The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-01 00:00:00

MA.RYLF,BON E VESTRY.

(THIS 1) AY.)
meeting of the Vestry was appointed' for to-day,
as it was expected that the subject of the paring of
the Whole of Oxford-street with wood, would be- again
t7ought under discussion, we, anxious to give our readers
acconat of what took place, sent our own Reporter,
ohffieouturpon his requesting.admission, he was told by the
00 duty that the order of the Vestry was, that
no Reporter should be admitted unless he produced the
earl of the Editor of the paper he represented. What
are the motives for such areo.'ulation we will not pretend
t,°,:guess, but the absurdity of it must be palpable to all
4"° are anxious that their
.proceedings should be made
as public as possible.

LLOyAys suippiN' G—( 'HIS DAY.)
LoNnoN, JAN. I.—Wind this day at noon, S. E.
• OFF MARGATE, JAN. I.—Black Nymph, Singapore.
IiAIIISGATE, JAN. I.—Shl. Christian, Rio.
LIVERPOOL, DEC. •31.—Wind S.S.E.—Sld.Bengalee,
Canton ; British Merchant, Bombay ; Chilian and Secret,-
Lima; :Mary, Demerara; Capricorn, Barbadoes; Coquette,
Jamaica ; Ann Mondell, Trinidad ; Woodman, Sterne,
iravannah ; Richmond, Antigua ; Invoice, Hayti ; Wood-
st(", New Orleans ; Princess Victoria, Mobile ; Hark..
away, Virginia ; Lyna, Baltimore - Dauntless, Charles-
ton ; Mersey, James Lemon, and' Rhode Island, New
lurk Canton, Sierra Leone; William IV. and Ashbur-
ton, Azores; Firefly, Constantinople. Off port, Hope,
leaky Orleans. The Belvidere, Job, Bombay, has put back
'eakY, having been aground on Burbo Bank, and must
diiehar,e.
COWES, DEc. 31.—Arrd. Swan, Bingston, Rio.
PAlztou'ru, 'DEC. 30.—Wind W.—Sld. Duke of Cam-
Lridge steamer, London, with 100,000 dollars on freight.
OFF HASTINGS, DEC. 21.—Atalanta, Rotterdam,
Batavia.
SOITTRAMPTON, DEC. 31.—S1d. Tay, st., Barbadoes.
StitiEttLAND DEc. 30.—Sld. I. 0., Constantinople.
TEIGNISIOUTII, DEC. 29.—The Sophia, Rommel], of
~Guernsey,
~, which was stranded on Sidmouth Beach the
~
nit., was towed in here 23d instant, to repair.

CHRISTIAN CHARTIST CHURCH.
"it Tuesday evening, when the proceedings of the
meeting, held at the Town-hall in Birmingham, were
terminated, several prizes were awarded to different mem-
bers of the Society for various essays, and which prizes
consisted of interesting books, combining wholesome in-
struction with amusement. The competitors for the
prizes were all working men, who were, comparatively
speaking, uneducated before the formation of the above
Qei"Y• The essays were read to the meeting, and
many of them displayed considerable talent, and elicited
much applause. The principal successful aspirant for
academic honours was George Sumner, for an essay
upon the principle of the Chartist Church, from which it
appeared that the Society comprises all sects and deno-
minations, having one object in common—the well-being
budangood of all, There is no particular form of worship,
each approaches his Creator after his own fashion
and heart ; and thus the Unitarian and the Catholic,
the Protestant and Dissenter, under the same roof "are
seen assembled at once to worship his God and benefit
.
fellow man. The end and aim of this sect is to ob-
l:in universal liberty as contained in the People's Char-
,wk. making the basis of it that Christian principle,
leh teaches to do good to all. Prizes were also deli-
vered to Caleb Lee and John Taylor, for essays upon the
sante subject ; also a prize to William Redford and Ed-
ward Newton, for an essay upon the Mediterranean
re• William Crumraodge, Thomas Eyre, Thomas
agleY, and James Birken, also received prizes for an
~!say upon the character of Christopher Columbus.
The several productions were listened to with marked at-
ntion, and seemed to give general satisfaction and
pleasure, but to none so much as the honest and hard-
working authors.

