The Sun. — London, England, 1845-01-02 00:00:00

-------- _ _. ' -m TRZ irw, - LONDON, TitrnsD.A.l l MORNING, JANLVARY 2. 1843. SUMMARY OF NEWS MONEY AND ck-)3IIVIERCI AI, T.:-: S CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The English Stock Market closws rather flatly, op account of the decline ut. Paris on Tuesday, owiag to the expected change in the C4binet. Consols were 1004 ; New Three-and a,-Qoarter per Cents., 104 it; and the Three per Cents., 1004 4. India Stock was rather higher. Spanish Bonds also receded, the Five per Cents. being 2,4 I. and the Three per Cents. 364 4. 'The Coupons Were 274 to 264. Brazilian New Bonds were 864, and Portugnase Converted, ex dividend, 60 to 594. Mexican Were 354 I. French Scrip receded to 14 premium. The additional transactions in Railway Shares have Bristol these ;—Birmingham and Gloucester were 5 ; Bristol and Exeter, 5; Ditto and Gloucester, 124; Ches ter and Holyhead, ; Churnet Valley, 2to 1 ; Corn- Wall, ; Dublin anti Belfast, 2 1 to 2 i; Great Souther n and Western (Ireland), 54 ; Great Western, 80 ; Lan caster and Carlisle, 41 ; Birmingham, 129 ; Brighton, Vf ; South-Western, 33 4 ; Ditto , Eighths. 18 •, Ditto, ew, 3 ; London and York, 24 ; Lynn and Ely, 14 ; North British. t ; Norwich and Brandon, New, 34 ; Wehmond and West-end Junction, 14; Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 4 ; South-Eastern, 84 ; Trent Valley, 8 to 741; York and North Midland, 54 to 4; Ditto, Half, 264 ; Ditto, Selby Scrip, 48i; Boulogne and Amiens, 3to • Lyons and Avignon, a ; Orleans and Bordeaux, 6 to 54 ; Paris and Lyons, 14 ; Paris and Rouen, 21i 4 1 and Paris and Strasbourg, 1 4 to 1 premium. Caledonian have been 4 4 ; Eastern Counties, 94 to 4 ; IllaCkwall, 94 to Sa • and West London, 134 discount. 4 - (Froi: The Sun of Last Night.) - The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was quiet; salts 3,000 bales.—Shares were in good request. Bir mingham and Gloudester, 101 ex new ; Bristol and Gloucester, 43A 4; Eastern Counties, 154; Glasgow and Greenock, 1 Grand Junction, 228; Ditto, New, Quarters, 434; Liverpool and Manchester, Quarters, 52; London and York, 44 ; Churnet Valley, 34 ; 4 tanchester and Birmingham, 524 ; Manchester and Leeds, Half, 534 ; Midland Counties, 1154 1164 ; Shef field. and Manchester, 98 974 ; Lyons and Avignon, 2L 13s. 6d.; Paris and Lyons, 34 ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 74 ; Northern of France, 64 1. The colonial and general produce markets re-open to-day, but the public sales are as yet limited. Prices, although stocks are large, are expected to rule firm. The attempt of the Americans to extend their trade witli China cannot too much excite our vigilance. It observed in a communication from New York, that " there is a very large trade carried on between Russia and China.on the North and West, besides traffic to an immense extent, between the British East India possessions and China. Heretofore, the foreign trade by sea has been very insignificant compared with the total foreign trade of such an immense empire. Five ports are now open to the commerce of the United States and Great Britain. Commercial treaties of a very fa vourable nature have been perfected between these Powers, and the industry of each have, in the perspec tive, full employment for many articles of manufacture fur the demand that must inevitably spring from the Wants of more than three hundred millions of people— & mass of beings greater than all the rest of the world in the aggregate. The table of imports into Canton gives us an idea of the description of goods they immediately require, r<hile the table of exports shows us their principal staples, and to what extent they are at present used by the people of the two nations referred to. We learn irom Washington that the treaty recently made with the Chinese by Mr. Cushing, was read to the Senate while in secret session, Auld we may hope soon to have the pleasure of a perusal. The ratifications of this treaty, if as favourable to our interests as anticipated, will be one of the most import ant movements made for the extension of our COM. IfterCe ever known during the settlement of the country. Thera is not a section of the Union that will not be benefited by the opening of this trade. The manufac turers of the north, the planters of the south, and the ieadminers of the west, are deeply interested in this Movement, and look for a speedy settlement of the question." • The Funds have been again very quiet, but there is no reakniss in the market. Consols have been 1004 for the opening; Exchequer Bills have been 62 5. to $43 . premo Bank Stock has realised 2114 to 2104, being higher again. New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 1034 to i• The Foreign Maiket has not been active, but a fair business is doing in Spanish Bonds. The Five per Cents. have been 284, and upon a large sale made have dropped again to 274. The Three per Cents. have ob tained 364 to 4 Mexican. Bonds have been quoted 354 4, and Colombian, 144 1, which is a slight rally. French Scrip has been 14 premium; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per 'Cents are 634 to 634. The Railway Shares are generally buoyant. Great Westcrn are higher, owing to tbe opinion of the Board Of Trade in favour of its projected branches; and South . Western have declined, from the report against the con templated auxiliary lines. efiltlCE OF BRITISIT FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. __, ........_ (From the Ottiflcial List.) Bank Steck 2lli 210 i 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities lOO ,1 New si per Cala. Annuties Bank Stock for Account, Consols for Opening India Stock., Exchequer Bills. . 1 " lid. 1,0001. . 5001. Ditto Small — Ditto Advertised ;....... 'MICE OF FOREIGN:FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. ....._ . Mexican Bong, 1837, 5 per Cent -- 35 - - UKutO for the Account ... 35a peruvis4 Bonds, 6 per Cent ...... 29i Spanish Bond; 5 per Cent., 1840... 271 28/ 271 Ditto for the Aceount. Ditto Passive Bonds 6l Ditto Deferred Ditto 3 per Cent 36afr Ditto for the Account. Dutch 21 per Cents 6 3% Ditto for the Account 63a Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates , PRICE OP SHARES AT ONE ONE O'CLOCK. b . RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. ,isimlninghani and Gloucester 100 ...... 1031 103 to 104 airi st Bristol , al and Exeter ,•nristol and Gloucester k 'hurnet Valley Co„, rn wall ii,.. ire-ct North ern Ea stern Counties Great Western Ditto, Half Shares , Ditto Fifths t 4 araster and Carlisle London and Blackwall and 8right0n.......... 50 ,London and Greenwich ...... 12* '4otidon and South Western.. 411 LDitto New —.. 81 Lud "on and Croydon ndon and York... ..... ...... 21 ... .. 5 nchester and Leeds 7O 125 Z i dland 100 ll6 - ...N elf, eastle & Darlington Junc. 24 ...... 62 evreastle and Berwick v)rwich and Brandon 8 ...... 14 ...... to tlehinond and West End June 1 - 111,igb v 1 U —astern and Dover ... 33/ Ditto... X 7est rn e w w all Coll . 34 fork and North Midland ... 50 ......104 IL _ Di tto Selby Scrip 2O 69 47%g0e and Amiens Strasburg rie d Bordeaux ... .. 2 and Bale l4 l2l . to MANCHESTER -- 'MANCHE STER STOCK • EXCHANGE, DEC. 31 —Our r l rket is buoyant, and we have had a good business ° ,e- Bristol a nd Gloucester, 44 ; Eastern Counties, , ; South -Eastern, No. 2, 11/ ; Blackburn, l lt uleY, and Accrington, 31 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, ii 8 ., 455., 465., 455. 6d. ; London and York, 4i ; Man eLuester, Bury, and Rossendale, 81. 3s. 9d., /, 81. 11 s. 3d.; West Yorkshire, 6*; Manchester Fire and Life, 11i ; Mao and L ee d s , • Half Shares, 51 ; Ditto, Quarter Share, ti 11-16 ; S out h-E astern , 41 ; Ditto, Ne w , N o . 1, 131 Joolton. Wigan, and Liverpool, 31; Churnet Valley, 3 i; London and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby, 6 d-; Great Nor hen of France, 2 5-16 /p r e m. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock per Cent. Reduced ... 100 i Xemr B 1 per Cent ............ 103 i India Bonds, 1,0001. Ditto under 1,0001. Bank Stock for Account 2lll Consols ................... 100% Indian Stock 297 Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., Ditto 5001. Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS. Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 40% Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Dutch, 24 per Cent .... SHARES. Birmingham an 1 Gloucester, 100 paid Bristol and Exetir, 70 paid OOOOO ..•• 75 Bristol and Gloucester, P° 42A paid .. Caledonian, 5 paid .................................... 41 Chester and Holyhead, 5 paid ..... 5i Chun:let Valley, 2 paid 3 4A Cornwall, 3 paid ... 3 Dublin and Belfast Junction, 2I paid s Eastern Counties, 25' paid... ..... .., ... 15A Great Southern and Western (Ireland), 5 paid 10A Great Western, 75 paid ~,, 155 Lancaster and Carlisle, 10 paid London and Birmingham (Stock) ... ... London a n d Bl ac k wa ll, 16a 7I London and Brighton, 50 paid S2A London and South Western, 411 paid 75 Ditto New ... 