The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-06 00:00:00

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" N JANUARY 6, 1848.

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.land, which they would look for in vain in the
un Ipit instructions of the Catholic priesthood. It is
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rprising that they should so soon forget the
lie iutiful colours in which they painted them. Of the
s true subjects their pencils can form angels or damned
s pidts, and their pens, like that of Pope, can rival
Lae art cf Egypt in transforming into precious
no tummies, when departed, those very men whom in
tb xir lifetime they represented as infecting society
vt ith the bad odour of their vices. The cruel fate of
aose victims of murder we deeply lament. The mis-
eLeeds of those who robbed them of that life, which
:an never he restored, we abhor, and over their in-
human authors we cease not to grieve from our in-
t most souls. But whilst we deplore and stigmatise
murder as drawing down the vengeance of Heaven
on all who counsel or encourage such a dreadful
crime,wecan have no sympathy with that hypocritical
sentimentality which affects such horror for the 'loss
of life of a few individuals, and can view the silent

slaughter of thousands without a particle of commi-

seration.

It may not be difficult to conjecture what have
been the causes that have evoked from the depths of

bigotry this feeling against the Catholic clergy, that
reminds you of the Pagan persecution cry, Christianos
ad Leona. Is it to take vengeance on their faithful
alliance with the man of strength, of wisdom, and of
peace, who lifted one prosfrate nation from the dust
and enlarged the liberties of the other that so long
oppressed it? If so,- it was a paltry revenge, akin to
the envious feeling that refused a tribute of eulogy to
him in that assembly which listened with a willing
or reluctant attention, now to the soft persuasion, or
again to the scathing denunciations of his eloquence.
They fancied, forsooth, to extinguish by their silence
in the House' the fame that filled the world. As well
might they expect to put out with a candle extin-
guisher the light of the sun of heaven. But they
have at length done tardy homage to the memory of
the mighty man whom they so long feared and hated.
It is reported to have been such a homage as was
exhibited to the absent Orpheus by the Sylvan mena-
gerie of musical animals, tamed and soothed into a
sullen concord by his presence, but taking vengeance
on him by whom they were so long restrained, by
their fierce mutiny and their deadly rush on the ad-
herents and supporters of his peaceful policy. Hence
the wild antics of their uncontrolled ferocity. But

let them forbear from an insolence as ungenerous in
its principle as it will be harmless in its effect.
Though O'Connell is gone, the lessons of wisdom
of fortitude, and of perseverance, of reverence for
religion, of fidelity to our Sovereign, shall survive.
You cannot calculate how much the recent rabid
proceedings will strengthen the loyal Repeal Associa-
tion. He has left a worthy heir of his virtues and of
his patriotism behind. It was by the peaceful, legal,
and constitutional action of the Catholic Association
w• won that emancipation which has enabled some
few false Catholics to turn on their brethren to whom
they are indebted for their elevation. It is by a
similar enrolment in this peaceful and loyal body we
shall succeed in bringing back our exiled senate,
which will take care of the interests of Ireland, and
enable the people to show to their Sovereign an al-
legiance, heightened by gratitude, for the plenty
and the prosperity which then would be their lot,
instead of the periodical famines that now afflict
them.

Might not the fate of Switzerland have had its
influence on those senatorial doings, and the fall of
Friburg and Lucerne be hailed by those bigots as
harbingers of the disasters that awaited Catholicity
over the world ? The great European Powers were
to have interfered and prevented this unnatural civil
war by their seasonable diplomacy! Yes, they wilL
probably interfere when the Catholic religion shall
have been checked, its colleges interdicted, its altars
desecrated, and its ministers of charity, who poured
the unction of religion on the smarting wounds of
human suffering, banished, but not, I trust, for ever,
from these Alpine valleys which they filled with the
odour of benediction. Such sacrilegious robbers as
those Helvetian confederates are not deserving of much

