The Sun. — London, England, 1840-12-29 00:00:00

EVEN NG 141 D oIOl MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS ItOd•NDAY EVENING.) CHRONICLE.—The funds have rallied from the d-.7pression which has hung over them for the last f:w days. Consols opened at 88, and in consequence of a sale of 15,000/. by an influential broker, the price fell to 87- 1 ,- to 88. But the extra editions cf the morning papers, which appeared soon after, gave a favourable turn to the market, and several purchases having been made, the quotations reached BSt to at which they closed. This rise of s per cent. on the last price of Saturday was produced by the satisfactory nature of ihe settlement concluded by Admiral Stopford with Mohe met Ali, and the changc of tone expressed in the Paris eorrespendence regarding an adjustment of the relations between England and France and the other Pow cri parties to the Treaty of the 15th of July. It is be sides now generally assumed that the question of he -Douro navigation will soon be arranged ; and we can state with confidence, that all fear of hostilities betty :en Spa*d Portugal on that subject has vanished. .Tho alediatron of England has been accepted by Spain, and the meeting of the Portuguese Cortes wiil be followed by an adjustment of the tariff on terms advantegeou3 to the commerce of both nations. POST.—The Funds were effected in the early part of the morning by tile !ess favourable appearauce of the Paris quotations, by a vague report, which had acquired some cc . of the convention concluded between Commodo '.2r and Boghos Bay has ing been repudiated by A.:c►:ral Stopford. Consols were marked 87k, ex dividend, for the opening. Wlien, however, it came to be explained that a subsequent treaty, e►nbracing the main points—such as the evacu ation of Syria, and the surrender of the Turkish fleet, eontained in the former, had been concluded between Sir RobertlStopford and the Pacha of Egypt—the quo tation improved very materially, say Ito per cent. on the lowest depression above noted, the last price being En to 881. lIERA.LD.—The Funds have been more firm to day and prices hate improved. There can be no qu:s tiois that the loan for the Trinity Corporation has had a beneficial effect in this respect, as tending to take off a co_nsiderable portion of that surplus capital which, alter payment of the dividends, generally hangs about the market waiting for investment. A good deal has been written in hypothetical guesses as to the amount and the purposes for which the Trinity Corporation aro be coming borrowers. The fact, however, has been clear enough all along. The Corporation are empowered of coarse to attend to the safety of the coast so far as buoys, lighthouses, &c., and consequently previous to the erec tion of more sea watch-houses, or fortifications, or the purchase of those built at individual expense, which for the purpose of public benefit it was necessary should be free for all nations upon certain conditions onerous for them as for all, it was necessary that an adequate fund should be raised. For in fact, it must be observed, that is the treaties of reciprocity and commerce which bind this country with foreign nations, one of the con dilions necessarily is that foreign shipping is placed in respect of port, lighthouse, &c. dues upon an equal footing with this country, and consequently as these treaties arc become now very- frequent, it has be come a matter of great convenience, and indeed of ne cessity, th.:t the lighting and watching of the coast should be entirely concentrated in the hands of ;he Trinity, House, by the actual possession of the light houses themselves, as otherwise so far as a general 6u pc,intendence, a power of control over them was re servid. The favour with which this new domestic in viulment is viewed tends so far to check any dispcsi tierwhich might have existed, or been excited, to t,pe cc:late in new foreign loans and securities, the temp - a. tion of which is not wanting, and which are generally timed with a well understood policy for appearance on the Market when superfluous cash is on the look out tor veszaient. TIMES.—The absurd story about the taking of Pekin by the Eog!Lill has boen revived, with additions went come increase of confidence. The origin of it is a letter from St. Petersburgh of the 12th inst., of which the following is an extract : " Accounts have been received from Kiatka of C:e 1.5:11 of September, stating that a report was very cer rt.et there, . and generally believed, that the Brie fnfces wereln possession of Pekin. Kiatka is 933 coilf:s tram Pekin, and the only channel I.y wi.:ch iatwiligenee from China could be received.' Tile - opinion at St. Petersbnrgh was that the news rra•,ikely to be .true, as it was quite pas-ible for ac couuta from Pekin to be received at Kiafka to a nitudi later 'late than b.is been received by way of Bomb ,y to , 1 Nivmedria. • AO this, however, has been completely chin red tt sieand letter received this morning' from St. Peters- ti4rgh, by the same house, from their agent, who n w i t :l;•rtta‘ thrtn of the arrival of further ile,COUThtB from I,',..ilitkt—eolatrgAlieting the report of the taking of Pekin, 411irming prsitively that "sonic pace on the coast .he L4E:co p ,session of by the Euglish"—.ite 7ssulcing itscif into the very trifling coiszake of *OAguting Pekm f or Con3an. - 1 4 111k54 xlt,:red kte:y to the relative cip . tAl of' j,,,t1-41:ort et,itt of private bankv, a correspondent ha 4 itrtintiaeil4b4e esAct in!Crmation, taken from the re- turoN, Which may be uso!ui to the public. Ha sta-c3 th, ftnit;t:m. of 11141 up caritnl of the joint-stock barAs ;41 inuntry in EN:land and Wales at 10,000,0001., .4. -.A tbos! in I..lndon at 1.00,000/. rhis will api,,lr ti k t: r v",:ry proti.ctiou to, the public, sei ing ti e our which their operatians are spre'd. I , oc c,ptal privec bank• rs,ei , lier in town or.country, ast:inate win of caurs,.! forincd, but if private cat,i vni tbtAir ease is found to be raways accessible, aild ow) to to g.,t at by difficu't and expensive thh iisstalho . ,l of a joi,it-sat,ek bank titipo;ed to be f: du'ent,ac, the boasted superiority of the later would ppe.-Ir to be a very doubtful matter indeed. The ovation which some corespondents indulge in, th.at ttit-!re is any design in the remark-5 made to raise or to depreSs either system at the expense of the other, , s ridtcu:ous. Toe object is to get at the exact truth, sa 7k3 to settle extravagant and absurd pretensions, anti to lay till result before the pehlic. T!.45 Congot-inarket was depressed in the early Tr.rt of the tla;,, the opening price hr the account being E. 73 tc B+3 ; bat when it was announced that the Con-, tine proposed by Commodore Napier to the Pact:: ,! Es 3 p', as tood,t;ed by Admiral Stopford, had been , tented to, a rise. of per cent. followed, which mai:AA:lca up to the latrst hour of business. The recent discussions on loan societies, and the vs-vs:ve interest exacted under the name of discount, ti-vve produced numerous letters on the zubject how which it would pp ear that ni,arly the whole thsposuble . . tapis al of men of property is in a gradual course of are. peepriation to the purposes of usury and extortion. WI: at et: r may have been said of the principle of free trade, es appit,iable to money equally with all other comers d ties, the practice has proved so infamously bad that sw'uy intelligent persons who approved of it at first are beginning to doubt the principle itself. Ttie peat and obvious interference with the principle is the great dread most people feel at allowing their pecu ttiAry difficulties, or rather the simple necessity for her rn-Ain, at all, to become known. The following case coreaansd in one of the letters alluded to is a good ilius triet.on of this :—A gentleman anticipating a quarter's iilcome payable out of real property, draws a bill on the responsible party for 301. at three months, which is ac cepted and endorsed to a third party of acknowledged respectability. This holder takes the bill to a discounter, with an introductory letter, proving that it is perfectly safe, and it is found that no less than 4/.103. is demanded far the accommodation, which is besides offered only on else further condition that a fourth name, thateof the party introducing the holder, shall be added to the otL r three. In the case referred to the gentleman bor rowed the money of his friend, instead of asking k.m for his security, and thus escaped the extortion of the discounter, but this was merely because he mew that from every similar source accommocla len would be, refused, except on similar terms (viz. per oent.), in fact, because he knew that it was the eitortion belonging to a system, and not that of an in- Oisidual, to which he was exposed. It is well known ittet many persons, who merely are in want of ready tamsay, without the slightest doubt as to the stability of their resources, have the greatest objection to apply 14 t lei( private friends at such a moment of temporary The credit of these may be unquestionable, iedi yet aa deficiency of a fow weeks may under the an easy p re y to perso ns roast system render them