The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 6, 1847

stated that, on the 25th of December, he missed one of
a flock of fifty sheep, and on searching, with the assist-
ance of his man, on the following Monday, he found the
skin and entrails of a sheep. He recognised the skin as
having been part of the sheep he had lost from discover-
ing the marks of E. L, on the horns and on the sides of
the animal He also found a lamb with the entrails, and '
the sheep he had lost was, when taken away, ready to
drop her lamb,

peway—Propeller—Protection—Searoom Good Boy
Nectar Awkward—Publican.

CHESTER CUP.

The following names complete the entry of 177 horses for
this race :—Driffield b fby Co'wick out of Quid's Dam, Sir
Martin, and No. 45. We ought also to add that in our
former list Fantastic and Emigrant were named twice, and
Banana called Bavaria.

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Her Majesty's stag hounds will meet on Thursday at Salt
Hill, and on Saturday at Bedfont Toll-gate, at 11.

Air. Dawes, a butcher at Ripley, had examined the
mutton found in the prisoner's premises, and the remains
of the sheep discovered by the last witness, and believed
them to be the same.

April 5, July 5,
1845 1845

Oct. 10,
1845

Jan. 5,
1846

THE CENTRAL SUN.

At the close of the last meeting (on the 14th of De-
cember) of the Royal Irish Academy, after the delivery
of the very interesting antiquarian communication from
Professor Warsare, of Copenhagen, and in connexion
with a new mathematical method of geometrically con-
ceiving and symbollically expres-ing the Newtonian law
of attraction, Sir William Hamilton announced that hr
had just received from Professor Madler, of Dorpat, the
extraordinary and exciting intelligence of the presumed
discovery of a Central Sun. Professor Miidler's essay
on the subject (Die Central Sonne, Dorpat, 1846) was
also exhibited by Sir William Hamilton on the same
evening to several members of the academy; but as this
work may not, for some time to come, be generally
known, or, indeed, easily procurable in this country, we
believe that our readers will thank us for publishing a
sketch of the results which it contains, and which were
briefly stated on the evening already mentioned. This
course will also serve to correct any misconception on
the subject which the unexpected nature of the commu-
nication, and the consequent absence of many of the
members of the academy, may possibly have occasioned,
or at least allowed to arise.
By an extensive and laborious comparison of the quan-
tities and directions of the proper motions of the stars in
various parts of the heavens, combined with indications
afforded by the parallaxes hitherto determined, and with
the theory of universal gravitation, Professor Miidler
has arrived at the conclusion that the Pleiades form the
central group of our :whole astral or sidereal system, in•
eluding the Milky Way and all the brighter stars, but
exclusive of the more distant nebulae, and of the stars of
which those nebulae may be composed. And within this
central group itself he has been led to fix on the star
Alcyone (otherwise known by the name of Eta Tawri),
as occupying exactly or nearly the position of the centre
of gravity, and as entitled to be called the central sun.
Assuming Bessel's parallax of the star 61 Cygni, long
since remarkable for its large proper motion, to be cor-
rectly determined, Madler proceeds to form a first ap-
proximate estimate of the distance of this central body
from the planetary or solar system ; and arrives at the
(provisional) conclusion, that Alcyone is about thirty-
four million times as far removed from us, or from our
own sun, as the latter luminary is from us. It would,
therefore, according to this estimation, be at least a
million times as distant as the new planet,'of which the
theoretical or deductive discovery has been so great and
beautiful a triumph of modern astronomy, and so strik-
ing a confirmation of the law of Newton. The same
approximate determination of distance conducts to the
result that the light of the central sun occupies more
than five centuries in travelling thence to us.
The enormous orbit which our own sun, with the
earth and the other planets, is thus inferred to be de-
scribing about that distant centre—not indeed under its
influence alone, but by the combined attractions of all
the stars which are nearer to it than we are, and which
are estimated to amount to more than one hundred and
seventeen millions of masses, each equal to the total
mass of our own solar system, is supposed to require up-
wards of eighteen millions of years for its complete de-
scription, at the rate of about eight geographical miles in
every second of time.

Customs
Excise
Stamps , .......
Taxes
Property Tax .
Post-Office
Crown Lands
Miscellaneous*.

to Total Ordinary Revenue 10,350,059
China Money.... .. 392,065
Imprest Moneys, &c... I 206,007
Repayments °advances 418,545

Total Income . •• 11,356,676

Amount applied to Con-.
solidated Fund .... • • 7,273,077
Ditto, as Advances ... •. ! 380,000
Ditto, as Ways & Means
of the Year

•••• • • • 3,713,599

Total . ... • 11,366,676

Quarters ended Jan. 5.

INCOME.

Customs •• ••. • . ....
Excise ........
Stamps ...... .........
Taxes• • • • ........ ..............
Property Tax
Post-office .• .............
Crown Lands.. ..........
Miscellaneous •
China Money .....
Imprest and other Moneys • •
Repayments of Advances....

To Cash brought to this Account to be
applied to pay off Deficiency Bias..

4,354,789
3,353,440
1,792,402
1,876,050
386,985
189,000
25,000
68,612
300,859
64,084
404,179

12,815,403

200,000

13,015,400

4,514,721
3,622,151
1,740,687
1,909,899
450,219
203,000
30,000
29,657

31,884
302,449

12,834,667

12,834,667

OPENING OF THE SPANISH
CORTES.

