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

EVENING _EDITION. SIR JOHN HARVEY AND GENE- RAL SCOTT. (From the American Star.) One of our neighbours on a recent visit to Upper Ca nada, happened to meet with a distinguished British officer of the late war, on his way to Queenston, to make some arrangements preparatory to the great meeting which was to devise measures for the reconstruction of Brock's monu ment. There was something peculiarly earnest in the ;train of his remarks deprecating the conduct of those on either side of the border, who would stir up strife between the two countries. He was a native of the Emerald Isle, had been in many a hard fought battle, and had risen from the ranks to a station of high command. His views of the relations between Canada and the United States were not only just and wise, but noble and generous, and ought to be every where circulated. I have made an attempt to em body them, preserving as much as possible the style and language of the speaker—" sir," said he, " hitherto Generals have been rewarded by their countrymen and honoured by mankind for gaining victories over their ene mies by the sword. And the greater the destruction of an army, the greater, usually, has been the praise bestowed upon the conqueror. It has been my lot to be present at the fall of some thousands of my fellow-men upon the bid of battle, and deep and durable were the melon :•nely impressions made upon my mind. Yet lam one of 'nose who admit that conquerors may entitle themselves to Lc ranked among the benefactors of mankind; nay, it gratifies me to see statues raised to their memories. " But are there no other means than victory in bailie Thereby the soldier may entitle himself to the applause of , oankind ?—applause unmixed with grief for their gallant 'lead, or sympathy for sorrowing widows and orphans, lathers, mothers, brothers, and sisters, overwhelmed by their affliction for their loss ? " I have already read the correspondence between Major Gen. Scott and Sir John Harvey, and if I had power to raise everlasting monuments to one American and one Briton, I would forthwith have two erected to these two G: lanais, one in London, and one in Washington, to com memorate their wise, frank, benevolent, and true Christian conduct on that critical and important mission. And these monuments, I would not have placed in church or dome, however hallowed by time or decorated by art, but under Heaven's glorious arch, illuminated by the sun's bright rays, and open to the view of all mankind. 46 While in my youth I was exposed in battle, then Iliad parents and brethren only to grieve had I fallen, and they needed' not my assistance for their support. Were these two nations new to be involved in war, 1 must quit wife and children to defend my country and my fireside, and should I fall, leave them to the charity of the world ; thousands of us Provincials must do the same. How exalted in my eye do these two men now appear, who have thus stayed the plague of war with which we were so imminently threatened." . Would that the journals in America aad Great Britain might repeat this voice from the woods of Upper Canada, .lad summon their people to the exercise cf their nobler :.,3ulties in this new field of national rivalry. Let such ;:ionuments be raised, and thus cultivate and perpetuate " Peace on earth, and good will towards men." What a new and noble example for future generations I Why not ? Surely those men deserve more from their country and the veld, for having kept these nations from war—nations descended from the same ancestry, speaking the same language, professing the same religion—than either could have done by any slaughter of his kindred, I.owever triumphant. A COOL VIsITOR. (From the Gazette des Tribunaux.) A big Englishman, with rubicund countenance, en 2red a restaurant a morning or two back in the Rue 8:. Honore, close to the Petals Royal, installed hinuselt ._!)1-nfortab1y with his back to the tire, and his abdomi ..,d regions close to the table, and had himself served in succession with a crowd of dishes and bottler. The carte mounted up to a considerable sum, and the gar ::)n had already demanded payment three times, when owner of the house, fearing that the stranger did •ot perfectly comprehend what the waiter had said, and at he was much more conversant in the cuisine than the language o: Frenc2, rose trom his post at the :r, and explained that the business in hand was to post he price of the astoundiog consumption of viands, :ties, and liqueurs, which had just taken place. " I know wed enough what you want," replied the t'.aglisliman in very passable Preach, and without die -oneerting himself the least in the world ; " there's no in life is your talking to me, for I don't mean to pay you. The fact is. I have no money ; besides, its only debt, so you Lad bettec retrain quiet, and don't troubk , digestion." flow !" said the ic(lignant Baniface, " you have no ~oacy ;o pay, and you tell me that, after )cu have :ike an ogre and drunk like 0 druinnylrs ! But thi,:gs are not arranged after this fashion in Franc:.. ..:1-1 I shall cad the guard instantly." DJ So, do so, ;ton aict boa' Icquicr," rejoined ac ,1141ishman, and, 3Lre:e3tog 11l :Is:At back cotn!ortablo 3 his chair, he avvated :he rcsu;t of the landlord's !.!:rat Kith marvellous quietude and coo!nvs). When, however, uroo the requisition of the enraged reoaurat:.;ur, the Municipal Guards from the contiguous 1 past of the Chateau dEtu presented themselves, quitting at once his real or assumed indifference, the son of Allan opposed a most vehement resistance to the armed force, who summoned him to follow them to the post, exhibited his pugilistic science in a way to astonish :di the bystanders, called them " cowardly Frenchmen," indulged in the most injurious invectives against the business population of Paris, and did no: proclaim a truce with his coarse vociferations mail the door of the 6)/971_ (lock-up house) was closets upon him. This scene, which occurred hitwecn five and six o' lock in the evening at so frequented a spot, had oc casioned, as may Weil be conceived, a very numerous assemblage ; and insulting words and much excitement were the consequence. Oa the fallowing morning the Englishman was ques tioned by the Commissary of Police, and gave his name Moore Young. He alleged that he had only arrived rein London on the previous morning, and that he was merely passing through Pars on his way to Italy to meet his wife. Mr. Young was remanded upon the twofold charge escroperic and tapage it jurieux (swindling and vio lent assault). FATHER MATHEW'S PUBLIC Roo:ll.—We may perhaps interest our readers by giving them some details of our visit to Mr. Mathew. The room in which members are received is large, and furnished with a desk and wooden benches. When we entered it, " the presi dent" was not there ; but there were men and women of dl ages, waiting to take the pledge. Among them was a sturdy mountaineer from Kerry—a fine athletic fellow who lead led his " faction" for a quarter of a century, whose head was scarred in at least a dozen places, and who had been renowned throughout the country for his prowess at ,:very fair within twenty miles of his home. He had long `peen a member of this society, end had brought a few of ais "friends" to follow his example. He described to us, with natural and forcible eloquence, the effect of temper ance in producing peace between man and man, in his own ::.:nediate neighbourhood ; in terminating the brutal fights between two notorious and numerous factions, the t.;oolecns and the Lawiors, whose names had figured in in , ery criminal calendar for a century back. "No matter what was doing, it was left undone," he said, " if any one either party chose to call up the rest. They'd leave ..ne hay half cut, er the oats to be shelled by the four winds of heaven; and, taking the hay-fork, the reaping -hook, and the scythe in their hands, they'd rush out to massacre each other. Tubs of potheen would be drunk hot from the mountain-stills ; and then, whooping and hallooing hie -wild Indians, they'd mingle in the unnatural war of Irish man against Irishman. I've known them fight so on the wa shore, that the sea has come in and drowned those that had fallen drunk in the fray. How is it now? At the last fair at Tralee, there wasn't a stick lifted. There wa s peace between the factions ; and the Coolcens and the Lawlors met, for the first time in the memory of man, Tvithout laving a dead boy to be carried home to a widow's abin."—Mr. and Mrs. Hall's Ireland. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM ST. JEAN if ACRE, BY AN OFFICER ON BOARD THE THUNDERER.