The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-29 00:00:00

TIIE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, DECI4:I‘4IIEII 2918t6.

ing a firm conviction that a deep plot has been laid
by members of the Established Church for the re-
establishment of Popery in these lands, and that
the late furious outcry against Mr. O'CoNNELL
and the Irish Priests was but the treacherous and
delusive cry of " stop thief," raised by the great
criminals themselves.

THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.)

TEA MARKET..
There was a fair amount of business transacted in free
trade, and former rates were fully supported. Company's
Congou in request at 2s Id per lb, cash.
TALLOW MARKET.
There was a fair demand for Russian Tallow on the
spot, and prices were firm at 47s 6d to 475 9i per cwt.
The stock is 5,000 casks larger than in 1839.
WHITECHAPEL HAY-MARKET.
The supply was middling, the demand pretty fair, prices
unaltered. Clover from 41. to 61. ; Meadow Hay 31. to
; Straw 32,. to 345.

There is little of any interest in the French
Journals of Sunday. A belief in the report that
Count MOLE was prepared to re-enter the Cabi-
net as President of the Council and Minister of
Foreign Affairs, was gaining ground in the politi-
cal circles of Paris. It was likewise stated that
M. THIERS would take office as Minister of the
Interior, and that a cline alliance with Russia
would be one of the main objects to be achieved
by the new Ministry. We cannot give any cre-
dence to the report of a coalition so unnatural as
that of an union between MM. MOLE and
Minas. However persuaded M. MOLE may
feel of his ability to steer the vessel of the State
safely through the breakers that now surround her,
we feel something approaching to a conviction
that M. TmEtts is one of the last men in France
whose assistance he would accept in the perform-
ance of such a service.

LLO YD'S SHIPPING,(TIIIS DAY.)

LONDON, Dec. 29.—Wind this day at noon. Light
north-westerly airs, with sharp frost.
DEAL, Dec. 28.—Wind S.E , variable. Sailed the
George IV., Ward, for Calcutta.
LIVERPOOL, Dec. 28.—Wind S. E.—Sailed the Adras-
tus, Hughes, for Singapore ; Lintin, Gillman, Winbay ;
Conte Caa.ar, Biasole, Rio Janeiro ; Sir H. Parnull,
Crocket, Cuba ; Michigan, Sturges, New Orleans. The
Osprey, bound to Bombay,
bas put bsck from Belfast,
Lough, and Bcaumaris, in coming in this morning got on
the Burho, but came off on the flood, without apparent
damage.
PLYSIOUTI4, DEC. 28.--Wind, E• S. E•—Sailed her
Nl,jetty's ship Inconstant, for a cruise, with supplies for
the homeward-bound. The Pladda, M' Pherson, from
Cardiff to this port got on the Batten Point yesterday,
but came off on the flood without damttge•
FaLsrocrit, Dec. 27.—Wind, E. to N.E.—The
William and Maria, Drewett, from Cork to London, and
the" Pomona, Csyle, from Dublin to London, got hi con
tact;off Scilly,' 18th inst. The former sunk, crew, except
the mate, saved.
KINSALE, DEC. 25.—The Venbni, from Newport to
Milford, was fallen in with off Cape Clear, 22d inst., in a
sinking state. Crw saved by the Ace of Trumps—ar-
rived here. _ _ .

The Abbe de LAMENNAIS was condemned on
Saturday, to one year's- imprisonment, and a fine
of two thousand francs, for writing a pamphlet
addressed to the working classes, and .stigmatized
as seditious by the Government. We shall give a
report of this trial to• morrow, as it is one in which
the working classes here may be expected to take
a lively interest.
France is resolved to punish with rigour the in-
sult offered to the French Consul at Tangier. The
first division of the Levant squadron, consisting of
six ships of the line, were prepating to sail for the
coast of Africa, with instructions tither to obtain
instant reparation, or to wreak vengeance upon
the subjects of the Emperot of MOROCCO who
approved of the conduct of the Governor of
Tangier. The following brief account of the
origin of this dispute is from the Marseilles
Senwiphore
_ .

CROOKHAVEN, DEC. 23. —Arrivcd the Isabel, Cape
from Laguna, with less of boats, bulwarks, and part of
cargo thrown overboard.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEIV!.:..

