The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LON DON,WEDNESDA Y, JANUARY 6, 1841.

MORNING EDITION.

TUE REVENUE FOR THE YEAR AND QUARTER ENDING JANUARY 5, 1841.

No,
Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain in the Years and Quarters ended sth of January, 1840, and sth of January, 1841, sheaving the Increase

--............._ or Decrease on each head thereof.
QUA RTERSENDED lended 1 IEAR , QUARTERS ENDED YEA R Year ended J I an. 5. Quarter ended Jan. 3.
~.. -- --. ended
API' 5, l Job' 5, Oct. 10, I Jan. 5, Ja». 5, Al•ril 5, 1 July 5, Oct. 10, Jan. 5, Jan.`,.
Increase. Decrease. Increase. Decrease.
1839 I li'l.l 1510 I IS 10 Bp; 1310 ! lB4O 1810 1811 lbtl
- - - - --
su'lm.,_4,-7-,Cons lidatel Duties yurhl-r;tty applicaLle to Consolidatedi 3'-t's7'S23
1 3;-'25'871
V81'752
I 3 ''''
5 7 9
- , ,• • - 13, i til 1,:i.,:9 ' 3,985,9'38 4,562,04-9 I, 3,031,222 - - - - -
- _
-
f3U-1)1,• . . ... 49a,323 ! 1,,115,462 _
- , - :340,135 1,151,910 _ - --
- _
.; applicable to Supplies 420,123 - - 1,293,254 973,513 u : - 731,159 ' - 1,100,829 1 736,614 -- -
_ - ---- ----
i'p„..,, Total Customs. . 4 411 569 1 '7; ,'"3/ 5 iIS 0:6 4 779 31;5 'l9 840 213 ' 4 1,-0 ~s 3 I' 1-7113.1 ' 602--77 -1
:SO 1,1:0 19,7;-)4,310 55,673 3.1"',1-1-0
t•l'2' . .......
.I,"xinlii.... . 1,9 4)0 I I 2,57e,3! I 4,113,159 3.12 ;,';1 !1,9/';', 1 ‘-' 1,',.!,,996 2,71 ;,u5l ',916,2 /9 4,01',3`.9 1•42 ',:1,)? (42, ,I 0
- ' 589,025 -
l',l;tif-,,-" .... -
ti.,, ;flie, -
10. , LaL
1.. .................................
44,ellatiee"s 40.000 40,01,0 40,000 .10,,,, 0 160,1;00 , 4E,1110 42,509 45,,1;0 4.,000 1137,500 7,500 -
ti's.. 3',545 /4,011 17,651 18,6-00 i'6,610 i l'',lBo 4,117 21,392 1-2,437 7",110 8,474 5,,03
- _
--- --
Total Ordinary Revenue z-3:37,318 11,152,030 12,^69,823 11755, '3'i 4 4V-i!4,37,0 8,537,045 11,373,961 1 1,b5:;,7..2 11,431,1:6 4 1,6:.7,":1•61 1,021,1101 1,172,307 800,732 637,702
ie.ll't al;O 1,,3in.....s outer 'Moneys
"11/ of Advances 135,085 52,942
Total Itr:orne
- - - -- -- - -- -
life t 5,,.. 8,691,957 11,936,1;37 -12,6 i2,•297 12,0 7,1;18 45,' 00,4 u., j 9;979,714 11,907,8.36 12,1:1; 30 1 y1,7,6'20 14,716,100 1,031,343 1,1;08,352 800,752 7.21.),uk
e‘ate.lTiwt appliedthe Coil l• --------
Ditto
, ~ito so.4. • Deduct Deduct
rh " ite, - • 6 009 031 6 '4:2 524 11,' 91,5(4 8,772,310 30,778,759 I 7,493,. 39 '6,999,530 3,69-,,179 0,1,37,023 - 2,01)0,771 'lncrease. Decrease.
',Tie,. 1-,l;ees, and to pay 0711 '''x ' ' ' ' 1,,,4,13,3 ;20,150
vi11a,,t.i,,,,'1.,-la3s4rissiuedi at 1 dvain...eS...: 4_l/77 172,1' 0 23 ;761 I
98,6:9. 923:-)30 ; 279,951! 'll ~o',o 70,000 n0,00f4 490,000.,. ~ -_ -
."-_. t.,e .'1 ays and Means;
tear ..... ................
: - - the- Year. the Quarter
---------=•__ 1-----__ rota]
L__ 2
-- -
~--..-'' - • _ (((04)2
Lo. H-Ineome and Charge of the Consolidated Fund, in the Quarters ended the Zrtir January, 1810, and the bth January, 1841.
Quarters ended .1::13. 5.
I Quarters ended Jan. 5.
INCOME. p '• ..
1810 181 . I CHARGE. 1811
Cttsto,„_ I
''''."Consolidated Duties
'
Stlar appl cable to the 3,80:•,711 3,644,•;.22 IlPermanent Debt
ilTerminahle Annuities
Consolidated Fund l I Interest on Exchequer Bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund ' 10,921 11,810
Total customs
- - -
txcis 3,13' 5,719 3,044,232 liThe Civil I.ist
t,,,,,, e ........ lOther charges on the Consolidated Fund
Ta Ps ...................................... 3,44',707 4,037,6P6 iCharge on account of Advances, the repayment fit' which are c,i ried to Consolidated Fund
, xe, ................................ 1,557,0,12 1,596,646 1 ,-
r,..0e0t Office .......................... • ......... 1,584,699 17'''6,i71 Total Charge 9,101,775 9,137,'05
1.,
itc,,, Tn
.; ................................... 351,000 98,001 The Surplus 1,503,074 I,' 31,371
1 _Mni,i, ,„
_L-1011u. •................................ 4;y,, 0 49,00,1 il -
r4',"lan _ ................................ 18,800 F 2,4137 II 11,194,5e9 11,372,536
epay",t_ d other Monies 41,992 3-2,&45 1
'4,,11t of Advances 176,890 123,948 ;
--.'The Amount of Exchequer Bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ended Oit. 10,1910,
Tr.,,_ 1-'Casah brought to this Account 11,051,869 11,370,336 I' and paid off out of the growing produce of that Fund for the Quarter ended January :-, 1541
iitutis...pplted to The Amount issued in the Quarter ended Janua y 5, ISO, in part of the sinus granted by Parliament out of the Conseil_
PoY off Deficiency , dated Fund for Supply Services
The, Surplus of the Consolidated Fund, Quarter ended January 5, 1811
................................ t 0,000 ..... 1 1 •
i The pr.:6We amount of Exchequer Bills required to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund, Quarter ended
-..----"---._________ 11,104,869 11,372,336 Ij January 5, 1811
•....

