The Sun. — London, England, 1840-01-09 00:00:00

MORNING EDITioN. T -r: HE FARMER'S and GENERAL FIRE and LIFE INSURANCE, and LOAN and AN NUITY INSTITUTION. (To be empowered by Act of Parliament. ) -ThiroaAßY CNA MBE as—Farmer's Magazine Office, Norfolk street, Strand. CAPITAL. 500,0001, In Fifty Thousand Shares ef 10/. each, Deposit 1/. per Share. (:lo further rum is likely to be called for, as the accruing 'premiums will render such further call unnecessary The Farmer's Fire and Lite Institution is NOT a mutual In surance Office. Shareholders will only be liable to the amount of their Shares. The Capital so produced being much more than can ever be required to meet the demand upon the Office. The following have been appointed u the COMMITTEE, with power to add to their number. No person can be elected a Director er Trustee without being previously on the Committee, and being a holder of 60 shares or upwards. Those marked thus f are members of the English Agricul tural Society. vital question, the interests of its members, per-• hap,s even some feeling of pique, or a sen timent of pride, will speedily lead them to be just on many other points, and we shall have, for the first time in the history of our Le gislature, or, perhaps, in the history of the world, the law-makers throwing aside theory, expediency, and selfishness, and doing justice to the bulk of the people. When they once enter on that good path, Chartism will receive its death-blow, for men will never trouble themselves to change a Constitu tion, or leave their own bread-winning occupations, to mend the State, when those who are al ready in authority do justice and love mercy. The Anti-Corn-law Circular, then, in our opinion un der-rates the advantages of a total and uncondi tional repeal of the Corn-laws, and of the Legis lature acting on this one subject on the common principles of common honesty. Such being our opinion, we learn with regret that it is in agitation to hold a meeting in the City of London to petition for a fixed duty on corn in lieu of the present fluctuating duty. We have little to add on this question to the remarks of the Anti-Corn-law Circular, and to the observations which we have, from time to time, since Lord BROUGHAM first talked of a fixed duty a year and a half ago, made on the subject. A fixed duty is certain death, a fluctuating scale lingering disease. To the agriculturist a fixed duty, unless accompa nied by an equal bounty on exportation, renewing the old objectionable and obnoxious system of bounties, duties, and drawbacks, to equalise what nature herself equalised, till the equa lity was disturbed by the meddling, mischievous, law-maker—to the agriculturists, we repeat, as we have before frequently said, a fixed duty, it being to that extent a prohibition on exportation, would be most injurious. Now, as nobody seeks to injure the farmer, and no person acquainted with the history of bounties and duties can wish to ex tend that monstrous system, we cannot conceive a motive why the City of London should petition to substitute one wrong fo'r another. We believe that the monied classes and others of the metropolis have a notion that by a fixed duty they will prevent the depreciation of property which they dread would be consequent on a repeal. But at present, with our gold standard, as late events have amply proved, our currency, and consequently to a great extent our prices, are regulated by the currency and the prices of the Continent. At the same time, for want of an abundance of food, the growth of population and enterprize is checked— the healthy demand for property is diminished, and its value deteriorated. The increase of the popu lation, and the demands for new undertakings con sequent thereon, would probably raise the value of property quite as much as the freest importation of corn, and all other things, would lower it. Moreover there is no hoarded supply of corn to come in ; it will take two or three years to provide us with any great ad ditional quantity, and we therefore conceive that the fears of the value of property being deteriorated by the abolition of the Corn-laws, are greatly ex aggerated. The uncertainty that the law can be main tained, which is an essential characteristic ofevery law so mo►►strously unjust as the Corn-law, depreciates property far more than it would be depreciated by the abolition. That would stimulate enterprize, and encourage the increase of the people, and increase the value of property. It is not the business of those who are opposed to the felon law to demand its partial repeal. Founding on principle, they should demand the total repeal, as an act of justice. If any persons, being advocates of the law, come forward and say " The abolition would inflict an injury on me ; I gave 20,0001. for an estate, relying on the Corn law being continued, which will not be worth above 12,0001. if the law be abolished ;" we are far from saying that such a case ought not to be taken into consideration. If a furrier says he took a lease for 10 years in 1837, and gave 30s. an acre for the land on the virtual pledge of the Legislature that the Corn-law should be continued, his case also may be deserving compensation. We must, however, have the individual injustice substantiated before giving redress. In the meantime the whole commu nity is not to be grievously injured, people are not to be starved, the public peace is not to be endangered by discontent, property is not to be placed in jeopardy by the roguery of the law-maker, because a few who have placed their faith on the continuance of . . . injustice may, perchance, suffer a little by justice being done to the public. The Legislature will exa mine such cases, we have no doubt, when they are brought forward, and will be ready to consider what compensation is due when it knows what injury has been sustained. The Anti-Corn-law party will even take a compromise into consider tion, when it is proposed by those who now will not relax their gripe of our property ; but at present it is the duty.of everyAnti-Corn-law man to demand the total and unconditional repeal of the Devil's-laws. If the citizens of London move in this matter they must demand justice. It will be more disgraceful in them humbly to supplicate the landlords to com- _ __... pound their own felony than to take no notice of it. They should not forget their ancient reputation, and now take the lead in rivetting the yoke of the aristocracy on the neck of the nation. London was wont to be the first in all good works, and it must not now fall into the rear, and give the posl of honour to Manchester or Glasgow. A most extraordinary trial for bigamy, as Mr. PHILLIPS called it, appears in another part of The Sun. The person injured by the prisoner, the second wife, made no complaint ; and the first wife, whose only remedy for being deprived of his com pany is to be found, if at all, in Doctors' Com pmons, prosecuted him for his offence to the second, apparently out of jealousy. The poor young woman who had married him, knowing of his first marriage, believing she might do so legally, who has lived happily with him, who suffers by havin g no legal title to the name of a wife, and whose child by him is illegitimate, is still further punished by the Court shutting up the man she had married, t o gratify some vindictiveness in the first wife. This lady' s legal claims and injuries, if she have any, may be redressed by another Court. It might be necessary to vindicate the law, as the REcortnErt said, but we have to inquire whe ther the law be just ? A law to punish bigamy, is intended, we presume, to protect young women from being deceived and betrayed into marriage. But in this case there appears to have bee ever ; the second w if e k new o C no firs(Tteemeiatrrlfi,aTet,- and there was no betrayal. The husband is not pu nished for deserting his first wife but for intermarry ing with the second. The law, then, suppo s i ng i ts in tention to be what we have assigned it, is in fact com pletely perverted in order to be vindicated. It inflicts a great injury on the second wife, to protect whom the law was made. Very often the laws are grievously unjust, but to administer them blindly is sure to be a means of mischief. In this case the RECORDER seems to be without an excuse, because the Jury, who could not do otherwise than find the man guilty, recommended him to mercy. A no minal punishment, with a hint to the first wife to ' prosecute her claim to the company of her hus band, if she thought it advisable, in an Ecclesi• COMMITTEE. 