— Before we took Acre the military thought it the maddest thing the navy ever attempted, but they were mistaken fur once. Some of them gave us six months to take it. The Colonel who commanded the ramparts at the siege is a Pole, and he is now on shore severely wounded. He said the buoys we hid down some days before were, he thought, the respective positions the ships were to take up, and he ereeordingly laid all his guns to that distance, and placed sand-bags under the muzzles of each gun, to prevent its shifting ; instead, however, of the buoys marking the posi tions to be occupied by the ships they were laid dowe on shoals which the ships were to avoid. He was astonished ashen be saw us coming inside the bulys, and ho attempted to remove the send-bags, but before he had time rie opened fire, and the smoke of our guns hid us from his sight, so that he could not discover whether his shot took effect or not. This accounts for all the shot -going over us . The Colonel bever expected we would attempt a breach to seaward. He thought we would land and attempt a breach on the land side. In that case he was Prepared to resist us. He was told that if he had no t evacuated the place that night we intended hauling close in next morning, and making a breach. H e as k ed " What then?" He was told we should have landed all th e T utk3 in the breach. Still , be said, could not have taken it, as the Egyptians would have beaten the Turks off. But on being informed that are should have hacked th e T ur k s with 1,200 Englishmen, he admitted that the town mud then fallen into our hands , a s no Egyptian force w ou ld , stand against a body of Englishmers.' A HUNGARIAN TIIENDER-STORM y vapours began to detach .theaseivcs from the distant hills a!eaut which they bad been draped sincesunssweitf,aoiged d to scud along over the deep purple vault like swift-winged me sengers of evil : a haze 'gathered about the moon, and graduell/,;eing a dark veil Wore, her glory ; and sec faint felt t h at we had approached the mountains as thQ " Murmur of far-off thunder brake eeleienlv upon the silence, and she wizard lightniag, letwan to skimmer over toe er and dome, and to glance from easement to casement. When the storm burst it was awfully magnificent I Peal '11)" Pedrauled and echoed *the heavens; the sheetad . vapour which fill ed the atreet„nith the momentary light of day was traversed in every:direction by fiery threads of intense brilliancy; and the tremendous rain rebounded front the pavement as though it lacked space to fall. At len g th, subdued by th e i r own violence, the elements sub eided into rest; nor were we surprised on awakening the fleet morning in order to pursue our journey, to see the heavy clouds rolling away like da r k spirits before the ris i ng . sue , which was streaking the sky with gold, and zooming to lay barn the treasures of the ore.laden moun- Lains. —Miss Pardoe's Cam ()fate maxi ar. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. (WEDNESDAY EVENING.) C HRONICL E —This was settling day in the Foreige House. The fluctuations in Spanish Stock have not mud exceeded 1 per cent. since the last account, the highest quotation having been 242, and the quotation to-day 23i to 4, being the same quotation as on the last settling day. In Portuguese Bonds a fall of nearly 2 per cent. has taken place during the same period ; but in the other Foreign Securities no material alteration occurred until this morning, when a fall of nearly 2 per cent. took place in Colombian and Mexican Securities ; but towards the close of business they were rather better again. This sudden change fcr the worse in South American Stocks was caused by accounts of revolutionary move ments in New Granada, and of a law passed by the Mexi can Congress for a loan of $2,000,000 upon the 17 per cent. duty, in order to raise the means for enabling them to regain power over Texas. We regret much to find the prospects of the Colombian bondholders so unex pectedly depressed after the more satisfactory position in which they were recently placed in consequence of the acceptance of the Venezuelan decree. That pro vince was represented as still tranquil at the date of the advices, but no confidence can be entertained of the power of the executive to maintain themselves in the face of the mischievous example presented by their neighbours. It is melancholy to think that such fine countries as those which form the three estates of Colombia should be exposed again to anarchy. They possess navigable rivers, and rich variety of genial soil and climate ; but with all these advantages it is pretty evident that they arc barely capable of self•government. The state of Mexico is, if possible. worse ; and the mad effort of attempting to bring back Texas under their yoke, after that country has been acknowledged as an indepen dent state by England, France. Holland, and Belgium, forms a characteristic finish to the whole affair. It is stated too, that General Hamilton, the Texian envoy, speaks con fidently of raising a loan for his Government. Holland, we presume, is the market where he expects to raise the money. The counter loan of two millions of dollars, by Mexico, has been got up perhaps as a counterpoise to this financial operation of the rebellious Texians. The Mexi cans, we trust, will keep their new bonds at home, or send them to any market except that of London. POST.—The Foreign Funds were generally depressed this morning. Colombian fell considerably, owing to a report contained in the American Journals of another re volution in New Granada, and the splitting of the Repub lic into a variety of minor states, an event which could not but interfere prejudicially with the execution of the late arrangement for the liquidation of the debt of Colombia. The Mexican Bonds have also given way. It seems to be expected that the exchanges will be lower again on Friday. This apprehension furnishes occasioe for a few more remarks on the financial prospects of the country, and the condition of the working classes. Little sympathy is felt for a sangune man who, in the hope of making at a dash a princely fortune blindly embarks what property he has in a foreign loan, and loses all. Such a person is thought to have received the reward due to his folly, and no concern is expressed for the fate of his family who, front a state of affluence and comfort, may have been reduced to one of wretchedness and destitution. Yet those that are familiar with the history of the loan-jobbing system of the last thirty or forty years must have hundreds of cases of the sort within their recollection. These, how ever, are but the immediate or more palpable results of unsuccessful speculation. The mischief arising from the inability of a speculator to discharge his private debts is less apparent. It nevertheless occurs. Respectable tradesmen and others have often been losers of large sums of money by an unlucky Stock Exchange ad venturer; but there are yet remoter evils of vast magni tude which are fairly chargeable upon the system. 'These are evils that vitally affect the interests of the poor ; aria why the nation should still be subject to the nuisance i.; more than any one can discover, unless it be on the ex ploded principle contended for by a party in Parliament, that " the pursuits of individuals are not to be interfered with." It was considered at the time, aed recent events have served to confirm the public in the conviction, that the propriety of the stand made six years since by a portioe c f the press against an unrestricted trail ! in stc.clae was veri fled by tire subsequent necessity to which the Beek ,i England was driven of soliciting a smell loan of gold from the Bina of France—a loan whecessith to answer certain temporary demands, cue of the more pressing of which was occasioned by an incessant influx al foreign bonds. This was surely a proceeding calculated to wound the pride of (very right-thinking Englishman ; yet no one car justly find fault with. the Directors for the step taken. The stock of specie is now, as it has long been, out of all proportien with the liebiliries of the iastitution, and, as fresh credits heve been opened in tire continental cities by the negotiation of more loans, the Directors arc ahwarted of course in their efforts to rectify the exchanges. This, however, is the game of the contracting, houses. A ripper credit is established by means cf a loan out of which they make perhaps 10 per cent. in premiums, commissions, Sse. This being done, a field is opened to them for a series of profitable operetiees in the precious metals, which prove so embarrassing to the Batik, and so destructive to our comae:rec. The note circulation is reduced at tire present time to a limit quite unprecedented of late year!, and the trade of the country is unavoidably paralysed, lest the few remaining sovereigns should also disappear ; for tho delusion of k.eping gold, as a test of prices and the balance of trade, is persevered in, though the hataixes of modern traces are, as v.e nave shown, made up of foreign bonds. And is the Bank of England, it hill be naked, still to be left in the miserable state of dependence we have de scribed ? She might be able, in defiance of foreign lore jabbing, to set herself right, as formerly, were the issuing joint-stock banks in the country compelled by the Legis lature to close their doors, or the power of creating notes were taken from them, though nothing so important as this is to be accomplished without an interminable struggle. But few will considee that the measures of the Directors of the Bank of England ought for ever to be baffled by the rigs of Capel-court. If the argumeht that " the pursuits of individuals arc not to be interfered with" is to be held applicable onlywlicre such pursuits arc not incompatible with the welfare of the community, there can be no great diffi culty, it is presumed, in putting the concacturs of loans under a salutary restraint. A Liverpool merchant again addresses us upon the sub ject. His letter illustrates. through the forcible medium of example, some of the effects produced by a foolish tole ration of foreign loans : TO THE EDITOR OP THE MORNING POST. Sir,—ln reading the City article in the Post of this morning I observe that there are rumours of loans to a large amount about being contracted for in this country, which, if such be really the truth, must of necessity 1-pa met by the Bank of England adopting effective measures to neutralise their action on the currency. The present scarcity of 'money, with the prospect of its continuance, is beginning to show itself in the most appalling mar ner, and nowhere more than in the town of Leigh and neighbourhood of Manchester. At this season of the year thousands have been employed there in preparing a certain description of goods for the spring trade, and which, being got up at an extraordinarily low rate of wages, assured the manufacturer of an undeviating market early in the new year ; but, in the present state of cur monetary affairs, he is afraid of locking up his capiti:i for so long a term. The chances of the poor weave:- earning his scanty pittance are thus consideraVy dimi nished, if not entirely dissipated. A corresponding num ber of cotton-spinners are necessaiily thrown out of em ployment, of whom at Oldham alone there are at this moment upwards of seven thousand. But what can be said, Mr. Editor, to extenuate the conduct of those who must he looked upon as the original authors of this wide-spreading misery ? Why, it is well known that a considerable sum is appropriated every year to the manu facturers of Belgium under the designation of primes &exportation, which enables them not only to meet us in the foreign market, but in many instances to undersell us. Can anything be more preposterous than furnishing foreign nations with the means—l would hope unwit tingly—of starving our industrious population, es well as sacrificing the dearest interests of the country ? Let us hope that Government will not defer any longer adopting effectual measures to eradicate this plague-spot of Great Britain. I am, &c. Liverpool, Dec. 12. MERCATOR. SUN.