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

BAHIA STEAM NAVIGATION

COMPAN Y.

Yesterday the Half yearly General Meeting of the
Shareholders of this Company was held at the George
and Vulture Tavern, George-yard, Lombard-street.
At one o'clock, the chair was taken by Mr. Benson,
when a gentleman inquired whether there was not an
objection to the interference of any other than Pro-
prietors with the business of the meeting.
The CHAIRMAN said certainly, that none but Pro-
prietors could interfere with the proceedings.
Mr. Cox, a solicitor, said that he attended on the
part of a Proprietor, Mr. Farmer, and he hoped that
no person who was not a Proprietor should be allowed
to vote. Those who had taken scrip and had not
signed the deed were not Proprietors, and he con-
sidered that the course pursued by the present Direc-
tors was very unfair, in not producing the deed at the
general meetings, so that it should be known who were
Proprietors. _ . _

A DIRECTOR said that the deed was always in the
room. No one could vote who bad not signed it. But
gentlemen who held scrip might sign it whenever they
pleased, aad thereby become entitled to vote. He was
not aware that any gentleman who was not a share-
holder would interfere in the meeting, nor that there
was any such person present, except the members of
the public press.
Mr. Cox insisted upon his right to ascertain whether
the meeting consisted of bona fide Proprietors of the
Company or not.
Several Shareholders protested against his interrup-
t ion of the business of the day, and at the same time
assured him that no one was ever permitted to vote who
had not signed the decd. The holders of scrip were
entitled to their dividends, but not to vote until they
had signed the deed.
After some further interruptions, Mr. Cox at length
gave way, and the business was opened in the usual
manner by the Chairman reading the advertisement
which called the meeting together, according to the pro-
visions of the Deed of Incorporation. The minutes of
the last quarterly meeting were read and confirmed.
Mr. KERRISON, the Solicitor and Secretary to the
Company, then read the Report of the Directors,
which was of considerable length. The snort im-
portant points were, that the Brazilian subscribers were
greatly in arrear of the British, as regarded the pay-
ments on their shares ; that Mr. Armando, the Bra-
zilian agent, not having pressed for the payment of the
calls due in Brazil, nor having brought with him, in his
last visit to London, the moneys, amounting to 14,600
milreas and 353 reas, which he had received on behalf
of the Company, but left after him in the hands of a Bra-
zilian house—but at the same time expressing a wish to
purchase, on the part of his ow n firm or of the Brazilians, the
interest of the British Shareholders—the Directors in Lon-
don thought it expedient to take the agency out of his
hands, in order that he might be in a better condition
to negotiate, for himself or others, the proposed pur-
chase, than if he were an agent of the Company. The
agency was transferred to the house of Beevor and Co.,
who were instructed to take measures for obtaining
from the former agents their cash balances, and from
the Brazilian Shareholders the amount of their
arrears. Several important reductions were made
in the expenditure of the American esta-
blishment. One vessel, the Todos o Santos,
which was never fit for the service, had been sold, but
the terms of payment bad not yet been agreed on.—
(A laugh.) A timber-built steamboat was under re-
pair in August last, and was expected to prove a ser-
viceable boat. An iron steamer, which, having been
originally built for work between London and Graves-
end, was never quite adequate to work upon the Atlan
tic, but it underwent frequent repairs, and was kept up
to the work. On the whole the information received
from Brazil up to the date of September last, gave
reason to hope that the property of the Company would
before long become a valuable one. The cash in the
hands of the bankers at the date of this Report, was
6,2571. 3s. 9d. independent of all securities, and the
moneys which might be recovered from Brazil. The
Directors in conclusion solicited a continuance of
the confidence of the Shareholders until the next
half yearly meeting in June, when they hoped to give a
more encouraging amount of the Company's affairs.
A supplementary Report, consisting of a recent com-
munication from the new agents, Messrs. Beevor and
Co., in which it was stated that great dissatisfaction
prevailed amongst the Brazilian Shareholders occasioned
by the false impressions made upon them, by the im-
perfect information, and great dereliction of duty on
part of the late Superintendent and a person indi-
cated in the Report only by a blank. Measures
been taken, however, to remove all misapprehension,
and a new charter, of an advantageous character had
been obtained from the Brazilian Government. _

On the motion of Mr. KEMP, seconded by Mr. Hor-
RINS, the Report and Supplement were unanimously
adopted.
A PROPRIETOR inquired when would the Chancery
suit come on for hearing ?
The CHAIRMAN said it stood 24th in the list, and was
likely to come on next term.
Another PaoPaivrott asked was there any hope of
an arrangement being come to.?
_ _ . .

