The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-13 00:00:00

CHINA.

We have received the following intelligence from a
quarter from whence authentic information may safely
be expected, as well on account of the locality as of the
means which we know the writer possesses for
assuring it. But as it varies considerably from ail
the 'news recently published concerning China, and
43 the writer evidently miscalculates the time neces-
Nary for the transmission of intelligence from the
north of China to Europe (which barely exaceds three
months), we publish it with the reservation of not
holding ourselves responsible for its perfect accuracy,
though in many points the statements, based upon corn
tooe-ciAl returns, are evidently correct :
(Facial a PRIVATE CORRESPONDENT AT MOSCOW,
DEC. 17.) We Nloscovites, placed, as we are,
in the very centre of Russia, and by means of our
commercial relations with Kjachta (or Khadchta),
the utmost point on the frontiers of our eastern
possessions, cannot but receive news from China
much later in date than those arriving by way of Bombay
And Suez. Letters from Pekin arrive at Kjachta in less
than a month, and the mail from Kjachta is regularly for-
warded to Moscow in 28 days, so that we are enabled to
get news front the capitalolthat enormous empire,inferior
tu tircurnferenee only to our own, in two months' time,
tehile tho.e arriving by way of India will take from four to
five months. Now, our latest intelligence from Kjachta,
dated abort the middle of last month, speaks of events
feuding to impress the whole political and commercial
world of Europe with the importance of the Anglo-
Indian expedition to those distant countries. The
Erie lish, having accomplished the entire occu-
pation of Chusan, had di-embarked their troops
somewhere on the coast of China, where they were
making rapid progress ; hence the news, rat/ter unau-
lbenliealcd, that Pekin itself had fallen into the
hands of the foreign invaders. One thing we know
with certainty, the taking of a Chinese fleet, con-
listing of forty-five junks, five of which had rich
cargoes, mostly tea, on board ; whether on the Peiho
or on the Tun-Ke-Kiang river, our correspondent does
not write. Proclamations had been profusely dis-
eributed among the inhabitants, in which the
English announcing their coming, in order to liberate
the people from the galling ).oke of the 11.1antehou dynasty,
hich is said to be hated by the nation in gene-
ral. Partial insurrections had broken out in conse-
quence of these proclamations, and the situation of tha
sitilipire was designated as being very critical. This news
must be very disastrous for our commercial relations with
China. Already the price 'of tea has been raised to 70
roubles bane° per chest of 641h5., and a further advance is
xpeeted. In former times, the Chinese were accustomed
'to send their cargoes by sea ; now, for fear of the
Britith, all have been sent by land, so that the
transports will arrive in March or April, instead of
Jasuary, as was formerly the case. List year more
teen 100,000 fibroks (chests) of tea were purchased at
; this year not more than 40,000 are ex-
pected. Our own manufactures will not suffer less by
this critical state of things. Our cloths and velveteens
will lie in the magazines of Kjachta without being asked
far. The annual export of' Russian broad cloth to China
war, estimated at more than 40,000 pieces, and the im-
port of tea at 80,000 or 100,000 fibroks a year.

MUTINY ()F THE SPANISH RE-

FUGEES IN FRANCE.

(From the Gazdte des Tribuntous.)
FOIX, JAN. 4.—Last night the gendarmerie and garri-
son of our town were ordered to take no arms. In the
evening it was reported that the Spanish refugees at Pit-
miers had mutinied and refused to obey the municipal
authorities, by whom they had been enjoined to return to
Spain and claim the benefit of the amnesty recently pro-
claimed by the Spanish Government. These reports
ware soon confirmed by the arrival of an express at the
hotal of the Prefecture from the Sub-Prefect of Panders,
Apprising him of the agitation which had manifested itself
in that own.

At two u'e!ock 3.m., M. P. 1,331, oar Prefect, ordered
R.. 0 companies of the itiqt regiment of the line and the
gendarmes to proceed to Pamiers, arid shorty afterwards
the Prefect himself set out for that town.

The following is the information I have been able to
collect respecting the cause of the disorders which
threatened to extend to dttlerent parts of our department.
since the Spanish Government has granted to the soldiers
of I)on Carlos an amnesty which permits them to return
to their country, the French Government resolved not to
allow them any supplies after the lit of January last.
Every day and hour we see large detachments of these
unfortunate wretches enter Foix, who, being left without
an asylum or ally resources, abandon the villages in which
they are quartered, to come and demand of their chiefs
what they have to expect. They will not, they say, return
to Spain, because they have no reliance on the amnesty.
There is no Government in the country. I,abel is but a
child, who can only weep, and has no power to save them
from party reactions.

