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

EVI4 - :NING EDITION. bp a high price, puts an end to employment first abroad and then at home. It cannot be said that our manufacturers will find an equal quantity of employment in supplying our own agriculturists. Prior to the law, they were supplied with all the manufactures they were able WI willing to buy, and with all that they could justly buy with their produce. TI).1.1 law by giving them more of the manufactnte; s ' produce, supplies no more employinent. Toe taking away from the manufacturers a !acr e portion of their produce for an equal quantiry of food is no compensation to them for the u iminution of the foreign market. That agriculture. is extended by thus limiting the manu facturers to the home market is not proved; but that erhp'.orment is lessened in manufactures is a mat ter of fact. As employment is checked, the pro gress of population is checked, the demand for fond is checked, and employment in agriculture is checked. The effect of the Corn-:aw is,, therefore, the reverse of that fancied by the Post, It must be remembered that the ground is now cultivated not for the sake of consuming, but of selling the produce. It must be for the advantage of the cultivators, therefore, to ;lave plenty and an increasing body of customers. Without an in crease of customers there ven be no increase of de mand for agricultural 'produce, and no increase of cultivation. To plr, a stop to the increase of em Ployment in mar;ufactures, by impeding the impor tation of for.,a, is to stop the increase of the custo mers of the agriculturists, and to stop the increase of cultivation. Instead, therefore, of augmenting rtgricultinal employment, the Corn-law lessens it. Fact% confirm the theory. Both manufacturers and a griculturists, with every advantage of skill, great Capital, and increasing knowledge, with unlimited Manufacturing power, and with a soil only half tultivated, with new inventions and new employ ments daily springing up in our manufacturing dis tricts, are plunged into great distress. Agricultural l abourers receive at most nine shillings a week, and weavers not so much. Both classes are now in fact starving, while in the United States, and in various parts of Europe, food in abundance is ()tiered in exchange for our manufactures, but the Corn.laws—tht barbarous Corn-laws, with a brutal kid unwarranted tyranny, will not allow the ex change to . be made. The Corn-law obviously checks manufacturing e nn;:loymetit; and we have lived to see the best tnntrived laws produce effects so totally opposite 10 what was expected of them, that we mistrust those very much who tell us to expect from the Corn law any benefit whatever. Our mistrust is greatly augmented when we find its advocates decrying honesty, and mocking at all principles which stand ill the way of the landlords' wishes. " Where the interests of nations are concerned," says the 1)0 st (meaning the rents of tke landlords), "abstract Rule s are madness ?" Who can measure the in terests of nations ? Are they momentary, of t his year, of ages, or are they eternal ? Do they the.whole people, or only a class ? We are free t o confess that we know no means of ascer taining the interests of nations ; but we know that t his phrase is continually in the mouths of those *lto arc intensely studying their own interest. The f aculties of man are adapted to promote his own t‘elfare ; but to measure the interests of nations is °4l y given to Him to whom all time is as one ib unletn, and all space as one point. We distrust t hose who . .pretend to promote the interests of :illtinns, and we retreat from them with apprehen o n when they add that in promoting these in r".ts abstract rules are madness. What arc abstract rules ?—the deductions of t °ll )e individual mind ?—the crotchets of some ty rant ? No ; they are the gathered experience o f a ges put into a few clear sentences. " Thou shalt "ot steal ;" " Honesty is the best policy ;" " Do ! i nto others as you would be done untu ;"—these re th e abstract rules—the hoarded wisdom of ages, ' P hich, the Post says, must be set at nought to promote the interests of nations. At the same use it admits the propriety of the rules it will set 4t , naught. "We cannot dispute , " i t sa y s, " the ‘ l) atract reasonableness of the owner of any com modity taking it where be can get the most of ; 11 °tIler commodity in exchange for it . We con :33 the superior simplicity of the f ree-trade sys ttn." It is reasonable to .allow an owner of a il°ll.ltriodity. to sell it,.where . he likes, or to do what 1 ! likes with his own. All the owners of commo- I ' ti es like that ; and the agriculturists and land :l:44 would resist stoutly all attempts to make th ela dispose of their commodities at places where th e Y could not get a sufficient price for them. Why, I en, should they violate, in the case of the menu .l4eturets, the abstract rule—" Do as you would be ` 4 ) l te unto ?" The landowners violate that rule, be ;llse they expect to gethigher rents by the violation. Il h ey have despised the other princ i p le of " Ho -I,4ty is the policy," though they begin to feel , we be e, that that it is so. They take a slice off the widow's 94 f• and the orphan's cake by a tax ; t he y covertl y male the small loaf of the industrious labourer r "ller still ; they, by means of a law, break the t ° lmlttand men t which says " Thou shalt not steal." These are the sort of abstract rules, the funda 111ental principles of morality, which the Post sa y s it is madness to observe when the interests of na- I llns are concerned. The thief and the murderer eat, • just the same when their own interests are con ttned• We agree with the Quarterly Review , th at t nothing which is morally wrong can be (at any or under any circumstances) politically right. 4 astead, therefore, of its being madness, it would he wisdom to act on the abstract rules which the Post despises, and it is no better than roguery to Bet them at naught. That the Corn-law is a vio lation of honesty and justice we have proclaimed again and again, and that it does not answer the expectations of those who, from a mere fancied ex pediency, have trampled the abstract rule, " Thou °tall not steal," under foot, has been quite as often Il entonstrated. Being neither expedient nor just, th ere can be no terms too strong in which to de tit:lance and hold it up to the withering indignation ° I all honest and humane men. The a g it a tion of the Chartists in Great Britain, 4. i'd of Mr. O'CONNELL for Repeal in Ireland ; the de mands of the Anti-Corn -law League, and the ;°nsiderabl e pr og ress already made by the Leeds tef °rm Association ; the new Association which h as sprung up in Ulster, and the old .Associations ° f Dissenters in Scotland, which have warmed a gain int o lif e , all tend to show that the bu lk of he peopl e will not settle down in contentment, with- Ut some great further reform. As Mr. MARSHALL said at Edimhtugh, " they must have more power, 13 , r they must have less." of T thhey must be enabled to "IP themselves up out e dreadful quagmire of P o verty and misery, in which they are plunged , or t hey must be effectually fixed there without the Dower to struggle for their liberation. Either a complete despotism must be established, or there 'Mist be a great extension of freedom. To halt mid 'o4), between China and the United States is iin- D°ssible. The agitation getting up in many places, a ild on many subjects, forbids the hope of rest, and, I f Our statesmen are resolved to concede nothing route to the people, they must prepare to renew in England the coercion they were obliged to give up In Ireland. A great deal, however, will depend on the course taken by the several parties who are now beginning t o bestir themselves. United, they are strong enough t O Command their own terms ; disunited, and yet ' aggressive, they will only alarm arid provoke a powerful adversary, who will crush them singly, and secure a proud triumph for the landed aristocracy and the State Church. At present, we confess, we see no prospect of their union. The Protestant Dissenters have, in many cases, as strong a dread of the Irish Catholics as the Churchmen, and to bring these two bodies to act cordially in concert would be almost impossible. Many of the Chartists look on the middle classes who now propose to agitate for household suffrage as their bitterest enemies, and they have declared against that agitation as only intended to beguile them from the Charter. The Anti-Corn law agi tation they have described in similar terms. Again, the Anti-Corn-law League and the Reform Asso ciations, though their objects are not incompatible, do not propose to run them down together. All the different parties who are discontented, and who are now agitating for some improvement or other, though they are one and all opposed to some of the exorbitant claims the priesthood, or some of