The Sun.
London, England, 1839-01-09 00:00:00

BOW-STREETT-(TiIS DAY.)

James Goodman, an errand boy, aged 14 years. 10, Hough-
ton-street, Clare-market, was brought up by Serjeant Weston,
F division, charged with stealing a valuable silver watch from
12, Mitre-court Chambers, Temple, the property of Thomas
Boham Rutherford, Esq , barrister-at-law.
It appeared that the prisoner, who was in the service of a
newsman, was in the habit of calling every morning with the
newspapers, and from the opinion entertained of his honesty,
he was allowed the unc:ntrolled rurr of the prosecutor's
chambers. The watch produced was safe at three o'clock
on the mantel-piece, and in the evening, when it was
missed, the prisoner on being taxed with the robbery,
denied all knowledge of it. Information was instantly
given to the constable, and after searching in the room
of the prisoner's mother, who is a poor widow, he failed to
And the watch, but ultimately discovered it concealed under
the stairs, rolled up in a piece of brown pap-r. The prisoner
then acknowledged his guilt, and said it was his intention to
have returned the watch before it could be missed by the pro-
secutor.

Mr. Rutherford expressed a wish that a summary punish-
ment might be inflicted, in consideration of the prisoner's youth
and previous good conduct.
Mr. TwYronn said that the robberies were so frequent of
late in gerelemen'schambers, it was necessary to make an ex-
ample of the pri=oner, against whom the case was so clearly
prored,—Cammitted for trial.

LOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.

Dant, JAN. B.—Wind W. N. W., fresh breezes.—Arrived
and proceeded for the River, the Victoria, Gouldin, from
Bahia; Lord of the Isles, Jugarthier, St. Michael's. Ar-
rived and remain, the Symmetry, Saville, from Sydney;
Chicoria, Halsy, from Charles ton. Came down from the
River, and remain with the outward bound, Benjamin Guin,
Linnus, for St. Kitt's ; Velocity, Clark, Cape Coast Castle.
PoarsSlOUTti, JAN. B.—Wind W. N. W. to N. W., fresh
breezes and squally.--Arrived the Elizabeth, Thornton,• from
London. Passed by the Orona, Webster, from Shields,
bound to Constantinople. Her Majesty's ship Electra has
been towed into harbour, from Spitheati. Sailed the Rising
Sun, Masters, for London ; Freedom, Lupton, ditto.
PLYMOUTH, JAN. 8. Wind W. Arrived the Sirius
(steamer), from London. Sailed the Hercules (steamer), for
ditto. The Braganza (steamer), M‘Leod, from London
for Lisbon, &c., drove on shore at the back of Stonchouse
Pool, and knocked off the rudder last night, and is detained
at present in consequence.
FALMOUTH, JAN. 7.—Strong gales, with squalls, from west-
ward. Put back, Pigeon packet, Lieut. James, for the West
Indies.
PooLF., JAN. B.—Arrived the Fame, Tebb, from New-
foundland.

COWES, JAN B.—Strorg gales from the westward. Arrived
the Devonshire, for Plymouth.
LIMERICK, JAN. 4. Arrived the Charity, Griffiths, from
St. John's, New Brunswick ; Alarm, Hannington, for London.
DUBLIN, JAN. 7.--Arrived the Eliza Ann, from St. John's.
A severe gale commenced last night about 9 o'clock from the
westward, and increased with extreme violence up to this
morning. The Workington, bound to Leith, was driven on
the East Pier, but got off without much damage. The Lady
Lovett, for Wick, has driven on the Perch Hawk, and received
damage.
BRIDLINGTON, JAN. G.—The Nautilus, of and from Shields,
came into the bay this morning, very leaky. Seven men were
put on board, and she proceeded. Bth. A most severe gale
Was experienced last night. The Yarico, Ronaldson, of
Stockton, was driven on shore on Flamborough Head, and is
Much darmged, but it is expected she will be got off.
LYTHAM, JAN. 7.—The following vessels are on shore at
Blackpool :—Kelly,Clifton, Tom, Scott,Agnes,Reeve, Green,
O'Neil, Sally, M'Quirk, Content, Hyam, Mary Ann, Bond,
Lively, White, Favourite, Butler, Mary, Hibernia, Whiteside,
John Clifton, \Valley, Lotus, Dobson, Margaret and Peggy,
Sumner, Barbara, Sumner. The Catherine, Tell, capsized
and sunk in the Channel.
SUNDERLAND, JAN. 6.—Arrived the Hind, Booth, from
Dieppe ; Albion, Kirkman, Honfleur ; William and Jane,
Booth, Hamburgh; Durham (packet), Bevis, Honfleur.
The William and Henry, and Robert Bowring, of this port,
cut away their masts, while riding off this place ; the former
and two other vessels names unknown, slipped and drove to sea.
REDCAR, JAN. 7.—Early this morning a most tremendous
gate came on from S. S. W., towards daybreak, and veered to
W. A vessel anchored in the Teas Bay, has lost her fore-top
mast, and apparently in distress.
HULL, JAN. 8.--The Fame, Russell, from London to Selby,
is on shore at Spurn Point, with lo,s of foremast, bowsprit,
anchors,&c. The Bradford; Gouch,from London to Selby, is on
shore inside the Spurn, with loss of anchors and cables ; also
Thomas and Ann, Watkins, from Spalding to Goole, with
loss of anchors and cables.

