The Sun. — London, England, 1844-12-11 00:00:00

Yo. au dio? ed suc h ' . 1510 15 , nirer.,2! WOODEN RAILWAYS. t MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. (From the Waterford Nail of Deceit:l)er 7.) (From the Limerick Chronicle, Dec. 7.) On Thu-slay last Mr. Bridges, the secretary to the The first division of the 6th Regiment, under Waterford and Kilkenny Railway Company, de- Mejor Crofton, landed at Kingstown on Thursday, livered an address on this subject to a numerous and from Liverpool, and proceeding to Dublin by railway, respectable audience in the Town Hall. Mr. Bridges took up their quarters at Richmond barracks. urged the great importance of railway communication Her Majesty's steam-vessel Dee has sailed from in Ireland, and especially insisted on the necessity of ; Cork for Liverpool, to convey the 2d division of the economy in construction of Irish railways. With 6th Regiment from Liverpool to Dublin, and 56th respect to the system of wooden railways, which he Regiment from Dublin to Liverpool; 14th depot had been deputed by English capitalists to advocate from Dublin to Liverpool, and 67th Regiment from and introduce as far as poss ible, a ver y few words Liver p ool to Dublin. would suffice to explain the•ratianale and advantages. Head• quarters and four companies 16th Regiment, Wooden railways had formerly been extensively used under command of Lieut.-Colonel Campbell, with in England in the colliery distr i ct s. These had been . band and colours, arrived at Cork yesterday, by the gradually superseded by rail, of cast iron, and after- ' Rhadainanthus steamer, from Dublin. His Excel wards of malleable iron; but an impression was now alency Sir Edward Blakeney and General Wyndham becoming very general that the use of wood under were pleased to bestow high encomiums on this fine certain conditions would be infinitely preferable, both regiment for their efficiency and good conduct. Their on the score of economy and efficiency, to the present excellent commanding officer, Lieut.-Colonel Camp system of iron railways.. To preserve the elasticity bell, is much esteemed and respected. of the wood, and at the same time to indurate it Head-quarters and four companies of the 32d Re and arrest the liability to decay, had been the . giment, under Major-General Hill, marched from first desideratum. These difficulties had been Richmond barracks, Dublin, on Wednesday, to re completely met by a process invented by Mr. lieve the head-quarter division of the 16th Regiment, Charles Payne, which might be very shortly at Great Ship-street barracks. Major Brookes is explained. 'The tithber - was placed in a vacuum, commanding four companies at Aldborough House. and after exhaustion was impregnated under t Officers on leave, 66th Regiment, Royal Barracks, a high pressure, first, with a cheap metallic solution, Dublin, Lieut. Col. Johnston, to 31st Dec. ; Captains such as sulphate of iron, and thereafter with the mu- I Sir W. Gordon on sick leave; Dames, to 30th Dec. ; elate of lime. There was thus produced within the Rainsford, until Gazetted—this is the only officer left wood, h'' decomposition, a perfectly insoluble matter, in the regiment that was at St. Helena. At head and the wood was, as it were, virtually transmuted quarters, nine companies, consisting of 42 sergeants, into another ,abstatice almost incapable of decay. It 12 drummers, and 722 rank and file. Brevet Lieut. was, however, still liable and exposed to abrasion i Colonel G-oldie is commanding. from what Mr. Robert Stephenson had calied the i Captain Lord Casino Russell, extra A.D.C. to the "horrible collision" of the flange and the conical tire Commander of the Forces, has arrived in Dublin from es now ituele use of. To obviate this evil, Mr. Pros- leave and resumed his duties. ser's patknt was devised—that is to say, the flange An ancient b,trorietcy is about to he revived in the was entirely removed from the tire or rim of the person of Lieut. John Aitgustus Keyt, 85th Light bearing wheels, and a mere guide wheel, fixed on an Infmtry. oblique axis, and not bearing perpendicularly on the Lietti„-Colonel Townsend has joined head-quarters rails, was substituted. .Fhis guide wheel, without 24th Regiment Kilkenny, from leave of absence. any perceptil)le friction merely retained the carriages i Captain Marsh is stetioned at Athy with a company. and engines on their route, and . eibuitted of the use j Captail - l'falTis at Maryborough with a company. of beiving wheels perfectly smooth and cylindrical. Captain Riley is stationed with a company at Carrick- Mr. Bridles then briefly, but pointed!y, • touched .on-Suir. Csptain 11l ichford is at New Ross, with a upon the various advantages as reepected economy, compa7 -, v. Major Doyle is stationed at Carlow with (efficiency, saf4:ty and comfort , to ari&e f , oni two folf..conivinies, consisting of 200 rank and file. the adoption of the new system. Ile announced . company of the 36th, from Newry, has replaced that public confidence was now so far with those the 14th depot, at Belturbet. he represented that more than double the ce.pi- The last company of the 14th depot from Belturbet, tal requisite , .for the Waterford and Kilkenny will halt to-morrow at Ballyiamesduff, en route to line had been subscribed, and that on a visit to Dublin, to join head-quarters, and embark there for Cork, in reference to a line projected from that ' England. city on the same principle, he had been received Captain Clarke and Lieut. 'Wells, 62d, obtain pro with extreme cordiality and kindness by some of the motion shortly, on the retirement of Major Astier, principal merchants interested, who agreed to take who returns from India on sick leave. shares, while the noblemen and gentlemen holding The Queen's Bays, at Longford, received this week the land were, it was understood through their agents, their quota of carbine ammunition and percussion equally disposed to favour the undertaking. 'We caps for the season, from Athlone magazine; and the think it unnecessary to repeat at full length all Mr. 38th depOt at Boyle, a supply of practice ammunition Bridges arguments, especially as regards the great ! and percussion caps. facility of traversing sharp curves and overcoming Captain Briscoe's Troop Queen's Bays has arrived gradients, which the comparative deficiency of bite at Longford, and joined head-quarters, having been on the iron rail is held to preclude upon the latter i relieved by a troop of the same corps. system, as we have already quotedseveral articles upon The 85th depot received their supply of autumnal the subject embracing the details, and which are ammunition this week at Derry ; also the 11th already familiar to our readers. Several questions Hussars at Dundalk, and 36th Regiment at Newry. were put to the lecturer by scientific gentlemen pre- The :65th Regiment, at Castlebar, will receive sent. Whether the Paynising process could be made season ammunition on Monday, from the Ordnance available for house-building, and also the price per depot, Athlone. load, and - its applicability to other general purposes The 69th Regiment, Templemore, 35th, 81st and besides railroads ; and what experience there had been -93 d depots, in the Limerick district,- received their of the system, whether the friction of eight wheels autumnal supply of practice ammunition, this week, would not be greater than that of four wheels from the Ordnance magazine, at Athlone. even with flanges as .in the old system ; and The 6th Dragoon Guards, according to the rotation whether the effect of the process reached to the very system, are first for service abroad, having returned heart of the wood o r was . merely superficial. Mr. from Buenos Ayres in 1808. The 11th, 15th, 54th, Bridges stated that the Paynising process was a Fin- 601 61st, and 66th, returned from service in 1840. ciple of nature universally applicable. Wherever The regiments of the line are to be served out with timber in contact with iron had been subjected to the springs to fix the bayonet, beyond the chance of being action of salt water, as in the case of a vessel sub.- struck off by accident .or collision. merged, the wood could not decay. General Pasley A detachment of 17 rank and file from Plymouth on blowing up the Edgar, a vessel which had been has joined Colonel Burton's battalion Royal Marines sunk three hundred years ago, found this to be the at Cove of Cork. case in the baulks of that vessel. The - common Captain J. Tancock (1812), of Torpoint, Cornwall, English woods subjected to the process received the has had conferred on him by the Admiralty the vacant finest polish, and were more beautiful than any out-pension of Greenwich Hospital. foreign woods; and on explaining the principle to a very influential and intelligent shipowner and mer chant of Cork, he had been assured by that gentle man that the process, if practice accorded with theory, would be invaluable in ship-building as well as in cabinet-making. The price per load of fifty cubic feet was fourteen shillings, and the experience of the system extended to several very satisfactory experiments, amongst which might be mentioned, that the experiment line at Vauxhall had been traversed. 