The Sun. — London, England, 1840-01-14 00:00:00

EVENING 1471)ITION I We are Corn-law rcpealers, every man Jack of u i.— , (Cheers an d l aug h ter .) C ome on , h an d an d heart, sow and body; and they hare promised to kill Tariff, if we de stroy ours.—CCheers.) There is a fund of good sense in such speeches ; and Mr. HARGREAVES and Mr. MURRAY, whcse speech at Liverpool has been everywhere so justly eulogized, will do more to convince the nation that 1 it is neither just nor safe to exclude the mass of the ivorking classes from the suffrage than all the spouting and rhodomontade of professed orators and writers who advocate their cause. To the question of the Extension of the Suffrage there are two parties—the enfranchised and the uneaten chised. Now all the violent harangues of the latter, all their threats, and all their attempts to force the iconcession, will only make the former adhere more closely together, and cling the more tenaciously to their privilege as the means of preserving themselves from violence, just as every arbitrary act of a Tory Government, when it was in office, united all classes and all sects against it. On the contrary, every such proof of moderation, good sense, and just rea soning as those of the two working men whose speeches we arc referring to, dissolves the rigid union of the enfranchised, and makes some of them willing to share their privilege, just as the reforming acts of the Whig Ministers, willing to make con cessions, hare separated and broken to pieces that great united Reform party which was so powerful against a Tory Government. Thus the unen franchised may mote surely obtain their end and aim, by following the moderate course we have recom mended, and so bringing no inconsiderable number L of the enfranchised to support their claims as a mat ter of justice and prudence, than by following the vio lent course some of their so-called friends are urging them into. What the unenfranchised demand as a I right, is one thing—what the enfranchised think it I t wise and safe to concede, is another; and the right will not only be more swiftly, but more securely established, when the foresight of the latter coin cides with the claims of the former. To win over the enfranchised to promote an Extension of the Suffrage, the speeches of Messrs. MURRAY and HARGREAVES will be more efficacious than any 1 other circumstances which have happened since the I meeting of the Convention. They will convin ce the. public not only that it is prudent to make such an extension, but that it is not prudent, when such talents and such leaders are to be found amongst the unenfranchised, to refuse it. Returning to the Corn-laws : let us ask the flock masters what they think will be the result of the woollen manufactures being partially sus pended ? Wool is obtained in great abundance from Germany, from our Australasian Colonies, and from, other places. The quantity, therefore, must soon exceed the demand from ever so partial a ces sation of the manufacturing process. Down will go the price of wool, and the sheep farmers, who have been very prosperous since the duty on-foreign wool imported was reduced, will as certainly be in jured, if not ruined, by the Corn.laws, as are the manufacturers. In fact, they are manufacturers of woollens, in the first stage, for the foreign market, as the Yorkshiremen are manufacturers of them in their more advanced stages; and they will suffer with the spinners and weavers, and fullers, from the want of a den - .,and for the finished article. A Correspondent, a farmer near Sunderland, calls on the manufacturers to support a demand for the repeal of the Malt-tax and the Post-horse duty, He cannot, however, require to be informed that those taxes are laid on for the sake of procuring a public revenue, while the tax on corn is not laid on for any such purpose, but to put money into the pockets of the bankrupt and plundering landlords. The repeal of the Corn-laws is demanded as an act of restitution to the unjustly plundered people. We want that repeal to put down, and to stigmatize for ever when it is put down, a great, a vile, and even scoundrel system of legal or Legislative theft. Between this repeal and the repeal of any tax levied for the sake of obtaining a public revenue there is no comparison whatever. We must decide as to the repeal of the Malt-tax and the Post-horse tax by considering the public wants, and which of all the taxes presses most inju riously on the community. At the same time, our Correspondent, and the agriculturists must be gener ally, well aware that the repeal of the Corn-law is an indispensable preliminary to the repeal of the Malt tax, otherwise the latter repeal would impoverish 1 the revenue, still further to enrich the landlords, without conferring the smallest benefit on the people. ruling classes have everywhere essayed to govern too much, and that not a few of our evils arise from their most ignorant and meddling ambition. At any rate the question how fat one class should inter fere to guide the others, even though they demand it, is reckoned by all modern pelitical philosophers to be one of the nicest questions which can be discussed, and we think Mr. CA ILLYLE, without giving much consideration to the premises, has jumped to a hasty and unwarrantable conclusion in demanding still more government. That he hay not, at the same time, elevated him. self much above those whom he points out as false teachers and erroneous guides, is evident from this consideration. He adopts their remedies to lessen the sufferings of society. He recommends universal education and extensive emigration. He can imagine and find nothing better than to drill men, according to the system of Prussia, into obe dience to the Government, which is--including our wretched Church and our Corn law robbery —to send them away from their homes. Why, these are the very schemes that some worldly politicians adopt and others oppose, and which the men who are said to require to be governed repudiate, under their present sufferings, as an insult and an injury. The working man, who asks to be guided, at the same time says he must be guided to food, not books, and made comfortable at home, not expatriated to swell still more the wealth of the capitalist and the land lords. It is clear that Mr. CARL YLE would no more be accepted as a guide of teacher than any Member of the present House of Commons, and perfectly clear, though he sees with a piercing eye the sufferings, miseries, and wants of the labouring classes, that he is as ignorant of the means of remedying them as the Duke of BUCKINGHAM Or Mr. BRADSHAW. We differ, therefore, in principle from Mr. CARLYLE ; at the same time we especially admire the earnestness with which he insists on the Legislature inquiring into the condition of Eng land. On this point we agree with him, and differ from two of our able, and Ministerial, Contemporaries, who assert that this general ques tion is not a proper one for the Legislature to take in hand, and that it has done better by taking up parts of this great whole, and remedying the evils of society bit by bit. Of course legislation can only so proceed in its enactments, but the misfortune and the consequence of the Legislature now discus sing the Usury-law, anon discussing Corpora tion Reform, and again devoting its time to a mul tiplicity of police regulations, is that the technicali- ties of the law alone engross its attention, and the human beings for whom it is legislating areforgotten. Our Law-makers treat the people too much like children, who arc sure to be moulded on the parental or legislative plan. They consider them more as signs to be put on one or the other side of an equation, as suits the purpose of the algebraic Legislator, than as flesh and blood. Instead of looking, as Mr. CARLYLE would have them, at the wants and wishes of the people, inquiring into their opinions 'and principles, and searching out the moral causes of their discontent, they blindly follow the old plan of making laws to suppress or over-rule the feel ings of the people. • Ail legislation proceeds on the principle of setting at naught the feelings of the masses, and governing and controlling them in spite of themselves. On this point the Whigs do not much