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MONDAY.—We haw,
had a good demand ;or Cotton to-day, and extreme
rates have been obtained. For,A.ruerican descriptions
the sales are about 6,000 bags, of which 500 Ameri-
cans and 500 Surats have been taken on speculation
We quote 1,000 Surats nt 4id. to 5.1. ; 150 Pernams
80. to 9J. ; 100 Bahias 80. to Sid. ; 50 Egyptians
WV. to 103 d.
LIVERPOOL SHARE LisT, DEC. 28.—Grand Junc-
tion Quarter Shares, 52 ; Lancaster and Preston, 25 ;
London and Birmingham 321. shares, 491 ; Quarter
Shares, 271 ; Bank of Liverpool, 20u ; Commercial of
Liverpool, 18.

The French Consul at Morocco menaced the Governor
of Mogadere with the resentment of France if he did not
liberate the Spahis who had been in the French service
at Algiers. The Governor, as a reply, threw him into
prison and loaded him with chairs. The only Frenchman
in Mogadore, besides the Consul, were M. Fos and his
nephew. They all went together to the Governor, who
refused to satisfy their demands. The French Consul
then declared all relations between France and Morceco
at an end, and placed himself and his compatriots under
the protection of the British Consul. On their exit from
the presenoe of the Gorcraor, the crowd rushed on the
Consul and M. Foa, beat them, maltreated them, and
tore their clothes. They escaped with their lives by a
miracle. M. Foa wanted them to quit Mogadore, but
was forbidden to embark. He had been confined already
eight-and-twenty days, when the Emperor's order arrived,
which was to expel the French and their proteives alto-
gether. This answer came and was executed on the 16th
of November. M. Foa left immediately for Palma on
board a Spanish vessel.

It appears by accounts from the Woodstock Tin►cs
in the American papers lately received, that the Ame-
rican Commissioners have been active in prosecuting
their researches ; they have explored nearly the whole
extent of the country between Woodstock and St.
Lawrence, which is represented as a most desolate and
b irren region—nothing bat bogs, lakes, and marshes,
with some broken and irregular ridges of highlands,
covered with a stunted growth of moss clad trees, after
leaving St. John's some fifteen or twenty miles. The
parties that went up the Kennebeck and Penoboscot,
have likewise reported, thus completing the whole Ame-
rica?, survey with the exception of running the meridiAn
by lunar observations, now going on under the direction
of Major Graham.

I\l. THIERS was unanimously elected a member
of the Institute of Floral and Political Sciences on