28,000 times by a heavy engine, with out in the least affectityx the saw -marks on the wood, and that a tratnway of Paynised wood laid dawn at a coal wharf in London had borne the gradual weight of' 27,000 tons without any effect being produced. As .to the question of the comparative friction of eight wheels or four, the actio>> of the guide wheels and the bearing evheels which made up that numher, was perfectly distinct and independent; and the number of wheels induced no addition whatever to the friction. In truth, 20 cylind:ie.d.wheels with guile wheels would have loss. Irictioti than four of the flanged wheels at present in vogue. The effect of the process was to permeate the who'e subjected to it, so that a chemical lest applied to the heart Of thewood would affeet it Audi ly s ith the surface. Mr. .Boles ROBINSON, after some very pertinente questions, which were replied to by Mr. Bridges, ex pressed himself perfectly satisfied as to: the import ance of both the inventions, and that it avas advisable they should have a fair and an extensive trial. If sound, the systeni' would eventually supersede all others. Mr. BRIDGeS observed that nothing was more pro bable, inasmuch as it had just. been determined by the Directors of the West London Railway, which connects the Great Western and the London - and Bi r mingham, to take up-the iron rails, an d la y down the line with' Paynised wood, in combination with the Presser guide w heels. —The meeting then separated, NEW ZEALAND. He Th , e foll ow i ng i s a copy o f t h e mernoria! of Francis ! 1 ) - to Lord Stanley, dated July, 1844 coaaat memorialist purchased front the New Zealand ei t ill ia P a naa in August, 180, a section of land comprised 111 w hat is termed the " second series" of their :settle he at in Noir Zealand. That by the " terms of purchase" aHas entitled to choose the aforesaid section, not only _ ala Y 3 of the s e ttl emen t s or te r r it o ri es a lleged to be then fa Pa sesaion of or claimed by the said Company, but also N "Y other s th e y may at any t u ne a f terwar d s acquiret'W Z ealand. That rnerworialiat was induced to make teat purchase from the apparent. respectability of said il ar P a nY , particularly the Director* thereof, and from the Published statements and advertisements, in which l ar Y s lated themselves to be already in possession of liat g e h t tracts of letei in th a t coun t r y, and to have dis ;utryteelvia and daapeditioniie to purchase ot h er l an d s a l so that they had sent out a large " staff " of witl h expedition," in order to hare the ready for selection and delivery on the arrival of the P.a,achasers and intended settlers under said Company ; whisk lands under those and .many other seductive .ratatinistances they publicly offered for sale. That memo- I arliar,lii,s,tseesigrated with his family and a servant ( in all ' ~,a. outs), in Sept., 1839, with the tullea., confidence ' most statements, and also with the repeated asSuranees hi_ Ntr • Ward (th e th en secretary of said Company), that e Morialist would be put into possession of his land that, a few weeks a fter his arrival in New Zealand; but II notwithstanding, he hag never since obtained it. l an , a ,t memorialist arrived in Port Nicholson, New Zea bea!' Ott the Bth o f Ifebruary, 1840, and found to his ae! astonishment, that the " staff " of surveyors sent of I Y the Compemy to survey and lay out 150 , 000 acres or and (in which was included the intended township tr i ci ty (a' Welling in one of the most difficult coun igt,it,ii(niutat w v o ia rl . " to effect surveys, comprised only three Captain Smith, RA., Mr. Stokes, and aut Par ka ; and that, although after their arrival two 6 6 tatits lied been added to their force, still that little, et l : l Y r hinga had been ..tone by thorn. That memorialist n ever heard and acres not believe that any other ad runs were made to the aforesaid " staff " for a period l ia r least t wo years , a lth oug h one of them (Mr. Parks) fi r i t signed shortly after his arrival in the colony; bat, titti.struegtedettertiofntrirrnai o. that tdi o tt_n t r i dftLftriit,e, frivolous, someal cb, allogod s (c t ii t iri t i ti n t s ece i e : anus twhich conutcted with the discharge of his duty. That Nterntirialist was deprived, shortly after Ibt arrival in t o ,"Zealand, Zealand, of the ninnericel position he was entitled , "old under land orders in the Company's books of ftTstration there, through the arbitrary toil improper riterrference of the Company's agent, by which memo. e n I st sustained considerable injury, and which the f a - p ra PanY have refused to rectify or give compensation 0 - That in February, 1841, a notice was served Memorialist, to attend at a place called Wanganu i (d i st antt a: about 150 miles from Port Nicholson, and at aable th en on l y b y means of a voyage over one t he 1 1:109t dangerous coasts in the known world ) , illelect land there. That he did attend there , a t the tl inent risk of his life std at considerable loss and laaParlaet but found upon his arrival that there was no d a surveyed or ready for selection; and, still more, •111,4 ultaansed by the surveyor that he never gave the taslightest intimation or hope to the Company's agent, or f.: other person, that land was then or would be ready 4; 4 selection at any definite period. That memorialist as heard, and is now fully convinced, that the whole ° e eading was got up by the Company's agent for a p ~ °a a• That memorialist applied to the ag ent for the oa eaperise (only) he had been put to in making that phJ o a te, and was refused ; but in consequence of an ap ,r, nion to th e D i r e ctors, he received (in about is year kr') half o f w h a t h e c l a imed. That about the end of bt t t l 'talB4l, Captain Hopson having arrived in Port a aa c -d aont memorialist 'communicated with him per seaallY and by letter, and stated the cruel and heartless stin g in which the Company and their agent had been t ail in g towards him, and its consequences upon his fe d, and his resources. That Ctain Hopson reenon tfa"(l with the agent, who promised him (in conse htallea) he would offer land fur selection in a few weeks aft a_ satisfy the claims of memorialist. That immediately a placard was posted in several parts of the town, le nd in g' a meeting of parties interested in Wanganui That , but specifying no object, and having nO signature. * m a meeting, however, was got up, the result of which land t hat the agent issued a notice that he would cause st , o a, to be offered for selection at Wanganui. That me ta I.4al iatt with several others, had engaged their pas her to the above place in a schooner named the Gem, f ee s , only vessel in Port Nicholson then available als that purpose ; that, however, Captain Wakefield i a r ether of the agent) having arrived in Port Nicholson li e st a t , h en; the friends of the agent invited him to a pub fatentler, and, therefore, in order that some of his p aa '"ta who were about going to Wanganui might be s e i ll . ,*nt at the said dinner, the said schooner was char nfo.nainally by his nephew and two others, his per thu mends, but in reality by the agent himself,. and a daprii ed memorialist and the others of the only ttanrtunity then open to them of being present at e , a intended selaction. That the sailing of said schooner af a t 3 liot permitted, and did not take place until the day e er 'the said dinner, lithe ctically happened to be the stlitY bore that on which land was advertised for c o ", h -al at Waneanui, and where it was possible she 41, 1 arrive in skeient time. That, however, the agent guar anteed the l a nd should not be so offered for selection tal said scho ,ter arrived at Wanganui, and that he did, acceraan ce with that guarantse, send a me s s en g er at d erl written ip c with nstructions to the Surveyor - Gene to th a t e ff ect . 'Fast under those circumstances , and ,e 1 ) I dng upon the integrity of the Company's agent (a , tife to "), and there being no other mode of conveyane,, e rnoriali s t waited for and sailed in sail schooner. That,. lir f eY , r, upon his arriN al (in about a fortnight after) at bf, itil i, memorialis found that the land bad beet. " ,I "t ed Forselection and chosen* on the 'lay originally Xertised; whereby memorialist was deprived of all the - inntagea way entitled to its the priority of his choice ona of the very first) amain the : , elticti , Al of the g - s r • That, memorialist claimed from the agent cetera th l an for all the losses and expenees thus sustained e e r . ou gh him, which he refused to give, alleging as his -801 1 that " he only promised to send a messenger, as I l l ‘ kres aid, to Wanganui to the Surveyor-general, but that did not promise his messenger should perform the or deliver his instructions." That memorialist i for warded to the Directors of the New Zealand Company, January, 1843, a full statement of the above facts, ac c:iriPanled with certificates from certain gentl emen in the li , ° , ll Y (bearing upon the last- mentioned subject), and also ,his affidavit corroborative of his statements ; and a l l a ` t ne solicited from' the said Directors conpensation for tue losses sustained by him through the non-fulfilment their contract with him, as well as those sustained l j t : t rn in the colony through the improper conduct of %ts ar agent ; and that, although memorialist stated in the aa u r eaaid documents to the Directors that his capital, i2sisting of 400 sovereigns, and property amounting to t 7t• or ea more, had been expended at that time in the th s ',, n tenance of his family, yet that he received no l e ,a we r to his application up to and including January °Pen That memorialiet, therefore, as the only resource to him of obtaining redress, was driven to the cruel tfeeetsity of taking leave of his family, and of with reawing at once his support and protection from them paa i a circumstances of a heartrending nature, and to re .rr () Landon with a view of obtaining from the New i n -11 4 , 14 nd Company compensation for all his losses, and, • a', t he event of their refusing to do so, to throw himself Bbd„the foot of the Throne, and solicit from her Majesty her Government, and especially from your Lord- Rat no la protection and justice. That said Directors having , d , W declined to give memorialist compensation or re a:ss of any kind for all the injuries and injustice t h ey h „ 'lllra inflicted oa him and his family, memor ialist most 1 1 ' 1 a and earnestly solicits your Lordship will t ake 2 .: Melanch o ly case into your kind consideration , and him, at your earliest convenience, such assistance protection as may be within your Lordship power. 