wbo seem to have mei a profession of extortion. As for the discount price -, a correspondent, alluding to the observations on t isury laws a f ew days ago, i iitalists div er t t h e i r capital questions the fact thei , from the regular channels to carry on this profitable trade, and puts the case much stronger by affirming that they have a much e,isier method, which indeed requires them to lock up no capital whatever. This method is the simple one of discountin g at one of the rates now so common, say •per cent., and then, by having a connexion with regular bill-brokers, getting them re-discounted at the rate of about five or six per cent. By this means an snormous profit may be made, in addition to the regular use of his own money, by the capitalist, who may grind down his less tortutiate neighbours, without even the chance of a momentary pressure for cash. As naturally ( xmasetell with the difficulty at present of obtaining ac °"nrooation from private persons, the subject of " loin societies" is much discussed at present, and great complaints arc made of the present state of the laws affecting them, which renders it most difficult for Magistrates to act according to the statutes, and con sistently with their own ideas of justice. Many per seas, as is commonly the case when abuses increase to a certain extent, are suggesting remedies, such as plans of societies, and so forth, which might obviate the evil. Such suggestions, however, generally proceed from in terested sources, and on these it is beyond our province to decide. If really worthy of public confidence, they will make their own way. SUN.—To-day the market for Public Securities has A.,, bean injuriously affected by more than one circumstance. 1 NOIR Most among the acting causes we may notice the • . • IC; intelligence received from Egypt respecting Admiral Stopford's alleged disapproval of the Convention agreed upon between Commodore Napier and Mehemet Ali ; this, in conjunction with the account of the 11.1 t state of things on the Paris Bourse, and the appre hended changes in the French Cabinet, having led to a fall in Consols from 88* (the quotation at which they closed on Saturday evening) to 878. It is stated in some quarters that there were parties selling Consols again, with the view of investing the proceeds in Tri nity Bonds. This afternoon the funds got up again ; the adhesion of the Pacha of Egypt to the terms proposed by Ad miral Stopford having become known_ Consols gra dually rose to BSi to 881, and closed at 881 sellers, en advance of per cent. on the morning's prices. Exchequer Bills were steady all day at 2 to 4 pre mium. Bank Stock at 1561 to 157 ; the Reduced Three per Cent. Annuities at 88* to 88i ; the Three land-a-Half per Cent. Reduced at 97 to 97i ; and the New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. at 97 ex. dividend for the opening. South Sea Old Annuities were at 86*. The Active Spanish Bonds rallied from 23 to 221- to 23* to ; the Portuguese New Five per Cents. from 31i to 31i avid ti ; and the Three per Cents. from 20; to 20i ; Colombian Bonds of 1824, were flat at 2211 ; Mexican, at 27i ; Brazilian at a decline from 71-t to 70i- ; and Belgian Three per Cents. a t 68 to ; Dutch Two-and-half per Cents. touched 508 to 51 ; and the Five per Cents. 97 to -I. The Railway Shares were all rather better this af ternoon than in the earlier part of the day. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS (FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OT DAY.) (From the Mornin,g Chronicle.) We yesterday received by extraordinary express from Marseilles, and published in a second edition, a letter from our Alexandrian correspondent, dated the 11th. In this day's publication it will be found repeated. A second edition published in the Times, giving a com pletely false version of the intelligence, created un easiness, which, however, subsided when its real charac ter became known, The funds, which were depressed by the second edition of the Times, recovered upon the ' appearance of the full and satisfactory details of the other papers. The convention agreed upon between the Pacha and Asiftmiral Stopford does not differ mate rially from thM9Eready concluded with Commodore Napier. Indeed the only point of difference is with regard to the time of the delivery of the fleet. And this seems to be hardly of sufficient practical importance to justify what most readers, we doubt not, will regard as a very unmerited censure upon t'ae Commodore's proceedings. We cannot, of course, pretend to know what may have been Commodore Napier's instructions. But we presume the Admiral did not send six sail of the line and three steamers to Alexandria to repeat his own exhibition of August last. For what purpose, then, were they sent? Not to lie off the open coast while the Admiral himself ran into Marmorice. Yet something of this kind would seem to be the case, from the tone in which the Admiral speaks of the Convention of November. He "is sorry it was concluded"—he " cannot approve of or ratify it"—it is a " hasty and unauthorised Convention." And yet we can not see that the Admiral and his flag officer have done much better. If Commodore Napier acted upon his own responsibility, be seems to have very shrewdly an ticipated the instructions of his superior. It seems to us to have been the very height of folly to have sent the Commodore's squadron to Alexandria unless with power to negotiate, or, failinc , that, to act. If em power;il to negotiate, it has b een' decided, we beli.lve, by even higher authority than Admiral Stopford, that the Commodore has negotiated suecoisfully. And if tie was not empowered to negotiate or to act, Admiral Scopford should thank rather than censure him for taking the responsibility upon his own shoulders. In other respects the news continues most satisfactory. The Pacha is ready to comply immediately with the de mands of the Sultan, and there seems no furthcr ob stacle to an immediate settlement of the question. Ibrahim Pacha was in retreat upon Egypt with about 30,000 men. It was doubtful, however, whether be sould find it practicable to cross the desert in the f,ce of the Bedouins, who were gathering in considerable numbers. (From the Times.) News reached u's by extraordinary express yesterdly, and was published in second and third editions of this journal, that the lately signed Convention between Com modore Napier and Mehemet Ali had been annulled by Slr Robert Stoptord, on the ground that Commo :lore Napier had no commission or authority to sign any such Convention, and that it could not therefore he ratified by Sir Robert Stopford. Nevertheless, on ;coking calmly at the practical effect produced by this •wcrtltrow of an act which had borne to the eyes of Europe the promise and pretension of an absolute •` set- Llement of the Evtern quarrel," we do not see that there is much re -Ai, at least tnuch immediate, change ,rising from it, in the relative condition of Mehemet Ali and the Porte. The tempereshibited, and perhaps, tinder the circumstances, not unnaturally, in the Admi ral's letter to the Pacha of the 2d of December, must be altogether flung aside in our estimate of material and rnportant facts. All that we can learn from that communication is the refusal of Sir R. Stopford to a' if) the convention, as having been framed without ,ny official sanction from the superiors of the Conmio tore. The terms proposed by Admiral Stopford are ncloubtedly different in appearance, but no: so much in Abstance as might have been feared, from those of the taratified convention. The convention stipulated, that he troops of Ibrahim should be transported by sea to Alexandria, and that vessels should be sent under Fri ish safeguard for that purpose to Beyrout. N ~" elys Sr Robert Stopfnrd, " that must not be, for I :,ave learned that Ibrahim Pacha has already left ll,;- :nascus with his army, proceeding to the southward. towards the,Holy Cities," or words to that effect ; " and tberefore the messenger whom your Highness has seat can have no safeguard to your son." At the same tune, ho.vever, it appears, according :,to the letter of Sir R. Stopford, that Ibrahim Pacha vr.ts actually in movement with his troops for the purpose of evacuating Syria, and withdrawing his whole !orce towards the city of Mecca and the eastern shores of the Red Sea ; so that little would be gained or lost :)n either side by this defeat of the convention in what expected the army alone ; and it is to be borne in mind hit the march of Ibrahim, to be prosecuted in I.to f)lutrins, and the consequence doubtless of direct orders from the Paella, had been commenced before the signa ture of the convention, although the wily Minister of M,hennet took care to conczal that fact from Comtho tore Napier, and turned to account in his negotiaticns with the British seamen the assumption that the dep .r -ture of the troops from Syria must yet be stipulated 'or by treaty. Of course it could not have been conceded f o tho Paella, that Ibrahim and his 20,000 or 30,000 men should be at liberty to occupy any portion of Arabia as an equivalent for the loss of Syria. A 'mown of teat nature was never