The Sun. — London, England, 1840-01-20 00:00:00

I TilE ;\ _ •- Hail, joyous day I The Postage Bill Brings blessings great and many ; And, best of all, say what we will, It only costs a penny. From John o'Groat's to England's-end, From Norfolk to Kilkenny, A letter now may reach a friend, And only cost a penny. The dying miser writes, " dear son, My days will not be many." The youth exclaims, " Gcd's will be done ! This news is worth a penny." Dame Nature will her rights pursue, Fond Jock woo smiling Jenny ; A note brimful of love—if true— Is surely worth a penny. Hurrah ! Hurrah 1 May Rowland Hill Ne'er want " the ready penny." To him we owe the Postage Bill, And blessings great and many. b True love. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. NEWARK ELECTION. EVENING F,D IT 1 0 N . LINES WRITTEN ON THE FIRST D PORTSMOUTH, SAT. JAN. 18. —The Pembroke, 72, Captain Moresby, C. 8., arrived to-day from the Mediter ranean, to be paid off. The Jupiter, troop-ship, Mr. Fulton commander, sailed on the 25th of October, from Ceylon, for England, with the 61st regiment on board. The Herald, 28, and Pclorus, 18, were at Sydney, on the 23d of August. The Louisa Felicity, a French vessel from Rouen to the Bay of Biscay, was blown into St. Helen's Road on Tues day night, but shortly after broke her anchor, and drifted on the sand to the eastward of Ryde, where she bumped till she got seven feet water in her hold. The boatswain and boat's crew of the Adelaide cutter, saw her in the morning, and immediately went to her assistance, and as the tide was high, succeeded, by getting sail upon her, in bringing her into Portsmouth harbour, where she is now in dock. Great praise is due to the Revenue men for their promptitude and skill. The ship Broxbornebury, for Sydney, is on her way to this port from London, to embark passengers, stock, &c. At Spithead.—Pembroke, Fantome, Crescent. In Harbour.—The Britannia, Victory, Blenheim, Ex cellent, Royal George, Blonde, Pique, Pantaloon, Raven cutter, and Messenger steamer. In Basin.—The Madagascar, Magicienne, Ardromache, and Victor. In Dock.—The Queen, St. Vincent, Warspite, Dublin, Tweed, Harier, and Fanny tender. NMARK, JAN. 18.-It is w'nerally understood that the election will take place on Friday, and as the period Ip proaches the interest becomes more general and intense, and the exertions of both parties more strenuous. The Tories have found out the errors of their calculations; they have discovered what was long since told them, v that the power of their party has rapidly declined in the bbrough, and that men will act upon the Newcastle motto of cioiug as they like with their own, and hence springs the magnitude and continuousness of their efforts. Intimida tion has been practised as far as their means will permit, and to give effect to their threats and clothe their candi date with the semblance, at least, of aristocratic patro nage, tbe Duke of Newcastle, arid Lord Maidstone (son of Earl Winchilsea) have visited the town, the latter of whom has endeavoured to influence many of his father's tenants. His efforts, however, have been fruitless. Mr. Thesiger has been in the town some days, and has been busied in attempting to encourage the doubtful and confirm the wavering. The Solicitor-General arrived on Thursday evening, and has sought, with much success, to counteract the ma noeuvres of his opponents. His friends are unceasing in their labours, and are reaping a rich reward in the increas ing certainty of their triumph. If amongst the electors of Newark there be any regard for truth—if honesty be not a byeword, and conscience a phantom—if promises volunta rily and distinctly given, and temperately and deliberately weighed, are to be relied upon, the return of the Solicitor ,General is more certain than it has been on any former oc casion. The following address, issued by the Learned Gentleman late this evening, briefly but clearly indicates his awn idea of the prospects of the cause . " TO THE WORTHY AND INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OP THE BOROUGH OF NEWARK. "Gentlemen—Since my return to Newark on Thursday 3vening, 1 have made myself intimately acquainted with the state of the canvass. )",. Every vote has been most carefully considered, and I have the happiness to be able to inform you, that after making ample and even extravagant allowances to our op ponents, our majority is great and decisive. " This avowal I should think it very imprudent to make if I did not from long experience know that the surest prospects of success will not abate your zeal and energy. Until the pnll is closed, you will remember that the elec tion is not won, and you will, I am confident, spare no exertion to ensure our success. " With regard to the attempts at coercion which have been made, you have resisted and overcome them when they were a thousand times more formidable than they can ever be again. Oppose them as you have always done with :your steady defiance, and you will make them as harmless as they are unprincipled. " I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, " Your faithful and obedient servant, " THOMAS WILDE." " Castle and Falcon, Jan.l2." THE NEW NOVEL BY MRS. TROLLOPE. In 3 vols. post Bvo.. ®NE FAULT, BY MRS. TROLLOPE, IS NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES. " One Fault,' though differing in style from Mrs. Trol lope's other works, will be found inferior to none in popularity. It forcibly inculcates a great moral lesson "—Morning Herald. By the same Author, In 3 vols.: 04 Bvo., 245. The ENGLISH WIFE and the FOREIGN HUSBAND. A Romance of Vienna.. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THEATRE ROYAL COVENT GARDEN. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, JAN. 20, Will be performed Shakspere's Tragedy of HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Moore (from the Theatres Royal, Edinburgh axid Dublin. his second appearance on this stage); Laertes, Mr. J. Vining; Horatio, Mr. Selby; Polonius, Mr. W. Farren ; First Gravedigger, Mr. Bartley Ghost of Hamlet's Father, Mr. Cooper ; Gertrude, Miss Penson (her first appearance at this Theatre) ; Ophelia, Mrs. Walter Lacy. To conclude with the New Grand Comic Christmas Panto mime, entiiled HARLEQUIN AND THE MERRIE DEVIL OF ED MONTON ; OR, THE GREAT BED OF WARE. Wtih entirely New Scenery. Machinery, Dresses, and De- corations. Har.equin, Mr. C. J. Mr. T. Ridgway ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli ; Merrie Devil, Mr. Gibson ; and Co umbine, Miss Fairbrother. Dress Boxes, is; Second Price, 3s. 6d. ; First and Second ss. ; Second Price, 2.5. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 25.; Gallery, Is. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven o'Clock. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Notter, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, wh re Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be bad solely of Mr. Andrews. bookseller 167, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. The Grand Comic Pantomime, universally allowed to be the best in London. is attracting the most brilliant overflows ever witnessed, and will be repeated every evening. THIS EVENING, JAN. 20, Will be repeated, an entirely new Legendat v Drama, called THE LAPIDARY OF LEYDEN. After which a Drama called THE INNOCENT CULPBIT. To corclude with the New Grand Christmas Pantomime, called THE QUEEN BEE, OR HARLEQUIN AND GOODY TWO SHOES. The splendid Scenery by Mr. Brunning—The magnificent Diorama by Mr. P. Phillips. Columbine, Miss Sharpe ; Harlequin, Clown, Pantaloon, and Sprite, by the Bolero Family. Messrs. Sams of St. James's-street ; Andrews, Ebers, and Mitchell, Bond-street ; and Seguin of Regent-street, Book sellers, are appointed to let Private and Public Boxes during the run of the Pantomime. Commons seeks to relieve itself from this responsibility, and. to in [-e from Ili , whole people all legal means of limiting and controlling whatever it publishes. Now, we see no reason whatever for releasing the House of Commons