The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-28 00:00:00

THR AID, LONDON, TITURSDAY„JANUARY 28, 041.

those of the gentlemen on the other side of the
Channel. It is impossible for our statesmen to
profess respect for the feelings of the French, and
go on despising those of the Irish, and trampling
those of the English regardlessly under foot.

With Marshal SOULT'S Fortifications' Bill on
the table of the Chamber of Deputies, the ex-
Ministers can safely taunt the opponents of that
arbitrary and, to liberal France, ruinous mea-
sure, with not proceeding against them by im-
peachment. As was well observed by M. DE
LAMARTINE, in the debate on Thursday, SOULT'S
Bill is a bill of indemnity for the Cabinet of the
Ist of March. Not that we for an instant sup-
pose that, had the illustrious Marshal not brought
forward his Bill, an impeachment of M. THIERS
and his colleagues could be successfully moved
in the Chamber of Deputies. The popular and
monarchical rage for walls is too strong for even
the attempt to be made with impunity. So tho-
roughly has M. THIERS succeeded in mystifying
and deluding-the bulk of the French people, that,
forgetful of every lesson which history has taught
them, and blind to the most glaring consequences
of an adherence to the system which they are
now supporting, they really feel persuaded that
nothing but walls can save France from dangers
which neither exist, nor can exist, save in the
crazed imaginations of a people drunk with poli-
tical excitement. France will yet wake to a so-
ber sense of what she will have to expect from
the fortification of the capital ; but we much fear
it will only be when her ears are saluted with the
bursting of shells in the faubourgs of Paris.
Then indeed will she learn the value of the le-
gacy which M. THIERS has left her. Then will she
be in a condition to judge of the profundity
of his Oriental policy ; if, indeed, his Oriental
policy was not from the commencement a
maturely designed prelude to the fortification
of the capital. More than once has this idea
occurred to us, nor on examination will it ap-
pear so improbable as at a first glance it may
seem to many of our readers. The fortifications
of Paris has been one of the darling objects of
Lours PHILIPPE'S policy since his accession to
the throne. The works would have been begun
on an extensive scale in 1832 had not the people
appeared alarmed at the prospect of the esta_
blishment of a military despotism. A pretext
was wanted to undertake them with the po-
pular sympathies enlisted in their favour, and M.
TRIERS, by a course of trickery on the Oriental
question, has produced it. By first isolating
France, lie made her appear as insulted in
the eyes of unreflecting Frenchmen; and by
next raising immense armaments, or rather
pretending to raise them, he compelled the
States threatened by him to arm in self-defence,
and thus produced in France the impression that
the country was threatened by a coalition as
powerful and as hostile to France as that
which broke the imperial sceptre of NAPOLEON.
When the public alarm was at its height, lie sud-
denly dropped his bullying menaces about
marching on the Rhine, and all at once brought
forward his plan for fortifying Paris. A general
shout for walls and fortresses followed, and by
his manoeuvring he has contrived to keep up the
popular excitement.
But if anything could immediately open the
eyes of the French people to the real object of
the fortification of the capital, it would be the
speech delivered to, the Chambers on Friday by
Marshal SOULT. The gallant Marshal declared
frankly that it was detached forts, not walls, that
he wanted ; but that rather than lose the forts
he would take them cumbered with the walls.
The walls are useless in a struggle between the
Government and the Parisian mobs, and there-
fore the Marshal cares nothing about them. On
this occasion the gallant Marshal's precipitancy
well nigh ruined the schemes of the ex-President
of the Council. M. TRIERS became alarmed that
the truth would out ; the gallant Marshal was
again brought before the Committee which had
sanctioned the Report upon which the Bill was
based, and when properly schooled in his part, M.
THIERS announced in his name that the walls
would materially add to the security of Paris.
The Marshal has a little too much of the honest
frankness of a soldier about him to be altogethe r
left to himself in the management of such a deep-
laid plot against liberty. But in M. THIERS he
finds a prompter of whom Satan himself might
be proud.

We greatly regret the omission of any allusion
to our relations with France in her MAJESTY'S
Speech from the Throne. Our Government is
not unacquainted with the indignation excited in
France by such silence on two former occasions.
If the navigation of the Douro was deemed of
sufficient importance to occupy a paragraph in
the Speech, an equal extent of space might at
least have been allowed to the expression of
regret that France did not concur in our Levan-
tine policy, but that relying upon the justice and
the moderation of the French KING and Cabinet,
her MAJESTY felt confident that the peace of
Europe would not be disturbed, and that, after
the execution of the Treaty of July, the Govern-
ment would not be wanting in the support of any
measures likely to increase the harmony between
England and France. Such a paragraph would
add greatly to the strength of M. GUIZOT and
the peace party, and go far towards softening the
feeling of acerbity which exists in the popular
mind of France against England.