1 . at memorialist most respectfully begs to draw y our adslate p a s attention to the accompanying papers , a nd r,oapecial manner to the copy of an official letter 'Wherein by him from the secretary of Captain Hopson , e r „ a , your Lordship will find unequivocal evi dence j°alarove the statements put forward by the New Zea ld Comp an y th a t the Government (at all events, up to that Period) h a d obstructed or prevented them from fulfill ing their contractswith the unfortunate settlers under them. g hat memorialist most respectfully submits that he is now fully convinced the New Zealand Company eould not 1 ha ve bee n sincere or honest in their transactions with rim frorn the beginning, and that he grounds this convic °an on the facts—first, of their professing to have and to ; l e, land in New Zealand which, in point of fact, they ail trot at the time, and to specify (as in the instance of me morialist) various and distinct portions of the islands 1 . I Which p urc h asers under them might choose their sec tt°lls, but which they (the Company) not only had not "en, have not since had, nor are ever likely to acquire; sites 1. Secondly, from their professing to have sent out a re ady " staff" of surveyors, in order to have the land „ for delivery to the intending purchasers on their thrival in the col o ny ; whereas, in reality', they only sent three individuals for that purpose (as already stated), i ttul 'that they did not increase, but diminished, that tu iraber for a period of et least . two years ; which cir PLYMOUTH FREE-TRADE ASSO CIATION.-DEFEAT OF THE CHARTISTS. PLYMOUTH, SATURDAY.--Last evening there- was a large muster at the Mechanics' Institution, in this town, for the purpose of hearing a lecture on free-trade, from John Salisbury- Trelawny, Dtq., the Member for Ta vistock. The lecture-room was crowded ; and the lec ture, which was an admirable one, was listened to by all parties with the greatest attention. At the -close, a discussion w?s starte.:A by a Chartist, named Smith, who did ii•J: gain much favour by declaring that l x stood there ready to defend every sentiment that Thomas Paint, utterance to. After he had spoken the usual time, he was stopped bY• the chairman ; and then another Chartist; named Robinson, rose, and read the greater par u a long leader from the old ilf orthern SW, with a view tO plork• theJ itioreasod production decreased wages. lie gallopped on at it gr.att rate, with a view to get through his article, which, as CharLs Ma:hews says, had " nothing in it," but c..uhl not succeed, for he was also stopped by the general cry of Time's up." He im plored' for tuo minutes more, but the audience were nu flexible, and would not accord a minute, whereupon Robin son retir,d, looking v. r)- dismal. Mr. Isaac Nichols and Mr. Nichokon th.. 41 replied to the Chartists, after which anotner of aatt boay, yclept Blacamore, mounted the fora,, and al,ocated the principles of the Charter, which he contondo-d was all that, was necessary to remove all the political ills which flush is heir to. A working man, naiad Axford, of Devonport, followed, in a remarkably clever and amusing speech, in which ha told the Chartists of the advantages that arose to all parties who gave their consideration to one thing at a time, and that while he was considering of • the , good or bad cha- racter of the corn-laws he was not able to give equal and undivided attention to the Charter. He, therefore, rec ommended the Chartists to have that subj ec t con sidered by itself. This closed the discussion, for Mr. 'Nichols then rose and moved a vote of thanks to the lecturer, which was seconded by Mr. Bayley. Smith • immediately moved as an amendment the adoption of the principles of . the Chatter, which was seconded by Ro berts. After a brief interruption, for the Chartists are an uncommonly noisy race at other people's meetings, whatever they may be at their own, the Chairman put the amendment, when, lo I there were not twenty hands held up for it. The motion was carried amidst a tre mendous burst of cheers, and after Mr. Trelawny had returned thanks, and a similar vote had been passed to Mr. Calmady, the chairman, the meeting separated. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—Another of those rare birds, the Toucan, from the Brasils, with a ithea, or South American Ostrich, was added to the col lection last week. The gardens have been since much frequented to inspect the -new arrival:, and the beautiful lake was crowded with skaters on Sunday and Mon day, the ice being in first rate order. CHINESE Exittnrriox.—The opening of this exhi bition for what may be called the winter season, took place on Monday, with what is called the Dragon Fete. The formidable dragon is very beautifully formed of silk, and brilliantly.illuminated. We are told that this is one of the favourite exhibitions of the Chinese, and con sidering the necessary inferiority of the copy, it must be an attractive one. The dragon is suspended from the ceiling at the middle of the roam, and has a very grand effect from the light thrown on it from the various lan terns extended'on either side. There is no change in the various representations illustrating Chinese life and manners ; but the manner in which the room is illu minated renders them more vivid. A popular lecture, giving a sketch of the principal objects.described in the rather formidable book catalogue, would be a desideratum, and it is, we understand, in contemplation by the enter prising proprietor. There was a large number of visitors last night, and we have no doubt that at each representa tion it will increase. The Dusseldorf Gazette notifies that a party of the Jewish residents of that place had resolved, at a recent meeting, to address a circular to the Christian bankers and merchants of Frankfort, praying of them; on con ditions of reciprocity, not to cause to, presented to them any bill of exchange, whether for acceptance or payment, on a Sabbath or fast day, since they are required by a recent modification of the laws relating to the matter both to accept and pay. The house of Rothschild had been invited to join in the movement, but which it had declined to do on the plea that this new legislation would not prevent them from refusing to pay and accept on the days in question. It would appear from this that Messrs. Rothschild, conscious of their own power, proceed upon the old plan, hut that the miner establishments cannot, without compromising their credit, venture to act in the same spirit of independence, by making, like them, other houses conform to their convenience. I't WHATIIER.--The moderns, in imitation of the w ise men of an cient days, have a propensity for drawing auguries from the movements of birds, and many prophesies, founded on ernithological observations, have, recently, been put forth touching the quality of the present winter. Some difference of opinion amongst the feathered tribes , however, caused the prophets no little perplexity, for while the geese, who have no great reputation for sagacity, appeared, by their south ward flight, to insist that old winter was hastening speedily hither, certain crows were reported to be con structing nests, as if in anticipation of mild airs and cloudless skies. The crows, though deemed clever birds in their way, have been proved to be loss weatherwise than the geese, for we hear from all quarters of low thermometers and biting frosts. In this vicinity the frost set in, last week, with great severity, and the increasing ice on the ponds was regarded by skaters of all classes and ages with extreme satisfaction. Nor were they dis appointed in their anticipations, for though the frost only set in fairly on Wednesday, yet such e was its sev erity, that even as earl y as Friday, thce had attained considerable thickness, and on Sa tnrdey it was a' solid that the skaters were The 1 seem to ans of railway lodged for the county of Kent Central enabled to pursue their invigorating recreation without the slightest apprehension. The waters of Sefton Dent the North Kent (Vignoles's line), and the meadows, which offer a beautiful extent of skating sur forward Kent (Rennie's line). The latter was brought face, are completely frozen over, and numbers who de years since, and the rrotiees have been everya. year ren ewed. It is now understood that the serf- light to enjoy the exercise in perfection have resorted thither. The cold, during the last few days, has been _l ni n e eponents of the line, the landed propr i e t or s , 'lave undertiskie intense. The extreme depression of the thermometer, eoZnittleavourable to its adoption, and that th old management of will be strengthened, and the Oil Tuesday night, was 29, on Wednesday night 27, on Thursday 23, on Friday 21, and yesterday morning the totn h immediatel broht forward, with a view , mercury sunk as low as 20. At nine o'clock yesterday Per oft appli c ation to Pa rl iame nt this next session. Th e morning it was 26, and, at three in the afternoon, 30. cot continuecapital subscribed, and the scrip held, will 1 Liverpool Albion of Monday. , . or value. in the company to the 'extent of its proportion HIS Royal Highness Prince Albert has become The Antwerp; le#ers received on Monday the purchaser of one of the finest blood-hounds in Lord btkt.e that the morning • BagOt's celebrated pack, and the Queen hat likewise had p iviaers frost se t -in with great intensity _ one bought. by a gecy. It is not generall): known that Scheldt And "Its- rapidly -upon the increase. The Lord Begot's family have for centuries retained the pure for was free from ice, but the interior navigation breed of the English blood-hound. Last week the en- W es , the marneat, eropeuded. tire collection of 21 were sold, the Poke of Leeds being 1 mom thi mason, FATAL ACCIDENT IN REGENT-STREET.