The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-13 00:00:00

Tl_22,l=L_LcNky; NUARY 13, -1842.

that they had no legal settlement in England, and alight
be passed to their own country. This they refused, and
went away without relief. Thirty-six poor persons also
applied at the Clerkenwell workhouse for relief, but as
none of them belonged to that pariah they were advised
to'go to their native places, where they could demand a
maintenance.

RUMOURS OP THE D Alt
On occasion of the Royal christening, a batch of Peers
and Baronets will be created.

It is generally rumoured, also, that a batch of gentle-
men of the Chancery Bar are to receive silk gowns. The
following have been mentioned :—Messrs. James Russell,
Teed, Anderton, Mathews, Wilbraham, Loftns W4.),-rarn,
Coe, Roupel, Walker, Purvis, Kenyon Parker, and
Lowndei.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
' In the public securities business to-day has been again
inclining towards the selling side, and the consequence
is, that the public are indisposed to operate, and the
market exhibited a decline. Money has been in some
request, and the continuation to the next account was
per cent. Consols, for immediate transfer, were marked
884 to 88k, and for the Account 88:-1..to 89. Exchequer
Bills were rather lower, viz., -17 s. to 19s. premium ; but
India Bonds advanced to 11s. premium..' Bank Stock
realised 167, and India Stock 2464. Reduced Three-
and-a-Half per Cents. ranged from 988 to 99k.
Neither in Spanish or South American Bonds was
there much business transacted to-day. Active Spanish
Bonds realised 25 to k; and Portuguese Three per Cents.
194, with scarcely anything doing; Mexican Bonds were
flat #t a decline to 28i ; Chili= Stock was not higher
than 69 ; Duteh Two-and-a-Half per Cents. were at 51.
In the Share Market the quotations were generally
steady, at about the following rates :—Great Western
Were 22 ; Birmingham, 791, the New 261, and York
and Nort Midland 42 premium ; Brighton were 12-g- ;
Croydon 2 ; Midland Counties 14 ; North Midland 28,
and South Eastern and Dover 21 discount ; Colonial
Bank Shares were 4 premium, ex dividend.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JAN. 11. We have
had a fair demand for Cotton to-day from the trade, the
sales comprising 3,000 bales, with a steady market and
firm prices ; nothing to_report in export or speculation.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JAN. 11.—Grand Junc-
tion Half Shares, 97 ; Liverpool and Manchester Half
do. 92 ; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, 51 ; North
Midland, Half Shares, 36_,• Thirds, 161.
MANCHESTER
.STOCK EXCHANGE, 11.—There
has been rather more doing in Shares to-day, and prices
continue firm :—Lancaster add Preston, 27 ; Manchester
and Leeds, 71 ; Manchester and Salford Banks, 10k to
10 3-16ths ' • London and South Western, 58 to 59 ; Man-
chester and Birmingham 28 to 281.
By the arrival of. the Liverpool packet-ship. New York,
papers have been received up to the
.23d ult., six days
later than the former accounts.

A further decline had taken place in nearly all de-
scriptions of stock. Money was very scarce. No altera-
tion to notice in the rate of exchange upon England.
Some considerable sales of Money Stock were effected
durit, yesterday, which caused a further decline in the
English Funds, .Consols for Money closing at 88-i- 89,
and opened this morning still flatter at 88:I for Money
and Account ; Exchequer Bills, 18 20 prem.
The Foreign Securities are equally flat and heavy.
Spanish Active Stock opened at 24 25 ; Passive, 54 4 ;
Deferred, 12i ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 32f ;
Threes, 19f. _ _

The Government broker has been in the Market aga.

to-day to sell stock, but ro alteration .of moment-has
taken place in the quotations since the opening, Consols
remaining flat at 881 i ; Exchequer Bills 17 19 prem. ;
Three per Cents: Reduced. 89* ¢ ; Three,and-a-Half
Ditto 98i ; Bank Stock 167 ; India Ditto 246:i ;' Ditto.
Bonds 11 prem.
Scarcely any business has been transacted in the
Foreign Market. The following are the only quotations:
Chilian Bonds, 69; Mexican, 28i; Spanish Bonds, 25;
Passive, 5,1 •, Dutch Five per Cents., 100*
Very little doing in Shares. Eastern Counties are
quoted :at 9 ; Great Western, 87 ; Ditto Fifths, 10 ;
London and *rightcn, 371 ; London and Birmingham
1691; Midland Counties,B4 ; York and North Midland, 92,
Consols, Account, 88i 89 ; Ditto February, 89/ s ;
Mexican, 29/ ; Spanish, 25* I.
The feeling in the City upon the Right of Search dis-
pute between us and America has been rather depressed
by the news relative to the excitement at New York,
and in the southern cities of the 'United States since the
release of the slaves whii escaped to NasSau. It is, however,
the persuasion of the best informed, that, as regards the
African question, the Government at Washington must
make its own Commodore suffer, if he does wrong by en-
tering into an agreement concerning us and the right of
search.

CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
.133nk Stock 167 !India Stock .... ..... —.2461
3 per Cent Red B9} I Ditto Bonds ll pm
3 per Cent Cons. BB4 !Ditto Old Annuities
3i per Cent Red.. 99 Ditto New Annuities —
New 3i per Cent 9S Ez. Bills, 1,0001....2}d 19 pm
New 5 per Cent Ditto 500/ l7 pm
Long Annuities toexpire Ditto Small l9 pm
Jan. 1860 I2B ,Bank Stock for Acct...
Oct 1859 l2 7-16 India Stock for Acct....
Jan. 1860
FOREIGN FUNDS.

Austrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent lOll Ditto, New Ditto
Brazilian Bonds.
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cei !Russian, 5 per cent —
Chian 6 percent..... 69 Ditto, Nletallie
Colombian, 6 per cent.. !Spanish, 6 per cent 2SA
Ditto, 1824. . ... Ditto, Deferred . 12i
Danish, 3 per cent French, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange —f. —c.
Mexican, 5 per cent.... French, 3 per cent —f. —c
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 2! per cent 5l
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. Ditto, b per cent. . 100 k
SHARES.
Eastern Counties Railway (23 raid) .... Bl
Great Western Railway( 65 paid') 67
Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid) 374
London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid)... 111
London and Birmingham (90) ......... ... .. 169 k
Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) ... ........ ... 28k
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) lli
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... ... .. 71
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid)
Northern and Eastern (40 paid)
North Midland Railway (100)
South Eastern and Dover (48 paid) 27
York and North Midland Railway (50 paid) 92
Ditto New Shares (15 paid 3l}

COURT -CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert arrived ,at
Claremont Park, at five o'clock, on Tuesday af-
ternoon, escorted by a party of Hussars, from
Windsor Castle. The Royal Suite followed, con-
sisting of the Countess of Sandwich, Hon. Miss
Murray, Hon. Miss Paget, lion. Miss Lister,
Lord Byron, Hon. C. A. Murray, Lord Charles
Wellesley, and Colonel Bouverie.
Early in the forenoon, yesterday, her Majesty
and Prince Albert walked in' Claremont Park.
Afterwards his Roval Highness Prince Albert
passed some time shooting in -the park, at-
tended by Colonel Bouverie, Mr. George Ed-
ward Anson, Hon. C. A. Murray, and Lord
Charles Wellesley.

The Duke of. Wellington gave a dinner to the
• Cabinet Ministers last evening at Apsley-house.
All the members of the Cabinet-were present.
Major-General Bell had an interview with Lord
Stanley, yesterday, at the Colonial•oiee.
Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the -Stamps and
Taxes, had an into-view with the Chaneellor of
the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence
in Downinm-street.

Despatches from the 'Governor of the Mauritius
were received yesterday at the Colonial-office.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.

