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

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 1842.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 15.—The Warspite, 54, Captain
Lord John Hay, went out of harbour yesterday, and
the Vindictive, 54, Captain J. T. Nicolas, C. 8., to-
day. The Warspite proceeded to the Downs this
morning, and will be followed at daylight to-morrow, by
the Vindictive, both to join the Formidable, when the
whole will sail for Wend, to escort the King of Prussia
to this country. Orders were given yesterday for two
of the Royal Pages to held themselves in readiness to
embark on board the Firebram), steamer, at Woolwich,
on Monday next, to attend on their Majesties during
the voyage from Ostend, where it is understood King
Leopola will meet the Prussian Monarch. The Fire-
brand will also convey the Marquis of Ex, ter, Groom of
the Stole to Prince Albert, or Earl Hardwicke, as the.
Lord-in-Waiting, and the Prussian Minister, to escort
the King of Pru,sia to this country. His Majesty will
embark at Ostend on Thursday next.
The Cambrian, 36, Capt. (Ands, C. 8., with Lord
Ellcnborouzh, Governor• General of India, on board,
arri‘ed at Tencriffe on the 22d Nov.

The Southampton, Pearl, and Partridge, arrived at
Monte Video, from Rio Janeiro, on the 30th Oct.
The Aigle shied from Gibraltar on the 24th ult.
The Malabar arrived there on the same day from Ply-
mouth. The Java transport, with detachments of
troops, arrived at Gibraltar on the 20th ult.

The Lynx, 3, Lieut. Bursiem, is to go to the West
India station from Lisbon, to follow the Heroine, 10,
Lieut. Stewart.

On Wednesday night it blew hard from the south.
east, which raised a little sea at Spithead ; the Queen,
in consequence, parted her bower cable with 120 fa-
thorns out, but was brought up by her sheet anchor.
She is reported to have pitched and rolled much more
than could have been expected.
The Rhadamanthus steam transport is hourly ex-
pected here from ,the eastward, on her way to Gibral-
tar, with naval and military stores, and a detachment
of sappers and miners for the garrison.
The new steamer Thunderbolt was launched at this
dockyard on Thuisday, and taken into dock to be
coppered. Her dimensions are as follow :—Her length
of keel for tonnage, 155 ft. 11i in. ; extreme breadth,
36 ft. ; depth in hold, 21 ft. ; burthen, in tons, 1,055.
The Thunderbolt is fitted with Captain G. Smith's
paddle-box boats, which, in her, are thirty feet. long,
and nine feet six inches wide ; and the remissness
of Government in not so fitting all men-of-war
steamers, cannot be more amply shown than in the
state to which the Avon might have been reduced, a
few days since, when she was found to be on fire ; and
though only a. few miles from the Irish coast, was in-
capable, herself, of furnishing her crew and passengers
with the means of escape, had it been requisite. The
Growler has been so fitted, and the Geyser is ordered
to be. Altogether, about 30 steamers have adopted
this useful improvement, including 14 belonging to the
Royal West India Mail Company. A serious respon
sibility now falls on all Companies and Owners of Steam
packets, who do not avail themselves of this safeguard
to their customers and passengers. And we regret to
find that officers of the Queen's yards have in more
than one instance, so raised objections as that a ship
has been sent to sea without these boats having been
supplied, though orders have been given to that effect,
Insinuations have been thrown out to the detriment
of Mr. Grant's Patent Fuel, that it was liable to spon-
taneous combustion, the Admiralty have submitted it to
Professors Farraday and Brandt, who both report that
it is impossible it can ignite of itself, whatever degree
of heat, devoid of flame, or whatever degree of friction
it may be subject to.
The smack Dibden, Mant, master, of and for this
post, from Jersey with potatoes, went on shore at the
back of the Isle of Wight, on Thursday night, in a
snow storm, and was totally wrecked ; we believe the
crew were all drowned. The bodies of Brock, a seaman,
cud Waldron, a boy, were brought hobse to-day, and
an inquest was held on their remains: The corpse of
the captain was (andel here this evening.
In Harbour—St. Vincent, Victory, Excellent, Royal
George, Car3sfort, Rapid, Nautilus, Echo (steam-tug).
At Spithead—Queen, Vindictive, and Isabella (con-
vict-ship.

hrough the Gulf, it being very cold. They were
up all night, and got fro St-bitten froin the Severity of the-'
weather. The water-casks were frozen. A signal of
distress was hoisted, but he did not know by whom. It
was from morning tiltnight. There was no:syniptoin of
mutiny ; they had not even an angry Word with the Cap-
tain. They offered to go to prison rather than risk their
lives. It was for the purpose of saving their lives that
they struck: Carttar here said there had been'a
mutiny and conspiracy among the men. The Magistrate
said there was no legal evidence of that.) DouSley pro-
ceeded to say that the note promisin,, 3/. extra was signed
voluntarily by the Captain, first and second mate, and
carpenter, without consulting the crew ; they would not
go to sea without such note to ensure their wages ; the
captain went to the forecastle.and offered his portmanteau
and two sovereigns to the men, but they refused his
offer. The men then said that they did not want them.
They pumped the whole passage home, night and day,
every two hours, and frequently hourly. Mr. Carttar
said that the character of the ship was at stake, being.
registered at Lloyd's as a first-class ship, and they would
therefore appeal to the Quarter Sessions if the deeisiOn
should be against them. The Magistrate said, if appealed
against, the case would not be heard before April. The
men would get nothing at all. The whole would be swal-
lowed up in law and fees. An offer was made,to which
Mr. Grove said it would be wise in the men 'to accede
to, namely, to deduct a. from each claimant's pay, and
two day's double pay, for disobeying orders when in the-
St. Lawrence, making together 335. 4d. to be deducted.
from the amount sought by each of the claimants as
wages. The men consulted together a few minutes, and
agreed to those terms.