sympathy from any state anxious for the support de-
rived from morality and religion. Many a brol:en
monument of the arts, as well as of Christian wor-
ship, will yet draw forth from the Alpine traveller, as
from Dr. Johnson, in his tour through Scotland, in
digrant imprecations on those recent " ruffians of an
infidel reformation."
Or was it intended that those fiendish calumnies on

the priesthood should be sent to Rome to furnish
Lord Minto with plausible arguments for conducting
to the desired issue his mysterious diplomacy ? Was
the coincidence between his Lordship's mission of
amusement and the meeting of Parliament merely
casual, or was it meant that the priests in the mask

of pitched skins and flames, after furnishing the
Lords of England with such excitt.ment as to spare
them the necessity of going to Covent-garden to be
roused from the drowsiness of dullness in which they
are wont to slumber, should in the after-rehearsal of
the dramatic Envoy be shown, like their Christian
predecessors, in the same circus that now surrounds
the Vatican, to excite the horror of the modern
Romans?

What a proud boast might it not afford to this non-
commissioned ambassador to be able to lift his noble
kinsman, the Prime Minister of England, into un-
precedented importance, and to enable him, who has
one foot already on the Church of England, to plant
the other on the Catholic Church of Ireland—thus to
be raised on these foundations into colossal dimen-
sions I What a delightful vision to behold ! infidel
colleges flourishing in the distance—notwithstanding
the decree that went forth from the successor of St.
Peter dooming the unholy establishments to condem-
nation and to extinction—as if Ireland were not suff;.-

ciently oppressed and degraded to that monstrous
Church Establishment, which, as the high-minded
Charles Waterton indignantly writes, is the prolific
source of our misery—gorged with the sacrileuious
spoils of the poor—and then inflicting, as the offspring
of its cruelty, a mockery of a poor-law, which fattens
foreign stipendiaries, and yet leaves the native poor
to starve ! How consoling to the Minister to be able
to subsidize priests in defiance of the authority of
bishops and of the Pope, and to secure by enormous
salaries, which would feed thousands of the poor who
are now famishing, the disinterested allegiance of
those self-denying functionaries ! How conducive to
the interests of virtue and the repose of society
were he enabled to recommend to some of the
Catholic sees some enlightened and liberal eccle-
siastics whose opinions might keep pace with
the fashionable opinions of the age, and who

might rank among the exploded subtleties of scholastic
theology all defined doctrines regarding the principal
mysteries of our faith, such as baptism, original sin,
the Trinity, and the Incarnation. As your Lordship
and Lord Lansdowne, it is said, are inspired with a
new-born reverence for Rome, you will not forget, I
trust, to accompany any dispatches regarding the
priests, with your letter regarding the Regius Pro-
fessor of Oxford, which will show how Dr. Hampden
is selected for his ultra-Protestantism—a Protestant-
ism which seems to protest against all creeds and
confessions, even those of Nice and Athanasius, in
order that this most diverging Protestantism might
counteract any returning tendencies to the centre of
unity in Rome, But, my Lord, we have no fears,
notwithstanding all the recent calumnies heaped on
our clergy, and all the diplomatic talents now in re-
quisition to destroy the liberties of our faithful
Church. If at all times we. _had confidence in the
Apostolic See, whose virgin faith was never tainted,
and which chair, in the language of St. Cyprian,
perfidy never approached : how much more so, when
the Church is ruled by the great Pontiff who now
holds the keys of St. Peter, who unites the legislative
genius of an Alfred with the patronage of carts and
letters such as distinguished a Nicholas or a Leo;
but who, far beyond such qualities, stands forth the
champion of the priests of the faith, and of the evan-
gelical liberties of the Catholic Church as prominently
as the seventh of the Gregories.
It is well known that Lord Minto is in Rome, in
order to take back with him lessons of wisdom, of
justice, of regard for the people of every rank and
class—the poor as well as the rich—in every part of
the British empire as well as in England, such as no
English Minister ever exhibited until that connexion
is again restored. Of the near approach of this happy
consummation I do not, notwithstanding the presvnt
discouraging aspect, at all despair, and in its achieve-
ment the Irish clergy shall not fail cheerfully to par-
ticipate. Yes, on the calumnies and cruelties now so
maliciously heaped upon them they will take the
same noble revenge as the first Christians, mentioned
at the head of this letter, took on their Pagan per-
secutors, by winning them over to that religion against
which their fury was directed. Again shall a Cole-
man and a Columba, co operating with the pious
bishops on the other side of the Channel, without
aught of national jealousies, lend their aid in convert-
ing Albany and Saxonland (these are the names in
the beautiful language of our country) from the do-
minion of heresy as their predecessors did from the
errors of Paganism. No state pension shall enslave
the free movement of their apostolical zeal ; their faith
shall not be infected, nor the " word bound" in tram-
mels by being dictated through the tubes of Ministe-
rial influence.
It is a pity that a people of such good natural
A qualities as the English should be so often put beside