1 James Beadel, Esq., Witham, Essex. W. E. Boyes, Esq., Alkerton, Banbury. W; Breynton, Esti., Haunch Hall, Lichfield. S: C. Bristowe, Esq., Beesthorpe Hall, Newark. t W. L. Bruges, Esq., M.P., a Governor of the English Agri cultural Society. Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq. , F.R. S. F. S. A., Temple. Hewitt Davis, Esq., Spring Park, Cro ydon. t Richard Garrett, Esq., Saxmundham. t W. Burnaby Greene, Esq., Wickham, Hants. fW. S. Hitchman, Esq., Chipping Norton. W. P. Hoblyn, Esq , Marlhouse, Elmstead, Kent. Fielders King, Esq., Berniton, Pet,ersfield. J. M. Lacy, Esq., 20, Carey -street, Lincoln's-inn. Wm. Low, Esq.. Norfolk-street. t Lord Moreton, Vice-President of the English Agricultural Society. t William Morton, Esq., Chester-hill, near Stroud, Glouces tershire, a Governor of the English Agricultural Society. IGeorge Mumford, Esq., Downham, Norfolk. Hugh Mundy, Esq., Andover. Thomas Owen ' Estt. ' Kentbury. near Newbury. William Pate, Esq., Camden Town. t W. Porter, Esq., H e mbury Fort, Honiton. Sir Raymond Jervis, Bart. t Joseph Rogerson, Esq., Mark Lane Express Office, a Go vernor of the English Agricultural Society. t W. Shaw, Esq., a Governor and Member of the Committee of Management of the English Agricultural Society. -t. W. B. Warner, Esq., Thornly Hall. f Godfrey Wentworth, Esq., Woolley Park, Wakefield, a Governor of the English Agricultural Society. , i . Fl eetwoo d Wells, Esq., Walton House, Aylesbury. 3. Workman. Esq., Greenwich. t E. Woolley Wilmot, Esq., Worksop, Notts, a Governor of the English Agricultural Society. t W. Youatt, Esq., a Governor and Member of the Committee of Management of the English Agricultural Society. BANKERS. The London and Westminster Bank, Throgmorton-street. MANAGER AND PARLIAXENTART AGENT. - I. W. S. Nortbhouse, Esq., 2, Storey's-gate, St. James's. park, Westminster. JOINT SOLICITORS. t John Rogerson, Esq., a'Ad C. Boydell, Esq. MEIVICAL OFFICERS. J. Blackstone, Esq. ; t Gustavus W. Blanch, Esq. SECRETARY. John Hanson, Esq., Seyrnour-place, Bryanaton-square. ___ AUDITORS. t John Birnie, Esq., 8, T ra f a l gar -square. John Strangeways Donaldson, Esq., Seuthampton-strecr Strand. Win. Jenkinson, Esq., 15, Swinton-street, Gray's Inn-road. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. G ry.si TLEMEN, I apply for Shares in The Farmer's Ead General Fire and Life Insurance, and Loan and Annuity Institution, and engage to pay the Deposit of One Pound on each Share, or on such portion of them as may he allotted to me, to the Bankers of the Institution, or their Agents, when ever called upon. I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient Servant, To the Directors of " The Farmer's and General Fire and Life Insurance, and Loan and Annuity Institution, 24, Nor folk-street, Strand." The Allotment will speedily ba made. T HE EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. CXLII., Is published Tars DAY. dIONTE TS. A. SIR JOHN MALCOLM'S LIFE of LORD CLIVE. 1. DOUGLAS en the PHILOSOPHY of the MIND. E. REVENUE SYSTEM of ERITISi INDIA. 4. M'CULLOCH'S EDITION of SMITH'S WEALTH of NA. TIONS. S. TYTLER'S ILLUSTRATIONS of the HISTORY of ENG. LAND. 6. LIFE and DISCOVERIES of JAMES W 4rr. 1. LORI) R.ODEN'S COMMITTEE on IRISH CRIME. S. PoS'f.OFFICE REFORM. tendon: Longman, and Ce. Edinburgh A. sod C. Blaelc. MR. WILLIS'S NEW WORK. On Tuesday, Jan. 14, will be published, in 3 vols. past Iltro., LOITERINGS OF TRAVEL, By N. P. WILLIS, Esq., Author of " Pencil Hogs by the Wey," Sce. &c. London : Longman, Orme, and Co. MRS. S. C. HALL'S NEW NOVEL. Now ready nt all the Libraries, is I vols. post svo. M A. R I A Or, A YOUNG MAID'S FORTUNES. N By Mrs. S. C. HALL, Author of "Lights and Shadows of Irisk LAU," " Undo Horace," Bte. Henry Colborn, Publisher, t 3, Great Marlborough-street. HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA having AUTHORISED and GUA '• RANTER° several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY PREMIUMS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, are NOW SELLING SHARES for the said DISTRIBU TIONS. Persons desirous to purchase, may receive, PRE VIOUS to giving any order, the PROSPECTUS and PAR TICULARS, upon addressing WITHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE, BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH. P. S.--THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains Portions :of TWELVE THOUSAND, SIX THOUSAND, TIMM THOUSAND, ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDTIED, ONE THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED. TWO HUN DRED AND FIFTY, TWO HUNDRED. ONE HUN DRED AND . F.IFTY, and ONE HUNDRED POUNDS, &e. THE DISTRIBUTING DAY BEING NEAR, and Shares clearing off most rapidly, A RISE IN PRICE will soon occur. THEATRE ROYAL COVENT GARDEN. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, JAN. 9, Will be performed Sheridan's Censedy of THE RIVALS. Sir Anthony Absolute, Mr. W. Farten ; Captain Absolute, Mr. Anderson; Sir Lucius O'Trigger, Mr. Brougham; land, Mr. Cooper ; Acres, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Malaprop, Mrs. C. Jones ; Lydia Languish, Madame Vestris ; Julia, Mrs. Nisbett ; Lucy, Mrs. Humby. To conclude with the New Grand Comic CI-Ystmas Panto- mime, entF,ted HARLEQUIN AND THE Ve.;IIRIE DEVIL OF ED MONTON; OR, THE Wit.EAT BED OF WARE. Wi entirely New Scenery, 11Iachinery, Dresses, and De - r ~rations. Ilar.equin, Mr. C. Smith ; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli;„ )lerrie Devil, Mr. Gibson ; and Co nmbine, 3liss FairbrrJther. Dress Boxes, 73 k second Price, 3s. 6d. ; First and Second Circles, ss. ; See Aid Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Prise, 2s. ; Gallery, 1,. Doors to t.,e 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 bad upon application. Priv7.te Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews. bookseller, 167, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. The Grand Comic Pantomime, universal:y allowed to be the best in London. is attracting the most brilliant overflows ever witnessed, hundreds are nightly disappointed of obtain ing admission. The splendour of the Scenery and appoint ments surpass every other production. Tiffs EVENING, JAN. 9, Will be repeated, an entirely new Legendaz v Drama, called THE LAPIDARY OF LEYDEN. After . whieh, the New Romantic Drama, eall,d After which, a Comedietta, front the French, entitled FAMILY JA {S MENDED. Benhomme, Mr. Smith; Chapinet, Mr. Saville; Madame Bonhornme, Mrs. Daly ; Ther,sia, Miss Martin. To conclude with the New Grand Christmas Pantomime, called QUEEN BEE, OR HARLEQUIN AND GOODY TWO SHOES. The splendid S cenery by Mr. Brunning—The magnificent Diorama by Mr. P. Phillips. C olumbine, Mi ss S h arpe ; Harlequin, Clown, Pantaloon, and Sprite, by the Bolero Family. Messrs. :scams of St. James's -street ; Andrews, Ebert, and Mi'.chell, Bona -street ; and Seguin of Regent-street, Book sellers, are appointed to let Private and Public Boxes during the run of the Pantomime. -.- HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIOGE THIS DAY. /rug ininu :Wei 4 t Erctiang 7 minutes Mtn. .1. .: , - "rt.., 2_,... - ... ...l "''' ' - 40 --4 ... 4`.4' ', , c• 7 .:-1;74.4 '-,- , ,--/' t,w4i..-..,?4 e .r. :-.