That intensely affecting, though somewhat heavy,
;ragedy, The Gamester, was performed at this theatre
last evening, with the following remarkably strong-cast :
Beverley Mr. Macready
Lewson Mr. Anderson. •
Stuk!ley Mr. Phelps.
Jarvis Mr. Elton.
Bates Mr. G. Bennet.
Dawson Mr. Lynne.
Mrs. Beverley Mrs. Wainer.
Charlotte Miss Ellis.
We doubt whether, as a whole, the tragedy has ever
been more efficiently put upon the stage, and we are bound
to do Mr. Macready the justice to say, that in thus
casting this' tragedy; he has given earnest of his inten-
tion to redeem to the letter, the pledge he gave when he
first assumed the management of this theatre, ; that hiS
primary object should be to represent every drama he
might produce in the most
.efficient manner in which it
could be represented. Macready's Beverley, although
not entirely free from mannerism, is, a rtowerful,and
picturesque piece of acting, and, in the latter scenes,
especially worthy of commendation. It has always
struck us that the play would be greatly improved, if
the last scene were somewhat shortened. Macready,
however, last night did all for it that could be done, and
was throughout most painfully true to nature.
He was admirably supported by Mrs. Warner,
as Mrs. Beverley; and when performed as it was performed
last night we know nothing throughout the whole range
of the drama more agonizing than the closing scene of
the Gamester. Phelps's • Stokely, although somewhat
coarse, was a sterling performance. The scene with
Lewson was excellently given; every sneer was made to
tell. Mrs. Warner's Mrs. Beverley is the best on the
stage at the present.. day. In the celebrated scene with
Stukely she was loudly and deservedly applauded. The
sudden transition from the agony of grief to the high
dignity of virtuous indignation, was admirably given; and
the manner in which she spurned Stokely from her pre-
sence was a perfect personification of contemptuous loath-
ing. Anderson's Lewson was a fine, manly performance;
and G. Bennett, as Bates, made more of the character
than we have ever before seen made of it. - Mr. Lynne,
who was Dawson, is an actor new, we believe, to the
London boards ; he declaims with taste and judgment,
and what little he had to do was very well done. Elton
was Jarvis, the old steward, and most beautifully he acted it.
It is a part which has hitherto been entrusted to an infe-
rior actor, mid until last evening we were not aware of
its capabilities. In Elton's bands it became a character.
The little touches of pathos with which the part is re-
plete, were beautifully brought 'out, and Elton has added
greatly to his well-earned reputation by the manner in
which he acted the part of Jarvis. The audience ap-
preciated his exertions, and he was frequently and most
deservedly applauded. The character of Charlotte was
well supported by Miss Ellis. Macready was called for
at the fall of the..curtain, and loudly applauded ; and
Anderson announced the piece for repetition on Wednes-
day. The pantomime concluded. the evening's amuse-
ments. The house was crowded.

rauthor asserts but, on the contrary, was
I born in the middle classes, and lived for
the best part of his life (except indeed
for a few short months, when, for political rea-
-1 sons, he was noticed by the heads of the-Oppo-
sition), among those classes. In the second vo-
lume De Montfort describes his visit to the Court
of Prussia, when Frederick the Great was in all
his glory ; and this enables him to introduce his
readers to the celebrated Baron Trenck, who, it
may be remembered, was imprisoned for nearly
ten years in the fortress of Magdeburg, where he
was subjected daily to every species of priva-
tion and ignominy, for having presumed to aspire
to the hand of the King's favourite sister, the
Princess Amelia. Of this Princess, long after
her beauty had departed, and when grief; antici-
pating the work of time, had brought on prema-
ture old age, we have this vivid description :
Her head and hands were frightfully palsied ;
'indeed every member of her frame appeared to
have a convulsive motion. Her face was inde_
scribahly contorted; the skin, seamed with innu-
merable wrinkles, had the dry, yellow, hue of
parchment; and what rendered this countenance,
whereon premature old age had set its stamp, still
. _ _

• -
more hideous, was the excessive protruding of
the eyes, which had started so far out of their
sockets, that it was painful to look at them." On
reading this description, we are reminded of
Ovid's brief, but striking allusion to the once
lovely Helen, in the winter of her life :

" net quoque, ut in speculo ragas aspexit aniles
Pyndaris, et secum, cur sit bis rapta, requirit."

A PILGRIMAGE TO AUVERGNE. 2 Vols.
Bentley, London, 1842.