contemplated either by Napier or by the British Government, and might have lad to a state of things not much, if at all, less troublesome than the seizure of Syria itself. Our private cor respondence, however, affirms that if such an enter prise had been seriously entertained by Ibrahim, he had afterwards changed his route, and marched away straight towards Egypt, one division of his force by Gaza, the other apparently by Suez and the Desert. It is more than probable that bad Napier known of this final break-up of the Syrian campaign being so im mediate on the part of Mehemet Ali, he would have insisted on more peremptory conditions for the surrender of the Turkish fleet than that by which he left it dependent on a guarantee of the hereditary Pachalic of Egypt by the Four Powers—a " guarantee" to which Sir It. Stopford makes no reference, while the rord " hereditary" never once occurs in the formal and official despatch of Lord Palmerston to the Admiralty, dated November 14, and transmitted to Mehemet by the bands of Captain Fanshawe on the 6th instant. The demands of the Four Powers upon the Pacha contained in that despatch are-1, a " prompt" submission to the Sultan, as his Sovereign ; 2, a prompt restoration of the Turkish fleet ; 3, a prompt evacuation of Syria, Adana, Candia, Arabia, and the Holy Cities. And the inducement held out to Mehemet All to make the said concessions is "a pro mised recommendation by the Four allied Powers to the Porte, that notwithstanding the decree by which the Sultan has declared Mehemet Ali deposed from the Government of Egypt, he may be re-established in that Pachalic." A " prompt" submission is made by Lord Palmerston the sine qua non of any favour whatsoever to the Pacha. There is nothing mere manifest than that the existence of the Pacha would depend upon his immediate fulfiiment of the conditions stipulated, although the term " prompt" was interpreted to signify the brief lapse of three days from the delivery of the Admiral's message. The answer of the old Pacha is a complete submission. He complains, indeed, of the breach of a Convention signed by a British officer in the command of a powerful squadron, and on the evidence of his own acts vested with at least implied authority to insure • the execution of that which he engaged for. It ap pears that upon the face of the transaction Mehe , met Ali has just reason to complain, although, when we look into the substance of the matter, he is really no worse off than before he signed the Convention, having, as there is shrewd reason to suspect, commanded Ibra him to retire before the negotiation of that contract, owing to the desperate aspect of his own affairs, although he pretends in his letter to the Grand Vizier, to have is sued that order in pursuance and execution of the Napier treaty. However, there he now stands, with the means at leis disposal of being " re-established in the Pachalic," —whether as an inheritance it is not said, whether for life it is not said, although we think it may and ought to be taken for granted that his Pachalic is meant to be hereditary. There will, we are told, be certain condi tions annexed, of such a nature as to mark the differ ence between a Sovereign and a subject, but not, we trust, such as to raise European controversies upon the bona fide fulfilment of pledges which, whether strictly demandable or not, have, by the general sense and feel ing of Europe, been regarded as those which political TIRE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBEIt 29, 1840, expediency, liberal indulgence towards a prostrate war rior, and an anxious desire for the common peace and satisfaction of Christendom, would dictate to victorious, temperate, and fearless Powers. Many considerations offer themselves connected with the existing state of France and of her Government which we almost fear to touch upon at present, so embarrassing and little invit ing is the subject—little satisfactory, indeed, since the prevailing anticipation is, that M. Guizot, that indivi dual on whom, above all others, mankind have reason to rely for the continuance of peace, must fall an early victim to the intrigues and evil passions of the hour. (From the Morning Post.) We repeat this day the important communication which we received yesterday by extraordinary express from our correspondent at Alexandria, and published immediately in a second edition. The convention concluded between Mehemet Ali and Commodore Napier, so far from being ratified, as some of our Con temporaries stated a few days ag o, by the Allied Powers, has been, as we expected and foretold, utterly repu diated and annulled by Admiral Stopford in express terms, and upon his own authority in the first instance, and subsequently upon the authority of Lord Palmer ston, whose despatch had arrived in the interim, con taining :instructions directly at variance with the con vention. This might have been matter of just com plaint on the part of Mehemet Ali, but that, having the Treaty of July 15 in his possession, when he con cluded the Napier convention, be must be held to have known that the convention was invalid, inasmuch as it was manifestly irreconcileable with the terms of the Treaty. To the new proposals made to him by the Gallant Admiral, in pursuance of Lord Palmerston's in structions, the Pacha at once acceded : and thus what ever difficulty the inconsiderate and unauthorised pro ceeding of Commodore Napier might have produced at Alexandria seems to be obviated. It is surmised, how ever, that the Commodore, who evidently thinks his commission a very large one, has sailed to Constantino ple for the purpose of communicating his convention to the Ottoman Court. Should this be so there is some reason to apprehend that the Sultan, in the surprise and displeasure which such a communication could not fail to excite, may have adopted and proclaimed a de termination with respect to the future government of Egypt which even the recommendation he is about to receive from his Allies might not easily induce him to revoke. Admiral Stopford exacted from the Pacha a written undertaking to surrender the Turkish fleet, and to evacuate Syria, Adana, Candia, Arabia, and the Holy Cities without delay, promising on the part of the Allies, that this unqualified sub mission should be followed by their recommenda tion to the Sultan to reinstate him in the Pachalic of Egypt. It Is ill be remarked that neither the word " hereditary" nor any other word of the same meanie. is used in the instructions of Lord Palmerston to Ad '- nairal Stopford, in the communication of the latter to the Pacha, nor even in the Paella's declaration of sub mission, except in an introductory passage referring to the Napier Convention. We find, on referring to our Money Market article, that the intelligence pro duced at first a fall in the funds, from which, in a short time, they not only rapidly and entirely recovered, but advanced above their previous price. We ascribe this to the circumstance of a Morning Contemporary having announced, in a hasty second edition, the rejec tion of the Convention of Alexandria by Admiral Stop ford, without the additional information that a second and more valid arrangwent had been concluded with the (From the Morning Advertiser.) . Much sensation was yesterday produced by second editions of our Morning Contemporaries publishing " Important News from Egypt," under the still more attractive title of " Refusal of Admital Slopford to ratify the Napier Convention." These second editions promised " further particulars" in the third, and when the whole of the important intelligence thus came to . . light, it appeared that, though Admiral Stopford thought proper to charge the gallant Napier, with having acted without authority, and to stigmatize his agreement with Mehemet Ali as "a hasty and un authorised convention," yet that Admiral Stoplord himself, under directions subsequently, and almost immediately, received from Lord Palmerston, pro posed to Mehemet Ali, who accepted them, the iden tical terms, with the exception of the time allowed for the restoration of the Turkish fleet, embraced in the Napier Convention, which the Admiral had just before repudiated in a manner so abrupt and unaccountable. These terms being immediately accepted by Mehemet Ali, as regards the Sultan, the Pacha, and the Euro pean Powers, the question is in precisely the seine position as the gallant Napier, by his energy in arms and ability in diplomacy, had placed it ; the only result. of Admiral Stoeford's interference being to irritate Mehemet Ali, and compromise the first officer under his own command. Not only on account of Admiral Stop tcrd himselt,.hut on account of the character of the ser ,ice in which he holds so distinguished a position, do L I we regret the course which he has pursued on this oc. casion. Even had Commodore Napier exceeded his instructions in completing a Convention which was ma nifestly most consonant to the wishes of the Powers which he represented, as well as most apposite to the emergencies of the case, still Mehemet Ali was not the party to whom Admiral Stopford should have addressed his complaint against the conduct of his first officer. In his endeavour to compromise Commodore Napier, Admiral Stopford has compromised himself ; for in " -his hasty and unauthorized" communicetio❑ to Me hemet Ali, disclaiming the convention of Commodore Napier, he placed himself in the position of proposing, four slays afterwards, under direct instructions' from Lord Palmerston, the precise terms of the arrange ment which Napier had previously completed. W e say the precise terms, because, as regards the restora tion of the Turkish fleet, Napier had actually refused to take charge of it; as Boghos Bey observed in F urpris e, when he beard of Admiral Stoptortl's stipulations, " Why we offered to give the fleet up to the care of Commodore Napier to restore to the Sultan, and he refused to take charge of it." 