differ from the Tories. Whether it be fro►n kindliness of disposition or a perception of the evils of the present system, Mr. CARLYLE would have the feelings of the people inquired into. His object, therefore, we take it, is not, as our Contemporaries suppose, to go into an investigation of the material or physical evils, and the remedies for them, but to inquire why the classes are so separated and so hostile in Eng land ? why such strange and even dreadful thoughts arise in the multitude ? and why the very foundations of society are now rocking and trembling ? So, we understand, his proposed " Condition-of-England Question." It is an in quiry into the feelings and wants of the people-L -into the first : principles of society—before those who have never inquired set about moulding and modelling it, piecemeal, according to their fancies.' Nothing can exceed the vindictiveness displayed by the Legislative Bodies of the Island of Ja maica against such portions of the Public Press as disapproved of the frantic attempt of a handful of planters to set at open defiance the Parliament and Government of Great Britain. In the St. Jago Gazette of the 23d of November, we find an ac count of the committal of Mr. CL RKE, Editor of the Jamaica Standard, to prison, by order of the Board of Council, for a breach of privilege ; while in the same Paper of the 30th, the committal of Dr. PALM PALMER, Editor of the Colonial Reformer, to prison, is reported, for. violating the privileges of the House of Assembly, by quoting an article from the British Emancipa tor—an anti-slavery Journal, published in Lon don. That our readers may form some conception of what the thin-skinned Legislators of Jamaica regard as a breach of their privileges, we shall quote the article which gave such mortal offence to the Board of Council, as gravely read by the Clerk at the examination of the unfortunate Editor of the Standard. We ought to premise that the func tionary reflected upon is Sir JOSHUA OIVE, Chief Justice of the Island, and that, although the Board of Council has voted the article a breach of privi lege, a Court of Law would be puzzled to find pre cedents for pronouncing it a libel : So many arguments have now, and for so long a period, been urged against the Devil's laws, and they have been so powerfully enforced by great public distress and ruin, that the Parliament must, we think, take up the matter. The day after to morrow 'it assembles, and if it do not discuss this question with a view to do justice to the people, if it even delay the discussion, or treat the matter as of little importance, or prefer some perplexing trifles about Irish Corporations, or bolstering up the Church, it will spread wider, and sink deeper, the present discontent ; it will increase, by conti nuing its own detestable example, the great risk to which all property is now exposed ; and it will place in jeopardy the public peace, her MAJESTY'S Crown, and the Constitution of the empire. Bread or blood was the war-whoop of the political fanatics of the French revolution ; and bread or robbery, bread or destruction, are beginning, as we may know by the words of Mr. BOTTOMLEY at Leeds, and others, to be the war-whoop of the half starved and half-maddened population of our manu facturing districts. Let our Legislators read the de scription which Mr. HARGItEAVES gives of the sufferings of the people, and ask themselves con scientiously whether the working manufacturers can or ought to submit to a tax for the benefit of the landlords, which both robs them of bread and shuts them out of employment ? and whether they have any right to expect and hope that the people will obey the Legislature which ordains suet a tax ? What effect bis Honor's address may have had upon his hearers, we know not ; but it is certainly a most lame and inconclusive affair, as reported, and leaves only one impression upon the reader, namely, that of a subject neither happy in itself nor in its mode of treatment. Sir Joshua's experience as a lawyer should have told him that it is better in a matter of character to attempt no defence at all, than to break down in one ; for the very effort sug gests many pointed inquiries which it might be awkward enough for some members of the Council to explain. It would have been better policy, we suspect, to have said nothing at all about the matter." When we took notice of Mr. CARLYLE'S book, on the Ist instant, we said there were many things on which we differed from him. For ex ample, though it may be true, as the continued man-and•idol worship of the bulk of the commu nity seems to prove, that the real and urgent wants of the working classes is " for a governor," f or a true teacher," yet it does not follow either that the present Legislators arc proper to govern, or that their methods of guiding and teaching are the true ones. On the contrary, the very misery which prevails, the numerous bungling and failing attempts the Legislature has made to remedy it—generally we would fain hope with a good intention, the ignorance of its source, the continued growth of society beyond the power of the Legislator, all seem to prove that our pre sent rulers—we speak of all statesmen, not of the Whigs —are not •true teachers, and arc not ac quainted with the right method of guiding and governing society. Mr. CA RLYLE, however, is a great opponent of the laissez filirc system, that is of leaving society to the laws of Na ture and of Gob ; and he is one of the most strenu ous advocates we have of late met with of the Is there a phrase in the above quotation which a British Parliament would deem an infringement of its privileges if applied to the speech of a Mem ber by an English Journalist ? Most unquestion ably not. To propose for the consideration of either House of Parliament such an article as a breach of privilege, would provoke a shout of laugh ter even from the Episcopal Bench. The article for which the Editor of the Colonial Reformer was incarcerated, that gentleman stated at the bar of the Assembly that he did not entirely read, as he quoted it from a London Journal ; and, likewise, that had the words voted a breach of privilege fallen under his notice, he would assuredly not have published them. This apology did not in the least soften the resentment of their " Honors," the Speaker flippantly remarking to the accused, that if he possessed the ordinary industry and in telligence of an Editor, he would suffer no thing to appear in his Journal which he had not previously read. Laws are of more importance to the community than newspaper articles, even on the all-important subject of the mighty law-ma kers of Jamaica ; and yet we would venture to bet that the Hon. Mr. PANTON, Speaker of the Ja maica. House of Assembly, has, in the course of his limited functions, declared Acts to be passed which he had not previously read. The responsi bility of a Newspaper Editor is surely not more (melons than that of a Legislator, and yet how rarely do we find Members of Parliament with sufficient virtue to blush for . having assisted in passing laws affecting the freedom and happiness of hundreds of thousands of their fellow-country men, of which they never 'ri-atl so much as the preamble. But we are losing sight of the article which mused the ire of the Assembly. We be lieve no person knowin anything of Jamaica will deny its general correctness. Here it is " That a thorough purification of the Local Assembly is wanted, no man in his senses can doubt. The present members are, as a body, just as base a specimen of unprin cipled and nee ly men, and represent as little of the feelings and interests of the colony, as cal well be conceived." Independently of a fixed allowance sY 1,500/. a-year, the House cf Assembly has voted Mr. Bun GE a present of 2,0001. for his late defence of that body before Parliament. Now, without stop- ping to inquire by what right the House of As sembly presumes to extract such a sum out of the pockets of the people of Jamaica, we may be al lowed to suggest to that Learned Gentleman that he could not better express his gratitude to his Colonial friends, than by intimating to them that their wisest policy will henceforth consist in allow ing the strictures of the Colonial Press to pass un noticed. The voice of