The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-30 00:00:00

Wl' VI TWO ILLUiTRATIONS El LEECH.
The JANUARY NUMBER, Price lief-a-Crown, of TO CORRESPONDENTS.
BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY,' We cannot insert the letter signed " Isabella Lloyd," as
Will contain the commencement of a it contains exparte statements in relation to a matter
NEW STORY BY MR. ALBERT SMITH, which may be again brought before a court of justice.
Entitled
THE MARCHIONESS DE BRINVILLIERS ;
TILE POISONER OF TIIE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
A Romance of Old Paris.
With Two Illustrations by Leech.
Chap. I.—The Mountebank of the Carrefour du Chatelet.
Chap. ll.—The Boat-mill on the River.
Chap. lll.—The Arrest of the Physician.
The Fete of Peterhoff. By Mrs. Romer.
The Sick Man's Request.
Queen Pomare. An Imaginary Poem.
The Plaint of Sappho. By C. H. L.
The Opium Smoker.
The Men of Old. By W. Jones.
Confessions of De Loude Chiselliam. By Charles Whitehead
Loiterings in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington. By 11
The Fortunes of the Scattergood Family. By Albert Smith.
Close of the Old Year, 1844. By 11. 11. K.
The Boys of Kilkenny. By the Irish Whisky Drinker.
The Post-bag ; or, Eccentric Correspondence. By R. B. Peake
Monody on the Death of Thomas Campbell. By Dr. Beattie.
Literary Retrospect of the Departed Great. By a Middle-aged Man
Drink—The Knavish Treasurer of a Popular Charity.
Advice Gratis—The Gaol Chaplain ; or, a Dark Page from Life's
Tolume.

THE WEATHER..—SUN OFFICE, DEC. 27.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 35 ; Highest, 46 ; Noon, 35

BAROMETER, 30.08.—WIND, N.
NOTE.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and
" Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the
Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All
the other observations are made at noon. Water freezes at
32 ; 55 on Thermometers is marked "Temperate," and on
Barometers "Fair" is generally placed opposite to 30, and
" Rain" at 29 ; but there is no certainty of dry weather
when the mercury falls below 30.

Cooke.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON.BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Horning ... 6 minutes after 5 1 Evening... 25 minutes after b.

Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.

THE SPECTATOR, Next SATURDAY, 4th
JANUARY, 1845, will devote *a whole-sheet, SUPPLEMENT,
of twenty-four pages, to the RESULTS of the NEW ZEALAND
INQUIRY: the Materials derived from the House of Commons'
Blue Book, of 1,200 pages, and other voluminous Official Papers.
Principal Topics of the Supplement :—Some Passages in the History
of New Zealand ; Natural Resources and Advantageous Commercial
Position of the Islands (with a Map) ; The Aborigines ; The Mis-
sionaries; The Treaty of Waitangi; Hobson-Shortland Administra-
tion ; Hobs.rn-Shortland Colonisation ; Hobson-Shortland Finance ;
The New Zealand Company's Settlements; Auckland and the
Northern Settlements ; The Massacre at Wairau ; The Company's
Charges against the Government; Proceedings, Report, and Reso-
lutions of the Select Committee of the House of Commons; Notices
of Mr. Stephen of the Colonial-office, Lord Stanley, and Governor
Fitzroy.

SECOND EDITION.

9, 'Wellington-street, Strand

for its wholesale treachery to the rights of nations a
for its absurdity. He admits that Mexico had for-
mally notified to the United States her intention of
reducing Texas, as a revolted member of her empire,
to its obedience, and that again and again she had pro-
tested against the scheme of its annexation,
to the United States. He admits that not only did
the A merican Executive secretly encourage that
scheme, but that they negotiated a treaty for effect-
ing it ! And then he desires to show, first, that Mexico
was not wronged by this conduct, of which he is
compelled to allow the Senate and the House of Re-,
presentatives hare as yet no legal cognisance; and
secondly, that Mexico will be benefited by the dis-
memberment of Texas. What would the old Flo-
rentine we have named have said to reasoning like
this :

during the last revolt, had been permitted to visit his
patients, accompanied by two gendarmes and eight
soldiers. The authorities of Lucerne had seized a sum
of 80,060 P. in specie, deposited by M. JULES SALZ-
MANN in the hands of a banker of that city. Colonel
GUGGENBURLEZ had died at Lenzbourg in the arms
of his wife and sister. Confined by illness during
the whole summer, he left his bed to defend the cause
of liberty, and the fatigues he experienced in the out-
break of the Bth inst. had completely exhausted his
strength.

