The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-13 00:00:00

Brazil will be, they say, unable to purchase
slaves ; the emigration from Africa will all
be to the free-labour colonies.; till, finally
the natural increase of population in our West
Indian colonies will render a further supply

pa two to the Company of the Aigle, and two to the
)e Company.
The number of passengers from England who landed
at Ostend from the steam-packets in 1841 was 5,584, and
the number of those who embarked, 5,385.
In consequence of the treaty of commerce between
France and Holland, there were imported into Stras-
bourg, from 30th September last to the end of December,
not less than 287,348 kilogrammes (about 25 tons) of
cotton, 49,265 bags of coffee, and 8,031 kilogrammes of
indigo.
It appears from a statement in the Brussels papers
that the materiel of the different Belgian railways at this
moment consists of 122 locomotives, 117 tenders, 95
diligences, -179 char-a-bane, 235 waggons for passengers,
854 carriages for goods, and 202 waggons for materiel
of the roads, &c.
"An .instance of spontaneous combustion occurred,"
says the Journal de Limhourg, "at Groninguen, on New
Year's-day. A woman of 55, much addicted to drink-
ing, having approached near a fire, her breath, strongly
impregnated with alcohol, is supposed to have caused in-
ternal ignition, and her body was found half carbonised."
The Marseilles papers state that the weather is un-
usually cold and frosty in the south of France.
The funeral of the Archbishop of Tours took place in
that city with great pomp, a few days ago. All the civil
and military authorities, the Archbishop of Bordeaux,
the Bishops of Mans and Chalcedonium, with the Vicars-
General, formed part of the cortege. Numerous detach-
ments of troops were on duty upon this occasion.
The inhabitants of Toulon have been greatly excited
by the following act of sacrilege committed a few nights
ago. A man having learnt that two persons belonging
to wealthy families had been buried, and expecting that
some ornaments of value were interred with them, went
in the night to the cemetery with the intent to rob their
graves. By some unaccountable mistake, he opened the
common fosse, and took up two bodies which were com-
pletely devoid of anything of value. The other graves
were untouched.
The Memorial de Rouen relates that the :Captain of a
merchant vessel moored off that place some nights since,
and who had previously shown decided symptoms of in-
sanity, being left alone but for a few minutes, mutilated
himself in a dreadful manner, rushed from his cabin to
the poop, and threw himself overboard. He was imme-
dLtely almost taken out of the water, but died soon
after of his wounds.

of people from Africa unnecessary, and the slave
trade and slavery will be for ever extinguished.
The system is to be attended with another ad-
vantage; our cruising squadron might be imme-
diately withdrawn from the coast of Africa,
where we have no right to exercise a maritime
jurisdiction, and so the planters would be quite
at liberty to deal with the manumitted slaves at
their pleasure.

To our judgment, this is little or nothing more
than a legalized kind ofslave trade; and we mar-
vel at the pertinacity, amounting to a species of
monomania in a class or in the race, with
which certain ideas or conditions of the
human mind fqr ever recur. We have here
nearly all the doctrines of the slave-owners
substantially reproduced, though disguised
under different words. Manumission is substi-
tuted for the "kind treatment of Christians ;'•'
contracts are instead of whips; and the salutary
yoke of civilization to be fixed by the Govern-
ment, is to take the place of the yoke of the in-
dividual planter. Those who believe, with BACON
!id LOCKE, t' at the mind is moulded by impres4
sions on the senses, will be apt to conclude, from
this recurrence of ideas, that there is something
in tropical climates, or in the state of society
already existing there, which inevitably produces
a love of slavery, or a conviction that society
cannot be maintained without some species of
forced and unwilling labour. The irksomeness
of toil to a white man is probably the main
cause of this state of mind in tropical climates.
Besides the moral objections to the Trinidad
planters' new scheme, at which we have hinted,
we believe that their political economy is at fault.
They reason as if the labour of the raw unin-
structed savages imported from Africa, were at
once to be equal to the labour of educated
and free men. The assumption is erro-
neous, and the unskilled imports from Africa
would require, in a state of freedom, where the
climate invites to case; and where a little labour
suffices to obtain subsistence, several years to be-
coMe decent labourers, if ever that should come
to pass. If we do not admire the wisdom, nei-
ther can we praise the humanity of the Trinidad
planters, who desire to swamp the present race
of labourers in the colony by a new race, and so
reduce them to the degraded condition of the
ignorant and newly purchased and manumitted
slaves from Africa. We believe that, there is
not the slightest chance that the plan of the
Trinidad Immigration Society will be carried into
effect; and therefore we may spare the serious
and eardest protest we are prepared to enter
against it.