OBAN, JAN. s.—The Albion. Lindsay, of Montrose, hound
to Londonderry, is on shore near this port; cargo discharging.
Arrived the Ann, Storr, from St. Petersburgh.
BERWICK, JAN. 7.—The Swift, Gray, bound to Dundee,
struck the rocks at Newton, 4th inst., and sunk—crew saved.
It continues to blow a perfect hurricane at N. W.
SHIELDS, JAN. 6.—Arrived the Sceptre, Ruddock, from
lionfleur. 7th. It commenced blowing early this morning
from W. to N. W., and increased to a hurricane ; several yes-
'els got adrift, but no assistance could be rendered. Six p.m.
rather less wind, but at times tremendous squalls. The Mary
and Eleanor, of Cardigan, struck on the rocks at Milford, 7th
instant, and sunk.
WOKINGTON, JAN. 7.—lt blew last night from south, and
at two this morning veered to the west, blowing a complete
hurricane. The Cherub, Dcichbruse, is on shore, high and
dry on the Derwent side ; every ship in the harbour broke
adrift, but have not received any material damage. Great
fears are entertained for the safety of the Pilot, Wilson, which
sailed yesterday for Ireland. Noon. No abatement of the gale.
strong gale,
SWANSEA, JAN. 7.—The whole of last night it blew a
commencing at S. S. E., and gradually veered to
11,7%5. and at two this morning, it blew a hurricane at
`" N. W., and continued until six, when it moderated. The
Closter Packet, from Bridgewater to Meath, is on shore here.
HOLYHEAD, JAN. 7.—lt has blown throughout last night
and this morning a tremendous gale from W. S. W. to W. by N.
The Ana Selina, from Naples, has been run on the beach on
the East side of the Bay,but it is expected will be got off with-
out much damage.
The p-

Ae t'aldion, Tisseman, from Newcastle to Scarborough,
foundered off Ilartlepool on the 3d inst.—crew saved.
The Thomas Field, M'Catrey, is totally wrecked off Port
Talbot master and two men drowned.

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TRI
MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)
CORN-E XCIIANGE.
There are small arrivals of English Grain and Flour re-
?rte. .[I this week, and moderate quantities of Irish Oats and
c'reign Wheat. The transactions in all sorts of corn to-day
have been only to a limited extent, and Monday's prices are
unaltered. For Flour the demand continues firm, at the late
quotations.

ARRVALS.
tnglish. . Wheat. Barley. ' Ortx. I F 1.33
.h .............. I,o7oqrs 1,230 1,7 Dire 1,720 .cx3
ore . ................... 8,150 1 -
14ti .............. 5,680 -

--- brls.

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.
Meat of all kinds was in good demand, and the supply was
also good. Prices, where altered, are higher. Beef, 2s. 10d.
to 4s. Mutton, 2s. 10d. to 45. Veal, 3s. Bd. to 4s. Bd.
Pork, 3s. 2d. to 4s. 10d. Poultry and Game in good sup_
Ply, and the demand fair. Prices unaltered in anything of
Importance. For each, and not per couple or per pair, the
following were the quotations :-Woodcocks, 2s. 6d. to 4s. 6d.
Snipes, Is. to Is. 6d. Rabbits, Bd. to Is. 3d. Ducks, 2s.
to 2s. 3d. Pigeons, 9d. to Is. Pheasants, 3s. 6d. to 4s. 6d.
Partridges, Is. 3d. to 2s. Turkeys, 4s. 6d. to 12s. Hares,
to 3s. 9d. Leverets, ls. 6d. to 2s. 6d. Geese, 4s. 6d.
to Bs. Chickens, Is. 6d. to 2s. Eggs, 6s. 6d. to 10s.
per 120.