A circumstance lately occurred, it is true, which filled
them with the hope of returning to their country other-
wise than as amnestied. A few days ago the SP ani,h
Colonel Ribeira, the commander of the depot, assuinbled
the officers, and read to them a proclamation which he had
just received from Don Carlos, and in Nvhich the Prince
thanked them for their loyalty, advised them to place their
trust is, fiod, and held out to them a hope that better times
would come to favour their holy cause. In this circular the
Prince declares that he will never content to the marriage
of his For, with Queen Isabel. After receiving communi-
tiaiio,l/4 this address, the refugee;, at the suggestion of
Colonel Ribeira, refl.:wed their oath of fidelity to their
outereign, Don Carlos.
Amidst these agitations, our population lives in constant
fears. Our department, already so poor, and at this mo-
ment covered with two feet of snow, is crowded with our
Traaspvrenean neighbaurs. Whole caravans travel from
wise vryllage to another, and, having no means of subsistence,
are hliged to take to maurauding. Quarrels and angry
altereatitos frequently occur, bet our peasants arc gener-
ous, and have pity on the sufferings of these poor crea-
tures. The men received, until the Ist of January, a
114i1Y nn"ftnce of 43centimes (W.), and the women and
children 20 centimes (21.) This pittance, however in-
adequate,had the etiset at least of saving us from their too
frequent importunities, but now that it is suppressed they
will again begin to maraud, and perhaps to rob, and then
!eery can be no security for our inhabitants.
At the moment I write groups of 12 and 15 refugees,
soldiers, old men, women, and children, traverse the
streets, begging for a morsel of bread. They are nearly
naked arid famishing-. What are we to do ? We cannot
refuse then, and still the charity of the people of Foix
cannot maintain thousands of persons.
lust Ad 1 was going to close my letter, I heard that the
.
Prefect 11:1(1 COlll2 bask from Pamiers. His firm and per-
suasive latif.,•tiage had calmed the irritati-m which prevailed
among the Spaniards, and he succeeded in inducing them
n.t out for Spain without having recourse to milit.,ry
force. They are to enter by Catalonia. An escort of the
1611, R 'gin-lent will accompany them as far as Perpignan.

Tu r. PROVISION :CIA RN TS.—lt is a gratifying
faot that t he prices of some of the com.-noitics of life amongst
the poor have not advanced proportionably to the
inclemency
of the season. Of potatoes, in which a rise was anticipated,
there is now in the river a supply calculated for two
months, upward; of one hundred vessels having arrived
during the week from the different ports of Devonshire,
.e.
Yorkshire, and many parts of Scotland. It is remarkable
that, amongst thesupply, there has been but one vessel front
Jersey, from which island potatoes of good
quality have
formerly been introduced in large quantities. The supply'
of Kentish blues is also restricted. The general average
of while potatoes during the week was 655., and of reds
front 80s. to 90;. per ton. The meat markets were wdi
supplild, but at such a price a; to put it out of the reac li
of th- poor. Coals, too, have risen, and, thank; t-i cur
Corn-11 w;, bread continues still at what, without much
rlaggcrativa, Way be calliA a famine price. I

CORONER'S INQUEST on SAMUEL

SCOTT, THE AMERICAN DIVER,

Yesterday evening an inquest was held on the body of
this unfortunate man, before Mr. GILL, the Coroner for
Westminster, and a respectable jury, in the Board-room
of Charing-cross Hospital. The melancholy incident
having been the talk of the whole town, the interest to
ascertain, if possible, the minutest circumstances attending
the accident, was intense. The proceedings throughout
were conducted ►iith the greatest propriety, measures
having been taken by the authorities at the hospital to
admit no more persons than the Board-room could conve-
niently contain. .