[PE IC 3 3D.

themselves in their estimation of Ireland by the rabid
teaching of heterodox pastors. But what other results
than anti-Christian calumnie,r can we expect from the
inculcation of teachers raised to the highest seats in
the syniwogue, who smile at the scholastic efficacy of
the sacraments as a notion grafted on the magic cf
past ages, and trace the definitions of the Trinity and
Incarnation to the ingenious dialectics of the Platonic
and Aristotelian philosophers? With such disastrous
consequences before their eyes, the Irish clergy will
never be brought to surrender a particle of the purity
of their faith tr discipline to the noxious control of
any English Minister. Instead of again subjugating
our faith, we will aid in freeing yours frcm the
tyranny of error, in which for three centuries it has
been bound, England, instead of being as it is now,
with all its wealth, a melancholy and miserable
country, will become once more merry England, and ,
restored to the centre of unity, it will again reflect
the splendour of that faith, and the warmth of that
charity which was brought to it from Rome, and was
illustrated in the lives of a Lanfranc, a Langton, and
an Anseltn, as well as in the glorious martyrdom and
miracles of Thomas of Canterbury.—l have the honour
to be, your Lordship's obedient servant,
k JOHN, ARCHBISHOP OF TUAM.

THE REVENUE.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

TIMES.—The abstract of the net produce of the
revenue for the financial year ending the sth of
January, 1848, as compared with the preceding year,
shows a gross deficiency of 2,217,4541. Deficiencies
are never pleasant subjects of contemplation, but a
glance at the statement we print to-day will show
that somewhat less than one-half--and no more—of
the deficit is to be referred to any falling off •in the
ordinary and constant channels of revenue. The
gross deficiency being 2,217,4341., of this 1,067,540/.
alone belongs to the permanent sources of national
income. Whereas in the year ending sth of January,
1847, we find China credited with an item of 667,6441.,
in the present year the flow of Sycee silver into the
Treasury has been altogether dried up. Last year,
again, under the head of Repayment of Advances, we
see a credit of 1,070,411/. ; this year there has only
been repaid the sum of 564,046/. These two heads,
then, of the extraordinary revenut will account fur
a gap of upwards of a million sterling in the national
balance-sheet, even when the trifling set-off in favour
of the present year on the " imprest and other
monies" is taken into account. Unless the non-re-
payment of advances be accepted as a criterion of the
difficulties under which the country has been labour-
ing for the last twelve months, we may consider the
deficiency in the year's revenue as one only of a mil-
lion sterling, or a little more, when compared with
the preceding year. It is as well to clear away these
preliminary considerations, which merely embarrass
the mind, in arriving at an estimate of the true sig-
nificance of the return. When we take the heads of
the ordinary revenue in order, it is almost matter of
surprise to find the deficiency on the gross amount so
small. Let us first take the " Customs." Whereas
in the year ending January sth, 1847, we find that
these duties produced the sum of 18,310,8651., in the
year that has just elapsed the revenue derived from
the same source amounts only to 18,015,2981. In
other words, there is a deficiency under this head of
295,5671. The;- loss has mainly occurred in the two
last quarters of the year; that is to say, in thequarter
ending the 10th of October, 1846, the Customs pro-
duced 5,310,8351., whereas in the corresponding
quarter of 1847, their amount was only 4,936;644/.
In the last quarter, again, of the financial year 1846,
we find the Customs credited for 4,514,721/. ; in the
last quarter of the financial year just elapsed they
produced only 4,111,8621. This result is not
much to be wondered at when we take into
account the difficulties of the nation, and the
'consequent contraction of its exporting and im-
porting powers. As we showed yesterday, we were
under the necessity of importing the prime article
of human sustenance, and this to the exclusion
of other articles which would have been snore pro-
ductive to the revenue. Something, no doubt, must
be allowed to the first operation of '.the recent free-
trade measures. It was always foreseen that, for the
noment there might be a loss, to be "Alcceedeci by a
steady and ultimate gain to the national finances.
We will bring into direct contrast the heads of
ordinary revenue for the two years, that it may..be
perceived at a glance to what items the loss is to be
referred :