There is now living at Verdun a man 102 years of
age, who retains all his mental faculties, and is so strong
and active that he takes a walk every day, and, when
occasion requires, saws and cleaves his own fire-wood.
Ho has been temperate and regular in his habits
throughout his life. He is niarried and has a family, is
small and thin, and so remerkably upright that no one
would believe him to Le older than 80.

A few days ago, says the Courrier du Pas de Calais,
a soldier of the Ist Regiment of Engineers, who had
gone to bed in a violent fever, being thirsty during the
night, put out his hand and swallowed the contents of a
jug which was near him, and which he supposed to be
water. It was unfortuately a mixture of water, chalk,
and white lead, which he was in the habit of using for
cleaning his accoutrements, and death was the result of
his error.

The Paris and Dijon mail was overturned, on Friday,
between Saint Seine and Val Seizon, in consequence of
the road being deeply covered with snow. It required
eleven horses to drag it out, and the vehicle did not ar-
rive at Dijon till eight next morning. Fortunately no
one was injured.
The Gazette des Tribunaux states that Prioul, who
was acquitted by the Court of Peers in the affair of Que-
nisset, has been arrested, and imprisoned at Ste. Pelagie,
as being a debtor to the State for more than 20,000 f.,
to the payment of which he was condemned in conse-
quence of the events of 12th May, 1838.
The Charivari states that its responsible EditOr has
been summoned to appear before the examining magis-
trate, but for what cause is not mentioned—a circum-
stance, it maliciously adds, the more to be regretted,
since, according to the new system of moral and indirect
complicity, it may be for some supposed offence commit-
ted six or seven years ago.
A letter from Toulon, of the 6th of January, says—
" Captain de Lasseaux, commandant of packet boats,
went this morning on board the steamer Tonnerre, to
raise, if possible, the Brandon steamer which was sunk
off fort St. Philip, at the entrance of the. port of Mahon.

We have received the very extraordinary in-
telligence from Paris that Lord ABERDEEN has
declared in favour of the claim set up by the
French Ambassador at Madrid to present his
credentials to the young QUEEN, and not to the
REGENT:, as the Spanish Constitution authorises,
and that the resignation of Mr. ASTON, our Am-
bassador at Madrid, may in consequence
be hourly expected. Louis PHILIPPE, it
appears, made a complete dupe of our
deaf A inbassador, Lord COWLEY, and his
Lordship lost no time in prevailing upon the
Noble Foreign Secretary to fall into the
snare so adroitly laid for him by the
CITIZEN KING. Thus, by the force of mere
stupidity, has our Government contrived to be
placed i the most offensive position with
respect to France. We had no business to
mix o urselves up in any way with the
disputes of France and Spain about a point
of etiquette. Had circumstances compelled us
to inter fere, it should only have been as medi-
ators ; f Ind above all, we should have borne in
mind tt tat Spain looked to us for support in
maintait ling the inviolability of the Constitution
and the dignity Of the REGENT. That Mr.
ASTON will condescend to perform in Ma-
drid tl le part of an attachee of Lord
CowLEN 's Embassy is not to be expected,
and if tb e Government replace him by another
Ambass actor, it will be compelled to offer a se.
cond it isult to Spain, by taking precisely the
same g round with France as regards the deli-
very of izredentials. Altogether we never met
with a ir tore blundering, ill-considered piece of
business.

At all events he.;vill direct the necessary measure of the
salvage of the vessel, and the preservation of . its ma-
chines which are said to be but little damaged."
Letters from Paris announces that orders are going
to be forwarded to disarm two ships of the line. The
Ministry believe, perhaps, that the English are diminish-
ing their squadron in the Mediterranean, because some
of their ships have left Malta, steering to the coast of
Spain, but we know that other ships will come in their
stead, and that besides a great number are stationed in
the Tagus, at Cadiz, and Gibraltar.—Commerce.
The .NEniteur of the 11th has no official part.
We find the following passage in a journal :—" Sin-
gular details transpire respecting the proceeding of the
Committee which prepared the Address of the Chamber
of Peers. Messrs. Mole d'Argout, and successively six
members of the Committee, are said to have refused to
undertake the report, which, in consequence, fell to M.
Merilhou."