—OD Mon day Mr. Higgs held an inquest at St. George's Hospital on the body of William Powell, aged thirty, carman in the service of Mr. Hunt, wine-merchant, of Mark-lane. William Garratt, of No. 47. Tothill-street, said that on the 15th ult., in the afternoon, he was with the deceased in the cart driving through Regent-street. Deceased held the reins, and instead of sitting down on the seat, very incautiously stood upright, when, in turning the corner of Leicester street, he overbalanced himself and fell upon the pavement. Witness immediately jumped down . to his assistance, but found that one of the wheels had passed over his head, crushing one side of his face in a most frightful manner. He was carried without loss of time to a surgeon, and from thence to the hospital. Mr. Wm. Potter, the house surgeon, said that deceased died from the effects of the fall on Saturday last. A man in the cart at the time of the accident said it was a sudden jerk against the stone pavement after leaving the Wooden which caused him to be thrown out. Verdict, Accidental death." SUDDEN DEATH OP A SWISS EXCHANGE BROKER. —On Monde.) Mr. Wakiey, M.P., held an inquest at the Cross Keys, Belton -street, St. Giles's, on the body of Mr. Francis Soutter, aged 58, a Swiss Jew, and formerly a bill and exchange broker, well known in the City. It appeared that on Sunday week deceased came stumbling into the shop of Mr. Jones, chemist, 171, High Holborn. -He afterwards fell on the floor, and whilst Mr. Jones was in the aet of administering a cordial he breathed his kit. Mr. C. Ravenhili, stoe:kbroker, of Old Broad• street, said he knew decease d. who was a bill and ex change br•ek.=r of many years' standing. He was much reduced in circumstances, and witness allowed him the use Of his office to transact whatever little business he had left. His h,dging•was unknown, and so were his re latives. if he ha•l any. Ho had left some papers in pos sessien of witness. The Coroner ordered them to be sealed and delivered over to the Swiss Consul. nrivtt. surgeon, opened the body, and said the cause of death was up.,plexy. Verdict, " Natural death." REMONSTRANCE OF THE PROTEST ANTS OF BAVARIA. —A remonstrance and petition of the members of the Sixth General Synod, held a: Anspach, for the purpose of demanding the redress of several wrongs complained of by Protestants, have been presented to the King of Bavaria. The petitioners complain that the Royal Com missioners appointed to preside over the General Synod, following the instructions that had been given them, and which prescribed that no petition should be deliberated upon that they had not themselves first approved, had retained sixty-three petitions in which their griefs were particularised. After arguing the grounds of their right to deliberate and petition, they proceed to say—" If then they have the right of deliberating upon the in ternal affairs of their church, and of submitting, through the intermediation of a superior consistory, the result of their deliberations to his Majesty, for the purpose of receiving his Majesty's decision, it is impossible that the two Royal Commissioners can have the right of retain ing petitions addressed to the General Synod concerning the internal affairs of their church, for it would amount to an authority to annul and annihilate the constitu tional right belonging to the General Synod." His Grace the Duke of Roxburgh', having deter terrnined on reconstructing the celebrated old deer-park at Broxtnouth, connected with the domain,' haS taken into possession that part of it formerly let, consisting of 80 acres of fine land. We understand that it is to be thrown into grass for permanent pasture, and occupied, as in days-of yore, with the finest and most genuine breed ot• deer in the kingdom. What with this, the lake, and the other improvements on the river and grounds, this ancient, but now remodelled baronial seat will vie with any of its extent in Scotland.—Be rw i c k W ar d er . laoN.—ln reference to iron France is as big a fool as John Bull is in reference to food. At a great national loss, this metal from England must he subject to a high protecting duty in favour of the interests of the French itan-matters.— The Strum*. • ~..1 1i 4 1 hiance in - itself, memorialist most respectfully sub `ts, bears strong eviderici! of their not having intended ,o " fulfii their contracts or engagements. Tint, in con "km, memorialist most respectfully begs to remind Yen!. Lordship of the length of time which has elapsed sine ' he purchased from the Company—the many and 'valuable years of his life and those of his family t hus , 4ealand—the unjust and heartless treatment he expe ti:need there fr o m the Company's agent—but, above all, t • f the melancholy and precarious position in which his t inily are now placed, without that support and protec :ri', 80 peculiarly essential in New Zealand ; and he ;g a in implores your Lordship most respectfully and i - l rh e'tly, in the name of justice and humanity, to grant t Ire such redress and assistance as shall seem most fitting L o Your Lordship, and your memorialist, as is duty ' Po und, will ever pray. * On map. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNV - StiAlt MOANING, D2C.IVIBEIt. 11, 1844. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. i of Rome; but we shall be Protestants no longer got THE DAILY PAPERS OF YE STERDAY , 1 if we do not protest against the authority of any GLOBE.—The agitation attempted t o be 't up ' other church to change our forms of worship, be- in the agricultural districts for the repeal of th e malt- cause the transition from form to substance is ine- tax is likely to prove abortive. The tenant-farmers— vitable. The path has been already marked out by aware of the motives which actuate the landlords in the Tractarians ; and we know any other church, prompting them to meet and petition for the removal if ruled by the arbitrary will of men, is as likely of the tax—decline to move. The Essex Herald—a to err as Rome. This, we must expect, even did journal which devotes its advocacy to the landed inte- we not see men preparing to import Romish rests—complains in its leading article of to-day, that errors ready made, and to import them wholesale. " the movement for th e re p ea l o f th e ma lt-t a x does A protest on the side of the people is therefore now not proceed with that unanimity by which alone success j a duty, and even the Morning Post itself admits can be secured." . "It is difficult," adds this that concession is a duty on the other side :—" We organ of the Essex squirearchy, "to understand why are not for strife on either side, nor do we see this should be so ; for, even admitting, as some con- the use of insisting upon non-essentials with a tend, that the repeal of the tax would do little benefit to high hand so as to give offence. But whatever error the farmers, it would, at all events, inflict no injury there may be in authority going further than occa upon them." The co nc l us i on i s no t qu it e so obvious as sion demands, it is a hundred times worse when the Essex Herald seems t o i mag i ne . Th e ma lt-t ax pro . ignorant prejudice flames out into rebellion duces an amount of annual revenue exceeding any sur- against authority, and is favoured and comforted in plus which will be at the disposal of the Govern- this mischievous folly by those who pretend to the es ment. To remove that tax would be to remove a pecial patronage of the civil government." We give single tax, in which one class of the community—and the paragraph for the sake of the good advice in the that a very small class—is immediately interested, at beginning of it. We are not aware of the pretenders the expense of the great mass of the nation, from to the patronage of the Government, we know of no whom that surplus has been wrung by means of an such pretenders. The Government, we believe pa impost at once odious and oppressive. It would do tronises no writers, either in the newspapers or in any worse than this : it would perpetuate that impost. other vehicle. The amount of the malt duty subtracted from TIMES.—It se ems as if what people call emigra the revenue must be supplied. A substitute must be tion could never be purified of its abuses, or become provided. Sir Robert Peel has already shown that that great national development which it might and his financial policy does not allow ofv • mg up a pre- ought to be , until the antipodes were actually brought sent source of revenue, however ine q u itable, to de- within twelve hours' journey of this metropolis. pond on a contingent supply. He will h avehis quid pro quo in whatever scheme of finance he men ma d e may submit to the House of Commons. The farmer favourite ap othegms of the emigration companies ; and his labourers would partake of the relief whi c h and there is doubtless no small truth in them, though a diminution of the high duties on articles of ge- very small morality. We must, unhappily, confess neral consumption will afford to the nation at large. that nothing short of gross, palpable, physical demon- The removal of the income-tax would be also a stration will ever enable lnglishmen in needy cir direct saving to the farmer. He would be also inch- cumstances to see that the back woods of Canada, rectly benefited by the relief which the rest of the or the wilds of New Zealand, are not every man's community would obtain by the removal of the im- El Dorado, or that intesested " emigation agents" post; seeing those who now contribute the respective are :not the appointed and trustworthy instruments quotas to the income-tax, would, on its removal, have for raising any given desert or solitude whatever into the more to lay