The Sun. — London, England, 1840-12-19 00:00:00

UNITED MERCANTILE and TRA VELLERS' ASSOCIATION, And General Mutual Life Assurance and Annuity Society. The Friends of the Institution are invited to DINE together at the London Coffee-House, Ludgate-hill, on Mw:Day, the ‘2Bth December, at Six o'clock precisely. SAMUEL WILSON, Esq., Alderman, Chairman. Tickets, I/. Is. each, may he had at the Office of the Asso ciation, 65, Cheapside ; or at the Bar of the London Coffee- House. EVENING EDITION. THE UNITED MERCANTILE AND TRAVELLERS' ASSOCIATION, And General Mutual Life Assurance and Annuity Society, 68, CHEAPSIDE. TRUSTEES. Samuel Wilson, Esq., Alderman I James Pattison, Esq., M.P. George Grote, Esq., M.P. Thomas Brockelbank, Esq. This Association undertakes Life Assurances in all its Branches, and also grants Annuities of every description, whe ther Immediate, Deferred, or Reversionary, and dependent on the contingency of one or more lives. 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IMPS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of IV IL AUSTRIA having AUTHORISED and GUA RANTEED ,everal DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (th.ngh they are NO LOTTERIES) 9ffer many possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES. HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, Are now F;ELLING BONDS for the said DISTI",II3UTIONS. Persons desirous to purchase for the next Distribution, mar re -teive, PREVIOUS to givin;2 any orde-, the PROS - -)ECTUS PARTICULARS, upon addressing WITHOUT DE LA Y, a line to HEINE, BROTHERS, at HAMBURGII. THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION, managed and guaranteed the Austrian Government, contains TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED DIVIDENDS, Amounting to £954,888, ThP Dividerids being .£15,000 £6OO £7O 0 £37 10 7,500 3GO 50 0 37 0 3,300 200 42 0 36 0 1,800 150 40 10 35 0 1.200 100 39 0 THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. V NDER the .11ANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRI. THIS EVENING. DEC. 19. Will be repeated MIDSUMMER :NIGHT'S DREAM. Theseus, Mr. Cooper; Quince, Mr. Bartley; Bottom, Mr. ; Flute, .Ir. Keeley ; Snout, Mr. Meadows ; Snug. Mr. F. Matthews ; Ilermia, Mrs. Nisbett ; Oberon, Madame Vestris ; Titania, Mrs. W. Lacy ; Puck, Miss:Marshall; First Fairy, Miss Rainforth. After whico, the New Farce, in One Act, entitled BROTPIER BEN. Commodore Cwtlass, Mr. Bartiey ; Benjamin Bowles, Mr. (harks Mathews; Mr. Shuffleton, Mr. Harley; Dorothy, C. Jenet. To conclude with A COMIC SCENE between Mr. CHARLES MATHEWS and Mr. KEELEY, entitled TWO IN THE MORNING. On Monday, The Midsummer Night's Dream, with Brother Ben, and Two in the Morning. The NEW GRAND CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME will he - produced on Saturday Dec. 26, entitled THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO; OR, HARLEQUIN AND THE GIANT HELMET. Doors to be opened at halt-pmt Six—the performances to z,lomenee at Sever o'Clock. Tinkets and pia( es for the Boat: to be taken of Mr. Grogan the lion-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may no had upon application.: Dress Boozes, 71. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second t'ireles ss. ; Second Price, 'ls. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, De. ; dallerv, ls. Private Boar.: to be had so'ely of Mr. Anclizres, bookseller 167. New Bond-street. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LA:\ E. :Mr. ELIA SON begs leave moat resspectiullytWinTiOunee that the above Theatre is now OPEN EVERY EVENING with the Grand Musical Entertainments, entitled THE CONCERTS D'HIVER. La't Week of Mons. Musard's Engagement. Leader, Mons. NADAUD—Conductor, Mons. MUSARD PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING, DEC. 19. PART Fl ItST. Overtire—Le Lac des Fers. VAlses—Die Kosenden—Strauss. Overture—Le Sernsent. Quadrille—l Puritani—Musard. Overture—Der Frerchutz—\Veber. Air Varie—Violoncello, Mons. Filet. Grand Scene Satanique, selected from Robert le Diable, ar ranged by Musard. RT SECOND. Overture—Guillaume Tell—Rossini. New Quadrille—Rendezvous de Chasse—.Musard. Concerto Ophicleide—Mons. Prospers. Quadrille—Cent-Suisse-31usard. Overture—Fra Diavolo—Auber. Quadrille—Postilion de \lam'ablou—Musard. Galop—Camille—Trumpet Solo, Herr Muiler—Musard. Prices of Admission :—To the Promenade, Is. ; Dress lircle, 2s. 6d. ; Upper Boxes, Is. 6d Visitors to the Boxes have the privilege of passing to and from the Promenade. t 4.t Mr. Eliason, in compliance with numerous applications, begs leave to announce that the Lower Gallery will for the fu ture be opened at the admission •f Is. to each person. Doors open at half-past Seven o'Clock, to commence at Eigkt precisely. l'tivate blies can only be procured of Mr. Mitchell, Royal Library, No. 33, Old Bond-street, and at the Box-office of the Theatre. Prices, 10s. 6d., 1/. Is., and it. I Is. 6d. coxes And Places in the Dress and Upper Circles may be secured . on spplieation t• Mr. Par aons , at the B o x- o ffi ce , alaily, from 'I en till Four **Clock, and those in the Dress Circle will be kept during the whole of the evening, if required. PRINCESS' THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. This splendisi Theatre is OPEN . EVERY EVENING with PROMENADE CONCERTS, Under the Direction •f Mr. WILLY. In addition to tile Solo Performers who have already ap. Feared at these Concerts, Mr. Willy has great pleasure in an• nouncing that he has made arrangements with M. Delabarre (Oboe), of the Academic Royale, Paris; M. de Folly, (Pic. colol ; and 31. Baumann, (Bassoon). THIS EVENING, DEC. 19.—PROGRAMME. PART FIRST. o, •rture—Preciosa—Weber. Quadrille—Le Carillonneur. Waltz—Der Fee* Welt—Strauss. Overture—La Dante Blanche—Boildieu. Sole o■ the IliLiSeoll, by M. Baumann. Stlection from the Mountain Sylph, introducing the Bridal Charm, Farewell to the Mountain, and the Fortune-telling Scene. PART ''.F.COND. Overt ure— Semiramide— Rossini. Waltz—Hymen Fier Kiang. Quadrille from Oberon—'button. Duet Concertante—Flute by,Mr. Carte, Clarinet by Herr Itjen. Les Pleturaet des Dames, or Musical Wreath—Strauss. Promenade, ls.—Dress Circle, 2s.—Upper Boxes, is. 6d. Private Boxes, 11. b. and 10s. 6d. each, may be had at the Box-office, and of Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street. 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 t)se 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. THE GOLDEN SUN \Vas published to commemorate bar most Gracious MAJESTY'S CORONATION ; but the Penny Postage, which now facilitates the sc4d- ing of letters, was not then in existence. Look ing forward to an event of great national in terest, which Queen VICTORIA has now 11APPILY realised, we reserved a few copies of TIIE GOLDEN CORONATION SUN, Which can be sent by post free to all parts o; the Empire. Price SIXPENCE. Sun Office, 112, Strand, London, Nov. 28, 1840. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. 3f0rnm3...... 19 mimutes after 11. 1 Evening 48 rnluutes after 11. The Publieation of t e Evening Edition •f THE Sus cola meneed at 10 minutes after Three. ' A y am 4- • • ••• AL3L 4 jA,k. c!C;ibie l'alt. MELANCHOLY SUICIDE OF A CHILD.—A little boy called John Thomas Hill, and about 10 years old. was discovered last Wednesday hanging to the branch 11( 4 tree in the roalest'ing to Townatall Church within but a few minutes' walk of his home, and when taken down was quite dead. It appears from the inquest held before Mr. R. Anthony, Coroner, that the poor child had been up to this time a most obedient and dutiful boy; but had, from his schoolmaster's evidence, within a short time been rather inattentive in coming to school. This little fellow had of late often rPraarked that he was unfairly treated, which it is supposed, I reying on his mind, was the cause of his destroying himself. On the morning of the day on which he committed the fatal deed, he had been absent from school by his mother's permission, and had been a few miles hi the country with another lad, who deposed at the inquest that he noticed that the deceased was much less talkative than usual. After coming home with this boy he dined with the family as usual, and after dinner washed h is " fare and hands" and cutting the rope from a pair of slings" used to carry milk-pails with, took it with him. His mother supposed he was going to school, but alas ! it was the last time that she was destined to see him alive. He must have gone immediately and committed the rash act. The opinion of the jury was that he did it whilst labouring under a tit of t em p orary i nsan i ty .