the exorbitant power of the landed aristocracy, have no intention apparently of working together to obtain their common end. In their disunion their opponent s find safety. They might, however, learn wisdom from experience. According to the testimony of all writers, liberty must be wrung by force from the iron hand of power. It is always ready and wining to crush those who excite its dread. We should like, then; to impress on the seve ral parties and persons who are now forward in pro moting these several agitations the necessity of great caution. They have no time to lose we admit. Parliament will soon assemble, and if they are to have any influence on its deliberation they must b e prompt in their resolves. Most of the objects which they propose, save and execpt •Repeal, which ap. pears wholly imptacticable,Land worse than useless, are consistent with each other, and may be obtained one after another, by agreeing as to which they will first demand. A settled and combined plan of operations amongst all Reformers was never more necessary than now. We see amongst them, however, no master mind chalking out the course which they should pursue, laying dOwn the great principles of the future regulation of society, and pointing out the gradual and practical means by which they may be carried into effect. Dissenters justly de mand complete religious freedom, manufacturers want flee trade, some want freedom of opinion, others to be set free from the improper control of property. Great are the struggles now beginning, and it should be the business of influential men, regardless of their own particular views and parti cular wishes, to deliberate how these struggles may best be guided for the general and common good. That measure whatever it may be— Corn-law abolition, Household Suffrage, the separation of the Church from the State—which can be most easily won, and which will unite most Reformers in demanding it, should be the first thing set about. Be it what it may, to carry it will render the attainment of the next object much easier. We shall probably recur to this subject again and again, before the meeting of Parliament: at present we bid the Reformers out of doors to think of the means of union, and they will be speedily thereafter successful within the walls of Parliament• The insidious and fatal inroads which certain of the Bishops, but more particularly those priests called the " Oxford divines," are making on the purity of the reformed religion, have naturally awakened the fears of true Protestants, and excited anxious inquiries respecting the faith and doctrines of the Puseyites. Many letters have been ad I j - dressed to us on this ,important subject, some of them for information, !otherS concurring in the opinions re have given of the new sect that has sprung up in the bosom of the Church, and justly denouncing Pusey ism as more dangerous than open Popery. Those who are still ignorant of the fact that the Oxford divines, and a large body of the officiating clergy, are anxious to be again re ceived into the bosom of the Roman Catholic Church, will find some alarming information in another column, under the head " What is Puseyism." It consists of extracts from the writings of a professing Protestant prelate, a Bishop of Exeter, in the times of Charles 11., when both the Sovereign and his successor were preparing the way ,for the restoration of the. Catholic faith ; . and when, as now, a portion— though a very inconsiderable portion—of the priesthood were imbued with Catholicism. In all the striking features of the Roman Catholic Church, the doctrines of Bishop SPARROW mainly agree ; confession, absolution, the ceremonies at • the altar, the position of the priest, at one time urning his face to the people, and at another to this relic of Judaism and Popery, the Divine autho rity claimed by the Bishops, whereby they make the Book of Common Prayer and the Canons, the works of erring man, equally binding with the Bible—these, and many more, arc so purely Popish that Catholics, with all their skill in nice religious distinctions, can scarcely perceive a differ ence. Nay, the main point on which the two re ligions are supposed to disagree is, for good reasons, no doubt, at present left in abeyance. Were these doctrines so alien to Protestantism cherished only by a few fanatical monks in the sequestered clois ters of Oxford, the evil would be comparatively small ; but when we find them adopted by many of the working clergy, and above all when it is no torious that the Primate of all England winks at these Popish proceedings, and a second Bishop of EXETER is treading in the footsteps of Dr. SPA R ROW,-when we see the clergy of the Establish ment refusing Christian burial to all those baptised out of the pale of the Catholic and Anglican Church, when Bishops in the House of Lords de nounce the reformed Church of Scotland as no Church, and claim for themselves and Popish pre lates only the hereditary right of succession to the Apostles, with all their divine authority and in spiration, that man must indeed be morally blind who cannot see the awful danger now threatening to overwhelm the Protestant faith. This doctrine of apostolical succession is of itsc:f pregnant with mischief. It confers all spiritual power on the priesthood, it rejects private judgment as regards t he great truths of Christianity—it makes the priests the only interpreters of the Bible, since they alone possess the gifts and graces conferred on the Apostes by the Founder of our faith, and it is a t the same time in direct opposition to one of his most solemn commandments to all his followers, "Search the Scriptures—they testify of me." Dr. M'CntE, in his life of K Nox, thus denounces this absurd claim to the gifts of the Apostles :—" The Papists represented Kxox, and other reformed ministers, as destitute of all lawful vocation. In the same strain did many hierarchical writers of the English Church afterwards learn to talk, not scrupling, by their extravagant doctrine of the absolute necessity of ordination by the hands of a Bishop, who de rived his powers by uninterrupted succession from to invalidate and nullify the orders of the all the Apostles, reformed ortied Churches, except their own ; a doc trine which has been revived in the present enlight ened age, and unblushingly avowed and defended, with the greater part of its absurd, illiberal, and horrid consequences." With these rem-rks we leave the " extracts," which embody the mall of the Puseynes, to the serious consideration of our Christian readers, hav- TIIE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, DECI4:I‘4IIEII 2918t6. ing a firm conviction that a deep plot has been laid by members of the Established Church for the re establishment of Popery in these lands, and that the late furious outcry against Mr. O'CoNNELL and the Irish Priests was but the treacherous and delusive cry of " stop thief," raised by the great criminals themselves. THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.) TEA MARKET. . There was a fair amount of business transacted in free trade, and former rates were fully su pported. Company's Congou in request at 2s Id per lb, cash. TALLOW MARKET. There was a fair demand for Russian Tallow on the spot, and prices were firm at 47s 6d to 475 9i per cwt. The stock is 5,000 casks larger than in 1839. WHITECHAPEL HAY-MARKET. The supply was middling, the demand pretty fair, prices unaltered. Clover from 41. to 61. ; Meadow Hay 31. to ; Straw 32 , . to 345. There is little of any interest in the French Journals of Sunday. A belief in the report that Count MOLE was prepared to re-enter the Cabi net as President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs, was gaining ground in the politi cal circles of Paris. It was likewise stated that M. THIERS would take office as Minister of the Interior, and that a cline alliance with Russia would be one of the main objects to be achieved by the new Ministry. We cannot give any cre dence to the report of a coalition so unnatural as that of an union between MM. MOLE and Minas. However persuaded M. MOLE may feel of his ability to steer the vessel of the State safely through the breakers that now surround her, we feel something approaching to a con v iction that M. TmEtts is one of the last men in France whose assistance he would accept in the perform ance of such a service. LLO YD'S SHIPPING,(TIIIS DAY.) LONDON, Dec. 29.—Wind this day at noon. Light north-westerly airs, with sharp frost. DEAL, Dec. 28.—Wind S.E , variable. Sailed the George IV., Ward, for Calcutta. LIVERPOOL, Dec. 28.—Wind S. E.—Sailed the Adras tus, Hughes, for Singapore ; Lintin, Gillman, Winbay ; Conte Caa.ar, Biasole, Rio Janeiro ; Sir H. Parnull, Crocket, Cuba ; Michigan, St urges , New Orleans. The Osprey, bound to Bombay, bas put bsck from Belfast , Lough, and Bcaumaris , in coming in this morn in g g ot on the Burho, but came off on the flood, without app arent damage. PLYSIOUTI4, DEC. 28.