The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1842.

I am happy to see that in the ranks of the British press
then is still found one faithful sentinel. I trust that
others will be found to rally to him, and in that hope,
I remain, Sir, your obliged servant,
January 3, 1842. ABNER.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TUESDAY EVENING•

The Funds have this day experienced a slight re-action
in consequence of sales having been effected, which
seems to be only of a temporary nature. The current
quotations of the morning were 891 and at the close
of business this afternoon, 894 to t. In the Unfunded
Debt, on the other hand, there was quite a contrary
movement; a purchase to some extent, said to be on ac-
count of the Bankruptcy Court, led to an advance in
prices of 3s. to ss. in the premium of Exchequer Bills,
viz., to 21s. and 245. East India Bonds were also rather
higher, being ss. to Bs. prem. Bank Stock was worth
167 to 1671, which is an advance of 1 to 1 per cent.
Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. were at 991 to
1, and the Three per Cent. Annuities at 891 to 89i.
Foreign Stocks were also rather flat. Spanish Active
Ponds receded to 251, and 25+, Mexican Stock from
291 and 30, to 291 and 29, and Colombian, from 221 and
23, to 221 and 22, Brazilian Bonds of 1829 were at 53 to
534, and Peruvian at 16. New Portuguese Five per
Cents., maintained the rally to 32k ex div., and the
old Fives were at 54. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
were marked 51/ to 511, and the Five per Cents.
100 to 1001
The Share Market underwent no particular alteration.
Great Western Railway were 22, the New 101; the Bir-
mingham 79, the New 261; and the York and North
Midland 42 prem. Brighton Shares were 111; North
Midland 271; and Eastern Counties 14 dis. London
Joint-stock Bank Shares were at 21, and London and
Westminster 2 prem.
The rates for Bills of Exchange were this afternoon
fully supported, the prices being as follow :—Paris 22f.
75c. to 80c.; Antwerp 12 31 to 12 4; Frankfort 150;
Trieste 9 52; Hamburgh 13 104 to 1; and Amsterdam
12 41 to 4.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JAN. 3.—The sales to-
day are 4,000 hales, all to the trade. Prices are firm
without alteration. _ _

LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JAN. 3.—Grand Junc-
tion, 196 ; Ditto Half Shares, 97,k ; London and Birm-
ingham, 170 ; Quarter Shares, 1.654 ; Manchester and
Leeds, Quarter Shares, 4 ; Midland Counties, 85 ; North
Midland, Thirds, 16+.
MANCHESTER STOCK E?CHANGE, JAN. 3.—We com-
mence the new year with a fair day's business, and the
demand for Railway Stock has been considerable. Prices
have still an upward tendency. The following are our
sales :—Dublin and Drogheda (30 paid), 12/ ; Lancaster
and Preston Three-quarter Shares, 16+ ; London and
South Western, 59/ ; Hull and Selby, 404 ; Manchester
and Birmingham Quarter Shares, 284 ; North Midland
Halves, 364 ; Manchester and Leeds, 72 ; Half ditto,
31; Quarter ditto, 3+ and 31. 19s. ; South Eastern, 23 and
231; Bank of Manchester, 41; Manchester Assurance, 94.
Both Markets opened firm this morning. Exchequer
Bills, have further advanced to 20 22 prem. Consols are
894 4 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 894 a ; Three-and-
a-llalf ditto, 991, 4.
Spanish Active Stock opened at 254 • Passive, 5+
64 ; Deferred, 131 ; Mexican Bonds, 29* 30 ; Portu-
guese
Five per Cents., 324 33 ex. div. ; Ditto
Three per Cents., 19+ 1.
Exchequer Bills continue to advance,. they are now
23 24 prem. India Bonds have also improved to 5 8
prem. Consols 894 4; Three per Cents. Reduced, 89+ i;
Bank Stock, 167 i
The Foreign. Securities are not quite so firm as at the
opening. Spanish Active is now 251; Passive, 51 ; Mexi-
can, 29+; Colombian, 22; Portuguese Fives, 32+ ex.-div.;
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 514 ex.-div.
Very little doing in Shares, and no material alters,
tion to notice :—Great Western, 87 ; Do. Fifths, 10 4 ;
London and Birmingham, 169 ; South Eastern and Do-
ver, 224 ; York and North:Midland, 92.
The French, while viewing our naval preparations
with much jealousy and suspicion, undoubtedly magnify
them far beyond the bounds of truth, but they
contrive to tell us some bitter truths with regard
to our commercial code, which makes us alike
the prey and sport of all the' continental na-
tions. Thus they draw a lively picture of the injury
done to our shipping interests by the high price of food
and labour at home, compared to what it is in the
North of Europe, and cite, as an example, the
fact that out of one thousand seven hundred
vessels employed to bring the recent heavy
cargos of foreign Wheat to this country, only 300 were
British ! The fact is, as the French truly state, with
our Corn, Timber, and Sugar-laws against us, we can
neither build norjsail our vessels, feed our people, nor sell
our manufactures so cheap as our rivals.
Consols, 891 4 ; Colombian, 22* ; Mexican, 29+ ;
Spanish, 25+ 4.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
sank Stock 1671 'lndia Stock

3 per Cent Red. B9-i Ditto Bonds Bpm
3 per Cent Cons 'Ditto Old Annuities ...
3i per Cent Red.. 991 Ditte New Annuities...
New 3} per Cent — Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2id 23 pm
New 5 per Cent — Ditto 5001.... 24 pre
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small. 22 pm
Jan .. 1860 . . 121 Bank Stock for Acct...
Oct ' 1859 — India Stock for Acct....
Jan. 1860. — Consols for Open B9i
FOREIGN FUNDS.

Austrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent. 54
Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto 32i
Brazilian 80nd5.......... Prussian, 5 per cent.
Buenos Ayres,6 per cet Russian, 5 per cent —
Chilian, 6 per cent.— Ditto, Metallic
Colombian, 6 per cent.. Spanish, 5 per cent 2s*
Ditto, 1824. — Ditto, Deferred .
Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
Greek, 18.45, 5 per cent — Exchange
Mexican, 5 per cent.... 29 French, 3 per cent —f. —c
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1837 Dutch, 2i per cent sl
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent. . ..... 1001
SHARES.

Great Western Railway( 65 paid) B7
Ditto New Shares (50 paid) .........
Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid) 3Bl
London and Birmingham (90)
Ditto Quarter Shares ( S paid) 241
Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) ..: .......
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... ...
Ditto New Shares (30 paid)
Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) ..... 23i
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid)
Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid) 2li
Northern and Eastern (40 paid)
North Midland Railway (100)
Paris and Rouen (12 paid)
South Eastern and Dover (43 paid)......... 22i
York and North Midland Railway (50 paid) 92
Ditto New Shares (15 paid 3ll
COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY).

Amsterdam CF. 12 7i
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam .........2 U l2 8
Antwerp l2 7
Hamburgh M. B. 13 13
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 55
Ditto, 3 months 25 85
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 25 90
Frankfort on Maine... 1501
L'etersburgh, 3Us ... 37
Berlin... 7
Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M 953
Trieste, ditto 9 55
Madrid

Gibraltar ~.
Leghorn
Genoa 25 90
Milan ... 3l
Venice ... 47
Naples
Palermo, per oz 1194
Lisbon
Oporto 52
Rio Janeiro 27
Bahia
Buenos Ayres
New York, 21 says sight 46i
Philadelphia 46
PRICES OF BULLION, PER 07.
Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 9

Cadiz
... 3366 i
Bilbao
Barcelona
Seville

Portugal Gold Coin —3117 5
New Doubloons 0 0 0
New Dollars... 0 4 10
!Silver in Bars... 0 4 11.

NEW YEAR'S REVELS. —On Saturday, a
young man, about twenty-four years of age, was found
lying dead at his father's door in the Pleasance. He
had been drinking the preceding evening, and about
midnight he went into a spirit shop in the Pleasance,
where he fell asleep, and lay till about eleven o'clock on
Saturday forenoon, when the spirit dealer employed a
man to carry him on his back to his door. There he
was put down ; and it appears he had crawled up to the
top of the stair, where he was found dead by his brother.
—Edinburgh Courant.
FRIGHTFUL OCCIDENT.—Monday afternoon
about three o'clock, Mr. Charles Salisbury, painter and
glazier, of the Willow-walk, Pimlico, met with the follow-
ing accidenti—He was standing upon a painter's machine,
painting the second-floor windows. While so engaged the
feet of the machine gave way, and he fell into the stone
area below, a distance of nearly forty feet. While falling
the palm of his hand caught the top of one of the iron
railings, which tore away a great portion of his hand.
He lies at present in a very precarious state.
On the 18th ult. died at Rome, after a short ill
ness, Cardinal Joseph Della Porta Rodiani, Vicar. Ge-
neral to his Holiness the Pope. The deceased was in
the 69th year of his age, and had been invested with the
purple by the reigning Pope in the year 1835.
Government, it is currently reported, has resolved
to establish a line of steam communication between the
Pacific coast of South America and New Zealand and the
Australian colonies. The authorities of Panan-a, we
may add, have invited an English engineer to survey a
line of railroad across the Isthmus, and are most desi-
rous that the line should be executed by an English
Company, to which they are prepared to grant extensive
privileges.
EVASION ON TILE TOLLS BY SIR EDWARD
KNATCHBULL.—The appeal of' Sir Edward Knatchbull
from the conviction of the Magistrates for evading the
turnpike tolls, was on Monday taken at Canterbury. After
Counsel had been heard, the conviction was confirmed
by the Recorder, who observed that if the Right Hon.
Baronet were dissatisfied he might appeal to the Court
of Queen's Bench.
COMPETITION IN THE SLOP BUSINESS.
SHIRTS MADE FOR THREE FARTHINGS A PIECE.—The
competition in the slop business is almost ruinous to a
numerous and industrious class of females at the east
end of the metropolis, who managed to support them
selves decently by their needle. A few years ago, when
shirt-making was reduced to three shillings a dozen, it
was considered so low a price, that it was impossible to
make a bare existence at it. Yet, from that price it be-
came gradually reduced, and many of the large Jew slop-
sellers at present pay but ninepence a dozen, or three
farthings each shirt, for them. If three shillings was a
price
at which these poor women could make a mere
existence, what must be the effect of the present allow-
ance ? and yet thousands are to be found even glad to
get such work ; but it is only those who can get a num-
ber of girls, who have some other means of support to
work for them at shirt-making, that can earn bread at it.
THE BISHOP 07 GLOUCESTER AND THE
TRACTISTS.—We are enabled positively to contradict
the report, originating in a London paper, that the
Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol was perfectly satisfied
by Mr. Williams's explanation of his Tract on Reserve in
religious teaching, which his Lordship severely censured
4045 late Charge to his ClergYoi.—British Journal.