AMERICAN COURTSIIIP.—If a gill has a
layer down at Ann Arbour, of course she marries him as
soon as her friends consent; if they object, then she goes
to bed, and remains there until they give their consent,
which generally occurs in less than a fortnight. It is
found by that time to be less expensive, and more agree-
able, to call in the lover than the doctor.

Mr. Payne held on Friday an irquest at
Guy's Hospital, on the body of Joseph Bristow, aged
25, a waggoner, in the employ of Mr. Thomas Tyler,
farmer, of Bexley, Kent. W. Smith stated, that, on
Saturday afternoon last, whilst standing opposite to the
White Swan, Blackheath-hill, he saw deceased driving a
waggon; and team of horses. Deceased was seized with
a fit of coughing, and rested his head on the chain of the
trace next the shaft horse. Punch and Judy were on the
opposite side of the road, and their drum just began to;
beat. The horses started at the sound, which made de-
ceased's hand slip from off the ''chain, and he fell. The
horses went on, and the two near wheel's passed over
deceased's left leg and thigh and right arm. Witness
picked him up and carried him to 'Ur. Smith's, a sur-
geon, residing just hy, who dressed his wounds, and or-
dered a fly to bring him to that hospital. Policeman, 130
R, said he accompanied deceased to the hospital, who
told him that he fell through dizziness caused by the
coughing, and that he had not heard Punch and Judy's
drum. Mr. Holland, house-surgeon, said the deceased's
left leg was fractured, and that all along it there was'
extensive extravasation of blood, which afterwards turned
to suppuration, producing weakness of the system, from
which deceased could not recover, and he died on
Thursday evening last. Verdict—" Accidental death."
DEATH FROM STARVATION.--A lorg inquiry
took place on Friday at the One Ttm, Perkins's-rents,
Great Peter-street, Westminster, before Mr. Higgs, the
Coroner, concerning the death of Mary Clark, aged
thirty-five, of No. 10, Perkins's-rents. Mary Bailey,"
midwife to the Western Dispensary, said that she first
saw the deceased on Tuesday morning last. Deceased was
then in labour, and apparently going on favourably. In
the course of the morning a change took place, -and wit-
ness gave her a little brandy. She soon became much
worse, and witness sent for Mr. M`Cann, the surgeon to the
Dispensary. He arrived in two hours, by which time de-
ceased was dead. Paralysis appeared to be the cause of
death. Mr. Nicholas I‘lCann, surgeon, of Parliament-
street, said that he delivered the deceased after death of a
dead child. He considered death to have been caused by
extreme debility, and the want of strength during labour.
Her debility was from inanition. Mary Burke, of No. 9,
Perkins's-rents, said that on Tuesday last she went to the
workhouse of the united parishes of St. Margaret's and
St. John's, Westminster, to obtain the assistance of the
parish surgeon for the deceased. She waited there about
half an hour before the overseer came, and when wit-
ness was about to deliver her message, Mr. Ristall, the
clerk, came, and, laughing at her, said that her husband
could attend to her. He jeered at her, and made a joke
of it. Witness represented the dangerous condition of
the deceased, as desired by the. Midwife, but no notice was
taken of it, and she then left The deceased, with her
husband, and two children, were in the greatest distress.
I have no doubt that theywanted the common neces-
saries of life, and I know that they -fasted the whole of
Christmas day. They were all very sober persons. After
some further evidence, the Jury returned a verdict-,
" Died from the want of the common necessaries of life."
A subscription, amounting to about i/. was raised
amongst the Jury for the husband of the deceased.
SHOCKING DEATH OF AN AGED FEMALE
BY FIRE.—On Friday forenoon an inquisition was taken
before Mr. Wakley, M.P., at the Marylebone Workhouse
Infirmary, on the body of Elizabeth. Connold, aged 66,
who was burned to death. Maurice Eligott, of No. 4,
Highworth-street, Lisson-grove, stated that on Monday
evening last, about five o'clock, he was passing through
Stafford-street, which was near to his own dwelling,
when he observed a very strong light in the kitchen of
of No. 6, and on looking through thevindow, saw the
deceased standing at the sink, enveloped in flames, with
both arms raised above her head. He' immediately
knocked at the door, and .on its being opened raised an
alarm, when, rushing down stairs, he caught hold of the
hearth rug, which he threw. round deceased, and with
some difficulty succeeded in extinguishing the fire. She
was in comfortable circumstances, and was the widow of
a servant of the Earl of Harewood.--" Accidental death."

THE LAST FALL OF A DRUNKARD,---011'
Friday Mr. Payne held an inquest at Guy's Hospital,
on the body of Maria Hayward, aged 52. George Hay-
ward, husband of deceased, said that about nine o'clock
on Thursday evening last he came honie, and being the
worse for liquor, he lay down on his bed. His wife, with
her bonnet and shawl on, was sitting singing on a chair
before the fire. She was intiiiicated, and had been so
ever since " boxing-day." He fell asleep and awoke at
eleven, and his wife was still sitting on the chair singing.
He asked her to come to bed, and she replied, " No, I
shan't." He again fell asleep, and did not awake until
four crclock'next morning. Be call deceaied, not finding
her in bed, and receiving no answer, he got up, and
found her with her legs doubled under her, and her head,
face downwardS, under the grate. She was dead. She
was addicted to gin drinking, and, having had her head
fraCtured whilst' a girl,'' a little liquor had a great effect
upon her, and would make her fall head foremost. Ver-
dict, "-Natural death."

