The Sun.
London, England, 1840-02-11 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The preparations at St. J_lrnes's Palave for the cere-
mony of Her Alljesty's nuptials commenced at an early
hour yesterday morning. •

At nine o'clock the-doors far admission of spectators
were opened, and at halt past ten o'clock but few seats re•
mained unoccupied either in Queen Anne's Room the
Presence Clamber, the Gutrd Chamber, the Low Gal-
lery, or in the Colonnade ; the ladies and gentlemen who
filled the seats all appearing in full dress, the ladies without
plumes. Qacen Anne's Room was occupied principally by
the Nobility and Gentry. Among•those present were the
Marquis of Anglesey, the Countess of Jersey, Viscount
Villiers, Countess of Verulem, Viscount and Vi countess
Mahon, Lady and Mica Peel, Lady Fitzroy Somerset, Lady
Georgiana Bathurst; Earl Da la Warr, Earl of Sheffield,
the Lords Lennox, Lady Dover and Lord Dover, Lady
Theresa Lister, Hon. C. C. Cavendish, Lord Ossulton,
Lord Edward Howard, Baron Lebzeltern, and several
Attaches to the Foreign Embassies in their respective
costumes. By means of the arrangement of different co-
loured tickets-the spectators were admitted to the different
rooms with the greatest regularity.
Her Majesty's Hon. Corps of G ntlemen at- Arms
lined the side of Queen Anne's Room opposite the tem-
porary erection, end were also stationed in the Presence
Chamber. The Corps were commanded by their Lieute-
nant, the Hem Edward Butler.

The Yeomen of the Guard were on duty in their Coro-
nation coaturne in the Guard Chamber. Sir Edwin Pearson,
Lieutenant of the Yeomen of the Guard, Mr. James Bunce
Curling, Clelk of the Cheque of the Honourable Corps of
Gentlemen at Arms, Sir Benjamin Sm th, and the Exons
of the Yeoman Guard xere also present.
(For the remainder of the prceeedings see another part
of The Sun )

PRINCE GEORGE OF CAMBRIDGE.—The lot-
h-awing most ridiculous paragraph is making the grand tour
of the newspapers:—" Prince George of Cambridge has been
appointed to a supernumerary Lieutenant-Colonelcy in the
12th or Prince of Wales's Royal Lancers, and is to take r,,nk
between Lieutenant-Colonel Stawell and Major Barton. Two
rooms over the officer's mess-room in Preston barracks have
been fitted up for his Royal Highness, who is expected to join
the regiment on Saturday sc'nnight. Should the brevet-rank
of Major-General be conferred on Lieutenant-Colonel Stawell
at the approaching Royal marriage, which, it is said, is not at
all improbable, the command of this fine regiment will at once
devolve upon the Prince."—Sussex Pap:T. Anything more
utterly absurd or preposterous can hardly be conceived. In the firs)
place, it is wholly impossible that any officer, haling the rank of
Lieutenant-Colonel in the army, should be promoted to the
rank of Major-General without having previou4 obtained the
intermediate step of full Colonel. In the second, it is a self-
evident absurdity to suppose that the command of the 12th
Lancers would devolve upon Prince George of Cambridge
should Colonel Stilwell be removed by brevet. In the event
of the Gallant Colonel's promotion by such means, Brevet
Lieutenant-Colone IBarton, who has been Major of the Regi-
ment for the last sixteen years, and who already holds superior
army rank, would succeed to the vacancy, and net Prince
George, who holds no commission whatever in the corps, but is
at present attached to it with no other view than that Of' be-
coming acquainted with the drill and duties of a cavalry officer.
There are few more estimable officers in the service than
Colonel (not Lieutenant-Colonel) Stawell, whose merits fully
entitle him to every mark of distinction which his Sovereign
may please to confer upon him., But any one possessing the
most superficial knowledge of military aftairs must be aw are
that the Colonel, being almost the junior of his rank, stands no
chance of being affected by the anticipants! brevet, or the next,
or the next to that. It is to be lamented that journals so well-
informed on most other topics as the Tintes should glean their
military information from prints that know so little of the affairs
of which they prate as the Sussex Ilhiminatus, whose: betise
has given occasion for these remarks.— United Service. Gazette.
A TERRIBLE ROBBER•CIIIEF.—in the course
of the fourteenth century robbery was the prevailing vice, not
only in Britain, but in all_ the nations of Europe. These
pests of society were often formed into comp:it-des under the
protection of powerful barons, who hat boured them in their
castles, and shared with them in their spoils. The choracter
which one of their chiefs wore embroidered upon his coat in
letters of silver, might, with justice, have been g'yen to many
others—" I am Captain Warner, Commander of a troop of
robbers ; an enemy to GA, without pity, and without mercy.'
—Mirror.
SUNDERLAND.—Intense interest prevails here,
in relation to the Chartist cause. Lange meetings have been
held on the evenings of Friday, Saturday, and Tuesday. On
Symclov afternoon the largest meeting, on such an occasion we
ever witnessed, assembled beside the Life Boat House, which
was addressed in a most effective manner by 31r. Binns, who
was then appointed a delegate to the Convention. The sincere
earnestness which the working men 'of Sunderland have re-
cently evinced by their spontaneous gatherings, their handsome
and surprising liberality, has completely astounded their Whig
and Tory t..wnsmen, who begin to cry out these Chartists are
astonishing fellows !—Noriltern Liberator.
The late landslip near Lyme offers some very
curious phenomena to the geologist, both in land and out at sea,
ridge has been
where, at a • •
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bdyisttahniscecofnroviunlstihone sohfonraet,uara.new solid