Saturday.
The funds have experienced a decline of 1 franc. The
aneouncement made by the Monileur Parisian of the in-
tention to propose a loan, on Tuesdae, to the Chamber of
Deputies, is sl.oubtless the cause ; but the decline Of the
English funds created some sensation. The fact is, that
the language of the English press becomes daily more
hostile. It pities M. Guizot for being compelled by
public opinion in France to keep up the armaments, but
at the same time clearly intimates that it will be difficult
to maintain peace.
The German journals hold the same language, " An
armed poem is intended, say they, but in this state of
things the arming is a fact, and peace is only a word which
may cease at the French order."
The Augsbury Gazette says clearly that the armaments
of Germany arc not made solely with a view to France,
but likewise to the possibility of an alliance between
Preece and Reside, the sanction of which would be a
new territorial arrangement at the expense of Germany.
It was also reported on 'Change, that, besides the 16
million 3 per cents., M. Humann would propose the
creation of 5 per cent. to the amount of seven millions,
in order to satisfy the taste of al patties. It is not with-
cut great repugnance that M. Humann has entered on
this course. In vain has the Messager denied his inten-
tion to resign. It would be easy to sly to what importu-
nities the Minister has yielded in remaining in office. The
following just observation is said to have been made by M.
Humann, that he does not understand an incessant increase
of the army, and of the expenses attes ding it, when the
head of tho Government is resolved not to make war in any
case.—Le Commerce.
M. de Rambuteau, the Prefect of the department of the
Seine, gave an account, on Saturday, to the Chamber of
Commerce of Paris, of the revenue and expenditure of the
Capital, of its works, embellishments, schools, swing-
banks, consumption, hospitals, &c., during the Erst eleven
months of 1840. As compared with 1839, there was a
falling-off in the proceeds of the octroi of 351,709 francs,
and of 3,598,000 in the amount of foreign exports de-
clared at the customhouse, and which exceeded
124,000,000 francs during the first ten months of 1839.
The presumed receipts for 1840 will amount to
49,000,000 francs, in which the octroi figures for
30,653,000 francs, and the expenditure to 45,077,000
francs. The number of failures, as compared with 1839,
had decreased by 166. The consumption of Paris during
these eleven months is set down in the Prefect's report at
65,597 oxen, 18,839 cows, and 394,256 sheep, which pre-
sents an overplus of 1,746 oxen, 1,916
.cows, and 44,335
sheep, as compared with the corresponding period of 1839.
The Prefecture of Police and Municipal Guard cost
the city 6,295,0001. ; the National Guard, 935,000 r. ;
primary instruction, 971,000 f. ; the hospitals and charitable
establishments, 5,563,0001., &c.
On Saturday :he sailors of the Belle Poule frigate, and
corvette Favorite, who accompanied to Paris the remains
of the Emperor Napoleon, marched from the military
school, having at their head the Prince de Juinville, who
brought them to the hall of the Marshals. The King
having repaired thither, accompanied by the Queen, the
Princesses of the Royal Family, the Dukes de Nemours
and Aumale, and Admiral Duperrc, Minister of Marine,
passed before the frost of the sailors, who saluted his Ma-
jesty with cries of " Vivc le Roi." His Majesty then
placed himself in the centre, and addressed them as
follows :
" My dear comrades, my dear seamen, the weather hav-
ing prevented me from reviewing you as I intended, I es-
sembled you here to express to you all my satisfaction at
the conduct of the crews of the Belle Pouie and Favourite
in the mission which you have just accomplished. I
wished you to escort, as far as the capital, the body of
the Emperor Napoleon, which I feel happy at having re-
stored to France, and it is with pleasure I sieze this op-
portunity of manifesting to you the affection I bear to the
navy. I gave you a pledge of it very dear to my heart in
placing my son in its ranks, and I was impatient to tell
you how gratified I feel by the confidence and affection
which he inspires in you. To whatever clime or shores
your duties towards the country shall lead you, you will
always find him ready to share in your danger, and sup-
port with you the honour of the French name and glory
of our flag.
" Now, my dear Admiral," said the King, addressing
the Minister of Marine, " have the goodness to point out
the brave seamen who have obtained the cross of the Le-
gion of Honour, that I may have the satisfaction of giving
it to them myself."
The Admiral having called out Gosselin, first twister
steersman of the Belle Poule, Bonnet, second master de
manmuvre of that vessel, Pons, captain of arms of the
Favorite, and Hallot, a sailor of the Belle Poule, they suc-
-1 eessively received the cross from the hands of the King.
The Prince de Joinville then drew up his men, who defiled
before the Royal. Family, and left the Palace.
Abbe Coquercau, who accompanied the remains of
Napoleon from St. Helena to Paris, was also appointed
member of the Legion of Honour.
DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, DEC. 25.
Money. Bin..
actual Debt, 2% per Cent
.)ittn, ditto 5 per cent.
Minn!. S,ndic,•lN, percent BS 81,1,
Ditto, ditto, :I}4 per cent 7l 714
Commercial ConTany, 4,,5i Fcr cent 10,4 L,` Sf
Ditto (MIS and 1837) 5 per cent.
Loan 0337, 5 per cant. :OA 94X,
Exchange on London, One month lii 0
Two months ..... ... 11 t,7%
Dutch Papers, Dec. 24.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Dec. 18
Five per Cents. Bletalliques lo6tfi
Four per Cents. ON,
Three per Cents. .,.».„....»....„., 50%
Bank Shares .... ..... ... ..... .......••••••. •
—.4llgemesne Zcitung, Dee. 23 """"*"."'""
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GRAND REFORM BANQUET AT LEEDS.—We learn
from the Leeds Times that the preparations for cele-
brating a Grand Reform Festival at Leeds on the 20:h
and 21st of January, arc making sapid progress. It is
to take place in a new mill belonging to Messrs. Mar-
shall and Sons,, which is said to be the most magnificent
mill in existence. A portion of it only is fitted up for
the banquet, and in this portion 8,000 persons can be
seated. Tickets for that number arc to be issued.
Before the festival, probably this week or the next, Mr.
Roebuck is to deliver another lecture on some branch
of political science. Our northern countrymen have
taken to the subject of further Reform by Household
Suffrage, Triennial Parliaments, &c., with great earnest-
, ness and zeal, and they are determined to have a
I splendid banquet as an augury of the splendid success
they are resolved to achieve.