-- -- , --1',4 , .. .:- 177,-r. ...-"..'‘.- 4 '' Zln 's‘-13.11. LONDON : THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1840. We borrow from the Anti-Corn-Law Circular an article entitled " Traps for Anti-Corn-Law Repealers," which is worthy of being studied by those who are desirous to change one fluctuating duty for another, or a fluctuating duty for a fixed one. We rejoice to see that the Circular, speaking the language of the Anti-Corn-Law League, stands up for justice, strict justice, and will be con tented with nothing less than justice. So we be lieve will the League, ultimately, if not immediately, be eminently successful ; and its success on this point will work a greater moral reformation, first in the Legislature, and afterwards in the commu nity, than the Church has effected during the whole period of its existence. When once public opinion has compelled the Legislature to do justice on this I /~ ~~ THE SUN, LQADON. THURSDAY, jitistUAßY 9. IP4O, astical Court, would have answered the justice of ' the case. It is, however, rohable that the RE CORDER was aware that in such a Court the wife could get no redress on account of the expense, anti, therefore, he punished the man to gratify the ven geance of the woman. If that be a clue to the matter, the public will see in it an additional reason for re forming our Ecclesiastical Courts, or for creating some tribunal which may settle, cheaply and expedi tiously, the many vexatious disputes and differences that arise between married parties only. For all wrongs committed between master and servant the law has endeavoured to provide redress, but the more important wrongs frequently committed be tween husband and wife are left, in the present state of our ecclesiastical tribunals, without provi sion and redress. The debate on the Address, in answer to the Speech from the Throne commenced in the French Chamber of Peers on Monday. The principal orators were M. CHARLES DUPIN, who spoke against the Address and the Ministry; M. DAL TON SHEE, who attacked the Ministry only ; M. DUFA URE, Minister of Public Works, who de fended himself and his colleagues; and M. MOLE, who spoke in favour of the Ministry of the 15th of April. M. CHARLES DUPIN reversed the argu ments of the British Tories as regards France, repre• senting her as miserable at home, and contemptible abroad, while, on the contrary, England was pros perous and respected in every part of the world. There was nothing novel in the arguments on either side, and after a good deal of talk the two first para graphs of the address were voted without a division. The Colonial Council of Martinique has voted the emancipation of the slaves in that colony to be impossible, without exposing the slave-owners to be massacred, and securing the return of the slaves to a state of barbarism. What .an appalling com mentary is this upon the horrors of slavery ! The latest news from Africa is of the 28th ult. The colonists in the plains were continually ha rassed by the Arabs, ,vho carried off their cattle, and hindered their defensive works. Several skir mishes had taken place, in which casual losses were sustained on both sides. On the 26th, a French merchant vessel, the Frederic AdolPhe,' While fif teen miles from the shore, had been attacked and captured by an armed vessel from Cherchell, a point nearly half way between Algiers and Oran. The Sphynx and Crocodile steamers, with a detach ment of the 23d of the Line, went to Cherchell, .at d found the vessel ashore. She was therefore burnt. The Arabs resisted the burning of the vessel, and the French had four killed and 13 wounded. ABD-EL-KADER had received a deputation from the Sultan of MOROCCO, who recognised him as Grand Khaliff of Algiers. An attack on Oran was hourly expected. BOURSE.—PAkIS, MONDAT, JAN. 6. first Highest Lowest Last Price Pr. ice. French 5 per Cents III 81) Il ic l 7 e 0 ... Price. 11165 ... I Pr 1 65 4 per Cents lO2 50 102 50 102 50 .b. 102 50 3 per Cents SO 70 SO 70 ... 80 W ... 30 00 Bank of trance 3OlO ...3015 ...:3010 —3015 Laftitte Bank I,ooof. Sh 1045 _1945 ...11.145 —1 45 5,000 f. 5170 ...5170 ...5165 ...5167 50 Belgiansank lll5 .. 845 533 . 8.15 per Cents 102!4 10•44 ... 102% ... 1 0 2% 3 per Cents 72 20 ... 72 2J 7z 1 ... 72 Passive Spanish Active .......... 24% ... 25 ... 21% ... Portuguese 3 per Cent s 23* 53, 6 5 h ... 6 2 33 i ... 2354 RNeavolitan oman ............................. 1111% ... 102 10A • 1911 R AILWAY SHARES. St. Germain ..................... 570 570 ... 570 ... 570 Versailles, R. B ........ ........ 490 ... 495 ... 4 1 / 3 406 LB. .................. 325 ... 328 75 ... 525 2 ..:1 1 .7 50 .... davre ......................... 995 ... 995 ... 995 91.5 Orleans ................... 442 :051 ... 442 10 ... 442 50 442 50 Strasburg to sale 3IS 75 ... 320 ... 31$ 75 ... 3..11 ASPHALTES AND BITUMENS. Yarn (Pdabecly's) ......... ...... 4::0 ... 42J ... 410 410 AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Viesms, Dec. 21.• Ilse per Cents. Mutalliques ..... ........ NOWT per Cents. •••••••••••.••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••«•• 1. I% Three per Cents. •••••••••. 1/.* Bank Shares .......... .......... ; dttQenleineZeitunp, Ja 4. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NitIVS WEDICESDAY EVENTi6i. Up to this hour we are without any advices of the arrival either of the overland mail from India or the Mes sage ofthe President of the United States. The merchants connected with the China and AMerican trades are conse q uently in a state of very considerable excitement. The tea sales to-day have proceeded very flatly. Scarcely one-tenth of the quantity put up to-day was sold. Prices all round may be quoted 4d. to 6d. per lb. lower than at the December sales. The American merchants are operating but slightly, indeed only to suit imme diate wants, until they are in receipt of later news from the westward. The depression which was observable in the English Funds in the early part of the day subsided this after noon, and prices fully recovered what they had previously lost. We are not, however, of opinion, that the market is so healthy as it might be. For the opening Consols doted at 92} it, Exchequer Bills rose to 6 7 premium, India Bonds rallied to 1 discount, and India Stock to 2511. The Foreign Market was better this afternoon. Spanish Consols brought 24f ; Portuguese New Five per Cents. 36i, and Mexican an advance to 31i ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. fell to 521. There was more fluctuation in the Share Market. The Birmingham Shares rose to 61 premium ; the Great Western dropped to f and 1 premium ; the Brighton rallied to I 1 discount, and the Southampton fell to 4 discount. (From The Sun of Las( Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JAN. 7.—The sales of this day are 2,500 bags, without any change of prices. Arrivals this morn; ship lett llisal in respe begins t-. chants. usual French mail. No from day to day ' States, which iblic and trier -1 affairs can not account fly.- Wc are also this morning without arrivals from any other quarter, with the exception of the usual French mail and express from Paris, which does not furnish any continental news of importance. Consols, which left off yesterday at 921 for the Ac count, opened rather lower this morning, and may be qu,oted at 92,i 1 for the Account ; Money, 90-, a ex dividend ; Exchequer Bills, 2 4 prem. ; Bank Stock, 1781 ; India Stock, 2501 2.511 ex-dividend ; India Bonds, 4 2 discount. Hamburg, which is the chief exchange, was higher yesterday , that of Paris and Amsterdam does not effect the exportation of gold. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active left off yes terday 241 i, and this morning it opened lower at 24.1 i ; Portuguse, at the closing price, 364 ; Three per Cents. 