Miss Costello is one of the liveliest and most
observant of our modern travellers. We do
not forget her " Summeramong the Bocages and
the Vines," where, in the most attractive man-
ner possible, she made us familiar with all the
strange, wild local legends of the picturesque
districts through which she passed, and described
their towns and hamlets, and the peculiar cus-
toms of their inhabitants, with a minuteness and
accuracy which betokened how extensive and
careful was her observation. In the volumes
before us, which are the results of a tour made,
in the year 1841, through Artois, Valois, Cham-
pagne, Burgundy, and Auvergne, she exhibits
much of the same laudable, inquisitive spirit;
all that is worth visiting and inquiring about, she
examines with particular attention, and being,
apparently, well versed in the copious, tradi-
tional literature of France, and having a quick
eye to the beauties of landscape scenery, her
descriptions are never wanting in truth and
vivacity. In the spring of 1841 she left Calais,
she tells us, for St. Omer, which, though in
former times celebrated for its gaiety, and the
splendour of its public buildings, is now one of
the dullest towns in France. Here she made
but a brief stay, and then continued her route,
which pointed to Champagne, by Bethune, pass-
ing over one of those celebrated Roman roads
which are still the admiration and wonder of all
who see them. " These Roman ways, however,"
says our authoress, " are now only followed by
the peasantry from village to village, and to
them are known the secrets of their construction
by the Father of Evil, who once exerted his
skill in these parts, hoping to obtain possession
of the soul of a young farmer, who imprudently
taunted him with inability to make a paved road
of a certain extent between midnight—the hour
at which they probably met on the march—and
cock crow. So rapidly did the Evil One set to
work, and so solid and far-spreading became the
road he made, that but for the presence of mind
of the young man's wife, his soul must have
fallen a prey to the Destroyer ; she, however, hit
upon the notable expedient of pulling the cock
by the tail as he sat at roost, and thus caused
him to utter his shrill salutation to day
earlier than usual. The artful one was
defeated, and his road on the very verge of
completion, left as a monument to after'ages, of
the triumph of female wit." This is not the only
instance in which woman's wit has proved more
than a match for the Devil. While in the neigh-
bourhood, of course Miss Costello did not 4am t
paying a visit to the famous castle of Peronne,
so well known in the annals of the feuds between
France and Burgundy, and where Charles the
Simple met his death, and that crafty, politic
tyrant, Louis the Eleventh, was very nearly en-
countering a similar destiny. The castle is now
in a most dilapidated state, but the apartment
wherein Louis was confined, by order of his rival
the Duke of Burgundy, is still in tolerable pre-
servation, and was eagerly explored by our
authoress, who says of it, " hideous and fearful
is the room, lighted by one narrow window,
to which a chain and bars are still attached ;
a breach in the flooring at one end discloses a
grate, through the thick, iron bars of which the
waters of the dull, black river roll along, making
the gloom still more horrible by its plashing
sound." Every reader of Sir Walter Scott will
remember the admirable use he has made of this
fact, in his romance of Quentin Durward. Of
the castle of Ham, where Prince Louis Napo-
leon is now confined, Miss Costello tells us that
few travellers are allowed to approach the walls,
and least of all the English, who, the French
persist in thinking, instigated the unfortunate
Prince to his crazy enterprise. The second vo-
lume, which is the fullest in point of description,
is, for the most part occupied with sketches of
the grand mountain scenery of Auvergne, the
Swisserland of France. We subjoin our travel

ler's account of the ascent of the Puy de Dome
—a mountain of enormous elevation, and the
loftiest in the country :
While we were conversing a loud shout was heard
above us, and she started up, imagining that her hushand
was coming down : she hurried before us, smiling and
looking quite delighted; but called out in an altered voice
that it was not him, only a mountaineer with his cows.

Presently we reached the spot where the pair stood,
and a more savage-looking apparition I never beheld
than the herdsman before me. He was sunburnt, with
black bright eyes, and a quantity of long wild black
hair flying about his face from under his large broad-
edged beaver hat ; his shaggy cloak was hanging in
drapery round him ; he held a long staff, and was throw-
ing his arms about with vehement gestures. 'When I
approached,i he rushed towards me, and, casting himself
down on the grass nearly at my feet, began talking in a
very high key, and using forcible gesticulations. I felt
quite startled, as I feared he was offended at something
and appealed to the old woman, who, in a reproving
voice, told him in patois not to make so much noise—
" son Anglaises." At this word our wild man uttered a
shout and clapped his hinds ; he could speak a few
words of French, from whiefrl gathered'that he was de-
sirous of affording us assistance, and '•would with the
greatest pleasure carry us in his arms up the remainder
of the mountain.