3 London and York, 2I paid 5l Lynn and Ely, 1* paid Midland, 100 paid North British, 7A paid 7l Norwich and Brandon, 8 paid — Ditto New, 1 paid - 41 Richmond an d W es t E n d J unc ti on , I pa id 2 &nth Eastern and Dover, 33A paid 4ll Trent Valley, 2 paid 9* West London, Old Shares, 20 paid 6A York and North Midland, 50 paid Ditto Half Shares, 25 paid Ditto, Selby Scrip, 2(1 paid Boulogne and Ainiens, 2 paid SA Lyons and Avignon,.2 paid 24 Cirleans and Bordeaux,_ 2 paid 74 Pii:is and Lyons, 2 paid Paris a:id Orleans, 20 paid Paris and ~7ouen, 20 paid 41% Paris and Stra..! - lolirg, 2_ paid ............ The sum of 1001, voted by the Comm3n Council of ;:e City of London to the national testimonial to Mr. . 4 vowland Hill, the author of ale Penny Postage, was paid 4 , (41 Monday to the:treasurer. It is hoped other corpora ow will will follow this worthy example. AND V ub lt t ptnton. " 'Who runs may read." PCiolktlll44... On Saturday evening their Majesties the King and Queen of the French received the President of the Chamber of Peers, the Charg d'Affaires of Spain, the Swedish, Danish, and Dutch Ministers, and Generals Berthois and de Dampierre. The King and Queen :of the Belgians left Paris on Monday for Brussels. The France says it is informed that Prince Louis Bonaparte has received at Ham letters announcing that his father, the Count de Saint Leu, who is at Florence. is in a state of health which excites some uneasiness. A Frankfort letter states that Mr. Fox Strangeways, the English Minister to the German Diet, was to leave Frankfurt tor six months, but that he was not to be re placed, his absence being partly for the purpose of his receiving new instructions concerning the negotiations to be opened with the German Customs Union. Letters from Constantinople of the 17th ult. state that full satisfaction will be given to the British Consul at Trebizond fur the insult offered hire by the Fuchs Other measures were about being taken by Sir Stratford Canning, in conjunction with the Ambassadors of France and Russia, to obtain redress and compensation fur the cruelty inflicted on a Greek at Trebizond. Dr. Wolff was on his way from Teheran to Erzeroum, according to the latest accounts. Mr. John Kerr, her Majesty's Consul at Adrianople, died on the 7th of December. Letters from Athens, of the 20th ult., state that the Chambers were still engaged in verifying the elections. By a manceuvre the Deputies, partisans of Coletti, were favoured and admitted in such numbers as to constitute for him a vast majority. The Post-office convention be tween France and Greece had been agreed to. Very severe weather has prevailed on the coast of Syria since the latter end of November, and a great number of country vessels have been lost on the coast. Fresh supplies of troops were constantly pouring into Syria from Turkey, and Ali Pasha had arrived at Jerusalem to re-implace the former Pasha, on account of his inactive conduct during the late disturbances, caused by Sheikh Aboo Ghosh, in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem. The new system of petty Christian governors, under the Druse Emeer in the Lebanon, is being carried into operation, but it is not expected that much good will be derived from it. The old Turkish coinage lately called in by the Govern ment is again perfectly current in every town in Syria. The ships of war lying at Beyrout on the 11th ult., were two Turkish steamers and a frigate, an Austrian and a French corvette, without any English vessel. - Lady Hardinge and family arrived at Alexandria on the 17th tilt., in her Majesty's steamer Hecla, Com mander Duffil. M. Bourne's Postal Convention with the Pasha of Egypt has been terminated as far as that gentleman is concerned, and it is to be sent to England by the steamer Oriental to be ratified. The conditions are not so satisfactory as expected. Although the par • ticulars of the agreement have not been made public it is believed that it is based on the same principles as the one made with the French Government for the India Mails proceeding through France, and that Mehemet Ali will receive an amount of postage on the mails passingihrough Egypt to and from India at the rate of 6s. per lb. on letters, and Is. per lb. on newspapers. The term is for five years. The mails will be conveyed through the country by the Viceroy at his own expense, and will be accompanied by an English messenger. The Egyptian Transit Company is still in a state of discomfiture, the real Directors not being yet known. In the meantime, the Government continues to take measures to make a monopoly of the transit through Egypt. The British and several European Consuls at Cairo have received instructions from the Egyptian Government to prohibit travellers from cross ing the Desert between Cairo and Suez by their own conveyances, as the means of proceeding between those two places are to be strictly confined to the Egyptian Transit Company. One of the Pacha's Nile steamers, of fifty-horse power, was lost a few days ago near Aboukir Bay, on her way from Rosetta to Alexandria. The fault is entirely ascribable to the captain, for not taking pre cautionary measures. A considerable leak has formed itself in the dock of Alexandria, which was opened with so much ceremony last month, and the engineer will have much difficulty in efficiently stopping it His present intention is to remove entirely the paving of the dock in the vici nity of the leak, and reconstruct it. Alexandria has now been free from plague since the 10th of October; one or two cases have occurred at Cairo during the past month, and at Damietta an occasional case is reported. A fire broke out at Ibrahim Pacha's sugar manufac tory at Cairo on the 13th ult., and property to a consi derable amount was destroyed. 0011111.1 r PASihkiiol%.6.lallad. The Earl and Countess of Verulam and Lady Jane Grimston, who have been on a visit to Viscount and Viscountess Folkestone, at Longford Castle, near Salis bury, have returned to Gorhambury, where the Noble Earl and Countess are entertaining a circle of friends. Viscount and Viscountess Grimston have gone on a visit to Major Johnstone atTorquay. The Earl and Countess of Roden have been enter taining a large family circle at Tollymore Park during the last two months. Amongst the guests assembled are the Dowager Lady Le Despencer, the Viscountess Powercourt and her children, Viscount and Viscountess Jocelyn, Hon. Strange Jocelyn, Lady Emily Straton, Mr. Straton, &c. The Earl and Countess of Eldon and their youthful family are passing the Christmas recess at Shirley House, near Croydon. The Countess of Seafield ha:. been seriously ill at Cullen House, county Limerick, but is now oflusiderably better. Viscount and Viscountess Canning arrived in town on Monday evening, from a visit to Lord and Lady de Tabley, at Tabley Hall, Cheshire, who have been enter taining a large party during the recess. Her Ladyship's tarn as Lady in Waiting on the Queen commences on the 4th of February next. Lady Caroline Sandford has left the Clarendon Hotel for Nynehead Court s , Devon. Lord Crewe has left the Clarendon Hotel for Brighton. Sir Henry and Lady Dymoke have arrived in town, from their seat, Scrivelaley Court, Lincolnshire. The Hon. Mrs. Henry Keppel is staying on a visit to Sir Gray Skipwith, in Warwickshire. 1003113.2.111.N31110V11. A Correspondent from the neighbourhood of Inver ness writes that blackbirds were flying about his villa last week—a proof of the mildness of the season. During the last week large quantities of game, oon. sisting of snipes, teals, woodcocks, partridges, together with 500 geese, were imported direct, by way of Hull, from the Netherlands. SPORTIN G IN BETTING AT MAN , CHEST] 35 to 1 agst Winesour 40 to 1 agst Extempore 40 to 1 agst Portobello 40 to 1 agst Ratan DELI 11 to 1 agst Alarm—offered 17 to 1 agst Idas 18 to 1 agst Pam 18 to 1 agst Kedger 20 to 1 agst Cobweb colt 30 to 1 agst Rebecca colt 33 to 1 agst c out of Calypso's dam HUNTING AP: Her Majesty's stag hounds at Stoke Common, at 11. TELIAGENCE, DHESTER.—TuEsDAY, F.R CUP. 40 to 1 agst Valerian (t) 40 to 1 agst The Bashaw (t) 50 to 1 agst Foig a-ballagh Pr. 95 to 1 agst Panto lt 40 to 1 agst Old England(t) 66 to 1 agst Clear-the-way 6 to 1 agst Scott's lot 8 to 1 agst John Day's lot 13 to 1 agst Dawson's lot 'OINTMENTS. will meet on Friday next FATAL ACCIDENT on the LIVER POOL AND LEEDS JUNCTION LINE. On Monday last a fatal accident occurred on that part of the North Junction Railway, which is carried on pillars between the New Bailey prison and the Bolton Railway, and near, New Bailey-street, Salford, by which the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Com pany have lost one of their oldest servants-4 mau well known and respected—Mr. John Forsyth, who has been in the service of that Company, and generally stationed at Ordsal-lane, for a period of seventeen years. The day was a very foggy one ; and he was proceeding along the junction line towards Ordsal-lane, where he re sided, when, a train coming on from Liver 1, he stood close to the iron parapet on that side of the line next the New Bailey prison. When the train had passed, being deaf of the right ear (the side next the rails), he did not hear or perceive an engine and tender coining just behind him ; and he stepped across the rails, when he was knocked down, his head lacer ated, and the engine wheels passed over the toed a his right foot. The engine was instantly stopped ; but the poor man was found to be quite dead. What ren ders the case the more painful and distressing is, that his son was upon the engine, and saw the unfortu nate catastrophe, without having the least power to prevent it. Both father and son ware on their way lame, to attend the funeral of a daughter of the de ceased. The son was upon the engine, having lost a leg some time ago by being run over by an engine. Another daughter was iakrp,pd to death about twelve months ago, so that this may with truth be called an unfortunate family. An inquest was held on the body on Tuesday, be? fore Mr. Rutter, at the nearest public-house, one ad joinipg the ra i lway , in Ordsal-lane, and the jury r a v er.4}ct of " Accidental death." The same graveeturn w e lll receivetbe remains of both the father and daughter.