'We have a great respect for Admiral Stopford, and therefore, before passing any more stringent remarks upon his conduct, we should like to be informed of the nature of the instructions he gave to Napier, on dis patching•him to Alexandria. Did he send Napier with the intention of repeating the tragedy of Acre uneon-! ditionally, or for mere parade ? Or if to negociate, what were the conditions, what were the instructions ? These are questions which we fear Admiral Stopford will find it difficult to answer. We fear still more that the whole solution of Admiral Stopford's conduct ill be found in a narrow-minded jealousy at seeing the officer next in command achieving more glory then himself. We should be sorry to find a feeling like this—indigenous only to mean, incompetent,- and base minds—to have influence on the conduct of Admiral Stopford. Far different were the feel ings of Nelson and Collingwood at Trafalgar, when the latter, leading the way into action, exclaimed, when the enemy's fire showered upon hint, " What would not Nelson give to be here ?" And his chief Nelson, almost at the same instant, said to the officers around him, " How admirably that noble fellow, Collingwood, brings his ship into action 1" These are sentiments which, while conferring honour on the par ties entertaining them, most effectually promote the in terests of the service in which they are engaged. If Admiral Stopford were not disposed to act upon a si milar feeling at Acre, when he left the whole command to Napier—betaking himself to a steamer, and resting content with seeing that all went on right, without taking any part beyond that of an ote,erver in the atfray —he at least might have refrained from attempting, be fore Europe, to disparage the fame, or at least to wound the honour of a man whose name must remain indis solubly associated with the most glorious of the records of British naval history. ( From the Morning Herald.) By the publication of the correspondence which ap peared in a second and third edition of yesterday's Herald, the public is again -assured that the Eastern question is " settled." The preliminary to this last " settlement" is, however, the disavowal of Commodore Napier's Convention with Mehemet Ali. The prece ding "settlement" was brought about by the very Con vention which is now repudiated ! This method of con ducting the diplomatic relations of a great nation is, to say the least of it, indecent :—it bears the semblance of trickery amt England England would retain her cha ractee're he English public must insist on a plaina uestion—Did Commodore Na pier really nit of his instructions? If he did, heo uss!. „o called to account for his violation of duty. If he did not, England ought to disavow the policy of Lord Palmerston, as his Lordship now dis avows the Convention of Commodore Napier. Thes• disavowals, by a Government, of important acts entered into by its servants, are, we repeat, most indecent. They are most injurious, too, for they never fail to induce suspicions of premeditated treachery, and to call into existence feelings of on the part of foreign nations—feelings of that never disappear without ultimately embodying themselves in action. True, we are assured that the " blunder" of Commo dore Napier will produce no bad effects, since Mehemet Ali, on the one hand, will not recede from his part of the bargain which he entered into with Commodore Napier ; and since the Sultan, on the other, is expected to prove tractable to the wishes of Great Britain and her Allies. These things may, by possibility, be true. Mehemet Ali may be too weak to exhibit displeasure at being trifled with and betrayed ! And the Sultan may not be exactly in a position to enable him to brave England by insisting on the deposition of the rebel lious Pacha. But the policy of a great country like England, requires to be vindicated en higher principles than any which such happy accidents supply ; and every occurrence that tends to impart a character of trickery to her diplomatic intercourse with other States, must bring with it, ultimately, a train of mischiefs, for which no fortuitously-lucky results can compensate. The history of the recent negotiations with Mehemet Ali is disgraceful to Great Britain. " But we have at length settled the Eastern question," is the cry of those who look at late events through rose-coloured spectacles. Have we" settled" the Eastern question ? The Eastern question toek its rise in the intestine divisions of the Turkish empire. Hare the causes which led to those di- visions been removed ? Assuredly not. The vigour of our Military demonstrations on the coast of Syrie has im parted no new moral vigour to the Executive Govern ment at Cenztantinople. Our very measures have, on the contrary, tended, in truth, to lower the Sultan in the eyes of " the faithful," by presenting him to the imagination of his• subjects as a potentate occupying the seat of the Prophet, by the aid of " the dogs of Christendom." He is no longer supported by the gc nius of Moharnmedism. He is a monarch, by sufferance of the heals of the great European Monarchies. But while England has done nothing towards securing " the integrity of the Turkish empire," what has England gained for herself in .the way of advantage to the interests of humanity ? We found the Sultan erateful for our promises of assistance against his formidable vassal ! Do we leave the Sultan grate ful for the services which have been rendered to him ? Is it quite clear, that he is not more mortified at being prevented from exercising his vengesnee on Mehemet Ali, than he is gratified by the overthrow of the power of that very troublesome personage? We found the Sultan apparently at the mercy of the E g ypti a n Pacha I Have we rendered the Sultan independ en t of the Em peror of Russia ? We found Mehemet Ali under the influence of the most friendly feelings towards England. It were a mockery to ask whether we have strengthened our interest in that quarter! But our allies ! We save surely augmented and rivetted those feelings a kindness in which t hi s quintuple alliance took place ! We have so " settled" the Eastern question, thatjar w wiethhave France b ; and we have , at all events, called intoro ught ou rselves to the very verge of a action in the bosoms of the French people, feelings of hostility towards England which will assuredly make themselves felt hereafter. For this result, how ever, we freely admit that the English Government may not be blamed—unless, indeed, in so far as this recent paltering with the Pacha may lend a colour to the unreasonable conduct of France throughout the transaction. While, however, we have all but come to blows with " our good ally," France, how have we dealt with our more dangerous rival, Russia ? We have strengthened the power of Russia, by over throwing the power of Mehemet Ali. Through out the Turkish dominions, the only power really Antagonistic of the power of Russia, was that of the Egyptian Pacha. Hinz we have subdued for the especial benefit of our northern " ally !" We have, therefore, rendered Russian influence supreme at Constan tinople, while we have increased the jealousy with which Russia has long regarded all the movements of England. The latest accounts from St. Pe t ersburgh describe the feelings of anger which ire openly expressed in the military and diplomatic cir cles there, that England should have settled the East ern question without the military co-operation of Rus sia ! It is openly stated, moreover, that our " settlement" of the disputes between the Sultan and the Pacha of Egypt, has led to the project of an intimate alliance be tveen Russia and France—an alliance directed avowedly Against the influence of England ! The only true " set tlement" of the Eastern question, is such a settlement as shall maintain the balance of power in Europe ; and thii balances of power is to be maintained anly by strengthening the barriers against the encroachments of Russian influence in the East. In stead of strengthening these barriers, we have thrown them down ; and having done so, we are gravely re quired to rejoice at the success which has crowned our military and diplomatic efforts! FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the Globe.) The Great Western brought little fresh intelligence from Canada. But, perhaps, the project of a near railroad, which has