—The funds closed heavy to-day. Consols for opening at 88i to Bank Stock at 1561 ; Exchequer Bills at Is. discount to Is. premium ; India Bonds et Iss. discount ; and the Reduced Three-and-a-Half ptr Cents. at 97 to The half-monthly account was adjusted to-day. The general balances were not heavy, Spanish having alter nated only from 23. 1 i to 241, and Portuguese New Five per Cents. from 34/ to 33?-, ; Colombian fell to-day uo less than 11 per cent., owing to the accounts re ceived of an internal revolution in New Grenada. The current quotations of the 1824 Stock were 24 to 234. Mexican Bonds realised 271 to 28 ; Brazil Stock was depressed to 711 ; Belgian Scrip was 1 premium ; Russian Bonds for the Account touched 113 ; French Five per Cent. Rentcs were at 111 ; and Dutch Fire per Cents. at 971. Shares were not animated. The Grcat Western ranged from 23 to 22 ; the New from 9 to 91 ; and the South-Western from 14i to 14i premium. Brighton were Si to 9, and Blackwell 41 discount. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. (From the Morning Chronicle.) We publish to-day the completement of the cor respondence between Commodore Napier and the Mi nister of Mehemet Ali, previous to the signature of the convention. One passage in the letter of Commo dore Napier strikes us as calculated to throw some light upon the intelligence from Constantinople, which we published on Tuesday. Commodore Napier ex presses his regret at learning that same additional troops had been sent into Syria, for this he feared would be interpreted at Constantinople into a disposition on the part of the Paella to protract resistance. And so, meat probably, it was interpreted, to which we mar v ery naturally asetibe the renewed deposition of Me hemet Ali. We stated on Tuesday that when the Porte took this step, it could not have been as vat awara l o )e ridi p ic. e . rmi w tte h d en either of the submission of the Pacha, or of the desire of the c ontraettne parties to the Treaty of Landon that to bot il h " th t e l s ' : c known at Constantinople, we can scarcely Mehemet All.,,7s,nit,tigletti, f P ac a t c s lia b : c ic co o m f .* temptations to ed " this solution the ques.wn. emp‘atinns to adopt suppose that any further opposition will be e r. an extreme cours e are undoubtedly strong, Hod the in citement perhaps still stronger. But, after all, ma y not by pursuing more moderate counse s 10 tmt e he every object of prudent an d num n l e tj poliey lbe THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, DECKIVIRER 17,1840. met Ali to the Pachalic of Egypt, subjecting his autho rity to such restrictions as the will of the Sultan may impose, is surely not to expose the Ottoman empire to the hazard of a second Koniah or Nezib. The law ,imits and regulates the conscription, proportioning it to the amount of population. This the Pacha cannot exceed, without the forfeiture of his hereditary title. Having lost Syria, too, he has lost the pretext for maintaining a large army. So with the fleet : its mag nitude must depend upon the permissioa of the Sultan ; and there can be little apprehension of its again be coming sufficiently formidable to give uneasiness to the Porte. The application of the Hatti Scheriff to Egypt, by abolishing the monopolies of the Paella, cuts off his means of maintaining establishments so dispro portOned to the resources of the country which he governs ; and while it affords a prospect of better ad ministiatioa in Egypt, gives additional security against :he realisation of any disloyal or ambitious project which Mehemet or his successor might entertain. We do not, therefore, attach a great deal of weight to the objection to leaving Mehemet Ali in Egypt, which rests upon the probability of his renewing that course of lawless aggression which enabled him in so short a time to carry his arms from El Arish to the Taurus. It is said that the changed position of the Pacha would render him an easy and a dangerous instrument in the hands of foreign intriguers. One of the lessons, we apprehend, that Mehemet Ali is least likely to forget, is the severe one that has been taught him by his reliance upon foreign counsels. We do not say that the French Government or the French nation would make Egypt a centre of intrigue for the purpose of restoring the lost ascendancy of the Pacha ; but no doubt the shoals of adventurers who infest that country would omit no opportunity of establishing what they call " French influence." But the power of these people was never very formidable, nor is it likely to become more so. They have never been at pains to disguise their objects, and we only say what we believe is notorious to every man at all acquainted with that country, when we state that no one better understands than Mehemet Ali himself what are the real views of his noisy partisans. No. The Pacha is not likely to become the tool of any French party. He is too sin cerely anxious to preserve the succession in his own family. We freely admit that no description can ex aggerate the barbarities of Mehemet Ali's govern meat in Egypt, and did we not feel persuaded that this system must be now wholly changed, we should never cease urging the necessity of getting rid of him. But we think a great deal of the misgovernment of Egypt was directly ascribable to the Pacha's efforts to conquer and retain Syria. The events of the last few months show very plainly at what an enormous ex penditure his baseless authority was achieved. How much of the wealth of Egypt must have been lavished upon these Syrian armaments. Having cut off' this drain, it is surely not unreasonable to look forward to a more rational administration of the resources in future. It must be said of Mehemet Ali's Government, that its vices are not those most usually found in East ern despotisms. If the people are spoiled it is not to maintain the effeminate splendour of a debauched court, but to adtniaister to the cravings of an ambition, the very fault of which is not un allied with true nobility of nature. Nor, we admit, is oppression practised merely for oppression sake. The conscription was enforced in all its terrible rigour, because soldiers were required to go to Syria and to Arabia. Thera was no modification of the monopolies, because, without the monopolies, it was impossible to feed the extravagant demands of the military and naval services. It is impossible that. the aetise and energetic administration which has hitherto prevailed in Egypt can suddenly subside into the cons moe-place despotism of a Turkish Pachalic. The im pulse given—no matter what its original object—will endure. The personal character of the Pacha is war rant enough of this, and his intimate connection with European interests, and the certain degree of deference which, even from habit, he pays to European opinion, is some warrant, too, that it may be in a right direction. We are far Lam thinking, then, that it is a sacrifice of the interests either of humanity or of sound policy, to recommend as forcibly as possible the recalling of the deposition of Mehemet, and to refuse being a party to enforcing it. iN nd doubtless such recommendation, if properly urged upon the Porte, will be attended with the desired t ffect. FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YES fERDAY. ( From the Globe.) The Paris Papers of Monday, which reached us at a late hour this morning, are full of the anticipated so lemnities of the morrow ; but they treat those solemni• ties merely as a text fur party crimination and recrimina tion. This might be expected at the present moment. The Journals of the Opposition, all shades of which arc at present confounded together, are crying out in chorus that the men now at the head of affairs have no business to be those who should receive the remains of Napoleon. They arc saluted with such phrases as " Treason of Waterloo," " Men of Ghent,' " Trea ties of 1815," &c. ; and the National takes particular pales to enjoin as an expected corollary to the cry of Mee I' cur !—(rather an Irieism) that of A bas les traitres ! It appears to us that all this is exceasively childish. 