— IVestern Luminary. , o - A S UNSET ON THE DANUBE.—On a fine evening we ascended to the he igltb ,, yond the palace in order to see a sunset nn the Danube, s ight it way'. Faith, w oo d, and and a glorious water swim in one atmosphere ( f goldw seemed to and topaz, and 30 magnificent a ~kv I never remember to have I e beld : we were abs olutel y blinded wi th splend s o e ur ; an'cl emed to mountains where then suddenly turning. 'our faces caatward; w he e have been transported int o a new world. T rose darkly against the de e p p ur p le horizon, save they were touched by the beams of the moon, Which wa pillowed for a time upon the crest of the hi g h est of the s range; while her broad line of light, after touchin g the topmost branches of the forest-trees at their base, streamed down upon the bosom of the flood, and turned its tide to silver. And all was so still upon that vine-covered hill ! The wind played languidly among the heavy grape leaves. awakening a low rustling, which served but to make the silence more deeply felt; while the swift rushing of the mighty river at our feet was a fitting accompaniment to the scene en which we looked. I know not how long we stood there. We took no note o f t ime • ' but the golden idories cf the sunset had deepened into dusk, and the II °on had risen high into the star-gemmed vault of heaven , " ' , i4 g down i n brightness upon the mountains against which we had so lately ste leant , ere we turned to retrace our mtowards the city.—Miss Pardoe's City of the Magyar. We regret to have to announce two other failures in this n•t•gh)ourhood ; the one is an extensive in , shipping house Greenock, the other is a Glasgow house, in a differe nt line of business, and has been brought down by large accommod ation paper transactions with a ci V i i;s: vo l e n k. d .... ia h G o l u aa se l , o! : h a ieh ir we za r c i!ticed as having failed this We cannot allow the great ceremony NA:ol4ote3 aBhC to France, to pus LONDON: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1840. At present the weavers of Glasgow, Norwich, Carlisle, and various other places, gain by the hardest and most continuous labour from 7s. to Os. a week. That is the utmost amount of their wages, and that is not sufficient to support their families. At this very time, however, these poor, hardwork ing, honest, and suffering men must pay, in order to eat a morsel of bread, the sum of 265. Bd. per quar ter on wheat, that being the present amount of the duty, to the rich, the idle, the dishonest, and wine drinking landlords. The same, or similar facts, are true of all the industrious classes in the country, out of whose wages, varying from Os., the pay of an agricultural labourer, to 2/. 25., the pay of au en gine driver on the rail-roads, entrusted with the lives of thousands of persons, is taken this enor mous tax of 263. Sil. on every quarter of corn they consume, to swell the landlords' rent. But, as we showed on Thursday, to deprive men of the neces sary quantity of food, which it is clear is the conse quence of such a tax, with wages at that rate, is to deprive them of fuel, clothing, furniture, and com fortable dwellings, because all these arc and must be sacrificed for food. On this most infamous tax on the people's bread must be charged, there fore, their present want of food, fuel, clothing, furniture, and comfortable dwellings. We repeat, the scoundrel bread-tax is at this moment, while the snow lies a foot deep on the ground, and while all the sources of natural warmth are for the moment frozen up—for in the suffering poor even the blood actually stagnates—dooming thousands, aye, even millions, to the worst extremities of want and destitution, and to the most painful of all linger ing deaths, by hunger and cold. Perhaps it may be said they may take refuee in the workhouse ; but, before they do that, particu larly under the present Poor-law, they part with all their goods. In fact, they must ; for, as long as they have property, the parish will not support them. Before they can reach that enviable abode, therefore, their health is undermined, and they have undergone most of the sufferings we have mentioned. But they are intelligent beings, too high-spirited to submit to the scanty, ill-supplied parish relief, accompanied, as that now is, with ex treme degradation, and they submit to death rather than go into the workhouse. Even if it were otherwise, and the destitute poor crowded to that which they call their bastile, what justification, what excuse does that afford of a law, which beats down the in dustrious classes to that terrible degradation, by the most severe privations and calamities ? No ; the existence of workhouses to receive, in the last stage of distress, the victims of the landowner's and the endowed priest's rapacity, affords not the shadow of a justification of the most unrighteous Corn-law. Some of our Contemporaries, and even some statesmen, frequently indulge in censure of the people for not being sufficiently submissive arid contented. Gracious GOD ! what would they have ? Can submission be carried beyond that which is now, and has long been, exhibited by peo ple who, unable to get food, yet quietly consent to pay the landlords' tax Is there something worse than death through starvation trious can be called on to bear for the benefit of the to them worthless owners of rent ? To guillotine whole families—lovely women, and innocent chil dren, and virtuous men—or drown them, as was done during the French Revolution (which horrid deeds have since served, in the hands of our priests and landlords, to buttress up their detestable system) would be kindness and mercy compared to withholding from them food,clothing, fuel, and doom ing them, as at present, to a slow, lingering, and wast ing death. There is no suffering, no degradation, no misery, beyond that of being slowly starved out of existence ; and the people who submit to the bar barous law which dooms them to it are as com pletely and horribly enslaved by law as the poor wretches who are fettered on board a slave ship, or who are whipped to death in the free States of America. We arc not surprised at the discon tent of the people ; we are surprised at their long and patient submission. They have displayed more forbearance than human nature generally gets credit for ; but that, instead of softening the hearts of their obdurate, greedy, and hypocritical tyrants (though when was scoundrel avarice softened ?), has Clei nly giv en th e l an dl or d s , th e b o a s ti n g nobility, gentry,moanNdDsan( B i of England, ATELBOURNES, Ii c UCK INGIIA MS, aye, even WELLINGTONS, a sense of personal security—it has convinced them that they might, by the aid, and in the name of the law, practise the greatest tyranny on the p oor , an d commit the most revolting cruelty, without endangering their persons. The humble but extreme submission of the people has only encouraged the landlords to go forward in a most profligate and inhuman career of aniltv of restoring by without t ll E 41114, LONDON. SATUR ):1 Y. DECENETVIZ kind, that we think the conduct of the French Honouring the remains of NAPOLEON defitisihle. But we must divtinctly object to the injustice which 'ur Contemporary does that great man, when he says— saying a few words more on the subject this* it was yesterday in our power to offer. We must re peat our heartfelt satisfaction that it was unattendvd with the slightest disturbance, notwithstanding the provocation to outrage which some journals threw out. The French, and particularly the Parisians, begin to appreciate the beauty and utility of quid, order; and the general calmness of their deportment not wholly divested of enthusiasm, will tend to re assure Europe, and win back that confidence which the late gasconade of their journals frightened into flight. It was a complete failure, so far as the hopes of some scheming gentlemen were concerned, who wished to make it an occasion for an men.