On Sunday morning flatnes were seen in the
body of the itif.,-,..n.!fieort c 7. of G;7:9tbkirn, ..-71;ic!!
I,),.tu,iately put out with trifling injury to Ow iabi ie. Toe
fire originated from the heating cf the flue to redness,
which ignited an adjlining pew.--Lincoln Chronicle.

COURT CIRCULAR,

tress:ng an opinion that anything that could be done would
be of no avail, as deceased was dying. In a few minutes
afteregede life was extinct.—Mr. Wakley said he hai no
doubt the deceaten's death was occasioned by disease of
the heart, which was now fearfully prevalent, and which
air einnent physician bad recently told him was the cause
of ninety-five sudden deaths out of :I hiendred. Verdict—
" Natural death." The deceased officer was Colonel of
the 45th Regiment, had served under the Du!'o or Wel-
lington in the Peninsular war, and had distinguished him-
cif in various engagements. lie had been nearly I,4tY
years in the army.
THE ELEVENTH HUSSARS.—Captain Vivian
has contradicted the statement that he had made an appli-
cation to exchange, or be removed from the I I th Hussars.
THE WEATIIER--TIIE PARKS.--The frost,
which set in on the 13th inst., and has now lasted sixteen
days, still continues without any indications of an ap-
proaching change, 'The thermometer, which, at six
o'clock on Saturday evening, stood at 28 degrees, was at
midnight at 26 degrees. At six o'eleck on Sundaylmorn-
ing it had risen to '29 degrees, and at noon to 33, but at six
o'clock in the evening the mercury had fa!len to freezing
point (32 degrees), aid at midnight to 30 degiwes. Yer-
t(srdny morning, at six o'clock, 0 was 23 degrees, and at
noon 31 degrees. but in the evening it had again falls'' to
28 degrees. Daring Sunday the atmosphere was rem'
heavy, and the whirl north-east, and yesterday was also
hazy, with an easterly wind, although at intervals the sky
slightly cleared, when the upper tier of, clouds were ob
served to come f-ora the S.E. by S., whils the lower scud
passed from the N. E.
DESCRIPTION OF A PRIME MINISTER.—Tne
result of all Dean Swift's ecute observation and experience
is exhausted in his description of a Prime Minister in the
voyage to Brobdignag. A stronger satire upon those
with :thorn he wee in the habits of daily infmecy cannot
be conceived. Ile says " I told him (the King) that the
first or chief Minister of State was a creature wholly ex.
Mr. Dease, the fellow-traveller 01 the Unfortunate cmpted from joy and grief, lave and hatred, pity and an-
Mr. Simpson, one of the discoverers of the north. nest r;r at least makes use of no other passions but a violent
passage, is at present on a visit at Springfield house, desire of wealth, power, and titles ; that he applies his
near Forres, the residence of John Stuart, Esq __Elgin words to all uses except to the indication of his mind ;
Courant. that he Lever tells a truth but with intent you should
MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE FROM THE DE- take it for a lie, nor a lie but with this design, that you
le:Essen STATE OF TRADE.—It is seldom our duty to re- should take it for a truth, and those he speaks worst of be-
late a more distressing case of mental depression, or de- hind their hacks arc in the turest way of preferment ; and
spondeney, than the following, which happened on the whenever he begins to praise you to others, or to yeureelf,
night of Wednesday last. A man, named S:arkie, resid- you are from that day forlorn. The worst mark you can
ing in No. 4, Economy-place, Biackstock-smeet, has list- require is a promise, especially when it is cord-Irma with
eei ly been much reduced in circumstances, but rather than an oath, after which every wise man retires, and gives over
'throw himself on the parish, has been struggling for a all hopes."
trifling subsistence for some time past in the capacity of a FROZEN STATE OF THE THANIES.-041
labourer; for the last few weeks, however, he has net Father Thames has, at present, a very remarkable appear•
been able to obtain any employment, and hae, conse. ante from the large masebs of ice fleeting upon his bosom,
qucntly been deprived of shelter, and literally starving ; end the vast accumulations at particular points present
nis despondency gradually increased up to the night above serious threatenings of severe and long-continued frost.
mentioned, when he determined to destroy himself by The temporary, or floating piers, that have been formed