184 G 1847
Customs £18,310,865 ... £18,015,298

Excise
Stamps

'ra
x'

12,521,250 ...
6,931,414 ...

11,730,746
6,959,545

Property-tax

4,272,408 ...

5,395,391 ...

4,334,561

Post-office
Crown lands. ...

816,000 ...
120,000 ...

Alisc,Alaneous

317,090 ...

5,450,801

864.000
77,000

184,926

The Customs and Excise show a loss; the Stamps,
Taxes, Property-tax, and Post. office, each a small
gain. The heads of Crown Lands, and Miscellaneous,
under which a certain deficit is found, are, perhaps,
less deserving of consideration. The really impor-
tant point is that, under the titles " Customs" and
" Excise," there has been this year a falling off of
considerably more than one million sterling when
compared with last year, whereof the sum of
295,5671. only is to be referred to the Customs,
and 790,4041. to the Excise ! Were it not for this
last item, the balance-sheet would present a better
appearance than we had a right to expect after the
accumulated calamities of the past year. In the
last quarter, from this source there has only been
received 3,246,8831. against 3,608,155/. in the
corresponding quarter of the preceding year.
We endeavoured yesterday to point out that
such a deficiency, in exact reasoning, is not so much
a proof of national distress, as that the people have
wisely diminished their comforts in order to meet the
pressure of the times. Had the Excise presented us
with its aqua' redundant return, the circumstances
of the nation remaining unaltered,, what would the
present abstract have proved ? It could not have
proved that the Irish potato had never rotted away.
It could not have proved that our merchants had not
been brought to the verge of bankruptcy. It would
merely have shown that unthrift was added to diffi-
culty. It may be very true that there has been pro
tanto a diminution in the physical luxuries of the
great mass of the population, but when the choice
was presented to them of what they would accept,
and what refuse, it would seem they have made their
election for needful food and raiment, and rejected
the comparative luxuries on which the exciseman
levies toll.

