The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-20 00:00:00

in Holland, a plant of rye was cut with 42 stalks, 6 feet
high each, having a ripened ear, containing 100 grains
upon the average, so that the produce of the seed from
which they sprung was 4,200 fold.
‘We learn from Berlin that as the Prince of Prussia
was, on the 7th inst., returning from an inspection of
the barracks of the Cuirassiers of the Guard, attended
by Colone; de Stockhausen, the horses ran away with his
carriage, drove it against the town-wall, broke the pole,
and threw the coachman from his box. At the moment
the horses were checked by the shock, the Frince and the
Colonel jumped from the carriage, and received no in-
jury, but the coachman, being entangled in the reins,
could not be released In time before the frightened ani-
mals got away again, dragging him with them. He was
much hurt, but is not in danger of his life.
BOURSE—PARIs, SATURDAY, DEC. 18.

k irst Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Pric. Price.
French 6 per Cent!, ...... ..... 116 40 116 40 ... 116 ,0 ... 116 40
4 per Cents lOO Pi ... 1 0 90 ... 100 90 ... 100 1)0
3 per Cents. es div 75 25 78 30 ... :8 20 ... 78 2U
'tank of erance
Laffitte tank I,ooof. Shares li 41
.. 11,40
...If4o
_lO4O
5,01.111 f. Stares 1,060 ...5060 ...t065 ...5060
uPlelan sank
Belgian 5 per Cents.
5 per Cant:., 1840 102% ... 10276 ... 102% ... 11,2%
.o.tiish Active 24 -. ... •34L ... •244 ... >44
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
•,capulitsn, ea div.
ri.....¢1a11..... 102% ... 102% ... 102% ... 102%
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain 772 50 ... 772 50 ... 771 50 ... 779 50
V ern, !Its. L.n 197 Su
.. 197 50 ... 197 50 .. 197 50
If. B ...........
touch .......... ..........
Urbrana ..
Stramngtoßale.shares red 225 . 225 ... 2‘M 75 ... 223 75

CRAIG VERSUS FENN.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,--4 thank you for inserting my letter in
your print of this evening, and in answer to the
editorial note which you have appended to it,
have much pleasure in reciprocating courtesy by
affording the information you require.
The letters of Mr. Davis (the surgeon referred
to by the proposal, and examined for the plaintiffs
on the trial) were dated March, 1836, and de-
scribed Mr. Talbot's habits as having been form-
erly intemperate; and that his face bore the
marks of irregular habit, but added that he had.
reformed, and was at that period perfectly mode-
rate, and temperate, and of sound constitution.
In August, 1837, the policy was granted; and an
-extra premium charged in respect of deteriora-
tion by the before-mentioned intemperance, (as
no man can repeatedly indulge in excess with
perfect impunity), the substance of Mr. Davis's_
letters being WARRANTED by the plaintiffs. The
very considerable interval of supposed good con-
duct, induced the office to effect the insurance; it
being their uniform practice to wholly reject all
cases of continuous intemperance, as leading to
results not to be predicted by medical acumen,
nor estimated by any observations, however ex-
tensive. The Directors having subsequently
learned that Mr. Talbot had not reformed, tend-
ered back the premium within three months, and
forthwith filed a bill in Equity to raise the ques-
tion on merits during Mr. Talbot's life-time—nay,
on the present record they put the single issue
on their ability to prove INtemperance, by plead-
ing that fact with what is called verification—
thereby taking the onus probandi on themselves,
and, consequently, relievinc, the plaintiffs from
any proof whatever. The latter, however, de-
clined the offer in open Court, merely fbr the
sake of beginning and ending with speeches from
their own counsel. The verdict you know was
for the defendant.—Your obedient servant.
GEORGE FARREN.
70, Cornhill, Dec. 18, 1841.
[The above explanation is quite satisfactory.—
En. Sun.]

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC. 18.—We have
had a very quiet COtton Market to-day, the sales
amounting to 3,000 bales, of which 410 have been taken
for exportation. Nothing doing by speculators.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, DEC. 18.—The trans-
actions at the Stock Exchange this day comprise—East-
ern Counties, 8i; Ditto, Debentures, 101; Great West-
ern Fifths, 94; London and Brighton, 39; North Mid-
land Thirds, 17 ; York and North Midland New; 31.
All the vessels that have been wind-bound at Liver-
pool got under weigh on Saturday and yesterday.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 18.—Rail-
way Stock is in good demand, and prices generally are
well maintained. Edinburgh and Glasgow, 43i; Lon-
don and South Western, 571 ; Manchester and Leeds,
64 to 66; North Midland, 724 to 734; Midland Counties,
841. to 85. _

'here are but few arrivals do- day.
Cape of Good Hope papers to the 14th October have
been received.

