The Sun. — London, England, 1845-01-13 00:00:00

----- ; Of til l 1 g IVY!, pe al 01 . .._..._ M ONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS (From The Syn of Saturday Evenin A fair b ustuess was done in cotton at Liverpool yes l" day. Saks, 5,000 bales, at steady prices. —Shares were not very firm, but a fair business was done:— lirmingham and Gloucester, 41; Chester and Birken head' 37 3 6i; Dublin . and Drogheda, 71; Eastern Conn- Ilea ' 1 i; Grand Junction, 227; Ditto, Halves, 113; Liverpool and Manchester, 217; Ditto, Halves, 106+; ILondon and Brighton, 52; London and York, 41. Bs. 9d.; f a clon and South-Western New, 5f ; Charnel Valley, ti Midland Counties, 116+; South-Eastern, 41i; Ditto;L Ilevi, 14 1 + t; Lyons and Avignon, 2,; Paris and 11 , ... -- ' °ll6 ' 7 i 1); Paris and Strasburg, 2j; Northern of mice, 5/. Its. 6c1., 5/. 1 ks. 6(1. W e have the Bank of England statement to Jan. 4, in m3,,t,night's Gazette. The figures may be thus given :- ItcB 4411 44, 28 .087,055/. ; decrease, 113,1104 Bullion, 16,601,fin1i. ; decrease, 76,7951. Pablic deposits, 7,386.643/. ; decrease, 44,9621. Sher deposits, 6,037,3201. ; decrease, 227,7591. i t,t, 3,127 ,278/. ; increase, 14,011/ istitortis probable that the Directors increased the circu in last week, owing to the dividend pay -"enl4§. although their present issue is undoubtedly 1144t1e atiltlare enou-gh. The increase in the securities inch- Zit" extension theico business, and which, from lll"raialkints of • bll-brokers, there no doubt has e * ince the Lew Ant came into operation. 11„' ew Panel's, o Sept. 7, have come to hand from , 4 - ^' ll Town, but t e xcept that they do not describe mer ':?tile affairs iss having rettognuhd, although no peril- Ir itnprovernent had occurred, there is nothing of in e'r6eht in diem bat local news. very ",r, talglish Securities generally continue to have a a " rill a Ppearance, and the purchase., though limited, o il tittite sufficient to uphold them. No dcubt, how „r, Parties are deterred from investing, by the higher I,'ice'• Cousols have been 100 k I, ex-dividend. New Thrreep:Lnd-a-Quarter per Cents., 104 f to it ; and the is 2 1 - I ",Per Cent s . R e d uce d , 100 + to 101. Bank Stock bei n „ ,!? 212, E xc h equer Bill s h ave rather given way, ii„. to 625. p rem i um. 11,; 4111 ° 3 8 in Foreign Stocks is very dull. Spanish p er „P er Cen ts. are steady at 26{ to 27, and the Three ~, .ents. have risen to 37 and 37i. Portuguese Con tr7ci`ecl are 60 to i ; M ex i can B on d s are 34 j ; D utch Two tlialf per Cent s . o b ta i n 63 i to 1 . ar l d ' Railway Sh ares have been rather lively again, qicj e nerally at buoyant rates. Birmingham and delip,,,ster keep hi g h. G reat Western are scarcely so 11 44, r ' ro Ydon have r a lli e d ; Brighton are still rather So tak ° rlc and North Midl and are well supported, and q u i t ' Eastern are rath er b etter. F rench Share . are not 7 0 good. ?$ ICE OF BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK 'lank St (From the Official Li st.) o c k 212 3 per Cent. Red t i ce d Annu i t i es 101 ic 3P w er : e lll - Consols Anns I' . -,4 per Cent. Annuties Aril -311 g Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l2 3-16,i 11 15-16 Do. Years Expire Oct. 10, 1859 l2 3-16 Ditto 0 Year's, Expire Jan. 1860 India Bonds 1,0001 .. pm. Consolsitto under 1,0001 7B pm. for Openin ' India Stock. . g • 288 1 ; , . ' ..... 13:i d. 1 1 ,4 d. 1,500°04: ............... 63 64 pm. _ 63 64 pm. ••• .............. .•• Ditto Small . p Ditto Adverti se d . ... •-•— --- pm. -11 I CE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. 'Mexican Bonds, 1 8 3 7, 5 per Cent. 3-4z' Ditto for the Account --- , 8 Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto Co n v er t e d — Ditto for the Account. .•, t Spanish B on d s, 5 per C en t., 1840 2- L- .. , Ditto for the . "4 . Fount• ' Ditto 3 per Cent 4 ' Ditto for the Account. Dutch 2 1 ,4 per Cente ' ,4 8 i . ' • Ditto 4 per Cent. c ertificat t s P RICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. b. , . RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SIIARE. .oirn ighatu Carob • " d Gl ouc ester 100 104% to c, ridge and Lincoln bet Valley uireet Xorthern w ire Counties 0. Perpet. 5 per Ct. No. 1. 3 5 4 — R Ditto, ditto, No. 2. fs .:(linburgh and Glaagov,- ' I Y and Bedford .. - Great South and ii, (Irish)... 5 • Ditto Extension r, Ditto Additional 'neat North of England 100 'reat 'Western ... . ............. 80 Ditto, h a lf Shares ......... 50 ,_Dito,th Fis . ...... to 'dull t and Selby 50 .. LLancaster an d C arl i sle lO " . '•• 15 4... to t. ondon and Bldckwa11... London and and Brighton. . -.:: 5O ...... . _ Londor ) 5 6_ 8. ./1 5?4 to ... ........in and Greenwich .... 12 3 / 4 ...... lON to London and South Western.. 41%...... 76 3 to 76 to 6 Ditto New .............. ....... ...... 591 I..ondott and Croydon 1 - i Landon and Y0rk......... .... 2 / 2 ... .. 4 4 to Midland Ae,,,, to 63% i i _ c astle &Darlington on,. 24 , ...... 64 1 i ' 0 ... r1 , 1 1 British it„Rnern and Eastern • 45 /2 5 91 i t TbY _" .... 1 So "a•,Wolv D d Birrn• 214 27 ...... to \All, er., U., • 4 D ''''utern and Dover ... 33% 42 ...... to 4194 S ' I W N 4 - O t v , eV,. ..... ...... .......... 1 'i i t41,1,,E5 „ t ts t t ~,"‘Y .............. - ..... 2 4,,„,,,i,.,.„ i,..... 3 4...... tO t orty, • a „„106,4 to 106 bi tt °a rbo _ , Midlan 10 • 3 2 .% to Dit.',, Self.„,T B ranch 20 ~ t '',' sc rip 11 1 / 2 to 12 , 1 4risio p lkal n e RAILWAYS. (ir e ( Vie a FRENCH 43/ t o I4tti 0 r Aulieni 2 •••••• 3 . gOthi 41harn of J! ranee t - 4 5 e,„... . _ .ri, . 4k1,1 2 ~ to -- A • kid 0 gnon 44 4 de an ,20 .. 431/ 4 ... to 11 dIt o ,._ 8 ........... .. .. .." An3/.1/1/i to ph"ell.. i,„ ... • 8 ‘ jE S OF IRISH STOCKS, JAI( 9• , 1001 2 Pe,r Cent. Consols 3 Di tto m one kr Cent. Re d u ced . I• , - 3 34b8itt°teok Mon o y • • • •. • . ... . ... .. .... .. •••••••• • • • • • .. 1 9 2:: Per Cent. Debentures ~, ag Annuities. , — -s.,ank Stock 216 .4 val ve- --Anal Stock t4ka latit-zxrasal:l Canal Stock 12 tlo t bt t- 1 1 a f • Elt Sr OCX 'EXCHANGE,IO.—There 14 &IN, ,l i .r, 4010Unt cif business done, and the market wash % good general demand : s o suand Railway Consols, 401. Shares, 53474 Ditto . tern, 4'2 , .uitto New 143' t- I)itt x- ' /4 11-, tl a k ° --,atv Creation, 12% 15-16 e a . e -, brn, Burnley, and Accrington, S% eciuroridt! and Lincoln, 2% 3 / 4 11-16% 13-16 Ely n t v alleY, 41-16% and Bedford -181 • 9 / 4 ''' t udd erail ld - • s• , ,tecis e and-Manchester Rail and Canal, 4 3 / 4 raul___ . and Bradford, New Shares, 10% prem. on and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby, 1% ondo n -I , . Ita,che an', Y ork, 4 4-16 an), s e, Bury, and Rossendale, 8% British 6 as_Bt Yorkshire, S. . , vii_7ria a nd L t 'Northern of Fr ance, 5 % Na . . fy, 35s nchester andnsLiverpool District Bank, 1114. CLOSING PRICES. Bank BR ITI SI-I FUNDS. Stock . 211 ye., Per Cent. Redueed _ 101 • ar Cent. Consols . 100 1 4 •.- L ew 314 • Per Cent cTAnnuitieS to expire Jan. 1860 12 Vtta 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 ... _ .itto 'IA 11 15-16 1860 .... 11 13-16 lndia BondYearl 3• jai). 5, .... --" 72 Di„ ' '°°43l.. ti 0 under 1,000/. .... •—• ... ' 7 , ensola • 1001 i ~ • •I ndi ... ..... .. ........ . ..... ....... a Sloth for Account • 2881 Exchequer 8i115 , 1,0001., I%d 64 pm. bitto 500/. ' . billoBrnall , 64 pm. Spa n i sh FOREIGN FUNDS. *• . t 5 Der Cent. 1 840. - ntek2l/ per Cen t 2 I,, tt ainkt i ;„ ' _, ~_ SHARES. trittb-,--1" and Gloucester, 100 paid - 103 1 si ol 41-11'Ncr S hares, 17% Paid 25 iilll-rhi Gl°ll ceater, 30 paid .. 42% „%. le st , ge and Lincoln 11 paid ti i , and t i , „ , /2 . 1,441:13,t %.411,-;:y2rieaao, 5 paid ......... bibilNorthern, 2P/ 2 Para ........ :: .................... :• • 24 „zit,_ and 'Still 1 i rigar, 2% . .Paid. ........ . ..." ..... I)l'4'ol Punties, 25 paid .. ~ ~. bitto ~erpetual; 5 • per Cen • , • t 2a . paid, . No. 1. -- J4lird,,, mtllo, 133. 4d. paid Nu 2 ' . % '4' ana r t l a nd Olas ow 50 paid. , ,q re4t -- nthord, 1 p g aid • • ... 0_ oEx.rn.atid;Westru (Ireland), 5 paid .' 9 4 • bitt "'cat No,„,`."fieion, 2% paid .................... • 6,lBitt '..!." of England 100 'd . 149 -Q•litt:' N2twwShares,,s paid ... Pai. .......................... :: 26 at v e .,F ,4 ~tiibitto ir' e rn, 75 paid.. ..... 165 1 4 ttr,-."alf Share s 50 '.. :. ................. ''' q . 11 nli " - fifths 2 0 '. Paid ... • t..., and so. ~p aid : .. t - "Cast er ••• ' • ,-, paid ... . ..on t i on • arid Carlisle, 10 . p...**;l' N I , 't(l Birmingham (Sto ck)a' 228 26 1 / 2 ' 4 1 ' )'1 .to' ' ew T hirda, 2 paid -- 111 d aQandarltlackhwaaileal,;l62Pall"" .. l ' a ildr 1.4,,,,, ti 1111,1 Brighton 50 18 id - 71 50 1 44 .1uen and Gre - ' P a radon „ n : South enw 'e o 1% paid , b itt... N I 'Ni u ....• 6 .• 0 .• a n d_ • .............. ~intioUroVdoo, 13/. 53 Itt lriVh n e a i l d Y 011.2% Paid '..'• 9 • I. r aid 16414 .itt o 'i / ' and Leeds. 70 pai.d• ttarai,i,-,,,,,,o.eBtearliiSdlibar,e_sl.3o‘paid .... .. .li.,'iftbd, 100 paid '` . min gnalil, 40 paid prtitritie __k _ r _ ir; . . ..... _ British - , it , I _ron:Junction, 24 paid 6 3 14 1„71hern.„,,, , ft 7 3? Pa td .... .. ~ ,,11 ,31 - )itte s e 7 r ~,,,,.. te a rn, 45 paid ........ . liirWich an( r i r rtib P d id . .s. t:rn)o, nidpaanidcl Juncti on Westulll• : • n B d Paid . .. . i ptid . iltb , ritihtt.E .. pal 'etit ° I New Sha altern a11...1)..0,..v., ... ......... .... . ... \Jettli 11 Vales , si reS. 4 pa i d. v n „v•a, z/ 2 paid ............................ 31 y" tst coleY; 2 Paid .. . .... „, !, " . . .„arh.,..., . ... `i ..4 paid ...... 3 g lorin and o,rwich, 20 paid 1). an d North 1$ • t'it,lN s lidliind, 50 paid ..... _.... . . . . 106 r,,, • carboro' Ba2noth, .110 paid.. 0, Selby Seri 'ID Extension P : ..... P..a.1.