The Paris Journals of Monday have all reached
us. The debate on the Fortifications Bill was
commenced on Monday by M. DE LATOURNELLE,
who supported the plan of a continuous wall. M.
JANVIER followed on the other side. M. GUIZOT
next ascended the tribune, and defended the Bill
as calculated to give stability to the peace of Eu-
rope. The Minister contended that the forti-
fication of Paris was not a party question, and that
in so fir as forts would repress popular vio-
lence they merited the Conservative support of
the nation. This is hinting pretty plainly the
real object of the fortifications. The Parisians
will learn the whole truth by and bye.
France continues her disgraceful system of war
in Africa. The following account of the latest
exploits in that quarter is from the Journals of
Monday :
On the 31st the French troops marched from Cherchell
to make a razz*, that is, to surprise, plunder, burn, and
destroy a poor Arab village. The success of the expedi
tion was not brilliant, for only twenty Arabs were killed,
as many* wounded, and some oxen and mules captured.
The tribe of Beni Honssa was Burp. iced with more suc-
cess. It made no resistance, and many escaped ; but the
Deccan wah sacked, burned, and its flocks of five hundred
'sheep, thirty-five oxen, and ten calves taken.
The capture of ten calves forms an appropriate
climax to this record of French valour and hu-
manity. We are surprised that the French
Journals are not ashamed of publishing t
despatches in the face of their clamours t
cjil
the inhumanity of England in China, In , and
' Affghanistan.
By the commercial treaty between Holland
and France, all articles of Dutch colonial pro-
duce which hitherto were prohibited from enter-
ing France by land are now permitted to be
entered at Strasburg and Sierck on paying the
duties to which they would be liable on entering
in French vessels. The duty on Dutch cheese
and white lead is also reduced one-third. These
are important concessions made to Dutch trade,
but those conceded by Holland in favour of
France are far more considerable :-Ist. White
china-ware, of French manufacture; is only to
pay the sante duty as common delft-ware. 2d.
The duty on all kinds of French soap is reduced
one-fourth. 3d. The duty upon French stained
paper is reduced two-fifths. 4th. The duty upon
French cutlery, mercery, lace, silk of kinds, is
reduced one-half. sth. French wines and brandies
in cask are to be admitted free of all Custom
duties on their entry into the Dutch territory,
and when in bottle the duty on wine is to be re-
duced three-fifths, and one half on brandies. A
reduction of one-half is to be made on the duties
payable on French wines and brandies on being
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Commerce were seized on Monday at the post-
office for the publication of some letters stated
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letters, the first history of them appeared in The
;Sun

The National publishes some fragments of letters, said
by La France to have been written by Louis Philippe, and
the originals of which are said to be in the hands of M. de
Larochejaquelin. The National considers that as La
France has not been seized, these letters may be consi-
dered as historical documents, and proposes to publish
them under the title of " The Policy of Louis Philippe,
explained by himself." The first letter is said to contain
a promise to abandon Algiers, in the following words :
" As to the occupation of Algiers, I have most powerful
reasons for faithfully fulfilling the engagements which my
family made with Great Britain. Under those circum-
stances I trust that his Majesty's Government will allow
me to choose my own time and measures." _

The second letter treats of the last insurrection in Po
land, and is headed by the National, " The French Ca-
billet claims the honour of having murdered Poland."
In this letter the following passage is to be found :
" The Cabinet of St. Petersburgh ought to thank us,
and not the conqueror of Warsaw, for having crushed this
centre of incessant rebellion."
The third letter refers to the fortifications of Pads,
and is headed by the National, " The Detached Forts
and the Dynasty.—A plan for subduing the Press."—
This letter contains the following passage Be assured
that I do not intend to abandon my plan of raising
forts round Paris ; nor that of subduing the
Press, our most dangerous enemy. The great part
of the public writers are purchased; the others
will follow their example. Let the Powers of Europe re_
member what consequences the revolution of July, 1830,
might have produced. Let them recollect that it was by
our sole and powerful will that wP governed this frightful
popular ebullition, and let them judge from that of what
we arc capable, and let not any of the Powers forget that
we alone could have saved France and Europe, and that we
have saved them. Let neither Vienna, nor St. Peters-
burgh, nor Berlin, forget that."
" All commentary," concludes the National," would be
feeble after those revelations. Past events are explained
by them—future consequences are to come. It is for
France, who has supported one, to see whether she will
submit to the other."

