The Sun. — London, England, 1840-02-13 00:00:00

CONTRACTSfor MEAT, 13 LIL AD. 1 A • • for the ROYAL MARINE INFIRMARIES at WOOL WICH and CHATHAM. - DEPARTMEN P OF THE PHYSICIAN.GENER AL OF THE NAVY, SOMERSET-PLACE, FE:11. I?, 1910. THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUT ING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE LAND do hereby give Notice, that on TkiUnsnAY, the 27th instant, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat vrith such Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying all such quantities of all or any of the following Articles as shall from time to time be required for the use of either or both of the Royal Marine Infirmaries at Woolwich and Chatham, from the Ist day of April next to the 31st day of March, 1841, v:z. : FRESH BEEF and MUTTON, BREAD, MILK, SOAP, CANDLES, And also for the Supply of VEGETABLES, from the Ist day of April next to the 31st day of March, 1843. Samples of the Soap e i nd Candles, and the Cmditions of the Contracts, may be seen at the said Office, or on application to the Purveyor of the respective Infirmaries. No Tn der will be received after One o'clock on the Day of Treaty, nor any noticed, unless the Party attends, or an Agent for him duly authorized in writing. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Ad mit alty, and bear in the left hand corner the words " Tender for ," and must also be delivered at Somerset-place, ac cen9anied by a Letter signed by two responsible persons, en gaging to become bound with the person tendering, in the sum of 100/. for the due performance of each of the Contracts f‘r Beef, Mutton, Bread, and Vegetables, and in the sum of 50/. for each of the others. NEW LOAN FOR SPAIN. The CO MM I T TEE of SPANISH BOND HOLDERS having learned that Agents are now in Madrid for the purpose of negociating a new Loan, do hereby give Notice that they will use their utmost exertions to prevent such Loan from being carried into effect, unless it shall embrace a just and certain provision for the Debt and Dividends already due to the Foreign Creditors of Spain. By Order of the Committee, THOMAS THORNTON, Spanish Committee Room, Hon. Sec. 9, Old Swan-stairs, London-bridge. N.B. Books continue open for Subscriptions for the English and French Committee,' and unless ample funds be provided the Committee cannot possibly take all the necessary measures for securing the interest of the Bondholders. THE SOUTHERN STAR. THE LARGEST, AND MOST DECIDEDLY RADICAL JOURNAL IN EUROPE. (Edited by BRONTERRE O'BRIEN and WILLIAM CARPENTER.) In consequence of the several attempts made to strangle this Journal from the day of its first announcement—attempts which retarded its appearanco for upwards of three months, and de stroyed nearly one-half its sale durinc , the four first weoks of its existence—a report has got into circulation that its publication is about to cease. _ The report is a lie !—a malicious lie—a lie invented by the enemies of the SOUTHERN ; STAR, to destroy it, and of which the " wish was father to the thought." As the best answer to the lying report, Messrs. O'Brien and Carpenter beg to announce that they have at last completed such arrangements as will set the malice of their enemies at defiance—arrange ments that will at once secure excellence in the mechanical execution of the Paper, and perfect regularity in its publication and delivery. The SOUTHERN STAR will henceforward prove for the Southern Counties what the NORTHERN STAR is for the Northern Counties—the unflinching Advo cate of Democracy, and the Poor Man's best guide and guar dian. _ . Office, 4, Crane -court, Fleet-street, London. 13, Great Marlborough-street. 11R. BU A R N I D U B : ai S noN N E - E TA W GE PEERAGE FOR 1840, WITH ALL THE NEW CREATIONS, IS NOW READY ; Printed, on a new plan, in one large volume Evo, with an em blazoned Title-page, and . upwards of 1,500 Engravings of Arms, &c., price 38s. bound. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL, tOVENT GARDEN. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, FEE. 13. Will be repeated the New Original Play in Five Acta, written by Leigh Hunt, Esq., to te called A LEGEND OF FLORENCE. Francisco Agolanti, Mr. MOore; Antonio Rondinelli, Mr. Anderson ; Cesare Colonna, Mr. G. Vandenhoff ; Fulvio Da Riva, Mr. Bartley; Giulio, Mrs. Waiter Lacy; Gin evra, Miss Ellen Tree. ; - . After which wtll be repeated the Grand Allegorical and National Masque, in honour of htr Majesty's Nuptials, entitled THE FORT UNATE_ISLES ; OR, THE TRIUMPHS OE BRITANNIA. The MJsic composed and selected by Mr. H. R. 13ishop.- Dress Boxes, 75. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 25. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to eommence at Seven o'Clock. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Natter, at the Box-office, from' Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. • I'rivate Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. - Last Week of the best Pantomime in London. THIS EVENING, FEB. 13. Will be acted the Legendary Drama, called THE LAPIDARY OF LEYDEN. Supported by the entire strength of the Company. After which, the'Performances of Michael Boai. To which will be added, MICHAEL EARLE, THE MANIAC LOVER. Characters by Messrs: Saville, H. Hughes, "Seville, John on, and Smith ; Mrs Vining, Mrs. Day, and Miss Martin! To conclude with the Grand Pantomime, called THE QUEEN BEE; or, HARLEQUIN AND GOODY TWO SHOES. STRAND THEATRE. UNPARALLELED SUCCESS. The GREAT WIZARD of the NORTH'S Temple of Magic is nightly honoured with crowded, brilliant, and fashionable audiences, who gaze in breathless astonishment at his incredible wonders of incomprehenSible Magical Phenomena. On THIS EVENING (Tnuttsnar), FEB. 13, 1840, and every evening during the week, the GREAT WIZARD of the NORTH will perform: his Hundred Feats of Magic ! Leger demain ! Necromancy ! and Black Art ! The whole of this Unparalleled Performance will conclude with the most Wonderful Feat ever attempted by living Man, of which the Great Wizard of the North is the Sole Inventor. THE GUN TRICK, Of which unique and brilliant Exploit he is the Absolute In ventor, and it is so perfect a delusion as almost to justify the supposition of his INVULNERABILITY. In this splendid invention he distinctly assures the Public that the extraordinary Mystery of the Trick is not effected by the aid of any Accom plice, or by inserting a tube in the muzzle of the Gun, or by other conceivable devices (as the Public frequently, and in some instances correctly, imagine), but that 81 1 Gentleman may really load the Gun in the usual manner, inserting, himself, a MARKED REAL LEADEN BALL ! ! The Gun being then fired off at the Wizard, he will instantly produce and exhibit the same Bullet in hii HAND. The above, although a ;host extraordinary deception, one that creates greater speculation than the others, is not a pleasing. experiment, particularly to Ladies; consequently, it will not be Performed till all the other delusions are finished. Boxes, 2s. 6d.—Pit, Is. 6d —Gallery, Is. Second Price at Half-past Eight.—Boxes, Is. 6d.; Pit, Is., Gallery, 6d. The Box-ofl'►ce will be open from Eleven till Pour, where places can be secured. Doors open at half-p&st Six.—The Wizard crummences at Seven, concluding at Half past Ten. _ _ N.B.