(.........:::::::::::: _ 6 1 8 14 11 0 . 14 1 0 F RENCH' ( 1 10 "e and A . RAILWAYS -1,4;:j 14 , 4n ,, , v. miens, 2 paid ................... 4. • 4% 1, .ens a ' n(1 4 , 1 1,-non, 2 paid ............ .... . 57 ri4 arid 1-)erdeaay.• paid .................. 7 4 44 114 1 4 Itorieanic 20,peid• . .. - nen, 20 Paid ................ . ... . ..... 43 1 ........................ 40 i 40: fr ‘ TT "Icer fr, T • ", if Ter _r THE SITN, -- LONDON, ki - OXDA -- 1( Ma-IVNINS, JA NUA R Y 13, 1 LITERATURE. VACA77OII 7 I?A2IIBLES, 2 Volt. Mason, London, 1 545. The author of this work has been long known to the public as one of the most successful dramatists of the age, whose tragedies of lon, Glencoe, and the Athenian Captive, recently re-issued by Moxon in a :1 - 1-ap duodecimo form, have, we understand, been circulated by thousands among the operative classes —ll striking proof of the rapid progress that education and the refined tastes it engenders, have made among them within the last twenty years. In the volumes before us Mr. Sergeant Talfourd has essayed a far less aspiring flight than in the popular productions to whith we have just referred. Quitting the lofty walk of the drama—though, we trust, only for a season—he has come forth as the unambitious chronicler of three separate continental tours which he made in the vacations of 1841, and the two subsequent years. The route which he took is one with which most Englishmen are familiar, hut he has invested it with all the charm of novelty , by the freshness an d vivacity of his styl e , th e racy vigour of his descriptions, and the spirit of ioonhommie and cordiality that per vades all his remarks. In this last respect his volumes present a remarkable contrast to the majo rity of similar works with which we are acquainted; for, however enterprising they may be, courting dif ficulties for the pleasure of grappling with and sur mounting them, Englishmen—th e ungracious truth must be told—do not, in general, make the most agreeable travellers, more especially if they happen to be travelling, not for scientific purposes, but merely for amusement. In the first place, they are far too easily put out of th e i r way; secondly, they are im bued with too keen a sense of the snug comforts of home, and take it as a sort of personal affront or calamity if they do not meet with the same abroad ; thirdly, they are apt to be intolerant of all usages that differ from their own.; and fourthly, their distrustful fancy is always bristling up, " like quills upon the fretful porcupine," from an apprehension that, go where they will, they are pretty sure to be "taken in and done for," to borrow the phraseology of lodging houses. Then their inveterate practice of grum bling 1 " Think of that, Master Brook !" Without a grievance John Bull is a fish out of water. If he cannot find a petty misery ready made to his hand, he feels it to be a sort or duty to invent one, and in this respect at least, his invention never plays him false. Sterne has divided English travellers into two classes—those who travel " from Dan to Beersheba " for the perverse pleasure of discovering that " all is barren," and those—the more rational, but limited class—who are ready to be delighted with all they see and hear, to take hum an na t ure as. t h ey fi n d i t, an d' not to find fault with foreign customs, simply because they may happ en t o diff er widely from their own. Mr. Sergeant Talfourd is a .traveller of this last com plexion. Unlike Sterne's Smelifungus, he views everything through a social, cheerful medium. Fluc tuating, weather—indifferent accommodations—even the vexatious' passport system—fail to disturb the sunny serenity of his mind. On he goes, hoping for the best, and deriving comfort from the reflection, that if to-day rain and fog shut out his view of the Alps, the cloudless su n o f t o -morr ow w ill ena bl e hi m to behold them in all their glory. There is an inex pressible charm in a book of travels penned in this cordial, good-humoured, accommodating spirit. The reader at once contracts a sort of personal friendship for the author, and ever after associates his name with the most pleasing recollections. But not only is Mr. Talfourd a cordial, sunny-natured traveller, but like all men endowed with high imaginative faculties, he has a quick intuitive apprehension of the picturesque, and nothing can surpass the mingled grandeur and beauty of some of .his descriptions of Alpine, Italian, and Rhenish scenery, in which we here and there meet with touches of genuine poetry, thrown out quite unconsciously as it were, not unworthy the author of lon. To his credit, also, it must be added that he has a nice conception of creature com forts • and. the pleasant process of good ea ti ng an d drinking goes on in his social pages quite as actively as in the inimitable Scotch novels. Though en raptured of course with the Alps, our author never forgets the highland and lowland scenery of Scotland, which he is continually reverting to with satisfaction, and which seems to have made an impression on his mind greater even than that produced by the monarch of European mountains, the snow-crowned Mount Blanc. Every one is aware that the ascent of this lofty eminence is a task of no slight difficulty and some peril, but Mr. Talfourd, undeterred by the numerous failures of those who have attempted it, boldly resolved to set his foot on the highest ground in Europe; and accordingly set out with a tarp party from the inn at Chaniouni, duly furnished with guides, porters, provisions, and all things needful for the hazardous expedition. His account of this ascent —of his passage across the glaciers—of his dinner on a ledge of rock half way up—of his night's halt among 'the snow—and his difficult transit across an unfathomable chasm—these details are full of the most romantic interest, and have, besides, a dramatic force and truthful earnestness about them that act on the reader's fancy like a spell. We regret to be compelled to state that our author failed in his attempt to reach the snowy summit of Mount Blanc. He managed, however, to get within a few hundred feet of it, and was then compelled to return, partly in consequence of his own fast-increasing weakness, and partly in consequence of the still greater exhaustion of one of the snore youthful members of the party. But though he failed in his bold enterprise, he has still the proud consolation of reflecting that he got nearer to He aven than lawyer ever got before, or, we suspect, will ever get again; and may boast that he is the first Queen's Sergeant who ever stood within three hundred f eet of the topmost height of Mount Blanc We subj o i n a portion of his description of a appeased—but night's bivouack among the upper solitudes of this majestic mount a i n : " When the fi rst rage of hunger was before the tables were eaten or removed (which will not be for some time)—the gu i des suggested the expe di ency of arranging our d resses at once for the night and for the ascent, by putting on the warm clothing suitable to both, and which being once done; would enable us to start as soon as we should be awakened for the upward march. huge stockings were, by A smooth ledge i n t h e next ruck served us in turn for a dressing-room, i n which my some magic, dra wn on ; and the massive shoes which bad been dried in th e sun, resumed ; and gaiters b utt o ne d over the - trousers in strange fashion—in all which very arduous accomplishments I was assisted by Julien, with a delicate dexterity which would have done honour to a French valet, and a mingled kindness, respect and com mand, like those blended in the manner of an old family servant to a pett e d young master. I shou ld h ave thought the shoes, we ll saturated with snow, once re moved, could never h ave b een put on over t h e tremen dous stockings ; but e ven t hi s last miracle o f t h e t o il e t was happily accompli s h e d ; and I was pronounce d rea d y to lie down for the night and to start on the morrow, or rather at the midnight summons. So, afters cup of weak brandy and water, which Julien recommended and shared, I took my pole and picked - my way over the pro.strate bodies of two young gentlemen who were already asleep, and squeezed myself into my allotted niche, with my . head supptirted by Jarie comfortable stone, and my - feet pressed against the low fence edging the shelf--: figuring my se lf t o myse lf as lik e an e ffi g y o n a monu ment. The positi on was i n no respect , h o wever, unplea sant, except in the confinement of the limbs and a very very tolerable a couch it prov e d. The notion of the slight feelin g of sold ; and I was su r prised to find how ledge being a terrible place—overhanging or bordering a frightful precipice, is entirely erroneous ; its height above the snow on the side it fronts is not fimrnidable ; and the bristling irregularity of the rock prevents the slightest sense of dizziness or danger. It is far beyond all reach of avaleuches—which are heard in the stillness of the night thundering down the surrounding but dis tant precipices with no more possibility of reaching the listener, than when he looks on the Jungfrau from the platform of the Wengern Alp. It has been customary, according to the published narrative of the ascent, to erect a tent here, under which the travellers sleep ; and Mr. Bosworth, early in the afternoon, put up an awning against the rock and supported it by poles, under which he proposed to sleep and to includ e us ;—which seemed to justify me in applying to our position the woids orthe th e t en t was l a id fated Richard— ' Here pitch our tent ; even here in Bcs wor th fi e lslee-e Up with my tent ; here will I lie to ni g ht ; • B u u p t w w i h th e rtehto-morrow?not ans wer] WeLl