The Sun. — London, England, 1840-12-17 00:00:00

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" Whether we loog at its pictorial embellishments, or at its its vary merit!, ' The Book of Beauty' deserves well to receive our eousiderattun."—Times. London t Longman, Orme, and Co. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. NDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING. DEC. 17. Will be repeated ...hakspere's MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Theseus, Mr. Cooper ; Quince, Mr. Bartley; Bottom, Mr. llarley ; Flute, Mr. Keeley - Snout, Mr. Meadows ; Snug, Mr. F. Matthews • Hermia, Nisbett ; Oberon, Madame Vestris ; Titania, ? Mrs. W. Lacy ; Puck, Miss Marshall; First Fairy, Miss Rainforth. After whico, the New Farce, in One Act, entitled BROTHER BEN. CornmodGre Cutlass, Mr. Bartley ; Benjamin Bowles, Mr. Charles Mathews; Mr. gbuffleton, Mr. Harley; Dorothy, C. Jones. To conclude with A COMIC SCENE between Mr. CHARLES MATHEWS and Mr. KEELEY, entitled TWO IN THE MORNING. To mar, ON, The Merry Wives of Windsor, with The Critic. On Saturday, The Midsummer Night's Dream, with Brother Ben, and Two in the Morninz. The NEW GRAND CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME will be producai on Saturday Dec. entitled HE CASTLE OF OTRANTO; OR, HARLEQUIN AND THE GIANT HELMET. Doors to be opened at halt-past Six—the perforraanees to zwomence at Seveq oXlock. TitlL-ts and places for the Bon , : to be taken of Mr. Grogan, a. the Box-office, frora Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may tie had upon application.: Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d. ; First and Second ircles, ss. ; Second Price, 4s. tid. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price. 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr, Andi ens, bookseller 167, New Bond-street. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. Mr. ELIASON begs leave most respectfully to announce that the above Theatre is now OPEN EVERY EVENING with the Grand Musical Entertainments, entitled THE CONCERTS D'HIVER. Last Week of Mons. Musard's Engagement. Leader, Mons. NADAUD—Conduetor, Mons. MUSARD. PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING, DEC. 17. PART FIRST. Overture—Le Lac des Fees. Valises—Die Kosendtp—Strauss. Overture—Le Sermeht. Quadrille-1 Puritani—Musard. Overture—Der Freyschuta Weber. Air I ,7 arie—Vicloncel!o, Mons. Pilet. Grand Scene Satanique, selected from Robert le Diable, ar ranged by Musard. PART SECOND. Ore.lure— C:uillatime Tell—Rossini. New QuadriEe—Rendezvons de Chasse—Musard. Concerto Ophicleide—Mons. Prcspete. Qiadrillo—Cent-Suisse—Alusard. Overt ure—Fra Diavolo— A über. rilion de Marn'ablott—Musard. (;atop—Camille—Trumett Solo, Herr Muller--Musard. Prices of Admissio n ' : —T e th e P romena d e , Is. ; Dress Lircle, 2s. tid. ; Upper Boxes, is. Gd Visitors to the Boxes have the privilege of passing to and from the Promenade. ± t Mr. Eliason, in compliance with numorous applications, Legs leave to announce that the Lower Gallery will for the fu ture be opened at the admission of ls. to each person. Doors (Ten at half-past Seven o'Cleck, to commence at Eight precise!. Private 'loxes can only be procured of Mr. Mitchell, P. 03 al Library, No. 33, Old Bond street, and at the Flom-office of the TLeaLre. Prices, 10s. 63., I/. is., and 1/. Ifs. 6d. Boxes and Piaces in the Dress and Upper Circles may be secured on application to Mr. Pan.ons, at the Box-office, daily, from Ten till Four o'Cleck, and those in the Dress Circle will be kept luriag due whole of the evening, it required. NIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO.MORROW. 5 , 10inAng......19 minutes after 9 1 Evening 49 minutes after 9. The Publication of t e 'Evening Edition of THE SUN com menced at 10 minutes after Three. PRINCESS' THEATRE, OXYORD-STREET. This :,plendiri Theatre is ()PEN EVERY EVENING with PROMENADE CONCERTS, Under the Direction of Mr. WILLY. In addition to the Solo Performers sho have already tp reared. at these Concerts, Mr. Willy has great I,leasure in an nounting that he Las ti.r.de arrsmgeinents with M. Delabarle, (Oboe), of the Academie Royale, Paris ; M. de Folly, (Pic colo); and M. liainnaNn, ( Bassona). THIS EVENING, DEC. 17.—PROGRAMME. I'_' TIT FIRST. o‘erturc—PrecinFa—Wi.ber. l/lizttrille—L, Carillonneur. Waltz—Der Veen Welt— Straws. Overture--.La Dame Blanche—Boildieu. on the Bassoon, by JI. Baumann. Selection from the Mountain Sylph, introducing the Bridal Chorus, Farewell to the Mountain, and the Fortune-telling Scene. PAnT SECOND. Overture— Si mi ramide Rossini. Waltz--Hymen Fier Kiang. Quadrille trout Oberon—Tutton. Duet Coneertante--Fiute brNlr. Carte, Clarinet by Herr Itjen. Lc* Bouquet des Dames, or Musical Wreath—Strauss. Promenade, If.—thess Cire:c, 24.—Upper Boxes, Is. Private Boxer, !/. 15. and 10s. (id. each, may be had at the Box-tiffie, and of Mr. Mitelioll, Old Bond-street. LLO YD'S SHIPPING-(THIS D. Low)" DLc. 17.—Wind this day at noon. light S utii-Eastcrly breeze. h snowed a good deal during the night, hut there is a slight thaw this morning. DOVER, Dec. 16 —Off port the Jeannette Phillipine, Rademaker, from Batavia for Amsterdam. A cask of oil, containing about fifty uallons, marked " Elliot and Co., London," has been picked up (ff here. Nawporrr, DEC 15 —Arrived the Reynard, WetheralJ, trom Fa i r O (, T it y," voh the arrow on it, wag leashed on shore yes terday, bet:lces Cortoti ii and Lov.cstotre. Hut. Majesty's ship Fairy, sailed from arwieb, en a survey, the 13th ult., and has not since been m Sou stawoi.o D E . c , heard of. wh i t lette.rsl6' —A boat, fourteen feet long. marked in i here. of WilAy, Wm. Po:id," has been picked up off i i LivEßp.,ol., DEC. 16 NV .; r.,. I,ru N., moder4te.—Arrived the James Lyon, P.ke, from . N The Dinah, Dick, i ii .nce to l'Alermo, vvnich . p ° ut n i i n i3 to nd t . h e Isle of Man 10:h inst , is disaargi'qg her c.rgo, partially damag u d. A sloop is aground in the Rack Channel, sehonner is off the Fi,ating Light with and ala loss oi fargree topmast. Coe(, DEc. 14. Arrived the Hector, Anderson, fr r o k r , n . Montreal, with loss of sails, stanchions, and piii.sxa Sailed the Catherine, 12( ed, for Demerara. BESEHAVEN, DEC. 13._Off port, the Great Brit Shsxon, from Quebce, r‘ill lugs of boats, sails, ha u l ' : warks, &c. KINSALE, DEC. 13 —TI:e Prince of waterloo, Hulburn, from Liverpool to SA,annali, out four ~vecks, has put in here leaky, having bore up from la:. 34, loth 17. ----- DESTRUCTIVE FlRE.—This morning, shortly before two o'clock, the spacious mansion of sir.rlore, the banker, in Queen's-square Place, Westminster, wi:s disco vered vered to b e o n fire. An alarm was instantly given , and it every short time an engine from the Hoeseferr -road nits on the spot, followed by ten of the London fire-engines. Luckily th e plugs were not frozen, and a plentiful supply of water was obtained ; but notwithstanding every possible exertion was used on the part c f the firemen, the mansion, togeler with the whole of the valuable furniture, was totally destroyed, and the west-end of the chapel in Queen square was alsoLgreatly damaged. The servants, four in number, ' were happily arousgtin time to make their escape, and were conveyed to the ffAi • public.house opposite. They re ceived every possible attention from the landlord. The fire first broke out in the dining-room, and is supposed to have occurred in consequence of the foul stat 4 r.f one of the flues. Mr. Hore is insured in the Sun Fir- - 3-offi,..e. The Homage cannot at present b e ascertained, but is said to be very great. A strong det chreelit of th e C o ld s tre am Guards, from the Wellington Barracks, was On duty, and greatly assiled the firemen by keeping off the crowd. LONDON: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1840. There was yesterday a fall of snow in the metropolis, and for several days the weather has been extremely cold. At present there is a pros