THE COTTON MANUFACTURE.

the priesthood, which degrades the cotton-manu-
facture, and every other manufacture, into a mere
hateful toi', uncheered by one ray of soci?l glad-
ness. - •

REPRESENTATIVE GOVERN-

MENT.

t tie last Number of the Anti-Corn-law Circu-
lar contained a letter from Saxony, the following
etxtract from which we think deserving public at-
tetntlen• It shows,, and therefore we quote it, that
the manufacture of cotton is just as susceptible of
those graceful embellishments which constitute the
Poetry of life, as the gathering in of the harvest.
"e aucients, wiser than the moderns in this re-
spect, Placed Minerva, the goddess of art, at least
" a level with the beneficent Ceres :

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

We cannot conceive, howevCr, any objects, short
of the works of God, more justly calculated to excite
man's respect, and almost his reverence, than the
mighty engines which in all our manufactories con-
tribute to lighten his labour and spare his exer-
tions. It is the just pride of a fanner to deck his
team with gay ribands, and sometimes with flowers.
He loves and he adorns those useful helps and
companions of his toils. But how feeble is the aid
of a horse, compared to the prodigious power of a
steam-engine ? It is more gentle, too, than the
most delicue pony for a lady's use. A child can
guide its more than giant strength. It is, also, at
all times almost the same, or all its little errors and
vacillations may be known and guarded against by
the skill which makes it, while there arc seasons
when animals cannot be safely trusted, and when
the passions and powers they are endowed with
submit not to convenient control. Why, then,
should not our steam-engines be adorned like
horses, and be as much or more endeared to the
affection of the stoker or the spinner, than the team
is endeared to a kindly waggoner ? Surely there
is the soul of poetry in the swift or slow revolting,
wheels—in the bright and ceaseless-moviug pis-
tons—in the enormous beams and fly-wheels—
in the countless pirns that are kept continually ir.
motion—in the deep and ever descending and rising
pumps, drawing, as it were, an artificial, and yet a
real river out of the bowels of the earth—in. the
blasts, like a tempest, that arc directed on the stone
and coal to turn them into a mass of molten metal—
in the great frames moving baCkwards and forwards,
and spinning mile-lengths of cotton with fineness
and firmness beyond the power of the finger, while
they complete in a minute what the scarcely aided
hand could not accomplish in a year,—surely there
lies a soul of genuine poetry in all the mighty
wonders of our manufactures, which kindliness may
evoke, and which, but for the accursed spirit of sor-
didness, would adorn all these wonders with its
own ornaments and its own loveliness, and connect
them, not with the little accidental pain and misery
which they sometimes inflict on those who han-
dle them improperly, not merely with dirt and
udgery, which they really spare, but with the
best and most ennobling affections of the human
heart. To a small extent that is done in Saxony ;
the bundles of yarn mingled :with wreaths, the
united parties of masters and men, the lady dancing
with one of the weavers, arc faint indications of
what the English might do to render their manufac-
turing system as thoroughly delightful as it is use-
ful. If a steam-engine could have been the pro_
duct of the civilization Greece, it would have
beets honoured, reverenced, almost worshipped,
and JAMES WATT would have been deified,
the rational man glorifying in him the spirit of