• The Committee for drawing up the Address of the
Chamber of Deputies will meet to-morrow, or the day
following, to hear the draught of the Address read.
The Address may be read in a public sitting at the
end of this week, and the Chamber will probably com-
mence the debate on Monday next.
The manager of the journal Le Progres has been con-
demned by the tribunal at Rennes to a months imprison-
ment and 500 francs fine, fur having published an ac-
count of a secret sitting of the Court of Peers.—Consti-
tutionnel. •

•
BOURSE—PARIS, TUESDAY, JAN. 11.
first Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Pricy. Prier.
irre,neh 5 per Cents ...... .... • 117 75 ... 117 SO ... 117 70 ... 117 75
4 per Cents lO2 ... 102 ... 102 ... 102
3 per Cents 7B 55 .... 78 60 ... 78 50 ... 78 55
Loan
fink of franc.-
Laffitte Sank 1.0001. Shares 1020 ...1020 _lO2O —lO2O
5,040 f. Shares 5025 ...5030 ...5025 ...50.30
ieleian flank
Belgian 5 per Cents.
5 per Cents., 1840 103% ... 103% ... 103% ... 103%
3 per Cents 7l ... 71 ... 71 ... 71
Dutch 2% per Cents. 52!4 ... 52% ... 525 ... 5254
tp....:.h AC:illt rA ... 26% ... 254 ... 25%
Passive 574 ... 5% ... 5% ... 5%
ileapolitan
Roman.... .... 100% ... 103% ... 103% ... 103%
itAILWAY SHARES.
It. Germain ..... ~.. ........ .... 833 ... 832 50 ... 830 ... 832 50
Vel.iilles, H. is •••••• 840 .. 240 ... 397 50 ... 337 50
LB 2,-,3 75 .. 203 ... 203 75 ... 05
tOILIQII ....,..... .......... ..•••••••••• 480 ••• 480 ... 475 ... 4,75
512 50 -• Ll 5 - ... 512 5n ... 515
.)mean, ..
Strasburgto Bale 247 50 227 50 ... 2245 25 . 228 25

We hr tve received the whole of the French
Papers .of Tuesday. Their contents are not of
much :political importance. The draft of the
Peers' answer to the speech from the Throne
was real 1 in the Chamber on Tuesday, and the
debate- upon it was proceeding when the
mails 1 eft for London. The speakers were
the Pa 'ace DE LA MOSKWA, son of Mar-
shal NI ty, who denounced the Treaty of the
13th of July, and especially the alliance with
England ; and the Marquis DE BOISSY, whose
only con- plaint against the Government was,
that it WF .s riot despotic enough. The Ministers
only prosy cuted the Press—M. DE BOISSY would
crush it t tutright. The Noble Peer next libelled
the Spani sh RECENT, whom he called an " exe-
cutioner,'" and who, he said, aspired to the
Throne expressions which M. GUIZOT com-
pelled hi, n to withdraw before descending from
the tribe ne. From such a beginning we may
infer a a t ther interesting debate in the Chamber
of Peers 1 tefore the address is voted.
The L T sited Councils of Agriculture, Manu-
factures, and Commerce, met on Monday for
the discu,, sion of the iron question. Amongst
other pro; iositions which were brought forward
was one i 'or permitting Belgian iron to enter
France, it competition with Freisch iron, for the
constructi on of the great lines of railway which
are projected. On this occasion the following
calculations were brought forward :—" The total
system of railroads now proposed to be con-
structed i n France is to extend to 400 leagues,
which wil l require 200,000 tons of wrought iron.
The constructing of these roads will occupy ten
years, am I therefore the annual consumption of
iron, wrot' fight and cast, will be only 25,000 tons.
Belgium r ►lone can produce 200,000 tons per an-
num ; am as the demand in France would be
only 25,01 30, it results that Belgium, with only
the eighth part of what she produces, could coin