pect of a long and a severe winter. Already the snow which has fallen, , and the few days during which it has frozen, must have put a stop to much out-door work, and very much increased the suffer ings of the poor. In their destitute condition, even when they continue to find employment and receive wages, great cold is a great calamity, and sharpens all their other privations. In Bethnal-green we are told that there are at present 700 inmates already in the workhouse, that the number of persons re ceiving out-door relief is much larger than for many years past, and is increasing daily. In Glasgow, as we learn from some statements recently made at a public meeting in that city, and elsewhere printed in The Sun, the distress is very great. There the wages of weavers, according to the state ment of Mr. STEWART, are from 6s. to 7s. a week each, and the situation of many is such as to re quire only to be seen to move the beholder to tears. " Our situation," he said, " at this inclement sea son is most painful. We are in want of clothing, and have scarcely that which will cover our naked ness. We are liable to and often afflicted with small-pox, fever, and other diseases, which eat away our little means, and when once a weaver gets down in circumstances, he never gets up again." The Rev. Mr. HUNTER said— Oi 130 families (into whose condition he had exa mined). there were only twenty whose earnings ave raged 15s. a week, and of the other 110 the earnings scarcely amounted to Ss. per week. He next set him self to ascertain the smallest possible sum on which a family of five or six persons could subsist in Glasgow, without injury to their health, and this he found to be 10s. 8,1. per week. Thus were these persons existing on half-a-crown per week less than what was necessary for the preservation of their health ; but even this vots not a fair specimen of their mode of living ; for house rents must be paid, and were pail, and bed and holy clothes must be provided ; and the fact was, that in Glasgow there were thousands on thousands of indivi duals living on less than one oi what was necessary fur securing their health." With such facts placed before the public, and the probability that the winter wilt be severe, active benevolence cannot too won begin its exertions in order to save many from perishing, and to soothe the last bitter moments of many who are doomed to perish of cold and hunger. How much tho public are called on to subscribe almost every year, or give away in one shape or an other, to relieve distresi and abate misery, it is im possible to say ; but when that sum is added to the poor-rates, it will be found that even the landlord's share of the contribution exceeds what he gains by the Corn-law, while, but for that law, alms would he scarcely required, and the Poor-laws would not he one-third so expensive as they now are. At any rate the cost of keeping the pool would be much lessened, and there would be, at least in the manufacturing districts, fewer of them. The description above quoted of the destitution of the poor, combined with the suffering which this inclement weather must inflict on their half-clothed, half-fed, half-warmed bodies, ought plainly to reveal to the public some of the enormities of the wicked Curn-law. 'We have long ago denounced them for causing the death of thousands every year, by the slow and painful process of starvation. " The want of focd," which the Corn-law will not allow the starving thousands of Glasgow, Bethnal-green, Bolton, and other places to purchase by their in dustry, it is observed, in the analysis of the Regis trar-General's first Annual Report— " The want of food implies the want of everything else except water, as firing, clothing, every convenience, every necessery of life, is abandoned at the imperious bidding of hunger. Hunger destrcys a much higher proportion than is indicated by the registers in this and oa . every other country ; but its effects, like the effects of excess are generally manifests d indirectly, in the pro (ruction of diseases of various kinds. The privation is rarely ever absolute ; but the supply of food is inade quate to supply the wants of the organization." In the language of the Rev. Mr. HUNTER, there are thousands living on one-half of what is necessary for securing their health; and of those thousands thus in a continual state of suffering, many are continually hurried, according to the tin.ony of a great abundance of medical men, annually to their graves. We charge those untimely deaths to the Corn-law, w hi ch, by making food scarce, deprives the poor of comfortable dwellings, plenty of fuel, and warm clothing. All these might be had in a bundance, but the people are obliged to forego them to procure even a small por— tion of that food which the ALMIGHTY sends i n abundance, and which the authors o . f the Corn law, with practical and blasphemous impiety, even TO CORRESPONDENTS. The complAint of " H. G." respecting the nuisance on BlAckfriars-bri,'g , , ivf.a the curiAicivreitiou of the Bridge Committee. It is the only bridge in London so dis,figured. The letter of " An Observer," from Bath, or an answer, will appear to-morrow. ORDERS FOR " THE CHINA SUN," NOW PUBLISHING, (AND WHICH WILL BE KEPT ON SALE FOR SOME TIME,) 'May be given to all News-agents, or sent direct to the Sun Office, 112, Strand, London, where prompt attention will be paid to each communi cation in tae order it is received, and the Paper duly forwarded. Parties sending Orders should write their Ad dresses distinctly, to prevent mistake. On former occasions several letters had been received with out either Name or Address. The Price of the CHINA SUN is only SIXPENCE, which can be sent by post FREE. N.B.—No EXTRA Charge to Regular Sub scribers, who will receive their Papers in the usual course. THE GOLDEN SUN Was published to commemorate hgr most Gracious MAJESTY'S CORONATION ; but the Penny Postage, which now facilitates the sed ing of letters, was not then in existence. Look ing forward to an event of great national in terest, which Queen VICTORIA has now HAPPILY realised, we reserved a few copies of THE GOLDEN CORONATION SUN, Which can be sent by post free to all parts of the Empire. Price SIXPENCE. Sun Office, 112, Strand, London, Nov. 26, 1840. S 4 -", . •• 4 ' t "P S '4f fi2 - .1 4 I .? : C"' " , -,.-:<..., • .4,: . .-,; 2 2,,.,!,..... , . :4.01e , - ' .-..' - ,, .. , - A . c)l, • -?,AV:S' ~--,,- , ~,-,!",.-;- -J-4- ~,,,,,,,,,,,41, ~.75,„,,e,-,,s‘AP•6' * • - 5. _ • ' ‘-1131. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1840. to throwing food into the Thames, keep from the months of the starvinc people. It may, perhaps, be said, that poverte and m::ser) and actual starvation would exist though them was no Corn-law; but admitting that, for the sake of argument, which we deny, why should the authors of the Corn-law, by stopping the supply of food, make themselves responsible for all this misery ? The Corn-law, which keeps out Ame rican and Polish wheat and flour, is now the im mediate cause of it all. If, as some persons assert, this misery is decreed by Nature, why not allow Nature to take her course ? Why inter fere between her and that end, and assume such an awful responsibility ? Why will the Legislature not mistrust its own wisdom, seeing the vast ' mass of misery which overwhelms society, anti leave the people's food alone ? If the land lords were as certain to lose as they think they are to gain, their compassion for agricultural and other labourers would instantly disappear, and they nould leave them to help themselves. But now they starve the people by laws, meriting the denun ciation of the Gospel, " Woe unto them by whom evil cometh." Rather than incur the awful responsibility of dooming a multitude of human beings to slow and painful death, it would be more honourable and more gratifying, we think, to perish on a gibbet, amidst the shouts of an indig nant populace, knowing that our memory would be handed