Mr. Fox (solicitor for Mr. Farmer) said, that the
defendants would come to no compromise.—(A laugh.)
The suit was altogether a paper suit.
Several Proprietors—We shall see that.—(Hear.)
Mr. Cox said that there was no ground whatever
for bringing a suit in Chancery against the late Direc-
tors, on the pretence that the vessels purchased for the
Company were unfit for the waters of Brazil.—(Oh.)
Mr. STURTZ (of Brazil) said that he could bear tes-
timony to the fact that they were unfit.
Mr. KEMP said that there could be no doubt what-
ever that the late Directors bad mismanaged.—( Hear.)
He did not think for a moment that they did so inten-
tionally. No man would accuse them of that. They
were men of too great respectability. But they had
mismanaged, and the Shareholders were the sufferers.
Mr. SAUNDERSON (a Director) said he was surprised
that the Solicitor for one of the defendants should say
that the suit was a " paper suit," whereas the late
Directors had proposed a compromise of 6001.—( Hear.)
Why they had gone back from that offer the gentlemen
knew best themselves.—( Hear.)
Mr. FARMER said that he was the defendant who
refused to accede to any compromise, because be had
not in any way departed from his strict duty.—(Hear.)

After some irregular conversation, and the usual
thanks to the Chairman, &c., the meeting separated.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in
the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes
Registered in the week ending Dec. 25, 1841." The Table is
issued from the Office of the Registrar-General:—

Weekly
Total. Average
1838-940

CAUSES OF DEATH.

Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases l4l 204
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses l2B 151
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
__

Respiration
Diseases of the Heat and Blood-vessels 2O 18
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other _ __

Organs of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c,
Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Museles
Diseases of the Skin, fAc
Diseases of Uncertain Seat 94 103
OW Age, or Natural Decay 6B 71
Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intemperance 19 25
Causes not specified 7 8
Deaths from all causes 795 -

48 60
5 4

e Weekly Deaths

Average Population Deaths
Weekly enu- in
Deaths merated the
1,-3e-9-41. lea Week.
West Districts—Kensington, Saint
George (Hanover-square), West-
minster, St. Martin in the Fiukts,
St. James

North Districts—St. Mary-le•bone
St. Pancras, Islington, Hackney 163 365,660 139
Central Districts—St. Giles and St.

George, Strand, Holborn, Clerk-
enwell, St. Luke, East London,
___

West London, City of London ..: 190 373,806 139
East Districts—Shoreditch, Bethnal

Green, Whitechapel, Si. George
in the East, Stepney, Poplar 2ll 292,496 193
South Districts—St Saviour, St

Olave, Bermondsey, St. George,
Southwark, Newington,Lambeth,
Camberwell, Rotherhitbe, Green-
wich

223 438,060 223

Total 926 1,870,727 795
It is slated that under the term Metropolis are comprised the
32 districts herein mentioned, which include the City of Lon-
don with and without the walls, the City and Liberties of
Westminster, the out-parishes within the Bills of Mortality
and the parishes of St. Marylebone, St. Pancras, Kensineon
Fulham, Hammersmith(Chapelry), St. Luke (Chelsea),"Pad:
dington, St. Mary (Stoke Newington), St. Leonard (Brom
ley), St. Mary-le-bow, Camberwell, Greenwich, St. Nicholas
and St. Paul (Deptford), and Woolwich. The population, as
enumerated in 1831, was 1,594,890; and in June 1841, was
1,870,727. The weekly average for 1838, 1839, and 1840,
was obtained by dividing the deaths in the three years by 156.
TEMPERATURE IN THE WEEKS ENDING
Dec. 18. I Dec. 25.
53° Mr
' 31 30
43 37
30, 1841.