poison, rather than linger by such slow degrees from starv- at various stations, particularly above London-bridge, con-
ation ; and, had it not been for the immediate attendance sisting of barges 1-shed to each other, for the accommode-
and active treatment of Mr. George Longbottom, sur- Lion of passengers to embark arid debark from the several
won, who resides in the neighbourhood, there is no doubt .team-boats that ply between the bridges, and as tar as
but the result would have been fatal.—Liverpool ellercery Vauxhall and Chelsea, have presented dangerous interrup-
DUNFERNILINE—MURDER OF ONE CHILD, tions to the floating masses of ice, especially in the bend of
AND AN ATTEMPT ON ANOTHEit —Thirteen weeks ago, a the river near flungerfonl-market, and by the shallows
child of George Shupson, a respectable iehabit int of th:s near Westminster-bridge. There have bean for several
town, took ill one forenoon, and died before two o'clock. days past, at those portions of the Thames, collecting, by
The child was n girl of six years of mem arid had always their being arrested from the current being interrupted by
been very healthy, and although cut off so suddenly, no the before mentioned piers, great quantities of ice, which,
suspicion seems ever to have entered the minds of any that by becoming stationary, have frozen together and rise
there had been foul play, until the beginning of last week or fall with the tides. These formidable masses so
when a young 0-1, the slater of the deceased, aged ten years, endangered some of the piers, from such heavy bodies
having been most brutally beaten and abused by Betty resting against them, that, in order to prevent forcible dis-
--, a woman who has acted es servant maid to George membernient, or forcing up, from the ice being driven
Simpson for two Peers—bis wife being dead—went and under by the tide, as early as Wednesdey last arrangements
complained to a neighbour, and finally, by persuasion, were making for disconnecting or removing these barge
threats; and promises, disclosed the following piece of piers, particularly that stationed' at Westminster-bridge.
monstrous cruelty and barbarism :—Thirteen weeks Some of these barges, at other places, separated frcm
ago she was sent by Betty to a dyer's, named Wilson, the line and swung round, so as to present no further
for a quantity of blue vitriol, prof( sscdiy to dye obstruction to the progress of the river, or the floating
a shawl; she afterwards, on the day her sister died, saw substances, than occurred front the ordinary barges
the wretch put some of it into her brother's and sister's moored in the current, or off the wharfs along the
Forriclge. The boy took one spoonful and spit it out banks, The various small steamers that went the
on his clothes, and it burned a hole in his apron—the " short stages," between London-bridge and the Vaux-
little girl ate more of the poisoned food, but not sufficient, hall station of the Southampton Railway, and which used
as the monster had thought, for, about half an hour after, to start every quarter of an hour, have, for some days., gone
when the girl requested a drink, she mixed more of the only each half hour. Even then the passengers were so
poison in water, and held her mouth until elm swallowed few and far between, in spite of fires being kept in the
it. The consequence was, that she died in a short time. cabins, that it was contemplated they would soon alto-
The woman, or demon rather, used fearful ar,d awful lan- gether cease running, if the weather long continued with
guage to the other girl, that if ever she told what she had its present severity. From this state of the River it may
seen, her arms, eyes, and legs would rot off. The conse• he imagined that it is almost impracticable for ordinary
queece of this threat upon so young a mind may be imr- craft to be navigated along it. On Saturday, at high
gined. She has been haunted by strange fancies since, tide, the quantities of ice that were floated up the river
about her legs and arms rotting off, and it was with diffi- by the flaw, enabled some few barges to move be:ow the
culty she would reveal what she knew. So far the girl's pool, but not a barge was to be seen out above bridge
story is correct, for the body of the murdered child was slis- The visits also of sea-gulls eying about as high up the