% or even a revolution ; many of the trumpery orna ments were not perfect; the whole pomp that can he gathered together of the Catholic church was not put in requisition ; it was in many points a poor exhibi tion ; but it called forth, in spite of the severe weather, the bulk of the Parisian population, who behaved respectfully, earnestly, sedately, arid even with a species of devotion. For M. TRIERS, who planned the scheme, and his friends who expected to use it to their purpose, it was a complete failure ; but the rest of the world arc, we believe, delighted that it succeeded so well. From the calmness of the deportment of Ow Parisians, we are disposed to draw a more favour able inference thsn some of our Contemporaries. Whatever injuries NAPOLEON inflicted on France, he beautified and aggrandized Paris. His reign, for the Parisians, till its very close was a long suc cession of triumphs. Show followed show, as vic tory followed victory, and Paris was in a continual carnival of glory. Paris had all the honours, and felt none of the horrors of war till 181.5, and then the presence of the Allies, the vast influx of foreigners and ernigrat ts, the formation of another Court, lessened the injuries and soothed the pangs which the success of the Allies and the deposition of the EMPEROR occasioned in other parts of France. We do not wonder therefore, that the Parisians almost deified their EMPEROR, and we hail their present calm deportment as a proof that twenty-five years have abated in them the supersti tion of hero worship. The restoration of the ashes of NAPOLEON trif,lit have made them frantic, while at Ham they would have found a new idol in young NAPOLEON,who has already nominated m.THIERS for his Prime Minister, and might have attempted, under such auspices, again to make the bulk of Europe tributary to Paris. Our countrymen are disposed, perhaps, from long enmity to BONAPARTE, and from suc cess against him, to judge the homage which the French still pay to his talents and his genius somewhat harshly. At any rate, our people can scarcely sympathise with their feelings, and expect too much of them in demanding that they should look at BONAPARTE like philosophers, and cease to admire him because he was not, like FRANKLIN or WATT, a benefactor to the whole human race. We have as little, or perhaps less, veneration for the vulgar race of heroes, than any of our Tory brethren. We cordially condemn the practice of almost deifying successful warriors, in whatever cause they may have drawn their swords ; but we we cannot overlook the practices of the world, nor disregard the usual feelings of mankind. We can not, therefore, now follow the Tory lead, measure the actions of BONAPARTE by an abstract and perfect standard, and at once turn into ridicule the honour be stowed on his ashes by the French, because he shed their blood in useless wars, and was not a philoso phic statesman. We are, at the same time, highly Great excitem ent preva il e d i n t h e seas political cir ' cies of Paris on Th urs d ay , i n consequence of a delighted that our Tory brethren should have made I rumour that the P orte h a d re f use d to rat i fy Corn so much progress in civilisation, as even to surpass the Parisians, and now adopt those abstract doe- modore NAPIER'S treaty with NlEttEstEr ALI. trines of non-hero worship which the philosophic Afore recent accounts from Constantinople 1 • have Radicals have for many years laboured to make the enabled us to_pronounce this rumour to be unfoun creed of mankind. ded. The remonstrance of Lord PA E rtsTo N gainst persisting the sentence of deposition pro- We remember at the same time, and remcm nounced against the VICEROY boring are suspicious of their sincerity, that they produced, we have still speak in almost idolatrous terms of the been assured, the effect intended by his Lordship. great warrior who, without hating a much. better Not only had the S ULTA N agree d to restore cause than that of BONAPARTE, succeeded Egypt to the DACHA, but to ent e r i n t o suc h arni against him, U n do u bt e dly, too , w h en it shall cable relations with him as would tend to restore please the ALMIGHTY to remove the Duke of harmony between the populations of Turkey and WELLINGTON from this earthly scene, they will I Egypt. require that honours something like those bestowed It was likewise rumoured in Paris that the de on the ashes of NAPOLEON shall attend him to the termination of France to continue her armam en t s grave. To institute comparisons between these I had given great umbrag e to the Austrian and two great Generals is not our present business ;we Prussian Governments. This is not surprising ; shall content ourselves with observing that the Duke l but after the evidence the French Government has NAPOLEON of th e p ac ifi c of WELLINGTON is probably grateful to Provi- i received at the funeral of deuce that lie was not exposed on the giddy spirit of the French peopl e , we trust t h e arma ° height of an imperial throne to the ser- ments will be quietly disco n ti nue d. I t i s no lone r vile adulation of a vain-glorious people, doubtful that the war party in Fr ance i s b y tio and, that his lot was cast among a more sta id and means so f orm idable, eithe r in numbers or in influ more sober race than the French. Twenty-five ence, as was supposed during the 'debate upon the years, as we have seen by the example of the Pari- Address. Of the 600,000 persons w h o paraded sians, and the Tory writers, now suffice to make P a ris on Tuesday, not fifty j o i ne d i n t h e ye ll o f a great progress in civilization, and thirty years the youthful knights of the pestle and mortar against have elapsed since cur countrymen conferred on jM. GUIZoT and Lord P AL mERsTo N. Th e i r the remains of their great Admiral, whose character I shouts were heard wi t h t h e utmost indifference. was no more without blemish than that of i Even the female portion of the immense crowd NAPOLEON or WELLINGTON, honours very i manifested not the slightest symptoms o f a l arm. similar to those which the French have now I The following just and sensible observations upon bestowed on the greatest o f their warriors, and the contemptible attempt to create a disturbance on hllrsda l y e :_ columns of the one of the most commanding men that ever this solemn occasion, are from h lived. If our Tories would not beforeh and tarnish Journal des Debar s of the honours with which WELLINGTON will be Certain cries of " Down with Ministers and Guizot" and depreciate those con- d G id coma l from certain companies of the National stle a u r tiOnal We con d t u rarr t t 4enYit. conducted to the tomb, sense, but inevitable' The fact is uncoil o underorder, a governmentdiscipline, oafn freedom e e g d ( hood ferred on NELSON thirty years ago, they should , , not ridicule or condemn the French for the profound, earnest, and peaceful homage they have paid to the and free discussion. Many National Guards would ashes of NAPOLEON. be found to cry " Long live the Re üblio " or " Long live Henry V. ;" nay, some may [l be ' Lind to cry To judge of their conduct correctly, we must try of rnas complain of the bad both. The Bonapartist Liberals of the present daY the entire the it by the conduct of other nations, not by p 7 ae ri sp t e i o o ni n et t o humour and disaffection the philosopher's abstract rule. BONAPARTE , u the publics. But in Napoleon's time, the ilj our was greater, and hundreds would have cla was an Emperor as well as a great war- floured for peace, and " Down with the conscription," if part °f durst. , It was a great act of courage on the rior. Compared to all the Monarchs of Senate in 18 . 