--Wind, E• S. E•—Sailed her Nl,jetty's ship Inconstant, for a cruise, with supplies for the homeward-bound. The Pladda, M' Pherson, from Cardiff to this port got on the Batten Point yesterday, but came off on the flood without damttge• FaLsrocrit, Dec. 27.—Wind, E. to N.E.—The William and Maria, Drewett, from Cork to London, and the" Pomona, Csyle, from Dublin to London, got hi con tact;off Scilly,' 18th inst. The former sunk, crew, except the mate, saved. KINSALE, DEC. 25.—The Venbni, from Newport to Milford, was fallen in with off Cape Clear, 22d inst., in a sinking state. Crw saved by the Ace of Trumps—ar rived here. _ _ . The Abbe de LAMENNAIS was condemned on Saturday, to one year's - imprisonment, and a fine of two thousand francs, for writing a pamphlet addressed to the working classes, and .stigmatized as seditious by the Government. We shall give a report of this trial to• morrow, as it is one in which the working classes here may be expected to take a lively interest. France is resolved to punish with rigour the in sult offered to the French Consul at Tangier. The first division of the Levant squadron, consisting of six ships of the line, were prepating to sail for the coast of Africa, with instructions tither to obtain instant reparation, or to wreak vengeance upon the subjects of the Emperot of MOROCCO who approved of the conduct of the Governor of Tangier. The following brief account of the origin of this dispute is from the Marseilles Senwiphore _ . CROOKHAVEN, DEC. 23. —Arrivcd the Isabel, Cape from Laguna, with less of boats, bulwarks, and part of cargo thrown overboard. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEIV!.:.. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MONDAY.—We haw, had a good demand ;or Cotton to-day, and extreme rates have been obtained. For,A.ruerican descriptions the sales are about 6,000 bags, of which 500 Ameri cans and 500 Surats have been taken on speculation We quote 1,000 Surats nt 4id. to 5.1. ; 150 Pernams 80. to 9J. ; 100 Bahias 80. to Sid. ; 50 Egyptians WV. to 103 d. LIVERPOOL SHARE LisT, DEC. 28.—Grand Junc tion Quarter Shares, 52 ; Lancaster and Preston, 25 ; London and Birmingham 321. shares, 491 ; Quarter Shares, 271 ; Bank of Liverpool, 20u ; Commercial of Liverpool, 18. The French Consul at Morocco menaced the Governor of Mogadere with the resentment of France if he did not liberate the Spahis who had been in the French service at Algiers. The Governor, as a reply, threw him into prison and loaded him with chairs. The only Frenchman in Mogadore, besides the Consul, were M. Fos and his nephew. They all went together to the Governor, who refused to satisfy their demands. The French Consul then declared all relations between France and Morceco at an end, and placed himself and his compatriots under the protection of the British Consul. On their exit from the presenoe of the Gorcraor, the crowd rushed on the Consul and M. Foa, beat them, maltreated them, and tore their clothes. They escaped with their lives by a miracle. M. Foa wanted them to quit Mogadore, but was forbidden to embark. He had been confined already eight-and-twenty days, when the Emperor's order arrived, which was to expel the French and their proteives alto gether. This answer came and was executed on the 16th of November. M. Foa left immediately for Palma on board a Spanish vessel. It appears by accounts from the Woodstock Tin►cs in the American papers lately received, that the Ame rican Commissioners have been active in prosecuting their researches ; they have explored nearly the whole extent of the country between Woodstock and St. Lawrence, which is represented as a most desolate and b irren region—nothing bat bogs, lakes, and marshes, with some broken and irregular ridges of highlands, covered with a stunted growth of moss clad trees, after leaving St. John's some fifteen or twenty miles. The parties that went up the Kennebeck and Penoboscot, have likewise reported, thus completing the whole Ame rica?, survey with the exception of running the meridiAn by lunar observations, now going on under the direction of Major Graham. I\l. THIERS was unanimously elected a member of the Institute of Floral and Political Sciences on Saturday. The funds have experienced a decline of 1 franc. The aneouncement made by the Monileur Parisian of the in tention to propose a loan, on Tuesdae, to the Chamber of Deputies, is sl.oubtless the cause ; but the decline Of the English funds created some sensation. The fact is, that the language of the English press becomes daily more hostile. It pities M. Guizot for being compelled by public opinion in France to keep up the armaments, but at the same time clearly intimates that it will be difficult to maintain peace. The German journals hold the same language, " An armed poem is intended, say they, but in this state of things the arming is a fact, and peace is only a word which may cease at the French order." The Augsbury Gazette says clearly that the armaments of Germany arc not made solely with a view to France, but likewise to the possibility of an alliance between Preece and Reside, the sanction of which would be a new territorial arrangement at the expense of Germany. It was also reported on 'Change, that, besides the 16 million 3 per cents., M. Humann would propose the creation of 5 per cent. to the amount of seven millions, in order to satisfy the taste of al patties. It is not with cut great repugnance that M. Humann has entered on this course. In vain has the Messager denied his inten tion to resign. It would be easy to sly to what importu nities the Minister has yielded in remaining in office. The following just observation is said to have been made by M. Humann, that he does not understand an incessant increase of the army, and of the expenses attes ding it, when the head of tho Government is resolved not to make war in any case.—Le Commerce. M. de Rambuteau, the Prefect of the department of the Seine, gave an account, on Saturday, to the Chamber of Commerce of Paris, of the revenue and expenditure of the Capital, of its works, embellishments, schools, swing banks, consumption, hospitals, &c., during the Erst eleven months of 1840. As compared with 1839, there was a falling-off in the proceeds of the octroi of 351,709 francs, and of 3,598,000 in the amount of foreign exports de clared at the customhouse, and which exceeded 124,000,000 francs during the first ten months of 1839. The presumed receipts for 1840 will amount to 49,000,000 francs, in which the octroi figures for 30,653,000 francs, and the expenditure to 45,077,000 francs. The number of failures, as compared with 1839, had decreased by 166. The consumption of Paris during these eleven months is set down in the Prefect's report at 65,597 oxen, 18,839 cows, and 394,256 sheep, which pre sents an overplus of 1,746 oxen, 1,916 . cows, and 44,335 sheep, as compared with the corresponding period of 1839. The Prefecture of Police and Municipal Guard cost the city 6,295,000 1 . ; the National Guard, 935,000 r. ; primary instruction, 971,000 f. ; the hospitals and charitable establishments, 5,563,0001., &c. On Saturday :he sailors of the Belle Poule frigate, and corvette Favorite, who accompanied to Paris the remains of the Emperor Napoleon, marched from the military school, having at their head the Prince de Juinville, who brought them to the hall of the Marshals. The King having repaired thither, accompanied by the Queen, the Princesses of the Royal Family, the Dukes de Nemours and Aumale, and Admiral Duperrc, Minister of Marine, passed before the frost of the sailors, who saluted his Ma jesty with cries of " Vivc le Roi." His Majesty then placed himself in the centre, and addressed them as follows : " My dear comrades, my dear seamen, the weather hav ing prevented me from reviewing you as I intended, I es sembled you here to express to you all my satisfaction at the conduct of the crews of the Belle Pouie and Favourite in the mission which you have just accomplished. I wished you to escort, as far as the capital, the body of the Emperor Napoleon, which I feel happy at having re stored to France, and it is with pleasure I sieze this op portunity of manifesting to you the affection I bear to the navy. I gave you a pledge of it very dear to my heart in placing my son in its ranks, and I was impatient to tell you how gratified I feel by the confidence and affection which he inspires in you. To whatever clime or shores your duties towards the country shall lead you, you will always find him ready to share in your danger, and sup port with you the honour of the French name and glory of our flag. " Now, my dear Admiral," said the King, addressing the Minister of Marine, " have the goodness to point out the brave seamen who have obtained the cross of the Le gion of Honour, that I may have the satisfaction of giving it to them myself." The Admiral having called out Gosselin, first twister steersman of the Belle Poule, Bonnet, second master de manmuvre of that vessel, Pons, captain of arms of the Favorite, and Hallot, a sailor of the Belle Poule, they suc -1 eessively received the cross from the hands of the King. The Prince de Joinville then drew up his men, who defiled before the Royal. Family, and left the Palace. Abbe Coquercau, who accompanied the remains of Napoleon from St. Helena to Paris, was also appointed member of the Legion of Honour. DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, DEC. 25. Money. Bin.. actual Debt, 2% per Cent .)ittn, ditto 5 per cent. Minn!. S,ndic,•lN, percent BS 81,1, Ditto, ditto, :I}4 per cent 7l 714 Commercial ConTany, 4 , ,5i Fcr cent 1 0 ,4 L,` Sf Ditto (MIS and 1837) 5 per cent. Loan 0337, 5 per cant. :OA 94X, Exchange on London, One month lii 0 Two months ..... ... 