The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-27 00:00:00

• truck been placed last, and the train been
moving (as common sense might have dictated)
at a moderate pace, we assert confidently that not
.one life would have been lost. Many of the
Directors are excellent, humane men; the engineer
deserves every praise for the admirable and se-
cure line which he at last accomplished, is spite
of vast opposition ; and we believe all connected
with the Company sincerely regret the result;
but still we are bound to state facts and con-
clusions which cannot possibly be refuted.
And why do the servants of the Company attempt
to conceal facts which must eventually come to
light ? By so doing they only increase the ge-
neral alarm, and make the public believe that the
calamity is greater than the reality, and that there
-is some gross mismanagement or culpable negli-
gence which they would cover in darkness.
Let them tell the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth, and they will serve their
own interests, and relieve the public mind from a
vast load of anxiety. We received a report on
Friday night of the fatal event, but it was so
frightful, and evidently so magnified, that we
refrained from even alluding to it.
Two o'CLocx.—On making inquiry at the sta-
tion we are glad to learn that no more deaths
have been reported, but the servants of
the Company now admit, when the truth
can no longer be concealed, that the ac-
counts in the papers are not at all exaggerated.
It has been discovered that one of the persons
killed was named JOHN HAYNES, from the name
in his hat.

The following leading paragraph appeared in
the Herald of Saturday morning. We give lit
without comment, solely on the authority of that
Journal :

We have reason to believe that a very serious mis-
understanding now exists between the British, Go-
vernment and the United States, arising on the one
hand from the unwilligness of the American President
to Apologise for the detention of a British subject
(M'Leod), on an unfounded charge, and on the other,
from the alleged fact that vessels. engaged in the slave
trade are notoriously fitted-out in American ports.
Lord Aberdeen, as we learn, has written repeated
and decided notes on both these subjects, without as
yet receiving satisfactory answers ; and, considering
the fresh obligations imposed on this country by the
new Anti-Slave Treaty, it is much to be feared that,
something unpleasant may occur between both Govern-
ments.

Our information on this subject is derived from a mos
authentic source.

On Thursday afternoon Baron PASQUIER, Pre-
sident of the French Court of Peers, pronounced
the sentence of that Court upon QUENISSET and
his accomplices for an attempt to assassinate the
Royal Princes, and fbr being members of a revo-
lutionary association. The wretch QUENISSET,
who throughout the trial conducted himself'

rather as a prosecutor than as a criminal,
and who seemed to take a fiendish de-
light in involving as many persons as
he could in his own guilt, has not es-
caped having sentence of death recorded
against him. It was, however, supposed from
the high favour in which he appeared to stand
with the President of the Court for having as-
sisted the Procureur-General in brow-beating
his fellow-prisoners in the course of their exami-
nation, that his life would be saved. Still the
smiles and blandishments of such partisan
Judges and Court parasites as Baron PASQUIER,
are a poor protection against the sharp axe of
the guillotine, when bared by the sentence of a
criminal court.

The following report of the sentence of the
Court of Peers upon the prisoners implicated in
this affair, is from the Paris Correspondence of
the Post, dated Thursday afternoon :

The Court of Peers met this afternoon, and the public
was admitted at a quarter past one. The prisoners, ac-
cording to custom, were not present. The Chancellor,
Baron Pasquier, read with a firm voice the judgment. It
was as follows :
Quenisset Death.

Colombier ---
Death.

Brazier alias Just .... Death.

Petit Deportation (confinement for life:
Jarrasse

Dufaur ldem.
Boggio Fifteen years' detention.
Alailet
Boueheron ... . Ten years' detention.
Launois ' Idem. ~ • .
Dupoty Five years' detention.
Bazin
Martin, Fougeray, Bouzer, Prieul, and Considere ac
quitted.
.__

Boggio, Mallett, Boucheron, Launois, Dupoty, and
Brazier to be under the surveillance of the police for
their lives at the expiration of their confinement. The
detention is a peine infuniante, and Dupoty thus loses his
right as a citizen for ever.
No execution is contemplated, as the clemency of the
King will be exercised, at the request of the Royal
Princes who were fired at.
The meeting of journalists to-night, to take into con-
sideration Dupoty's conviction and the results for the
press, is expected to be important.
Paris is as yet tranquil.

By convicting DUPOTY of the crime of treason
for merely editing a journal read by traitors in
common with other readers of newspapers, the
Peers have declared war to the knife against the
Press. They have now indeed drawn the sword,
and flung away .the scabbard. We shall
now see how much of that power which
hurled the tyrant CHARLES THE TENTH from
the throne, continues to be wielded by the
Press of France. By condemning DUPOTY,
the Peers have virtually abrogated the
Charter have proclaimed to Frenchmen
in the face of Europe that no laws exist in
France which can screen innocence itself from
their vengeance. The struggle will be a fierce
one. May it terminate in the prostration of this
infamous Star• Chamber, and its base progeny,
the September Laws!