—Ladies and Gentlemen taught the fashionable art of Legerdemain, or Parlour Magic. The Wizard has always on hand, for sale, a most. splendid assortment of Apparatus for the performance of Parlour Magic. Ladies or Gentlemen purchasing an Apparatus, may rest assured they will be made adepts in the art with a Single Lesson from the Wizard of the North. Terms, according to the value of the Apparatus. VACCINATION "AND RE-VACCINATION. — Copenhagen is extremely subject to epidemic diseases, and, during the last few yars, to small-pox. From the various observations which he has made during these epidemic attacks, Professor Otto concludes-1. That the vaccine virus has lost nothing of its original force. — 2. That a child cannot be vateinated too so:m after birth. That the protective influence of-the vaccine virus gradually diminishes with time; in some, perhaps in the greater part of those vaccinated, it is lost after a certain lapse of years, 4. The nature of the cicatrix does not enable us to determine how far the disease will be modi fied. 5. Small-pox, when it occurs in the vaccinated, is always modified, and the more so the younger the person is. 6. liegular variola, in the vaccinated, only appeared in per sons who had passed the age af . fourteen. 7. Out of ten vac cinated persons who had died, none hail passed the age of twenty-three. 8. Not a single ease of small-pox had, as yet, occurred in the re-vaccinated.—hldical On Saturday last, Mr. Sanderson, of Cocker- Month, banker, entrusted a parcel containing 7001. in notes and gold (we believe nearly an equal amount of each) to the care of Mr. Douglas, common carrier, between that town and Whitehaven. The parcel was directed to the Whitehaven Joint Stock Bank. On arriving at Whitehaven, however, Douglas says, that he had the parcel in his great-coat pocket, and having forgot it, left his coat at the inn where he puts up, and that some one must have taken nut the parcel and conveyed h away. Hand-bills were issued offering a reward for the lost money; but in the mean time certain circumstances created a suspicion that all was not right with the carrier, and that he was not telling the truth, consequently he was taken into cus tody and searched, when there were found upon him not less Than 20 sovereigns, and 301. in bank notes, which he could not account for in any other way than by saying they were his own Pocket money. This and other suspicious circumstances were thought sufficient to warrant Douglas's detention, and he is still in custody for further examination on this serious charge. Prior to this affair Douglas bore a res:sectable character and Was looked upon as a confidential person, being freeuently en trusted with both money and goo ds to a considerable amount. --Carisle Journal. IMPOSITION UPON THE THEATRES.--In con sequence of the " special" command of her Majesty that the variou s metropolitan theatres should be open gratuitously to the public on Monday night, - the doors of each establis hm e nt were nesiqged during the day by persons in order to obtain tickets of admission. A set of fellows after procuring the admissions sold them at 3d., and in many instances false orders were sold for 3d, each to the unwary. At Sadler's Wells this species of fraud was practised, and the fellow was ta ken into custod y and committed to the House of Correction from Hatton-garden Po nce -office on Tuesday. He was recognised as a notorious and Convicted thief. r,L7 4 I'4l_lll. iiA) tt., it lA_ or HER MAJESTY. THE SUN" OF MONDAY EVENING ••• ••rt-. ,Z, - !VCONTAINS TWO BEAUTIFUL MEDALLION PORTR AITS OF THE QUEEN AND PRINCE ALBERT, EXECUTED IN THE VERY FIRST STYLE OF THE ART. THE LIKE NESSES ARE PRONOUNCED BY COMPETENT JUDGES TO BE AD MIRABLE. THE EXPENSE OF PRODUCING THESE PORTRAITS HAS BEEN VERY GREAT; BUT THE CHARGE IS ONLY ONE SHILLING. THE SUN, CONTAINING THESE PORTRAITS, MAY BE RECEIVED BY POST IN ALL PARTS OF THE KINGDOM. PARTIES IN REMOTE PLACES CAN REMIT A SHILLING OR TWO, HALF A SOVEREIGN, OR A SOVEREIGN, -FOR ONE PENNY BY THE POST; AND THEIR OR DERS WILL BE PUNCTUALLY AT TENDED TO. THE SUN ALSO CONTAINS A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE AUGUST CERE MONY, WITH ALL PARTICULARS APPERTAINING TO SO INTERES TING AN OCCASION. ORDERS FOR THE , t ROYAL WED DING SUN" WILL BE RECEIVED BY ALL NEWS-AGENTS AND POST MASTERS THROUGHOUT THE KINGDOM, AND AT ,4 THE SUN" OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON. The demand fi,r the ROY AL WEDDING SUN on Mondaywas beyond all precedent. The Printing Machine, which is one of the best in . London, was at work from the hour of publica tion till the departure of the Mail, throwing off 7,000 per hour ; and even this vast number was not equal to the demand. We may say it without vanity, because it is truth, that in all the history of the Newspaper Press there never was such a quantity of Newspapers published within the same time. The arrangements we had to make were of the most complicated description, yet, with one ex ception, all have succeeded. Our readers will perceive that the Paper is 9f a smaller size than usual. We had ordered weeks ago a large supply of the full sized paper. It was sent e by the manufacturer, but owing to the breaking up of the roads in consequence of the floods, it has not yet arrived. Luckily we had made preparation for such a contingency, and had reserved a sufficient quantity to answer the tem porary demand. Our readers in a few days will see what an elegant Marriage Present we would have presented to them but for the envi ous floods. Those of our Country Readers who may not have received THE SUN according to order, will bear the dis appointment patiently. The demand for the Paper was such, that tkongh there were ten persons em ployed in opening letters and writing covers, and twice as many in packing up the pape; s, we have not been able to get through all our Country Correspon deuce yet. TO THE SUBSCRIBERS OF THE SUN. We omitted to notice on Monday tl:at No Extra Charge was made to our regular Subscribersfor the ROYAL WEDDING SUN, which was delivered to the News Agents at the ordinary price. Sun Office, 112, Strand. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We have received a. number of communications detailing the rejoicings that have taken place in various parts of the country. We shall duly attend to the favours of all our cor respondents at the earliest moment. We have received the letter of Air. Pare, and the very strong memorial in his favour frcm a number of magistrates, mer chants, and professional men of Birmingham, but cannot possibly find room for them today. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning.-- 4 minutes after 11 1 Evening 0 minutes after P. 1 ;A l , •-•:,,,,, z evp. V. -- • -, :f: - 4t".. - 1,..'e. ~r-t) , st o 4.3 '?.44 , A ,. - C ri '‘,.. , 'krl-Z'',; , .)) i j ty - • ~...,-. *V ~ ;:a% - . -- -oie g e-L.14-,-, -.3-,:4 617 5 C 4) (4, t LONDON: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1840. The Lords did net meet yesterday. In the Commons a question arose as to lithographed petitions, which, on the recommendat'on of the Speaker, are to be considered as printed petitions, and by a stand ing order of the House printed petitions are not to be received. The Vagrants' Removal Bill was read a second time, as was, after a short debate and a division, promoted by Mr. DIVETT, the Tithe Commutation Act Amendment Bill. The numbers on the division were 77 to 21. Sir E. KNATCHEULL, IVIIO has charge of the Bill, though it is brought in with the concurrence of the Govern ment and the Tithe Commissioners, stated that he should not oppose a motion to send it to a Select Com mittee. Mr. GILLON'S Spirit Licensing Bill for Sectland was thrown out, on the second reading, by 62 to 42. In a Committee of Supply a short conversation took place on the vote of 4,000,0001. more last year than was intended, or a double vote of 4,000,0001., from which it appears that the Ministers might have issued 4,000,0001. more Exchequer Bills than they actually issued. Such an instance of forbearance, though the power might have originated in a mistake is, we believe, unexampled. Sir H. FLEETWOOD'S motion for an address to the Crown, to direct the engineers, appointed in consequence of the address of August 14, to inquire into the merits of the Railway from Preston to Fleetwood, was with drawn, and the House adjourned at a few minutes after Seven o'Clock. Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S remarks on the case of Tiro- ROGOOD, and in respect of Church-rates, - have caused in us, and will cause generally, we believe, in the Libe ral public, surprise and regret. His Lordship seems almost to have caught the spirit of the Times, and was disposed to srmr at TironocooD, while he spoke with unction of the Church in a ma, - trier almost worthy of that apostate and profligate Journal. That he should require persons to obey the law is proper to his situa tion, but it is equally proper that he should first of all make the law just. Whatever may be Lord Jon& RUSSELL'S present op'nion, his own attempts, and the attempts of the Ministry, to alter and abolish Church -rates, are to us substantial proofs that the law, which he blamed THO ROGOOD for not cheerfully obeying, is an unjust law, which a man is not bound to obe y, except as the public force may make it a matter of prudence not even to attempt resistance. Lord Jour/ RUSSELL and his friends, in consequence of the strentu, us exertions of the priest party, were unable to carry tb:ough their well deiised scheme to relieve the Dissenter.' from Church rates. They exist now, therefore, only by the au thority of the Tories, and Lord JoErtz RUSSELL will hardly, on reflection, expect alrjis follovrers, ( includin; the Catholics in Ireland and the Dissenters in ")i:Jugland, to submit to the domination of the Tories. That, however, is what in f'tct be recommends as a duty, when he blames THOP.OGOOD for Fs honest resistance to Church-rate law. That the Whigs have been ioflueoced on this subject by the heartless jibes of the Tory press, we will not assert ; but if they bad, Lord Joins RusseLL could scarcely, we think, have treated it more cavalierly. He is a member of the Church of England, and prizes highly its doctrines. He regards them as the sources of morality, and the means of eternal life. He deems the Anglican priesthood to be teachers of truth, and patterns of go - Killen. He wishes their doctrines to be followed, anal their exsmple imitated. The Dis senters take a different view. They say that the ex ample of the Anglican priesthood is to be avoided, and their doctrines discredited. By their very existence as Dissenters, they deny that the Anglican priests are mo dels of goodness and teachers of truth. The Dissenters regard the Anglican priesthood,with their arrogant assumF tion of power, as the corrupters of the national morality, and the doctrines of the Church, as not showing the way to salvation. On these grounds, and no others, are they Dissenters. One and all, they are religious men, and they would not peril their souls by dissent, except from solemn and well-Weighed convictions. It is not, therefore, the amount of the Church-rates which they care for, but the principle. For them the establishment of the Church is a brand of inf. riority. It designates their creed and their discipline as less worthy than those of the Churchmen. It stigmatizes their doctrines as false, and their morality as imperfect. They justly object to that ; but when, in addition, those who cl Jim this superioriiy for their faith proceed to tax them, Church-rates become a badge of slavery. It frets and galls the more because it is maintained from pride by a party which scoffs at Dissenters, and which is equally the enemy of genuine religion and of civil liberty. Lord JOHN RUSSELL must have forgotten all these considerations, when he blamed JOHN THOROGOOD -for not paying the rate, and for prefer ring—though he relied, probably, on the promises of the Ministers, and expected justice from his country — to suffer imprisonment for a short time. A man in THOROG3OD'S situation is exposed to more hardships than incarceration. If he, spurning the in sulting slavery of the priesthood, take his measures calmly and coolly, first going before the Civil Court, and then refusing obedience to the Ecclesiastical Court, he is accused of seeking notoriety, of being animatsd by some selfish motive, and as having forsaken his last to set up for a mender of the State. If he be a noisy, ranting enthusiast, who appeals loudly to the public, then he is stigmatized as a quack or a hypocrite, who makes his religious feelings a pretence to work on the compassion or excite the admiration of ethers. He must suffer much public odium, therefore, in addition to imprisonment, and those who should listen to his com plaints in Parliament, and redress his grievances, deride his sufferings. For him there is no alter native but much suffering, mental and bodily— or submission. He cannot help himself, the public will not help him, and the Legislature mocks at him. Composed of a great majority of Churchmen it says the Church Establishment is good, it insists on men loving and obeying the Church, and it enforces obedi ence by Ecclesiastical Courts. Sir ROBERT INGLIS naturally praised Lord JOHN RUSSELL because Lord JOHN enforced obedience to the law, which brands the Dissenters with inferiority, and gives a power and au thority to the Church which its doctrines neither de serve nor command. We are not surprised, we admit, that Lord Joint RUSSELL should be a &cited supporter of the Esta blished Church. He has been bred up in its doctrines. He has been taught, and probably believes, that it is an instrument for promoting civil order, as well as for securing salvation. At present civil order is threatened, and it is not improbable that he looks to the exertions of the priesthood to win hack the, people to their an cient habits. In the Peers, Lord MELBOURNE deferred to the Bishop of EXETER, and the Marquis of Non.- MANDY brought atout the dismissal of Mr. PARE. If the Ministers do not mean, as we hope and believe they do not, to support the motion for more Church, it is evident that they are resolved not to impugn the Church. We can scarcely blame them. The advocates of the Church are stirring, active, and' combined. The anti- Churchmen are dilatory, disunited, and lethargic. They appear almost extinct as a party. We hear continually of the Church, but seldom of its opponents. The Minis ters, therefore, can hardly be expected to take any measures contrary to the wishes of the Church or to zealous in helping those who will not help them selves : but the less hope there is that the Ministers will do aught against the Church, the more urgent is the necessity for the Press aad the anti-Church party to exert themselves in order to resist its arrogant claims. The details of the highly important news which we yesterday published from Canton to the 7th of Novern_ ber, ere of very subordinate interest. On the 20th o October a sort of convention was agreed to by Superin tendent ELLIOT, and the high Commissioner LIN, fo r carrying on the British trade outside the Bacca without any