the Press will and must he heard in Jamaica, in spite of the vindictive efforts cf the Oligarchical Junta, who affect a co-ordinate authority with the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland. The whole of the French Journals of Sunday have been received. The debate in the French Chamber of Deputies on Saturday, on the fourth paragraph of the Address, which relates to the Oriental question, was exceedingly animated. The principal speakers were Marshal So ULT, M. MAUGUIN, M. DE LAMARTINE, and M. VILLE MAIN, Minister of Public Instruction. M. TH I ERS ascended the Tribune, but it being six o'clock, the debate was adjourned till Monday. The speeches of MM. MAUGUIN, and DE LAMARTINE, though exceedingly clever, were too extrava gant seriously to affect . the stability of the Cabinet. Both agreed that France had pursued a retrograde policy for the last ten years, and that while England was daily developing her power or her genius at home and abroad, France stood alone inert and powerless, suspecting and suspected by all her former allies. This sombre picture, the reality of which only existed in the diseased imaginations of the orators, cannot be expected to have made much . inqn - ession on the Chamber. But to heighten the absurdity M. MAUGUIN italked of the occu pation of Passages by the English, and prophe tically announced that they never would evacuate it ill driven therefrom by a French army. M. DE LAMARTINE spoke far more sensibly than is his wont upon the Oriental question. He described th e conduct of the French Government as vacillating and perplexed—as one day pacific, the next hos tile ; now embracing the views of England, the ,next moment following in the wake of Russia. The following extract from his speech embraces the entire purport of it : " You promise Ibrahim God knows how much , and if you check Ibrahim at Nezib, you at least en courage Mehemet at Alexandria. The natural. result has been, that you have ruined Turkey, and at the same time set all the European powers against you. You will tell me, you gained the end you wanted, viz., the integrity of the Ottoman empire, cut in two. What a monstrous absurdity ! But the fact is, it is not the integrity of the Ottoman empire that you seek, but its dislocation, by the establishment of an A rag empire, a second Caliphate, under the rule of an old adventurer, who is neither Arab, Egyptian, Mussul man, nor Christian. Where the Ldvantage to France or to civilization in a ricketty Arab empire, established in the face of the weakened Ottomans ? There was none. k was sowing the seeds of eternal war in the East, and not only in the East, but in Europe. Up to this time France had calmed and removed the jealousies and fears of the Great Powers of Europe, which were afraid of her revolutionary ambition. But now, in 1839, by me nacing Russia here, England there—by showing a wish fur conquest, an itch for interference—by indulging in iso lated views, France re-awakened this jealousy, and set all the Powers to coalese once more against her; so that, if peace and conservation were her objects, ner was o ! licy more mistaken ; and equally great was the mistake p if aggrandisement was the object ; for the extension of France ought not to be looked for on African shores, but but on the Rhine and on the Alps. QUEEN'S tENCIFI.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) QUO WARIIAINTO-TILE QUEEN V. WILLIAMS. , Sir WiwAsi FoLnarr applied to the Court for a quo Itartanto, calling upon the defeneant to show by what, right he exercised the functions of Mayor and Alderman of the borough of Carnarvon. By the statute of the: 9th Anne, cap. 2G, sec. 13, it was enacted that no person should hold the dice of Mayor in any borough for two consecu tive years. Now, the defendant had last year served the, office of Mayor, and was consequently ineligible. Another gmund of objection to the defendant was, that he WA an dike of profit under the Corporation.—Granted. , ‘i• BAIL. COURT.--(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Justice PATTISON.) THE QUEEN V. MAYOR AND BURGESSES OF PEMBROK . E: Mr. WILLIANts applied for a mandamus commanding the Mayor and Burgesses of Pembroke to proceed to the election of Mayor. By the 9th of Queen Anne, cap. '2B, sec. 8, it was enacted that no person should hold 'the office of Mayor for two consecutive years. In ignorance of that Act the same gentleman had been re-elected; but afterwards resigned, and the office was consequently vacant.. But this difficulty arose—The Municipal 'Act provides for occasional vaca❑cies in the office of ToWn Councillor, but not in the office of Mayor, and he now applied, under the 26th section of the 7th William IV and Ist Victoria, which extended the powers given to 'the Court by the 11th Geo. I. to Corporate officers under the Municipal Act. He then cited the case of the King v. the Mayor of Cambridge, in 4 Burrower. Application granted. LLOYD'S SHITPIN G.-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, JAN. 13.—Wind S. W., moderate. Arrived, the Nautilus, Keen, from Demerara; William, Harris, Terry, Bombay ; Margaretta, Barcham, Batavia. Sailed, the outward bound. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 13.—Wind S.—Arrived, the Coun tess of Durham, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Enterprise, Vaughan, ditto ; Wilson, Campbell. Demerara, sailed, Nov. 30. Off port, London, New Orleans ; Alexander, Jamaica ; Charlotte, Africa ; Adolphe, Marans. Albion, Darley, for Trinidad ; Oberlin, Kruff, New York. CcwEs, JAN. 13. Arrived York, Morrill, New Orleans. OFF TILE WIGHT, JAN. G.—Concordia, Witt, Surinam. PLymouTri, JAN. 12.—Wind S.—Arrived Hero, Fayal. FALmount, JAN. 12.—Wind S.W. to S. S. W., strong breezes. _ _ _ _ _ KING -ROAD, JAN. 13.—Arrived the Lord John Russell, from St. John's, New Brunswick, very leaky, and with loss of boats and bulwarks, &c. NEWPORT, JAN. 12.—Arrived the Emma, Burgess, from St. Andrew's, New Brunswick. Allt.roun, JAN. 2.—Atrived the Lion, Maine, from St. Jigo de Cuba, leaky, and with about 100 tons of cargo thrown over board, bound to Swansea; Alice, Barrett, Prince Edward's Island. _ ALTERSWICK, JAS 2. -Some pieces of wreck and an oar, marked on the blade " Alceste, 11," have come on shore on the cost side of this island. _ _ . Hart wicH.—The Ilingdove, Turnbull, from Sunderland to Algiers, was totally lost last night on the Gunfleet Sands. Crew saved. PORT T A LBOT, JAN. 13.—The Mary, Greswell, of Plynruth, is on shore on Mayan Sands in a very dan gerous situation. Cargo discharging. LIVERPOOL, JAN 13.--The Columbia, bound to Mobile, is aground off King's Dock Pier —cargo discharging. She is not expected to rees-ive any damage.—The Europe, bound to this port, was on the bar of the Mississippi the 27th of November. PORTSMOUTH, JAN, 13 —The Concord, Sweetingham, bound to Sunderland, which was on shore near the Round Tower, came off this morning, and proceeded without al - parent damage. MONEY and COMIVikIitCIAL NEWS CITY, 7' I , V EL VA 0' CL 0 C.K._ LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MONDAY.