We have received the Queen of Spain's Speech at the
opening of the Cortes, on the 31st ult., of which the fol-
lowing is a translation:—
" Gentlemen, Senators and Deputies,—
" Nothing causes me more lively satisfaction than to
find myself again in the midst of you, and again to give
myself over to the hope that your loyalty and your
every effort will be consecrated to cement the union of
the Throne with the institutions of the country, and to
continue the work of the prosperity of Spain.
"I have contracted a marriage with my august cousin,
Don Francisco d'Assis Maria de Bourbon, agreeably to
my intention announced to the preceding Cortes. I
trust that Heaven will bless this union, and that you
also, Gentlemen, will unite your prayers with mine to
Almighty God. The marriage of my beloved sister has
also taken place in the way which has been already ex-
plained to the Cortes.
" In our relations with foreign Powers no change has
taken place worthy of notice.
" Domestic tranquillity, that first need of nations, is
strengthening itself, in spite of attempts which have
been made to disturb it. lam confident that all legiti-
mate opinions, uniting themselves on the vast and free
field of our institutions, will leave without support the
factions hostile to the public peace, and will contribute
to consolidate the constitutional Government, and to
efface all traces of the troubles which have so long agi-
tated the nation.
" In order to attain that important end, I have granted
to persons implicated in those troubles as large an
amnesty as the welfare of the State permits. It is the
welfare of the State which I shall consult, at some future
time, as to the question of extending this amnesty to
those who, for weighty reasons, have been hitherto ex-
cluded from it.

The plane of this vast orbit of the sun is judged to
have an inclination of about eighty-four degrees to the
ecliptic, or to the place of the annual orbit of the earth ;
. .

and the longitude of the ascending node of the former
orbit on the latter is concluded to be nearly two hundred
and thirty-seven degrees.
The general conclusions of Midler respecting the con-
stitution of the whole system of the fixed stars, exclusive of
the distant nebulae, are the following :—He believes that
the middle is indicated by a very rich group the(Pleiades),
containing many considerable individual bodies, though
at immense distances from us. Round this he supposes
that there is a zone, proportionally poor in stars, and
then a broad, rich, ring-formed layer, followed by an in
terval comparatively devoid of stars, and afterwards by
another annular and starry space, perhaps with several
alterations of the same kind, the two outmost rings com-
posing the two parts of the Milky Way, which are con-
founded with each other by perspective in the portions
most distant from ourselves.

Professor Miidler has acknowledged in his work his
obligations, which are those of all inquirers in sidereal
astronomy, to the researches of the two Herschels, Sir
William and Sir John. The views of Sir William Her-
schel, respecting the relation of our solar system to the
Milky Way, will naturally recur to the recollection of
our readers ; and while astronomers are anxiously
awaiting the shortly-expected appearance of the com-
plete account of Sir John Herschel's Observations on
the Southern Nebulm, the following passage of a letter,
which was written in 1835 by that illustrious son of an
illustrious sire, from.the Cape of Good Hope to Sir Wil-
liam Hamilton, may be read with peculiar interest, from
the agreement between the views it expresses and some
of those to which Professor Midler has been led.
In the letter just referred to (from which an extract
was published at the time) Sir John Herschel expressed
himself as follows:

"It is a great satisfaction to me to be able to an-
nounce to you that, thanks to the peace and to the re-
forms to which former Cortes have given their support,
the national prosperity is making notable advances;
my efforts will before all things tend to extend and aug-
ment those advances, and I reckon on your co-operation
and assistance in this matter.

" The different branches of the administration of the
State have experienced great ameliorations; these are
owing to the regularity introduced in the payment of
expenses in the various offices, to the preservation of the
public peace, and to the harmony and order which the
laws recently established have introduced into the
working of the administration.

" The general aspect of the southern circumpolar re-
gion, including in that expression 60 or 70 deg. of
S. P. D., is in a high degree rich and magnificent,
owing to a superior brilliancy and larger development of
the Milky Way, which, from the constellation of Orion
to that of Antinous, is one blaze of light, strangely in-
terrupted, however, with vacant and almost starless
patches, especially in Scorpio, near a Centauri and the
cross; while to the north it fades away pale and dim,
and is in comparison hardly traceable. I think it is im-
possible to view this splendid zone, with the astonish-
ingly rich and evenly distributed fringe of stars of the
third and fourth magnitudes, which form a broad skirt
to its southern border, like a vast curtain, without an
im-
pression,
amounting to a conviction, that the Milky
Way is not a mere stratum, but an annulus; or, at least,
that our system is placed within one of the poorer and
almost vacant parts of its general mass, and that eccen-
trically, so as to be much nearer to the parts about the
cross, than to that diametrically opposed to it."—Dublin
Evening Post.

" In the organization of the army some reforms, im-
peratively demanded by the public good, have been
carried out. These reforms have brought about a con-
siderable economy in the expenditure, and it is great
subject of satisfaction to me that their introduction has
not infringed upon vested rights, nor caused any preju-
dice to the classes who compose this interesting portion
of the nation. In the matter of discipline and soldierly
behaviour the condition of the troops both by sea and
land could not be more satisfactory, and the fidelity of
all ranks is a sure guarantee that the sacred trust re-
posed to their care will be protected frosn'all dangers.
" My solicitude, and that of my Government, has not
been less with respect to the navy. For the first time
since many years the expenses of all establishments have
been covered ; considerable works and repairs have been
completed in our arsenals ; an impulse has been given to
naval construction, as well in the yards of the State as in
those of private individuals, so that the vessels of our
fleet have been available for all the purposes of the State,
as well as for the protection of our mercantile marine, the
rapid increase of which gives rise to the fondest hopes.
" The amount of the revenue is increasing, and there
is ground for hope that it will be still more considerable
when the projected alterations of the tariff have been put
in force ; my Government will notify these changes to
you in a proper form.