PRIESTS AND PEOPLE,--AR account appeared
in The Sun some time since of the persecution
inflicted upon a farm labourer of 'the name of
Key by the minister of Barry, a parish in the
neighbourhood of Arbroath, which has excited
much indignation and sympathy among the
people of Scotland. The minister, and those
who took part with him, were hooted -in their
own stronghold, the Presbytery, and were
obliged to take shelter is a public house,
where they proposed to discuss, with closed
doors, a charge brought against the clergy-
man, but the complainant declined their
authority and appealed to a higher Court.
Key, it will be remembered, had buried
his child on a Sunday, and for this sa-
cred duty he was denied Church privileges.
The people to a man joined with hina against
this priestly tyranny, and numerous subscrip-
tions have been raised in his behalf. The mer-
chants on the Royal Exchange at Glasgow, on
reading the account, held a meeting on the spot,
and in a few minutes subscribed mil. for Key, .to
mark their hatred of such wanton oppression.

LLO YD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JAN. 13.—Wind this day at noon, S.
DEAL, JAN. 12.—Wind, moderate.—Arrd. from the
River, Sir Robert Peel, for Singapore ; Persian, Cal-
cutta ; Sea Witch, River Gambia ; Forester, Tobago.
RAMSGATE, JAN. 12.—Arrd. Hannah, London for Rio.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 12.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Renewal
Corsica ; Burlington, Charleston. Sid. Ritchie, Bombay
Tremont, and Hero of Acre, New Orleans ; Catherine
Mobile ; Hebron, Baltimore ; Anna Liffey, New York
John, Cape Verds. Aral. - off; Wetherall, Singapore
Johnston, Calcutta ; Argyle, Bombay ; Confederacioii,
ny, Mansfield,ciomp Java.Atiac.
Valparaiso ; Charles, Buenos Ayres ; Delia Walker,
Savannah ; Circassian,AN.l2B.
nAb an
12.—Anthony,
OFF DOVER, JAN.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 12.—Wind S. to S.W.—Arrd.
Banca, Fincham, Batavia, for Amsterdam, sailed Sept.
15, St. HelenaL Nov. 27 ; Lusitano, Astolfe, Trieste.
PLYMOUTH, JAN. 12.—Wind variable.—Arrd. Planter,
Manning, New Zealand, in 94 days ; Jesse, Richards,
Demerara.
FALMOUTH, JAN. 11.—Wind S.S.E. to S.S.W.—Arrd.
Petrel packet, West Indies, sailed from St. Thomas
20th ult.; Grace and Essex, Odessa; Panther, Shepherd,
Leghorn. Arrd. off, Vemlia, Burton, Sierra Leone,
sailed Nov. 23. The Hope packet, with mails for this
port, left St. Thomas, four days previous to the Petrel
packet, arrived here to-day.
OFF HASTINGS, JAN. 12.—Claudine, Brewer, Madras,
sailed from Cape Oct. 30 ; Candahar, Ridley, Bombay.
OFF ROMNEY, JAN. 12.—Stanna, Sandersan, Singapore.
PENZANCE, JAN. 11.—A boat marked .‘ Mary Ann
and Martha, of Dundalk, Charles Roddick," was picked
up off the Wolf Rock this morning.
COWES, JAN. 12.—Arrd. Fortitude, Lombock, sld.
Aug. 22, and Cap'.
Oct. 31 ; Star, Rio.
POOLE, JAN. 12.—The Hebe, Thomson, of Liverpool,
is in Studland Bay, with damage, having been in contact
with the Reward, from Plymouth to Monte Video ; the
latter sank—crew saved.
CARLINGFORD, JAN. 10.—The Diana, Peebbles, from
Sligo to Liverpool, came ashore last night to the north-
wttr% of the lighthouse, near Cransfied; cargo discharging.
SWANSEA, JAN. 11.—Arrd. Circassian, Mann, Cuba.
CORK, JAN. 10.—Arrd. Caroline, Buenos Ayres.
PETERHEAD, JAN. 10.—The William Turcan, from
Alloa to St. Thomas, ashore on Rattray Head, is not
expected to be got off; spars, sails, &c., nearly all saved.
SourrriwoLD, JAN. 12.—The
Elizabeth and Ann, of
Boston, stranded at this place 19th November, has un-
dergone repairs, and proceeded to-day.

pletely in vade the French market, to the great
prejudice of French manufacturers. Several per-
sons havin ig pretended that French manufactories
were mutt )1c to furnish' rails enough for forty
leagues p er annum, it has been shown, on the
other sidi e, that from 1838 to the 31st of last
month, th e period at which the contracts made
between A he Companies lately created and the
principal manufactories expired, there were fur-
nished by the latter rails enough for 195 leagues,
and this ti 'o with a fall of 20 per cent. in the price
of the irol 1."