HIGH CHURCH INTOLERANCE

(From the Lancaster Guardian.)
About a fortnight ago the wife of Thomas Sleter of
Browcdge, near Backbarrow, came to the Rev. B.
M'Hugh, the Roman Catholic priest of Uiverstone, re-
questing him to attend her husband, then on his death-
bed, and to administer to him the rites of his rePgion.
This summons the Rev. Gentleman obeyed, Thomas
Slater being a Catholic and one of his own congrega-
tion. The poor man died not many days after he received
the consolations of religion, and, although his wife had
been a Protestant, she ordered a. note to be written to
the aforesaid Rev, Gentleman to infer m him of her hus-
band's death, and requesting him to attend on Sunday
in the afternoon to perform the religious service for the
burial of the dead, &e. As soon as Mr. IVY hluah ar-
rived at the house about three o'clock in the--: -;fter-
noon of Sunday last, be found it surrounded by a crowd
of persons, some of them of suspicious appearance, and
the conduct of one or two showed soon after that they
acted the part of savage barbarians, rather than that of
Christian mourners. Having got the certificate of death
he was proceeding to perform the funeral service, but a
sudden rush was made into the house, calling on Mr.
M'Hugh to give up the certificate,—that he had no
right to it,—that it belonged to the parson, and that no
other service but the parson's would do, &c. &c. Before
he commenced the service he remonstrated with them,
read the certificate, showing them that by law he had a
right to it, and that he could not perform the service lie
was required to do without it, else he must submit to a
penalty of 101. He appealed to the wife of the de..
ceased to state to them, and decide whether he (Mr.
Nl' Hugh) or the parson was required to perform the
service. She answered openly before them all thit the
Catholic priest, and none other was required. This had
the effect of reducing them to more decency and order,
with the exception of two individuals. The first is a
fellow of the name of Fell, who is a sort of a servant
or labourer to Parson Bigland of Finste td, where the
body was to be interred. This Ned Fell, or rather this
fell Ned, threatened that if the Popish priest would per-
severe in performing the service, and in not giving up
the certificate for his master, the body should not be
interred at all, for he would take back the bier and the
pall, as be had orders so to do. He was as good as
his word, for as soon as Mr. M'Hugh commenced the
service, he ran away with the bier and pall to his master
at Finsteld, . which is three miles distant from the
place. Alter the service was finished, it was truly
heart-rending to witness the distress of the afflicted
widow, when informed that the undertaker refused to
take the remains of her husband to the usual burying
ground in consequence of what happened. And this
man, if he deserves the name, had the ertsel barbarity
to tell the poor woman to her face that he would not
take him to the ground, but would screw him up, dig a
hole in the garden, and put him in it, or, if she was
not satisfied with that, he would throw him into the
water. Such was the humanity with which a desolate
female was treated by these brutal savages.
One Protestant neighbour couhi bear the heart-
rending seene no longer. I Vies.° his name is Kirby.
He retired from the house of mourning with lacerated
feelings and swimming eyes, mounted his horse, and g
loped off to the parson to supplicate his Reverence for
theesake of humanity to send his man Ned back with
the bier and pall. The prayer of the petition was
granted, but on certain conditions, viz.—First, that the
dead body should read his• recantation, and renounce
the errors of the Church of Rome by having the Pro-
testant funeral service read over' it ; secondly, that he
himself should receive the inanimate Popish convert
into the bosom of the Church by la,v established ; and
thirdly, that some living subjects should pay him for
performing the service done to the dead convert.
Before the petitioner returned with this gracious an-
swer, the night approaching, another plan was sug-
gasted ; viz., that the corpse might be removed with-
out the bier and pall, which had been taken away
by the parson s man, by getting it put into a cart, and
that, surely, if it were brought to the ground, his
Reverence would not leave it unburied. A cart was
accordingly procured, the coffin placed in it, in an in- •
clined direction, with two men holding it in the cart, to
prevent it from falling out. The funeral then at length
set out, but with very indecent speed, as it' was getting
dark at that time, with three or four miles to go. It
was met about half-way by the man Ned, with the bier
and pail, but it was then too late to be of any service.
On their arrival at the ground, the Parson meets them,
the wife and aunt of the deceased remind him that :bey
had already sent him Word that the deceased had lived
and died a Catholic, and that the funeral service had
already been performed by his own pastor, that. they
did not want his services, and hoped that he would not
force it on them against their will, &c.
He commenced some service, however, but as the
afflicted widow repeated her expostulation, he at length
gave over, omitting the remainder of the service, but
there was one part of his duty that he did not omit or
forget, viz., to demand from the poor widow the suns
of four shillings and sixpence. This sum, she assured
him, that she was Lot able to pay ; and that, although
she had sold several articles in order to bury her hus-
band decently, she had then only three shillings left ;
that he might have that if he insisted, but it would
leave her without either money or a bit of anything
for herself and children. He consented to take the
three shillings as an instulment, with a promise to pay
one shilling and sixpence more at the earliest possible
moment, for the Church is a privileged creditor.. and
takes precedence of all others.

It is unnecessary to add a
,sinor,le word of comment
upon the pree:ding statement of facts.