THE LATE FIRE AS IRONGATE WHARF.—Ru-
MOURED Loss OF LlFE.—NOtwithstandiug that five
days have elapsed since the outbreak of the destructive
fire at Irongate Wharf, a considerable portion still re-
mains in a heated state, and the firemen were still
obliged to keep discharging water upon the same. That
portion of the premises that contained property belong-
ing to Mr. Powell, the provision merchant, is perfectly
cooled, and the firemen have already succeeded in
getting out nearly 250 tierces of beef and pork in a good
condition ; they have also succeeded in saving about
150 tierces of the same sort of provision, but in a very
damaged condition. The wall at the western extremity
is in an exceedingly dangerous condition, and is ex-
pected momentarily to topple over. It is so situated that
until the ruins are cleared out in that quarter it can
neither be shored up nor pulled down. The dock com-
pany have commenced erecting a substantial wooden
hoarding round the premises, so as to prevent the
rubbish from falling into the street. Mr. Cole-
man, the occupier of the wharf, has made a
most searching inquiry, to ascertain, ifpossible, the exact
cause of the calamity. The result of that investigation
showed that the outbreak was occasioned in the manner
previously stated in this journal. One of the workmen
who had been employed on the premises, and who it:is
asserted, by his fellow-workmen, was seen on the wharf
at the time of the outbreak has not since the night been
seen or heard of. Some of the workmen state that he
was seen as late as six o'clock in the evening assisting in
extinguishing the flames, whilst others assert that he
never left the premises after the fire commenced. What
has become of the party is unknown. One thing, how-
ever, is certain, that his wife was at the ruins yesterday
morning inquiring whether any one had seen her hus-
band, as he had not been home since the morning of the
day that the fire began. During yesterday a number of
bales of canvass and sail cloths were got out, but they
were greatly damaged by fire. It has been ascertained
that a larger number of persons have lost property by
the disaster than was at one time believed, one gentle•
man belonging to Bridport, alone, has lost plate and fur-
niture to the value of 7001. The firemen no doubt
during this day will be able to get a deal of other pro-
perty from the ruins.
THE LATE ROBERT PLUMER WARD, ESQ.—
Among the numerous articles of interest left by this
deceased, as heir-looms with the family estates, there are
the following :—The pole of the royal standard of Scot-
land, taken at the battle of Musselborough, tempore
Edward VI., by the hand of Sir Ralph Sadlier, his pre-
decessor in the Standon estate ; the standard of his
father-in-law, General Sir George Anson's regiment,
23d Light Dragoons, bearing Peninsula, Talavera, Sala-
manca, and Waterloo, and other banners ; the helmet,
crest, and coat of arms of Sir John Gore, his prede-
cessor in the Gilston estate ; many original paintings,
family portraits, and of the nobility and their ancestors,
busts and engravings ; the service of plate with the
arms of the Plumer family ; and the plate at Gilston
Park ; several pedigrees, certified by Sir G. Naylcr,
Garter, connected with the family and the pedigree of
the Plumer Ward, from Charlemagne ; an intended letter
written by Mr. Pitt on his death bed, a few hours before
he expired, and when his mind was wandering—although
Mr. Pitt had torn the paper, he gave it to Sir Walter
Farquhar, desit ing he would give it to the testator, Mr.
Ward, then under secretary of state for foreign affairs.
All his printed books, not specifically disposed, he
leaves to his three grandsons, Charles, Swinburne, and
Evelyn, the sons of his son Henry George Ward ; and
leaves all other his furniture, books, busts, pictures,
plate, &c., in his several houses in Upper Brook-street,
Chesterfield-street, London, and O'Beover Hall, Stafford-
shire,&c., to his relict, who is his soleexecu thriisx.ue
for his servants. All his real estates he lias settled on
carriages,ha left liberal legacies and provisions
his son Henry G. Ward, subject to his wife's
jointure.—
Post.

" Some alterations have at the same time been intro-
duced in the subject of taxes, and the chief defects which
disfigure that system will disappear as soon as all the data,
which are now being sought for with great care, have been
collected, with a view to a just and equal apportionment
of the contributions.

" My Government will present you with the budget of
receipts and expenses for the year 1847. You there
see the ameliorations and economies which it has been
possible to make. I regret that past troubles, and the
very reforms themselves which must afterwards produce

good results, do not permit of my making at present all
the reductions which I desire.
" It has been equally impossible for my Government
to arrive at an arrangement of the public debt in virtue
of the authority given by me for that purpose. How-
ever, as I have a lively desire to satisfy the just de-
mands of the State creditors, as well domestic as foreign,
the measures which may appear most proper for arriving
at this end will be proposed to you at a fitting time.
" Agreeably to the law of the 9th of June, 1845, a
loan of 200 millions of reels (50 millions of francs) has
been contracted, destined to making new roads; the

works have partly commenced on several lines, forming
parts of the vast plan of internal communication which

my Government proposes to carry out.
" Besides the budget, other measures demanded by the
public weal will be proposed to you.
" A fixed and fitting endowment for religious pur-
poses and the clergy is a positive and urgent need, as
essential to the welfare of religion as it is for that of the
State. My Government will present you shortly with a
law on this important matter.
" Besides these, other laws will be proposed in the
course of this session--some with a view to protect the
increase of wealth by curbing the abuses which accom_
pany the first impulse of its development, others with a
view to introduce ameliorations in the different branches
'•
of the administration, and others, fi ally, With a view to
regulate the arrangements in force relative to the press
and to exceptional professions.