CITY FISH MARKET.
The late heavy gales have interfered with the supply of
Fish, and prices to-day were high. Top price of Turbot
3131. ; Soles 9d. to 3s. 6d. per pair; Lobsters Is. to 4s. each;
Cod 2s. and ss. to 10s. and 12s. each ; Whiting 3d. to 6d.
"eh ; Haddock sd. to Is. each.

HOP MARKET.
The supplies at market are good, but with the except'on of
the best sorts there is nothing doing, and prices of all kinds are
Without variation.
QUARTERLY TEA SALE.—THIRD DAY.
The sile showed no novelty to-day whatever either in prices,
attendance, or demand, from what we reported yesterday. Up
to last night 21,300 packages for the two days' sale had passed,
of which about 0,000 were sold.
TALLOW MARKET.
P. V. C. very flat at 58s. 6d., which is Is. 6d. lower than
the
highest point which it has recently reached.

COLONIAL MARKET.
At public sale, Coffee at the 9d., and Coffee at the 6d., duty,
and a small parcel of Mocha, fetched about their previous
value. Mauritius Sugar-3
.500 bags sold in part, and prices,
Where altered, are lower. A parcel of Siam Sugar fetched
about its previous value. B. P. Sugar sells steadily, and
Prices without variation. Pepper seems inclined to be rather
lower for the present. Rice is not in the market just now,
for Cocoa. Spices generally are flat. In Indigo nothing doing,
as the trade are waiting for the sale. Cotton is more quiet
than it has been, but prices are firm. Saltpetre continues to
fetches
up in' rice and Calcutta, rather dingy, 61, refraction,
tetches 283. 6d., and in some instances 295. The Imports
now are light. For to-morrow we have public sales of 150
casks B. P. Coffee, 100 bags Mysore, 250 chests yellow Ha-
svaaloonsaohf Suurgugars.
,50 barrels Jamaica Ginger, and several publio

On Monday night an alarming fire broke out at the
residence of Colonel Gore, situated at the corner of Upper
Eaton-street and Grosvenor-place, Pimlico. One of the
domestics, about ten o'clock, first discovered the fire, which
originated in one of the back parlours, in consequence of
the overheating of an newly-invented stove. The family
were in town, and upon the point of retiring:to rest, so
that as soon as the alarm was given they were enabled to
effect their escape. Messengers were, without delay, des-
patched to the several fire-engines, and the engine stations,
and the engines from the Baker-street, King-street, and
Chandos-street stations, followed by the engines of the
County and West of England Fire Insurance Offices soon
armed. A plentiful supply of water was speedily obtained
from the main of the Chelsea water works, and the flames
were totally subdued between twelve and one o'clock yes-
terday morning. The interior of the house was completely
gutted, and nearly all the valuable furniture destroyed.
The house and furniture are insured in the Sun-office!

LITERA'T'URE.

QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. CXXV.
Murray, London, 1839.
The observations which introduce an article on •' Rai

I roads"---a subject which, being of paramount interest just
now, is very properly discussed at great length in this
Number—are remarkable for their sagacity and the good
feeling that suggests them. We had thought it far from
unlikely that a periodical, one of whose leading principles
is a distrust of all change, would have indulged in many a
quiet sneer against such a wholesale innovation as that of
Ike railroad ; hut we have been mistaken, for the " Quar-
terly" is decidedly favourable the principle, and takes no
little pains to disprove the charges of late so generally
brought aghinst these roade—that they are a dangerous
means of conveyance. The article commences with some
obsetvations upon steam-boats, in the course of which we
are told that—
" So rapid has been the increase of these vessels through-
out the British empire, at home and abroad, that although, in
1814, we possessed only two, the united tonnage of which
%%as 456 tons, we have now a fleet of 600, whose tonnage
a.tiounts to 67,969 tons. The victory which the power of
steam has gained upon the aqueous surface of North America,
is even greater than this. Thirty years ago the United States
had but one steamer—they have have now between 500 and 600.
They were first introduced on the Mississippi, in 1811 ; and,
by 1831, 348 boats had been built for the navigation of the
is a .tern waters. In the very heart of the continent of Arne-
rici, at Pittsburgh, may be seen moored in the river Ohio a
fleet of thirty or forty steamer... Lake Erie alone, is traversed
by between forty and fifty, from 200 to 700 tons register."
Alluding cursorily to the various modes of water-con-