LITERATURE.
COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE

1- 1

ZINE.
As this Magazine has been, under the old title;
confounded with a weekly Tory newspaper from
the similarity of the titles, the publisher has
adopted a slight alteration in the name, in order
to prevent mistakes, and for the future it will-be
designated " Colburn's United Service Maga-
zine, and Naval and Military Journal." Though
the name is changed the character of the work
remains the same. We have the same consist-1
ency and regard for the interests of the two
services of which it professes to be the organ.
The paper on the Military Force of Great
Bri-
tain, by Henry Marshall, Esq., Deputy Inspector
General of Army Hospitals, will be read with
interest. It treats, among other subjects, of en-
listment; vices and virtues of soldiers; and edu-
cation; and in discussing the latter the author
points out as one cause why common soldiers in the
British army are not promoted to the rank of offi-
cersso frequently as in France, their want of that
instruction requisite to qualifythem for promotion.
In this country from 30 to 50 per cent. of the
men who enlist are unable to read, for any use:
ful purpose, while in France the case is quite dif-
ferent, as the conscription forces into the army
men nearly of all ranks and classes. Besides
this the present Number contains two other good
articles, one on the Navy and the other on the
Army, past, present, and future, with the distri
bution of the Army and the Stations of the
Royal Navy in Commission on the Ist January
1842, with the years when built, and dates of
commission of the officers in command.

Ithare profited 1y the high and pure moral truths
t hey: ennficiatei but never yet have we perused
diem otherwise tfilia With an unmoistened eye.
Often have we recognised in them the pre-
sence of a lofty 'intellect, speculatitl on hu-
manity in the kindliest and most indulgent
mood, and giving all the fervour of a pro-
phet utterance to the most exalted send.
merits 3 but we have been unable to detect

any of that quick, active, trembling sensibility,
which makes its appeal direct to the heart. Mr.
Wordsworth, we suspect, would himself be the
first to repudiate such tenderness, as derogating
from the high pretensions of the philosopher.
A certain shade of pensiveness at times steals
over his spirit—for this is inseparable from fixed
habits of contemplation; but he never strikes a
deeper chord of feeling. Tod° so would be inconsis-
tent with his philosophic creed, which in some
points is singularly austere. We perfectly agree
with the Reviewer that his " Sonnets" are among
his best and most characteristic productions ; and
we may add, too, that they are incomparably the
finest in the language. Their clearness and com-

pactness are unrivalled, and not -less
of note are the felicitous diction and ima-

gery in which they abound. What, for instance,
can be more appropriate than such expressions
as the " sonnet's scanty plot of ground"—the set-
ting" sun'spatheticlight"—the " audacious flight"
of genius—or " pure religion breathing house-
hold laws?"—Or what more definite and impres-
sive than the image of upstart wealth, which
must needs " run glittering like a brook in open
sunshine 1" We could easily multiply instances
of similar felicities of thought and expression,
but we must hurry on with our notice. To pro-
ceed, therefore ; the Reviewer quotes several un-
published sonnets, wherein Mr. Wordsworth in-
timates his ideas of " Punishment by Death," to
which, in the case of murder, lie appears de-
cidedly favourable. In the subjoined poems it
will be seen that he illustrates the question with

great force and subtlety :
" Ah, think how one compelled for life to abide
Locked in a dungeon, needs must eat the heart
Out of his own humanity, and part
With every hope that mutual cares provide ;
And should a less unnatural doom confide
In life-long exile on a savage coast,
Soon the relapsing penitent may boast
Of yet more heinous guilt, with fiercer pride.
Hence thoughtful mercy, mercy sage and pure,
Sanctions the forfeiture that law demands,
Leaving the final issue in His hands
Whose goodness knows no change, whose love is sure,
Who sees, foresees ; who cannot judge amiss ;
And wafts at will the contrite soul to bliss."
" See the Condemned alone within his cell,
And prostrate at some moment when remorse
Stings to the quick, and with resistless force
Assaults the pride she strove in vain to quell.
Then mark him, him who could sd long rebel,
The crime confessed, a kneeling penitent
Before the altar, where the sacrament
Softens his heart, till from his eyes outwell
'rears of salvation. Welcome, death ! while Heaven
Does in this change exceedingly rejoice ;
While yet the solemn heed the State hath given
Helps him to meet the last tribunal's voice
In faith, which fresh offences, were he cast
On old temptations, might for ever blast."

" Margaret Davidson" is a notice of a biogra-
phical sketch of this young American poetess,
recently deceased, which has been published by
Mr. Washington Irving in Philadelphia. The
notice is penned in a kindly spirit, though the
Reviewer is not wholly devoid of a certain whole-
some distrust respecting the precocious powers
of the young Margaret. If we even believe half
of what is recorded of her by her biographer,
enough will still remain to call forth our wonder
and admiration. At six years of age she was
familiar with the poems of Milton, "and marked
with taste and discrimination the passages which