The jury having been sworn, proceeded to view the
body. The appearance presented nothing remarkable.
There were no marks of strangulation, nor any con-
tusions. The skin was not in the slightest degree dis-
coloured. Ho was of the middle size, and of a strong
muscular frame.
The first witness examined was Samuel Rutherford,
policeman 7 F. He stated that about half-past two on
Monday afternoon he was proceeding along the Strand,
when he saw a number of persons going towards Waterloo
bridge. In a few minutes he saw the deceased, Scutt,
come up to the bridge, with a rope twisted in the form
of braces round his shoulders. He stood on the bridge
for a few minutes. tie then ascended the scaffold, con-
sisting of two upright poles, and three cross poles. This
was erected upon the second arch from the Strand, and
on the east side of the bridge. He went from one
pole to another, and shook it as if to see whether it w.is
substantial or not. He (witness) was on the bridge, but
he was not near enough to him to see whether he
was sober or not at that time. The handkerchief he held
in his hand was round deceased's head. Between
2,000 and 3,000 persons were on the bridge within
sight of him. H 3 ascended the left aide pole, and
tied the handkerchief to it, like a flag. He
then came down upon the cross-pole, and looked
at the water, shook his head and smiled, as if at the
ice in the river. lie had no ladder. lie appeared to do
it with great ease. The highest cross-pole might
be twenty feet above the pavement of the bridge. He
then tied the rope which he (witness) now produced to
the upper cross-pole, end thereto his body. The poles were
placed at such distances that he could stand on one end
and rest his head on the other. Having attached the rope
firmly to one of the cross-poles, he made a sort of noose.
After this, ha took hold of the rope with his right hand,
and made a jump from the second pole as if he was going
to leap into the water, and shortly after swung himself
round, and by the strength of his arm recovered his former
position. Having Icesened the rope from his body, he
immediately made another noose, crossed the top pole, and
put his feet into:it. The noose was then drawn tight, and
deceased remained dangling in the air, with his head
downward, for above half a minute, after which he again
threw himself up, loosened the noose, and freed his feet.
To that succeeded several other specimens of his agility,
and at last h• began to entertain the spectators by
putting the noose round his neck, and letting himself
gently down from the cross-pole. It appeared to be
his intention to show the public the symptoms of a
man who was dying from strangulation. The last time
he attempted this, he adjusted the noose round his neck
and let himself gently down, as he had just done before ;
but, hanging for five or six minutes motionless, and his
face becoming changed from its natural colour, a man in
the crowd called out to him. Receiving no answer, he
jumped upon one of the poles, and lifted one of deceased's
arms, which instantly falling down again, he exclaimed
Tire man's dead." Inspector Musgrave wished to take
him down instantly ; but the mob set up a shout of laugh-
ter, some of them saying that he had often hung longer
than that, and they seemed to think that was only a trick.
The inspector, however, kept his resolution, and lost not
a moment in having Scott cut down. The rope was
then loosened from deceased's neck with some difficulty.
His tongue protruded from his mouth, and his face ap-
peared quite black. His eyes were partly open. Several
medical gentlemen were soon on the spot. An effort was
made to bleed him in the right arm, but only a few drops
of blood issued. He seemed quite dead. He was then
placed in a cart and conveyed to Charing cross Hospital.
By the Jury—Witness thought deceased came on the
bridge through the great gate, in a cart, accompanied by a
great mob. He (witness) did not observe any cravat or
handkerchief round deceased's neck. His shirt-collar was
hanging down at the neck like a sailor's. There was a
man with a tin box going about all the time deceased was
amusing the crowd, to collect money for his benefit.
Francis Godfrey, proprietor of the White Lion, 118,
Drury-lane—l fist saw Scott about two months ago on
the river. He said he wanted to jump from Waterloo-
bridge. Three or four days afterwards he came and
asked me it there was water enough to do it, and whether
they, the Bridge Company, would allow him to do it and
pay him any thing for jumping. I said I would inquire of
the Directors, and I went to a gentleman at their office.
He said he could not give any permission, as it lay with the
Committee, who did not meet beforethc 13th instant, I
then received the following letter from Scott.
The letter was hero put in, and was as follows :
" London, January 4, 1841.
. .

" Sir,—l now take the opportunity of writing these
few lines to you, stating that i am willing to come to
Waterloo-bridge and have a scaffold put up on the bridge,
to convince you what i can go through with. iam really
at your command at any time, as likewise any performinse
in the water, and so I will pleaFe any body that comes to
see me. Sir, if you want me at any time iam at your
command.—Sir, i remain yours,

" S. SCOTT.

" Sir, please to write to Mr. Scott, at Mr. Spark's,
Bar,kside, near the Iran Bridge, Rose and Bell. Sir,
please to write soon : it it won't do i will go to Blackwall."
Examination continued—l went after the receipt o f this
letter to an officer of the Bridge Company, and he said it
might be dangerous, and he would give no permission. I
told Scott this, who said he had had money made him a
present by the Southwark-bridge Company, and thought
it likely the Waterloo-bridge people would do the same.
I saw him again on Monday, the scaffold having been
erected. We were never interfered with in taking the
scaffold on to the bridge. I paid 3d. for the truck to
carry it in. The deceased put his things on in my house.
Ile was very powerful ; about 5 feet 7 inches high, and 1
27 years of age. When be was destroying a pair of
trousers by cutting them with a penknife, be said he did
it to convince the people he wore neither quicksilver nor
India rubber. At the time I remarked that I should like
them for the British Museum.