veyanee in America, the Reviewer observes that there is

no one more curious than the mode of descending one of
the great rapids, as it is practised by the native Indians in
a small bark canoe. We subjoin a description of this dan-
gerous and skilful feat, the graphic, nervous vigour of which
forcibly reminds us of Mr. Lockhart :
" In the apparent turmoil of the rapids in which the canoe
is preceded, as well as followed, by masses of huge timber, the
slightest touch of which would annihilate it—the icy-cold
judgment of the old Indian—his collected but lightening-like
decision—the simplicity and ranquillity of his red beardless
face, thatched over by his bluff-cut, black, lank hair—his total
absence of fear or bravado—his inimitable presence of mind—
and, in places of the greatest possible noise and confusion in
the waters, the mild tone of his voice, with which he softly
utters to his young comrade the monosyllable that directs him
to steer the stern of the canoe in the direction opposite to that
which he gives to its head—form altogether a most strilt4l7,
contrast with the boisterous scene, the sudden kaleidoscope
changes of which it is utterly impossible to describe—for one
danger has no sooner been avoided than, instead of reflecting
on it for a moment, the eye is attracted to a second, as sud-
denly passed and succeeded by a third. Sometimes the canoe
rapidly dashes over a sunken rock, or between two barely '
covered fragments, which to have touched would have been ruin
—in avoiding these a snag is passed, which would have spitted
the canoe had it impinged upon it—sometimes the middle of
the stream is the safest—sometimes the Indian steers close to
the steep rocky bank, where it becomes evident the velocity
of the current is so great that if the canoe were to be upset, its
passengers, even if they could snatch hold of the bough of a
tree, could not hang on to it without being suffocated by the
resistance which in that position they wottld offer to the rush-
ing waters. In some places the river suddenly narrows, and
here, it is said, the waves are not only tremendous, but the
whole character of the torrent seems to be changed, for the
weter apparently ceases altogether to descend the channel,
doing nothing but as it vt ere boiling and bubbling up from the
bottom. In approaching this cauldron the case seems hopeless,
and often contim is so until the canoe is close upon it, when
the Indian's eagle eye searches out some little aqueous furrow,
through which his nutshell vessel can pass, and though his
countenance is as tranquil as ever, yet the muscular exertion
he makes to attain this passage, will not, it is said, easily be
forgotten by any passenger whose fortune it has ever been to
observe it."