struck her ;" and when little more than four years ,
old, " a bright star=light night," we are told, '
"would seem to awaken a mysterious rapture in her
infant bosom, and one of her early expressions
in speaking of the stars was, that they shone like I
the eyes of angels !" This gifted young girl died
when she was only fifteen, of confirmed consump-
tion, brought on•—or at any rate aggravated—by
her constant habit, which she could not repress,
of overtasking all her mental faculties. The
" Copyright Question" is an admirably rea-
soned article—eloquent, where eloquence is ne-
cessary—argumentative, where plain argument
will best answer the purpose—full of perti-
nent facts, all bearing directly on the question,
and from which facts such deductions are drawn
as might bring conviction home even to the
perverse, and somewhat obtuse, understanding of
a Warburton. Those who have read Mr. Ser-
geant Talfourd's splendid speeches on the subject
of copyright, should read this article with equal
attention, for though it does not possess the lofty
tone of thought, the rich poetic colouring, and
the generous enthusiasm of those eloquent
orations, yet it brings equal sincerity and manli-
ness ol'reasoning to its task. We quote an able
passage, which combines clearness of argument
with vigour and animation of style in no ordinary
degree :
The greatest antagonist of the very principle of lite-
rary property in the last age was far too sagacious not to
see the consequences that must in reason flow from it—
were it once admitted.* Not venturing to contradict
the statement on the other side, that even then the days
of the patronage plan were over, he denied boldly that
any effective stimulus for minds capable of worthy things
in letters or science ever had been or could be supplied
by the hope of any worldly delight or advantage what-
soever, except only the pure enjoyment of intellectual
exertion, and its consequence in honour, respect, fame.
But these motives, however powerful, can be of them-
selves sufficient only in the case of men fortunate
enough to need nothing beyond what these motives
point to. In the energetic exertion of every noble fa-
culty there is a delight beside which no other earthly
pleasure can be named. The soldier knows it, and so
does the poet. The aged bard was found with streaming
and flashing eyes, trembling all over, in the midst of
his Alexander's feast. After an interval, the secrets of
which we can never penetrate, he exults over again in
the applause of educated England. Ile has this joy and
honour, because they cannot be denied him—and he gets
them at nobody's cost ; the accordance of them is in-
stinctive, and in itself a delight to the yielders. But
shall this be all? Grant that the creative glow, and this
reflex confirmation of its high origin—attained or anti-
cipated—may indeed be the sufficient rewards of the il-
lustrious effort itself ; such efforts occupy, after all, but
a small space in the mind that is most capable of them—
they are severe though sweet—perilous as well as price-
less: let them be frequent and continuous, as the lesser
heroes of ordinary toil may safely be—and there ensues
a madness or a torpor. And since a man is not the less
a husband and a father because he is also a Dryden, and
the broad course of time and life must be given to the
common cares of the whole humanity that is in every
man—we must, if we would have such efforts repeated,
reconcile it with the standing reason of this favourite of
Nature, that he shall so order his existence as to keep
that intellectual power which might have been profitably
diffused over a wide space, concentrated and compressed
for the exhausting energy of divine moments. It is the
same with the hero. He too puts forth one at least of
the noblest attributes of man in that splendid perfection
which implies consummate felicity in the act, and which
cannot be observed of other men without drawing from
them precious worship.
" Sound—sound the clarion ! fill the fife !
To all the sensual world proclaim—
One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name."
But what nation ever proclaimed to her soldiers that
this was to be their sole recompense ? " England ex-
pectS every man to do his duty," said Nelson, before a
battle ; bat, under the like circumstances, he had said
also, "A Peerage or 'Westminster Abbey!"
The review of "Stephens's Travels in Central
-America," is a careitil• digest., of 4.*Ork chiefly
'valuable for its accumUlatio.ii,,cit, Useful: 440E0.
" Fish-markets and,Eish,ponds,"ria' an amusing:
taper, conveying.- brief :directionsufor:stocking
ponds with the best fresh-water fish.- 'ln the
course of this article we are told that Professor
Owen has lately discovered a multitude of fossil
turtle at Sheppey, whence we infer, that if he
will persevere in his examination of the locality,
he will find, at no great distance off, a multi-
tude of fossil Aldermen, since, wherever there is
a turtle, there, in the immediate neighbourhood,
one is sure to find an Alderman. " Turtle with-
out Aldermen," says the Reviewer, " seems a
strange dispensation"—a remark in the justice
of which we cordially concur. " Letters of John
Adams" is a dull, wearisome notice of the re-.
cently published correspondence of one of the
great founders of the American Republic, the
friend and colleague of Washington during his
first and second Presidentship. Of the two re-
maining, articles, the most readable is the one
" On the Principles of Gothic Architecture."
• Whoever desires to study the history of the Act of Queen
Anne, and the discussions upon its interpretation down to
1774, will find the materials clearly arranged in Mr. Lowndes'
volume ; but they are given in more detail by Mr. Maugham,
in his excellent " Treatise on the Law of Literary Property."
—London, 1828.

CoRN-LAws.—A meeting was held last even-
ing; of the members and friends of the Islington Anti-
Corn-law Association, for the purpose of hearing a lec-
ture from Mr. Sidney Smith upon the Corn-laws. Dr.
Price took the chair, and having.briefly detailed the ob-
ject of the meeting, Mr. Smith came forward and de-
livered an able address, exposing the absurdity and
baneful effects of the present Corn-laws in colours but
too true. The lecture was received with continued ap-
plause, and the Lecturer concluded amidst loud cheering.
THE CHRISTENING OF THE PRINCE OF
WALES.—The Royal Chapel of St. George's will be
closed on Monday next, to enable the necessary prepara-
tions being made for the important and interesting
ceremony of the christening of the Prince of Wales,
which is now fixed, we believe, for the 25th of this month.
The royal and illustrious persons will not proceed, as has
been stated, 0 the chapel on foot, but will be omveyed in
carriages,--Windsor .vpress.