down to posterity as that of the most in famous criminal recorded in the annals of Newgate. Even that, now presumed to be the greatest 'mown infamy, seems to us less infamous than to be the authors of the starvation laws. On this subject the Morning Herald made a very curious admission yesterday, for a journal which opposes the repeal of the Corn-law because that would lower wages. It stated that to " repeal the Corn-laws would be to enhance the power of money ;" and it implied that the repeal would, as a consequence, give cheap bread to " the owners of fixed money incomes." Supposing the owners of fixed money incomes to be ever so few, and ever so worthless, the Herald has given no reason why their bread should be made dear to enrich the land lords. We believe, however, that they are neither few nor worthless. For example, all the ser vants of the Government in the army and navy, in all the public offices, and every department of the State, have fixed salaries. Curates and many salaried clergymen are paid in the same manner. All the clerks in banking and mercantile houses, most travellers for mercantile houses, the captains, mates, and crew s, of all merchant vessels, have fixed salaries.° All light porters and shopmen, all men and maid-servants, all assistants to chemists and ushers to schools, have fixed money incomes, which do not vary with the price of provisions. All the persons employed in the press throughout the empire, except the proprietors, have fixed incomes. In the metropolis and most of the large towns the majority of the artizans, such as shipwrights, car penters, tailors, bricklayers., have a settled rate of wages, which they maintain, and which is sel dom or never departed from, though employ ment varies, and is more or less. In short, there are so many persons of different descrip tions, besides those holding property in the funds, who have fixed money incomes—for even the agricul tural labourers belong to this class as well as the spin ners and all labourers who do not work by piece—that we run no risk in asserting that they constitute the majority of society. The shopkeepers, merchants, brokers, bankers, farmers, &c. &c., who live on profit, with the landlords and clergy who live on rent and a rent charge, are the minority. Of that minority those who live on profit would also benefit by the repeal of the Corn-law, and therefore the He rald, by the admission we have quoted, pronounces that the Corn-law is injurious to the great majority of society. The Herald admits that the Corn-law makes their income, whether it be called wages or salary, pension or annuity, of less value in relation to food ; and it accordingly taxes them for the be nefit of the few owners of rent and a rent charge. The Herald pretends to be a great lover of justice and the public good ; let it try, therefore, to recon cile its defence of a law which, according to its own admission, taxes the many for the benefit of a few, with its pretensions. We shall await the issue. The French Journals of Tuesday have been received, but they contain little news of any mo ment. To the Times we are indebted for the only interesting account of the arrival of the re mains of NAPOLEON in Paris that has yet ap peared. The grave and peaceable deportment of the whole population of Paris, with the exception of some four hundred hair-brained students, reflects credit upon the French capital. We begin to think that the people are much wiser than the Journalists, and that, if left to themselves, they would be quiet and orderly enough. The Journals of Tuesday contain the whole of the correspondence between Commodore NAPIER ttnd BOGHOS BEY, with long accounts from Alexandria of the submission of MEHEMET ALI. As the substance of these accounts ap peared in The Sun of Monday last we shall not re peat them. MEHEMET ALI received Commo dore NAPIER standing and on a footing of perfect equality. . . The constitutionnel points triumphantly to the prominence given to the name of M. TRIERS in all the European Journals as a conclusive proof of the wonderful greatness of the little ex-Minister. The Constitutionnel mistakes notoriety for faint.— a mistake but too frequent among miters and statesmen on the other side of the Channel. It is said that the Austrian Government intends to con tract is loan to the amount of ten millions sterling'. We invite the attention of our readers to the following letter, which we have received to-day from Berlin : BERLIN,...DEC. B.— General Grollman returned to this city the day before yesterday. On the following day he had a long audience of the King, who is said to be ex tremely satisfied with the result of his mission. After the arrival of General Grollman, the officers of the war depart ment have been more busy than ever; couriers are dis patched every moment to convey to the military governors of the provinces the instructions founded on the plan agreed upon between the Cabinets of Berlin and Vienna. Notwithstanding the reiterated assurance of the Soult- Guizot Cabinet, Prussia pretends to be alarmed for its Rhenish provinces, and will complete its armaments during the winter, so as to be able to act in the spring. The re cent augmentation of the cadres of the engineers, and of the artillery in France, serves as a pretext for hastening the preparations for war. Several German Princes are exerting themselves to obtain, in ease of war, the command of br;gades in the army of the Confederation; and with this view have solicited the support of Prussia. Among them is Prince Augustus, of Wirtemberg, who has arrived at Berlin to-day. It is certain that Prince Juhn of Saxony has obtained the formal promise of a command in chief. " The Marquis of Clanricarde, who has arrived here to day, will stop, it is said, a few days, to accomplish a spe cial mission to our Court, before he proceeds to his post at St. Petersburg h."—Le Commerce. The Chaniber of Peers have presented to the Hotel of the Invalides the 48 Austrian standards taken at Ulm, and concealed by the late Marquis de Semonville ( Grande Refertridaire of the Chamber) on the approach of the Allies in Paris in 1814. It will be recollected that these standards were presented to the Chamber by the Marquis inlinediately after the revolution of 18P0. Baussets, Dec. 13.—The Senate, in its yesterday's Sitting, heard the reports of its Committee on several projects of law relative to the expense of the Charn'..ers of Commerce, and to the supplementary vote of credit for the department of foreign affaiis. M. Dujarden arrived at Brussels yesterday. He has been sent for, as we hear,ito treat with Messrs. Borr( t and Van Mescritz, the Dutch Commissioners, on some matters cquai n t e d. The temporary does not interrupt the progress a owfi absence t t h h e ‘v i eo c gf h o c h Ni e la.t i i s po rlusi particularly aa,td eun t rec t We le arn that several hundred passports have been delivered within these few days by the French Legation. All the places in tile con veyances to Paris were taken three days ago. 13r' 14—Tie and arr i ve d at th e palace in King left his country scat zt Ar e e e c. rda y morning,Bru,sels at half-past six this evening. The King and Queen afterwards went to the Palace cf d u . s ..i s i h n L e s ; Laeken. M de Roentgen, Minister of Nassau to the Diet of Frankfort, is appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minist , r Plenipotentiary of his Highness the Duke of Nassau to the King of the Belgians, and had an audience yesterday of the MMister for Foreign Affairs. Having recently combated some statements in the Times relative to the Government of America, we cannot allow the election of General HARRISON to be President to pass by without making use of it to confirm our opinions. All the information concerning it has not yet arrived, but on that which has reached us we found the following remarks. It is asserted that this election will cause es sential changes in the policy of the United States, it is more certain that it is the triumph of a party which has of late been a minority, and is now converted into a majority. The Democrats and the metallic-currency men are defeated, and VAN BUREN retires ; the Whigs and the paper money men come into novecr, and HARRIsoN is to be President. But those who thence info► a great change in the policy of the country, will probably be deceived. Mr. VAN BUREN and his party have had a majority, but they have been unable to carry through their Sub-Treasury Bill. In like manner, such are the obstacles offered in a represen tative assembly to the completion of any measure to which a large minority is opposed, that it is quite im possible, as we well know, to complete it. General HARRIsON and his friends, therefore, may succeed Mfr. VAN BUREN and his friends in office. They ►tray carry measures so,newhat different from his, but to make a great change in his policy, hostile to the feelings of the minority, will be nearly irn• ... Beron d'Arnim, the Prussian Minister, arrived at Brus sels this morning. General Tabor has resigned the comru:nd of the pro vhice of Luxemburg. 