We have the following letter from Toulon, dated 12th
January.
Nothing has yet been done precisely to disarm the
squadron, but the armaments are definitely impeded. A
commencement was made a month ago with dismissing
some workmen, and now all of them are discharged that
had been levied in the bth Maritime district. The Go.
vernmcnt seems to have given up the intention of letting
the squadron go to sea; this resolution would be fully ap-
proved in the Port, for in fact our ships would go and get
damaged off the Hieres island, and it would have been
difficult to repair them, for you must know, and this is
certain, that the most essential stores arc now wanting in
the Port of Toulon, so that if a ship of the line were to
lose a main-top mast or a main-yard, the loss could not be
supplied.
ELBINO, JAN. 9.—Travellers who came from Poland,
report that not only in Warsaw, but in the whole king-
dom of Poland, especially in the Western parts, con-
siderable bodies of Russian troops f are concentrated.
Nothing has yet transpired as to the object of the assem-
bling of such a great force in Poland.
MONDAY, JAN. 35.

first Highest Lowest last
Price Price. Pricy Price
French& per Cents ll2 110 ... 112 65 ... 112 43 ... 112 50
4% per Cents...— lO.l 50 ... 1112 50 ... 1112 AO ... 102 50
4 per Cents ll9 ... 99 ... 9I .. 99
3 per Cents 77 25 77 25 ... 77 ... 77 50
Sank 01 &lance
Gallia* bank I.ooof. Sh lO5O ...11150 ...1050 ...1850
5000 f. Shares bill 50 .4117 50 ...5117 50 ...5117 50
Belgian Bank
3 per Cents ..«.« 6B 65 ... 68 65 ••• '46 65 ••• 68 65
New LINN DA % ... 9814 p ... 98% ... 98%
Spanish Active ys s‘ ... 25% ... 25% ... 25%
Passive... 914 ... 0% ••• 6% —• 6%

The landed aristocracy continually call out
that the people want to divide their estates, and
to take away their property. In the meantime
the landed aristocracy actually take away by a
bread-tax, and continually take away, the pro-
perty of the people. Do the aristocracy make
such a pother about an imaginary and appre-
hended wrong to blind the world to the great
wrong which they continually commit ?

ROYAL MARINES.—An order was on Tuesday
received at the Woolwich division of Royal Marines to
forward immediately two recruiting parties, one to Edin-
burgh, under the command of Captain Philips, and one to
Hereford, under the command of Captain Wright. It is
said similar orders have been issued to the other divisions
at Chatham, Portsmouth, and Plymouth, preparatory to a
considerable augmentation of this force. The number of
companies about to be raised is twelve, which will give
commissions to twelve Captains and twelve First Lieu-
tenants, and the appointment of sixty sergeants and sixty
corporals, five sergeants and five corporals being attached
to each company of marines, while there are only three
sergeants and three corporals attached to companies of the
line. The difficulty which at present exists in obtaining
men for the Royal Marines, renders it probable that for
the more speedy raising of the number required, a reduc•
tion of the standard of height, or an addition to the amount
of bounty, will be resorted to.
FUNERAL OF MR. TASCHEREAU. This
young gentleman, nephew:of the late Judge Taschereau, of
Quebec, in whose untimely fate all have sympathised, was
wrist/Irons the hospital on Wednesday_last to thk,sSacristy
adjoining the church St. Nicholas, where he remained tilt
Friday, when be was removed into the church, which was
hung with black for the occasion, and the solemn high mass
of the Catholic Church for the dead was chaunted. The
British Consul and a great number of most respectable
English and French families attending on the occasion,
and following the funeral precession to the cimetiere.
We regret to say that the bodies of one sailor and of Mr.
Webster have not yet been discovered. The latter had,
we hear, besides two gold watches and chain, upwards of
two hundred pounds about him at the time of the accident.
We hear that he possessed an annual income of nearly
4,0001, which he inherited by the death of his father, who
was drowned two years ago, with his mother and two sis-
ters, on a voyage from New York to New Orleans.
Boulogne Gazette.
In the case of Neeld v. the Duke of Beaufort,
the Vice-Chancellor on Tuesday decided in favour of the
Noble Duke, to whom the peaceable possession of Willey
Gorse will immediately revert.
Tuesday Mr. Butler, late lessee of the Olympic,
was liberated by the Insolvent Debtors' Court, on bail.
His insolvency arose from the failure of the Olympic
Theatre, wherein the insolvent had expended a large sum
of his own, and had incurred various debts now inserted in
the schedule. The debts were upwards of 1,2001., and
had, with the exception of about 40/., been contracted on
account of the theatre.
Loss oF THE FAIRY.—NobIy has the public
responded to the praiseworthy exertions of Captain
Hornby, C. 8., of her Majesty's Dockyard, Woolwich,
to alleviate the loss which the widows of the purser and
ship's company of her Majesty's ship Fairy have ex-
perienced—the amount already collected being now up-
wards of t3OO/. Amongst the most recent subscribers is
her Majesty the Queen Dowager, for the sum of 100/ ,
which has been received here.