PRICES OF CANAL,DOCK,ASSUR-
ANCE COMPANY SHARES, &c. &c. &c.
LONDON, TUESDAY, JAN. 4.
Number Dividend Price
Number
per CANALS.
.•I'.
Annum. Paid. gritre
1,766 7 per cent. Ashton & Oldham...Average97l.lBs.A. -98
1,482 41. Ashby.de.leaouch .....Average 1131.0 h. -72
1,260
1,005 511. Brecknock and Abeegavenny ISOLA. 92
8,090 I-16th. 101. Birmingham, (.16th share ..."1311. & 711. 200
..*
4.000 .. ~ .. Ditto & Liverpool Junet.lllol. sh 100p'!. 11
600 31. Bridgewater and Taunton.lool.sh. all pi --
100 51. Chelmer and Blackwater lOOl. sh . 105
500 321. Coventry .... ....... ........... .. .... . . lool.sh. 300
Croydon.• Average3ll.2l.lod. eh. -
2, 60 51. Os. Dudley H..... ....... .. ..... ..•1001. eh. 94
600 IN. Derby lool.sh. 120
20,000 4 per cent. Danube and Mayne 411.131. 4d.pd 30
3,5751 4' Ellesmere and Chester Average 1331.5 h. 75
231 621 Erewasn .* .... .. .. ' ~...1001.1n. 735
8,485 831. Forth and Clyde 100/.s h. 1001. pd. ltB
11,453 71. Grand Junction 1001. s n 113
1,6491 256. Grand Union ..... ............. Wash • 26
',500 ... Grand Surrey. .... .... .... ..... lOOl.Bll. 15
1,0001 41. per cent . Ditto (optional) L7an.......- lOOl.
096 .. .... . Grand Western
600 131.1.25.. 9d. Glamorganshire, Aver. cost 1721.138.4 i. 230 1
749 12s. Grantham ..... 1501.5 h. WO
6.238 21. Os. Hudderßfield Average 5 /1. 63.8 d. eh. 21%
toe
25,3913 11.10 s Kennet and Avon. Av. 391.185. 10d. sh 20
11,6991 11. 7s Lancaster Average 471. 6s. 8d 27
0,897 g 301. Leeds and Liverpool lool.sh '230
5451 111. Leicester 1401. at. 150
,897 51.9 x. Leicester & Nort kampton Aver 831.10 s '7136
2,409 101. Monmouthshire lOOl.lll 200
250 101. Melton Mowbray ioet.eh. 117
600 254 Mersey and Irwell IOOI.A. 510
3,000 21. 108. Macclesfield lOOl. sh. all pd 23
247 171. Neath 1001.81.. 325
1,400 51. Peak Forest Average about 781. sh. 71
1,418 66. Regent's (or London) Av. 33/.161.8d. eh. 936
1,669 N. Rochdale Average 851. eh. 62
500 81. Shropshire ............. .......... .....,./251.5h. 137
;800 111. IN. Somerset Coal .* .. . ... ...............1501.5h. 176
3,6001. 6 per cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock 121. 10s. sh. 1151
700 361. Stafford and W0rce5ter.............1401.5h. 6&
500 151 Shrewsbury.... 125!. eh. 280
300 91. 3teurbridge............sie 1451. A. 396
3,647 11. Os. Stratford-on-Avon Jiver...79l. Os. bd. sh. 33
533 141 Swansea lool.sh. 265
3,762 21. 12s. Severn and Wye &Railway Av. 261.95. sh. 45
2,60015 h. 32/. 10s. Trent and Mersey, 1 share lOOl. A. 500
6,149 .... ..... Thames and Medway Av. 191.55. Bd. sh. g
I,ooosh
I,oooighl 161. Warwick and B,rmisigham lool.s- 203
980 131. Warwick and Ivapten'.... ... ... .. lool.sh. 117
7,000 41. Worcester & Birmingham Av. 1791.85. sh. 55
5,000 365. Wilts and Berks Average 671. 10. Bd. sh. 28%
800 6., Werlev and Essington........„ 1151.511 '74
.26 Wirareacn .......... ........ ..... ..... 13:,1. ah. 50
903 Ir Wee and Arun.... ....... llOl. en. 20
DOCKS.
2,600 &
1,,65i.h.1 3p. c. Commerc al ...... .. 1001 sh 61
•...•1111.1.11.11•••••• • •
5 per cent. Fast and West India ,....„.......,5t0ck 102 M
0,238,31011. 31. p. ct. London Stock 74),
Ditto Bonds 100)4
2,209 M. 6s. sd. Bristol Average 14'1.95. sh. 75
68,324/. 51. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts lOB
352,752 5 per cent. St. Katharine Stock 9•2
5005N141 per cent. Ditto Bonds
2011,000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years
Deptford Pier ................201. sh. 201. pd 10
BRIDGES.
1,600 11. Hammersmitl• . .........' .. .. ...........50/. oh. 2134
1,231 Southwark, Old Av. 631.25. Bd. sh. 3e.
1,700 11. 15s. Ditto, New, 0(71 per cent........ 501. eh. 15%
.1,000 Waterloo 100/. sh. 3
5,000 225. Od. Ditto, Old Annuities of 81 601. p 4 21
5,000 19s. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71.... 401. pd 18%
30,000/. 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds
5.848 27s Vauxhall .........Average 701. 10s. 3cl. sh 26
• ASSURANCE COMPANIES.