ANOTHER DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN BER•
NONDSI:Y.—On Friday night about half-past eight, a
most destructive fire broke out at the paper-mills of Mr.
Hunt, in the Blue Anchor-road, Bermondsey. The fire
was first observed by one of the neighbours, who resided
in a cottage adjoining, and the flames appeared suddenly
to break forth from the centre of the null. An alarm
was immediately given, and several inhabitants residing
near the spot hastened thither, and endeavoured to ex-
tinguish the flames, but the: fire had taken such a firm,
hold of the interior of the building, that all their efforts
were fruitless. In the meantime from the inflammable
nature of the buildings and stock; the flames shot up to
a great height, and illuminated the atmosphere for a con-
siderable distance ; and the firemen from the various'
stations, having been attracted by the strong glare of
light, hastened in that direction ; but, such was the ra-
pidity with which it burnt, that, before they could arrive,
the whole of the mill, with the machinery and contents,
was nearly consumed. The damage done is very con-
siderable, but it could not'be ascertained whether Mr.
Hunt is insured.

DETENTION OF THE MAILS.—On Friday
morning the mail trains on the Lendon and Birmingham
Railway, and also those or the Great Western, which
should have arrived at six o'clock, did not, on account of
the heavy fall of snow, arrive until half-past seven. Tho
Worcester and Portsmouth mails did not arrive until
eleven, and at twelve o'clock there were upwards of a
dozen mails of the eastern and northern counties which
had not arrived at the General fost-office in St. Mar-
tin's-le-Grand. Some of the guards of the mails which
have arrived, state that the roads in many places were
from five to six feet deep in snow, and in others drifted
to a great depth.—Railway Times.
FRIGHTFUL GIG ACCIDENT, IN PICCA-
DILLY.—On Friday evening between five and six o'clock,
a frightful gig accident occurred in Piccadilly, opposite
to St. James's Church, to a gentleman and his groom,
proceeding along Piccadilly from the direction of Hyde
Park. It appears that the horse, a remarkably fine
powerful animal, ran furiously from Hyde Park along
Piccadilly, the gentleman and. his groom using every
Caine in violent collision with
endeavour to arrest his progress, but without effect,
uthnatilt tohfe wahneeloomfotilbieusgi,g by
which the parties were
thrown . into the road, and the gig overturned on them.
The horse disengaged himself from the gig, taking the
shafts with him, and proceeded at a frightful rate along
Piccadilly and Coventry-street, dashing sometimes on
to the foot-pavement, which was crowded with passen-
gers, all of whom happily escaped i njtitY, the animal
lie reached Marl
con-
tinuing his course until tet-street, New-
port-market; when he was secttred by dashing his head
through some shop, shutters, and afterwards removed,
with the fragments of the gig, to a livery-stable in
Marylebone-street, Golden-Square. The gentleman and
his groom were removed to St. George's Hospital, where
they lie in a precarious state.
EXMOSION AND Loss OF LIFE AT A
FIREWORK MANUFACTORY.—On Friday an inquest was
held at the Coburg Arms, Coburg-street, Lambeth,• be-
fore Mr. Carter, Coroner for Surrey, on the body of
William Robert Jones, a fine child, four years of age.
Moses. Harris deposed, that he worked for Mr. Jones,
the father .of the deceased, who was an artist in fire-
works, No. 9, Webber-street, Waterloo-road, when about
four o'clock on Tuesday afternoon an explosion took
place in the composition room. The shock was very
terrible ; the whole of one side of the room was blown
into the yard. Witness was knocked down by the falling
bricks, and was rendered insensible for some time. On
recovering, be was shocked at diseovering the deceased
under a quantity of bricks ; the poor child was frightfully
mutilated. Mr. Bates, a surgeon, attended, but so dread-
ful was the nature of the injuries the unfortunate child
had received, that after great suffering, he expired about
two o'clock on Wednesday. Mr. William Jones, the
father of the deceased, said that when the explosion took
place there was'about six .pounds of composition 'on the
premises. He considered that the unfortunate catas-
trophe arose from spontaneous combustion, owing to the
dampness of the room, as no fire had been kept there
since last August twelvemonths.. Mr. Jones is son-in-
law. to Madame. Henglcr, ope.of the first artists of fire-
works in this country. Verdict, "Accidental death."

PROGRESS OF DISTRESS.

-(From the Tablet;)
I The-winter has now set in in earnest ; and the poor,
in addition to short work, or GO work at all, and scanty
food, or positive starvation, have to encounter the mi-
sery of intense cold, and a still further diminution of em-
ployment consequent en the frost and snow, and short
days which now encompass them. We have again be-
fore us, in the same fashion as heretofore, long stAtiE-
tical details of distress in various portions of the island
-7-chiefly from Dundee and the surrounding district',
and from Gloucester and the west of England. We
might fill our paper with tables, and figures,
and lists of suffering and misery, but we think
that what we have already printed in this way will
suffice. If our readers will be at the pains to select
any one of the tables we have before presented to them
(the worse the better), and will substitute the name of
Dundee, or of Stroud, or of any of their neighbouring
towns and villages, the detail will be accurate enough.
It is, literally, a case of starvation to hundreds and
thousands, not merely in the county of cotton-mills---
the sudden growth of a time of factitious prosperity--
but in every corner of the land in which anything in the
shape of a manufacture has presumed to show its head.
Some are cut down because they are too new, some
because they are too old ; some because the process they
employ is too thrifty of labour, and too prodigal of art ;
some because they have not been sufficiently thrifty in en-
couragirg the cost of production ; MOW because they '
have adhered too blindly to old modes and traditions of
manufacturing ; some because they have too greedily
adopted the new; but all are cut down, or are being
cut down, one after another, by an invisible hand,
against which neither enterprise nor skill, nor capital,
nor prudence, nor human foresight, can struggle suc-
cessfuli). The destroying angel smiting the first-born
of Egypt gave, perhaps, a sharper, and more startling
shock, but hardly produced a deeper and more wasting
agony than this unseen devastator of cities is planting
in every portion of this island. And let not those who
are determined to shut up their bowels of compassion
hug themselves under the belief that these thing are tf.e
idle stories of bustling demagogues, or the dishonest
creations of the press. For our readers, at least, there
must be a deep significance in such a man as Lord Stour-
ton—a man removed from the pettiness of faction, if any
such there be—high-minded, cautions, experienced—
coming before his fellow countrymen in the beginning
of winter to tell them, that " this distress pervades
wide districts, and prevails in some with an intensity I
have never, to my mind, seen equalled in this kingdom,
coveriig our roads with artisans in search of employ-
ment, and exhibiting itself in our towns under appear-
ances the most calamitous and frightful." These are
not the words of a trading agitator, nor of a rash enthu-
siast, but of a man of sober and practicaV good sense,
who truly discerns the evils of our presetiit state, and
grieves over them. Nay, the facts arc becoesingloo
black and too certain, as well as too dangerous, to be
wholly denied or concealed by those who would run all
lengths to deny or conceal theta, if it ;veto possible.
Hear what the Standard now tells us of •tte condition
of Paisley— -: ~:
!"•,, - isi-,.--i,-
- 4 - •
" We regret to learn that the distress iiPetArnot
only continues, but is actually upon the intensi.: We
have seen a later written by a gentlemav welLac"
quainted with that town, from which we quete•the fol.,
lowing appalling extract :---' The number of claitnants.
upon our funds is on the increase. The,•:peaW are
actually dying of starvation—no beds to lie:: 001:. no
covering even ; the boards only to rest upon. -: Thesis
are facts.'"

