " We have happily no immediate cause to apprehend hos tility from the aborigines, or our situation would indeed be deplorable ; but they have ere now sacrificed two fellow crea tures ; and you have too recently witnessed the outrages that terminated in a public execution to regard with indifference Our present unprotected state. And though it gives me pain to set such a picture before the many private gentlemen now present who have embarked their fortunes in this land in the just expectation that the Government would afford themselves and their families the protection which they have perhaps already paid for, I ought not to conceal from them our extraor dinary condition. I will, however, earnestly assure you all, Gentlemen, that should you become apprehensive of danger from want of the sinews of Government—finances, I will un hesitatingly submit to the Council the propriety of departing front the Royal instructions in providing them. " Thirdly, Gentlemen, it may be necessary for my future justification to allude to the embarrassed state of the Survey Department, occasioned by the recently received instructions. The Government, I am fully aware, exercises no authority over the Land Department, nor Is it charged with the respon sibility of the surveys. As it is, however, incidently affected by the state of that department I may be pardoned for referr ing to it ; especially as the want of land may increase your dis quietude And have a tendency to add to the cares of the Ad ministration wLjch has just devolved upon me." The following appintments have taken place since his Excellency Mr. Stephen tit' administered the Government. Robert Bernard, Esq., A.M., Barrister-at-law, has been appointed Advocate-General and Crown Solicitor of the province, until her Majesty's pleasure be known ; William Nation, Esq., is appointed Aid-de-Camp to his Excellency the Acting Governor ; and Robert Bernard, Esq., A.M., Charles Burton Newnham, Esq, John Walker, Esq., R.N., and Henry Jones, Esq., have been appointed Justices of the Peace for the province. H i, y i n d a rn i a a r r s g l e t has mi i o h r e i e t y n o g f i given, A new township has been laid out in the vicinity of the e i r e no o r f , harbour, to which at t e h G e n o : Wednesday afternoon a good of two ipnrohpornieutorrsofotfhleanld.--51/dney Gazette, Au g , 11, Caw-Alan rebels, who ARRIVAL OF THE CANADIAN REBELS IN LON- I: . 0 4 N 1 . o — f Ae curiosity five ty waosVeoxcakitoend b).: the arrival e . omni buses ,::. had been i::.!rt.soorted from our North AfPf-TiVan colony. Newgate, with sonic sit Ow The prisoners were Lcopzltt up to Lyndon by the train of immediat e l y the London and Birmingriam ililjlroad ; and in conse quence of previous arrarigvinen ts, they werp conveyed to Newgate, where they will remain until thep n , suing term, when they will be brought np before the Court of Queen's Bench, on the habeas corpni oVi..tiMed by Mr? 1 Roebuck, for the Narse of being disci.arged. Petitions to Parliament G;z4,jiist the beer-shop , : were agreed to by ego Nagistro.tes at the Se. 6:;;,::; for hot'', divi sions of the etlutit/ 44 ;yeek, and by the Grand ;Jury at I the Easteyn Sessions.----lioilhtfl VazAt- J . ..,.... MR. TOULMIN'S CONCERT. EXTRAORDINARY SCENE AT THE SURREY THEATRE LAST NIGHT. On Wednesday Mr. 0. H. Toulmin gave his annual berbenefit concert, at the Assembly Room s (th e H or ns Tavern) Kenning ton. Although the company was not in larger numbers than could be very conveniently accommodated, a great many highly genteel families were present, and seemed much gratified by the treat prepared for them by the benPficiare. Fur our own parts we are grown somewhat fastidious, and cannot say as a whole the concert went off so well as we could have wished. Sir George Smart, the very able conductor on the occasion, seemed to haze considerable trouble to keep his band in any sort of order, the mass of them, we presume, although mans talented musicians were amongst them, consisting, ap- parently of amateurs or of unpaid professors, an equally care less if more efficient class. Beethoven's celebrated symphony, No. 1, was executed in a very rude coarse manner. Herold's " Zampa" was better played, so was Weber's " Oberon " The principal singers were Miss Birch, Miss Ralnforth, Mrs. A. Toulmin, Mr. J. Parry, jun., Mr. James Bennett, and Signor Giubelei. " Cease your funning," with Bochsa's variations, by Miss Birch, was perhaps the most successful effort of the evening. It was given by that lady in a most masterly style, neatness of execution, taste, and power of voice, combining to add to the beauty of the whole. The duett from Bel lini's Norma, " Deh 'con te," by the same lady and Miss Rain forth, was much applauded. Mrs. A. Toulmin's singing has not improved since her marriage. She appeared to labour hard, and the upper part of her voice is weak and of an indif ferent quality of tone. Mr. J. Parry's extemp iraneous per formance, embodying " Recollections of an Italian opera," al though not exactly the thing for the concert-room, was very clever indeed, and deservedly received an enthusiastic encore. Signor Giubilei gave Rossini's " Il mio piano" in his very best manner, and excited much admiration. The instramental solos were a Fantasia on the flute by Mr. Richardson, one on the cornet-a-piston by Mr. Harper, jun,, and a solo, with the same name of " Fantasia," according to the programme, by Mr. Lindley on his inimitable violoncello. The leader was Mr. 0. H. Toulmin himself. Daring the performance of the popular drama of Oliver Twist at this theatre last night, a scene occurred, of which had use not ourselves witnessed, we should scarcely have credited an account. It forcibly exemplified that which philosophers call the doctrine of human sympathy, and exhibits the generous feelings which we are happy to find still actuate the breasts of our British sailors in a characteristically romantic manner. When the play reached that point at which Oliver is threatened fiercely by Sykes and Toby Crackit previous to the attempted burglary, a sailor rose from the crowded benches of the pit, and, with many a :sailor-like oath, declared, to the unutter able astonishment alike of actors and audience, "that he would not see a poor boy so ill treated," and, pulling up his jacket sleeves, was about to rush single-handed to the rescue of the apparently misused child, and he was only arrested in his progress to the stage by the forcible interference of those about him. It was some time before the honest Jack Tar could be persuaded " it was all sham ;" and some preparations were made f or remov i ng h i m. The audience, however, delighted with this ebullition of naval feelings, loudly vociferated that he should rema i n, wh i ch was agreed to. Through the re mainder of the play our friend continued to gaze on the acting with breathless attention, more than once showing no incon siderable restlessness. FRANCE. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES. SITTING OF MONDAY THE 7Th, CONTINUED. DISCUSSION ON THE ADDRESS. Count Mole, in continuation, admitted that much el% existed at present, and a considerable portion of that evi, consisted in the fact, that men who had served their country with credit and ability were obliged to defend themselves in that tribune from charges which all their eloquence could not enable them to disprove.—(Sensation.) He repeated that much evil existed, and the fact was proved by the presenta tion of such an address as was now submitted for the delibera tion of the Chamber. How was it possible for the public to avoid being tainted with a species of political scepticism, when they saw men of the highest eminence and reputation making common cause with their former adversaries, and paying court to the parties to whom they had previously been hostile ? ( Hear, hear.) He had no hesitation in saying that the names of the framers of the address gave a fearful degree of gravity to the manifesto. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S— I! issrsiDe r. TUX DRAB'S. The room was but thinly attended, yet business commenced early ; a great many horses were backed, and rather a large amount laid out at the following prices :- 6 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's lot—taken 12 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Bro. to Bay Middleton—taken 16 to I agst Duke of Rutland's Flambeau—taken l 8 to I agst Lord Jersey's Ilderim—offered 20 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Dey of Algiers—taken 20 to I agst Mr. Bowes's Erin-go-Bragh 25 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Zimmerman_talon 23 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Epidaurus—taken 30 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Westonian 33 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Bulwark—taken 33 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Wapiti 40 to 1 agst Mr. Batson's Brother to Plenipo—taken _ M. Thiers said, in rising to speak, he would address him self to things, not persons. He was one of those men who had defended the cause of order in difficult and dangerous mo ments, when a Minister could not go asleep on the pillow of conciliation. If those men, who had thus proved their devo tion to the State, were afterwards set aside, and other men and other principles adopted, which they did not approve, then opposition was but natural. The present opposition was attri buted to ambition ; it was, however, not that vulgar and greedy ambition which consisted in tormenting and beseching the dispenser of places for the good things in his gift. He, for his part, had not commenced his present line of opposition when he was removed from office, and out of despite at being so, he had commenced his present resistance when in the Cabinet, and whilst he participated in its councils. It was said he cen sured the Ministry for conduct which he would have pursued himself had he been Minister. But what was the plain fact? Why, that he might have remained Mi nister, had he deigned to be so on the same terms, and pursuing the same policy as Count Mole. He opposed that policy as mean, bad, endangering the country, and endangering even the peace acquired by so many sacrifices. It was he (M. Thiers) who first, two years back, declared that there ought to be a change from resist. ance to conciliation. The present Ministry upheld the con trary, and it was only when beaten on the disjunction-law that it turned round and pretended to adopt a policy not its own, and which had followed that policy stupidly, as people al ways do in handling what is borrowed, not what is their own. The fault of past Governments had been not to know when to stop and modify a rigorous policy. The Revolution, in work ing reform, had covered the country with ruins. The Em pire, which at first brought public order and victory, had degenerated to despotism and defeat. The Restoration had pretended to combine liberty with monarchy, but soon flew to coups d'etat and Divine Right. None of them knew where to stop ; nor did the Government of July know well either. As for Count Mole, he had proposed to better the laws of non-revelation and disjunction, and it was only when de feated on these that he took up the amnesty and granted it. He had indeed gained an advantage in the Spanish question, which scarcely compensated his inability to pass any law re specting domestic policy. At present the system was to shrink before all difficulties, adjourn then, or cede. There was no fixed idea, no party chosen or sided with. Spain had been abandoned, and then England, upon idle excuses— France having lost its allies, and gained a reputation for timidity, not prudence. The cession of Ancona was an ex ample how far gratuitous concession might be carried. The attempt had been made to keep a majority together by flat tery and cajoling—now the leaders of one party, now that of another; and at intervals denouncing one to the other, and arguing that each was a sore in the eye of the country. Every vote in the Chamber might bring on war, they were told, so solidly had the Ministry established peace. The Minister of the Interior pointed out the vagueness of the accusations directed against the Cabinet, which had been characterised as fatal to the Throne and the country, and de ficient in tact and discernment ; but these charges had not been substantiated. He contended that the policy of the pre sent Cabinet had never varied—that it had been at home one of resistance and conciliation, according to circums‘ances ; and abroad, one of honouracle peace.