interred on Seturday last, and was examined by the faculty. river as Westminster-bridge, and even Chelsea, afford
Tinestune poison was found in the stomach, carrying on another proof of the severity of the season, and of the
its destructive week upon the putrid mass. The dyer, prospect of that severity continuing, as these occurrences
Wilson, acknowledges having given the poison, and a are unusual, except under such circumstances. These
small box containing part of it was found in the house. birds have been occasionally seen since Wednesday last,
The woman is in gaol, and has undergone an examination when they made their first appearance so far from their
before the Sheriff, and we believe will be fully committed ordinary resorts, and attracted numerous spectators to view
for trial —Stirling Observer. such unusual visitors.
THE BROWN PTARMIGAN.—Grouse shooting SCOTT THE DlVER.—Yesterday an immense
was brought to a close on the 10th, and we believe the past assemblage of persons was collected on Southeark-bridge,
has on the whole been a productive season. The diversion in order to witness the exoloits of Sam Scott, termed the
which this sport—entered into with a proper and sports- Amsrican diver, but who is generally reported to have
manlike spirit—is capable of affording is well known to I breathed first at Deptford. The river was blocke lup
these who have experienced its pleasures, and there are few with immense masses tf fl ,ating ice; and it was expemed
persons residing in the district where the krown rum- by all that if Scott ventuted his perilous leap, a serious,
niigan ab..undb that have not engaged in it. In if not lard accident to him mutt ensue. At three o'clock
my opinion, (says Mr. Meegillivray ,) it is a pitiful I, he came on the bridge, from the Benkside ; ate( after
and barbarous sport, as pursued by a regularly i the usuel collections, he took his stand over the centre
equipped and legally qualified slaughterer, who, even ; arch of the bridge. Ile continued here, and exhibited
without the labour of charging his gun, still less of carry- tie feats which it is his custom to do, such as suspending
ing home tlre produce of his idle industry, destroys as much h mself by his neck, &c. It seas evident, however, to all
game in one day as might serve for a dozen. But in • that a descent from that spot could not be made ; ant
a district where the birds are not very numerous, and where I Strn Seott, after waiting for some time, ca led out,
to produce half a dozen brace, one is obliged to traverse a i o Gentlemen, you do not want to se,' a man !meek his
large extent of ground, he cannot fail to find enjoyment, head." Cheers followed this announcement ; and, leav-
who, starting early with his dogs, accompanisd by a friend, i ing the scaffr!d,ng erected over the centre arch, imoceeded
travels over mountain and moor, inhaling the balmy air of , to the third on the north shore, and being oult attired in
the heathery hills, and renovating his spirits by vigorous ' a blue check shirt and canvas trousers, he ascended to the
exercise, until the declining sun warns him to retrace his cross-bars of the lamp, and having again gone through
course, and he returns to hie home, where the comforts of his tricks, he inquired of the watermen below if all was
social joy are prepared for him. The pleasure cape- safe. At this rate the ice was floating more in the centre
rienced by the young sportsman, who, after much blur,- , of the stream, and the watermen replied " All right ;" and,
dering perhaps, returns from a day's excursion with two with an antelope's boun,i, the diver wrs under the water.
or three brace of ptarmigan, and as many plovers, is Ile rose in a few seconds, legs first ; then down they went,
scarcely attainable by the experienced wholesale slaugh- and his head and half his body appeared. lie swam
terer. about for some time among the floating ice, and was teem.,
into a boat and conveyed ashore.
SEPARATION OF CHELSEA FROM TIIE KEN-
SINGTON UNlON.—Yesterday there was a meeting of the
rate-payers of St. Luke, Chelsea, " to take into conei-
deratioe a letter from the Poor-law Commissioners, set-
ting forth the condition under which they would cansent
to the separation of the parish of Chelsea from the Ken-
sington union, and to come to such decision thereon as
may be deemed expedient." The letter having been read,
the following resolutions were unanimously adopted :