13Z.CSSELS. DEC. 15. —ln the Chamber of RvreFenta tives yesterday the Order of the Day was the second vote on the whole of the budget of the Foreign Department. M. de Theux moved an amendment on the article rela tive to the salaries of the Consular Agents. The sum of 140,000 france, required by the Goverment was re duced to 110,000 franca. The Minister for Foreign Affairs complained of the em barrassment which be would experience by mekieg so un seasonable a re d uc ti on i n his budget. H e doubted whether lie difference between the receipt and the expenditure , o f which the GATernmetit has complained, will d.seppear in coniequ ence o f this insgl - ; h o w Li s w i sh to eonei liatendtm t o prove to ti.e Chamber 11.1 t he wi s h e d to p7.:tsctere iii th,t c o urse of reduction 0. L ich h e his entered on, is willing that the sum shall be ;liminishA by 10 000 francs M, de Theta o bj ec ted to the Chamber revoking its vote. possible. The great question at issue is the system of banks and the currency. Now there is no subject on which opinions are less settled and precise, and more divided on both sides of the ocean, than this. In fact banking is a modern art, and paper money is a compara tively modern invention. They are not yet com pletely developed, their tesorces and ramifications are unknown, and all legislation concerning them is' premature. We will not, therefore, answer for what change of opinion and what change of measures may take place on this subject in the United States ; but we will answer for the impossibility of General HARRISON and his friends carrying any measure, even with regard to the currency and the banks, to which the bulk of the other party shall be decidedly and determinedly opposed. The returns which have arrived, though not official, seem to be complete and authentic, and they supply us with some data. For example, the majority of electors for General 34.AnntsoN is set down at 157,018 for the whole community, while the recorded number of voters, in only thirteen States, who have concurred in the election—the voters in the other States not being yet given—is 1,628,593. The majority, then, by which General HARRISON is returned, and vvhich he represents, is much less than one-tenth of the whole body of the electors. It is probably less then one-sixteenth, and on such a majority it will be impossible to carry through any measures to which the minority may be opposed. We will not he answerable for changes of opinion, but no violent change in measures can take place before a change shall have occurred in the opinions of the bulk of the people. We know, by the returns which we have re ceived, that very nearly two millions of elec e. Hence the sum o f 130 , 000 f rancs , proposed by ti:e nu.ter, was p ut to t h e vote. 82 M. in b ers answered to (heir names. 41 vote d for, an d 41 ag ai ns t the proposal; and the numb er b e i ng equa l , i t wds rejected. whol of the bud,,et. 1,064,500 ,vas passed by 75 to 4. to the ainiiunt of 'iti " "i I AN , UNI DS—ilitt,skiEt.a , DEC. 15. &ctual Det,t - , ' , . i.erCent. ......... ...... Loanthsehn.t., Loan , 5 ~,, CC. n t ...7 01 Thirty Itli;oini, -4 per Cent. sB ,(1 , 4) IJ7 .I per Cent. -... Thirty .seven--:- l;ii!i 1-o .In of t ay, Itsll2, 4 per tent 90 Sociat) ot Conmree, .i s a yer Cent llO Bank 01 lieli;ium, 5 per Cent ••7% National Si4eiety . Exchange on London (short} —Brussels Papers, Dec. 15 . AUSTRIAN FUND.S.--VIES NA , DEc. 7 five per Cents. Metalliques Fan!' per Cents. ... Three Ta Cont,. .. ... ... .. ... t• (0 4 ll ' a" shar " ............. .. , .... .. ..... 40 m ;: em ee ZettuN g D ee . 11 Sir Rohert Harry blahs, Barr., M.P., has arrived in town from a tour on the Continent. SINGULAR LocK.---A novelty has recently peon added to the already numerous and ingenious inven• tions for affording security to property, and which will shortly be introduced to the public. This invention pre sents the singularity of a lock without any keyhol and it is said it can be made applicable to all the usual purposes. eve:i including distillers' tavrn trips, &c. The key or means of opening it, it is s tated, can be made in e very variety of form —as a ring to wear on the finger, as a szal, a pencil-case, or as an addition to a whip or stick. The luck itself can be supplied at a much lower price thhii any other patent lock, and posseises the important advan tages that it is impervious to dust or wet, and cannot be picked. The 18th, 26th, and 49th regiments are to have " China" upon their co l ours an d appointments , in conye moration of the first capture of a territorial Possession made by a British mil:tary fete.: in " Celes i 1 Empi e " GODALMING, MONDAY. —On Saturday even ing this place was visited by an extraordinary flight of wild fowl. The evening was very dark, when, about seven o'clock, the air was filled with the cries of wild ducks, wid geon, curlews, and everything else, to the surprise of all the men folks, and to the extreme terror of the old women and children. The flight seemed to be driving towards the south, and continued to pas 3 till ha!f-past eight or nine o'clock. The number must 11:.4ve been very extraordinary, for ty,er head and on; every side - . they were heard to the furthest stretch of the ear. tors have actually given their votes, on the I BANK OF EN GLAND—(THIS D A Y.) ~!,•etion of this orf,at cffio'.•!. of A rrH7. - r1 which has beers c es el ,p; e s.cd vv i ; l l no more strife or noise than the election of a Member for Carlow. The bulk, therefore, of the Ameri cans of the male sex, and who have arrived at full age, have given their voices on this occa sion. The new President is the choice of a majority, though it he not much greater than the minority, of the whole body of the people. To suppose that a person so elected, and who, at the end of four years, will return his trust into their hands, and, perhaps, ask its re ti - newal, will not better attend to the interests of the people, and that he is not more intimately asso ciated with them than any hereditary Monarch, seems to us, in spite of M. DE ToCQUE VILLE, a great absurdity. We must wait, however, for some time before we can expe rience how General HARRISON will act. He does not come into power until the 4th of March, when the present Congress ceases to exist. The new Congress does not meet until December follow lug, so that the policy of his administration will scarcely be developed in less than twelve months from the present period. What changes may occur before the arrival of that period, and what the policy of his Government may actually he, it is therefore im possible for any person to say; but we have thought it right, in order to allay apprehensions, to endea vour to show that in such a representative Govern inent as that. of America, the policy depends on the voters, and will only be changed as the nation changes its opinions, not