The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-04 00:00:00

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LLOYD'S SHIPPING_(THIS DAY).
LONDON, JAN. 4.—Wind at noon, various and light.
RAMSGATE, JAN. 3.—Sa Juno, New York ;
beth, Leghorn. The Magnet, Picard, has been placed
on the patent slip.
OFF THE GALLOPER, DEC. 25.—Godfrey, New Orleans.
DEAL, JIN. 3.—Wind N.E. by N. moderate.—Arrd.
from the River and sld.' St. Vincent's, Bombay ; Wave,
Sierra Leone ; Dibdin, Mobile.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 3.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Oriental,
Buenos Ayres; Thomas Mellor, Maranham—sld. Nov.
27,- Laurina, Laguna ; Resolution, Quebec.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 3.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrd. her Ma-
jesty's steamer Megmra, from Barbadoes.
OFF DOVER, JAN. 3.—Caesar and Helene, Hamburg,'
for Havannah.

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FALMOUTH, JAN. 2.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrd. Elizabeth,
Shields, for Jamaica. Sld. Oriental steamer, Alexandria.
CARDIFF, JAN. l.—Sld. Hannah,.Booth, Malta.
SCARBOROUGH, JAN. 2.—The Palestine, Thomson,
from Sunderland to Lynn, came ashoie south of Filey
yesterday morning during a fog, but got off after throw-
ing about one keel of coals overboard, and proceeded
with assistance.

DUNDALK, JAN. I.—The 'Eden, illienzie, of Aber-
deen, in proceeding to sea struck on the Bar, but came
off without damage.
ABERDEEN, DEC. 31.—The sloop Alexander, Asp)",
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 have
arrived off Lymington.

•
THE MARKETS.--(THIS DAY.) •.i
COLONIAL MARKET.
There was only a moderate business transacted,- but !.
prices were sustained for all articles. The imports were.
small. Raw Sugar sold slowly • Jamaica fine and good
Yellow 665. to 71s. ; low to middling 60s. to 655. per cwt.
TEA MARKET.
The operations were fair in all sorts of Tea,'end
prices were firm ; Company's Congou ls. 10d. cash,
- TALLOW MARKET.
There was little business done in P.Y. Candle, either
on the spot or for delivery, but prices were supported,
48s. 6d. to 495.

OIL MARKET.
Prices were barely supported, and the market was
dull. Cod Oil, 311., and Pale Seal, 421. 10s. per tutu
Linseed Oil, 36s. per cwt.

WHITECHAPEL MARKET.
The supply was plentiful, the trade for the second and
inferior qualities was middling ; but fine sorts were in
demand, and the present prices were well supported.
Clover, 21. 10s. to 51. Ss. ; Hay, 21. to 41. 6 ;' Strata►
1/. 10s, to 11. 14s.

LITERATURE.
COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE MAGA-
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EVE.