CO URT CICULAR.
WINDSOR, FRIDThe Q R
ueen and Prince Albert
walked out this morning on the Castle Terrace, and in
the new grounds of the Home Park. Her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Kent also took walking exererise
In the forenoon.
Colonel.Wemyss and the Hon. C. A. Murray joined
the Royal hunt this morning, at New Lodge.
Viscount Melbourne is expected at the Castle on a
visit to her Majesty. The Hon. Sarah Mary Cavendish
arrived on a visit to her Majesty in the Castle.
The Royal dinner party at the Castle this afternoon is
expected to include Mr. George Edward and the Hon.
Mrs. Anson, Mr. and Mrs. Harcourt (St. Leonard's
Hill), Hon. Mrs. Arbuthnot, and Colonel Bouverie, of
the Royal Horse Guards.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended
by Colonel Jones, arrived in town yesterday afternoon
from Copt-hall, near Epping. His Royal Highness
visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester at
Gloucester House, and in the evening left Cambridge
House for his residence at Kew.

A Quarterly Meeting of the Commissioners for the
Reduction of the National Debt was held yesterday at
the . Treasury. The Commissioners present were the
Right Hon. H. Gonlburn, Chancellor of the Exchequer ;
Sir John Pelly, Governor of the Bank of England, and
Mr. Cotton, Deputy Governor of the Bank ; Mr.
Ingham, Secretary to the Commission was in attendance.
Mr. Mayers, agent for Barbadoes, Lieut. -General
Sir Robert Wilson, and Mr. Ellis, late M.P. for Newry,
had interviews with Lord Stanley yesterday at the Colo-
nial-office.
o.(2oUnt St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador, visited
-Earl of Aut.rdeen yesterday at the Foreign-office.
c.
James Graham arrived in town yesterday morn-
'ut, from Dorchester.
we-Despatche.s for Sir C. Campbell, Governor of Ceylon,
re sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office.
Despatches from the Governor- of New Brunswick and
Nonz:. Scotia were received yesterday at the Colonial-

RAILWAY RETURNS.
We extract from the Railway Magazine the sums
received on the principal Railways of Great Britain
for the week ending on the day .f the month prefixed
to each. The return includes the money received for
Passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, chandize
mails, and mer-
Week

ended Name of Railway. Miles Totil.opened. £. s.
Dec.2s Birmingham & Derby Junct. 34 1'307 1
24 Birmingham
_and Gloucester 555 1,764f.9 17 107 OIR
25 Chester and Birkenhead ..
••• 15
-1
26 Dundee and Arbroath
16 198 10 10
26 Eastern Counties
26 Glasgow, Paislel7k 799 0 6
y, & Gre 22i 66
27 Great North of Englandenot.k
g 5 1,200 14
:9
0 9
26 Great Western .i
25 Hull and Selby .... .
. **
. ....
******
''
12,428 13 5
▪ 118
25 Lancaster & • 31 810 5 10
Pres;on **
*********** * 2O 514 7 11
24 Liverpool and Manchester 3l 4,457 10 7
25 London and Biriningham ll2l 16,907 1 8
30 London and Blackwell 4
25-London and Brighton 3 633 3 240 i 1,707 12 4
102 1 10
25 Ditto Shoreham Branch ....•• 5i
28 London and Croydon ** , ***** 10i 418 17 7
30 London and Greenwich ****
31 895 19 6
25 London and South Western ... 93 4,449 15i
559 8 of
23 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 10
400 17 7
27 Manchester & Birmingham ... 5
`27 Manchester and Leeds
... 25
27 1,039 16 2
26 Northern arid Eastern
25 North Midland
North Union
25 No returns
..•
19i 196 3
25 Preston and Wyre
27 Sheffield and Manchester 7 246 17
1 0
26 Ulster .... .. ...
27 York and North Midland 23 1,577 14 8