from such a control, nor can we believe, if that House mean honestly and fairly by the public, that it ought to strive after such an extraordinary exemption. At the same time the House of Commons may, with great propriety, object to have its conduct tried by the fictions of the Courts of Law, and those de cisions and enactments which go under the name of the law of libel. Newspaper proprietors make the same objection, but they cannot help themselves ; and thanks to a so-called paternal Legislature — thanks to so-called Courts of Justice, they, though acting with the most honest intentions, prosecuting their business with the most scrupulous care, and performing with the utmost exactitude their im portant duty to the public, are liable at any moment to be ruined, and crushed by a prosecution for libel. The particular case of Mr. STOCKDALE, which seems to have been made for the purpose of set tling the folly of the law in a clear light, demon strates that it is the libel law, as now constituted, from which the House of Commons seeks to be released, not from a due responsibility for its con duct to properly constituted tribunals. Why, for such a libel as the House of Commons published against him, in the due and ho ourable performance of its duty, he could hardly have recovered damages from a news paper ; and under a proper law, would have been hooted out of Court, had he ventured to appeal to one. It was, however, under the present libel law, and under a mass of fictions, that he recovered damages from the printer of the House of Com mons. The conchlsion, therefore, that we jump to —for newspaper writers must jump at times—is, that the wretched trash which the Courts of Law , call the Libel Law, is the source of all the regric- tions and responsibilities which the House of Commons feels to be adverse to the peformance of its duty, and that were the libel law what it ought to be, the privilege of printing and publishing by the House of Commons, would be unimpeded and What then should the libel law be ? Why every man should as now be free to print and publish whatever he pleases, he being responsible for what he prints and publishes. If what he prints and publishes aggrieves any individual, a jury should decide upon all the circumstances of the case, the truth or falsehood of the libel, whether it were published in the performance of a duty, or out of wantonness and malice, whether it were justified or not, and that Jury should de cide what damages and what costs the libeller should pay, and what punishment he should suffer. As far as the public are concerned, it would also be necessary that Courts of Law should be made accessible to all parties, and be made to approximate to tribunals for dispensing justice. With such a libel law it would be seen at once that there was no malice in any publication by the House of Commons, except in case of evidence given before Committees, for which the witnesses should be held responsible, that it was published in the performance of a great public duty, and no action could be sustained. Under such a law, no man would think of bring ing an action, for he could get neither costs nor damages—and the privileges of the House would be as unquestioned as the power of the wind or the CO WES-SUNDAY. (PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. It has been blowing a gale at S. W. all day, but the ships in the roadstead ride well—we have had the tide higher than we remember for the last fifteen years ; the High street, from the Vine Inn to the Anchor, was under water, to the serious annoyance of the residents in that part of the town ; many of them on their return from Church and Chapel found the water in their houses. The inhabitants of Medina-terrace and Brunswick-street, were similarly situated, and all communications between different parts of the town cut off, except by wading through the waters. The night tide is expected to flow higher, and we fear will occasion considerable damage along the coast should the gale continue. No steam packets have left the port. THE PARADE AT WEST COWES, n former years the favourite promenade of England's aristocracy in their summer visits to that delightful watering-place, a great portion of which, directly to the South of the Royal Yacht Squadron-house, was destroyed by the N.E. gale of the 2d of May, 1836, and has remained in unsightly ruins ever since, our readers will be pleased to hear, is about to be rebuilt, and with as little delay as the nature of the work will allow, so that the admirtrs of nautical sports, and the invalid in search of the pure sea breeze, may enjoy themselves on this beautiful spot early in the \ensuing summer. The difference that existed between the Lord of the Manor of Northwood and the Commissioners under the Act for the improvement of the town having been satisfactorily arranged, the former claimed the parade but declined repairing it. It is now settled that he find the timber, stone, and other material, and alit the Com missionors find the labour. It is proposed also to carry the Hi g h -street in a straight line, or nearly so, from the Union Inn to the parade. THE CHARTISTS IN LONDON.—On Saturday morning a placard was posted in Brick -lane, a nd the neighbour hood of Bethnal-green, calling a meeting of Chartists for nine in the evening, to assemble at the Trades' Hall, " for the pur pose of making known to the people of London the extreme misery and destitution of the working classes." In consequence of this announcement a large number of persons assembled in the evening in Abbey-street ; but the landlord of the beer-shop would not let them in, unless the resolution., with the names of *hose who were to speak on them, were first given to him for his approval, and the parties also pledging themselves that all persons attending should co me unarmed. This the men calling the meeting refused to do, and the assembly was put off until this evening. MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES. — A meeting of the Magistrates of the county of Middlesex was held on Thursday at the Sessions-house, Clerkenwell, for the despatch of county business. Mr. Sergeant Adams in the Chair. The minutes - of the last Court were read and con firmed. The Visiting Justices of the New Prison, Clerken well, repeated that during their sitting on the 30th of De cember the Marquis of Normanby, the Secretary of State for the Home Department, had visited the prison, accompanied by the Hon. F. Byng, a County Magistrate. when his Lordship was pleased to exprsss his satisfaction at the general appearance and cleanliness of the gaol. Mr. Tulk brought up a very long report of the Visiting Justices of the Unwell Lunatic Asylum. Amongst other things it set forth a variety of improvements con templated by the Visiting Justices, the estimated expense of Oft& was 5,000/. The Report of the Visiting Justices of the House of Correction stated that there were at present confined in th,Nt gaol 749 males and 274 females ; making a total of 1,023. m r . George Pounall was elected Surveyor for the district of the parishes of St. Giles-in-the-Fields and St. George Blooms , bury. After disposing of some routine business, the Court ad joirned. I NOVEL . OCCURRENCE.—A rather novel oc- - - currence took place on Saturday last. As a farming man in the e m p lo y of Mr. Carnle y , of Bessecar Grange. was re: 1 t ur ning from Doncaster market, about five o'clock, with a wa ggon and th ree horses, and whilst p roceedin g down Cantlev ' Church Lane, the ;ead horse took fright at something. The man wa.s standing at the tine on the shafts. The horses leapt over the hedge with the waggon, before he hail time to speak to them ; and he soon found all salt in the middle of a turnip field the man still standing on the .shafts.