—Manchester - _ DU N BAR.—On Wednesday, fifty-five ploughs started on the farm of Brunt, lately let to Mr. Davidson, of Maachester, to give him a day's ploughing , as a friendly welcome into th e C ount y . The frost having given way a day or two before, both men and horses started in the finest order, and turned 'trier from si x ty seventy acres in grand style. A party of farmers and otherz connected with the operations of the day after war dined in lirs. 15enderson's inn, Broxburn, when the evening Ryas Spent with the ordiality and harmony by which these meetings are evei giiyacierisq. Lord Egiinton's game old hong, Potentate, the victor of many well-contested races, has heen Wrned out to roam in a park for 14, This js gopd trpApeot to a faithful servant.—Cakcionitin Mercury. COURT CI RCULAR. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert promenaded in the pleasure-grounds adjacent to the Castle this morning. On the return of her Majesty and her Illustrious Consort, his Royal Highness went shooting in the royal preserves, at tended by Lord Charles Wellesley, Mr. Anson, and Colonel Bouverie. The royal party returned to the Castle early. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken out for pony and walking exercise this morning. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred was also taken an airing to day. Major-General Wemyss has relieved Lord Charles Wellesley from his duties as Equerry in Waiting on the Queen; and Colonel Bouverie has relieved Major- General Sir Edward Bowater from his duties as Equerry in Waiting on Prince Albert. The 'royal dinnei:' party at the Castle this evening included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Fanny Howard, the Rev. Lord Wriothesley Russell, Dowager Lady and the lion. Miss Lyttelton, Mr. George Edward and the Hon. Mrs. Anson. . . The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards was in at tendance during dinner. Her Majesty's private band, under the direction of Mr. Anderson, assisted by the choir of Windsor, and several eminent artists from London, performed a grand selecti.in of sacred music by Hummel, Mendelssohn, &c.; also a Te Deurn, with full orchestral accompaniments, composed by his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Miss Kirkham, niece of Mrs. Anderson, and pupil of Signor Costa, had likewise the distinguished ho nour of singing several pieces, for the first time, be fore her Maje3ty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. La Marquise &Harcourt and Captain F. Seymour were prevented joining tl.e royal dinner circle yester day evening. Mr. Dicey, Deputy-Chairman, Mr. Thomas Ma caulay, Mr. Brodrick, Mr. C. C. Macaulay, Mr. Ord, and Mr. Hall, a deputation from the Churnet Valley Railway, transacted business yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade. Lord Wharncliffe, President of the Council, left Wilton House, near Salisbury, yesterday, for Witley Court, Worcestershire, on a visit to her Majesty the Queen Dowager. Dispatches for the Governor of the West India Colonies, were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office. VICTORIA THEATRE. Mr. Osbaldiston is certainly a most indefatigable caterer for the public. Notwithstanding the crowded houses which the performances of last week drew every night, he has this week produced another new drama, from the practised pen of the author of Susan .Hopley. It is entitled Marianne, the Child of Charity, and details the adventures of a poor, but vir tuous girl, Marianne (admirably acted by Miss Vin cent), who at the commencement of the drama is sup posed to be a mere child of charity, but who eventually turns out to be the heiress of immense wealth. The piece is cleverly written, and is replete with dramatic incidents and startling effects. We were glad to see that Mr. Osbaldiston himself took a part in this drama. He acted the part of Captain Sefton, the father of Marianne, who had been supposed to be dead, but who returns from slavery in time to rescue his daughter from the machinations of those who would fain destroy her, and, by his judicious performance, contributed greatly to the success of the piece. Mr. W. Searle, who has recently joined this company, was very successful in his delineation of the character of Nightshade, a desperado of the O'Smith school, and was much applauded. Mr. John Herbert, as Job Scroggs, a cat's-meat vendor, kept the house in a roar of laughter the whole time he was on the stage ; and Miss E. Terry, as Miss Charlotte Todd, a gay lady of fashion, was excellent. If we mistake not, Marianne is destined to be as popular as Susan Hopley. MAGAZINES--(CON TIN VED.) HOOD'S MAGAZINE. This Magazine reached us, as usual, at so late an lour—it has a born genius for non-punctuality—that wo are compelled, perforce, to be brief in our notice of it. The Number, on the whole, is a good ave rage one, and the most entertaining articles are those ss hich proceed from the pen of the editor, who, in ad dition, contributes several whimsical . illustrations. The present ch ipters of "Our Family" contain several lively touches of character, not unworthy of Sterne. The subjoined " Anacreontic, by a Footman," will, no doubt, cause our readers a hearty laugh : It's wery well to talk in praise Of Tea and Water-drinking ways, In proper time and place ; Of sober draughts, so clear and cool, Dipp'd out of a transparent pool Reflecting heaven's face. Of babbling brooks, and purling rills, And streams as gushes from the hills, It's wery well to talk— But whut becomes of all sich schemes, With ponds of ice, and running streams, As doesn't even walk ? When winter comes with piercing cold, And all the rivers, new or old, Is frozen far and wide ; And limpid springs is solid stuff, Arid chrystal pools is hard enough To skate upon, and slide ; What then are thirsty men to do, But drink of ale, and porter too, Chumpsgne as makes a fizz ; Port, sherry, or the Rhenish sort, And p'rhaps a drop of summut short— The water-pipes is friz SUICIDE AT DERBY. (From a Correspondent of the Morning Chronicle.) A young man, whose name was Dixon, and who formerly resided in the family a clergyman of a neighbouring county, has committed selt-destruction, after attempting the life of a girl, named Caroline Allen, to whom his affections were confided. The deceased was about twenty-one years of age, and about five yearA ago absconded from service, in company with the clergyman's daughter. After making one or two unsuccessful efforts to get united, they at length succeeded, and were married at the parish church of St. Peter's, Derby. The father of the young lady was naturally indignant, and subse quently obtained a divorce. It appears that, some time pending this, the deceased formed an acquaint ance with Caroline Allen (whose father formerly re sided at Leicester, hut is now a copperplate printer at Derby). Caroline, however, at first refused his proposals, on account of his former marriage ; but about a year ago her scruples gave way, and she con sented to become his. Caroline seems to have been a frequenter of "sa loons" in Derby and Nottingham, and the deceased procured her an engagement at the latter town as a vocalist. The deceased's attendance upon her seems to have been constant, and she complained of his neglecting his work, stating that she could not main tain him unless he assisted by his own industry. He said if she would consent to marry him, he'vvould attend to his work, and she gave her consent, and furnished him with money to get the banns put in, and to pur• chase certain necessaries for the wedding festivities ; on one occasion she gave him two sovereigns for this purpose. The banns ran out, and the deceased (ac cording to Caroline's statement) then wished for a little time, until his friends were more favourable to the match. In consequence of the delays which took place, the affair became so much talked of amongst their circle of acquaintance in Nottingham, that the girl determined on breaking the engagement. This was accordingly done about six weeks ago, but a friendly correspondence seems to have been kept up between the parties. On Christmas-day the deceased came over to Derby, and had an interview with Caroline at the Talbot public-house. He requested to know whe ther she was still of the same mind. She replied that she was, and reasoned with him on the . propriety of discontinuing the connexion. He did not seem much concerned, though he was evidently dissatisfied with