THE WOOLLEN TRADE.
(From the Leeds Mercury)
P6REIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, l)Ec. 31.—This being
the last week of the year, as might be expected, business
has been done on a very limited scale, but it is expected
considerable re-action will take place at the commence-
flent of the new year.
ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, DEC. 31.—Christ-
lllas Week is generally a dull one for trade, and the pre-
Sent has not been an exception to this general rule. The
nperations.in English wool have been very limited:; and
We cannot notice any alteration in the general character
nf this market as reported for the last few weeks.
TRADE or LEEns.--43usiness continues in the same
cheerless state at our Cloth Halls this week as for the
last-fortnight ; and although the stocks generally are
much lower than usual at this season, yet, from the very
dull state of the demand, prices are nominal. The same
dull state of trade continues in the warehouses ; the pur-
chases or orders for • goods for the home demand are
given with the greatest caution, and only for present
use. Indeed, at no former period has there been so little
speculation at this season of the year as at the present
time,no one daring to purchase until it is known what
the Government intend to do for the relief of the cora-
Mercial and manufacturing interest.
BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.—The demand for
pieceS to-day is quite an average of what we have wit-
btossed on the last market day of other years, and the
opinion that an improvement is not far distant appears
tiPu be generally gaining ground ; and we hope it will be
fully
•realized, and place our operatives again in active
employment in lieu of parading the streets. The con-
ent to sumption of yarn continues limited, and offers no theinduce-
spinners to bring their idle machinery into
working
any or • extend the hours of those already only
an,king daylight; prices are firm. We do not observe
w6l„,alteration either in the demand, or the prices of
thauni The lower qualities continue in greater request
with „the finer sorts, and the market is fully supplied
.the various descriptions of combing wool.
Mr. j

•
John Locke, who is mentioned as a Can-
ut° for the Common Pleadership, in the event of a
was a candidate eight years -ago, when no va-
t-ti ,-„eY,oocurred, and was supported by Sir Peter Laurie,
44)rd, Mayor, and a very large proportion of the
re ration. Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Sydney Taylor were
'O. candidates on that occasion.
a EA TT,
"ety ti,112-4QUA E IN ROSS -SHIRE.-011 Mon-
"!`q 20th instant, exactly at four o'clock, raml.,
atiVre.shock of an earthquake- was felt at Kintail,
P, se% eral of the neighbouring, parishes to the
of the inhabitants. There was nothing
it 1
tlic,1"11 the state of the weather, or the appearance
:tir !1 1.1;-„uaY, unless it might be a stillness and calmness
atalos
, here which althourrh remarked at the
uonP.comilion at i%en thisseason of the year.
c anal,:.'l recurrence of the. shock.
.. The. noise whcli
vircli water' 4eeompanies such visitations, like the rushing
„"; e have ,the rattling of a carriage, was very distinct..
1/111;c,vith -"'re noticed the extreme prevalence of light-
] na .°,casional thunder, in the west and north
karthadi, `,"is winter, but the above is the only case of
4tiowl'e-da,4e Ili the same districts, which has come to our
I,e-----Ineerness Courier.
YOar°fnelid9r looking-glass will tell you what none of
a NY in.

MAGAZINE DAY.

BLACKW OOD7S MAGAZINE

The consideration of the " Philosophy of Hero-
dotus" is here 'resumed, and the question is dis-
cussed with a subtleness and sagacity that induce
us to attribute the authorship of the essay to Mr.
De Quincey, one of the most accomplished clas-
sical scholars, and shrewdest reasoners of his day.
We think, however, that he rather over-rates
the intellectual character of Herodotus, who in
his history exhibits much of the gossip and the
twaddler, strongly mixed up with materiel of
surpassing value. In the course of his essay the
author takes the opportunity of sneering. at
Beloe's well-known translation of the " Father
of History," as the old Greek was called, which
is certainly a work that has long enjoyed a very
unmerited popularity, being exceedingly loose
and inaccurate—in fact, mote of a paraphrase