" It is thus, Gentlemen, Senators and Deputies, with
the aid of Providence, and while the efforts of all are
directed with courage and firmness in the pursuit of the
same aim, that the ameliorations introduced in a politi-
cal, economical, and administrative point of view will
be consolidated, that fresh ones will be introduced, and
prospe-
that, after so much agitation, peace, order, and
rity will be restored toathis,
this nation—blessings to which
her great qualities and her many virtues give her so
great a claim."

POST-OFFICE ROBBERY. - Yesterday information
was received by the metropolitan police that two letters
containing notes and bills of exchange
amounting to
2,229/. 18s. 6d. had been abstracted during transit
through the post-office, from the firm of NV S. Chee-
tham, of Nottingham, to the Commercial Bank of Scot-
land, Edinburgh. All efforts at present, either to trace
the notes or detect the guilty parties, have been un-
successful.
FREE READING-ROOMS FOR THE LAI:MUM/id
CLASSES IN THE CITY.—A society has been established,
having Lord Ashloy at its head, for " the purpose of pro-
viding free reading-rooms for the labouring classes in the
city of London.
We regret to state that Mr. IV. R. Cartwright, of
Aynhoe, the late representative of the southern:division
of the county of Northampton, expired at his residence
in that county on the 4th instant, in the seventy-sixth
year of his age.

I [DESTITUTION IN LIVERPOOL.—The parish offices
in Fenwick-street have for several weeks presented an
extraordinary scene of confusion, owing to the immense
number of applicants for relief, but yesterday the appeals
were more numerous than ever. The street was quite im-
passable. No fewer than 1,500 families, representing on an
average three persons, were yesterday relieved, of whom
probably three-fourths were Irish. The relief dispensed
during the day, up to six o'clock last night (and the dis-
tribution had then by no means ceased), was 2,300
rations of bread and 2,000 soup tickets, in addition to a
large sum in money. The burdens on the rateryers
will be immensely increased by this large outlay, but
we see no means at present of lightening the pressure.—
Liverpool Standard.

THE REVENUE FOR. THE YEAR AND QUARTER ENDING JAN UARY 5, 1847.

No. I—An Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of G
I reat Britain in
Decrease the years
each head thereoand Quarters ended sth of January, 184 G, and sth of January, 1847, showing the
Bit in
on f.

YEAR
ended
Jan. b„
1846

April 5
1846

July 5, Oct. 10, ! Jan. 5,
1846 1846 1847

YnAR
ended
Jan. 5,
1847

•
Xl£££££ £ £ I £ £ I
. 4,402,506 4,499,548 4,848,363 4,354,789 18,105,206 3,961,918 .4,523,391 5,310,835 . 4,514,721 18,310,865
1,917,485 2,965,684 3,955,106 3,338,837 12,177,112 1,626,458 3,104,711 4,181,926 i 3,608,155 12,521,250 .
. 1,742,461 1,837,076 1,780,175 1,792,402 7,152,114 1,685,808 1,730,495 1,174,364 1,740,687 6,931,414
. 145,945 2,000,567 201,279 1,876,051 4,223,842 146,142 2,006,427 209,940 1,909,899 I 4,272,408
. 1,905,711 909,991 1,823,883 386,985 5,026,570 1,963,882 1,009,162 1,972,128 450,219 5,395,391
~/ 178,000 155,000 209,000 189,000 731,000 215,000 181,000 217,000 203,000 816,000',
• 35,000 30,000 30,000 25,000 120,000 45,000 - 45,000 30,000 120,000
• 22,951 13,652 15,102 68,612 120,317 91,522 18,001 177,910 29,657 317,090
) 10,350,059 12,411,518 12,662,908 12,031,676 47,656,161 9,735,790 12,573,187 13,889,103 12,486,338 48,684,418 i
1 392,065 -.. 450,000 300,859 1,142,924 .. 440,000 227,644 .. 667,644
206,007 29,262 24,591 64,084 323,944 52,909 • 73,939 • 33,815 31,884 192,547
418,545 182,354 473,881 404,179 1,478,959 456,473 111,607
;!199,882 302,449 1,070,411 i
•1
11,366,676 12,623,134 13,811,380 12,800,798 I 50,601,988 (10,245,172 13,198,733 114,350,444 112,820,671 50,615,020 II
•
1
• 7,273,077 8,255,562 8,869,973 7,859,997 32,258,609 1 5,468,355 8,476,134 7,617,435 i 8,615,898 30,177,822 '1
380,000 101,501 550,000 615,077 1,646,578 I 140,000 91,501 472,500 837,500 1,541,501 i I
3,713,599 I 4,266,071 4,391,407 4,325,724 16,696,801 4,636,817 4,631,098 6,260,509 3,367,273 18,895 697
'
-------,
11,366,676 112,623,134 13,811,380 12,800,798 1 50,601,988 10,245,172 13,198,733
,14,350,444 12,820.671 I 50. run 09(

Year ended Jan. 5,

12,800,798 1 50,601,988
• Exclusive of

10,245,172
!hina Alone:

13,198,733 14,350,144 12,820,671 50,615,020

Customs
Excise
Stamps .
Taxes

Property Tax.
Post-office

Crown Lands
Miscellaneous

Increase. I Decrease,

Total ..
China Money
Impreq Moneys, &e.
Repamnts ofAdvne S.