out in agricultural produce, and prices the most flourishing and civilised of peopled cities. would be raised in proportion to the increased demand. We are not by sure, any means indeed, that the These considerations have evidently been taken into time when there will be a railway to the antipodes the account by the farmers. The result is, that, as may not be nearer at hand than ordinary folks a class, they have declined moving in the matter of dream; but we desp air, we must confess, of seeing malt-tax repeal. Norfolk is more extensively inte- it in our own days altogether realised. New Zea rested than any other county in this question—seeing land in the back parlour is the only thing that can a greater breadth of barley is sown in Norfolk than defeat the emig ration jobbery ; and this is certainly in any other agricultural district. The Norfolk far- a consummation, a s n t however, are already, yet, more more to be wished than mers met on Friday last to consider and determine hoped for. European , shoo the course they should, as a body, adopt on this as we read , making ,pr shooting excursions to Ceylon question. The following letter, addressed to the and Bengal , " and g etting u p tiger parties and ele meeting from the Central Agricultural Protection phant battues to come off on the Indus or the Society, and signed by the Secretary, was read : its Ganges, as quietly as people in old times used to reasoning and advice were concurred in by the Nor- arrange a grouse campaig n for the highlands of folk farmers. The meeting adjourned without taking Scotland. "Royal visit s' are already becoming any steps in the matter. terrifically enterprising. British India is no longer " I wili at once state to you that, with reference to too distant for a European potentate's morning the repeal of the malt-tax, the Committee having had call ' • and the sport which is to be expected on their attention called to it some time ago, came to the the Himalayas seems as if it would soon be a determination of not raising that question on their own fashiona ble attraction in European Courts. This part, and of not recommending the agitation of it by any is all very promising ; but even this annihilation of the local protection societies. of space, and twice as much as this, is nothing to " They felt that to begin to agitate for the repeal of what is wanted for the interests of emigrants. Emi the malt duties so soon after the formation of the society, ration tom pantes have still a wonderful knack of on the virtual understanding that its object was the g i maintenance of the present scale of protection to agri. turning the mpediments of time and space into culture, under its existing burdens, would involve an instruments of gain. We have now a poor gentleman, aggressive policy for which they were not prepared. whose memorial appears in another column,—who " The prospects, too, of the property-tax being soon complains that the New Zealand Company in Lon deducted from the items of the revenue of the country, don has sold to him prime New Zealand land, war_ did not seem to justify the remission of so large a ranted of the - first quality, which—after one year's source of income as the malt duties, unless some substi- voyage and two more years' fruitless search for it— tute were proposed, of the nature of which, however, no he has discovered never to have been in existence at unanimity appeared to exist either in the committee or all. Why, could there be imagined a case less illus the country. " This pretext for perpetuating the odious income- trative than this is of the extreme policy or pract ice tax is, we presume, at an end. After this decisive of the emigration companies ? This is merely i n the best qualified to know what is best ordinary line of business.. This is only a specimen opinion from those of that ordinary line of business which is, in our opi for their own interests, he will be a bold man who nion, so infinitely more disgraceful to the inventors will rise in Parliament, and propose the repeal of the malt-tax, as called for by the tenant - farmers, at the and practisers of it, than it can possibly be uncompli price of retaining every other item of taxation , in - mentary to the sagacity of its unfortunate dupes, that cluding the property and income-tax, on their pre• we hardly like even to introduce this latter element of consideration into the question at all. It were idle, sent scale. STANDARD.—It is no exaggeration to say that indeed, to think that land in New Zealand is to the we are actually overwhelmed with letters on the sub- New Zealand Company in the same predicament as land in Middlesex or Surrey ; or that it is equally ject of the distressing differences in the Church If safe to deal with an emigration society crease of our corres ondence, the nation thinks of for " warranted " we may judge from the nature and the eno rmous in- commodities lying beyond the Straits of Malacca as p for property situated only at the end of the Croydon nothing else but the attempt to enforce by authority what are practically innovations in public worship, Railway. But when people will think so,—why, then " and thinks upon the subject with an intensity of inte- the Company say, Whose fault is it that such belief rest of which we have no recollection. Often when is turned to account?" Infatuation indeed ! To occupied in the painful task of perusing our v ol u - imagine that an emigration company is to be trusted minceis supply of letters, and trin to make a selec- on the point, of all others in the world, of a bargain tion of the most temperate amon g t hem for publication and sale of land ! Why, for what other object is an —often when occupied in this truly afflicting task— emigration company formed at all, if not for this, of which lasts daily for ma duty to some member of hours—do we wish that getting rid of supposed landed estates to would-be we could delegate the emigrants ? Our memorialises case is undoubtedly a hard one. He was, unfortunately, guilty of be the R ighit t Rev.o Bbeenchfeared. There their s Lordships are might not see lieving in the New Zealand Company. This was his —what is t likely to see, until it shall be too late — what is only fault. He purchased of them, " a section of land," the real feeling of the country, and the deg ree he tells us, "in what is termed the second series of the Company's settlements in New Zealand; and, of vehemence with which the country repro by the terms of his purchase (!), he was entitled to bates the late proposition to, enforce innovation by ' authority. The innovations were an object of dislike choose the aforesaid section, to many, but of indifference or mere contempt to the settlements or territories alleged to be then in posses majority, until authority was spoken of. sion of the Company, but also in any other they The hint that they will be enforced, has, as every one who knows the mi g ht afterwards ac q uire 1 " This was in Au g ust, character of English Protestants ought to have anti- 1839. Unfortunate man ! Deeply, indeed, did he cipated, now raised the question to a question of the atone for his single error. How great a punishment first order a question of religious liberty, and has is involved in the making such a "purchase" as his ! thus kindled a flame, in which the temporal esta • A. section, too ! Poor deluded individual !! We blishment of the Church will be consumed, if some- wonder how much it was that he gave for his bar gaine--how much was added to the price for his thing be_not done, and that promptly, to extinguish it; liberty of choice—how much for the right of ranging It is one of the most alarmi n g s y m p toms of the pre through all the vast domains - which the Company sent agitation, that as it invades th e pe o p le in wider " might hereafter acquire." The memorialist does and still wider circles, it raises new topics of discon not himself say how much he gave. " With the tent ; this is what always happens in such a case ; fullest confidence," he shortly says, he set out for what has happened before in the history of our Church, New Zealand. He had no more idea that he could and what will happen again, if the agitation be be imposed upon than if he bad only had the Croydon not composed by a timely arran g ement. Four- Railway instead of a brace of tropics between him fifths of the letters relat in g to the Church self and his bargain. Innocent, unsuspecting crea differences that we have received, do not apply tore! He went! He went, and took his family to the surplice question, though that unhappy ques tion it is that has provoked them. We will not , how- with him; but when he got to the antipo des he found, as most other people do , that he and hi s were ever, as long as it is in our power to abstain , be llprecisely reversed;—that. he stood upon his head, which the Church sunk before, than that one which instead of upon his heels, as he hard expected ; and, that, we find already on. This explanation, we hope, will among othe r wonderful transmutations, the "settle satisfy more than a pe hundred correspondents who have ments" of the New Zealand Company were "translated" addressed us upon other matters—all, however, also. The ro g uer y , in short, came out. After two years' connected with supposed intentions to innovate fruitless badgering with the Company's one " agent," authoritatively in Church affairs. We confine our- the unhappy memorialist found, after all, that his selves for the present to the one topic. It is asserted magnificent right of choice was only a theory, and by one, whose opinion we value , highly, that the had p ractical existence nowhere save in the bureaux sermons part of the Communion Service. We re- of the London Directory of the Company; and after i spectfully dissent from this opinion ; and we could having been most effectually and completely " done" wish the right reverend person who has avowed in every possible way, the unhappy man returned it to apply his powerful mind t o the question, home in July, 1844, without either his family, his and we are confident that he wou ld see his money, or his land, to memorialise (but in vain) the e rror. In placing any intellectua l exercises in Colonial . Secretary ! Such is the unhappy fate of the relation of whole an d p art, the first consi; colonists who become such only on the speculation of deration is the homogeneousnes s of the exercises screwing a bargain out of those whose express and in question, a consideration grea tl y more im- only business it is to be bargained withal ! Such is portant than the consideration of order o r even of emigration in the hands of an emigration company. time. The Communion Service is distinctly described This poor gentleman's case is evidently not a singular in the Prayer-book, or by any means an uncommon one. It is a system. as "the order for the adininis tration of the Lord's Supper or Holy C omm.