the result of the interview, and exclaimed, "If it must lee so, it must." On the next day the deceased spent five or six hours at the house of the girl's father, and conducted himself in a proper and becoming manner. At night he saw Caroline at a saloon ; no words of an angry nature ensued, and they parted in apparent kindness and friendship. On Friday morning he called upon her at her father's house in South-street, and sent a younger sister for a pint of ale. Caroline was not then down stairs, but she complied with the deceased's request to " get up," and on de wending to the louse place he made very kind inquiries as to the state of her health, and then pre? sented her with a glass of ale, saying, " Caroline, this is to be our parting glass." Not suspecting any wrong, she drank part of the contents, and immedi ately became very ill, being violently purged and sick. He then told her that he " could not bear to see the pledge of his affections in the arms of aria* i" and stated that, as his former wife was about to be married to her cousin, and as she (Caroline Allen) refused to have him, he could not, and would not, bear it. Caroline was assisted to her bed by her sisters, and the deceased left the hew for a few minutes. On his return he wallied into the bed-room in an agitated state, with a glass of ale in his hand, and, befcre lie could be prevented, drank the contents. He then rushed to the bedside, ei.pressepl a hope that she would be saved, and that she wottlft fetheinhPr bilNi '&P4 Off! sunkupon the door, exclaiming, " Let me pfie in your 4,rtn§ 4nd I shall be happy l " His month foamed, his lop and arms stretched out, and he immediately expired. Qn his person were found several letters, showing pre meditation, and avowing that if she (Caroline) would not lee hi.t, no one else should have her, and request ing that both their bodiea might he buried in the same coffin (if possible), but at any rate in the'siirne kr4e. A small phial, containing prussic acid, and 41.5 p 4 razor, were found in his pocket; and an empty . phial s which had contained prussic acid, was found in the house. An inveatigatiop of al! tilts Cirellmstances took place before Alr. lialguy, Coroner, en Monday 1 1 07 4n4 4 verdict offelo de .se was returned by the jury. So far as can be judged from a first Number, we think that this cheap and conveniently-sized periodi cal is likely to obtain a fair share of popularity. It opens with a tale entitled " St. Giles and St. James," which is avowedly from the pen of the editor, and is written with all that pungency and earnestness so charapteristic of his better prose compositions, The spirit, too, that animate it, is excellent, and as anti conversational in its tone as can be desired. We hope it will be continued without interruption. The " Recollections of Hazlitt" are, no doubt, true in the main, but they are not penned in the most amiable spifit t and they involve pne or two contradietions, for in one place the writer asserts that Hazlitt was selfish, and in the very next sentence leads us to infer that he was not at all so. We quote Mr. Jerrold's epi grammatic introduction to his new story : «94r first paragraph shall be a cenfpssii.)n of igno ranee, We khow rot' the geanealogy of St. Giles. All we knoW is this. One St. Giles was born--we can hardly say first saw the light—in Hampshire Hog-lane. We b, lieve that we are pretty sure of his father, but at once lose ourselves seeking his grandsire. We are imme diately in a genealogieal fog, withcat even a link's end from the HeralP-office to guide is. Tree it is, we might; if wp would ; sit contentedly & t em - in the dark ness, -tuid our imagination, aided by obscnrity—as men are apt to close their eyes when th e y wou ld take a bright internal look—might in a trice discover the family tree ; now complacently following its branches as they waved towards the Court-end of the town, and now avoiding them as they struck towards Tyburn. •We might do this , _ for ip 4 4 s lif i en One many a tittle , and for only sq much hard gash. But can he fatnily of qileafee us for the labour ? No. Then we trust we are not so wholly lost to the decencies of life as to lie gratis. "Nevertheless, we owe some explanation to the polite reader, for that we have given typographical precedence to St 9iles to the apparent injury of St. James. We think we have a just reason for Ibis. There appears to ps7.--and sure weare the like o inion . burns in the 4reptl of many innit respeEL4ble ptiple = pere of the We are informed that, in commemowtion of the- original animal man in Si. Goes the hi St. James. He honour conferred on the mercantile community of the seems to vindicate, and that brazenly, unblushingly, the City of Jo ndon by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, in baseness of his origin. He stands before us a creature laying e 'first stone f the kTew Royal E x change, iof the earth ;or rather, of the mud of the earth. If it be opened for business yesterday a&rhooti:tind. in ti4Stlitioi - i i c ! iherN.isz t then 119 qifrs and r g ein been ß mach of their loyalty and devoted attachment to her Majesty and abused, mistaken. her illustrious Consort, who honoured with their pre- "The very nakedness of St. Giles—according to our sence the ceremonial of its inauguration, the merchants, heraldry—makes him elder brother of St. James. As bankers, shipowners, underwriters, and others interested we consider him, he is as much the elder, as the bare to i•LP.o44=pppp of the city of London, propose (if the skin of man is ()Her than the silks and , velvets that have royal permission by pined) to greet, sii4eriptipo, enteyrapt it. He may be a marked and branded vagabond ; a full-length statue in marble of . Royal Eigkipes,i; 41'; nei4fthelpsS,•t)he . is 'The' el* briAlhei.• peiiteme Prince Albert, to be placed in the vestibule at tloyeN i plating %. 1004' in his Wint§—in 4erpengs, or in such other situation in the Royal Exchange as May, begotten of these wants—the proscribed from the con with the approbation of the Gresham Committee, be fines of this world's Paradise. Consider the history of hereafter determined upon. A Committee of sonic of man. Your vagabond is lost in the shadows of anti tile &sot. rillucntial merchants of the City is in coarse of quarian night —now, your gentleman is a common-phicg formation to 6aier njit •,?v,l;ernst. Upon this r bliotophie o 'prineiple'ddlve TURN-OUT or COAL MINERS.-:00 lAst,`the Si6iiest Wore ' and belieie its, dear coal miners in the employment of Mr. William readerJor, nn catchpenny reason whatever. We do 'not of Lowe Side, and Mr. Jesse Ainsworth, of Pit, Bmnit, say that a three-legg-ed oaken stool Is a finer, more com who have lately been on the strike, resumed work, the niodious chattel, than a gilded chair ; but, in the genea= Every sad S t p . a J r a t m i c lees of ! theirt p fa o c s e s s i 1: v they ery niiistet . 4 having, stoted areed to their ' logy of household moveables, sure we are it ranks as the The turn-outs have, theititdre, , '•hovi tesnilueil work' ,Oder protnq, Ire " th S r t e . i . ?? l'll's seven of the collieries ; but the miners emp a l n or c d by the two principal firms, Messrs. Lees, Jones, atom of 41 , ,sRi. Barker, Evans, and Co., and a tew smaller cots- their covering, cries no ; externally, as different as the corns, wee stOi the strike, without any immediate aforesaid threedegged stool gild glittetleg pre.spect ef'4..settleinent'prilie f.r,4e preset yet, in riga), of the s4tee : frajne-vin*-44 tie r s i a i ne ; nß94*.r of turn-outs, men and boys, is probahl7 seven linCossible Let e. ' or tight laundred r .--Akanelioter Guardian.c4ir ; and . • I What " clumsy thing is this" three-legged stool. What heavy joinery work ! Surely, it was shaped by an adze, and put together by some bungler, ignorant of the craft. What a piece of stark vulgarity ! " How very handsome the chair of ceremony ! How soft to the touch—how pleasant to the eye ! All damask, carving, and gilding. Well, we have stript away the covering ; we have scratched a little of the gilding off, and what is there beneath ?