all's one f or t h at aside, having served no purpose but as soc i at i ng a passage of Shakspeare with our lot ; enough in it se lf to huma nise the desolate snows ; and its owner, with th a t qu i e t kindness which marked his demeanour finding that one of the young*, gentlemen needed the accom mo d at i on o f the best ledge more than himself, silently r es i gn ed it, without the theatrical expression of Sir Philip Sidney, and bivouacked on the second rock. We lay, therefore, with no_ meaner covering than the heavens, on the ledge, my son occupying the outer place, ' at his+ particular de sire, and, for that night only,' and I resting beside him. He did not, however, come to bed till long after I had taken up my station ; but was scrambling about the rocks and breaking chicken bones with the guides, who kept up the festivity of the evening till after sunset. " Soon after I had thus set up my rest,' the grand process of sun-setting began ; and solemn as have been many sunsets to me, I never saw one—l will not sly merely equal to this—but one resembling it ; for the dif ference was not in degree, but in ki n d. Ab ove an d around there was not a cloud—not a speck to dim the deepening azure 'of the sky, nor a fleecy breath of mist wafted or lingering about the towers or do mes of the mountain. These glowed for a few minutes i n d ee p er rose.colour than that which appeared to c l o th e t h em at this hour from below ; the summit, as usual, retained it last ; and when it faded, it left them in the cold white ness of the dawn. Thus far—with the grandeur above us—all passed in its usual procession of glory but while as from a purer seat subjected enchantmelit spread beneath us—as if from some pinnacle of heaven, the eye were permitb d to gaze upon its bm er glories, tb,. habita tions and the array of angels. The first appearance of this vision was that of a celestial city, all of sapphire, circling a lake of azure, while far away in measureless distance, legions of angelic hosts—shapeless as those of Rembrandt, descending on Jacob's slumbers, but giving like them the sense of winged glories, were ranged, while tents and pavilions of violet and gold behind them, seemed to bespeak a martial array. Presently these splendours became all confused ; and then a sterner grandeur reigned ; a scene of huge purple caverns and golden rocks, but beside a sapphire sea studded 'with islands of deeper gold ; and then the colours blended, and faded, and nothing but one heap of purple clouds filled the place of the gorgeous vision ; and I was alone with the rock, the snow, and the stars." MEMOIRS OF THE REIGN OF GEORGE THE 7'HIRD. 2 Vols. Bentley, London, 1845. Thee long-promised Memoirs, which close the historical work s of Horace Walpole, have at length made their appearance, and will not, on the whole, disappoint public expectation. They are printed from a manuscript copy contained in the box of papers which came into the possession of the late Earl of Waldegrave, and were by him transferred to Lord Holland, in the hope that they might have the benefit of his editorial skill and judgment. Duties, how ever, official and otherwise, of a pressing character, prevented his Lordship from executing the task, and at his death it appeared that he had not even com menced it. Under these circumstances the present Duke of Grafton, on whom, as Lord Waldegrave's executor, the property of the Memoirs had devolved, consulted Sir Denis Le Marchant on the subject, who readily undertook the duty of Editor, and the volumes .now appear under his avowed superinten dence. His task has been no slight one, demanding the union of great industry with proportionate re search and impartiality, and he has accomplished it in a most satisfactory manner, clearing up all the personal and party references in the text which the lapse of years has rendered obscure, by brief, ex planatory notes, and carefully pointing out to the reader every instance in which Horace Walpole— who had strong political predilections and antipathies —has allowed himself to be led astray by his preju dices. The period of which the Memoirs treat— namely, the first twelve y ears o f th e re i gn o f G eorge the Ihird—has hitherto been comparatively little known, notwithstanding it was one of more than ordinary moment, being marked by such stirring events as the rise of the American revolution, and the Parliamentary struggle respecting general war rants, out of which grew 'a spirit of free, bold, active inquiry into the prerogatives of the Crown on the one hand, and the privileges of the pe-ple on the other. On'this important period the Memoirs before us shed a clear, steady light, and give us an insight into the public and private peculiarities of George the Third's character, the intrigues by which he was surrounded, and the durance in which he was kept on his first accession to the throne, which we may vainly seek elsewhere. We always knew that he was an obstinate, self-willed, bigoted Monarch, with as lofty a notion of his own prerogatives as ever was possessed by the Stuarts, but we had no idea that he was so astute, circumspect, and, we may even add, sagacious, as he is here repr esen t e d t o h ave b een. F or the first few years of his reign, during the inglorious ascendancy of his, favourite Minister, Lord Bute—a man without the slightest capacity for public busi ness—he was kept in a state of thraldom and seclu sion by that statesman and his own mother, the Princess of Wales, which is almost without parallel in the annals of sovereignty. He was accessible to none of his Court but at the stated hours of business and ceremony; nor was any man but the favourite, and the creatures with whom he had garrisoned the palace, allowed access to him. Of that lofty states man and orator, Lord Chatham, the Memoirs furnish us with many curious sketches and anecdotes, not one of which but tends to show the vast hold he had acquired over the public mind, notwithstanding the; numerous errors and inconsistencies of which he win', guilty in the course of his political career. When he iesigned his seat in the Cabinet, in consequence of his advice being overruled on the question of war with Spain, not even his injudicious acceptance of a Peerage for his wife, and a pension of three thousand a year for three lives, could destroy his popularity with the people. They grumbled, it is true, and re sented, for a tim e , hi s wan t o f high-minded disin terestedness ; but they still clung to their favourite Minister, who had gratified the national pride by humbling France, and carrying the naval and mili tary glory of England to the hilfhest point ; and when, about a month after his resignation, he dined with royalty in the City, he was received with en thusiastic acclamations, "and the distinctions," says Horace Walpole, " paid in Guildhall to Mr. Pitt, to the total neglect of the King, bestowed all the honour of the triumph on the former." In reference to the peace with France and Spain, which was the occasion of Pitt's resigning office, the Memoirs before us state that the most unblushing corruption was had re course to by Fox in the House of Commons in order to secure a majority in its favour. " The self-inte rest," we are told, " of each separate Member was appealed to ; and this with so little decorum on the part of either buyer or seller, that a shop was pub licly opened at the Pay-office, whither the Members flocked, and received the wages of their venality in bank-bills, even'to so low a sum as two hundred pounds for their votes on the treaty. Twenty-five thousand .pounds, as Martin, Secretary of the l'rea sury, afterwards owned,' were issued in one morning ; and in a single fortnight a vast majority was pur chased to approve the p e a ce I" T ru l y , thisis a happy illustration of the wisdom of our ancestors—that wis dom of which the Tories are always vaunting, and which they would gladly see restored among us ! In closing our brief, hasty notice of the present portion of these Memoirs, which terminate with the year 1767, we shall just simply state that they are penned in that light, gossiping, anecdotical vein, of which Horace Walpole is so consummate a master, and blend history with biography in a very attractive manner. As a specimen of the author's powers of portraiture, we quote his sketches of the notorious demagogue, John Wilkes, and his contemporary, Churchill, the satirist : " The Z'orth Briton proceeded , with an acrimony, a spirit, and a licentiousness unheard of before even in this country. The highest names, whether of statesmen or magistrates, were printed at length, and the insinuations went still higher. In general, favouritism was the topic, and the partiality of the Court to the Scots. Every obsolete anecdote, every illiberal invective, was raked up and set forth in strong and witty colours against Scotland. One of the first numbers was one of the most outrageous, the theme taken from the loves of the Queen Isabella and Mortimer. No doubt but it lay open enough to prosecution, and the intention was to seize the author. But on reflection it was not thought advisable to enter on the discussion of such a subject in Westminster Hall ; and, as the daring audaciousness of the writer promised little decorum, it was held prudent to wait till he should furnish a less delicate handle to vengeance : a circum spection that deceived and fell heavy on the author, *ho, being advised to more caution in his compositions, replied, he had tried the temper of the Court by the paper on Mortimer, and found they did not dare to touch him. " This author, who must be so often mentioned in the following pages, was John Wilkes, Member of Parlia ment for Aylesbury. He was of a plebeian family (his father was a distiller), but 'inherited a tolerable