The Sun. — London, England, 1839-12-17 00:00:00

EVENIN 141D1TION• VICTORIA THEATRE, A new meta drama, entitled Hidden Guilt ; or, The Iron Collar, was produced at this theatre last evening with complete success. The following is an outline of the story --Eugene Martel (Mr. Hicks) has, in his early youth, becn convicted as s e felon, and condemned to the galleys ; he escapes, and settles in the neighbour hood of La Rochelle, whr:re he assumes the name of La Palette ; he is the benefactor of all around him, and is adored by all the inilabitants of La Rochelle and its neighbourhood ; Lauriston (M r . M. Watki ns ) see ks La Valette's daughter, Josephine (Mrs. Hicks) in marri:lke, but she prefeis Gustave, her father's clerk. Dupre, the uncle of Lauriston, having become acquainted with La Valette's secret, who, as Eugene Martel, had, previous to his condemnation, married Madeline, the betrothed of Dupre, gives him into custody on th e d a y o f J osep hi ne ' s marr i age . Lau riston, furious at his uncle's conduct, demands certain papers belonging to him, intending to quit France for ever. Amongst these papers he finds a pardon for Eugene Martel, which Dupre had kept back, and all, of course, ends happily. The part of Lauriston was supported by Mr. Montague Watkins, from the Theatre Royal, Manchester, his first appearance. He was well received, and will prove exceedingly useful, as in addition to the character of Lauriston, in which he displayed considerable powers as a melodramatic actor, he afterwards appeared as Cap tain Vivid, a light comedy part, in the farce of the Siamese Twins, and, although he had little to do, he did that little well. Great praise is due to the fair Lessee for her successful endeavours in raising the character of this house ; and we are happy to see that her exertions are pr o p er l y apprec i ate d b y the public. The performances were very good, and the audience numerous and highly respectable. SPAIN. HEAD-QUARTERS OF ESPARTERO, LAS MATas, Nov. 30.—The war continues to wear a most serious aspect Although the distance from Saragossa to Las Matas is hardly thirty leiwues, it took us six days to traverse it. What retarded our march was, the innumerable precau tions which we were obliged to take in order to avoid falling, among the roving parties of Cabrera that are hovering about in every direction. When you have ad vanced two leagues from Saragossa, the road ceases to be safe. No convoy can be trusted without a guard of fifteen hundred or two thousand men. Several divisions of Espartero's army are cchelonnes, stationed along the road in order to keep up a constant watch lest Cabrera should pounce upon the convois. When we got to Fuentas we could form some idea of the ex traordinary precautions which the Christinos are obliged to take. Every height was crowded with horsemen, all ready to give the alarm the moment they perceived the slightest agitation in the Carlist lines. Whole regiments were quartered in the valleys adjacent to the head quarters of Espartero. Notwithstanding these vigilant measures, not a day passes but what there are surprises. Hardly have the Christinos moved from a spot when it is occupied by the Carlist guerillas. The audacity of these is so great, that they have recently stormed a for tified bourg situated within the Christino lines. " On the 26th the following were the positions occu pied by Cabrera's forces : Cabrera himself had just arrived at Belmonte with four battalions ; Langostera, one of his Lieutenants, bad just stormed Estreuel. " Belmonte is but two leagues from our head-quar ters, so that the capture of Estruel will force us to make a forward movement in order to drive Cabrera back. " No one thinks of attacking either Morella or Can tavieja, or in fact any fortified point occupied by the Carlists. The attempt would be useless ; for the state of the country acd the activity of our antagonists are such that we dare not concentrate a sufficient number of troops for that purpose. Our eccentric divisions would be instantly assailed by one of those roving par ties which are constantly prowling about in search of an opportunity. " I am able to affirm that nothing serious will be at tempted for three months. Our avant garde at Las Matas are engaged in throwing up entrenchments, a proof, if proof were wanting, that Espartero meditates no forward movement just now. " Colonel Wild, our Commissary, is about to leave for London. The Colonel has not been on good terms with Espartero lately ; probably on account of the latter having declared himself in favour of the moderate party, to whom the Colonel, as well as our Embassy at Madrid, are violently opposed. This unfortunate coun try has other difficulties to contend with than those that spring from its domestic dissensions. At Madrid there are two foreign parties at work, each struggling for in fluence. The French party favour the Moderados, while the party of Lord Palmerston have long since taken the Exaltados under their protection. " The Queen, whose puppet Espartero is, never takes a steps without consulting the King of the French, 30 that there is little chance of our interests predominat ing, unless indeed the Exaltados should gain the upper hand at the approaching elections. Were this even the case the Queen has gone too far to retreat. The chances, therefore, are, that we shall have a coup d'etat if the minority of the last Chamber receive not an ac cession of strength at the elections."—Evening Paper. MORNING MAIL TO SOUTHAMPTON.—WC perceive by the Hampshire Independent that a day mail is to commence running to Southampton to morrow, the 17th, by the railway at ten, and to reach Southampton at three. The mail will leave Southampton at eight in the morning, and arrive in London at one. THE DAY MAIL TO OXFORD.-The autho rities here have received instructions that a day mail will, on and after Tuesday next, leave London at ten o'clock in the morning, bringing letters from the other aide of London, Windsor, Maidenhead, and Henley, arriving here about half-past two in the afternoon, and the delivery will take place at three. The mail will leave Cheltenham at nine in the morning, bringing letters from that town, Northleach, Burford, and Wit nay, and leave Oxford at one for London ; all letters to go by which mail must be in the Post-office here by half-past twelve, at which time the box will be closed. The above arrangement will be of great service to the inhabitants of this town, and their thanks are due to the public spirit that animated their neighbours of Chel tenham so far as to arouse the Post-office authorities and obtain so great a boon for them.—Orford Paper. PLANS OF THE CHARTIST6.-The evidence taken before the Magistrates during the protracted ex aminations of the Chartist prisoners, though entering minutely into the details of their operations, was remark ably silent as to their plans and schemes. One of the witnesses, however, who was examined before the Grand Jury on Wednesday last, stated, we understand, in effect as follows attended a Chartist meeting on Sunday, the 3d of November ; Jones the watchmaker was pre sent, and addressing the meeting, told them that as soon as he had collected his men together (five or six thousand, well armed), he should capture Mr. Roberts, superintendent of pullet', aiso Jordan his assistant— then break open the ironmongers' shops at Pontypool and take the arms—go to Pontypool Park, seize Mr. Leigh the Lord Lieutenant, and all the arms they could find there ; then would also visit Lantarnam Abbey, and likewise take any arms they could find there ; from thence proceed on to Newport and join the Blackwood men, and attack the town, and upon its surrender, a proclamation would be posted to the following effect : We, the Executive Government of England, call upon all to support the Charter ; and signed " John Frost, President." The witness could not remember more of what Jones stated that the proclamation would contain, but it was to the effect, after calling on all to support the Charter, that it would give further instructions how they sv , ire to proceed to establish it as the law of the Tire Military Gazelle says—" We have the best reason to know that the absurd paragraphs which have gone the round of the papers relative to Colonel Gurwood's couduct at Ciudad Rodrigo are wholly un authorised by that officer, who, like every true soldier, is annoyed and disgusted by the exaggerations thus put forth." Should the health of the Queen Dowager con tinue to improve, we understand that her Majesty will again make a round of visits early in the ensuing sum mer. Her Majesty has already accepted invitations from the Duk e of Devonshire and Marquis of Exeter. Derby Mercury. SUPPOSED DEATH FROM DESTITUTION.