"Mexico has no right to jeopardise the peace of the
world by urging any longer a useless and fruitless con-
test. Such a condition of things would not be tolerated
on the European continent. Why should it be on this ?
A war of desolation, such as is now threatened by
Mexico, cannot be waged without involving our peace
and tranquility.
ground of displeasure against this Government or
people for negotiating the treaty. What interest
of hers was effected by the treaty ? She was de.
spoiled of nothing, since Texas was for ever lost
to her. The independence of Texas was recog-
nised by several of the leading powers of the earth.
The interests of Mexico, therefore, could in nothing be
bettor consulted than in a peace with her neighbours,
which would result in the establishment of a permanent
boundary. Upon the ratification of the treaty, the
Executive was prepared to treat with her on the most li-
beral basis. Hence the boundaries of Texas were left
undefined by the treaty. The Executive proposed to
settle these upon terms that all the world should have
pronounced just and reasonable."

But the best is to come. Feeling that he had con-
fessed too much, in owning that the annexation scheme
was not yet sanctioned by Congress, the PRESIDENT
has what we must call the assurance to say that the
favourable decision of the whole American people has
been abundantly manifested by the result of the late
Election! An admirable contrivance, these Elec-
tions, for superseding the rights of nations and the
useless forms of diplomatic discussion ! But we do
not imagine for a moment, that the American people
are to be caught by clap-traps so palpable as this.