205,659
344,138

220,700
48,566
368,821 I ••
85,000 j ..
196,773

1,248...957 I 220,700
1437.15:329870
•• • •
•••• I 408,548
Total

Deduct
235'925 L Decrease

13,032/

Increase

the Year.

No. ll.—lncome and Charge of the Consolidated Fund, in the Quarters ended the sth January, 1846, and the sth January, 1847

CHARGE.

Permanent Debt ... . . ..
Terminable Annuities. . ... .
Interest on Exchequer-bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund .
Sinking Fund ... .. .. . . .
The Civil List ... . . . .
Other Charges on the Consolidated Fund .....
For Advances •••••••••• ... ....

Total Charge ......

The Surplus .. •—••••

Tho Amount of Exchequer-bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ended
Oct. 10, 1846, and paid off out of the growing produce of that Fund for the Quarter ended Jan. 5, 1847,
after deducting 650,000/., paid off out of the Sinking Fund .. •• •• •• •
the Consolidated Fund for Supply Services. .. . .

159,932
269,318

33,848
63,234
14,000
5,000

The Surplus of Revenue, after providing for the Charges on the Consolidated Fund, and for the payments of
Supply Services in the Quarter ended Jan. 5, 1847

MAGAZINES—(CONTINUED).
DOUGLAS JERROLD'S.
We are sorry to see, from an announcement on the
cover of the magazine, that the writer of a " History
for Young England" has abruptly brought his labour
to a premature close. As, however, the publisher
states that this series of papers will shortly be re-pub-
lished and completed in a separate form, we hope
that the " abrupt close" alluded to only concerns the
magazine, and the world will not be deprived of this
which promised to be an excellent abridgment of
English history. The illustrations to St. Giles and
St. James are also discontinued. Of the story itself,
however, we have the 35th chapter in this number,
which thus commences :
"We will not linger with Snipeton. For why cast
away sympathy—that essence of our moral being—upon
an old, money-loving man, gulled of his youthful wife ?
Wherefore pity him, made, by the lucky boldness of
hired knavery, retained and paid by scoundrel
cowardice, the living joke of the best society, shaking
its sides at the best of clubs ? Had the miserable man
been left upon the road, with out-turned pockets, and a
medicable bruise or gash or two, why, there would have
been no jest whatever in the dull mishap ; the
robbery and the wound might have passed among
the serious things that lengthen even careless faces.
But how different the casualty I A man—an
old man—and the quintessence of the drollery lay in his
wrinkles—had been robbed of his other self ; had had
his very being rent in twain, and to think of his loss
was rarest comedy—to picture him writhing in the
agony of that forced separation was to crow with laughter.
Such was the compassion bestowed by men upon the old
money-merchant, as rumour, like a wild-goose, cackled
as she flew. Therefore, for a time, we will leave Snipe-
ton at his solitary hearth. No; not solitary. For now
the figure, the features of his wife—the run-away; yes,
there was the horror; there the burning truth that poi-
soned the wound—were multiplied about him. It would
have been some relief to the tortured—a passing breath
cooling the damned—to think that beautiful mischief the
victim of violence; but no; she had clubbed her share of
cunninz; she had played a free part in the wickedness;
she had fled from him; and he could hear her laughter
at the trick. And then those very numerals—things
that in pleasant idleness of heart he had jotted
down, as fancied guards, and retinue of wealth,
to glorify and do homage to that idol of his home—
they rose in his brain like sparks of fire, and he
howled and whined like idiotcy. And at the same time,
as we have said, there was great laughter—very great
enj,yment at the clubs."
The scene then shifts to the house of Shoveller, to
which poor Clarissa has been abducted, and Shoveller
and Crossbone are congratulating themselves on the
cleverness with which they have managed the affair
when young St. James enters. Crossbone meets
him, and St. James is scarcely able to conceal his
disgust when he learns that Clarissa has been taken
off by violence, and is at that moment a prisoner.
Seizing the key of the chamber in which she is con-
fined, he rushes up to her prison, leaving Crossbone
alone in Shoveller's parlour, where he is soon joined
by the housekeeper, Mother Daws, an ugly bunch of
an old woman, who would in days of yore have been
burned as a witch. A new story, entitled " The
Dreamer and the Worker," which will be com-
pleted in the present year, is commenced
in this number. It opens with a description
of shipwreck, which is written with great power, and
which introduces to, as we suppose, the Dreamer
and the Worker—the Dreamer being Archer, a
passenger, in the shipwrecked vessel, who keeps his post
by Miss Walton and her aged father on the deck of
the ship Wrecked vessel, and refuses to leave them ;
the Worker being Harding, a ship-carpenter, who
forms a raft, which he is about to launch, but is
restrained by Archer, who demonstrates to him that
the time for launching it is not yet come. The "Worker
takes the advice of the Dreamer, delays his launch
until the proper moment, and both Worker and
Dreamer, and Miss Walton, and her father, are saved
and hospitably received by the inhabitants of a
Welsh hamlet, near the spot where they are
cast on shore. Forty persons, however, have perished.
" Fables for Foolish Fellows" are continued ;" and
Paul Bell, in " Heads and Tails of Families," ad-
mirably satirizes the " unco gude," in the person of
Mr. Dabley, a man of substance and a pious man,
who always has " family devotions" at night, and
always occupies a handsome pew in the church on a
Sunday, but who is a domestic tyrant withal, and
makes his home such a perfect place of torment for
his children that they all quit it as soon as possible—
(the girls elope, one with a common soldier, and
another with a German adventurer)—and all turn
out badly. There are, we fear, too many Dableys
in the world. The " Pharisees of the Rail" is a
smashing philippic on the Sabbatical Directors of the
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. The following is
the concluding passage :
" But, for the present at least, the pharisaical star is
in the ascendant. They have it as yet all their own way
—these modern representatives of the mad bigots of old.
who raised their Exeter Hall.like brayings, when the
Founder of Christianity healed disease and rebuked
devils, and soothed suffering upon the Sabbath-day.
The four Scotch Popes are issuing their bulls, and ful-
minating their edicts, triumphing over the free exercise
of common sense and reason ; reviling the creeds, and
slandering the motives of all who attempt to stand by
their own rights and those of society. How long shall
their reign last ? How long shall these particular dogs
have their day ? Their overthrow is no doubt fast
coining. The sense of mankind is arming and mar-
shalling itself against them; but until the decisive mo-
ment is at hand, be content, Scotsmen, to remain what
you are—the objects of the mingled pity and derision of
the civilised world; be content to be tyrannised over by
four Railway Directors; be content to hand yourself over,
body and soul, to Blackadder and Co.; though sickness
and death smite your friends, dare not to stir—you have
spiritural dictators—crouch and obey; keep the Sabbath
as you are ordered—attempt to think or act for your-
selves at your peril—lurk in your crowded Glasgow
courts—your loathsome Edinburgh closes: the country
air—the bright sunshine of the first day of the week,
were not intended by their Creator for you; or if they
were, four Railway Directors have decided that you shall
not enjoy them!"
The best of the light papers of the present number
is a graphic sketch of London skaiters, by Angus B.
Reach, entitled " Winter in the Parks."