The paper of the 13th states that at a meeting of the
Legislative Council, his Excellency the Governor made
several statements respecting the revenue, which induce
us to hope that the finances of this colony will shortly
be submitted to revision. -
The prospects or the wine farmers continued very
gloomy.
The Hamburgh mail due on Friday, and the one due
this morning have arrived. Exchange comes lower,
the quotation being 13 5. Gold, 248, same as before,

THE FUNDS.
Both the English and Foreign Securities opened with-
out any variation from the closing prices of Saturday.
Consols are 89k for the Account ; Three per Cents. Re-
duced, 89+ ,i. ; Exchequer Bills, 10 12 prem.
Spanish Active Stock, 23k 3; Passive, 51 i; Deferred,
113 12 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 32f 33; Ditto Three
per Cents., 19-1- 20; Brazilian Bonds, 63 6,5 ; and Mexi-
can, 26k.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Eastern Counties
Great Western ... 65 ...... 84* to
Ditto Fifths -
Gosport Junction
Loudon and Brighton 5O ...... 384 to 3744
London and Birmingham .. ...... 90
.... .165
Ditto New......
London and Greenwich
Ditto Scrip— .. ............ ... 64
London and South Western 384 5B to
North Midland

__...
Ditto New
Ditto Thirds -
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Australasia
HALF-PAST ONE.
There has been but little business doing in the Stoc'i
Exchange up to the present time, and the quotations it
the English Market are the same as at the opening.
In the Foreign Market the only alteration to notice is
a slight decline in Spanish. Active Stock is now 231 -;15
Passive, si; Portuguese Five per Cents., 32i ; Belgian
Bonds, 101; Chilian Six per Cent. Bonds, 72k.
The Share Market is rather flat. Great Western, 84.-I-;
Ditto Fifths, 04 ; London and Brighton 37i a; Lon-
don and Birmingham, New, 27 ; London and South
Western, 58; North Midland Nen', 36.

COMMERCIAL AND AGRICULTU-

RAL MEETING.-(THISD
A general meeting of the Eastern Coast of Central
America Commercial and Agricultural Company took
place this day at one o'clock, at the Jamaica Coffee-
house, St. Nicholas-alley, Coruhill, but we are unable to
give any account of the proceedings, as one of our re-
porters was refused admission to the meeting by the
Secretary, on the ground (as the Secretary stated) of the
meeting being called on the private affairs of the Com-
mittee of Directors.

When Parliament assembles on the 3d of
February, it will meet no improved accounts of the state
of the country. This week has added another to the
list of great meetings to declare the advance of embar-
rassment, if not of ruin, among all classes in the manu-
facturing.districts. The whole West Riding of York-
shire has just made such a declartion. However tedious
these reports may be in the detail, from their sameness
and the triteness of the subject, as well as from their
gloomy character, they merit the profoundest attention
as emanating from such wide and important tracts of
country. District after district, each comprehending
great counties, has avowed itself unable to cope with the
burden that oppresses it. If the reader were to take a
blank map of the United Kingdom, and to colour:those
parts which have thus spoken in one tint—say in the
appropriate hue of black—he would find a large portion
of the country clothed in the shade of trouble ; and that
the most important and wealthy portion. It coin
prises the iron district of Western Scotland, with Paisley
and other trading places ; the iron district of Wales ;
Liverpool and Manchester, and the districts belonging
to them in Lancashire and North Cheshire ; the West
Riding of Yorkshire ; Derby, Leicester, Nottingham,
and their surrounding districts. The accounts from this
wide region are all alike ; they represent such a state of
things as, when it is permanent, is called the 'decay of
nations—their retrograde condition. Now these repre-
sentations cannot be neglected in the ensuing Session. If
they are denied, proof must be brought against the ac-
cumulated evidence in support of them. If they are ad-
mitted, it becomes those who make the admission to say,
whether they pronounce the evil to be hopeless, and dare
openly to resign the empire to its decline and fall, or
whether it is to be remedied. In the last case, if they
will not accept the remedies offered, they must produce
other remedies of their own. No one will venture to
think of prolonging paseive neglect.—Spectator.
The Municipal Council of Troyes has voted
from the funds of the town 500,000. towards whichever
t.f the two lines of railroad, Paris and Strasbourg, or Paris
and Lyons, shall traverse its district. The Council
General of the Department (the Aube) had previously
voted 1,000,000 f. for the same purpose. The Minister
of Finance has sent a reply to some representations made
to him by the Chamber of Commerce of Strasbourg, on
the subject of the railroad between Paris and that town,
in 11 hich, he says, that he ardently wishes to see the line
commenced without loss of time, and that the town of
Strasbourg may rely on his eagerly seconding its views.
The General Steam Navigation Company's
vessel the Giraffe, A. Stranack, from Rotterdam, arrived
off the Custom-house yesterday, with the Dutch mail.
Also the John Bull, from Hamburgh, with the Ham-
burgh mail. The Neptune, Whittinghain, from Ham-
burgh, arrived this morning, after a favourable passage
of 53 hours, with the Hamburgh mail.
BAD LAWS SHOULD BE RESISTED FOR THE
SAKE OF THE LAW.—They vitiate all law and make it
the okject of abhorrence. To secure obedience to the law
it must first be made just. What reasonable being could
hare the heart to inflict a punishment on a man for not
obe) ing an unjust law ?