1815, in our reckoning, followed 1814, which, in like manner, succeeded 1813 and 1812 ; the treaties of 1813 were the natural, or, we should say, providen tial, " unsbunned consequence" of the grasping ambi tion which came to a climax in the enormous expedition which for ever signalised the first of those years, as its unparalleled catastrophe, and the consequences, marked each of the following. There may be one reason why the Outs would be fitter to receive Napoleon than the Ins ; and this is that Napoleon was the fit schoolmaster for such schoolboys. Napoleon put an iron extinguisher precisely on all that gabble which has found courage to sputter forth again under the Restoration and the present regimen. Napoleon would not rest in his coffin, could he imagine that the ex-editorship of a newspaper had become a title to the helm of state, and that his ashes were brought back to the Invalides, to a',:d a laurel to M. Thiers! The Debats observes rather smartly, " We should be glad to know in what age, and under what Government, writers ever arrived so rapidly (it might perhaps have added, so mischievously) to the head of affairs in a great country. What is very certain is, that under that im perial regime, which so much excites the re g rets and aspirations of M. Thiers — M. Thiers, the orator, the writer, tae public maa—would have had to choose between exile, or direction of the public mind " under approbation and privilege" of the police—a sub•pre fecture, or the dungeons of Vinciennes." We may be permitted to doubt whether M. Thiers would have had such alternatives under. Napoleon. We suppose he is not a fighting man, however warlike in leading arti cles ; and we think it likely he would have been left in aTivate to meditate prospective lampoons on " Napoleon the Great" with Paul Louis Courier, or to write his " History of the Revolution" at a safe distance, like Madame de Steel. (From the Standard.) The Morning Post replies to us to-day in the follow ing two paragraphs;— The Standard of last night devotes two of its columns to personalities upon us, and attacks upon the reputation of Mr. Shaw. The former are entirely harmless, except to those by whom they have been employed, and we shall certainly never descend to bestow upon them any notice whatever. As to the attacks upon Mr. Shaw, they are so nearly a repetition of those which we have formerly re pelled and chastised, and arc so sure to be repeated in a new garb of words by the Herald of this morning, that we postpone such correction as we think they deserve until we have the two confederates in calumny before us at once. " It is not fit, however, that we should for a moment conceal the fact of the Standard having at last produced a witness in support of its repeated assertion that tho Duke of Wellington was deceived. Yes, the Standard has done us the honour of yielding to our castigation what it refused to the request of the illustrious Duke. But such a witness I He attempts to prove treachery in Mr. Shaw, and convicts himself of treachery. The name of the Standard's witness is John Jones, and the Standard tells us that he was once High Sheriff of Dublin. An ex-Sheriff of Dublin is not quite the same thing as an Irish Peer. 13ut no matter. We propose to have the pleasure of cross-examining Mr. John Janos, but not until the Herald—which we dare say will make a great deal of the Standard's witness—shall have concluded his examination in chief." We reprint this chiefly for the purpose of repelling the charge of personality. In speaking of the writers of the Post as " lacquevs," we reasoned merely from the evidence of their conduct and manners, resembling so exactly what one might expect from the ignorant im pertinence of the inmates of an ill-regulated servants hall ; bat we solemnly declare that of the men them sAves we are happy to know nothing, not even the names. It appears, however, by the charge of person ality, that we reasoned correctly, and that our accusers have actually worn shoulder-knots and plush breeches, and answered to the bell. Well, this much knowledge is something gained. (From the Courier.) Commodore Napier, blunt and brave seaman as he is, would seem to be any where rather than at sea, in his proper element, in respect of the mysteries and mamuvres of our foreign policy. Lord Palmerston, for example, has been careful to guard himself by re peated assurances, that, although conquering provinces for Turkey by force of arms, he should not presume to dictate her policy ; that although lie should recom mend the act of forfeiture promulgated against Mehemet Ali by the Sultan to be withdrawn, yet he would de cline coercion should his advice be rejected ; and further his Lordship declined for himself the formal or any other guarantee of Egypt to the Paella, except by good offices with his Suzerain, and whatever they may he worth. More straightforward, if not more honest than the M,nis ter, the gallant Commodore has cut the gordian knot of all this tangled diplomacy. He has taken real meenings, and not the idle verbiage used to distort sense, for his text, and in dealing with the Pacha has boldly undertaken that the " hereditary Government of Egypt ** is and remains guaranteed by th e Pow ers." So much for Ar ticle 1 of the Convention sig ned b y t he Commodore on th e inrt of his government and by lioghos B ey f or t h e Vi cero y. The brave Commodore, moreover, to leave no question of the light in which he at least comprehended the gua rantee and its consequences, rubs up his historic recollec tions, and thus, like a wise man, as well as invincible con- queror of the East, communes with Boghns Bey, of the glorious future still in store for his master cn the advent of peace. " His Highness (be writes) would have ample and satisfactory occupation in his latter years in culti vating the arts of peace, and, in settling, probably upon new foundations, the throne of the Ptolemies." From the touch of the same spear which overthrew his dreams of empire in Syria and Turkey, a new throne we see is raised for the Paella in Egypt. Such is the state of the case as between Mehemet Ali and the Quadruple Al liance. Meantime the Porte appears to labour under the persuasion, so carefully inculcated by Lord Palmer ston, of full and entire liberty of action in the matter, without reference to or control from any quarter. was to run along the -a holz line of way b 2 te , 1 . , ,, s;1 1 . t . an equal distance from each rail, a bar of iron or " ful ciment," fixed to the ground, and reaching nearly to the bottom of the engine, or carriage, from which, on each side, strong brackets should fall, and inclose the bar, thereby effectually preserving the moving body from being overturned. As an additional security in the model, a groove was made on each side of the bar, in and along which ran pins, fixed to the brackets, so that should any obstruction occur in the rails, to raise the wheels, the cant ing motion thereby occasioned was checked by the pins being forced against the upper edge of the groove : and even should one or more of the wheels break beneath the pressure thus canted, the carriage itself would retain its upright position, and could not get off the line. Mr. ' Jackson said, that having lost his business by long illness, he had employed his mind, while in the hospital at Dur ham, in devising the plan, which, he had been told by some scientific persons, who recommended him to come to the metropolis with the model, was calculated to an swer the purposes of public security most completely. Alderman WILSON having examined the model, said, that a glance would prove that the means of security were quite satisfactory, but he apprehended that the expense would be a complete obstacle to its adoption. It struck him that Mr. Kollman's railroad invention was identical in prin ciple with that of Mr. Jackson, and had the extraordinary power of mounting hills and turning corners with amazing facility. The expense of that improvement, however, he supposed interfered with its success, although the first men in the country had witnessed and applauded it. Mr. Jackson said that when he hit upon the expedient he determined as soon as he should have strength sufficient to come to London, and submit it to the Lord Mayor. He had travelled 300 miles for that purpose, and he was convinced that some expedient of the kind must be adopted, or the lives of multitudes would be in constant jeopardy. Alderman WILSON advised Mr. Jackson to take his in vention to the Society of Arts, and observed that if some means of protecting the lives and limbs of the public on railroads were not adopted, the shareholders would feel the consequences in the failure of every project of the sort, as the most influential portions of the Press would take good care to give notice of every calamity resulting from the want of means of prevention. GUILDHALL. Henry Paine, dressed as a cab-driver, was placed at the bar before Mr. Alderman White, charged with robbery. Thomas John Bailey said be was the proprietor of a coffee-house in Smithfield, and a gentleman having ten dered him a half-sovereign in payment for some refresh ments, he was about to go and get it changed, when the prisoner, who was also in the room at the time, offered to give him change. The prosecutor then went on to state, amidst the laughter of every person in Court, the worthy A!derman himself not even retaining his gravity, that the prisoner took the half-sovereign between his fore-finger and thumb, and turning back his head, " bolted" it with as much facility as if it were one of Morison's aperients ; at the same time, putting his hand into one of the pockets of his nether garment, he pulled out three old buttons, and bowing very lowly to him (prosecutor) said, " Take your change out of that, Mr. Ferguson." The prisoner, who was well-known as a bad character to the Police, was fully committed for trial. A well-dressed man, of gentlemanly manners, was charged with stealing a coat in the Exchequ.r Court, or. Tuesday. at Guildhall. John Peake, a