The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-14 00:00:00

W OOLWICFL -
ROYAL SAPPERS AND MINERS.—Major Vicar's com-
pany of the Royal Sappers and Miners are expected to
embark at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, in the early
part of next week for Corfu. First Lieutenant Ford will
take charge of the company, as it is the intention of Major
Vicars to proceed,in a short time overland to the station
of the corps at Corfu.
GIBRALTAR.—By a private letter, dated Gibraltar,
December 30, 1841, information has been received
at Woolwich of the arrival of the Java, transport-
Ship, at the former station on the previpus day ; and
the 46th regiment, at present doing duty there, was
expected to embark in about ten days from the above
date for Barbadoes. Lieutenant-General John Ross,
C. 8., is Colonel of the regiment ; and Lieutenant-Col.
A. Clarke, K. H., the commanding officer. The regiment
proceeded to Gibraltar in October, 1837, and the depot
is at present stationed at Clonmel, in Ireland.
BARDADOES.—The 47th Regiment, stationed at St.
Ann's, has enjoyed excellent health for some time, and,
consequently, will remain in their present quarters.
The 33d Regiment has been very unfortunate, and lost
so many men that the remander were marched to Gun
Hill barracks, on the 3d of December; in the expec-
tation that a change of quarters would relieve them
from the sickness which prevailed. On the day
of their march to Gun Hill, three privates .died,.; on
the day previous, Sergeant Page and three privates died.
On the day after the change of quarters, two privates
died, and on the folloWing day, only one private died,
which affords hope that their removal will be at-
tended with favourable results. Within the period of the
six weeks previous to the 6th of December, the regithent
had lost upwards of fifty from the ranks, owing, in a great
measure, to the effects of the climate. When some re-
giments in the same latitude escape the prevalent dis-
eases, it would be advisable to examine particularly the
spot their barracks or quarters are located upon, and, in
all cases, as nearly as possible, select similar situations,
and afford the same advantages to the other regiments
on the same station.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
ADV.,NRTISER.—The breaking of lamps and win-
dows forthe purpose of gaining temporary relief in pri-
son, has recently been an act of frequent occurrence,
and the police reports of yesterday contain a number of
cases which are sufficient to excite no less horror than
alarm in the- public mind ; for-i 4 appears that..distress is
now driving our fellow7creatures to the desperate act of
plundering the bakers' shops to prevent that starvation in
the streets which otherwise threatens them. However
we may condemn the act of stealing bread, we must say
that it is at all events the most pardonable species of
robbery ; and the circumstance of such thefts being com-
mitted, not in one, but several and repeated instances,
compels us to pause and ask, what can be the state of
that country, in whose rich metropolis crowds of famish-
ing beings are driven by want of food to rob 'for it in
open day, and diStribute it to herds of their wretched
companions in the streets of the city ? That such scenes
should occur in London,,the very. centre of' civilization
and of wealth, it would be difficult to believe, but that
we are long' accustomed to hear tales of destitution
and distress, alike shOeking to humanity, and disgraceful
to the land in which they:are suffered to occur, while
Providence has furnished ample means for preventing
them. Though we are ready to censure the lawlessness
,of such acts as that we have alluded to, we' are bound in
'reason and in justice to ask, what it is that goads men
on to plunder for the commonest necessary of life, and
induces them, by an instinct of nature, to follow the law
of self-preservation at the sacrifice of the ordinary rules
of conduct that morality prescribes to them ? It is a
maxim that " nelessity has no law ;" and if we ex-
pect men lo be ruled by the latter, we should take
care that they are not placed' so thoroughly
under the gnawing influence of the former as to be
incapable of submitting themselves to the guidance
of Government. In the cases that have suggested
these remarks, .the unhappy persons who were in-
duced to steal food, had applied for it in vain to • the
legitimate sources of relief ; and it was only after having
been refiised assistance that they came to the desperate
determination of taking illegally, that immediate provi-
sion for their wants which, their-solicitations had failed
to obtain for them. If people are perishing'from hunger,
what, in God's name, can ' the poor wretches do ? If
they go to the nearest workhouse, they are almost always
summarily sent away. If they beg they-are taken up and
punished; while, if' , they , rob, they. are similarly dealt
with; and whenlood is the only thing they steal, it is not
difficult for them to reconcile to their consciences an act
which is the only one open to them for sustaining life
against the biting attacks of hunger. It never was the in
tention of the Creator that the noblest of his creatures.
Should be dying of want—a fate to Which the meanest living.
thingia scarcely ever doomed; and we must, therefore, look
for the cause of the 'present horrible state of ' things'in
some most iniquitous perversion of the. blessings which
a bountiful I'rovidenee has afforded us.:. Something
must be done, if not to equalise wealth, at least.tq
Comfortable subsistence within the'ineans of all ;' and the
Corn-laws, appearing to stand the most in- the way of
this arrangement, must be the first point of attack by all
-
the friends, not of any particular political party, but of
Justice and humanity. The tradesman who is called on
to protect .his property against outrages induced by
despair and want, will do better to demand an alteration
of the- system, under which he is liable to be disturbed in
the enjoyment of his own, than to join in the cry that
will be raised against the atrocity of' those whose necea-
sides make them forget law and defy authority.
. CHRONICLE.—A bishopric is vacant ; and in this
internal crisis of the Church the nomination to it is
eagerly looked to by the various clerical parties as likely
to indicate, to which of them Sir Robert Peel leans. - He
is not officially called upon to vote for either of the can-
didates for the Oxford Professorship of Poetry ; and he
will of course take , the sensible course of
not needlessly mixing in the ecclesiastical fray by
giving an unnecessary, vote. But unluckily for him,
the vacant bishopric makes inn,, in spite of all his
caution, a party to the contest now going on. A
Liberal lie most assuredly will not appoint ; and, con-
fining his selection to genuine Tories, he can hardly
avoid selecting some one who is prominent amonc, either
the Puseyites or their antagonists, unless, indeed; he jobs
the appointment away to some obscure tutor of a col-
league or some unprovided Peel, or Wellesley, or Hope.
The different parties in the Church, who knOW well
how to manage the malleable Premier, are already hard
at work to force their own candidate upon him. This
was the evident object of a very careful and able
leading article which appeared yesterday in the Times.
From the general views of that article it is im-
possible for any reasonable man to differ materially.
This is, undoubtedly, an epoch of great crisis, or rather
fOrerunning a great crisis in the history of the Anglican
Church. The appointment of a Bishop at such- a period
is a matter of unusual and vital importance ; and it
essential that it should not be made a job of, but confer-
red on some man of mark, intellect, activity, earnestness,
and decision. He does not name the individual who sa-
tisfies the conditions which he imposes ; but those who
know the state .of the" Church, .and the candidates
put forward by . the different
.parties, cannot help
supplying as. the suppressed but necessary conclusion
of the argunient i---" Sir Robert Peel must therefore ap-
point oither Dr. Hook, of Leeds, or, at any rate, Arch-
deacon
Wilberforce." This is the object of the Pusey-
ites, the party of which the Times is always labouring
to serve the purposes as openly as it dares. It is the
party in the Church to which Sir Robert must be most
averse ; and the only reason to-apprehend his taking its
candidate is, that it has hit him so hard and so repeat-
edly, that he may be desirous of conciliating it. But
as conciliating it %NHL be sure to be taken as a
mortal offence by the other party, he will hardly ven-
titre on doing so now. The same reason will deter him
from conferring such mark of favour on any known
partisan of low Church views. He may, therefore,
confer this piece'. of patronage, as be already has too
Much of that at his disposal, merely on aristocratic
grounds, and throw this bishopric to some younger
brother of sonic favoured member of the clique about
him. Or if he is scared from this by yesterday's Times,
and some deference to public opinion, he will seek refuge
in that portion of his tollowers to which the stream of
his patronage after all mainly directs itself, when he is
compelled to require some degree of competence as a
qualification for office. The bishopric will go to some
geometrical or philological rat from the Liberal party ;
and thus in the Church as in the' State, " the Stanley
and Graham" section of the party will profit by the u•-
popularity or incapacity of the ultras.

