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London, England, 1844-01-02 00:00:00

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jest of the conspiracy was, the destruction of the Pro-
testant religion; the corollary was to be, the repeal of
the Union; and for these two great purposes the Anti-
Corn-law L9ague is prosecuting its gigantic labours !
Such is the staple of Mr. Pert.lnd's present philippics
against the manufacturers and the League; and. the
'limes, and the rest of the Tory press, are not ashamed
to occupy their columns day after day in retailing their
trash. Verily, the Starreocracy is in a desperate plight
to be reduced to such champions.

NEW POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS

FOR 1844.

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In no department of the public revenue have so many
improvements been made of late years as in that of the
General Post-offiee, in consequence of the facilities
afforded by the rapid progress of Steam navigation and
railways. To the commerce of this great mercantile
country the intredaction of ltxontative power since 1820
has proved of the greatest importance. Our wall-built
steamers now cross the wide Atlentie to America and
the West Indies, Portugal, Spain, down the Medi-
teranenn to Egypt, end the IndiatisTttesrdm;aup, ntnitAhelaelrtr,ie
to St. Peterslurgin to =burgh,i,
Ostend, Calais, F;oulogneeDieppa, and Havre de Grace,
and run daily like a trip to Gravesend ; whilst by the
means of railways we arc conveyed in a few hours to in-
lan.l towns of England end Feotiand, which formerly oc-
cupied days and nights ef dreary travelling.. The fol•
lowing is the offieial list of Post office arrangements for
the present year, which cuma' into operation yee;erdase
January 1, and the postsge on for, ign letters, which r o
doubt will be interasting te the public, viz.--Calais daily
(Sunday excepted), due in Landon daily ; Ostend,
Monday, Tuesday. - Thursday, and Friday, due Sun-
day, Monday, Thursday, and Friday, by steams
packets via: Doecr ; Holland, Tuesday and Friday,.
tine Monday and Thursday ; Ilamburgh, Tuesday and
Friday, due Tuesday and Saturday, by steam-packets
fast London ; Vigo, Oporto, • Lisbon. Cadiz, and
Gibraltar, every Tuesday morning ; Malta, Greece,
and the lonian Islands on the morning "of the Ist and
15th of the month ; Egypt and India on the morning of
the Ist of the month, by steam-packets via Southamp-
ton, to Malta, Egypt, India, and Hong-Kong, by the
overland closed mail via Marseilles, on the 4th of the
month. British and foreign colonies in the West Indies:
-Madeira, Mexico,: Honduras,. Havannah, Bahpenas#
Chagres, and New Granada, on the morning of ire 2d
anti 17th of the -month ; BerMuda and St. Jago do
Cuba, on the 17th only, by the morning mails eta South-
ampton. British North America, Bermuda, and the
United States in the evening of the 3d and 18th of the
month, except-in ..December, January, February, and
March, and then only on the 3d by steam-packets via
Liverpool. Madeira, Brazils, and Buenos Ayres on the
first Tuesday of the month by sailing packets from Fal-
mouth. Postage on letters by steam-packets from London :