—The sales of cotton this day are 3,500 bales at a decline of id. per lb., the principal part to the consumers. The Liverpool steamer will be laid up for the present, by order of the Directors. Due notice of sailing will be given. Wind S. S. W. We have received New Brunswick papers to the .4th December : Yesterday, the Bth December, our harbour presented a busy aspect, there being no less than 36 vessels, large and small, in full view at the same time, in the vicinity of Part r'dge island, either going out or coming in. The weather is of the most splendid description, more like October than December, and very little snow has as yet fallen in this quarter, the ground is now quite bare, while in several parts of the United States there have been hoavy falls of snow. We have received Halifax papers to the 4th of December. _ Advices from Miramichi, of the 20th November, state that the timber trade, which a few years since was carried on with so much vigour in this quarter, and which caused the introduction of settlers and an increase to the popula tion, has declined as rapidly as it rose. AGRICULTURAL PROSPECTS IN JAMAICA. " We are happy to confirm the statement of our several Contemporaries, of the improvement of the agricultural prospects of our parish, in common with their other infor mation from various parts of the island. The happy change in the dispcsition of the peasantry can only be at tributed to the moral influence which the impartial Govern ment of Sir Charles Metcalf must necessarily enforce among all classes of the community." Wc will not here attempt to expose the absurdity of M. DE LAMA RTINE'S theory, that the recog nition of the independence of Egypt necessarily in volves the destruction of the Ottoman empire. The strength of a nation consists not in the bound less extent of its territory; nor would it be difficult to show that had the sway of the Ottoman sceptre been less extensive at the beginning of the eighteenth century, Russia would not have wrested a single province from the grasp of the SULTAN. There is, however, too much truth in what M. DE LAMARTINE says about the vacillating policy—a fact which we greatly deplore, as we are satisfied that no policy will in:the end be beneficial to France, or to Western Europe, which estranges her from England. The Speech of the I),linister pf,PuJilic Jn e struc-_, tion was intended to make of-• EGYPT' amends. for the indecent attack made upon him by M. BE LAMARTINE. It consisted, however, of assertions, and developed no new fact of impor tance. While he was speaking, MM. TRIERS, GUIZOT, and some other leaders of fractions of parties in the Chamber, were congregated in a group, and discussing some question which the reporters did not hear, with considerable warmth of manner. As M. TiiiEits was in pos session of the tribune on Monday, great impa tience was evinced to learn the grounds of his at tack upon the Government. There is no other news of any• interest in the Paris papers of Sunday, with the exception of the following intelligence from French Africa : MOSTAGANEhI, DEC. 20. —We arc constantly under arms, and on the alert. We learned this morning from our spies that 200 of the 600 of the tribes of the Garahas and Beni. Amer having appeared in the plain before Oran, and having turned to wards Miscrghim, the Douairs and Smelas, commanded by the old General Mustapha.ben-Ismai', fell upon them, and forced them back on the post occupied by regular Spahis. Colonel Yousuf, with his Spahis, pursued she fugitives, and drove them leagues from Aliserghim. We are also told that this regiment has lost two officers. We dare not beliese this bad news. These 600 horsemen, who had pushed their recon naissance to the gates of Oran, are some of the light troops of Bon-Hameidi, who keeps on the other side of the P . os salah, in the plain of Melita, and that of Helat. This chief is instructed to harass and fatigue the division of Oran. But he has a very diflicult.task ; for he has a formidable body of cavalry opposed to him. With the contingent of the Donates and Smclas we can bring 1,400 chosen horse into the plain. We have not sufficient infantry to ad vance; but when the Kalifs comes to us, he will receive a lesson which he seems to dread, for the manceuvrcs with great circumspection.—Le Constitutionncl. SAM SLICK'S LETTER-BAG OF THE GREAT WESTERN.--" We are compelled on this occasion," says the Athenctu»z, " to let Sam Slick have all the talk to hunself, for his new work is so full of excellent read able and extractable matter, that we cannot spare room even for a running commentary. His Letter-Rig,' in deed, is infinite in its variety, like the company assem bled on board the Great Western—itself a microcosm, or epitome of the great globe and al which it inherits ; the same hopes, fears, passions, and prejudices prevailing there, as is manifestly and pleasantly apparent in the Correspondence before us. The work opens capitally the Dedication to Lord John Russell is full of quaint humour, and contains matter in jest well worth serious consideration. We then come to the letters—and rare fun there is in them. A letter from the author con cludes this tory pleasant VOIUMC ; a volume which we recommend our readers to send for at once, for it will cheer their long winter evenings, and gladden their fire-sides." ------ ANTIQUITIES. — A report addressed by Signor Pierangelo, Councillor of State at 13astia, the Fr'incli Committee of Arts and Monuments, states that Corsica abounds in Roman remai ns , arc hi tectura l, sculp tural, possessing roads and in scriptions.nd numismatic , rrhe islandise contains many churche s a k d e also of the earliest Christian ages, though no castles.— A/hence/rm. Tli !,* SUN. LON DON, TUESDAY„' JA.I.4IIARY 14, le4o. 1 a tivrits -'at Bath. METROPOLITAN POLITICAL • summAII.V. Tl,e Ittentng Chronicle of this day, in a leading article ; on the subject of the Tdry tactics, says :—" Can Sir IL Pee,l,adMinister his own Emancipation Act ? He never dia:while he remained in office. Only after hi: expulsion diclit cease to be a dead letter. Only on the assumption:lof his making it again a dead letter, do his own partisans 'desire to see him Premier. He cannotexe• cute it faithfully, had he the will to do so. Tory resto ration is Orange restoration." The Morning Post thus speales'bf the Penny Postage scheme :—" We believe that if 'Palmy :Postage be continued, there must be a grant frdiii the Consolidated Fund to make up the ex• pcnse of the establishment ; and that will happen notwithstanding that all the Government depart mews, which hitherto had no charge on account of : correspondence, will have to add postage to their items of expenditure, and wi.l pay in so much less to the :public Exchequer." The Times, allud ing to the- late great meeting in Dublin, remarks as follows The speeches show incidentally, and un- Conicitinsly On the part of the orators, the unprosperous state in Which the Irish•Ministerialists find themselves at the approach of a Parliamentary campaign, and, as the'y seein to itnagine, of a Parliamentary dissolution." Ihe. Morniiig Advertiser, in an article on the present stateo(lreland, observes :—" The people who, after braving everything for emancipation, should consent to bow the head beneath the yoke of Peel and his Orange crew, and wear ,oncit . ,more their ancient bonds, would indeed deserve the insults of the last of cowards—the meanest -of slaves. But the Irish people are not yet fallen so low.'t. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen gave 'audience yesterday at Buckingham Palace to the Marquis of Normanby, Viscount Melbourne, and the Judge Advocate-General. flieufinyal Dinner Party at the Palace last evening included• the Earl of Erroll, the Earl of Uxbridge, the Earl and , Countess, of Albemarle, and the Right Hon. George and Lady iAgnes, Byng. The . Band. of the Coldstream Guards attended at the Palace .during Dinner, and played the whole of the eves ing-. . • • • The Duchess of Keat has appointed Colonel G. Cowper, C. B. C.H.oto be her First Equerry, and Comptroller of her Royal Highness's, Household. The Duchess, of ,Kent visited her Majesty the Q teen Dowager yesterday, at,Marlborough House. The Duke of, Cambridge and Prince George, attended by Colonel Cornwall, went to Coombe Wood yesterday, for a day's shooting. Their Royal Highnesses returned to town in.the,afternoon. The, C( mmaucler of the Forces, the Master-General of the Qrdnance, Loi:d Fitzroy Somerset, and Mr. Wakley, had interviews with Lord John Russell yesterday, at the Sir William Trelawney and Sir John Macdonald had interviews with jiscount Melbourne yesteiday in Dowoigg-Street. M 4 de Ilummelauer transacted Lusiness yesterday at the Foreign-office. . The.Solicitor-General and Mrs. Fry hal interviews with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the Home office.' ' "lle~ itches ivere received yesterday at the Colonial effiee froth . 11Ir.'Poillett Thomson, Governor of the Ca n;id.is;-and frOm the Governors of the West India Colonies ,I 116! 11arquis of Northampton, accompanied by the,j4 . 9wir - cK N4rebioncis of Northampton and Lady Niari,lone ‘ b CPYPton, is expected in town on Wednesday, from Castle Ashby. • 71.74 y e, PRight Ton. Sir James Graham, Bart M4.41.A.,-land 1 60y' Graham come to town to-day, from Neihe`rb'y,' CiiniVerland, for the season. LtPdlridgiddy Carnaivon and family have been p4oygl s bo ! ,holOays at Highelere House, near An doypr.,. , „. Viscount Dungannon, M.P., will leave Brynki nalt,,,Wales, to-day, to attend to his Parliamentary du. ties. , t.Wo,ontlersiand the estates of the late Viscount, in Kilkenny and . Queen's county, arc about to be sold. M A Ifit't Abt IN HIGH LIFE.