13 to tell the Emperor, that state prisons, and military tribunals, are rare in- France who preceded him, lie towers above Louts at the empire sighed after peace. Conserip ctiolcurNafie XIV. and HENRY IV. far more than they tower tions, above the rest. He was by far the greatest man milled t (.1, 1 5e re reign.do e s n \N o r t e reign have ftrbeeedseilmentinunpalennittiyn,ty. and keeping down popular discontent. At that ever sat on the throne of France. As lie sur- N s :sere are not dangerous. People may cry " Down with clamour freedom, Ministers" in the streets, and then return to their fa nbau t e there et strengtho u outcry o f th e passed all his predecessors, so he far outstripped all the Sovereigns of Europe of his own age, and for ° d' e n v e il co W ns e e h n a u v ene a es pr o e f ss th to is a long time previously. He was a man of great s consequences too ; and, notwithstanding the talents. They owed all the brillancy of their reigns, are good headstrong and the mad, there is still whatever it was, to their Ministers, Generals, and Admirals ; they were only nominally great. He was foolish enoughstatesmen, in the country to stop the . career of en, wh o so bungled and complicated po:i great in the cabinet and great in the field. Out of the tical affairs,thst they did not know what to do next, save chaos of the Revolution lie brought forth order, but, v ‘er cry war. ar . W e have saved Mn M. iers hi s Leipsic arid for a season he made the French the arbiters and Of the 600,000 persons on foot on Tuesday, some few cried " Down with traitors ;" but in of the fate of Europe. The other So v e rei g ns sub s presence of the great mass o f t h e p eo pl e , these imper mitted to him as a god, or were saved, like England, ceptilbly few cla mours did no t succeed i n even excit from his sway by a fortunate situation or the iodo- i t n h a e _ Li m- Th e isolation of these few in the midst of without exception the most significant mitable spirit of their people. Compared to him, fact of the day, Their efforts showed but their feeble , the Sovereigns of his time were no better than ness. Their vo i ce h ad li tt l e soun d , an d no ec h o. N one boobies ; yet what honours almost divine, what responded to them. The people came to respect and , honour th e memory of a great man, and by its silent long lines of soldiers, what solemn lying in state,what contempt resisted the puny efforts to convert the funeral slow and mournful firing, what national mournings pomp into an cineule. marked their exit, and were decreed to their remains f. The pacific and orderly behaviour of the Pa- The customs of Europe are a vindication of the risian population on Tuesday will greatly strengthen French. The Europeans honour warriors and the hands of the SOUL T-G UlzoT Cabinet; and Kings. To ridicule or condemn the honours they it is very desir a bl e that a d v antage should he taken have bestowed on NAPOLEON, i s to ridicule and of it to remov e the l arm e ntertained of the intern. condemn the general reverence for Royalty. Such tentions of France by her neighbours. remarks as those we copy from the Times and the The National was seized on %Wednesday by Standard would become th e N ew Yor k H era ld ; order of the Government. On the same evening but in the Times, which l ate l y strove to exalt some seditious cries were uttered by a number of Royalty in public estimation, and the Standard, workmen on the Boulevards, but the police sup which is almost the advocate of the divine right of pressed them without difficulty. These workmen Kings, they are misplaced. They are worthy of the, had not returned to their employment after attend columns of a Radical or Republican Journal. ;og the ceremony of the funeral, and were under the In ti ,, issatn we aerree with the abstract doctrines I iiiitience of wine. of the Tizzies, and it is chiefly I,L ion ;, u d os o u s . i The Cissori;er of Deputies assembkci oi, 'I ours toms of Europe and the general feelings of nun. j day to discuss the budget. The President read the He had gone further towards eradicating the very ,eeds and principles of honest industry—towards wasting in unjust ambition the resources and the fruits of corn tierce—towards rendering successful violence the stand ird both of policy and honour—towards per% crting ul knowledge to the cods of desolating barbarism— ..reimpling on religion and its ministers, and utterly de praving the whole mind of Fr:ince. than had been effe.Aed nom the accession of Lows XIV. and the massacre of St. Bartholomew to 1793 inclusive. Now we must remind our Contemporary, that the Church in France had been overthrown, the priests banished or drowned, religion had been trampled on, mercy lost sight of, industry eradicated by great oppressions, and the Revolution, in all its worst phases, had been passed through, before tio- NAPA ItTE arrived at power. The people who could be guilty of what the rulers of France were k!uilty before the Revolution, and of what nearly all classes were guilty during the Revolution, could not by any by l BONAPARTE. profli ga t e Ch urc h, very The i f ) a o l s ig si ( b io il nna it i y i b t e ionofa corrupted ist no like our own at present, and the iron rule of a grasping aristocracy, not very different from our Corn-law makers, had thoroughly debased and demoralized the French before 1790, and ever since that period the fermentation of the people has been directed to throw off some of the noxious ingredients. To a great extent they suc ceeded. BoNAPARTE added, when he acted on the old principles, many new ones equally noxious. The French have not yet got rid of them, but one of the best signs we have lately seen that they are fast working themselves clear, is the calm and quiet reception they have given to the ashes of NAPO LEON, notwithstanding the numerous efforts that have been used to revive in their hearts an enthu siastic devotion to military glory. In another part of the paper will be found au ac count of a meeting of Dissenters held at Edin burgh on Wednesday, which requires the serious consideration of the Government. We have al aiong held that her MAJESTY'S Ministers ought to shun ad interference between the Intrusionists and Non-Intrusionists in Scotland, and leave the two parties to settle the question in the General Assembly or i❑ the Court of Session, in the best way they can. The Cabinet have hitherto pursued that prudent course, while at the same time they have allowed Mr. Fox MA uLli and the LORD ADVOCATE, their representatives in the North, to lend their support to the law breakers, the men, who (in the words of the Rev. Mr. MARSHALL) are aiming at the thing the Romish Clergy aimed at when the Church of Rome was in the ascendant, and ►hat has been the con sequence ? The numerous body of Dissenters identify these two patrons of Non-Intrusion with the Government, and have come to a resolution to re fuse their support to any candidate who shall advocate the wild doctrine that the Church, while connected with the State, and esta blisl►cd by law, shall be independent of both. The vanity of the present LORD PROVOST too, and the rejection of Mr. BLACK, have added vot a little to the bitterness of feeling which, unless allayed by a strong demonstration on the part of the Government, will do them incalculable mischief in Scotland. The Conservatives rejoice at this unseemly quarrel, ;Ind at the next election will not fail to make a good use of it. different articles, which showed that the receipts for the year 1838 amounted to 1,149,612,932 francs, and the expenditure to 1,135,200,970 francs, giving a surplus of 14,411,962 francs. The details of the debate possess not the shadow of political, commercial, or financial interest. BO ITIISE......PAras, THURSDAY, DAC. 7. first Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price: nice French 5 pert erns 4 per ' ..cute 9B .. 93 ... 