fortune in Buckinghamshire, and had been bred at Oxford, where he distinguished himself by humoroui attacks , on whatever was esteemed most holy and respectable. Unrestrained either in his conduct or conversation, he was allowed to have more wit than in truth he possessed ; and, living with rakes and second-rate authors, he had acquired tame, such as it was, in the middling sphere of life, before his name was so much as known to the public. His appearance as an orator had by no means conspired to make him more noticed. Ile spoke coldly aid insi pidly, though with impertinence ; his manner was poor, and his countenance horrid. When his pen, which pos sessed an easy impudent style, had drawn the attention of mankind towards him, and it was asked, who this saucy writer was ? Fame, that had adopted him, could furnish but scurvy anecdotes of his private life. He had married a woman of fortune, used her ill, and at last cruelly, to extort from her the provision he had made for her separate maintenance ; he had debauched a maiden of family by an informal promise of marriage, and had been guilty of other frauds and breaches of trust. Yet the man, bitter, as he was in his political writings, was commonly not ill-natured . or acrimonious. Wantonness, rather than ambition or vengeance, guided his hand ; end, though he became the martyr of the best cause, there was nothing in his principles or morals that led him to care under what Government be lived. To laugh and riot and scatter firebrands, with hint was liberty. Despotism will for ever reproach Freedom with the profligacy of such a saint " Associated with Wilkes in pleasure and in the com position of the North Briton was a clergyman named Churchill, who stepped out of obscurity about the same period, and was as open a contemner of decency as Wilkes himself, but far his superior in the endowments of his mind. Adapted to the bear-garden by his athletic mould, Churchill had frequented no school so much as the theatres. He had existed by the lowest drudgery of his function, while poetry amused what leisure he could spare, or rather what leisure he woidd enjoy ; for his Muse, and his mistress, and his bottle were so ess e ntial to his existence, that they engrossed all but the refuse of his time. Yet for some years his poetry had proved as indifferent as his sermons, till a cruel and ill-natured satire on the actors had, in the first Having of this reign, handed him up to public regard. Having caught the taste of the town, he proceeded rapidly, and in a few more publications started forth a giant in ;lumbers, approaching as nearly as possible to his model, Drydp, and flinging again on the wild neck of Pegasus the reins which Pope had held with so tight and cautious band . Imagination, harmony, wit, satire, strenfl th i fire,hey were and sense crowded on his compositions an welcome for him---he neither soug h n company. Careless of matter and manner,torinvited their he added grace to sense, or beauty to ju st nonsenset sonorous, even as they cam e in his way ; and he could not he lp advertised bei n g vertised the title s o f when he was unintelligible. H e poems, but neither planne d nor be g an them till his book . sellers,.or his .want -of •money, forc ed him to thrust out the crude but glorious sa l li es of kui uncorrected fancy. I watched those receding, tints, flocks of clouds arose be low ; and filled up the valley of Chamouni to the brim with tissues waving greyly, like floating shrouds. They were then seen creeping up within the folds of the valley beyond, till that also assumed, as far as it was revealed, the same Spectral veil—while the top of the Br6ren, the Aiguille.Varens, and the head of the Buet, stood out like _tbe right heaven-tinged islands in th a t solemn sea. But beyond —in th e ex p anse to thel3l4ven topOYhat glory was disclosed! s cloudland, not to be gazed at from below by a subject aortal, but to be looked down into SUMMARY OF NEWS AN 1 tttYtr l, 3 ptitton. s' Who runs may read.' VORCIO4i. Admiral Dupetit Thouars, had the honour of dining with their' Majesties the King and Queen of the French, on Tuesday. The Duke de Nemours , gave his first soiree for the winter on Wednesday night. A brilliant .assemblage, amongst whom were several members of the high dit• plomacy, Peers of France, Deputies, General officers, artists, and men of letters, were present. At nine o'clock the King entered the apartment, accompanied by the Queen, Madame Adelaide, the Count and Countess d'Aquila, the Prince and Princess de Joinville, the Duke and Duchess d'Aumale, and the Duke de Montpensier. , The King was in plain clothes, as were all the persons invited. He wore the Grand Cordon of the Legion ofj Honour, and the order of the Garter. The soiree was prolonged to eleven o'clock.. The Duke intends giving, it is said, several fetes this year, to whica he will sue oeasively invite all the persona admitted to bia royal father's balls, that is to say, all who are distinguished in politics, in the service of the Government, the law, the army, the arts, literature, .and manufactures—in fact, the elite of the persons devoted, in their several positions to the institutions of July. The Mop/deur declares that the report of the resig nation of the Count de Montalivet, mentioned by the Constitutionnel, is totally destitute of foundation. The Duke de Palmella, late Ambassador from the of Portugal to th e Q ueen o f E ng l an d , h as arr i ved iris. The French Chamber of Deputies met on Thursday, when Marshal Soult informed the Assembly that he had been ordered by the King to apply to the Chambers for a pension of 15,000 f. in favour of M. Villemain, who had been compelled by his health to resign the exalted station of Minister of Public Instruction, with which he had been invested by the confidence -of the King. Although M. Villemain had occupied fur many years important offices in the State, he possessed no fortune, and consequently left his family totally unprovided for. This consideration, and the eminent services he had rendered the country, which the Marshal recapitulated, in order to justify the demand, had, he said, induced the King's Government to apply to the Chamber. fora pro vision on his behalf, which 10 to revert integrally, and by equal portions to his three daughters, the eldest of whom was born in 1835, and the youngest in 1839.. ,Should Madame Villemain ,survive her husband,• :she is to be entitled to one half of the pension of 15,000 f., the other being divided between her children. A Bill to that effect was laid on the table, and the .Members.imme diately afterwards retired to. their Committees.. The revenues of Cuba, says a ,Madrid journal, have gradually increased for some years. In 1811, they rea lised scarcely 3,000,000 piastres; in 1841, they umounteai to 11,817,299 ; and in 1842, to 12,114,893 piastres, without including the tithes for the maintenance of. the clergy and public worship. This revenue was thus de rived :—From the Havannah, 8,895,453 piastres ' • from Port-au-Princ e , 1,238 ,439 ; from San lago de Cuba, 1,980,950 piastres. The Government paper at Copenhagen bas just published the budget of Denmark for 1845. The receipts, which are estimated at 15,844,869 rix dollars, show an excess of 206,862 rix-dollars over the expenses. The Elector of Hesse has conferred the Grand Cross of the order of the Golden Lion on the Hereditary Grand Duke, on Duke George of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, and on Prince George of Cambridge. IANI7 am) possum. In the case of Newall it Webster, which was con• eluded in the Court of Exchequer, the jury found for the plaintiff, thus confirming the validity of his patent for making wire-rope. John Short, a licensed victualler, came up to pass his final examination in Bankruptcy before Mr. Commis sioner Fonblanque. The circumstances of this case are somewhat curious. The bankrupt (under the new Act in Bankruptcy) was his own petitioning creditor ; not one creditor appeared to prove a debt against his estate, no assignee had been chosen, and yet he appeared in order to pass his final examination. The Learned Commis sioner said that this was one of a class of cases which called for the most marked displeasure of the Court, and, without making any further observation, the deci sion of the Court was, that the choice of assignees and the bankrupt's final examination be both adjourned sine die. • - At the Central Criminal Court Jane Turner and Mary Ann Rumpling, of the tender age of fifteen years, were convicted of burglariously, at the parish of St. Maryle tr.ude bone, breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Ger- M ary R. Curzon, a lady of property, living in the vicinity of R egent's -park. Turner had been previously convi cted- The Recorder, in passing sente' ce, said that they had been very properly convicted of a serious offence, and when their age and sex were considered, a very singular one. The sentence was that Turner be kept to hard labour, in the House of Correction, for one year ; and t h e other prisoner for six months. Mr. Bond, t h e, presiding magistrate at Queen-square, received a l e tt er containing a bequest of 201. (less 21 duty), under the will of Francis Bailey, Esq., to be applied, at the discretion of the magistrate, to the relief of the poor. A similar bequest has been left by Mr. Bailey to the poor- box of every Police-court in the metropolis. Su wretched is the accommodation at the new Lam beth Police -court, that the magistrates have made up their minds. to hold the court for one week in one of the rooms of the private house in front of the premises, in York-row, Kennington-road, so as to give time for the necessary alterations. C 0 UAW— rumen . ALM Naii The Duke of Buccleuch has arrived at Montagu