I felt afraid of being seized upon and borne away in
spite of' myself by my Orson-like champion, and with
grateful acknowledgments declined his offer. He seemed
surprised, but, after a little more conversation with our
guide, saluted us, and scrambled up a steep path, where
we soon lost sight of him. " There is no harm in him,"
'laid our old lady, who nevertheless looked a little scared;
" but these people have no education"
We soon after met her husband with his party of
three gentlemen, one of whom had a handkercief tied
round his head, as the wind had carried off his hat on
the summit of the Puy. They were amazed at our in-
tending to go further ; but though we required a hand at
this moment to help us over a difficult pass, in the usual
style of modern French gallantry they seemed resolved to
take care of themselves only, and 'hurried away, while
the husband called after us many bon courages, to en-
courage our attempt.
Just where we met them a magnificent point of view
opened before us. We were on a level with the Petit
Puy, and beheld a panorama of the greatest beaut,
stretched out as far as we could gaze ;—rocks on rocks
mountains on mountains, plains, valleys, and forests at
our feet, peaks whose craters seemed still yawning, with
all their chasms, unseen in the distance, clearly visible,
and opening their huge jaws like some antediluvian mon-
sters. The Nid de la Poule is the most conspicuous, and
presents a large hollow crater of most singular appearance.
We had now arrived at the part from whence the as-
cent is the most difficult: to the crest of the mountain it
appeared almost perpendicular, and all the way was
strewn with the white ashes of its ancient eruption. We
had now a very difficult task, and were obliged to exert
all our energies to, reach the summit, which after great
exertion we at length accomplished. The wind roared
round us, and was icy cold; and we hurried to throw
ourselves down in a hollow of the irregular plateau which
crowns the Puy, at the foot of an erection placed there for
observations.

In a few minutes we were able to look about us, and
magnificent was the prospect which burst upon our sight
All the wide extent of La Marche and Le Limousin was
beneath us as in a map; the first elevations of the chain
of the Mouts Domes running far into the distance, and
those of the Monts DQresi the expanse of Lake Aydat ;
and the vast basin of La Limagne, through which runs
tlw silver line of the Allier, which the eye may follow
into the Bourbonnais. An this, and much more which

we were assured we could see, we were not permitted long
to gaze- on ; for almost in an instant clouds gathered
over the mountain, spreading in all directions as if at-
tracted towards it ; the blast howled furiously, and a
dense vapour closed us in, shutting the landscape from
us entirely. There )vas no hope of its clearing again,
but some chance of a storm, which we had little inclina-
tion to witness ; therefore, hastily gathering up some
pieces of calcined rock, and a few leaves as souvenirs of
the wondrous volcano, we began our descent.

P.HRENOTIPIC CHRONOLOGY.
By Mr. C. Williams.
The title of this volume cannot fail to attract
the attention, and rouse-the curiosity, of any one
whO has attended the lectures of Major Beni-
owski, on his improved system of Mnemonics,
for which he invented the new name, " Phre-
notypics, or Brain Printing." Those who have
heal d his exposition of his system recognise, in
its novelty and originality, the necessity ofa new
designation,whereby it maybe distinguished from
that of Feinagle, the absurdities of which the
learned Major has altogether rejected, whilst he
has simplified and improved all that was useful
in it, or practicable. When this new term, there-
fore, invented only (as Beniowski states in a
recent pamphlet) on the sth of July last, ap-
pears as the title of the book before us, and is
repeated six times in the title page—where Mr.
W. is described as author of phrenotypic geo-
graphy, phrenotypic grammar, &c.—one must
naturally suppose at once that the book contains
a development of the new system—of Beniowski's
system. Of the latter the most favourable, al-
though slowly and cautiously formed, opi-
nions have been expressed in The Sun, after
continued attendance at the Major's lectures and
observation of his classes at the Adelaide Gal-
lery. The titles adopted by Mr. Williams,
are calculated to mislead our readers into the be
lief that the " Master of the Westminster Aca-
demy" expounds the principles, which in this
paper have been so much commended, and no t
those ofFeinagle, which we had, from experience,
rejected and condemned. But Mr. Williams has
done Beniowski a greater injustice than the mere
plagiary of terms, in transferring them to a se-
ries of contrivances long since exploded, as use-
less and absurd. In the first two maps in
the present volume Mr. Williams gives us one
hundred incongruous and unmeaning symbols,
the perfect committal of which to memory is the
first step in the organisation of his system, and
which must be for ever associated with all ideas
to be afterwards acquired in literature, in science,
or in art. The Tower of Babel (not unaptly the
first symbol)—a grotesque Elephant—a pair of
Fighting Cocks—Robinson Crusoe—and ninety-
seven other unmeaning figures, located each in a
separate compartment of a cruciform diagram,
must be committed to memory in its exact place,
together with the exact number of its compart-
ment, before the student can proceed to learn
" My name is Norval," on the Multiplication-
table, upon these strictly Feinaglian Mnemo-
nics. Let us ask, even if the aid thus afforded to
the memory were effective and permanent (as
we know by experience it is not), of what use is
it to remember the words of a poem, or of all
the poems of the world, if they must all be re-
called to the mind in association with images so
grotesque, instead of those for the revival of
which alone in the imagination the recollection
of the words is sought ? Now, those symbols are
entirely rejected in the system calleciThreno-
typics; and it is unfair, therefore, to Beniowski, to
the large portion of the press who have praised
him, and to the public, to adopt his title in this
manner.