been urged upon the Governor. Ge nerel by the inhabitants of the Eastern townships of the - Lower Province, as well as by other parties whose interests are much bound up with the commer cial prosperity of Canada, may be accepted as a convincing proof of the opinions there entertained ef the probability of continued quietness., It is pro posed that this railroad shall intersect the fine 'race of country between the town of Sherbrooke and Sr. John's. The whole length of projected read, it is calculated, will not exceed 85 miles. Its route will scant from Sherbrooke and pass through the townships .f Oxford, Ascot, Hetfey, Bolton, Stukeley,Broonie, and Shefford, a small portion of St. Hyacinthe, Monnai, and ee e nville,to St.John's,where the farmer of the townships ,nay take his choice of the markets of Montreal, Qin:- ecc, and the United States—all of which are accessible either through the Champlain and St. Lawrence Rail. road, the Chambly Canal, or Lake Champlain. It is proposed to carry this project into effect in three ways —or by conjoining them :—First, as a Government un• ((creaking, to be managed by a Board of Trustees ; :be funds to be raised upon the credit of the pro vince ; the interest to be paid from the receipts of he railroad, or, in case of a deficiency from that source, by the public revenues, as in the case of some works of Lower Canada, and numercus public vorks in Upper Canada. But as this sort of scheme tiers little check upon excessive speculation, still less apon extravagant outlays of the public money, it would scarcely need the experience of the results of the pub he undertakings in Upper Canada, to induce the Governor-General to negative it. The second proposition—that of a Lint Stock Company, with corporate privileges, like the Champlain and St. Lawrence, and other Railroads—would be negatived by the capitalists, who would in vain look for an adequ.ite return for capital so employed in a thinly in eahited country. The third proposition—which, how ever, the projectors have: with great sagacity, urged as their dernier resort—is that of a local undertaking, for which the funds are to be raised on the credit of Go :ernavent, and the payrneet of the interest to be se cured by local assessments upon the lands of iesi dents and nonresidents, something in the following manner :—The lots to he divided into three classes ; the first class to include gill lots lying within ten miles of the.railroad, the second class those lots lying be tivemiles, and the third class ,a include en Tuts _eteen twenty and thirty miles of the ten ail and 1 t twbwenty miles railroad—the assessments to be graduated according to the distance Which each class of lots May be situated from the railroad. That the income from the under takingit Standard. ) e a e nd l a c r o d n . also form a sinking fund to pay up the capital, and keep the road in operat.on ; and when the capital shall have been paid, the railroad to become the property of the districts through which it may pass. This. ap pears to ll s to - be the true art of honest borrowing. (From it t As to the ballot, conspicuously proved to be a cheat. wherever it has been tried. No ma chinery is perfect in protecting from exposure ; the details of a ballot election have even been inverted (Mr. Grote's- box is not- an exception). But were such machinery possible, there always will exist means of corruption or exposure dehors the pro cess -of voting, that will 'render all secrecy in the act •of tendering the suffrage quite nugatory as regards - either the voter's integrity or his re sponsibility. There is, indeed, uncommon impu dence in an Irish priest proposing the ballot as a protection to the elector in the exercise of his right of suffrage. The Irish Romanists have been 101(1 agai n and again—and we say properly told—that they are to consider the act of voting as one in which religious interests are concerned : of every such act they are bound to give account at the confessional. ilow, then, are they protected from responsibility by the ballot as regards the priests—the power which at present moves them, and the power which the landlords eave most reason to dread ? In the Romanist part of Ireland the Ballot would be altogether a one-sided pro tection, were it effectual in any degree as a concealment, which, however, it never could be ; it might conceal votes • rota landlords, but it never could conceal votes from priests. If we have a bias upon the ballot question, however, we are bound to own that the bias is rather favourable. We think that the ballot would greatly tend to promote Conservative principles. The pro perty of the country is at present in the hands of Conservatives, who are too generally Conservatives for that very reason, and for no other. According to the present o nt • system of voting, these Conservatives find it convenient to forget their politics from election to election in whatever does not immediately come before the public. They make their Conservative speeches and deliver their Conservative votes of course in b d u e t aiin th ges y b make t i t n h g e m t s h e e l i v r e s lands am en to ds ti i i n e their i a mprivate highest anti - Conservative bidder, by giving their cus tom to the anti-Conservative tradesmen who will be contented with the lowest penny. The Conservative is believed to be secured by his principles ; the anti- Conservative, it is hoped, may be brought over, or at least softened, by favours in the shape of land-letting or custom, or, in the last resort, by a gross bribe. Now, the ballot would, to a considerable extent (were it pos- Sible to secure secrecy), cure all this. (From the Courser.) We abstained in our last number from replying to an article in the Chronicle of that morning on the subject of education, in which the accuracy of certain French sta tistical returns, quoted by ourselves and the Morning - Herald, was impugned, because at the moment we could not exactly refer to the authority from which we had taken our materials. We have fortunately been able to recover it, and now proceed to the consideration of the finis-statement challenged. In order to show the ina dequacy of secular instruction alone, however highly carried, to moralise or improve the morals of the people, we took occasion to extract certain returns of the de partment of Criminal Justice for the year 183 S, drawn up by the Keeper of the Seals in France, and published, and to collate them with former returns for 1834, which was the last year preceding the application of the new system of popular education in France, as the former year may be assumed to be a fair representation of its effects after a trial of three years, under the special superintendence and zealous administration of the Government and its agents. The comparative returns were thus stated, as truly quoted from the Courier and the Morning Herald by the Chronicle. The number of criminals accused was, in 1834,6,952 ; and in 1838,8,014. Of these there were uneducated, i.e. 1854 16138 could neither read nor write Imperfectly instructed, i. e. could read and write imperfectly Knowing to read well Possessing superior instruction 203 276 Upon these figures the Chronicle thus proceeds to remark The inference drawn by the Courier is, that there is a vast comparative increase of crime, not among the unlettered or imperfectly educated classes, in which there is a positive diminution in 1838, as com pared with 1834 ; but in the two classes decently and more highly instructed. This would be true, if the figures were rightly stated, but there is this important error, that the numbers in the two classes of imper fectly and well instructed are transposed in 1838, and that instead of 2,587 persons being able to read well, the correct number is only 702, which is erroneously stated to be the number of those possessing imperfect instruction. This correction being made, the deduc tions of the Morning Herald and Courier fall to the ground ; for it appears that the increase of educated criminals in the latter year, the increase of the total number being taken into account, is a mere fraction, which may be nothing more than the consequcnce of comparing two single years." The error in respect of the figures, if error there be, which we must take leave to doubt without better proof, is at all events not ours, for on reference to the letter of M. Michel in the Univers, from whence extracted, we find them copied correctly. Mr. Jones, after observing that the evidence in this case was likely, from the number of the witnesses for the prosecution, to occupy the attention of the Court to a late hour, said the following were briefly the facts of the case :—Some m onths ago the prisoner Wingfield was engaged as an assistant by Mr. Simpson, silk mer cer, of Regent-street, to attend in a shop which this gentleman had opened in Cheltenham ; and taking ad vantage of the necessary absence of his employer in town, he purloined an immense quantity of the most valuable articles, consisting of silk shawls, scarfs, large folds of velvet, and silk Waistcoatings, which were for warded to the other prisoner, who disposed of them by pawning and otherwise. After