regret to be obliged to trouble you
sooner than I intended, for the purpose of request-
ing that you will correct a typographical error, in
your obliging publication of my letter of Decemher
25. " Ist c. 1." should be " 1 11, 5. c. I."
In my recent observations on the Civil Consti-
tution of England, I contrasted the rights and pri-
lieges of the people at the first establishment of
the Government with the alterations which have
been introduced by the Legislature from time to
time, my object being to show that, in a moral
sense, the obligation every member of the State is
under to pay obedience to its institutions depends
upon the laws o 2 the kingdom, which arc not re-
pugnant to the princip!es of the law of nature.
In tny former letter I stated the notorious fact,
that during the existence of the British Constitu

Chemnitz, Saxony.
ear few days ago I dined with Mr. C., who after
tO4lB yeskm e ing his
.car.riag. carriage to visit his brother, a cot-
the.:Pioner, whose mill is situated about five miles from
tie (avo• It happened to be the anniversary of a holi-
iljti,‘`hieh he gave once a year to the hands employed
the establishment establishment ; and I was led to expect that on
t-,e,,Present occasion the festivities would be more than
tle-"IY loterestino in consequence of the promised pre-
4104ner.e (.lif the King and Queen of Saxony. As we passed
their Ala
road, we saw numerous parties. waiting to sec
all?' '‘lajestie ; the poles of the turnpike gates were
i nun„ with s garlands and we passed beneath several
tthr.llthPhal arches of flowers and branches. On entering
htle grounds belonging to Mr. C.'s factory, we met some.
to:lbleraeds of work people walking in procession towards
branch tlog an immense wreath, termed of oak and other
fili tee
After them followed others carrying baskets
ingiv,il,)witll
.bundle; of yarn. On reaching the gate lead-
line
, the high road, they ranged themselves. in double
In the
fr_n n one side, for the reception of the King..
dads° ranks were the females, dressed generally in white,
do standing at a few feet distance from each other,
log in their bands the wreath of oak leaves,
tL 'II was
gallaowed to drop in festoons betweent
hem
wite Enka cotton yarn were then wound round the
thr4th, giving it the effect of tasteful drapery. Behind
e ).°,ung women, at a alight distance, on a rising
Deenau, stood the men, bearing oak branches.
drew,
afterwards the Royal party arrived, and
ow
were opposite to this very pretty demonstration.
Th'l e in a Plain carriage, drawn by post horses,
w_ ith traces made of ropes, and the only attendants
were
, ountesd,eeti?
ve le of outriders.
,-cirs.One of the latter dis-
d received from the wife of Mr. C. a
41.arge chaplet of flowers for the Quccn, which she
•teeived witb affabilit • and kindness, entering at once
It'to convereation with Mrs. C. in a very unaffected
a'aimer. Mr. C at the head of his men,
dresed the next ad-
-I(ine.,' welcoming him in his own name, and
tflatt of his work-people, and expressing their gratitude
:I.the interest which he had always taken in the pros-
;nltY of the cotton trade. His Majesty, a sombre and
array
melancholy, but s till an amiablealookingrn.ae,
ttheph.(l in a short speech ; after which, to my surprese,
ti:,hrl in attendance, belonging to the factory, s,t!ticl,
Af,;("' own nationel anthem of " God save the King. hey;,;
the interchange" of a few more complime,.nts, the
those Patty took their departure amidst the cheers of
frft,, Present- I was much struck with the tone of
ti,. tiess and sincerity evinced by all parties during
trt,isi,,Plu"aing scene. There was a kindliness of manner
hauteur' tralao, and an entire absence of anything like
„_ on the one hand, or servility on the other.
,_ Tee wreath of branches and cotton yarn, measur-
e sonic scores of yards in length. was now carried
for
to a spot in an adjoining meadow, marked out
eyr the scene of the festivities. Here commenced the
thiti
‘l,ng'h amuserneets. Waltzes, quadrilles, &e., were
do t.Ld by the work•pcwole, in a style that would have
wae no discredit to Ali-neck's itself ; and I was struck
_ittarthe unrestrained but reepcctful confidence of their
a'_11(!) ier towards their employers. Mrs. C., an elegant
wa
„traccomplislied lady, led off the dance with a partner
thi,k'ng a long dragging great coat, and a pair of huge
it boots, yet there did not seem to be the least feel.-
a„g in the
sateen nd of either about the disparity in their
tolerable One man went through a quadrille with
:I_lottlerable grace, carrying all the while the common Ger-
i_f! Pipe in his mouth. The men, though thoroughly
_e_ll- onducted, and at home in the dance, seemed to
L'Wwe devoted little attention to their toilet. Not so,
go ever, their wives, daughters, and sweethearts, who
"fleirallY wore smart shoes with sandal ribbons, white
111:0°e'tiogs and dresses, and it struck me that their hair
bore avid evidence of having been dressed with peculiar care.d
..t.! , he course of the, evening, the Polonais was dance
twi:eth
,great spirit by about 150 persons ; and towards
the Close, a novel circular movement was performed by
the whole company bearing the long wreath, which at
tvereed was wound round the national colours, which
Of e Planted in the centre of the ring. When the dusk
e,, toe evening had considerably advanced, a spokesman
sirle forward and proposed, after a short introductory
proseeb, three cheers for the master and mistress, and
.pettty to their business, which was duly acknow-
nip& Mr. C. then called for three cheers for the
i e ; after which his personal friends and visitors ad-
„,lllraed with him to a summer house close at hand,
4 •re We partook of refreshments previous to returning
gao to Chemnitz.
r,
‘-an any man assign a reason why the cotton
Inanufacture in England ought not be embellished
tlid endeared to every man, and woman, and child
end endeared
in it as in Saxony ? We know why at
Pr
grt::ht it is not, and cannot be ; but the liinderanee
h ''' not from the nature of the manufacture itself,
-c lit from the sordidness and overbearing propensities
()4 the ruling classes in England. Their struggle is to
is get rich themselves, and seeking riches, more as a
nark of superiority than a means of enjoyment, their
' accumulation gives no pleasure unless others are
Dourer than themselves. Our land is cursed with a
needy and rapacious aristocracy, which has continu-
-1
ally in its corporate capacity, whatever individuals
may do, trampled under foot all the charities of life,
. order to preserve a factitious superiority over
other men. Our land is still further cursed by a
Priesthood vying with the aristocracy in rapacity
the
; arld surpassing them its need. Like the aristocracy,
heads of the priesthood use the law to ensure
their superiority and add to their wealth, but, worse
tlhan the aristocracy, they, in addition, prostitute the
ioly name and the hallowed emotions of religion to
the same base Purpose. Unhappily, too, our
numerous middle class have had for the great
object of their silly atnbition to imitate the rapacious
aristocracy arid the grasping priesthood, except
' they have sought to obtain that wealth and
PticAver by means of trade which the others have used
:e
t'ilaw to secure. These three great classes, all
ealth ring to gain or preserve power by means d,
generate amongst us a general spirit of
a:kiere sordidness and overbearingness which shuts
I alt all the graces that in other countries adorn useful
tirlc'urs The overreaching system is the parent of hos-
t' between the classes. It makes man the enemy of
We 15
and Utterly extinguishes that cordiality he-
-4
41 the
1144 •
employer and employed—that loving
carts It 3 ) which is of more value than wealth, for it
w•Lt
44 s OWn rosy hues over the privations and
bitters which wealth too often augments and em-
ItOise ' It is the general sordidueee of our iii:ovic,
Ing from the •
m rapacity of the aristocracy and