97 50 .. 97 50 :3 per tents 77 30 . 7; 30 ... 76 95 ... 77 Bank of !'r wt., . ~f ria, .".. , i; 5001. spares 593(1 ...s<ol ...59:4 50 ...5197 50 , ci):lne , Bali.. New Loan ip.Lni,h Ac.ive , eapolitan (.roan 993, ... 9996 ... 9.04 .„ 99% ti AILWAY. SHARES. St. Uerrnal.. -12 .')0 ... e;4: 511.. 642 50 ... 012 50 Ver•alllc,,lt is 393 75 ... 393 75 ...:330 511 ... 3P2 511 L.B. .. 30.9 ~ :i 2 50 (\rlein. 4` , .; `), ... 4843 25 ... -165 ... 4. 4 ( . 1 2.9 Str.isriurg to Bale: Madrid papers of the 10th inst. have reached us. The Regency had abolished the offi::es of Under• Secretaries of State and Chiefs of Division i❑ the War and Foreign Departments of the Government. A report of the Financial state of Spain, and of the mea3ures to be taken by the Government for the liquidation of the Hone and Foreign Debt, was expected to appear in the Gazette of the 11th inst. ESPARTERO was concentrating a strong military force on the confines of Portugal, and it was gene rally believed that if the Portuguese Government persisted in interrupting the navigation of the Douro, he wot.ld cross the frontier; and carry war into th e h eart o f P ortuga l. Th e capital was tranquil The Fives were at 26-4- for cash. AMERICAN SUB-TREASURY BILL.—A CJrrespondent has pointed out that the statement in our paper on Thursday that the " Van Buren party had been unable to carry through their Sub• Treasury Bill," is an error. That Bill was passed and became law on July 4. We, however, only referred to that as an illustration, and the serious opposition it encountered, ending 'as we now tee in a change of the Government, will equally serve our purpose of showing that no great al terations can be successfully made in the policy of the United States, to which a very largo minority is opposed. We muy take the same opportu nity of noticing a letter which appears in an other part of The Sun, the writer of which seems to have misapprehended our remark that Congress would cease to exist on March 4th, which was only meant to imply that it would then cease to sit. Our Correspondent is correct in saying that it will only be partially renewed. He is also correct, probably, in saying, that on the meeting of the Cangress•in De cember next year, a majority of Whigs will be found in the Senate and in the House of ltvresentatives,while the President's chair will be occupied by a Wh!g. At the 'same time we aro of opinion that the Whigs wall not, therefore, be able to c.ttry all their favourite measures, out will be so far resisted by the large minority as to nv.ke very slow progress, and will only succeed ulti mately, if at all, by first iofluencing public ()Onion. RUSSIA. Sr. PETERSBPEGII, DEC. 2.—From the 24th to the 27th Nov. several more ships had arrived at Cronstadt, which were among the ice; preparations were making to get them into the port by cutting a channel for them in the ice. The ice was pretty strong to the distance of three or four wersts from Cronstadt ' • but beyond that it was still drifting. A hi g h w i n d w i t h drifting snow had im peded the work on the 25th and 2titb, but ou the 27th it was prosecuted with great activity. PETEICSRUftOH, DEC. 4. .—Exchange on London three months 39 3 piths. METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATION.—By Rcaumur's Ther mometer :—Dec. 3, 8 a.m., 5 deg. 6 min. ; 12, 5 deg. 3 min. ; 4 p.m., 5 deg. 3 min. ; 8 p.m., 8 deg. 7 min, Dec. 4, 8 a.m., 11 dug. 4 min.; 12, 9 d-g. 2 min. ; 4 p.m., 10 deg. 5 min. ; 8 p m., 8 dcg. 3 min.—Jouriwl de St. Petersburgh, Dec. 5. HOLLAND. THE HAGUE, DEC 14.—SECOND CHAMBER OF THE STATES GENERAL, DEC. 12.—A Message from his Ma jesty wa3 received accompanirg a project of law for intro.. clueing . the taxes laid on the Kingdom into the Duchy of Limburg, with an explanatory memorial. SITTING OF DEC. 15 —The project of law for the Abo lition of the Syndicate was adopted by 42 to 2 votes. The Chamber then proceeded to debate on the project of law for providing the ways and means for 1841. A long discussion ensued or. the proposal for creating a debt of 18 millions to cover the deficiency in the receipts, which was carried by 31 votes to 19. The law for withdrawing the: Treasugy bonds as 4 per cent., which were issued by virtue of the law of the 28th April. cad converting them into active debt, was rejected by 30 voters to 20. _ - The project of law for issuing 8 millions, at the most, of treasury bonds, for meeting temporary wants, wes agreed to by 42 to 8 votes. r AMSTERDAM, DEC. 14,—His Majesty has sent to the Burgomaster of this city the sum of 1,000 florins for the relief of the relatives of the persons who lost their Jives on the 28th of November, in the evening, and of any who may have been injured on that occasion. AMSTERDAM, DEC. 1.5.—F0r some days past various re. ports have been in circulation of changes in the Ministry. It being impossible to know beforehand how likely it is that the King's choice may fall on either of the persons mentioned in these reports, we refrain from rcentioning names till we are better informed. Since the 11th of this month the cold has been pretty severe, as the folloming statement shows ; 8 a.m. 1 p.m. 7 p.m. December 11 ... 28 Fahr. 32 ... 30 12 ... 29 ... 28 ... 27 1 3 ••. 25 ... 22 ... 20 14 ... 17 ... 22 ... 23 15 ... 15 ... 21 .., 21 This morning the peasants of North Holland crossed the Y on the ice. AmsTEnnam, Dec. 16.—The passing of the financial laws has had a favourable effect on the funds, and a great deal of business was done in then at highar prices. The market remains very firm. DuTcti FUND3.—AMSTEELDAN, Dac. 16 Honey. %ctual per Cent d;tto 5 per cent Anart Svinlie,4N, per cent £46 Hfirs Ditto, ditto, 3N, per ce ^t Ce,mrnercial Company, 44, per cent 1 4 ,5t4 tri Ditto (1 135 and 15:37) 5 per cent. Loan 1V37, 5 per ermt. Exchange on Londom, One month l2 `2 l ,- Two months Dutch Papers, Dec. 17. HAMBURG 3ORSENHALLE, DEC. 12. Bills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. r mk Shares Anglo- Itussian Loan lOl le6 ti MISSi4II S per tout. tst series, Cc.rtilicate Inscription, Ist Series. Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th Scrics - . i6' flr 1,4 Ditto in Certificates Dutch .-ctual Debt, 2y4 pc, Cent 4J Ditto 5 per Cent — .. Polish Bond. New rieket A nglo- i )attish Loan, 3 per Ceti. Norwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cent lOl Spanish, New 3 per Cents. --i. ?RUSSIAN FUNDS.—Bento, Dsc. 12. Bills. Money. St. Schutt!. Sch., 4' per cent. 103% It 3 Prussian English Lean, 1030, 4 per cent SO li _ tixchange on Landon, three months 6 16 —Prussian Slate Gazette, Dec 13. The Earl and Countess of Kenmure are ex pected in town from posse Castle, Killarney, and will shortly go to Brighton for the winter. His Excellency General Alava returned to town on Thursday, from a visit to the Duke of Wellington, at Strathfie!ds,,ye. LORD ALBERT CONYNGHANI, M.P.—A pa ragraph appeared in the London Papers last week, from which we should infer that the health a Lord A. D. Co nyngbam has greatly improv:_d; 'out we regret to learn that at the Cattle- Show Dinner the Marquis of Conyng. ham apologised for the absence of his Lordship, on the ground of " his health being in a lamentable state." A Tory Contemporary even goes the length of asserting " from private authority, that the disorder (palpitation of the heart) with which he is affected, seized him so sud. denly and violently only a very short time ago, that the noble invalid was compelled to be takes from his carriage and laid upon the ground to prevent actual dissolution on the spot." We tru-a that this latter statement is greatly e xaggerated.