—( Hear.) M. Passy considered it his duty to speak severely of the foreign and domestic policy of the Cabinet. Abroad, Minis ters had abandoned the natural allies of the Revolution of 1830, and of the Government to which it had given birth. At home, the situation of affairs was most strange —party spirit had been calmed by the effect of time—and yet the future the Ad pregnant toinist r ati 0o with fe o d b i s i a e s , t e. and r On t totally h e whole he deficient io considered decided political views ; and to the weakness of its attitude he attri buted, on the one hand, the encroachments of the clergy, and, on the other, the state of agitation to which the country was continually exposed on the question of electoral reform. After a few words from M. Roul, the Chamber adjourned, 40 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's The Lord Mayor—taken 40 to 1 agst Air. Dixon's Cammellino 40 to 1 agst Duke of Grafton's .tether (Pastille colt) 50 to 1 asst Sir G. Heathcote's ValaincOurt—taken 50 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Ileunier—takes 1000 to 15 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Oronooko—taken 1000 to 15 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Chimborazo—taken 1000 to 15 agst Mr. Ford's Sontag—taken 1000 to 15 agst Mr. Allen's Fitz-Ambo--taken 2000 to 20 agst Mr. Dixon's Mountaineer—taken 1500 oven on Sir G. Heatheote's lot agst Zimmerman—taken 1000 even on Fitz-Ambo agst Sontag—taken 500 even between Wapiti and Westmaian—taken 300 to 200 on 2Ether agst Oroneoko—taken 300 to 200 on Epidaurus agst Bulwark—taken THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 183 e. MONEY AND CITY NEWS. (FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.) TIME S.—lt ought to be generally known to the mercan tile world, that an arrangement is in existence by which any one can pay duties amounting to not less than 1001. to the account of the Receiver. General of Customs, by checks on a private banker. The checks are received at the bill-office of the Bank, and after presentation for payment, the receipt of the money is intimated at the Custom-house. This saves all the risk of sending money through the public streets. and enables the party paying the duty to trace any irregularity more effectually than when payments are made at the Custom house. The Bank of England also receives cash for duties in the drawing-office, and intimates the receipt to the customs. The payments to the Bank are communicated to the Custom house daily, at half-past ten and half-past one o'clock. Money, or checks on the Bank of England, only require to be paid in immediately before those hours ; but if the payment is made by checks on private bankers, they must be paid in a sufficient time before to be in cash by the respective hours. The mercantile community have a right to expect that the Commissioners of the Customs should give every publicity to such a very useful arrangement; and it might be improved by receiving the checks at the Custom-house instead of the Bank, and keeping back the warrants for the delivery of the goods until apprised of the checks being paid. CHRONICLE.—Affairs in the English Stock market continue to present a very satisfactory appearance, and prices are fully maintained without any very extensive business going on. Money is abundant, which necessarily tends to keep up the quotations. Consols closed at 944 to f. Ex chequer Bills remain at 665. to 68s. prem., and Bank Stock at 2024 to 2031. Spanish and Portugudso Securities underwent a further improvement in the early part of the day, but afterwards re ceded, and left off rather heavy. In the other foreign stocks there was no alteration. The following were the last prices : Spanish Active, 17k to 4 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 33 to ; ditto Three per Cent., 214 to 4 ; Belgian, 994 to ; Dutch Five per Cents., 1024 to 1; ditto Two-and-a-Half per Cents , 74-1- to ; Brazilian, 77 to 78 ; Colombian, 22f to 23f ; Mexican, 24+ to i; and Peruvian, 17 to 18. There is nothing new to remark as regards the Share Mar ket. Birmingham (old), closed at 77 to 79 prem. ; ditto (new), 23:1 to 24,-i prem. ; Southampton, 444 to . 454 per share ; ditto (new;, 194 to 204 prem. ; Great Western, 14 to 15 prem. ; Leeds and Manchester, 19 to 21 prem. ; Birming ham and Derby, 9 to 8 dis. ; Brighton, 34 to 3 dis. ; Black wall, to l 4 dis. ; Croydon, 13 per share; ditto (new), 2 dis. ; and Greenwich, 164 to 17 per share. The voluminous accounts in the papers have almost wholly forestalled the contents of the letters at Lloyd's and else where, respecting the late hurricane; but we regret to say, that nearly all the particulars as to the loss of life and pro perty have been fully confirmed, while it is feared that the advices from the west of Ireland and the North Sea will add greatly to the list of sufferings. The underwriters at Lloyd's and the various Insurance-offices will be heavy sufferers we understand. POST.—The Great Western Railway Shares were again done at the advance realised yesterday after the meeting of shareholders, namely 13 to 14 prem. Some business was, indeed, done in them at the still higher value of 14f prem. The result of the ballot has terminated in the way that was anticipated, the majority of votes being decidedly in favour of Mr. Brunel and the Board of Directors, and this has evidently had some effect on the market. London and Birmingham left off at 87 to 8 prem., London and BriAliton at 3e to 3 dis., and British Iron Mine at 11 to per share. The Liverpool papers state the loss" of the New York packets Pennsylvania and St. Andrew, the reported wreck of which vessels is confirmed, at from 400,0001. to bOO,OOO/ , but this is considered here as a great exaggeration. '1 he value of the two cargoes cannot, it is conceived, much exceed 100,0001. each, unless they include some amount of specie, which is not, e believe, the case. E R ALD.