messenger to the Court, said that his at tention was drawn to the prisoner by seeing him leaning rather suspiciously over the back of the seats allotted to the Counsel, where a coat was lying. Ile took off a cloak which he wore, and placed it beside the coat, and in a few minutes after he threw both across his arm, and coolly walked out of the Court, when he was given into custody. In consequence of a notice posted in the Hill it was found to be the property of Mr. Worthington, a solicitor of Gray's Inn. That gentleman stepped forward and requested that the case might be disposed of summarily, as he had to leave town on professional business. The prisoner, who refused to give any information as to hi 3 connections or way of life, was committed for one month to the House of Correction. MURDER IN GLASGOW. (From the Glasgow Chronicle of Friday.) The Sheriff of the county left town this forenoon, acco:npanied by a party of military, for Bishop-bridge, to investigate into the circumstances attending one of the most barbarous murders which ever occurred in this neighbourhood. The murder was perpetrated yester day morning, and was marked by circumstances of the most fiendish atrocity. The victim is Mr. John Green, a ganger, or superintendent of labourers on the Edin burgh and Glasgow Railway. The deceased had charge of the works at that portion of the line adjoining Bishop-bridge, about three miles from Glasgow, and was proceeding to his duties about seven in the morn ing, before it was yet light, when he was assaulted by two labourers as he passed the wooden bridge at Cross hill, which is a temporary erection over a part of the railway works, and so severely injured that he died within an hour. All the labourers on this portion of the line are Irish, with the exception of two Englishmen, one of whom, in ' conjunction with Mr. Grancis Rooney, another superin tendent, witnessed the murder. The account they give is, that previous to Green's coming up a large party of Irishmen were assembled on the bridge or its vicinity, but before his arrival the most 61 them departed in the direction of the sn.ithy, as if about to commence work, lea% ing two or three behind. Green crossed the bridge, making a remark upon the weather as he passed, when one of the labourers followed him, and, with a punch or iron bar struck him a cruel blow on the head, which forced off his hat and brought the victim to the ground. Another labourer came up, and jump: :d upon the body, while the first wretch continued to inflict repeated blows on the head and face of the unfortunate man with the heavy iron instrument. The bloody work was soon done, and the two murderers run off in the direc tion of Auchinearn, and have not yet been taken ; though we hope this will not long be the case, as the speed and eye of the law are after them. Green was only heard to exclaim, " Oh, God ! are you going to murder me ?" He was picked up quite in sensible, and, as bas been stated, died within an hour afterwards. . The Englishman who had witnessed the commencement of the assault ran off, being afraid that the onslaught was to be general. Mr. Rooney, how ever, saw the end of it from below the, bridge, but was restrained from going forward ; and identification of the murderers is difficult or impossible, from the darkness which prevailed at the time, and the simi larity of dress worn by the labourers. That the murder Was a combined and premeditated one admits of little doubt. Green had only come to this super intendency two days before, but a report was spread that he was strict and harsh in the former works which he overlooked ; and the determination to rid themselves thus cruelly of one whom they might con sider a sharp taskmaster, is the only reason which can be given for this heartless action. Another proof of it is, that the unfortunate deceased was at tacked by a shower of stones on the previous evening Green, who was an active young man, thirty years of age, has left a widow and small family in England, and, so far as we have have heard, there is no cause for accusing him of harshness, unless a necessary de gree of vigilance and attention to his duty can be called such. Friday forenoon, Mr. Sheriff Bell, ac companied by a company of the 58th Foot, and a party of police officers, were conveyed in a coach and three omnibuses to Cross-hill, for the purpose of ap prehending the murderers by taking the labourers by surprise. On nearing the workmen were engaged under the level of the road, and were not app.ised of the force until they were surrounded. No resistance was offered, and on the names being called, each labourer came forward and allowed himself to be secured. About twenty-one were taken in this manner, and three were subsequently discovered and secured in an adjoining wood. They were all safely conveyed to Bridewell, to await the investigation which is to be instituted by the authorities.—Scotch Reformers' Gazette. LOG OF THE ORIENTAL. Abstract of Log of Peninsular and Oriental Steam Na• vigation Company's steamer Oriental, John Soy, Com mander, on her second voyage from England to Alex an4ria and back. OCT.—Falmouth to Gibraltar, 1,069 miles,l43 hours 25 minutes under steam.—Tremendous gales during three days. Gibraltar to Malta, 989 miles, 91 hours.—Fino weather, average speed 11 knots per hour. Malta to Alexandria, 827 miles, 83 hours 15 minutes. — Fair weather. Homx.—Alexandria to Malta, 825 miles, 93 hours 30 minutes. —Heavy head sea. Malta to Gibraltar, 981 miles, 103 hours.—Fair weather. Gibraltar to Falmouth, 1,074 miles, 118 hours 5 mi nutes.—heavy gales during three days. Steamed out '2,885 miles in 317 hours 40 minutes. Steamed home 2,880 miles in 314 hours 33 minutes. Total distance, 5,765 miles in 632 hours 15 minutes. Lowest average rate of speed from Falmouth to Gib raltar, violent gales, 7 knots per hour. per hour. Hi g h e st average rate of speed 11 knots The Earl and Countess of Donoughtnore and °f tl family have been placed in morning by the tit nth C o untess's mother, Mts. Rnnell, widow of - thela l te e Col. Ivey Heil, at Paris. A MAN SAVED FROM DROWNING BY THE SAGACITY OF A Doc. On Tuesday morning, about four o'clock, as police-eetistab:e Kett, 54, was on his beat in Whitcfriars, near the Temple, his attention was drawn to the loud and continued barking of a dog, and on proceed ing to Napier's Grand Junction Coal Wharf he discovered a man lying upon his back in the mud, in which be was impartially imbedded. The dog was using every effort in his power to arouse him to a sense of his situation by al tornately barking and pulling him by the c ollar of his coat. The policeman, having obtained assistance, succeeded in dragging the man ashore, when it was discovered that he was in a state of intoxication. He was con,eyed to the Fieet-sttect s tation-house, but it was sonic hours before he was brought to a state 6f consciousness. len he said that he had hoen drinking in the ne;ghbourhood, and he sup posed that, on coining out into the air, had suddenly affected him, and he must have w alked into the wharf. I t Was fortunately neap tide at the time. 'The dog is the property of the o wners of the wharf. l he statement of the resignation of Mr. Blalie, of Canfield, as Candidate for Mayo, turns out to he un, founded. Mr. Kirwan, the Tory candidate has resigned, after making a most active personal caavass of the county and finding that be has no chance " till nest time." LAW IN TELLIGEN CE. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Dec. 16. His Honour the Vice-CHANCELLOR took motions to-day. MEWL AND CO. V. S MITH--.SEAGER AND CO. V. SMITH. This case came before the Court, upon motion, to dis solve an injunction which was granted some time since, restraining the defendants from proceeding with two ac tions at law, which they had commenced against the plaintiffs. Two suits had been instituted, in one of which Messrs. Meux and Co., the brewers, and in the other Seeger and Co., t h e distillers, were the plaintiffs, and the assignees of a person named Albin the defendants. The subject matter of both suits were two actions at law which had been brought Against the plaintiffs by the assignees of Albin to recover from them the sum of 2,000 guineas, which the assignees alleged under the circumstances that had taken place they were entitled to. The facts of the case were as follow 1838 a person of the name of Gurney was the owner of a public-house called The Dolphin, in the Whitechapel-road, of which he had a lease for 63 years. Gurney dealt with Messrs. Meux and Co. for his porter, and Seeger and Co. for his spirits, and became indebted to each of those firms to the ex tent of upwards of 1,0001. In 1838 Gurney was anxious to retire, and to dispose of his business, and the lease of his house. He found a purchaser in Albin, who, it was agreed, was to give 2,4501. for the lease, which was not assigned, but an under lease was granted, wanting ten days of the term of the original lease. Albin was also to pay Gurney for the stock, effects, and fixtures according to the amount at which they should be valued. According to the custom often adopted in the licensed vic tualling business, when a party wished to enter a public house, and had not money enough to complete the pur -1 chase, an arrangement was made by Albin with Messrs. Meux and Co., and Seager and Co., by which they agreed to pay Gurney 2,000/. of the purchase money, they having the lease deposited with them. Gurney owed the plaintiffs 2,0901., and that amount was paid by him to them by their writing off his debt, and giving to him their checks for the amount, Albin paying the remainder of the purchase money himself. The lease was then handed over to Messrs. Meux and Co., who held it for themselves and