—Doncaster Gazette. COACH ACCIDENT. —A dreadful accident, which was nearly attended with loss of life, occurred on Satur • day evening, about eight o'clock, to a gentleman named Haiter, iresiding at 6 5 , Connaught-terrace, Edgware-road. Mr. I Miter had been viewing the wood pavement in Whitehall, and, when about to cross thence to the Horse Guards, was knocked down by the Exeter mail, which was travelling at a rapid rate, on its way to the Southampton Railway. The h orses trampled upon him, and th e off wheel of the coach a oac passed over iboth his legs. He wa s p icked up apparently dnd imme diately carried to the house of a surgeon in the neighbout hood, who found, upon examination, that both legs were broken, and that he had received a severe fracture of the upper jaw, and was otherwise seriously injured. Some hopes are entertained z of his recovery. A box containing the skeleton of a child has b'en found by a labourer in a wood in the pari , h of \Val kdrm. The box appeared to have been m ade out of a drawer. Au inquest will beheld to-day (Saturday), when we hope some i light will be th rown u p o n the matter,—Brighton Herald. The pubication of the President's Message, in the first edition of the Yorning Herald, and other journals, on Thursday morning last, within a few hours a fter ifs a r r ival a t Liverpoo , was entirely owing to the eourtesy of the Direcl tors of the Grand Junction Railway Company, who, aware of the anxiety evinced for that document in I,Prkdon, readily granted an extra engine to our agents in Liverpool, Messrs. \ - a i lilmer and Smith, to admit of its being forwarded so as to overtake the regular train, which started film Liverpool an hour an-d a quarter before. Tills was accomplished at Staf ford, the diAance, sixty-eight mites, being performed in one hour and forty-five minutes. Occurrences like these afford s t r iki n g proofs of the utility of railway corrirouoipatipn.— Morning Hera.d. TO (;ORRESPJNDENTS. Those Correspondents who wish to see their communi cations inserted, must send us, in confidence, their names and addresses. Without that we have no guarantee of the accuracy of the communication. " A Plain Man" must send us his address in confidence, if he wishes us to insert his communication. HIGH.WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO. 10R110 W. orning 47 minutes after 3 p Evening 2 minutes after 4 4. i c , 3 q>,, „ ,te ..--.--.,----1c.42,_• 4 -4.- ~...___-!..---- - • -:, , -.• vt _ , Zan fl la. LONDON : MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1840. The House of Commons met on Saturday, and examined, in the Privileges case, the Bailiff to the Sheriffs, the Sheriffs, and Under-Sheriff, all of whom gave frank and candid answers, and expressed regret, should they have done any thing to offend the House, but all declared that they had done only their customary daty, and had postponed to the latest day possible acting in the matter. The Sheriffs and Under-Sheriff are to attend again this day, and Lord JoHN RUSSELL is to state what course he means to pursue. On Wednesday Lord JoHN RUSSELL is to mention the intention of Ministers as to the provi ion for Prince ALBERT. Some conversation ensued about the covers for letters which have been issued to Members of Parlia ment for their convenience, provided the letters be posted at the House of Commons, on which Hon. Gentlemen professed great alarm, lest the penny franks should be forged. A low estimate of human nature—an estimate full of suspicions—is sure to breed the vice it suspects ; and we therefore would recommend Members of the Legislature to judge more favourably of mankind. The House sat till nearly half-past four o'clock. In writing about the privileges of the House of Commons, which so much interest our representa tives, though they appear to have little charm for the people, we wish carefully to distinguish be- tween the particular case and the general privileges claimed by the House. In the mode of proceeding as to the former, we think the House wrong ; the latter should, we think, be possessed. The immediate question before the House con cerns the violation of its privileges by Mr. STOCK DALE. Now those privileges are so ill-defined, that of about ten lawyers who have spoken on the question, half have taken different sides. So un certain was the House itself, that it did not know how to act, and appeared to defend one action, while.in another it allowed judgment to go by default. To settle its privileges—and Mr. STOCKDALE might suppose to create new ones, till the question was brought before the Courts—the House passed additional resolutions in 1837 and 1839. The Judges, without one dissentient voice, decided, in the case of the defended action, against the House ; and Mr. STOCKDALE had the law with him. We do not say he was right in braving the House, but we assert that in a case admitting of so much doubt, on which a large minority of the House, half the lawyers in it, and all the Judges, were against the majority of the House, a man is not to be severely blamed, and severely punished for entertaining the same opinion as the Judges, and acting on it. Yet, because Mr. STOCKDALE has formed an erroneous opinion on this very doubtful question, the House pur sues him individually, we must say, with much vindictiveness, and without the smallest chance of thereby settling or confirming the important pri vilege it claims. It ought, therefore, in our humble judgment, to persecute Mr. STOCKDALE no fur ther. It may be contented with having made him feel its power ; let it now dismiss him, and let it set about securing, in a wise and rational manner, the privilege in future. How much of the vindictiveness we have mentioned proceeds from a consciousness that it has committed errors in the conduct of this business, we cannot undertake to say ; but if it would have the public judge that it has acted from patriotic motives, and not under the influence of the petty malice of disap pointed professional men, it must give up the per secution of Mr. STOCKDALE, and vindicate its privilege in a more honourable and noble manner. We will explain how. The privilege claimed by the House, and we say justly claimed—a privilege without which it would be inefficient, and incapable of performing its duty, but a privilege which has not yet been properly secured to it—is the privilege of printing and publishing whatever it may think necessary to print and publish for the use of the people and the benefit of the nation, let uho will thereby be injured. It of course has that privilege now —so have the newspapers. They, and it, can print and publish what they like, but both are responsible to the law; and Mr. STOCKDA LE'S A ction has demonstrated that the servants of the House Commons can be amerce d fora libe as well the proprietor of a newsp a p er . Whil e t h e Legislature will by no means release the news paper proprietor from his responsibility, though he has a duty to perform to the public as well as the Legislature, the House of PH" StTN, LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 20, IR4O. very properly put an extinguisher upon the firebraPd. TOMMY'S veracity, it Will be seen, receives s very awkward compli►nent in the P.S. of the Chaplain's letter : TO THE REV. H. E. PRIOR, INCUMI3ENT OF LUCAN. The Palace, Jaa. 8, 1840. DEAR SlR—The Archbishop has perceived an adver tisement stating that the Rev. T. D. Gregg is to preach in Lucan Church on Sunday, the 12th instant. The Rev. T. D. Gregg does not hold a license to preach. A written letter from you, to state that this will not be persevered in (provided it is left at the Palace by eleven issuing of on Friday), will be in time to prevent the of the proper document, in prohibition, from the Consist - rial-office.—l am, yours very truly, CHARLES DICKINSON, Domestic Chaplain to the Archbishop of Dublin. P. S.