-On Monday morning a lad named Evans, the son
of a labouring man, was placed in the stocks at Watford,
under rather peculiar circumstances, and which have
created a good deal of interest in the town and neighbour-
hood. It appears that about seven o'clock on Sunday
evening, Evans, the lad in question, was walking down
the High-street, Watford, with four wild rabbits in his
hand, when he met Mr. Capel, a county justice, who
asked him some questions about the rabbits, and he told
him he was going to take them to a person in the town.
Mr. Capel then charged him with offering them for sale,
and laid hold of him, and called for a constable and ordered
him to take him to the cage and lock him up,
and the after did so, and he remained all night
in the cage with nothing but some straw to
lie upon. The next morning he was taken to the
private office of Mr. Pugh, where Mr. Capel attended,
and upon his own view convicted the defendant in the pe-
nalty of 51. for following his worldly calling on a Sunday,
and in default ordered that he should be put into the stocks.
The boy said that be would try and get the money, and the
officer accompanied him for that purpose, but being unsuc-
cessful, he was eventually placed in the stocks, and re-
mained there for two hours on Monday morning before ne
was released. The-father of the boy has- for a grcat many
years been employed in the establishment of the Earl of
Essex, and his mother in that of Lord Clarendon. and it
does not appear that he was ever before charged with any
offence.

PUBLIC REWARDS.—THE LATE CAPTAIN
HEWETT.—The situation of Captain Hewett's family is a
good example of how public rewards are distributed.
" Captain Basil Hall has published an appeal to the grate-
ful feelings of the nation in behalf of the widow and
eight children." The question which strikes every
man is, why should Captain Basil Hall have been
compelled to do anything of the sort? Captain Hewett
was a remarkably industrious man In her Majesty's
service ; and although he lost his life in a branch of
it in which the man of science has to smother many
of the it:dilections of the sailor,lhe has left behind
him the fruits of his labour, at the Admiralty, which
will save thousands from he sudden watery grave
which he met himself. Fortunately for us " Gentle-
men, who live at home at ease," and think " nothing
of the dangers of the seas," as the Burns of our navy
once sang, the late Captain Hewett had no chance of
distinguishing himself. But look at Admiral Stop-
ford's despatches. Does he not give to the gentleman
who sounded so beautifully every spot where every
anchor was to be cast his share of the victory ? The
late Captain Hewett was employed in the same business
at home ; and he, and his wife's brother, and his eldest
son, were lost one night while we were sitting at home
by our firesides I And Capt. Basil Hall has "to appeal
to the grateful feelings of the nation" for his widow 1
Shame on it. Shame on us,
if private charity is thus
to do publie justice! Shame on us, if the widow of
such a man as Hewett is, after privations hardly heard
of in romance, to starve with a large family, on a
dead Lieutenant's pension. Why do we say this? B:-
cause we know (it was quite an accident that we did
know it) that the stream of private charity is stopped
towards the family, from a conviction that the Go-
vernment ought to take care of the widow, and that
not niggardly, for we cannot replace husband, son, and
brother. [The above remarks were suggested to the
writer by a gentleman, who is a large subscriber to
the fund. They are not in his own words, but it is
the substance. He is an influential M.P. and F. R. S.,
and seems to live only to do good, forgetting politics where
science is concerned. Many of his remarks about the pen-
Sion, given to Messrs. Somerville, Airy, Faraday, &c., are
omitted ; but if the Government, Whig or Tory, does not
remember the dead as well as the living, something will
be said of these matters hereafter.]—Morning Herald.
Gilbert Abbott a'Beckett and Henry Pyne,
Esquires, were yesterday called to the bar, by the Hon.
Society of Gray's Inn.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS•

CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING,

To day the Funds were still depressed by the pre-
vailing- disinclination of most parties to speculate or
invest, unless at a turn in their favour, until it is
known how the ways and means of the country will be
raised. Consols for immediate transfer receded again
per cent., being marked 898 to 1, and for time the
accurrent value was 891 to The market closed
heavily. Bank Stock was rather firmer at 169 i, and
East India :Stock was steady at 250. In the heavy
Stocks a good business was dune, but it was at prices
rather more against the sellers. The New Three-and-
a-Half Per Cents, ranged from 98 to 971 ; the Three
per Cents., from 891 to 90 ; and the Reduced Taree-
and-a-Half per Cents. from 988. Exchequer Bills were
worth 4s. to 6s. premium, and East India Bonds ss.
discount.

Business in Foreign Market was dull all day. Spa-
nish Actives were worth 241 to 241 ; Portuguese,
New Five per Cents declined from 324 to 31i, but rallied
and closed at 321 ; Columbian Stock was without al-
teration, but Mexican was 281 to 281 ; Peruvian
brought 154 ; Buenoa Ayres, 22 to 2l 4, and Brazilian,
734 to 73 ; Dutch Two-and-i-Half per Cents., were
at 50k to 49i, and the Five Per Cents at 99k to 98k.
The Market for Shares kept up pretty well. Great
Western brought 27 ; the Fifths 671- to 6,1 ; the Bir-
mingham Quarter 25 to 241 ; and the New 28 prem.
'FI:e cause of the advance in the Birmingham Shares
is said to be a plan that has been projected far calling up
an additional capital to pay off the certificates, and thus
relieve the Ccmpany of these incumbrances at once.
The Indigo sales terminated this afternoon. The
quantity actually sold was 4,200 chests, being more
than usual at this time of year, and the prices realized
were fully equal to expectation, and such as give rise
to the hope of a brisk trade in most branches during
the summer.