THE ORANGE. CANDIDATE FOR

DUBLIN:
The following is the peroration of a longito article. in
the Evening Mail of Monday, on " The Representation
of Dublin :"
At three o'clock this afternoor. a very numerous and
influential meeting of the most respectable class of elec-
tors was held at the Rooms of the Registration Society
in College-street. T. B. C. Smith, Esq., Q.C., in the chair.
An intimation was made to the effect that Mr. Wil-
liam Gregory was ready to obey the call of the electors
of Dublin, and, at their instance, to stand fur its repre-
sentation.

This announcement was received with the most en-
thusiastic cheering—the greatest joy pervaded the meet-
ing ; and the gratifying intelligence was quickly con.
veyed throughout the city, where all the energy and
spirit of former times were instantly created and existed.
The same committees were appointed, and the same
gentlemen have undertaken to act, as those through
whose instrumentality and exertions the late contest
was brought to so glorious and successful an issue ; and
victory is now certain.

There is nothing new in this intimation Mr. Gre-
gory was ready to obey the call of the electors of
Dublin a week ago on certain conditions, and we are
half inclined to think that these conditions—to wit,
the reimbursement, in the event of defeat, of the sum
he advances and the defence of the-return against a peti-
tion in the event of .success—are still under considera-
tion. Be that, hoviever, as it may, the Liberals are
armed and ready for the encounter.—Pilot.

THE PI-IILIPSTOWN OUTRAGE.
It seems we had too good. an opinion of the present
Government when we credited the report that it was
about to cause an investigation into the shocking
transaction at Philipstown. The Government will
do no such thing—it still stands on the Coroner's in-
quest. But the matter cannot stand here. We again
ask, who was the Coroner ? Did he charge the Jury ?
Who were the witnesses ?—who the Jury ?—what the
evidence? What was the conduct of the parties even
after the day of the dreadful deed ? What were their
intentions previously ?—and did not the knowledge of
them keep away from the party a respectable gentleman,
on whom a gross outrage had been previously pliitted ?
The facts must and should come out, in spite of all the
money lavished for suppression, and all the paragraphs
fbr intimidation.—Pilot.

LONDON CITY MlSSlON.—Yesterday fore-
noon the annual meeting of the London City Mission
took place at -the Music-hall, Store-street, . Bedford-
square ; R. C. Bevan, Esq., took the chair. The Secre-
tary read the annual Report of the Committee, from
which it appeared that an addition of several friends to
the Society had taken place since their last annual meet-
ing. The number of missionaries was then 52 ; it was
now 59. Some changes had taken place in the distribu-
-1 I tinn of the missionaries, and the chief new districts allotted
to their exertions were those which most required them;
viz., Field-lane, Saffron-hill, Cow-cross, the inhabitants
of which were in a most deplorable state of spiritual
,destitution. In one of the courts north of Holborn-hill,
containing 391 souls from the age of six upwards, 280
could not read, and of that number 119 were upwards
of 20 years of age. In the same vicinity there were found
107 heads of families unable to read. In other localities
out of 158 persons 102 could not read, and elsewhere out
of 106 only 77 could read. The Report concluded by
appealing -to all charitable Christians for further sup.
pert. On the motion of the Rev. Hughes Hughes,
seconded by the Hon. and Rev. B. Noel, the Report was
received. The usual thanks having been voted to the
chair, the meeting broke up.
BUTCHERS' CHARITABLE INSTITUTION.—
Last evening a meeting of the members of the above
society took place at the Freemasons' Tavern. Mr. Gib-
lett, the President of the Institution, took the chair,
and stated that the object of the meeting was to hear
and receive the annual Report of the Committee, and to
elect officers for the ensuing year. The Secretary read
the Report, by which it appeared that G. Edwards, Esq.,
of Shaftesbury-terrace, Pimlico, had bequeathed to the
Institution the sum of 1001. There had also been a
bequest of a similar sum by Mr. Desstam. During the
past year the sum of 9371. had been applied to the sup- '
port of fifty-two indigent members of the trade. The
total receipts last year amounted to 1,8151., and the dis-
bursements rose to the sum •of 1,1151. 13s. ld., leaving
a balance in the Treasurer's hands of 6991. 6s. 11d. The
total number of persons or pensioners maintained by the
Institution since its establishment was 94. The Report
was then adopted. Mr. Giblett was re-elected President,
and the other minor officers appointed. The meeting,
thanks having been voted to the President, then separated.
MERCHANT TAILORS' COMPANY.— The
Master and Wardens of this ancient and loyal corpora-
tjon have issued invitations to their brethren of the Livery
to a banquet at their hall on Wednesday, the 26th inst.,
to celebrate the christening of his Royal Highness the
Prince of 'Wales.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DIY.
CHRONICLE.—We observed yesterday that the re-
peated 'visitations of the Government broker, as a seller
of stock for Bank notes, 'would bear extremely hard
upon the Bull party, and so they undoubtedly have done;
but that expression, which may be applied only to spe-
culative jobbers, conveys a very imperfect idea of the
bad results attending this wretched scheme for supplying
the immediate wants of the Exchequer. The total of the
Unredeemed Public Funded Debt at the sth of January,
1841, was 766,371,725/. -Is. 111 d., whereof about
500,000,000/. bears 3 per cent. interest. The sales effected
by the Government broker since Saturday last have pro-
duced a fall of from 89f to 881 in Consols, being a de-
cline of i percent., equal to 61.55. per 1,0002, or 3,123;000/.
on the capital of the Three per Cent. FUnded Debt,
estimating it .in round numbers at. 500,000,000/.
This affords clear evidence of the benefits which all
classes in the country have derived by the acces-
sion of a monopolist Government to power. When the
best possible Finance Minister of the best possible Go-
vernments was installed in office, his City friends were
loud and endless in their estimation of the advantages
which would flow from his able and experienced manage-
ment of the national resources ; but their tone has now
undergone a most material change. Good they cannot
say, and therefore preserve a becoming silence. We feel,
no delicacy in telling the truth, and as we denounced
the funding scheme of the Bight Honourable Gentleman
as a failure, and entailing an useless addition of
5,000,000/. to the fixed burdens of the country-, sifi we
now expose its mischievous influence by showing that
it has occasioned a depreciation of more than
3,600,000/. in the value of the public funds.- That
los, we grant, was not realised by the fundhold-
ers, . because • they did not sell their -stook , but it
must have been experienced by, tttitti,itiigridual
(pro rota) holder who was compelled fo sell:for imme-
diate transfer, and therefore, although the market will
rally when the Government operations are Supposed to
be at an end, the crude, clumsy, and ill-considered na-
ture of the transaction itself, is no leBs deserving of
exposure. To-day the sales on account of the Govern-
ment have amounted to about a furtherAunuf of:la-cm
900,000/ to 300,0001, malting in all for thif
,week ilbOut
800,000/. known to have taken place, but Other opera-
tions may have been carried through claa&stinely for
the same account that have not yet transpired. The
amount of his previous sales we cannot, of course, spe-
cify with certainty ; but have formerly estimated them
a an aggregate of 1,200,00 CL- The
t 4
are
brokersooCiaroseoaltn.;sofiigle,id giving
fora time,
opiniont thebaantd that wantst
he market
bunt
left undisturbed.