By the Jury—l never laid a wager with any one that he
would hang himself in time. He was perfectly sober when
he came to my house, and all he had to drink was the third
of a quartern of gin and some cold water. To the best of
my belief, if he had made the knot as he intended he never
would have died. I wanted him not to suspend himself,
but he would have his own way.

Henry Hancock, surgeon, sworn, said, at a quarter be-
fore three o'clock on Monday a gentleman came into the
hospital and said that a man had just hung himself at
Waterloo-bridge. I requested a surgeon to go and see
what was the matter. Deceased was brought in at three
o'clock, quite dead. _

Dr. Golding.—Mr. Shead, my colleague, and Dr.
Chowne examined him, and wo did everything we could.
I opened his jugular vein, stimulating embrocations were
applied to cliff:rent parts of his body ; he was placed in a
vva.rn bath, and electrified; in fact, everything was don,!,
our efforts being kept up for an hour and a half. The ar.
teries were openet.l, and he lost about half a pint of blood.
There were the marks of two ropes round his neck. I
have no doubt his death was caused by suffocation. We
inflated the lungs with air.
Mr. Powell, a gentleman holding the situation of sur-
veyor to the Waterloo-bridge Company, said I am the
person whom the witness Godfrey alludes to. The jury
must see that the Bridge Committee were in no way to
blame : indeed, it would be found that, by Godfrey's evi-
dence, they were quite exculpated. He (Mr. Powell)
had undertaken to dissuade Godfrey not to undertake any
such thing. No officer, Director, or Proprietor, ever did,
or ever would have suffered such a thing-; and his object
was to disabuse the public mind of the idea that the bridge
officers had in any way sanctioned the exhibition, Ile
(Mr. Powell) came on Monday, and found the scaffold up.
and a large crowd of persons. He would then • have had
the scaffold removed, but he was dissuaded by a gentle-
man, who said there would be a disturbance if it were
interfered with, and that this man had done it often enough
and would not hurt himself.

A juror said it was strange nobody interfered with the
scaffold. How did it get through the toll-gate to the bridge?

Mr. Powell said atoll•colleetor told him that a lame man
had informed him that leave had been given by tbcDirectors.
A juror said it was a very lax way of doing business if
anybody, by saying what was not true, might take any-
thing on the bridge. Some of the parties
.connected with
the bridge must have seen the scaffolding.
The CORONER s,id he should have thought some hun-
dreds might have seen it, especially as it was there all day
on Sunday.
Mr. Powell represented that the Bridge Committee had
never authorised such proceedings. They knew nothing
of them, nor did he. The man had exhibited at a hun-
dred places, and continually in London within the last six
weeks. He might hive lost his life at one place as well
as at another, but still he had no authority from the
Bridge Company to perform there.
The jury, alter a short discussion, retired to consider
their verdict ; and, after the absence of a quarter of an
hour, returned, and said their verdict was " Accidental
Death."

A Juror—lt was by a show of hands. 13 that legal ?
CORONER—Oh yes ; twelve would be sufficient.
Another Juror—Four of
us were not opposed to that
v
but we were inclined to psi a strong censure to
aeecrciic
onipt !iny
that verdict.

TILE HALIFAX AND BOSTON MAIL STEAM
SHIP ACADIA.—The latest advicos from Boston at New
York up to noon on the 12th ult. state that the Acadia,
which left Liverpool on the 4th of December, had not ar-
rived w 130.,t0n at four r. at. on the 18th, which leaves her
out 14 days. The last four Liverpool packets which have
arrived, viz., Roscoe, Steph,'n Whitney. Columbus, and
Sheridan, have each rescued the lives of the crews of an
English vessel, and brought them into Liverpool.
TH E LATE MURDER OF MR. WESTWOOD,
IN PIIINCES-STREHT.—A paragraph has during the past
week gone the round of the daily paper=, stating that at
length a clue has been obtained to the discovery of the
murderer of the late unfortunate 31r. Richard Westwood,
the watchmaker in Princes-street, Soho, in the person of
e 1 lean who had recently been convicted of felony at Hull,
in whose possession some of the stolen watches had been
found, The
':dual in alsoparagraph also went on to state that the
queation was suspeetei of having been the
murderer of Eliza Grimwood, in the Waterloo-road.
From the inquiries
weihsanvoe madetruth
in
on
ettlitehesruubjfetchtes we'estinia:
reason to believe there
ments.— Observer.