-Holland, Is.; Germany, Denmark, Swedan,and Russia,
IseBd.; Heligoland, Is.; Hamburgh, Cuxhaven, Lubeck,
Bremen, and the Grand Duchy of Oldenburgh, 6d. By
steam-packets front Dover :-France and Algeria (under
quarter of an ounce), 10d. ; Belgium, Is. 6d. ; Spain,
Portugal, Sardinia, and Southern Italy, via France, 10d.;
Switarland, Turkey, the Levant, the Archipelago,
Greece' the lonian Islands, Austria, Venetian Lom-
bardy,Germany, Belgium, and Rolland, via France, per
half ounce, 5d.; Baden, Bavaria, certain northern States
of Europe, for Warded through the post-office of the
Duke of Tour and Taxis, via France, sd. ; Alexandria,
Smyrna, the Dardanelles, and Constantinople, by French
packets, via Marseilles, on the Ist, lltb, and 21st of the
month, a uniform Britisit and foreign rate of Is. 3d.
(under a quarter of an ounce) ; Tuscany and the Two
is. 9d. ; Roman States and Greece, is. 7d. ;
Malta, by the monthly closed mail, via Marseilles,
Is. 3d. ; Alexandria, Is. Bd. ; India, Is. 10d. ; Hang-
Kong, la. 10d. ; and the lonian Islands, Is. Bd.
By the steam-packets from Southampton :-Lisbon,
ls. 9d. ; Spain, 2s. 2d. ; Greece and Egypt, Is. 6d. ;
Gibraltar, Malta, the lonian Islands, India, and Hong-
Kong, Is. ; the British West India Islands, Honduras,
Panama, Chili, and Peru, Is. ; Hayti and the foreign
West India Islands, Is. sd. ; Venezuela, Mexico, Cuba,
and New Granada, 2s. 3d. ; Madeira, ls. 9d. By steam-
packets from Liverpool :-the United States, Bermuda,
Halifax (Nova Scotia), New foundlaud, and British North
America, via Boston, is. ; Upper and Lower Canada,
Prince Edward's Island, New Brunswick, and Nova
Scotia, Is. 2d. By sailing packets from Falmouth :-
Madeira, Is. Md. ; Brazil, 2s. 9d. ,• Buenos Ayres, 2s. 7d.
N.B. All fareign letters must be prepaid, except to
France. Holland, Batavia, Baden, Bavaria, certain
nortivn States of Europe, forwarded through the office
of T.tr and Taxis ; Alexandria, Smyrna, the Darda-
nelles, Constantinople, Tuscany. and the Two Sicilies,
Roman States, Greece and Maha, via France ; Gibral-
tar, Malta, the British West Indie Islands and Canada,
by their packets. Newspapers can be sent free of post-
age to all the British possessions in the West ladies and
North America, Brazils and South America, France,
Spain, and Portugal, and India, via Southampton ;
Hatuburq,h, Sweden and Norway ; to Holland and coun-
tries through Holland, l,t. ; the United States, 2d. ; the
Cape of Good Hope, Ceylon, South Australia, New
South Wales. Van Diemen's Land, and New Zealand,
Id. ; India, via France, 2d. ; closed mail, 3d. The next
mails for Matta, Egypt, India, and Heng-Kong, by the
closed overland mail via Marseilles, in tine on Thurs-
day, the 4th instant. The-West Indies, this morning,
the 2d instant, by the Teviot steamer, via Southampton.
United States 61 America, Canada, &c., via Boston, to-
morrow, the 3d instant, by the Britannia steamer, from
Liverpool. Madeira, the Brazils, anti Buenos Ayres,
ditto, by her Maiesty's brig Penguin, via Falmouth.
Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, on Thursday
morning, the 4th instant, via Southampton.