- People are led over to our colonies — settlements a nion." Now what, let us ask it with reverence, are—it would be a mockery to say founded — but , has a sermon necessarily to do with this solemn settlements are crudely thrown out, or swelled rite ? A sermon was no doubt originally an expo- to unwieldy numbers, merely and solely upon sition of the Gospel or Epistle appointed to be the ground of the single assumed fact—a " fact" read in what was formerly called "the second which, as in this instance, often turns out to service" (a name certainly better suited to that be entirely an assumption, and no fact at all portion of the Liturgy when no actual communion is —that unoccupied land is to be had in New Zealand celebrated), but the Gospel and Epistle frequentl y or Canada, for which there are unoccupied buy ers have no relation to the Eucharist. This is decisive here in England. The sole notion of colonisation seems to be, in the eyes of one class of politicians in with us that the sermon is not properly, a part of the this country, " Sell the land. The buyers will do Communion Service, though it-occurs in the time of the second service, or rather at the termination of that the rest." So everything is thus left to take care of portion of the second service, which only is retained itself ; and the practical result is, that sometimes even SIGNS OF A HARDWINTER.—On Monday, much curiosity was excited, and a great deal of sport created, in use when the Eucharist is not in fact celebrated. the land, the sale of which was to be the gre a t by large floc k s of wild fowl making their appearance, That this has been the opinion of nearly the wh ole foundation of the whole, turns out to be a mere ficti on and alig ktin g on the banks of the river. In Battersea and a sham, and the intended colonist only a ruined field s, on the Fulham Lammas land, and amongst the Church clergy, as well as laity , is proved by the practice which it is proposed to change by autho- and deluded dupe. Such is modern colonisation— osier-beds, opposite Wandsworth, the wild ducks were such is the system which we have to compare with rity, at the end of nearly two centuries' use. quite plentiful, and sportsmen were out by dozens, pop- The seagulls were also very numerous, and the great colonial developments of ancient Greece and pin away. But there are many other arguments all leading to between Battersea.bridge and llsmmersmith, several the same conclusion ; first, this, which may be Rome—with the communities which sprang into life stormy petrels were seen by the fishermen. The pre called a crucial argument, the Church gives war- and vigour at once, like Minerva armed from the head sense of wild fowl, and especially h of the stormy_ petrel, oe rant for sermons, without any communion of Jove, full-grown and perfect, the worthy and in or second service, as at evening worship. all respects complete imitation of the institutions and a t a t t h is e to ar b ) e • a period, sure s said,n of alon g those and a s c e c y u e s r t e o m w e i dn winter. th The Church also gives warrant for the framework of the parent state. We recommend the w ROBBERY er AT RUGBY sig V SCHOtL.—Monday informa celebration of the Holy Communion without a contrast to the attentive consideration of Mr. Charles tion reached Bow-street that on Friday night a gang of sermon. Again deacons (and in the Universities Buller. He has already signified- that he is by no ru ffi ans, apparently navigators, and armed with blud even laymen) are admitted to preach, but deacons or means blind to its existence; we think that the more geens, broke into the house of the Rev. C. Mayor, one laymen may not minister in the Communion. We, it is considered, and the more public attention of the masters of Rugby school. The burglars intimi for ourselves, though thoroughly convinced that the becomes fixed upon our modern methods of dated the inmates with threats and menaces, and suc ing off a large quantity of property be colonisation, the more remarkable will be found our ceeded in carry sermon is properly no part of the Communion Service, to some of the m embers of the school, consisting do not, however, attach any importance to the inferiority in this point to the heathen empires of old. longing of a five-pound note, . gold_ and i Ter . , a gold %etch, chain, decision of that question. We see no im- CIIRONICLE.—The merchants of London are d seals, silver chains, silver pencil cases, a quantity of portents in the colour of the gown which the to entertain Sir Henry Pottinger at dinner t o-mot- an d annarel, and some medals. The thieves left row. Ile is to receive a similar mark of the estima- we • g . ' clergyman shall wear, either at communion or behind them their b ludgeons, a coal pick, and a bunch in the pulpit—provided that the garment be decent, tion in which his services are held by the merchants of keys. of Liverpool on Monday next. We trust that the FEIIIIITFUL DRAY ACCIDENT.—M. nby night A nit sober, and such as shall not by novelty or association distract or disturb the minds of worship- town of Liverpool, in commemorating the services eight o'clock the foliowieg melancholy and frightful of Sir Henr Pottinger, will not forget those of accident took place in the Bleoldriars-load, to a man pers. Let the clergyman wear his white ro b e in the y Viscount Sandon. The first has opened the trade named Joseph Monk, a drape= - iii the employ of 'reading desk and behind the chancel rail, because it is with China, the second has closed th at with Brazil. Messrs. Whitbread and Co., the extensive brewers of the custom; and let him wear his black University Sir Henry Pottinger is distinguished for the ma gna- Chiswell- street, \%IIICI I it is feared w ill m termieate fatally gown in the pulpit, because that too is the custom ; tude of his benefits ; Viscount Sandon for the unex- ! in the course of the day. .The and o t n u n n a o te art m n a n ls w , eis i but were the custom to reverse the colours, or to use uniformly the white or black, as the case might be, am led extent of his destructiveness. To the arms of sit othe near . sha s t o t m t e rneng. means tell under the nearing no . human being could object to either upon one, and to the faction of the other, we owe widely sit ting whichton- meet, sed by completely over his head. Several of the different results. Under the guidance of Lord Pal- , , 1 iootripasgers who witnessed the an. aelful sight rem to any rational ground. As to law upon the point, surely the law is binding upon the clergy in their merston, the Baronet has enlarged the boundaries of his f issistance , and carried him into the shcp ef Mr. private lives as in the church; yet no clergyman, British power ; and, without the injustice and other 1 Vini n , the surgeon' of BlaekCriars-roisd, who found that from the Archbishop of Canterbury downward, ever questionable accompaniments of power which occa- I his skull was fractured in a most extensive manner. Mr, sionally detracted from their renown, has adde d, like I Vinin immediately rendered every aid. and extracted a dreams of conforming to the minute directions of a Hastings or a Clive, a new hemisphere to the com- : portion of the skull (about three inches square) whi:L,b the 74th canon. Why , the n, bind u p on t h e backs of merce of Englishmen. The latter, under the guida nce ` had p enet r ated the brain, and was completely exposed. o thers a burden which themselves have cast off. of Sir R. Peel, has obtained a notoriety scarcely less 1 The injuries he had received were of such an extensive It is vexatious to be obliged to treat of such things; distinctive, and has placed himself on a par in corn. 1 character that Mr. Vinin ordered his removal to Guy's but, alas ! that the menace was ever thrown out—'i Hospital, where he now remains under the care of mercial mischievousness with the author of the sliding - nothing is trifling when it is to be enforced by au.lMessrs. Cock and _Hilton, the house-surgeons, who have thority, because once yield to authority without scale. It is but fair, then, that a town . like Liverpool, , been unremitting in their attention to the unfortunate which has so deep an interest in t in China and Brazil reason or q ualification, and anything, however , man, whose death is hourly expected. At twelve o'clock should give some little indication of her gratitude to monstrous, may be forced upon you. - We - this day he Ras still alive, and, strange to add, quite the ; di p lomatist and . also the statesman. The truth sen sible, are Protestants, because we protest against to the great astonishment of all the u 3 401 the authority of Rome as we ll as th e errors is, that, like the Munsters the y , a re in a 6x. Nothing gentlemen connected with the hospital ._ . • c~.