11 t , 7% Dutch Papers, Dec. 24. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Dec. 18 Five per Cents. Bletalliques lo6tfi Four per Cents. ON, Three per Cents . .,.».„....»....„ ., 50% Bank Shares .... ..... ... ..... .......•••••• . • —.4llgemesne Zcitung, Dee. 23 """"*"."'"" 1C46 GRAND REFORM BANQUET AT LEEDS.—We learn from the Leeds Times that the preparations for cele brating a Grand Reform Festival at Leeds on the 20:h and 21st of January, arc making sapid progress. It is to take place in a new mill belonging to Messrs. Mar shall and Sons,, which is said to be the most magnificent mill in existence. A portion of it only is fitted up for the banquet, and in this portion 8,000 persons can be seated. Tickets for that number arc to be issued. Before the festival, probably this week or the next, Mr. Roebuck is to deliver another lecture on some branch of political science. Our northern countrymen have taken to the subject of further Reform by Household Suffrage, Triennial Parliaments, &c., with great earnest , ness and zeal, and they are determined to have a I splendid banquet as an augury of the splendid success they are resolved to achieve. On Sunday morning flatnes were seen in the body of the itif.,- , ..n . !fieort c 7. of G;7:9tbkirn, ..-71;ic!! I,),.tu , iately put out with trifling injury to Ow iabi ie. Toe fire originated from the heating cf the flue to redness, which ignited an adjlining pew.--Lincoln Chronicle. COURT CIRCULAR, tress:ng an opinion that anything that could be done would be of no avail, as deceased was dying. In a few minutes afteregede life was extinct.—Mr. Wakley said he hai no doubt the deceaten's death was occasioned by disease of the heart, which was now fearfully prevalent, and which air einnent physician bad recently told him was the cause of ninety-five sudden deaths out of :I hiendred. Verdict— " Natural death." The deceased officer was Colonel of the 45th Regiment, had served under the Du!'o or Wel lington in the Peninsular war, and had distinguished him cif in various engagements. lie had been nearly I, 4 tY years in the army. THE ELEVENTH HUSSARS.—Captain Vivian has contradicted the statement that he had made an appli cation to exchange, or be removed from the I I th Hussars. THE WEATIIER--TIIE PARKS.--The frost, which set in on the 13th inst., and has now lasted sixteen days, still continues without any indications of an ap proaching change, 'The thermometer, which, at six o'clock on Saturday evening, stood at 28 degrees, was at midnight at 26 degrees. At six o'eleck on Sundaylmorn ing it had risen to '29 degrees, and at noon to 33, but at six o'clock in the evening the mercury had fa!len to freezing point (32 degrees), aid at midnight to 30 degiwes. Yer t(srdny morning, at six o'clock, 0 was 23 degrees, and at noon 31 degrees. but in the evening it had again falls'' to 28 degrees. Daring Sunday the atmosphere was rem' heavy, and the whirl north-east, and yesterday was also hazy, with an easterly wind, although at intervals the sky slightly cleared, when the upper tier of, clouds were ob served to come f-ora the S.E. by S., whils the lower scud passed from the N. E. DESCRIPTION OF A PRIME MINISTER.—Tne result of all Dean Swift's ecute observation and experience is exhausted in his description of a Prime Minister in the voyage to Brobdignag. A stronger satire upon those with :thorn he wee in the habits of daily infmecy cannot be conceived. Ile says " I told him (the King) that the first or chief Minister of State was a creature wholly ex. Mr. Dease, the fellow-traveller 01 the Unfortunate cmpted from joy and grief, lave and hatred, pity and an- Mr. Simpson, one of the discoverers of the north. nest r ; r at least makes use of no other passions but a violent passage, is at present on a visit at Springfield house, desire of wealth, power, and titles ; that he applies his near Forres, the residence of John Stuart, Esq __Elgin words to all uses except to the indication of his mind ; Courant. that he Lever tells a truth but with intent you should MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE FROM THE DE- take it for a lie, nor a lie but with this design, that you le:Essen STATE OF TRADE.—It is seldom our duty to re- should take it for a truth, and those he speaks worst of be late a more distressing case of mental depression, or de- hind their hacks arc in the turest way of preferment ; and spondeney, than the following, which happened on the whenever he begins to praise you to others, or to yeureelf, night of Wednesday last. A man, named S:arkie, resid- you are from that day forlorn. The worst mark you can ing in No. 4, Economy-place, Biackstock-smeet, has list- require is a promise, especially when it is cord - Irma with eei ly been much reduced in circumstances, but rather than an oath, after which every wise man retires, and gives over 'throw himself on the parish, has been struggling for a all hopes." trifling subsistence for some time past in the capacity of a FROZEN STATE OF THE THANIES.-041 labourer; for the last few weeks, however, he has net F at h er Th ames h as , at present, a very remarkable appear• been able to obtain any employment, and hae, conse. ante from the large masebs of ice fleeting upon his bosom, qucntly been deprived of shelter, a nd literally starving ; end the vast accumulations at particular points present nis despondency gradually increased up t o th e night above serious threatenings of severe and long-continued frost. mentioned, when he determined to destroy himself by The temporary, or floating piers, that have been formed poison, rather than linger by such slow degrees from starv- at various stations, particularly above London-bridge, con ation ; and, had it not been for the immediate attendance sisting of barges 1-shed to each other, for the accommode and active treatment of Mr. George Longbottom, sur- Lion of passengers to embark arid debark from the several won, who resides in the neighbourhood, th e r e is no doubt .team-boats that ply between the bridges, and as tar as but the result would have been fatal. —Liverpool ellercery Vauxhall and Chelsea, have presented dangerous interrup- DUNFERNILINE—MURDER OF ONE CHILD, tions to the floating masses of ice, especially in the bend of AND AN ATTEMPT ON ANOTHEit —Thirteen weeks ago, a the river near flungerfonl-market, and by the shallows child of George Shupson, a respectable iehabit int of th:s near Westminster-bridge. There have bean for several town, took ill one forenoon, and died before two o'clock. days past, at those portions of the Thames, collecting, by The child was n girl of six years of mem arid had always their being arrested from the current being interrupted by been very healthy, and although cut off so suddenly, no the before mentioned piers, great quantities of ice, which, suspicion seems ever to have entered the minds of any that by becoming stationary, have frozen together and rise there had been foul play, until the beginning of last week or fall with the tides. These formidable masses so when a young 0 - 1, the slater of the deceased, aged ten years, endangered some of the piers, from such heavy bodies having been most brutally beaten and abused by Betty resting against them, that, in order to prevent forcible dis --, a woman who has acted es servant maid to George memb ernient, or forcing up, from the ice being driven Simpson for two Peers—bis wife being dead—went and under by the tide, as early as Wednesdey last arrangements complained to a neighbour, and finally, by persuasion, were making for disconnecting or removing these barge threats; and promises, disclosed the following piece of piers, particularly that statione d ' at Westminster-bridge. monstrous cruelty and barbarism :—Thirteen weeks Some of these barges, at other places, separated frcm ago she was sent by Betty to a dyer's, named Wilson, the line and swung round, so as to present no further for a quantity of blue vitriol, prof( sscdiy to dye obstruction to the progress of the river, or the floating a shawl; she afterwards, on the day her sister died, saw substances, than occurred front the ordinary