—At the residence ofliCr'fii'ihe'r,'Millerstein, N.B. Miss Catherine Char lotfClpillic;:foiirth daughter of Mr. George Baillie, and - slster of the Marchioness of Breadalbane, to the Earl pf,Ast4hurnham. The Marquis and Marchioness of Breadalbane, and a select circle of relatives and friends, At:re:present at the ceremony. C.kiptairr Paget, R. N., eldest son of the late Adini'ral the Hon. Sir Charles Paget, will in a few days 'bb ntirricd to Miss Caroline M'Clintock, third dahlitertf 'Henry M'Clintock, Esq., collector of Dun dalk:l' t'ajiain Paget is now at Dundalk, intending to . J remmn ther.9 until the marriage ceremony is aecom-, pli t shp,4--/)iik/iii Paper. Visoount and ViscOuntess Ashtown, Lady Masseyyoßaroness MulAnges, Sir W. Call, Sir John and Lady Smith, &r G. and Lady Gibbcs, Sir Thomas P. Hayea;' Sir W. Goslin, &c., are among the recent ar, ' .Tft fallowing fashionable visitors visited Covent a~~c y en Theatre during the week :—His Royal High- ness tlip,Plike of Cambridge; Duchess of Cambridge (oviee),,Baron Knesebeck, Lord F. Beauclerk, Lord ,Dorehoster, Prince George of Cambridge, Princess of Cambridge, Prince Henry of Saxe Weimar, Lord W. Russell, Lord J. Russell, Lord W. Paget, Hon. Paul Methuen, Marquis de Bellini, Ball Hughes, Esq., M as sey Stanley, Esq., Lord Adolphus Fitzclarencc, Lady Cowley, Montague Gore, Esq. The Hunt Ball at St. Alban's took place . on Friday last at the Town Hall. It was a very brilliant assembly, attended by all the fashion and beauty of the county. Among the company were the Earl and Countess of Essex and the. Hon. Mr. Capel, the Earl and Countess of Verulam, Viscount and Lady Mary Grimston, Captain and Mr. Grimston, Lord and Mr. Macdonald, Mr. Beauclerk, Lord Dacre and Mr. Brand, Mr. Villiers, Lady. Frederick and the Misses Beauclerk, Mr. and Mrs. Ames, Earl and Countess Craven, Dowager Countess and Lady Louisa Craven, Mr. Boothby, Mr. Hyde, &c. The dancing com menced to Weippert's band at ten o'clock, and ended at five in the morning. The gentlemen of the Hunt in their scarlet coats, and many of the members from Melton Mowbray. The supper was most superb—hot roasts and soups, with a,magnificent display of confec tionery. The wines—champagne, burgundy, claret, &c., of the first vintages. The assembly mustered about 250. MEETING OF PAIILIAMENT.—Her Majesty will open the ensuing Session of Parliament in person on Thurs day next. r .MAJUSCITAL COLLEGE.—We understand that . 4. 4,4unuuons or declalitoihasimen served on the Principal and-Professors of Marischal College and University, at the instance of John Stuart Blackie, Esq., Advocate`:' :The conclusions arc, that it, shall be declared that they -are hound to induct him into the Chair of Humanity, 'to which he was presented by the Crown, and tint he is 'entitled to the fees which have been . paid 't6' w. Melvin, the gentleman appointed by the Pro fessor to teach the class.—Aberdecn Herald. ~, „COURT OF ALDERMEN.—Yesterday, a Court of,Alci.ungp was held for the purpose of receiving pre sentments from the Ward Inquests, and swearing in the (Qty policemen and other subordinate officers. Some 'conversation took place relative to a petition from eleven inhabitiants . of Aldersgate Ward, against the return of Thdmas Norris, at the last election for Common 'COnileiltribn, but it possessed no.general interest. The City policemen, a very fine body of men, were marched In divisions into the Court, and severally sworn in—after WAIeN 69 Court adjourned. O ,MpI4KNIENT TO TIIE DUKE OF WELLING TON.--in-the small county of Haddington upwards of one.thousand pounds have already been subscribed to thn•Wellington Testimonial. There arc to be meet- ink's' in 'every county and principal town in Scotland for this object, and from the enthusiasm with which it has been inken up it is probable a much larger sum will be raised ftir a monument to the Duke in Edinburgh than haVhnenoised by all the wealth and rank of London. li 7 4ruiers' Clubs are projected in various parts of the. country ; one has already been formed at Warmin ster, Wilts,—" for the purpose of acquiring and dis seminatingsound practical information upon all tuiatters connected-with agriculture, and for the encouragement l'ef Meritorious labourers." propriety and necessity of the Government ex erting itself to guide and govern the mass of ( society. All modern experience proves that the E!tTENSION OF THE METROPOLITAN Po- . ,- ucV.—A requisition, signed by about 40 of the princi pal. inhabitants of Woolwich and Plumstead, having been s Ke r Sented to the churchwardens of Woolwich, re !iitrt4mg tliFin to call a vestry meeting of the parisbion ,. ers to taktLinto consideration the best means of prevent ingthe new police being established in those parishes, a vestry yeas, callecLaccordingly. The result of the meet ing was a petition to the Secretary of State for the Home' Department, calling upon him to interfere and prevent the Cbiimissioners carrying out their design. ''' EA'sfirt' DtEs.—W hen the time arri ves for . . . these: 2 - ,arinn4 pay- . M'ents, which are generally m ade b y Disinyt*:With. as much or more liberality even than by,t,hurchmen.thernielves, we trust that every lover .01 ciq And..religious libeey will send his contribution rather' :to the. suffering victim of intolerance, (poor Thorogood) -.than give it to the persecuting par ' sone - 01' 4 The poor Man's Church."—ln the parish of which -I ant un inhabitant (and it is a very extensive one)'it; iiWitttlenitted by the Vestry, that the Clergy man Could not live;'but for the c ontributions of the Dis :Senters.-4Yoni a Correspondent. ' An r ,eiiierihient has just been made in the Pre sence.qf toe General and Staff of the Cavalry at Sau rnur of a new, musket, the invention of an armourer of that place.: . Oat of I'2 balls fired at a distance of 600 pates six reached the mark and made deep perfora tioni, although,the charge of powder was only half. what is. usual -with the ordinary musket. The new 'musket is loaded by the breech, and may be discharged I/ tithes' in" It minute. THE POOR.— Menclicity itELiEr . 'Or Society on, Saturday last had applications for relief from 4,l7, f oa7m i e fi ais ep .. iri , addition Almost the o e th w o h s n e l o persons of th e persons working at at Ivo their rk stone-yard, mill, and oakum- room, to whom were i ssued si received•a:shilling each in addition to the food. THE FUNDS. We hear that Mr. Jaudon has just returned from Am sterdam, where he completed a loan fur about 51 milliOns of guilders on Five per Cent. Stock, for five years, \Vliich was taken at 90. Consols opened this morning at the leaving off 'Price of yesterday, 921 for the Account, and 90 . 1 7 91 for ,',pney. ExChequer Bills, 9 11 prem. ; India Bonds, par, 2,,ple i tri. Bank Stock, 1784 179 . To-morrow being settling day in the Foreign Market, and in the British the following day, the brokers aiid,job hers arc arranging their foreign accounts. Spanish Active, which closed rsterday at 241 1., may be quoted thean:e. Portuguese left off at 3414, at present 341 ; Three per Cents., 231 ; Colombian, 2 41 251; Mexican, 291'30/ ; Brazilian, 74 75 ; Spanish Passive, 6i /-; DefeYred, 11 s ; Dutch TWo-and-a-ilalf per Cents. 524 'Pito per Cents. 1001 Money continues very easy. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLO-K Paid. Brighton Bartvrav "to Genera'. Steam Navigation Company .... ....... 14 1 er Share, ;* 25 HALF-PAST ONE. The - British Funds have been rather heavy during t)le morning, owing to the settlemen t of the Aecount, - whipi takes place on Thursday n ex t. . 1 We arc in expectation of the President's Messageto Congress by the Packet Ship &ddons, which was toleaive New York on the 25tk ult , and which in all probablty will arrive during the present week, the wind beingifair; Consols continue heavy at 92i for the ;Openint; `Money, 901'1; , Exchequer ß4l3 ; lo 9 11 vertwl-Inllia 'MatiA 4' par;' Atink ‘Stotk 17s 7 9:' In the Foreign 'Marker - " P(irtti'gune — mitt WIWI . arc also heavy ; the former '33;-;,:; Three per Cents: noth)ng tine; and the latter, 24k ;',Colombian, 24i; Brazilihn, 7-0 ; , • Dutch Two-and-lialf per Cents.s2i ;. , Five per Cents. 