StLv'ititAßV OF 5"-"-""
c o 4

AND
Vutite Opttiton.

" Who runs may read."

POR.EIGN.
Seven tribes on' the banks of the Tafna have made
their submission 'to the French Regency at Algiers.
The chiefs in alliance with France were everywhere
defeating the adherents of Abd-el-Kader. Lieutenant
Pelle had returned to Algiers on the 6th instant, from
a razzia anon, the tribes of the East. The victorious
Lieutenant reckoned among his spoils 800 sheep, and
1,800 head of cattle. In his wars with the disarmed
and defenceless peasantry he had shot twenty Kabyles,
thus covering the French name with immortal glory (?)
We ask for the hundredth time, is not such a buccaneer-
ing mode of warfare as this a burning shame to France ?
The Moniteur publishes a report to the King from the
Minister of the Marine and the Colonies, dated the 15th
inst., on the disasters occasioned by the overflowing of
the Senegal, representing that all the places on each
bank of the river had been so entirely flooded that the
inhabitants were obliged to traverse the streets in boats ;
that the current had thrown down several houses ; that
the Government warehouses, as well as those of private
individuals, were more than three feet under water; that
the shops were all closed, commerce at a stand, the
Courts unable to sit, and in fine, there had been a com-
plete stagnation of all business. The report concludes
with a recommendation that the subsidy for Senegal, of
320,000 f., granted by the budget for 1842, should be in-
creased to 500,000 f. This proposition is approved by his
Majesty, and the Report is tbliowed by a Royal Ordon-
nance granting the additional credit of 180,000 f. to the
Minister of Marine and Colonies to meet the urgency
stated.

The Court of Peers in Thursday and Friday's secret
Sitting pronOunced the guilt of Quenisset Boncheron,
Colombier, Brazier, Petit, Jarrasse, Launois, Boggie,
Mallet, Dufaur for the attempt, Quenissett as principal
and the remainder as accomplices.
A telegraphic dispatch in Saturday's Moniteur an-
nounces that M. de Salvandy and the persons composing
the new French Embassy in Madrid, entered that capital
on the morning of the 12th inst. The evening Moniteur
states that they had been well received on the entire road.
The Madrid Gazette, of the 11th inst., publishes an
amnesty of the Regent for all private soldiers who took
parkin the revolt of the 7th of October. The officers
are excepted.

PrivaCe accounts from Athens, dated 30th ult., state
that France had at last consented to pay the million of
francs demanded by the Greek Government. The Am-
bassadors of Austria and Russia are almost openly at war
uith the present Greek Government, and vie with one
another in their attention to Mavrocordato and his
friends.