—.Aent Herald. THE LATE DESTRUCTIVE FIRE NEAR S.r. JAMES'S PARK. —Wc yesterday gave a brief account of the total destruction, by fire, of the mansion of Mr. Hoare, the banker, situate in Queen-square-place, St. James's Park. The loss of property was once believed to exceed 20,0001., but on an inquiry made yesterday by the insurance authori ties it is found not to exceed 5,0001. Lord Lindsay, to whom the building belonged, is insured in the Alliance Assurance Company to the amount of 2,0001. Mr. Hoare will greatly suffer by this calamity, he being only insured to the amount of 5001. in the Hand and Hand Fire Office. The fire was caused by sonic defect in the stoves used ler heating the building. This morning, between nine and ten o'clock, while John Kelley, twenty-five years of age, with three others, were engaged at Fresh Wharf, Lower Thames. s:rect, in raising out of a lighter a cask of goods, nearly a ton weight, the cog-wheel stops broke, and the handle of the windlass struck the unfortunate man a tre mendous bk)tir on the side of the 'left Lmplc, and killed him on the spot. DEATH IN A STATION HOLTSE.—Friday even - ing, at six o'clock, a lengthened inquiry was instituted before Mr. Wakley, M.P., and a most respectable Jury, in the board-room of Nlarylebone workhouse, on the body of William Davidson, a g e d sixty, late in the employ of Messrs. Tattersall, of Hyde Park-corner. It appeared that on Monday night the poor fellow fell down in the Edgeware.road, and was placed by a policeman in a cell on the charge of being drunk. In six hours afterwards lie ta ,-, a ename . The Coroner made some riareirks ;men the improver mode of nutting persons supposed to be drunk in the cells of titad•; , , housas. Verdict---That the deceased waa 410,1 ae l' of •r.,ert-strert aet7ne huuse, but whittler he diLU from natural causes or other wise there was no evidence to show. THE MARKETS-(THI DAY.) WHITECHAPEL MEAT NlAnkf_l f ro The siipply of country killed Meat. was very rtnai, stir' pries advanced, Veal l'oeti!ql vtry high rut.,•s; indeed, the demands for all kinds of Meat Witß eat.flasive. Beef, 34. to 4i. 4i. ; Mutton, 3,1. to 4s. 2d. ; Veal, 4.?, 41. to ss. Bd, ; Pork, 3s. Bd. to _ TEA MARKET. There vras little bwiness done in Free Trade, but pri••es were steady. ConapJny's Congou were sought R tter. nud producc:l . 2 , . Oid. cash ; the principal operators rare tof disposed to buy._ TALLOW MARKET. Prices for P. Y Candle were firm on the spot, and a good demand ptevaded at 494. 43.:. 3d. per cwt. Town T.,liow f , e4 I y and price= were ors advance. FRUIT MARKET. The market iv4s in a dull state for all kisd3 and prices on the delino. HAY MARKET. The better sorts of 1-sy were in good request, prices firm, but c•..mmon kinds, of which the principal part of the t,rri►als cf.r,sisted, sold heavily. For Straw a good demand prevailed. and prices were firm, the supply being short. Clover, 31 10;. to 5/, ; Meadr,w liay, 41. to 51. ; Middling and O'dinary, 31 10s to 41. 10;.: Straw, 11 144. to 11. 16s. MOB; 12.:Y and CO M,3i Nl:Wc. CITY, -; I'WELVE O'CLOCK, LIVERPOOL COTTON;MARKET, Franay.—We continue to have a good and r , gukr demand, and the business done is again proportionably large. Prices of American de scriptions have advanc.A 2-1. per cent., particularly the lower qualities up to fair, with a tendency to further im provement. Con.mon qualities of Surat are also fully id. per cent. higher, full rates being obtained for the better classes. Brazil and Sea Island are steady, but Eg) ptian is, if any, less, being offered freely at the current rate. 4,500 bales of American have been taken on speculation. The Sea Islands a , auction to-day went off steadily at previous prices. 423 bales were offered : 290 bales sold at 121 d. and 15A-d. The sales to-day are about 5,000 baler of all kinds. - LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, DEC. 18.—ENStOrn COM tics, deLs. 41; Edinburgh and GlaTow, 291; Glasgow and Paisiej, 22i ; Grand Junction, 210 i, Quarter Shares, 51 ; London and Birmingham, 169, Quarter Shares, 27. A Jamaica Mail has arrived, by which we have received Jam- , ica papers to the 3 1 Novernb2r. We learn from good authority that 800 emigrants had arrived at Trinidad, from the United States, during the month of September. The Packet brought in files of Windward Island Papers. We are furnished with the Liberal and Bwbadian of Barbadoca, the former of the Bth a:al the latter to the 14th Oc'obPr. The State of the Island, our contemporary of the Barbadian reports most unfavourable, both as regards the season, the absence of talented men at the head of affairs, and the condition of the Gilony generally. (Port of Spain Gazettes to the 23d ult.) The vessel that arrived this morning from St. Chris topher brings intelligence that the labourers in that colony are leaving the estates by hundreds, and flocking to town with the view of emigrating. Considerable numbers had left Er Demerara. Private letters state that the island is in a most deplorable state. There had been no actions for debt entered in the Court there for these last eight months. THE FUNDS. Consols may be quoted at present 89 or the Account ; .Iteduced, 89i-, little doing as yet ; Exchequer par, 2 . prein. ; Bank Stock 156 157 ; Indict Stock 237 239. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active same as it left off 231- Z.; Deferred. 11i 12i; Portuguese, 324 331 ; Three per Cents., 21i ; Colombian, 24,i ; ,11 xicau, 28:k Brazilian 71 72 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cen s., boi 51 ; Five per Cents., 97f SHARES.—Great Western, 224 231 . prem.; New, fl} 104 prem. ; London and Brighton, 8 7f discount; Blackwell, 5 4f discount ; Birmingham, 79 81 prem. ; Southamp ton, 53 54 per share ; Croydon, 14 per share. We have received the Dutch mail of the 17ih inst., and Papers to the same date, brieir„ing the Amsterdam prices of the 16th inst. Last price.—Two-and-1 - 141 f per Cents., 50 1-16; Five per Cents., 97. PRICES OF SHARES Tills DAY AT ONE. aaILW.Ys. Paid. Per Share. 65 50i to 50 ..... 426 a 90 l6B 13$ to 7 ) 25 ...... 27 .28 -14 to Great Western Ditto New ... London and Brighton London and Birmingham London and Croydon (Trunk). Manchester and Leeds Ditto New Shares South Eastern and Dover JOINT STOCK BANKS. Onion of Australia.. Ditto New Share , COURSE OF EXCIIANGE—( YESTERDAY). Amsterdam •C F. 12 2i i Gibraltar 4B Ditto, at sight Rotterdam 2U. )2 6 Genoa 25 90 Aritwerp ....... ....... 12 5 Milan Hamburg M. B. 13 10 Venice 47 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 40 Palermo, per oz 121 Ditto, 3 months 25 65 Lisbon 524 Marseilles Bourdeaux Frankfort on Maine ...149 Bahia Petersburg, 3Us 37 Buenos Ayres ...... --.,_. Berlin - 7 0 New York, 21 days' sight 461 Vienna, effee.ll. 3 bi— 10 5 Philadelphia Trieste, ditto lO 3 PRICE OF BULLION, PER oz. Madrid Cadiz 3si Foreign Gold, bars 8 17 9 bilboa Barcelona ... 356 New Dollars 0 4 10 Seville ... .. :351 ;Silver in Bars 0 5 0 HALF-PAST ONE. (From the Barbadoes Papers.) A very important Bill of " Ways and Means," whereby the enormous expenses of the colony may be met, has, we find, unanimously passed our House of Assembly. By this Bill a very general tax is laid on imports, as well as a tax is laid on imported produce. This measure has caused a great stir amongst the mercantile body, who take a very different view of the operation of the Bill, at least as far as regards the taxes on imported goods from that which the House of Assembly entertain. A general meeting is called by the Chairman of the Commercial Hall, at the requisition of many respectable mercantile houses. The following is the sum total of produce shipped from this island (Port of Spain) in the present year : Su:ar, 13,318 hhds, 738 tierces, 351 barrels ; Mo.. lasses, 2,195 puns., 126 hhds, 38 barrels ; Arrowroot, 383 firkins: Ginger, 1,307 packages; Cotton, 56 bales; Aloes, 1,322 . From the late aeasorable showers, and the general ap pearance of the country, a much better prospect awaits the planter for the next year. - ST. CIIRISTOPHER.