leav!ng Mr. Simpson's employment, Wingfield obtained another sit9ation with Messrs. Goodgains and Shrewsbury, mercers, in Poston, Bedfordshire, where he carried on a similar system (;f depredation, in concert with Kennedy, to whom he for warded all the stolen goods, accompanied by letters, which showed a most extensive system of robbery was carried on, Mr. Hall, of the firm of Hall and Allan, St. Paul's Church-yard, with whom Wingfield lived as shopman, would prove these letters to be in his (Wingfield's) handwriting. • Messrs. Simpson, and Shrewsbury and Goodgains having confirmed the Learned Counsel's statement in detail, identified property which was produced by a host of pawnbrokers' and duplicates of which were found in the prisoners' possession ; and a number of other wit nessess being examined, the further hearing of the case was adjourned to Wednesday next. TRADE WITH JAPAN. - We presume that Japan has not been excluded from the contemplation of the Government, while the im posing spectacle of a British war fleet floats for the first time on Eastern Asiatic seas. To establish a commer cial intercourse by peaceful means with that country— to furnish its population of twenty-five millions, whose habits, and the climate in which they live, render Euro pean manufactures almost necessary to comfort—who are advanced, in civilization, and who, from long use, have accustomed themselves to luxuries—is a grand national object. Were that country thrown open to our enterprise, it would tie like the creation of a new nation of customers ; and the achievement of this object, so devoutly to be wished for, might, by an effort at this moment, be easily. effected. It is observed by Dr. Ainslie :—" With regard to the real difficulties to be surmounted in the establishment of a commercial intercourse with Japan, I consider them, so far as they are founded in the character and political institutions o f the Japanese, to be of infinitely less importance than the Dutch, from whose interested reports on that subject the idea ge nerally entertained of them has been formed, would represent them. I may add, that the Japanese appear entirely free from any prejudices that would stand in the way of a free and unrest:icted intercourse with Europeans ; even their prejudices on the score of re ligion, on which such exaggerated accounts are re ported, are - Moderate, and inoffensive. The consump tion of woollens and hardware might be rendered almost unlimited ; they are fond of the finest speci mens of glass ware, and it only requires to bring them acquainted with many other products of British industry to obtain for them a ready introduction." In reference to the exclusion of foreigners, the reasoning and the policy of the Japanese and Chinese Governments appear - to be founded on the same basis—con tempt, yet dread, of Europeans ; their contempt is founded in ignorance ; but their dread is founded upon a full conviction of their own weakness. We hope the Government will not neglect the present propitious moment, while so many officers of rank are in these seas, to obtain, by conciliating the Japanese, per _ rais,ion tel resume our commercial connection with that country ; if the letter to James I. is preserved in the State Paper Office it might be turned to some advantage in the negotiation. The latest attempt to this end was made under the auspices of the East lediatiiin - pany, in 1813 ; and the profit on the adven ture:was .42,126 Spanish debars. The goods England might supply to Japan would be—woollens, broad cloth of primitive, not mixed colours, hardware, glass ware, carpeting, printed cottons, ironmongery, porcelain, lea ther, morocco of the brightest colours, clock-work, fire-errs, lace, mock jewellery, stationery, medicines, bottle corks, a few oil paints, window glass, phials, pig lead, sheet lead, long ells, looking glasses, figured nius lins, carnlets, spy-glasses, rabbit skins, and felt cloth.— Indian News. EVENING EDIT` .O\ • HAMBURGH AND DUTCH IVIAI FROII THE Du NA, DEC. 10.—The rapid decis:au, o f 0, 3 Turco-Egyptian question, without the active , co-operatioti pt Russia, may probably have disappointed` many ardent hopes of our warriorr, ; for, a! , is the case , in all armies, the Russian soldiers, and still more the officers, wish for war. But in those matters where other and higher considerations prevail than among the military, this decision can give only satisfaction. For if it was brought about directly by the Britis claim h and Austrian forces, yet the Russian statesmen n:3Y the honour of having conce i ve d the first idea of ;!., and paved the way fen its execution. Russia looked 0:4 to the object in view, viz., to strengthen the declining. Ottoman empire ; and that this object has been attained without causing it new sacrifices of men or money is to, be considered as an unexpected piece of good fortune rather than a failure.—Haniburgh Papers, Dec. 22. Tun HAGuE, DEC. 24.—1 n the evening Sitting of the Second Chamber of the States General, on the 23d of December, after v er y len g th y debates, which were protracted till midnight, the Budget of the Ways and Means was agreed to by a majority of 34 to .15. his We learn, from the Rotter dam Courant, that Majesty's frigate the Rhyn will be sent on a new (*e dition in the spring, and that the command of it will be given to his Royal Highn ess Prince Henry of the Netherlands, Captain in the Navy. BERLIN, DEC. 18.—A report is ju s t spread here which, if confirmed, will soon put an end to all fears of an interruption of the peace of Europ nication is said to have been mad e to our . Cabi c net that e A onan the armaments of France are suspended. Faom THE MAINE , DEC. 16.—We. bor of new notes sent to the French Cabinet by the Courts of Vienna and London. Their contents are not knOwn but persons usually well informed affirm that their ob ject is the confirmation of the friendly relations which, till within the last five months, have prevailed for a quarter of a century between the States of Europe.-- Amsterdam Handelsblad. ST. PETERSBURGH, DEC. 15.—The day after tomor row, the Princess Mary of Hesse Darmstadt will be confirmed according to the rites of the Greek Church, and on the following day will be married to his Impe rial Highness the Grand Duke Alexander. The Grand Duchess Helen and her daughter are ex pected to arrive here to-morrow evening at the latest. The cold, which set in on the 9ch of the month, con tinues with great severity. The thermometer of Ran mur is every day from 20 deg. to 22 deg. below zero . 45 deg. to 491 deg. below 'freezing point, or 13 deg o I 7} deg. below zero by Fahrenheit's scale). aELGIAN UNDS—BRUSSELM, DEC. '2'3. Acttlal Debt, 2!,,, per Cent. ..................... s. R et hschild's Loan, 5 per ...... ............ Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent......... • 'l-AA ........ g6g ,er Cent. ......... r.s% ----Thirty.geven------- - Loin of Cltv, 183.2., .1 per ................ Society of Commutrce, <IY, per Cent ............ B N a a l t i i k on o a f l li s c o lg i tr; : ...... ......... ... .......... .............. .. Exchange i n Londoi (short) .................. 11 :la —Brussels Papers, Dec. 26. THE 211ARKhTS-YESTERDAY PRICE OF B!t.EAD• o(l). ' ,l l l l f i Dop e ii l ii l uti t tt li es - rice ..... ............ d, for t5h:1711,05 ..oal. G. d Bre:sa may be had at 7%d. 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Dom ingo ................... to 5 L a Gilayra..... ............. 6% Por t o Rico .............. 5M % Ilavatmah ........... ; ..... Oyi BS Discount.) White ........... toV 'Brown ............ .5 5 Pernambuco, White ...5% Brown ...5 rn. 5 to 04 SUPERIOR LONDON TABLE KNIVES, with Ivory Handles, 14s. per dozen ; Dessert Knives, 11e.; Carvers, 5. 6d. per pair ; Table Knives, with white bone handles, Bs. 81. per dozen , Dessert, 6s. 8(1. ; Carvers, 31. per pair ; Globe-shape Tea-urns, 4 q uarts, 275. ; new shapes, 395. ; Papier Macke Tea-trays, gothic shape, 60s ; the set of full sizes. Catalogues, cont ainin g the price of every article n furnish ing ironmongery and cutlery', gratis. RTON, Wells-street, Oxford-street. RIPPON and BU Established 1820. On the 18th inst., at Laggan Cottage, Ness Castle, Inver ness, t h e lady of the Hon. W. Fraser, of Saltoun, of a daughter. On' the 2ist inst., at Ince Hall, Cheshire, the lady of the Rev. W. Waldegrave Park, of a daughter. On the 23d inst., in the Addison-road, Kensington, - Mr s- Bowles, of a daughter, still-born. On the 24 th inst. , Mrs. H. Bar cla y , Bedford-row, of a son. On the 25th inst., in the Park, Blackheath, the lady of G. J. Jackson, Esq., of a son. On the 26th inst., the lady of W. Lane, Esq., of Bedford place, Russell-square, of a daughter. On the'26th iest., at St. Leonard's-on-Sea, the lady of T- Selby, Esq., of a daughter. On the 28th inst., in Cumberland-place, r'egent's - p ark, Mrs. G. Marshall, of a daughter. ------- ''"'"-""-____.-rn-- -- -------- F RAUD ON THE M AN CHESTER BA NK.