24i 2.5 ; Brazilian, 72} 73 ; Colombian, 241 25 ; Mexican, 294 301 ; Dutch Tvvu-and-a-Hall per Cents., 52 i ; Five per Cents., 994 ; Spanish De ferred, 14 i ; Passive, 6i. i. We have no accounts as yet of the overland express from India, which is much looked for. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONIZ O'CLOCX, (Sauk stork l7Byi India Stock I pee Cent. Red. ....... ....11R li 1 4 % Ditto Bonds I per Cent. Cons. ........ ..... .9 4 1 South Sea Stock —3 ; ,, per Cent — Old Annuities New 34 per Cent... ....... ....131% St Ditto lied. S 2 44 . 3 ,4 N New Dit to 3 per Cant. Annuities, 17 i New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto 500 . a 6 pm. Jan; 5,186 A l4 1-16%, Ditto Small 1 ... 3 6 i.m. Oct. 10, 1859... ......... .... --- Ditto Commoietal — Jan. 5, 1%0 - -1 Ditto Advertised ..... Jan. 5, 1850 — Rana Stock for Account ... April 5, 188(t — India Stock for Account . • Jan. 5.1970 • — Consos for Account.... 92%4 PRICES OF FOREIGN FU NDS THIS DAI AT ONE 0 Cl.t iC lc Austrian Bonds — Peruvian Bonds 16%% Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilis A Bonds Ditto Account 3nenos •kyres Bonds — Ditto, 3 per Cent........ 24. , Ditto Icrount ......... ailiza 3ond i Prussian Bonds — Dtto tcccr. nt — Russian Bands, 185'2 — Co kunt t - .2< 71ds Ditto Account — Ditto loco, nt La alt 4! 3. 'de 1824 .1: tto lot o.int — Ditto Account .24% !. , 2 %% Canith la d . Pesaro Ditto At t:t nt 'Deferred 113:4 Great Minds.... ............ ....• French, 5 pli cont.... —l. .--e. Ditto Bonds, 1823 ...... ...." 4 per Mt. —l. —C. Ditto Account — --- 3 pa* cent. —f —l. Mexicali /fonds, 5 per Cent , --. Este/NINO. —f. —c• ---- Ditto Account ' Dutch, 2y.i pervent. 512% Ditto, 6 per Cent. Ditto Account Neapolitan — Ditto Acc0unt........ ...... nucEs OF SHARKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Railwa Groat Weste Paid. Per Sh a re, rn y ComPan7 ................, 65 Ditto New ........ 20 19 18% Brighton tta , Away ............. .« ... ~..: ........... .. 30 18%% London and Birmingham Railway Company. « 90 lb 50 - Ditte % Shares . .... •••••••••• 5 22% II London and Croydon Railway Conepany ...... ..« 14/. las. 641. 46% Union Bank of Australia The chief fe ature to notice is th e B an k of England, where a great bustle prevails ; crowds are flocking there to receive their dividends, which are now paying. To the present hour we continue without any in formation respecting the arrival of the Liverpool steamer or the other packets from New York. Consols, which were rather heavy in the early part of the day. are at present better for Money, and may he quoted 901, 91, for the Account 92/ i ; Exchequer 8i115,.3 6 prem., improved ; India Bonds, 3 dis. ; Bank Stock, 1781 ; India Stock, 9.51, ex. div • In th e Fo re i g n M ar k e t th e c hi e f b us i ness doing was in Portuguese and Spanish Stock, the former receded to 35k, at present 361 ; Spanish was done at 24,1, since which it has improved to 241 ; Mexican, 30i Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents, . 521 ; Five per Cents, 99/ ; Spanish Deferred, 1 11 i. IVe are very dull in the City for want of intelligence. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FONDS Bank Stock I'S India Stack °51% 3 per Cent. lied Ol i 4 , Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Crais. 9l Ditto Old Annuities — 3)<, per Cent. Red O3l, ,Ditto New Annuities New 3s.', per Cent 09% lEx Bills, 1,000/ 2il 7 dis. New 5 per Cent ...... ........ ..... -- Ditto 5001 5 dis. Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5001 5 dis. Jan. 1800 ..,,.«,.......... Hi, Bank Stock for Opg ...... ....... Oct. 1859 Jan 1860 ..•. 92% 1 , 0 ItEla N FUNDS Austrian, 5 per cent Portuguese Bonds, sper cent. Belgian, 5 per cent......... - Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian Bonds • • — Prussian, 5 per cent o C DD o rii tte l o tteno m k: 6 l g ; ~ 42, n en4r ,. , : 6 :: . ! ,i e t ..B r . 2.. l i e , 1 t n : t . 51. . , e. . .. r .. i . ......... ... : 22 56 Sp anish ,Fl. x:Ditto,:l Dutch, Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent .,,,, Russian Bonds, 5 per cent — Chilian, 6 per cent Ditto, Metallic ~.. .11% Danish. 3 per cent ......... .... French, 5 per cent. r r —f. —c. Mexican, 5 per cent...« .... French, 3 per cent f. -- c. 524 per cent. Peruvian , 1825.6 per cont..: 1834 Ditto,s per cent...,. 99% SHARES Orcat Western Railway 66 Ditto New Shares .... Gosport Junction Railway 20% London and Brighton Railway lB% London and Blackwell Railway London and Birmingham Railway ILO Ditto Quarter Shares London and South Western Railway 4 3 14 London and Croydon Railway (Trum ) lO% .. .. ,11,g.pe:SfePerrredcenr Manchester and Birminghani ltailwaa y North Midland Itiilwav Ditto New Shares South Eastern and Dover 1 CuAINIENCIA:MENT OF THE PENNY POSTAGE, TO-1110RRoW. COPY OF A TREASURY MINUTE, DATED DEC. 26, 1839 My Lords read the Minute of the 23d of August, proposing to receive communications from the public with reference to the Letter Stamps named in the Act 2 and 3 Victoria, cap. 52, and offering certain rewards for the same. The communications (more than 2,600 in num ber) received, in consequence of this Minute, have, for a long time, occupied the attention of their Lordships. Many of them display much ingenuity. They are highly satisfactory, as evincing the inte rest taken by men of science, and by the public in general, in the measures now in progress for the reduction of postage, and they have af forded much useful information with reference to the details of the new arrangements ; upon full deliberation, however, their Lordships do not think it will be advisable to adopt any one of the specific plans proposed, without modification and cotnbina lion with other arrangements. . After the best consideration my Lords can give the subject, and with the view of awarding most fairly between the parties, my Lords have decided not to give the specific sums mentioned in their minute of 23d August, but have selected four com• munications which are the most distinguished either for originality or for completeness, and from which my Lords have derived the greatest service, and decided to award the sums of 1001. for each. The authors of these four communications are as follows, the names being arranged alphabetically, viz.:—Messrs. Bogardus and Coffin (who have acted together) ; Mr. Benjamin Cheverton ; Mr. Henry Cole, and Mr. Charles Whiting. My Lords next proceed to take into consideration the several points enumerated in the Minute of the 23d of August, and the suggestions connected therewith which occur in the communications already referred to. Thejr Lordships, upon full consideration, have decided to require that, as far as practicable, the postage of letters shall be pre-paid, and to effect such pre-payment by means of stamps. Their Lordships are of opinion that the convenience of the public will be consulted, more especially at first, by issuing stamps of various kinds, in order that every one may select that description of stamp which is most suitable to his own peculiar circum stances ; and with a view of affording an ample choice, their Lordships are pleased to direct that the following stamps be prepared : First, Stamped Covers—The stamp being struck on pieces of paper of the size of half a sheet of 4to, letter paper. Second.—Stamped' Envelopes.—The stamp being struck on pieces of paper of a lozenge form, of which the stationers and uthers may manufacture envelopes. Third.—Adhesive stamps, or stamps on small pieces of paper with a glutinous wash at the back, which may be attached to letters either before or after they are witten. And Fourth.