It is far from agreeable to find so much fault
with Mr. C. Williams, who is really a clever
man and a useful teacher. Indeed, except the
Hills.of Bruce Castle and Hazelwood, there is no
family of schoolmasters who have done more
than that of Mr. MT. to elevate the business of
school-keeping from a trade to a profession.
But justice to a suffering and persecuted, as well
as. learned and ingenious man, requires that the
wrong done him in the present instance should
be pointed out and censured.

DEATH OF GENERAL MAiN-

WARING.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
COWES, JAN. 11, 1842.—At eight o'clock this
morning, died Lieutenant-General Mainivarin,,,,r
aged eighty years, universally respected and
regretted. A better man, or a more charitable
one, could not possibly exist ; his hand was ever
open to the untbrtunate, as was that of his ex-
cellent lady, to whom he had been married above
fifty years, and all who had the good fortune
to know him, or came within reach of his boun-
tiful band, sincerely sympathise in her bereave-
ment. Lieutenant-General Mainwaring served
at the reduction of Martinique, in 1794 ; accom-
panied the 51st regiment to Corunna, in 1808 ;
the expedition to Walcheren, in 1809, where he
took two eight-pounders, and many prisoners ;
served in the Peninsula in 1811 ; and was pre-
sent at the battle of Fuentos d'Onor, and the
second siege of Badajoz.

The City prisons never were so full as 'at the
present time. They are in consequence much inconve-
nienced, owing to there not being sufficient room in the
House of Correction. Yesterday morning there were
202 prisoners confined, whereas there was only sufficient,
room for 150, and four or five prisoners were put toge-
ther in one cell, where there ought only to be one con-
fined.

A tunny, weighing 100Ibs., was caught off
Dunkirk a few days ago. The appearance in the Channel
of this fish, which always inhabits the Mediterranetn, is
uite a phenomenon.

EDWARD OXFORD.--This individual, who is
detained an inmate for life in Bethlem Hospital under
her Majesty's warrant as a criminal lunatic, beguiles
the tedium of his confinement by reading, drawing, &c.,
and does not exhibit the slightest symptom of aberration
of intellect. For some months after his confinement
the applications to Lord Shaftesbury and other governors
to see him were very numerous, but the public curiosity
appears to have died away, and few strangers now solicit
permission to see Oxford. When spoken to on the sub-
ject of firing at her Majesty, he invariably declares the
pistol was not loaded with ball. Captain Gold, one of
the maniac intruders into Buckingham Palace, is also
detained in Bethlem under her Majesty's warrant.
RESIGNATION OF MR. JUSTICE BOSAN-
QUET.—Mr. Justice Bosanquet, in consequence of conti-
nued ill health, has sent in his resignation toe the Lord
Chancellor. His Lordship's successor, as' one of the
Judges of the Common Pleas, is not yet known. In
Westminster-hall, yesterday, Mr. Sergeant Merewe-
ther, Mr. Law (Recorder of London), and Mr: Sergeant
Goulburn, are each mentioned as like ly to be raised to the
Bench.
trt

TRUTH TO SHAME THE TORIES.--( From
the Revue des Deux Itiondes.)—A question has arisen in
the English press, to know whether the merit of the
new Slavery Convention belongs to Lord Palmerston or
Lord Aberdeen. Justice makes us admit that the Con-
vention belongs to Lord Palmerston. France might
have signed it before the fall of Lord Melbourne, and
would have signed it, had the French Cabinet not a
grudge against Lord Palmerston.

A Scotch piper was pursued by a wolf; he
threw him, scrap by scrap, every individual content of
his wallet ; still the wolf followed. Having no other re-
source, he struck up his bagpipes—the wolf fled incon-
tinently, " Ho, ho," cried Davie, "If I'd known ye to
be so fond o' the pipes, ye should hae had the music be-
fore your supper."