THE NEW NOVEL " COUSIN GEOFFREY,"
ED/TED BY THEODORE HOW:, ESQ.—We are requested to
state that the new novel under the title of " Cousin Geoffrey,
the Old Bachelor," edited by Theodore Hook Esq., author of
" Jack Brack,"&c. (in 3 vols., with a portrait of Mr. Hook),
is published this day, by Mr. Bentley, 'New Burlington-street,
and can now be had at all the libraries, and of all booksellers.
It would appear by the following anecdote re-
lated by Russell, in his History of the Ancient Liberties and
Privileges of the Cinque Ports, that Winchilsea has ever been
notorious for containing within its walls one talented magis-
trate.—" A story is related of a Mayor of Winchilsea. who,
having a letter delivered to him whilst thatching a hay stack,
(he being a thatcher by profession) the letter being upon Cor-
poration business, and requiring an imme.liate answer, his Wor-
ship began to break the seal, and peruse the contents ; but, un-
fortunately, never having been to school, he mistook the bottom
for the top of the letter. The bearer of the letter apprising
him of this circumstance, his Worship retorted on the presemp-
tion that he should dictate to a Mayor in what manner he should
please to read his letters." A ma, was brought before another
Mayor of the same place, charged with stealing a sadd'e. His
Worship consulted Burn's Justice, and then addressed the pri-
soner in the following strain .—" It's a very, lucky thing for
you, my man, that it was not a horse you stole instead of the
saddle ; for Burn says, that stealing a horse renders a man
liable to transportation for life ; but he says nothing about the
'addle, so you may go your way, and had better not let me see
your face again."—Dover Chronicle.
Two LUCKY DISCOVERIES--Not many days
go the masters of an establishment. situated in a large inane-
acturing town not fifty miles west from Glasgow, gave a ball
and :upper to their workmen, with their wives and sweethearts.
As might have been expected, almost every man was present
with his partner. There was one poor fellow, however. who e
better half had taken a whim against bath balls and supper s that
night, which his eloquence could no' overcome, and he went to
the ball alone ; but, after a few hours hopelessly spent in an
attempt to amuse himself like the rest, he resolved that since
his wife would nit keep him company at the ball, he would go
home and keep her company in bed. On arriving at his own
door, and after a little knocking he gut admittance ; but there
his presence was anything but welcome. His rib was in bed,
but she had twenty faults to find at his early arrival ; he, how-
ever, resolved to go bed. There might be sleep in a storm, but
there was no sleep for him. "Could he not have stayed away?"
Could he not go back ?"—.." What had brought him home ?"
were kept up in his ears in one continuei grumble, when, to his
relief, and that of his discontented bedfellow, a p.irty of his
shopmates came rapping to the door, requesting
.him to join
them in an adjournment, which being warmly seconded by his
wife, up he got and went along with theni. After enjoying
himself in a public-house with his companions for some time,
the reckoning was called, and our hero put his hand in his poc-
ket -for his share, when to his astonishment he felt a parcel of
papers; he pulled them out—it was a bundle of notes. He put
his hand in the other pocket; he pulled out its contents, when,
with still greater astonishment, he found there a quantity of
sovereigns. The lucky fellow, as well as his companion=, were
utterly amazed at the mysterious appearance of so moc'lf
tree-
sure. lie cast h himself
ais eyes to his nether man—he found imt%
dressed in the inexpressible, of a stranger. This explained
whole business, and up he got vowing vengeance. Ills friends
however, advised him rather to pocket the money and the at
front, which he did, and now he is on his way across the Atlan-
tic, leaving his imprudent helpmate and her paramour bath to
regret their lose. This lucky fellow
rnay be said to have got
damages without the verdict of a Jury Glasgow Chronicle.
TIIE STATE PRISOSERS.— We
have good
reasons for pronouncing the decision of her Majesty's Govern-
ment in favour of mercy, to have been wise as well as benevo-
lent; and if some of those fiery spirits, whose vindictive feel-
ings towards the misguided Chartists can be quenched only: in
blood, had been permitted to have their own way, they would
probably have wished, when too late that their prudence had
mitigated the:r zeal. We forbear going into this subject to the
extent of either our knowledge or surmises; but should the
murmurings, and angry regrets, which are row uttered in com-
parative privacy, by men, who, we thank God, are not oar
rulers, find vent in a more public manner. through the con,
genialorgan of what is so grossly rais•named Conservatism, it
will Lccome our duty to show up. the evil spirit of these pa, tics,
at the same that we demonstrate to them the dependence of
their own safety on the very act of mercy which they depre-
cate. The physical-force Chartists are more effectually dis-
armed by this suspension of the hangman's detestable office at
Monmouth, than they could have been by a legion of Jack
Ketches in frill action, or by a standing army of rural police,
compassing them about with espionage and coercion.-- Welsh-
man.
HORACE VERNET.--We learn from Bevruth
that NI. Horace Vernet was stopping, at the beginning of last
month, with Soliman Pacha, at Seyde. Ile was afterwards to
go to the field of Nezib, to make sketches of the battle.

LAST DAYS OF LORD CHATHAM.