the persons who adminis ter its affairs. .The Qaarterl:7 General Court of Director , anki prictors of the Bank of England dock p!a. , : this clay. rp, Court was mado special for the purpose of voting congra tulatory addresses to her Majesty and Prince Albert on the late interesting event of the birth of a Princess Royal. At twelve o'clock, the Governor, Sir John Rae Reid, and the Directors entered the room, and the minutes of tbo last General Court having been r-ad 7nd confirmed, The Govigitsoa said they had made the present Court special fur the purpos.! of presenting taldrf-Fses to her Ma je. 6 ! ), and Prince Albert on the birth of a Princess Royal. It was unnecessary to add, that he fully concurred in every word of the addresses that had been pre.pared, and which he now moved he r..ad to the Court. A PROPRIETOR b3gged to inquire why an earlier Special Court had not I).en called for the purl-,3e? it qii,eared to him that they were rather late in the field The GOVERNOR would venture to say ti:at there did 1, exist a more loyal corporation in the kingdom than that of the Bail of Eagkr..d. Another PROPRIETOR said, as the Quarterly Genet - Ll Court was so uelr, it was almoE,t unnecessary to call a Spe&al Court for tilt. purpose. 'I he ad , lrese.i to tile Queen and Prince Albert having bei:n The GovERNoR put the question that the address to her Alaj,sty be agreed to. The motion was put and carried unanimously. On 017 qui,,,tion that the address to his Highnes Prince agreed to, Mr. BLACKEC:RN suggested that the minutes of the proceeding in the case of the birth of the last Heir Appa rent, in 1762, or thcreaboutA, be road in the first instance. A VROPRILTOR hoped he would not interrupt the har mony of the Court. The GOVERNOR was in their hands, and if k was their opinion that the minute referred to shculd be read, he would do so. Several Proprietors objected to such a proceeding. Mr. BLACKUUaN ,hous , ht that a Corporation whose charter had emanated from the Crown should confiiie its Addresses to the Crown. He objected to including any other party, es it waa a dangerous precedent. The Addrtss to Prince Albert was then put and carried, with the exception of one hand—that of Mr. Blackburn being held up against it. The GOVERNOR requested he would take down his hand, but he refused. A PROPRIETOR hoped the name of the dissentient Pro. prietor would be mentioned. Mr. BLACKBURN said that must not be done. It was then moved and carried that it be inserted on the minutes: that the resolution for an address to Prince Albert was carried with one di.,Eenticnt voico. Mr FIELDER begged to ask a question, which was of some importance now that the stock was getting down in price. A report was abroad that they were going to incur very heavy expenses in making new improvements at the Bank. He wished to know if that were the case? The GOVERNOR did not moan to say that they were not incurring some expense in providing increased accommo dation for the public, but it would not be to any very large amount.—( Hear, hear. ) It was then agreed that the seal of the Corporation be affixed to the addresses, and that they be presented by the Governor, Deputy-Governor, &c., in the usual form, after which the Cour: separated. CHANCERY COURT-(THIS DAY,) THE ATTORNRY- GENERAL V. WILSON,-JUDGMENT. The LOY.C. CHANCELLOR gave judgment to-day in this case, which was argued last week. The judgment was filed by her Majesty's Attorney-General, on behalf of the present Corporation of Leech, against several members of the old Corporation, fur the purpose of obtaining the de cree of the Court, ordering the defendants to make good to the present Corporation the sum of 7001., which they bad alienated in the year 1835, as it was alleged, for the purpose of preventing its being enjoyed by the new Cor poration under the Municipal Reform Act ; and also fur the purpose of making them unpopular among the inha bitants of Leeds, in consequence of their being under the necessity, having no Corporate property, to tax the inhabitants by the Borough rate. The mode adopted for alienating the property was the execution of a deed by which the sums in question were given to three gentlemen of the names of Wilson, Blades, end Beckett, as trustees, to be distributed among certain charities of the town, and also for increasing the stipends of some of the incumbents. It was also proposed to give the Recorder and Deputy Recorder certain sums, which, however, they refused to receive. Upwards of 2,500/. had been distri buted, and the trustees held about 4,0001. The Lerd Chancellor, in giving judgment, said there could be no doubt hat the attempts to alienate the property of the Corperation were ineffectual, and therefore so much of' it as was forth coming must be restored, and compensation must be made for that which was not forthcoming. From the mo ment the Corporation Act pae-ed, whatever property belonged to it went to the new Corporation ; and any at tempts to alienate it weir void. It was the duty of the defendants to protect the property confided to them, for the benefit of their successors, and not to take measures to alienate it. The course that bad been pursued by the defendants was nut only a breach of trust, and a vio lation of duty, but it was en act of spoliation against the inhabitants of Leeds, who were liable to the borough rate. There could be no doubt, therefore, that the plaintiffs were entitled to redress against the three trustees and against those members of the governing body who acted with them, namely, the five defendants upon the re cord. His Lordship would, therefore, make the following de cree :—Declare that the 6,500/. Consols, and 500/. Turn pike Bonds, notwithstanding the deeds of May, 1835, con tinued, and was the property of the Corporation of Leeds at the time of the passing of the Act of Parliament, en. titled " An Act to provide for the Regulation of Munici pal Corporations in England end Wales," and was, there fore, from that time subject to the trusts and purposes prescribed by that Act. And declare that the subsequent el:enation of such funds and stock for any other purposes, and particularly the deeds of the 30th of May and the 24th of November, 1835, were breaches of trust, and fraudulent and void ;; and declare the three trus tees and the five defendants, the members of the governing body, liable to re-transfer the said several stock and funds, and also the turnpike sccuiities; Thu 2,5001., and the 1,5001., and the turnpike shares now in their hands, to be immediately re-transferred and re-assigned ; and refer it to the Master to state what part of such stock and funds, other than such as have been so transferred to either of the defendants, and arc capable of being re-transferred, have been sold and disposed ce, and when, and by whom, and by whose authority or direction, and in what manner the same and the other proceeds thereof bath been paid and applied, and disposed of, with liberty to the Master to take special circumstances. An account also must be directed of all such property, and of the dividends and . profits. The three trustees and the five defendants, members of the governing body to pay the colts of the suit to the hearing. The effect of the decree, therefore, is to compel the de fendants to make good the whole 7,000/., with interest, from 1835, the time of the alienation, and also to pay the whole costs of the suit. CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. Before Mr. Justice. PATTESON.) CHARGE IF ATTEMPTED FRATRICIDE. -- Alexander ll !Mums. aged 19, was charged with feloniously shouting at l'Awin Williams, with a gun loaded with powder and a bullet, with intent to murder him, on the 25th of November The prosecutor was called upon his recogrizances, but d:d not appear. From the evidence of the Police Constable who took the prisoner into custody, it appeared that the prisoner and the pro.:ecutor, who were brothers, both lived in the liar. row-road, and that there had