CIIRONICLE.—The state of the national income,
as indicated by the quarterly returns, is, on the whole,
perhaps less discouraging than, after passing through
a crisis, or series of crises, of such unexampled mag-
nitude and complexity, the country had every reason
to anticipate. The decrease on the present quarter is
1,155,3131. against a decrease of 1,507,2301. on the
quarter ending October 5, 1847 ; or about one-fourth
less. Taking the decrease of the ordinary revenue
alone, the proportion is about the same. This unfa-
vourable exception must, however, be made as re-
gards the extraordinary revenues; the China money
having ceased to be paid in the quarter ending Octo-
ber 1846, the comparison for the present quarter is
for the first time free from the disturbance in the or-
dinary amounts of this item produced by the Chinese
payments. And the deficit in the repayments of ad-
vances must be taken as no favourable symptom of
the ability of the quarters from which those pay-
ments ought
to
come to meet their ordinary engage-
ments. This is an item not, properly speaking, of
' the revenue, but of the cash in the Exchequer,
which must be expected for a considerable period
to present an unfavourable aspect. The repayments
which will be coming due froin Ireland will be very
large ; while both the ability and the goodwill of
that country to make them will, we fear, be propor-
tionally small. Taking separate items of the decrease
on the present quarter, the comparison on the whole
is not discouraging. The decrease on the Customs
is a trifle more, but the decrease on the Excise is
280,0001. less. On the other hand, the decrease
on Stamps during the present quarter is remark-
ably heavy; no less than 175,8321., and is a fearful
evidence of the degree to which the commercial
operations of the country have been recently para-
lysed. It is, however, consoling to observe, that
this temporary decrease does not affect the sum total
for the year ; the increase on Stamps for the year
now ended being 28,1321. This increase, though
small, is remarkable, if the decline of some of the
extraordinary sources of the stamp revenue, as from
railway transactions, &c., be taken into account.
Contrasting the decrease and increase on this and
the previous year, in the mode we have already
adopted for the respective quarters, the result is
much less encouraging. If, indeed, the causes
of
our recent difficulties were not, however calamitous
in themselves, altogether of an exceptional nature,
the contrast would be most lamentable. The actual
increase on the total revenue for the year ending
January 5, 1847, was only 13,0001. But there had
been a decrease on the extraordinary revenue of
more than a million. It appears that, after all this
country
has gone through ; after a famine, a railway
mania, a monetary crisis, and a crash of first-rate
houses, unequalled, or at least unsurpassed, in the
history of any people, and all of them occurring
within the space of two years ; the revenue from

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ordinary sources of this country is only a7t
40,000/. less in the year 1847 than it was in the year
1845. The steady increase, amounting to nearly
200,0001., on Stamps, Taxes, Prope►ty-tax, and Post-
office, in the face of all the disturbances and dis-
couragements that might have interfered with them,
is a good omen for the future. It is an evidence that
the true elements of the prosperity of the. country
have, after all, abated but little of their accustomed
activity, and that nothing is wanting but a little time,
a little calmness, a little more foresight, frugality,
and caution in our public and priate transactions, to •
impart a new, a more profound, and more widely
profitable impulse to energies which have been but
temporarily benumbed by causes of very unusual oc-
currence.