(From The Sun of Last Night.)
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TUESDAY.—We have bad
a flat market to-day, the sales are barely 1,200 bags, at
about yesterday's prices.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JAN. 26.--Eastera Coun-
ties, Si ; Debentures, 5/1 ; Great Western, 921 ; Half_
shares, 63 624 ; Fifths, 101- ; Liverpool and Manchester
Half-shares, 91 ; London and Birmingham, 180; Quarter
Shares, 304 ; South Western, 58.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 26.—With the
exception of en inquiry for London and Birmingham
Railways, our market continues very flat. Manchester and
Leeds 76 ; London and Birmingham Quarter Shares
311 ; Ditto, New, 32/. Shares, 20 prem. ; London and
South Western 571 to 584; Manchester and Birmingham
25 to 251; London and Birmingham 186 to 188; Ditto
321. Shares 60 to 61 ; Bank of Manchester 9i to 94 ;
Manchester and Liverpool District Bank 10i to 10i.
The market left off rather heavy yesterday, at 891 for
the Account, Money 891 Consols opened this morn-
ing at the leaving off prices of yesterday, with little doing
to the present hour; but the market has rather a firmer ap-
pearance, owing to the discussions in both Ilouses of Par-
liament on the Address to her Majesty's Speech, as well
as the friendly disposition of the Government towards
France. Exchequer Bills rather lower, 4 6 prem. ; Bank
Stock 168 170; India Stock 250 251.

In the Foreign Market Spanish Active also receded on
her Majesty's Speech being published, from 2q-, 251 to
241 k, at present 241 -1-; Deferred 121 ; Passive 6i;
Portuguese left off at 32k, opened the same ; Three per
Cents. 201 ; Brazilian 73 74 ; Buenos Ayres 20 22 ;
Chilian nothing done; Mexican 281 1; Dutch Two-and-
a- Half per Cents. 501 ; Five per Cents. 994-.
SHARES.—Great Western 26} 271 prom. ; New Ditto
121 131 prem. ; London and Brighton 7 6i dis. ; Black-
wall 44 dis. ; Birmingham improved, 90 92 prem. ;
Southampton 57 58 per share ; Croydon 121 per share ;
Greenwich 84- 1 per share; Manchester and Birmingham
15 14 per share.

PRICES OF SIIARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Great North of England 70

Great Western ..::.
London and Brighton
London and Birmingham 9O
Ditto New Shares
London and South Western 3B& 5B ... .. to
Manchester and Leeds

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Australasia (New) 4O s4i to --
_. . __ __

Colonial

Although the speeches in both Houses of Parliament are
of a very pacific tendency, they have not had any effect on
the British Funds during the course of the morning, nor
have they produced any spirit for speculation.
Consols have been fluctuating diving the morning at
without a feature worth noticing ; Money
891 ; Exchequer Bills rather lower, 6 4 prem. ; Bank
Stock 169} ; India Stock 250; India Bonds 5 dis.
In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active' has been done
at 241, at present 244; Portuguese lower, receded from
324 to 314 ; Three per Cent. 204 4 ; Mexican, 284 4 ;
Buenos Ayres also lower 214; Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents., 501 ; Five per Cents., 994, receded to 984.
In the Share Market scarce anything doing. Great
North of England, 56; Great Western, 92 ;;;London and
Brighton, 434; New London and Birmingham, 60;
Manchester and Leeds, 76.

CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.

Bank Steck .......„..... 169 k India Stock .. 250
3 per Cent. Red 9O Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent Cons ...... .. 89it Ditto Old Annuities
3, per Cent Red ...... .. 98i Ditto New Annuities...
New 31f per Cent .. ... 971 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d 4pm
New 5 per Cent ... ...... Ditto 5001 6pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 6pm
Jan. 1860. l3 3-16 Bank Stock for Acct ...169
Oct 1859 .. l3 1-16 India Stock for Acct -
Jan. 1860 l2i Consols for Opg
FOREIGN FUNDS.
A ustri an, 5 per Cent... Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent 9BA Ditto, New Ditto..... 32A
Brazilian Bow's .. .. .. 73 Prussian, 5 per cent....
BuenosAyres, 6 per cent 22 Russian, 5 per cent. . .
Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic
Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 244.
Ditto, 1824 ..... 23} Ditto, Deferred ..
Danish, 3 per cent..... French,s per cent... —f. —c.
Greek.lB2s, spercent. Exchange : —f. —c.
Mexican, 5 per cent.... 281 French,3 per cent —f. —c.
Di to, 6 per cent, 1825 Dutch, 21 per eent 491
Peruvian,lB2s,6 per ct. 151 Ditto, 5 per cent.....
SHARES.
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p) 80
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid)... ..... Si
Great North of England Railway ...... .. ... 56
Great Western Railway (65 paid) 92
Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) loi
London an Brighton (50 paid) .. . 43i
London and Blackwall Railway (22k pd) lti
London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd)
Ditto Quarter Shares ( 5 paid) 29i
London and Greenwich Railway (20 paid)
Ditto Scrip. ( 2 paid)
London and South Western S7A
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) .. ......
North Midland Railway (100 paid) —
Ditto New Shares (40 paid) . 3B