been diffeiences between their. That on the day hi question he had heard the report of gun, and saw the prisoner imniediately Efter run out into the street. The prisoner appeared intoxicated; he said it was all a jcaluusy towards hunt. Witoessi afterwards found the gun and the bullet, the bullet had gone into tie cot of the passage across the parlour. Edwin Williams, who accompanied witness to the station-bou,e, said, •' Tek, hint into eustudy for shooting at tile." When prisoner w;.:3 examined sit the station-Louse, twenty-seven bullets and sittle percussion caps were found in his pocket. lt:tw in Wilkins elitrged Jilin with shouting. Witness only cimiged him as drank and disorderly. Torre ware na otkur w•itrie=ses in attenChlice. Mr. Just:ec PATTESON said that the evidence only went to show that to uccusation had been made rgaiost the prisoner by the vosccutott, who roo,it certainly ought to have been to attendance this Thme would be ;•real dangrr in actiLg upon inch slight evidence as they bud boron:• them, in the absence of prosecutor, s•ho, if he bad been present, migh! have been cio-s ex:an:int d, so advaotage of which the prisoner was now deprived, The charge was of firing "with intent to do gricviius harm." Now. there wus no evidence to show but what the gun might have gone off by acci dent, or there might have been a sAuggle between the parties, or it might have been discharged without any ma licious intention. It worth' be exceedingly dangerous to convict a person upon such very slight evidence, and there fore it was their duty to acquit the prisoner. Jurr accordingly returned a verdict of Nut Guilty. The BOW-s,TREET.-(THIS DAY ) THE SNOWBALL NUISANCE.—SeveraI boys were brough before Mr JArdlite charged with assembling in Catherine. street, and Wellington-street, and throwing snowballs at every person who happened . to p.,ss. The coi,stabl es said they fou nd the greatest difficulty in appreh e ndi ng th em, th e y were so numerous, although several respectable put-- sons came to the station-house to represent the danger and inconvenience they suffered front such conduct. Mr. JAI:DISE said it was the first time for the season that such ciivges had been brought to this Court, but as the defendants might have acted ttir,ugh ignorance of the law, it wo-sbi t,e nec,:ssary for them to know that the Me tropolitan Poli:e Act impoged a penalty of 40. or a month's imprisonment on any person convicted of such an offencir, nhieh, from henceforth, should b r in every in stance inE'.eted, unless such an idle and dangerous practice t:s discontinued. _ - MA ItLBOI(OUGH-STREET• (THIS DAY.) An elderly female, who gave her name Jane Fraser, hh a 'Jbily but tidily dressed, and whose a ppearance and manners still retained the traces of gentility, was placed at the bar before Mr. Long, having been found in the street in a state of destitution. Lr answer to a question from the Magistrate, Mrs. F, aser said she was a native of Edinburgh, but had been residing in England for a considerable time past on a small income derived from her late husband's property, it was remitted to her quarterly from Scotland by her nephew, who was agent to the prop ert y in qu ,stion, but through some cause which she could not imagine, the list two quarters' allowance had never reached her. She had by degrees, pa ted with her furniture, clothes, &c., And at last wag obliczoi to give tin her nfl ,rnnuler the ny. a r Cl+.' i .' f ~ ~ 7.6. LONG thco. diyoctea that letter should ho to the parochial officers of St. George's, Hanover-square, ordering the reception of Mrs. Fraser into the workhouse, and recommending them to make the necessary inquiries as to her statement. Mrs. Fraser expressed herself truly grateful. Five persons were this morning brought up from the Swkn-house, where they heal been confined during .he night, and fined in different amounts from ss. to 20e. for on the footway pavements. Police constable No. 101 of the C division, who appre hended three of the defendants, stated that after nightfall last even?ng there happened on his treat alone seven acci dents by persons slipping down through stepping on the slides which had been made on the footway pavement, and which were hidden from sight by the snow, Tiitec of the Inrsons broke their iegq. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) COLONIAL MARKET. The public ENiCi were of little roornent, and by private treay few sales were made; in prices, however, little variation took place. TEA MARKET. The msrkA was in a very dull state, and prim still on the decline; ir.&ed it is difficult to give a quotation for Free Trade ; the nvalcst fur Coinpany's Congou was 2L per lb. for cash. TALLOW MARKET. There was a lair business done in P. Y. C., both on the spot and for delivery in the Spring months. Prices were firm at 48s. to 48s. 6d. per cwt. PROVISION MARKET. The Butter Market was brisk and, prices looked up— first qualities of Irish produced 104 q. to 1053. per cwt. Ba con in fine request and prices steady—fine parcels landed fetched 49:. per cwt. In Lard there is little aheration, but the demand was firm. WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET. Toe supply of Hay was moderate, and met a good de mand. Prices of Straw are still on the advance, in con sequence of scarcity. Clover, 5/ 103. to 51. 15s. ; Mea dow Hay, 31. to 5/. ; and Straw, 11. 12s. to 11. 153. per load. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE WS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. No Liverpool Cotton List has been received as yet. We are without any arrivals this morning of come quenence, with the exception of the express from Paris, which brings the interesting detains of the funeral of the Emperor Napoleon, which passed off without any dis til! bance. The French Papers received this morning, have a report addressed to the Minister of Marine and Colonies, dated the 30th of July, in which the Governot of Bourbon gives an account of the expedition under the command of the Captain of the corvette La►oque de Chanfray, commandant of the brig Lancer, stating that the object of his expedi tion was to take vengeance for the assassination committed by the inhabitants of Senagam (on the side of Sumatra), on the person of Sieur Lues, second in command of the Comte de Paris, belonging to the commerce of Marseilles. Two Malay villages were burned; but the expedition has to regret M. Nigny of the first class, the Masters Roza guotte and Delarne, who were drowned. The chastise ment inflicted on the inhabitants of Senagam was prompt and terrible (says the Messager), and it is hoped will pre vent any further crimes taking place. We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yesterday's date : BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, DEC. 14. —The Actions of the Society of Commerce continue to be offered, and have again lowered 1 per cent. ; opened at 1661, and at this price they were firm. This fall, with the weakness of the Funds at Paris, caused our National Funds to lower. The Foreign Funds were calm ; Ardoin's fell to 221 1-16th ; Coupons, 1811 ; the New Russian Loan was done at 861 851 to 86. THE FONDS. Consols, which left off yesterday at 884 for the open ing, may be quotel at present a shade higher, 88i 89 ; Reduced 88i 89 ; Exchequer Bills 1 dis., 1 prem. ; 13nt.lt Stock 1561 1571 ; India Stock for the opening, 238 240. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active left off at 23i I, at present rather hatter, 23i y ; Deferred, 12 ; Passive, 5i- 6 ; Portuguese, 32 33 ; Three per Cents., 211; Colombian same as the closed, 241 ; Mexican same, 281 ; Brazilian 71 72 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent. ks it left off. 51i ; Five per Cents, rather lowa, left off at 971 984-, at presect 971 98. slimas....._Great Western 22 23 prem. ; New, si prem. ; London and Brighton, 9 81 discount; Blsekwall, 4} 4 discount ; Birmingham . 81 83 prem. ; Southamp ton, 53 b 4 per share ; Greenwich, 7i per share. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share, London and Blackwall London and South Western 3Bl 531 .. to JOINT STOCK BANKS. Colonial ... lonian State Provincial of Ireland.. - PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, DEC. 15. 3 per Cent. Consols Three and Half Stock 971 !Grand Canal Stock Ditto Reduced Ditto New, 1830 ...... 96* 1 Ditto 4 per cent 3 per Cent. Debs. HALF-PAST ONE. Up to the present hour we have no intelligence of con sequti.ce to communicate. A quarterly meeting of the Bank Directors took place this morning, at which it was decided to address her Majesty and Prince Albert, on the birth of the Princess. We do not hear of any other sub ject of importance having taken place at the meeting. Consols, which were in the early part of the morning at 88k 89 for the Account, is a shade lower at present, 88i, with scarce a bargain doing ; Reduced, 88k 89; Exchequer Bills, 1 prem., 1 dis., 1 prem. ; Bank stock lower, 157 1564 ; li.dia Stock for the opening, 238; India Bonds, 13 12 discount. In the Foreign Market, Span;sb, ; Portuguese, 32i 33 ; Three per Cents., 211; Colombian, 24k 2-; Dutch Two.and-a• Half per Cents., 51 ; Five per Cents., 98k 97i. Very little doing in Shares.—Blackwall, 18 ; South.. Western, 531. We do not as yet hear of the arrival of the British Queen from New York. The Marquis of Northampton, accompanied by Earl Compton and Lady Marianne Compton, arrived in town yesterday, from Castle As by, near Northampton. Captain Wetnyss, Member for Fife, will be ap pointed Lcrd LitAitenant of the county, in the room of K. Ferguson, Esq., deceased. POST-TlNlE.—Complaints continue to be made Li' the defective arrangements of the post-offices at Long bud-street and Charing cress, where the crowd at post time is constantly so great as to reuder the posting of a ',A ter a matter of so much difficulty as to render failures very frequent. Viscount and Viscountess Chelsea have arrived at the lion. rnd R .v. Gerald Wellesley's residence, at Durham, from a tour of visits in Scotland. DEATH OF LORD BRUCE.—His Lordship died, after a lengthened illness, on Tuesday se'nnight, at Tolaton, Devon, where he had .been residing fur the bentfr of his nealth. The deceased, George Charles Coi,stantine Lord lku:e, who was eldest son of the Earl or E!gin, first rparri3ge with Miss Nisbet, which thArriage was dissolved by Aet of Parliament in 1808, was horn the sth of April, 1800, and was brother of Lady Mary Chichester, the lady of Mr. R. A. Cliche:ter, M P., Lady Matilda Maxwell, and Lady Lucy Grant, Tne lien. James Truce, the Noble Earl's eldest son by . !ns sLeond ioarriage A burn July 20 , 1 816, is row heir to the family honours. DEATH OF THE HO N• JAMES STUART.- The above gentleu:aa. the eldezt son of the Ea,l of Moray by his second Countess, daughter of Sir Pliilip Ainslie and the [too. Elizabeth Gray. died en StourEy I..st. He ..vas born 17th Jan., 1804, and was a captain in h. 85th reg;,nent. The Dowagcr Duchess of Bedford and the La dies Gt - !orgial,a and Rachel Russell, M“rquis and Mar chioness of Abereoru, Lord and Lady Haddo, Lord Claude Hamilton, M. P., Captain and Lady Harriet flu- And a select f,udiy circle, were staying at Haddo House last week, au a visit to the Eurl of Aberdeen. The Marquis and Marchioness of Cortyogharn and family are staying at Bilrons, Kent, on a viiit to the Dowager Maraiones) of Conyngliam. The festivities at lialstrode Park, the seat of Colonel Reid, commanding the 2d Life Guards com reenced last vieek. Most of the officers of the regiment end a large concourse of the ;,obiiity and gentry of the ot.iglA): - )urhood honoured the Gallant Colonel with their pre Su lICe. MUTILATION OF TREES IN KENSINGTON G ARDENS. -It was yesterday discovered that in the course of the previous night some evil-disposed person had cut and seriously injured many of the young trees in Kensing ton Gardens, and had, it is believed, made an attempt to fire one of the keepers' cottages. By the death of Colonel Henry Oglander, com manding the 26th, or Old Cameronians, Major Mountai" will get the Set'ond Lieut.-Coloneley ; Brevet Major John stone, a Corunna veteran, the Majoiity ; and Lieutenan! . Maule, the vacant company in the reg,ment. Colonel Og lander originally served in the 43d. The Marquis and Marchioness of Douro have left 'own for Oakley Park, near Eye, on a visit to Sir [;award and Lady Kerriion. STRATITFIELDSAYE, TUESDAY.—The Duke i.f W e llington continua* in excellent health. surrcundcd by n select party of friends. Viscount and Viscountess Burghcrsh, and his Excellency General Alava, arrived at the close of the past week. Baron Mounier, and Viscount and Viscountess Mahon, who have been staying here, have taken their departure. His Grace, since his ar rival front Apsley House, has generally hunted o nce or twice a week with the Vine hounds. The Marquis of Westmeath has been entertain ing a small ofirty at Cloy n, Castletown Delvnin. Lord and Lady Talbot de Malalik're. Misses Byrne, Sir Richard and Lady Leveringe, Lady Eleanor, &c., have been among the guests. The General Steam Navigation Company' s s'.eam-ship Monarch, Capt. Fraser, made her last passage Born Brunswick wharf, Blackwall, to Edinburgh in thirty seven bows, EV EN ING EDITI ON • LITFn TURP 5 pit, Allen, London, 1640. Those who desire to gain an insight into the nature of the productive resources of our great Eastern Colonies, which offer an unbounded field fcr enterprise and speculation, will find much to ansv,er their purpose in this volume, which e nters into minute details on the subject., and suggEsts many schemes by which the revenue we at pre sent draw from India may be greatly inipioved. The author is a gentleman named Rode, who has been long resident in the East, and appears to have paid close attention to every branch of the prolific theme, on which he descants. Speaking incidentally of the culture of the poppy, of which, in its r e : pared form of opium, we have heard so muc h lately, Mr. Royle tells us, that the liin doos are remarkable for their skit: in pitr rin g this article. " Though in the preparation of m an y of the valued articles of commerce," he obse ry " the Hindoos preceded most nations, y e t they hay.' usually been surpassed, whenever Europea n and energy have been applied to the impro vements of these discoveries. It is remarkable, there for e , to find that with opium they should have attained , complete success, and this, too, without th e aid 01, European science. But, in the preparation O r es, opium; nature does everthing, and man has 0011 1° wait patiently and carefully to collect the secretions of her laboratory." The cultivation of the poPor d appears to require great attention, such as gne soil, manure, and also careful management of the irrigation. The strength of the juice depe nds upon the quantity of moisture, and upon that of the dew which falls upon the surface of the capsule' A deficiency of dew prevents the proper flow of the milk, while an excess, besides washing off the milk' causes additional mischief, by separating the s,° l ,`" ble from the insoluble parts of the opium. lu e most generally interesting portions of the volton e are those which refer to the culture of silk in India' BOHN'S CATALOGUE. Bohn, London, 1840. We should not notice this bulky volume, which of course is without the pale of criticism, if it were not to express our surprise at the imme nse variety of books, in all languages, of which ment i o n is made in its closely-printed pages. Th ere may be more voluminous literal) , catalogues in existence-- that of the late Mr. Heber, we believe, is o ne —but certainly we have never seen any one whi,c 4 could at r.. 11 be compated to Bohn's, w hether in 1 " 8 number or variety of the works to which it refers . ; Imagine an octave containing nearly two thousso pages, and devoted solely to an enumeration of thei titles of books in almost every known Isug.. 4e he of then largest volume of the