—The following is his Excellency's communication ; EXTRACT. " His Honour the President and Gentlemen of the Legis lative Cguncil. " Gcntlemen—l am sorry to believe that the viasantry arc emigrating from this island in considerable numb •rs. I deem it my duty to make kno vu to your Honourable Houses that having made persona! inquiries from many of the most intaigent of the emigrants a- to th , ir rt , asoihs or leaving their horn., a, all ;;ssign tic cause, viz. the uncertainty of the tenure by which they hold their houses and ground:, and the summary ejectmerits which in consequence of this uncertainty many of them have suffered. It is wish much pain I bear witness of the existence of those causes. I Lave the highest authority for believing such summary ejectment, witih•ut that full notice to which a tenant is en. titled. to he absolutely illegal. I earnestly entreat your Honounible Hou s e t o declare by legislative enactment by Whitt, tenure the peasantry re,iding on estates hold their cottages and g ro u n ds. I am. &c. C. J CUNNINGHAM, Lieut.-Governor. Government House, Sept. 3. The intelligence by the Dutch moil this moron)? is rather of a favourable nature iu respect to their local 411 . ..ir5. The new project of the finauf.l2l IaWS nearly the whole of Coe Chambers. arlci >t hs ear ted h) 42 ni.;:iinst 8 votes ; in VOllki:quenct' of uhich th, . . Thy. roport Nhi h previitied yesterday of Pekin being taken does not gain credit. The Exehangvsye*terday afternoon were much the same as last post-day, with very little doing. Consols, have con.inued nuriwg the morning at 89 for the opening, with scarce a barga'n doing to the present time ; Reduced, 89; Exi•ii , cpx,r Bills, 1 3 prem. ; India Bonds, 15 discount; 13.iik 6tock, nothing done. The Foreign Market is also inactive; Spanish Ac tive, 23h; Portuguese, 32k; Colombian, 24-; Dutch Two-and-a. Half per Cents., 51. Vi ry little doing is the Share Market.—Great West ern, New, 50- ; London and Brighton, 424 ; Lon d and Birmingham, 168; Croydon Trunk, 121, Nu accounts as yet of the British Queen. THE PANORAMA, LEICESTER-SQUARE.— Mr. Burford is as fortunate as usual in the selection of his subject for a panorama this year, for everything con nected with Syria, from our recent military success there, is a matter of vivid public interest. Damascus is not only rich in historical recollections and traditional associations, but with its minarets, domes, and cupolas, rising out of richly cultivated gardens, it now presents to the eve of the traveller a degree of beauty and magnificence which fully jus.ifies the praise of Jeremiah, who calls it "the City of Praise—the City of my Joy." The panorama is taken from drawings by Cattermole who, at considerable personal risk (such as the jealousy entertained of all Franks) sketched his view of the town from one of the southern suburbs. Mr. Burford has executed his task, as far as we could judge by the light, which for the last few days has been anything but favourable, with his usual fidelity. The luxuriant foliage, the graceful minarets, the groups of inhabitants in their varied costumes, contrast finely with the bleak aspect of the mountains which bound the town on one side; and all sire admirably painted. There is a stately grandeur in these eastern cities which attracts the curio ity Cf all F,..iropean3 ; and we owe a great 'lc:tl to those who farniliari;e us either with these buildings or the habits of their mixed inhabitants, at so much personal danger, - cxpense, nod trouble. ADHESIVE LABELS.—It cannot be too gene rally known that the very numerous cases of cancer which have lately prevailed are attributed by the faculty and scientific men to moistening the adhesive postage stamps with the tongue or lips. A little new milk is much pre ferable, and also causes them to stick faster, particularly on glued and smooth letter paper. —CorresPowlent pf the L iretpool Mercury. 'ru m , h ave b een ~r a nci ( kings at Parsorstown, in eelt:ination •of the of Lord Oxrt"ntowt.'s -or, a n d he;r. • E... 1 ,1 CoveliLls •0 in \S'orcestershire, from Batb, where the Noble Earl made a short stay. F • E N I IN - COMMON PLEAS.--(THIS .D ACV,) aLEXANDER if DURCHFILLD, to Cu: b . !: , - Ti,i , cafe thsoly.'s ctr , ;m' 'V( 1,1 . 1 ( I L"." Ii ..s gr , ...711 ut a per on haviLir iceot , e‘i iii pa:rceot a bak.ic(i or to o cA r -1," check. to present it rtithin A iiart! , " l ti '"`" , loss, if the liqr.k dr,,vvn upon s:Nui.c.l break lit fore .he prc "ll‘t'ai.tek);:tit(lrili',ll7 i c a li t e h c it . eatto is Mr Ai..`xod"' of tile] R'P°- sitor3, Ch;ssell-strter, City, auctioneeC.• Tbe 1' ... f '''': 4l' ; ' , is a ,aiddier, and on tho 10 li ..f Match !...,'. . 1 L; ( "' ''', '''': auction, cot ducted by the pLitttiff, ttvi. ~.y.- s t.:• • ''' '''',..' ... he prtifl at the time. by a cheek on tits banker :, i r c)..'' a i r , "":,,,' Co.. Sglithtiold. 461 16% 6d, The ploin , ..ff paid try 1 s. '" l ' - , into his bAnker's , the next prrstut , .d it at foung'. t-r parwent. They t!,eri 1 ,,,1141. ( 14 %, 1 lta, and oti cue 12th 1 -7 1 ' (hat this bat,it, havwg ';'-:•-. open for at, hour, or someti,a, '', J c. ,,,, ti,, i t rnori,ing - i Ii?:..: :ii,,we closed and s t o pped paynt.-It , b, fi.ir , .- ti.cy arrived,. 1. 7 p0n this the ac tion vs/..:• broth,;-Is, ta rue:, , t,r ~:ovs, u ni fora the drw.ier. The defen ce ' NA ' , that 'f the check had hero presented in ra..oro.ole ti a; )t would have beet, paid. The plaintiff's case was that ash , in the check was r to him he was engaged wi4ti the sale, was still geilig on, and he objected to receive it, saying.— Th w aw ""at it v.•iy fate to lake a cheek, being nearly fi ve o'clock•" T" that defendant repl;ed—" Cross it to your assn and I v.i . l make all right." A clerk in time, he hank of Whitmore (the plaintiff's banker) was present et the n, and corroborated the statement of Mr_ Alzitancier's Fo who is also his foreman, as to the foregoing convervoiun. The Solicitor-General rested his client's case tipo,) this being a complete dispensation, and further showed, through Mr. Alexander, jun., that on the day th e bank was " d lt g ife?' v, red to have tailed, the defendant sa id to him — is lucky I bad very little there ; tell your father to cross '` to his banker, and I will make it all right." Mr. Sergeant CHANNEL for the defendant, contended in the first place, that it was an indisputable principle of that a person receiving a check in p a y ment, was bound upon his own risk to present in reasonable time. was h. bound to present it some time w i t hin the banking hou er be the party upon whom it was drawn, on the nest day aft had received it. If he neg lected to do so, be roust take the Consequence of his own laches, and could not throw the loss upon the drawer. The Learned Sergeant dwelt o p a l the impossibility of the fiefendant's havingforgone his legal title to exoneration, by gratuitously adopting the liabilitY, titer the bank had broken. He called the son of the de fend:rut and other witnesses, who contradicted the pltlint ifrs case, as to the time of day, when the check was given to Alexander. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE , in summ il 'g u p said thst if the Jury believed the eviden ce for the plat: tiff he ueoc° tvi q " en titled to a verdict , on th e ground that,, it. of the dispensation g iven b y the defendant, he Wa s h i r t . required to present the check the next day, as ,be wise should have been. ono The Jury retired to con sider their verdict il l f or conse t o'clock ; and in about ha lf an hour returned a vci diet the defendknt. THE REMAINS OF TURENN Few persons will probably -,.... quenee of our revolutionary disturbance" the mortal ther ileflositeo in. mains of Turenne, which had been Royal vaults of St. Dail., were disperseit w it4 o t t be r e e l, mains of the Kings of France, and tcoa ki fi e - e - ecl e ;a d ee.member that nsec: have escaped that outrage committed upon the ' P ,teaser it not been for the who pious interferenc e of a r' •o . ted of the Jardin des Plantes, M. Desfontaine oat , s, the body from the tomb-destroyers, as , beie in r: of mummy, which ought to figure in the .i‘Aa se— e ee.. servetion, still figured three years after Natural History. The corpse. which wag in perfect tion. where it eiss t between an elephant and a rhinoceros, A with grea served by Deputy Dunolard , who iveigbf`l: 0 os a a energy in the Conseil des Cinq Cents aga at- r - :ejs r e ro profsuation_ On hie motion the Council deeid,vits Au , mains of Turenne shuuld be deposited e th . r : a I,.ge gusi.ins Museum, where M. Lenoir had colleete_tithe de. number of monuments wrested from the hands of the had molishers. It was from that place that NaP°' the In. them, at a later period. conveyed in great pomp to validos, where they now are. -93 that the It was on Saturday, the 12th of October, I f ?de (the members composinee the municipality of Fr" R o c r o g istoed ill the collec ob. revolutionary name given to St. Danis) , . eh the r emains orders to disinter, hi the Abbey of St...Ddeuf:r-i'acosee, and of the Kings and Quereo, . p r joces . h e near and other illustriuu: per-a„ ,tho cad laid hundred years, in order Lo exeract f the C:) , " °- coffins, in compliance will: a d e cree o• .O ,e , tion, the workmen, anxious 1. , ) eo the reitiat t s t rf c great ma e, haetened to break veer) Tureime . t° 1 7 1 1 ,„ t ,,,e va , s tit , : filet. Turenne was found in a remark* 6 °I of prepierva , ion; be was not deformed, and the feature_ho, the lead from their his countenance were not impaired. The corpse, and medals we have of the Great Captain, was Oflov into a dried mummy of a light bistre colour. was not withered, but still perfectly reeembledtbe Wet:telt; A to re. To the First Consul, I3oaeparte, it was reserve. .._ store to a suitable grave the r elics of the greatest car . ' l _ of the Feet he century, The monument erect from Turene in t he Abbey of St. Deeie had been saved 1 Moi sr itt: destruction and conveyed to the Mue,eo lll i o , f s d F e r c e r n e e e ht it _ " 1 nients. In pursuance of the First Cons..: removed from that place to the Invaltdes ;mat' the Marshal's corpse was deposited with P and solemnity . solemnity. The catafalque was placed Pa a, „an imphal car, magnificently ornamented, and thedrawn by four horses. A oiebald charger, being' 4 Church, wdlimer; colour of the one which Tur cone rode, and whip• a segofrae his army knew so well, follow the car, lcd A by dressed in the same manner as rah:floc's. number bi old soldiers carried his arms and sus- ro unded the vere" oar; which the Ministers followed. Upon A litter, co with rich drapery, lay the sword be wore on ti,e d a y of h death, --o:eitt and the cannon-ball which kille d bimose pre cious relics, belonging to a great grand-nephew cf the il lustrious warrior, having been lent by him for the ()elision. The corpse was deposited on one side of the cup ola, • and the Minister of War laid a wre ath of laurels on the l;a` ro's tomb. As we have already said, the remains of Turenne Ware conveyed to the Jardin des Plantes, and thence. on the motion of Dumolard, to the Museum of French the ments, where they were deposited in a sarcophagus , elf, in the middle of the garden of that establishment. re original coffin bore the following inscription on a OPP ' plate : " Ici est le corps de seren issimc Prince Hear! d e 1 1 re Tour d'Auvergne, Vicom te de Turenne, Marechal Oeoc, de la Cavalierc legere d e France, Gouverneur du Hae t le Bas Limousin, le quel tut tue d'un coup do carioca x Kett Juillet, Pan m.DC•LXXV." • Meg This reparation to the memory of one of the brig characters that figure in the annals of France is justly ca li c i sidered one of the most honourable acts of the celebrat!.. captain whose remains now lie under the same roof in tar more conspicuous magnificence. Few indeed are tbe. relics of departed greatness that have escaped the wholesale de struction of tombs solemnly decreed by the representatives of a great nation. The mortal remains of the greate at statesman France ever had were not, we believe, rescued from that infamous profanation, although they lay not among the venerable rnenumente of St. Denis. 'When we were in the west of France we were assured that tbe skull of Cardinal de Richelieu had found its way ef t the hands of a private family, and that that wreck of the mighty Minister who reduced the turbulent nobles of i too of the house of arid powerful, and checked the limb t France to obedience, rendered that nionarehy independent Auserie, wee, when ( xhibited to frien ds , extracted from a lady's bode a chapeau.—French Print. . inquiries fur stat V ed ES tb S a E t l.S Go D v, E r S iim Tl en N small vessels at Bengal, but that their destination wag known. We have since beard, on good authority', that t tenders have been invited for a large number of s"-'sse!! t Ep had F b O e it en fo is t between destination K il l l a t d . c T u e s e n n h u ; tid theyredr tonsejw receive, h c e o n n p , p a r n il d s : , : 1 7 They a good round cum for the run down to the island• take no cargo from this port, but on arrivieg at C Indian a llon will be held available Ur g tneral service.—East 7 elegraph. How TO GET A TIGHTRING OFF A FINGEtt• —Thread a needle fit in the eye with a strt 11;4 thread, pas the head of the needle, with care, under the ring, mid pull the thread through a tew inches towards the hand wrap the long end of the thread tightly round the finger , regularly al down the nail, to reduce its size. Then iaY hold of the short end , a nd unwind it. The thread pi ssinK against the ring will gradu all y remove it from the fin er. g This never-tailing method will remove the tightest ring without difficulty, however much sw ollen the finger may be. COURAGEOUS CONDUCT OF A POLICEMAN' —OM Friday evening an inquest was held before Sf-t, Wakley, M. P., at the Rrd Lion Inn, Acton, on view °it the body of James Joseph Winning, aged 11 years. appeared from the evidence of the witnesses that the d.ei ceased, the son of a respectable shoemaker, svas, 01 ," other lads, sliding on the ice of the Mill Ponds, on tl west side of the village of Acton, when the ice broke an k he sunk. Davis, 1' 72, on arriving at the spot, found t" ° pond surrounded by persons, who, however, had not ° ti c ; rage enough to render the deceased any assistance 1)0°g throwing a rope into the water. Davis instantly threw.° his stock and his belt, and, tying the rope round his w" d ist ; courageously plunged into the water, and, diving tin the ice, after a scarce of several minutes , succeeded I ✓ getting up the Cody and bringing it ashore. It was i lfi r c i diatcly attended by Mr. Chubbe, a surgeon, w h o tr b e every means to restore animatio n, b ut witho ut avail. ird,,. Jury, on returning a ve rdict of " Acciden t all y drowue f concurred in opinion wit h the Cor oner that t he conduct °" Davis had been most p raiseworth y; and t he Coroner, . a 1 the request of the Jury , promised to forward a testimorn to that effect'to 'I the Commissioners of Police. It 's also sta t e d that the parochial authorities of Acton intend for" warding 6: similar testimonial, and the Jury su bscribed t °- o gether for the purpose of presenting Davis with a met° vial of their opinion. Yestetday afternoon a detachment of the 22d Regiment arrived by the Birmingham Railway at Eas t to . :"-nitdenhß'EaLtaoß, b e uu m lßg b G a , embark D for E t c h . e 9 E . a_s t e d s i square, and proceeded through London on their waY Wo H ol day b two detachments of Bavarian Gendarmes frost W u "' to spires . Passed through this oily on their wa.y. understand that t hty arc to proceed to se;dav and t °- HEIGHTS OF LONDON. — The highest the 'end] frontier._ fiarpbur P aper. f r 0 London, according to the most accurate measurement, is the north side of the aqueduct crossing the Regent's a' nail which is 102 1 feet, whilst the whole of Regent s slor, except the Abbey and part of the Horseferr y road.' below t h e level of the highest tide. The north end of N' r ci : thumberlane-street is 19i feet; Wellingtomstiot, Str a° , 6 35} feet ; Essex-street, 27 feet ; St. Jamos's•street, of feet 7 inches, and the south 13 feet 3 inches; north ( - ;5 feet ; novent- trc,., 7(3 f,te ; C;ievel" ut fuct 10 incrl , s ; Gi o ucester-pinco, 70 fre t t . of :'L;trztforrl-plite:y, felt 4 itichPs: PO the ur' t,;l IZ, ,',:ont':-circuE, 77 feet George-stie.t, opposite the south cud o f ug atrc feet 6 inches. 8 t • 1 1 a ") .1 p n 1 I. s*