MR. WILSON'S ENTERTAINMENT
ON SCOTTISH MUSIC, AT THE MUSIC
HALL, STORE STEM'.

Wilson has returned fre in his provincial tour in good
health in.d in excellent voice, and recommenced his de-
lightful Scottish Entertainments at the Music
Store-street, where he was enthusiastically welc( met? by
a crowded audience. " Oh, weel may the Bustle row"was his (wetting melody, and this was followed, by the
beautiful, plaintive " Logic o' Buchan," which he gave
with most exquisite tenderness and expression; this and
" We're a' Noddin" were the gems of the evening, as far
as sentimental songs were concerned. With regard to
this latter song, all the lovers of Scottish music are
under infinite obligations to Mr. Wilson for having res•
cued this delicious melody from the absurd words to
which it has hitherto been set, and for having substituted
for them one of the most beautilAy pathetic lyrics ever
penned, and which lASUy given by him with the most
touching pathos and feeling. It vuis, of course, loudly
encored, and we hope that henceforth these words will
be, to the exclusion of all others, the words of " We're a'
Noddin." We have said that these were the gems of
the evening at far as sentimental songs were concerned,
and many of the audience perhaps preferred them to any
of the others : but greet as Wilson is in the pathetic, he
is equally great in the humourous and the dramatic, and
we delight to hear him in such songs as " There cam
a young man to my daddy's door," and " Muirland
Willie." In these songs he stands alone. How admir-
ably humourous was his acting in this latter song
last evening—the rough wooer, the cautious father,
the coy and coquettish maiden, were all delineated
to the life. Then again, what could be better than his
acting in " Come under my Plaidic ?" It was a perfect
drama, the characters of Donald, the old wooer, Marion,
the young maiden, and Johnnie, the rejected suitor,
being sustained, and sustained with the most harmoni-
ously truthful effect, by Mr. Wilson. In " llooly and
Fairly," too, what can exceed the ludicrously dolorous
manner in which he gives time line
" 0 gin my wife would drink hooly and fairly,"
Never were the suflering3 of the henpecked husband more
humourously and ruefully represented. The finale was the
excellent old ballad " Get up and bar the door." Mr.
Wilson adds vastly to the humour of this admirable do-
mestic comedy, fer such it is, by his manner of giving
it. Ire repeats the first line of each stanza, and then
sings the other three—this, he says, was the old way of
giving the ballad, and it is decidedly the most telling
and effective. He was loudly encored in this song, and
repeated it with, if possible, increased gusto. At the
conclusion of the entertainment he announced that he
should this day week give " Anither nicht we Burns."

ROYAL EXCHANGE.—It is the intention of the
Gresham Committee at once to take into consideration
the possibility of giving the public a direct thoroughfare
through the new area of the Royal Exchange, but as
this cannot be done without mattrially interfering with
the operations of Mr. Jackson, the contractor, and his
workmen, who have engaged to finish the building in a
specified time under a large penalty, a covered passage
is the only one that can in any shape be acceded to, and
even in this case, it would cut off a direct intercourse
with the western and eastern portions of the buildings,
and prove very inimical to that rapid execution already
exhibited. With an open thoroughfare the attention of
the workmen would naturally be called from their duties,
and that system of guresillance, so necessary under such
circumstances, would be rendered one of increased diffi-
culty, if not altogether impossible. At present the
space afforded to the workmen is unprecedentedly small
—indeed, it is calculated that the loss accruing for the
want of more has been at least 4,0001. Upon the east
side there are about eight feet between the hoarding and
the building, and upen the three other sides there are
scarcely ten. There is a fact which has not been com-
mented on during the progress of the works, which, by
reason of its absence at other public buildings, demands
a passing notice. It is the great unanimity which has
throughout existed between the contractor and the work-
men. This comfortable feeling is, it would now appear,
directly owing to a wise forethought in founding a fund
for the relief of all employed upon the edifice. The
principal source of such fund arose from the permission
of the Committee to exhibit for three days the marquee
under which his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and
other distinguished persons, met to lay the first stone.
From this means alone an exchequer has been furnished,
out of which, with some trifling additions, no less a sum
than 5001. has been dispensed to the families of the sick
and maimed. The number of casualties during the
erection has been very small.
DEATH BY FIRE.-011 Saturday, a young man,
named James Burrows, aged twenty-one years,
in St. George's hospital, under thehisfolbliconawmia,ntgesceioxrfie'uitrinheed-
stances :—lt appears that Burrows, who was a labouring
man, and resided at No. 15, White's-wharf, North-road,
Paddington, arrived home at an early hour on the
anmorn-
ing of the 19th instant, in a state of inebriety,ndlaced
having proceeded to his room, lit the candle
aancr soon
it on the table, upon which` he laid
reeeet
went to sleep. Subsequent
pannedho e sb•eyr e
smell
ofßtir-e,ows, he was discovered
aarsotruognedg
a dreadful state of ao-ony from
by
lying under the table in _ _.l
loudi yg.rtohaen
andso,t which ehnri
ne h
proceeding w•
o
the apartment occupied by Burros`'',
burns lie had sustained. Re was Fixed, yas
possible
removed to St. George's Hospital, where he died. The
body awaits a Coroner's inquest.

1-11(ill WATER AT LON DOSI-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning 35 minutes after 11.1 Evening 0 minute after 0.