Lion, as originally constituted, every freeman was
entitled to take his seat as a member of the Legis-
lature. In those times freeman and freeholder
were synonymous terms. A distinction existed be-
tween the freemen, who were all proprietors of land,
however minute the quantity held by some, and the
f►eedmen who were of foreign extraction, and ma-
numittcd by their masters; but these were expressly
excluded from the high privilege enjoyed by the
freemen, of having a share in the administration of
the commonwealth, unless they became proprietors
of land.

But there was another right which I have not
noticed, and which was inseparable from the right
to sit in Parliament—namely, that by the funda-
mental principles of the Constitution, every free-
man had a right to elect his own procurator, or at-
toroey, to represent him in Parliament ; and that
system was in full operation, till it was subverted
by the foregoing Act of Ist Henry V. c. 1, which
disfranchised all but residents ; and this disfran-
chisement was extended to all but 40s. freeholders,
by the Bth Henry VI. c. 7, as before explained in
my former letter.

•The facility to obtain the franchise was thus
originally impeded. Those statutes deprived the
people of their most valued and essential right,
without which all their other liberties were a spe-
cies of bondage ; and it was in this way that all
persons who were not resident 40s. freemen, were
reduced to the same condition with the freedmen,
and even with the foreign slaves, and the mere
hewers of wood.

It is upo❑ this vexatious principle of impeding
the franchise, that Lord Stanley's Bill was founded.
But my present object is not to animadvert upon
Lordship's unstatesman-like intellect, but to
demonstrate that the American writer, quoted by
his Lordship's able eulogist, the limes newspaper,
is quite at sea, when he asserts that " representa-
tion is a discovery of modern times."—l have the
honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant,
VALENTINE BLAKE.