kind which has Well may Bohn say that his " catalogue 1 . - l e a from the press ; and that it represents the must r ecorde d " exte , isive and select assortment ever stock of the bookseller I" He adds that th e " withou tual outlay for materials and compilation' taking into account his own labour, has bee , n i., " ; a fact which wards of two thousand pounds," can readily believe, IN hen we come to look closet into the catalogue. The collection, to say nu tt ' fi l n s of its variety, is an admirable one, for we f the especially o abundance of rare old editions , singular works in classics ; and such scarce and hitherto issued the Frcnch, Spanish, and Italian languag,es, as wad have set Scott's Jonathan Oldbuck and Do._e tor Dryasdust wild with extacy. A catalogue this is well calculated to lower t he self-conceit may .0I any one who happen to pride himself on t.hhe ex t e nt of his reading, for it will itnp ress him wit the humiliating truth, that all th at lie knows * mere nothing in comparison with that which he does not know. MAGAZINE MISCELLANIES. P4RTS I. and AA • Dodsley, London, 1840. Dr. Maginn has long b een known as one and, of the most successful,. periodical writers of his day, under the name of Morgan O'Doherty, has for years been in the habit of furnishing Black - - wood's Magazine with some of its ablest arti cles, in prose as well as in verse. These articles are now in the course of republica tion, and few In -- vigourpoi n t andof mannersp simplicity e ; yw while as indeed none—of the sort will bear it better. writtenregards fm they exhibit the most singular versatility o f p ower. Shrewd classical criticisms, sparkling sal lies of wit, tales replete with broad humour, translations from t or the Greek and Latin poets, into which the s • putt of the originals is infused with uncommon skill • ,—eaeb and all of these may be found in these " Magazin* Miscellanies," which thus recommended, will serve to enliven many a weary hour, and force a smile into many a thoughful countenance. But it is I .° his capacity of humourist that Dr. Magirm i s most successful. Here he is ever in his element, throwing off his drolleries, as in the instances of the " Story without a Tail," the " Tobias Correa . pondence," " First Love," and " O'Doherty Maxims," without the slightest appearance of effort. In this respect he has greatly the advantage of Hood who, rich as his humour frequently is, always secrets to us to labour at it. As a man of general info!. mat i on , the Doctor deservedly ran ks hi g h in public, estimation. He is familiar with the works of t e hv best writers of Greece and Rome is, we undr stand, a sound Hebrew and German scholar.; and shows, even in his slightest essays, how intimate le his acquaintance with good old English literature. We believe he is now engaage dlron a translation of the Iliad and Odyssey— cue task, one for which he is every way qualified, and which, if we may judge from the specimens that have Blackwood 's and Fraser's already appeale d in B tru any Magazines, will be the mos t ly Ho meric of old Chapman's—that version—not excepting even has vet been given to the world. TO THE, EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR—I have experienced much delight in reading your o s rtiltieed conditiona d elue i o d f a t t h o o r yarti workinglc class within s which I belong ), and the growing evidences o f intelli g ence and union. _ (to the last fortnig ht The more enlightened amongst my fellow-o p eratives haV o e, always admitted in its fullest fo rce the omnipoteiicy 1 knowledge, and have endeavoured in vat ions ways to ctilti inite the mintl3 f th,ir toiling brethren, that with Coe de velopment of intellect they might cheapen and extend t he sphere of knowledge within their individual circles, creane union, and finally cement a concentration of the labouring thousands iu promoting their moral, social, imd, peihical In s eeking to accompli-11 this mighty result, th e y h a ve called forth antagonist principles of prejudice ; oppressiost. and alarm, and the w or st p assions of class influence old interest have been played on by base and designing: me n ' iu hopes of perpetuating the ignorance, poverty. a , sd de' gradation of the iudustrious iste chanies of our day;, every chin, howe=ver modesay assetted for a better position is society, for a greater and more equalised remuneration for, and for a voice by represent a t ion in the wilting er g , the laws which gusern them, has been nun. b l the cry 0' anarchy, revolution, fire, and blood. The philosoph er whilst ptogressiog through cur land with a benign systeto of coral ethics which would renovate the face of the cool try, already redolent with intellectual lore, has peer ! '" into the workshop: but the jaundiced eves of prejude° has seen, or pretended to have seen, only the flate.,nB torch of the incendiary following his path, and though Ih , e , sage is to he seen at the right hand of working rot n in B„ . " their meetings, encouraging them onwards vvith a bright vision of future bliss, " the great artists of outcry end de lusion" in the murky pigeon holes of opprvssion, assert. "that the discussion of their rights, and the statemen t. O f their grievances is above their) comprehension." Is moral union is going on steadily and exte,ively amongst those who live by the labour of their hands frot° day to day. The Printing Press is the great battering l'' llll / of the day, " Peace , Law, and Order" the fundameita, mo tto of their existen ce. Peace aroun d us , cheap Ku° good law over us, and order amongst us. Give us but ahe mea ns of assembling t o g ether in public cheap l y , tiruP ri e ra tely, and frequen tl y and n umerously , and societ: ins" witness a renovation in the stability and firmness of mea -1 whose right arms produce the wealth of the country, ' 1 )1 d who are said to be in themselves, collectively, " the , ",.nine s of all power." Hitherto adverse circumstances ha - ,e the mechanics to public-house meetings, corn'..;,.„ing gre' l disadvantages with a depreciation of me, ra t character. The increasing union of the day loud' , y „u s upon airs Trades' Hall, and the anomaly of working classes to show their inAcpen-:,, n ' " by building', a out a focus of easy and central cor n nition in the n' e r ; tropolis is widely felt ; and no be• r rnu l n l i • l ef the number of them, togetlun effects of such a well-tlirectse" ' i t o e n exhibition mot part of op rra. , (:e:versicfieed-laboar witu tives can be made than the union the ewhit reda in the hands of Kssrs. Prescott,wither G tai e a an ' c ri e trades,o money, have p i the accumulation of • a capital of 15,0001., wherewith to build a Trades' Hall, nit ingsLondon to accommodate all the trade lie rote ,and Co., tow; ;to§ , awl to hold 4,000 pavans P" meeting,_ at a very t r ifli ng expense ddYour praiseworthy notices from time to time c f tbh• ertaking, have cheered the working men, and brownlst air %- illiaries to their assistance. The well being of "clue slit the support and respect of labour, the welfaro theusau, ' 5, and the permanent prosperity of the empire, m ay be se cu hi the operations of so important a s t t - ac turtn—ln ol ,l governed, and enjoyed with equality, liberty, free dom, * n instruction at all times by the working man. The! 9 ill he their own best friends in carrying it oint quickly, sa' and wisely. I am, Sir, your obedi-ent s re int, WNI. 'FA RE N, Trades' [Tall Office, 16, Old Bail e y, Dec, 12. I EY Fiona:a, d i !less Pripet R The Du beck, 14- t laltan:lt'llsll" t ex.edDi tt rafc' n lit;Cellinsrsw s ldedt w :nunar i Lu e .ztge'i l acati;tit , ' t he Colotiii Th e Jud Il eurable P lent w ,„ `Nuk e Rol The AN Aa~t heard Alt! the Cc qeeen''s Cc tee eesponl 44 reply fo C ONY i MET , Th fol metlce,e havelc ~------ - To 11 is E 1 into Li let I hi To his E b,.tionkie u tp m iter ; ate rn: h" "0 Dfl Lir S: 141 kC , 1)1 le k 11,, the tant, tt t h leer, fill e t cl ef tiDtil Qivie 11 l c, % vi, E