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•
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, lmong 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 °fall.-
cuss° 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 dd.'
ferent, as the conscription forces into the artrik.
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 distii-.
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 4,,
commission of the officers in command. •
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Lin r!
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,13..,di-tf); BRITISH MAGAZINE. - c!olfi
Thereligion of the RosicrUcians, it ml ht
sonably have been thought, had altogether lost
its vitality, in the persons of its latest disciples,
Reuel'lin and Prince Mirandulanus. Several
papers, however, of late, in this Magazine,.
nifest its embers to be still on the sparkle.; and.
the present article, " Macrocosm and Micro''
cosm," forms pari of a series. This school/
known long on the Continent as that of " ROOl
Cross," and whose disciples were once multittl'
dinous in the East, has been greatly deteriorated
in modern times by its triple admixture with
astrology, freemasonry, and the 'Welch bardisU
These have muffled its originally clear features
in enigma and intricacy, and the doctrines ap'
pertaining to it have been so 'thoroughly dis'
guised, and their textual readings interpolated,
that it has become scarcely possible to discover.
among them, the intelligent system anciently
taught under the orange-shades of Babylon and
Jerusalem, by the elders and rabbis of those
people. Au elaborate paper on the ." Times of
,
the Reformation," adduces proofs from the
Contemporary pulpit, on the spread of imrno-
- among the London population . at that
period. The complaints of the clericals,,of the
day form a' perfect Jeremiad. The books rhea
read are wofully stigmatised, most particularli,
those little black-letter duodecimos, full' 0'
•popish legends and tales of enchantment, whielj
changed hands with incredible rapidity, all
were " cheaply purchased for their weight l°
gold." _The poets were inspired by no .1101 Y:
thoughts, but had their fancies sublimed only by
" sack and claret." Eight theatres were °Pt.°,
every Sunday—the Theatre, the Curtain, the
Globe; and five others playing twice and thrice si
week, realised a revenue of 2,000/. a year, all;
were little " palaces of pleasure" that swarmed
with depravity. On this day also' " silver-gatues'
drinking, dancing, and dicing" were among the
corn monest profanities, and the only penalty of the
offenders herein, was a flap with a fox s• tail.
Even the Queen, whose accession was hailed hY,
Reformers as the rising of a " bright accidental
star" fell under the general ban. Elizabeth sys 9
found to lead no life of faith. '' The field, the
dance, the bear-garden, and the stage, succeeded
so constantly and rapidly on her morning studies,
in theology, that it seems strange how any but
courtiers could imagine that they had calmed
her mind, and made her happiness.- She was s
gay, worldly, schemine, woman. The Papists
hated her for what she did : the Reformers
doubted -her for what she did not. The Queen's
popularity in the early part of her reign was itself
an evil, when it made fashionable the oaths she
swore, and the dilapidation and sacrilege she-in'
dulged in." Lastly, to consummate the scene,
there existed, even among the clergy themselves!.
a species of " divisum imperium" on the score 0'
conduct and immorality. While one Bishop
blesses the English Church in its then present
state, and comfortably believes that it is "crown
ed with infinite stars, who are the good professors
of the word," a rival Archdeacon pitiably cool'
plains that " a man now-a-days makes himself
minister to get a piece of a living, and sinV
stoutly for the stipend only." The Christenn°
Rose," being a charming subject, should
inspired more glow , and colour to the
" The Five Articles of Perth" give an hist.,,,t,of
sketch of the introduction of a few religious 01.- s
chetsamong the Scottish Episcopalians by iatne
I. They certainly appear very innocent orditlati;
ces, and only the most ludicrous fanaticism cool"'
find in them anything to deprecate. Neverthe- -
less Calderwood, the chronicler, states that when
the Perth articles were touched by the sceptre
for ratification, lightning flashed; that the :
was marked as "Black Saturday;" and the cannon
from the Castle of Edinburgh, in theirdischargelv
" began with fire from the earth in the morq-
ing, and ended with fire from Heaven into
evening." It is agreeable to Observe that SPOI.
tiswood, whom the Presbyterians assailed with
lampoons and libels to perpetuity, is otherWl!4f
regarded by the writer as'a pious, mild, andY" ,
..
tuous prelate. Among its medley of correspl....
Bence the Editor denies the charge made by
Golightly, of this Magazine being an engine In
the hands of the Oxford tractarians: it has dO,,
cussed many Paseyite convictions, and refute',
more.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND QUARTERLY
REVIEW.
In this Number we find, among other shrei
but sophistical articles, one which takes for
theme " The State of the Nation," a subject
which it descants with more than ordinary tiorit
irony. The writer of this rabid diatribe sets 451,;'
with observing, that all the distresses under virb,,ier''
the country now labours are directly attributaffti
to the misconduct of the late Government; 011--
yet, immediately afterwards, it neutralises tP4!,
force of this assertion by adding, "fie, Art'
anxious to guard against a popular error, ,
always finds currency even In good times, br-
which is yet more popular, and still more frO!'',.
quently resorted to, in bad times. We allude. `m—
the popular error which ascribes, in difficult
times, . every existing evil to the Govern
ment! Now, even in absolute times, _till.
habit of ascribing all evils to the 4-I.4ri
vernment is still indefensible ; for it 1,1%
be easy to show, that there are many cause'
of evil over which no human Government, ho v,;
ever perfect, can have an absolute control.
If this be the case—and we are far from meaning