GALE OF WIND.—The wind, since it changed

from cast to west, Las occasionally, blown with great vio-
lence. On Saturday night, boa ever, it increased to a
hurricane. It was at its height from twelve to two o'clock,
and alarmed the inhabitants of houses in exposed situations,
many of whom arose from their beds, and sought safety in
lower apartments. A heavy shower of hail fell at the lat-
ter hew, which lulled the storm. The wind rose again
towards morning, and blew violently all yesterday and last
night.—Livcrpool
•

useful invention.
To evoke the spirit of kindliness would now much
better beseem our public writers than their non-
sensical tirades against the progress of manufac-
tures—the progress of art and skill which are
almost divine—or their impious proposals to burn
down the seats of our traffic because the human
mind submits no longer to the priesthood, and is
called infidel on account of preferring the voice of
reason and of nature to the dictates of their selfish
cupidity. Manufactures come naturally after agri-
culture in the progress of society as agriculture su-
perseded pasturage or roving for prey. They clothe
and feed the manufacturers by an easy task, and to
talk of checking or suppressing them, instead of
embellishing them and associating their toils, like
the toils of agriculture, with festivity and enjoy-
ment, is the extreme of surly, selfish folly. Men are
doomed to be manufacturers as well as agriculturists.
Their want of clothing and of convenient instru-
ments is the work of nature, like their want of food.
Even those who most praise rural toils do neverthe-
less covet warm and comfortable clothing, handsome
drinking cups and glasses, embossed trays and sal-
vers, with all the produce of the furnace, the loom,
and the lathe. Manufactures, then, being a natu-
ral result of the progress of society, their products
being indispensible to man's comfort, and they com-
prising some of the most splendid and almost god-
like work of man's hand, it is the part of wisdom
to cherish them, to endear, if possible, all the ne-
cessary processes to our affections, and to spread
over and spread through this great branch of so-
ciety all the endearments with which the Fine Arts
—unworthy of their name if they effect nothing for
the millions—may be able to invest human labour.

tle Rhenish Universal Gazette quotes a repot
hat one of the first Catholic Princes of Germany—mcn

ing, it was understood, the King of Bavaria, in-tended to
imitate the example of Charles V., and pass the remainder
of his days in a monastery.
CURLING IN ENGLAND.—Sir Charles Lamb
has introduced Curling at Hastings. Several games have
been played; and a grand match took place on Thursday,
six aside. Sir Charles Lamb and five friends on one side,
and Lord Antrim and Eve friends on the other After
great deal of fine play, Sir Charles Lamb's party came cif
victorious. The whole then retired to Sir Charles's man-

sion, to refresh themselves with the good thing with
which the house abounds.

MEDICAL It EFORMS.—The College of Physi-
cians have determined upon the abolition of the class of
Extra Licentiates, and have agreed to liberalise the me-
thod by which the President end Council arc henceforth
to be elected. The College of Surgeons have deter-
mined upon creating a new class, to be styled Fellows.
This class to be composed of the lecturers and recognised
teachers of anatomy, physiology, and surgery ; and of sur-
geons and assistant-surgeons to hospitals; and further,
that this new class shall enj,,y henceforth the privilege of
electing one-half of their members of the Council of the
C Times.
FOIIGERY.—We regret to announce that two
respectable merchants of this city were last week appre-
hended upon the serious charges of forgery and fraud.
So far as we have been able to ascertain the particulars
they are these :—The two gentlemen in question are
charged with having procured several blank acceptances
of a ) oung man, a mercantile clerk in London, filled them
up from time to time, as suited themselves, and discounted
the bills at the City of Glasgow and other banks, repre-
senting the acceptor as an extensive wine merchant
in London, and as residing at a place in London where
he never resided, but where a gentleman of the same
name lived. Inquiry being made as to the cir-
cumstances of the gentleman at the address given, the
banks were satisfied, and consequently induced, it Is said,
to cash the bills, and the drawers, taking care to remit
funds to London to retiro the bills as they became due,
the system was carried on for a considerable time. 0:)e
or two of the bills, however, being returned dishonoured,
quiry was set on foot, and the result has been that the
gentlemen have been taken up or, a charge of forgery and
fraud. By consent of the Lord Advocate, they have since
been admitted to bail under a penalty of 3001. The gen-
tlemen, we believe, deny that they gave a false represen-
tation of the acceptor to the banks.—Glasgow Herald.
Loss OF THE SCHOONER LADY MIDDLETON.

HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—Under the above bead
a paragraph appeared in The Sun, which stated that a
few evenings ego Mr. Baldwin, a farmer, on his way from
Winkfield to London, whither he was going to pay his
rent, had been stopped between Falling-lane and Hayes, at
a late hour at night, and robbed of a large turn of money.
Since that time a strict investigation has taken place by
the police, and the result is that it almost amounts to a cer-
tainty that no such robbery ever took place. We believe
that the police arc satisfied that any further investigation
into ;he matter is quite unnecessary, and we allude to it
merely to allay the public apprehension as to the safety of
the district.
LIALIFAX AND BOSTON MAIL.—The fine
steam-ship Columbia, Captain Judkins, will sail to-morrow
for Halifax and Boston. This is the first trip of the Co-
lumbia across the Atlantic. She is the fourth and last of
the fine vessels now running on this station. Captain
Judkins is favourably known from the success which has
marked his management of the Britannia. A steamer will
(cave Egremont slip at three o'clock to convey the ras-
' sengers to the Columbia. She is Iltely to take out as
many passengers as can be accommodated.—Liverpool