--. A young man has been apprehended, whom we have every. reason to believe will turn out to be the offender. It ali- .. pars 'that the police used every effort to trace him out in' vsinientif `srtiednesday, when Superintendent Sawley, find ing the uselessness of the means which had been taken, determined upon a new scheme. He gave directions to re number. of policemen. in whom be could place reliance, to ; go into all the haunts known to b an e freq e uentedawell mob gentry and se arch them, d alsppr bey hend the s any _ of such characte rs as might be met in the streets. n reets. This ruse, we believe. has been successful. A young ma was taken by M‘M ullin, in Mosley-street, on Wednes.; day night, in company with a prostitute whom he has.been Court living with, and h e was brought to the ent pßorough art i cu lars only ne xt day for examination.Suffici were then stated by Mr. Sawley to satisfy the Mag istra te e that there were grou nds on which to remand him ; but w , Paso since heard that lie has been seen by a clerk at the Post-office and identified as the man to whoin the letters were delivered. All the statements made by him on ap prehension, to the police, have also been discovered to be' fate. We refrain from giv i ng his n'ame, or state entering of into a ny further particulars , as-in the present • case it would be unfair towards him. He will be brought up again on Monday. — Manchester Times. MR. CHARLES KENIBLE.—We are . glad to • learn that the state of her father's health on the return of Mrs. Butler to this country, wa s considerably better than it had been for some time previously. The disease under which he has bee n suffering so long is one of and a few days before the arrival of Mrs. Butler, Mr. Lis ton, the eminent surgeon, had successfully removed a tu mour from the region of the loins, which, we bear, has' given him considerable relief. —Court Journal. A GOOD REASON.—The Rev. Alexander Harvey, who lately favoured the friends of religiotes free dom in this city with an able exposition and defence of their principles, remarked to an individual at the close of onnof his addreises, that it struck him as a strange circumstance, that the only opposition he bad met with from the friends of the Established Church was from persons in a state et intoxication. The gentleman replied, that it could only ht.; accounted for by the fact, that the state of the Establiel:- ment is so desperate, that no sober person will undertake her defence.—Scottish Pilot. MARRIED. On the 22d of September, ai Ootacamund , H. Irrere,.Es4-4 M. C. S.,to Theodora A melia Mary, eldest daught er of the LOed. Bishop f Madras and Mrs. Trevor Spencer. , On the 17th inst., at Kingstown, near Dublin, R. C. tian, Esq., of Upper Pembroke-street, eldest'scin of the lite Captain Christian, Royal Navy, to Mary. Annei pitiale o C daughter of the late Commissary-General Elliott. On the 28th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, eorg4- Frederick, youngest son of T. Furnivall, Esq., of Finding', Little i%lissenden, Bucks, to Anne, eldest daughter ofJohn Mr; Parker, of the West Strand, and Chester-street. On the 24th inst., at Clapton, Cath erine, widow of the kite - • J. Powell, of Carey-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, aged 56: On the 25th inst., at Upper Charlotte-street , Fitzroy4lllllgrit John Borster, Esq., of Eg - ham, Surrey, aged 93. On the 27th inst., in Torrington-square, Mary, the wife the Rev. J. Hunter. London Printed and Putatlshed by i4llll-6.1)0 YOUNG, if •f No. 112 T , Strand, at he S 4 VW. 7l OaCe. :J. 112, 809.04 the county of Micklletez.—Teesday , Deeember, OP , POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. A cab-driver, named Richard Mason, was brought before Alderman Wilson, charged by Captain William Maynes, who appeared in the Justice-room with the blood flowing from the back of his head, and his clothes torn, under the following circumstences : Captain Mayne stated that he resided with his brother in Essex, and that, as be was hastily crossing the street near the Bank, the prisoner drove his cab with great rapidity along, knocked him down, dragged him along with the wheel (as far as he was capable of judging), and actually ran over him. The prisoner must have seen him fall, end the imminent danger in which he was, but did not attempt to stop the horse, although the witness's head was dashing against the wheel or the stones. Witness's arm was in a sling at the time the occurrence took place, which was about a quarter of an hour ago. Mr. John Castle Grant, a gentleman who was near the spot, stated that he saw the occurrence, and sup possd that Captain Mayne was killed. The escape was the narrowest possible. Alderman WILSON—Do you think that the cabman saw the Captain fall, and that he could have stopped if he pleased ? Witness—l know that he saw the gen tleman falling. He has acknowledged that fact, and be certainly could have stopped, but he showed no dis position to do anything of the kind. It was evidently his wish to pass the gentleman. Alderman WILSON—Do you believe it was his wish to run over the gentleman ? Witness—l can't suppose that he is such a monster, but I believe that he was regardless of the consequences. It was at any rate, to say the least of it, an act of gross negligence. Mr. Thomas Smith, of No. 20, Castle street, Caven dish-square, stated that he saw the complainant being dragged along by the cab, and thought that he was killed. The cab went over the gentleman, but luckily the wheels did not go over•him. His escape with life was extraordinary. Alderman WILSON—Had he a fare in the cab Witness—He had. Alderman Wresote—Most cabmen will, if they have a fare, drive as fast as they can, utterly regardless et consequences. Here is an instance of it. • . The cabman declared that he was going on slowly, and that the gentleman's arm being in a sling, the wheel of the cab caught the sling, and dragged him along until he tumbled under the cab. Alderman WILSON—Aad why did you not:stop'thes moment you saw hirniin such danger ? The cabrrear-s So I did ; I pulled up as soon as I could, ..'" With the gentlemen denied that the prisoner had attempted to stop, and one of them declared that he ran forward himself and stopped the horse. Twenty people cr;e.i out to the -cabman to stop, when they saw the gentleman in such imminent danger. Tee cabman rrotested that he was not to . blame at all. It was the sling on the gentleman's arm that was to blame. AldermanWresoN--I shall not part with the cabmen until I hear from Captain Mayne to-morrow. The case is one of a very aggravated description, Captain Mayne, who bore the violent treatment like a person who bad been accustomed to very hard knocks, said that he came forward from a sense of duty to the public, who were subject to injuries of the kind hourly from the negligence of drivers. Alderman WILSON—It is a very serious case indeed, and I shall come here to-morrow to give it further con sideration. The cabman was then remanded. THE METROPOLITAN ANTI-BRIDGE TOLL ASSO. CIATION.—Mr. Cope, jun., the Secretary to the Anti- Bridge Toll Association, waited upon Alderman Wil son, in consequence of a letter which appeared in this paper on Saturday last, under the head of Mans:on house, signed "John Jackson, 2, York-cottages, Old Brompton." That letter, he said, called for an imme diate answer, as affecting the interests of and throwing a suspicion upon the gentlemen who were engaged as canvassing collectors for the Metropolitan Anti-Bridge Toll Association. The gentlemen alluded to in this letter as having demanded a subscription from a lady re sident in one of the cottages, was, he assured the Alder man, a Major in the army, but having under some late Government changes in Ireland, been deprived of a si tuation he held there, worth perhaps 5001. a year, was now in London, seeking another appointment, or com pensation from Government,. and was devoting his leisure time to the promotion of the object of thes'Association. From the testimonials the gentleman held no doubt was entertained of his strict honour, although, for the fulfil ment of his duties the Association were in possession of good security. Alderman Wlesote said.that he was acquainted With the objects of the Society, which were unquestinnahly excellent ; but he by no means approved of the anode of applying for subscriptions after persons put their signatures to the petitions, especially as the Associa tion was patronised by such a number of highly respec table names. The collectors ought to. consider that there were many people who would be very glad to see the bridges thrown open without being able to contri bute frorn their scanty means to pay a crown or half a-cro rin towards the accomplishment of that object. Mr. Cope said there was no demand hatever made. It was optional with those who signed to give or to refuse, and he was convinced that the gentleman who had been spoken of in terms of such suspicion, was wholly incapable of exercising any manoeuvre to obtain subscriptions. Alderman WILSON said it did not appear from the letter, which seemed to be one of a rational kind, in tended as a cantion, that those collectors carried about with them any evidences of being authorised by the Association. Now it did really look odd that a gentle man should first ask a lady the favour of her name to a