" That this vestry do consent to the separation of Chelsea
from the Kensiiigtoa union, and is willing that certain
modifications shall be made in the local Act of Parlia-
ment; and also that the pauper children shall be sent to a
district-school." " That tl.e following committee be ap-
pointed to carry the above resolution into effsct, viz. :
The eight elected guardians ; L. T. Flood, son., and L.
I'. Flood, jun., Esgre ; Sir J. S. Lillie, Dr. Godrich,
Mr. Mullins, and Geo. Bague, Esq." A notion was then
carried, that copies of the two first resolutions be sent to
the Poor-law Commissioners and the board of guardians ;
one also of thanks to the chairman, the Rev. Mr. Kin ;s-
-ky, was carried.
ROBBERY OF A LETTER-BAG.—Yesterday in-
formation was forwarded to the police that the Crick and
Alfreton letter-bag was stolen on Tuesday evening last,
between S)utli Wingield and Alfreton, which has since
been found with only one letter in it. Anion.; the miss-
ing letters was one directed to Mr. George Wild, Corn-
minket, Derby, containing the undermentioned notes :
A 101 Bank of England note, No. K. D. 13,890, dated
London, Oct. 3, 1640 ; a 5/. Southwell note, No. R. 2,
dated Feb. 28, 1839 ; a 5/. Southwell note, No. Q. 147,
dated Dec. 1, 1838. A reward is offered for the disco-
very of the offender or offenders.
On Thursday, at Ashmore, near Shaftesbury, a
man was trozen to death.
THE 79TH REGIMENT (CAMERON HIGH-
LANDERS). —One hundred men belonging to this gallant
corps embarked at Deptford in the Abercrombie transport
ship for'a passage to Gibraltar on the 16th of November.
The remainder of the regiment have been stationed at
Weedon during the last four weeks, and the first division
proceeded yesterday by railroad to Euston-square, from
which place they will march for Deptford, to embark for
Gibraltar. The second division followed to-day, and
embarked at the same time fur foreign service. This fa-
mous regiment was in all the Peninsulur wars, and bears as
high a character for bravery as any corps in her Majesty's
service.
EXTENSIVE FIRES IN THE METROPOLIS.—
Ths destruction of property by fire in the metropolis dur-
ing the last three days has been very great. In addition
to the fire on Saturday morning lust, the sugar-house in
Ratcliff-highway, no fewer than twenty-one fires have oc-
curred.
We learn, from a good source in Paris, that the
French Guucrnment are much satisfied with the result
of Baron Itlounier's exertions to establish a better un-
derstanding between the two nations. His mission, which
is a strictly confidential one, and of a very delicate nature,
seems principally to be directed to make France a party
in the final settlement of the Oriental question, and to
substitute, if possible, for the treaty of July, a treaty be-
tween the Five Powers and the Sultan. At the same
time he is also directed by the French Government to
urge on that of England the necessity and opportunty for
ameliorating the political and social condition of the
Christian population in Syria, in order to protect them
against the arbitraryssrule of the new Turkish Pachas. The
high regard which is entertained for the character as well
as the abilities of Baron Meunier, both in France and
England, where he has long been known to the leading
men of all parties, eminently qualify him for these delicate
negotiations.—Morning Herald.
The report that a misunderstanding between Sir
Robert Stopford and Commodore Napier has occurred in
consequence of the Admiral's disapprobation of the gal-
lant officer's conducttattAcre, having been circulated during
the week, we have endeavoured in vain to trace it to any
authentic source, and disbelieve it entirely. Our readers
will recollect that insinuations disparaging to Commodore
Napier were raised by a small section of the party press
when that gallant officer first commenced operations before
Beyrout. It is more than probable that the report in ques-
tion originated from the same source,—Naval and Mili-
tary Gazette.
Such is the present high price of beef, that
during the past week there arrived by the steamer City
of Aberdeen, from Scotland, ninety-five bullocks, which
fetched readily 35/. each in the London market, The
expense of the passage for each animal was computed at
about 2/. per head. Supposing, therefore, the original
cost to be 301., this will leave a profit of above 2001. to
the speculators.,—Morning Herald.