We have received the whole of the French
Papers of Thursday, with Madrid Journals of
the 16th instant. The following are extracts :
It is believed that the Council-General of Commerce
is determined on declaring for the abolition of the beet-
root sugar system, allowing an indemnity to the growers.
The Council of Agriculture, it is expected, will pro-
nounce itself for the preservation of the beet-root sys-
tem, with some changes in the duties ; and the Chamber
of Deputies, it is supposed, will oppose any indemnity
on account of the state of the finance. From this, it
results, that it is still impossible to foresee what will be-
come of this important question.— Temps.
BAYONNE, DEC. 19.--The Spanish Government has
just appointed M. Soler, formerly Secretary of Legation
in Greece, to the post of Consul at Bayonne,
Marshal Saldanha, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary of Portugal in Austria, arrived at Bay-
onne the day before yesterday. He is to embark at
Marseilles for Italy, whence he will proceed to Vienna.
Lieutenant-General Espeletta, formerly Captain-Ge-
neral of the island of Cuba, has passed through Bay-
onne on his way to Spain.—Commerce.
It being a question at Toulouse what means should be
taken for introducing greater uniformity into the lines
of the streets, and for widening the narrowest ones, the
Minister of the Interior, on the recommendation of the
Prefect, has most judiciously adopted the principle of
ordering the general plan for this purpose to be drawn
up by an architect of taste and judgment, who is a
member of the Committee for the preservation of monu-
ments. M. Mege has, therefore, been instructed to pre-
sent a plan in which all the public monuments shall be
respected, and not sacrificed to the supposed exigencies
of the locality (as is unfortunately too often the case in
Paris); and in which all private houses and buildings of
historical interest shall be carefully preserved. If a
similar plan had been adopted a few years ago in the
capital, at Rouen, and some other large towns in France,
the country would not now have to deplore the loss of
many of its most valuable historical relics ; and Paris, in
particular, would be much richer in public and private
buildings of real national value even than at present.
In no part of France is public and official Vandalism car-
ried to a higher point than in the capital.
The Royal Academy of Medicine made a distribution
yesterday of the annual vaccination prizes to the candi-
dates who obtained them for 1839. The grand prize of
1,500 f. was divided between Dr. Belloz, of Besancon;
Dr. Litschgi, of Molsheiw,
near Strasbourg; aid Dr.
Nichet, of Lyons. Four gold and 100 silver medals were
also awarded. The total number of vaccinations effected
in 1839 was 528,268, being 45,417 more than in 1838.
blneetnheonslyam9,e4ylelacrastehs.ere had been 14,917 cases of small-
pox, of which 1,497 were fatal; but in 1838 there had
The number of hands engaged in mining operations
in Belgium is reckoned at from 38,000 to 40,000. Out of
these about 100 suffer from serious accidents every year.
A farmer and his wife, at Nonan-sur-Loire, having
been accused of petty robbery, and fearing the conse-
quences, went last week to a notary at Beaugency, and
made their wills in favour of the children of the husband
by a prior marriage. They then proceeded to a rela-
tion's at Courbouzon, where they dined. A short time
afterwards the husband was seized with violent pains, and
died. The medical men, who examined the stomach
'after death, found in it sufficient arsenic to kill twenty
persons. The question is whether this was an act of sui-
cide or of murder by a third person. The general belief
is, that both the deceased and his wife had contemplated
self•destruction, but the latter had failed in her resolu-
tion when the time came to carry it into execution. The

Magistrates ar making the requisite inquiries to ascer-
tain the truth. •
A correspondent at Amsterdam confirms the state-
ment that the Dutch.,. Government had decided on esta-
blishing, as soon as possible, a line of steam-packets, to
run regularly between Amsterdam and Batavia, the
capital of the island of Java. Depots of coals and pro-
visions are to be formed for them at Cape St. Vincent, in
Portugal; at San Jorge del Mira, on the coast of Guinea;
at the Cape of Good Hie, and on the island of St. Paul,
lying about 600 geographic leagues from Java, and nearly
desert.