necessity of signing the new Chinese B e' ond , which subjects a ship to seizure and confiscation, and all on board to capital punishment, on the discovery of a quantity less by one-eighth than two °Aces of opium ! a quantity that would be requisite for the supply of a ship's medicine chest, and which any of the Chi nese searchers could easily manage to secrete on board, and thus secure to the Government the confiscation; of the vessel and cargo ! Bat this convention was of short duration. The Thomas Coutts and the Royal Saxon, both British vessels, regardless of the national honour, haviag gone up to Whampoa, and signed the obnoxious bond, the HIGH COMMISSIONER seized the crews as hostages, and cancelled the convention, commanding all British vessels to follow their example, or in three days to expect total destruction. This led to a de mand of explanation on the part of Superintendent ELLIOT at the Bogue, when the Hyacinth andl the Volage sloops of war were surrounded by 29 Chinese war junks, with the manifest intention of making them prisoners. Each junk contained irom 140 to 200 Chinese ; but after an engagement of half an hour six of them were sunk, and the rest sheered off as fast as they could. Had it not been for superintendent Elliot, who would not suffer Captain Smith of the Volage to continue firing, more than half of them would have gone to the bottom. It was calculated that they lost at the least 900 men. As for Superintendent ELLIOT, every fresh account from Cantcn only serves to convince us that he is to tally disqualified for the office which he now fills us Superintendent of the British trade. How mortifying to the national character must it be to contrast his va dilating, timid conduct with that of the gallant ANSON in those waters, with no more than , one leaky, disabled ship of war at his disposal. Superintendent ELLIOT appears throughout a compound of rashness and timidity, of bravado and caution, which would better become a Chinese Mandarin than a British officer representing the SOVEREIGN Of the British people. The Bombay Gazelle of the Ist of January corn mints on intelligence from England, announcing the arrival at Malta of a number of French officers on their way to Persia, to replace the British officers recently in the service of the SCHAII. As we commented at great length on the circumstance at the time the French officers were en their journey from Paris to Erzeruns, where en unfortunate accident interrupted the harmony between the officers in question and the Persian Em bassy, we should not think it worth while to notice the article in the Bombay Gazette, did it Rot entirely cor roborate the views which we then expressed as to the change which it indicated in the councils of Persia. But we cannot agree with our Anglo-Indian contemporary that such a circumstance, though it ought to render us more circumspect, gives us any right of making the matter a formal ground of complaint. The SCITAH, in disciplining his troops, may make choice of the officers of any naticn of whose military tactics he approves, and dismiss.them when he thinks proper, without subjecting himself to the chances of war. The following article from the same Journal is still mere important, and at the same time equally confir matory of statements made more than a month ago in the leading columns of The Sun. Such of our readers as remember how distinctly and emphatically we an nounced the real aject of Russia in sending an army to attack hhiva, and how we afterwards coupled that event with the first account of hostile appearances at Herat, will he struck with the Following article from the Bombay- Gazette of the Ist of January—the very day when Russia announced the starting of the Khivan Expedition : HERA T AND THE RUSSIANS. A letter from Candahar, of the 28th of Octob, r, re ceived by us en Saturday, states that an express bad arrived there from Herat, bringing intelligence that Yar Mahommed, the Prime Minister, had threat ened to kill Todd, and the whole of the Bri tish there," if they did not take themselves off forthwith. As the Yar is said to be King do facto, and does just as he pleases with the old sot Kam ran, this threat of his may be more than mere bravado ; especially as he has finished it off with declaring that be does not care for our three lass a year, for that the Russians will give him twelve.* Coupling this hint with the fact of the Russian advance upon Kbiva, and prospectively to Balk, it h no great wonder that our Envoy is rather uneasy on his political bed, which, uuder THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1840. 4 4. host circumstances, coald not, for a long time to come be that : Bed of peace, whose roughest part I. but the crumbling of the roses.' Neither the English nor the Indian Government have a right to a word in objection to the Autocrat's now-re ported, and we believe truly reported, movement ; for there is no doubt of the maltreatment of his subjects by the Khivances; and although it has been a matter of perpetration for these several years past, and taken no notice of by the St. Pctcrsborgh Cabinet till now ; still, the long forbearance does not give us the slightest r i g ht t o o pp os e this late appeal to arm for redress and prevention, albeit it shows plainly that the principal object can be no other than to give those cordial and skilful enemies of ours a footing in the direction, and indeed neighbourhood, of our present scene of operations, in such a form as leaves us no diplomatic ground to proceed against the visit. They will not, of course, do aught that can justly occasion any rupture with us for the present ; as they are well aware that with their Ambassador at the Court of Bokhara and their army at his back, they can keep our whole frontier in a state of continual unsettledness, and render it impossible for us to withdraw from Central Asia without risking its almost immediate disruption. * We further learn that. the Yar's son, or Kamran's sons (for the syntax warrants either construction) have been made by the Princes to fly from Herat; and that they had attacked and plundered a large cafila going from Candahar to Herat with goods and money to our political mission there; and had killed numbers of the people composing the party, and sold the rest for slaves. The Paris Journals of Tuesday have all been re ceived. On Monday M. HENNEQUIN, the Carlist lawyer and Deputy, died in that capital, to the great regret of the party to which he belonged. We ob serve in the National the unusual circumstance of the getting up of popular petitions against the proposed dotatioli to the Duke de NEMOURS. In this novel course the inhabitants of Strasburg have been the first to set an example to the rest of France. Of political news the only" important item is, that the Russian Ambassador has denied, in the name of Government all connection with M. Duaatin, the editor of the Capitate, since he gave up the editing of the Journal de Frankfort. This denial was accepted by Marshal SOULT, who declared that there was nothing in the papers seized at the House of M. DURAND to cast a suspicion on the loyalty of the Imperial Cabinet. Intelligence from Athens, of the 18th, confirms our previous accounts that the agents of the Anglo-Grecian Banking Company, having failed in their mission, were on the point of quitting that capital. The conspiracy was still the all-absorbinc , topic of conversation. Up wards of 50 persons had ' been arrested, and amongst others NIKETAS, CAPO