Messrs. Seeger and Co., until 1839, in the course of which year it was discovered that Albin, who had been a publican at Pcntonville had come there from Liverpoul, at which place he had been made a bankrupt, and had never ob tained his certificate. Upon discovering this, Messrs. Meux and Co., and Seeger and Co., were desirous of closing their dealings with Albin, and to sell the property, but they thought it would not be right to take that step without communicating with the assignees under the fiet, and accordingly a person was sent down to Liverpool by them. This led to negotiations between the plaintiffs and the assignees, and ultimately it was agreed the lease of the Dolphin should be sold to a Mr. Thorne for 2,2001., and that out of that sum Messrs. Meux and Co. should be paid 1 000 guineas, and the like sum should be handed over to Messrs. Seeger and Co., and the residue was to go to the assignees without prejudice to their right to insist upon the whole. Upon this arrangement the assignees jcincd in the assignment of the lease to Thorne, but since that time they had brought two actions against the plaintiff 3 to recover the 2,000/ , to restrain them from proceeding with which the injunction now sought to be dissolved was granted. Mr. K. Bruce, Mr. Richards, and Mr. Freelieg showed cause against dissolving the injunction on the behalf of Messrs. Meux and Co., and Mr. Swanston and Mr. Chandless for Messrs. Seager and Co., Mr. Jacob and Mr. Keene appeared for the z.ssignecs of Albin. The VICE. CHANCELLOR, without calling upon Mr. K. Bruce to reply, gave judgment, ordering the injunction to be continued. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DEC. 16. THOMPSON V. LEWIS. This was an issue directed under the Interpleader Act, upon the application of the Sheriff of Middlesex (who was at first made defendant), to try tile question whether cer tain horses seized and sold under an execution at the suit oF Lewis, were the property of the plaintiff. They were seized as belonging to Holding, a judgment debtor to the defendant in th amount of 6121. The plaintiff's case oc cupied the whole day, and the further hearing was ad journed till to-morrow (this day). CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. Peter Anthony Cullen, the comedian, was indicted for bigamy. Mr. CLARKSON appeared for the prosecution, and stated the facts of the case at they afterwards appeared in ev dence. _ _ Mr. Cueststans defended tho prisoner. Mary Bridge deposed that she was the wife of Thomas Bridge, who resided at Bury St. Edmunds. On the 24th of February, 1824, she was present when the prisoner was married to Mary Anne Mitchell, at Whitechapel church. Mary Anne Mitchell was still alive, and she had seen her that day. She did not know where the had been living latterly. In the mantis of July, 1834, she saw her and the prisoner walking together. Cross-examined—The reason she believed this took place in 1834 was on account of her then living in lodg ings in Whitechapel, at which place she met them. She lost sight of the prisoner between 1827 and 1834, at the time she met him with his wife. Believed that they se parated in the year 1827. Re-examined—The prisoner's wife was a tailoress when be marriec her, and she had worked fur the same master ever since. John Murray, a policeman. produced a copy of the re gister from the marriage r egistry of St. Mary, White chapel, which was handed in and read. Martha Arnold deposed that she was present at the parish church of St. George's-in-the-East on the 16th of November, A.ir.c again through the ceremony of marriage with Jane Bristow. in RKSOI.I th e presentSaidlle year, when the prisoner went should now call the second wife. Jane Bristow was accordingly sworn. She deposed that she resided in Caroline -street, Lambeth, and she. became acquainted with the prisoner by his coming to her house to look at a lodging. He engaged apartments in the house, and afterwards paid addresses to her. At this time she had l i loo/. in the funds. She had four children, all of whom were entitled to a share of this money. The pri-. soner proposed to marry her, and she told him that she had heard be was a married man. He did not deny it, but said that ho was married seventeen years before, and that he had not seen his wife for eight years, and he be lieved she was dead. Witness believed this to be true, and consented to marry him, and they were married at St. George's Church, or. the 16th November: Cress-examined.—The prisoner was violently assaulted in August last, and a man was tried in that Court for the offence. The injury affected his head a good deal, and he was outrageous at times. Witness believed the first wife was dead, although several persons came to tell her that she was alive, but the prisoner prevented her from believing it, and she was in consequence induced to marry him. Her youngest child was eleven, and the eldest eighteen years old. They would be entitled to share this property. Re-examined.—The prisoner did not behave so well to her children, after they were married, as she expected. Three days after the marriage, he turned her eldest daughter out of the house, and when she remonstrated with him, he said she might go to hell and be Directly after the marriage he asked her for her papers re lative to the money, and when she told him she had not got them, he insisted that she should get them, and asked her what she supposed he married her for, but her money. The prisoner got his living as a comedian at the Surrey Theatre. Mr. CH AISBRRS a dd resse d th e Jary for the prisoner, and called Mr. the Surrey Th eatre, and was acqua i nte d w ith th e p r i so n e r Saville, who deposed that he was an actor at as a brother actor. He had known him several years, and always considered him to be a single man. Before the accident, the prisoner was a steady, regular actor, but since that time his memory had appeared to fail him, and he was very flighty. By Mr. CLasatsots—The prisoner played in a great range of characters, chiefly in the " heavy' line. His most celebrated character was " Blueskin," in Jack Sheppard. Mr. CLARKSON—Was that in the " heavy " line ? Mr. Saville—Decidedly. You surely know the nature of the character ? Mr. CLARKSON—ReaIIy , Mr. Saville, you do me too much honour. Has h e p l aye d t hi s c haracter often sin ce his accident? Mr. Saville —Yes, about three weeks before he was apprehended. Mr. CLARKSON—Does he sing in this character ? Mr. Saville—Yes; he sings "Jolly Nose."—( Laughter.) That, I believe, was the last effort of his vocal powers. Several other witnesses were called to show that they had 'known the prisoner for some years, and that they had never heard him say that he was a married man. • Mr. CLARKSON replied. , Mr. Justice PATTESON summed up the evidence, and the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty. The prisoner, on being asked what he had to say why sentence should not be passed upon him, addressed the Court in a very vehement tone, and went into a long state ment of the differences he had had with his first wife, and said that the charge had been brought forward against him out of spite. He entreated the Court to have mercy upon Mr. Justice PavrnsoN told the prisoner that all he had said had nothing to do with the case. It was clear that he had deliberately deceived the woman Bristow, and con. tracted a marriage with her when he must have been aNare that h:s first wife was alive. It was an offence that subjected him to transportaticn ; but, looking at all the cir cumstances, he did not feel that be was at all required to go to that extent. There could be no doubt that the se cond wife had acted with very great imprudence. Under a:l the circumstances, the Le.,,erice was, that be should be imprisoned, but without hart: labour, for the space of six calendar months. The Recorder sat in this Court in the evening, but the cases disposed of were of no public interest. POLIOE - INTI:EIG - i ' -.I;NCE. MAII'SION-110USE. A watchmaker of Durham, ❑arced Barry Jackson,. ex hibited to Alderman Wilson the model of a design for pre venting railway engines and carriages from being upset or accidentally forcol off the rails. lle said that his proposal TAKING THE VEII_,-(.7ATHOLIC- ISM IN SCOTLAND. (From the Scottish Standard.) On Monday forenoon, an event which has no parallel in the history of Scotland since the Reformation, and which affords a striking indication of the rapid progress that Romanism has of late made in our laud, occurred in the chapel of the Nunnery dedicated to St. Margaret at Morningside—five votaries of that faith having then and there subscribed the vow, and joined the holy sis terhood. It is now more than three hundred years since the many monastic institutions in this country began to " totter to their fall," and during that long lapse of time, we believe there is no record of any attempt to re establish an Abbey in any part of Scotland, save that of the Nunnery at Morningside, which was accomplished a very few years ago, principally through the untiring exertions of the present Roman Catholic Bishop of Lirayra (Gillis), the coadjutor of the Vicar Apostolic of the Eastern District of Scotland. The ceremony commenced with their anthem of " Gloria in Excelsis," some of the nuns accompanying the organ with their voices, the music of which was ex tremely beautiful as its solemn peals swelled through the little Saxon chapel. Nine young ladies, boarders in the Nunnery (one of whom took no part in the service), first entered from a private door, followed by the nuns and three novices, who bad no sooner seated themselves than the main doors of the chapel were thrown open, and the procession of the Bishop entered. It was headed by a sub-deacon, bearing