GARDENERS' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.
—The third annual meeting of this Society, of which
the Duke of Cambridge is President, was held yesterday,
at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand; Mr. Sangster,
F. 11.5., in the chair, who was supported by most of
the leading nurserymen in the neighbourhood of the
metropolis. Mr. Bowler, the Honorary Secretary, read
the Report of the Committee, which congratulated the
meeting on the improving prospects of the Society.
During the past year an additional sum of 2001. had
been invested in the Three per Cent. Consols, and a
balance was left in the banker's hands of 58/. 6s. 11d. It
was intended to invest an equal stun from the forthcoming
subscriptions, and to add two pensioners to the list of
those who are already the recipients of the bounty of
the Society. The total sum received during the past
year was 3101. 1 ls. 10d. A new Committee was ap-
pointed, and in the evening a numerous party of the
subscribers and friends of the Institution dined together
at the same tavern.

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THE RECENT MURDER NEAR CHIRK.—
A report prevailed in this town yesterday that Williams
and Slawson, now in Salop county prison, committed
for trial at the assizes on a charge of murdering Emma
Evans, of Bronygarth, near Chirk, on the 16th ult., had
made a confession that they were guilty of the crime
imputed to them. On inquiry, we find that a confession
has been made. The prisoners have been kept apart,
and had no means of communication, but we understand
that each has made a confession, in which they admit
the truth of the evidence against them, and declaring
that no one else was implicated. We aro informed that
one of the prisoners committed the murder, at the sug-
!nation of the other, and that admission to the-house of
0
the deceased was obtained by knocking at the door, early
in the evening, when on the appearance of the deceased
(she living alone), she was knocked down and murdered.

For obvious reasons, the particulars of the confession
have not been permitted to transpire.—Salopian Journal.
Ross.— EXTRAORDINARY AND DETER-
itNED SUICIDE.—On Sunday morning last, the family
of a respectable tradesman named Phipps, an engineer
and well-sinker, resident in the churchyard, Ross, was
thrown into a state of dismay by the discovery of the
':body of William Phipps, his son, who had destroyed
himself, and was found hanging in an outhouse in the
occupation of his father. It appears that the deceased
was a young man, 18 years of age, of generally sober and
steady habits. In the early part of the day on Sunday
he attended church, and much surprise was created by
his absence from home during the night of Sunday. The
unfortunate youth had strapped his legs together with a
leathern strap and buckle; for which purpose he must
have been seated on a platform or floor, which divides
one part of the shed, so as to form a partial upper story ;
this must have been done. it is supposed, after:he had
reached the elevation by means of the ladder, which was
left standing, and up which it is not probable he could
Have stepped with his feet so confined. A. handkerchief
had been carefully tied over his face, with the corner
hanging below the chin, so as to prevent the possibility
of sight. In this state he was cut down, and removed
to his father's house, where the body awaits the Coro-
ner's inquest. No cause whatever can be assigned for
the committal of the act ; the youth was in possession of
robust health, and the enjoyment of apparent happiness.
--Hereford Journal.
A BALLS.--Yesterday
afternoon,CCiDbetween
four °m S
atnNl°fiWv; o'clock, as some boys
were amusing themselves in Salisbury square, Fleet-
street, by throwing sum% bells, a lad named Cooper,
aged ten years, received one of them in his eye. The
ball having been thrown with considerable violence,
literally crushed the poor boy's eye in. its socket, and
inflicted a severe woutal above the lid, whence the
blood flowed profusely. On being conveyed to the house
of a medical gentleman in the vicinity, the wounds were
dressed, but there is scarcely a hope entertained that the
lad will ever recover th lisp uP 114
eye. There is little
doubt but that, in the hasty construetibn of tlie' snow-
ball, a sharp stone had been . inadvertently introduced,
uci wit, thus the cause of the Accident,