House, Whitehall, from Dalkeith Palace, Scotland. The Duchess and family are expected early next week. The Marquis of Huntley has arrived in Paris from Switzerland, and has alighted at the Hotel Wagram, Rue de Rivoli. The Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury have left Mi vart's Hotel, en a tour in Devonshire. Viscount Duncannon, the Ladies Harriet and Kath leen Ponsonby, the Hon. Messrs. Frederick Walter and Gerald Ponsonby, the Earl of Huntingdon, the Hon. Mrs. Jephson and Miss Jephson, Sir Richard ;:ox, Burt., Sir Charles O'Donnell, Capt, Egerton. Capt. Gough, and upwards of 120 members of the principal Gmilies in the county, attended the Turvane Hunt ball, held at Carrick-on 7 Suir, last week. Viscount and Viscountess Villiers have arrived at MiddletOn Park, from Drayton Manor, where the Noble Viscount and Viscountess have been staying for some time, with Sir Robert and Lady Peel. Lord Forester has arrived at Belvoir Castle, on a visit to the Duke of Rutland. Lord and Lady Templemore have arrived at Dublin, after making a tour of visits in Ireland, and visiting their estates in the county of Wexford. Lady Dover and family have arrived in town from" Trentham, where they have been passing some days with the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland. Sir Clifford and Lady Constable have a large party of their friends at present staying on a visit at Burton Con stable. asisossLaarsoVS: A correspondence between the secretaries of the Brighton and the Croydon Railway Companies has been published, in consequence 'of the observations made by, the Chairman of the Brighton Company, at the meet ing of proprietors on the subject of the toll demanded by the Croy,don Company. From this correspondence -it appears that in September last the Croydon Company offered to alloi% the passage of all the Brighton traffic over the CroYdon Railway to and froni London- bridge at the proportionate toll, according to distance, on the terms of an agreement in relation thereto subsisting be tween themselves and the South-Eastern COmpany. To this the Brighton Company replied, that having re cently entered into an agreement with the Croydon Company to regulate the toll on goods, parcels, cattle, &c., they could not abro g at e suc h agreement , b ut were willing to accede to the proposal of the Croydon Com pany for a proportionate toll on the passenger traffic, including carriages, horses, and dogs. This the Croydon Company considered as a refusal to accept the propor tionate toll on thp traffic of the,Brighten. Company pass- ing over the Croyden Railway from London-bridge, and they concluded by stating that the Brighton Board of Directors are doubtlessly aware that the agreement between the Croydon and South-Eastern Companies in- cludes both goods and passengers, and that no arrange ment can be made by the 'Directors of the Croydon Company with the Brighton Company on any other than those terms. The Society of Odd. Fellows, ~of. Aylesbury (oddly enough), gave a ball and supper at the Swan Inn, in that town, on Wednesday, the Ist inst.,, "to commemorate" her Majesty's visit to Stowe. The Cour. will not arrive at the seat of the Duke of Buckingham until Wedneatho *AC Some reduction is likely to take place in the course of • few clays in the fees received at the metropolitan police courts.' The Commissioners of Police have, within a few c ays past, received instructions to that,*ffect from the Home-office, which will soon be made known to the public. - An alarming fire broke out on Tuesday last on the Market Strand, in Falmou*, when five houses were de stroyed ; it was with great difficulty that a large range in connexion, and others across a narrow passage,.were preserved. The greatest energy was used, and the most prompt assistance given by the people, and the town engines -were efficiently manned, under the superintend ence of the mayor, the magistrates, and Capt.'Spettigue, R.N., of the Coast Guard. Slost praiseworthy assist ance was likewise rendered by the officers sad crew of the Genoese war. steamer Malfatano ; also by those of the Dutch war steamer Vesuvius,,both at present in our harbour. The officers and crews of her Majesty's packets likewise were prompt in attendance, together with a file of soldiers from Pondennis, with an engine. GREAT PRDESTRIAN MATCH AT,Nig t Y oux . great twelve-mile running match for 1,000 cTollarS US the winner, and 300 to the second nun, came off on the 16th ult. Two competitors only started, viz., John Gilder sleeve, of New York, and Thomas Greenhaigh, of Eng land. The former had•beaten the latter a short time previously in a race of ten miles, yet Greenhaigh on the present occasion was the favourite. The match was ad mirably contested. The American took the lead at start ing, and kept it throughout the first eleven miles, when theEnglishinan, who had kept close at the heels of his opponent the whole distance, made a. dash, passed his rival in an instant, kept the lead, and came in first by about thirty yards. The distance was run in .68 min. 48 sec. A four•mile match, for 150 dullarbs' w'as also won by an Englishman (Jackson), beas4l4 o 4 ~ :0041 11 • run in 22 min. 10 sec. • COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—The Queen will hold a Privy Council to-morrow (Monday) afternoon at the Castle, at half-past two o'clock. Yesterday the unfavourable state of the weather prevented her Majesty and the Royal Family from taking their accustomed walking and equestrian ex ercise in the grounds adjacent to the Castle.' His Royal Highness Prince Albert, from the same' cause, was prevented from enjoying the sport of shooting in the royal preserves. The Duke of Sotomayor, the Spanish Minister, had an audience of the Queen on Friday evening, to deliver his credentials. His Excellency was intro duced to her Majesty by the Earl of Aberdeen, prin cipal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, • and was most graciously received. The Queen and Prince Albert took equestrian ex ercise for an hour on Friday evening in the riding school, attended by the Equerries in Waiting. His Excellency the Duke and the Duchess of Soto mayOr, the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord and Lady Cottenham, and the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, took their departure from the Castle yesterday. The Earl and Countess of Jersey and Lady Cie : mentina Villiers, the Earl and Countess of Dalhousie, and Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, arrived yesterday at the Castle, on a visit to her Majesty. Mr. George Edward and the Hon. Mrs. Anson and the Res. Frederic Anson, had the honour of joining the royal circle at dinner yesterday. The band of the Royal Horse Guards was in at r tendance during dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended in the Castle, and per formed the remainder of the evening. This morning the Queen and Prince Albert walked for some time on the Terrace and in the Home Park. The Prince of Wales and the Princess Alice were taken walking exercise in the forenoon. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, the whole of the Court, and the domestic household, attended Divine service this morning in the private , chapel of the Castle. The Hon. and . Rey. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated. , Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, attended by Baron Knesebeck and Mr. Mildmay, honoured Count Kiel rnansegge, the Hanoverian Minister, with their corn , pany at dinner on Saturday evening, at his Excel leney's residence in Grosvenor-place. The Duke of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duke of. Mecklenburgh Strelitz attended Divine service yesterday morning in Grosyenor Chapel. A Cabinet Council was held at two o'clock on Saturday afternoon, at the Foreign-office. The Ministers present were Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, the Lord Chancellor, Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, Lord Wharneliffe, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl of Haddington, 'Earl of Ripon, the Right Honourable W. E. Glad stone, and Lord Granville Som erse t. The Earl of Aberdeen and Mr. Gladstone arrived in town in the forenoon from Windsor Castle. The Council sat three hours. The Duke of Wellington attended the early service in the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday. The Rev. Dr. Wesley read the prayers ; the Rev. Mr. Perkins preached the sermon. The Marquis of Down shire, Lords Hawarden, Wharncliffe, and C. Fitzroy, attended the evening service in the Chapel Royal yesterday. The Earl and Countess of Dalhousie left town on Saturday for Windsor Castle. The Austrian Ambassador, Count Dietrichstein, paid visits to the Royal Family In town on Saturday. Dispatches from. the Governor of South Australia were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. LLOYD S SHIPPING. LONDON, JAN. 11.—Wind scatherly breeze, with rain. It blew strong this morning. DEAL, JAIN. 10.—Wind S.S.W., a fresh breeze, 8 P.M. —Arrd. Elizabeth, Cranst one, Ichaboe for Leith ; Ad miral Nelson, Rossignal, Laguna. A Russian ship from the north, coals laden, got on the Goodwin Sand this morning, but was assisted off by a Ramsgate beat, with loss of anchor, and at 5 r.M. was riding in the Gull Stream. 9 P.M. blue , lights have been burning and guns firing in the direction of the Goodwin Sands for some time past—it is supposed a ship is ashore. Several boats have gone to ascertain the cause. A vessel, apparently ashore on the Bunthead, is burning a tar barrel, the Gull Light has fired several guns and rockets, and the boats have gone to her assistance. PORTSMOUTH. JAN. 10.—Wind S. to S.S.W., fresh breeze.