The whole of this vivid description—especially the sketch
of the old Indian—is touched off by the hand of a master.
Returning from this digression to the subject of railroads,
the Reviewer proceeds to argue the question of their safety,
and comes to the conclusion, which he establishes by data,
that no more rational objection can be urged against them,
on the score of their being a dangerous method of travel-
ling, than against the old stage and mail coach system. As
respects the speed of the steam-carriage, he adds,
" Mr. Booth observes that a speed of thirty miles an hour,
with the luxury of the smoothest motion which springs and
cushions can afford, is considered by many as merely our
starting point. We ourselves humbly believe that that rate
will ere long be doubled ; and if travellers can fly backwards
and forwards at the rate of sixty miles, one can hardly say why
infinitely lighter engines (on the tooth and pinion system, fur
instance) might not, with larger driving-wheels. travel on
this iron orbit at the rate of a hundred miles an hour; for,
to return to the old argument, an accident at that pace could
hardly do a passenger more mischief than at the rate to which
we are already accustomed."
Alluding to the arguments of those who assert that the
multiplication of railroads will have the effect of diminish-
ing the population of the metropolis, the Reviewer urges,
and we think with justice, that
When London, instead of being supplied with expensive
milk, fruits, and vegetables, produced on lands and gardens of
an exhorbitant rent, can be readily furnished with these articles
from a distance—when bullocks, instead of being driven at
great expense, larding the lean earth' as they proceed, can
be killed a hundred or two hundred miles off, and be thus
dispatched to, instead of in, the metropolis—and when all sorts
of provisions can be forwarded thither with equal facility, it
must, we conceive, follow that the prices of these commodities
will be more equally adjusted throughout the country than they
hitherto have been. London must thus become a place of
much cheaper residence, and we think there can be no doubt
that, in proportion as the objections to living in it are re-
moved, its population mustincrease."
After discussing the question of Irish railroads, and the
Report of the Commissioners thereon, at considerable
length, and in by no means a hostile spirit, if not very lau-
datory, the Reviewer closes by urging, as a matter of abso-
lute necessity, the formation of a board of Government
officers in Downing-street, who may exercise such control
over the railroads of the empire, as Parliament from
time to time may think proper to direct. The next article
is insidiously headed " Miss Martineau's Morals and Man-
ners," and is a most caustic attack on a work recently
published by that lady, under the title of " How to Ob-
serve," in which she acquaints us with her ideas on the
subjects of religion, morals, and philosophy. Many of these
—if we may judge from the extracts given by the Re-
viewer—are absurd, palpably so, particularly where the
authoress remarks that the sensible, observant man of the
world will not " indulge contempt, nor anything but a
mild compassion, for any social depravity or deformity"—
just if a Tburtell, a Hare, a Burke, or any similar mis-
creant, deserved no severer punishment than such as might
be inflicted on him by the " mild compassion" of the
public l—bless the homed, velvet phrase, how it savours of
Benthamism ! Still, absurd as these and other crotchets of
a like nature, are, we think the Reviewer would have
effected his purpose better, if, instead of savagely mangling
Miss Martineau with his critical tomahawk, he had con-
tented himself with turning her crude, social theories into
ridicule, or else visiting them, on her own principle of retri-
bution, with a " mild compassion." In the article on
" papal Conspiracy," an attempt is made to sound another
anti-popery alarm. 'lbis intolerant diatribe bears in every
p ige evidence that it is the production of a high church-
man—a pluralist, no doubt, who is quaking for the in-
tegrity of his sung benefices. The bare mention of the
word " Pope" scares him out of his senses, and it is under
the influence of this lamentable hallucination, that the
whole article is penned. " Lord Mahon's History of Eng-
land" speaks, of course, in terms of glowing panegyric, of
his Lordship's historical work ; and quotes several extracts
descriptive of the Pretender, in his manhood and in his
age, which we must honestly confess, are written in a strain
of manly eloquence. " Political Affairs" is a melancholy
Jeremiad, in which the protracted absence of the Conserva-
tives from office, is bewailed in such terms of grief and
agony as might dissolve an ice-berg. We have mentioned
the chief articles in the Number—the few remaining others
have no particular character about them.

AN ESSAY ON THE CAUSES. NATURE, AND
TREATMENT OF DEAFNESS, AND THE
VARIOUS DISEASES OF THE EAR.

BY D. CRONIN, SURGEON.
Wertheim, Paternoster-row.
We notice this little essay, less to criticise its literary
merits, than to give our encouragement to the author, in a
work in which he lays so fair a claim to utility. The
dissertation comprises the Physiology of the Ear, in its
finely-moulded cells and delicate membranes, by which the
conveyance and modulation of sound is so beautifully con-
trived ; and must afford especial interest to the class of
readers who labour under the malady, to the removal of
which, by a simple and unpainful process, the author fairly,con-
asserts his claim to success.
somewhat technical, but not more
con-
fidently, ts ltyy, i
e and
of
ie the thinkes
sa y i
s
so, perhaps, than might become the treatment of a subject
so purely professional. We wish the author success in his
undertaking. For if the eye be that next noble " entrance"
whence " knowledge is shut out," the ear may be regarded
as the side portal of the soul, and the exclusion or preven-
tion of sound by injury, or obstruction in that organ, is a
privation most sensibly felt, as a diminution of enjoyment,
or as a bar to intercourse. It is at once an individual and
social inconvenience.

BEA TLEY'S STANDARD NOVELS, VOL. 72.
Bentley, London, 1839.
The present volume of this entertaining Miscellany con-
tains a republication of Sir Edward Bulwer's " Last Days
of Pompeii," which—though we by no means think it, as a
whole, the best of his works of fiction—is full of passages
of a high order of eloquence and imagination. The volume
is illustrated with two engravings, neither better nor worse
than usual.