ADVERTISER.—We publish to-day, in the
usual tabular form, the Revenue returns for the year
and quarter ended the sth January, 1848. There is,
as was to be expected, a considerable filling off both
in the quarter and year, as compared with the corre- •
sponding quarter and the year ended January 5,
1847. But the country, we are sure, will concur
ith us in the opinion, that the defalcation is not
nearly so great as might have been anticipated. On
the ordinary sources of revenue the deficit on the
quarter is 957,8741., and on the year, 1,061,235/. ; .
while on the total income of the country, which in-
cludes " imprest and other Moneys," and "Repay-
ments of Advances," the falling off on the quarter is
1,155,313/., and on the year 2,217,4541. .Now, when
it is remembered that in the quarter which ended yes-
terday, we have had to pass through one of the
most frightful periods, not only of pressure, but ,
of panic, ever known in this or any other country,
and when it is remembered, moreover, that in the
quarter just ended, no duty has been received on
foreign corn, while in the corresponding quarter of
last year a considerable amount was received under
that head,—there is not only abundant reason for
surprise, but for congratulation, that the defalcation
is so inconsiderable. The departments in which the
greatest falling off has taken place are the Customs,
the Excise, and the Stamps. The quarter's deficit in
the Customs is 402,859/.; in the Excise, 361,2721.;
while under the head of Stamps it is 175,832/. These
are the departments which indicate most correctly
the condition of the masses. In the deficiency,
therefore, under these heads, we have the most con-
vincing proof which could be given of the extreme
privations which the industrial classes must have en-
dured in the closing quarter of 1847. They have been
compelled, by the depressed state of trade, to abridge,
to a very great extent, their consumption of excisable
commodities, and, consequently, to struggle with
difficulties of which none but themselves can form a
due appreciation. The only heads under which we
have an increase of revenue for the quarter are the
Taxes, the Property-tax, the Post-office, and the
Crown Lands. In the department of Taxes the aug-
mentation is 4,8841. The Property-tax yields an
increase of 12,3481. From the Post-office we have
an addition of 5,000/. ; while the Crown Lands pro-
duce 'lO,OOO/. more than in the corresponding quarter
of last year. Again we say, that, all things con-
sidered, there is every ground for joy and
congratulation, that the falling off in the national
income, both on the quarter and year, is
not greater. We are now entering on a new •
year, which, there is every reason to believe will
be one of such decided prosperity as will more
than compensate for the defalcation of 2,217,4541.,
which has taken place in the year which has just
concluded. Everything around us justifies the hope,
that the sun of commercial prosperity will shed his
bright and genial beams upon us during the year
1848. Cheap food is already secured, so is cheap
cotton. Bullion is daily flowing back to our shores
from all parts of the world. The Bank was never in a
stronger position. Confidence is rapidly returning.
Consols are rising. The rate of interest has been
reduced to five per cent., and in a few weeks will be
reduced to four per cent. Money is not only cheap,
but will immediately become abundant. It is already
beginning to look out for the means of a safe and
profitable investment. Under so remarkable a con-
currence of favourable circumstances, we surely are
not over-sanguine in anticipating a year of greater
commercial and financial prosperty than has been
witnessed for some time past.

SCOTTISH HosriTAL.—Yesterday a general quar-
terly meeting of the govrnors of the above charity was
held at the premises of the corporation, Crane-court,
Fleet-street; Dr. Webster in the chair. The minutes of tha
last meeting having been read and received, the usual
annual vote for selling .1,250/. stock from the Kinlock
fund was passed. It was then proposed, in consequence
of the low state of the receipts of the charity, that 5004
be sold out of the general stock to be applied to the
purposes of the institution; arid after some questions
on the part of the governors present the vote was passed.
It was then stated from the chair that the office of
surgeon to the institution had become vacant by the
death of Mr. Liston, and after a few observations it was
unanimously a;.!reed that Professor Ferguson, of King's
College, should fill the vacant situation. Major Adair,
secretary to the institution, applied to the meeting to be al-
' lowed access to the records of the society and other papers
kept in that room, which had becu unchz,nged since the

time when the house was in the posses ion of Praise God
l3arebones. He had no doubt that many interesting
documents might be brought to light. The Royal
Society had formerly met there, and the documents in
that room would probably assist in a very material
degree a history of that society which was about to be
published. Permission was granted, and a remark made.
that when the secretary had on a previous occasion
access to some of their records, the use made of thin
brought 2001. to the funds of the charity. Notice was
then given by Mr. Hamilton of a motion, that 30,0001.
instead of 40,0001. be the minimum amount of stock held
in the name of the corporation, and the meeting then
separated. _ _

THE COACHMAKERS' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.-
Last night the half-yearly general meeting of the sub-
scribers to the above institution took place at the Red
Lion Tavern, King•street, Golden-square; Mr. Savage
in the chair. The Secretary (Mr. Brown) read the re-
port, from which it appeared that the cash in hand was
901., exclusive of a sum of 3401. 16e. 9,1. invested in the
Three per Cent. Consols. The Chairman, in a short
address, stated the general objects .of the society to be
the permanent relief of aged and iufiroa coachmakers,
and their widows and orphans, and congratulated the
subscribers on the sure, though slow, progfess of the
society to prosperity. The report haying been unani-
mously adopted, and the usual courtesy passed to the
chairman, the meeting separated.