2,000 3/10s Albion ....... ...- ........... 5001. sh. 501. pd 72
50,000 t 6Lecri le5V•l Alliance British &Foreignlool.sh. 111. pd 13%
50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 100/. sh. 5L pd 5 4
24,000 11. per sh. Atlas 5O/. sh. 51. pd 14
1,200 Ish. 5/. Birmingham Fire 2501. sh. 551. pd 10734
20,000 41. percent. British Fire 250/. sh. 50/. pd 40
12,000 61. per cent. British Commercial .501, sq. 51, IA g
5,000 51. percent. Clerical & Medical Life, 1001.5h.2110s pd 124
4,000 31 Os County lOOl. sh. 101. pd 11
8,000 as. Eagle 501. sh. 51. pd 4%
"n f
and 301 5 per cenWe/ Economic Life 10001. A. 2501. pd 406
'''''' /
2,271 225. per cent. European Li ie 001.1 h. all pd 22
50,000 2s. Ditto, New 201. sh. 21. pd 17‘
1,000,0001. (l. per ct Globe Stock 115
20,000 51• Guardian
30,000 4s. Od. Hope 5O/. sh. 51. pd 538
2,400 51. 12.5. 6d. Imperial Fire 5001.5h. 501. pd 135
7,500 12s. Imperial Life lOO/. sh. 101. pd 11
13,459 5/. per cent. Indemnity Marine 100!. sh. 8/. pd 2934
2,020 31 10s Kent Fire 5O/. sh. all pd 92
31. Ditto Life 5Ol. pd 66
10,000 16s, Law Life lOOl. sh. 101. pd 31%
5,001) les. London, Fire 251. sh. 121. 10s. pd 1831
3,900 10s. London, Ship 25/. eh. 12/. 10s. pd 1834
1.000.0001. ... ..... Minerva Life 100/. sh.
25,000 N. per cent. National Loan Fund... 201. sh 21. 10s. pd 2%
35,000 51. per cent. Palladium Life 5Ol. A. 21. pd 216.
50,000 5!. per cent. Protector I,la 201.811. 2/. pd :fib Od
10,000 4 per cent. Protestant Dissenters -.100/. sh. 5/. pd 534
4,500 11. Provident Lite lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 20
200,660 45. Od. Rock Life
89,2201 51. per cent. Royal Exchange Stock ISO
6,000 5 per cent. University Life 1001. sh. 51. pd 8%
10,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 100Lsh. 51. pd 736
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
25,000 Agric. and Com. of Ireland2sl. sh. 10/. pd
15,000 8 per cent. Australasia 401. sh. 401. pd 533;
10,006 10 percent. Bank of Birmingham 501. sh. 101. pd 13
10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank 5O/. sh. 101. pd 13%
3),000 6 per cent. London & Westminster 1001. sh. 201. pd 22
60,000 51. London Joint Stock 50/, sh. 10!. pd 1238
.3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster ..».... 1001. sh. 101. pd 30
25,000 10 per cent. Liverpool ..... sh. 1214 pd 1834
50,000 '7l percent. Manchester and Liver ] 501.5 h. 151. pd 10
pool District
20,000 7 per coat. Manchester lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 5
20,000 8 per eent. Provincial Bank of I relandlool. sh. 25/. pd 41
0,1100 6 per cent National Bank of Ireland 501. sh. 1711. pd 17%
0,000 6 per cent National Provincial Eng.lool. ah. 351. pd 34
10,000 Ditto New 101. sh. 10/. pd 10
,0,000 Gloucestershire 501. sh. 10!. pd 32
6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 9
GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES.
2,500 16s Od Bath 201. sh. 161. pd 22
5,000 .....«.. British 401. sh. 161. pd 18
ohooo Etpdeys.ert.l Ditto Provincial .. ..... 2Ol. sh. 191. pd 24M
928 51 10s Birmingham 50/ sh. 96
1,250 210 s Bristol 2O!. sh. 36
2,250 3/ lOs Brighton 2Ol sh. 13%
750 91 lOs Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. IN. pd 9
2,471 q per cent. Brighton General 2Ol. A. all pd 93%
1,000 71. lOs. Continental Consolidated -751. 621/. pd 110
1.000 101. City of London.. ....... . 300/. sh. all pd 195 '
1.000 61. Ditto. New 1001. ah. 751. pd 150
4,000 31.05. Equitable .501. pd 20
,0,000 31. per cent. Imperial 56/. sh. 59
800 51. per cent. Isle of Thanet 251. sh. 20/. pd lb%
1,350 6/. per cent. Independent 30/. A. all p., 56
9,000 41. per cent. Pheenix 5Ol. sh. 391. pd 30
1,000 41. per cent. Ratcliff IOOI.A. SO!. pd E. 3
4,000 South Metropolitan 501. sh.'l3%/. pd 17
9,000 51. per cent. United General 501. lb. 471. pd 29
240 5/. per cent. Warwick 5Ol. sh 50
400 51. per cent Wakefield
9,000 31. Westminster Chartered ..-. 5Ol. sh. 58
6,000 12s. Ditto New 5ll. A. 101. pd 1134
780 3 per cent. Yarmouth 2Ol. sh. 181. pd