The Cot incil-General of Commerce, at its sit•
Ing of Su mday, was engaged in the considers.

ti9n of th e commercial treaty with Belgium.
M. Ducos , Deputy, expressed a desire that the
Government would, by every means i 9 its power,
favour the foreign commerce of France, and
enter into treaties, not with Belgium alone, but
with all ; t commercial and manufacturing
States of tb .e world. This proposition was warmly
supported by M. ARLES Dupoun, Delegate from
Lyons, and the members of the Committee; but
was oppose !1.1 by M. GoutN, Minister of Com-
merce in tb e Cabinet of the Ist of March, and
by M. B MING DE LANCASTEL, and was re-
jected, the votes being equally divided-13 for
and 13 age ;just the proposition. The Council
voted a re( :ommendation of a reduction in the
postage of letters, but the majority was very

The annnal increase in the number of travellers on
the Rhine is a striking proof of the effect of the intro-
duction of me re rapid means of communication. In 1827
the number ( ,f passengers on the Rhine by the Cologne
steamers was between 18,000 and 19,000, and this was
thought cow iderable, but in 1839 the number had in-
creased to 48' 7,000 ; in 1840 to 636,000; and in 1841 it
has been estin sated at 750,000. In the course of the pre-
sent year th ere will be thirty-five steamers oh the
Rhine, of why 3h sixteen belong to the Cologne Company,
seven to ti ,a Company of the Netherlands, six to the
Dusseldorf Sj ompany, two to the Rhine vnd Yessel Com-

ASYLUM FOR DECAYED FREEMASONS...-.
The usual quarterly general meeting of the Governors
and Subscribers to this benevolent and excellent Insti-
tution, was held last evening, pursuant to advertisement,
at Radley's Hotel, Bridge-street, Blackfriars ; the Rev.
Dr. Crucifix in the Chair. There was no business of
any moment entered on, save the passing of the quar-
terly accounts, from which we were glad to obserie that
there is a considerable sum of money at present in the
hands of the Treasurer, as well as a large sum invested
in the funds.

THE SUN, LON DON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1842.

AND

" Who runs may read."

FOZLEIGN.

ilifilinnV OF NEWS

Vtgbltt Opt neon.