DESPERATE ATTACK UPON THE POLICE AT
GLINDLEToN, NEAR CLITIIEROE:—OR the night of Thurs-
day week, three of the rural police stationed at Clitheroe,
named Robert Whiteside, Andrew Madden, and James
Neild, accompanied by Mr. Christopher Lancaster and
Mr. William Lancaster, cf Clitheroe, went to the beer-
shop of Peter Hitchen, of Grindleton, about three miles
from Clitheroe, to apprehend a notorious poacher named
John Briggs, of Sawley, and James Dickinson, on charges
of poaching and assault. On arriving at Hitchen's,
the police found both of them there, and they were
immediately seized by the officers. They both made
a violent resistance. Briggs drew a knife, but it
was wrested from him, and he then drew a loaded
pistol, ready capped, and this was also seized and taken
from him, when, after a desperate struggle, the police
succeeded in handcuffing both of them. They would not,
however, walk a yard, and Madden, therefore, went off to
Clitheroe for a post-chaise. During his absence, how-
ever, about 50 or 60 ruffians, six of them armed with guns,
attacked the house, and broke open the door. They then
demanded the release of Briggs and Dickinson, and
threatened the lives of the police if they did not obey their
commands. A struggle ensued, when the officers were
overcome by the force of numbers, and the prisoners were
rescued. On leaving the house, several shots were fired,
arid the mob hissed and hooted in the most furious manner
At this time Madden arrived with the chaise, and on
alighting, he was attacked in the most brutal manner with
b!udgeons. He, however, got into the house, and the
door vu4 again cloud, They then broke the windows,
and fired several shots into the room, some of which
took effect on Christopher Lancaster's arm and Madden's
legs. Sa armed ruffians then forced the door, and de-
manded ten shillings, or they would take their lives. The
money, we believe. was given to them, and the police left
the house, when they were attacked at the door with
blu3geo3s, and M 4Jen received a severe blow on one of
hi.; arms. Oa the follosing morning, Briggs and Dick-
inson went through Chatbura, armed with guns; and be.
twecn that place and Downham they met Mr. Littledale's
gamekeeper, whom they knocked down and kicked in a
savage manner, and he now lies seriously ill of the injuries
he received. These desperate characters, we are sorry to
say, arc still at large. They are the terror of the whole
neighbourhood, and we trust the police will spare no effort
in apprehending them.—Presten, Chronicle.
CHARTIST BiPTISMS.—The Chartist places
of Sunday convocation, or " preaching shops," as Mr.
Moir, the tea-dealer, termed them, continue to be attended
by numerous misled tradesmen and their families, and the
form of baptism has been gone through on sixteen to
twenty children in one day. It is usual to give the
children the Nimes of some demagogue orator, or treason-
able felon, who is suffering in the cause of the Charter.
On a late occasion, there were three John Frosts, an
Ann O'Connor, and a Mary Vincent, named in the
" Noddy" Church, when no fewer than twenty-five
ehildr(n went through the form of baptism. —Glasgow
Courier.

THE INUNDATIONS AT BRENTFoRD.--The
sukeripiion in behalf of the unfortunate destitute boatmen,
their wives and families, and the poor cottagers, is pro-
gressing favourably. In addition to the sums already men-
tioned in the daily papers, the Vicar and Churchwardens
have this day received, among others, the following
sums :—Her Majesty the Queen has forwarded twenty
guineas ; the Duke of Northumberland, 501. ; the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, 10/ ; the Duke of Cleveland, 20/. ;
George Byng, Esq., 11. P. for Middlesex, 301. ; Colonel
T. Wood, M. P. for Middlesex, 51.; Colonel Wood, M. P.
for Brecon, Si. ; Archdeacon Cambridge and Mr. Cam-
bridge, 101. ; Baroness de Rothschild, 101., &e.
STRABISMUS.—Mr. Curtis, who has lately vi-
sited the hospitals of Vienna, Berlin, Dresden, Prague,
&c., and witnessed Professor DietTznbach operate for
squinting, bas. introduced a new mode of curing that de-
formity without an operation.

LITERATURE.