Lord Chatham came Into' the House of Lords,
leaning upon two friends wrapped up in flannel, pale
and emaciated. Within his large wig little more was to
b seen than his aquiline nose, and his penetrating eye.
He looked like a dying man ; yet never vas seen a
figure of more dignity : he ap2eared like a being of
a superior species.
When the Duke of Richmond had ceased speaking,
C'eatha:n rose to reply ; his appearance is thus graphi-
cally described :-
11e. rose from his seat with slow:oss and difficulty,
lcanih on his crutches, and supported under each arm
by
,hip t,ko friends. He took one hand. from his
crutc'i and raised it, casting his eyes towar•ls hearen,
and said, " I thank God that I have been enabled to
come here this day —to perform my duty, and
to speak on a suhj'ct which has so deeply im-
pressed my mind. I am old and infirm—have one
foot, more than one foot, in the grave—l am risen
from my bed, to stand up in the cause of my country.
—perhaps never again to speak in this House."
The reverence the attention the stillness of
the House was most affecting ; if any one had
dropped a handkerchief, the noise would have been
heard. At first he spoke io a very low and feeble tone ;
but as be grew warm his voice rose, and was as harmo-
nious as ever : oratorical and affecting, perisaps more
than at any former period, both from his -own situation
and from the importance of the subject on which he spoke.
Only an imperfect sketch of this great speech has
been preserved to us. This is said to have been the
tenour of the concluding portion :
My Lords, I rejoice that the grave has not closed
upon me ; th it I am still alive to lift up my voice
against the dismemberment of this ancient and most
noble monarchs ! Pressed down as lam by the hand
of infirmity, I. am little able to assist my country in
this most perilous conjuncture ; but my Lords, while I
have sense and memory, I will never consent to
deprive the royal off;pring of the House of Brunswick,
the heirs of the Princess Sophia, of their fairest in-
heritance. Where is the man that will dare to advise
such a measure ? My Lords, his Majesty succeeded to
an empire as great in extent as its reputation was un-
sulliefd. Shall we tarnish the lustre of this, nation by
an ignominious surrender of its rights and fairest pos-
sessons ? Shall this great kingdom, that has survived
whole nod entire the Danish depredations, the Scottish
inroads, and the Norman Conquest ; that has stood the
threatened invasion of the Spanish Armada, nowfall pros-
trate before the House of Bourbon? Surely, my Lords,
this nation is no longer what it was! Shall a people that
fifteen years ago was the terror of the world, now stoop
so low as to tell its ancient inveterate enemy, " Take
all ws have, only give U 3 peacz ?" It is impossible! I
wage war with no man, or set of men. I wish for
none of their employments ; nor would I co-operate
with men who still persist in unretracted error ; or
who, instead of acting on a firm decisive line of con-
fillet, halt between two opinions, where there is no
middle path. In God's name, if it is absolutely neces-
sary to declare either for peace
_or war, and the former
canclot be preserved with honour, why is not the
latter commeuced without hesitation ? I am not, I
confess, well informed of the resources of this king-
dom, but I trust it has still sufficient to maintain its
just rights, though I know theM not. But, my Lords,
any state is better than despair. Let us at least make
one effort ; and, if we must fall, let us fall like men !
After the Duke of Richmond had been heard in reply,
Chatham rose to answer him, but his strength failed him
and he fell backwards

He was instantly supported by those who were near
him, and every one pressed round him with anxious soli-
citude. His youngest son, the Hon. Jimes Pitt, was
particularly active and clever in assisting his venerable
father, though the youth was not more than 17 or 18
years of age. Lord Chatham was carried to Mr. Sar-
gent's house, in Dawning-street, where he was accommo-
dated with every kind and friendly attention, both at this
time and on a preceding day, when he. had attended the
House of Lords, scene weeks before. From thence he
was carried home to Hayes, and put to that bed from
which he never again rose. His. death, therefore, may
be truly said to have taken place in the House of Lords,
in the discharge of a great public duty-ti duty which he
came in a dying state to perform
He died on the llth of May following, being within
five months of completing his-seventieth year.;—
On the evening of that day, colonel Barre, with the
strongest marks of the most profound concern and grief,
communicated to the House of Commons the
intelli-
gence of the death of Cie .Earl of Chatham, and moved
an.addreas to the King, to give directions that the re-
m:.ins of that great statesman might be interred at the
public expense. The Onpesition received the sugges-
tion with joy, and Mr:Dunning proposed that the fah
lowing words should be tacked to the original motion
" And that a monument be erected in the Collegiate
Church of St. Peter's, Westminster, to the memory of
that excellent statesman, with an inscription expressive
of the public sense of so great and irreparable a ions ;
and to assure his Maj?sty that, this House will rn:•ke
good the rxp:mses attending the same." At this in-
stant Lord North, who ha l gone home, entered the
House in great haste. He declared his happiness in
arriving time enough to dre hi‘ vote for the motion,
which he hoped would pass unanimously ; and la-
Mented that he had not breath enough, from the hurry
in which he came down, to express himself with that
degree -of res:yet which •he wished to show on so great
an occasion. Tha amended motion was carried without
a dissentient voice.

On the 13th, Lord John Cavendish expressed a
hope that the public gratitude would not stop at what
it had done. The great statesman, he said, *hose loss
the country would long have reason to deplore, had dis-
tinguished himself as much by his disinterestedness as
by his zeal and ability in his country's service ; the con-
sequencd of this exemplary virtue was., that with the
greatest opportunities of acquifing. an ample fcrtune, he
had left kis family destitute of all suitable provision : he
trusted the House would take their case into its consi-
deration, and not suffer the descendants of that great
man, to whom the country was indebted' for so much
of its glory, to remain in such a situation. Lord North
fell in with the sentiments of the Noble Lord, in a
manner that did him honour ; and the whole House
seemel to participate of a general pleasure in their ap-
probation of them. An address was accordingly moved
by Mr. Thomas Townsend, beseeching the King to
snake such a lasting provision for the family of the late
Earl as his Majesty should think fit, as a mark of the
sense, the nation entertained of the services done to the
kingdom by that able statesman. Mr. Fox and Mr.
Burke both paid their tribute to the memory of the
man, who, they said, had raised his country's glory to
an unrivalled pitch.

Lord Nugent applied to the deceased patriot the liocs
address-:d by Pope to the uncle of the Countess of
Chatham—

" And you, brave Cobham, to the latest breath,
Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death;
Such in those moments, as in all the past,
Oh, sava ray country, Heaven l' shall be your last !"
and instanced his dying advice to his son, Lord Pitt,
who was about to join his regiment at Gioraltar :
" Go, my son l go whither your country calls you ; let
her engross all your attention ; spare not a moment,
which is due- to her service, in weeping over an old man,
who will soon be no more." The motion was unani-
mously :Ig:et d to ; and on the 20th, his Majesty hav-
ing complied with the prayer of the address, a Bill was
brought in for settling an annuity of four thousand
pounds upon the heirs of Lord Chatham to whom the
title should descend. These marks of national gratitude
were followed by a grant of twenty thousand pounds,
for the payment of the debts incu•red by Lard Chat-
ham The Annuity Bill passed through all its atages,
in the House of Commons, without opposition._
Correspondence qf Chatham. .