---I have had a private interview, by accident, with Mr.:Gregg, who has left me under the impression that he will not preach ; but a letter to the effect that you will not allow the violation of the canon on this subject will be requisite, or the monition will be issued. The Rev. H. E. Prior, the Glebe, Lucan. We direct attention to the Correspondence, else where published, relative to Messrs LOVETT and COLLINS. It has been properly observed that if they had moved in the rank of Sir JOHN Hos- HOUSE or Sir FRANCIS BURDETT they would have been differently treated ; so that the great dif ference of our law for the rich and the poor, for men of rank and the humble in station, is continually forced on our atten tion. The untiring exertions of the gentleman, whose letter to Sir EARDLEY WILMOT speaks for itself, in favour of the oppressed of the working classes, need no commendation from us, for they are well known to all whe have ever had anything to do with public affairs in the metropolis, and will pre serve amongst the working cksses the name of FRANCIS PLACE in lasting honour. The prolongation of the French blockade of Buenos Ayres cannot fail to become, in a very short time, a source of serious embarrassment to the British Government. That blockade, undertaken on grounds which, in the opinion of several able expositors of the law of nations, did not warrant a measure of such severity, has now continued for a period of two years, thus threatening to be of in terminable duration. The object of a lawful blockade is to compel a State, by the tempo rary injury inflicted upon its commerce, to accede to the demands of justice or to make repa ration for wrongs perpetrated under its authority ; but in the case of Buenos Ayres the commercialists of Great Britain and the United States are suffer- ing more extensively than the subjects of the South AJierican Republic. Our merchants have already computed the loss of this country alone at two millions sterling—a loss so immense that no Government can remain indifferent to it. Lord VA LMERSTON has stated that the Government has hitherto declined to interfere, lest a prece dent should be established which might here after be invoked to the detriment of the mari time rights of England as a belligerent. This is reasonable enough, on the assumption that, in the absence of such precedent, England has a right to establish a perpetual blockade ; but if the end of all war be peace, then is it preposterous to place the question any longer on such a footing. The object of a blockade, as we have already stated, is to inflict only temporary injury, and, therefore, when so ex tended as to threaten the total destruction of various branches of international commerce—to drive trade entirely out of its old and ordinary chan nels, it changes its character, and assumes an in tentional hostility of bearing towards all States with whose trade it interferes. For example, we are at this moment virtually, and may expect to be in a short time actually, at war with China, but were we powerful enough to establish a dooms-day blockade of all the coasts of that empire, ostensibly for the purpose of chastising the Celestial Govern ment, but in reality to create a demand for the teas of Assam, and thus destroy the China trade alto gether, will it be pretended that France and the United States would have no right to interfere with us ? Most assuredly it will not. If Eng land, as a free and independent State, the sole judge and guardian of her own honour, de cide that she has suffered wrongs and insults at the hands of China, no nation has a right to say that she shall not seek reparation by any legitimate means she may think proper, and among others by a blockade if she prefer it ; but they have a tight to insist that such blockade shall be effectual and temporary—that it shall not aim at the destruction, but merely at the suspension of trade. Now this is all the right that we claim for this country in the case of the French blockade of Buenos Ayres. We have surely a right to say that a blockade which, during two years has been productive of no result but injury to England, the friend and ally of France, ought to be abandoned. This right derives additional import ance from the fact that the most valuable branch of our trade with Buenos Ayres, consists of the produce of mines, the property of British capi talists, and rendered productive by British industry. In this respect our trade with Buenos Ayres differs essentially in very little from our trade with one of our own colonies. Both the raw material and the manufactured produce are British property. Had France two years ago accepted the prof fered mediation and umpireship of Great Britain, she would have consulted her own honour and interests better than by making a demonstra tion of her naval strength against the puny Republics of South America. Even now, it is not too late for her to leave the ques tion to the arbitration of either England or the United States. Her power and her courage are too well known to allow her to fear the shadow of im putation being cast upon either .by appearing to yield to the firmness displayed by such a fifth-rate State as Buenos Ayres. By the arrival of the p a cket - ship Shef fi e ld, at L IT i o v r e k r , p o w o l e y h e a s t v e e r cl racy:eived United States and in eighteen days from New ts of the Secret a ries o f the Treasury and of W ar, p resented to Con g ress. As Ca nada Journals , th e former to the Ist instant in elusive. They brin g no news of an y p olitical or great i scommercial interest. re gards dulness and p rolixity, the y are unmatched even by the President's Messa g e. From the re p ort of the Secretary of the Tr easur y , we learn that the available annual repo The Washington Globe balance of money in the state coffers at the begin ning of the current year was just 155,384 dollars ; that the estimated amount of money for the service of the next year is 31,152,106 dollars, of which 20,000,000 dollars will be required for ordinary purposes, and the remainder for the redemption of Treasury Bills, and the extraordinary services of the Supreme Government. The amount of ex ports for the yeas ending September 30, 1839, is estimated to have been 118,359,000 dollars, being an excess over those:of 1838;of 9,872,388 dollars. Of the whole exports, only 17,408,000 dollars were of foreign origin. The whole imports for the same period are estimated to have amounted to about 157,700,000 dollars, being an excess to the large extent of 43,892,356 dollars over those during the previous year. From Canada the news is very favourable. The Legislative Council of Upper Canada had waited upon the Governor-General with the resolutions adopted for the Leaisiative Union of the two Pro vinces, which his Excellency received very gra- I ciously. The Council had likewise resolved that sun Why does not the House of Commons establish its privilege on that broad and durable basis Never mind the House of Lords ; if it refuse to concur in so equitable a law, let it be left to public opinion, and it will not hold out long. But we are afraid the House of Commons would be jealous of allowing others to share the privilege of cheap justice. Amongst the Members of both Houses there is a strong desire to hang up the present anomalous mass of fictions, called the libel law, as a scourge over the press. The law-makers are afraid of the newspapers, and will not give the public a good libel law, though that would secure their own privileges beyond question, because it would remove an unjust means of co ercing and damaging the press. But if the House of Commons will not give us a good libel law, now that they feel some of the inconveniences of the present law, then they ought to establish their privilege by a declaratory law. At present it has to be hunted out from their own multiplied and sometimes contradictory pro ceedings, and from the still more multipiied and contradictory decisions of the Courts. The whole arguments on both sides have turned on what my Lord HOLT said, on what was done in the Earl of SHAFTESBURY'S case, on the decision in the case of ASHBY and WHITE, and what has been said and done by Judges and men who lived a century or two ago, in cases the exact counterparts of which are never likely to occur again. Such is not the proper basis for a law, and no person can be justly blamed for violating a law that has so to be dis covered. To shut Mr. STOCKDALE up in Newgate for