Highest
Lowest
Daily Mean ....
General ltegister Office, Dec.

STATUE AT ROUEN TO GERICAUD THE
PAINTER.—A statue to the memory of the painter Geri-
caud, has just been opened to public inspection at Rouen.
Gericaud had no European celebrity, but he had great
local fame ; and his principal work, "The Shipwreck of
the Medusa," was much admired at Paris. The monu-
ment, which has been erected in the Cimetiere de l'Est,
and is constructed of the purest white marble, is one of
the simplest in that entire locality, but its effect is de-
scribed as admirable. It is due to the chisel of M. Mei.
The deceased painter is represented in a meditative re-
cumbent posture, holding his palette and pencils. Upon
the pedestal are engravedthe names of all the subscribers
and (more prominently of course) that of the painter,
who was oorn at Rouen in 1771. On the lateral faces of
the pedestal figure scenes taken from the artist's chief
works, and on the principal front a bas-relief in bronze
of the Naufrauge. This commemoration of " art by
art" exhibits a peculiar fitness ; it is a potent education
of the popular eye ; and confers at once an advantage on
the living and an honour on the dead.

LONDON:
SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1842.

In casting a glance over the past year, with an
endeavour to pry into the future, we shall
direct attention to principle, rather than parti-
cular facts. We shall speak little of party inte-
rests, and much of those of the public. We
shall consider men, not things; and the words
" Whig" and " Tory," and the names " MEL-
BOURNE" and " PEEL," are to be considered
more as signs for principles than the names
of men.

-The change of the Ministry, the triumph of
the Tories,_.and, the defeat of the Whigs ; the
substitution of PEEL for MELBOURNE, and of
one set of men for another in all the offices of
Government, is the great event of the past year.
Happily for England, her Ministers are not
changed so frequently as to make those changes
unimportant; and, considered as a change, not
only in men, but in the principles on which our
affairs are to be conducted, after the %Vhigs had
been ten years in office, we agree with the
Tories in considering the change in the Admi-
nistration as the most remarkable domestic
event of the year 1841. What does that inform
us of the past?—what does it indicate for the
future?

The Tories say, great honour and great hope
for them. Conservatism has triumphed and will
continue to triumph. We read the lesson some-
what differently. Lord MELBOURNE and his
friends grew lukewarm in the Liberal cause—
they became Finality-Conservatives, and natu-
rally, therefore, gave up their places to the heads
of the Conservative party. They could not go-
vern on Conservative principles; and Liberal
principles—making progress with the age—they
had discarded. Party and public necessities, in-
deed, made them concede sundry measures de-
manded by the Liberals, but they had gene-.
rally adopted Sir It PEEL'S policy of standing still,
not the Whigs,
areand
theof t ho
organs.
principleaos .
The
Iclihsafnrgieenodfs,Ministry was in
fact no triumph of Tory principles ; all the tri-
umph which they could achieve they had gained
when the MELBOURNE party declared for finality,
and declared emphatically against the total repeal
of the Corn-laws.

But after they had so declared, the necessities
of the State compelled them, though still at the
head of the Government, to make concessions to
the popular demands. They became quasi
Ballot men, and quasi Corn repealers, There-
upon the Consery atives took the Government
from them, and tlicy were forced to give up their