—Stamps to be struck on paper of any description which the public may send to ,the Stamp-office for that purpose. The paper for the first, second, and third kinds of stamps to be peculiar in its watermark, or some other feature, but to be supplied to Government by competition. My Lords direct that • the Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes, and 'the' Commissioners of Excise, should receive the official directions to take the necessary steps in conjunction. with this Board and with the Postmaster-General for the prepara tion 'of the stamps herein enumerated. Although the necessary experiments and investi gations which have been conducted under the di rection of this Board are already far advanced, my Lords, fear that a considerable time will be required for completing tne preparation of the dies, plates, and machinery (much of which is unavoidably of a novel construction), necessary for the manufacture of .stamps ; and being desirous of affording to the pub lic, with the least possible delay, the full a'dvan rage of the intended reduction, in postage, their Lordships propose at once to effect such reduction, On the use of stamps, however, my Lords have fully decided. They will be prepared with the least possible delay, and, when ready, due notice will be given of their introduction. Having, therefore, communicated with the au thorities of the Post-office, my Lords are pleased to direct that on the 10th day of January next, the following arrangements shall come into operation : The scale of weight already established for Ge neral Post letters to be extended to the London district and other local post letters. The charge on all letters passing between one part of the United Kingdom and another, whether by the General Post or the London district, or other local post, to be one penny per single rate. Such postage to be pre-paid—if not pre-paid to be charged double on delivery. Letters between the United Kingdom and the Colonies to be charged, if conveyed by packet, and not passing through France, at the rate of one shil- ling per single rate ; and if conveyed by private ship, at the rate of eightpence per single rate, in what ever part of the United Kingdom they may be posted or delivered. Letters between the United Kingdom and Fo reign Countries (those passing to, or from, or through France excepted) to be charged as fol• lows :--- If conveyed by packet, and posted at the port of departure, or delivered at the port of arrival within the United Kingdom, the present packet rates. If posted or delivered in any other part of the United Kingdom, 2d. per single rate, in addition to the present packet rates, unless where a lower charge shall now exist, in which case such lower charge to continue. If conveyed by private ship, Bd. per single rate in whatever part of the United Kingdom they may be posted or delivered. With regard to foreign letters to and from France, or passing through France, my Lords consider that pending such modifications as may be introduced into the Treaty with that country, the maximum of the charge fur packet and inland postage• should not exceed that rate which is now chargeable on a letter to or from London, no alteration being made in cases where the charge under the present Treaty shall be less than such before-mentioned rate. The preceding reductions do not apply to letters passing via France, between the United Kingdom and the Mediterranean, Egypt, and the East Indies, which will continue to be charged as at present. Letters between the United Kingdom and foreign countries will continue to be subject to the same regulations with regard to pre-payment as at present. Lord Melbourne states to the Board her Ma jesty's desire that such measures may he taken with reference to her Majesty's privilege of frank ing as my Lords may consider advisable for the public service, and in conformity with the other regulations which they may lay down with regard to franks. My Lords are pleased to direct that from and after the 10th January next, the privilege of frank ing, both Parliamentary and official, shall cease. The printed Votes and Proceedings of the Impe rial Parliament, or of the Colonial Legislatures of either of her Majesty's colonies, if sent in the manner now required by law, to be charged as fol. , lows, whether passing from one part of the United Xifigdom to another, or between the United King dom and the Colonies, provided they do not pass through France, or to the East Indies via Fal mouth-- Not exceeding 2 oz. in weight—ld. Exceeding 2 oz. and not exceeding 4 oz-2d. And so on, an additional penny for every additional two ounces, without limitatio n as to weight, such charge to be the same whether pre-paid or not. Their Lordships, however, consider it will be proper that the Postmaster-Gener a l should be authorized, in cases where it may appear necessary so to act, to postpone the despatch of Parliamentary proceedings for twenty-four hours, their Lordships being aware that the greatest in convenience frequently has arisen from the very large influx of heavy parliamentary papers. And their Lordships therefore are pleased to call the Postmaster-General's attention to this point, with the view of his making such regulations as may be required. The privileges now attached to addresses to her Majesty, to Parliamentary petitions, to newspapers, and to the letters of soldiers and sailors engaged in service abroad, to remain unaltered except that a soldier's or sailor's single letter will be interpreted to mean a letter not exceeding half an ounce in weight. If any privileged letter or other article •become liable to the full letter rates of postage, such rates to be charged according to the scale of rates herein established for letters. The treble duty to which newspapers in certain cases become liable to be calculated according to the same scale. All privileges, except those already enumerated, to cease. The following are exceptions to the regulation which restricts the amount of weight to 16 oz.:- 1. Parliamentary proceedings, as already named. 2. AddreEses to her Majesty, and Parliamentary petitions. 3. Letters and packets received from or addressed to, places beyond the limits of the United Kingdom. 4. Letters and packets addressedto, or despatched by the Government Departments, or such officer as may now have the privilege of franking by vittue of his office ;—and 5. Deeds, if transmitted under such regulations as the Postmaster-General may consider necessary to prevent abuse of the privilege. In consideration of the reduction now made in the postage of ship-letters, and the probable increase of such letters, the master's gratuities will be reduced to 2s. 6d. per 100 for all letters, newspapers, and other packets conveyed between one part of the United Kingdom and another. At the same time, gratuities of one penny per letter or packet, and one halfpenny per newspaper, will be given to the masters of ships trading to the East Indies, on the same conditions as those now applying to other ship-letters and papers. With reference to the arrangements herein made, the Channel Islands, and•the Isle of Man are to be considered as parts of the United Kingdom, and the lonian Isles and Honduras as British colonies. My Lords are of opinion that the whole of these arrangements should apply to all letters and packets posted within the United Kingdom, or (if brought from abroad), first delivered up to any Post-office within the United Kingdom, on or after the 10th of January next. My Lords will communicate with the Public Departments with regard to the mode of charging the letters of such Departments. Transmit a copy of this Minute officially to the Postmaster-General, and desite his Lordship will give the necessary instructions to his 'officers to carry the dirctions of my Lords into effect. Desire also that he will direct the Solicitor of the Post-office to prepare a draft of a warrant in conformity with the provisions of the Postage Acts, to be signed by my Lords, and inserted in the Gazette, pursuant to the provisions of the Act, 2 and 3, Vic. cap. 52. My Lords, in carrying the reduced rates of postage into operation, feel it their paramount duty to provide against any disarrangement which a