PUBLIC OPINION.
In a leading article suggested by the proceedings of
the late Manchester Conference, the Chronicle makes the
following remarks:—" We regret to be obliged to ob-
serve that there is but too much foundation for the re-
semblance which has often been discovered of late
between the aristocracy of France before the Revolution
and the present aristocracy of England. The French
aristocracy refused to pay their share of burdens to the
State. The English aristocracy not only refuse to pay
their share of burdens, but actually avail themselves of
their power as Legislators to tax the industry of the
country for their separate profit. At the revolution in
1688 nearly the whole of the public burdens were levied
on land. Since that event, which gave the powers of
Government to the great proprietors, the landowners
have contrived to throw all the burdens off
their own shoulders to those of the other classes."—
There is a greater likeness between the French aristo-
cracy before the Revolution, and the present English
aristocracy, than is to be found in the fact that both
refused to pay their share of the burdens of the State.
The English, equally with the old French, aristocracy,
hold themselves haughtily aloof from the people ; en-
courage a special ignorance of their pursuits and feel-
ings ; refuse to assist them in their distress by sound
remedial measures of legislation ; and even reject all
ideas of sympathy with them. Can they wonder, then,
that the people look on them with other feelings than
thosesof respect and gratitude ? Rank is fast losing its
false glitter in the eyes of the country at large ; and
the time is approaching when an English nobleman must
have other recommendations than those of a star or a
coronet, if he would desire to maintain the respect of
the people.
The Post says :—" The opponents of the existing Ad-
ministration tauntingly demand of its supporters in the
public press what are the projected measures of which
we are illustrating the principles, or the necessity, or
the tendency ? The answer to this is plain enough.
The existing Government did not come into office
under any pledges to any particular measures.
They came into office in consequence of the House
of Commons avowing, by a large majority, that
it had no confidence in the late Ministry, and
that it did not approve of the plans put forward by
the late Ministry for raising the public revenue
to an amount equal with the public expenditure."—
We agree with the Post in these remarks. The Tories
did not come into office from any merits of their own,
but solely from the demerits of the Whigs. They did
not come in " under any pledges to any particular mea-
sures," because no really serviceable measures were ex-
pected from them, except by those who are more san-
guine than sagacious. If, therefore, they give nothing
—which is by no means unlikely—they will, at least,
have the consolation of knowing that they have not dis-
appointed the public, for nothing was expected from them.
The Times makes the following hap-hazard observations
in reference to the recent great Manchester meeting :
" Another Anti-Corn- law meeting has taken place, and
Manchester, the great centre of the cotton trade, has
been the scene of it. Again the items of distress have
been minutely particularised, and again the pernicious
attempt to excite the people against the laws and the
Legislature has been renewed by their pretended and
self-retained advocates. But the thermometer is mani-
festly falling. The atmosphere has been refreshed with
a little truth from without, and the mercury of the League
can no longer be kept at fever heat. The symptoms of
cooling were very evident at this Convention, which was
held on Thursday last in the Corn-Exchange•buildings,
under the presidency of Mr. R. H. Greg, the late
Member for the town. It had been announced that
this meeting, the object of which was to receive com-
munications respecting the depressed state of the
cotton trade, would consist of the principal merchants
and manufacturers engaged in it, who were to
attend as deputies from their respective districts in
Lancashire, Cheshire, and elsewhere. But the at-
tendance was such as to evince far less the depressed
state of the cotton trade- than of the cotton agitation."—
If the Tories will not be convinced by the late great pub-
lic meetings in the manufacturing districts, that the trade
of the country is in a state of extreme depression, and
that it is hazardous much longer to protract the consi-
deration of a remedy, we know not by what facts or ar-
guments, or warnings or indications, it can be convinced.
At Stockport, at Leeds, at Oldham, at Derby, at Paisley,
at Manchester, and several other places that we could
mention, the sentiments broached and the arguments
advanced, would, one would thank, be quite obvious and
significant enough to bring conviction home to the minds
of even the most prejudiced. But none are so deaf as
those who will not hear—none so blind as those who
will not see ; and the Times, like many others of its
party, has neither eyes nor ears, except for its own par-
ticular views of a question.
The Herald, reverting to the sprightly question of the
Corn-laws, remarks as follows Improved details in
the Corn-law, so as to regulate the more easy supply of
food in deficient seasons, to regain a part of the carry-
ing trade with South America and the West Indies,
which we have of late years lost by our inability to sup-
ply those countries with flour, and to render grain a
more important item in the commercial exchanges be-
tween this country and the rest of the world, are by no
means incompatible, as we have frequently shown, with
due protection to native agriculture. But any Corn-law,
which assumes, as Lord John Russell's fixed duties did,
that in ordinary years the United Kingdom is incapable
of growing an adequate supply of corn for the consump-
tion of its inhabitants, will be founded on so fatal an
error as to provoke the general hostility of all patriotic
politicians. Believing that there is in these islands an
increasing power of production the result in Great
Britain of improved, and in Ireland of extended, culti-
vation—any law which aims at a large annual importa-
tion of foreign grain, and thereby at throwing domestic
soil out of culture, or by preventing the development
of the great resources—now in waste—of Ireland, will,
we trust, meet with a very general and irresistible op-
position."
In an article on the subject of the advantages that
have accrued to the country from the Reform Bill, the
Advertiser says :—" All that is intelligent and virtuous
about Chartism may be said to arise from the agitation
for Reform. The deep, earnest, and intense desire of
the working men for the franchise was enkindled during
the struggle with the boroughmongers. The principles
they avow in the Charter (not perhaps the opinions) are
but the legitimate consequences of the arguments that
demolished the decayed boroughs of Sarurn and Gatton,
and gave the franchise to the great metropolitan con-
stituencies. The torch of Chartist enthusiasm was
lit at the altar of Whig Reform. It has been fearfully
misapplied. With careful guidance, prudent energy,
and close union the Chartists might now have pre-
sented a phalanx less powerful in its numbers than in
its moral weight and influence. Sincerely do we hope
they may avoid their former errors, and would they
but heartily coalesce with the middle classes in
the struggle for commercial freedom, they would
do more to secure a favourable consideration
for their demands than by any other course."—
The Chartists can never hope to become' a really influ-
ential body, except by abandoning some two or three of
their, at present, impracticable opinions, and making
common cause with the middle class:2s in their efforts to
obtain such sound, serviceable Reforms as are really
practicable. One Reform will be sure to pave the way
for another—it is, in fact, to get the wedge in, -which
may afterwards be driven home. In holding aloof from
the middle classes, and sternly cleaving to every minute
item in their political creed, the Chartists are beginning
agitation at the wrong end.
Alluding to Sir R. Peel's difficulty as regards Ireland,
the Dublin Evening Post observes :—" Sir Robert Peel
has enhanced this difficulty ten-fold by the appointments
he has made or sanctioned, and by the wild way in which
his officers have gone to work. We said repeatedly at
the commencement of Lord De Grey's Lieutenancy, that
though he might not receive cordial and earnest support
from the Liberals—this, indeed, he could not expect—
yet, that if his Government was conducted with common
sense, he would not experience the opposition with which
it is now beset."