— On Saturday an i nquest was held at the Cumberland Arms, City-road, on the body of Martin Malloy, aged thirty-bight , whose death was supposed to have taken place from want of food. it appeared that he had for some years supported himself by hawking braces and other trifling articles, but that he had for the last two or three months been unabl e to earn as much as would procure the necessaries of life. He had latterly been reduced to mere skin and bone for want of food. He was admitted, on a second application on the same day, to St. Andrew's (Holborn) workhouse, that being the parish to which he had a legal claim. He was received into the workhouse at half-past eight in th e evening, and at ten he died. A post mortem examination took place, when it was stated by th e sur g eon of the parish that the deceased died of a diseased state of the lungs and liver, his death being accelerated by a want of food. He (the surgeon) thought, however, that had th e d e _ ceased been admitted into the workhouse when he first applied for admission his life might have been prolonged. Mr. Wilks, the relieving officer, not being present, to state on what grounds he had refused to admit the de ceased into the workhouse in the first instance, the in quiry was adjourned till a future day. A rumour is in very general circulation in this borough, that E. G. Barnard, Esq., one of the pre sent Members, is on the eve of accepting the Chiltern Hundreds, it being understood that the numerously signed requisition, made to Captain D. Dunilas, R.N., Clerk of the Ordnance, the particulars of which we gave in our last, had reference to this arrangement.— colwkh Advertiser. COLOMBIAN BONDS. TO THE EDITOR O 1 THE SUN. - _ Sin, Having heard that some parties (and amo.igst others the new agents of Venezuela) are inclined to doubt the accuracy of that part of my statement t , the Colombian Bondholders, published in your Paper of the 13th and 14th, which refers to the amount in ternal debt paid ofd' by that republic, I beg you o in sert the following items, translated and extraeted from the Expose of the Committee of Public Credit to the Senate and Chamber of Representatives, dated Cara cas, 20th January last, viz. : Capitals of the Domestic Debt of Colombia cancelled (amor tizado) by Venezuela, from the Ist of January, 1330, to the 30th of June, 18.38. DOLLARS. Debt of Colomlia, consolidated at 5 per cent 138,675 00 Ditto ditto ditto at 3 per cent.... 242,975 00 Ditto ditto to be consolidated 721,472 91 Ditto ditto floating ............2,187.173, 58 Ditto ditto treasury ............ 702,60 0 96 - - - --3 , 61 1,24 7 45 " Billetes" recognised 3,994,094 56 I have now to add, that to the holders of" Vales" for the above, interest at 3 and 5 per cent. was allowed to the amount of And on the consolidated debt for the financial year 1837 and 1838 4,100,296 97 Nueva Granada has also cancelled (amortizado) seve ral millions of its internal debt, the particulars of which I have not time to give at present. I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, ROBERT C. WYLLIE, Member of the Committee of South American Bondholders. 13, Dover -street, 16th December, 1839. INSTITUTE OF BRITISH ARCHI- TE CT S. A meeting of this society was held last evening. Mr. George Basevi in the chair. Several interesting pre sents were announced, chiefly illustrative of Inigo Jones, and his works. Others, with the same view, were promised by Mr. Cockerell, Mr. Richardson, and others. Mr. Cottam described Lord Tweeddale's brick-making machinery, which afforded much gratification. Bricks made in this manner are 31bs. heavier than those made by hand ; whether or not this, which must lessen their power of absorption, is injurious or otherwise, we have yet to learn. Mr. Godwin, jun. made some remarks on a new mode of building invented by Hitch of Ware. In this ea4lll brick is rebated together and forms a clenched rock. Much interesting discussion took place during the evening, in: which Mr. Barry, Mr. Britton, Mr. Donaldson, &c. took part. A student class has been formed, which will be attended by the Fellows in rotation. HYMN OF THE BREAD-TAXED. BY EBENEZER ELLIOTT. (WRITTEN FOR THE WNTI.CORN-LAW CIRCULAR.) Haw long shall idlers to x the bread Which starving toil hath earned ? And toiling men, half-clothed, half-fed, Like dogs be spurn'd? When wilt thou, dupe ! when wilt thou, thrall I When will ye, living clods ! Tell them who curse the land of all, " The land is God's ?" How long shall mothers rue the day When bride's-rings first were worn? And children to their fathers say,— " Why were we born ?" A crime to love ! it cannot be ! What saidat thou, Love Divine " Let little children come to me, For they are mine." 0 when, ye chainless seas aad winds Will trade be chainless ? When ? When soulless tyrants shall have minds, Or slaves be men. Then British hands will gather grain From every teeming soil ; Then no starved wretch will ask in vain For leave to toil. - No matron then will wildly pray That God her womb would close, And take her poor last born away From all earth's woes. For plenty dwelleth with the free, Free barter is cheap bread ; Then why, ye demons, should it be A crime to wed ? STATE OF TRADE. HALIFAX MARKET, SATURDAY.—We can report no alteration for the better in this market ; the same dul ness continues. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, FRIDAY.-.—There is no improvement whatever in the demand for any de scription of wool ; and yet, in consequence of the firm ness of the growers, and the exceedingly light stocks at market, prices arc without much variation. BRADFORD WOOL MARKET, THurtanA.Y.—We can only report a continuance of that dullness which has for some time pervaded this market. In the Yarn trade there is a continued curtailment of the hours of work ing, and with but two or three exceptions, the whole of the spinners are running their mills four days per week. The demand is very like the production, con sequently there is no material increase of stock. Prices stationary. We regret to hear the Pieee Market has been visited with several extensive failures, which can very properly be traced to the long-continued ruinous state of the manufacturing trade ; and the spirits of all seem greatly depressed, seeing no chance of improve ment with the great disproportion between the price I f the raw material and the manufactured article. The ,A'en-snants purchase very sparingly. Prices steady for articies most in request. A day mail will commence running between Cheltenham and Lo❑don on Tuesday the 17th. As Lookers. On, we are free to confess we cannot discover what are the particular advantages expected to result from this new arrangement of the Post-office depart ment. The night mail appeared very fully to answer all the wants and requirements of the inhabitants of Cheltenham ; and it appears quite clear that by this ad ditional mail they will not be able to " gain a post," or secure any earlier delivery for the London letters— Cheltenham Looker-On. The first pianoforte heard in England was manu factured by Zumpe, a German harpsichord maker, who introduced it here about the year 1775. Besides, the natural backwardness of the English in adopting novel ties, the instrument had against its favourable reception in this country, the quality of its tone, which was of so jangling and jarring a description, as not to offer the least symptom of the possibility of a pianoforte ever being rendered attractive, or even endurable, with real judges of euphonous sounds.—Musical World. A HIGHWAYMAN SHOT.—On the evening of Sunday last, as Mr. Edward Parris, of the Taff Vale Railway Office, Cardiff, was returning on foot from Co gan Pill, he was suddenly encountered by two men, near a wood, and felled to the ground, before he was well aware of their approach. It was intensely dark, and he could perceive only the forms of the two fellows standing over hirn, one keeping him down forcibly, the other at tempting to come at his pockets. Mr. Parris, fortu nately, had a brace of pistols in his breast pocket, one one of which he drew, and fired at the man who tood immediately over him, and who instantly dropped. The other villain immediately let go his hold, and went to the assistance of his comrade, who was lifted up, and both went off through the wood. Mr. Parris's coat was much torn in the scuffle. He has no doubt of having wounded the culprit in the shoulder. A reward of 201. is offered for the apprehension and conviction of the offenders.— luznian. NEWPORT.--Plsuc THANKSGIVING.--We understand that Wednesday next is appointed as a solemn day to offer up devout and fervent acknowledg ments for the gracious and signal interposition of Divine Providence lately experienced by the people of Newport. Service will commence at St. Paul's church at eleven o'clock. It is understood that Sir C. Morgan and the Tredegar family will attend on the occasion. In Stockport twenty-five factories are either stopped entirely, or at work on'y half time. The horse power unemployed is 1,380 ! In Manchester there are thirteen factories stopped entirely, and twenty working only from three to five days in the week. There arc 500 men spinners out of work, besides a large num ber that have gone to ' piece," and to attend self-acting mules.