The draft of the Address to the Chamber of Peers, in
answer to the Speech from the Throne, was read in the
Chamber on Tuesday. Several Members of the French
Cabinet were present. It is a mere echo of the Speedh,
interspersed with a few fulsome compliments to the King,
at the expense of truth and modesty.
The Prince de la Moskwa, son of Marshal Ney, in
speaking upon the Address, made a violent attack upon
England, whom he accused of having always been the
enemy of France. We freely acknowledge that the
Prince personally has but too much cause to entertain no
kindly feeling towards this country. He opposed the
Address.
The Marquis de Boissy was the second orator on Tues-
day. Like a schoolboy with his theme he spread out
his manuscript, and read more shameful libels out of
it in a quarter of an hour than we have met with in the
Journal du Peuple for five years. He had the insolence
to denounce the Regent of Spain as a traitor and an
executioner ; he branded the Public Press as blasphe-
mous and immoral ; and he demanded the establishment
of a social despotism for the repression of all freedom of
opinion. M. Guizot had the good taste to insist -upon
a withdrawal of the offensive epithets applied to the Re-
gent of Spain, but not a voice was lilted up in condem-
nation of the cowardly libeller of the Press.
The National states that, although the Ministerial
Journals thought proper to deny that a serious battle
had taken place between some regiments belonging to
the garrison of Paris, it appears from a return of the
wounded remaining in the hospital of the Gros-Caillor
on the 9th inst., that the 11th Regiment of the Line ha,
17 wounded, the 19th Regiment 13, the 59th Regimen
21, the -2d Light Infantry 11, the 22d Light Infantry 9..
the 3d Lancers 9, the 3d Artillery 3, Invalids 3, sun-
dry others 7—total 93.
The consumption of butcher's meat in Paris, for the
year 1841, amounted to 69,164 oxen, 22,050 cows, 66,845
calves, and 432,657 sheep; being a diminution, as com
pared with the year 1840, of 2,405 oxen, 4,954 calves,
and an increase of 1,129 cows, and 117 sheep. This
diminution represents 2,000,0001 b. weight of meat, or a
little more than 2 per cent. on the consumption compared
with the year 1840 ; or, in other words the annual
consumption of a town of 20,000 inhabitants. This
diminution shows the dreadful condition of the working
classes in Paris; for it is to be borne in mind that up-
wards of 5,000 labourers from the provinces were during
the greater part of the last year employed upon the for-
tifications.
La Presse states, that the police, having received infor-
mation that a manufactory of forged English and Prus-
sian bank notes was at full work in Paris, surrounded a
house at Passy on Monday where it was suspected the
persons resided who were occupied in this fraudulent
pursuit. The printing press used in fabricating those
notes was discovered, together with a number of forged
bank-notes.
The Soho steam-boat, which arrived at Antwerp on
Sunday, had on board Mr. Charles Brindle, in the ser-
vice of the Court at Windsor, who was the bearer of
despatches for the Belgian Government.
Lord Westmoreland, the Ambassador of the Queen of
Great Britain at the Court of Berlin, accompanied by his
son, Lord Burghersh, arrived at Brussels on Monday, and
after having visited the curiosities of that city, proceeded
on their way to London.
PITELIC OPINION.
The Times contains an article on the Rural Police sys-
tem, to which it is strongly opposed, describing it as a
very unnecessary innovation, which has augmented local
burdens without diminishing crime. " Public opinion,"
adds our Contemporary, " may be expected, sooner or
later, to put an end to this rural nuisance ; but in order
to furnish it with fitting dispatch, its opponents must
form themselves into active Committees in every part of
the kingdom, and thus bring their influence to bear
against it in a constitutional way."
The chronicle reverts to the engrossing question of
the Coin-laws, observing ;that these laws prevent the
people getting the more work which it is allowed they
want ; that the work-provider is growing corn across the
sea, and the landowners intercept the exchange ; and
that they 'a ill not let the people have the more work that
is wanted, both by the would-be employer and the would-
be workman.
The Herald, in noticing a Puseyite tract, just put
forth by the Rev. Francis Wackerbarth, declares of this
noisy tract, that it has perused nothing so utterly shock-
ing to every notion of decency, of common sense, of
good taste, of Christian feeling, of mere worldly pru-
dence. The tract, it seems, is dedicated to St. Athana-
sius— a most appropriate Saint for a Puseyite pam-
phleteer to dedicate to.
The Post states that the report of the Duke of Buck-
ingham being likely to replace Lord Cowley as Am-
bassador to the Court of France, is utterly unfounded.
" Lord Cowley," says the Post, "is not about to leave
Paris, the Duke- of Buckingham is not about to quit
the Cabinet, nor has there been, for a single moment,
an) idea of a separation between the Duke and his col-
leagues, ,or the slightest circumstance frOm which such
an idea could have sprung."
The Advertiser asserts that there can be no question
that Sir Robert Peel means to do something, with the
view of modifying the Corn monopoly, and acids—" Sir
Robert will soon find, to his cost, if he seek to steer a
middle course between the monopolists and the country,
that he will only forfeit the friendship and the confidence
of the former, while he will not obtain the approbation or
support of the latter."
The Dublin Evening Post thus alludes to the Tory
candidate • for that city :—" They have hooked the
lad.' Five thousand for a beginning. Mr. Gregory is
beginning early. His father has only come into his
granduncle's estate, and he forks out a year's rental at
once. Though young, it is said he is a distinguished
member of the Turf. Is it possible that he has no
friends ? Is there no one to be found, who will ha;ve the
common charity to tell him, that a Dublin election is the
worst betting-book he ever opened ?"
The York Courant, speaking of the present Ministry,
says :—" They are do-nothings where the interests of the
people are concerned, but they have ever shown them-
selves ready hands at finding their way into the pockets
of the people. It cannot be denied that the finances of
the country are in a depressed and a deranged state, from
which the measures proposed by the late Government
would have given them an immediate turn for the better,
and a gradual arrival at a healthy permanency."
In reference to the Irish -Tory Government the Chel-
tenham Examiner remarks as follows : "From the
stubborn nature of his Irish supporters it is not improba-
ble that Sir Robert Peel may yet find Ireland his chief
difficulty. Like all trimmers, it seems Lord de Grey's
fate to please neither party. Strike high or low, there
is no pleasing Paddy. The Noble Viceroy, a few weeks
since, in bestowing an appointment, passed over the
claims of Mr. West, M.P. for Dublin, and so chagrined
were the Dublin Tories with the slight, that they forth-.
with dissolved their Registration Society out of pure re-
venge l—a truly Hibernian notion of vengeance 1"
ZULOBTET—TRAD.7.—COMIXERCM.
The progress of manufactures in Europe is well in-
stanced, in a lecture delivered at Paris, by M. Blanquis,
the traveller. "In Russia," said he, " I found exactly
the contrary of what I expected to find, viz., immense
manufactures scattered on all points. In the heart of
Turkey I found an old Pacha, an ancient chief of Janis-
saries, who had hung up his terrible yataghan againsl
'te wall, devote himself to commerce and arts."
COMIV/EN, CL&L nuporam.