great influx of letters posted at the last moment might occasion in the business of the Post-office. Whilst their Lordships are most umwilling that there should be any positive curtailment of the time allowed to the public in posting 'letters, their Lordships feel it necessary, in • the first in- stance, at least, to hold out an inducement to the public not to delay the posting of letters to a late period by restricting the benefit of the full reduction to those letters which shall be posted early. And their Lordships, with this view, are pleased to authorise the Postmaster-General to close the letter boxes throughout London at five o'clock ; and in the country an hour, or half an hour earlier than at present, according to the circumstances of each place. My Lords, direct that the fees for late letters be charged as follows ;—*: From the future hour of closing each box, until the present hour, one penny per letter, or pack e t, without regard to it s we i g h t ; and after the present hour of closing each box, twopence per letter, or packet, except where a larger fee is now established in which case the present fee will continue. Instruct the Postmaster -General to make ar rangements for carrying to the general revenue the fees for late letters, at the same time sub mitting for the consideration of this Board, any cases for compensation which he may consider ne aessary. Many of the packets from France have recently landed their passengers at Deal, by the new pier erect ing there, which is attributable to the tact that although such large sums have been expended in attempts to make the harbour of Dovor accessible to vessels, yet the " silt " accumulates at the bar as fast as ever, and vessels cannot enter except at high water. The pier at Deal, when completed, will therefore be no less g.n ob ject of importance to passengers between England and France, than to the town itself, and to the shipping of all countries. MOR i , ..f "r" , r. , C:t. ~ 4 ', OIT till' CORN-LAWS. An able pamphlet has just reached us, entitled " The Prosperity of the Landholders not dependent on the Corn-laws." In some of the arguments and conclusions of the author, (Thomas Jevons, Esq., of Liverpool), we cannot coincide ; in his advocacy, for instance, o f a fixed duty on imported corn of Ios. per quarter ; hut the mode in which he has demonstrated tile essential importance of manufacturing prosperity to the af;ricul• turists deserves the attentive consideration of all who uphold the present system. The north of the land and the prosperity of the cultivator must, Mr. Jevons argues, be contin gent on the numerousness and wealth of the con sumers. These, again, depend upon , the ex tension of our manufacturing system. And whe ther, by throwing down the barrier which the Corn-laws present to that 'extension, the agri culturists would find the competition of the fo reign corn grower a greater loss than would be covered by the gain of a larger and richer body of con sumers at home, is the problem which be undertakes to work out, and which he appears to us to have satisfac torily solved in the negative. If his case be made out, the interest of the agriculturist points precisely in the same direction with that of the manufacturing popula tion ; and throughout his work it is the former interest to which the attention of the writer is mainly directed. To illustrate the intimate connection between agri culture and manufactures, the woollen trade is selected as an example, and the followin g p ar ti cu l ars t d advan tage to the landed interest enumerated :- 1. There is a payment to the landed interest for the stock which is to produce the wool. " 2. There is a payment of rent to the landlordl for the land on which the sheep is to subsist. "3. Tehre is a payment to the farmer for his :trouble and profit in the management of his flock, and in bringing his wool to market. 4. There is a fourth payment in cases where a wool stapler intervenes between the farmer and manufacturer; for the woolstapler obtains a profit on the transfer, a. large part of which is expended for food, and, of the remainder, a considerable portion finds its way indirectly into zbe same channel. 5. There is a payment to the owner of the spinniny mill, being the amount of the wages of his work peoplie, and his own remuneration. The work people of the mru expend their wages, and the millowner part of his pro. fits, in purchasing food, which goes directly to the Jandei interest. " 6. There is a payment to the weavers, the fullers, the dyers, the dressers, &c. &c. The wages and profits ob tained in these different processes are principally expended ins meat and drink, which also tends directly to benefit the farmers and landowners. 7, There is the profit of tae master clothier, mer chant, or exporter, a considerable portion of which is ex pended for the benefit of the agriculturists in the purchase of farm produce. " 8. There are payments to carriers for cost of carriage backwards and forwards, by carts and by canals ; there are railway, canal, and turnpike tolls ; and there is the benefit derived by the landed interest from the sale of pro duce to the parties who carry on all these operations. " 9. There is, lastly, the benefit derived by the landed in terest from the sale of food to a vast number of different trades-people and artisans, who are employed in making and repairing the different buildings, machinery, tools, and ma terials requisite for carrying on the woollen manufacture in all its branches and ramifications, " From this statement, which is purposely drawn out at some length, it must appear manifest that the agricul tural body is deeply interested in the prosperity of the woollen trade and manufacture, and that it is well worth the notice of agricultural societies to assist in all feasible ways to extend this trade. The estimated value of woollen labrics, according to M'Uulloch, is 21,000,0001, the ha lf of which, at least, hads its way into the poclcets of the farmers and randholders." It may be said that the raw material is partly ire' ported. ted True ; but a monopoly, by destroying th e , trade, would not mend the matter. If iinportr_► it is paid for in other products, to which a glint's:, calculation applies, showing that the landed, intere.t" has already had its profits. Nor will a home Sur ply of the raw material faii to be brought to market whenever its production becomes a desirable apply cation of farming capital. The simple question Is , whether the 'agriculturist be the better or the worse for this woollen manufacture, even though a portion of it he exchanged for foreign corn? Would it b e , better for hi m t h a t, t h e popu l at i on t h us ma i nta i n ed were annihilated? That is what it comes to. Or that: by the limitation of the market, they exist in a state 0 . f,. wretchedness, turbulence, and se m i- s t arva ti o n ? Even if he have not the compl e te m ono p o ly o f th e i r cuotom, ar: they not better for him than no customers at all? o A r a_ they not better customers to him with eiriployme , l ! l ,!. w.;ges than without employment and wages, though' the condition of their having either should be that the, purchase a c o m p ara ti ve ly smelt porti on o f t h e i r foo d elsewhere ? Let the humanity of the case be throw° out of the question, and its patriotism also. The r esult is the same, and cannot be avoided, though the diSces" sion be made a bare inquiry into the interest of those connected with the cultivation of the land. " The increase of population has," says Mr. Jevong; " in th e f ace o f t h e most di stress i ng fi sca l regu l a tieL that affect the price of corn, forced us to import tha produce of 2,000,000 of acres of land annually front foreign parts. And population continues to increagf, " at the rate of one thousand human beings a day% Can any s ti mu l us b e ' app li e d to agr i cu l ture that s