The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-17 00:00:00

RAILWAY RETURNS.

We extract from the Railway Magazine the sums
received on the principal Railways of Great Britain
for the week ending on the day of the month prefixed
to each. The return includes the money received for
passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and mer-
chandize :
Week Miles Total.
Name of Railway.
ended Opened. £. s. d.
.. Birmingham & Derby Junct 384 No returns
Jan. 7 Birmingham and Gloucester 55 1,363 5 8
2 Brandling Junction 25 729 1 7
8 Chester and Birkenhead ..
.. Dundee and Arbroath
9 Eastern Counties
8 Glasgow and Ayr ..
8 Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock 224 785 6 10
I Grand Junet., Chester &Crewe 1031 6,559 13 5
... Great North of England 45 No returns
9 Great Western
8 Hull and Selby ..
8 Lancaster & Preston Junction 20i 440 2 11
7 Liverpool and Manchester 3l 4,090 2 1
8 London and Birmingham 1124 11,988 4 6
13 London and Blackwall
8 London and Brighton
8 Ditto Shoreham Branch
11 London and Croydon lO4 257 14 6
13 London and Greenwich 3l 751 11 3
8 London and South Western
7 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 10 701 3 104
10 Manchester & Birmingham
8 Manchester and Leeds
8 Midland Counties ... 57 2,064 l 2 6
... Newcastle and Carlisle ......
9 Northern and Eastern
8 North Midland
7 North Union
R Preston and Wyre
'lO Sheffield and Manchester 7 207 18 5
9 Ulster
8 York and North Midland 23 1,208 11 6

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM. THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY.