—why oak, mere oak ; a younger branch of the tr ee — a p i ece o f ki ndred wood to the three-legged stool. The same material makes stool and chair—but then the magical delusion worked by damask, gold, and dainty carving ! " In this way it is our hope to show S. Giles and St. James—to prove their brotherhood—their identity of material. We may, here and there, scratch a little of the gilding off one, but only to display the kindred nature of both. Thus, St. James may sometimes appear to be only St. Giles better stuffed, and with a brighter covering." FRASER'S MAGAZINE. The Church question, which just now engrosses the attention of the laity as well as theelergy, is here canvassed in a more temperate and conciliatory spirit than we should have expected from such a High Church periodical as Fraser; and the writer is of opi nion that an Act of Parliament authorising the Bishops to take the question of rites and ceremonies as observed in the Church into consideration, and to settle the same from time to time, as to their collec tive wisdom might appear expedient, would prove at once the most effectual and the least unpopular re medy for the serious evils under which the Establish ment laboured. This suggestion is not amiss, but we fear it would be found very difficult to carry it into execution. " A Walk from London to Fulham" is a dull collection of local and other reminiscences, which are only redeemed by the clever little wood-cuts with which they are profusely illustrated. In a brief essay, with the quaint title of " Glimpses of the Pageant of Literature," the writer, in opposition to the theories of Wolf and—if we remember rightly—of Payne Knight, strenuously insists on the unity of Homer, which no dispassionate individual could ever doubt who had perused attentively the Iliad and the Odyssey. " Some Rambling Remarks on Horace" contains some passable critical observations. The remark that " Horace was a selfish man" is perfectly just; he was indeed a quick-w'tted man of the world, who never lost sight of the interests of Number One, but his selfishness was not of a repulsive order, but, on the contrary, sate pleasantly, and even gracefully, upon him. " A Fine Day in the Temple" consists of a series of recollections of eminent lawyers who have for the last two or three centuries taken up their abode in this locality. Perhaps our readers may be amused by the following anecdotes of Louis the Eight tenth and Sir Sidney Smith, which we quote from an article headed " Retrospective Gleanings :" " Louis XVIII. made dining an object of the first im portance. The stories of his gourmandise are numerous: when in England, an exile, he would daily insist on seeing the fowls alive that were designed for his table, and on examining into their plumpness himself. The caustic remark of Talleyrand upon the journal which the King published of his escape from Paris, is upon record It was ajournal ofhis fears and his bills of fare, his bills of fare and his fears.' The last lime we ever saw him, he passed us in an open carriage as we were crossing the Place Vedine. He was of frightful bulk, seeming to enlarge rapidly; from the knees upward, in one formless mass of flesh and integument. We never saw in humanity a more uncouth development of the body, from the effects, no doubt, of his favourite indul eence in eating. It was the opinion of some that Louis XVIII. was fond of reading: one of the garde de corps, a young Irishman, being asked if this was the case by a friend of ours, desired him to come to the Tuileries the next day, when he should be there on duty, and he would show him the royal library. The invitation was ac cepted ; the young garde de corps led he way to a place which commanded a view of one of the lower apartments, where there was a cook in a white dress spitting larks:— That is the King's library.' said the young soldier ; I know no other nearer than the Rue Richelieu'—referring to the great national library of France. " We once saw the royal gourmand, in the character of a soldier, reviewing troops 'or the first time : Louis was comfortably seated in a caleche, accompanied by her whom Napoleon used to style the only man of the family, the Duchess of Augouleme. The marshals of France, who had led the French armies to victory under a diffe rent ruler, were all there. On the ground were twelve battalions of French guards, three Swiss regiments, two regiments of cuirassiers, with chasseurs, dragoons, lan cers, and hussars of the guard ; a regiment if hussars of the line, and six departmental legions, besides horse and foot artillery ; in all, above 20,000 men. The Duke of Wellington and King of Prussia, we were told, were on the ground incognito. The King of France- and the members of the Royal Family remained on the right flank. We were much struck with the rapidity of the fire of the artillery, which seemed to be a very perfect military a - m in the French service. We shall not easily forget the dust and warmth of that day. Paris. in the height of summer,. has a degree of heat at times perfectly tropical. "At this review was Sir Sidney Smith, whom we had met long before in England. His brother, Mr. Spencer Smith, we had known almost from the time of his arrival from Constantinople, where he had been charge d'ajfaires. Sir Sidney was distinguished at that time by his leading a grey horse about the streets, on the back of which we never once saw him mounted ; he was peculiar for the smartness of his dress, wearing a claret-coloured coat with gold buttons. Sir Sidney's merits were never duly appreciated by the Ministry under which he was em ployed : he was too chivalrous for cabinet men and officials at home ; they disliked him, and he had no love for them ; he saw much further than they did. His agreement with the French for the evacuation of Egypt, which Lord Keith rescinded on his arrival, was repre sented to Sir Sidney's disadvantage at home. What was the result but that, after a most expensive expedition from England, the blood shed in two or three sanguinary contests, with the death of Abercromby and the expense of a second army sent from India—after all these useless sacrifices, the French obtained terms very little more to their disadvantage than Sir Sidney had granted. Sir Sidney's mind was extremely active: simple and straight forward, his imagination was continually at work." JERROLD'S M A GAZINE. ILLUMINATED MAGAZINE. Our usual magazine notices have unawares ex tended to such a length and encroached so much on our space, that we are compelled to be brief in our account of this periodical. The Number, on the whole, is a good one, but its chief recommendations are to be found in its illustrations, some of which are as highly finished as the most fastidious amateur of the Fine Arts could desire. " Our Christmas Dream" is particularly clever, to say nothing of its seasonable ness, and represents a jolly, good-natured fellow fast asleep in his arm-chair, while punch-bowls, prize oxen, mince pies, sirloins of beef, plum puddings, and a host of similar Christmas emblems are dancing on the trays in glorious confusion before him. This plate is very much in Cruickshank's manner, and is every way worthy of that master of the grotesque and the familiar. Among the cleverest literary articles is an essay on "The Influence of Education on the Wear and Tear of Life." As a specimen of the poetry of the Illuminated Magazine, we subjoin Mr. Wade's " Hymn to the New Year," chiefly, however, on account of the seasonableness of the subject, for it is by no means remarkably brilliant either in thought or expression : " Another course the horses of the sun Along the viewless zodiac have run, And all but to commence Their varied journey o'er again:— Their hope of resting may be vain, For many a cycle hence! " Their task began with young creation's dawn, — The chariot of their ruler they have drawn Up to this passing hour— And through the long eternity, Just like a river to its sea, Shall be their onward power— " A power that scorns the whirlwind's noisy wrath, And e'en o'ertakes the lightning in its path, Slow creeper though it be— Time is a tortoise that will find His way and leave far—far behind All other rivalry! " O'er aged cities bath he swept his wings— Entombed in dust the purple pride of kings, And chronicled a few. But on he goes, all careless still— Much less inclined to cure than kill, Or give desert its duel " Yes! time's a canker, a most slow disease, Whose cravings not an antidote can please;— There is no cautery To sear and heal the wounds he makes— He has no thought for others' sakes— A selfish thing is he! " Another year! how many hearts unborn, And hopes unblossomed yet or on the thorn Of sharp anxiety, Will in thy course spring up or fade— How many a cheek shall be decayed, And ling'ring—ling'ring die! " But let us trust that, coming year! thoul't bring The promise of ripe Summer on thy wing, And. like the almond trees, Give us good token of thy fruit By blossoms, that ere leaves can shoot, Will scent the wandering breeze!" NEW EDINBURGH REVIEW. Though the title of this Review is somewhat too ambitious, yet it is by no means devoid of literary , merit, and the January Number is a manifest im provement on its predecessor. Among the articles we find an ingenious essay on the subject of the " Protestant Reformation, " and the causes by which it was more immediately brought about, in the course of which essay the writer justly remarks that the aristocracy benefited most by the great change in the national religion, obtaining not only the political power of the high ecclesiastics, but the chief portion - of the abbey lands, with the numerous benefices and tithes pertaining to them. The account of " Texas, its Settlement, Resources, and Prospects "—some hints for which have been derived from Mr. Ken nedy's able work on the subject—will be read with interest, as this colony is daily more and more at tracting the attention of Europeans. UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE. Foremost am(.ng the articles in the Number before us is a discussion on the " Social Wrongs of the Soldier," whom the writer most erroneously states as becoming "an outcast from the affections and the respect of civilians " the instant he engages to serve her Majesty in the army. We are not aware that this is the case ; on the contrary, we are firmly of opinion that the military man is invariably treated with