got all together, as well as I could feel them on the
upper landing, and it was only some seconds after we
were outside that I discovered this unfortunate boy was
lust. The whole of this transaction might have occu-
pied four minutes.
By the CORONER—Our occupation for that night was
to prepare a report for the Vice-Chancellor, and the bays
were engaged in copying the rough draft. I had an
Arnott stove heated from the wash-house and passing
through the conservatory. I had an ordinary stove also
with a fire, but there Ives not the smallest connection
with wood work. There was indeed less tire than ordi-
nary. The Arnott stove in the washhouse Was to heat
the conservatory and the back drawing room beneath
my study. I had a vertical flue passing from the stove
through the wall to the outside, then straight up outside
the wall of the conservatory. The conservatory is a
half circle or bow, and the flue went round that. It had
other branches, one to the back drawing-room, coming
in under the window, the other branch was near the
stove, and the floor of the pantry was the ceiling of the
washhouse, and in that floor was an iron pipe about
eleven feet above the stove. The size of the main flue
at the stove, might be nine inches by four inches, all of
brickwork.
Mr. WAKLEY—Now, Mr. Fairey, do, if you please,
describe the other flue communicating with the ironing-
stove ? Witness—There is another flue from the iron-
,ing-stove also in the laundry, going upwards to the
' pantry, and ending in what I believe to be a chimney in
the next house. I think it cannot be cleaned on account
of the very acute angle which occurs in its line, and that
angle corresponds with the place NS here I observed the
appearance of gas-lights on a foggy night. In one part
of the wall, where an arch was formed in order to admit
the pipe, a very nicely fitting piece of wood-work was
inserted, and nothing was placed beta eeu that wood-
work and the heated pipe itself. I believe now, that the
fire originated in the small closet where my servant kept
his boots, and that it then entered at the staircase
window, thus, in fact, at first arising in the wooden arch
referred to already by me.
Mr. WAKLEY—Here is a fireman belonging to the
Brigaele, who arrives at a different conclusion. It may
be as well to examine his reason for this opinion.
George Calf, a fireman, put in the ground plan of the
premises by direction of Mr. Braidwood. He believed it
to be a correct plan, and he agreed with Mr. Braidwood
in his opinion from the appearance of the premises. The
house was as bad a house as over was built. The floors
had sunk from not having proper support. He only-
called out five of his men a few minutes before the floors
fell in, and it was next to miraculous that the whole of
them were not buried in the ruins.
Mr. Fairey said the house was a very handsome one,
but not of substantial materials. A former owner had
greatly beautified it, but he removed some main beams.
The house was all lathe and plaster, not unlike a scene
in a play. Two pilasters which were intended to sup-
port the ceiling, and made of strong materials, he had
found since the fire that they were made of wood and
plaster, and consequently combustible.
The youth Hall was then examined—He said ho went
to bed about half-past two o'clock. He was employed in
writing up to that time in the drawing-room. At that
time there was neither fire nor smoke, and nothing pe-
culiar.
Mr. WAKLEY remarked that it was next to impossible
that the fire could have been in that flue next to the
conservatory without Mr. Fairey or the youth's know-
ing it.
Hall continued—Put the guard on by the desire of
Mr. Fairey, Slept in the same room with Robinson, but
not in the same bed. Shook him and called him to get
up. He never made the least motion. Witness did not
dress himself. Came back to the room twice in the hope
of saving him. The last time he could not venture into
the room. He was generally a very heavy sleeper.
When witness awoke the room was full of smoke.
Mr. WAKLEY said that a small quantity of smoke in
some of the small passages of the lungs would cause
death.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL l'a: ----svB
~.,
CITY, QUARTER TO THITII4
There was a steady demand for Cotton at Liver'?
on Saturday, and prices were firm, but not higbe.
r
Sales, 7,000 bales, including 2,000 bales on speculation,l
In general, the Message of the President of the Unit!
States on the opening of Congress, is held to he sail
factory ; but there is one point upon which it is deemed
to be not favourable to the claimants upon the rePre
diating States. Not a word is, in fact, said upon tad
dishonest.% of the repudiating States—not a ward
of admonition to them to pursue in future
a more honest course, by which the honour
of the whole Union would be relieved from
the stain that has been cast upon it. In the 31ot--
there is a paragraph which ought to tell on our-Prune
Minister. The American President thinks, and 111,,,
truth too, that the reduction of taxation ought to he 1;.;
main point to be considered when there is a sap !.
revenue. On this side of the Atlantic there are Oct
sands of persons who think that it would "
%. • ll'
better to reduce direct taxation, ratnera
, i 0
by laying out any of the surplus receipts of the kivg"c'of
over expenditure, in taking out of circulation dribltt,i,
the National Debt. Sir Robert Peel should look to ''''is
subject. If carried out to the full extent possible,'
will wive satisfaction to the " millions." IY
The speech of Sir Charles Metcalfe on the 0/1.,
ing of the Session of' the United Colonial
to°
gisature has been well spoken of in the course
f
trade this morning. The election of Sir A. 31`Nab is
the Speakership is considered a favourable feature, 4e,,
is thought to demonstrate that there will be less of Pll,l'.'
spirit in the discussions that were to come on in the '
1
gislature. The weather was rather mild than otherwl-,e
The navigation of the lakes and portions of the 5t- Lair
rence was partially closed.
Information has been communicated to us this lef_letl;
ing corroboratory of the advantages of the fruit 11"1
taking Southampton as their point of arrival and dePa1„„
tura. The Elenor sailed for Fayal on the 24th Novel'
ber; reached there, took in her cargo, and returned°
the 28th December. The Styx steamer departed 10--
~.
Southampton for the same port, and reached Southanq
ton yesterday with a full cargo.
The market for the public securities has been CO
what heavy to• day, a few speculative sales of Cons/
having been made. The price for the Account has receded
from 1004 to 100 k ; the Reduced Three per Cents. fr° r
10(4 to 100 i; and the New Three-and .a-Quarter Pe.
Cents. from 103 k to 103. Among the speculators 1
the Stock Exchange the President's Message caneei,
little remark. The premium upon Exchequer.billgll
steady at 625.; Bank Stock for the Account is at
In anticipation of the settlement in the Forel.
Market, which is fixed for to-morrow, there has been;
very good amount of business transacted to-day. Melic,,sly,
Bonds have fallen from 36f, the last price of Satlliu-''
to 3.5 i I. Portuguese Converted have declined to 6d'
but are now
,i per cent. better. Spanish Consols
down to 27 ; and the Three per Cents. to 37*. Putt '
Brazilian, and Chilian are rather lower also. 00
'The Shares of the chief Railway Companies are
the rise. London and Birmingham have bean sold!
129 premium ; the Birmingham and Gloucester at 1 c1,,1
count ; the Bristol and Gloucester at 10,i to 14 preinit-
and the Great Western to 76 premium. There were °0
quotations for Banking Shares this morning.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK'
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock 2lOl
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
New 3,1 per Cent. Annuties
Consols for Opening
Bank Stock for Account.
India Stock .
-.
2871
Exchequer Bills. lid. . lid.
1,0001,
5001. ...
Ditto Small —
Ditto Advertised ........ ,— pm.
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCJ''
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent 351k1
Ditto for the Account 36 351
Ditto Deferred
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent
Ditto for the Account 291
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent B6
Ditto Converted ..
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 274 27
Ditto Passive Bonds 6gl "
Ditto 3 per Cent 3B 371
Dutch 21 per Cents
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
Ditto 5 per Cent.... „„ 99
r,5
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CL,,n-
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER Smote-
Birmingham and Gloucester 100 -
Ditto, New...
Bristol and Gloucester..
Caledonian 5 4„ o .....
43
Churnet Valley 2 -
Dublin and Belfast Junction 21
..
Eastern Counties
Great South and W. (Irish)... 5
Great Western
43...
... t
London and Birmingham ...100 2261 ...... to 229
London and Blackwall 164
...... to --
London and 8right0n.......... 50
London and South Western.. 411
Ditto New —
London and Croydon
London and Yoik... ....
. to Manchester and Leeds 7O l2ll .....
.to -- , Ditto 1 Shares
Midland lOO ll5 ...... to
Birmingham and Derby lOO B5 to --- . •
Newcastle and Berwick -
South-Eastern and Dover... 33/
t: r 7,4
401
Yarmouth and Norwich .. ... 20 -
York and North Midland... 50 lO 3
Ditto Scarboro' Branch lO 31l
Ditto Selby Scrip 2O 671
Boulogne and Amiens
Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 2
Paris and Lyons