The Scotsman, after remarking that the reign of
Castlereagh has come again, goes on to remark :

" A good Government appeals to the people's sense of
justice, a bad Govern►ne►►t to their fears. The Whigs
showed how Ireland, with all its imputed turbulence,
might be safely governed on the former principle, and
some fondly hoped that the old system of insurrection.
bills, and seditious-meetings-bills, and State prosecutions
for libel, was gone for ever ; but Tory rulers have
brought back Tory practices, and coercion is once more
in the ascendant."
The Devonport Independent contains the following
observations, in an article on the operation of the Corn.
laws :—" Fur the moment, the Corn•laws are deservedly
the leading topic, for people are day by day perishing
for lack of the food they would have but for the opera-
tion of those laws—enactments, in our deliberate and
sober judgment, as tyrannous and impious as any to be
found in the blackest codes of the misrulers of mankind.
Egyptian bondage was light compared with English ser-
vitude."
Speaking of the tactics .of the Puseyites, the Oxford
Chronich says :—" We mentioned last week, upon the
best authority, that Dr. Pusey had declared the success
of Mr. Williams to be of " MORE IMPORTANCE THAM
THE APPOINTMENT OF A CABINET MINISTER ;" and it
appears, from their movements, that the party generally
concur in this estimate of the importance of the struggle
to them : they are straining every nerve for victory.
with as little scruple, as to the means, as any Committee
of mere secular men anxious to carry their candidate at a
borough election."
The Cambrian observes :—" Hundreols are starving,
thousands are thrown out of employment, and thousands
are forced to accept of wages which barely keep body
and soul together, and which, after all, there is reason to
fear, can only be paid out of the decreasing capital of
the masters. The literally total stagnation of the iret
trade, coupled with the simultaneous extinction of their
forges by the English, Scotch, and Welsh miners, must
throw countless multitudes upon the poor-rates in the
course of the winter."