—We have to record the loss of the schooner " Lady
Middleton," of this port, on the Cross Sand, off Yarmouth,
on Wednesday night. It appears that the Lady Middleton
was homeward hound from Newcastle with coals, and that

The anniversary of her Majesty's marriage is, as
we stated some days ago, selected as the day for christen-
ing the Princess Royal. The ceremony is to be performed
at Buckingham Palace. It is understood that whatever
can impart effect to the interesting scene will be combined
for the purpose, and that the assemblage of royal and il-
:ustrious personages who will be present on the occasion
that no crations or pro.
motions will take place on occasion of the christening of
the Princess Royal.

CONFLAGRATION AT DUNDEE.

THREE CHURCHES bUnNLD.

DUNDEE, JAN. 3.--A very al rminz roriflagratiot
happened here this morning, which, although attendee
with the Oestruction of much valuable and interesting
property, has fortunately been confined to the more im-
mediate scene of its commencement, v:z., to three
churches of the Establishment. The fire scents to
have originated from the stoves in the North or Cross
church having got overheated, and having conscquentl;,
ignited the wooden fittings ; this church soon became a
prey to the flames, as well as the South church and the
East or old perish, and, fortunately for private property,
the wind, which blew yesterday evening fresh from the
south-west, veered to the north during the night, other-
wise, in all likelihood, a narrow street called the Over-
gate must have caught the flames, in which case, owing
to the scarcity of water in the place, no idea can be
formed as to the extent of the dam tee that might have
been occasioned.

As it is, a great public loss has occurred, the
churches being not only very valuable in themselves,
but from a valuable library composed of many rare old
books and manuscripts in black letter ha'.ing ben to-
tally destroyed. These churches were, besides, inti-
mately connected with the historical associations of
the " Second Geneva," as Dundee was called from the
religious zeal of its citizens at the time of and subse-
quent to the Reformation ; •prior to which, the old
church formed the chancel of the abbey dedicated to
the Virgin, and was an interesting memento of the
days of Catholicism. It is said that when Ge-
neral Monk stormed Dundee, his soldiers quartered
their horses in the Cross Church. The South church,
built in the end of the 16th century, has little of histo-
rical association. One church has been saved, that
contiguous to the lofty square tower said to have been
erected along with the Abbey, by David Earl of Hun-
tingdon, on his return from the famed crusado com-
manded by Richard Cceur de Lion, and which, al-
though " dim with the mi,t of years," through " flame,
and war, and ages slow," still braves the " breezes of a
thothand years."

NTEMPERANCE AT ABERDEEN.

(From the Aberdeen Herald.)
The growing vice of intemperance is matter of deep
and anxious regret to every rightly-constituted mind ;
and there is no man who wishes to sec his country cx-.
hibiting all the amiable and attractive characteristics of
moral 41111 Christian virtue,
_gut must deplore the exis-
tence of the evil, nod symPilbize with the benevolent
motives of those who are evincing a strong desire to
keep it in cheek. That much good has been done by
the social bodies who proceed on the extreme principle
of total-abitinence, we are free to admit, and so long
as th-y confine their exertions to a faithful exposition
of the vices they deprecate, and truthful statements
of the evils they regret, they do well ; but the
moment they overstep the sacred linits or truth,
and substitute unmeaning declamation for honest ar-
gument, they forfeit the confidence of the wise and
the good, and expose a benevolent principle to the
blighting influence of suspicious distrust. That such
,issocit tions as those to which we refer have, in some
cases, been reckless in their statements, uncharitable in
their writings, and imprudent in their actions, cannot
be denied ; and as this is to he regretted, it is even
more to to find those who ought to know better sup-
pl)ing them with materials which, in the hands of some
may be turned against the interests of morality, while
ostensibly used for the contrary end. We allude to
the list of police cases for the past year, handed in to
the Board of Police, on Monday last, by the Superin-

dent, and published in another coiumn. We do not
by any means assume that the statement is posi-
tively incorrect, but we complain with the Provost
that it ought to have been submitted without qua-
lific ,tion, calculated as it is to produce an impression on
the public mind, very unfavourable to:the mora-
lity of Aberdeen. The idea of three thousand
seven hundred females being taken off the streets of
the city, " drunk and disorderly," is enough to make
any one's blood run cold, and at first sight presents a
picture of immorality and vice that could not find a
parallel in the history of any civilized nation. We re-
gret that we have not the means of analyzing the list ;
but, judging from a statement of the cases for the year
ending December 1838, drawn up by a party whose sta-
tistics are allowed to be exceedingly correct, it must
be reduced by two-thirds at least, and after all it is
bad enough. In writing thus, let us not be mieundcr•
stood. We have no wish to underrate the amount of
vice amongst these poor unfortunate creatures, but we
contend for truth, and however painful it may be to
dwell on such details, we cannot permit exaggerated
statements to go abroad without explanation, nor allow
a libel on the morality of our citizens to pass current
without contradiction.