1001. Most of the Foreign prices have reeededsince the morning. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS , I ~. r - .1 Falk Stock 3 per Cent. Led 9114 Ditto Bonds ... ~....„ 3 per Cent Cc .us. 9 , :A I Ditto Old Annuities • 3% per Cent. Red !DA, i Ditto New Annuities , " .... . New 3 1 ,..i per Cent 99 ,I Ex. Bills, I,oooi New 5 oer Cent ' Ditto 59111 Long Annuities to expire Ditto 500'' ' - '''" .51' . dls. Jan. 1860 00..1859 Jan 1860 t'OItEION FUNDS • • Austrian, 5 per cent — ! Portuguese fionris,ser cent.— Bolgian, 5 per cent IW% Ditto, New Ditto • " 13A I - Brazilian Bonds ,Prussian, o per ...... i , Buenos Ayres, (i per cent — HtissiaiLP.onsis, 5 per gent.... Milian, 6 per cent — !Ditto, Metallic' Colomb.an, 6 per cent — I Spanish,•s per cent....l: ..... '.•:... e4j4 Ditto, 1824. 2 ,1% Ditto, Deterred ........d...* i-- Danish. 3 per cent 75 14 French, 5 per cent.. 1111:,.'5c 11,11,!.'5C Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per ct. Exchang e • Th• -"' • t . : , __ o Mexican, 5 per cent.............. 21. t A i French, 3 per eeec.....w ..,..-rd—,, Ditto, 6 per cent.. 1825......... 20 Dutch; '2% Per cent. ~ , . .52. R Pernvinii.lB2s,6 per cent Ditto, 5 per cent.., ..... ' : . 1 00% ' SHA RES. :: :.! • •• . Eastern Counties Railway Y (Trunk) ...s. tali '; (ircat ‘Vesterli Railway .65 . Ditto New Shares 'ls7,', ' • ' 19% 4 :1316 , 1 0 14 IL.oonnt,liooti, aatnidilii,,riiagektt4nlZialialitiv,avya Il ijo a” r il i (l l .° l el Al ;tt i l t e' l ‘r l i a a l t i t'll:l)l) t i'd3 a i i i l ill a iin v. ih . l : 3 .: Ml7 . ........ .... ..... ..... ..... .. ..1 -: f i < 4 l% . Ditto New Shares W, , THE MARKETS.-(THIS We have not apace to giv e t h e pr i ces at the various Markets to d'iy • indeed, it is only necessary to say that they remain the same e s they have been for so me d ays past. . SIIIPWRECKS .—The regular tradi ng 13tittAl , brig Braganga was lost on the Oporto Bar, while going out with a cargo of wines for London, on the -8d inst. , • The crew and a small portio n o f t h e cargo have 'been ' saved. The brig Douro, bou nd for Liverpool, likwisd' geloagrouint°ah the way down th at r i ver, but luckily bre she reached Bar, so that the injury 'sus... tamed by her is ver y triflin g . ACCIDENT TO TILE EAR L OF LICHFIELD.—,LICHFIELD.—,STAFFORD, JAN. 10.—This d a y, as hi s Lordship was shouting Lord C., but we are ha ppy to hear that there is nothing serious in the acci dent. D r. Knight and another pro- . 1 others, he ien was liis shot in preserves the w foreh ea d an d i n t h e eye byith Lord Ch ester fi e ld an d fessional gentleman were se nt for from Stafford on the occasion. One s hot onl y we believe, struck his Lord ship on the eye.—From a Cor respon d ent of the Standard. [We are much inc lined to think that if any accident have happened to Lord Lichfi e ld t h ere must have been thers " nothing serious" in it. But we know that letters, dated Friday night, have been received from the house, at which the circumstance is said to have occurred, and they do not c ontain a syllable in reference to the alleged casualty.]-21forning Post. " The regular infantry of the Etnir," says an Algiers letter in the Cowrie:- Francais, " carry a red • flag with a white crescent ; the uniform of the soldiers is blue, that of the officers red. Drummers, who are deserters of the Zouaycs, march at their head. The, last day of the Razaman they were seen to execute platoon firing in battalions and demi-battalions. with pretty good ensemble. They marched in line, formed into column, and executed several other manoeuvres of our troops. ~.. COVENT GARDEN THEATRE. The tragedy of .1 1 landet was performed at this ,heatre last night. It is a play better fitted for the closet than the stage, for it is of a reflective, rather than an active character, and lacks the stir and vivid ness of incident neces'cary to recommend it to an English audience. The actioo, what little there is, constantly baits in order to bring out the peculiar idio syncrasy of the chief 176rsonage, wh o , as re p resen t e d on the boards, must ever" be etitkre to the generality of pla)-goers. He is. an enigma dulyto be solved, t at all, efts!? attentive study, in the privacy of one's closet. Goethe, wo think, has given us the best clue to Hamlet's character, by his remark that a burden has been laid on his shoulders too heavy for him to bear. Taking this suggestion as our guide, we arc pretty well able to account for his waywardness of temper, his sub lued spirits, his profound melancholy, and habit of in tense and subtle reflection. He moves constantly under a sense of awful responsibility, which has so forcibly in fluenced his susceptible imagination, that his mind, if it In not wholly break down, yet reels and staggers under the shock. A voice from the grave uas summoned him—a quiet, contemplative man —to become an active instrument of vengeance ; and ,ie dare not refuse, even while every faculty of his soul, but nerved by fits and starts, shrinks from the deed. M r.Moore, who played this very difficult and perplexing character, played it with judgment, but not with the Jeep feeling that it requires. He made several good doitits, and one or two brilliant ones ; but he gave no continuous interest to the part. He put on, and put tiff his melancholy, like a garment, instead of giving us the idea that it was engrained into his nature. His scene .vith the Ghost was well conceived ; but his soliloquies were deficient in depth and earnestness. In that remark able one, in particular—which no one who has once read, ever forgets—when he alludes to the heartlesS conduct of his mother in marryibg so soon after the ,loath of his father, he delivered the words " but two months dead !" as if he were giving utterance to a mere trite matter-of-fact, instead of a solerim,. and harrowing recollection. The same objection applies to his delivery of man delights not me, nor woman neither," than which ihere is nothing more heart-felt or melancholy in the tra gedy. In the well-known passage," there are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamed of in Our philosophy," he laid the emphasis on the last word ; whereas it should have been on " your ;" other wise the observation loses all its force. Mr. Moore's nest scene was that with his mother, where he stabs Polonius behind the arras, which was judiciously and feelingly played. On the whole, we may say that tie makes a very fair Hamlet; and in characters of less moment, will be an acquisition to the stage. Bartley played the grave-digger with spirit and effect, and Farren would have been a better Polonius if he had not thrown a little too much of the grotesque into the character. Mrs. Walter Lacy s Ophelia was just above common-place. The house was " full, but sot crowded. DECIMAL COINAGE. Under an impression that some alteration in the rate of discount may . be made by the Bank direc tors at their meeting to-morrow, many of the discount • brokers have objected to receive money for employment, as they might, by so doing, fetter themselves with terms which they could not obtain on re-lending it. Opinions differ widely as to the propriety of such a step on the part of the Bank, and no subject has been discussed of late with greater eagerness than by those who take contrary sides of this question. The chief objections to the reduction of the rate are,that it would operate as a license for those spe culations which so many at this moment are impatient to rush into, and that it could bring no increase of business to the Bank, as the private lenders will take a rate still lower ; on the other hand, it is maintained that the Bank have placed a sort of stigma on the credit of the country by fixing the rate so high as six per cent., and that it ought to be removed, for the general benefit of trade, as soon as circumstances will permit. A great majority agree in thinking that the advance in the rate was from the first an injudicous measure, and that they will act more wisely when they manage to get back to the legitimate and fair rate, in restraining issues by a limitation of the amount