than a translation. Beloe was a small-minded
man, but wondrously great in his own self-con-
ceit, as he has abundantly testified in his " Sexa-
genarian,"
_ - a work which we remember to have
read some few years ago. The " World of Lon-
don," of which the present is the Eighth Part, is
chiefly confined to a description of the various
classes of foreigners resident in the great Baby-
lon. Of these, the French republican is hit off
with the greatest nicety and exactitude; and the
specimens adduced of his disjointed coffee-house
conversation are highly" characteristic. The re-
marks, too, on the J ewish portion of the London
population are good; and there is strict truth in
the following :—" You see many poor Jews, but
never a Jewish beggar. Their hospitals, asylums,
and benevolent societies embrace every variety
of distress to which their unfortunate brethren
may be exposed. Instead of hunting, as we do,
for paupers and vagabonds over the face of the
earth whereon to bestow their benevolence, their
laudable selfishness takes care of its own in the
first instance, and their overplus only finds its
way to general purposes of charity. The sooner
we begin to imitate our Hebrew fellow-citizens
in this particular the better." The " Heiress and
his Friends" is a story told in a very simple,'
pleasing manner, without any attempt to " creatd"
a sensation" by undue means—the usual fault'
of periodical fictions. The " Copyright Ques-.
tion " is ably canvassed ; we quote an instructive
passage : —" The booksellers, since Gibbon's death,
are. said to have made 200,000/. of his Decline
and Fall of the Roman Empire; and hardly a
year passes that a new edition of his immortal
work, or of Hume's History of England, does
not issue from the press. The sums realized by
the bookselling trade from the different editions
of the Wealth of Nations, would have constituted
a large fortune for the heirs of Adam Smith.
What a princely fortune would Milton or Shak-
speare have left to their descendants, if any
there be, if they could have bequeathed to them
the exclusive right of publishing their own
works, even for half a century after their own
death !" As may be surmised from its title, " Ten
Years of the• Whigs," is a political diatribe im-
bued with a strong party spitit. Its good sense
does not compensate for its rancour, and we
could have dispensed with the account of the
debate on the discussion of the Reform Bill in

1832, inasmuch as, however accurate, it is just
ten years too late. The " Legend of St. Rosalie "
is a carefully versified poem by Delta. " Paris—
Chronicles of the Cite" gives some curious par-
ticulars respecting the betrothal of Henrietta
Maria to Charles the First of England. The
writer, however, should have contented himself
with describing the ceremonial observances of
this act; and not have attempted to draw cha-
racter; for he shows a deplorable ignorance of that
of Henrietta. He tells us, for instance, that " she
was not appreciated by her consort," when every
one who is at all familiar with the nature of
Charles knows that he was one •of the fondest
and most uxorious of husbands. We are assured
also that she "was misrepresented and calum-
niated in England," where the truth is, her pri-
vateas well as her public character were both so
notoriously bad, that it was impossible for even
the subtlest calumny to make them worse. From
Mr. Simmons's poem' entitled " The Prisoner of
Ghent," we quote a few passages. The subject
is the long imprisonment of a convict for having
murdered a young girl in his early youth :

Say thou, who preachest man was sent
Into this God-created world
With high benificent intent
Why nky unripen'd soul was hurl'd,
Just as if started in the race—
Ere Reason's cup had cool'd my lips—
Ere I could sunder guilt from grace—
Down, down where demons have their place
In Death's unsouaded deeps ? •
One hour was mine of lovely things,
Flowers, waters, forests, glancing wings,
Then sudden night !—and slimy stone,
Shut me ano Madness up alone !