D'ISTRIAS, COLLADRUZZOS, VA L LIANOS, RIGUERIS, RANGOS, and two or three members of the clergy. Letters from Malta of the Ist inst. have arrived by express. They state that the Rhadamanthus arrived there on the 24th from Venda. Sir R. STOPFORD had left for Malta, owing to ill-health. He would be re placed by Rear-Admiral Sir John Louis, then f,at Malta. The accounts from Madrid are of the 3d inst., but they are wholly unimportant. The funds were sta tionary, the Fives being at 281 for cash. The Sentinelle des Pyrenees, of the Bth of Feb. has the following news : " A letter from the Frontiers, of the 6th, says that the Spanish Carbineers have seized on the frontier a corre spondence of the Carlist Agent in foreigneountrics, in which a great number of persons are implicated. In consenuence of this seizure several arrests have taken place at Ilampeluna. Among the persons arrested is Iturria, who enjo)s considerable influence in Navarre; Lanz, formerly Governor of Vera, who lately returned to Spain, and took the oath to the Queen's Government, doubtless fearing to experience the same fate, has just taken refuge in the French territory. In the Monitcur we find an official announcement of the appointment of M. GUIZOT to the London Embassy by a Royal Ordinance dated the 9th instant. We likewise learn that the Chamber of Deputies intends to reduce the grant to the Duke DE NEMOURS from 500,000 to 300,000 francs, in imitation of the conduct of the English House of Commons. 'rite National contradicts the reported evacuation of Passages by the English. The following are extracts from the French Papers : The report; of - Marshal Valee, which are rather laconic and dry, neglect certain details with which the private letters after wards acquaint us. Thus our correspondent at Algiers informs us that in the late march of the Arabs across the Mitidja, a farm, till then untouched, was burnt, and two husbandmen, being surprised at their work, were beheaded at the distance of three leagues from the City. Flocks have been carried off in broad daylight, still nearer to the city. The effect of these misfortunes is to make people exclaim, right or wrong, against the negligence of the Marshal, who seems to care little about it. He is said to intend immediately to occupy Miliana, and this is presumed to be the cause of the great movement of troops which is now taking place. A paper= of this mornin g has the following paragraph : Lord Granville yesterday delivered to the King a letter an nouncing that his Court had received the notification of the ap pointment of a new Ambassador. This letter, expressing the regret which the Queen feels at the departure of General Sebastiani from London, contains, at the same time, the assurance that his successor will be honour ably received by the British Cabinet. A dispute has arisen at Alexandria between the Viceroy and the Consuls of foreign powers on the subject of the quaran tine. The Viceroy, taking into consideration that the Board of Health in Turkey was constituted in such a manner as to give all necessary security for the regularity of the service, had or dered the suppression of the quarantine for vessels running from Turkey with clean bills of health. The Consuls had thought it their duty to protest against this measure ; and an animated correspondence took place between them and Boghor, Bey Meliernet's Minister ; and, after some explanation, it ap peared that there was a misapprehension on the part of the Consuls, who thought that Mehemet Ali wished to suppress all quarantine, whereas he merely made some modification in the regulations.—Le Constittaionnel. Bo UR S E.....-PAIttS, TUESDAY, FEB 11. . - first Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price French 5 per Cents ll2 90 ... 112 95 .., 111 85 ... I '2 95 45, per Cents lO6 .., 1 0 8 ... 108 ... 106 4 per Cen , i lO4 ..,, .04 ... 104 ... 101 3 per Cents Bl 65 .. 31 70 ... 81 60 ... 81 70 Bank of evince • 3160 ...3165 ...3163 ...3162 50 Lattitte Bank I,ooof. Sh 1055 —.1055 ...1055 ...I 55 5,000 f. Oh 52 0 ...5200 ...519i ...5.:60 United States Bank Loan leo ... No ... 100 ... 10 , 1 helgian Bank 955 ... 055 ... 9l) ... 912 53 5 per Cents Spanish Active Passive 7 ... 7 1 ,4 ... 7 ... 7 1 ,,i Portuguese 3 per Cents 234( ... :2314 ... 43N ... 23 A Nre.olitan Roman lilt ... 103 ... 102% ... 102% RAILWAY SHARES. St. “ermai a 6 25 .., 6:25_ . ... an ... 635 Versailles, It. 11 s'o ... 535 ... ,5:41 ... 535 L.B 375 ... 380 ... 3"it? 53 ... 38 11 Orleans .. Strasburg to Bale 350 ... tV,‘ , 53 ... :15!) ... 352 50 ASPII A LTES AND BIIU .itENS. Yarn (Moberly's) DUTCH FUNDS,—AMSTERDAM, FEB. IL Money. Bills. Actual Debt, 214 per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. Anion Syndic, 4l per cent 92% 112% Ditto, ditto, ..”' per cent 76 i v ' 77 Commercial Company, 4!5 per cent 1744 175 Ditto (163:2 and 15.33) 5 per cent. ...... IIO O IA 10 4i I) , tto 1337. 5 per cent. Loan 1537, 5 ger cent. ..... 00 3 97 Exchange on London, One month l2 Two months --Dutch Papers, Feb. 12. BELGIAN I! UNDS—Bat'esne, FEB. 11. Actual Debt, 234 per Cent. Itothrchild's Loan, 5 per Colt lOl Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 peffent. 92 ---------- 3 per Cent. 70% Loan of City, 1332, 4 per Cent l6 Society of Commerce, 4 1 „; per Cent lO7 • Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent .......... .....,. : 13% National Society . — Exchange on London ( s h or t) .-... ....Brussels Papers, Feb. 11. THE ARMY EsTINIA.TEs —The total charge for ef fective service from April I, 1840 to M trch 31, 1841, for 121,112 officers and men is 4,814,2511. Of this sum the India Company defrays 894,1551. 74,643/. have already been provided for by appropriations in aid, leav ing to be provided 3,845,430/. The whole charge for non-effective service, comprising 83,871 persons, for tLa year between April 1840 and April 1841 is 2,317,347/. of which only 17,510/ by appropriations in aid have been presided for. The number of men in the present year in the effective service, of all ranks. more than last year, is 11,294, of which 7.746 are in the East Indies. The probable increase of expense for the effective service, for the ensuing, above the charge of last year, is 38,377 d. But there is a considerable diminution of the charge for the non-effective service, making, on the whole, a de cre2se of amount to be provided for the ensuing year as compared to the last year, including the supple mental 75,0001., estimate then voted, of 31,271/. We (the Ipswich _Express) have been i n f o rm e d of a very singular circumstance which occnrred some time since at Rushmere near Ipswich, where a Wesleyan local preacher actually interred a child in the churchyard, according to his m E u ec e l h esi alarmedastical Censure when own peculiar views . The Cler gy man w as fully aware of t h e fact, but suffe red the matt e r to pass by. The and punishment. It appea rs that he wa s utterly ignorant of com mitting any breach of Church o r der , and thought he was only in formedlVeslen he had preacher, sttbi e :: however,te himself was to performing his duty. THE IRISH JUDGES.—Not only are the jails in Ireland deserted, and the calender a blank, but we learn from the Limerick Chronicle that three of the Learned Ju lges, who arc quite well enough to appear regularly on their respective benches in the Metropolitan Courts, have declined going the circuit. Indisposition and the weight of years may have partly fi xe d them in this determination ; but if their presence at their posts were rendered necessary by the state of the country, they would doubtless forego every consideration of personal incon venience, and be found moving about in the path of duty. Chronicle. BANEFUL EFFECTS •OF THE CORN-LAWS.