We will venture to lay before our readers an extract
from a private letter bearing on the same subject ; the
writer, whom we known intimately, is the wife of a gen-
tleman of property in Stockport,and the most perfect re-
liance may be placed on her statement. We do not
give it as containing a more shocking statement than
other accounts which have already been published, but
because we, as well as every one else, attribute a rather
higher importance to facts which we can ourselves verify,
than to the mote abstract statements which crowd in
upon us from other quarters.

I must tell you a little of the Stockport distress,
for it is awful ; no description can equal it. Last
Thursday was rent-day there, and T--- did not re-
turn till late, when he told me one of the tenants,
named H--, a draper, was late in coming to pay
his rent. The reason was, he was one of the Relief
Committee employed to search into the distresses of
the poor, prior to their being relieved from the fund
of 2,0001., which has been collected for them. He
has been out all day, and such were the sights of dis-
tress he had witnessed, and so unable were they to re-
lieve them, that it made him ill, and he could not
eat. lie even felt inclined to give up business, and
leave a neighbourhood where charity could alleviate so
small a degree of misery. Such a tale induced my
husband to go on the following morning and see for
himself, taking H- with him. I must tell you
what they saw, and don't tire of it, for we are sur-
rounded with it, and it ought to be known. In one
house, three stories high, on the first floor, were
six people preparing to dine off one pennyworth of
potatoes. In the next story lived another family,
and in the third (one room) lived fourteen persons,
without any appearance of a bed, or anything to
lie on. In another room, which was net seven feet
square, slept seven people. A widow owned two cot-
tages ; in one she lived with her son ; he was out of
work ; she could not get any rent. Her furniture kept
going till nothing was left, and she slept on pack
sheets. She had 31. of pawn-tickets ; and this woman,
the owner of two cottages, was grateful for a sixpence.
Parents and children huddled round the fire, with not
a mouthful of food in the house ; and they were gra-
dually pining to death. Oae man was fretting sadly
over a child he had buried the day before. He had
had no solid food for five days. One youngish woman
stretched out her arm, which, from want of clothing,
was bare to the shoulder, and showed them how thin
it was for want of food. Little children, mind this,
were waiting for some oatmeal and water for breakfast,
which was nearly ready for them ; they had not tasted
food that morning, and it was near twelse. One man
had worn two pairs of shoes out in seeking work, and
found none. There are about eighteen cotton-mills stand-
ing in Stockport and the neighbourhood, and these are
the workpeople, with the addition of poor cobblers and
the like. My husband, you may be sure, did not pass
them by without attempting to relieve them ; but these
are people who want no charity, if they might only
have work."

In all this, awful as it really is, there is nothing pecu-
liar, nothing which has not been said a hundred and a
thousand times. But the truth is, no description can
equal the reality of these things. All that can be told
of any given moment of time—" we have had no food
to-day," " we have had no solid food for five days," and
the like—makes but a small item in the great account
which weighs the man down. He has had no solid
food for five days—shocking, truly. But how did he
live before the beginning of that five days ? The five
days of abstinence of which he tells you were but fol-
lowing up a long series of days of the same kind. He
began his forced experiment in fasting with a half-empty
stomach, an enfeebled constitution, a wasted frame, and
above all, with hopes blighted, and spirits sunk, at the
long period during which ill-flick has pressed her heavy
hand upon him and his. Of all this wearing and tor-
turing anguish, which hangs upon and haunts him every
moment of his life, he says not a word. He speaks
only of the last five days, and few of his hearers take the
trouble to mount back to the fifty which preceded them.
Meantime, what is taking place here in London?
The Workhouse regulations seem to be growing de-
cidedly unpopular, especially among that class who,
having no settlement, though they may have resided in
London for a quarter or half a century (perhaps been
born there), have no legal title to relief, and are offered
the delightful alternative of famine or a pass to their
own parish, which knows them not, and which they
know not. Accordingly, bands of these' men are be-
ginning to parade. about the street, and to.koock tumid-
tuoUsly at 'Workhouse doom, "Some fhea4 ,in- de-
spair ,of ,4ndiag, any. yielding metal ip; *ha breast: of a
relieving officer, march off in array to allaker's shop,
and send in a deputation to take loaves by the strong
hand, and thereby secure at least a breaking of bread
among the famished multitude. Arrest follows as
matter of course, and is Dot resisted ; fcr even in prison
a man who makes a profession of fasting is provided
with gruel and water, which are not always to be bad
out of doors.