—Manchester Times. On Wednesday last Sir Charles Morgan's Prize Cattle Show took place at Court-y-Balla Farm, near Monmouth ; and judges have pronounced it the best display of high breeding and feeding that has ever been witnessed in the county. The morning was very tem pestuous, and the attendance of visitors from a distance eras, in consequence, more limited than usual ; but the 3toc, with the exception of horses, which were, as usual, indifferent, was admirable.—Merlin. AN AWKWARD DILEMMA.—M. Thalberg and party left Plymouth, after a morning concert , on Wednesday, with a view of giving an evening per formance at Totnes, twenty-three miles distant ; but when they arrived at Ivy Bridge they could not procure horses to convey them forward, owing to a ball which took piace at Plymooth, so the harmonious travellers were obliged to make a longer pause than they bar gained for, to their no small mortification, for they were fully aware that an audience was anxiously expect ing the m at T otnes. I t ra i ne d i ncessant l y a ll t h e d a y d• rd night. M. Thalberg and his coadjutors were en abled the next morning to proceed to Torquay, where they gave a morning concert, which was very nume rously attended, as was another at Teignmouth in the evening. The programme of M. Thalbert's concert at Blackheath on Thursday, promises a rich musical treat for, besides his own unravelled performance on the piano forte, Richardson will play two solos on the flute. The vocalists will be Signora Ernesta Grisi, Mrs. A. Toul min, Miss Lucombe, and Mr. Parry, jun. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1839. SPIRIT of Old PUBLIC JOURNALS. `FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the Globe.) As the Session of rarliatnent approaches, signs of mutual conciliation between Tories and Chartists begin to re-appear. At present they do not ex change compliments, and do not profess to seek the cams objects, except that great one on which all " good men" are united—the etpulsion of the Whigs from office. Still, on examining the leading journals of each party we find a parity of sentiment and con£or• mity of abuse which looks like collusion, though it may be only coincidence. Thus the Standard of Saturday repeats its hopes that the mercy of the Crown may be extended to the misguided men at Monmouth, and sug gests that they should be tried in London ; and the Northern Star of the same day takes a like view, and says that going on with the trials will " increase the odium under which Government already labours,and completely fill up the measure of its unpopularity by the exhibi tion of a savage and vindictive bearing." The Charter says emphatically, " Frost will, Frost must, Frost shall be saved ;" and Mr. Cardo has discovered, no doubt by the same light which showed to the Times a Russian fleet likely to bombard Brighton, and an increase of the French marine to which we have next to nothing to oppose—that the Newport rebellion was the work of Russian agency. He also, in a speech at Bolton on Wednesday, announced—we cannot say discovered, having read the same in the Tory papers for many years —that " Lord Palmerston is a tool in the hands of Russia, and one under whose sway the interests of the people are undergoing a daily sacrifice." The Times, with perfect consistency, continues to abuse Mr. O'Connell, but is unusually mild in its language. (From the Courier.) Noble and self-denying as the sacrifice, imperative on national honour and duty as the consummation of the great work of Slave Emancipation in our own colonies is, it remains unquestionable that, whilst the country has purged itself of the sin of participation or connivance, the horrors of slavery and of slave-dealing elsewhere, have been and are indefinitely aggravated by the very means so long and boldly predicated as decisive of their extinction. Facts and figures speak this irrecusably, and whilst ably expounding them Mr. Fowell Buxton reads at the same time his own conscientious confession of past misapprehension. But if the greater evil be unredressed and immeasurably enhanced, it was no less our bounden obligation to abate that lesser nuisance which depended on ourselves, however misled or mistaken in the degree of its results. The glory of slave emancipation in the British dominions is not shorn of it's lustre because elsewhere it has contributed to forge fresh fetters and strengthen the links of slaves and slavery. The conversion from bondage to freedom in the British colonies has operated as a bounty upon slavery in Cuba, the Southern and South-western States of the American Union, Texas, and Brazil. The slave markets of Africa have become more sought and active in proportion as a heinous competition has enhanced prices. Forced labour, under and adjoin ing the tropics, beirr , greatly more productive of quantity and profit than free labour, avarice has been proportion ably stimulated, and, in the greedy thirst of gain, traders of almost all nations are seen recklessly defying the laws, and braving even the death of infamy and piracy. (From the Standard.) We insert to-day the indictment found against the prisoners in Monmouth gaol. This document, though extending to a very great length, tells nothing that was not previously known to the public—the overt acts assigned all relating to the public transactions of the 4th of November. From this limitation of the heads of charge it would appear, either that the Law Officers of the Crown are not yet in possession of the preparations by which the insurrection was contrived, or that they wish to conceal those preparations from the public. It may be very true that the occur rences of the 4th of November afford grounds sufficient to support an indictment for high treason ; but justice to the public requires, that if more of the rebellion than its actual explosion can be exposed, a full exposure should be made ; and if such an exposure is intended, justice to the prisoners no less urgently demands that they should be apprised.of the intention in the terms of the indictment. As the matter now stands it would seem that the insurgents burst from some unknown region upon the night of the 4th ult., or came into ex istence upon that night like the product of the sepent's teeth miraculously brought forth, miraculously armed, and no less miraculously animated with a common pur pose of mischief. • A provincial paper, quoted by the Morning Chronicle, has the following passage :—" Of the whole export of cotton manufactured last year, amounting in value to more than twenty-four millions sterling, con siderably less than five millions were exported for the use of our own colonies, and the remaining nineteen millions and upwards to countries, the trade of which the Standard proposes to sacrifice to the Corn laws." We have not time at present to ascertain the arithmetical accuracy :of this statement ; we therefore take it as correct in the arithmetical detail, and proceed to suggest some explanations that may be necessary before drawing any inference from it. First, then, we wish to be informed how great a part of the 19 millions' worth of cotton goods was last year remitted to previously "glutted markets" merely for the purposes of ob taining advances at home upon the consignment— in short, sent upon desperate speculation. The Globe told us a few nights ago, the greater part. If the Globe is right a - trade like this cannot last long, and will be no very grievous loss when it shall ex pire. Secondly, we desire to learn in what degree the home market for manufactured cottons declined in the same year in which nineteen millions of cotton goods were exported to the Foreign Market. The goods were, no doubt, prepared for some market ; but if it has been found necessary to send them to Foreign markets, clearly in a state of repletion, for the desperate purpose of obtaining gambling advances, it would seem natural to infer :that it is from failure of demand in the home market this neces sity has arisen : such a failure has we know oc curred—and occurred in consequence of the importation of foreign corn. The question thus arises between the home market and the foreign market, and it is soon decided by the consideration that, while the British agriculturist must take all his manufactured goods from the British manufacturer, the foreign manufacturer can take only a part, and will take only a very small part, if any part. The truth of the case of last year is, that the failure of demand in the home market forced upon the manufacturers the necessity of sending their goods abroad at any price, to be paid almost at any time. Yet we are charged with wishing to injure ' the manufacturer, because we would defend for them the home market. In the third place, it is desirable to know how much of the 19 millions' worth of cotton ma nufactured goods has gone to the United States of America. The analogy of former years would intimate, a very great proportion, yet, as is plainly deducible from Mr. Webster's able argument (we have shown the proof), a repeal of the Corn-laws would ruin alto gether our trade with the United Stales. It may be urged that the experience of the last year does not afford a fair criterion : that year, however, was not selected by us, but by our Anti-Corn-law opponents, to whom—such is our confidence in the strength of our cause—we always leave it to choose their own ground ; and the last year does afford a fair, though, as respects the extent of mischief to be produced by it, an inadequate example of the ruin to manufactures that must attend a repeal of the Corn-laws. THE USE OF SEALS.