The Blackburne Gazette remarks, in an article on the
present distressed state of the country--" It will end—
lt can only end—unless immediately arrested—in the de-
struction of the trade of the country, the utter demorali-
zation of the labouring population, and the consequent
demolition of the fabric of social order."
PILONMY—Truu) —coramErzca.
The commerce of Trieste has been progressively in-
creasing up to July 15, 1840. In 1839 it amounted to
9,500,000 f., and in 1840 reached 12,000,0002, but since
that period has decreased. On January 1, to4o, tt,w dif-
ferent ports of Greece possessed 2,354 vessels under thirty
tons, and 886 above that burthen. She reckoned 18,668
sailors in employ, and 15,891 unemployed.
A gentleman at Bristol. highly connected, and holding
a high situation in the Custom-house, is alleged to have
absconded, having committed forgeries to the amount of
about 8,0001. or 9,000/. About 7,5001. of forged accept-
ances have been already ascertained, one or two of which
it is said are held by the branch of the Bank of England.

ECCLMS3ASTICAL.

A French Paper states on authority that the Sultan
has refused to allow a Protestant Church to be erected at
Jerusalem. The English Bishop, therefore, on his a-ri-
val, will be absolutely unable to present to the inhabit-
ants of the country a celebration of his worship. Galig-
nani doubts the statement.
A " Chartist Clergyman" asks whether he may not,
when Parliament meets, omit • the prayer for the High
Court of Parliament when he reads the Liturgy, as cler-
gymen at their option omit .the offertory and prayer for
the Church militant, and as he fancies David's Psalms
very deficient in politital allusions, why may he not in-
troduce a selection of Corn-law and Chartist hymns?
PUBLIC XIVIPBOVEMENTS.
The Coventry family have refused to surrender the
ground in the Green Park, opposite Coventry House,
which was to form part of the new improvements, they
having it on a lease for sixty years, granted to them by
George IV., at a ground-rent of thirty-six pounds.
STATISTICS.

The number of foreigners who have been sent out of
Belgium, or who have been prohibited from entering the
kingdom during the first eleven months of the year 1841,
amount to 1,350.

NAVAL, AND MILITAIZT.
The gentlemen cadets underwent their half-yearly
examination, previous to the Christmas vacation, before
Lord Blomfield and the officers of the Ordnance corps
on Saturday last. The Master-General will, in a day or
two, report the names of those entitled to commissions.
LAW AND POLICE.
George Haley, a middle-aged respectable man, was
this morning fully committed at Marlborough-street for
stealing publicans pots. He has five times before been
convicted of the same offence, and had been but a short
period before released upon his last committal.
It is invariably observed that on approach of the in-
tensely cold weather, the number of charges for drun-
kenness at the Police Courts of the metropolis invari-
ably increases. No less than twenty-three cases of this
description were brought to Marlborough-street Police
Court this morning.

C OtTECT-FAS NX NA ES LE.
Sir R. Peel leaves town to-morrow, or on the following
day, for Drayton Manor.
The French Ambassador and suite intend to pass
Christmas day at the Marquis of Lansdowne's.
Colonel Peel, M.P., the Surveyor-General of the Ord-
nance, has taken Lord Berwick's house in the Stable-
yard, St. James's for a term of years. The house is
now undergoing repairs, with a view to its occupation
early in February.
Viscount and -Viscountess Palmerston left Carlton
House-terrace, on Saturday last, for Broadlands.
Lord and Lady John Russell have gone to Woburn
Abbey, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Bedford.
Lord Stanley leaves St. James's-square on Wednes-
day next, for Knowsley.
Viscount and Viscountess Villiers leave Mivart's Ho-
tel to-day for Drayton Manor.
The Duke of Sussex and the Duchess of Inverness
are expected at Woburn Abbey on Wednesday.
The Duke of Buckingham has left Buckingham House
for Stowe, Bucks.

Earl Spencer arrived at Althorpe Hall, Northampton-
shire, on Wednesday last, from Spencer House.
The Earl of Aberdeen arrived in town on Saturday,
from Windsor Castle.

PINE AMTS.
A beautiful statue of Northcote, the artist, executed
by Sir F. Chantrey, according to the Western Times, is
placed by the Dean anti Chapter of Exeter Cathedral in
such a position as completely to hide its beauties from
view.