- Several of the hand-loom weavers of Wigan commenced their labours en Sunday evening last before the Christmas Sab bath had expired ; and one, in the vicinit}, we und.rstand, worked at his loom during divine service. This they were obliged to do to get their work in on the Monday, or their would probably have been without meat during the greater part of the week.—Preston Observer. ,JIONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, WEDNESDAY —The sales of Cotton this day are 3,000 hies at Friday's prices. The Sheridan, New York packet ship, has arrived at Liverpool, bringing New York papers to the 26th ult. PHILADELPHIA, JAN. 24, P.M.—The prices of Stocks has receded still farther to. day, owing, I believe, entirely to the wild project brought before the Legislature of our State, and the uncertainty of the result of the different propositions. Sales at the second Board, 50 shares of United States Bank, 85 ; after the Board, 25 shares United States Bank, 811, seven days, flat ; 50 ditto, 844, sellers next week. We have received Montreal Papers to the 21st January. They contain no news. The Dutch mail has arrived of the date of the 12th Feb., bringing the Amsterdam prices of the 12th—Two and a Half per Cents., 52 9-16 to ; Five per Cents., 98k. The Two and a Half per Cents. came 4 per cent. lower. Ardoin's Spanish, 24 1-16. The Bombay Paper of the 23d December states a report that Sir John Keane expired at Ferozepore on the 10th of that month. Sir Foster Fitzgerald has been anointed his successor. We have just heard that the Tyrian, for Valparaiso, was struck by the steamer Manche; ter off Gravesend, this morning, and went down-4 of the crew and one pas senger drowned. THE FUNLS. Consols opened this morning rather heavy, owing to the unfavourable intelligence from China. Consols for the Account, 90i 91 ; for Money, 901,1 i ; Exchequer Bills, 11 13 prem. ; lndia Bonds, par to 3 prem • Bank Stock, 178 179 ; India Stock, 248 249 . In the Foreign Market, Spanish AcOve closed at 26 27 ; at present, 261 i; Passive, 6i 7k ; Deferred, 12i 13; Portuguese, also rather lower, left off 331 34k, at present, 334 34 ; Colombian, 251 26- ; Mexican, 211 i 29; Dutch Twc-and-a.Haif per Cents, 521 i; Five per Cents., 1001 101. PRICES OF STOCKS TUIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCE• Bank Stock 173% India Stock S per Cent. Red. 91% v‘, % Ditto Ponds B per Cents. Con 9uj4N% ; South Sea Stock -- 3% per Cent j Old Annuities — Ditto Red. New 3% pct Cent 9 4 %.% }4 •i" 1 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities toexpire I Ditto 500.... C; 11 pm. Jan; 5, Int. l4 1-1 R Ditto Small l3 11 pm. Oct. 10, 1859 --' Ditto Commercial ( die. Jan. 5, 136t1 — , Ditto Advertised ...... Jan. 5, 1830 —l Bank Stock for Account ... -- Aprils, iSSO. —l India Stock for Account .. --. Jan. 5. 1370. —l Consos for Account OO% NI% PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE 0 CLOCK. Austrian Bonds — Peruvi-.n Bon& — Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilis n Bonds 74% % , Ditto New Bonds.. 33% 4 3%i Ditto account Buenos skyres Bonds —, Ditto, 3 per Cent......... 23% Ditto Icr. a . tu t Chillan 3o.id : — Prus,•ian Bonds Ditto tcser, rt — Itu:sian Bends, IS2' ll4, Colurntian 11, : - ids — Ditto Account Ditto k::31. nt — Ditto Metallic Columbian 3: 7 d 5,132-1 ......'js% si, ~ Spanish Bond, n6N% itr.ta ler.o.rit ...........t6 5% 3 4 , Ditto Account. 2 t l3t N Eanish Bonds Ditto At t.:r nt — Deferred 12% Greek Bonds — • French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Ditto Bonds, 16'25 — 4 per cent. —f. c, Ditto Account — i 3 per cent. —f. —c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent —, Exchange. —f. .....c. Ditto Account , Dutch, 2% per cent. ' 52% Ditto, 6 per Cent. -•; Ditto Account. Ditto Account 1 Neapolitan Ditto Acc0unt......... ...... PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Cheltenham and Great Western Railway Brighton Kailwav 3O 19% W National Provincial Bank of England 35 t 3 'X PRICES OF HUSH STOCKS, DUBLIN, FEBUARY II 3 per Cent. Consols 3% per Cent. Stock Ditto Reduced Ditto New, 1530 ... 9i% City of Dublin Steam Comp. 3% par Ccnt.ebentures... 91% ; National insurance Company Bank Stock lBl% City Debentures, 4 per cent. Grand Canal Stock Royal Canal Stock II A LF-PA ST ONE. We have received the Bengal flurkuru Price Current of the 16th December. MONEY MARKET. CALCUTTA, DEC. 16 —Since our last of the 9th of December our Money Market has been much more animated. Our Bill Market has fluctuated generally to the advantage of buyers. Rates of Exchange—Bank Bills 2s. EV. per cent. R. ; Treasury Notes 103. 63. to 101. 4d. per pound ; Pri vate Bills (against consignment) 2s. ld. ; Bills on France (according to sight) 2 75. Bank of Bcngal Shares have been without change. Money is abundant, equal to all commercial wants. MARKETS.—Coloured Yarns—The demand is rather steady ; prices have submitted to a slight fall. Cotton Piece Goods.—Our market for printed cottons is at present rather dull in the absence of demand from the upper provinces. Woollens have been iu good demand. Indigo.—The market may be considered now as fairly opened, and some activity has been shown by purchasers to secure particular marks. The British Market continues rather heavy, wish little doing. Consols may be quoted 901 R for the Account, Money, 90/ ; 4 3 -. Exchequer Bills, 13 11 pm. ; India Bonds, par; Bank Stock 1'74 In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, 261 ; Passive, ; 12:1; Portuguese, 34; Three per Cents., 23a ; Columbian lower. 25/; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.;s2i ; Five per Cents. lower, 100 A, have been 1001. The Prefect of the Seine has just distributed among she members of the Municipal Council the following document, informing them at the same time that they would shortly have to vote the necessary funds for the baptism of the Count de Paris :—" Sums spent by the city of Paris on occa sion of differeet fetes : Coronation of the Emperor ... Marriage of the Emperor with Maria Louisa 2,670,932 Birth of the King of Rome Christening of the Duke de Bordeaux ... 663,000 Fete of the Trocadero Coronation of Charles X. Marriage of the Duke of O:lesnt 8,148,675 f. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT FOR JOINT-STOCK Coat r... NIES. —A new point was decided on Tuesday, by the Se lect Committee on Petitions, which may affect many Joint stock Companies applying for Bills in Parliament. A Joint stock Insurance Company proved the insertion of the regular notices in the London Gazette, but declined to offer any proof of similar insertions in any other paper, on the ground that as it to3k no landss and affected no particular locality, such further notices were not called for by the standing order, which is in the following terms, " Such notices shall be published in three successive weeks in the months of October and Novem ber, or citoer of them, in the London, Edinburgh, or Dublin Gazette, and in some one and the same Newspaper of the county in which the city, town, or lands to s. hich such Bill relates shall be situate." Mr. Northhouse, Parliamentary Agent, contended that in a Bill for powers merely to sue and be sued, there was no necessity for any further notices, than those in the London Gazette, though it was the prevailing practice to give them. Mr. Greene, the Chairman of the Sub-Committee, No. 4, conferred with Mr. Aglionby, the Chairman of the Sub-Committee; No. 3, after which the Committee de;:ided that the view taken by Mr. Northhouse was correct, and the Standing Orders were declared to be com plied with. The Tyne Pilot of Tuesday states—We have nothing particular to notice respecting the Chartists in this neighb mrhond during the past week. The prosecution against Dr. Taylor at Carlisle having been withdrawn, the circumstance has created much surprise amongst all classes, particularly the Chartists. No evidence having been offered against him at Warwick, when the wittp.sses against him would have proved that he was in the midst of an unlawful mob at Birmingham, whatever might be the share he took in it, was extraordinary enough ; but now that the prosecution should be sta , ed at Car lisle, when there are witnesses to prove he uttered far worse language than any of the leaders at Newcastle, is a pm y which many cannot readily explain. CORN-LAW MEETING.