ARTIFICES OF PRISONERS.—Last evening an in-
quest was held in the Giltspur-street Compter, before
Mr. Joseph Payne, on the body of Alfred Harwood alias
John Atkinson, aged 33, a prisoner under sentence of
one year's imprisonment, for stealing a watch of the
value of 141., from the shop of Mr. ,:ilurray, jeweller,
Cornhill. Mr. M`Murdo, the surgeon, said the deceased
Was admitted on the 9th of January, 1547, and had been
in the infirmary almost over since. Ile told witness
that he had been in prison several times, and that by
refusing his food he had often led the medical officers to
believe that he was ill, so as to get himself into the in-
firmary, where he would have better diet. Ile died on
Saturday from atrophy, or wasting away. Verdict—
" Natural death."
AN IRISH EMIGRANT SUFFOCATED IN. A/ SEA-
CHEST.—The following- is an extract of a private letter,
dated New Orleans, Nov. 21, from a passenger in the
Constantine, Captain Sampson, which sailed from Liver-
pool on the 23d of September:—" We w eretowed out of
the river by a steam-boat, during which time our ship
was searched for any persons who might have secreted
themselves, in order to pass across the Ocean free.
Well, there were eighteen found, fifteen of whom the
captain sent back by the steam tug. The rest he allowed
to work their passage out. After the tug had left, and
we were in the Channel, a large sea-chest was secretly
opened by the owner of it, an Irishman, who found
within not his living but his dead brother. He had
secreted him, and the poor fellow was suffocated. He
was thrown overboard that night."
DEBTS OF STUDENTS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF Ox-
FORD.—The Vice-Chancellor and the Heads of Houses
in the University of Oxford have determined on the
adoption of very stringent measures to check the extra-
vagant expenditure on the part of the undergraduates.
Hitherto, a law has been in force which provides that all
accounts of tradesmen shall be sent to tho tutors of the
colleges, and be by them discharged, but this law has
been evaded. The new rules on this subject will be com-
municated to the University immediately after the com-
mencement of Lent Term, on the 14th instant.
SCENERY AND DECORATION.—MT.Phthche's charm-
ing Christmas piece at the Lyceum displays some of the
most beautiful scenery and costumes that we have seen_
for a long time. An enchanted wood, with groups ••!
f
shepherds and shepherdesses, improvements on their
China resemblances to be found in nice old houses, is
one of the most perfect things ever put upon the stage;
the arrangement of colours is quite beautiful. With the
neatness, elegance, and good taste shown in the piece
the sea-shore
first
ni stenoonlmoonlight,
h with
t h
itself, we are supposed to have nothing to do, or we
should speak in warm terms.
se
Drury-lane pantomime, shTorhee
mimic ripples, is excellently well managed. Mr. Balfe's
new opera has some capital scenery.
Gothic architec-
better understood by stage artists
and we find more consistency in architec-
ttuhraeniist bwe.agnninsi,rt to be
architec-
tural representations generally. An amusing instance to
the contrary was observable in a piece by the late Mr.
Peake, called Gabtielli, recently played at the Adelphi
Theatre, where an Italian monumental urn, on a petit stal
to match, was represented beneath a Gothic canopy.—
Bit ilner.

IloriEy-111pchKET.—The premium on gold at Paris
is 13 per milk, r hich, at the English Mint price of
31. 17s. 10P. per dunce or standard gold. gives an ex-
change of 25.47 ; and the exchange at, Paris on London
at short helng 25,65, it follows that gold is 0.70 per
cent. dearer in LondoM than in Paris. By advices from
Hamburgh the price of gold is 434 per mark, which, at
the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 10id. per ounce for
standard goh!, gives an exchange of 13.91 ; and the
exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being
13.111, it follows that gold is 0.91 per cent. dearer in
London than in Hamburgh. The course of exchange at
New York on London is 1101 per cent., and the par of
exchange between England and America being 109
23.40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is 0.93 per
cent. in favour of England. But, the quoted exchange,
at New York being for bills at 60 days' sight, the in-.
tereet must be added to the above difference.