—A gentleman who has lately been exposed to very unp:easant circumstances, owing to his ignorance upon the subject of the use of armorial bearings, wishes to give others the benefit of his experience. He was very much surprised by a notice from the Inspector of Taxes, requiring him under the penalty of 50/. (if not immediately done) to give notice of what armorial bearings he used, in order to pay the taxes for them ; with a reprimand for the omission, hitherto in his returns. The gentleman who has never taken out his arms, was much asto nished at such an appeal, and complained to the tax-gatherer. He informed him it was no concern of his, and sent him to the assessor. This latter per son assured the gentleman that a letter had been re ceived from him, sealed by a crest seal. It turned out that the tax-paper came while tho gentleman was in London : he wrote to his daughter, putting down at the end of his letter his returns, which he desired her to cut off, and enclose it ; forwarding this to the tax gatherer. The lady happened to possess a glass seal, a mere toy given to her, upon which was a squirrel ; this is no crest of the father's ; and, therefore, not used as such. The letter thus sealed (most unfortunately), was presented to the gentleman, who was informed that for this be must pay 11. 4s. ; and if ho kept a car riage, 21. Bs. It was objected that it was not his crest, &c. No matter, had he picked it up in the street ; or had it been sealed (by a lady merely visiting at the house) by her own crest, it rendered him liable to pay the duty, and that within a very short time, or be fined fifty pounds ; and more than that, it sub jected him to this tax (having once paid it) as long as he lives. As it was proved to be his daugh ter's, and she not being a householder, he is let off with Payin g 12s. a year. As such devices on seals as birds and animals, are generally liked, it is well that people should be warned against their use.--Cheltenham Examiner. LONDON AND GREAT NORTHERN TRUNK RAILWAY.—The proposed object of this undertaking appears to be toc onnect the Midland Grand Union and Midland Counties Railways at Nottingham, with the Northern and Eastern Railway, near Ware ; passing by the towns of Melton Mowbray, Stamford, Huntingdon, St. Neot's, Hertford, and bisecting or uniting with the Welland, Ouse, Nen, an d ot h er nav i gat io ns river Trent , the Grantham, M elton, and Oakham Canals, w an h d ic m R h icvoersmand the trade of the midland and eastern counties of England. According to the p ros p ec t us , i coal might be sold n London for lbs. per ton,Railway LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Rte. 16. (Sittings at Nisi Prius at Guildhall, before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE and a Common Jury.) THOMPSON V. COLTER. This was an action upon a bill of exchange for 281., accepted by the defendant, a wholesale silk warehouse man, of Friday-street, Cheapside. The defendant ploaded that a part of the acceptance, namely the words, " at Glynn, Mills, and C 0.," under his name, were not in his handwriting. Mr. CARRINGTON, for the defendant, submitted that the alteration made in the bill was a material one, and as it had not been sho"sn by the plaintiff that it had been made with the defendant's consent, the plaintiff must be nonsuited. The Learned Gentleman cited a case from Carrington and Paynes' Reports in support of that position. Mr. Justice COLNIUDGU—Have you any other au thorities ? Mr. CARRINGTON — Oh yes, my Lord, a good many others—some I have not brought with me. Mr. PLATT (for the plaintiff)—Have you any autho rities the other way ? Mr. CARRINGTON.--NO, not one. Mr. PLATT--.oh, these are the cases you have left at home.—( Laughter.) The Learned JUDGE having left it to the Jury to say whether the addition of the words " at Ginn, Mills, and Co." was made before or after the acceptance. Tne Jury having looked at the bill, said they observed the words " 15, Friday-street," under the acceptance, and they were therefore of opinion that the other words were added after acceptance. A verdict was then taken for the plaintiff, with leave to the defendant to enter a nonsuit it the full Court should be of opinion that the alteration was a material one. DUBOIS V. MEATS. Sir F. POLLOCK (with whom were Mr. PLATT and Mr. HODGINS) stated the case. It was an action brought by the plaintiff, a stone-mason, of Lewisham, in Kent, against the defendant, a gentleman of some pro perty, to recover compensation for having maliciously, and without reasonable or probable cause, preferred an indictment for felony against the plaintiff, at the Central Criminal Court, in May last. The plaintiff was ac quitted. The Learned Counsel entered into a length ened statement of the case, and called the following wit nesses. Mr. Parks, one of the Clerks of the Court of Re quests, Greenwich, produced the books of the Court, in which the issuing of a summons at the suit of the plaintiff, Dubois, and the order to pay the sum claimed, 21. 65., by the defendant Keats was entered. It was for work and labour done. Cross-examined by Mr. THESIGER—There was a set off, but it could not be then gone into. Another witness named Matteson proved that the amount '2l. 6s. was paid to him by Mr. Keats, who was rather in a passion. He said "he would serve Dubois out, and that he thought he could make out a charge of felony against him." Witness advised him to let it alone. George Barham, a constable of Lewisham, took plaintiff into custody on the 6th of May, on a warrant, issued by the Magistrates. On Saturday, the 4th of May, Mr. Keats asked me to go with him to Dubois's house. He said he came to demand his marble, and Dubois brought him into his yard and showed him the marble in a state of preparation. I heard Mr. Keats, on the 6th, apply for the warrant against Dubois. When I took Dubois before the Magistrates the case was ad journed till the following Monday, Dubois being set at liberty. I again went with Mr. ;Keats, on the 6th, to Dubois's house. We searched. and found several pieces of marble, only one of which was claimed by Mr. Keats. On the 13th the case came for re-hearing be fore the Magistrates, and Dubois was bailed to appear at the Old Bailey Sessions. Dubois, on the 6th, re quested that the marble at Mr. Keats's premises should be measured, and I accompanied the parties. I remem ber a piece of marble being found under some rubbish. Another piece was found among some rough stuff in the shed. These two pieces were claimed by Dubois as part of the marble he had worked. Mr. Keats and his witness were present. The deficiency was found to be very trifling—a foot and one or two inches. I at 'waded at the Old Bailey Sessions afterwards, and we remained till Wednesday. Mr. Keats remarked to me, " Oh, dear, I feel very ill ; I would sooner have given 101. than it should have come to this." I told him I thoaght Dubois was innocent. I saw Dubois afterwards in the dock. Mr. Keats was examined as a witness. The Jury stopped the Counsel. Mr. TUESIGER objected to the observatiens of the Learned Judge on the statement made by the Jury being given in evidence. Witness—They acquitted Dubois, and he was im mediately discharged. He is a married man with a family. Cross-examined—l did not bear Dubois say when I arrested him, " I did not take any marble ;" he said, " I know nothing about it.'