STANDARD.—The day of election fora Profes-
sor of Poetry has been definitively fixed for Thursday,
the 27th inst. The polling will commence at ten
o'clock in the morning, and will continue throughout
the day. It was originally understood that the election
would have taken place on the 26th ; but it has since
been decided that the day should be altered to the
27th, and a formal notice has been issued to that
effect. We have already written and published much
on the great question to be tried, but we could not
with a safe conscience relax in a case in which we
firmly believe the clergy of England and the University
of Oxford to be upon their trial. The election, we
are informed by a correspondent, must, according to
usage, be made in a manner to preclude the identifica-
tion of voters. Much as men ought to dislike secrecy
in any public act, the appeal to the Ballot in the present
case is so far fortunate, as it obviates the main objec-
tion offered to a contest, namely, that it would
place friends in manifest opposition. For our own
part, we have no tenderness for friendship in such
n.attcrs. It a friend pervers, ly or stupidly takes a line
which we believe to be sinful, we regard the temporal
inconvenience to which he may expose himself by
such conduct as kind and wholesome chastisement,
necessary to bring him to a sense of his sin,
and which, therefore, it would not be the part
of friendship to divert. On the other hand.
men ought not to be ashamed to act right, who-
ever may act wrong. But be this as it may,
ajection on personal grounds is removed
by the form of the election. Much, however, has been
said, and by men entitled to all respect, of the evil of
any contest; however carried on ; but one consideration
seems to be lost sight of by such as hold that a con-
test can be avoided. The public, including the vsbole
body of laymen in the Church, have a right to
know tho opinions of their religious teachers, and
the bias of the University at which their chil-
dren are to be educated ; and these they can now
learn in no other way than by a clear, unequivocal de-
cision of the question now in issue. If Mr. Williams
and his friends beat a charnade—we care not under
what pretest, because we know thorn wed enough to
know that nothing but a certainty of ignominious defeat
will cause them to retire—if Mr. Williams and his
friends withdraw, or if they be signally defeated, as we
trust they wi'l be, upon a poll, the clergy of the Uni-
versity will preserve that glorious character which has
been theirs for centuries. But (we will imagine no-
thing so terrible as a 'l'ractarian triumph) a compro-
mise would be utterly fatal. The character of the
clergy and of the University is, we repeat it, the pro-
perty of the country—a property which many 'of us
look upon as the most precious of all our national
possessions ; but this character has been aspersed by
sectarian enemies. Oxford is, we will, not say sus-
pected, but accused, of favouring the Romanist schism.
The accusation was brought openly in the House of
Commons, and boldly repelled as far as it could be by
the testimony of individua:s ; but now Oxford is callsd
upon to render her own testimony in reply to this accu-
sation, and silence on her part will amount to a plea of
guilty, and to a disavowalof her Parliamentary defenders.
GLOBE.—In all the interminable discussions to
which the subject of the Corn-laws has given rise, it has
been customary for the friends of the present system to
maintain, that if provisions would be purchasable for
less money, through a reduction of the taxes on food,
there .would be a corresponding, or even a greater
diminution-in the wages of those classes to whom the
dearness of provisions is now the cause of so much
misery. Without now entering into the merits of the
question whether an alteration in the Corn-laws would
have the effect of diminishing the income of a
manufacturing operative so much' as to leave him as
badly off as he is at present—a conclusion that has
been over 'and over again %hewn to be absurd—we may
a-k the advocates of dear living whether there is not in
this country a frightful amount of distress among in-
dividuals whose scanty earnings could not be injuriously
affected by the proposed measure for making bread
cheap ; and who, while they gained as much or more
than they can do now, would be enab'ed to obtain a
much,larger quantity of food for the same amount of
money ? The ingenious disputants who deal with no-
thing less lofty than commerce and agriculture, the ma-
nufacturing, the trading, or the landed interests, with the
statistics relating to eacb, as the only worthy subjects
of their elaborate -and sometimes rather mystical essays
on political- economy, would feel it to be an affront to
their dignity were we to begin to talk to them about
washerwomen; watermen, cab-drivers, charwomen, and
those industrious individuals by whom mangling and
ironing are done, or messages and parcels carefully de-
livered ; but we can assure those gentlemen who de-
clare that cheap food will profit nobody, that if they
would only walk into the humble apartments of the
thousands of individuals belonging to the elaSses we
have 'named, it would be found that in- many cases
wretchedness might be relieved, in all comfort increased,
and in none earnings diminished, by a reduction in the
cost of the necessary articles of nouritment.
COURIEIL—The system of fraud, falsehood, and
murderous excitement against the higher and more
respectable orders and leading interests of the empire,
unrelentingly pursued by the boisterous and disreput-
able chiefs of the Anti• Corn League, and the venal
press at their command, not less fbul mouthed than
themselves, has had the natural effirt of bringing
a bad cause into such utter contempt that not an
Anti-Corn-law meeting has taken place for some
time past which has not proved a miserable
failure, so that now by common consent all such
gatherings are ranged in the category of farces
unworthy of the slightest notice. From tumultuary
assemblages, formidable in some respects as the engines
for an unprincipled faction to work with, they have
dwindled indeed into hole and corner conclaves, of whose
wherefores and whereabouts nothing would ever be
heard but for reports drawn up, or reporters subsidied by
themselves, with which, in default of better matter, or
any decent matter at all, Whig-Radical journals are con-
tent to cram their pages in the dull and pacific times of
a Conservative Government. To this happy dearth of ex-
citing news we owe, as may be supposed, the report of
the sayings and doings of an Anti-Corn-law conference
lately held in Edinburgh for the special exhibition of
some of those Reverend, but not revered, humanity pre-
tenders, who now seem all holy fire and fluster about
the sufferings of the poor, although when their
pious aid and consolation was sought in the hour
of utmost need, and in behalf of the infant as
well as the adult poor, victims of factory iniqui-
ties of the deepest dye, during all the dismal night
of anguish and suffering which preceded the Fac-
tory Bill, these mercenary shepherds were found
blind and deaf to the cries and tortures of an in-
nocent flock, among whom the wolf was left to
indulge his ravenous appetite unchecked. Alas !
for the miserable flock ; they have neither the
potier to pay, nor to withhold clerical gifts
and salaries, whilst their enemy, the wolf, is quite
a la hauteur de sa position, and understands how to
work-all the springs of the voluntary system to his own
special use and carnage. The same wolf which silenced
the clerical sympathies of the voluntary school in behalf
of the factory child and the Factory Bill, now sounds
loud the blast of war against the agricultural poor, and
lo ! " black spirits and grey,"-with " drum ecclesiastic"
and "eager for the fray," are up and 'stirring in town
and village, exciting one class of the people to the de-
struction of another class, and preaching the abominable
doctrine that only by the annihilation of the agricultural
population can the manufacturing operatives hope to
achieve their daily bread.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF SATURDAY.
POST.—The turn which took place in the home
funds led to an iniprovement, upon thA general principle,
in the Foreign Stocks also. Spanish was an exception,
the Active Bonds having suddenly, and without any very
well understood cause; receded from 254 to 241, and
closed at from that price _to -I. The rumours on the
subject are various. It was said, in the first place, among
other things, that M. Salvandy had actually left Madrid;
in the second, which is a more serious matter, so far as
the bondholders are concerned, that the bills purchased
for the payment of the two promised Three per Cent.
dividends are prOteited. We confess, however, that we
do not think such a thing at all likely; for, of the amount
required, 175,0001. was advanced by the Bank of San
Fernando, 'an establishment equal, in point of solidity,
to almost any hank in Europe; and, besides, it does not
appear to-be at all certain that the two commissioners
charged with this money have reached London. There
was yet a third report current; to this we are inclined to
give far more credence than to any other. Monday will
be settling-day, and it is said that what are called the
" small fry" are all bull;, few of whom, if any, will 'be
able to take in stock. The enormous deficiency in the
Budget presented by the Minister of Finances to the
certes' may very probably have contributed, in a greater
or IeSS extent, to, the depression of the market.
TIMES.-4t is stated in the Madrid letters of the 4th
inSt.,- which arrived this morning, that the house which
furnished' certain bills to the Spanish Government for
remittance' to London, and which were protested for
non-acceptance by Messrs. Gower and Co., has drawn
other bills for the same account, and to a large amount,
which have also been protested, and hence the difficulty
will be much increased in which the Government will
be placed, in providing for this unforeseen contin-
gency, and in meeting the claims here on behalf. of the
British LegiOn. lt appears that the 7th of March, and
not the 3d, is the day on which the first protested bills
fall due, before which time there was still a hope that
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RAILROAD TO DUBLIN.—The requisition
agreed to at the preliminary meeting held last Wednes-
day, at the office of Messrs. Foot and Fitzsimons on the
South Mall, we are glad to learn is making progress.
Tile requisition for calling a general meeting has already
received the names of _Lords Bandon, Mountcashel,
Bernard, and Doneraile, of nearly eighty Magistrates,
and of a large body of the gentry of the county and
city. This, however, was but to be expected, for an
object in which all are interested should by all be taken
up. .The meeting is intended to be held on the 20th inst.
.=—COrk BepOrter.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF CHANCERY. Jan. 15.
The Lord Chancellor sat in his Court at Westminster
to-day.

