The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-21 00:00:00

EVENING SL

ANTI-CORN-LAW CONFERENCE.
The number of ministers and members of Dissenting
Churches who have promised to attend the great Ani!i-
Corn-law Ccnference in this city, on the 11th and 12th
January next, has greatly exceeded the most sanguine
anticipations of its projectors. Upwards of 201 minis-
ters, and 452 members have promised to attend ; and
every post brings additional names. We understand
there is now no doubt that the meeting will take
place, and that it will be.the largest and most influential
ever held in Scotland on the suject of the Corn-laws.
In addition to those who are to attend, nearly
300 other ministers, who from various causes
are unable to leave their homes at this season, have sig-
nified their cordial approbation of the proposed meeting,
and their anxious desire to do everything in their power
to promote the total abolition of the Corn and Provision-
laws, which they regard as unjust in principle, and con-
trary to the spirit of Christianity. With about six or
eight exceptions out of upwards of five hundred ministers
who have sent answers, they are all opposed even to a
fixed duty, and in favour of an entirely free trade in
corn ; and, with very few exceptions, they state that
their people are nearly unanimous in entertaining
the same opinions—even in agricultural districts. In
very many instances, it is stated that meetings have
been held, and that the congregations are perfectly
unanimous on the subject. Other letters state that
even among the 'armors the abolition cause has recently
made rapid progress, and that if some provision were
devised by which the landlords should be required to
make an equitable arrangement regarding existing leases,
the tenantry would soon be quite unanimous in favour of
total repeal. Altogether, the letters are of a most cheer-
ing character, regarding the progress of the repeal cause.

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The different bodies haveintimated their intention of
being present as follows : ministers. Members.
1. Secession Churches
2. Relief Churches 39 79
3. Independent Churches
4. Baptist Churches
5. Smaller Sects - 7 7

Scottish Pilot.

ADELPHI THEATRE.

The story of " Barnaby Budge " was last night dra-
matised at the Adelphi, with strong fidelity to the fea-
tures of the original fiction. This is the second dramatic
version of the story of " Boz," it having been attempted
before at the English Opera • but in the present instance
the dramatist has had the advantage of waiting for the
conclusion of the novelist., and has fashioned his materials
up to the climax of the original tale. It were needless to
go again over the plot of Dickens's popular work ; it
will be enough in the present instance to indicate the
order of the characters. Par exempk, Mr. Wright sus-
tained the part of Tappertit. His scene with old Varden
and his daughter in the breakfast-parlour was a triumph
of comic acting, and, when put in juxta-position to his
request to Hugh, the ostler (O. Smith), to shake hands
with him, brings out two ludicrous contrasts of humour
and fun. Ile sees the dirt on the ostler's one hand, and
asks him if he has not another. He has no second hand
cleaner than the first, and therefore the droll and deli-
cate Tappertit is content with owing him the shake.
The versatility of Yates drew down the applause
of the house. In the first instance he took the part
of :Biggs, the maid, and in the next that of
Sir John Chester, the dandy of the olden time.
It is enough to say that Mrs. Yates performed the part
of Mrs. Rudge, to indicate that the pathos and passion
of that episode of the novel were developed with spirit,
energy, and success in the drama. Barnaby, the idiot
boy, became, in the hands of Miss Chaplin, an interest-
ing performance, chastely and quietly acted, and with-
out any straininr, after effect. John Willett, the sturdy,
burly-headed Boniface, was well given by Wilkinson ;
and Paul Bedford did his utmost for old Varden. The
scenery. was nearly perfect, and deserves all praise.
Westminster-bridge, the pleasUre-grounds of the War-
ren, the Warren on fire, and Newgate in flames, were all
most cleverly represented ; and the various tableaux of
the drama were so striking as to help materially in work-
ing out its action. At its conclusion Mr. Yates an-
nounced its repetition for every night during the holidays.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Yesterday, Joseph
Adams, the fashionable swindler, who was apprehended
at Southampton about three weeks ago, was brought up
for the third time for re-examination. Mrs. Colonel Hill
being in attendance, vi as sworn, and stated that she re-
sided in Pyle-street, Newport, Isle of Wight, and was a
widow. She had no knowledge whatever of the prisoner.
The letters written in Mrs. Colonel Hill's name to Miss

Ethma Clapham, by means of which the velvet dress was
obtained, were handed to the former lady for her inspec-
tion, when she stated that they were not in her hand-
writing, nor did she know anything about them ; she
had never authorised any person to write such letters in
her name. Mr. Maltby said the case was now completed
against the prisoner, and he should commit him for for-
gery and uttering a forged request for goods.
FUNERAL OF THE LATE LADY ANNE FITZ-.
PATRICIE.—The remains of this much-respected and
amiable lady were interred on Friday last in the family
vault at Grafton Underwood, in the presence of the
Right Hon. Vernon Smith, M.P., chief mourner ; Lord
Lilford, Baron Robeck, the Hon. and Rev. D. Finch
Hatton, the Rev. Sir George Robinson, Bart., the Revs.
G. Stopford and J. Miller, W. Fitzpatrick, &c. The
Rev. T. Cooke, the Rector, officiated, and it was evident

how deeply. a large assemblage of persons were affected
by a repetition of the same solemn rites so lately paid to
the beloved sister of the deceased. The procession was
attended by a long train of carriages belonging to the
nobility and gentry of the neighbourhood, amongst
which we noticed that of the Earl of Cardigan, Lady de
Capel Broke, &e:

A fatal accident took place on Sunday afternoon,
near the Eyre Arms, St. John's Wood. Shortly after
four o'clock in the afternoon, a young man, about 20
years of age, but whose name is unknown, was
amusing himself by trying the substance of the ice
on a pond, in a field near the Eyre Arms Tavern,
the water in which is ten feet deep. He was standing on
the ice, and kicking a hole in it with his heel, when
suddenly a large mass gave way. Police-constable 91 S,
saw him disappear, but upwards of 20 minutes elapsed
before the body was recovered, when life was quite ex-
tinct, and it was conveyed to Marylebone workhouse. He
is of fair complexion and dark hair, and wore a fustian
jacket and waistcoat, corduroy trowsers, and laced shoes.
Up to a late hour last night the body had not been owned.
CHARITABLE BEQUESTS.—The will of Mrs.
Anna Maria James, of Birmingham, has just been
proved in Doctors' Commons by the executors. The
personal property of the deceased is sworn under
16,0001. Amongst the various charitable bequests
are the following :—British and Foreign Bible So-
ciety, 5001. ; London Missionary, 5001.• Colonial Mis-
sionary, 500/.; Moravian Missionary, 200 L; Baptist Mis-
sionary, 100/. ; Religious Tract Society, 200/. ; Congre-
gational School, Lewisham, 20a. ; School for Mission•
aries' Daughters, at Walthamstow, 200/. ; :Congrega-
tional Union for England and Waits, 300/. ; the Village
Itinerary, 1001. ; Irish Evangelical Society, 100/. ; to the
Southwark Sunday School Society, 1001. ; to the Carr's-
lane Sunday School Society, 1001. ; to the Sidmouth
Marsh Chapel Sunday School, 501. ; and to the Irish
Congregational Union, 501.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT POPLAR.—Shortly
before six o'clock last evening a dreadful fire, attended
with considerable loss of property, took place in the spa-
cious rope and rigging-manufactory, belonging to Messrs.
James, Wright, and Westhorpe, situate in Preston-fields,
East India-road, Poplar. The premises, though not sub-
stantially built, consisted of a range of buildings, two
stories high, built chiefly of wood, and upwards of 180
feet long, consisting of foreman's dwelling-house, riggin
shed, pitch and tar stores, workshops, hemp-rooms,
wood-yard, and stables and hay-lofts. At the time of
the commencement of the fire the workpeople were
busily, engaged completing some rigging for a vessel
lying in the East India Docks ; and though the cause
of the fire was not precisely known last night, it was
supposed to have occurred by the carelessness of one
of the boys dropping a lighted candle on a heap of hemp
in the rope-room, which ignited instantaneously, and
before the alarm could be given to the workmen in other
parts of the manufactory, the flames had caught the
roof. In consequence of the combustible character of
the manufactory, the fire spread to the adjacent depart-
ments with all possible violence, and on arriving at the
pitch and tar stores, amounting, it is said, to 150 bar-
rels, it blazed with terrific force. Large burning flakes
fearing
were seen flying in all directions, producing the greatest
.
alarm amongst the inhabitants, many of whom, f
that the roofs of their dwellings would ignite, set rabout
removing. Owing
to the plugs of the water-pipes being
were got fully into
frozen up, by the time the engines
play, the whole of
The loss could not
,
dirsod to be covered by in-
o t
be ascertained ; it was understood the manusfaalc,etdot:y was on fire. No
portion of the premises were

surances.
presents an increase of burials of
1,411 of the year 1840,
w Mortality Bill, made up to thef
" There is a consi-
derable over those recorded
deaths in 1840, at all the ages, with
The Glasgow
derable increase of
between eight • and ninety years,
exception of those b
the . the of
slight decrease. Between ages
in 1839.
and fifty yea"'
where there is a
great increase has taken
a very
twentyp
l
overe the deaths at the same ages in 1839.
"THE STAFFORDSHIRE IRON TRADE.---The
blowing out of so many iron furnaces as were recently
•
extinguished has already given a spur to trade, and •
makers will not take orders for next quarter at less than
10s. per ton advance upon pigs. There is every ap-
pearance of further advance from the anxiety in in-
quiries.—Paisley Advertiser.
Wednesday; being the annivereary of the deposit
of the remains of the Emperor Napoleon at the Hotel
des Invalides, a great many National Guards in uniform,
soldiers of the Old Guard, and the Polish Army, with
numerous other persons, visited the Emperor's tomb, and
made offerings of crowns of immortelles, with which the
chapel was strewed.
There is a stout controversy between the partisans
of a railroad from Paris to Strasburg by Metz or Nancy,
and of one to some important frontier town by Dijon.
The principal towns on each line make large offers.
Troyes proGrs 20,0004 in support of the one, Nancy
20,0001. for the commencement of the other. Strasburg
is, of course, for the more direct line; and this is abetted
by the Finance Minister, who is Deputy for Strasburg.
The military people declare against the direct line, as too
far north, and too near the Prussian frontier :on the
Saarre. The Courrier Francais says that the present
two great lines, such as that to Belgium and that to
Strasburg, exclusively for the north and east, would ex-
cite the jealousies of the south and west; the deputies of
which would league together to throw out the project.
• Better, it says, to run the indirect line to Strasburg by
Dijon, which would also be aline to Marseilles and the
Rhone. This discussion is carried on with more vivacity
from its being known to be the Minister's intention to
devote a certain portion of the loan to one or two chief
, railroads, • • •