And while the poor are in this state, what are the
rich doing ? Above all, how is that aristocracy demean-
ing itself which steadfastly denies them food, and all
for the good of these starving wretches cripples trade,
makes corn dear, and employment scanty, with the
avowed object of keeping rents above their natural
pitch ? What is Lord Stanley about—that profound
statesman who sees the welfare of. the country brought
about by an artificial encouragement given to grooms
and fancy gardeners, as a panacea for the general dis-
tress ? A recent number of the Liverpool Journal
will tell us. This Noble Lord and his associates having,
we suppose, as many grooms and gardeners as they can
well
,employ, are directing their philanthropic energies
to a cognate manufacture—that of gamekeepers and
poachers.
Then follow certain details of the distress now preva-
lent in Prescot and St. Helen's.

" It must be evident to every one that a community
so situated must, at any time, but particularly with
food at the present high price, be suffering the most
horrible distress, nor could the frequency of crimes
against property excite any great surprise. But to po-
verty, as a source of demoralization, we must add
the game-laws, which tend directly to give
crime its most dangerous and sanguinary character.
For miles round these towns, once hivesof industry, now
dens of despair, the land is one great preserve. Demesne
succeeds demesne, Ranked by covers, and guarded by
keepers, lodges, and armed watchers. There is scarce
a thicket without a hare, or a coppice without a phea-
sant., and in the middle of them all men are starving by
thousands. A perfect mania for preserves has possessed
the gentry, to the exclusion of anything like fair old-
fashioned sportinic. Lord Stanley, we have been told,
by laying the Knowsley and Latham estates together,
and influencing some smaller proprietors, can now tra-

t vel 15 miles in a straight line, over a country on which
not a gun can be lawfully fired without his permission.
The consequence is, that the peasantry over the coun-
try are pretty generally becoming poachers."
" Alas, where now are the Hen„eists and Marks of
our still glowing, still expanding Europe ; who, when
their home is growing too narrow, will enlist, and, like
fire-pillars, guide on ward those superfluous masses of
indomitable living valour ; equipped, not now with the
battle-axe and war-chariot, but with the steam-engine and
ploughshare ? Where are they ? Preserving their
Game l"—(Carlyle's " Chartism.")
In a little time, is a few weeks, these frightful symp-
toms must be encountered by some better remedy than
that of pheasant-breeding, by some better answer than
doubts as to whether John Nokes really died of star-
vation, and references to the increase of Savings'
Banks, which increase may just as well be owing to
the increasing poverty of those private depositaries of
the poor man's savings, who enjoyed and merited his
confidence ()Are the Government took this trust upon
itself. It will not do, then, to deny the want of food,
or to boast of the facility with which men from the
dregs of society can vault to the loftiest pinnacles
of honour. Yet Et few weekS, and neither quackery,
nor trickery, nor sophistry, nor rhetoric, nor candour,
nor impudence, nor tactics, nor delay, will serve the
turn. These things have hed their day. The party
game has been played out. The national game remains
to play ; and a stern and feeful game it is. If it is a
hard thing to reason with the 'Nester of ten legions, it is
sometimes not less difficult td rcason with millions not a
unit of whom is master of anything but an empty belly-.
With haggard countenances, rough ~,,eect, and pererep.
tory voice, these men—for hey are men after all—will,
in effect, if not in form, thrust themselves in:o the sane.
tuary of the constitution, stand face to face v.7ith the
Prime Prime Minister, and ask him what remedy his wejet
contains as the fruit of the "comprehensive view" of
affairs which he has been taking for the last three or
four months. Woe to him if he has then nothing to
offer them but a bottle of patent quack medicine.

LITERATURE.

MUSICALEDUCATION ; OR, THE ART OF

PIANO-FORTE 'PLAYLV
Grainer, Regent-street.
The above brochure emanates from the pen of
Miss Geary, well known in the musical circles as
a very brilliant and powerful pianiste, and whose
superior execution of dashing fantasias from
Thalberg and Dobler at Willis's and the English
Opera, last season, drew down on her the combined
praises of the press. An accomplished professor ol'
tier art, this lady now advances, for the general
guidance of instructresses and learners, such
musical advice as her own experience and skill
have convinced her to prove of benefit to initia-
tors and their noviciates. Though the mind
must be the ultimate perfecter of musical pur-
suits, yet the mechanical branch of the art? as
averred by our authoress, is that which at ftrat
must wholly engross attention, leaving mental
activity to grow with the growth of the be-
ginner. In pursuance of this principle, a
'synopsis of a gradual train of teaching
is exhibited, recommendatory of a progressive
scale of practice, which, if followed out from
the juvenile age of seven to that of sixteen, and
acted upon for the specific times laid down, is
-,.eitleulated to form a fine instrumental performer.
',The excellence of the method laid down calls
for hearty concurrence and adoption, and testifies
Miss Geary to be as judiciously-minded as finished
at her profession. The over-confinement and
application, arising, in a great measure, from
irregularity of plan, to which many masters of
the day subject their pupils, and which have
been known in more cases than one to be the
cause of premature departure, is hereby avoided
and counteracted. The " many-toned science"
is attained by smooth and pleasant initiation,
and as the fingers improve in their dexterity,
the mind unfolds itself as gradatively towards
the comprehension of genuine harmony.
Among other little note-worthy observations
scattered through her page, our authoress re-
marks that briethess is a great virtue in perform-
ances on the instrument, and instead of loading
the piano-keys with heavy half-hour sonatos and
interminable rondos, it is judiciously recom-
mended by her that—
A piece destined to please should never exceed seven
or ten minutes ; it is rarely clone by the finest masters,
unless it be in concertos, which, with the relief of a full
orchestra, are offered exclusively to a musical audience.
The following is a gift to the player of one cf
the little available mysteries in the music-art:—
In cadences of extreme delicacy and refinement of
style, the urea corda, or soft pedal, used in conjunction
with the open pedal, creates an effect that is singularly
beautiful.