—A public meeting of the inhabitants of Barnstaple was held in the Guildhall on Tues day, at noon, convened by the Mayor, in compliance with a nu merously signed requisition, to take into consideration the pro propriety of petitioning Parliament for a modification or a repeal of the Corn-laws. The hall, which was to:erably filled at the commencement of the proceedings, became crowded as they ad vanced ; and we observed that although the majority consisted of Whigs and Radicals, there was not wanting a considerable sprinkling of Tories, who seemed equally alive to the object which had called them together. A petition to th:, House of Commons, praying the total repeal of the Corn-laws, was unani mously adopted. It was also proposed and carried that J. P. Chichester, M.P., should be requested to present the pe tition, and Frederick Hodgson, Esq., M.P., to support it.— North Devon Journal. On Friday afternoon, a very distressing accident occurred in Ingram-street, nearly at the foot of John-street. The wind had risen shortly after mid.day, and increasedto such an extent during the evening, that it went and came in hur ricane gusts, and so great was its force that passing along the streets was a work of difficulty. A little before six o'clock, three sisters, tlie daughters of Mr. Anderson, clerk - to Messrs. Jack and Patterson, Trongate, were proceeding homeward from school, hand in hand, and when near the place we have mentioned, an angry qust dashed a can from the chim ne y of a house, and it fell right t on the top of the unfortunate children. One of them, an engaging child of six years of age, was carried into the shop of Mr. Lindsay, surgeon. Hutcheson-street, her beaver saturated with blood, and expired almost immediately, from revere fracture of the skull. An elder sister was also very seriously injured on the head, the integuments being ex tensively torn, and she is far from being out of danger. Many narrow esc apes were made during t h e a fternoon, for bricks and chimney-cans were falling foul and fast, and even sign boards were tarn from their fastenings, and dashed on tho. pavement. Glasgow Herald. The ELTERWATER EXPLOSION. —We are happy in being able to state that the two men who survived after the disaster at the 1 to dreadful explosion at the Elter water Gunpoa der Mills, viz., Stephen Walker and John Bow.. ness, are doing well, and are eventually likely to recover, al though, from the serious nature of the injuries they have re ceived, it must be a lergth of time before the poor men will be aisle to resume their employment. Joseph Holme,_ one of the unfortunate suffer ers, has left a widow and six children ; Thomas Walker, a widow and four children ; John Bell, a widow with two children ; and Robert ,Baker, a widow. The survivors —Stephen Walker has a wife and four or five children, and John BOWflen a wife and one child, who are all left in a v ery destitute condition.—Carlisle Patriot. WESTMINSTER SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) These Sessions , commenced this morning before Mr. Sergeant Adams, Chairman, and a full Bends of Magis trates. Ann Adams and Mary Somers were indicted for steal ing, on the 22d of January, a breast of mutton, the pro perty of James Wedmore. James Downes, s!topman to a f ru it er er, was, on the day in question, passing through Clare-market, when he saw the prisoners take up a breast of mutton from the window of the prosecutor. He foilewed them till he met a police man, whom he informed of the circumstance. Policeman, 36 F, took them into custody, and found the mutton under Adams's cloak. The prisoners were Elvers, and Adams said she found her sister in the market rather the worse for liqucr; anal she struck her with the mutton, thinking she had bought it. She took it from her, as she thought she was exposing herself. Somers said she only teok the mutton for a lark, and forgot it after her sister took it from her. She bad no intention to steal it. Both priscners received a good character for honesty, and the CHAIRMEN said they had given the same account of the matter when before the Magistrate, and if the Jury thought it was a reasonable account of the matter they would acquit them. Tao .hry almost instantly retuned a verdict of Not Guilty. The calendar is very light, and none of the cases are of public importance. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY•) BILLINGSGATE MARKET. Sumlies moderate, prices steady, and trade pretty geod. Turbot Bs. to 35s ; Cod ss. to Ws ; Soles 10d. to ss. per pair; Lobsters Is. to 4s. ; Oysters 20s. to 60s. per bushel; Red Gurnet fid. to ls. ; Whitings sd. to 101, and Haddocks Bd. to 2s. HAY MARKET. Supplies moderate, and the demand pretty goad ; prices sta— tionary. Hay 60s. to 655. ; Clover 70s. to 113 s. ; Straw 323. to 40s. per load. TEA MARKET. This department, relieved from its recent anxiety by the news from China, v. as very lively, and in a state of great excitement. Large parcels have changed hands already, and as near as can be calculated prices were 4(1. to sd. per tb. higher. It seems to be the opinion of the trade that tea will rise 10d. to Is per SILK MARKET. The same means which have raised the price of Tea have caused the ho!ders of Chinese Silk to ask an advance of 6d. to I s. per lb. TALLOW MARKET. Parcels of P.Y.C. have been sold at 50s. per cwt. COLONIAL MARKET. Nothing doing — publicly. British Plantation Sugar sold slowly, but prices were unvaried. Coffee rather brisk, owing to the advances in Tea, and prices may be quoted Is. percwt. highcr. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, FEB. 12.—Wind, W.S.W.—Arrived the Diamond - Baldwin from Rio Janeiro; from the River, Scotia, Mobile; King. A lfred, Knill, St. Michael's. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 12.—Wind, S. to W. S. W. squally. —Arrived the Olderdan, Slotto, Hanson, Kid, Judge Thomp son, Drummond, from Cadiz. PLvmouxtf, FEB. 12.—Wind, S.S.W.—Sailed the Slater Rebow, Sadler, St. Michael's; Lady Rebow. Byring, ditto. FA LMOUTII, FEB. 11.—Wind, W.S.W. to S.S.W. strong and squally.—Sailed the Daniel Wheeler, Bouch, London. The following. vessels which put into this port with damage are discharging their cargo's, Konington de Nederlanden, Sictzes, Amsterdam to Batavia ; Milman, Blayne, Belfast to Jamaica ; Georgia Jessica, Messina to Liverpool. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 12.—Wind fresh.