he" ,, enable it to supply this increase ? Is a proportionat e increase of production physically possible ? And if i t were, how is it to be paid for ? These incoming thou sands will have bellies to be filled, and hands to labour' The cultivator of the soil neither needs their work tte lr can afford to give them food ; but they can earn it dol e foreigner, and largely benefit the cultivator in the pro' cess. What a wretched interposition for all Parties 1 $ that of the restrictive system! The ultimate tendency of the Corn-laws is manifestly to limit the population of the country. They ill the same tende nc y as th e i n f amous b oo k o f Marcus;. feting only as the destruction of employment differs trot° his poisonous gas, and painful starvation from " painless extinction." It the supply of food cannot grow up r° the population, the population must die down to the sur ply of food. Considered only as a veto on the future existence of human beings, for the selfish purposes of $ class, this is rather a questionable uim. But this very far from the worst. Here is the population. is not in posse, but in esse. The point of practicala4 supply from the home growth of corn is alreaal Passed. The existing increase of numbers has necessi' tated a foreign supply, and that supply conies in t he worst possible mo d e . I t ne i t h er allows steadiness °f price to the farmer, nor a market to the manufaeture r a It baffles all cal cu l a ti ons , d eranges a ll transactions, , blends th e l east poss ibl e good with the greatest poss ible mischief. The food cone s, but not the increasing CO Y ' ploy Bunt that should provide the means of its purchase . The process is thw of turning the screw of-distress or, the existing population, to squeeze it down into a smaller compass. how long will human nature eudure the horrible operation ? The question is not now whether there shall or shal l not be a f ore i gn corn tra d e—that has • decided itse l f The foreign corn trad e exists, and must exist. Th e necessity has proved itself too strong fur all laws and regulations. The question has come to be whether this ine%itable traffic shall be regular or irregular, ca l ' culable or incalculable, profitable or ruinous. On the present system it affords no facilities to the mutual° . turer ; but it m i g h t b e made his passport to the Eu ropean market. On the preaent system, it r en ders' 3 short crop or a superabundant crop alike perilous t ° the farmer, and deprives him of all regular data for hi S calculations ; it might equalize his prices and h ts profits, and give him the certainty of regular trade instead of the vicissitudes of a gambling sP c " culation. On the present system, the poor and in dustriois most deeply feel the evils of vicissitude ; 4 % 4 ' most out of work when food is dearest ; and 080° 1 * escape influences that tend to want, pauperism, and de' moralisation ; they might have the prospect of pi-ogres" sivoly extending employment, and so of rising wages that would render even the rising prices of farm produce the t . y ts so;cOiaenntyd t bi h ty e mt p ihg r eh e s te e no n rp t se;r s a y i tt s e t g e m rigt o ye n .w i o n ul t i e td re iii s sa t ve to both th e great classes, whose apantahtredi prosperity saaaoptintm:oectsrteti foreignthe bitterest c t ho their n ir t p ra r d o e s , p lo e ss r et i for the thatbc n ea7reienut agricultural of i ti mutual vhich sways th e L eg i s l ature to say which power kind of foreign c orn trade sh a ll exist—that which would promot e good-will and plenty, or that which eventually must smite the land with a curse C/ rrome.e. DEVONPORT ELECTION JAN. 7 —The Reformers of Devonport are at length united, and the only hope of the brother-in-law of Sir Robert Peel is blighted for ever. Through jealous; the Reformers have hitherto suff!red themselves to be divided on subjects of minor importance, whilst the Tory has congratulated himself on this unnatural divi sion. But at length the Reformers of Devonport have cast aside all personal considerations, and have deter mined to support political principles. They have con cluded terms by which the only hope of the Tory is an. nihilated. The united committees of Messrs. Tufnell and Leach have resolved to submit their respective interests to a Ballot, at which the:Liberals alone arc to be admitted. Either of these gentlemen will caw t his influence in behalf of the successful Reformer. It is now certain that a division among the Liberals of Devonport wilt never again be a temptation to Tory Dawson to offer himself to the constituency of Devonport. The two counties of Denbigh and Merioneth will no longer be placed under one Lord-Lieute nant, but each will have a Lord-Lieutenant to it self. We have heard Lord Dinorben mentioned as likely to be Lord-Lieutenant of one of the counties. THE CLERGY AND THE CORN-LAWS.—The Anti-Corn-lazu Circular calls on the ministers of religion to help the League in procuring a repeal of the Corn-laws. " It is fulfilling," it says, "a great religious duty, and giving your effectual aid to a true and most holy cause. Leave for a day your flocks in the keeping of the good Shepherd, and help us, by your reverend sanction, to gain, over selfishness, injustice, and practical infi delity, the victory of truth, of .virtue, and of God 1" A Correspondent of the Circular proposes a solemn fast—a day set apart for public prayer and supplication to Almighty God, that he will have mercy on the poor and the needy, and very properly suggests to the Deputies to begin their labours by asking the Divine blessing on their exertions. Against such feelings, whether the Clergy join in the prayer or not, the landlords will not prevail. They are too solemn and too well founded to be put down by the frivolous landowners. CAUTION TO NEWSVENDERS.--At the last Sussex Quarter Sessions three persons named Grunt, and IVilliam and John Smith, newsvenders and sta tioners at Brighton ) surrendered to take their trial upon an indictment, charging them with having wilfully pub lished a disreputable and scandalous paper called Paul Pry, containing a libel upon a gentleman named An drews, residing at Brighton. The defendants pleaded guilty, and expressed their sorrow at having been con cerned in the publication of the paper alluded to, and declared that they would never more have any thing to do with it, or assist in any way in its sale. Mr. Roupell, who was instructed on behalf of the prosecu tion, stated, that in consequence of the gross and scan dalous attacks that were continually made upon the pri vate character of respectable persons, residing at Brighton, in this paper, an Association of gentle men had been formed for the purpose of put ting a stop to such a disgraceful proceed ing, and they determined on putting the law in force, by prosecuting all the parties who were in any way concerned in its publication. The Association, however, had no vindictive feeling, and as the defen dants had confessed their error, the prosecutors would be satisfied with their entering into reeognizances to appear and receive the judgment of the Court, if such a step should become necessary. Mr. Sergeant D'Oyley, the Chairman, alter making some strong remarks on the injury done to private individuals by these infamous publications, informed the defendants that it it should be found necessary to call them up for judgment a most severe punishment would be inflicted upon them. THE DUCHESS OF ST. ALI3ANS' MEMOIRS. —Those who have been hitherto been disappointed in procuring this work will be pleased to find in the new teidointaioin, piquantu just anecdotespublished, a o c o f t) s p i e d r e s r ? a i b i s l A ol u almostn r o f everyadd.i grade of society. Amongst the litoi . y.....and dramatic characters who will be found ro - ffguri itshages, are ~1 1., ,,I . r .t tL ockhart, Mrs. Siddons, MratogErs; *r_s ) (Jordan, Miss Warren, John