Miss Geary relates a pleasing instance of the
power of the piano-tones in correcting perversity
and unamiability of temper in a young lady :
At seasons of temporary misbehaviour, her gover-
ness would request the favour of her playing " Tutto e
seiolto " or SOMQ similarly pathetic composition, and by
the time this had been once or twice repeated, serenity
again shone on her countenance, and to the soothing tones
of her piano-forte she constantly had recourse, as Milton
expresses it, to put her soul in tune.

Another appreciative feature in this lady's
" model of practice," lies in the fact that the
lesson-books recommended by her for commence-
ment, are those of the same masters whose stu-
dies are still kept before her pupils in maturer
years; so that while Cramer, Kalkbrenner, and
Moscheles are made conducible to the teach-
ing of the pupil's earliest key-notes, these are
but introductory at an advanced stage of
progress, to the more involved brilliancy, or
display of instrumentation demanded by the un-
in terpolated compositions of each of those 2nacstri
individually. The instructions in Miss Geary's
book ought inseparably to accompany the
teacher at the piano : her lucid system will be
found of most effectual avail, and evinces her to
be no less a mistress of her art than the best
practical musical teacher we could recommend.

THE WEATHER.—On Friday morning there
was a very general thaw, which dissolved the greater
portion of the snow that fell on the previous day. The
snow-storm appears to have extended for some distance
in the country, as nearly all the mails were after their
time in their arrival at the Post-office, in consequence of
which there were three General Post deliveries. The
Wells and Lynn mails did not arrive until eleven o'clock,
and the Devonport mail had not arrived at four o'clock
in the afternoon. Most of the mid-day and aftermxm
mails were considerably after their time. From all ac-
counts, there has been a considerable accumulation of
snow in Essex, Cambridgeshire, and Norfolk, as well as
in Wiltshire. No particular delay occurred in any of
the arrivals of the railway trains.
THE BRANCH RAILWAY TO HALIFAX.----A
new survey for the branch line from the Manchester and
Leeds Railway to Halifax, is now in the course of com-
pletion.
BURNING OF A LETTER FROM THE SECRE-
TARY OF STATE.—A few weeks ago the Beverley Town
Council sent a memorial to the Home Secretary, remon-
strating with him for not consulting them before he no-
minated several gentlemen of Conservative principles to
be Justices of the borough. Sir James Graham's cour-
teous reply came in due time informing them, as a mat-
ter of course, that they had nothing whatever to do with
the matter. A meeting of the Town Council was called
forthwith, and a majority decided that the letter be con.-
mitted to the flames, being an insult to the Council. The
beadle was called in, and did execution in due form by
cramming the letter into the fire.—Halifax Guardian.
FIRE AT Bow.—On Friday morning, about
half-past six o'clock, a fire broke out in a range of
stabling at the rear of the Bird-in-Hand public-house,
Bow-road, the property of MrS; Mary Ann Thompson.
The engine of the Bromley ciistilloiry was soon on the spot
after the outbreak, as Well as the engines from Well-
close-square and 77effz•eys-iquare; but the flames had got
such a firm hold of the buildings that it was impossible to
save them. _

• POST•OFFICE MONEY ORDERS.""—ID order
to provide accommodation for the numerous parties ap-
plying at the General Post-offic4 for money-orders and
their payment, a commodious temporary wooden erection
was put up yesterday, which will remain there during
the winter months, for the purpose of affording shelter
and protection to persons who, in consequence of the
great accession of business in this department, are some-
times detained a long time.
RAILWAYS IN IRELAND.—The Railway
Times states that it is in contemplation to impose an ad-
ditional halfpenny on the postage of all Irish letters, for
the purpose of forming a fund to guarantee four per cent.
interest to the capitalists who have proposed to construct
railways in Ireland, under the terms specified in a Bill
lately introduced into Parliament, but not passed. It is
said that the original plan of mortgaging the county
rates has been found unpalatable, if not impracticable.
YARMOUTH.—We understand that the whole
of the private lights, as well of all the general lights on
the coast of this kingdom, have become the property of
the Honourable the Commissioners of the Trinity
Board.—Norwich Mercury.
MEETING OP ST. ANDREW'S WARD.—On
Tuesday there was a numerous and influential meeting
of the electors of St. Andrew's Ward, at 42, Clarendon-
street, to adopt the necessary arrangements to return the
Right Hon. Lord Morpeth as representative of the City
of Dublin—Joseph Byrne, Esq., T.C., in the Chair.
The secretary, Mr. Mark Byrne, read the requisition
calling the meeting. The resolutions, which were
adopted with acclamation, will be found in another
column.—Dublin Evening Post.
A TOLERANT SPIRIT.—I look on the va-
rious churches of Christendom with no feelings of en-
mity. I have expressed my abhorrence of the sectarian
spirit of Rome ; but in that, as in all other churches, in-
dividuals are better than their creed ; and amidst gross
error and the inculcation of a narrow spirit, noble virtues
spring up, and eminent Christians are formed. It is
one sign of the tendency of human nature to goodness,
that it grows under a thousand bad influences. The
Romish Church is illustrated by great names. Her
gloomy convents have often been brightened by fervent
love to God and man. Her St. Louis, and Fenelon,
and Massillon, and Cheverus ; her missionaries, who
have carried Christianity to the ends of the earth ; her
sisters of charity; who have-carried relief and solace