a massive gold cross ; he was followed by two acolytes, dressed in white sur plices and red sashes, bearing large candles ; next came four boys, dressed as those who had gone before, each carrying a small lighted taper ; they were followed by two priests, in splendid cloth of gold vestments ; next came a boy, bearing the " Gospel Book who was fol lowed by the Bishop, accoutred in gorgeous pontifical robes: His under garment, of rich crimson brocade. had a long train, which was borne by a little boy ; above this he had a gown of rich white lace ; and over all he wore a dress similar to that of the two priests who pre ceded him, but much more costly and magnificent ; on his head he had a glittering mitre ; and in his left hand (a mark of superior dignity) he oarried an exquisitely wrought gold crozier. Having reached the altar, and every thing being ar ranged, the Bishop turned to the nuns and addressed a few words to them, principally referring to the havoc the Reformation had made in 'such religious houses ; but when he alluded to himself, as having been the first to re-establish those places after a lapse of three hun dred years, he cast his eye upon the kneeling forms be fore him, and his countenance seemed lighted up with a glow of secret triumph. When he had finished his address, one of the no vices, who was distinguishable from her more advanced sisters by her white veil, advanced to the foot of the altar, made a low bow, and sunk on her knees at the Bishop's feet, who then commenced his interrogatories respecting the motives that induced her to become an inmate of the cloister, to which she, of course, an swered in the form prescribed by the Fathers of that Church. Having answered his inquiries, the Bishop confessed himself satisfied, and placed on her head a chaplet of white roses, as an emblem of the purity of her intentions, and also conceding to her other five years as a further probationary course, ere she could take the irrevocable vow. She then bowed her head to the ground, in token of her humiliation, and re tired. Next came four sisters, habited in the full cos. tunic of the nuns—they having already served the five allotted years, besides their noviciate, as a preparatory term ere they could take the last vow—a vow of .. vo luntary poverty, perpetual chastity, and entire obedi ence to their superior"—an expression which is, we believe, peculiar to the nuns of that order. They ad vanced to the steps of the altar, each bearing a lighted taper, and crouched in the same manner as the pre vious suppliant at the Bishop's feet. Questions simi lar in import to those which had been addressed to the novice were then put to them, the only difference being that they were urged individually, three distinct times, to ponder well on the sacrifice they were about to make—if they had any, desire of again mixing in worldly turmoil, of again returning to their borne and kindred (two of them were French ladies, and they were addressed in their own vernacular), there was yet time ; but if the oath was once accepted, no thing on earth could afterwards absolve them. They all answered in a firm and unfaultering voice, that it was by their own voluntary and free will that they had embraced the austerities of that solemn ritual. The Bishop then placed upon each of them a crown of thorns, and gave them a missal and a crucifix. The holy cucharist was next administered in the usual form of the Romish Church, after which the nuns retired to the nave of the chapel, bowed themselves prostrate on the ground, and were covered with a large black pall, having a white figure of the cross upon it, and supported at the corners by four of the superior nuns. They remained in this posture until the Bishop gave them his benediction, after which they arose to do homage to their superior, and were welcomed by the sister nuns and novices with an affectionate kiss of recognition. Thus ended the solemn and imposing ceremony of initiation. A collection was afterwards made for the benefit of the school conducted by the Sisters of Cha rity, at Milton House, in the Canongate, which realised a considerable sum. The assemblage, which was a very n umerous one, then left the chapel. “DO YOU WANT TO BE SHAVED (From the New York Morning Signal of Nov. 13.) The following story_ is old, but a precious good one. We laughed heartily over it " long time ago," and pre suming many of our readers never heard it, we serve it up for their edification. A gentleman travelling some years since in the upper part of this state, called at a tavern, and requested en tertainment for the night. The landlord informed him that it was out of his power to accommodate him, as his house was already full. He persisted in stopping, as he as well as a horse .were almost exhausted with travelling. After much solicitation the landlord consented to his stopping, provided he would sleep in a certain room that had not been occupied for a long time, in conse quence of a belief that it was haunted be the ghost of a barber, who was reported to have been murdered in that room some years before. " Very well," says the min, "1 am not afraid of ghosts." After having re freshed himself, lie inquired of the landlord how and in what manner the room in which he was to lodge was haunted? The landlord replied, that shortly after they retired to rest an unknown voice was heard in a trem bling and protracted accent saying, " Do you w-a-nt to be sha-a-ved?" " Well," replied the man, "if he comes he may shave me." He then requested to he shown to the apartment ; in going to which he was conducted through a large room, where were seated a great number of persons at a gambling table. Feeling a curiosity which almost every person possesses after having heard ghost stories, he carefully searched every corner of his room, but could discover nothing but the usual furniture of the apart ment: he then lay down, but did not close his eyes to sleep immediately, and in a few minutes he imagined he heard a voice saying, "Do you wa-n-t to be sk-a-ved?" He arose from his bed and searched every part of his room, but could discover nothing : he again went to bed, but no sooner had he begun to compose himself to , sleep than the question was again repeated. He again arose and went to the window, the sound appoaring to proceed from that quarter, and stood awhile silent — after a few moments of anxious suspense he again beard the sound distinctly, and convinced that it was from without, he opened the window, when the question was repeated full in his car, which started bins not a little. Upon a minute examination, however, he observed that the limb of a large oak tree, which stood under his win dow, projected so near the house that every breath of wind, to a lively imagination, made a noise resembling the interrogation, " Do you w-a-nt to be sh-a.ved ?" Having satisfied himself that his ghost was nothing more nor less than the limb of a tree coming in contact with the house, he again went to bed and attempted to get asleep ; but he was now interrupted by peals of laughter and an occasional volley of oaths and curses from the room where the gamblers were assembled. Thinking that he could turn the late discovery to his own advantage, he took a sheet from the bed and wrapped it round him, and taking the wash-basin in his hand, and throwing a towel over his arm, proceeded to the room of the gamblers, and suddenly opening the door, stalked in, exclaiming in a tremulous voice," Do you w-a-nt to be sha-a-ved ?" Terrified at the sudden appearance of the ghost, the gamblers were thrown into the greatest confusion in attempting to escape it ; some jumped through the windows, and others tumbling head over heels down stairs. Our ghost, taking advan tage of a clear room, deliberately swept a large amount of money from the table into the basin, and retired un seen to his own room. The next morning he found the house in the utmost confusion. He was immediately asked if be rested well ? to which he replied in the affirmative. " Well, na wonder," said the landlord, " for the ghost, instead of going to his own room, made a mistake and came to ours, frightened us out of the room, and took every dollar dollar of our money." The guest, w ithout being the least suspected, quitely ate his breakfast, and de parted many hundred dollars richer by the adventure.. —[Of the money, we say nothing ; we ree,ommaad the moral to our readers.] _ Mr. Curtis, following the plan of the and with a view of making his standard works on the ear, Germans, eye, &c., more extensively useful, has given sY"°P , es of them for the information of the general render. Mr. Cur. tis's remarks on hearing and sight are very judicious, while aose on health should be perused by all who wish to pre serve their health unimpaired to old nge ; indeed, when it is recollected that it is in our catty life our efforts should be made to ensti7e the (ink)) molt of a sound constitution, medicines would be his plain hints cannot lad, we think, to have their eEet upon Ow young as well as old. By attention to his surr. gestions on air, exercise, and diet, exvnsively superseded.-- Observer. EVENING EDITION. N A jr A F. EN CE. (From the Brighton Gazette.) PORTSNIOUTII, DEC. 15.