barges the wretch put some of it into her brother's and sister's moored in the current, or off the wharfs along the Forriclge. The boy took one spoonful and spit it out banks, The various small steamers that went the on his clothes, and it burned a hole in his apron—the " short stages," between London-bridge and the Vaux little girl ate more of the poisoned food, but not sufficient, hall station of the Southampton Railway, and which used as the monster had thought, for, about half an hour after, to start every quarter of an hour, have, for some days., gone when the girl requested a drink, she mixed more of the only each half hour. Even then the passengers were so poison in water, and held her mouth until elm swallowed few and far between, in spite of fires being kept in the it. The consequence was, that she died in a short time. cabins, that it was contemplated they would soon alto- The woman, or demon rather, used fearful ar,d awful lan- gether cease running, if the weather long continued with guage to the other girl, that if ever she told what she had its present severity. From this state of the River it may seen, her arms, eyes, and legs would rot off. The conse• he imagined that it is almost impracticable for ordinary queece of this threat upon so young a mind may be imr- craft to be navigated along it. On Saturday, at high gined. She has been haunted by strange fancies since, tide, the quantities of ice that were floated up the river about her legs and arms rotting off, and it was with diffi- by the fl a w, enabled some few barges to move be:ow the culty she would reveal what she knew. So far the girl's pool, but not a barge was to be seen out above bridge story is correct, for the body of the murdered child was slis- The visits also of sea-gulls eying about as high up the interred on Seturday last, and was examined by the faculty. river as Westminster-bridge, and even Chelsea, afford Tinestune poison was found in the stomach, carrying on another proof of the severity of the season, and of the its destructive week upon the putrid mass. The dyer, prospect of that severity continuing, as these occurrences Wilson, acknowledges having given the poison, and a are unusual, except under such circumstances. These small box containing part of it was f o und in the house. birds have been occasionally seen since Wednesday last, The woman is in gaol, and has undergone an examination when they made their first appearance so far from their b e fore the Sheriff, and we believe will be fully committed ordinary resorts, and attracted numerous spectators to view for trial —Stirling Observer. such unusual visitors. THE BROWN PTARMIGAN.—Grouse shooting SCOTT THE DlVER.—Yesterday an immense was brought to a close on the 10th, and we b e lieve the past assemblage of persons was collected on Southeark-bridge, has on the whole been a productive season . Th e diversion in order to witness the exoloits of Sam Scott, termed the which this sport—entered into with a proper and sports- Amsrican diver, but who is generally reported to have manlike spirit—is capable of affording is well known to I breathed first at Deptford. The river was blocke lup these who have experienced its pleasures, and there are few with immense masses tf fl ,ating ice; and it was expemed persons residing in the district where the krown rum- by all that if Scott ventuted his perilous leap, a serious, niigan ab..undb that have not engaged in it. In if not lard accident to him mutt ensue. At three o'clock my opinion, (says Mr. Meegillivray ,) i t is a pitiful I , he came on the bridge, from the Benkside ; ate( after and barbarous sport, as pursued by a regularly i the usuel collections, he took his stand over the centre equipped and legally qualified slaughterer, who, even ; ar c h of the bridge. Ile continued here, and exhibited without the labour of charging his gun, still less of carry- tie feats which it is his custom to do, such as suspending ing home tlre produce of his idle industry, destroys as much h mse lf by his neck, &c. It seas evident, however, to all game in one day as might serve for a dozen. But in • that a descent from that spot could not be made ; ant a district where the birds are not very numerous, and where I Strn Seott, after waiting for some time, ca led out, to produce half a dozen brace, one i s o bli ge d t o traverse a i o Gentlemen, you do not want to se,' a man !meek his large extent of ground, he cannot fail to find enjoyment, h ea d." Cheers followed this announcement ; and, leav who, starting early with his dogs, accompanisd by a friend, i i ng the scaffr!d,ng erected over the centre arch, imoceeded travels over mountain and moor, inhaling the balmy air of , to the third on the north shore, and being oult attired in the heathery hills, and renovating his spirits by vigorous ' a blue check shirt and canvas trousers, he ascended to the exercise, until the declining sun warns him to retrace his cross-bars of the lamp, and having again gone through course, and he returns to hie home, where the comforts of his tricks, he inquired of the watermen below if all was social joy are prepared for him. The pleasure cape- safe. At this rate the ice was floating more in the centre rienced by the young sportsman, who, after much blur,- , of the stream, and the watermen replied " All right ;" and, dering perhaps, returns from a day's excursion with two with an antelope's boun , i, the diver wrs under the water. or three brace of ptarmigan, and as many plovers, is Ile rose in a few seconds, legs first ; then down they went, scarcely attainable by the experienced wholesale slaugh- and his head and half his body appeared. lie swam terer. about for some time among the floating ice, and was teem., into a boat and conveyed ashore. SEPARATION OF CHELSEA FROM TIIE KEN SINGTON UNlON.—Yesterday there was a meeting of the rate-payers of St. Luke, Chelsea, " to take into conei deratioe a letter from the Poor-law Commissioners, set ting forth the condition under which they would cansent to the separation of the parish of Chelsea from the Ken sington union, and to come to such decision thereon as may be deemed expedient." The letter having been read, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted : " That this vestry do consent to the separation of Chelsea from the Kensiiigtoa union, and is willing that certain modifications shall be made in the local Act of Parlia ment; and also that the pauper children shall be sent to a district-school." " That tl.e following committee be ap pointed to carry the above resolution into effsct, viz. : The eight elected guardians ; L. T. Flood, son., and L. I'. Flood, jun., Esgre ; Sir J. S. Lillie, Dr. Godrich, Mr. Mullins, and Geo. Bague, Esq." A notion was then carried, that copies of the two first resolutions be sent to the Poor-law Commissioners and the board of guardians ; one also of thanks to the chairman, the Rev. Mr. Kin ;s -ky, was carried. ROBBERY OF A LETTER-BAG.—Yesterday in formation was forwarded to the police that the Crick and Alfreton letter-bag was stolen on Tuesday evening last, between S)utli Wingield and Alfreton, which has since been found with only one letter in it. Anion.; the miss ing letters was one directed to Mr. George Wild, Corn minket, Derby, containing the undermentioned notes : A 101 Bank of England note, No. K. D. 13,890, dated London, Oct. 3, 1640 ; a 5/. Southwell note, No. R. 2, dated Feb. 28, 1839 ; a 5/. Southwell note, No. Q. 147, dated Dec. 1, 1838. A reward is offered for the disco very of the offender or offenders. On Thursday, at Ashmore, near Shaftesbury, a man was trozen to death. THE 79TH REGIMENT (CAMERON HIGH LANDERS). —One hundred men belonging to this gallant corps embarked at Deptford in the Abercrombie transport ship for'a passage to Gibraltar on the 16th of November. The remainder of the regiment have been stationed at Weedon during the last four weeks, and the first division proceeded yesterday by railroad to Euston-square, from which place they will march for Deptford, to embark for Gibraltar. The second division followed to-day, and embarked at the same time fur forei g n service. This fa mous regiment was in all the Peninsulur wars, and bears as high a character for bravery as any corps in her Majesty's service. EXTENSIVE FIRES IN THE METROPOLIS.