A letter from Luxembourg, in a Frankfort journal,
gives the following particulars of the late melancholy
affair in that town :—" It appears that at the ball supper
at Diekirch, in honour of the King Grand Duke, M.
Durion. the burgomaster, having made a speech against
the German Customs Union, which was severely criticised
by a Dr. Kuborn, M. Dumont, the receiver of the registry
duties, went up to the Doctor with a knife in his hand,
and challenged him to repeat what he had said. Kuborn
having repeated it, Dumont plunged the knife up to the
handle in his heart."
The Correctional Tribunal of Chatelherault, in the
Vienne, having, on the 23d inst., been called upon to
try certain inhabitants of the commune of Cernay for
resistance to the Government agents for taking the cen-
sus, delivered a long and elaborate judgment declaring
that resistance to an illegal act is a lawful right ; that
the agens des' contributions did not possess the quality
authorising them to take the census ' • and, consequently,
the resistance opposed to them in this quality did not
constitute either a crime or offence.
BOURSE—PARIS, THURSDAY, DEC. 23.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Pric.. Price.
French 5 per Cents ...... • 11d 65 ... 116 65 ... 116 50 ... 116 60
4 per Cents lOO 95 ... 100 95 ... 100 95 ... lOU 95
3 per Cents. ex div 7B 40 —7B 5U ... ;8 40 ... 78 50
Rank of trance 3455 „.34`5 ...3155
Latfitte Bank I,ooot. Sharer 11:40 ...1040 —ll'4o ~.1040
5,000 f. Shares 5060 ...5061
1 •..060 ...5060
flelelan Bank
Belgian 5 per Cents.
S per Cent!, 1840 lO3 ... 103 ... 102%
•102% ipsnish Active 24% _ 24% ... 24% ... 24%
Pallgive
556 ••• 556 ••• ••• 5%
Old Deferred
Neapolitan lO5 65 ... 195 75 101 65 105 75
..... 103 ... 103 ... 103 ... 103
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain
Venality.. ....... 197 50 200 ... li7 50 ... 197 50
R. B 321 25 ... 3.?5 ... 321 25 ... 325
Noun
Orteans
Strasburg to Bale 213 75 .. 223 75 ... 222 50 ... 2a 50
DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, Dec. 21.
Money. Bill
Actual Debt, 254 per Cent ........ 51 51%
Jitto, ditto 5 per cent.
Amen Syndic, 454 per cent 90% 91%
Ditto, ditto, 354 per cent 75% 76%
Commercial Company, 454 per cent 154% 1535
Ditto (183.5 and 1837) 5 per cent.
Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 9714 97
Exchange on London, One month l2 10
Two months
Hamburgh, One month 35 e 7
Two months 35 50
Dutch Papers, Dec. 25.
BELO LAN I. UNDS—nausena, DEC. 2f.:
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Lean, S per Cent... . ......
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent 921%
3per Cent.

Thirty.ieven•

(134(9 .................. 101
Loan of City, 1932, 4 per Cent y6ll
Society of Commerce, 45.; per Cent
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent... ...... 74%
NationalSeciety.
Exchange on Loncleir (short) ............
—Brussels Papers, Dec. 24.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, DEc. 16.
Fsleeper Cents. Metalliques ..... ......... 1E0464
ORI per Cents. . . ..............
Three per Cents. ....... ........... •••••••••••••••••••.. 75
Bank Shares ..»..«....».......»....» ............. ...... 1623
Zeiluig, Dec. 71.
HA SIBU RI3 BORCENHALLE, Dn. 21.

Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares
_
Anglo-Russian Loan 1625
108% flit%
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate
Inscription, IstServis lOl% --
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th
Series
.....•••..... 98%
Ditto in Certificates
Ncw 4 per Cent. (1840) 861; 86%
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 50% 50
Ditto 5 per Cent — -
Polish Bonds
151
New ticket
16134
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. 77% 77%
Norwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cant. 11'2% 102%
Spanish, New 5 per Cents. l5 k
ON LNDN.
Mannino, Dec. 21-.
13
.-13 644.—Tw0 months, 13 5.
STOCKHOLM. DEC. 14.—Seventy-five days. 12. 12.
BERLIN, DEC, 18. - Three months, 6. 1,%.