LITZRARY AND SCZENTIVIC.
The house No. 5, Craig's Court, is being fitted up for
the Museum of Economic Geology, to be under the
direction of Mr. Delabeche, the Government Geologist,
and Mr. R. Phillips. No. 6, the adjoining house, is to
be the depository of mining records.
A. letter from Brussels, of the 18th inst.. states that a
splendid painting by Rnbens 'has just been discovered.
The subject is the battle of the Amazons, of which
there is a finished sketch in the Gallery of Munich,
which is well known to connoisseurs by the engravings.
This newly-discovered painting is said to be one of the
most highly finished and the most powerfully coloured
of that great master. It is in the possession of M. La-
amens, a rich amateur of Antwerp.

THEATRICAL.
Monsieur Perlet, so great a favourite in London a few
years since, has been engaged by Mr. Mitchell to com-
mence the season of French plays at the St. Jame-es
Theatre. Many of Moliere's finest comedies will be
given before Easter. Plessy, Dejazet, and Bouffe, ap-
pear at the conclusion of M. Perlet's engagement.
Private theatricals have been performed during the last
week at Woburn Abbey, in which most of th distin-
guished guests took a part.
Mr. Lumley has re-.engaged the celebrated artistes of
the last season at the Queen's Theatre, except Signor
Tamburini, who holds out for the same terms he received
under the late Mr. Laporte. Carlotta Grisi, cousin to the
cantatrice, and her care sposa Perrot, will lead the ballet
at least before Easter.

SPOETING.
Prince Albert hunted with the Royal stag-hounds on
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday last. The stag on. the
last day, after an hour and a half's run, took refuge in
the chimney corner of the kitchen at the Rose and
Crown, about a mile and a half. from Sandhurst College.
To-day the Prince hunts at Stoke Common, and on
Thursday with the hounds in Surrey.
Lady Gardner's coursing establishment at Kinmel has
been broken up in consequence of the late calamitous
fire ; the greyhounds are to be sold this week.
Ballinkeele, the famous Derby racer, has been sold by
Mr. Maher for 2,000 guineas to Mr. Dixon, of Knights-
bridge.

211ISCEILLANEOuS.
On Friday evening last, owing to the collision of the
down-train from London with another engine on the
Croydon railway, three or four railway labourers, and
four or five passengers were severely injured.
At Hatfield, the Marquis of Salisbury's seat, which
her Majesty is expected to visit in the spring-time, there
still exists the oak-tree under which the Princess Eliza-
beth sat when the messengers from London came to re-
' move her from a species of prison to a Throne.
At Malta, illuminations in the public streets .of Va-
letta, the naval and military offices of Government, and
the ships of war in the harbour, celebrated the birth of
the Prince of Wales : the people are stated to have
shown but faint demonstrations of joy.
To-morrow will be the shortest day. The winter of
1564-5 was remarkable for a very severe frost, which
began on the 21st of December, and, according to Hol-
lingshed, " some plaied at football on the river as boldly
as if it had been on the drie land ; diverse of the Court
being then at Westminster, shot daily at targets set
upon the Thames; and the people, both men and iwomen,
went on the Thames in greater numbers than in anie
street of the Citio of London."

A man named James Fryer. one of the workmen em-
ployed at the new glasshouse, Mexborough, near Don-
caster, has manufactured a glass coffin, which he has
bequeathed to his cousin, who holds a situation in Guy's
Hospital, London, for his own body to be inclosed in
when he dies, so that his cousin will see if he rots any
faster than if he was coffined in lead. The coffin is made
of cleaE glass, quarter of an inch thick, six feet two
inches ong, 21 inches across the bosom, and 15 inches
deep. He has ornamented it with blue glass death's head
and cross bones on the side, and his name is inscribed
on the lid.

numoun or TI:IE DAT.
A report has been current during the week that Sir
Walter James is about to be called to the Upper House.

THE DEPOPULATION SYSTEM IN IRELAND.
—During the last ten years, as appears front the result
of the Census, the decrease in the population of Ireland
has been 527,590!

The three sons of General Raindre, of the Ar-
tillery, have all served in Africa, and have become vic-
tims to their duty. The eldest lost a leg at the siege of
Constantina ; the second was killed before Blidah, towards
the end of 1839, and the youngest died lately in the hos-
pital of a disease caught in the last campaign. Neither
of them had attained more than their thirtieth year, and
each had reached the rank of Captain.