—[The depositions were produced, and the previous words were found in the witness's evidence.] James Sword was present when the marble was measured at Mr. Keats's house. Mr. Keats pulled out his purse, and I understood him to offer me money, hut I declined it. The other witness, Grimmel, and myself had no difference as to the measurement. All the pieces found were identified as belonging to the marble worked by Dubois. There was seventy or eighty feet altogether, and the deficiency was about one foot three or four inches. _ _ -- William Field, short-hand writer at the Old Bailey, read the evidence given at the trial for felony. After one or two other witnesses had been examined, whose evidence contained nothing of importance, Mr. THESIGER (with whom were Mr. Kelly and Mr. Marten) addressed the Jury for the defendant, and examined the foilowing,witnesses. James Clements, a labourer in defendant's employ, stated that in October, 1838, he saw the plaintiff take away three or four pieces of marble from defendant's house in a donkey cart. It was polished at the time, and plaintiff said it was by Mr. Keats's orders. William Blackwell, a carpenter, was in the defen dant's employment in the month of October, 1838, and saw the plaintiff and Clements put two or three pieces of marble into a donkey cart. James Carter lives within t. couple of miles of de fendant's house. Saw the plaintiff with a donkey cart, on which were some pieces of marble, on the 21st Oc tober, 1838. George Grimmell, a stone mason, was in the defen dant's employment in 1838. There was a stock of mar ble in the house. Saw a chimney-piece taken down last summer in Mr. Cooper's house. It was taken to Mr. Keats's, and part of it corresponded with the marble in Mr. Keats's stock, and part of it corresponded with that in a chimney-piece which Mr. Keats had put up in an other house. I only judge they are the same as Mr. Keats's, from the colour and the veins. [The marble was here produced, and shown to the witness.] William Talmage was employed by Mr. Keats to re move some marble, in the April of last year, to his house. One of the pieces of marble now produced is the same. I know it, because one of the veins resem bles an old man's face. It is about a week since I told that to the attorney, and the marble was then shown to me in Mr. Keats's parlour. William Peacock was in Mr. Cooper's employment in October, 1838. Some marble for a chimney-piece was brought by plaintiff at that time to his master's house. The chimney-piece was afterwards put up in the house. - _ Stephen Cooper, a builder at Greenwich—The plain tiff agreed with me, in the summer of 1838, for six Portland stone and one marble chimney-piece. I paid 21. 10s. for the marble one. It is impossible to recog nise marble of the same quality. Sir F. PoLLocK replied, and the Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 1501. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, DEC. IG. (Sittings at Nisi Prius before Mr. Baron GURNEY and a London Special Jury.) PHILLIPS AND ANOTHER V. HUGH. The plaintiff in this case bad consigned a large quan tity of tobacco, imported in various ships, to Messrs. Warwick and Claggett, who were large tobacco mer chants, as well as brokers. In September those gentle men applied to the defendant's house for an advance of a large sum of money, and proposed to give the dock warrants of the tobacco as secur►ty. After some nego ciation the defendants agreed to discount two accept ances of Warwick and Co. for 10,1061. and 10,198/, The warrants for the tobacco were delivered on the 24th September, but as defendants did not think the se curity sufficient they only gave a cheque for 1,20 C/. Warrants for more tobacco were delivered on the 30th September, and another cheque for 8,0001. given. There had been a pravious advance of 14,4001. upon the secu rity of Louisiana and Virginia Bonds. In September Warwick and Co. deposited more dock warrants for more tobacco, and got hack the bonds which were used for the exigencies of the house. The greater part of the tobacco had been consigned to Warwick and Co. (who failed in February, 1837) by the plaintiffs ; the re mainder was their own. It was proved that the plain tiff had only given power to Warwick and Co., to sell for them, and ordered them to take out the warrants in their name. Warwick and Co., however, did not obey these orders, but took them out in their own name, and dealt with them as their own. The Learned JUDGE left it to the Jury to say whether the plaintiff had given Warwick and Co. a power over the tobacco, such as to induce the world to suppose it belonged to them ; whether the defendant thought it was the property of the firm they were dealing with, and whether the exchanging of the bonds for the war rant was an advance upon the tobacco. Tho Jury found in the affirmative on all the questions. —Verdict for the defendant. The Attorney. General, Mr. Kelly, and Mr. Bailey were Counsel for the defendant ; Mr. Creswell and Mr. Waddington were for the plaintiff. SCHWABACHER V. FLEMING. The plaintiff in this action was a wine and cigar mer chant, at Cambridge, who brought his action to recover the sum of 201. 135., for goods supplied to the defen dant while at College. The plea of the defendant was infancy. Mr.; ERLE said the sum sought to be recovered was so small, that he was astonished that the defendant had thought it necessary to have the case tried before a Special Jury. The defendant was the son of Mr. Fleming, the Member for Hampshire, who was placed in one of the first Colleges in the University. He was of the first character both as to rank and wealth, and it could not, therefore, be said that a bill of 201. l bs. was extravagant during a period of six months, for wine, cigars, liqueurs, and Eau de Cologne. It could not be expected that a young gentleman of his expectancies was to make friends of the highest young men of the land—to be treated by them, and give no entertainment in return. In that sense he trusted the Jury would think the goods furnished were necessaries, not actual necessaries, but necessaries ac cording to the rank and station of the party supplied. General evidence of the delivery of the goods having been given, . _ _ Mr. B. ANDREWS said the father of the young man did not defend the action upon any other than high public grounds. Here was a young man sent to the University for the purposes of study and improve ment, but would either of these be effected if the youths were to be allowed to contract such debts as _ the one in question. If the Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, and so sanctioned such a proceeding, it would prove of incalculable mis chief to the youth of the Universities. His LORDSHIP having summed up, the Jury, after a few minutes' consultation, returned a verdict for the de fendant. His LORDSHIP said the verdict was one calculated to do much good. It would, indeed, be frightful were such conduct allowed. These tradesmen were all well aware that they were trusting parties not of age, and it was preposterous for anyone to say that wine, liqueurs, and cigars were necessaries for a young gentleman of 18 or 19 years of age. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. About the middle of last week two elderly females, who appeared, from their manners, to have been re spectably brought up, but reduced to great distress, one of them assisting the other to walk, as she seemed very much afflicted with paralysis, applied to Mr. Hall, requesting he would assist them, or point out some means by which they could obtain relief, as they had been labouring for a considerable time under the greatest privations. They stated that their father, having held a commission in the British service, and being strongly recommended to the Portuguese Government, he was appointed to the command of a squadron, and, after a short service, died while he held an admiral's commission. Their mother was then granted a pension, upon which they subsisted very comfortably until abouttwo years back when she also died, but up to the present time they had been entirely depending on the charitable dona tions of a few ladies of respectability, to whom they could refer, any of whom would confirm their state ment, as they were acquainted with the sufferings they had undergone, and which had at length become no longer durable. Mr. HALL said he had no doubt, from the manners of the applicants, that they had been reared in a very superior manner, and if they would leave with him the name and address of any respectable person he would make inquiries, and adopt some means of relieving their present distressed condition. _ The applicants then left the names of several ladies and their addresses, and, after thanking the Magistrate for his kindness, withdrew. Yesterday, one of them being in attendance, her sister not being able to leave her room in consequence of her debilitated state, to ask if any inquiries had been made to the ladies to whom they had referred, Mr. HALL said he had written to every person to whom a reference had been made, and from the answers he had received it appeared that the applicants' account of their parents and of their own present unfortunate state, was in every particular correct, in consequence of which he was induced to place a sum of