SINECURE LIVINGS.—TIiere are twelve sine-
cure rectories in the diocese of St. Asaph returned to the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners, the aggregate amount of the
income is 3,863/. ; averaging 322/. per annum. If the holders
of 'these livings would take the lien. William Cleaver, the
sinecure Rector of Llanfair, Merioucthshire, as an example,
they would render essential services to the community, and give
srarcth,ng by way of " Quid prod quo." The Reverend
Gentleman alluded to, has built a very commodious school, with
a house for the master, in the village of Llanfair. In a hamlet,
three miles frau' the parish church, 1 e has erected, entirely at
his own expense, a very neat church, which will seat four hun-
dred and fifty people ; a very compact house for the minister,
to whim he allows 100/. per annum, and it is understood that
he has arranged with the commission( rs to perpetuate the
grant. He has also at this place built a school, with a house
for the master ; thus a sinecure rectory is turtle 1 into a good
account, for out of the income of 304/. Mr. Cleaver pays the
minister, and two schoolmasters 1801. a-year ; he gives to the
poor of the parish at least 201. annually, besides the outlay of
about 2,0001. in building. But the building of schools, al-
though strictly conducted on Church of England principles, is
now considered as so much money laid out "not for ecclesiasti-
cal purposes;" and, consequently, as mi:applying the revenues
or the establishment. Would to heaven ! there were more such
.‘ Church-robbers" as the Rev. William Cleaves. " Read,
mark, learn, and inwardly &gest," eleven remaining Sinecure
Rectors ! Carr:tar:lien I:era.id.
DIsCCUNTs.—We are enabled to state that the
rate of discount at al the Belfast Banks on Irish paper has been
reduced to live per cent. per annum ; the some reduction en
English bills having taken place some time since.
SUITS OF LAW.—.No less than two hundred
and thirty-eight suits have been brought against the grocers of
Dublin by an individual who alleges ,that he has acted as: their
agent for a considerable time, and who brings those "suits for
compensation for alle4ed services rendered. The first of them
is to be tried at Wicklow during the ensuing assizes.

LIVEKVOO.L
AND GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAYS.

_
It is with pleasur_ we refer to the flourishing state
of these two lines. Our last contains the It-port of
the Liverpool and Manchester—the first, we believe,
that was published—and our present that of the Grand
Junction. On the former, a dividend at the rate of
10 per cent. per annum, and on the latter a similar
dividend at the rate of 14, was declared, besides large
surpluses in both cases in hand. •

In the Liverpool and Manchester Repart a subject
has been broached, fur the first time, we believe, of the
utmost importance to Railways, and such, therefore, as
we might expect would occupy the attentkn of the
able men who manage that concern. A comparison has
been instituted between the receipts and disbursementi
on the two lines when reduced to as nearly as possible
the same circumstances, and it has been found
that the disbursements, which amount to 43 per
cent. of the receipts on the Birmingham line, amount
to only 331 on the Liverpool and Manchester. The
near approximation of these two numbers on lines of
such unequal length, where all contingencies ought to
operate in favour of the Birmingham, demonstrates the
care and economy of the Liverpool and Manchester
executive.

But the real value oF these comparisons rises vastly
hi,;,her in the scale of usefulness than merely proving
economy. By pursuing it out in various fines, and
observing their different plans of working, we shall, at
length, arrive at what may be called the standard of
maximum economy,Which will be a landmark for future
Directors, and a test to the shareholders whether their
executives are competent. and honest.- We receive the
hint with pleasure, and hope to profit by it.
For the first time we perceive a tolerably full and
explicit publication of the accounts of the Grand
Junction Company. We congratulate the Company
upon it. Our readers will remember the repeated ob-
servations made in the former series of the Railway
Magazine on the non-publication of the accounts of
this Company. We are glad to find they have had
their effect. No Company, in the hands of honourable
and honest men, can for a moment ,refuse to lay open
their accounts. Concealment always wears the impress
of dishonesty ; and whether deserving it or not, men
will denounce those who strive to hide or mystify their
deeds. If a Company is prosperous, why hide anything,
unless there are furtive:designs? If it is unprosperous,
it is a stronger reason for showing the shareholders the
state of the concern, that they may take proper measures
for abandoning or benefiting it.
It appears by the Report that the total expenditure
is 47i per cent. of-•the gross receipts. We find, from
the figures given; Iliat the locomotive power is 11 per
cent, of the grogs--receipts, excluding the three last
items ; the coke, sii; the maintenance of way, 41 ;
the office, direction; engineering, and salaries together,
1.8 per cent. of the said gross receipts. The toll paid
to the Liverpool and Manchester Company for 31
miles is nearly 6 per cent. of the same receipts. Had
the Company, therefore, had to run their whole length
upon a foreign line, the toll would have been. about 19
per cent, of the gross receipts, which, added to 17 per
cent. for locomotives and coke, about one for the direc-
tion, and 15 for the coaching and merchandise depart-
ments, would make about 52, or say, including all con-
tingencies, 54 per cent. of the gross receipts.
Here is an extraordinary fact, highly to the credit
of the Liverpool and Manchester Company for their
moderate tolls, and most important to branch lines ;
naraely, that without any other capital than that for
locomotives, carriages, and staticns, the Company run-
ning upon another line than their own might have
divided 43 per cent, of their enormous receipts for this
one half-year. Now, it appears that the capital e►r.-
ployed for the carrying establishment is 217,227/. Let
us, then, suppose for stations and all it amounts to
500,0001., which is about one fourth of what the line
has and will cost. Then it follows, that upon a half-
million of capital the Company-would realize every half-
year a profit of 104,500/. or near 21 per cent., or 42
per cent: per annum