MRS. HALL'S IRELAND..Pair
how and .Parsons,Londun, 1841.

In this Part we have two very superior engravings
—one of Youghall Church, which, with its deep-
wooded back-ground, forms a pleasing sylvan land-
scape ; and the ether of Bantry Bay, whose gleam-
ing waters, sunny islands crowned with old castles,
romantic headlands fringed with copses, and distant
precipitous mountains broken into a thousand fan-
tastic shapes, and projecting their dark shadows
far across the wave, almost realise one of those
lovely scenes in fairy-land, which, as Dr.. Johnson
tells us, Collins the poet was so fond of dreaming
of. In the literary department there are several
amusing stories respecting old Irish superstitions—
the most whimsical and original in the world ; and
copious descriptions of the scenery in the neighbour-
hood of Cork, where Mrs. Hall seems delighted to
linger, as though it were associated with her earliest
tecollections. Of the lake of Gougane Barta she
says—" A scene of more utter loneliness, stern
grandeur, or savage magnificence, it is difficult to
conceive ; redeemed, however, as all things savage
are, by one passage of gentle and inviting beauty,
upon which the eye turns as to a spring-well in the
desert—the little island with its group of graceful
ash trees and ruined chapel. Down from the sur-
rounding mountains rush numerous streams." The
authoress then proceeds to quote a poem descriptive
of this striking landscape, which was written in the
year 1826 by Mr. Callanan, who died at Lisbon in
1829. We also have great pleasure in placing it
before our readers, for, if we mistake not, it
breathes the true poetic spirit, is stately and vigor-
ous in the march of its versification, and fervid and
romantic in its turn of thought. Sir Walter Scott
would have been delighted with it
There is a green island in lone Gougane Barra
Where Alla of songs rushes forth like an arrow ;
In deep-valley'd Desmond a thousand wild fountains
Come down to that lake, from their home is the moun-
tains.
There grows the wild ash ; and a time-stricken willow
Looks chillingly down on the mirth of the billow,
As like some gay child that sad monitor scorning,
It lightly laughs back to the laugh of the morning.
" And its sone of dark hills—oh to see them all
brightening,
When the tempest flings out his red banner of lightning,
And the waters come down 'mid the thunders' deep rattle,
Like clans from their hills at the voice of the battle ;
And brightly the fire-crested billows are gleaming,
And wildly from Mallon the eagles are screaming :
Oh, where is the dwelling, in valley or highland,
So meet for a bard as that lone little island !
" How oft, when the summer sun rested on Clara
And lit the blue headland of sullen Ivera,
Have I sought thee, sweet spot I from my home by the

ocean,
And trod all thy wilds with a minstrel's devotion,
And thought on the bards who, oft gathering together,
In the cleft of thy rocks, and the depth of thy heather,
Dwelt far from the Saxon's dark bondage and slaughter,
As they raised their last song by the rush of thy water.
gi High sons of the lyre 1 oh, how proud was the feeling
To dream while alone through that solitude stealing;
Though loftier minstrels green Erin can number,
I alone waked the strain of her harp from its slumber,
And gleaned the grey legend that long had been sleeping,
Where oblivion's dull mist o'er its beauty was creeping,
From the love which I felt for my country's sad story,
When to love her was shame, to revile her was glory.
" Last bard of the free! were it mine to inherit

The tire of thy harp and the wing of thy spirit,
With the wrongs which like thee to my own land have
bound me,
Did your mantle of song throw its radiance around me;
Yet, yet OR those bold cliffs might Liberty rally,
And abroad send her cry o'er tie sleep of each valley.
But roue thee, vain dreamer l no fond fancy cherish,
Thy vision of Freedom in bluodshcd must perish.
" I soon shall be gene—though my name may be spoken
When Erin awakes, and her fetters are broken—
Some minstrel will come in the summer eve's gleaming
When Freedom's young light on his spirit is beaming,
To bend o'er my grave with a tear of emotion,
Where calm Avonbuee seeks the kisses of ocean,
And a wild wreath to plant from the bank of the river
O'er the heart and the harp that are silent for ever."

SCHLEGEL'S LECTURES.
Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1841.

We have in this volume a-translation from the
German of Frederick Schlegel, whose Lectures on
the History of Literature, ancient as well as mo-
dern, have been long generally admired, both here
and on the Continent. The Lecturer commences
with critical sketches of some of the best Greek
writers in prose and verse, and dwells with particu-
lar fondness on Thucydides, who appears to be his
idol as an historian. His remarks on Homer have
little novelty about them—but,- indeed, who can
say anything new of this great poet ? and of Euri-
pides he speaks—at least so it appears to us•-••in a
style at once flippant and superficial. He expa-
tiates on the faulty construction of his plays, in
terms of superfluous exaggeration ; sneers at what
he calls " his long, pedantic, and ill-placed dis-
quisitions ;" and awards him, as if grudgingly, the
coldest measure of justice, when alluding to his
pathos, which was exquisite, but too simple and
natural, we suppose, for the artificial and somewhat
fastastic task of a German philosopher and critic.
The lecturer's estimate of Roman literature is, on
the whole, judicious, though by no means remark-
able for any superior shrewdness or originality ;
but as regards the French writers of Louis the
Fourteenth's times, to this branch of his subject,
M. Schlegel brings much subtle reflection, and able
analytical criticism. His opinions, too, of modern
English literature are worthy of attention, for here
he shows himself a thoroughly discriminating
scholar, who speaks his mind fearlessly, because
he knows that, if called on, he can give reasons for
the faith that is in him.