money for himself in the hands of a respectable lady, to be given to them in such portions as she considered they might have occa sion for it, at the same time he would direct as much as could be spared from the poor-box of the Court to be appropriated to their use, and he would feel most happy in giving the most satisfactory accounts which he had received from very many ladies of the highest respecta bility, to any persons who might be so humane as to offer their assistance in a case which he considered de serving the attention of such as might be charitably in clined. The name or address of the applicants did not tran spire. MONEY-LENDING ADVERTISE- MENTS. On Saturday, at the Kensington Petty Sessions Mr. Sprey, butler to her Royal Highness the Princess So phia, applied to Sir John Scott Lillie and Messrs. Bar low and Sutton, the Sitting Magistrates, for the second time, under the following circumstances : It appeared that on Wednesday, Mr. Sprey waited on Sir John Scott Lillie, the Sitting Magistrate, and stated that, being in immediate want of a loan of mo ney to complete a purchase he was negociating, his at tention was attracted by an advertisement in one of the papers, notifying that money to any amount might be obtained, on good security, on application to Mr. Chas. Alexander, No. 62, Great Portland-street, Portland place. Mr. Sprey, on Tuesday last, accordingly went to that direction, where he saw a person who represented himself to be Mr. Alexander, to whom he applied for the loan of one hundred pounds for three months. The soi-disant Alexander, having heard him with a perfect business air, said the amount was too small, and the time too short, to be worth his while—his terms were not less than 2001. for three years at 7i per cent., on acceptances renewable every three months. Mr. Sprey at length acceded to those terms, and having accepted a bill at three months for 2001, drawn out by Alexander, received from him what he called a check for the amount on Coutts's bank, at one day's sight. Mr. Sprey immediately pro ceeded to Coutts's to have his check dated, when, on presenting it, he was told that. being unstamped, it was not a legal document, and it was detained at the bank ing-house. Sir John S. Lillie inquired if Mr. Sprey had asked at the banker's if any person of the name of Charles Alexander kept an account there, to which Mr. Sprey replying in the negative, Sir John said he could not ace how he could at present interfere, and advised him to ascertain that fact. On Saturday Mr. Sprey stated that he went, in ac cordance with the suggestion of Sir John S. Lillie, to Coutts's bank, and inquired if any person of the name of Charles Alexander banked there, when they replied in the negative, saying, that although numerous appli calions of a similar nature had been made, they knew nothing of him. He then returned to the residence of her Royal Highness, in Church-lane, Kensington, where he had not been more than half an hour before a person called on him, and inquired if he had not got an accept ance out in the market for two hundred pounds ? He (Mr. Sprey) replied that he had not ; he had certainly signed his name to a bill which had been obtained from him by means of frand, amounting even to forgery, and that he should resist its payment to the utmost extent o f the law. The party, nothing daunted by the intelligence, said the bill which he had acknowledged had not been indorsed, had been offered to him for discount, and that his object in calling was to ascertain if it were genuine. On Thursday he (Mr. Sprey) went to Bow-street office and stated the circumstances to the sitting Magistrate there, when one of the officers who was present said, from the de scription he gave of Alexander, he bad no doubt he was the celebrated Prescott, of bill-swindling notoriety, and that some further overtures would, n o d ou bt, be made to him (Mr. Sprey). On that day, as suspected, the same party again called on him, saying, that although he had not the bill himself he knew who had, and that he did not doubt it would be given up on the receipt of a " valuable consideration." An appoint ment was then made for Friday afternoon, at the sign of the Catherine Wheel, in Church -street, Kensington, when he (Mr. Sprey) placed in the parlour his So licitor and Gough, a policeman of the T division, an officer of that Court, in private clothes. At the appointed time the party called on him at the Princess's house, but be telling him that he was on duty, and could not be spoken to there, took him over to the Catherine Wheel, when, seeing the other persons present, he only said the bill might be re covered on the payment of 201., and that the person in whose hands it was would meet Mr. Sprey at a coffee shop in Fetter-lane, on Saturday afternoon, to receive the money. He accordingly made the appointment with him to the extent that his solicitor should attend for him, he (Mr. Sprey) being in attendance on her Royal High ness, and he, therefore, again applied to the Bench for their assistance under the circumstances. The BENCH, having referred to the various Acts of Parliament, finding the illegally obtaining the possession or detaining " a valuable security" a felonious offence, recommended that Gough and another officer in private clothes should be in attendance at the appointment with Mr. Sprey, and take into custody any of the parties who might be there with the bill. The officers had not returned when the Bench broke up. Iin . ..RUSH PETTY SESSIONS. A MATHEWITE IN TROUBLE ; OR, THE " PARTING GLASS."—The gentleman who enacted complainant in this case described himself as " a boy ov the Hickeys," though evidently long since arrived at man's estate. In figure he was squat and fidgetty, in countenance un shaven and—nothing remarkable. On Mr. Hickey being requested by the bench to " show cause" for being there, he took from the hands of his wife, who stood near, a bundle, which he opened, and slowly exhibited to their Worships said bundle, consisting of a frieze body coat, waistcoat of yellow kerseymere, and corduroy " smalls," each and all of which garments appeared, to be saturated with wet, and coated with mud of various hues and consistency. " Well," inquired his '',Worship, " what about those clothes ?" Clothes !" returned the " boy o' the Hickeys," with a lachrymose shake of his n oddle ; " they wor clothes, indeed, once ov a ti me, but I'm thinkin' the art o' man wouldn't knock plea sure 01 profit out ov 'em ❑ow !" MAGISTRATE—Who treat ed then , ' in that way ? Hickey—Paudh Galleny lid, Sir. Put him to his book oath, an' ov he denies id I'll rise out o' the matther ; be the light that shines I will . Master Galleny, thus invo iked, produced himself at once, and, bestowing a smart tweak with his finger and thumb on the nose that called him owner, placed him self alongside his accuser, and •.‘ woAhered he whouldn't listen to rayson !" MAGisTRATE—How was is matter at all ? " This was the way it was, t hen," replied complainant making a cushion for his elbow s of the abused toggery ; —" this was the way ov id, sun I'm for Limerick, Danny,' says Paudh Galleny, .eomin' in t o mcse lf an ' I eatin' the preaties fine an' early.in the mornin '—‘ You are, may be,' says The doar knows I am,' says he ; for who knows what may rise out ay id, for one skrim wage, an up or down, will be laic the nibors any how, an get a tech from his reveren ee.' Well, I wasn't for the road that turn, but, sure,the infatuashion or enchantment kem over me, an' I lent the boy a spick an'-span new shoot o' clothes—h ere they are ! Aye, by Jekurs, you may laugh to be s ore ; bran new they wor then, wid the smell o' the tailor hardly out ov ! —(A laugh.) Look hethir, gintle men, isn't this a nate patthern ov a small clothes?" And Danny Hickey held up a pair of unmentionables that appeared to have the most ample part of them removed at " one fell swoop." He next exhibited a tattered apology for a vest, which he aptly enoughly remarked was only " the frame ov his fine westkut." Galleny was now called on to explain—" I borryed the shoot, sartinly, Sir," ha commenced. " Oh, indeed, I'll own to that 'idout no swearin' at all, an' I riz at cock-shout to be off. Well an' good, there was a pub lic-house open, an' if there was me wife an' meself had a partin' glass, to take me lave ov the whiskey for ever an' a day. So I sot off, an' I was'nt gone tin yards whin I met Tom M'Elligett. Well wear, Paudh,' says he, there's good stuff in that new shoot, but you look to be a thrifle resthrained in 'em,' says he. Are you for the blessed man in Limbrickthis mornin'?' Oh, the dickons a doubt ov id,' says I. So he forced me in, indeed, to take a partin' glass ; an' afther that I couldn't offind two boys o' the Kening's, I fell in wid at Daly's, an' we had two rounds ov milk punch as a partin' glass. So that, in a manner, I was partin' id till I was rowlin' on the high road, an' only kern to meself whin the turf boat hot the quay ov Limbrick, an' [Resell, an 33 more in her."