violating these uncertain privileges (that the House will shut up the Sheriffs, who have conducted themselves with great propriety, and dignity, we have not the slightest appre hension), to wrangle about these privileges for three nights more, will leave them just as uncertain, just as liable to be opposed, and just as liable to bring the House again into a conflict with the Courts of Law as at present. Such a course will do nothing for settling the privileges of the House. But the House is bound to settle them, and bound not to leave them in so uncertain a state, that it can, when it will, play the tyrant. As a component part of the Legislature, it is the duty of the House of Commons, in conjunction with the two other parts, to prescribe the duties of the Judges, to make laws for them to administer, and not to tole rate the possibility of such a conflict being renewed as now threatens to bring discredit both on the Courts and the House of Commons. To persecute and punish Mr. STOCKDALE, and to leave the question of this important privilege unsettled, of which we earnestly desire to see the House in the full and undoubted exercise, is consistent neither with the dignity of the House, nor with doing jus ,ice to the individual. The polemical propensities of the Rev. T. G. GREGG are pretty well known. He is, in fact, the most pugnacious of the whole squad of divines of the " ascendancy" school--the semper paratus of the Orange faction in their intolerance towards the Catholics of Ireland. It appears from the follow ing letter, which we copy from the Dublin Pilot, that GREGG has been baulked in a meditated on slaught upon the Catholics of Lucan, in which parish his old antagonist and conqueror, the Rev. Mr. MAGUIRE, has lately consecrated a new cha pel. Such an occasion for an outpouring of the rancorous spirit of Orange Protestantism was too good to be lost, thought the cha mp i on o f bi gotr y, and out came a notification to the godly, that the celebrated T. D. GREGG was to hold forth in the parish church of Lucan on a stated day. The Archbishop of DUBLIN, however, was beforehand with TOMMY. His Grace having heard of the an address should he presented to the QUEEN, praying hsr 'ATAJESTY, that, after the union of the p rov i nces , Upper Canada should have a numerical majority in the Unted Assembly ; that the English language should alone be used in the proceedings of the Legislature ; that the seat of Government should be in Upper Canada ; and that no change should take place in the existing Constitution ; that the seats of the Members of the Legislative Council should be permanent, as provided for in the Act of 1791 ; that the Speaker of that body be not eli gible, unless he be a Member thereof ; that the qualification of the Members of the House of As sembly should be provided for ; that the Courts of Judicature should ba maintained as they now are, until altered by the United Legislature ; and that a new division of e counties of Lower Canada should be made by the Imperial Government, so as to secure a due proportion of representation to the British inhabitants of this province. NEW YORK MONEY MARKET. (From the Enquirer.) MONDAY NIGHT, DEC. 30.—We have to report a large business having been done to-day in Stocks, at improved rates. At the Second Board the prices paid at the first were fully sustained, and the market closed firm. On the other hand, the pressure on the Money Market continued excessive to-day ;it would appear, however, to be but momentary, for while business paper, having a few months to run, was bought at the previous discount, good bills hav ing only ten or twelve days to run were sold at 1 all per cent. deduction. Large sales of bills on Paris were made at 5 dol. 30. In exchange on London the operations were trifling, and the quotation remains as before, 8} to 81. The premium on specie is declining to nothing. There is no demand for export, and the home orders are nearly supplied, We have little doubt that after New Year we shall be able to quote it at par. RATE OF SALES ON MONDAY AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE. (Reported for the Courier and Enquirer.) Corporation Fives, 1860 B4 Ohio Sixes, 1860 Shares U. S. Bank opening 76 Ditto Delaware and Hudson ... North American Trust Mechanics' Banking Association 7O Farmers' Trust B5 Vicksburg 23 New York Gag Canton Co. Mohawk Railroad 6Ol Boston and Providence Railroad s 90 103 Syracuse and Utica 1064 Long Island Haarlem Railroad American Exchange Bank tr2 Exchange on Philadelphia SALES AT THE SECOND BOARD. North American Trust Delaware and Hudson b 30 ds. 71 Haarlem Railroad s 30 ds. 502 The Madrid papecs received: are of the 10th inst. The QUEEN REGENT has appointed Lieutenant-General RIVER° Viceroy of Navarre and Captain General of the Basque Province:. Letters had been received at Saragossa from six different guar! ers, announcing the death of Ca brera. On the Madrid Bourse the Five per cents. were done on the 10th for 281 cash, and 29 for sixty days. The French Journals of Friday and Saturday have been duly received. On Thursday night a deputation from the Chamber of Deputies presented the Address to the KING, and received 111 S MA JESTY'S felicitations for such a manifestation of their loyalty and patriotism. The details of the Budget presented to the Chamber of Deputies on Thursday are discussed in all the Paris journals. The interest of such dis cussions being confined to the people of France, we shall restrict ourselves to the mere mention of ►em. On the 13th inst. a conflict took place at Toil a town twenty leagues south of Toulouse, betwce► the populace and the military commanded by the civil authorities, in which, according to one account, fifteen persons were killed and forty wounded, whereas another states that only nine were killed and four mortally wounded, and sixteen wounded se• verely. The loss was entirely on the side of the people ; none of the military were either killed or wounded. It was a market-day in the town, and the cause of contention was a new tariff, or Custom house regulation, imposing heavy duties on cattle, corn, and certain commodities exposed for sale. A letter from St.,Petersburgh of the 2d inst., published by the Commerce, states that on the 3 ist ult. the Russian Government was apprised of the ex istence of a conspiracy in that capital, in which several of the most distinguished families in Russia were engaged. The alleged haunt of the conspirators was the house of Madame BESTUJEF, the aunt of BESTUJEF, who was hanged in 1826, as the ac co►nplice of PEST EL and MOURAVIEFF. General BEN K ERDORF, Director of the Secret Police, pre ' pared to search the house, and arrest all found in it at one o'clock on ',the following morning ; but on approaching it at the head of a regiment of cuiras siers, he found it in flames. Madame BESTUJEF was not to be found, nor could the progress of the fire be arrested before every article in the house was entirely destroyed. It was supposed that the conspirators, aware of their danger, had set fire to the house, the more effectually to destroy every record it contained of their designs. The EMPEROR was greatly enraged at the failure of the police, and orders were given to all the news papers not to make the remotest allusion to it. The new Government of the Canton of Ticino has been recognized by the Swiss Vorort. BOURSE.—PAR►s, FRIDAY, JAN. 17. - - - -- f irst Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price French 5 per Cents ll2 5 ... 112112 5 ... 1,2 25 4 per Cents lO4 20 . iC4 20 ... 104 20 ... 10 t 20 3 per Cents Bl .... 31 5 ... 81 ... 81 5 Bank of France 3050 ...3055 -.3050 -.3055 Latlitte Bank 1,0000. Sh.— 1040 ...1040 ...1040 ...I 40 5,0000. Sh 5170 ...5185 —5170 ...5185 Belgian Bank 875 ... 875 ... 885 ... 8;0 5 per Cent, 3 per Cents 7l ... '7l ... 71 ... 71 Spanish Active 26 ... 20 ... 25X ... ... 26 P ass i v e O% ... 6% ... 6% % New Dcferred Portuguese 3 per Cents tng ... 22% ... ~ 2 3% ... 2.K, Neapolitan Roman lO2 ... 102 k ... 102 ... 