and a contraction of the time of discounts, than by another advance. Speculation in the Stock Exchange seems to have re ceived a slight impulse to-day, for, although the market s somewhat flat in the morning, it became brisk in the afternoon, and the prices were firm. The decimal coinage is still a subject of consideration in the city, and various new schemes, or modifications of former ones, from time to time make their appear ance. Among others there is one for making the sovereign represent 1,000 " coin" (coin being here tired as a technical expression, and denoting an ima ginary value), the half sovereign 500, the crown 250, the half-crown 125, the shilling 50, the sixpence 25, while 12 penny pieces are to represent 50 " coin," as being equal to the shilling, and 6 penny pieces, 12 halfdence, or 24 farthings, are, as equal to the six pence,, to represent 25 " coin." The so-called " coin" is, in fact, the farthing, as computed according, to the first-named scheme in the City Article of December 31, but the penny is in this last scheme placed in.a curious predicament, for although it will retain its.. present amount relatively to the shilling, and although twelve or even six will represent an integral number of " coins," the single penny will be worth 4 I-6th " coins," the fractions of the " coin" being neither represented in the coinage nor the account column, while the halfpenny will be worth 2 1-12th " coins," and the farthing 1 1-24th. The advocates of the plan con tend that the " coin" being imaginary is no objection, as the same was for many years the case with the pound sterling, and dwell on the advantage of the pre sent coinage being fitted for their use. The discrepan cies between the common copper coin and the " coin" newly so called, are excused by the trifling amount of the difference, and it is suggested that change for money might be given on a system collateral to that of keeping accounts ; in other words, that while common purchases were made with ordinary pence and halfpence, the mercan tile books might be kept according to a system of " coins." There is, however, something awkward in the perpetual inaccuracies to which this scheme would subject the present, coinage, and the allowances of 24th parts that would have every now and then to be made. Further, the scheme is, in its present state, rather to be consi 7 dered as the bringing together of materials for a decimal arrangement than such an arrangement already com pleted, for the proposers do not state whether they intend to effect decimal division by making the highest • column in the account-book represent half pounds, or by doubling the shilling. •As there is no new coinage 'designed, it may be conjectured that the former would be the plan, but the leaving this to supposition shows • that thy-scheme. has.not..been so thoroughly digested. as any of those which have of late 'been noticed - under this head.—Tintes. KINGSTON PETTY SESSIONS (MONDAY). — NOVEL CHARGE.—A man, dressed in tattered re gitnentals, named David Collins, was brought before the Magistrates, at the instance of the War-office, charged with defrauding the treasurer of the county of Surrey of the sum of thirteen shillings, being the amount expended for his maintenance in Kingston gaol for a period of twenty-six days. A gentleman, named Anderson, attended from the War-office. It appeared, from the evidence of a policeman and a sergeant of the 18th regiment, that the prisoner had given himself up as a deserter, and had, been committed to the gaol of the county, though he had been expelled the regiment ignominiously for various offences. He had been in the habit of surrendering himself at different places for the purpose of being conveyed to head-quarters, and had given the officers great trouble. He was committed, under the Mutiny Act, to take his trial for obtaining the value of his maintenance in prison under false pretences. THE EFFICACY OF SILK IN REPELLING MUSKET-BHOT.—A very promising young officer of en gineers, with whom I lived in habits of the greatest intimacy and friendship, while employed in repairing the breaches of Ciudad Rodrigo, consulted me respecting an obstinate headache and giddiness, which I found was principally occasioned by his wearing a stiff black leather stock. (earnestly recommended him to lay it aside, which he rather tenaciously declined ; when, as a further in ducement, I told him that, in the event of sub s tit ut i ng a black silk handkerchief, it might one day preserve his life, as silk wculd certainly turn a ball which might penetrate leather. At length he complied, and, as I had predicted, his headache left him. We soon after sepa rated ; he going to the light division, and my station being with Lord Hill. The campaign commenced, and in :few weeks I learned with the greatest grief that my gallant friend had fallen at the head of the first storm ing party at St. Sebastian. I was then stationed at Reynoza, many leagues distant. As I believed him dead, judge my surprise and joy on a letter from him some three weeks afterwards, acquainting me that, when on the very glacis, he had been wounded with a musket ball by a man on the walls. He instantly fell covered with blood, which streamed in profusion from his mouth and nostrils ; one of his own corps dragged him into the trench. He was canied to his quarters, and his wound, on examination, was pronounced mortal ; the. ball not being found was supposed to have lodged in the verte brae of the neck. He lived, however, for three days, and no bad symptoms coming on, the surgeons began to doubt the accuracy of their opinions. 'The sapper who saw him fall was examined, to ascertain whether he had seen the bullet, which he instantly pro:luced from his waistcoat pocket, saying, that on untying Mr. Reid's silk handkerchief he found part of it carried into the wound, and using a little force in withdrawing it, the ball came out with it ; not a single thread of the silk handkerchief having given way, as appeared on exa mination. Mr. Reid recovered, and is now a Lieute nant-colonel in the army, and Governor of the Bermu das.—Dr. A. Ncak. '' The Dowager Lady Glenlyon and the I-lon. Misses Murray arrived at their residence in Whitehall. • gardens on Saturday evening, from the family scat in l Perthshire. We arc informed the marriage of the Hon. Miss Murray and the Hon. Captain Maynard is o be solemnised on Wednesday next. 1 EVENING ii:,111./(11V. LITERATURE. '~ k EDINBURGH REY lEVV, No. CXo4 7 ;'''''''''.;:-.. - 11; I Longman, London, 1840. - ' . .f te.,.,:,...: . ,,- __. Sir John Malcolm's life of Lord Clive;.:',Ae, founder of the British Empire in India, fotittlie‘ subject of the first article in the present Number. iii, ‘,..: is lightly and spiritedly dashed off, much in the manner of Macauley ; and contains the most graphic sketch of Clive's public and private character that has yet appeared in . print. The Revie wer is no flatterer, but neither does he allow himself to be biassed by the strong prejudices against the subject of his sketch that were so general in England some sixty or seventy years since. At that period the East Indian Nabob—as he was called—was exceedingly unpopular in this country ; he was frequently some desperate English adventurer who had gone to the E i n a c s r t ed t i o publyssh short ort his f spa o c r e tui o re f s, and titne with h urn e ed in an lwrinous wealth, which the mass of the unreflecting commu nitycra cruel vl t e o as o i: k (al ni i . o .iit r .pp a g oct r i a toi l i t ui t g.s e d m e l a i had — b e s e u i c i h m a a s de p l byun plundering n, 1 , n t o h s e t them to the torture, in order to make them gi%;e tifi their treasures. The Nabob's mode of living, wiien he returned to his mother-country, increased the popular prejudice against him. He was proud—vulgar—and ostentatious ; affecting equality with the aristocracy, yet discountenanced by them, and. those over whom they exercised any authority. Foote, in one of - his lively, ad captandant comedies, has left us a gra phic sketch of a Nabob, which adroitly em bodies the popular idea entertained of him in the days of our g reat-grandfathers. Lord Clive, as being the Coryphxus of this class of clever English adventurers, was visited with general