newly embraced Conservatism. They became
then re-converted to Liberalism, and will now
probably march with the spirit of the age.
The change of the Ministry was therefore much
more an accession of strength to the Liberal
cause than it was a triumph of Conservatism. To
those who still believe that the Government re-
gulates society, to get possession of the Ministry
is all in all. To those who know that Government
must submit to society, the fact that the Con-
servative Whig 3 have been obliged to adopt more
advanced principles, and therefore made way for
the Tories, is evidently a triumph of those prin-
ciples. So we read the past—what for the future ?
From no trick of statesmanship, but from
sheer and stern necessity, the Whigs were obliged
to take up the question of commercial reform,
and the reduction of monopoly-taxes. That
brought the question to issue, and will fix it on
the public mind till it be finally settled. We
have the authority of Mr. CHRISTOPHER for say-
ing that One point has already been gained.
The Corn-laws must undergo Parliamentary
revision. The Tories yield, monopoly lowers
her black death flag, and if Liberalism could
triumph over Lord MELBOURNE and the Tories,
when they were acting on the same principle
and could force on such a concession, why should
we not hope for its continued progress, now that
it has detached the Whigs from Conservatives,
and brought to a Parliamentary and public
issue, the great question which for four succes-
sive years the Conservatives have refused so
to try ?. It; as we affirm, the change of Ministry
denoted a necessary accession to the Liberal cause
in the past year, we see in its further progress
to the beginning of the present year, no reason
to dread its continual and great advancement.
Of the final and even speedy success of the great
principle of free trade, around which contending
parties are drawn up in battle array, we have firm,
and we trust well-founded hopes. Within a few
days Europe has resounded with praise of the Five
Great Powers for concluding a treaty to suppress
the slave trade. That treaty may not put an end
to the nefarious traffic, but it is invaluable as
the general testimony of mankind against vio-
lence and wrong. The treaty is the homage of
the constituted authorities of Europe, to the de-
clared opinion of the most enlightened of their
subjects, which, however strange it may at first
seem, like the discoveries in science of a NEWTON
or a DAVY, is destined, like them, if founded on
truth, to become the common creed of all man-
kind. That treaty, indicating the progress of the
constituted authorities of Europe in rectitude in
the past year, warrants the hope that the princi-
ples of robbery and violence, which they stigma-
tize by the treaty, will be speedily excluded from
their Legislation.

To subsist rather by violent pltinder than by
peaceful art is characteristic of savage life, and
thatprinciple, though banished from our manners,
is still, like many other ancient errors and crimes,
embalmed in our laws. The age is most honour-
ably distinguished by directing the bulk of its
energies to the peaceful acquisition of wealth.
Never before were the talents and desires of
mankind so wisely and incessantly employed in
producing useful objects, and in improving those
arts which contribute to the physical and moral
well-being of the species, as now. That general
ease and general comfort have not resulted from
these untiring and skilful exertions, has not con-
vinced the people that in them there is some
principle of illusion and mockery. They will
not believe that the light which comes from
heaven leads astray, and they accuse the errors
and crimes which are embalmed to the law as
the causes why these vast and well-directed
energies have not produced their appropriate
effects. Until we become aware of the present
peaceful and industrious tendency of mankind,
we cannot be sensible of half the mischief which
has been inflicted on this generation by the Le-
gislature's pertinacious adherence to ancient and
unfounded prejudices on the subject of commer-
cial intercourse between different nations. The
defeat of the Whigs on a branch of this great
subject, has brought, in the past year, the natural
principles of trade and the political quackery
of those who attempt to regulate it, face to face,
and tile next year wilLmost_assuredly see an ap-
proximation to the complete victory which the
former is destined to achieve.

When we consider the vast energies of our in-
dustrious and peace-loving people all directed
to the honest supply of their own wants; and
when we know that a great abundance of good
pork and beef can be brought from North and
South America, and laid down in Manchester
for 2d. per pound, we certainly feel bitter re-
gret and indignation at the immense sufferings
which base legislation, and nothing but base
legislation, has inflicted on them in the course of
the past and preceding years. But now that
principles are brought face to face, and there is
a certainty of the ultimate triumph of the truth,
which, like the heavens, is permanent, though it
may be occasionally obscured by the mists and
clouds of error, those vast and peaceful energies
inspire us with the brightest hopes for the corn-
ing time. Who can tell at what low price, and
in what rich abundance, food and clothing may
be supplied to an ever-increasing population, by
all the civilized people of the earth directing
their exertions to the attainment of that bene-
ficent end ?

Nor will the lesson which the unmerited
suffering inflicted during the last year on
our industrious people by those whom they
maintain in idleness and opulence has taught
them, be thrown away. Undoubtedly the
coming year will see them earnest and re-
solved to throw off the trammels of an ab-
surd and cruel commercial legislation which has
perverted the admirable mechanical inventions of
civilised man into curses. When that legislation
which forms the only obstacle to boundless pros.
perity shall be swept away, the future, if not the
next year, will see a greater diminution of poverty
and crime than statesmen have ever hoped to
accomplish by a severe poor-law and a cruel
criminal code.