„
We present the Companies with these corn-
putations which, though • made in a hurry,
will, we hope, be found substantially corn ct
--and the hints we have thrown out. If they
do not apply them it is not our fault. For such lines
as the Harwich, Thames Haven, and others which run
upon foreign lines, they may be turned to good account,
it the directors arc prudent and skilful.
By the same Report we find that, exclusive of coke
and locomotives, the coaching disbursements are 12.9
per cent. ; the live stock 21 per cent. ; and the mer-
ch mdize above 2.8 per cent. of their respective receipts.
It might here be inferred that the carrying of live stock
and merchandise is more profitable than that of the
passengers ; but this would be an erroneous conclusion,
inasmuch, as there is a large portion of the disburse-
ments under the head of coaching, which, if the line
d:d not carry passengers. would be thrown on these
items. All that can fai,ly be deduced is, that the extra
expense of adding Eve stock and merchandise to light
trains is execedin,ly small, and, of course, so far very
p tab; e.—Rail way Magazine.
Seeing the profits are so enormous,'would it not be
better to lower the fares ? The proprietors can well afford
to make tit,• charges less, and we believe in that case
both they and the public would be benefited.___L En Sun.l

CONSTAN TINA.

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THE following is an account of the warlil e. tribes
which infest the. French troops in Africa, and almost
besiege Algiers. The land of Mazula, which lies to
the east of La Calle, (says a recent writer,) is inhabited
by an independent Arab tribe. In the mountains' be-
yond Sephusa and Mafragg dwell the agricultural tribes.
of Merdes and Beni Salah ; in this part of the country
the Beys of Constantine possessed considerable pro-,
perty, which they farmed to a number of Arabs, who
had abandoned the neighbou, hood of Algiers, upon the
French taking possession of Bana. To the west of the
latter town, a number of Barbary tribes inhabit the
mountains of Eduzh, and the districts bordering on Stora
and Dshidshel or Gigel : one of these tribes speaks Arabic,
and consists almost wholly of Marabouts. Budshia,
which produces oil, honey, and wax, is in this province :
the inhabitants are Barbers, a race of brave and deter-
mined warriors, whom Leo Africanus says cou'd in his
time muster forty thousand foot, and four thousand
horse. The Kabyles are located about the mountains
of Deshordshora or Jurjura, and the Iron Gate, a defile
leading from the valley of Muse to that of Abshebbi.
The most powerful tribe among them, the Beni Abessi,
can bring five thousand loot, nod three hundrhd horse
into the field, and have a manufactory of ara.s in
.Calle
their capital. Ascending the valley of Aduse, we
enter the country of the Beni Messaud tribe, which
lies directly eastof Budshia : it is inhabited by several
tribes of Kabylk.who can bring twenty thousand
men under arms. 'Whenever one or more of these
tribes (says P!',.'ssier); are about to begin a
campaign, they ;,„411y elect a common leader ; for
ail important ess among them is brought
under tip decision(nf it General Assembly ; in fact, no
form of government can be more completely republican
than that which prevails among the Kabyles. They.
are of the Mahometan faith, into which they have iu.
troduced many fetish superstitions, and most of their
villages are provided with mosques and schools. Among
the numerous tribes that inhabit the country, between
the Deshordshora mountains and Constantin 1, the most
powerful and turbulent is that of Beni B 'Caleb,
who dwell in the mountains south of Sifteh.
sides a multitude of Kabyle tribes, who inhabit the
highlands and low:ands south of Constantine, is the
powerful tribe of Welleb Abnedor. To the south-east
of Constantina are the Girfahs, the Henneishahs, and
the Welled Brahams.—Mirror.

W. G. C.

The oats in the counties of Pembroke and Car.
divan this year are very scarce, and a great many of the inn-
keepers are destitute of beans. The contrary winds having
prevented their at rival from Bristol, those who have a supply
are selling them at an immense profit—not less than 16s. the
bushel as the retail price.
_THE CA SE IS ALTERED !—Two years ago,
thirteen cargoes of corn were exported from Solva to Bristol
and Liverpool. This season the farmers in that neighbour.
hood have no wheat or barley to sell, but are obliged to import
foreign flour and corn.

LIVERPOOL UNION BANK. Tne annual
meeting of the proprietors of this concern was held on Wedne3-
thy last, at the Clarendon-rooms, Thomas Redick, Esq. in
the chair. The report stated the gratifying fact, that dur-
ing a period of unexampled difficulty the Bank has not only
maintained its ground, but has continued steadily to increase
its profits. The paid-up capital is 260,4501., held by 348
shareholders. On Dec. 31, 1833, the reserved surplus fund was
0,000/. The net profits for the year 1839, were 28,904/.145.3d.
Two dividends of 5 per cent. each have been declared, amount-
ing to 26,045/. ; and the present reserved surplus fund is
61,500/. J. A. Turner and John Miller, Esqrs., the Direc-
tors who retired by rotation, were re-elected. The sum of
500/. was voted to the Bill Committee, as a testimonial of
respect for the manner in which they have discharged their
arduous duties. The sum of one hundred guineas was also
voted to Mr. Lister, the manager, and Mr. Baird, the sub-
manager, for the purchase of two pieces of plate, as testi-
monials of the estimation in which their services are held.
The report and proc 'edings appeared to give the highest satis-
faction to the shareholders present,—Liverpool Chronicle.
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, FEB. 7.—Suars
continue in good demand at very firm pricer. Our own market
is still unusually bare of samples.—Mercury.
A gentleman, named Mackay, vows his deter-
mination to prove that he has not used treasonable langua e
towards the Queen, by prosecuting the Hampshi Id-
re n epe ,
dent, in which " Truth" made the charge.