1021; RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain - - - 575 572 60 575 575 Versailles, R. B 5OO ... 500 ... 497 50 ... 497 59 332 50 ... 340 332 5C ... ain Orleans . Niulhausen to Thann.. Strasburg to Bale 327 50 ... 333 75 3:27 SO ... 332 SO ASPHALTES AND BITUMENS. (am (Maberly's) BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Justice PATTESON. ) STOCKDADE V. HANSARD. Mr. PLATT moved that the rule calling on the Sheriffs to pay the damages in the above action to the plaintiff should be made absolute. Mr. WATSON, on the other side, complained that he had been taken by surpriv., having had no notice of the appli cation to this Court. Mr. PLATT said that notice had been given to the parties. Mr. Justice ParrEsori'refused to interfere, and referral the Learned Council to the full Court. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(T HIS DAY.) DEAL, JAN. 19. Wind W. S. W., strong breezes. Arrived the Gilbert Monro, Nicholson, from Calcutta ; John Pink, Nixon, Jamaica ; George Town, 011ard, Demerara. _ CREEK, JAN. 18.—Arrived the Mary Ann Henderson, Ewen, Mogadore. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 19.—Blowing a gale at N. N. W.— Arrived the Memnon, Gadder, from Zapote, sailed the 12th November; Clydesdale, Campbell, Antigua; Alexandria, Turner, New Orleans; Europe, Bolchetor, ditto; Shef field, Allen, New York, sailed the 31st ult. ; Vesper, Black, Pernambuco ; Antelope, Talboth, Benice ; Schryd, Sandler, Laguna. Sailed the Johnstone. Spence, for Demerara. The George, Glen, arrived at Liverpool, from Restigouche, encountered tremendous heavy weather during the passage, and was struck by a heavy sea ; is leaky, with six feet water in her hold. SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 18.—Arrived the Apprentice, Codenhead, from the Mauritius. PcOLE, JAN. 18.—Arrived the Active, Walker, from Newfoundland. SWANSEA, JAN. 18.—The Jemima Sophia, of Hartle pool, was abandoned on the sth inst., in lat. 46, long. 36, waterlogged. KILRUSII, JAN. 18. —The Chilton, of Liverpool, was abandoned at sea previous to the 13th inst., waterlogged. RAMSOATE, JAN, 18.—The Henry and Elizabeth put in i'rorn Blakeney, and in entering the harbour struck the West Pier, and sank, bound to Liverpool. DEAL, JAN. 19.—The wreck, apparently, of a brig of about 200 tons, was fallen in with dismasted and full of water, on the Ist inst.. in lat. 25, long. 28, by the George town, arrived in the Downs. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 19.—1 t blew a heavy gale all last night and to-day from W. to S. W. 7 P.m. More mode rate, at W. N. W. SHEERNESS, JAN. 18.—Part of the cargo (coals) of the Ringdove, Turnbull, from Sunderland to Algiers, which was on shore on the Gunfleet Sand, has been brought in here. MR. BRADSHAW. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sig,—Through the correspondence in the papers, be— tween Mr. Bradshaw and Mr. Horsman, it is obvious that between the 4th of January and the 16th of the same month, a change came over Mr. Bradshaw, upon reflection, as to the construction of his own speech at Canterbury. On the 4:h of January, he (Mr. B.) wtites to Colonel Gurwood, " That in his speech at Canterbury he had no intention of presuming to allude to her Majesty, but to her Majesty's Ministers." But, on the 16th January, Mr. Bradshaw desires Colonel Gurwood to say, that he disclaims the slightest feeling of disloyalty to her Majesty, and regrets the expressions he Ilan made use of, which he has since felt, upon reflection, were unjust towards her Majesty. This is a fair acknowledgment of his fault, and what I fully expected from one who had formerly held a commis_ sion in the Coldstream Guards; but let me ask him if there is not still one step more for him to take, and that i 3, to return to the Corporation of Dublin the freedom of their city, conferred upon him under an erroneous impression of N }our E s T obedient s u. the speech, that he ( Mr. Bradshaw) had made at Can terbury.--I have the ho nour to be, r servant, Ho Januar 18, 1840. Ai• COBOITRG, at— grand English Em bassy is expected in Gotha , to bring the ., Order o f t h e G arter to Prince Albert. Sixteen English Noblemen a re t o accom pany it. Prince Albert will take only his private secretary, Schnur, with him. It is said to he already decided that his annua l revenue shall b e 100,0001 . , though the E ng li s h P a p ers , especially the Tory Journals, cavil at it. THE MARKIIITS.-(THIS DAY) CORN EXCHANGE. Last week's arrivals of both Grain and) Flour were small, and the fresh supply was moderate. The little fine new Wheat at market obtained last Monday's prices, the tender qualities Is. to 2s. per quarter lower, and foreign firm. Good Barley supported its 1 alue : secondary sorts rather cheaper. Beans and Peas met a slack trade at last quotations. There was a fair demand for Oats and prices were well maintained. Th Flour trade extremely dull, at no variation from former traes. PRICES ON BOARD OF slur. Wheat, Red (old) 555. 726. Beans, Small (new) 44a 46s -- White (old) 655. Els. - Red 1839) 545. COs. - Tick (new) 369 38. Fine 12s. 635. • (old) 425.445 Superfine 665. 68s. - Harrow (new) ...... 18s. 408 - White (1839) 635. 649. Fine 668. 70s. Brank Superfine - .25. 755. Oats, Feed s. -s„ -Foreign free 609. 82s. New 238.27. Rye 465. 405. - Poland -s.-F. Barley 30s. 3S, New °Gs.2S, - Grinding 30s. 36g - Potatoe 296.325. - Malting 38s. 15s. Malt .565, 655. - Scotch '10:.325. - Fine New 685. i4s - Irish 225. ... 25 , .27r . Pease, Grey, New 365.', 3s. Flour Town (per sack).- 5Ss 624. - Maple New . l:Ss. 40s. - Seconds 545.;,6s - White "'Ss 40s. .......- North Country._ 503 52 . -. Boilers 40s. 42 , . Bran 9 10 ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WEKK. I heat. I Barley. oats. 1 r',.. , r English - 5t17 Irish I - Foreign 3,595 2.751 I LIFIELD. SHIT The supply was not large, but sufficient for the demand. The trade very heavy. The Primest Beef fluctuating from 4s 4d. to 4s. id. per stone ; Mutton and Veal unaltered ; the Filest Pork met a decline of 4d.:per stone, the inferior sorts Gd. to Sd. Price per stone of Sibs. sinking the offal :—Beef 4s 4d to 4s 8d ; Mutton 4s 2d to 5s ; Veal 4s 4d to 5s ; Pork 3s to 4s 4d. Head of Cattle at Market—Beasts 3,675; Sheep 22,740 ; Pigs 490; Calves 96. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. The supplies were to a fair extent, and the demand moderate —prices as last quoted. Turbot .ss. to 21s. ; Cod 2s. 6d. to 14s. ; Soles 10d. to 35. 6d. per pair ; Lobsters 6d. to 4s ; Oysters to 48s. ; Whitirgs 3d. to Bd. ; and Haddocks 10d. to 2s. BERMONDSEY WATERSIDE POTATO MARKET. The Supply was ra'her large, but. the quality indifferent, owing to the wet weather. The salesmen refused to sell on easier terms than last week. Trade was dull. SEED MARKET. There was great dulness, and no description of seed can be quoted in good demand. Prices of many sorts were hut no minal. Linseed is 38s. to 425. per quarter, and Rape at the. per last. The arrivals small. HOPS. The holders were very firm, and purchases could not be made, except at extreme prices. Very little doing. TALLOW MARKET. There was but a moderate business done, and prices were fully supported. P. Y. C., 495. TEA MARKET. There was a good business done in most descriptions of this commodity, and Saturday's advanced prices were supported, with a strong tendency to advance, the hollers being confident that they shall get much more money yet for tea than the. pre sent current prices. This is the only market in which there is any briskness. S U N A . , 7-7714 - 4 - .s.dt - P- • - • • :734%1. +2 • izkz7T cpw - LOITERINGS OF TRAVEL. 