respect by the people so long as he maintains a peaceable and conciliatory demeanour. "Reminis cences of a French Prison " contain one or two striking incidents, and will remind the reader of the admirable sketch of the interior of a French provin cial Newgate, in Captain Marryatt's first and best tale of " Peter Simple." We have no space for extracts. THE INSTITUTIONAL ADVOCATE. This is the first Number of a new monthly peri odical, which is intended to be a record of the pro ceedings of London and provincial literary, scientific, and mechanics' institutions. In the present Number we find condensed reports of the proceedings during the past month of all the London, and of a consider able number of the provincial institutions. It is neatly printed, and contains a vast quantity of information in a small compass. OCCUPATION of the NEW ROYAL EXCHANGE BY THE MERCHANTS. This interesting event occurred yesterday, and the muster on 'Change, though the day was not a post day, was very considerable. In consequence of the intended occupation, all the avenues were completely opened. The only arrangement we noticed which had any novelty about it, was that by which the ad vertisements and announcements of the sailing of ships, which used to be affixed generally to the walls of the old Exchange, are now pasted upon neat boards, which are hung up in the recesses of the merchants' area. These boards are all of ono size and character, and seem calculated to prevent the dis figurement which the old system involved. The temporary Exchange in the court-yard of the Excise-office will soon be dismantled of its roof and other fittings ; and we perceive, by an announcement affixed to the posts supporting the roof, that the materials are to be sold, and that the proceeds will be devoted to the principal City charities. The merchant 3 generally seemed to be perfectly satisfied with their new quarters, and quite ready to join in the genera) congratulation to Mr. Tite, the architect, on the very successful termination of his labours. Some of the merchants still seem to think that all the Exchange ought to have been roofed lihe the Bourse at Paris ; but, as we have before observed, that is a question the merchants determined them selves, by a large majority, before the Committee tiok any step in the matter ; and the common opinion appears to be that the majority were right, for thouh a roofed hall might be convenient at this time of the year, in the s,nininer, 44 - 0 particularly in wet weather, the heat and steam would be insufferable. Some of the merchants complained of draqghts of cold air, an evil which, we are informed, it is intended to remedy by the introduction of inner doors, should the incon venience be found to he important. STATE OF TRADE.—For some days past there has been a much better demand, both for goods and p,rn, than is usually eperienced at this season, and a fair amount o bnstnesS Iq4 been done at very firm rates. The pltrchrtsea of manufactured goods have been made, we believe, principally for the home trade ; but there has been also some demand for several of the principal foreign markets ; and sts. , ,cks of ail descriptions are un usually liglit.---ROCUDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MON DAY, DEC. 30.—The market to-day has Inn 141% tWn)y attended, and the little bnsinesa transacted has been at former pricils. powepn Christmas-day and the first market, which is always the first Monday after the Twelfth-day (the 6th instint), there is but little business transacted. The demand for Wool is better, and prices stiffer.—Manchester Guardian. line Bishop pf Worpester and Mrs. Vepys are passing t 4 (bristrnas recess at iiartlebpry Castle. We are halipy to say that his Lordship and Mrs. Pepys have not experienced any ill effect from the alarm occasioned them by the fire which occurred at the Castle on Thurs day last. The Right Reverend Prelki,te M. 4epys were aw3 - 4e ki:tcloci on Thursday morning by a strong stied of fire 11 . 1 their bed•roorp, upo n w hich hi s Lordship immediatelY quittH the aparituent, and has tened dawn ilairs, when opening the door of the school room found that apartment enveloped in flames. His Lordship, with great presence of mind, itgrai;,di A itely closed the door, and having seoweji 134 flonibr and do inestius, aynt for the flretengines. In the interim his Lordship expre's'sly forbid the door of the burning to be Opened; and' to which judicious step tPe preser9- tion of the - whole of tae magnificent building and its valuable contents may ire *airily attributed , . GOOD NEWS FOR TUZTpoYERO iS A certain have very early and revere winters, like the ri,A the succeeding spring is in - variably early and genial.—Leicester Gu a rdia n, , .11 1 yesday, at EXTRAORDINARY high water, the b,anks of the river in many phtees were overflowed, especlalti in ibc low I,Wl:l#o4.hoods of Warping and tooley-straai, where the tide rushed into the cellars and kitchens, throwing the inhabitants into considerable alarm. LORD LIMERICK'S FU N ERAL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Although opposed to you on many of the party questions of the hour, I cannot but admire the truly in dependent tone with which you approach those general questions of polity that can be touched upon regardless of the spirit of faction. The extraordinary scene that took place lately at Limerick may be classed among the latter, and is not to be passed over by calling the performers in it rabble or savages. I have reason to know this is not the first circumstance of the sort that has happened in Ireland. While travelling in that country during the autumn of 1843, I passed by the wooded and picturesque domain of Ravendale, the residence of the late Sir Harry Good ricke. The untimely fate of this unfortunate gentleman, the locality naturally turned my inquiries to the late Baronet ; with tears in his eyes did my narrator describe his generosity, his high spirit, his noble conduct ; in fact, to sum up all, he was emphatically a " good land lord." The whole country, for miles round, offered to attend his funeral, and had this been encouraged, it would have been the largest one ever known, even in Ireland ; but the story did not finish with the death of the late proprietor ; the good deeds c•f one landlord re called the evil ones of his predecessor, at whose funeral the mob rushed upon the pall-bearers, dashed clown the coffin, and trampled upon the inanimate body. This story made a great impression upon me. It drew the line of distinction between " a good landlord" and " a bad landlord ;" for I am satisfied that all the feelings of the population of Ireland centre in these distinctions. Free to follow their religion, when left alone by the agi tators, all political questions are forgotten by the people. They have only one question, a d that is emphatically the landlord question—the division between "the good" and " the bad." And now for the late outrage. Lord Limerick for nearly thirty years never visited the property or the country from which he gathered as many thou ands per annum. Ills residence was uninhabited, and falling iato decay. That late lamented traveller Inglis, in his " Tour in Ireland in 1828," has, in more than one of his truth telling pages, described him as the very worst landlord in Ireland ; and I can safely affirm that in 1843, from Orangeman or Repealer, I never heard the contrary. Not only was he a perpetual absentee, but the charities of Limerick and its neighbourhood will be vainly sought for any response of the noble proprietor to the wants or desires of his tenantry or the inhabitants. Lord Lime rick, in fact, was, among absentee landlords, absentissi mus. I write this without any personal ; I never had the slightest knowledge of the late Earl—less even than his tenants, for I never sa w hi s bailiff. It is far more easy to commit an outrage on the feel ings of the living an on the body of the dead. The outrage of thirty years was answered by the execration of an hour ; but even this re-echo of the pent-up feelings of years would, I have no doubt, never bee❑ heard, had the ill-advised friends of the late Earl been content with a private funeral. The present Earl is said to be in some distant land., perhaps unaware of the wealth and honours that have rather unexpectedly fallen upon him. If the late pro ceedings are recalled to his memory, let him and all other proprietors remember that they are but the com ment on the text which should ever be their rule of conduct—" Property has its duties as well as its rights." An Englishman, bound to Ireland by no feeling but that of sympathy, and grateful, too, for some pleasant hours spent there during the last year —not so much among the hospitable halls of its gentry, but as a wan derer in many parts of the island, in its wildest and least visited districts, and at a time when the repeal agitation was most rampant—l am induced to send you these few observations. I confidently protest against the late out rage being mixed up with any political faction. It was but an outburst of feeling from a warm and excited people. It could not be restrained. Some may call it savage ; but who can deny that it was not natural. Your obedient servant, R. D. Tuesday, Dec. 31, 1844. PRIVILEGES OF ROYAL PALACES. WINDSOR, TUESDAY.