WINDSOR, MONDAY.—filer Majesty and Prince A.
bert rode in a close carriage, twenty minutes before one
o'clock, to the lake in Frogmore Gardens, wher lilac
Royal Highness enjoyed the exercise of skaiting till
nearly two o'clock. Her Majesty was attended by the
Hon. Misses Pitt, Paget, and Cocks, Lord Liiford, Mr.
Rich, and Colonel Wemyss. His Royal Highness was
attended by Sir E. I.33water, Mr. G. E. Anson, Clptain
Seymour, and Dr. Pcotorius. The Royal Cortege
afterwards returned to the Castle.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Fanny Howard, walked on the Terrace and
in the Slopes for some time this morning.
The Rev. Lord Wrottesly Russell and Colonel the
Hon. H. Molyneux, of the 60th Rifles, will have the
honour of joining the Royal dinner party this evening. _ .

THEFT BY A STEAM-ENGINE T.—A wiseacre,
who had seen a paragraph going the rounds, stating that
some knowing fellow had put a fourpenny on a railroad,
which the steam-engine had flattened out to the size of
sixpence, bethought himself that he would try the experi-
ment on a respectable scale. Oa Tuesday last, therefore,
he spread out about the length of himself of fourpcnny
pieces at one of the crossings of the Glasge w and Ayr.
shire Railway, not vary far from home, and, with Isis head
leaning over the wall, anxiously awaited the approach of
the two o'clock train that was to add a third to their value.
But " the best laid schemes o' men an' mice gang aft
ahoy." Up came the " smoky devil" with his long tail,
and as the rails were waxy with the boar frost, the four-
penny pieces stuck fast all round the wheels, and off sped
the train with the treasure, leaving the "go a- hear "
coiner in a state of bewildered disappointment. He pur-
poses selecting fine dry weather for his neat experiment.
--Ayr Adv:irtiser.
On Saturday morning, about half-past four
o'clock, a dreadful fire broke out in the extensive timber-
yard and workshops belonging to Mr. Lawrence, carpets-
ter and builder, Pitficld-street, Hoxton. By whom the
fire was first observed has not been ascertained, but the po-
lice were instantly on the alert after the alarm had been
given, and while some were employed in assisting the
neighbours to remove their property, others despatched
messengers to the various fire stations. In a very short
time those from Whitecross-street, Farringdon-street, and
other City engines, belonging to the London establish-
ment, arrived, as also that of the West of England Com-
pany. Unfortunately no water could be procured, and the
raging clement spread its fury with the most fearful ra-
pidity and, ere the the hour of five, all the stock, build-
ings, tools of the workmen, &c., were destroyed. By
half-past five, however, a good supply of water was ob.
tabled, when the firemen, with renewed vigour, exerted
themselves in the most praiseworthy manner, and saved the
adjoining n iighbourhood. No lives were lost, but the loss
is estimated at a great amount, mostly insured in the York
and West of England offices. •
GENTLEMEN HIGHWAYMEN.—Sir John Tal-
bot came to me last night. upon a very remarkable occasion,
which he had in the morning communicated to my Lord
Keeper. And it is thus :—One Talbot tells him he has
long acquaintance with one Brown, whom he
bad a pretty
knew a student in the Temple, where his father made him
reasonable allowance, till his estate came to be forfeited,
and since that time be has lived by lay, sharping, and a
little on the highway. This man, with three or four more,
set upon my Lord Monmouth last summer. The account
he gives of it is, that they took from him his hat, sword,
i„-iessig, a.ring he had on his finger, and six shillings in
money, yvbich was all he had. My Lord, making them a
compV 1 ment. that by their behaviour they looked like gen-
tlemen, and to take that course only out of necessity, and
therefore desired to know how he might place ten guineas
upon them. They immediately gave all his things again,
except the six shillings, which he would not take. The
guard from Chelsea College coming to the hedge-aide
about that time, and firing upon them, they told my Lord
they should be obliged to mischief him if he did not call
to the guard that there were none but friends,which he did,
and hid his coach drive on.—James's Court and Times of
William 111.
A report was current on Monday that an ac-
count bad been received of the death of Prince Louis
Napoleon, at Ham. It appears to be utterly unfounded.
I saw a gentleman yesterday who was with him last week.
He says that he is exceedingly comfortable, and that every
attention is paid to him that his position admits of This
gentleman even hinted that Miss E—s, an English
lady to whom he is attached, is at Ilam, and passes most
of her time in the prison. To General Monthelon, who,
by his late act of folly has lost all his means of a upport,
including, of course, his pay as a General, Louis Napo-
leon is said to be very kind. The net income of the
Prince is now about 55.000 francs a year, with this sum
he is not only able to provide for all his own wants, but
' also to give assistance to his companions in misfortune.—
Letter from Paris of the 264 e.
SUDDEN DEATH OF SIR W. H. PRINGLE.
—Yesterday morning an inquest was held before Mr.
Wakley, in the drawing-room of the house No. 17, Strat-
ford-place, Marylebone, en the body of Lieutenant-Ge-
neral Sir William Henry Pringle, aged 68.—John Vyse,
the butler, said that deceased was of robust constitution,
and in the general enjoyment of good health. On Wed-
nesday afternoon last, about one o'clock, deceased went
out to take a walk, arid returned shortly after three, when
he appeared as usual. Soon after, bearing the library
bell ring, he went there, and on entering the room saw
deceased lying on the floor, and Lady Pringle kneeling
down by his side supporting his head. Witness, by order
of her Ladyship, went for a surgeon, ani fetched Mr.
Hans, of Duke-street, Manchester-squarc, who applied
mustard poultices to deceased's feet, at the same time ex •