It is related by the Rev. C. B. Townsend, in his
highly interesting work on Mesmerism, that Dr. Parr
once magnetised William Pitt with his eye ; and the
Dr. used to boast that his eye saved the nation. Pitt
was going to bring forward some measure which was cal-
mlated to produce much harm to the country, and the
Doctor having been informed of the evil intentions of
the great Premier, went to the House of Commons.
" I fixed, Sir," said Parr, "my eye upon Pitt. I gave
him one of my looks (everybody knows my looks), and
he could not utter a word, Sir. He rose, stammered,
and sat down again ; and there I kept him off his legs
till Fox had possession of the ear of the House ; and so
the measure, when brought forward, was nugatory. Yes,
yes, I think I may say that my eye saved the nation."

RAILROADS IN FRANCE.--The Boulogne
Gazette has commenced a series of articles on railroads
in France, and complains that every town is endeavour-
ing to obtain some benefit from these undertakings, and
forgets nationality for private interests. The editor,
therefore, humbly submits that the Government should
not attend to such schemers, but follow out a general and
comprehensive plan for the good of the country at large,
and as one part of this plan recommends that a line should
:be carried from Paris to Calais by Beauvais, Amiens,
and Boulogne, the town of Arras is exerting every
energy to have the line drawn through its vicinity, and
Boulogne and Arras, therefore, are at war for their own
Interests, forgetting alike nationality and public benefit.

It is certain that the King of Prussia will re-
turn from London by way of Calais and Paris, upon
which occasion a really Royal reception will be given by
the King of the French.—Correspondent of an Even-
ing Paper.

MORNING SUN

RAILWAYS IN FRANCE.

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The question of railroads in France is discussed at
great length in one of the French cOmmercial papers,
chiefly with reference to the clause in the Speech ,from
the Throne, in which the King declared that the
Chambers should consider the means of restoring an
equilibrium between the receipts and expenses of the
State, without touching the military organization of the
country, or deferring the execution of the great public
works, which are understood to mean the iiiilrOads.
The article in question would show that the preserva-
tion of military organization in its present state- ie in-
consistent with the completion of the public works,
and the restoration of equilibrium to the bndget, now
that the sinking fund is pledged for five years, and tbat
recourse has just been had to a new. loan, the terms of
which have still ten months to run. The plan, which
is attributed to the Minister of Public Work; begins
by classifying several grand lines of railway as lignes
dela', or " Government lines," which ought to be in
the hands of Government, like all Royal road,. Of
these line:, there are five proposed, and they connect
Paris, from which they all commence, respectively
with the Belgian frontier (with a branch to Boulogne
and Calais), with the Mediterranean by Lyons, and
Marseilles, with the ocean by Tours and Nantes,
with the Spanish frontier by Bordeaux and Bayonne,
and with the Eastern frontier by Strasburg. With
respect to the particular portions that are to be accom-
plished first, the Minister proposes the Anglo-Belgian
line, which is preferred to all the rest, and the two ex-
tremities of the line from Paris to the Meliterranean
—that is to say, the part from Paris to Chalon-sur-
Saone by Dijon, and the part from Tarascon to Mar-
seilles. Subsequently, however, the line from Paris *to
Chalon-sur Saone seems to have been deferred for fear
of rendering the Eastern departments discontented, as
they might conceive the direct line from Paris to Stras-
burg was abandoned. The localities interested in
the roads would, according to this plan, contribute the
land, the Government wool.] execute the terrace work,
stations, &c., while private speculators would lay cloven
the rails an.l furnish the engines. The choice of the
particular lines which are to be first completed is disap-
proved by the paper in question. With respect to-the
priority which is g:vcn to the line from Paris to the
northern frontier, it is observed that Belgium is already
cote:ed with railroads, and „hat by this new line An-
twerp might gain at the expense of the French port!.
The line from Paris to Ly ens is considered to be far
more important. The means of executing the project
are spoken of merely as a roundabout way of returning
to the system of carrying on these works by the Go-
vernment, which was rejected by the Deputies five
years ago. Thus the part reserved fo♦ private specula-
tion is thought to be a mere illusion, on account of the
groat improbability of a Company being formed merely
to lay down rail,. If the Government begins to make
the terrace. work, it will be compelled to lay down rails
to transport the materials, so that, however specious the
proposal may be, it must end in a Government under-
taking.

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The Chancellor of the Exchequer had a long
interview with Sir James Graham at the Home-Where
yesterday morning.