~ could be more agreeable to them, as Tories, the. turn out the late Administration ; but nothing c .75 be more disagreeable to all, except West Indian than the loss of the extensive commerce with Brazi It is not enough that we have refuge in guano, and "---r 4 have our shipping employed, in greater numbers than could have been believed three years ago, in the freight of the excrements of sea-fowl. It is not enough that the revival of trade has occasioned new demands for timber, and called into active employment many bottoms which were scarcely earning their dock dues in the Mersey. It is not enough that a good hard vest has enabled us to bridge over for a season the howling gulf which yawns for our commercial sys tem, under the name of the sliding-scale. These and other substitutes may mitigate the pressure ; occurring auspiciously as they do, they mitigate of course the discontent ; but amongst thinking people —and in Lancashire we trust there are some few who think—they cannot, they ought not, to mitigate the undisguised contempt which is inseparable from a contemplation of the course taken by the Tories on the questions relating to Brazil. We will ven ture to say that so strong a case of national injury was never before made out against a party. It is proved to demonstration. Mr. Ellis is our witness for the last year ; the Viscount Abrantes would bear testimony for the present. Sir R. Peel is plausible : but this Brazilian indictment, speaking as it does with a distinctness of accusation never hitherto sur passed ; charging him, as it will do, before the as sembled Commons, with sacrificing the best interests of the country to selfish party purposes, and the trade and commerce of the empire to objects purely fac tious ; this Brazilian indictment will bring the true merits of the Whig budget and the Tory intrigue un reservedly before the public, and the merchants of England will see more clearly than they hitherto have done, the enormous price they pay for the Peel Administration. It costs us, they will see, a conti nuance of the sliding-scale. It cost§ us a continuance of the constant struggle which ascendancy introduced into Ireland, and which ever and anon breaks out, with greater or less intensity, as the fires of the social volcano are inflamed or assuaged by circumstances. It costs us in France obsequiousness to a Minister who does not ratify his treaties—who, alone, of mo dern statesmen, holds his head aloft, and assumes the privileges of conventional equality with diplomatists of other countries, without the chivalry of standing or falling by his acts. We have a great respect for M. Guizot—his industrious life, his emi nence in literature, the general firmness and fixity of his public life, entitle him to much consideration at our hands ; but really he ought to ratify his treaties. No one knows Vattel better; he is deeply read in Grotius and in Puffendorf; there is not a page in the " Law of Nations" with which he is not conversant ; but we defy him to show a precedent more fatal to diplomatic intercourse than that which he has esta blihed; and we firmly believe that had Lord Pal merston been in power, the Crown of England would have been saved from the indignity, and the cause of humanity would not have suffered so serious a disc couragement Last year Ministers introduced a Bill for the admission of free sugar; but upon discovering that the favoured-nation clause would let in the sugars of Louisiana, and some other districts, the moral principle gave way, the fixity of their scruples disappeared, Mr. Gladstone took again to his Igna tius Loyola, and slave-grown sugar can come in. When Lord Sandon moved his amendment, , fixed principles and a settled antipathy to slave productions were the order of the day. Gentlemen who have learned their emancipation lessons since the death of Wilberforce presumed to lecture the associates of that venerable man. The son of Mr. Gladstone re hearsed homilies on anti-slavery which would have driven the old planter into hysterics ten years ago. Sir R. Peel, who had never raised a finger for the negro, but had borne their miseries with cheerful ness for many years, of a sudden turned fanatical, and you would have thought that he had sent his card to Mr. Buxton to recruit the militia of philan thropy. But when the Sugar Bill of 1844 came be fore the House of Commons, fixed principles in sugar were placed upon the footing of fixed principles in Church and State ; and Sir R. Peel and Mr. Glad stone were as much prepared to vindicate the ano malous accidents of occasional incomings of slave sugar as they were to draw distinctions between coffee and muscovado. We have, therefore, much faith in their waist of fixity; we cannot suppose they will lose the Brazils for the sake of an ounce weight of consistency. . MONEY MA RKET and CITY NEWS. FROM Till MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. TIMES.—The plans for the 220 railways having been all sent in for the examination of the Board of Trade, the numerous parties interested in these undertakings are of course becoming anxious as to the fate of the various schemes. As yet it is not known whether the Board of Trade will reserve the expression of their opinion for the opening of Parliament, or whether they will accept any plan for communicating their decisions at once. Many of the proprietors hope that the latter course will be adopted, considering that it will be very tedious to wait for three or four months before they learn the fate of their property. A letter addressed by the Board of Trade to the directors, informing them of their opinion, would probably be the most welcome form of communication. So great would be the weight of the Board of Trade in influencing Parliament, that if their approval is obtained, the projectors do not seem to anticipate any fatal obstacle on the part of the Legis lature, notwithstanding the ordeal of Committees. , In support of the movement which is now making to obtain a repeal of the import duty on cotton wool, two tables have been published in the Glasgow Argus, show ing the competition of the British spinner with those of Europe and America. These tables contain the decimal series of yarns, from No. 10 to No. 100, but a notion of the results may be. 'given by taking only the extreme numbers. The import duty amounts to 5-16ths of a penny. and 5 per cent. per lb., with 1-16th of a penny for duty on waete. In the first table, which shows the competition of em* spiv airs with those of Europe, under No. 10 there appears S.sod. for cost of material, 101 as the per, tentage of pressure' of duty oa that cost, and 68 as the per tentage of pressure of duty on the cost of the twist. Under No. 100, the figures to these three items are respectively 14d., 21 per cent., and 14 per cent. ; and hence the table shows that the pressure of the dote on the low bunibers is unequal as compared with that on . the high numbers. The cost of the cotton in the above calculation is estimated at the present market prce in f -:rest Britain. In the second table, which shows the competition with the American spinners, the cost of the cotton is estimated at the price of the port of shipment of America. Under No. 10, the cost of material is set down at 2.75 d., the per center. of pressure on material at 131, the per tentage on cost of : twist at 8 per cent. Under No. 100 these items are, ri spectively, 13.25 d., 3 per cent., and i per eent. There is also 6-16ths of a penny per lb. paid by the British spinner, as extra freight and insurance, more than the American spinners. This, ad,:ed to the duty, gives a pressure of 12-16ths per lb., and this presaure on raw material and on twist gives two additional items. The pressure on No. 10 is 27 per cent. on raw.material, and 16 per cent. on twist ; while on-No. 100 it is 6 per cent., and'2l per cent. CHRONICLE —We had lost eight ..of the proposed " Dunedin Bank" in Edinburgh. It has, however', been brought forward in a diff rent. or at least ,modified, and judging from the programme of business proposed for the first meeting. which takes place on the 12th instant, apparently in a suet, sAful shape. It is now before the public as a Non issuing Bank, and it is said that 200,0001. of the intended capital, all of which is to be paid up by instalments, has been already subscribed. Should this bank be established, it will form quite a new feature in the history of .Scotch banking. Much pains seems to have been bestowed by its promoters in the preparation of the plus and details, amongst which we observe it is intended to reduce the time for regulating the exchange between Edinburgh and London to eleven days, and to make advances on the security of wholesale warehouse .s and bales of goods above a certain value. iPE' g of tb e i t caP 4. is It vs agitstor g h the p lish ri th e l cour— o ' ?gill P c !: - Iv idol!' • in this comP e ,„, " .h e is ; 'for b" ;haP e ° ose O , e telt' s unlo' , e ver lout r:IT A TALE OF REAL LIFE Among our Borough . Assize Intelligence will be found the case of Mrs. Burrell, the midwife, charged with the manslaughter of Sophia Stanley, 1 and the judge's reiterated opinion as to the un called-for verdict of the coroner's jury ; but one or two points of interest we have reserved for separate mention. The deceased was the wife of a framework-knitter, living in Royal East street, and had had twelve children before; she was always weakly, and suffered much at every confine ment, but she had full confidence in Mrs. Burrell, and begged her not to hurry or think of sending for extra assistance—she should do very well.