—Arrd. Brouvershaven, Sansen, Batavia for Rot terdam, sailed Oct, • 1 ; Princess Louise, late Robertus, Rio Janeiro for Hamburgh. RAMSGATE, JAN. 10.-,-Wind S.S.W.--The Fritheof, of Uleaborg, from Hull to Malta, with coals, got on the Goodwin this morning, but was assisted off, and is in the Gulls, making a little water. LrrEneooL, JAN. 10.—Wind S., fresh.—Arrd. Flora, Kerr, Calcutta ; Brilliant, Payne, and Princess Royal, Forster, Ichaboe ; Mary Queen of Scots, Kelley, l'er nambuco ; Nightingale, Hunter, Macao ; Warman, Gib son,.La Guayra ; Pharsalia, New Orleans ; Robert Par ker, Charleston. Sld. Arethusa, Rio Janeiro ; Thomas Leech, Fernambuco ; Paragon, Africa - Rapido, Ha vannah ; Bombay, New Orleans. Off, gultan. China ; Hannah Kerr, Bombay ; Hero, Rio Janeiro ; Elizabeth, Paraiba ; Sylph, New Calabar ; Agnes Sophia. Nassau; Gossvpumy and Thomas B. Wales, N e w Orl eans ; Liver pool, New York; Union, Halifax ; Wipe, Newfoundland; Black Prince and Isis, --. OFF HOLYHEAD, JAN. 10.—Sarah Trotmafi, Ichaboe for Port Fleetwood. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 10.—Wind S.—Arrd. Patriot, Lon don for Malta, with bows stove, having been in contact with a brig or bargne, name unknown. FALMOUTH, JAN. 10.— Wind S.S.W., strong breeze and squally.—Arrd, oft; Gazelle, Ramsay, Hobart Town, sailed Sept. 9 ; Spectator, Mauritius. BRIDGEWATER, JAN 10.—Galatea, Bowes, Richebucto. BRISTOL, JAN. 10.—Wind S., strong.—Arrd. Maria, Balsdon, Demerara. On CORN, JAN. E.—Socrates, Williams, lehaboe. ABERDEEN, JAN. B.—Wind S.W.—Acrd. Pursuit, Wood, Ichaboe. - LEITH', JAN. 9.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Express, Camp bell, Ichaboe. SUNDERLAND, JAN. 9. —Sid. Pasco Greenfell, Cuba. Num., JAN. 9.—Arrd. Douglas, Giles, Ichaboe ; Eliza Ilolderness, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Eliza beth, St. John's, New Brunswick. YARMOUTH, JAN. 10.—The Brisk, of and from Shields, for London, which was on the Scroby Sand yesterday, has been got off, After throwing 100 tons of coal over- board, 'and has been brought into the Roads. The Ann and Emma, and the Coldstream, ashore on the Scroby Sand, have both been got off, after throiring part of cargoes overboard. DEPARTURE OF FOREIGN MAILS. The next Mails for Malta, Greece, and the lonian Islands, via Southampton, will be dispatched from hence on the morning of Thursday next, the 16th inst. The next Mail for Egypt and India will be dispatched on Feb. 3. The next Mail for India, via Marseilles, will he dis patched on the evening of Feh. 7. Mails will be forivarded to Rio Janeiro, Buenos . Ayres, and Monte Video, by II.M, steamer Firebrand, which, it is expected, will leave Devonport the middle of this month. All letters postod -before the departure of this steamer will be sent by her, unless' otherwise directed. he next mails for the West Indies, &c., will be dis patched hence on the morning of Friday next, the 17th, by the steamer Aron. The next Mails fair Aaaerica will be made up on the evening of February 3, and dispatched for Liverpool on the 4th, by the steamer' x 3 ibernia. The Mails for Hamburgh are still sent via Holland, in consequence of the approach to Cuxhaven being im practicable on account of the ice. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.' BETTING AT MANCHESTER —FRIDAY. The business done to-day was' too trifling to tender. a repetition of the quotations necessary. .A few b ••ta. on the Chester Cup. DERBY. Offers to take 15 to 1 about Hedger, and to lay 35 to agst Cobweb colt. OAKS. 4 to I agst Keat's lot. COURSING. • MORTZTH (LONGHIRST) MEETurcy JAN. 9.—The Tallyho Stakes (8 dogs) were won by Mr. Fenwick's Blue Beard ; Mr. Humbk's Sir Romulus ran up. MORPETH (NORTH SZATON), JAN. 6 AND 7.—The Derby Stakes of t guineas each (8 subs.), were won by Mr. Jobbing's Miner ; Mr. Fenwick's The Cure ran up. The Claret Stakes (4 dogs) were won by Me. H-atokin sen's Sidwood ' • Mr. Anderson's Celerity ran up. SINGt.ETON, JAN. 6.—The Cup was won by . Mr. Ed mondson's Domino i • the Bibby Stakes by Mr. William son's Busy ; and the Consolation Stakes by Mr. Wil liams's Nettle. MALLENY' MEETIZO, JAN. 3 AND 4.—The Malleny Cup, for 14 puppies, of 1843, was won by Mr. Gibson's Douglas ; Mr. Wilson's Johnny Coupe ran up.—The Ilarlaw All-aged Stakes (18 dogs) were won by Mr. Sharpe's Daintie Davie and Mr. Raimes's Tell Tale, who divided the stakes.—The Currie Stakes were won by Mr. Aitchison's Harry Lorrequer. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Surrey stag lids., Tues., Malden ; Sat., the Griffin, Kingston. Sir John Cope's bds., Tues., Milney Warr e n. ; Wed., Greywell Hill ; Sat. Brick Bridge— lot. Mr. Theobald's stag hds., Tues., Wickham Market; Fri., Ottley Bottom. South Berkshire hds., Wed., Burghfield Bridge ; Fri., The Bladebone, Buisklebury, Common. • It is believed that Mr. Frederick Goulburn, son of the - Chancellor of the Exchequer, is to be the new Com missioner of Customs in the place of the Hon. Ileneage Legge, lately deceased. HARWICX, Jax. 10.—The Patmos, Sutherland, from Sunderland to Newhaven, has been assisted ill here, wit' damage, having been on the Long Sand. TIRE CONVICT MASON. -.One of the visiting magis trates at York Castle has made a communication to Mr. Simeon Hutchinson, that he has received a letter from Sir James Graham, stating that, in consequence of the innocence' of Joseph Mason, who was transported for twenty years, having been established, orders have been sent for his immediate release ; and also for the release of • the four men wh o were unjusty transported for the bur glary 94 Goodmauhsun.—L ee d s Tina. - VALENTINE M . CLUTCHY. 3 Vols. Duffy, Dublin, 1845. This story is from the pen of Mr. Carleton, already favourably known to the public by his a d m i ra bl e sketches of Iri s h character, in which there was more of truth and force,-and less of exaggeration, than in any similar sketches yet given to the public, with the sole exception, perhaps, of those by Mrs. Hall. In the volumes before us, Mr. Carleton reads a useful moral lesson to the hardhearted Irish landlord and the flagitious agent; and we would specially recom mend his story to the attention of all Irish absentmes, for it will show them hciw often their poorer tenantry are in the habit of being oppressed and despoiled while they are absent from their estates, on which they ought to be frequent, if not constant residents. The tale is written with point and spirit, and is full of characteristic sketches, not the least amusing of which is the sketch of an Irish Squire of the Old School. The third volume is the most entertaining; in the second, the - interest flags occasionally, and there are some irrelevant matters introdnced, which might have been omitted, or at any rate curtailed with advantage. JOURNAL OF A CLERGYMAN. Blackwood, Edinburgh. 1845. This Journal is the record of a visit paid to the Peninsula by the author, the Rev. W. Robertson, minister of the New Greyfriars, Edinburgh, in the summer and autumn of the year 1841. The Journal, on the whole, is carefully written, but there is a languor and heaviness in som e o f th e descriptive sketches, as if" the author's heart was not in his sub ject, which may perhaps be accounted for by the state of his health, which he tells us in his preface, "owing to the influence of climate and other causes, was such as to weaken the energies of both body and mind." His destination was Gibraltar, which he was induced to visit at the insta nce o f th e Colonial Committee of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. On his way thither he paid flying visits to Lisbon, which he calls " the filthiest capital in Europe," Cadiz, and Seville, whose local peculiarities he describes in a more animated style than is u sua l with hi m. On the subject of Gibraltar, its scenery, excavations, bat teries, street-population, &c., he is very minute and circumstantial ; and we quote his account of a mili tary execution which took place soon after his arrival in that town : " There was a gloom overhanging Gibraltar at the iime of my arrival, 'owing to a circumstance happily of very rare occurrence—a court-martial on a soldier ac cused of a capital crime. The criminal was an English man, a very tine young man, a private in the 7th Fusiliers. He had hitherto borne a most excellent character, and was a good soldier. Love and jealousy seem to have turned the poor fellow's brain. The object of his affec tions was a woman employed in the mess-kitchen—a person of very indifferent reputation ; at the very time said to be enceinte by another man. He had had a con• siderable sum of money bequeathed to him by a relation in England, and it was his intention to purchase his dis charge from the army, make this woman his wife, and return to settle in his native country. The woman had promised to marry him; but persisted, notwithstandin g his remonstrances, in keeping up an intercourse with another admirer. The consequence was, that in a fit of jealousy and madness he stabbed her with a knife in the side; the wound proved mortal, and the unhappy woman expired very soon after. The court-martial sat for several days; and had not finished its proceedings at the time of my arrival. Malice prepense was proved against the soldier, chiefly from the circumstance of his calling the woman aside into a room, shutting the door, and making it fast with a bench before he gave the fatal blow. He was found guilty accordingly, condemned to death, and was executed on the neutral ground on the morning of 23d July. It is described as having been a most impressive scene. The whole garrison, with the exception of those on guard. were marched out to the ground in solemn silence. The gibbet was erected on the neutral ground; and when the troops had arrived at the place appointed, they were formed into three sides of a square, the scaffold