19%
12%
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92%
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LLOYD'S SHIPPING

LONDON, JAN. 4.—Wind at noon, various and light.
RAMSGATE, JAN. 3.--Sld. Juno, New York ; Eliza-
beth, Leghorn. The Magnet, Picard, has been placed
on the patent slip.
OFF TILE GALLOPER, DEC. 25.—Godfrey, New Orleans.
DEAL, JAN. 3.—Wind N.E. by N. moderate.—Arrd.
from the River and sld., St. Vincent's, Bombay ; WS,Te,
Sierra Leone ; Dibdin, Mobile.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 3.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Oriental,
Buenos Ayres ; Thomas Mellor, Maranham—sld. Nov.
27 ; Laurma, Laguna ; Resolution, Quebec.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 3.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrd. her Ma-
jesty's steamer Megra, from Barbadoes.
Of F DOVER, JAN. 3.—Caesar and Helene, Hamburgh
for Havannah.
FALMOUTH, JAN. 2.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrd. Elizabeth,
Shields, for Jamaica. Sld. Oriental steamer, Alexandria.
CARDIFF, JAN. I.—Sld. Hannah, Booth, Malta.
SCARBOROUGH, JAN. 2.—The Palestine, Thomson,
from Sunderland to Lynn, came ashore south of Filey
yesterday morning during a fog, but got (Wafter throw-
ing about one keel of coals overboard, and proceeded
with assistance.
DUNDALK, JAN. I.—The llelen, llPliensie, of Aber-
deen, in proceeding to sea struck on the Bar, but cams
off without damage.
ABERDEEN, DEC. 31.—The sloop Alexander, Aspy,
has arrived here from Spalding, much strained, with loss
of bulwarks, and nearly the whole of her cargo damaged,
having grounded on Marion Sands, and been struck

twice by a sea.
The Workington, from Honduras, is supposed to hare
arrived off Lymington.

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The Bishop of St. David's is said to be so
fascinated with the beauties of the Welsh language, of
which he has made himself master, as to have determined
to trace it to its sources, as a key to the early history of

Wales.—Bristol.Journal.
LEIPZIG FAIR.—On the first of this month
the celebrated fair at Leipzic commenced. It is for the
sale of manufacted goods and for pleasure, but the
business itself commences three or four days earlier.
This, like all the German fairs that are of commercial in-
terest, last three weeks. This fair at New Year was
first proclaimed in 1458, and the concourse of merchants
from various countries is very great. The value of the
goods sold at the different Leipzic fairs, in one year, was
estimated, a few years ago at upwards of 3,000,0001. ster-
ling, exclusive of the value of the books then disposed of.
A desperate affray occurred on the night of the
23d of December, near Fairfield, the seat of Barlow Hoy,
Esq. A determined body of poachers, amounting
to twelve in number, entered the preserves, and began
popping down the game in all directions. The keepers
and their assistants (who, it appeared, had received
previous notice of their coming) mustered their
strength, and endeavoured to make them prisoners ; but
being far inferior in numbers, the poachers levelled
them in all directions with the butts of their fowling-
pieces, and gained a complete victory. Some of the
keepers received severe injuries, but the whole of the
poachers got clear off; leaving one gun and a bat in their
possession. A reward of twenty-five guineas has been
offered for the discovery of the offenders, since which we
are informed a person named Tutton has been taken at
Ryde, and committed by the Magistrates of that town to
take his trial at the next sessions.—Hants Independent.
ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY. WOOL-
WICH, JAN. 3.—The final examination of the gentlemen
cadets of the first glass, studying in the Royal Arsenal,
is appointed to take place to-morrow, when the following
students will obtain commissions, having completed their
course of study in a satisfactory manner:—James BroWn,
Eustace Bourchier, Adolphus Connell, Joseph Childs,
Charles Franklin, John Grant, Henry Grain, Andrew
Green, William Grant, Alexander Hawkins, James Hill,
George Johnson, Barclay Lawson, Valentine Mairis,
Horace Montague, Charles Morris, Niel M. May, Pierce
Parson, Algernon Peter Herbert Patton, Fitzroy Somer-
set, Edward Williams.
DUZLIN, JAN. 2.—The candidate whom the
Tories have in view is Mr. Atwood, who had been de-
feated at the last general election in Kinsale, by Mr.
Watson, and subsequently in Sunderland, by Lord
llowick. The approaching election will be a great
stand-up fight between the monopolists and the friends
of free trade and honest government. On the side of the
Tories there will be the unscrupulous interference of the
Government, and reckless intimidation. The money of
the Carlton Club will also be available, and general sub-
scriptions amongst the place-expectants in this country.
Under such circumstances, the Liberals will require the
cordial assurance and co-operation of every friend of the
good cause.
The following. Memorial, numerously signed,
has been addressed to the Postmaster-General
" TO THE RIGHT 110 N. LORD LOWTHER, HER MAJESTY'S
POSTMASTER-GENERAL.