MORNING SUN,

to the most hopeless want and pain ; do not these tea,
us, that in the Romish Church t le spirit of God has t omld
a home ? How much, too, • hive other Churcliel3 to
boast ! In the English Church we meet the names
of Latimer, Hooker, Barrow, Leighton, Beskeley, .and
Heber ;in the dissenting Calvanistic Churc.ll, Baxter,
I Howe, Watts, Doddridge, and Robert Hall ; L:Mong the
Quakers,
George Fox, William Penn, Robert Barclay,
and our own Anthony Benezet, and John Wool.
I man; in the Anti-Trinitarian Church, John Miltor', Juba
I Locke, Samuel Clarke, Price, and Priestley. To repeat
these names does the heart good. They breathe a fra-
grance through the common air. They lift up the whole,
race to which they belonged. With the churches. of
which they were pillars or chief ornaments, I have
many sympathies ; nor do 'condemn the union of our
selves to these or any other .churches whose doctrines
we approve, provided that we, do it without severing
ourselves in the least from the Universal Church. On
this point we cannot be too eaene:it.— The Church; a •
Discourse by the Rec. Dr. Channing..
A circumstance not unworthy of record occurred
on the revival of The Gamester at Dretry-lane Theatre,
oil Wednesday last. The gallery doors -Nere besieged by
a considerable crowd at an early hour. At the
shilling
gallery the pressure was so great that the doors were
actually fbreed open before the money-tai ars were at
their posts. A number of persons entered eon' took pos-
session of the seats. Expulsion would have been diffi-
cult, if not impossible; but application being a, ade, the
money was honourably and very readily paid eeyery in-
-
tance, the rush having been occasioned by a real in terest
in the performance of the drama. From such a fax the
reader may "point a moral" as to the influence of a na...
tionnl theatre on the poorer classes of society.
DIPLOMACY AND TRAD2.—The Corn and
Provision-laws are a tax upon food. We want to abolish,
that tax, for the benefit of the people of this country,
quite irrespective of foreigners. If that tax be abo-
lished, food will be brought to us by our merchants, and
they ;yin find the means to pay for it. We do' not
ask Gove:enment to find us markets. We look with
hnscicion at the pretended zeal vvith which diploma-
tists go to work, and Niger expeditions, or Euphrates
expeditions are set On foot, for extciding our mar-
kets. All that we ask :is, t;:sat Parliament will abolish
the laws which interfere with five trade. We do not
ask it to feed the people, but to lonic us to !eed our-
selves. As for the pretended fears of the monoyolists
that foreign nations will not receive our manufactur:(4s in
exchange Or their corn and provisions, we say, Reimere
your own impediments, and then wait till we complain
to you of obstacles a thousand miles off. 'Were this
really the motive for upholding the Corn-law, where
would be the difficulty of at once abolishing it ? If other
nations would not exchange their food for our productions
there could be no additional trade, and things would re-
main as they are, excepting the important difference, that
' we should then have no ground of complaint against our
own rulers.—Ardi• P,read-tax Circular.
POIITSMOUTII. JAN. 14.—(From a Cones-
pondent.)—ller Majesty's ship Vindictive, Kith five
other men-of-war, are to sail immediately for the Irowns,
to meet the ship that conveys the King of Prussia to
this country, and to fire salutes in honour of his Ma-
jesty's arrival. The Vindictive will then go to Ply-
mouth to take in stores and proceed immediately fo the
Bermudas.