—For many years we do not recollect so much anxiety being displayed amongst our mercantile and maritime interests as that which has been exhibited to-day respect ing the dreadful d'sasters by the late gales on the coast of Lancashire, and in the Irish Channel. The losses at Lloyd's are estimated at full half a million; but we have seen no de tails upon which reliance can be made, to any extent, beyond those which have already appeared in this journal. Commercial advices from Canton, to the 26th of August, mention that the Chinese Admiral had made an ample apology to Admiral Maitland for the insult offered to the British flag, and that, in consequence, the British Admiral had returned to his anchorage in Tung Koo Bay. Trade at Canton had rather improved, and British manufactures were rather more in de mand, but cotton yarns were dull, as large importations were anticipated. Very few new teas had arrived, and no prices had been fixed. Of the Nankin silk crop, from 600 to 800 bales had arrived, but few sales had been effected. The exchange cn London was 4s. 6d. per dol. to 4s. 7d. at six months. In other respects there were no alterations of moment. Yesterday we intimated in a very brief manner, that the two Committees of Madras and Calcutta had cordially united in promoting the great cause of steam communication between this country and our East Indian possessions. The average price of wheat, for the week ending the 4th in stant, amounts to 80s. 2d. per quarter, and the aggregate for the past six weeks is 775. 3d. per quarter, a rate of price which has only been caused by vicious speculation, which has been promoted by the present graduated scale of duties—a scale w hich admits foreign untaxed corn-growers to an unfair com petition with the heavily-taxed British corn-growers in these markets, without bettetit'ing the public revenue, whilst the lat ter might have been incre as ed, and the British corn-grower more effectually protected, if the import duty had been fixed at 15 3 , per quarter on wheat, and so on in proportion upon other kinds of grain, and the rate and present speculation in corn would have been checked, Rather more business has been done in the British Funds to day, but the quotations have not particularly altered. On Plough Monday, after swearing in the officers at Guildhall, the Lord Mayor entertained the household and gentlemen connected with the public offices of the Cor poration. The dinner was served up in the style of olden r" c ri l‘ - (' 'dll)3e''light of the yloluethpfuhlancotams: time—the Marshalrnan placing the two first dishes of each course on the Lord Manor's table. In the evening the of the formallyin a h t y the e ijlnotswruobctriarebo:cii Lady Mayoress gave a juvenile ball and twelfth-night en tertainment. The party consisted of the younger branches of the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress's families, together with those of come of the first families in the City, and Y l; :er s re c es y s eral exhibitions and :everal from the west-end ai ; i :o m, g h t;h: rso e: o :L nm u e o r : n r g at d ; !: d l\ 4 l l l l i, i a n :) l s ; t : h r;a: d t r ri i c ; r: t e ) L: p a t tt c l i i: a y , I P it a n n t:o '. ri a. 'l w r a , Brownst he n c in P t n it re p `,l,! d o ! a a d j `n d t'a M ti F fi . 9• Richardson, the flute-Pl4ye., and ,Ir, Hudson, the comic-song writer and singer, greatly added to tile entertalnu4eois or` slie. eveniog. A %wry elegant ball anti supper followed, and the party broke up at half-past twelve. SITTING OF TUESDAY, JAN. 8. M. Billault first occupied the tribune: ur:d began by re gretting that the Ministerial speakers yesterday had con verted the debate into a personal question, accusing those who dreg up and supported the address of merely aiming at place. He had no ambition for future place, nor pique for having lost place ; he was, nevertheless, eager for the adop. tion of the address, and the destruction of the reigning system. The Ministry was incapable. It boasted its patriotism, but patriotism was not sufficient without capacity, without prin. ciples, without firmness, without a majority capable of sup porting the Government. If the present Ministry continued to exis,r, not only the Government was stricken with powerless, tress, but the Chamber itself was condemned to utter nullity. The orator drew a very eloquent contrast between the posi tion of France in 1830, and her position at present. She was then, though without an army or fixed Government, feared and respected even by her foes, to such a degree that the northern powers shrunk and ceded everywhere, whether in Italy or Belgium. How different now was their situation The despotic powers pressing, triumphing, making their in fluence prevalent everywhere in Spain, in Italy, in Luxem burg, even to the very frontiers of France. The speech of M. Billault, one of the youngest orators of the Chamber, was followed by loud applause. M. Martin, Minister of Commerce, would not accuse the coalition of merely aiming at a change of men—their object was avowedly a change of system. They censured the aban donment of Ancona, of Spain, and of Belgium, and no doubt, if in power, would not abandon them. But this _was not a good ground for debate, as M. Guizot could scarcely agree with M. Thiers on this subject. He would cite independent and responsibl e ac ts of the Ministry—the amnesty, the disso lution of th e Ch am b er . interests of commerce—be would point in answer to the tidi ngs TheyT They y e r rsweueacrhcee recriminations rcui of mse neglect .idnaotfiom n as k ing Thu no in g the just recei ve d f rom M ex i c o. in treaties of commerce , w hile other nations did, B ut t h e con sumption and ex p or tations of France were incre as i ng, ev i nced prosperity, an d offered no hold Minister then entered into the railroad and oth er laws which had been th rown ou t last session, and showed that exposed formerstead oi Mi nisters had surv i ve d checks equally se r i ous . M. Duvergi e r d'Hauranne then ascend e d t h e tr ib une. He said it was not f or the sake of displacin g two or three ram that he went i n t o opposition ; it was for the sa k e of saving the country covering and it w the Throne Ethmeieriiti i o„dutihse:Dt. FUNDS. _ PARlS,heAiin j s tAxxry aay s. Five per Cents.. I Inf. ...... . ............ Latest Prices -110 f. 35e Four per Cents., lo'2f. 30c. hreep,r Cents. 79f. 19c. ..................... Ditto Bank Actions 2,41 0 1. •—• • ................... Ditto 79f 20g aerate wapies, 50e. ..................... Ditto 99f 30c Homan. Fier per Cents., 10() % ...... ........ gi Ditto 100% Spanish Actives, 173 Ditto IS Spanish Passives ' 3p4. ,;. • ............ Ditto Belgian Five perßent4., ............ Dia) Belgian Thrcp per 5 ents., ( Mr. 75e....... Ditto 67f: Bank, 575 f. ..... .................. Ditto 590 f. Portuguese, Three pc r tents. 2134 Ditto 214 i H: tiara 1..o;:n. 400 f .................. Ditto 4 2f. 50e. E „ : „„,,,, a money, 251. 15e. ,'..lee months, paper.' 251. —c. mon vv 25c. INVERNESS DISTRICT Or Butterus.—An address from Mr. It. Macleod, M.P., t o t h e electors of this district of burghs, appeared in the Inverness Courier, of Wednes day last. It contradicts a statement lately prevalent, that the Honourable Gentleman intended resigning his seat in consequence of ill health. TILE LATE CASE OF FURIOUS DRIVING.--On Saturday, at the Brentford Petty Sessions, Mr. Green shields, of New Bond-street, appeared before the sitting Magistrate in discharge of the bail he entered into on the Saturday preceding, for havin g run over a man named William Pool, while driving at a furious rate through the town of Brentford on the evenin g of the 27th ult, Inspec tor war rant of n oigfu r t g ehs u e t a r Coroner o d r. Greenshields, the ju r y a t thehavi ng re t urne d a ver di ct o f manslaughter against that gentl eman. M r. P owna l l said, under those circumstances a xn Tuesday foed against the last M circumstances, he h a d no power to di sc h arge the defendant, but he must be committed. Mr. Green shields was then taken mite custody, and was shortly after wards removed to Newgate. jt is but jAstiee to Mr. Greenshields to state, that ever since thp melancholy oc currence he has applied liipeself to render every assistance in his power to the family of the deceased, and we under- Stand he has paid for the luneral, and will allow the widow one shilling per diem as long as she I.ivei, THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER. Last night a public meeting was held at the Assembly Rooms, Theobald's-road, for the purpose of making arrange ments for the collection of the National Rent, and the support of the People's Charter. At eight o'clock Mr. TOOMY took the chair, and express: d his hone that all whom he addressed were convinced of the necessity of carrying into effect the principles of the People's Charter, and particularly of Universal Suffrage. He hoped the time would soon come when, if the people could not get the elective franchise, they would not go for soldiers. Mr. M'CoNNEee then moved the first resolution, expressive of their support of the principles of the People's Charter. He hoped that it was not necessary for him to explain to them what the principles of the People's Charter were. They were all aware how inefficient was the present mode of registration, and how sickening was the present system of legal squabbling before the Revising Barristers. Universal Suffrage would put an end to that. A House of Commons, elected by such a constituency as the right of Universal Suf frage would create, would soon make the other two branches of the Legislature listen to it, and would tell them that in opposition to the wishes of the people their voices would be but as the whispers of an infant against the thunders of hea ven. —(Cheers.) It was said, indeed, that the working classes were not fit to enjoy the elective franchise. He hoped they would demonstrate their fitness for the enjoyment of the franchise by the efforts which they would make to obtain it. Mr. WATSON seconded the resolution. To prove to the meeting the absurdity of the present system of registration, he would mention to them his own situation with respect to the franchise. Some time since he had been connected with an esta'elishment which many of them, lie had no doubt, knew well—the Hall of Science. From his connexion with that he obtained the right to his franchise. However, his con nexion with it had ceased, and now he could not register be cause he had not been a sufficiently long time in his new habi ta:ion to entitle him to vote. Thus his fitness for the fran chise of course remained the same, yet by the trifling circum stance of a change of residence he was disentitled to vote. Was not this an absurd system of registration ? He hoped that it would not long be submitted to. Mr. CHARLES WESTERN moved a resolution to the effect that the working classes would best show their sincerity in the cause by contributing as largely as their means would ad mit to the support of the National Convention. Mr. Mot= had great pleasure in seconding the resolution just proposed, because he was ambitious to serve the cause in which they were engaged, either to receive their pence as they entered, or as a speaker to urge them to contribute. It : was unnecessary for him to allude to the objects for which they were assembled. They were met again to knock at the door I of corruption, and the fault would be theirs if they failed in procuring the restoration of their just rights.—(Cheers.) He begged leave to enforce upon their minds, that if they wished to be as successful as the Irish people they must also be as energetic and determined. CARDOE, in proposing the next resolution, which was expressive of indignation on the part of the meeting at the conduct pursued by Government in ordering the apprehen sion of Mr. Stephens, and a determination to support that in dividual in his misfortunes, said that Mr. Stephens had been apprehended because the Government hoped that they might cause a partial outbreak, in order that they might be furnished with a pretext for crushing the present agitation. —( Cheers.) It was stated by the Government Papers that there was no agitation now in existence, because the metro polis was comparatively tranquil.—(Hear, hear.) Now he would ask why did London exhibit the apathy which it did at present? Why, simply for want of organisation. The whole of the kingdom was organised, but they required such a system of organisation in London as that five or six hun dred thousand persons might be brought there in two or three hours.