At five o'clock on Friday morning, at Sprows-
tor,, in Norfolk, the thermomer stood at three degrees be-
low zero (FArenheit), At nine in the slime day the
thermometer stood at three, or 211 degrees below freezing.
The coachmen oa the New market.road say they have not
experienced two such nights as Thursday and Friday last
week since the year 1814.

SECOND EDITION .

THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.)

BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red 894 Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent Cons ...... .. 893 Ditto Old Annuities —
3 per Cent Red........ 94 Ditto New Annuities... 874
New 3i per Cent .. ... 97i Ex. Bills, 1,0001....2id Bpm
New 5 per Cent ... Ditto 5001 Bpm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small lO pm
Jan. 1860 .. 13 1-16 Bank Stock for Acct ...
Oct 1859 lndia Stock for Acct ••• -
Jan. 1860 ... l2 13-16 Consols for Opg B9a
FOREIGN FUNDS.

A ustrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent 9B Ditto, New Ditto.....
Brazilian Bowls Prussian, 5 per cent.... --
BuenosAyres, 6 per cent 14 Russian, 5 per cent. ... 113
Chilian, 6 per cent
Colombian, 6 per cent ... Spanish, 5 per cent 24A
Ditto, 1824 23i Ditto, Deferred ...
Danish, 3 per cent. French,s per cent... —f. —e.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. Exchange ..
Mexican, 5 per cent.... 28 French, 3 per cent —f. —c.
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 2} per cent SOA
Peruvian,lB2s,6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent— .. 981
SHARES.
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) .. 94
Ditto Debentures ( 2 paid) ......
Great Western Railway (65 paid) 93
Ditto New Shares (50 paid) ...63
Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) loi
London and Brighton Railway (50 paid) -
London and Greenwich Railway (20 paid) 4
Ditto New Shares (20paid) ......... 17
Ditto Scrip. ( 2 paid)...
London and South Western Railway
South Eastern and Dover (28 paid)... .. .• 3i

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS•

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the Globe.)
We have been glad to see our weekly Contemporaries
lately showing some tendency to assign a foremost place
to questions of practical and fiscal economy. We no-
ticed last week the Spectator's useful abridgment of the
Report on Import Duties ; and the Examiner has had
one or two able articles on a branch of the same subject
—thc Reports of the Select Committees of both Houses
on the Petition of the East India Company. AV edo
not mind the slight infusion of bitters in either Con-
temporary. The best friends of the Government must be
most desirous that subjects of this kind should be forad
on them by the utmost possible " pressure from with-
out." The Penny Postage was in this manner pressed
upon official adoption. No measure has added more
justly to the popularity of the present Government. Yet
no Government could well have been expected to effect
such a change, without the previous sanction of a
strongly announced public opinion. There is another
reason why official strongholds must be stormed with big
blue books, and the contents of those books, used as ma-
teriel for incessant assaults on them on these subjects—
and this is, that the thoughts and attention of men in
office are too much divided betwixt mere official routine
and mere petty warfare. They have little time or
energy loft for any thing else. The sole remedy fur
what is otherwise remediless in this land of faction,
is, that the public should inform itself on its own
material and substantial interests; and they will
soon make parties and Ministers wage their offen-
sive and defensive warfare on that field. A popu-
lar Chamber of Legislature (whatever the elective
franchise) can never lag far behind an informed and
awakened public. If Parliament waste time in the
mere contests of faction, the fault must partly be in the
public, amongst whom fictions can find auditors. The
moment the demand for other topics is manifest, the
supply will follow. Symptoms of this are already visible,
and oddly enough—some of them in the Lords. Tne
Lords' Committee on the India Petition have made a
Report, ascribed to Lord Ellenborough, which puts
forth just and enlightened views on Colonial policy—
" That no partial favour should grant to one colony any
advantage over another, either in colonial ports or in
those of the United Kingdom ; still less that Parlia-
ment should partially secure for the produce and manu-
factures of the United Kingdom any advantage in any
colonial port over the competing produce and manufac-
tures of its own dependencies." This is a new and
notable start of hereditary wisdom ; though of course it
will find no favour in the eyes of the Standard.
(From the Standard.)
The excellent speech of the Hon. Mr. Smythe, at
Canterbury, has plainly told—the Morning Chronicle
makes it the subject of an angry article this morning.
Our Contemporary commences its critici,m by an attack
upon the city of Canterbury, which we suppose will be
appreciated by the voters of that ancient city at the ensu-
ing election, and proceeds to fall foul of the Conservative
party and the Conservative press, deviating rather widely
from the truth in reference to the latter. The misreported
speech of Mr. Bradshaw supplies the pretext for both in-
vectives. Now, with reference to that speech, Mr. Brad-
shaw has distinctly :disavowed it, and this is generally
considered enough among gentlemen when even the
most delicate point of honour is concerned ; but Mr.
Bradshaw has not merely disavowed the speech, and
denied that he ever entertained the sentiments which it
has been interpreted as ascribing to him—he hss ex-
pressed regret that any language of his could bear such
misinterpretation ; and it is to be remembered that this
disavowal, this denial, and this expression of regret,
were not in any way extorted, or even solicited from the
Honourable Member for Canterbury, but came from
him as his own spontaneous act. This would be
something more than enough among gentle-
men ; however, the Morning Chronicle writes for
those who are not gentlemen. Be it so ; our Contem-
porary at least writes in England, and therefore
writes for just and honourable men. Now, will any
just and honourable man so far trust to the hearsay of a I
reporter—who may have been mistaken, and who has
acknowledged, we believe, that he was mistaken— ,
against the testimony of a gentleman of unimpeached
honour and veracity, who certainly must know better
what he said than the reporter of his specch, and against
the testimony of all the other hearers ? There might
be more difficulty in following the general rale of evi-
dence, if the words imputed to the speaker were so
clear and unequivocal, and so criminal in substance, as
to leave no choice between the conviction on the one
side that they were spoken as reported, or the other,
that the reporter was guilty of wilful misrepresentation.
Such, however, is not the case of the speech erroneously
ascribed to Mr. Bradshaw : take away some impropriety
of style and manner, and there was nothing in it which
any Englishman ought to be ashamed or afraid to say,
under the like circumstances.