occupying the centre of the vacant side. The criminal was then marched handcuffed round the square, inside the ranks—the Dead March playing, and the chaplain reading the service. It was observed how regular ly the poor soldier, f ro m th e f orce o f o ld habit, kept time to the music; and when he happened to be put out, how he changed the step, though his whole mind seemed occupied by the religious service. The' steps to the fatal scaffold were exceedingly steep and ill constructed ; but even with his fettered hands he as cended calmly and firmly without assistance. After the execution the body was laid on the top of the coffin, and the troops were marched slowly by it in single file, with the order ' eyes right,' as they passed, so as to force every soldier to contemplate the ghastly spectacle. It is said that many, b ,th officers and men, shed tears on the occasion. lam at a loss to divine the reason why the soldiers should have been compelled to contemplate the body of their comrade after the execution. Such exhi bitions produce no good moral effect, but serve only to disgust, and to excite sympathy for the criminal, instead of indignation against his crime. There was no executioner in Gibraltar at the time ; but the office was accepted by a private of the 4Gth Regiment, who received his discharge beforehand, and was duly installed in the honourable office of hangman to the garrison, with free quarters in the old Moorish tower, a salary of eighteen pence per d a y, t oge th er w i t h a doubloon, and the usual perquisites, when called upon to perform his duty." SUPPRESSION or Lecestrntaisst.—A public meeting was held in the Town Hall, Gainsborough, on Tuesday, at twelve o'clock, for the purpose of forming an associa tion to arrest the progress of incendiarism. Several in fluential landowners and farmers were present, but the meeting was not so numerously attended as might have been expected on such an occasion. The chair was occupied by the Right Hon. Sir John Beckett, Bart. The meeting was unanimous in adopting a resolution to form a district society in Gainsborough for the suppres sion of incendiarism. It was also deemed expedient to confine the operation of the assocation at present to the Lincolnshire side of the Trent. The proposal of a Secret Committee was also favourably received, who should have power, in case of a fire, to adopt some active measures on the spot, without losing time in sending for advice and authority to the General Committee. No less a sum than 7001. was realised before the meeting separated. The Committee are to meet in the Town-hall, Gains borough on Tuesday next, to report progress and trans act the general business of the association. UNWHOLESOME MEAT.—Wednesday night, a meet ing of salesmen and master butchers, was held at the King's Arms, Snow-hill, Mr. Moray in the chair, to put down the present practice of certain salesmen is New gate-market, College-market, and Warwick-lane, letting their premises after six o'clock on Saturday night, to certain parties who sold at reduced prices measly pork, " cag meg," and " crokers," to the great injury of the metropolitan butchers, and the detriment of the health of the poor. The Chairman, Messrs.lligham, Hawkins, Atwell, ThOrpe;Reign ar t, a n d O t h er i, expose d t h e e v il s complained of. It appeared from those addresses, that a few salesmen let their stalls on Saturday nights to in dividuals who purchased wherever they could get it, dis eased meat, which they sold to the poor at very reduced prices, and thus left the master butchers idle for hours on those nighti, as they could not compete with those that imposed the most unwholesome food on the poor, who imazined that they were getting great bargains. One speaker said that he knew several parties who pur chased measly pork that was returned .upon the sales men by master butchers, and which they sold in 61b. pieces for ad. and 4d. a pound. One of those parties sold in one day 60i worth of this meat. Another said that this trade was carried on in the College-market with the greatest impunity, as there was neither clerk or beadle attached to it. A third speaker alluded to the conviction of a vendor of measly pork, who was sen tenced at the last Maidttone Sessions to nine months' hard labour for that offence. All the speakers declared that they only , sought protection to the fair traders, and to guard the poor against being poisoned by unwhole some food. Resolutions were ultimately adopted, pledg ing the meeting to carry out, by every possible means, the objects for which they had been convened. The Secretary read a long list of salesmen and master butchers favourable to those objects; after which thanks were voted to the Chairman, and the meeting broke up. ATTEMPT TO ROB A MAGISTRATE AND CAPTURE or THE DELINQUENT.—Tuesday last, being the market day at Penrith, in Cumberland, a number of suspicious looking characters were in the town, one of whom was observed by a constable watching and following Joseph Salkeld, Esq., one of the sitting magistrates for Leath Ward, in the, same county, which circumstance the con stable communicated to th e wo r thy magistrate. In th e evening it was agreed that one constabl;shsoauilkdeigoa short distance before and another, beh ind big. his way home to Croft Howe, which is situated abou t t half a mile out of the town: Between seven and eight the same individual was standing o'clock, on his going up the back la w n i e thin to . war s ga h te om o e f , the field leading to Croft House , and Mr. dthe person fol lowing h Salkeld, haring pas hear passed him a short distan c e , be wing him, and he begun t o run up the field tow ar d s home, when the man also r an after him. Mr. Salkeld, finding that he was aining ground upon him, ca ll e d out for the he ass i s t a nce o f the constables, when one of them, villain, on Sa 1 k t h e l a d swaai ll , but of the th e who hearing n the fi e ld aga i n towards field, the constable, ran dow n " s a re a xi s ; c o r v e e t d t o M b e h i ndr the lane, making his escape, but at nearly the bottom of the field he ran into the open arms of the other constable, w h o was waiting on the pathway for him. He was a most resolute fellow, and struggled violently. He was taken up to Croft House, where some of the servants knew him, and had seen him a day or two before lurking near the house. He had.an accomplice with him, who was seen to go out of the plantation at the lower end of the field, who, no doubt, had been 'concealed there for the purpose of rendering assistance, if necessary, or of receiving the plunder had the other person succeeded in robbing Mr. Salkeld. On Wednesday the villain was brought before the magistrates at Penrith, but, having been disappointed in carrying his design into effect, and not having committed an .assault npou Mr. Salkeld, he was discharged, and banished the town, Tnis bacchanalian priest, now mouthing patriotism, and now venting libertinism, the scourge of bad men, and scarce better than the worst, debauching wives, and pro tectincr his gown by the weight of his fist, engaged with Wilkes in'his war on the Scots ; and sometimes learn ing, and as often not knowing, the characters he attacked, set himself up as the Hercules that was to cleanse the State, and punish its oppressors ; and, true it is, the storm that saved us was raised in taverns and night cellars ; so much more effectual were the orgies of Churchill and Wilkes than the daggers of Cato and Brutus. The two former sated their country, *bile Catilino could not ruin his—a work to which such worthies seemed much better adapted." 9 II N That the current expesenses of evpry i must be met by a corr e sponding taxatioh•M ti‘ tichifided 1 truism, but it is one of the highest proofs of political sa gacity and prudence to apply the burden in such a manner and in such proportions as will suit the contin gencies of the different classes who contribute to it. This, however, it may be said, looks admirable in thecry; - . but it would be extremely difficult to reduce to actual prac tice, since there are so many interests to be consulted in making laws, and the representatives of those interests are themselves legislators. Yet what is unreasonable or disproportionate, and obviously so to all, must impera tively claim attention when brought out into open day, nor can any Administration refuse to entertain the sub ject. Among the imposts to which these remarks will refer, there is, probably, not one more unfairly allotted, more bitterly felt, or more unwittingly borne, than the legacy duty. It falls with peculiar severity upon families with scanty incomes, and it cruelly aggra vates the calamity th e y may have sustained, in the loss of a parent, whose industry, when living, was their main support. It is, besides, repeatedly evaded and it is apparently beyond the reach of fiscal ingenuity to prevent or cetect the evasion. At any rate, the re missness with which this acknowledged fraud upon the revenue is regarded and visited, while the amount sup plied to Government falls avowedly so far shot of what is due, sufficiently proves that it is in all eves a con fessedly obnoxious and unjust tax. We have been led to this topic by the appearance of a Parliamentary paper respecting " taxes on succession to property abroad," which is chiefly valuable as showing how this question is treated in foreign countries. According to this report, it seems that in almost all states where the legacy duty is charged (and several are entirely exempt from it), there is no difference made in the species of property upon which it is levied; and even in trance, where such distinction exists, th e heavier load is placed upon im moveable property. The land, itherefore, in the latter kingdom supports the