grievous delusion.
POST.—The dif.----T-lieSpanish people may be dispbousedt
iftostbiceh-
lieve that the advocacy of the Morning Chronicle is useful
to them, and not the less so because it sets common
bs eon
tsiet
ea:ads ,
3 they public
labour
o fa at defiance;.inodgsiltyg rh ice
The Chronicle is employed day.by in the attempt to
Age mat know, very
a3n'eds,rshnoir,,,eaver supererogatory may
persuade its raaders that Spain has been the most
onsols. This
ex-
emplary of nations in the observance of good faith to-
wards her creditors, and that the bondholders have, in
truth, whatever they may say to the contrary, just as
little to complain of on the score of delays
and postpone-
ments as have tltiee;n holders
out-
rageousis'as e v e ry
nonsensee hi
hi
be the interference, the Spanish People ought not
to feel angry with us if we now and then take upon
ourselves to expose it. There are taw families in the
kingdom that are not either directly or remotely
prejudiced by the financial irregularities of Spain.
The Active Bonds were extensively purchased
in the year 1835 'at prices a little
above
below 701. per cent. If to this cost in bankor
thefi%
' notes the stipulated intereit be added, the 100/. bond
971. 10s.
should be worth at ibis time yet what is the
actual value for cash at which it is selling in the mar-
ket ? Our daily quotations show that the
struggle is a
hard one to maintain it at 251.,
so that ;
unfortunateholder, holder, whose policy it May he, lletile!,
am necessity
or the exercise of •a prudent judgment, to realise, loses
the whole of his capital, whatever May have been the
price originally paid, If there be OPY iiliereftreseatation
in tine simple though
melancholy statement, let the
Chronicle say so. We take it for granted, however, that
he Will be as mute on the subject as he is found to be
on all the important points aad questions on which we
challenged him yesterday. Not one of the numerous
string placed befffe Jilin dm l!P feel him aii*ient
to Meet, 4n,il` olip *re cii, we taKe occasion to ask the
Spanish people whether they can be so besotted as to
hope that their interests are to be served by the

THE SUN, LONDoN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 14. 1842

• partisanship of so wretched an advocate ? The
utmost that we have done has been to show the ex-
, treme danger of trusting to promises coming from so
very questionable a source. We retract nothing of what
we have said of the contrivance of making tho overdue
coupons into the only really active and interest-bearing
stock. It was an artful and abominable contrivance, and
we are well warranted in the assertion that it was resorted
to for the two-fold purpose of sinking the old active le-
' reign and domestic debt,' and of,setting on foot the de-
testable swindlin.r, and gambling to which the Regent
himself adverts in terms of reproach in his late address
to the Cortes. It is not the Spaniards alone that are
'daiiiiiged by injudicious advocacy. The Americans, and
the holders of their stocks, United Stakes Bank shares,
&e., but more than all, perhaps, the holders, of the Ex-
chequer forgeries, have been compromised by it.
SUN.—As the leading brokers continue their sales, and
parcels of stock have been also thrown on the market
on account of the Court of Chancery, we cannot yet no-
tice any improvement in the' funds. On the contrary
prices again receded a little to-day. Stock for present
transfer was more plentiful than for delivery to-morrow,
and the prices occasionally were higher for the latter
during the day. There was, however no marked differ-
ence between the two ; Consols being 884 to 881 for
Money, and 88 to 88i for to-morrow. Exchequer
1-
Bills were worth Nis. to 14s. premium, being a slight
decline on yesterday's rates. Money was rather scarcer
in the Stock Exchange. East India Bonds remained
firm at the improvement to 9s. and I Is. Bank Stock
was at 167. Reduced Three- and-a-Half per Cents. were
98i to 99 ; New Three-and- a-Half per Cents. 981 to
98. ; and the Three per Cent. Annuities 89 to 891.
The Foreign Securities were quiet. Spanish Active
Bonds did not range higher than 25 to 251. Portuguese
Three per Cents, were 19i ; and Mexican, 29, Dutch
Five per Cents. were 1001 to 104
The Share Market was not more animated than that
for Foreign Stocks. Brighton Railway were lower. The
others much the same.

FRANCE.
CHAMBER OF PEERS.