545,332

545,332

525,459

COMMERCIAL MAGAZINE.
In addition to the usual commercial intelligence of
the month, this number, on the " Law and Equitable
Mortgages," shows what the state of the law is at
the present time, as lail down in all the recent deci-
sions.

19,8731

51,715

38,955

90,670
300,859
32,200
101,730

525,459

Deduct
Decrease,

Increase
on the
Quarter.

Quarters ended Jan. 5.

5,660,472
628,805

5,651,250
617,473

1,314,075
98,072
423,583
615,077

445,415
98,280
338,538
873,500

8,740,084
4,275,316

13,015,400

8,024,456
4,810,211

12,834,667

77,483

3,367,273
4,810,211

1,442,93 S

1,365,455

Exeter lines, the writer likewise recommends com-
promise. We have in this number a chronicle of the
result of the past session of Parliament, as far as rail-
way matters are affected, and a prophecy of the pros-
pects of the coming session--besides lists of contracts,
&c., and the usual railway intelligence of the month.

THE MIRROR.
A new tale from the pen of Mr. Percy St. John,
entitled the " Miser's Will," is commenced in this
number. In this tale Mr. St. John has abandoned his
stronghold of America, and has laid his scene in
England, in London. His power, however, is not
diminished one jot. In the present number we have
only four chapters, but the interest of the reader is
completely excited. His descriptions are as graphic,
his characters as completely individualized, and his
reflections as philosophical in this as in any of his
preceding tales, and he is quite as much at home in
the streets of London as in the prairies of America.
In the first chapter we are introduced to a strange
and eccentric rich man, who shuts himself up in an
old house in the Borough, much after the fashion of
the Colonel in Eugene Sue's tale of " Mathilde."
In the second chapter we are introduced to the hero.
" About the middle height, certainly not more than
one-and-twenty in age—his features were naturally
handsome, though the good effect of them was much
marred, either by the effects of dissipation or of poor
and unwholesome living. His eyes, in which lurked a
hidden fire, were somewhat sunken, which with his
hollow cheeks was almost proof sufficient of his poverty,
if indeed his sudden interest in the beggar woman had
not made the supposition almost a matter of certainty,
for none sympathise with the poor so readily as those
who feel the most. His hair was black, and fell in huge
matted clustres over his shoulders, while a shabby hat,
rejoicing in a rim with no particular bias up or down,
but rising here and falling there according to fancy, was
of very material assistance in rendering his naturally
good looks of little momenta A blue Taglioni of anti-
quated fashion, in the pockets of which his gloveless
hands were thrust, plaid trousers, boots with more holes
than sole leather, completed his attire, save only a shirt-
collar of large dimensions and very yellow tinge, which
fell over a black silk handkerchief that encircled his
neck.
"Such was Frederick Wilson, student.at-law, as he
called himself, reporter as his friends denominated him,
while penny-a-linner was the highest epithet which his
enemies could ever allow him. Whatever his profession,
however, he did but little credit to it ; his whole appear-
ance was that of one whose breakfast was rare, whose
dinner was matter of irregular occurrence, and who, if
he ever supped, did so at intervals of very great extent."
Wilson renders a service to a young girl, who is
going home alone, is by her introduced to her mother,
a Mrs. Cartwright, and it is evident that before they
part Wilson and Miss Cartwright are in love. An
apothecary, with whom the Cartwrights' lodge, waylays
Wilson, in order to pump him, and they adjourn to-
gether to a night tavern in St. Giles's, where the
author leaves them. There is one retrospective chap-
ter, detailing the revenge of a husband upon his sup-
posed unfaithful wife, and with this adventure we
imagine that the Cartwrights and the mysterious
man in the Borough are concerned. This tale is illus-
trated by several wood- cuts. " The Eagle's Nest
is
continued, and we have several other light and amusing
tales. Among the papers of more permanent value
are an article on " Education in Greece,' in which
free use has been made of the valuable and excellent
work of Mr. J. A. St. John, on the "Manners and
Customs of Ancient Greece." A "Memoir of General
Demetrius Kalerges," one of the liberators of Greece ;
and a review of "Lewis's History of Philosophy,"
in which we are glad to find' the reviewer taking up
the cudgels in behalf of Locke against Victor Cousin,
and Whewell. As to Victor Cousin, the reviewer
describes him accurately, when he says, " he is a bad
reasoner, and a bad writer, a faithless translator,
and a disengenuous commentator ;" while the self-
sufficient, vain, dandy philosopher of Trin. Coll.,
Cam., having first mis-apprehended and mis-stated
Locke's meaning, applies himself vigorously to
the refutation of his own mistake. Pro-
fessor Whewell does very well as stage manager of
the British Association, but no superficial man should
venture to meddle with Locke. The Mirror im-
proves month by month. This is the best number
that has yet been published.