- When, how ever, she found Mrs. Burrell sending word down to her husband to go for Mr. Macaulay, and the husband came up into her room to get his coat for that purpose, she had by that time become sensible that her case was desperate. " She said she was dying," the heart-broken husband stated to Mr. Justice Patteson, " she would not let me go ; she begged me to stay by her, that she might hang upon my neck." The poor fellow could not, resist such an appeal, and he re mained with her; then it was that Mrs. Burrell, after entreating the poor woman to be easy " just for ten minutes," started far Mr. Macaulay's, and went there and back in that time, no easy thing for a woman of 55 to do. Before this, moreover, she had told the deceased never to mind about paying for the doctor; for that she (Mrs. Burrell) would be answerable for any expense so incurred. Well might Mr. Justice Patteson say, and repeat, that the Coroner's jury had dealt hardly with Mrs. Burrell. But there are still:one or two points to be noticed. The husband, who seemed scarcely to know what passed around him, in whose eyes there was "no speculation," in reply to a question, stated that he was receiving relief from the union-9d. a day for eleven hours' work. His Lordship—everybody in the court—was astounded at the reply ; and one of the barristers said, " Good God, and that is what is called relief!" llow many children the poor fellow had to keep out of this 9d. per day did not come out. At the conclusion of his evidence, Mrs. Burrell wished him to be asked, whether he did not think she had done all in her power for the safe delivery of his wife ? Mr. Justice Patteson (who evidently had a struggle to conceal his emotion during a great part of the trial), said he was sory he could not put the question in that shape—he was very sorry. The poor man, Stanley, however, had - no such scruples to contend with ; and• in a voice rendered almost inarticulate by his tears, he begged his Lordship k not to hurt Mrs. Burrell, for she had done all she could." " Your request is highly credit able to you, my good man—highly creditable," replied his Lordship. In conclusion, we would suggest to the Board of Guardians the propriety of making speedy and kind inquiry into this poor man's case; to depart for a season from the strictness of their regula tions, and grant relief without exacting work in re turn. A fellow-being thus heavily visited with afflic tion should meet with commiseration and considera tion.—Leicester Chronicle. CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. A woman, fifty-two years of age, the wife of a small farmer named l3onvoisin, residing at Epre ville, was tried on the 27th ult., before the Court of Assizes of the Eure, for the murder of her brother, Pierre Vautier. It appeared from the indictment and the evidence, that the brother and the sister had for nearly fifteen. years been on bad, terms, in consequence of the anger felt by the latter at her brother having a larger portion of the property left by the father than she thought right, and that Vautier, in his just resentment against his sister, who was a woman of the worst feelings, had made a will bequeathing his property (about 16,000 f.) to a friend. The mother, however, being attacked with severe illness, and therefore desirous of seeing her daughter, Vautier, who resided With his mother, consented to receive his sister, and at the death-bed of the parent a reconciliation took place. Vautier having about the period of his mo ther's 'death broke his thigh, the sister remained at his house to nurse him ; and although her selfish disposition was again shown by her desiring to have the whole of the household furniture of the deceased, and a quarrel ensued, yet Vautier, as a proof that the reconciliation made by the bedside of his mother was sincere on his part, revoked the will which he had made in favour of his friend, and executed another, in which he left everything to his sister. This act of generosity caused his death. The prisoner, anxious to get immediate possession of the property, and taking advantage of his feeble state, entered his room at night, and with a club beat out his brains. Early on the following morning she went to a neighbour, and told him that during the night some thieves had broken in, and after robbing the house, had murdered her brother. The character of the woman, however, created suspicion, and the officers of justice had soon proof that the murder was committed by her. On the trial the evidence was such as not to admit of a doubt of her guilt ; but the jury, to the surprise of the Court, declared that there was no proof of the murder having been com mitted with premeditation. She was, therefore, only sentenced to imprisonment for life, with hard labour. A remarkable fact was revealed on the trial, showing that even the most calculating cri minals frequently commit great oversights. The murderess had taken the precaution, after the consummation of the crime, to proceed to a neigh bouring spring, and wash away the stains of blood from her hands and some of her clothing,. but she had. plied a bloody hand upon la latch on the inner side of a door which was locked, and the key of Which 'was - found in her possession. Her story of thieves having entered the house was contradicted by this fact, for they could not tubse quently have locked a door of which they had not the key ; the marks of blood were also those of the left hand, and it was proved that the prisoner was left handed.—Gaiigiumes Messenger. FATAL ACCIDENT AT SZE JOIIN RENNIE'S FAC row r.--At an early hour yesterday morning a man, named William'Wren, expired in Guy's Hospital, from the effects of a severe fall from a scaffold, which was erected on the premises of Sir John Renaie, the eminent engi neer, whose manufactory is situated in Holland-street, Blackfriars-road. TIIE LATE FATAL OCCURRENEM ON THE On Monday, Mr. Baker, the coroner, resumed and con cluded an inquest at the Gun, Wapping, touching the death of William Morgans, aged 19, s seaman, who, together with Edward Everest, lost their lives on the 25th of October last, by the skiff, in which they and four other persons were crossing the Thames frpm • Rother hithe to Wapping, being upset by the Waterman steamer No. 6, coming in collision with them. The evidence was precisely the same as that adduced on the trial of Samuel Sims, the captain of the steamer, at the Central Criminal Court on Saturday week, on a charge of manslaughter, in having caused the death of the man Everest, on which he was convicted and sentenced by Mr. Justice Maule to four months' imprisonment. The body of the deceased, in the present inquiry, was found floating off Wapping New-stairs, on Thursday last, by a man named Scott, , and was, from the length of time (six weeks) it had been in the water, in a dreadful state of decomposition. The Coroner, at the close of the evidence, summed IR, c harging the jury, that, from what bad been stated, it was a clear case of negligence, and as such amounted to manslaughter, and the jury without hesitation returned that verdict. The witnesses were all bou:d over to pro secute ; consequently, at the expiration of his sentence, Sims will have to be arraigned on this second charge. ASYLUM Yost FEMALE Oarusais.—On Monday, a special general court of this charity was held at the Asylum, in Lambeth, for the purpose of electing 15 girls to be received into the establishment. William Skelton, Esq., presided during the meeting, and the election closed at three o'clock. There are 138 orphan girls at pre sent in this establishment, to which the present number elected will be added Since the commencement of the institution in 1758, to April, 1844, there have been ad mitted 2,362 children, of whom 194 died in the house, 2,022 were placed out, 3 were employed in the house, awl at that time (April), 143 wore in the asylum. Pooa MAN.—Poor man There he sits in the corner, emaciated with labour, and, in this dank weather, hard set to get his breath. He belongs to Buckingham, and because2he could not stand to work any longer, his little home was broken url, and he immured amongst strangers, his wife and part of his children torn from him ! Resolved to die rather than remain in the bastile, he came back, and with a little better health he tried again to provide for his family. Sickness overtakes him again, and, because he becomes " troublesome" to the parish, he is told, " he is liable to be imprisoned" for nut staying at his own town, where it was impossible to get a living. lie asks and begs for a little relief, but is refused, and may live or die for anything the relieving officer cares for him. While such " inhumanity of man to man" exists, may we exert ourselves to rescue the dependent portion of our fellow-creatures, and, by giving them the full benefit of their labour while in health, enable them to lay by a little against sickness, instead of sending them to the cold charities of the parish.— The Struggle. PRAYERS FOR THE RELIGIOUS WELFARE OF ENGLAND.—A prayer has been published in Belgium, humbly asking God to be pleased to reconcile England to the Catholic faith. This prayer was compiled by the Belgian bishops, according to the request of the lion. G. Spencer, who conformed some years since to the Popish persuasion. GAME IN Bucscs.—On Monday last as a labourer of Quainton was crossing a field belonging to the Duke of Buckingham, he saw a great number of hares, and had the curiosity to count them. In this one field he counted no less than 270 bares, i hich was of course much less than the number he saw, as there were many he could not count. While labourers are starving for want of food and employment, here are vermin allowed to con sume and waste this food, and by their depredations to lessen the farmer's means of employing the poor.— Aylesbury News. Lord Als of d a Paget gn give cup of 501. value on the occas i o n pie chase, to take place in the neighbourhood of Olton:hall early in January: The ad will ste e horses will be those belonging to the of4cers of the 7th Istotro. !To VI FA TA' CT nl-17 ' ~`~ r.. R~` 11 , 5 re rro , 3 , :. ' Orr re