CONTINUATION OF THE DISCUSSION ON THE ADDRESS.
The Marquis de Boissy, after alluding to the quarrel
between: France and Russia, which had converted grave
diplomatists into capricious beauties, feigning cold and
shirking visits, passed to Spain, and showed how fully
late events proved the mistake that France had made in
countenancing the revolutionary party in Spain. Carlos
and Christina ought to have been treated alike, and also
their hopes and parties. The present conduct of Espar-
tero showed that he was ready for the last act of usurpa-
tion. He who had assassinated his old comrades, would
not start before anything. Not but that he (the Marquis
de Boissy) was delighted to seethe Spanish revolutionists
cutting each other's throats. At home, he would demand
of the Government greater rigour. He would have it
to penetrate amongst the secret societies, to crush them.
He would repeal the law which rendered crimes of the
press amenable to the Jury, and he would increase the
penalties against members of secret societies. . Men of
property would rally round the Government, if their in-
terests were protected, and if the solemn engagements
made to them were not year after year broken. There
was, for instance, a treaty spoken of between _Belgium
and France, which would prove the ruin of proprietors
of mines, lands, and manufactures. The very rumour
was a calamity. The treaty with Holland was had enough,
but this would be infamous. Such conduct would alie-
nate from it the support of all men of property. Of the
three political parties in France, the Radical party pos-
sessed nothing, the Dynastic party somewhat, but the Le-
gitimist party owned five-eighths of property of all kinds.
Count Mole protested against such arguments. They
calumniated the country.
The President could not allow a great portion of the
country to be thus represented as hostile to the Govern-
ment.
Guizot said that a Peer could not thus publicly and
officially speak of a Legitimist party existing without the
laws and constitution—
And, added M. Teste, masters of the destinies of the
country.
The Marquis de Boissy explained, and offered to re-
tract any. expression of the kind.
Guizot begged he would also retract the expression
of executioner applied to a man who was the depositary of
Royal power in another country.
The Marquis consented to withdraw the expression.
Count Montalembert rose and said, that though not
disapproving the whole of the address, he still objected
to its first phrase, which approved the foreign policy of
the Government ; and to its last, which promised secu-
rity for the future. He had not considered the treaty of
July as a cause of war, nor joined in the choler which
it excited. But he saw no necessity for hastening back
to what was called the European concert. The new Con-
vention was but a repetition of the treaty of Unkiar Ske-
lessi. The secret article of that treaty shut the Straits.
The Convention does this for Russia, gives her up the
Black Sea, and renders her mistress at once of the Cir-
cassian coast and the mouths of the Danube. England
gains nothing thereby ; Germany loses the free naviga-
tion of the Danube ; whilst France has lost her credit
and honour. To have signed this could only have
proceeded from the empty desire of enobling the
name of France with those of the great Powers, •
amongst whom it had not found a sincere friend.
Though he was a partisan of movement in foreign po-
licy, he would resist movement at home. He was
ready to support not merely this or that Ministry, hilt
any Ministry, in presence of the events of Clermont and
Toulouse,*and of the resistance caused by the regensementi
and of the disorders caused by the press. To the liberty
of the press, guaranteed by the laws, has been joined
the liberty of insurrection, guaranteed' by the deplorable
indulgence of the Jury. These two liberties are too
much. One is quite enough. He would not ask for
now laws of repression ; but he would beg all honest
men to show themselves sensible of the dangers which
menaced society, and ready to unite to combat them.
On the grounds of lower life was forming an overwhelm-
ing mass of people, who neither loved, feared, believed,
nor respected anything. The noble orator then proved
the cause of all this in the absence of religion, in the
want of respect of Sunday shown even lay the workmen
of that very palace. The Minister of Public Instruction
would not allow ecclesiastics to teach unless they passed
the University examination. But was not this very Uni-
versity, by its doctrines, one of the causes of the reign-
ing immorality ? What a country was it, when a grant
of 2001. a year to re-establish the archiepiscopal chair of
Fenelon called forth protests from every town and from
every Journal ! The Noble Peer terminated by giving
his warm support t 4 Government.
The Minister of Public Instruction said, that nothing
that he could say in defence of the University would be
equal 'to what it deserved, and he was sure that the
young and honourable speaker who had assailed it had
done so without reflection.
M. de Montalembert 'replied that if the University
had been founded, as lie had no doubt it was, with reli-
gious and monarchical views, it had badly performed its
mission, for never were monarchical and religious senti-
ments more rare in France.
Count D'Alton Slice, after alluding to the sircum-
stances under which the Convention ofJuly 13 had been
agreed by the French Government, said that they were
decidedly unfavourable to the system of isolation. There
was a time (added he) when the sympathies of other
nations for France were warm and vivid, kit they were
now extinct. What was the position of France as -re-
garde(' foreign nations ? The nationality of Poland
was destroyed ; Austria had consolidated her domi-
nion over Lombardy ; the Rhenish provinces would
now only receive the French with the song of a Ger-
man Marseillaise ; Spain would receive the French as
in 1812, only with the cry "Death to the French." The
French had lost all their alliances and all the sympathies
which were once felt towards them. Where then, would
have been the chance of success from the system of isola-
tion, the principle of which was an appeal to nations
against their rulers? It had been said that the system
would have proved a ruinous one to other Powers. It
might have been so, but it would have been still more
ruinous to the French nation. It had also been said that
the Convention of July contained nothing by which the
French were gainers; he would reply that their gain was
the abandonment of the system of isolation, and the con-
sequent faculty of restoring order in the finances, and
this he called- a result of importance.
Count de St. Priest said he would take this opportu-
nity of noticing the allusions which had been made to
Spain. lie did not know how the question of etiquette
which had arisen on the subject of M. de Salvandy's em-
bassy would be solved, but he begged to remind the
Chamber that the Crown of France had, at all times,
made a distinction between Regents, according as they
were invested with the title of Royalty, or otherwise. The
Queen received direct the letters addressed to the. King,
who was a minor ; under a simple Regent, they were
presented to the minor himself. Such was the mode of
proceeding, and he trusted that the application of the
principle would not create any serious 'difficulty between
two nations which had been ,so long united.
The Marquis de Dreux Breze observed, as regarded
Spain, that the check which French interests had re-
ceived in that country were to be attributed to the
abandonment of the salutary principles upon which the
policy of France, from the time of Louis XIV., had been
based. The treaty of the Quadruple Alliance had, he
said, led to two evils, viz., a false alliance with England,
and an imprudent alliance with the Spanish revolution.
With reference to the convention of July, the Noble
Marquis sald,—" We have doubtlessly returned to the'
European compact, but we find ourselves in this position
in it—disdained by Russia, duped by England, and disap-
pointed in our hopes in Spain and in the East,"
WEDNESDAY'S DEBATE.
M. Guizot, Minister of Foreign Affairs, first occupied
the tribune. He had risen the day before to answer the
observations of M. de Dreux Breze, who commented on
the silence of the 'Royal Speech with regard to Spain.
Negotiations were still pending between the French and
Spanish Governments, which inopportune explanations
might have the effect of interupting. The French Go-
vernment approved of thee Treaty of Bergara, and as to
the reports current respecting the last insurrection, and
the participation or favour shown to it by the French
Government, he declared them totally without founda-
tion. When the Spanish Government addressed that
of France, to take measures against the Carlist mal-
contents who threatened the frontier, the French Go-
vernment did not hesitate to send those malcontents
away from the frontier into the interior. When simi-
lar application was made with respect' to Christine
refugees, the same attention was shown, the same
conductb followed. Ono demand alone, needless to
state, was refused. The Spanish Government must have
foreseen refusal, and comprehended its being
,givens
frankly and categorically. Besides (added the Minis-
ter), had we been inclined for recrimination, which we
never were, we might have cast up to the Spanish Govern-
ment these public meetings, these menaces, these decla-
rations against France and King, made by grave and
responsible personages, and tending to insinuate that new
insurrections would be fomented in France. From such
subjects of recrimination, however amply afforded, we
always abstained. We know too well. the difficulties
which in such circumstances beset free government. We
know the headlong current of popular passions. The pa-
cification of Spain, and its amicable relations with
all Governments, - is the only key and aim of
our policy_ at Madrid. M. Guizot then passed
to the Eastern question, and the paragraph re-
lating to it, and justified the signatures affixed to
the Convention of July 13. It resulted clearly that
the Pacha of Egypt was re-established, and his estab-
lishment recognised, and that the Porte had entered
once more into the international law of Europe. France
had lost nothing in dignity by the negotiations which
brought about the treaty of the 13th of July, and main-
tained that all that had taken place in the affairs of the
East was beneficial to the whole of Europe. M. Guizot
protested that the French Government telt the greatest
interest in the fate of those Christian populations which
were placed under the domination of the Ottoman em-
pire, and under this feeling they had never ceased to
impress on the attention of that Government and on
Europe, that the greatest danger which threatened the
Turkish empire was to be dreaded from the oppression
with which its Christian population was treated, and that
by ameliorating their condition the danger would instantly
disappear.
Count Montalembert complained of the establishment
of a Protestant Bishop in Syria.
• M. • Guizot declined making any observations or ex-
planations relative to this.
The general discussion then closed, and re-opened on
the Address, article by article.
The two first paragraphs were adopted without fur-
ther discussion,
D'llarcourt then proposed the insertion of the fol-
lowing additional paragraph
" We address also our hopes to your Majesty, that in
concert with your Allies, you may cast your friendly re-
gards upon a nation injured in its rights and in those
liberties whit h were guaranteed to it by treaties."
Tisis amendment, combated by Count Dejean, and
supported by Count Montalembert, was put to the vote
by rising and sitting. Two trials of this kind gave a