The great Anti-Corn-law Bazaar at Manchester 11,
be held in the Theatre Royal there on Monday, the 31s
and it is now fitting up for stalls, saloons, &c.
LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC.

Mr. Foulston, the well-known Plymouth architect, died
at the age of 69 last Thursday.
The visit of Baron Von Humboldt to this country with
the King of Prussia, is looked. forward to in the scientific
world with considerable interest.
The Report of the Commission on the plans and de-
' signs for the tomb of Napoleon is expected to be pub-
lished this weekin Paris.
NAVAL, AND '2VIILITARY.
The Commandership of the Dover Garrison has been
given to .Lieut.-Col. Blockley, of the Royal Artillery.
The, steam-vessel Avon, while about
.30 miles from
land; in St. George's Channel, with her crew and 140
volunteers on board, caught fire by spontaneous combus-
tion a few days since, and had her deck burnt fore and
aft from,l2 to 14 feet. Fortunately the passengers suf-
fered no injury, and the vessel after great exertions on
the part of the crew for six hours, was at last brought
into,bi.ilford. It will take a fortnight to repair the damage.
LAW AND POLICE.
Ten or twelve young men were brought before Alder-
man Wilson yesterday, at the Mansion House, for enter-
ing into the shop of Mr. Church, baker, in Cannon-
street, City, and helping themselves to about four
shillings' worth of bread, biscuits, and cakes, which they
also distributed among thirty or forty others outside.
They pleaded starvation, and had been refused relief.
No resistance was . offered by them when taken into
custody, and they were remanded to wait the Lord
Mayor's
,opinion as- to their committal.
Government has ordered the reward of 1001., offered ,
for the apprehension of Blakesley, to be paid to the
two Hertfordshire constables stationed at llitchin.

At Bow-street yesterday, a young man, of respectable
appearance, who gave the name of James Adams, was
charged with- uttering a forged cheque for the sum of
90/., with intent to defraud Messrs. Child and Co., ban-
kers, of Temple-bar. Ample evidence was given that
the prisoner presented a forged cheque, but he said he
was merely the agent of a Mr. Holland, who lived at
Green's Hotel, Lincoln's Inn, and he knew nothing what-
ever of the forgery. The Magistrate said the prisoner's
statement bore all the appearance of truth, but under
all the circumstances, he would remand him till Satur-
day. A question then was started as to the place of con-
finement, for though the entrance to Child's bank is
east of Temple-bar, one half of the house is in the
Strand. The prisoner was finally taken to a station-
house in the City.
A motion was made in the nail Court yesterday, be-
fore Mr. Justice Williams, for a writ of habeas corpus,
to bring up the body of Bernard Cavanagh from the
gaol at Reading, on the ground that the commitment
was bad (as the lawyers say) upon the face of it, and the
Judge required time to consider. To-day the writ was
granted.
The further examination of Mr. Carew, the sculptor,
at the Insolvent Debtors' Court, was again postponed
yesterday, till Saturday, the 29th instant, on account of
the indisposition of the Chief Commissioner.
THEATRICAL.
Madame Vestris, who has for some days been unwell
at her villa at Fulham, came to town yesterday, to be
present at the rehearsal of Elena Mertz.
Miss Emma Bingley has performed the arduous cha-
racter of La Sonnambula, at the theatre at Naples, with
great success.