3 V. London, Longman, 1840. • dv • SM./Ik. Speaking incidentally in his preface of the pre sent volumes, Mr. Willis, the author, says, " I have trusted things to Time which I hoped would not_ • wear out in his pocket ; but this is not one of them." He is right. " Loiterings of Traver are unquestionably not destined to survive their season. They may have—indeed most probably will have a certain degree of popularity ; but the fall of the leaf will assuredly find them as much forgotten, as if they had never existed. The book, indeed, is of the lightest and most ephemeral character possible. Short, sketchy tales, wherein there is little or no attempt at graphic portraiture of character; per sonal recollections of certain fashionable and literary lions of the metropolis ; details of visits to great men's houses in town and country, which, by the bye, Mr. Willis notwithstanding his republicanism—i s very fond of chronicling ; small poems, which have no other recommendation than smoothness of versification ; details of a visit to the late Tournament at Lord Eglinton's, which will not bear reading after the clever and pictu- • resque account of the same visit in " Tait's Maga zine ;"—such are the heterogeneous materials of which these volumes are composed. Yet though, - as a literary production, we think indifferently of " Loiterings of Travel," inasmuch as a very limited portion of intellect indeed will enable any prac tised literateur to manufacture just such a work, yet we cannot deny that it is entertaining. I ts perusal demands not the slightest exercise of - thought ; its gossip is lively and good-humoured ; and it handles a common-place with.such adroit ness, as almost to give it an air of novelty. Above all, the style is easy, flowing, and unclogged by epithets; and one may travel over the pages at railway speed, and yet miss • nothing that is worth remembering. Occasionally, we perceive, Mr. Willis, not content with short and sprightly de scription, in which his chief excellence lies, essays a sentimental view of reflection ; and then nothing can be more lamentable than his failure. Here is a specimen. He is speaking of London at early , dawn. EVENING EDITICti LITERATURE. " Hyde Park at daylight seen from Piccadilly through fog and rain, is perhaps of all contrasts, to one who has frequented it in its bright hours, the most dispiriting and dreary. To remember that behind the baricaded and wet windows of Apsiey House sleeps the hero of Waterloo— that under these crowded and fog-wrapped houses lie, in their dim chambers breathing of perfume and luxury, the high-born and nobly-moulded creatures ik h o preserve for the aristocracy of England the palm of the world's beauty; to remember this, and a thousand other associations linked with the spot, is not at all to diminish, but rather to deepen the melancholy of the picture." Why so ? Why should the fact that the Duke of Wellington is lying fast asleep, snug and com fortable, in Apsley House, and that all the " high born and nobly-moulded" inhabitants of Hamilton Place are in the same pleasant predicament, make Mr. Willis melancholy ? His mind must be strangely constituted to he able to find the materials of pathos in such a reflection. Had he bestowed his kindness on the poor pauseless wretches who may be frequently seen at day-break creeping and shivering along, the broad pavement of Hamilton Place, there would have been some propriety in it; but as it is, the passage is mere maudlin scritimen tahty, without rhyme or reason. GATHERINGS FROM GRAI'E YARDS, By G. A. 11 7 .11.K.F,11, Surgeon. Longman aid Co., Loiwon, 1839. This is a hook with a very repulsive title, and the greater portion of the topics on which it treats ; are still more repulsive. It is not, like Hervey s " Meditations among the Tombs," adorned with beautiful imagery, or useful moral lessons ; but, with the exception of the introductory part, con sists in afflicting details of the fatal effects of pu trid emanations, and of th e d ea dl y ex h alat i ons from church-yards and burying-gr oun d s , prod uc ing malignant and putrid fevers, and in creas in g almost every malady with which the human body is af flicted. The history of the burying-places among the ancients shows great research. It gives an account of the mode of sepulture among the Jews, Greeks, Romans, and early Christians, and proves that the abominable practice of burying in churches and town churchyards commenced with the Chris tians, and was continued, notwithstanding many edicts ae,ainst it, chiefly from the cupidity of the . Church in raising money by church fees. The, 1 Jews were careful to remove the dead from their 1 dwellings. The whole religious doctrine and ray- . thology of the Greeks were in accordance with the laws which directed the bodies of the dead i to be rerric veff from the habitations of the living, and among the Romans one of the Twelve Tables i expressly forbids the burning or burial o f any i dead body in the city—" Hominem moituum in urge e n o e n tsans up t o th e t i me s i e n j u i e e l i i i t o a i i i i i eLe g u c r i h t o r i " The sam e p rac ti ce vti of Constantine, who was allowed the privilege of being buried in the vestibule of achurch he had ,a built, and the same honour was at terwards conferred c on many of his successors, till at length, from vene ration and superstition, and finally, general custom, the abuse was carried to its present extent. To the great credit of the French, from the days of Charlemagne to the time of the Republic when the catacombs were formed, and the reign of Bona parte when Pere la Chaise was consecrated, all Governments have alike discouraged the abo• r ,i na bi e practice of burying the dead among the I ,', v i ng . In 1790 the National Assembly pass e d a law com manding all towns and village% to discontinue the use of their old burial P- 1 Ree:;, and to form others at a distance from their habitations. An imperial decree was issued in 1804, and another in 1811 to the same effect, and four cemeteries were in conse quence laid out in the neighbourhood of Paris. We have followed their example slowly, as the following extracts will show. In the neighbour hood of London there are also four new cemeteries, but the dead, notwithstanding, are buried in the heart of the City in thousands, polluting the at mosphere, and spreading fevers, poison, and death among our numerous population. The subject is not the most interesting, but the evil has arisen to such a height that we make no apology for pre senting it in its most disgusting forms. Two ex tracts will suffice : ST. CLEMENT'S CHURCH, STRAND,—There is a vault under this Church called the " Rector's Vault," the descent into which is in the aisle of the- Church near the communion table, and when opened the .pro ducts of the decomposition of animal matter are so powerful, that lighted candles passed through the open ing into the vault, are instantly extinguished ; the men at different times employed have not dared to descend into the vault until two or three days have elapsed after it had been opened, during which period the windows of the Church also were opened' to admit the perfiation of air from the street to occupy the place of ;I d..u.te,.a the gas emitted ; thus a ;.son is;: p— given in ex change from the dead to the living in one of the most frequented thoroughfares of the metropolis. The other vaults underneath the Church are also much crowded with dead. From some cause, at present doubtful, these vaults were discovered to he on fires upwards of fifty years ago ; they continued burning for some days, and many bodies were destroyed. ENON CH APEL ,—Thi s b u ildi ng i s situated a b out midway on the western side of Clement's-lane ; it is sarrounded on all sides by houses, crowded by inhabi tants, principally of the poorer class. The upper part of this build* was opened for the purposes of public worship about 1823 ; it is separated from the lower part by a boarded floor ; this is used as a burying place, and is crowded at one end, even to the top of the ceiling, with dead. It is entered from the inside of the chapel by a trap-door ; the rafters supporting the floor are not even covered with the usual defence— lath and plaster. Vast numbers of bodies+ have been placed here in pits dug for tire purpose, the upper most of which were covered only by a few inches of earth ; a sewer runs angularly across this " burying-place." * This is not a very unusual circumstance ; the vaults underneath St. James's Church, Jermyn-street, many years since were on fire. From the most auihentic information, I have reason to believe, that since the establishment of this place from ten to twelve thousand bodies have been deposited here, not one of which has been placed in lead. FAMILY LIBRARY, No. LXX., LXXI. Teo, London, 8840. These volumes are from the pen of Mr. Charles Bucke, and contain general and particular accounts of the rise, fall, and present condition of the most remarkable cities of antiquity, selected, as the author observes in his preface, from some of the best mate rials that the British Museum could furnish. The volumes are embellished with several engravings,and are penned in an easy and animated style. GILFILLAN'S POEMS AND SON(JS. Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1840. A republication, in a neat duode6 m o form, of the poetical productions of Mr. Gi . tfillan, several of whose songs have obtained ('leserved popularity. COLONIAL MARKET. There is a fair amount of business advertised for the week ; the largest public salo, amongst which is the quarterly one of Indigo, which commences to-morrow, and consists of 6,765 chests of East India. We have also public sales of 6,500 bags Mauritius Sugar, 1,000 bags Manilla, 308 cks. and 32 tanks of Mauritius Motatses, new crop; 4,000 bags Bengal Rice, 1,300 bAgs Padang Coffee, 9d. duty. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL N EW S CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SA TURDAY. —The Sales :his day arc 3000 bags without change in price. A Lisbon NI )il has arrived by the Emerald Isle steamer, sailed from Lisbon, 13th January, from Gibraltar, 9:h inst., Cadiz, 10th inst., Oporto, 14th inst., and Vigo, 15th instant. The only news of consequence brought by the Lisbon mail is, that the Cortes was expected to be dissolved. This being double post day the letters and papers w delivered very late this morning from the post office. The packet ship Sheffield has arrived in lb days from New York, sailed on the Ist instant. The inforn.ation in the New York papers is only of consequence in re spect to commercial affairs. Exchange on London 8 to 1; United States Bank Shares 76. 4 We have received Montreal papers to the 26th Decem ber. The Toronto Patriot of the 10th instant mentions a report then current, that Captain Lindsay, of the Queen's Dragoon Guards, bad arrived in town on the evening pre vious with a despatch to the Government from the officer commanding the Niagara district, to the effect that the 10th was appointed by the hunters for an attack on our frontier, but the Patriot does not name the point of attack. A private letter received in town from Hamilton, dated the 11th inst., states that the militia were under arms all the previous night, in consequence of information having been received by Sir George Arthur, that the Sympathisers were about to invade certain portions of Upper Canada, and that Hamilton was one of the places Lamed. A letter from Colonel Live, of the 85th Regiment, stationed at Toronto, states that. the information in pos session of Sir George Arthur, is derived from the best source. The Montreal Courier of the 231 December, states that the alarm on the Niagara frontier, turns out to have origi nated in a misconception as to the intentions of a nume rous body of victimised Irishmen. The Dutch Mail of tha 18th instant has arrived, bringing the Funds from Amsterdam. Two-and-a- Half per Cents, 51 5-16 ; Five per Cents 981 ; Ardoins Spanish 231. Extract of a totter from Monte Video, dated Nov. - 9 : " I write this amidst the roaring of cannon and ringing of bells, in consequence of news received from Buenos Ayres, corroborating a report which has been in town these two days past, of a revolution having taken place in Buenos Ayres. A large force was sent from the town to quell the disturbance ; but instead of acting against it it is now operating with it, and every one here expects the blockade will be removed in a few days." THE FUNDS. Consols opened this morning at the leaving off price of Saturday, 91+ s for the Account ; for Money, 90i 91, at present very little doing; Exchequer Bills, 10 12 prem. ; India Bonds par, 2 prem. ; Bank Stock 178}; India Stock, 248 i 249 i. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active opened the same as they left off on Saturday, 25i ; Portuguese closed at 341 35, at present 331- 34 ; Three per CentA., 23; Colombian, 271 ; Mexican, 291 301- ; Brazilian, 744 75i ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 52+ ; Five per Cents., 1003- 101. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCIS. Bank Stock India Stock —.... 3 per Cent. Red. 9ly,4i Ditto Bonds 2 pm. I per Cent. Cons. 91% Ui76 South Sea Stock ......... — 3 4 per Cent 9N Old Annuities —. !- Ditto Red. .99 il, New Ditto New 3 pet Cent 99% 0 3 per Cont. Annuities, 1751 W, New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuitiesi toexpire Dit to 500... .10 12 prn. li 14 1-16 14 Ditto Sma —•10 on. Oct. 10, Jan; 5, lB 6 ° --- Ditto Commercial 1859 -- Ditto Advertised ....., --- Jan. 5, 1860 Bank Stock for Account ... ._April 5, Jan. 5, IBSO --- India Stock for Account .. IS5u. -- Consos for Acc0unt........ 91 14 3' Jan. 5.1870 DS THIS DAY AT ONE O_CLOC h 6 Peruvian Bonds ............ Ditto Account ............. _ Portiigiu,e Bonds .. ... Belgian Bonds oFndF,OREIGN FUN ..... ....... ..... P A R its l t C rrai S i B O Ditto New Bond • 75 Ditto Account„ s • Ditto Account Ayres Bonds Brazilian D i tto A Bondsccoun t .. .. .. ............... 3uenos Ditto. ccount Chillan .3oad t —Prussian Bonds _ atto kez , v. rit yti Cokunt ian Er ads •-- Ditto Account Ditto Accoi, ut — Ditto Metallic Columbian -3;: d 5,1824 D tto Aao - -) it... 27!,1 6 7,A% Ditto Account ' s% %Fi, Danish Bonds Ditto At ttr. nt — Deferred l2 Greek Bonds... .. , ............... Frenc, 5 per cent.......111f. 75c. Ditto Bonds, 1ir.15 ............ --- 4 per cent. Ditto Account ............... ---- 3 per cent. —f. —c, Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cant. ---- Excl'ange. 251. 40c. Ditto Account — Dutch, 2X, per cent Ditto, 6 per Cent Ditto Account Neap01itan.......... —,‘ Ditto, 5 per cent 1(.1 ti .......... ..... Ditto Acc0unt........ PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. United Mexican (Issued at 21. p m .) Paid 40 Ditto Scrip — Brighton Railway London Joint Stock Bank National Provincial Bank of England 35 Per Share, 54!4 18%j Is fAX PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, JANUARY 18. 3 per Cent. Consols i% per Cent. Stock - Ditto Reduced - Ditto New, 1830 ...... ~. 98% ' City of Dublin Steam Comp. - 34 per Cent. Debentures... 104% National Insurance Company - Bank Stock ... l-2 City Debentures, 4 per cont. - Grand Canal Stock - Royal Canal Stock „,....„ - per cent - lIALF-PAST ONE. Littlo business has been done in the British Market dur ing the morning, but Consols continues firm at 911 tor the Account ; Money a shade lower, soi ; Exchequer Bills, 10 12 prem. ; India Bonds, 2 prem. ; Bank Stock, 1784, In the Foreign Market the chief operation has been i n Portuguese Stock, which receded . in the early part o f t h e morning 1 per cent., since cvhich it has improved t o 3•1? • Three per Cents., 23,i; Colombian, 27'1 ; Dutch and-a- Half per Cents. nothingdonc ; Five per Cents., 101, - Ft - A . IOR SALE by PUBLIC AUCTION, 11_ at the Hamburg Collec House, Water-lane, Toner- ! Street, on THURSDAY, 23d JANUARY, at Twelve precisely, the following WINES and SPIRITS, principally without reserve : 68 Butts, 55 Hhds., and 21 Quarter Casks of Sherry ; 65 Pipes, 10 Hhds. 12 Casks of Port ; 3 Pipes, 10 Hhds., of Maderia; Tent, Teneriffe, Claret, &c. ; 464 Casks of Claret; Champagne, Brisac, Sauterne, in bond ; 472 dozens Old Bottled Port and Sherry ; Red and -White Noyeau, Curacoa ; 37 Cases of Brandy ; Rich Lisbon, Calcavella, Marsala, in Quarter Cases, duty paid. Particulars and Catalogues of Same Lancaster, Wine and Spirit Broker, No. 59, Mark-lane.