ENCYCLOPie DIA B RITANNICA.
VOL. XXL PART I.
A. Black, Edinburgh, 1841.
(SECOND NOTICE )

We resume our notice of this comprehensive and
valuable work, which we were compelled to dismiss
in a few hasty sentences the other day, owing to
the crowded state. of our columns. The present
Part, which, agreeably to the alphabetical arrange-
ment maintained throughout the Encyclopaedia, is
confined to the consideration of subjects ranging
under the letters S ar.d T, contains several
carefully digested memoirs of men eminent
in war, politics, literature, and science, together
with disquisitions on practical matters, and con-
densed historical accounts of one or two European
States. The treatise under the head " Surveying"
exhibits a formidable array of mathematical figures
and algebraical calculations, illustrative of the
nature of the pursuit, whence we infer that
it is one of slow and difficult attainment, argu
ing the possession of superior scientific abili-
ties. Indeed the writer says as much, for the
expressly tells us that " as a surveyor has perpe-
tual occasion for calculation, it is necessary that be
be thoroughly master of arithmetic, and understand
the nature of logarithms, the use of logarithmic
tables, and algebraic notation. As it is his"busi-
ness to investigate and measure lines and angles,
and to describe them on paper, he should be
well acquainted with the elements of geometry
and trigonometry, and with the application of
their principles to the mensuration of heights,
distances, and surfaces. In particular he should
be familiar with the best practical methods of
solving the ordinary geometrical problems, and
should be expert in drawing- lines and describing
figures. He should know something of the prin-
ciples of geology, optics, and magnetism, and pos-
sess some skill in drawing and painting. In other
words a surveyor should be a man of remarkable
scientific acquirements, and possess, besides, a
competent knowledge of the Fine Arts, which is
a combination of qualities which, we suspect,
not one in a hundred possess. Under the
words " Suspension Bridges we find a detailed
notice of the late Mr. Telford's master-piece—
namely, the Menai bridge, which connects Vie
Island of Anglesea with the northern coast of
Wales, but which, observes the writer, " has been
greatly surpassed, both in length and height, by a
far lighter and much less expensive one, though of
great strength, which has since been constructed by
M. Chaney, of Lyons, over the river Sarine, at
Friburg, in Switzerland. This was completed in
ISM. The span is S7O feet, and the roadway is
elevated 167 feet above the water of the Sarine.
The lightness of this bridge is in a great measure
owing to its neither being suspended by chains nor
solid iron rods, but by four cables of iron wire, each
containing about twelve hundred iron wires, the
united strength of which could support thrice
the load they will ever be likely to bear,
or three times the weight of two rows
of loaded waggons extending over its whole length."
The historical and geographical account under the
title " Sweden," of this extenOee northern king-
dom, which in the reign of Gustavus Adolphus
was the chief support of the Protestant faith, and in
that of Charles the Twelfth was the bugbear of
Europe, is condensed with great tact, for, on

MORNING- EI:MON._

, .
running our eye over it, we perceive that no
one fact of importance is omitted, while, on the
subject of the romantic vicissitudes of Gustavo
Vasa—whose whole career is one of the most
striking episodes in Swedish history—the writer is
as circumstantial as could be desirod• The bio-
graphical sketch of " Swedenborg," so well
known for his religious fanaticism, which
closely bordered on insanity, mentions a crr'
cumstance which we were not previously await'
of—namely, that thi., dreamy entaisiast, who re•
yelled in fantastic visions of Heaven and HA and
whose imagination was never for an ir-rstantilhe'
commenced his literary career by an essay on the,
Value of Money," the most practical and matter:
of-fact of topics I We remember meeting wily
Swedenborg's works some years since, in a little inn!
in a town of South Wales, and endeavoured I"
master the contents of one of the volumes;
but the task was hopeless, and after gettil
perfectly bewildered with the crazy Swedfie
description of spiritual parties, consisting wh°111:
of angels, and of cities and palaces which
exist in the other world, and various other absurch'
ties, we flung aside the volume in the full convietiJli
that it was the most perplexing and ridiculous eyes
penned by mortal hand. In closing our notice °`
this Encyclopaedia, we must not forget the plate
which are executed in the very first style of art.