—( Cheers.) By this means they would succeed in striking more terror into the Government than they could possibly accomplish any other way. Mr. ROGERS seconded the resolution, which was the nput and carried unanimously. Mr. DAVIS begged the favour of a hearing for a few mo ments. He said he was a stranger to most of them; but he considered it the duty of every man to advocate truth and justice. It was impossible then that they could approve of all that had been done and said by Mr. Stephens.—( Hem., hear, and uproar.) Mr. Stephens was not, as many of them supposed he was, their best friend.--( Great clamour, and cries of " Turn him out.") The CHAIRMAN and Mr. CLEAVE severally requested that the meeting would hear Mr. Davis. Mr. DAVIS resumed. If what he was stating was false or erroneous, it could do their cause no harm ; but if, on the contrary, it was true, they wore bound to listen to it and con scler if.—( Hear, hear, and hisses.) He would repeat, that Mr. Stephens, by seeking to involve the people in scenes in which they were sure to encounter the strong arm of the law, aas not pursuing that course that was likely to benefit the people, and he was therefore not entitled to their confidence. —( Cheers and hisses.) Mr. CLEAVE next presented himself to the meeting, and was warmly received. He said that when the gentleman who preceded him told them that the Whigs had done good in connexion with the slave question, they should have believed him, for twenty millions of pounds sterling was no bad thing for those who got a share of it.--(Cheers and laughter.) From the official statements, however, which had recently reached this country from the West Indies, it appeared that the measure of emancipation had not turned out to be that which the people expected.—( Hear, hear.) He was sorry that he could not congratulate the meeting on the reception which they had given that evening to a difference of opinion. If everything that had been stated of Mr. Stephens, even to his prejudice, were true, still his (Mr. Cleave's) conviction regarding him would be the same.—(Loud cheering.) Much allowance should be made for his perhaps over-heated language, looking at the distressed and perse cuted state of tho population by which he was surrounded, and in whose behalf the strongest sympathies of his nature had been excited.—( Cheers.) It was the duty of every man-- of those who approved of Mr. Stephens' conduct and those who opposed him—to act in the coming trial as became Britons, and to get him such fair play as even the present rotten forms would allow,—(Cheers.) There was little chance of a fair trial i but if any difference of opinion existed whether Mr. Stephens was right or wrong they should not prejudge the case before it went into a Court of Justice.— ( Cheers.) Great sacrifices were not required at the hands of any individual, it was only necessary that every one should do something and then their cause would b 3 triumphant.— (Cheers,) Let them not carp at poor Ireland; if they watched narrowly the conduct of that country it would make them fol low her virtuous example, and shut their mouths concerning her for ever. Allusion had been made to a certain individual with a hom they had frequently acted in the common cause, but he was afraid that latterly selfishness had become predominant, and that the cause of the shopocracy and middle classes was more an object of his solicitude than the condition of the "poor frieze jackets."—( Cheers and cries of " No, no.") Mr. Cleave continued to address the meeting at considerable length forcibly urging them to give their warmest and most hearty co operation in carrying out the principles of the People's Char ter, and concluded by an earnest appeal in behalf of Mr. Stephens. Mr. DWAINE felt bound to express his dissent from the speakers who had preceded him. He was altogether opposed to the principles and sentiments of Mr. Stephens.—(Cheers and hisses.) Mr. IRELAND next addressed the meeting, and said, that with reference to the assertion that had been made, that phy sical force had never conferred any advantage, he would ask what good had ever been attained without the fear of physical force ?—( Hear.) He did not wish, nor was it the object of the meeting to enter into personalities. Mr. Cleave had told them that a paper called the Charter was forthcoming, which would be an efficient organ of their sentiments. He hoped that it would be so, but he begged to remind them that thoto was already an efficient organ of their principles —he meant the Operative newspaper, for which he proposed three cheers.—(Cheers.) The meeting shortly after separated. DREAD _FOE CASE OF BURNING. Last evening a Coroner's inquiry was instituted at the Charing-cross Hospital on the body of Sophia Haviland, aged eight years, who was burnt to death. It appeared in evidence that the parents of the deceased child, who resided at No. 7, Yates's-court, Carey-street, went out on Saturday night, leaving the deceased in charge of a woman named Ste phan:, who was in a state of intoxication. During their absence from home, which was about a quarter of an hour, tl'e woman (Stephens) requested the deceased to put some sticks of wood on the fire. Deceased replied that she must not, as her mother had forbidden her to do so. The wo. rnan, however, insisted, and in doing which her clothes caught firs. Deceased, who was dreadfully burned, was conveyed to the hospital, where she died. The woman was found lying on the floor of the apartment stupifled, and was given into custody. She admitted that she had taken " drop too much ;" but said she did not remember a word about the accident. Verdict, " Accidental death," with a request that the Coroner would reprimand in the most severe manner the woman Stephens. ALARNI OF FIRE IN CHEAPSIDE.