larger share of this burden; as it is one of the inexplicable problems of our own Constitution that the reverse prevails among us. Upon what strange plea this difference has been established , it is hard to say; but it is much harder to defend the t t t - tom by any sophistries which the landed proprietors « t produce on its behalf. In Prussia, Holland, Sa xo Sweden, and Tuscany, all property is equally an d i - differently affected by the tax on succession. Each pay s its part, and the tax falls fairly upon all members of the community. There is nowhere a privileged exemption for any one favoured class ; but while the necessities of the Exchequer are thought to require the aid of this measure, no cause of complaint of inequality or injustice can attend the infliction of it. Our Legislature, then, has yet something to learn as to the duty of equalising those branches of the revenue which depend wholly upon the contributions of the people, and in this instance most particularly. That the land should be discharged of payment, and that personalty alone should be respon sible, seems a forced and unnatural condition of things, and one that we certainly hope will not be allowed to continue long—not longer, at least, than will give time for a candid admission of the merits of the question among men of all parties in Parliament. There is one very pleasing instance of the unwillingness of a Sovereign to approach this source of revenue in the pages before us, which gives additional weight to the argument against its imposition in any country, and which, we think, will gratify our readers. In the En elosnre 3, No. 14 (from Sardinia, where the succession to real property only is affected), is is stated, in muse for the imposition of the tan, that—" The extraordinary necessities in which the late disturbances have placed the Royal Treasury render inevitable extraordinary dis positions for augmenting the receipts thereof, and for equalising them with the expenses, the amount of which has been considerably increased by those disorders, either on their own account, or on account of the con sequences which they bring with them. His Majesty being obliged to authorise an act, which is, however, re pugnant to his paternal feelings, has ordered us to render it as little burdensome as possible to his beloved subjects." So much expressed repugnance to adopt the measure, except from imperious necessity, shows bow distasteful it is generally, and how freely the objections to its collec tion are recognised even by an almost absolute Monarch. This hint will not, we hope, be lost on those at whose command these returns were printed, and for whose special information they are intended. We trust they will bear some fruit in the soil on which they have fallen, and that the experience and usage of foreigners will not be - entirely despised in framing future statute, respecting the tax that we have been discussing. No good reason can there be why one species of inheritance should be absolutely and in its degree exempt from the costs to which others are subjected, but there is every reason why, in a well-ordered and paternal Government, the pressure of taxation should descend impartially and equitably on all.—Times. RAILWAY FROM NEWCASTLE TO BERWICK. NE INCAIiTLE• ON- TYNE, THUALAY:LA special meet. ing of the town council of this borough was held yester day in the Guildhall, ter the purpose of assenting to, or dissenting from, the formation of certain railways pro posed to pass through the town of Newcastle. Thom was a very full attendance of members. On the assembling of the council, the Mayor took the chair, and the Chairman of the Town Improvement Com mittee, on whom had been imposed the duty of collecting information on the subject of railways proposed to pass through the town, presented a report, entering very fully into the merits of the respective projects. The line pro posed by Mr. Stephenson, the report observes, is called the Newcastle and Berwick Railway, and it is intende d to cross the river Tyne by a bridge, at an elevation of upwards of one hundred feet above high-water mark, and about ninety yards west of the present bridge. One of the leading features of this line is, that it un ilea all the railway stations in one place, near Melville-straet, from whence the traveller may proceed by railway north, south, , east and west. • The other line is projected by Mr. Brunel. It crosses the river by a bridge ninety-three feet in height, pro. ceeds across the Forth to Thornton-street, and thence by a tunnel, 2,410 yards in length, to the Toivn-moor, ter minating in Jesmond-fields, from whence it takes its departure northward. The Committee recommended Mr. Stephenson's line, u most desirable for the interests of the town ; they sug gested, however, that a clause be inserted in the Act of Parliament requiring the Company to commence with the bridge simultaneously with the other works upon the line, and proceed with all reasonable dispatch in its completion. A long discussion followed the reading of the re port, which was at length confirmed by a large majo rity, so that the corporation of Newcastle have now pledged themselves to support Mr. Stephenson and Mr. Hudson's line from Newcastle to Berwick-upon-Tweed, in opposition to the atmospheric line proposed by Lord Howick. SUPPOSED MURDER of MR. MAY. On Friday Mr. Baker held an inquest at the City of Paris, Bishop Bonner's-fields, Bethnal-green, on the body of Mr. W. May, aped forty-four, silk manafac. turer, of King-street, Old Ford-lane. The evidence condensed showed that the deceased had been missing since the 9th of last December, and his body was not found until Thursday night last, when it was discovered in the Regent's Canal, between Bonner. hall-bridge and the new union workhouse. When deceased was_seen last alive he had in his possession several sovereigns —when found he had but one. The body was found a mile distant from his house, and in an opposite direction, and his hat and a handker chief more than a mile from the canal, and: some bills belonging to him at a quarter of a mile from his home. He usually carried a snuff-box and spectacles in his pockets, but they were not found on him after death. The Coroner said that the finding of property belonging to deceased in sueh opposite directions, and so far apart, gave the case a very mysterious complexion. Mr. J. Salter, a silk manufacturer, who parted with deceased at the Job's Castle, Norton Folgate, on the night of the 9th ult., at eleven o'clock, left him in good spirits, and of sound intellect, and was of opinion that his death was caused by unfair means. Mr. Storey, sur geon, of the Mile-end-r oa d, w h o h a d exam i ned the body, 'found the tongue protruding, several cuts on the forehead, on the right eyebrow, and beneath the same eye. Several of the upper teeth were forced from their sockets and were found loose in the mouth, and there were cute inside each lip. The left arm was fractured and so were several of the ribs. The witness thought, both from ex ternal and internal appearances, that deceased had been immersed in the water during life, but that the sever of the injuries described had been caused after death. probably by the bottoms of the barges. He considered it rather a case of suicide than of death from violence on the part of others. It having been proved that de ceased was a sober, sensible man, in prosperous circum stances, the foreman and jury intimated that they could not come to a conscientious conclusion without further evidence. They proposed the adjournment of the in quest for it week. Adjourned accordingly, DONCASTER RAcEs.---The nominations, which dm on the Ist instant, have surpassed, in point of numbers, the expectations of the most sanguine lovers of the turf, and opened a prospect for the future of a more attractive and gratifying character than has been presented on any former occasion. For the present year, the nominations for the Champagne are 42; for the Two Year Olds, 41; Scarborough Stakes, II; and fo r th e Gascoigne St akes, to 15 3, 105 31, F , o ca r anr l d B o 4 t lh 6 de , r.tphraeordnkuocHn: l n al n, a td3i 9 o:s fo f Tr or hthe t e h re e F S oaar t. el L sai eger amount ta so ke 9 s, fo l l. B4 th 7: T and 28 for the North of England Produce, 1848. The nominations, for the St. Leger of next year are unprece. dented in point of numbers; the highest previously, in 1841, being 13$. This circumstance is to be attribute) to the recent alterations adopted. The second horse Will receive 300 sovereigns out of the stakes, and the third 100 sovereigns —an alteration which will induce a greater number of horses to come to the post than has been the case since the period when the race was altered from 25 sovs. pp. to 50 h f.—Doncaster Gazette. HEALTH Or SIR CHARLES METCALFIL•—TII4I friendi of Sir Charles Metcalfe have contradicted the 11C. count of his health given by the Spectator of Saturday' last. Letters have been received in England from his medical attendant, which state that although it is taws that he had completely lost the sight of one eye, he, was not when the last advices came away in the =teemed danger" described by our weekly Contemporary. Let ters have indeed been received from Sir Charles him self, dated Montreal, December 11, written in his owes hand, and in a more cheerful strain than those whisk had previously been received from him. THE NEW LAMBETH POLICR.COURTS.—The Dm* Courts are found to be extremely inconvenient and c,c.ld, magistrates, be bare madedererr: and until the- nec essar y a lt era tions Henry and Mr. Norton, the vat© min h ed o t u o se ho in ld fr th on e intCoofurtthe r one of t e h s o in room yor s k of .; 0-wth, xitu epr i : 'ingots.. rood. 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