THE POLISH REVOLUTION.
(From the Court Jour,pal of Jan. 8.).
Much has been said with reference to the late changes
at Warsaw, but in so vague and unsatisfactory a, manner
that we have thought proper to inquire more closely
into the subject, and have obtained the following state-
ment upon the highest authority :
Upon the unsuccessful issue of the last Polish Revolu-
tion, in 1831, the Emperor abrogated the constitution,
the scrupulous maintenance of which formed, we are
proud to say, at the instigation and through the instru-
mentality of Eiigland, one of the chief provisions of the
treaty of Vienna, and the obligation, by which only the
tenure of Poland by Russia has been sanctioned by the
other parties to that great European compact. The so-
called " organic statute" was substituted for it. France
and Great Britain remonstrated, and in the belief of the
best informed diplomatistg, protested against this
chant Te. They suffered, however, the Polish rights to 1
free institutions to remain in abeyance, in the con-
fident hope that . the course of years would calm the
Emperor's ire, would cause him to abandon the system
of unheard-of persecution and tyranny; stigniatized as it
was repeatedly by the unanimous voice of all Christian
nations, and that matters would slowly and gradually
reassume their ancient position; but in this they sig-
nally erred, and failed in all their provisions. The state
of Poland, instead of ameliorating, has . been for these
nine years daily approaching that crisis which, setting
even aside the rights of the Poles, threatens Europe with
an iMmediate and most ' imminent peril. " What, says
Prince Czartoryski, in an admirable speech delivered on
the last anniversary of the Polish Revolution, " What,
if the Autocrat should find no longer any opponents in
Poland, if he should succeed to fuse both countries into
one compact empire, and if warlike populations thus
united were to cast a longing look beyond the Oder and
the Carpathian crest, what would become of Prussia and
Austria? What a panic would shake Germany—what a
consternation must needs seize the rest of Europe."
From the very outset, the Russian Government began
to set at naught all the provisions of the treaty. In vain
did the Pole obey the Imperial mandate ; in vain did he
long for a brief repose. All was useless.
With persevering hostility nationality was hunted
down to the russet vestments of the peasants, language
expelled from official acts and from schools, an annual
tribute of children for peopling Russian deserts enforced,
the entire population of whole districts transplanted into
distant colonies, Polish prelates thrown into irons, '
churches converted to the uses of the conqueror's creed,
and wholesale conversions to the Greek religion, accom-
plished by compulsion and intimidation. And if any-
thing could add to the heinousness of such proceedings,
it is that fatal and incomprehensible recklessness, which
made the enforcement of such measures always coincide
with the Emperor's visits to Warsaw, that is, whilst Peo-
ple were naturally led to expect paternal oblivion, leni-
ency, and mercy. Thus it happened also in last Septem-
ber. With a single stroke of his pen he abolished the
last two monuments of the separate existence ofPoland---
the State Council and the High Court of Justice, annex-
ing, and merging them in the Russian Senate sitting at
St. Petersburgh. It is true that the ukase still maintains
the seat of those two bodies at Warsaw ; and this cir-
cumstance has given an opportunity to the advocates of
Russia to say that nothing is. changed but the name.
But if it were so, why this new gratuitous insult to
Poland ? Can we not see ' how easy it will be for the
Emperor to decree, with another stroke of his pen, that
whereas it is expedient that all component departments
of the Russian Senate should reside in the metropolis of
the empire, those hitherto seated at Warsaw are trans-
ferred to St. Petersburgh ; and then all security to pro-
perty in Poland, whether in the hands of Poles or of
foreigners, is at an end. Harassing delays, consequent
upon so great a distance of the seat of justice ; entire
ignorance of Polish custom's and laws on the part of the
Judges ; but above all, their corrupt practices and pro-
verbial bribery, will aChievo.the work begun by the op-
pression, rapacity, and exactions of the Russian officials
in Poland. This master-stroke of policy will then be-
come a powerful engine to destroy all the landowners of
that country ; and it is because that class is most ob-
noxious to Russia, as suspected of cherishing still the
hope for national independence, that all powers are set
at work to ruin it.

•
In the old day of Italian supremacy and the power of
Imperial Rome, her citizens erected at the entrance of
the Forum the statue of Marsyas in terrorem litigatorum.
Flayed and agonizing as it was, it might find a more
appropriate place in the temple of the Russian Themis,
as a true representative of that sort of justice, which only
enriches the Judges, generally ruins both plaintiffs and
defendants, and perplexes all.
Under these circumstances, we are happy to announce
that our present Ambassador at the Court of St. Peters-
burgh has received instructions to state to the Emperor
calmly, respectfully, but firmly, the resolution of her
Majesty's present advisers, to stop all further inroads
upon Polish independence; and to revert to the tone and
spirit of the treaty of Vienna.

DUTCH MAIL.
THE HAGUE, JAN. 9.—The Rhine being full of float-
ing ice, the bridge over that river at Arnheim was
removed yesterday. Ice . has also appeared in the
Yssel, which impedes the passage at Weslesroost. The
ice on the Y, at Amsterdam, was passable yesterday
on foot.
We find from the Law hurnal that on the 30th of
December the Attorney-General in the Supreme Coun-
cil, produced his arguments in the cause of J. Metzger
and others against the Kingdom of the Netherlands. In
the opening of his speech, ho showed that the Kingdom
of the Netherlands never had a penny of the inheritance
in question, nor ever made any claim to it, and that this
Kingdom, after the lapse of 150 years, is called
upon by a law suit to produce accounts, and
to answer for anticipated inheritances which it
never had in its possession. The Attorney-Ge-
neral supported the objection of presumption, and
prayed that the pretenuon of the plaintiffs should
he declared inadmissible, and that they should be
condemned in the costs. Sentence will be delivered on
the 21st of January.
DUTCH FUNDS.—AnirritEDIM, JAN. 11.
Money. BP's.
Actual Debt, `2% pet Cent SD4 51% Jitto, ditto t 5
per ceat.
Ditto, ditto, per cent 76 7614 Commercial Company, .1!<, per cent 155 1544 Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent.
cent. 97% 98
Exchange on London, One month l2 12
TlvoinOntha ..... 12
Hamburgh, One month 35 GS%
Two months
Dutch Papers, Jan. 12.
HAMBURG BOBSENHALLE, JAN.
Austrian 5 per Cents
1074 107%
Dank Shares
Anglo-Russian Loan — 1610
sm% 1091„'
IRussian 5 per Cent. Ist aeries, Cartiticate
nscription, Ist Series 3
Russian 5 per Cont. Hope and Co. 3d and 4111 Series .......... ....... ......... ....... 95
Ditto in Certificates .....
New 4 per Cent. (1810) .......... ..........
Dutch Actual Debt, '4 per Cent ........... 50 504"
PDitto.„.. ....... ........... 5 per Cent ................ ..
-'s
Newolish Bonds ...................................«....» 1516
ticket ................... ..... .
... ••• 165 le 438
Anglo. Danish Loats, 3 per Cent"... ........
8
Nnwegian Lean, 1834, 4 per Cent ... 7
214 78
3 10214
Spanish. New 5 per Cents.
lb
EXCHANGES ON LONDON. ib
PETisitSßuitall, DEC. Vi.—Two months, 3834 pence.
RIGA, JAN, I. A-Three Months, 35%.
BREMEN. Jay. 4 —Two months, 6 14.