— Ths destruction of property by fire in the metropolis dur ing the last three days has been very great. In addition to the fire on Saturday morning lust, the sugar-house in Ratcliff-highway, no fewer than twenty-one fires have oc curred. We learn, from a good source in Paris, that the French Guucrnment are much satisfied with the result of Baron Itlounier's exertions to establish a better un derstanding between the two nations. His mission, which is a strictly confidential one, and of a very delicate nature, seems principally to be directed to make France a party in the final settlement of the Oriental question, and to substitute, if possible, for the treaty of July, a treaty be tween the Five Powers and the Sultan. At the same time he is also directed by the French Government to urge on that of England the necessity and opportunty for ameliorating the political and social condition of the Christian population in Syria, in order to protect them against the arbitrary s s rule of the new Turkish Pachas. The high regard which is entertained for the character as well as the abilities of Baron Meunier, both in France and England, where he has long been known to the leading men of all parties, eminently qualify him for these delicate negotiations. —Morning Herald. The report that a misunderstanding between Sir Robert Stopford and Commodore Napier has occurred in consequence of the Admiral's disapprobation of the gal lant officer's conducttattAcre, having been circulated during the week, we have endeavoured in vain to trace it to any authentic source, and disbelieve it entirely. Our readers will recollect that insinuations disparaging to Commodore Napier were raised by a small section of the party press when that gallant officer first commenced operations before Beyrout. It is more than probable that the report in ques tion originated from the same source, —Naval and Mili tary Gazette. Such is the present high price of beef, that during the past week there arrived by the steamer City of Aberdeen, from Scotland, ninety-five bullocks, which fetched readily 35/. each in the London market, The expense of the passage for each animal was computed at about 2/. per head. Supposing, therefore, the original cost to be 301., this will leave a profit of above 2001. to the speculators.,—Morning Herald. WINDSOR, MONDAY.—filer Majesty and Prince A. bert rode in a close carriage, twenty minutes before one o'clock, to the lake in Frogmore Gardens, wher lilac Royal Highness enjoyed the exercise of skaiting till nearly two o'clock. Her Majesty was attended by the Hon. Misses Pitt, Paget, and Cocks, Lord Liiford, Mr. Rich, and Colonel Wemyss. His Royal Highness was attended by Sir E. I.33water, Mr. G. E. Anson, Clptain Seymour, and Dr. Pcotorius. The Royal Cortege afterwards returned to the Castle. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard, walked on the Terrace and in the Slopes for some time this morning. The Rev. Lord Wrottesly Russell and Colonel the Hon. H. Molyneux, of the 60th Rifles, will have the honour of joining the Royal dinner party this evening. _ . THEFT BY A STEAM-ENGINE T .—A wiseacre, who had seen a paragraph going the rounds, stating that some knowing fellow had put a fourpenny on a railroad, which the steam-engine had flattened out to the size of sixpence, bethought himself that he would try the experi ment on a respectable scale. Oa Tuesday last, therefore, he spread out about the length of himself of fourpcnny pieces at one of the crossings of the Glasge w and Ayr. shire Railway, not vary far from home, and, with Isis head leaning over the wall, anxiously awaited the approach of the two o'clock train that was to add a third to their value. But " the best laid schemes o' men an' mice gang aft ahoy." Up came the " smoky devil" with his long tail, and as the rails were waxy with the boar frost, the four penny pieces stuck fast all round the wheels, and off sped the train with the treasure, leaving the "go a- hear " coiner in a state of bewildered disappointment. He pur poses selecting fine dry weather for his neat experiment. --Ayr Adv:irtiser. On Saturday morning, about half-past four o'clock, a dreadful fire broke out in the extensive timber yard and workshops belonging to Mr. Lawrence, carpets ter and builder, Pitficld-street, Hoxton. By whom the fire was first observed has not been ascertained, but the po lice were instantly on the alert after the alarm had been given, and while some were employed in assisting the neighbours to remove their property, others despatched messengers to the various fire stations. In a very short time those from Whitecross-street, Farringdon-street, and other City engines, belonging to the London establish- ment, arrived, as also that of the West of England Com pany. Unfortunately no water could be procured, and the raging clement spread its fury with the most fearful ra pidity and, ere the the hour of five, all the stock, build ings, tools of the workmen, &c., were destroyed. By half-past five, however, a good supply of water was ob. tabled, when the firemen, with renewed vigour, exerted themselves in the most praiseworthy manner, and saved the adjoining n iighbourhood. No lives were lost, but the loss is estimated at a great amount, mostly insured in the York and West of England offices. • GENTLEMEN HIGHWAYMEN.—Sir John Tal bot came to me last night. upon a very remarkable occasion, which he had in the morning communicated to my Lord Keeper. And it is thus :—One Talbot tells him he has long acquaintance with o ne Brown, whom he bad a pretty knew a student in the Temple, where his father made him reasonable allowance, till his estate came to be forfeited, and since that time be has lived by lay, sharping, and a li t tle on the highway. This man, with three or four more, set upon my Lord Monmouth last summer. The account he gives of it is, that they took from him his hat, sword, i „ - i e ss ig, a . ring he had on his finger, and six shillings in mon ey, yvbich was all he had. My Lord, making them a compV 1 ment. t hat by their behaviour they looked like gen tlemen, and to take that course only out of necessity, and therefore desired to know how he might place ten guineas upon them. They immediately gave all his things again, except the six shillings, which he would not take. The guard from Chelsea College coming to the hedge-aide about that time, and firing upon them, they told my Lord they should be obliged to mischief him if he did not call to the guard that there were none but friends,which he did, and hid his coach drive on.—James's Court and Times of William 111. A report was current on Monday that an ac count bad been received of the death of Prince Louis Napoleon, at Ham. It appears to be utterly unfounded. I saw a gentleman yesterday who was with him last week. He says that he is exceedingly comfortable, and that every attention is paid to him that his position admits of This gentleman even hinted that Miss E —s, an English lady to whom he is attached, is at Ilam, and passes most of her time in the prison. To General Monthelon, who, by his late act of folly has lost all his means of a upport, including, of course, his pay as a General, Louis Napo leon is said to be very kind. The net income of the Prince is now about 55.000 francs a year, with this sum he is not only able to provide for all his own wants, but ' also to give assistance to his companions in misfortune.— Letter from Paris of the 264 e. SUDDEN DEATH OF SIR W. H. PRINGLE. —Yesterday morning an inquest was held before Mr. Wakley, in the drawing-room of the house No. 17, Strat ford-place, Marylebone, en the body of Lieutenant-Ge neral Sir William Henry Pringle, aged 68.—John Vyse, the butler, said that deceased was of robust constitution, and in the general enjoyment of good health. On Wed nesday afternoon last, about one o'clock, deceased went out to take a walk, arid returned shortly after three, when he appeared as usual. Soon after, bearing the library bell ring, he went there, and on entering the room saw deceased lying on the floor, and Lady Pringle kneeling down by his side supporting his head. Witness, by order of her Ladyship, went for a surgeon, ani fetched Mr. Hans, of Duke -street, Manchester-squarc, who applied mustard poultices to deceased's feet, at the same time ex • TIM FUNDS. We are again without any arrivals of consequence this morning to communicate, but the British funds have a lively appearance, and are improved. Consuls, which left off yesterday at 88i for the Account, may be quoted at 881 a, since :Which the Market is not so good, and Consuls at present are Sn ; Reiiuced 881 ; Exchequer Bills 2 4 prem. ; Bank Stock 1561 1571 ; India Stock 237 239. In the Foreign Market Spanish . Active left off 231 at present, 23i j ; Deferred, 121 . Passive, 51 6i ; Portuguese also rather better, l e ft o ff 311 may be quoted 321 ; Three per Cents., 204 21 ; Co lombian same as it left off, 221 231 ; M ex i c an same. 271 28 ; Brazilian same, 701 711 ; Dutch Two.and• a-Half per Cents., 50.1 511 ; Five per Cents., 97/ 1• SHARES.—London and Brighton, 71 7 dis, ; Great Western, 241 251 prem. ; New, 101 111 prom. ; Bir mingham, 80 82 prem. ; Southampton, .54i 551 per share. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RA ILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Eastern Counties Ditto Debentures Great Western Ditto '_Yew Ditto Fifths London and Brighton Llndon and Greenwich ..... ...... 20 Ditto Scrip '2 Loudln and Croydon (Trunk)... l3i 121...... to 123,1 York and North Midland JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia 4O . 