Keinble,Mj and Mrs. Charles Scott, Madame Mara, Signora Storace, Sir Walter Wordsworth, Southey, S c ou r t o l u ie c y h , , B ‘ r ‘ a .c h w a i m tz , e ß r, et A te i r rs to . n bi T ano,mi, Miss 1(0/2 1Y, - Airs. Glover, Tom Dtbdin, Elliston, Jack Ban.niaster, Dowton, Mrs. Orger, Master Betty, &c. di curious discovery was made last week near Sherfield House, Southampton—a bed of oyster-shells, several feet in thickn ess , having been found about four feet ben eat h the surface' of the soil. They were not petrified, but had been preserved in a bed of sand. THE SUN v. FIRE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. am a lodger in town, no matter where, but the chambermaid perpetually darkens the room lest the Sun should put out the fire. I shall not discuss the sufficiency of the fog to put out, or at least to obscure the Sun, and completely protect a London drawing room from the calamity apprehended ; my great desire is to bring, through your ingenuous and widely circu lated publication, this tiresome subject before scientific men, in order that a prejudice K. common may be cor rected if erroneous, or confirmed if well founded. That a bright Sun appears to diminish and obscure the cheerful aspect of your hearth is quite natural, but that the heat or light oldie Sun can possess the extin guishing property thus attached to it, I have more than doubted, nor can I be piasuaded, except by the very best authority, that a strong blazing coal-fire is weaker in its opposition to the powerful rays of the Sun than the most paltry taper exposed to their influence. M. S. DESCENT Or SPIDERS.-'—A letter from Suk on the Indus, dated 17 t h September, mentions the fol lowing phenomenon :—" I was taking a stroll into the fields, when I found myself suddenly covered with a whole host of small and large spiders. On looking about I observed that I was standing in the midst of a large cloud of these a nimals, who appeared descend iog it' a filmy web of no small dimensions from the tipper regions. Having extricated myself with some difficulty from their embraces, I took a position final whence I could see about me, without being annoyed by them, and to my astonishment I beheld descending maze within maze, and fold within fold, an innumerable I host of spiders, all suspended and dancing on their numberless tiny threads, which were at times seen to glance in every variety of shade, amid the beams of the rising sun. The morning was somewhat dark and lour ing, and the stillness was now and then broken by some distant rumbling of thunder."—.lsiatic Journal. SUICIDE IN THE SERPENTINE.—About ten o'clock on Saturday morning last as Knight, the chief boatman of the Royal Humane Society, was endea vouring, n ear t h e rece i v i ng -h o use, to fish out of the' Serpentine a little model boat that had just sunk, a man, in height about five eight inches, end about twenty-four years of age, dressed in a brown cloth shooting jacket and black trousers, passed by and re marked, " You've got a wet job there." In about half an hour after a lad brought information to the receiving house that a man had just jumped off the parapet of the bridge at the west end of the Serpentine. In the mean- timelienbury, the park-kceper, having. heard of the occurrence, got into a boat, and, rowing to the spot, got the body out in five minutes. At the receiving -hou se Dr. Woolley tried without success to restore animation. There was nothin g in or on the clothes that could lead to deceased's identity, but Knight perceived it was the body of the man who spoke to him shortly before the occurreace. A poor woman, wife of Walter Phillips, miner, at the Coalbrook Vale Iron Works, near Nantyglo, was delivered on Tuesday week of four fine children, three girls and a boy. The mother and the children are getting on as well as possible.—Welsionan. WARWICKSHIRE SESSIONS.—LOVETT AND COLLINS.—Mr. Miller made an application to the Court for further indulgences to be granted to Lovett and Collins, with reference to their diet, that they might be allowed something rather better than the usual prison diet ; they had applied to the Secretary of State, and he had referred them to the Justices of the Peace. He remarked, that it would be in the recollec tion of the Court that a similar application was made and granted to three prisoners, Wooller, Edmonds, and Maddox, on a charge of a si m il ar na t ure ; an d upon that chiefly he grounded the present application. Ile wished also for the Court to take into their considers_ EXTRAORDINA 1 RY tECOVERY OF lion the recommendation of the jury to mercy. The OF A F„ A , DULENT BAN KRUPT.—About the end of last Reverend J. Beadier stated that, as a visiting Ma. . . t ) o ca a r, l a 'person absconded from Manchester with goods gistrate, he could assure the Court that every care andPROPERTY amount, and in debt sonic thousands. In attention had been shown to the prisoners, which could, IF3echswruicaakrrgyelast, one of the creditors consulted Messrs ° . in justice to the other prisoners confined in the same solicitors, Bennett's-hill, Birmingham, as to yard, and convicted for offences of the same nature, viz., the best mode to be adopted for the recovery of 1!1 .. a misdemeanour, be possibly shown. Mr. Wilmshurst, claim ; and on the 21st of that month a fiat in bank . the surgeon, had stated that he considered them both ruptcy was sued out by those gentlemen against in perfect health, and that at present he did not deem The any addition a l a ll owance necessary. It was decided by the party, necessary p a p ers were t hen the an d duly aut h enticated the Cou r t t o l eave i t to t h e Visiting Magistrates, with rities here, for the p urpose of seizing the b o oks whose decisi on th ey s h ou ld b e perfectly sati,fied. COMMENCEME NT OF S ICAITING. and p ro p er ty o f t h e b ankrupt at Sydney, to which ---I 'esterday place it was discovered he had gone under morning th e ornamenta l waters i n the Regent's and St, false name. A messenger, who was on the 6 ' p o i n t of James's Parks, were sufficiently f rozen over to admit a leaving for that colony on o th er b us , ness, undertook the to the Royal Humane So- rivirig number of adventurous persons to skait on the edges, execution of the warrant Holum. him ; and upon nr° at Sydney, he succeeded, after considerable trll' A number of men belonging ciety were in attendance to assist in case of accidents ; ble, in seizing a vast quantity of papers of great v alue tents are also erected for the men, who are provided to the estate, and upw ar d s o f one thousand five hundred of property. The messenger to whom with proper implements to render instant assistance, and pounds worth also with warm baths for the immediate reception of any this important trust wa s ennfided was Mr. Badhan), tinfintunate persons that may require the aid of it. The sheriff's officer, Cannon -street, Birmingham, in whose Serpentine River is also frozen over, but men are placed praise too much cannot be said for his activity o n this to prevent persons venturing on the ice. occasion. The Colonial Office was consulted pre' riou ! ly t o th e d ocument being sent, and gave every THE WEA ThEit.---Since January 1838, when to furth er th e exert i ons of Messrs. Besvrick. Mr. Murphy w as a true p h have had no frost assistance rop et, we so intens e as i t was yesterday. At 9 A.M. the thermometer — Birniingkam Advertiser. stood at 20, an d i n the course of the night,- even in a We are still without tidings of the Liverpool. comparatively sheltered situation, it fell to 17, The The delay in her arrival is now attributed to a po st cold, however, was not much felt, as there was scarcely a ponement of her day of sailin g from New York. It I breath of wind. The sky is beautifully clear, and the is understood that she will not leave till the 21st.-- barometer stood at 30.25. Livequol Cyanic,. .