SPIERS' UNIVERSAL ALMANACK and BOOK
of GENERAL REFERENCE for 1847.
The title of this book is an accurate description of
its contents. It is an universal almanack and book
of general reference, and contains every species of in
formation that those who refer to an almanack can
expect or desire in such a publication.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—Her Majesty walked this fore
noon on the Eastern Terrace of the Castle, attended by
the Lady in Waiting the Marchioness of Doure.
The Bishop of Oxford left the Castle to-day.
His Excellency M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian Mi
ter, and Madame Van de Weyer, are expected to
ve at the Castle to-day on a visit to her Majesty.
The Royal dinner party at the Castle this evening
will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
their Excellencies Mons. and Madame Van de Weyer,
his Excellency the Baron de Brunnow, the Lady in
Waiting of the Duchess of Kent, the Baroness de Speth,
and Sir Robert and Lady Peel.
The band of the Firot Regiment of Life Guards will
attend during dinner. Her Majesty's private band will
afterwards attend in the Castle.

The Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday.
The Commissioners for the Reduction of the National
Debt had a quarterly meeting yesterday, at the official
residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Down-
ing-street. The Governor of the Bank of England and
the Deputy-Governor attended. Mr. Higham, Comp-
troller- General, was in attendance.
The ratification of a treaty of commerce and naviga-
tion, .negotiated and signed at Athens by Mr. P. Del-
gauni, Councillor of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs to
his Majesty the King of Greece, and Dr. Patrick Col-
quhoun, Hanseatic Plenipotentiary at Athens, were
exchanged on the 15th ultimo, in London, by Mr. Ralli.
Consul-General of his Hellenic Majesty, and Dr. Patrick
Colquhoun, on the part of the 'Venerable Senate of
Bremen.

Mr. C. K. Murray had an interview with Sir George
Grey yesterday, at the Home-office.
Lord Monteagle had an interview with Lord John
Russell yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-
street.

The Judges and her Majesty's Counsel will not meet
at the Lord Chancellor's residence on the first day of
the ensuing term.
Lord and Lady Alan Churchill have left Farrance's
hotel for Blenheim.

HAIRDRESSERS' ASSOCIATION FOR . THE EARLY
CLOSING OF Snors.—A preparatory meetibg was held at
the Bcdford Head, Bloomsbury, last evening, for the
purpose forming of an association for the earlier closing
of
hairdressers' shtpa in London, when a series of
resolutions having this object in view were agreed to.
It appears that this class of tradesmen are in the habit
of keeping their shops open until a late hour, especially
on Saturday nights, and the subject of discussion was
the practicability of their being closed earlier both in
the
been winter and summer months (suet] a practice having
pursued in Glasgow and other large towns with
success), and thus enabling the numezous journeymen
and apprentices in this business to have time for recreation
and the acquirement of general knowledge. It was
understood that a public meeting on a larger scale, with
the view of carrying out the objects of the association,
would shortly be held.
COALS AND NEWCASTLE.--On Monday last, a leg
of Mutton and a half-crown were run for by a party of
skaters, sixteen in number, on Port Holme Meadow.
The leg of mutton was one by Mr. W. Clark, butcher,
and the half-crown by Mr. C. Jacob, juu., harness
maker.--Bedford Mercury.

i £ s. d.
East London.... —•• • • 8L 100 0 0
Grand Junction .... • • 31. 103. 41 13 4 I
Kent .... ••••—• • • • • • 2/. 10s. 100 0 0 1 '—
Vauxhall ... ... .•• • • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 —
West 311ddlese . . . Si. ss. pr cut. 63 12 9 ' —.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.
From the London New price Current of January 5.)