_,LzscultAL COURT.

OLD COURT.
Thomis Rees ShelArcl and C'harles RtekaFiy were
indicted for obtaining, by false pretence; the sum of
501., from Willi Ana idT'Co ell.

Messrs. Phillips and Bodkin conducted the prosecu-
tion, which was instituted by the London and Birming-
ham Railway Company. Messrs. Prendergast and
Clarkson defended the prisoners.
It will be recollected that the false pretence by which
the prison trs obtained the maney was, that they would
obtain for M'Cowe!l a situat'on upon the Company's
railway. After the case had proceeded some length,
the prisoners consented to withdraw their plea of Not
Guilty, and to plead Guilty to the indictment.
The RECORDER flea sentenced the defendants to
t,selve months' imprisonment and har.l labour, and di-
rected that each of them should pay a fine of 501. to the
Queen, and be further confined until the fines were
paid. The Learned Recorder at the same time said
that the prosecutor, M'Cowell, had been most shame-
fully duped, and he should recommend in the proper
quarter that one of the flies of 501. should bc handed
over to him when it was receis ed. lle also observed
that the Company had acted very properly in carrying
out the prosecution, and he should recommend that the
other 50/. go towards the expense of that prosecution.
William Lomeli. the Custom-house officer who was
convicted on Tuesday under circumstances that did not
admi of being detailed, was brought up to receive judg,-
mcnt.

The defendant, who is upwards of sixty years of age,
and very respectably connected, implored the Court to
pass a lenient sentence upon him, for the sake of his
wife and family.
The RECORDER said that while the Court could not
help feeling for the sufferings of his innocent fam;l7,-yet
it could not lose sight of the fact that the very cir-
cumstance was an aggravation of his offence. The
charge which had been substantiated against-
him was of a character which it was impos-
sible for the Court to regard otherwise than as a most
heinous offence, and his age and situation in life were
a;gravations of the crime he had committed, and it
wou;d be holdinc.r, out a most dangerous example to the
world if such an offence were passed over without severe
punishment. The Recorder then sentenced him to be
imprisoned for twelve months in the Penitentiary at
Mill bank.

The jutigment upon Thomas Spicer, who was con- ,
victed last week of perjury, was respited until the
next session.

The Court then adjourned to March 2.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE,
(LLOYD'S.)

DOVER, FEB port, the Andes, China ; Isabel, Medhurat, from St. Michael's, with loss of bulwarks, sails' &c. duringa heavy gale from S. to N. IV., on the 4th, sth,
and 6th inst.
BEACH V-HEAD, FEB. 7.—Off port, the King William;
Thomas, from Ceylon.
IlAsmros, FEB. 9.—Off port, the Waterwitch, Robert-
son. from B ircelona.
COIK. FEB. 6.—Arrived the Triton, Scomae, from
St. Domingo; Eglintouo, Evans, from St. John's,:New
Bruaswiek, both with loss of bulwarks, &c.
DUBLIN, FEB. G.—Sailed the Lady Leitrim, Clements.
for Antigua.
CLYDE, FEB. 9.—Arrived the Henry, Hinny, from St]
John's, New Brunswick.
DEAL, FEB. B.—Wind SV-9—W, S. W.—Arrived the
Beatrice, Young, from Demerara ; British Queen, Dud-
ney, St. Johtes; New Brunswick ; Vernon, Leddersdale,
Madeira ; Pelons, China ; Apprentice, Rogers, Singa-
pore. Put back.—Superior, Downing, St. Jago de Cuba.
LIVERPOOL, B—Wind W. S. W.-9—W. fresh breezes.
—Arrived the Echo, Crawell, from New Orleans, with
loss of sails ; Coriolanus, Wells, and Vandalie, Souli,
Savannah ; Berwick, Harberg, ditto ; St. Lawrence,
Charleston ; Elizaheth, Swan, ditto; Camilla, Franka,
Si. Michael's; Venus, M•Danald, Valoa.raiso ; Hereford.
Reulmm, Cuba ; Albree, Whitner, New Orleans ; John:
Cumming, Stager, Savannah ; Brooklyn, Richardson,
Charleston; El'za Warwick, Davies, ditto; Marion, Par-
sons, Apalarieholi ; Ruthalk, York; Lege!, St. John 'e,
New Brunswick, with lois• of spire, stile, Sc'e., and Mary
Bibby, Walker, and Majestic, with loss of foretopmast„
&e and the Indefatigable Sister.
SOUTHAIMPTON, FEB. 9.—Arrived the Peace, Bloomfield,
from St. Michael's.
JERSEY, FEB 6 —Arrived Pearl, Earle, Ancona. /
BRISTOL, FEE. 9.—Arrived, the Alliance, Founder,
from St. Michael's.
MILFORD, FEB. 7.—Arrived. the Lady Wright, Wright;
from St. Michael's, with loss of sails, &c.
FLVMIUTII, FEB. 9 —Arrived, her Majesty's ship In-
Constant, from Barbadoes.
FALMOUTH, FE„ 9. Arrived, the Lyra packet, from
the Brazils, with 10,000/. specie on freight on merchant's
acc aunt.

• - Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade,
Whitehall, Feb. 8, 1840.
Sta—l am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade to acquaint you, for the information of the
merchants engaged in the Baltic trade, that all veii•els bound
from Great Britain to Danish ports, and conveying- certificatm
from the superintendents of the quarantine establishments at
Standgate Creek and Ali:ford Haven, will be treated on the
sari c footing as ships proceeding from place to place; there are
regular establishments for the performance of quarantine, re-
cozncted to state thized by the Sat anatory Laws of Denmark. lam further
dire to
a:riving from Great Britain in the
Baltic parts of Russia with cargoes of cotton, or other enu-
merated or suspected articles on boar d producing a cer-
tifictte from the officers of the quarantinesat Standgt.te Creek
or I%lWe:a Haven, that such goods have been purified at one of
the above-mentioned stations, will also be required to procure
a separate attestation to that effect, on the quarantine pass from.
the Danish Quarantine Board. I am, Sir, your obedient
servant,
DENIS LE MARCHANT.
The Chairman of Lloyd's.

THE REPEAL OF TIIE CORN-LAWS.-A
quisition to the Mayor, requesting him to call a Public
Meeting, to consider the propriety of petitioning Parliament for
a repeal of the Corn-laws is now in course of signature. We
have good reason to balieve that the meeting will be held in the
ccurse of the ensuing week,--Preston 0!)sel rer.

LADY'S GOLD—NECK CHAINS
may be selected from of several patterns, price, w.ight of four
sovereigns, Five Guineas ; weight of five sovereigns, Six
Guineas : weight of six sovereigns, Seven Guineas. The
weight is given by comparison with the ueight of s
b..ing more easily referred to than if stated in
ounces and dwts. The quality of the Gold is warranted equal to any that is workel
into articles of this description.
T. Cox SAVORY,
Goldsmith, Silversmith, Watchmaker, &c., 47,
(Seven Doors from Gracechurcb-street), London.Cornhil
•
N.B. Drawings will be forwarded post free, if application be
made post paid.

SILVER PLATE of LONDON AIANUFAC-
TURE.--A. B. SAVORY and SONS, Working Gold-
smiths, 14, Cornhill, London, opposite the Bank of England.
The best wrought SILVER SPOONS and FORKS, Fiddle
Pattern, 75. 2d. per ounce; the King's Pattern, 7e.
4d. per
ounc. The following are the weights recommended, but the
articles may be had lighter or heavier at the same price per ounce.
oz. s. d. £. s. it.
12 Futile Pattern Silyer Table Spoons 30 at 7 2... le 15 8
12 ditto Dessert ditto.. ......... 2O 7 2... 73 4
1 ditto
1
able Forks 3O 7 2... 10 IA 8
12 ditto Dessert ditto ' 20 7 2... 73 4
2 ditto Gravy Spoons
1 ditto Soup Ladle lO 7 2... 311 8
4 Tito Sauce ditto lO 7 P... 310 tt.
4 ditto Salt Spoons (gilt •.stron. g) I 0
0 1 ditto Fish S'jcc ...
12 ditto Tea Spoons
................. 7 8 8 16 8
I pair ditto Sugar Tongs (strong)... ...............
12 12 King's Pattein Silver Table sp:,ons... ........... •,,at 7 4 l4 13 4
ditto D,ss...rt ditt, ............... 26 74_0 I I 3
12 ditto Tal) e Forks .. ...... 40 7414 13 4
12 (I;tt i Dessert ditt0........"
........... 23 i 4
2 ditto Gravy•Sirtons 'tt, 74 4 8 ti,
1 ditto S nip Ladle ............. ... 12 74 4 8 0
4 ditto Satre ditto ~....... ....... 12 7104 14 0
4 ditto Salt Spools (strong gilt) ...............
1 ditto Fish .Slice ........................... ,
12 ditto Tea Spoons .............. 11710 5 V 8
1 p.ir ditto Sugar 'rungs
N.B. A Price Current, Stamped as a Newspaper, contain-
ing drawings, and every information relative to the purchase of
silver or SheJleld plate, may be had on application, or will be
sent into the country, free of postage, in answer to a paid letter.

B IR TI! .7.
On the 2d inst., at Oriental-place, Brighton, the lady of
Brewster Thomas Seabrook, Esq., of a danzhter, still born.
On the 4th inst., in Montagu-square, the lady of William
Smith, Esq., of a (laughter.
On the
Ray. Char 4t
esh
Hebert inst., ,
aof t a
the
son. Grove, Clapham, the lady of the
l
_._._..___________ On the 4th inst., the lady of Abraham George Roberts, Esq.,
of a son.

•
On the 30th ult., sty the Independent Chael, Nets-rt
P.lgnell, Mr. James W. Sampson, of Great Chesteprford, Essepox,
to Caroline, youngest daughter of Mr.
f irme.r pace. Charles Redden, of the
On the 29th ult., at Bitton Church, William hart, Es.
q. , or
the Hon. East India Company's Civil Service, youngest son of
the late General Hart, of R ilderry, Donegal, to Frances Anne,
fourth daughter of Edward Frere, Esq., of Bitton, Glocester—
shire.

Diki).
On the 30th ult. Alexander Cumming, Esq., of Logic, North
Britain, Hon. East India. Company's Ber gal Civil Service.
On the 3d inst., at Bury St. Edmund's, Mrs. Anne Broom-
field, aged Sl.
On the filst nit., in Clarges-street, Mayfair, Esther, the wife
of Dr. Adolphus, Inspector-General of Army Hospitals, aged 46.
-.On the 31st ult., Philip
q., of William Thomas, FsHigh
burv-grove, aged 81.
On the Ist inst., in Compton-street, Soho, Mrs. Mary Clap
perton, aged 85.
On the Ist inst., at New Broad-street, Martha Dyer, widow
aged 54.
On the 3d inst., at St. John's-wood. Charles Joseph Wilks,
eldest son of the Rev. Samuel Charles Wilks, aged 19.
............—_,

London: Printed and Published by AIURDO YOUNG
No. 112, Strand, at. The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand in the
cornty of Middlesex.— .Tuesday, February 11, 1840.