55 HALF-PAST ONE. "The Spanish Market is very active this morning, in consequence of a report that a private letter has been received by the French express from Madrid, stating that the price of Spanish Active at the above capital had got up to 30, and on the 17th instant upwards of 70 millions of reals were purchasod. The above intel ligence, with the fact that the British Ambassador at Madrid had undertaken to mediate between Portugal and Spain, to settle their differences, had the effect to improve Spanish Active to 24. Consols, which had reached in the early part of the morning to 881 1, are at present 881 ; Reduced, 881 i; Exchequer Bills, 4 2, lower ; Bank Stock, 1561 157 ; India Bonds, 12 15 dis. ; India Stock, 2381 for the opening. In the Foreign Market the chief speculation is in Spanish Active, 231 24 ; Portuguese, 321 s ; bian, 2311 ; Dutch Two-awl-a-Ma per Cents. 51/ ; Five per Cents. 971. Rather more business doing in the Share Market in the course of the morning at higher quotations. Great Western, 901 90 ; New, 51 52 ; Fifths, 101 ; London and Brighton, 431 ; York and North Midland, 67. MR. WILLIAM Too KE.—m r . Williams, of R a ymond-buildings, Gray's-inn, has been soliciting th^ electors of Finsbury to sign the notable requisition to Mr. Tooke, to offer himself as a cand date to represent thin in Parliament. Truly it behoves the electors to pause ; for in Denbighshire this Mr. Williams, the relative of the Rldical Mr. Tooke, Professes Conservative principles. elections he posts down at own expense t o vote f o r the Ile is an elector for Denbig hshire, and at the hiscontested Conservative candidate.—Correspondent of the Morninj Chronicle. POOR LIVING OF THE WORKING CLASSES. —The essential principle to be attended to in framing a dietary for a workhouse appelrs to be that the food of a pauper maintained at the public cost, should not be mote abundant or better than that of the poor man maintaining himself in independence by his industry. In England, it has been found very difficult to preserve this principle ; it was almost impossible, in many districts, to prescribe a diet less abundant, and of inferior quality, than that of the majority of the labouring classes and at the same time sufficient to keep the inmates of the workhouse, belongi ng to the same classes, in health and strength.—Hall on Workhouse Dieta , ics. , . A HINT TO CIIANIBERMAIDS.— 'Not hi ng i s more injurious to health than warming a bed with coals ; the carbonic acid gas that escapes is almost suffocating, particularly if there be no fire-place in the room. The remedy is easy and cheap: get a piece of chain about a yard long, make it red hot and put it in the pan , instead of b pursuinr , the dangerous and unhealthy plan that is now better honoured in the breach than the observance. The General Steam Navigation Company', vessel the Columbine, W. Norwood, from Schcvinitige n . arrived off the Custom House yesterday, with the Dutch mail. --- The Scottish Pilot says the conduct of the Post office authorities, in having prevented the usual delivery of letters on the thanksgiving-day, formed, very properly, subject of animadversion at the Council Board last Tuesd tv. Died, on the 16th instant, in the Rue Royale, Paris, of a three days' illness, Sir Francis Smith, DI. D. Sir Francis had been physician to Lord Nerrnatiby, as Viceroy of Ireland, and was woll known as the author of several professional works full of talent and promise. Few deaths have excited more surprise and regret in the French capital than that of Sir Francis Smith. The Victory freight-ship, having oil board the , Ensign Brereton, following drafts destined to join the service compani e s of the regiments mentioned, sailed from Cork harbou r on the 22d instant, for Bermuda, viz. 30th Reg:nient, C apt. A n .. drews, Ensigns Grylls and Atherley, Assistant- Surgeon fine o'clock, Cockburn, three sergeants, and 120 privat es ; 7Wh lfegi trirrenet, sergeants, Capt. i'ick a a n r d d Pickard ,Lieut. rank B and e re s fi f l o e r . d the whole of the p‘rty Last night, about a quarter before the following accident occurred in Oxford-street, Pantheon. A lady, gentleman, and child were proceed ing along Oxford-street s n u e d a d r e the niy became unmanageable and sct off at a furious rate, over- Middiesex-hcspital. The horse proceeded with the gig at a sinettotintghethreoagdi.g, They were picked up, and conveyed furious speed along the toot-pavement, to the imminent danger of the passengers, several of whom were knocked down and seriously injured, amongst the number a young to the lady, who was alto conveyed to the Middlesex Hospital. The gig was dashed to atoms. THE " LATTER DAY SAINTS."—....F.or sonic time past twelve men have been going about the country under the above appellation , and hare actually i n d u ced many to sell their littlo properties in England and set sail fer America, under a fanatical religious impre4sion. la for the voyage is charged to such persons, and the ships that convey them sail from Liverpool; 300 were so Con veyed in one ship from this port in September last. Some of these men are at this time in London, where their pro gress is not so great as in the provinces. TIIE CHARGES OF CRUELTY AGAINST THE MASTER OF THE Hoo Uritox.—There was an two Cl.a,h investiga aeria;onious discussion, terminated in a resolution to prose ti,,, vf , =t , rd 1- et,tnt the ab•,i,te case, winch, attar cute Miller, the master, if necessary, at the n e xt Maid stone Assizes. The Rev. Dr. Short left the Castle this morning. The Duchess of Bedford is indisposed from cold, and therefore does not join the Royal circle this evening. The Right Hon. Henry Labouchere arrived in town yesterday afternoon, from Stratton Park, H ints, the seat of Sir Thomas Baring. ,The Spanish Minister transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. Lord John RussPll left town yesterday on a visit to :scount and Viscountess Palmerston, at their scat midlands, Hants. Lord Adolf has Fitelarence left Beaudesert, Staffora shire, the scat of the Marquii of Anglesey, y•sivrd.ty, on a visit to the Earl Of Essex at Cassiobury Herts. atspAtches from Willa were received yesterday at he Foreign-offit.7e. • E N _LNG "E'D I TICOIN: GENERAL HARRISON, THE PRE SIDENT ELECT OF' AllllThe following sketch of the life and pug's this mo- General Harrison will be read with interest al services of s idate nint, when he has just been raised by his felloo• "citizt a * to the highest office of the Republic :-- .‘ William Henry Harrison, the successful cat for the Presidency of the United States, is a nat r tT e ,?f Virginia, and was born in February, 1773. His fa ` 32 'l . one at the oldest and most distinguished of that Sta te% i!is father, Benjarnfa Harrison, was a prominent men. N. her o!'tlie. first Congress;..one of the signers of the Decla ration of Independence, Chairman of the Board of War, and Governor of :Tirginia. He died in 1791, having expended a large for:une in the service of his country. Young Harrison early devoted himself tattle profession of arms, and entereel the army, unilor the auspices of his father's intimate friend General Washington, at the age of eighte.m. The north-- western frontiers of the United States' were at that time devastated by the savages, tefeo had not after the war of independence, laid down deli,- arms, but hail obtained, during two campaigns, signal'. successes over th o e troops of the Republic. In 1794- Harrison was aideaste.camp to General Wayne, at a decided. bra'fic geineif pvcr the Indians and their Ca.ladion allies ,:t 1W iatee;. Ile received on this occasion the thanks t hits G own :ander in General Orders, and v.lll promoted to the renk ote Captain. In 1797 La was ap pointed Secretary to t h e t 2erth-western territory, and, in. 1799 he took his scat as dele,eate from that territory, in the Lower House of Cone •eess, being then attlty twenty-six years of age. In lt2oo he was appoiateet Governor of Indiana, to which was added Loni— siana, when that portion of country acquired bye the United States. He continued Govera‘a." of Indiana twelve years. In 111 the allied Indian natio ' ns ' under the celebrated chief Tecumthe, laid waste the north- • west frontiers with fire and sword. Governor He'rrisun hastened to protect his frontier settlements, rano the Indians, attempting to surprise him at Tippecanoe, s, tf fercd a s'tgtral defeat: In 1812 war with England veal declared, and General Harrison was appointed Conte mander-in- Chief of the N.W . army, a command cover ing an immense extent or country, and extending ham Lake Erie to the Mississipp i. On his left were the ; hostile Indian nations, on his right the allied Brits and Indian forces of Upper CanaLk. The first months of the war were occupied ;n skirmishes and affairs of outposts, with various results, but generally advanta geous to the British arms. In the sprit): of 1813, liav rison having concentrated his forces, assuoed the com mand, and took a position on the river Miami. where he was attacked by the British and Indian forcec, wider Gen. Proctor, flushed with previous success, but eteey here suffered a severe reverse, and were obliged to retreiti• Shortly afterwards tine British fleet on Lake Erie was defeated by the Americai: squadron under Commodore' Perry. This event enabled _garrison to cross the lake into Upper Canada, to take MaMen and Sandusky, to retake Detroit, and to march in p u 7suit of the Brit'sls forces. Harrison cams up with the .'rtny of Generale Proctor on the river Thames, in Up ..r Canada, in, position, and notwithstanding the advantago of which he determined immediately to attack him. ' l ."be resat was the defeat of Proctor, the capture cf his ,yag,gassa and artilley, the rout of his Indian Allies, and the cheats of their chief, Tccumthe. This was one of the most celebrated battles fought during the war, and vastly important in its results. •On this occasion Colonel now General Cass (the American Minister to France), acted as aide-de-camp to General Harrison. For his. distinguished services on this occasion, Harrison re ceived a vote of thanks, and a gold medal front the Congress of the United States. After the peace of . 