Having said so much of the past and the fu-
ture as to the State, we would say something of the
Church, but our limits compel us briefly to ob-
serve, that the great event of the past year is the
schism amongst its own members. Gradually
falling, as the endowed clergy have been, in the
estimation of the public for years past, the dis-
putes amongst themselves must accelerate their
downfal,j and procure an ascendancy for the
Voluntary principle. In this schism both parties
appeal to the people. One claims to have made a
discovery by studying the Fathers, the other in-
sists that its predecessors in the reign of ELIZA-
BETH and JAMES, knew all that it was necessary
to know, and it will not go beyond the Protest-
ant Articles. The dispute is kindling in the land
a spirit of inquiry into the rival claims of both
parties, which cannot fail to be productive of a
rich harvest of knowledge that must stifle the
dominion of the priesthood.
If the close of the year 1841 sees the Govern-
ment in the hands of monopolists, it sees them
receding from their principles, and overwhelmed
by the enormous responsibility they have
assumed. If it sees the Church still in existence,
it sees it rent in twain, and ill able to resist the
storm which is gathering against it. If it sees
the people disunited and oppressed, it also sees
them awake and roused to the fact, that the ex-
clusive cause of their misery is one-sided, unjust,
iniquitous legislation. They are now thoroughly
aware of this important truth, which is the certain
precursor of their union and of their success in
putting down that system which they justly
affirm has been a dire curse to them.

There is very little news ofinterest in the Paris
Journals of Wednesday, except that the accom-
plices of QUENISSET, who were condemned to
death, are making fresh revelations in the hope
of escaping the guillotine. In consequence of
certain disclosures made by them to Baron
PASQUIER, President of the Court of Peers,
six fresh arrests took place in the Fau-
bourg St. Antoine, on Tuesday evening.
It is reported that DUPOTY is involved in
these accusations ; nothing, we think is more

natural. The Peers will endeavour, if pos-
sible, to implicate DUPOTY as a principal in
the crime of treason, for the purpose of turning
the attention of France from their former in-
famous verdict.

In Wednesday's sitting of the Chamber of
Deputies the four Vice-Presidents were elected.
The result of the election was as follows :
PUFAIJIIE 246 votes.
CALMAN
JACQUEMINOT 176
BIGNON

DUFAURE and CALMAN are of the middle, or
PASSY party, JAGQUEMINOT Conservative, BIG-
NON the same.

VIVIER, M. TRIERS' candidate, had but 113
votes; M. TRACY also had 30.
A Council of Ministers was held yesterday at the
Tuileries.

The leading members of the diplomatic corps in Paris met
yesterday for the purpose of preparing the speech which
is to be delivered to the King on New-year's-day, by the
Marquis deßrignolles.

There will be grand receptions at the Tuileries of
ladies and gentlemen on the evenings of the 3d and sth
of January, on occasion of the new year.
The sugar question was again discussed at great length
by the Councils of Commerce, Agriculture, and Manu-
factures on Monday. On this occasion M. Pauwell, with
a view, as he said, of ensuring to the colonial interest
the preference as to the supply of sugar, but at the same
time guaranteeing the security of the existing interest of
the manufacturers of beet-root sugar, but without any
protecting privilege as to the future, made the following
propositions :-1. That the manufacture of indi-
genous sugar shall be free, like all other
manufactures, on paying the same duty (45f.
per 100 kilogrammes) as on colonial sugar. 2. That
the protecting duty of 25f. the 100 kilogrammes for
either one or the other Alan only be continued as re-
gards an equal quantity to that produced in 1841.
3. The excess to be as for new establishments, subject
to the entire duty of 45f. 4. All protection to cease at
the expiration of ten years, and the two rival manufac-
tures to be placed on an equal footing as to duties."
Pauwell observed that it' the manufature of indige-
nous sugar could support a competition with colonial
sugar at equal charges, the result would be _ perfection
and cheapness for consumers ; that if the ten years' pro-
tection alluded to should not suffice to enable the manu-
facturers of indigenous sugar to compete successfully
with the producers of colonial sugar, they would, at
least, be sufficient to give to the former such profits as
would enable them at the end of the ten years to recover
the capital which they have embarked, and save them
from ruin; that if, on the contrary, the progress of the
native manufacturers should be fatal to the interest of the
colonial sugar-growers, the latter would only have to
substitute the growth of cotton, coffee, or any other pro-
duction suited to their climate and soil for the growth of
sugar.—Galignani's Messenger.
" We guarantee the accuracy of this news."—Le
Commerce.