—Last even ing, at half-past six o'clock, the inhabitants of Cheapside were disturbed by an alarm of fire, which appeared to be in the rear of the premises of Mr. Taylor umbrella maker. The whole street was enveloped in a thick smoke, and a large mob assembled. Several engines soon came rattling along Chcapside, and the water-plugs were started. It was some time, however, before the site of the fire could be cor rectly ascertained. The firemen inspected every house in Queen's Head -court- a most crowded place ; and the in habitants there wore in great terror, a shower of fire falling in the narrow court for some time. It was at last discovered that the fire proceeded from a chimney in the house of Mr. Minninm, surgeon, in the rear of Pancras-lane. A con siderable tune elapsed before it was got under, and all busi ness in that part of the City was for some time suspended. A young woman named Brown was yesterday charged at Lamhoth-street with having decoyed child rou away frcuu bo rne , f or the purpose of stripping th. - , l n of heir clothes. The case was clearly proved, a , it was t sus pected that the p r i soner h as bees a party to numerous other robberies of a similar d.z , seription, which have recently occurred in that district, s h e was remanded for a week. At Guildhall, on Wednesday, a gentleman suc cessfully resisted the payment of costs in a case which was decided against him for the balance of a fare, by pleading that the cabdriver-had not the cheek-string in his hand THE NEW ROYAL EXCHANGE. i ( a F r p o u m b l i t c h e wor has been the The jobbing Morningk wor ks r! t h H i s e rcaoludn. try bane of architectural taste and science. If we look around on public buildings constructed four, five, *tied six centuries ago, we observe those characteristics of appropriateness of style, convenience of arrangement, biesuty of appearance, and durability of c ons t ruc ti on , w h ic h we l oo k f or in vain in the costly architectural productions of the preterit day. What has led to thi s d e b asement o f taste an d comparative inse curity of workmanship? The cause to which we have alluded—j;sbbing, rank jobbing, which excludes merit, know. i ledge, and g en i us , t o ma k e way f or favoured teepacity. We have been induced to make these remarks at present from learning that an attempt is now making to exclude the principl e o f open an d f ree competition among architects in re ference to the rebuilding the Royal Exchange. The public are aware that the Committee who have the management of that work is composed partly of members of the Mercers' Company and p ar tly o f mem b ers of the Corp oration. We understand that a discussion lately took place as to whether competition was to be allowed or not, when, aft er a great struggle, the advocates fo r competition, br anti-jobbers, Sno ., ceeded, on a division, agai ns t th e opponents of comp etition, or jobbers, by a majority of 11 to 6. We also understand that three city men and three mercers were on the jobbin g or close-borough side, and three city men and eight mercers on the opposite. It is with astonishment and regret we /earn that Mr. Horsley Palmer, the Conservative candidate at the late election for the city, voted against open competition, as did also Mr. Lambert Jones. True Conservatism supports with uncompromising devoted. ness the ancient and settled institutions of the country, but it scorns to cherish proved abuses as sacred things. We sup. ported strenuously Mr. Horsley Palmer at the last election, because we thought him a true Conservative —a man who would stand by our inestimable institutions in Church arid State to the last, but never lend himself to the protection of acknowledged abuses. This day, we understand, there is to be a meeting of the Committee, to confirm the minutes of the former meeting, and also to take into consideration the question whether the new Royal Exchange is to be built with an open area or not. As to the confirmation of the minutes of the last meeting, we trust there is no doubt it will be done ; but should Mr. Horsley Palmer use his intluesice, along with that of Mr, Jones, to prevent competition, and cut a snug job out of this great work for som e f avoure d arc hi tect, then, we say, M r . P a l mer shall hear of it when he next comes to ask his fellow, citizens for their suffrages. Six votes turned the election on the former occasion, and we are quite sure that Mr. Palmer's support of the snug private 'imitation and favouritism on this occasion, has already offended more than six citizens of London. We supported—indeed we were the first to propose —the principles of free and open competition for the re-building the Hous, , s of Psrliament. We succeeded in carrying that ob. ices against the wishes of the Government, who, as ty j i g h t be expected of sordid Liberals, did all they could to rear the ad vantages of that open competition—still we succeeded in hav ing the principle recognised, and that was something. " e expect that th e same prir.iple will triumph over all selfish on. position in regard to the re-building of the Royal Exch . : 44 k and that all the architectural talent of the country gill be ad mitted to put in itsiciaims for the honour and advantage of exe cuting this great national work. s As to whether the building ought to be with an open area or not, we think no person of any judgment can for an in stant doubt that the area ought to be an open one. If nor , the confusion o f tongues from, ell th e countr i es almost of the earth, jumbled together and echoed under the same roof, will make the new Royal Exchange a new Tower of Babel. Ir.. ving's conventL:ie, wher e th e g if t of unknown ton gues was par ticulaily prolific of st range soun d s, never disturbed the human ear with such cross currents of unintelligible noises as a Royal Exchange without an open area. We trust that, upon both questions, those who are opposed to the close system will triumph—and that, although the munificent Sir Thomas Gresham's wor k has unfortuuatcly perished, something om will rise from its ashes worthy of the first commercial city of the world, and which Sir Thomas Gresham, were he alive, would not diumn. IRELAND. PRECURSOR SOCIETY -.-MR. O'CONNELL AND Ma. PURCELL. —At the weekly meeting of the Society last Tuesday, the object of which appears to have been the formal denial of cer tain statements or inuendos made by Mr. Purcell in a pub.. lished letter, regarding Mr. O'Connell the " Liberator," and the Society's funds, Mr. Callaghan read the following report of the trustees, which was afterwards adopted bpi the meeting We certify that we have carefully and minutely examined all the accounts of the Precursor Society, and have bad the same distinctly vouched before us, item by item, and we find them perfectly regular, and correct, and that the accounts comprise more than six hundred items, from the 12th Sep tember, 1838, to the Ist January, 1839, including the cash account with the Tralee branch of the National Bank, upon the foot of which there is a balance in bank of 280/. 