petition, and then ask her the further favour of a crown or half-a-crown. Mr. Cope replied that the collectors were furnished with documentary proofs of the authority upon which they made their calls at the houses to which they ap plied. They had the book and papers of the Associa tion, and were allowed a per centage upon their collec tion. The petitions and the public subscription which was at the same time being promoted, had been set on foot' by the Association, in pursuance of the unanimous resolution of thirty-five public meetings, held in the Cities of London and Westminster, and the boroughs of Southwalk and Lambeth, in furtherance of the object, at one of which the late Lord Mayor took the chair, and two of the City Members took part in the advocacy. Alderman Wresore—l admit the indisputable ex cellence of the object ; but I. cannot relish the mode of applying for subscriptions described. Mr. Cope said that last year the mode of leaving the petitions for signature at a specific place was adopted, but it was found that some of the signatures were not • genuine, and consequently the present course had been resorted to as the best means of securing the authentic consent of petitioners. There were considerable ex penses necessarily connected with objects of such great public utility. The petition now in course of signa ture throughout the metropolis, he begged to observe, was a petition to the Corporation of London, praying that honourable body to reduce the tolls of Southwark bridge ; an addr es s to the Queen, praying her Majesty to reduce the tolls of Waterloo-bridge, as a national monument ; and petitions to the Lords and Commons, praying that means may be taken for obtaining the free dom of Waterloo, Southwark, and Vauxhall-bridges, for the benefit of the commerce of the' metropo lis ; the relief of the poor, and the removal of the moral stain of the Waterloo-bridge-road. The list of subscriptions were being prepared for publication, to gether with a financial report to the end of the year. Alderman WILSON said that the explenation of Mr. Cope would prove, no doubt, an antidote to the com munication made to the Lord Mayor, which, however, seemed to be in a great measure justified by appear ances. Those who could afford to subscribe would not withhold their subscriptions in consequence of the pub lication of the letter, any longer ; but he trusted that the collector would, in going round, be cautious in applying to persons who were not able to afford any deduction from their incomes. Mr. Cope said that every dependance might be re' posed in the gentleman appointed by the Association. GUILDHALL. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.--Two well dressed young men, named Wingfield and Kennedy, were placed at the bar before Messrs. Johnson and Lainson, the pre siding Aldermen, the first charged with robbing his employers of goods to a vast amount, and the latter with receiving and disposing of them, well knowing them to have been fradulently obtained. Mr. Chadwick Jones apnelred for the prosecution, and Messrs. Flower and Humphries, solicitors, for the prisoners., CAPTAIN HEWITT. Our attention has been directed to some remarks in the Shipping Gazelle, founded on the presumed loss of all the drawings, observations, &c., resulting from a ten years' survey by the late Captain- Hewitt, of the Fairy, and which the writer asserts have perished with that unfortunate vessel. As every person having the slightest pretensions to information on naval concerns must be aware that the result of each year's survey is transmitted to the Hydrographer's office at the close of the season, we should not have deemed it necessary even to notice the palpable absurdity of this report, did not the aforesaid journal seize every occasion to misrepre sent naval matters whether from ignorance or design we cannot say, we charitably hope the former. If a tender leaves a port with but a few volunteers, after an unsuccessful attempt at re e we are sure to find the case blazoned forth ; but when the Avon leaves Liverpool with more than one hundred seamen, or the Nightingale quits Leith with nearly an equal number (and this has oc curred within this week) the fact is either suppressed altogether, or noticed in some obscure corner. We ima gine it would better suit the interests of a journal strug gling for a questionable existence, to .report truly and impartially upon naval affairs when it sees fit to meddle with thorn, and that such a course would be the most congenial to shipowners and others to whom it owes its support. The truth of the story, which our Contemporary has ingeniously worked up into a charge against the Hydrographer and the Admiralty is this—That Capt. Hewitt, at the pressing request of many persons, devoted such portion of his time as he could spare from his more active duties, to revising his surveys;, with the intention of publishing, as soon as possible,' an improved chart of the North Sea ; and no doubt he had with him on hoard copies of many, if not ail his reports. But, so far from the labour of ten years having been lost, a great portion of it has been actually published. The su;veying instruments are lost with the vessel, and much valuable private property belonging to the ta lented Commander ; but the public loss of surveying miter is comprised in what was accomplished last sea son, and which would have been revised and recorded during the winter months, as on former occasions, had not the melancholy event occurred.—Naval and Lary Gazelle. CASE, OF MRS. SARAH YOUNG AND THE TITHE ACT OF 1835. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE. SIR,-1 hog to tender you my thanks for the manner in which your widely circulated paper has taken up the cause of the poor widow, Sarah Young, now in our prison for alleged contempt of the Ecclesiastical Court of Llandatf, whore she was illegally cited at the suit of the Rev. Dr. Lyle, for 3/. 10s., said to be due for tithes, and, through you, to the press in general , for giving publicity to it. I scarce need say it has made glad the heart of the poor widow to find that a ray of hope has darted through the gloom of her long and al most hopeless imprisonment, and she desires to express her thanks for the sympathies manifested towards her. The more immediate object of my writing to you is to say that I was this morning sent for by Mrs. Young, to the prison, where I found a gentleman from Llandaff, who said he was the bearer of Mrs. Young's discharge, and a paper, which he stated was a " mere matter of form" for her to sign, but that she had refused to do so until she had seen me. I accompanied him to her cell, and on examination I found it was a paper to be signed by her, acknowledging " that she had been lawfully cited to the Ecclesiastical Court, had been contumaci ous, was sorry for what she had done, extolling the cle mency of the Rev. Dr. Lyle towards her, in sending her discharge, promising to give him no farther trouble, and to pay the amount as soon as she was able." On read. ing such conditions, I advised her not to sign it. On her refusing, he offered to strike out the last sentence as to the payment ; this still I objected to, on the ground that she had been falsely imprisoned, and therefore could make no acknowledgments to one who had so persecuted her. If I have done wrong in the advice I gave her, I did it from the best motive. As an in ducement for her to sign, he produced a copy of the same document, stating that John Mason, the person mentioned in my note to you, who was confined for the same offence at the same suit since the Bth of April, had signed it, and was consequently discharged this day. We are taking the best advice as to the means to be pursued for Mrs. Young's liberation, and in the course of two or three days a Committee will be formed for the purpose of receiving subscriptions to carry any thing that may be adopted into effect, of which I will give you notice.—l remain, Sir, your's faithfully, EDWIN RICHARDS. Monmouth, Dec. 24, 1840. As the nerves of one perpendicular half of the body arc connected with one half of the brain or spinal marrow, it is not surprising that we often see a loss of motion= or of sense, or the reverse, viz. spasms or convul sion 3, or even an excess of sensibility, in one perpendicular half of the body. But we have examples of ague affect ing only one perpendicul ar half of the body of persons who sweated on one perpendicular half only; and of a:child that became pale and emaciated in one perpendicular hall, while the other remained plump and healthy. Still, as we have paralysis and convulsions also in a horizontal half, so instances are on record of ague, affecting a horizontal half ; and of one horizontal half sweating ; and as we have also examples of paralysis and convulsions affecting a limb only, so ague is said sometimes to have seized but a single limb.—Dr. Elliotson's Humam Physiology. The Me r lin. of Monmouth, states that the suffering of the unemployed poor in the neighbourhood is extremely severe. By the stoppage of the Uuck works there alone, 350 families were added to the unusually large number before out of employ. to§% r~ I ; I 7