—Arrived the William, Hamlyn, trom:Caleutta, leaky, decks swept, 50 bags of sugar thrown overboard; fletscy Hall, Coaker, Monte Video— sailed 29th Nov. ; Calder, Turner, Monte Video ; Theristan„ Depuyln, New York—sailed 26th ult. ; Shakspeare, Hender son, New Orleans Swiftsure, Africa; Alfred, Ledetowe. St. Michael's; Ashburton, Backay, Terceira; Allbay, Jamieson,. Odessa ; General Parkhill. Sailed the Eliza, Loader, for ' Rio Grande ; Zante, Campbell, Gulf of Mexico • Pct, Bulke ley, and Prima Donna, Strugnall, St. Michael's; Jane. Bucan, Leghorn. RAMSEY. FEB. 11. —Arrived the Superior, Loutill, from Limerick, for the Clyde, having lost bulwarks, &c. ; Victoria, Robb, from Limerick, for the Clyde, having lost bulwarks, sail, &c., and cargo shifted. RA MS6 ATE, FEB. 12.—Arrived the Union, Vonder Heycr, from Ostend, far Teignmoutli. The following has been received at Lloyd's:— Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade, Whitehall, Feb. 1:2, 1840. Sir—With reference to my letter to ynu of the Bth inst., I am desired by the Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council for Trade to acquaint you, for the information of the merchants engaged in the trade with Persia, that the Govern ment of that country pursue the same course as the Govern ments of Russia and Denmr.rk as respects the admission of ves sels from British ports with certificates from the Quarantine Establishments at Standgatc Creek, Milford Haven, and Mother Bank. I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, (Signed) DENIS LE MARCHANT- To the Chairman of Lloyd's, &c. &e. IN CENDIARISM I N SHEFFIELD. We learn from a second edition of the Sheffield Patriot published at noon on Tuesday, that five stacks were set on fire in the neighbourhood of Sheffield on Monday night and Tuesday morning. A stack of hay, belonging to Mr. Vickers, was discovered to be iu a blaze at midnight on Monday. So deliberately had the diabolical work beea done, that the very boles on which the stack rested were found burning. Near the spot a piece of paper used to' ignite lucifer matches was found. A large stack of wheat, the property of an old maidenly lady, who farms Skinnerthorpe, was seen blazing about the same time. An extinguished portion of a fire-ball, apparently about four inches in diameter, made of herds, steeped in rosin, was discovered in the barn. By the mercy of Providence it had been prevented from perform ing the ir,tended object. On Tuesday morning, about half past nine, at a farm called Norwood, tenanted by Mr. Fernally, two stacks of oats, and one of wheat, were discovered to be in flames. In less than an hour, two;eng ines arrived, but most unfortu nately, there was not water sufficient to be had. The stacks, about half -past eleven, were one awfal mass of roaring and crackling flame. Each of the farms, where the stacks have been fired, ill distant from the other about a quarter of a mile. The Patriot states that as the firemen were descending the bill to Skinnerthorpe, a gun or pistol was fired at them. The ball passed through the hat of one of the firemen, named Turton. Had the shot taken effoct, a wife and six children would have thus been deprived of their support. There can be very little doubt but the shot came from s ome one connected with the incendiary party, and that the design was to prevent the arrival of the engine in time to be of any use. No clue has yet been got to the perpetrators cf any of the above crimes. On Saturday night and Sunday it was rumoured through the town that the Chartists were going to rise on the Royal marriage-day ; and that they had threatened to mark that occasion, if Frost, Williams, and Jones, were not pardoned. Just before one o'clock, an express arrived from Norton, a village distant three miles south-cast of the town, that the vicarag.e was on fire. It was found that a beam had ignited, owing to there having been too large a fire in the grate. There is no ground far tii.e rumour, at first spread, that the fire was the work of an incendiary. M RDE 11.—The remains of the poor fellow who was murdered a few days ago on the Pencader road, in this county, hare been interred in Alt3blaina Churchyard. The other man who has been so dreadfully stabbed by the same murderous villain, is slowly recovering, and it is hoped his evi dence will be so far conclusive, as to justify the Jury in return ing a verdict of wilful murder, the evidence of the other wit nesses being, we understand, very inconclusive. We trust there will be a strict and searching magisterial inquiry as to the escape of the prisoner from the custody of the constable, against whom at present there appears to be some slight impu tations of negligence.— Welshman. _ DETERMINED SUICIDE.—On Saturday last a poor woman, the as ife of a labouring man, residing near Cole tord, in this county, committed a most dreadful act of self destruction by cutting her throat with a razor. Previous to the committal of this truly horrible act, she had sent. away her chil dren (three in number) to the house of a neighbour, telling them that. she should shortly fetch them thence. The woman to whose house she had sent them, finding that she tarried long took the children home. Finding the door fast, she looked through the window, when a dreadful scene presented itself to her view. The unfortunate woman was lying on the floor with the razor beside her, the floor being partly covered with blood. She immediately procured assistance; the door was forced open, and the wretched woman was found as &scribed, with her throat cut; her head was resting on her hand, she being still alive. A surgeon was soon in attendance, who sewed or ban daged up the wound, but so determined was she to accomplish her purpose, that she some time after tore it open, saying she m ust die. She lingered till the Monday following, when she expired. The reason she gave for the perpctratien of this deed was, that she was compelled to do so, or kill her husband and children, and she considered it best to destroy herself. She had been observed fur some time to show a strangeness of manner, and there is no doubt that she was labouring under a degree of insanity. A Coroner's inquest was held on the body, and a verdict to that effect returned.— Gloucester Jour. T H E CHIEF JUSTICES.—Chief Justice Bushe, and his kinsman, Chief Justice Doherty, go the home circuit to gether. We know not to which of the members of this family we have to ascribe an error which may be of great injury to the interests of the subject. If we are truly informed, they have announced the assizes period in Trim at a time when no record can be tried there, although several were on the list. If Judge Bushe's memory failed him in recollecting that there must be fourteen days' notice of record trials, surely Judge Doherty's knowledge extended far enough tJ have reminded him of the fact. —Dublin Pilot. DESTRUCTION OF A VESSEL BY FIRE.—We find the following in the Liverpool letter of yesterday, filed on Change :—" The Havre, Vernard, from New Orleans to Liverpool, was off Cove on the Bth instant ; and, at three o'clock, a fire suddenly broke out on board. She was observed, at night fall, burnt almost to the water's edge, and it i, sup posed she sunk off Poor Head The crew were saved by a pilot boat." A requisition is in the course of signature for the purpose of convening a county meeting, to take into con sideration what measures ought to be adopted with reference to• the detention of :he Sheriffs of the metropolitan county by the resolutions of the House of Commons.