PRETENDED MAGIC.

TURKEY.

CONsTANTINOPI.E. DEC. f-I.—The GovernmentSterlmer

(From the Gazette dcs Tiibunaux.)

Tair-y-Bahor arrived yesterday from Bcyrout, bringing
intelligence from that place up to the 30th November.
The Turkish troops were expected shortly to make a move
meta ; they were to leave a strong garrison at Bey!ou!.
The remainder of the troops were to be embarkod on
board steamers, which would transport them to Jafft.
From Jaffa a garrison will be sent to Jerusalem, whic'i is
only a day and a half's march from Jaffa. Aleppo, film-
ma, Homs, and Baalbec have fallen into the hands of the
Turks.

Emir Bey, Rear-Admiral of the Turkish fleet, and the
adviser and intimate friend of Ahmed Feozi Pacha, tl,^
traitor who gave up that ilcet to Mehemet Ali, has lately
escaped on board of one of the English men-of-war at
Alexandria. lie was hotly pursued, and nearly token
in the chase ; while two of his men were shot dead close
to him.

The late dreadful gale seems to have extended its in.
fluence even as far as the coast of Syria, for at Beyrout,
ten merchant ships were lost; one of the Austrian men-
of- war unshipped its foremast from the violence of the
storm ; and it was wish great difficulty that the Turkish
steamer was enabled to put to sea without any very serious
loss. Here the Austrian Danube Company'i boat Seri
Pervaz, which had been freighted by the Turkish Go-
vernment to carry troops to Syria, was lost in the Sea of
Marmara. on the shores of Moodania. Out cf 560 men,
marl). 50 have been drowned cr frozen to death. In the
Black Sea, also, the effects of the gale have been most
destructive. A Russian steamer has been wrecked. Of
those who were on board eighteen have perished, and nine-
teen been saved ; atuo..g the former there was a
Jewess, who, with her two ehi:dren, refused to come en
deck, and were the first that were drowned, in consequence
of the after pert of the ship having separated from the rest
soon after the engines had given way. At the mouth of
the Bosphorus seven vessels have been wrecked. The
whole amount of the damage that has been done is not yet
fully ascertained.
Admiral Walker is now Commander-in-Chief of the
Ottoman fleet, and ranks next to the Capitan Pacl.l (Lord
High Admiral).

Paul Lasserre, born in the commune of St. 111de-
gonde, of a labourer, is himself a labourer ; but ambi-
tion and that thirst for fame which are the great cvi!s of
the present times, assailed him in the midst of his honest
labour. A thousand chimeras arose in his imagination,
and in the excited state of his mind he arrogated to him-
self the power or curing diseases, and, in case of need, of
preserving fields from the destructire visitations of
Heaven. A great sensation was immediately created
in the village, which soon spread like wildfire throughout
the wheic commune. Tile story mentions not what
impression was made on M. le Maire, hut this it does
testify—namely, that an important functionary under his
immediate command, the garde ehampctre, placed im-
plicit faith in the report, and that the sanction of his
belief added considerably to the credit of the visionary.
The crowd flocked from the surrounding hamlets, a
crowd of livid faces and bandaged heads, imploring the
gift of health in return for a few coins which they
brought as a tribute.

.•
We give a few of the answers given by this oracle :
" Take a St. John's cross ; at midnight carry it to a
cross-road, and there deposit it. This done, draw a fow
paces back, and, should any animal approach it, stand
under no apprehension. Four minutes after you have
returned home, tie the cross on the sick man's breast,
where it must remain for a fortnight. Should this prove
ineffectual, take a large toad and place it under the
bed. You will sec the reptile absorb the malady, and
gradually waste away, while the sick man grows better
and better ; or, it you prefer it, let him wear these
talismans about him, but you must not seek to discover
their composition or properties ; or, again, he may rub
himself with this liquor. Perhaps the medicine may not
operate immediately, but do not let this discourage you.
I have seven Fridays to myself for effecting the cure.
And now, let it be understood, that I have entered into
a compact with the demon to whom 1 am accountable.
Give then, but give in odd numbers, for such are dear
to the evil spirit."
_ .

Some gave five francs ; some gave much less, but
on none, as may be conceived, did the remedies operate.
At last, one of the patients rose one day from his bed,
and loJgcd a complaint with the Justice of Peace, who
referred the case to the Procureur. An inquiry was
instituted, and when summoned before the Magistrate
Lasserre did not make his appearance : he had taken
fliabt. After having during two months escaped the
authorities, he was apprehended, and was brought to
humiliate his science before the Correctional Bench.
He was condemned to a month's imprisonment, a
penalty of 16f., and the costs.