DUTCH FUNDS.—AusTuaDer, Dec. V.
Money. 1.11W4
Aetna) 1)(!bt, 6214 per 64% 44%
Ditto, ditto, 3 per Cent
Ditto, ditto, 4 per Cent.
atty. auto S per cepa.
A t Syndic, 4% per cent ..... 4;0% 14
Vitt°, ditto, 36 per cent 91% 924
Commercial Company, 4% per cent 147% 145
Loan 1837, 4) per cent...
Exchange on London, Onemonth
Two months ..... 12 15
At sight l2 20
Dutch Papers, Dec. 28.
•
BELGIAN FUND3.—Bausens, Dic. 27.
Actua Debt, 2% per Cent., .... ........
Rothschild's Loan, Five per
Loan •f Thirty Millions, Four per Cent...". .... 'a"
Three per Cent........ 7"
--Thirty-seven Milli, „ ns, ditto , ,S
Loan of City, 1843, Four per dent. 103%
183 t
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent. --
Bank of Relgiont, Five per Cent
Issue of ......

Aspe,-s, Dec. 28.
LIAMBURGH BUNSENHALLE, Dec. QC.
Bills. bieneT.
Austrian 5 per Cents. ............ ..... 113 ~
Bank Shares Neu
Anglo-Russian Lean
Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certifirate lO5 I°s
Inscription, Ist series
..-1I 10D
•
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series._ . ....
....
. ..., .... 9014 --
Ditto in Certificates.-
............ ..••• ..•.
1441
....
New 4 per Cent. (1940) — Irni
Dutch Actual Debt, 2)4 per Cent, ......... s3si 63
Ditto 5 per Cent. ... ...... ...... Zg
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Coat.... ........ ....... 871 i '"''
Spanish, New S per Cents. 2O le%
Polish Bonds
--• -..--,..
New Tickets W_ ...
exchange on London.
Haa%burgh, One ni‘nth
Two inonths l3 8

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