—The Nautilus, 10, Lieutenan Beaufoy, has left the Nore for Sunderland, to collect men desirous of joining the naval service. She will also visit the other northern ports on the same errand. The Impregnable, 104, Captain Thomas Forrest, C.B will go out of harbour into Plymouth Sound next week. She has, for the most part, a fine able-bodied crew. The Belleisle, 78, Captain Nicholas, is to be ready for sea by the Ist of January. The troop-ships, Apollo and Athol, are in this harbour refitting. Report sends the former on a trip to Ceylon, and the latter to the Mediterranean. . The St. Vincent, 120, has been undocked, preparatory to being commissioned for home service. It is expected that she will b 3 flag-ship at this port, and that the Queen 110, will be sent to the Mediterranean. The Vengeance, 84, is being rigged in the basin with a dispatch, and will be commissioned about the sth January. No orders have yet been received for the frigates Vindic tive, Madagascar, and Warspite to hoist the pendant. The Phoenix, steam-frigate, is ordered to be prepared a soon as possible to return to the Mediterranean. be The Rapid, a new 10-gun brig, is fitting out h ere t in lie o u o attached as a tender to the Royal George yacht , the Pantaloon, 10, found to require repairs. The Gloucester and Eagle, 50-gu ships . at Chelan', reported as commissioned, have not yet hoisted the. pen. dant. The Alfred, 50, at Sheerness, is quite rea d y , await- ing orders for commission The Indus, 84, Captain Sir J. Stirling, basin in a few days, to go into the harbour to receive hot crew. She will be ready for sea in about one mouth front the present time. The Snake, 16, Scout, 16, and Harlequin, 18, are bring.' ing forward for commission in the river. The Wolverine, 16, Commander Tucker, and Dee , steam-frigate, Commander Sherer, are shortly expected home to be paid off, the former from Sierra Leone, and the latter from Jamaica. At Spithead--No vessels of war. will qu it the In Harbour—Queen, Victory, Indus, fi xce llent, a, George yacht. Tweed, Rapid, Apollo, Athol , E cho, an d flag ship's tenders. CORN AVERAGES. GENF'RAL AVERAGE P for the Week ended I)ec. 11, If the Inspectors n. she thfferent tVales, per Imperial Quarter. Wheat s's ILi. Oats Barley 32i. td. I Rya .... AVERAGES OF Tr Week ending WHEAT. BARLEY. Nov. 6 62 1 3 t 9 13 '2O 6l 8 34 7 27 6O 0 33 6 Dec. 4 11 IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AI Wheat (0, 9(1. i Oats Barley 3i. 8(1.1 Rye DUTIES ON F Wheat i`.6s. Ed. 1 Oats .... Barley l2s. 4(1. 1 Rye .... 'RICES OF BRITISH CORN 1 840, madefup from the Returns t Cities and 'fawn: in England a° 21s. 11d. I Beans 41s. 41 345. 4.1. ramie 403. ld 1E LAST SIX WEEKS. OATS. I RYE. BEANS. 1-.--- 43 t, 4`2 - 42 ig AR • 2 ?; S 33 7 41 10 0 35 8 43 7 21 11 3. 5.44 0 22 2 34 10 43 10 1 .14 1 41 0 41 21 11 34 4 42 4 44 /ERAGEs ()V THR SIX WXSICS 225. 14. B ea ns.... ..... 43a. d. I 35 9 . 4d. Pease. ..... d 'ORNION CORN. 131. Od. ..... si. O d d 16s. 3d. I pease ........ • 6, ti THE MARKETS• COAL M Ehlpa arrived alma I 8. d. Adair's Charlotte Main ... 22 0 Carr's Hartley Derwent Main l9 Id lyweil Man 2l Lease's Main l7 6 Ord's Redhugh Pontop Windsor l9 6i hussell's High Main Townloy West Hartley 22 0 Wylaat 2O 3 Witils End Clennell Walls End Clarke and Co 2O 9 Walls End .4osio,th Walls End Walls End Hotspur Walls End Killineworth s 2 9 Wa.ls End N. r 2:2 3 Walls End Perkins Walls End Riddell's 23 6 s. d Richmond Main ............... Walls End BCllllolii . . ........ 24 W. E. Braddyll'silettOn... 25 0 Walls Earl Haswell. .... ~. .., 25 0 6 Walls End Hatton .•••••"•'.. ? 5 „ a Walls End Lambton ..... .. za : Walls End remberton ...... 90 Walls End Stewart's ......... 25 0 Walls End Whitwell ......... 94 0 Walls End Caradoe ............ 25 0 Walls End Hartlepool ....... 2 4 ° 9 W allsiEnd Ke lton ............. 94 Pennants Hartlepool ......... 23 24 9 W a lls End Wes t Hartlepool 6 W„lts End Adebade .......... i 3 Wails End 8arrett............ 21 6 Walls End Farrington 'fees 2 C Walls End Clarence Hetton V 6 Wail:. End Seymour Toes. 0 6 Walls End Teos ................. 2 4, 0 LARKET I as. market-aay, 6. N IARKET Oats. I a. to S. 19 5'6 .13: 40:19 46 44 40 $8 40 44 COUNTRY CO Wheat, 1.8 46 :ig 48 -.. 38 60 4‘2 --- 46 CO 35 41 535 '_. 44 58 60 4 2 44 52 412 46 58 CO 28 3! 38 40 55 63 31 40 8 64 54 64 42 44 59 65 40 5U 56 66 42 44 53 61 46 48 56 64 1 34 46 33 45 40 56 67 541 5 7 , 35 60 66 44 4 7 53 6.3, 38 4 52 03 1 38 40 1 .1 V ERPOOL CO RN M4RKET.-13, - e. 15. ish, White, per 70Ib. •...Vs. 0.1, to 10 1 21 Red Scotch, Welch, and Manx 6 6 0 - Irish, White 8 0 8 9 ------- Red - Foreign ... • OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch , per 451 b g 3 4 -- Irish - Foreign ISARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 26 0 39 0 --- Scotch and Irish, pet cintna• ------ Feeding 3 6 3 9 BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 4B o 50 0 - Irish, &c - Foreign PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 4O 0 44 0 --- Foreign 0 42 0 Etouit, English, per 280 1 b. 4B 0 50 0 ---- Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 9.4mbs .. 26 0 '27 0 INDIAN Coat', per 48011) - 34 0 35 3 8 6 40 0 RYE, per Imperial quarter o 46 0 Co 0 Maur, per Imperial quarter HULL CORN MARKET. Wheat, White (per Quart er ) ss. 58s. 6 21, lied 46s. 58s. Os. Foreign ........... Barley, Malting 3os. 32 85. 30s. s. As. Grinding Oats, British Foreign (in bond) 40s 425. 453 Beans Pease, Grey Blue and White 4os. 41s. 42 5. F10wed........ -s. 445. 1704 , Flour (per sack)... Rapeseed (per 10 quarters) ... - ' -1. 281. 30/. CHELTENHAM MARKETS. . P er Bushel. 8. d. to s 9' 41. Beef Per lb. d. tO At Wheat ............... , ... 7 0 0 6 7 e a rley.. .................. 7 6 4 0 4 6 Mutton Oats ....................... 4 6 5 0 Veal 7 B 8 0 0 Hay ............... U. IN.' to 51. Os. Od. per ton. , 1 ... ................................ (1 i ( ,) p Lamb o rk r zatet-ls . 5 6 6 0 8 CANTERBURY MARKET. Wheat, white...---... 58g. to 668. ....-. Old-. 11.1•••• •11 to -s• ---- red....,...*... -.,. to 605. ....•. 01d.............. -s to ---S 55 , Barley, Malting .--. 30b. to 31s. -- Grinding.. -s. to .-s. 225. to Vs. ~....... 014.-...... -s. to --s. Oats •nr.0••••••••••••••••,‘••••nr•••••• 37s to --s. .-... Old-........ 425. to 475. 425. to -s. ..-. Grey....,.-. 408 to -s. Beans .••••••••......n•••••••••••••••••••• Pease Ar••••••We4.-neo•w*/* CHELMSFORD M.s.flK ET. 22 to 36 Gray 4l 4 33 35 White 4O 4 Barley ........................ - 36 Beans, Tick 39 4, Wheat, White ........... . 64 to ( 8 Chevalier ......... 35 6 i Pease,)ts Red ............... 54 Mazagan ..... Grinding ......... 27__...........,,,..3l t'er Quarter. Boston Braintree B ighton Cambridge. Chichester Dunmow Grantham GrimsbY Hai!sham Hitchin Ipswich Lewes Lynn Maidstone Norwich Petworth Earley. s. to s. s. to 133 33 1 2 , ; 34 27 37 bA 6:3 55 65 55 66 , to S. 35 4(1 Romford Sandwich Thetford Wisbech Witham Yarmouth WHEAT, Eng!' 32 - 26 36 28 35 35 39 26 32 SO 38 LO 34 - 33 36 39 36 39 25 43 33 34 fle 2 8 34 4 3 ig 32 25 24 E 34 33 35 .21 2.4 24 30 i.)O 30 22 26 22 29 22 30 °4 28 20 2 4 21 28 26 32 29 30 98 3 . 3 20 28 27 34 21 30 24 30 25 23 28 32 4. - g 4 +3 3i ,-;" 40 - 16 as 40 44 CONCERTS D'HIVER, AT DRURY-LANE.--• , A at g an ra ie nd rn e u s: j e ,, n i a r; embodyi ng iiobertle Diable,the p b a c l nfeaturesmoed a f the t these concerts during th e week, with considerable effect principal h in a c s i and with no little approval by the audience. The evoca tion of Satan, the subsequent bursting from the graves of the nuns, and characteristic waltz of the internals, are points chosen, and as far as breadth and power are d con cerned, produce an appalling sensation of the awful an inscrutable. It may well be supposed that these scenes' as conceived by Meyerbeer, owe most of their effect to the visible agencies on the stage, where the machinist and scene-painter have ample scope far ingenuities and fancies. The quotation of the music without these illustrative adjuncts, is insufficient to yield the full force of the scene, and to exercise the same over whelming potency on the imagination, but Musard, the arranger of the selection, contrives to heighten the effect of it by semi-darkening the theatre, by mut tering diabolical thunders overhead, and by uniting the mighty components of his orchestra in one fell crash. The solos are magnificently given on that monster instru ment the Ophicleide. This gram: and impressive music of Meyerbeer's, who is the Fuseli of the romantic school, amlng the chefs d'ceuvre of modern art. A se lection of te quete airs from Robt le iable, inluding the most delicate of f morsels Robert o D toi que j'airne c (unq ue stionablY the gem of the opera), has been more than once introduced at promenade concerts, and the present addition oft ile. more startling portions of it has revived a knowledge of the entire work worthy of acc e p tance b y all lovers of the lyrical drama. A fantasia from Rossini's Guillaume Tell and Mose in Egitto has also been added to the programa° of these concerts, and with success. Her Koenig's l'"'" furrnances on the cornet a piston elicited loud and de served approbation. SPOONS, FORKS, &e., superior to Silver for du rability, equal in appearance. Table Spoons or Forks, 12 * ' Dessert, 10s. ; Tea Spoons, ss. per dozen; Table Candlesticks, 11 inches high, is. per pair; the particular metal of whi c i l l these articles are made is so like silver, that it oaa only b e to from it by the stamp ; every article made in silver is manufc tured in this material by RIPPON and BURTON, Wells-street, Oxford-street , Who, to prevent imposition, confine the sale of it to themselves Catalogues of prices gratis. BIRTHS. On the 13th inst., at Liverpool, Airs. W. 11. Whitehead, 61 a daughter. On the 14th inst. , at Fovant Rectory, Wilts, the lady of the Rev. tt. Baker, of a daughter. On the 16th inst., at llighbury-grove, the lady of G. We' ton, Esq., of Lincoln's-inn, of a son. MARRIED. On the 13th inst., at. Limehouse Church, Mr. T. R. Forge, of Barking, Essex, to Martha, third daughter of Mr. T. Harr"' of the same place. On the 15th inst., at St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, 3hltre'r J. 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