AFFAIR OF HONOUR.--A rather unpleasan
occurence took place on Wednesday at O'Grady's Hotel.
A Mr. Hyslop, of Rahen, residing within a few miles of
this town, and a Mr. Kane, had acme misunderstanding
some few days since, when a challenge ensued, but in con.
sequence of the police having received some intimation of
the proceeding, they succeeded in arresting Mr. Hyslop,
and of course bound him over to keep the peace. Mr.
Hyslop stopped on Tuesday night at the hotel, and this
tncri.ing, after breakfast was waited upon by Mr. Kane,
attended by his brother, when, after some few words, Mr.
Kane raised a loaded whip, with which he came armed,
and struck Mr. Hyslop a violent blow over the temple.
The latter was much stunned, and near falling when he
recovered himself, and struck Mr. Kane with his fist, which
in " ring" phrnse, floored him, The battle then conti-
nued, when Mr. Kane's brother, seeing hilt likely to come
off second-best, lent his assistance. Mr. Young of the hotel,
he,:ring the noise, rushed into the room and endeavoured
to separate them; bet his peaceable intentions were un-
availing, and I believe he was obliged himself to give and
take. The Messrs. Kane then decamped ; but I believe
car, the horse being
aSuonmtiengs-hort time afterwards
one of them was arrested and held to bail before the
Magistrates at the Petty Sessions; but the other,
accom-
,owattended by a mounted policeman,
partied by Mr. Dillon O'Brien, of Fairfield, his brother-in-
law,al\tirt I , drovees very‘vc e n
yto,ouist,
.00
if,.
his t
"C'haoPtain Warburton. Such aro the cir-
cumstances (lino Fairfieplndia,ocuanern.,addjesrostoannrde,tguarnyeedbawilitflot
rthteheaitroarep:
says the Patriot, " a spaciadragnecnetlbeemfoerne,
curnstances as they have reached me.—Correspondent of
an Irish Paper. 9
cd, by
cu-
rious NVe
pamphlethave a Clergyman of the
Church of England, in which ' Me creation of a Wesleyan
Bishop' is proposed, who shall ordain the Wesleyan
ministers presenting themselves at the Annual Con-
ference ; the nomination of this Bishop to be vested
it, the Conference, but the vets to rest with the
Archbishop of Canterbury 1 This plan is proposed
jbuesfto before
buil
s,
h'
as ' the only concession requisite on the part of
the Church, in order to secure a more effective co-ope-
ration between Wesleyan Methodism and the Esta-
blishment. This proposition is evidently put forth as a
feeler ; and the writer seems at not
loss
to fix upon the man
whom the Conference would elect by acclamation, and
whom the Archbishop of Canterbury would delight to ho-
nour." Dr. Butting is the Wesleyan minister alluded to ;
whose answer to any proposal of the kind would, however,
we suspect, be much like that returned to Bishop Heber
on behalf of tho Wesleyan Missionaries in Ceylon, when he
signified his willingness to admit them to orders—' My
Lord, we are ordained already 1"
THE FAIRY.—A box has been picked up on
C,,tron Beach, near Lowestoffe, containing pipers with
tue s,guature of Cqtal" Hewitt on them, which no doubt
washed from the wreck of the unfortunate Fairy.

in a thick shower of snow she ran upon the sands, where
she became a total wreck. A letter his been received from
S. Ford, the mate,prhich states that ho and another of the
crew, named Fiick, launched the boat to leeward sometime
after the vessel had struck, jumped into her, and entice-
voured to get the master, Capt. W. Martin, and two bo3s in
also; but they failed, and a heavy sea striking them,
broke the oars, half filled the boat with water, and drove
them from the schooner. Providentially, a Sunderland
brig, which had just driven upon the sand, threw the two
men a rope, by which means their I,ves were saved. Six
men in a boat belonging to a Brixharn schooner, which
was likewise lost, got on board the brig at the same
time. The brig at length cleared the sands, pro-
ceeded to the Downs, and landed the shipwrecked mari•
tiers at Deal on Thursday bight. Nothing has since
been heard of Captain Marlin and the two boys who were
left on board the Lady Middleton, and it is feared they
have all met watery graves. The Lady Middleton was of
130 tons burthen, and was the property of Captain London,
who held three-fourths of her, R. D. Alexander, Etq.,
and John May, Esq. To a certain extent she was insured.
We find by the mates letter that several other vessels be-
-1 )riging to different ports were wrecked on the same occa-
sion.—lpswich Express.l
The most splendid Royal christening upon re-
cord is that of Henry the Sixth's only son, Edward. It
took place in Westminster Abbey, and the mantle in which
Oir babe IVP4 received after its immetsion cos! a sum qtrzl
to 6000/. of modern money, being embruniered with
I pearls and precious stones.