WARD V. ALSAGER.
The arguments in this case which have already occu-
pied the Court two days, were resumed to-day, and had
not concluded when the Court rose.

ROLLS' COURT, Jan. 15.
LANGTON V. HORTON.

This case was partly heard last term. The facts were
these :—The plaintiff assigned to the defendant a certain
'ship or Whaler, and in the deed of assignment all the
boats, sails, masts, oars, and appurtenances, were con-
veyed to the defendant. At the time of the con-
veyance the ship was out on her voyage in the South
Seas, and some months afterwards arrived at Milford
Haven. She arrived with an ordinary cargo of oil, &c,.
and the defendant claimed and took possession of the
whole of the cargo and- fishing apparatus, alleging that
the deed of assignment gave him a title thereto, as the
cargo and stores were comprised under the word appur-
tenances. The plaintiff then instituted the present suit,
for the purpose.of restraining the defendant.
Ml'. PEMBERTON was heard for the plaintiff, and Mr.
TURNER for the defendant. The case occupied the whole
of yesterday afternoon and this morning.
His LORDSHIP said he would reserve his judgment. It
appeared to him, that, previous to the arrival of the ship,
the defendant had treated the assignment as a kind of
mortgage ; if so, there could be no question between the
parties. He would, however, take the case into conside-
ration at an early period.

VICE-CHANCELLORS' COURT, Jan. 14.
(Before Vice-Chancellor BRUCE.)
JONES V. HUGHES.
• Mr. WAKEFIELD moved for an injunction to restrain
the defendant from going on with an action of eject-
ment upon the merits confessed in his answer. The de-
fendant Hughes having been indebted to the plaintiff in
the sum of three guineas, an action %vas brought to re-
cover that amount, and the result was that execution
was issued to compel payment of the debt, which had
increased, with the costs, to the sum of 551. 9s. 4d.
The sale took place on the 26th of April, 1839. It com-
prised the lease of a house and some stables attached to
it, and some furniture belonging to the defendant, which
realised altogether 184/. The balance was, after the sale
paid to Hughes by the Sheriff's, officer. The purchaser
neglected to obtain from the Sheriff the usual assignment
of the lease. Hughes alleged that more was sold
than was necessary to discharge the debt; that there,
was no necessity for selling the whole of the property,
and that he had suffered great injury by the course
which had been pursued. , He also alleged, that the sale
was advertised for, and took place at ten o'clock in the
morning, in spite of his remonstrance to the contrary, and
that the property had, in consequence, been sold to a
great disadvantage ; that early on the morning of the
day appointed for the sale he had remonstrated, and
stated that he was ready and willing, if the sale was de-
layed till a reasonable period of the day, to pay the 551.;
without a sale, but no attention was paid to his offer.
The who!e question at the bar turned upon the technical
proceedings subsequent to the sale. The bill prayed that
it might be declared that the plaintiff, as the purchaser
of the property, was entitled to the full benefit of the lease.
The case was not concluded when the Court rose.
JANUARY 15.
(Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.)