The National says—" We are assured that the chief
clerk of the Court of Peers went yesterday evening, at
nine o'clock, to the prison of the Luxembourg, to an-
nounce to Quenisset, Colombier, and Just-Brazier, that
their punishment was commuted for that of transporta-
tion. We are further assured that they will be removed
from the prison of the Luxembourg this evening, or on
the night of the 29th."
La Presse contains the following article :—" A letter
from our correspondent at Algiers, dated the 21st of
December, informs us that important events oblige
General Bugeaud to remain in Africa, and will prevent
him from profiting by the two months' leave of absence
which he had asked for, and obtained.

We quote the following from the Constitutionnel:—
" In 1793 the number of men and officers employed in
the French navy was greater than at any former period;
it amounted to 104,920, of whom 69,196 were officers
and able seamen. The law of the 3d Brumaire, an. 4,
fixed fifty years as the age at which sailors were entitled
to their discharge from the service, instead of sixty years
as previously. This, of course, made a certain reduc-
tion. In 1815 the number was brought down to 83,000
men, of whom 51,966 were officers and able seamen.
In 1836 it was raised to 90,511, total, and 52,433 officers
and able seamen; and in 1840 to 98,706, total, and
55,992 officers and able seamen, from the age of eighteen
up to that of fifty."
The Corresponsol of Madrid states, that at Barcelona
the association of cotton manufacturers has come to an
agreement that no member shall have clothes made of
any stuffs but those manufactured in Spain, renouncing
from this moment all purchases of foreign goods, but
allowing themselves three years to get rid of their stock
on hand.
A letter from Alicant of the 18th inst. states that four
companies of the regiment of Navarre had arrived there
to assist the authorities in the maintenance of order.
Quiet had been restored, and it was expected that the
municipal elections, which had been interrupted by the
late tumultuous scenes, would be resumed on the 26th.
At Barcelona the majority of the new municipal coun-
cil are in favour of Espartero. Leave has been given to
the Members of the late Republican Junta to return to
Spain.
A Belgian diligence, running from Brussels to Metz,
was seized a few days since on the French frontier, on ac-
count of its containing a considerable quantity of tobacco,
which was attempted to be smuggled into France. The
vehicle and horses have been confiscated and sold.

The forest of Pierrefeu, near Toulon, having become
infested by wolves, the authorities ordered a general
chase, during which, on the 19th instant, one of the
beaters fell in unexpectedly with a wild boar, and was
torn by the tusks of the animal in four places. An artery
was severed, and the poor fellow died from loss of blood
before he could be carried out of the forest.

A Berlin letter mentions that, on the 20th instant, the
King of Prussia dined with the Count de Nassau, ex-
King of the Netherlands, and a numerous party, com-
posed of the Princes of the Royal Family, Ministers of
State, Diplomatic Ministers, and other personages of high
high distinction.
BOURSE—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 29.

First Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Prat, Price.
Trench 5 per Cents ll6 40 ... 116 60 ... 1 t 6 40 116 50
4% per Cents ......... 106 2 i ... 106 15 ... 106 25 106 25
4 per Cents lOl 05 ... 101 05 101 05 ... 101 05
3 per Cents. ex div 7B 35 78 35 ... 78 25 ... 78 30
8 ink of France .... 3375 —3375 ...3360 ...33 C
Latlitte Bank 1.0001. Shares 1007 50 —1607 50 —lOO7 50 —lOO7 50
5,000 f. Shares 5025 ...50'25 ...5025
qpivian Rank ....... 790 ... 790 ... 790 79.1
Belgian 5 per Cents.
Her Cents., 1840 103% ... 10:1N ... 103%
3 per Cents 72 i 0 72 10 ... 72 10 ... 7 = i 0
ipanish Active ......... 24% ... 24% ... 2414 ... 24%
Pam., 556 ... 514 ... 514 ... 5
Ohl Deferred
Neapolitan
.... 102% ... 102% ...102% 102%
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain
Vetsmiles.L.lS 2lO 215 210 2.0
R. B 340 340 ... 335 335
Rouen 457 50 ... 457 50 457 50 ... 457 50
Urleena