—( Laughter.) Hickey—" 'Tis a poor satisfaction for me any how, yourself an' your partin' glass. Glory be to Goodness, what kern over me at all, I wondher." " E'thin', death a noons, Danny," returned Paudh with warmth, " do you remimber the time I decorated you wid me ridin' coat an' silk handketcher to go an' prove the alibi, whin you hadn't as much rags on you as id frighten a flock o' sparrows off ov a dunghill ?"—(A I augh.) The " Boy o' the Hickeys " shook his head in reply, and tapping the bundle emphatically, looked volumes at their Worships. " As God shall judge me, I dun me endayvors to save your bits o' clothes," said Master Galleny : " sure when I tuk the pledge an' the raillin broke, an' I found meself in the mud an' wather, kickin' an' plungin', wid a power o' people ondher me an' over me, I caught the wall an' was gettin' up, when I felt a sthrong hand hovin' a grip ov the state o' me smalls ; Let me go—who's that ?' says I. "Tis I,' says a sthrange man. ' Let me go, I tell you,' says I. No, nor the devil a bit,' says he ; you want to have me smothered alive, honest boy ?' says he. Wid that I axed him the third time. Oh, blud alive, ketch me be the windpipe ov you like,' says I, 'but let me go my sate, for that's a borryed breeches you're terrin' !" (Great laughter.) After some further skirmishing, the parties came to an understanding, and Danney Hickey withdrew his first suit, then handed the other to his better half; and left the Court, THE ENGLISH RESTAURANTS AT PARIS. (From the Charivari.) Paris is infested with a number of restaurants Anglais ; the proper word is taverns ; the real word would be caverns. These taverns, as they are called, are for the greater part round the re mains of the late Italian Opera. The fire which devoured that pretty little theatre, respected the ignoble British pot-houses which surrounded it. It must be owned that the ways of Providence are inconceivable. Our task would be rather difficult, if we had to lead our readers into these holes, where, for a trifling sum, from 10d. to ls. 4d., they might give themselves an indigestion of cow-beef, magnani mously yclept roast beef. The description of one, which will serve for all, will be quite enough for our readers ; besides, these places are all alike, which is certainly not much to the credit of any. Do you see that small door with a glass window, covered with a curtain of a dubious hue ? It is not very tempting, I own, but as you are inclined to see, it is useless to hesitate. Go on, lift the latch, and the door will open. You need not be afraid of being bitten —you had better be afraid of biting, You are now in a dark, narrow, smoky room, the walls of which seem to have been once adorned with yel low paper, the windows are covered with green serge, and the two tables before you may, perhaps, have once been white, which is certainly more than one can say of the table-cloths. Now sit down—for 21 sous you are entitled to the following fare :—a stool, more or less rickety, a slice of roast beef with gravy, two plain boiled po tatoes, some spinach or cabbage also plain boiled, And a glass of wine. This wine, like the enthu siasm of the nation for the King, is beyond the powers of description ; luckily you may, without any addition of expense, leave it untasted. Provided you have three or four francs in your pocket, you think, doubtless, you can sit down and thump on the table to make the waiter appear and receive your orders for dinner. Lamentable mistake —you must wait patiently, and often standing, till some one deigns to serve you. " Ask and you shall receive," is a maxim which is not followed in this establishment. On the contrary, if you want to have anything you must ask for nothing. The 'master, let me tell you, is by no means a common character. He is at once landlord, cook, and waiter—he does everything himself, but slowly, at his leisure, without any hurry whatsoever. Swollen with fat and big with importance, he allows no one to interrupt him in his functions, and pays the same attention to the demands of the presumptive diners as the Chamber of Deputies does to the complaints of the nation. He will let you bawl and squall, and mind you no more than he would a dog, unless you should happen to affect his nervous system, in which case he would collar you politely and turn you out, to carry your stomach and money elsewhere. This man's shop is his castle. If, on the contrary, you are submissive and pa tient, perhaps after waiting for ten or twenty mi nutes, according as the great man may be occupied, he will take pity on your hungry stomach, and bring you a glass, knife and fork, and also a tooth-pick, if you wish it, to give some occupation to your teeth : he does not bring you a napkin, as he considers it as a downright superfluity. After a quarter of an hour, and sometimes more, he will bring you the lump of bread and half pint of wine, which form part of your meal ; and at length, after a third pause, you will see the long ex pected slice of beef make its triumphant entry on a plate, containing likewise, its twin sister, the po tatoe, and you will then be able to enjoy, in n all il l s excellence, this culinary chef dee:tyre o f Egl is cookery. Roast beef and potatoes are the foun dation of the gastronomic system of our transmarin. pai e neigh , incihours. Let us add to those two P r ele ments, cabbage, beans, spinach, a pple pie, plu m a thorou g h pudding and grog, and you have knowledge of the culinary science o 0 this head shall . be as When your instruction on England complete as you wish it to be, you may get u p an d there you must wait till t h e landlord shall be inclin ed to come and r eceive your money. Do not ap pear to be impati ent , f or he go to the bar ; but would thing nothing of putting on hi s h at and Champ s El ysees t o showtaking English landlord is generally s h ort , h hisi suck independence. for a e The 1 ed, and th ielt ch s e e e t k ; s n : at h u e re ge h n a e s ra g l i i f y te w d e h a i r m s a wi c t o li b t. a p a ir of c rimson ton nightcap and a very long apron. His tone is a b ru pt and indecisive ; though economical in words, he is still more so in his portions. The English taverns in Paris are assiduously frequented by F renc h , Germans, Italians, and Rus sians ; in s h ort, by the carnivorous of all parts of Europe, England excepted. As a compensation, the Itali an restaurants are thronged w i th English, and th e Spanish ones with Italians. National spi rit does not go beyond the lips—the stomach is not acquainted with amor patrice THE FIFTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) Perceiving that an article in a contemporary Journal, reference to the 58th Regiment in this garrison, has been copied into several of the London Papers, we think it but justice to that corps to say, that the result of the inquiries we have made on the subject leaves not a doubt that the statement is altogether erroneous. As a proof of this, we call attention to the following facts : —The Independent says, the Regiment has four hun dred children, whilst the actual number does not ex ceed 183. It also states that 24 children have died of measles, and here is another error, for although the corps has lost 19 children, not even one died from measles. The diseases that proved fatal to them were water on the brain, and inflammation of the chest, which extended to the children of the officers as well as the soldiers. It has been further said, that the children who have died were born at Ceylon ; and yet out of the 19, only five were born in that Island. We have reason to know also that the late Commanding Officer, Colonel Clifford, did not encourage his men to marry, for only 34 women accompanied the Regiment on its return from Ceylon. The only part of the statement that appears to have any foundation in fact is, that which refers to the children in measles being removed from barracks. This is a regulation which every officer in command is bound to obey, and it extends to other infectious diseases as well as to the measles, because the safety of the troops depends on its being adhered to.-- W e cannot close our remarks without observing, that although the 58th regiment landed here under a most serious disadvantage, arising from the soldiers having upwards of 2,000/. to spend in the garrison, we know of no corps that has conducted itself in a more quiet and orderly manner, nor of any commanding officer more indefatigable in his exertions than its commanding officer, Lieut.