(From the Courier.)
What arc the public to think of the disgusting hy••
pocrisy with which ignorance was feigned of the actual
position of Frost and his companions, and of the mode
in which they had been dealt with by the Governor ?
It is clearly a shabby attempt to fix the responsibility of
this promotion and premium for crime upon that officer
in case of need, and accordingly we shall be amused in
Parliament, when the case is brought forward, with a
long yarn about the doctor's certificate of good con-
duct on the voyage out, which led Sir John Franklin,
in the innocence of his heart, to conceive the convicts
worthy of a better fate, and to patronize them accord-
ingly, when all the while Sir John was acting only
upon a foregone conclusion, and in pursuance of abso-
lute, however private, orders from his superiors at home.
It is unhappily the besetting sin of Lord John Rus-
sell's character, as of the acts of his Administration,
that between the straightforward and the tortuous
course he is too often seen to elect the latter, and to
prefer rather to accomplish ends. by the little arts of
cunning and stratagem than bystlie fearless frankness
of a statesman who has • weighed causes and conse-
quences, and is prepared mantis ly to justify and accept
the responsibility for what he has conscientiously re-
solved upon, whatever the risk of censure or the odium
contingent. We are not disposed to enact the part so
common and congenial with the office and habits of the
Whig Attorney-General,. that is; to argue in aggrava-
vation of the punishment of Frost and his unhappy as-
sociates ; but neither arc we insensible of the:perilous
affront to loyalty, justice, and public morals, when
crime, and that of the deepest die in every shade
known to the Constitution, is not alone permitted to es-
cape its condign penalty, in one part of the empire out-
raged, but in another part exalted with honorary;if not
lucrative marks of distinction above classes of crime
and criminals around of much more pardonable and
lower degrees of enormity. For it cannot be forgotten
that the crimes of which Frost and his co-mates stemd
attaintcd were, not high treason alone, but treason and
murder. On their heads lie all the blood shed at
Newport, besides the sin of levying war against the
Sovereign and compassing the overthrow of the institu-
tions of their country.

RUMOURED DREADFUL

ACCIDENT.

UPWARDS OF ONE HUNDRED LIVES LOST.
Rumours hare been prevalent in this neighbourhood
that on Monday last a most serious calamity happened
on Whittlesey Mere—the ice breaking, and, it is said,
upwards ut a hundred lives being lost. From inquiries
we have made, we have reason to fear this rumour is
not without foundation, though various reports still
continue.—Cumb, idgc Advertiser of this day.