odium accordingly ; but most unjustly, as the Reviewer makes it appear, for, with the exception of one or two acts of doubtful character which he committed in his first Indian campaign, he wasasincere friend to justice, resolute and uncompromising ; and effected many salutary reforms in that part of the East over which he presided. He was, it seems, a man of strong. passions, of inflexiNe determination of purpose,' and. subject to such. deep fits of gloom, that .in ` early youth, when scarcely escaped from his teens, he made two at tempts to commit suicide. Ultimately, he destroyed himself, in 1774, when he had just completed his forty-ninth year. We subjoin some characteristic details of his boyhood r— -' . " Some lineaments of the char'ac - ter of the man were early distinguished in the child. , There remain letters written by his relations when le:jvas in his seventh year ; and from these it appears . that, even at that early age, his strong will, and his fiery passions, sw tained by a constitutional intrepidity which sometimes seemed hardly compatible with soundness of mind, had begun to cause great uneasiness to the family. ' Fight ing,' says one of his uncles, 'to which he is out of • me asure addicted, gives his temper such a fierceness and imperiousness, that he flies out on every trifling occasion.' The old people of the neighbourhood stiil remember to have heard from their parents :how Blb i ' Clive climbed to the top of the loft y steeple of Market Drayton, and with what terror the inhabitants saw him seated on a stone spout near the summit. They also relate how he formed all the good-for 7 nothing lads of the town into a kind of predatory army, and com pelled the shopkeepers to submit to a tribute of apples and halfpence, in consideration of which he guaranteed the security of their windows. He was sent from school to school,. makinc , very little progress in his learning, and gaining for himself every where the cha racter of an exceedingly naughty I.n)y. One of his masters, it is said, was sagacious enough to prophesy that the idle lad would m ake a great figure in. f.he world. But the general opinion seems to have been that poor Robert was a dunce, if not a reprobate. His family expected nothing good from such slender parts and such a headstrong temper. It is not strange, therefore, that they gladly accep ted for him, when he was in his eighteenth year, a writership in the service of the East India Company, and shipped bin: o ff make a fortune or die of a fever at Madras. Far dY . - fercnt were the prospects of Clive from th ose of ti:e • to youths whom the East India College now annually sends to the Presidencies of our Asiatic empire. The Com pany was then purely a trading corporation. Its terri tory consisted of a fee' square miles, for which rent was paid to the native Governments. Its troops were scarcely numerous enough ,t-o man the batteries of three or four ill-constructed forts, % chief' had been erected for the prOtection.of - the warehouses." The triumphant military and diplomatic career of Clive is briefly glanced at, and the a rticle concludes with a just estimate of his talents as a Warrior and a statesman. " Douglas on the PhilosopbY of the Mind" is an ably reasoned metaphysical es,'-' B, Y, .in which one or two of the author's, fallacies .11; in section on 'Morals are pointed out.: In the article headed " Revenue System of British India," the Reviewer insists on the improving condition of our colonial possessions in the Easr, especially in the great province of Bengal, Where, it seems, a variety of important public works are in a state of active progress. • " Wealth of Nations" is a treatise on the lively and refreshing subject •of political economy. Speaking of Dr. Adam Smiths well known work, the Reviewer pays :—" Smith's very success has proved an obstacle to the c ontinuance of his populariv,. Much of - his reasoning is no longer needed, and the greater part of his illustra tions antiquated ; while on the other parts of his sehject, he has been superseded as an at:thority by newer writers. Yet since Dr. Smith, we love had no popular writer on political economy. M. Ri cardo investigated the fundamental truths of the science with singular profoundness ; his theories, while they have led many astray, have nevertheless penetrated thoroughly into all subsequent lucubra tions on the subject ; and he may be regarded more justly than any other, as the real founder of the school which at present exists in England. But he is not read, nor expected to be read, except by . the few who master him for the sake of the subject ; his dry and abstract disquisitions have no attraction whatever for the general reader." The " Life and Discoveries of , A ..,_ JUIPICS Watt! ..va 'is -a, notice, of ...arago , s recently published memoir of this celebrated man, wherein the Reviewer asserts steam-engine the true inventor of Ole , .. , • stea-engine ‘‘';as - * - Captain Savery,, who, previous to the year 1691, had not only carried into effect, and extended the crude ideas of the Marquis of Worcester, but had constructed a real engine, in which the pressure of the atmosphere and the elasticity of the steam acted in succession as inov ing powers. Of the remaining articles, the best is that on " Lord Roden's Committee on Irish Crime," whose whole case, as the Reviewer truly observes, from ‘,o last, utterly and disgracefully broke down. first t 1 the following; as the wri ter's o p inion of Richard Cobden- We copy ftort — i — a ---- periodica. Esq. ;--" gentleman will offer hiniscif as a cah. ndi date for the l io cour of representing the horoug of St o ckport in the British Hous e of Commons, Pp on the first vacancy, therefore a ;ew remarks u p on his. preten sions and qualiticatior:s will not be deemed imp.' pa at the present critical juncture, Mr. Cobden is endowed with extraordinary industry, a strong, inflexible deterrni nationin the prosecution of any great orhazardous under taking. 'As an orator, he is earnest and convincing. As an advocate for free trade, he will one day stand pre-eminent. His writings arc full of vigour, And hew statistical and historical research of no ordinary caste. As a politician, he . is "thoughtful, independent, and liberal Avoiding the rudeness of physical' force on the one hand, and repudiating the finality' doctrine on the other. He will speak his real opinions, how- "1 i ever unpalatable they may prove , whether his auditory consists of republicans or aristocracy. As a member of the British Senate, be would soon become distinguished, and prove a powerful ally in supporting the claims of the working classei of this realm, with out '• encroaching upon the rights .O f others. Any borough would do itself honour by. re t u rning such a . Member, and a future period will show lb: t. our prog, nostications are not vaguely founded , • but the result of long-continued and honest observations of one • who is destined to occupy a brilliant situation amongst:- .Dg land's benefactors and statesmen." DISTRESS IN LEICESTER.—From a Corres pondent.—Having heard several persons remark that the distress in Leicester was not so. great as. many 1 people thought it was, I think the following fact will prove them to be wront. It was told me yesterday by a gentleman who actually saw it, that as be was looking out of his window into the yard behind his house, he saw a man standing over his swill tub into 1 which was thrown the wash, &c., for his pigs, and taking several pieces of something out and eating them with a voracious appetite ; he called to him and asked him what he was doipg,,but the man did not speak ; he , then went to him asked if he would like sonic bread to cat, and the man.with a tremulous voice said " he should be very thankful for it."—Leicestershif e Mercury. • SHIP 13UILDING, AT SUNDERL A Nl:l.—During the past year - no fewer than 310 vessels have been built and registered at the port of Sunderland,, but some of them were for other ports ; almVe4o, ,ire are quite ready on the tide surveyors' list . to be measured. Many of them are from 300).to upwards of 600 tons burden.—Port of Tyne Pilot: The Duke and Duchess of Bedford have re turned to Oakley House from a visit to Lord and Lady de Grey, at Wrest lurk. • .• „ '_ l N !rZ If