-Colonel Frith, who embarked here with the 58th, as a Captain, exactly 11 years from the day it disem barked to do duty in this garrison. [The Editor ought to have added that the increase since the arrival of the regiment in July, has arisen solely from the Depot C om p an i es h av i ng , upon j o ining head-quarters in Portsmouth, brought with them thirty four women and eighty children from Ireland. We have received a communication from a Correspondent , in defence of most of the statements made in the Independent, but it could not interest the general readers of The Sun, and is much more appropriate for th.e columns of the Journal in which the original am raadversions fi rs t a pp eare d. B es id es, we k now no thing of the facts of the case, and therefore think it better to leave the settlement of the question to our brother Journalists in that quarter.] THE MARKETS-(YESTERDAY.) Pltiut:ol The highest price of Bread in tl Loaf. Good Bread may be had at PRICES 0: Per Cwt. New English Red C10ver...555. 90s Old Ditto Ditto New Foreign Ditto 565. 30s. Old Ditto Ditto —a. —s. —s. New White Clover sos. 655. 70s. Old Ditto Ditto —s. —a. —s. New Trefoil —s. lbs. 30s. Old Ditto —s. 12s. 225. Trefolium —s. 2Ss. 30s. English Carraway —s. 525. 565. Foreign Ditto —s. 50s. 565. Coriander —a. 9 0s. '2ss. Rapeseed, English fine (per L 1 Etihrl D. le Metropolis is lON i d. for the 41b F S EEDS. Per Quarter — . St. Foin l. 492 66. Rye Grass —4 40s. 449 Pacey Grass —s...—s. - Linseed, for feeding —s. 455. 52.; Ditto, for sewing —5. 545. 513 Ditto, for crushing —s. 425. 465 Canary —,s 70s. SO Hemp —s. 535, 40s Per Bushel. White Mustard...lls. 0./. 14s. Od. Brown Ditto ...... I Od. 19s. 0 d Tares 55. 6d. 75. tici. at) 281. 311. Foreign 261,26. PRICES OF LEATHER. d. to 0 1.,* Per lb. d. to d Per lb. Crop Hides,3o to4olb. each 11 131 Horse Hides, F e rman... 1 2 `" 40 50 l2 16 Spanish ... „,, ---50 60........13 18 Calf Skins,3o to 401 b. (dos) 15 .` lg. 24 Bull Hides . lO 13 -40 50 000000000 - - 98 Butts, V•triol - English 000000 .•• - Foreign Foreign Hides Dressing Hides --..---- Shaved... 13 17 Basils ... • ..... Best Saddlers' Hides l5 16 i Bellies ............. . ..«•«• • 5m411...:...... j2°66 , 7 1 2°21 : 9211 Horse Hides, English .. 11 15 Shoulders . .... ... ....••••••••• - Calf Skins, if rounded 2d. to 4d. por b. more. PRICES OF HOPS. Farnham Pockets (per cwt.) Ol Os. 01. Os. t° 01 " Os. East K.nt Pockets Ditto Bags Mid Kent Pockets Ditto Bags Sussex Yearlings 3 : 3° 4 4 1 1. ... i l l 000 ? 01 ... ... 5 300 ° 4: 11 1 1 . ..:. -11351::5....: to 6 i 3 ii i . 1 : 50 1 0 . 5 : 3 : : : Old Olds PRICE OF OIL. RapsOil,hrown, per ton, 341. 10s.—Refined, 36/.00 Linseed Oil, 22/. Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill (1000), 14/. os.—Rape rake, per t0n,71 PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, bte. per 1121 b. Town Tallow s2s. Od. Yellow Soap... Yellow Russia 49s. 6d Mottled —B Od. White —s. Od. Curd s. Od. Soap Ditto Melting Stuff Ditto Rough 26s Od. PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of Olt% Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters) 20. Ild. EVENING EDITION. PRICE OF CANDLES. The price of good Store Candles in the Retail Shops is as follows Candles, per dozen, Bs. Od. ; inferior, 7s. Od. ; Moulds, 9s. 6d. Sixpence per dozen discount for cash. COAL MARKET. d Adair's 5. d. Walls End Killingworth 22 6 Walls End Northumberland 21 9 Walls End Riddell's . .16 Walls Endßraddyll'sHetton 23 8 Walls End Haswell 23 Walls End Hetton a Walls End Lambton 24 3 Walls End Stewart's . 24 3 WarWa Wallsll 1 1 s s End n nd d W Hartlepool hiel 3 :2 1 4 4 , 0 Walls End Barrett .. Ade lai de ; 23 0 0 Walls Eud New Tees 23 0 Walls End Tees Hetto 21 Cowpen 2O 0 Hartley 2l 0 Lee last market-day, 14. Chester Carr's Hartley 2O 7 Original Windsor's Pontop 21 0 Ord's Redhugh Pontop Windsor 2J 0 Sou t h , Hartley l9 6 Tanfield Moor 23 t Tanfied Moor Butes 2O 6 Townley l9 0 West Hartley 2l 0 Willington 22 t", Wylam. 2O 9 Walls End Gosforth 23 0 Walls end Heaton .. 23 Walls End Hilda 42 Walls End Hotspur Ships arrived sin BRITISH MUSEUM.—Workmen have for some time past been actively engaged in renovating that por tion of the Museum known as the Elgin Saloon, contain ing the valuable collection of marbles formerly the property of the Earl of Elgin. The walls, which were of a dingy stone colour, will now have the appearance of red gra nite, and so form a fine relief to the objects of exhibi tion. During the progress of the operation, those per sons in the habit of taking drawings and casts will be temporarily deprived of that privilege, as the works are covered up to prevent them from being splashed with paint or otherwise injured. MINE ACCIDENT.—A most melancholy acci dent occurred at Wheal Budnick mine, in Perranza buloe, on Saturday last, to a man of the name of Ni cholas Scobell, who was in attendance on the Stamp ing Machine, when his hand was unfortunately caught between the cog-wheels. and crushed nearly to the shoulder-joint. He was brought almost lifeless to the Cornwall Infirmary on a litter ; but an operation has since been performed, and we are happy to find tha hopes are entertained of his recovery. The poor feel low is in very low circumstances, having six children, and his wife being at present near her confinement. Cornwall Gazette. MALT USED BY THE LONDON BREWERS IN 1839.—The total quantity of malt used by the public brewers in London, in the year ending Oct. 10, 1839, was 750,172 qrs., being an increase of 7,574 qrs. over the year preceding : of which increase, one brewery alone, that of Barclay, Perkins, and Co., amounted to 7,372 qrs., and the whole quantity brewed by that esta blishment in the time before stated was 114,817 qrs. BRISTOL SUGAR-MARKET, DEC. 13.--The transactions in our sugar-market are hardly worth notice. Good qualities maintain their value, but low and mid dling are hardly saleable at anything like the nominal market price. The trade, generally speaking, is dull and deelining.—Mercury. - --- MUSICAL BOXES.—A few Boxes, of various sorts and sizes, slightly damaged, are offered for sale, at Twelve Shillings each. The list of tunes of new perfect Musical Boxes is published, and may be had gratis, on applica tion, or will be sent in answer to a paid letter. The prices vary from One to Twenty-five Guineas. T. COX SAVORY, Goldsmith, Silversmith, &c., 47, Cornhill (Seven doors from Gracechurch-street), London. BIRTHS. Ah O s i s n s n t e h r e , 4 E t s h i q ~n n s t. , fa a d t ao i g i h a t m er b . urgh, the lady o f Theodore G. Guildford,the l s Ot u h rre in y s , t. ,thaet Slandmymenrfbucryaptionus;_eSthtrearteflol,rd,Rnoeyaral Sussex Militia, of a son and h eir. i , of Al t r h s e . Francis w o o d b T a r . f l 3, ir e Green'h ar, Esq.,on t o h f e a l s:n th . inst., in Eaton-place, the lady of Ma r ti n Smith, of a daughter. r(I- r° Pratt v , On the 14th inst., On the 14th inst., Ainirßs.edsfo. with, of a son. Willi am On the 15th i n st., Mrs. Munns, of the Clapham . o i rnt inst., ~ , o at t a G so r n ov . road, of a son• inst., i n On the 15th inst., in Southampton-rovr, the wife of the Rev. Grove Hall, Hammersmith, the lady of Dr. Ryan, of Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury, Bedford -square , of a daughter. On the 15th inst.,at B • Brighton, the lady of Alfred G. Gil- Hat, Esq., of a daughter. On the 15th inst., E.oAn'thilelinlsgtvrh at Clapham-rise, Mrs. J. R. Reeves, of a daughter. On the 16th inst., inllarley-street, the lady of John Irving Glennie, Esq., of a son. MARRIED. On the 14th inst., at St. Luke's, Chelsea, Mr. Rees Lewis, of Chelsea, to Lucy, eldest daughter of the lato Mr. Jobn Mounsey, of Blackfriars-road. On the 6th inst., at St. Anne's, Westminster, George, youngest son of the late Thomas Flude, of Lymington , Esq., to Sarah, third daughter of the late Sam uel Robins, ° Winslow Buck far. On the 14th s, inst., mer at St. Mary Abchurch, Abchurch-elrueel James, the fourth son of Mr. Robert Thomas , of Thread° ,e of street, to Emma, the eldest daughter of Mr. Ja mes Snlitn, Lawrence Pountney-hill. DIED. On the 2d inst., at Kennington, Mr. John Baughant for merly of Threadneedle-street, City, aged 71. On the 7th inst., Simon Allen, Esq., of Doetors'-Con3mons. On the 10th inst., at Highgate , Jose p h Godfrey, Esq*, aged 64. On the 12th inst., at Highgate , Thomas Cross, second son of Mr. Joseph Cross, of Holborn, aged 14. On the 13th inst., Louisa, the wife of Mr. Robert Brown, New City-chambers. On the 13th inst., at Brig hton, Anthon y Meilan, Egg', aged 65. On the 14th inst., at Lawrence Pountney-lane, Lewis Han, third son of Jacob ulls, Esq. On the 14th inst. , in Oxford-street, John Field, Esq• 2 aged 30. On the 13th inst., William Comerford Clarkson, EF:I•2 elf Doctor's Commons, aged 76. On the 12th inst ., at Tulse-hill, Joseph Scott Esq. aged 88' London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOVNG; No. 112, Strand, at The San Office No 112, Strand, in 1 1,1 ' county of Aliddlesex.—Tuegday, De ' eeliber 17, 1839'