You , will observe by the discussions in the
London papers that the question of slave search, raised
'between the Governments of Great Britain and the
United States, has attracted public attention as an immi-
nent and serious rubject of difference. It is doubtless the
question which has induced the diplomatic mission of Lord
Ashburton. I believe the Noble Baron will sail in about ten
days, with his instructions, and perhaps with a power of
attorney from " Baring, Brothers ;" and it is be-
lieved that after his mission is concluded, he will
look in on Canada before he returns home. The
best informed Americans in London assert that
the mission is -unnecessary, as President Tyler will
never abandon his position against the right of
search ; and that any modification of our claim
might just as well be agreed between Mr. Everett
and Lord Aberdeen in London. Certainly Sir Robert
Peel incurs great responsibility in tho oost of the mission
and in the selection tlf 4 wavering-minded man, wholly
inex eriencod in diplomacy. Lord Ashburton would
hattuned more reputation by staying at home and
resit in his cast-off opinions on the Corn-laws, than he
is like to reap in Washington. A transatlantic voyage,
howevet, may revive his decayed' Liberalism. From the
ri-peated political changes of the Noble Baron's " ideas,"
his Lordship may come home an ardent Republican l-
-London Correspondent of the Scotsman.
A DISCOURAGING Y151T......4: poor woman
came to visit heT r.clations in Preston. She went to nine
houses, pia none of them could afford her a meal's meat;
the last place she alled at was in Albert-street, where '
the man pawned his shirt for 6d., with which 4d, of I
bread,. ld. of butter, and ld, of tea were vurebased PA;
.. .• •
the party.—The Struggle. l '

EVENING SUN

doubtful result. On a third trial the amendment was
adopted, but by a feeble majority.

•
IRELAND.
CITY OF DUBLIN ELECTION,
DUBLIN, JAN. 12.—The subscription list opened by
the Reformers to defray the expenses of Lord Morpeth's
election is rapidly augmenting. The Committee have
received the following contributions :—Francis Stawel,
Ksq., Kilbraek, Donerail, WI. ;M. E. Corbally,
Esq., M.P., county of Meath 501. ; the Most Rererend
Dr. Murray, Roman Catholic ArchbiShop of Dublin,
51. ; Daniel Leahy, Esq., Shonakill-house Cork, 10L
Daniel Leahy Arthur, Esq., •10/. A considerable number
of communications, enclosing smaller sums, have been
received by the Committee.
Upon the Tory side a very active canvass for subscrip-
tions is in progress, .and they boast that upwards of
1,0001. has already been received. It is stated that the
address of Mr. *Gregory will appear in the Dul/. Even-
ing Mail to-night.
PRESBYTERIAN MARRIAGE.
In the Queen's Bench yesterday, judgment was given
in the case of " The Queen v. Smith," who had been
pointco vi eNtyeads orfabi
sietglitnbry.s., aAti- ter. lvl
la;
tte
siti assizese,Armagh,
that.
firstl
marriage was invalid, having been celebrated by a Pres-
byterian clergyman, between an Episcopalian Protestant
and a Presbyterian. The Judges ruled in favour of the
point raised, and the prisoner was ordered to be. dis-
charged from custody. The numbers were eight to two.
The two Judges in the minority -were stated to be the
Hon. Justices Foster and Perrin.
This is one of the most important decisions ever pro-
nounced in a BritiSh Court of Justice, and it will have a
retrospectiye as well as a prospective operation. The
Presbyterian poptilation of Ulster consists of upwards of
600,000 souls, and amongst even the most respectable
and opulent families of that persuasion, such marriages
as that which has been pronounced invalid are of every
day occurrence.
Already arrangements are in progress for bringing the
subject before the Legislature. Up to this time no question
has been raised-as to the validity of those marriages.
The decision of the Judges will spread consternation
throughout the province of Ulster.
DISTURBED STATE OF TIPPERARY.
MURDER.—NEWPORT, JAN. 10.—On this day, in
Castlewaller-wood, near this town, Denis Roughan, the
wood-ranger, was barbarously murdered by a miscreant
whom he caught in the act of felling a tree. Rouglian's
head was literally chopped off. It is evident it was done.
with a hatchet. '1 inhuman murderer is known, and
in all likelihood will be made amenable to justice at tie
approaching assizes.---11 enagh Guardian.
We asserted about a fortnight or three weeks ago, on
the authority Of several respectable and trustworthy cor-
respondents, that the condition of Tipperary v-as such as
to excite well-grounded alarm in the nual',3. of every well-
wisher to the peace of that great ?;td noble county. This
assertion was not lightly hazarded—nor was it made with
a factious view. But a Tory paper published in Nenagh,
stoutly denied it, in
hbnteleersaAmaisnsstfeufeorbrwrtydimaonynao weeksm e
]lave remarkableelapsed;
and t'o
plc aohpuaertrtoeifissnytoghoueurr decorum.efrsaetlotppe
respectable
informants,
,en tmlimsa ec.ifeuri
loyonf_
et
htohenefir.
autho-
rity Tory
This paper gives a list Of no less than thirteen outrage;
some of which are said to be attended with very aggra-
vated circumstances.—Limerick Reporter.