SVGAR.—Business in the raw Sugar market was resumed
this day. Merchants displayed much firmness, and refused to
sell, excepting at prices is per cwt above those that prevailed
prior to the holidays. The trade were desirous to operate, and
in both grocery and refining sorts a good business was trans-
acted, the dealers evidently having allowei their stocks to get
to a low ebb. The quantity sold in the private market
amounted to 660 hbds and tierces, and there was but a
small and indifferent assortment. At public sale 152 hhds
of Barbadoes went off with spirit at a rise on the rates of the
last auction of 6d to is per cwt. The market closes with a
firm aspect for all kinds of raw Sugar.
REFINED.—To-day refined goods were in excellent request
by the home trade, and prices were firm—brown grocery
lumps at 645, and standard lumps at 65s per cwt. Bonded
Crushed Sugar is wanted, and first sort is selling at 33s 6d to
. 33s 9d per cwt.
MAIIILITIES.—This afternoon the quantity submitted to
public competition was large, and amounted to 6,775 bags,
and 211 casks, the chief part of which consisted of the better
qualities of yellow. The trade were willing to operate, and
the whole sold at prices showing a rise on those of the last
auctions of 6d to Is per cwt.
.EAST I: usu.—For Bengal the market has an improving
appearance. By private contract to day several parcels
were disposed of ; and at public sale 550 bags of white
Benares went 6d per cwt. higher. Madras was in excellent
request; and 5,821 bags at public sale, all out of condition,
sold at a rise on former rates of is per cwt.
FOREIGN.—A good demand existed to-day for all sorts of
foreign sugar for home consumption by private treaty, and
rather higher rates were paid. The export orders are, how-
ever, still small; but for the sorts available for that purpose
only: holders refuse to submit to any further reduction in
price. A fair demand exists for refining under bond.
MoeassEs.—Prices cannot be quoted higher for West India
at present, but the demand has been brisker, and 22s to 26s
per cwt is the value of low to fine quality.
COFFEE.—This afternoon Native Ceylon met with less ate
tension, and the parcels offered at auction, amounting to
1,824 bags, were taken in. Holders remained firm, and in-
sisted upon former improved rates. Mocha has been in good
demand privately, and prices are on the advance for clean
sorts.
RlCE.—Bengal met with increased attention, and a further
advance has taken place in the value: extensive purchases
have been made privately, and the rates paid are 2s to 2s 6d
per cwt above those that prevailed two weeks back ; the
whole on offer has been cleared off the market, indeed, the
stock is nearly all in second hands.
SPIRITS.—The market has an improving appearance for
all descriptions of Jamaica Rum,: a good demand having
Prevailed from the home trade, and exporters operated with
more freedom ; the rates paid have been above those pre-
viously current. Leeward Island Rum has been in excel-
lent request ; the supply at market is at present small, and
prices are improving. East India has been in good
demand, and the rates paid are rather above those
previously current. Demerara of strong quality
been sold to a fair extent, and at stiffer prices.
For Brandy a brisk demand has sprung up,
chiefly for ho_nse
consumption, and prices have improved for all
sorts.ue_
Ge-
neva met with a much better demand, and prices advanced
to 2s 7d to 2s 8d for common s
the demand is active, and supplies being
6d for fine for home consumption.
distillers to
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gether with the high hippiFnogrsoßritist'isahn dCo3rns Spirits2d to
3s
but moderate, to-
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Spirits being now Ils 9d, Sc
advance the price of all desoctrciptinonndsyrte quh,ioitsa
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goodl, business transacted in Seal
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buyers are compelled to pay
stiffer
Cod has been only in limited request, and
and .
rates. d having There a small
having a better supply there are sellers upon rather lower
terms. Southern is wanted, and owing to the limited supply
a further advance in the value took place. For Olive the
demand has been brisk, and advanced rates given. Palm
met with ready buyers, and holders are very firm. Cocoa
Nut is in scanty supply, and being much wanted, prices are
rising. In Rape Seed Oil a good deal has been donewnel at
better prices. For Linseed Oil prices have not impoved,
there being still a plentiful supply, but the home demand has
been good.
nut:isle—There has been a brisle demand for Russian on
the spot, and the rates paid have been rather above those
previously current. For forward delivery there has been
little passing. Home-made has been in excellent request.
In other sorts of Tallow a good business has been done at full
rates.

ANOTHER SINGING MOUSE.—In our journal of
May 4, 1844, we recorded the capture of a singing mouse,
which was exhibited at the Exchange public-house,
Charlton ; and we have now to record that a similar
lulus naturre has been caught at the residence of a
labouring man named Samuelson, living in Strond-lane,
Dover. It appears that the family have for the past
three months heard a chirping behind the fire-place,
which was supposed to be from a cricket. The gude
wife, however, one evening saw a mouse run into a hole,
and at night set up a lire trap, and iu the morning was
much surprised at hearing a singing noise proceeding
from the trap in which the mouse was caught. It was
than transferred to a more roomy cage, and has since
daily amused numbers who have been to visit this musical
benius, which at times sings very loud, and much like a
ird. The animal is very similar to the common mouse,
except that the tail is much longer, and the head smaller,
with very sharp eyes.—Dover Telegraph.