--It will be recollected that a gentleman, re siding within the precincts of Windsor Castle, was taken in execution, by an officer of the Sheriff of Bucks, at the suit of Mr. Lawrence, for a debt of between 2,000/. and 3,0001., and consigned to the county gaol at Reading, where he now remains. If this were a breach of privi lege, it was not as against the party whose body was taken and consigned to the county gaol, but a breach of privilege against " the rightful power and dignity of the Sovereign." But, in order to guard against the commis sion of such an offence, and the penalties which would thereby be incurred, a communication was made on be half of the Sheriff to the Lord Steward, asking for per mission to execute the writ and take the body within the royal precincts. A reply was immediately trans mitted by Sir Thomas Marrable, the Secretary to the Board of Green Cloth, giving the required sanction of the Lord Steward to take the defendant in execution, provided the capture was made with a due and proper " regard to decorum." From this it will be seen that, without the permission of the Lord Steward, on the part of the Sovereign, to execute a writ within the precincts of a royal palace, such an act would still be a breach of privilege. It is not, however, to be supposed, in the cases of persons in difficulties, who take refuge in " pri vileged" places, for the only purpose of using them as " sanctuaries" to be " out of the way" of civil proces3, that a similar permission would ever be withheld on the part of the Crown. The Counsel, on the part of the de fendant, in arguing the question before the Learned Baron of the Exchequer, chiefly relied upon the point that the Lord Steward had no power to give his permis sion for the arrest to take place; this, however, was over ruled. PRIZE FIGIIT ON KENNINGTON-COMMON.—Tues day afternoon, at three o'clock, a fight for 31. a side took place on Kennington-common, between a Jew and a Frenchman, which lasted for an hour and a half without any interference from the police. REVERSE OF CIRCUMSTANCES. A DRUNKARD'S FATE.—Tuesday afternoon an inquest was held before Mr. Higgs, at the Red Lion, Hart-street, Covent-gar den, on the body of James Copling, aged forty-four. The deceased was formerly a cab proprietor at the west end, but from habits of inebriation he had lost every thing he was formerly possessed of, and for some months past had acted as a doorkeeper at the Red Lion public house, in the Strand. For some months he had been troubled with a severe asthma, and on Saturday night last he was crossing the yard of the house, No. 4, Leg alley, Long-acre, where ho was lodging, when he was seized with a violent fit of coughing, which ruptured one of the blood-vessels of the heart. He was conveyed into the house, and a surgeon was sent for, but prior to his arrival life had ceased to ex i s t. Verdict—" Natural death." THE SIAMESE TWINS MARRIED.—An American paper asserts that the reported marriage of the Siamese twins to two sisters, which was supposed to be a hoax, is a literal fact, and that Mrs. Chang and Mrs. Eng have presented their lords with heirs to the name and pro perty of Chang and Eng. It is further asserted that, being now married men with families growing up, the twins intend to resume their exhibition by way of in creasing their store and providing for their interesting progeny, ANOTHER NEW OPERA BY BALTE.—This popular composer has returned to Paris, and is now busily en gaged in the composition of another new opera, the li bretto of which has been written by M. St. Georges, the author of La Reins de Chypre, and fOrwarded to Mr. Bunn, for translation into English. The principal part is intended for Madame Thillon, whose engagement at Drury-lane commences in May next. It is also said that an Italian opera by Balfe, entitled Ekrida, will be brought out at her Majesty's Theatre next season. DROWNING TO GAIN A LIVELIHOOD,---A young man, named J. Devroe ' agee 18, was take n ou t o f t h e canal on Monday last. It is supposed that he threw him self in on speculation, for, shortly after ho was taken out, four individuals presented themselves to receive the usual recompense in such oases. Similar cases occur an nually. Some time back a man was known, who used to attempt to drown himself every week, but there was always four men by to save him.—Brussels Gazette. THE ROYAL STAG HOUNDS.—Notwithstanding the strong indleations of a fog, which prevailed during the whole of Monday morning, her Majesty's stag hounds met at Thorpe Green, agreeably to the announced ap poietraent ; but from the circutnatanee of the fixture not having been notified in the London papers, the field con sisted of not more than between eighty and ninety, in cluding several military Nimrods trom Windsor. The deer Wild Boy, upon being turned out, took away for Colonel Scholetield's where, after circling about for some time in the plantations, made for Thorpe mill, doubling 44 to Botley's, and thence to Egham waste, on towards Chobham, where it was lost ; the hounds being called off in consequence of the fog, which by thi s time had got so exceedingly dense that it was impossible to see for a dis tance of fifty yards, rendering the following of the pack a matter of great danger to both man and horse. The hounds were taken back to tho kennel at Ascot, sad Wild Boy left to roam at large for the night. Tiui INCOME-TAl.—Three hundred pounds per annum, arising from capital invested in the Three_ per Cents. is at the present moment worth 10,000/. The incoree of a clerk is unsaleable ; it depends upon per sonal services, for which he may be incapacitated at any moment ; and if he die, his family are beggars. Yet the clerlk is called upon to contribute the same amount to the revenue as a rich man with 10,0001. in the funds ! A system of fiscal policy more cruelly unjust it would be difficult to conceive, one in which the injus tice is more clear and self-apparent ; but the majority of the House of Commons, when the tax was thus un equally imposed, shut their eyes to its iniquity ; an d they will do so again if the public , let them. The prin . ciple is the sstiVic if we compare the cas e of a t ra de sman annum p u ro m fita derived of his WW with an income of 1,0001. derived business and a nobleman of I fro p r;► r the profits from landed estates, Th e value of the latter at only 25 years' purchase is 25,000/. ; the goodwill of a business, dependent upon the innumerable it accidents of t ra d e, w i ll rarely sell for more than Ye years' purchase. Th e re . . , l a the position, therefore, of tne tradesman. r, - act the nobleman, in the case supposed ; i,S i4t - s one to five, and the operation of the prqaut inuomegaz is as five to ane in favour of 41.0 nobleman. At the end of three years, eack wilt have paid 90/. to the revenge--the one out of a property worth 5,0001, a t the time the tax was imposed, the other out of a property worth 25,0001. at the setae period,— Afestrainster Review, Izinovelioxs IN 'T1143 esvaco.—On Saturday, at eleven o \ ll o4 l a deputation, consisting of more than forty gentlemen of high respectability, waited upon the Mayor at the Guildhall with a requisition to him, signed by nearly 2,000 citizens, all mczahers of the Church of England, to calla public meeting of the inhabitants of gxetq, to, address and petition the gneen on the present state and danger of the rrotttsiant Church. Mr; J. Bacen addressed the Mayor in most eloquent terms, and bis worship immediately conceded to the wisketa of his fellow-citizens, and appointed The sday next for that purpose. An earlier day would have been fixed, but it was feared it might interfere with the business of the Woolmer's SXliff GatTloo‘ • -. •, - .••• - --, ! - T - 7,7 - 7 - 1 •,•.-.- 1 Agn--,N - - - - , lrl'i .4 ANOTHER WRIT OF HABEAS IN JERSEY. *'''. (From a Second Edition of the Jersey 6 1 , ;tie rte.) 1 ....:3': 4 4. We have returned to Jersey at la s t ; and happily,. , _ ( •,',l‘.:, ), for many and various reasons, with a p eremptory writ , !,i, ' , 2.‘,1,,'', -- .:: ' of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum, issued b y Baron.,7j; ...4 ,- ,3 Rolfe, and returnable in the Queen's Bench. We'—:,- 6 served the writ to-day on Mr. Ka n di c h person.o4o :;. ,,,,r ~ .V and a copy of it duly o n the Vi scoun t. The fullaw---;;Li' ing is the order of Court directing the issue of the ..` writ : " R. M. Rolfe.