AMERICAN NEWS,
MUTINY IN A SLAVER.
Captain J. E. Crosbie, of the brig Elizabeth
Wood, from Nassau, New Providence, sailed
the 21st November, reports that the brig Creole
of Richmond, Virginia, bound to New Orleans'
arrived at Nassau on the 9th November, with
about 150 slaves on board, in a mutinous state.
They obtained possession of the vessel, and de-
manded that they should be landed at a British
colony. Having disabled the Captain, and killed
some of the crew, they murdered Mr. Howell,
part-owner of the slaves, who was passenger on
board, by severing his head from his body, and
afterwards throwing his remains overboard. They
compelled another ship7paptain,w.ho Wag on beard
as passenger, to steer the.brif,v,,to Nassn.u,•where
he made the above report on arrival. Several
of the ringleaders were placed in prison, and the
rest of the slaves suffered to go at liberty. It
was reported that the Americans protested
against their being allowed to land, hut without
effect. The Creole had sailed again for New
Orleans in charge of the crew.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Saturday Evening.)
There is no business doing in the City to-day, the
Stock Exchange Bank and all the public offices are
closed.
There are several arrivals this morning, but the only
one of a later date, is from the Cape of Good Hope, the
papers reach to the'2lst October. The paper of the 20th
contains an extract of a letter from Port Natal, dated 31st
August, which states that—" 'With respect to political
affairs, every thing goes on quietly. Umpanda, it is said,
has paid Dingaan's debt and his own to the emigrants,
but trade with his people is not yet permitted."
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 24.—We have
had a quiet market to-day, without any material change
in prices.—Eastern Counties Debentures, 101. 7s. Bd. ;
Alliance Bat.k, 17i ; London and Birmingham, 164 to
166 ; London and South Western, 58 to 59 ; Manches-
ter and Leeds, 66 to 66.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
RIPON MEETING, DEC. 17.—A Sweepstakes of 8 sovs.
value was won by Mr. Meek's Lady, beating Mr,
Clarke's Atalanta. The second Sweepstakes, value 8
sovs., was won by Mr. Patker's Crucifix, beating Mr.
Thornton's Bess.

CRESSWELL PARK, DEC. 16.—The Cup was won b'
Mr. Crawford's Speed, beating Mr. Aadson's Thistle.
:LATEST MANCHESTER BETTING—(FRIDAY.)
THE DERBY.

8 to 1 agst Attila
11 to 1 agst Chatham
22 to 1 agst Robert de Gorham
45 to 1 agst Meteor—taken
000 to 20 agst Master Thomas—taken
.000 to 25 agst Seahorse—taken

TAXATION.—Mr. M'Culloch is said to have observed
, that "it is clear that the public interests require that
, every practicable effort should be made to lighten the
pressure on the national resources, and to check the
' efflux of capital to other countries by adding to the pro-
ductive powers of industry, or, in other words, by in-
creasing the rate of profit ; and this will be most effec-
tually done by making every possible deduction from
the taxes affecting necessaries, and by ceasing to bolster
np and protect any such single species of industry at the
expense of the rest." And also "In a practical point
of view, taxes on the rent of land are amongst the most
unjust and impolitic that can be imagined. It is quite
impossible to separate rent into its elements, or to say
how much is paid for the soil, and how much for im-
provements. No two agriculturists ever arrive, in any
given case of this kind, unless by accident, at the same
cc*clusion ; and the best judges affirm that, generally
speaking, the distinction is utterly impracticable.
When, therefore, a tax is laid on rent it is necessarily
proportioned to its gross amount, or to the total sum
paid to the landlords, without regard to the sources
whence it is derived. But any such tax has always
been, and will unavoidably continue to be, a formid-
able barrier to improvements ; for the return paid to a
landlord for capital expended on the soil being in-
cluded
in the rent, a tax on it discourages or prevents
all fresh outlays of capital, lest they should occasion a
corresponding increase of the tax. The injustice of this
impost is not less obvious. Two landlords are each in
the receipt of an equal sum, say 1,0001. a-year ; the
estate of one consisting of naturally fine soil, on which
but little capital has been laid out ; and that of the ether
of very inferior land, on which a great deal of capital has
been expended. A tax on the former merely abstracts a
portion of what is principally the result of the bounty of
Providence, ,whereas a tax on the latter abstracts a por-
tion of what has been mainly produced by the labour
and industry of man. Hence the obvious injustice and
oppressiveness of taxes on rent. We doubt, indeed,
whether it be possible to suggest any tax more decidedly
at variance with every sound principle, or more adverse
to the progress of improvernent."—From which combina-
tion of remarks it, would appear that Mr. M'Culloch is
adverse to taxation of every kind. We think he is right.
It is a prodigious evil, both from' its direct and from its
indirect effects, and no Government is warranted in
levying a single sixpence on the people by taxation ti hich
is not strictly necessary to the performance of its
functions.
WOOLWICH, DEC. 24.—NAVAL INTELLI.•
CENCE.—Admiral the Right lion. Sir George Cockburn,
G.CJL, one of the Lords of the Admiralty,visited the Dock-
yard on Saturday last, and was accompanied by Captain
Phipps Hornby, C. 8., Superintendent of the Yard, dur-
ing his examination of several of the departments. The
Shearwater steam-vessel, Commander John Washington,
arrived at Woclwich this forenoon from the North Sea.
The Lords of the Admiralty have directed the master
shipwrights of Plymouth, Portsmouth, Chatham, Sheer-
ness, and Woolwich Dockyards, to assemble at Woolwich
on the 3d of January next, to take into consideration
Mr. Blake's improvements for strengthening the bows of
ships, and the system of ship-building generally, with
the view to the adoption of :some fixed principle in a mat-
ter of such vital importance as the construction of our
ships of war.