1815, General Harrison retired to his estate on the Ohio, having been engaged, during his ,c-tive iris, ra more battles than any of his contemporeme , wiiireet having ever sustained a &feat. In 1816 he iente elected a member of the Reuse of Representatives, and in 1824 . he represented the State of Ohio it, the Senate of the United States. In 1828, he was appointed Minister to Colombia. He soon, however, returned to private life. from which his countrymen now propose to recalhimean 4 to invest him with the highest dignity in the gift of the' Republic. General Harrison belongs to what rimy be termed the Conservative party is the United States. Bred in the camp, his manners are easy, frank, mid even polished. Endowed with an early classical educe lion, he is a ready, correct, and strong writer. As a speaker, he is more remarkable for the clearness and correctness of his style than for his elocution ; and though most respectable, he is less distinguished for the brilliancy of his talents than for the s o undness of his judgment, matured as it has been by forty years' experience in the civil and military service of his country." A Correspondent in Syria rvi ites us an amusing account of the performances of Commodore Napier. " imagine (says our Correspondent) our old friend the Commodore, his vissge umbrcilaed hitli a straw hat with nipping brims of irimicnse dimensions. di.ested of his coat, mid mounted on a jackass, with hi= shirt sleeves turned up, as if for the purpose of slaughtering a pig, cantering at the head of a Marine battalion, ai its command.r, and wonder if you cm tit:A his own blue j rackets should Joug ago have tiv_d upon hint the soubriquet of ' Mad Charley,' Arid imagine, if you can, all this, and a body of rOitary ' men led on by such a commander, inster.d of one of Os own gallant and oft-tried senior (Anis." The thing iA ectt:inly httyond the stretch of any ordinary concsption, but we are told that it oeenrted, nevertheicso;—United •S'eli, , ice Gazette. The Prefect of Police, by decrees of the 14th a d 15th instant, has fixed the fares for the conveyance of carriages, horse, and cattle, by the railroads between Paris, St. Germ lib, and Versed es. This traffic will socn efford an important Addition to the profits of these ender t•kings. Ae the transport of horses for the whole diataace to both St. Germain and Versailles is to b no more than 2f. aOe., the forest of Sr. Germain and the woods of Ver will become favourite resorts for equestrian exer cise, particularly as the Buis de Boulogne is now cut up by the brtifications. A report has been spread at Valenciennes that a cool-pit at Boussu, in Belgium, has been suddenly flooded by the breaking of part of the drainage pipes, and that 100 workmen are believed to hose perished. E. S. CAYLEY, ESQ., M P.—We had the satisfaction cf stating in our paper a fortnight ago, that the worthy Member for the North Riding had so far re covered that he would be able to attend the opening of Parliament. Although this is the case, the state of Mr. Cayley'e health will prevent him from taking that activo part in public business which he was accustomed to take, b it the Honourable Member will be able to watch over the interests of his constituents with the seine fidelity he has ever evinced.— Yerkshireman. Tue Droit states that during the crush at the valides, the day before yesterday, a lady was :eparated from her husband, thrown down, trampled on. and only saved from serious injury with the utmest difficulty. On the same day a poor woman, in an advanced state of pregnancy, who had been rash enough to get into the crowd, and was h ush, d about, was taken with premature labour, and was delivered, in the garden itself, of a fine boy. The mother has had him christened Napoleon Sauveur Bienvenu I—Galignani of Friday. A NEW FEMALE ACADEMY.—A remarkable solemnity took place a few days ago at the Hotel Caster lane, in the Rue du Fauxbourg St. Honore. A splendid, thjeuner was served in the spacious dining-room of this magnificent hotel, and forey ladies were assembled to enjoy the feast. M. de Castellane, the host, was the only male present, and after breakfast lie addressed his fair guests, saying that he had invited them for the pur pose of founding a Female Academy. After the merits of the project had been discussed, it was at length unanimously agreed to, and M. de Castel lane then called upon the eldest, lady present to come forward and take the chair according to the custom of the Chamber of Deputies. But the ladius.tbought this custom would be more honoured 'in the breach tban in the observance, and all stood aloof : not one was found to claim the chair. Here the business was stuck on the horns of a dilemma. But M. tie Cattellane, seeing the hopelessness of bringing out the avowed seniority, at length called upon the youngest of his fair and fickle guests to come forward, when the ladies (to a man) all milled to him en masse. "the worthy host foundthat he had avoided Scylla to rush into Charybdis ; but after much squabbling, chattering, and a profuse expenditure of protestations of juvenility, the president was at length chosen, and the Female Academy will henceforth issue their fiats on music and literature from the salons of the Hotel Castellane. SUSPICION OF CHILD MURDER.—Yesterdav ever:int; an inquest was held at the Falcon, Old Fish_ street, before Mr. Payne, on the body of an infant which eas discovered in a gutter in Old 'Change, Clicapside, at an early hour yesterday (Monday) morning. It ap. peered from theevidenee that the body ef the child was discovered by a !about - tug man named Horne ;it was in the gutter, and was at first supposed to be the carcass of d b o u g dy 7 w e it a i t l a which it a s pp s e o a m r e ed th t i o ck b ha r v o e w b n ee iap been wrapped. near the It ergscaoi(ni it was a s O a l Old Lisghr-Crown was I.:moved to the vaults o f th e c h urc h . M r. H o lmes, su aw at least eighteen month s or two years; h e sa e unable to child; s i t the must b o h d a y v have f h t e c e r n wa ll s a ; discover the sex ; the body must have been kept in a dry place, or e b ls od ee: y ecomposition m us t h a ve long since d estro y ed t. and occasionedmutilatedwas abboy dogs.utth T the head; case but that was very wasrec ent , adjourned until next Monday. WITCUCRAFT.—I told the Bishop of WOWS:: ter that li's diocese is infected with notions about witches; he intends his clergy shall rectify their mistakes in that part;cular. lie told me sonic of the topics he would have argued. He dun's much controvert the power of devils in the Gentile world, and their extraordinary operations may ,still take place among the Pagans. lie is inclined enough to believe what some authors have writ of the strange effects in such places ; but he thinks the Gos p el, as fur as it reaches , ha s destro y ed the works of the devil, and those who are in the covenant of grace can receive no hurt from the infernal powers, either in their persons, children, or goods; that a man may be so profligate as to give himself to the devil, but he can have no assistance from him to hurt any body else in a supernatural way. 1 think we may 'resent to tins latter part, and leave the devi and the Gentiles to argue the rest among thellSelVes. —James's Count a.,d Times of' William HI, SINGULAR INCIDENT.—A short time ago a person in Paisley, member of a funeral Society in that town, presented to the treasurer a forged line, certifying the death of a child, and oa the faith of it obtained 11. 403. The child was in perfect health at the time this deceit was practised, but in a few days after it fell fro died of the injuries. The father has since the society. _Scottish Pilot.