—Upon hearing Mr. Peacock, fur Charles Carus Wilson, and upon reading the several affidavits of William A. Langdale, and of WiLiam Russell, and the exhibits thereto annexed, I do order that a writ of Habeas Corpus ad Subjiciendum issue directed to John Kandich, gaoler of Jersey, and to John Le Couteur, Viscount of the said island, to bring up to the Court of Queen's Bench the body of Charles Carus Wil*ou, returnable on the 18th day of January, 1845. " Dated the 23d day of December, 1844." The following is an exact copy of the writ and en • dorsements " AD. SUB. " Victoria, by the grace of God of the 'United K irg do:n of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, to John Kandich, keeper of our gaol of Jersey, in the Island of Jersey, and to John Le Cou teur,•Viscount of said island, greeting, we command you that you have the body of Charles Carus Wikon, detained in our prison under your custody as it is said, together with the day and cause of his being taken and detained, by whatsoever name he may be called or known, in our Court before us at Westmin ster, on the eighteenth day of J anuary next , to un dergo and receive all and singul ar such matters and things which our said Court shall then and there con sider of him in this behalf and have there then this writ. Witness Thomas Lord Denman, at Westmin ster, the twenty-third day of December, in the eighth year of our reign. " By the Court, " ROBINSON. "Endorsed by the Judge : At the instance of Charles Carus Wilson. (Signed) "11. M. ROLFE. " Mr. A. Langdale, 7, Gray's Inn-square, London, attorney for the said Charles Carus Wilson, 23d December, 1844." The efforts of the Viscount and his subordinates to day to avoid service were most ludicrous. We were not obliged to serve a copy upon the Viscount per sonally at all, but as counsel suggested that it might be as well to endeavour to do so, we proceeded about twelve o'clock to that gentleman's residence, St. Aubin's, rang the bell, and, in answer to our inquiry, were told by a middle-aged man servant, that the Viscount was at home, but too ill to see any person. We then desired him to inform his master that we were there with a peremptory writ of habeas corpus, to bring up the body of Charles Carus Wilson to the Queen's Bench, England ; at the same time exhibit ing the original writ and copy. The man deParted on his errand, and presently returning, told us the Colonel could say nothing about it, finishing with " I beg yo ur p ar d on , s i r, b ut I must shut the door. Ha! ha! ha !" Truly laughable was this absurd ex pedient to avoid the service of a writ. Returning immediately to town, we entered the Viscount's office, and served the clerks there (Messrs. Sullivan and Binet) with copies of the writ and order. Those young and sensitive gentlemen were even more alarmed than their master, and very de cidedly refused to receive the dreaded papers. Nay, in excess of zeal, Mr. Binet threw the copies after us as we descended the stairs. C ur i ous t hi s, for a lawyer's office. About ten minutes afterwards the writ was served upon Mr. Kandich, who took such mere matter of course quietly and reasonably. It may be perhaps as well to mention that the: ex • hibits mentioned in the rule of Court were the "I•ule" obtained by the Solicitor-General, and the tflidavits of Mr. Wilson and the Procureur-General. It will require more than ordinary impudence, therefore, to assert on this occasion that the Judge has been sur prised into granting the writ. Is there no limit to the jurisdiction of the Jers©y Royal Court ? None ! We believe if the eleven Apostles were to revisit earth, and light upon Jersey, Judas himself, all the while in England, could throw them into Jersey gaol, and that our Royal Court would be glad to pluck them. One Captain R--, an Englishman, lately visited Jersey from Caen; owing nothing to any man in England or in Jersey, An alien—a Frenchman—seeing him here, ordered the Deputy Viscount of Jersey to arrest Captain R--, which the Deputy Viscount did —with a constable's staff, having a crown at the end of it and he did this, mark ye, " in the Queer'; name," as if the captain were a criminal, and without warrant-- without an affidavit of dets , t—without any security from the alien Frenchman that he would appear and prosecute his suit, And in the Queen's name this Deputy Viscount lodged his prisoner in the Jersey debtors' prison. In the Queen's name ! We appre hend that without warrant the Queen's name might have been invoked with a poignard equally law fully by the defendant, MILITARY INTELLIGENCE, (From the Limerick Chronicle of Saturday.) The 72. d, or Albany Highlanders, und..er Lieut.-Colonel Lord A. Lennox, by the Resistane;,, troop-ship, from Cork, were landed at Gibraltar, on the 13th December. and played into barracks by the bands of the Ist, 7th, 38th, and 79th, to the tune of " Auld lang sync." The third and last division of the i7th, unth r Major Orange, has landed in Dublin from Woolwich. Captain Stokes's company, 6th Battalion Royal Artil lery, has embarked at Curk for Bristol, en route to Woolwich. Major Harrison's company of Royal Artillery has embarked at Kingstown for Cork, and arrived yesterday per Dee steamer. The troops ordered to O'Brien's-bridge, Silvermines, Castle Connell, Cappaghmore, Cloghjordan, Borr.so leigh, are countermanded for the present. The detachment of the 4th Dragoon Guards, tii-clered to march for Killaloe and Nenagh, is countermanded for the present. Alsistant-Surgeon Stack, 23d depot, Otirk, is on leave of absence to the 31st December. Colonel Chatterton, K.H., 4th iloyal Irish Dragoon Guards, and Mrs. Chatterton., left the Rev. Richard Dickson's yesterday, for Cenir. Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Michael Creagh, 11 th Regi ment, at Chatham, is on leave. The regiment only re quires thirty inen to complete its strength. Lieutenant -General Sir Thomas Arbuthnot, com mander of the district, attended the Manchester public dinner last week to Sir Henry Pottinger ; also, Lieute nant-Colonel White, 70th, and Major Westenra, sth Dragoon Guards. Lieutenant Vansittart, of the Ist, from Barbadoes, and Captain White and Lieutenant Forbes, 77th, from Jamaica, have landed at Southampton by the West India mail steamer, Thames. The islands were gene rally healthy. The Sergeant-Major of the 16th Lancers is promoted to a cornetcy in the regiment, without purchase. Lieutenant Grogan, 7th, Lieutenant-ColonelCockburn. 60th, and Lieutenant Shirley, 87th, sold out of the ser vice last week. The Senior-Lieutenant of the 7th Fusileers, and Pay master of its depot, has sold out of the service. Captain Norman's Company, 54th, has arrived at Ballinamore; county Leitrim, from Mullingar, head quarters. vt be-eretsrlivxd FRIGHTFUL SCAFFOLD ACCIDENT IN JERMYN• STREET, ST. JAMES'S.—Menday forenoon, a dreadful accident, attended with fatal consequences, occurred at a new building in the progress of erection, situate at the corner of Jermyn-street, and Duke-street, St. James's square, belonging to Mr. Slater, butcher to her Majesty. It appears that Mr. Archbutt, builder, of Hanover-street, Chelsea, superintended the erection of the building which is chiefly built of stone. On Saturday evening last, prior to the workmen leaving their work, two ns as .. sive stones, each weighing about 500 cwt., forming a coping between the third and fou m r a t k h in st g or:e h s, ol w e a o s a h o o n i se t eo d f oa to the scaffold, where it was on all t o h w e e s d ca to ffo r ld e , m ,A. a .h in en u nth ti: Monday morning, when the meonkereatluvranye,dantod tthheeisreawff.o:ltdi Shortly after nine o'clock, a mason, named John Sinith, i n their eoab dfdugtethf carrying e 01 the mlf e a , na w an e F 1 . df P t wt l hu t a e etsl4cs t ie w dk • n o eggs s awo t g o hfe n itdc e hh s e , %ss S ' uitt m pohnp i t eoh h sri , tsae sd a c n ihit d ti:l aebtyl broke o other pworkmen,reepniBtarntel weightwith lul rtawht hnrhocoei iftrueshhgdtehleihmopeatnthdsheteaobooboneffoepeutntehhhtniceairon opening William itlhlieambasFeramenncits,,a adnedpthßooflaseervt seventy feet, were feet, the coping stones balcony.upma one of , the stones w hi ch 1 featle men, , of re gl ot fell with one t hde b e eooon mnrads boards tetodforemast unfortunate oh vaedr dis placedlwo di feet. Assistance was immediately procured, and au being got up from the bottom his skull was found to be extensively fractured, and life quite extinct. Smith. another workman, was discovered lying ti: few yards from hint Insensible, and bleeding profuiely from several wounds in the head ; and a short distance from the latter lay Perry sensible, but bleeding from several wounds in the scalp, and covered with bruises and con tusionsL Francis was conveyed to the Unicorn public hottsp opposite, where the body now lies ; and Smith and Perry were immediately removed to St. George's Hospital: where but slight hopes are entertained; of Smith's recovery. An inquest VA as held in the er‘niss at the Unicorn, Jermyn-street, before Mr. Higgs, kipnA gip body of William Francis, and the jury, after: hotting the facts as above related, returned a verdict of a Aid dental Death." The jury appended an opinion that an excessive weight had been placed on the scaffold, and that better precautions ought to have been taken. ' COMMUNICATION RETWEEN EGYPT AND INDIA.-- It is satisfactory to ho able to inform our readers . thst, Mr. Galloway, the engineer (whose pamphlet on ::tie Cairo and Suez Railroad, as noticed in the Westyr,inster Review, we referred to in connexion with the, Indian railways on Friclas last) has just left Paris, 'n route to Egypt, to zomenence this great work, pre d ucted by hia bt'oteer, the Bey, ten years ago. This Rork must be I looked upon as the first link of the grand chain of rail way comtnnication from the Mediterranean so gene rally advocated, and so obviously necessary between 1 Enjland and her Indian possessions, and her recently 'acquireci colony in China.—Morning POJWA eir be BO ied ris Ay TS' mid (as ist., the ,ans C. the but we al ble ?.n. the ar- At Lou kg, ret 11.% ' l 4 I