COLONEL THOMPSON AT OLDHAM.—Or!
Monday last, Colonel P. Thompson, the father of the -
Anti-Corn-law agitation, delivered a lecture in the large
room of the Town-hall, Oldham, on the evils of the
Corn-laws, to an audience of upwards of 1,000 persons,
comprising most of the leading manufacturers of
.the',
town and vicinity, and a considerable body of intelligent '- ''
working men. George Barlow, Esq., master cotton-y:
spinner, was appointed Chairman, after whikColonel- ir,
Thompson spoke for nearly an hour and a hale on the.il\
unjust nature of the Corn-laws, the prevalence of class ~,,
legislation, and the exclusion of the mass of the people '
from their due share of representation in Parliament : •
the declaration of his views on the latter subject elicited
great applause. A vote of thanks was passed to the
Gallant Lecturer, accompanied by repeated rounds of ap-
plause, on the motion of Mr. James Greaves, operative,
of Austerlands, seconded by Mr. William Knott, hat-
manufacturer, of Oldham. The services of the Chair-
man were also acknowledged by a vote of thanks.—
Leeds Mercury.
1 UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.—At a meet-
ing of the Senetus Academicus, held in the University
on Saturday, the Professors, after some discussion,
voted the sum of 150/. towards defraying the expenses
of the concert or concerts of music to be annually given
in remembrance of General Reid. The 13th of February
is the anniverspry of the General's birth-day. Falling
this year on a Sunday, the concert will, we understand,
be deferred till the 19 th.—Edb4burgh Courant.
THE SHEFFIELD SUICIDE.—The late at-
tempt at murder in this town, by Henry Vaughan,
table-knife-hafter, on the lives of the three sisters,
named Poole, and the subsequent suicide ,of Vaughan
himself, has terminated, after an inquest on his body,
in the following verdict :--" That Vaughan shot him-
self, being at the time of sound mind ;" and the Co-
roner thereupon issued his warrant for the interment of •.
the body at midnight, without any of the rites of Chris-
tian burial.
LANDOWNERS, PARSONS, AND CORtI,LAWS.
—The rich and great have sent their smooth-eengned
priest to the hovels of the fatherless, to pfetich thelessons.
of content ; when extortion has mane 'theelporirin- 50b--
stance, to persuade them they are rich in faith ; ,wheat
the unequal hand of man is crushing theM; to tell them
of the equal eye of God that is over all ; When the earth
has been turned before them into a desert, to keep the=
quiet by promising the paradise of heaven. The most
depressed and ignorantcan see through the sophistry. of,
this insult. If all men bear the same relation fa: God: in
heaven, where is the tyrant's title to the homage of a.'
God on. earth ? If all are accountable to the tribunal
above, shall he mock at the obligation to do justice' and
love mercy ? If the earth in its length and breadth is-
gifted with fertility and decked with beauty for the sake
of all, who can wrest from labour its rewards but the
offender against the impartiality of Providence ?—Rev.
.James Martineau's Rationale of Religion, p. 72.
A rumour was afloat in Paris that the Duke
d'Angouleme was dead.
SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 14.—The Dee, West
India mail, packet, left Southampton with a large number
of passengers at one o'clock this afternoon. She will re-
ceive the mail for the West Indies, Mexico, and Ne*
Orleans,- at Falmouth, on the morning of the 17th inst..
We believe it is now no longer secret that, Sir
Robert Peel has been comlled to succumb to the mo-
nopolists in the Cabinet. Whatever intentions he might
have of proposing a change in the Starvation-lawOn
some degree approaching to the public expectations, haVe
been so pared down and modified, as to be no 1044
objects of alarm to the Buckingham and Knatchbult- -
section of the Cabinet, and consequently will he impo-
tent for good to the interests which are crushed nearly
out of existence by the pressure on their energies. . ,
THE UNEMPLOYED PRINTERS.—The printing
business has, within the last week, taken a very favour-,
able turn, a great number of the unemployed having oh-
tained situations, and it is confidently expected that
%%hen Farliament meets there will be very few out of
work. The relief committee have sufficient funds in
hand to continue the relief to the distressed compositors
and pressmen until the commencement of the session,
at which time it is intended to discontinue it. The Com-
mittee have now ceased sitting to receive subscriptions.
NEW CHURCH IN THE LIBERTY OF THE
ROLLS.—The new Church, now erecting in Bream's-
buildings, Chancery-lane, is rapidly advancing towards
completion. The architectural character of the build-
inn, is Anglo-Norman : the interior consists of a nave
and two aisles, &c., chiefly lighted from a lofty elirstory,
supported by arches and columns. The altar end is de-
corated with a series of plain and interlaced arches, with
a spacious triple-light window above. The principal
elevation in Bream's-buildings displays three doorways
with stone columns, a large triple-light window, and the
central portion of the composition is surmounted by, Is
bell-turret, selected from one of an early date, and of a
very original character. Messrs. C. Davy, of 'Furnival'a
Inn, and J. Johnson, of Cook's-court, are the joint ar-
chitects. The funds for the erection of this church hive, _
been principally derived from a o-rant bestoWed by - the
. trustees appointed for the diltribiition 'of thilara :Mss.
liyAndmpaonfisicehettxfriAtylv. , D—.K.-
0. :',O"N-,'iz;‘,5'11;;`,27,10-: i:,,...Lo.e'Jea,Tepli4; :
poeit.a4.werregret:to have, to' record atfr4 (trip as ,f?f, a. ,
poligis, ponstable losing his life in,tho 'London ]dick, the,
second instance of the kind since the introduction of the •
metropolitan police into the place. On Friday night
Thomas Everett,- a police constable, No. 43 IL was. sta-
tioned on the South Quay, a very exposed and dangerOus .
place, and was seen on his beat at eleven o'clock by In-
spector White, of the Thames division; who Spoke to hita.
At twelve he was missing, and could nowhere be found.
The drags were immediately procured, and the bason
was dragged, but it was not until eight o'clock yesterday
morning that his body was taken out of the. water under
the corner of the South Quay, where he is supposed to
have fallen in, and where there is no rail or protection to
prevent any one walking into the dock on dark nights.
The body was removed to the watch-house for the Coro-
ner's inquest. Everett was a young man and greatly es-
teemed in the force.

On Saturday, at the Court of Review, two of
the assignees appointed by the Court of Bankruptcy in
the case of Hitchcock, the draper, of Regent-street, pe-
titioned the Court for leave to bring an action against
Cook and Gladstone, to recover the amount of a large
quantity of linen, said to have been fraudulently obtained
by them. Mr. Coleridge said that Messrs. Cook mid
Gladstone were most anxious to have the action tried.
Permission was accordingly granted.
APPOINTMENT TO THE GOVERNORSHIP OF
THE MILITARY KNIGHTS OF WINDSOR.— Captain J. J.
Cumming, half-pay, Bth West India Regiment, who has
been one of the Military Knights of Windsor during a.
period of eight years, has just been appointed to the Go-
vernorship, vice Lieut.-Colonel Basset, deceased, by her
Majesty, upon the recommendation of the lion. and
Very Rev. the I)eau of 'Windsor. -The installation of
Captain Cumming, upon his appointment, will not
take place until after the Royal Christening. The duties
devolving upon the Governor were performd by Captain
Cumming during the severe illness of the late Colonel
Basset.
TILE SOUTH WRAXALL BURGLARY.--T"
other men, named George Stokes and John Stokes, have
been committed for trial. John Stokes, as he witbeing
conveyed by the Bath Railway, endeavoured at
sta-
tion to escape, but, after a severe struggle,
wats dashing
lie made a subsequent and unsuccessful t-9 P
cwuasstocdayp.tured at
ai'rn'of both
his hands through the window. The residencesand ~
the
ured.
f y committed
implements found in each. They
vver- Gough, tl
these men were searched, and crow-bares,
_kuysi other
for trial at the Assizes. On Friday evening, ,0
JAIL 11.—vv e have now from
only one missing of the
Southampton, and conducted . ‘..,
3 deg. to 7 deg. of
HAMBURGH,
cold. There is a gr_eat deal of ice in
supP°toseßdagathnit
the river, but it is a Otfrozen (Mer.4-1-lamburith Paper.