They said 'twas Mercy saved me so—
The slaves !—I could but briefly feel
Their bursting mace's ponderous blow,
Stretch'd on the limb-dividing wheel.
I should not then have died the death
Which takes a century to slay,
When whelm'd, enchain'd, and choked beneath
One marble mass, the charnel's breath
Its victim rots away.
I should not then have felt my mind,
From lonely horror scared and blind
Whirl into savage frenzy's rage,
Like captive tiger round cage.
Who that had heard me strive to break
With shouts that ceaseless solitude,
Till my faint gasp refused to shriek,
And mine became the Idiot's mood ;
When strength of youth and manhood's might
To moping, soundless torpor grew,
And the sick undiscerning sight
One blank interminable night,
Of burial only knew ;
Who then had deem'd the driveller there—
Plough'd by the Avenger's fiery share—
Of love, life, light, once drank his fill,
As the lithe roe-deer drinks the rill ?
Yes !—give me back one year of bloom,
And though remorseless was my fall,
And fiercely dire my monstrous doom,
Yet I will face it all !
So once again I may but rove
With HER the fair and evening-eyed—
That thing of radiance and of love—
Sweet Maude, who in the chestnut grove
So prized and perjured died. ,
Oh ! but to watch her on this breast,
Sink like a folded flower to rest
Once—only once—as in that time—
She free from falsehood—l from crime I
The bow of heaven had less of grace
In valley-waters glass'd and bent—
The very glory of her face
Fresh lustre to creation lent.
This heart with fire was all too full ;
By winding brook and mossy stone,
And thunderous wave and woodland lull,
I loved with her the Beautiful,
And lived for her alone.
I sought one eve our trysting-tree,
The linden bough was budding free,
But wild December stript it bare,
Before again she met me there.

She came at last. I drank the start,
The blush her treacherous cheek betray'd.
Enough—the life-tide of her heart
Was crimson on my blade.
I had a right—who taught her first
Earth's only boon, true love, to know—
When wrong'd in every dream I nurst,
To snatch her from the last, the worst
Of sorrows here below.
Not sweeter went our early hours,
Beneath the happy chesnut flowers,
Than wore that first red night away,
When I and Murder watch'd her clay !

BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY.

The present Number of tiii;.llliseellany is a
capital one, and opens with a spirited prose tale,
entitled the " Razed House," which refers to a
murder committed by an Italian brigand, under
very aggravated circumstances, about twenty
years ago. There is an earnestness and sim-
plicity in this tale, and a minuteness of descrip-
tion as respects localities, that satisfy us it is
founded on fact, and is no mere transcript of the
fancy. " Richard Savage" maintains its wonted
ability, particularly in the scene wherein the
death of Ludlow is narrated. "Welch Rabbits"
is by Dr. Maginn. It is a clever story, and
turns upon the circumstance of a lady having
taken it into her head to make a hearty supper
off Welch Rabbits, and having been subjected,
in consequence, to a variety of horrid dreams.
Among other visions, she imagined that the
portly form of her butler stood before her at
midnight with a black crape on his face, and
after disembarrassing her of all her portable
jewellery, presented a brace of pistols at her, in-
finitely to her disgust and astonishment. The
moral which the Doctor deduces from his tale is
this—Never eat more than you can digest, least
of all at supper time sound doctrine, and
worthy to be enforced by so eminent a writer.
" Save Me From My Friends" is an agreeable
incident, related in a gentlemanlike, unassuming
style. A young man settles in London as a por-
trait-painter; he is gradually acquiring fame and
fortune, when his prospects are suddenly clouded
by the arrival of his two maiden aunts in
the metropolis, who, by their utter want
of tact and indiscreet gabble, contrive to get
himinto a world of scrapes. Ultimately the clouds
disperse, the aunts retire to their fitting home in
some wild, imperfectly-civilised country town or
other, and the young artist's fortunes are once
again in the ascendant. " French Cookery" is an
essay on a very interesting theme." I revere a
man who gives good dinners," says the author;

" it is vulgar-minded to attempt to despise what
contributes to the pleasure of the many; and to
how large a majority of mankind is the palate
created to be an organ of enjoyment!" These
are remarks that would have greatly pleased
Dr. Johnson, with whom dinner was one of the
most serious and important duties of the day,
and who held it as an axiom that the man who pro-
fessed not to care for this meal, would soon end
in caring about nothing. The " Philosophy of
Smoking" is a smart, lively rhapsody, of which
Ave may say with justice, ." ex fumo dat lucem."
The accompanying illustrations are uncommonly
spirited and whimsical. " Raising the Devil" is
by a writer whose pen there can be no mistaking—
Thomas Ingoldsby, whose broad humorous le-
gends are the gems of this Magazine. "My
First Morning in Calcutta" contains some good
descriptions, drawn evidently from the life„ As
a specimen of the poetry of the Miscellany—
which, by the bye, is generally very superior,
especially when of a humourous turn—we quote
the lively stanzas entitled " Cupid in London,"
which is from the pen of a gentleman who signs
himself " R. More" :
Young Cupid, grown tired of his wild single life,
And the pranks he had long been pursuing,
Determined to marry a sweet little wife,
So in earnest he set out a-wooing. •
But disdaining to win her by magic or art,
Or aught save his beauty and merit,
Away with contempt threw his bow and his dart,
No longer their now'r to inherit.
Then to London he came one fine morning in May,
When the full tide of fashion was flowing,
His purse was brim-full, his heart light and gay,
And his cheeks with fresh roses were glowing.
As a fine handsome youth he was soon known in town,—
All the ladies his manners delighted;
Not a ball or a rout with the world would go down •