15s. 9d., after giving credit for a sum of 1,0001., which we are to lend out in mortgage of stock, should this Society authorise us so to do. " Dated this Bth January, 1839, " IGNATIUS CALLAGHAN, "LAURENCE FINN, "JAMES MARTIN." A vote of confidence in, " the wisdom and integrity" of Mr. O'Connell was also adopted before the meeting separated. The Precursors by this vote have utterly repudiated the statements contained in Mr. Purcell's letter. As we cannot find room to-day for even a summary of the proceedings at this meeting (which occupy six entire columns of the Pilot), we transfer to The Sun so much of the com mentary of our Dublin Contemporary as will enable the reader to form some opinion on the merits of the question in dispute between the two public characters who are parties to it : " O'Connell and the accounts have been triumphant, and Mr. O'Connell was as technically empowered to open the account in his own name, as the use of that power stands un. impeachej and unquestioned. We re-copy here the restdu tion of the 30th of November, under which Mr. O'Co•nnell acted : " Mr. Finn moved, seconded by Mr. Redmond, that Mr. Finn having stated that he cannot conveniently tontinue to act as treasurer to the Precursor Society, tltat in future all sums received on account of the Precursor Society be lodged in the Tralee branch of the National Bank of Ireland, to the credit of Daniel O'Connell, Esq., Governor of said bank, until his departure for England ; and that the account be always open for the inspection of each member.' " Mr. O'Connell having acted in obedience to this resolution is the sum and subtance of the charge against him, so awfully and mysteriously introduced by Mr. Purcell. He acted only in the case as a servant to the public—he faithfully stewarded their accounts—he obeyed the letter of his instructions—he acted, too, under the constant sanction of the Association— and this was his crime with Mr. Purcell ! " The resolution under which Mr. O'Connell acted was not in accordance with Mr. Purcell's opinion ; even so. There was the Committee, the trustees —nay, the Association itself —to whom, or any of whom, he could have appealed, from whence the bearings of the question and the statements and reasons at both sides could have come forth together. And men naturally ask, why should Mr. Purcell rush into print without having tried any of those resources, and thrown a letter upon the world which could only tend to expose in the worst form the very fact the publicity of which he considered injurious, and given in such a manner, too, that he became at once the subject of Tory eulogy, and his letter nutriment and triumph to every Orange rag, every Tory-Radical, impracticable, or jobbing Whig, who will use it, and bandy it about as a perpe tual instrument of slandering and injuring the very cum:: with which and the very men with whom Mr. Purcell for some time acted in such apparent cordiality. The writer of such a letter, then, is universally condemned. " But it is also asked why, as it was written, Mr. Purcell did not attend at the request, three times courteously made by the man he assailed, to investigate the accounts he impugned ? Why, too, was the resolution of the 30th of November omitted in it? Was not that an important fact? and when that Was omitted, was not the letter an ex parte statement? Nay, the appropriation of 1,000/. to public purposes, which Mr. Purcell was told was actually ordered to be invested, t'nereby putting an end to any immediate alarm why was tk . i . is important fact also suppressed in the letter? No wonder indeed the people do wonder." FUNERAL OF LORD NORBURY. KILREGGAN, lEESDAY Everittio.—At half-past one o'clock this day the mortal remains of this deeply-lamented Noble man Were conveyed to the tomb amidst the wailings and la- Thentations of his family, friends, tenantry, and of thousands of the country people besides, who, notwithstanding the seve rity of the weather, came from the most remote parts of the country,: to pay a last tribute of respect to this public bene factor, whose loss will he eceply felt throughout the whole country. There will be a further investigation on Thursday with regard to the persons in custody. Mr. Garsey. the agent of the late Lord, has addressed a letter to the Editor of the Pilot, in contradiction of the ru mour that the unfortunate Nobleman had become a party to the system of extermination. He says that upon este:tes in six counties not twenty notices to quit had been served, and of these, he believes Lord Norbury was not cols'a'aant. He adds, that on the Durrow Estate not four persons were dis possessed in the course of many years, and there were persons of bad character. So much as 2001. per week have been paid by his Lordship to labourers on the property. The police are now engaged in investigating the circumstances connected with a fire which ,?ecurred a few Islington, under days ago in the stables and Tachhouse f,;t . two respect able persons living circumstances which lead to the ham'' that the flames 'rem in Palmer s-te7ae, , caused by an incendia7, 02. e premises not having been used or entered for the ,ast two months. Fortunatwly the fire was discover before it extended to the neighbouring premises, or 4 .:ne damage must have been grit. 1107:AL FREEMASONS' .CHARITY FOR FEMALE CriILDREN.—A Special Court of the Governors of this Institution was held yesterday, at the School-house, West minster-road, when it appeared that its affairs are generally in a flourishing condition. It is a singular fact that one of the inmates of the asylum is a granddaughter of the founder, the late Chevalier Ruspini. We have much satisfaction in stating that Major. General S:r Henry Wheatley has transmit' el to the Rev. H. M. Wagner, Vicar of this parish, the sum of .50/., being her Majesty's donation to the fund for budding the church o f St. Joh n th e E vange li st, s i tuated on Carlton-hill, Brighton.-- Brieto n Gazette. with Th,r watre ; 'Y .... ~•• - A Y. ) rrey, neet- from Wit, e oa over t our re a h'au- Jur- leon with ther nor, and yen the nca at 'ton eat, ES ' lay