THE ROYAL CHRISTENING.
WINDSOR, THURSDAY.—The day for the eele'oration
of this important national event has been now dQtertnined
upon. It has been fixed for Tuesday, the 25th instant,
the invitations, for that day, to those distinguished per-
sonages who will be present at the t eremony, having been
issued by the Lord Chamberlain,
The whole of the extensive prey ;rations now iii pro-
gress in the private and State hiartnients at the Castle,
and also in- St. George's Chapel, and Canfmal Wolsey's
Hall, under the suvernitendence of Mr. Saunders, of the
Lord Chamberlain s department, will be brought to a close
at an early hour on the day preceding.
An alteration having just been made in the conStruc-
don of the chimneys to the six large stoves in St. George's
Chapel, - a temperature of a considerable higher degree
has been obtained, which will thus render any further
additions to the stoves at present placed there unneces-
sary. The iron chimney of each has been carried, hori-
zontally, about ten feet from the floor, along the sides of
the chapel for. several yards, before it ascends and "pro-
ceeds through the window above. From these chimneys
a considerable degree of heat is emitted. This day the
thermometer in the chapel was at 48 degrees, and an addi-
tional temperature 'of six degrees is expected to be ob-
tained by the day of the christening.
' A sufficient number of bed-rooms and dressing-roOms
have - been prepared • at- Froginore to accommodate,
separately, thirty of her Majesty's distinguished guests.
Several of the rooms In the round tower will likewise be
fitted up, in order to afford similar accommodation to the
Royal visitors.
Three large Gothic bronze chandeliers, to -be lighted
with gas, are immediately to be suspended from the
lofty ceiling of the new, riding-house, and upwards of
l-
-sixty additional gas-burners are-to be affixed in -various
portions of the passages and stabling connected with the
riding-schoOl.
The Gothic Chandeliers will be suspended from the roof
by means of cleverly constructedtelescope tubes, or slides,
so that the lamps may he raised or lowered at - pleasure,
without the possibility of an escape of, gas. -
The
flooring of Cardinal Wolsey's Hall (at the en-
trance to a likli, where a temporary erection will be con-
structed, the a hole of the Royal and illustrious person
ages will alight upon their arrival from the Castle), will
be covered over throughout a ith the patent cocoa-nut
matting, which may be described as being " as thick as a
board. The floor of. the choir and the aisles and pas-
sages in St. George's Chapel, through which the proces-
sion will pass, will be covered in a like manner.
No additional tires will be placed in Cardinal Wolsey's
Hall.

Around the interior of this edifice splendid seats will
be erected for the accommodation of those who attend
the ceremony.
A great number of upholsterers' men and others are
now busily engaged in arranging the new bedding and
other descriptions of furniture in the private and state
apartments.
The oratorio of " Hercules," from which a grand march
has been selected by his Royal Highness Prince Albert
to be performed in Saint George's Chapel, during the
ceremony of the christening, was composed by Handel in
1744. This march • was played by the organ and full
band at the last installation of Knights of the Garter, at
Saint George's Chapeliin 1805.

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THE WELLINGTON STATUE.
Mr. Weeks, the sculptor, has addressed the following
letter to the Editor of the Times :
" SIR—I am of opinion that artists-should never mingle
in newspaper controversy, but I feel myself compelled to
remark upon a passage in the letter of your correspon-
dent J.' on the subject of the Wellington Statue.
" As a false inference may be deduced therefrom as to
my position with regard to that great work, I feel as-
sured that you will allow me space to set myself right
with the public in that particular, and thus I trust to
terminate this unpleasant personal discussion.
" Your cortiespondent has, fur ought I know, quoted
the terms of the will correctly. The entire establish-
ment of the late Sir Francis Chantrey has been for many
years under the superictendence' of Mr. Cunningham,
and continues to be so still. The indefinite wording of
the passage certainly
.gives room for the -conclusion that
artistica' supervision is there meant. Such, however, is
not the case, as during the whole term of my engage-
ment with the- late Sir Francis, I have never seen Mr.
Cunningham engaged us an artist upon any of the works
in the studio ; his undoubted talents in other respects
far be it from me to deny. This is the real point at issue,
and all that I feel interested in.
" When your Correspondent ' J.' was quoting the Kill,
he might have been genbrous enough to have extracted
another passage in it, Which bequeaths me the sum of
1,0001., coupled with a condition which gave it great ad-
ditional value, inasmuch as it was declaratory of the
penance of my services ; and here it becomes me to
acknowledge the many acts of kindness I have received.
from the late truly great sculptor. To him lam in,
(Hoed for a recommendation to many commissions in
sculpture, on some or which" I an, now engaged ; among
ne the figures -for the Oxford Martyr-
Mtheemmolrimal,ay mu
a monument of one of- the masters of the Uni-
versity of Oxford, and numerous busts, including one of
the Speaker of the House of Commons. I should not
have mentioned these facts, except-as—conveying a tri-
bute of respect to a deservedly eminent man.
" I am, Sir, your very obedient servant,
" Belgrave-place, Jan. 13. •"-HENRY WEEKES."
R J

.OTAL JENNERIAN AND LONDON VACCINE
ANSTITUTION.—Yesterday the annual meeting of this
Institution took place at the George and Vulture Tavern
Cornhill, and was attended by Dr. Epps, Mr. Davis,, Mr. Raid, Mr. Henry, and several other Governors.
The Chair was taken by Robert Elwin, Eq., when
the Report was read, from which it appeared that the
Committee had carefully watched the effects of the Vac-
cination Acts, and found that, notwithstanding its faei-
lifies for parochial vaccination, the same imperative ne-
cessity for this institution remained, the numbers vac-
cinated during the year having been 6,890. The Board
of Management had made an application to the parishes
and unions for pecuniary aid, but it was stated in reply,
that their demands were not within the scope of the Act
of Parliament. An appeal had also been made to the
Poor-law Commissioners, who returned an answer on the
9th of December, in which they admitted the advantages
of the establishment, but thought it had no claim on
the parochial funds. Letters were read from Dr. Mur-
ray, of Trinidad, the representative of New Grenada in
this country, and from other places in the four quarters
of the world, which testified the efficiency of the virus
supplied by the Institution. In conclusion, the demise
of W. Cordell, Esq., late Medical Secretary, was much
regretted. The receipts for the year amounted to 500/.
only, leaving the Institution incumbered with a debt of
of 2201., which it was hoped a benevolent public would
shortly extinguish, considering that the Institution, since.
1806, has vaccinated 174,000 patients, and sends the
virus to all quarters of the globe. The report was
adopted, and 1)r. Serny was elected in the place of Mr.
Cordell. A vote of thanks was passed to the Medical
Council and the Board of Management, when Dr. Epps
and Mr. Davis returned thanks, the latter of whom
stated, that notwithstanding the Vaccination Act, Dr..
Epps attended from 50 to 100 patients daily at the Insti-
tution. Thanks haying been voted to the Chairman, the
meeting adjourned. •
unit report o
TOWN
AND
the mean duration of life in the two classes of districts
differs nearly 17 years, the average of life being 55 yeais,
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in tile country and only 38 in the towns. The density
of the population in the country districts referred tot
compared to that in the towns, is as 10 to 945 ; the
mortality as 100 to 44.