" London, Dec. 31, 1841.
" My Lord—Having observed, from the official public
notice, that your Lorship intends to establish, in con-
nexion with the Royal Mail Steam-packet Company,'
a small branch steam-packet to proceed, twice in every
month, from Fayal to Madeira, the undersigned British
merchants trading to, and having mercantile establish'
ments in, the Canary Islands, respectfully solicit that
the port of Santa Cruz, Teneriffe, may be included in

that arrangement.
" The distance between Madeira and Santa Cruz is
240 miles. The extra time required,'therefore, will only
be about one day, to secure to the commerce of this
country the advantages of this regular and expeditious
cotninunication.
" Cadiz or Gibraltar might be included in this round
by an extension of two or three days, thereby securing
the regular and frequent steam communication of the
Azores, Madeira, and the Canaries with England, and
enhancing the benefits to the revenue, as well as to the
Royal Mail Steam-packet Company,' from the in-
creased conveyance of correspondence and of passen-
gers, specie, and cochineal.
" The population of the Canary Islands is about
220,000. It is the only province of Spain where British
cotton goods are admitted. The anchorage at Santa
Cruz is good and safe."
How TO PUT A LADY IN GOOD SPIRITS.
—Take her to a milliner's shop and buy her a bonnet.
The manageress of one of the most extensive establish-
ments in London, in the course of her evidence the other
day, in an action for breach of promise, declared, that
" ladies are always in good spirits when they go to amil-
liner's to choose a bonnet." Here we have a viJuable
recipe, which may be of great use to those gentleu:en
whose ladies are troubled with ennui and the sullen&
Like most applications for the health of " these delicate
creatures," however, it is expensive. We believe the
efficacy is not confined to bonnets. Ladies love to be
purchasing, and we doubt not, if they were permitted to
spend their days in shopping, their smiles would be
perpetual.
SIDNEY SMITH'S LAST.—This worthy and
facetious dignitary of St. Paul's, dining in company last
week with 1)r. Selwyn, the new Bishop of New Zealand,
observed, though a most excellent dinner was provided,
that his Lordship ate very sparingly. " Come. my
Lord," said he, " this will not do in New Zealand (in-
cluding the Cannibal Islands), where you will always find
two courses, and a cold man on the sideboard. What
think you of that?" The Bishop replied, that he did
think the practice worse than " roasting bishops in Eng-
land !" The " Senex Derisor' was dumbfounded.
The Earl of Lincoln had a long interview yes-
terday- with Sir James Graham, at 'the Home-office,
previous to the Right Hon. Baronet leaving town for
Windsor.
THE NEW YEAR IN EDINBURGH. On
Saturday the new year was ushered in, in Edinburgh,
with the usual demonstrations, by crowds of persons in
the principal thoroughfares, but hilarity and good-
humour universally prevailed. To the credit of our citi-
zens, it ought to be remarked that the unseemly broils
and riots which formerly disgraced Edinburgh at this
season have long since disappeared.—Edinburgh Paper.
BEGGING.—The oldest inhabitants in the pa-
rishes bordering on the iron works, do not remember so
many able-bodied workmen going about for bread and
cheese as at present. If the repeal of the Corn-laws
would prevent this system, we should think that all the
small farmers would most cordially give their suffrages
to those Members of the House of Commons who would
vote for their repeal.—Silurian.
Sir Robert Peel arrived in town yesterday
,by
- the
,LondAM and Birmingham .Itailway,, from Dra,yton
. Minor, and at two o'clock the Right Hon. Baronet, ac-
donipanibil :james Graham, and Lord Stanley,
Firocee44 by the Great Western Railway to Windsor
Castle,'.en a Visit to her Majesty. The Right lion.
Baronet and Noble Lord will proceed from Windsor
Castle to Stowe, on a visit for a few days to the Duke of
Buckingham.
FIRE AT PANIIELD HALL FARM.—Oa
Wednesday night last, a fire broke out in a large and
nearly new•built barn at the above farm, occupied by
Messrs. John and Robert Lambert. Although unable to
save the barn, they succeeded, principally by means of
wet blankets, in saving three large stacks (two of barley
and one of beans) which stood within six feet of the
barn, but the building was entirely destroyed, with the
contents, about 200 quarters of barley, beans, and peas.
The fire was subdued about five o'clock the following
morning. The farm and buildings belong to Guy's Hos-
pital, and the latter were not insured. The barn was
one of the largest and most substantial in the county, and
we lament to add its destruction, there is every reason to
believe, was wilfully occasioned. It is a singular fact,
that one of the dogs, which is usually in the yard at night,
and was seen on the night of the fire, has not since been
seen or heard of. The animal in question has been fo
some years on the premises.—Essex Herald.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—A youth, fifteen years of
age, named James Templar, the son of George Templar,
a jobbing carrier, who resides at Halfway- street, Bexley,
was driving a waggon and horses up the Kent-road between
6 and 7 o'clock on Monday morning, the waggoner having
stayed for some purpose behind, when near the Crown and
Anchor, on the west side of the New Cross Toll-gate, a
night coach passed at a quick rate (supposed by the time
to be the Hastings), when the horses the unfortunate boy
was driving trok fright, ran off, and, in his endeavour to
stop them, he was knocked down and run over. Upon
being carried to Mr. Ford's, the Crown and Anchor, life
was quite extinct.
THE EMIGRATION EXPEDlENT.—lndirectly
adverting to this subject, thus speaketh the Westminster
Review :—" Emigration is proposed. It may meet for
the moment many pressing evils, but it is an expedient,
not a cure. The evil lies deep in the very heart of our
present state of social regulations and institutions, and no
palliatives will be permanently beneficial."
During the last French war, a fellow in London
eedenta of
ly
be
then
e
:u h
who hawked the daily papers about the streets, on find-
ing them lie on his hands t,oGwarredasttnlietierwitsah,!r
suddenly
day, while he only cried ,
be-
thought himself to change his tune ; and by roaring out
" Bad news" he sold more in one ho
able to do during the whole of the day before.