Unless Mr. Lore were invited.
His cab was "perfection," his horse "quite a love,"
And his Tiger " the least of the little;"
No one else ever wore such a hat or a glove,

And his Stultz was a fit to a tittle.
The bride that he sought for was easy to find
In the midst of such dazzling attraction ;
'And soon a fair maiden he met to his mind,
Whom he loved at first sir:ht to distraction.
'Twas at Almack's he met with the dear lovely girl,
She was called " the prizeflower of the season ;"
And her exquisite form in the waltz to entwirl
Was enough to deprive him of reason.
So he told her his love, and she whispered " Oh fie!"
As she blushed and looked round for her mother ;
And Cupid inquired, with a tremulous sigh,
If her heart ever beat for another.
But her mind was as pure as her beauty was bright ;
And she told him no one e'er could win her
Who in.frivolouspastime alone took delight—

The beau of a ball or a dinner.
Ashamed and dejected, poor Cupid retired,
Resolving to cut—cutting capers,—
And chambers next day in the Temple he hired,
And filled them with law-books and papers.
Then to study the Law, like a man he went down,
No scholar could ever be 'apter,
For he botnzht an arm-chair, with a wig and a gown,
And in Blackstone he read a whole chapter.
At the end of a fortnight he grew thin and pale,
And he thought he should die without jesting;
So he dressed all in black, which he thought must prevail,
For it made him look quite interesting.
Then he called on. his love, looking grave as a judge,
And to plead his first suit was beginning ;
But she laughed in his face, said the law was all fudge,
And her heart would never be winning.
Distracted he left her—transported with ire
To think that his plan should miscarry;
He tore up his gown—threw his wig in the fire—
And kicked all his books to Old Harry.
Next morning to Melton he rode like a dart,
To adopt a new method to please her,
For he vow'd that he'd conquer her obdurate heart,
Or break his own neck—just to tease her.
4So he rode like a madman his wild steeple chase,
And followed the hounds like a Tartar;
And he galloped like wildfire at each hurdle-race,
To win it or die like a martyr!
Then his fame got abroad as a sportsman of note,
And he thought he was now quite a hero,
So he went to the maid in his bright scarlet coat,

But his ardour soon tumbled to zero.
For she told him his deeds were unworthy of fame,
(Her remarks were all true to the letter,)
That a fox or a hare were but pitiful game,
And the riding his groom could do better.
Puor Love now indulged in a grief without bounds,
. .

For a week or two-'' sans intermission;"
Then he sold off his hunters, and gave up the hounds,
And purchased a cornet's commission.
In a cavalry reg'ment to battle he went, •

And he said not a word of his going ;
But resolved that in action his life should be spent,
Or at least that his blood should be flowing.
And soon in a charge which he gallantly led
At the enemy's troops in platoon,
He got a sad cut (while defending his head)
In the arm from a heavy dragoon.
Disabled from duty, he homeward returned,
The news of a victory bringing ;
And now with affection his loved maiden burned,
And the town with his praises was ringing.
One morning he called with his arm in a sling,
And attired as a dashing young lancer ;
To refuse him this time was a difficult thing,
For she loved him, indeed,—when a dancer.
When he talked of his passion, she listened with pride,
And her heart by assault was soon carried ;
And she shortly appeared as the young soldier's bride,
For in less than a month they were married.