Strasburg ,o Bale . 226 25 .. 227 50 ... 226 25 ... 227 50
BELGIAN I. UNDS—Baussata, Dec 29.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent IOI%
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent 92
3 per CenL .....
--- 71%
(1240) lOl%
Loan of City, 1932, 4 per Cent. ........
Society of Commerce, 4 %per Cent —
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent.. ...........
National Society. ........ ................. —
Exchange on London (short)
—Brussels Papers, Dec. 29.

Thirty-seven.

SUDDEN DEATH OF THE EARL OF FALMOUTH.—
Our Falmouth Correspondent writes us as fol-
lows :—" We are informed that the Right Hon.
Lord Fal mouth died suddenly at Tregothnan,
Cornwall, on Wednesday morning, when in the
act of dressing himself. The Noble Earl had
his title conferred in 1821 ; he will be succeeded
by his only issue, Lord Boscawen Rose, one of the
Members of the western division of Cornwall,
a vacancy in the representation of which is thus
created. The late Earl was in his 55th year,
having been born in May 1787. He married
Anne Frances, daughter of the late Henry
Bankes, Esq. The present Earl,. his successor,
is in his 31st year. The late Peer was Recorder
of Christchurch and Truro ; but he does not ap-
pear to have held any other public appointments.
The doings of the Marylebone Vestry and the de-
scriptions about the wood pavement of Oxford-street, are
becoming public nuisances. We Nave more useless talk
about them than about the Repeal of the Union, or the
Northern Boundary Line, and if we may judge from
appearances, there is as much chance of one of these
important points being settled as another. If, however,
the inhabitants of Oxford-street will act with vigour, we
have no doubt the the Vestry must yield ; and the meet.
ing held on Thursday night, leads us to believe that
this will be the result of the contest. The public are
utterly sick of these endless experiments which have
been carried on for years in that great thoroughfare.
They know that jobbing is the cause of all the delay,
and that it can be put down only by a hearty and una-
nimous declaration on the part of the inhabitants. It is
evident that something must be done to remove the
evil, or Oxford-street will soon become as unfashionable
as it was in bygone times, when it was the highroad to
the Tyburn gibbet. If the Vestry wish to be convinced,
let them turn their attention to the various kinds of
pavement introduced within the last few years, and par-
ticularly to the different systems of wood pavements
brought oat by several Companies, illustrated in a little
pamphlet, written by Mr. Lee Stevens, and published
by Richard Spencer, High Holborn. The object of the
writer is to prove from experience, as well as theory,
that an economical, safe, and durable surface
of wood for streets may be adopted as a useful
substitute for stone under most circumstances, and
he certainly makes out a good case. He examines
at length the different systems hitherto in use, gives
calculations of the expense and durability, as well as in-
contestable proofs of the conveniences, of wood pave-
ments compared with granite or any other stone. The
subject is treated with great skill, and the treatise alto-
gether evinces more practical knowledge on this modern
discovery than has yet been exhibited. We refer the
Marylebone Vestry to the details and calculations, and
give only one extract as regards economy—an important
consideration on a line of street a mile long, and subject
to as much traffic as any in London. Mr. St.wens, to-
wards the conclusion of the treatise, says :—" Compared
with the Macadamized portions of Oxford-street, Picca-
dilly, and other places of equal traffic, the economy of
wood paving is as prominently evident. These cost at
present from 2s. 6d. to 3s. per yard, per annum, to
keep in repair, to say nothing of their first construction ;
and the wood paving, for terms of twenty-one years, can
be laid down, and kept in perfect repair, at an annual
charge or rental of 2s. 3d. per yard—being a saving of
from 10 to 30 per cent. per annum."

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