. .
There are rumours current in the Clubs in
London, that lliclutrd Arkwright, Esq., of Willersley
Castle, Derbyshiro, is about to be elevated to the Peer.
age under the title of Baron Willersley, of Willersloy ;
and our highly-esteemed neighbour, Wilbraham Egerton,
Esq., of Tatton Park, under the title of Earl of Tattom,
of Tatton Park, in this county.—Stockport Advertiser.
Trig ARMY.—The 4th Dragoons are ordered
home from Bombay ; the 36th Foot from New Bruns-
wick, the 37th from Nova Scotia, and the 75th from the
Cape.

INCREASED DEMAND FOR HORSES.—LATI
FAIRS.—A short time ago the Government of France
came to the resolution of selling in the home market
15,000 cavalry horses, and replacing, as speedily as pos-
sible, so goodly a stud by the better bree,ls of England,
Seotjand, and Ireland. in the contract entered into, the
Nvell-known Mr. 11. E. Phillips, army agent, London, has
been associated with two Frenchmen, and in the exer-
cise of his vocation has been advertising right and left
for particular kind, of troopers. From a hand-bill be-
fore us, we observe he is to be in Carlisle on the 15th
current, and invites farmers and dealers to bring 'for,
ward 200 steeds ; one half from three to six years old,
" blood-like and sound, and standing 15 hands high,"
and the other moiety "strong, short-legged horses, fit
hfo igr
ht,h
ne
nd a;,1),-ottijic,t,crtps, (f the
4 same age,
broken
orn9tof froms
o el()ntso 16
equehnreds.i.
As the same person intends to visit the Dumfries
Candlemas Horse Fair, we think it right to give our
agricultural readers timely warning. Already his ope-
-rations have 'given a great fillip to the trade in horse:
flesh, as was proved from what Occurred .at the mar.
kets held at Lancaster and Preston on the Ist and
3tl current. At time two said fairs about 8,000 horses
of all description,: were shown ; and though the demand
may have been enough for the inferior sorts, all
likely animals, whether for yoke or saddle, went ofi:
briskly at advant..ed prie2s. In many cases the roads
were *besieged many miles beyond Lancaster and' Pres-
ton, and the best steeds immediately picked np; on terms
highly sati:factory to the sellers. On both the occasions
alluded to, Mr. Phillips bought largely—say from.two
three hundred horses—tut terms varying. front 201. to
301. and upwards. Ayr Horse Fair, held on the 6th,
was also a selling one, the show of Cattle being pretty
good, and the am utiance of dealers creditably numerous,
—Dumfries Cow i,!r.
The Gonstitutionnel has the following nu-
111e1MIS deputation, composed recn-s, Deputies, Generals,
F among whom it is said, were three Marshals, and mem-
bers of the Municipal Council and Chamber of. Com-
merce of Strasburg-, waited, on Saturday morning, upon
the President of the Council and the Minister of Public
Works, to confer on the projected railroad between Paris
anti Strasburg direct, and to expres the unanimous
wish of the inhabitants of the eastern department for the
establishment of a communication which will contribute
so essentially to the military defence of France. The
question was discussed in a strategic point of view, and
also with regard to its commercial advantages, by..the
military men, merchants, and landowners present, and
all of them retired extremely gratified with the recep-
tion of the President of the Council."
The National maintains the truth of its state-
ment concerning a collision between the soldiers of the
59th of the Line and the Second Light Infantry, which
has been contradicted by the Ministerial evening paper,
and says that a soldier of the corps, who died of his
wounds, was interred on Friday. Several others, it adds,
are in a state of danger.—The Temps mentions a report,
that, during the collision in question, a soldier of the
Second Light Infantry was thrown from the wirdow of a
Iluse, near the Barrier, into the street. This Journal,
in contradiction to the Mesßager,• says that it was the
59th of the Line, and not the 11th, which was concerned •
in the fray ; and that this corps is waiting every dad
for marching orders,' for which other motives of a poli-
tical nature have given cause.

A file-maker, named Choquin, was arrested on
Saturday under a warrant from the Chancellor, and con-
ducted to the prison at the 'Luxembourg. Besides Mal-
let, who, as we hare stated, had been brought from
Douellens, and immediately interrogated by the Chan-
cellor, Just-Brazier and Colombier were also interrogated
by Baron Pasquier on Saturday.

DISTRESS AT LIVERPOOL-At a meeting
of the inhabitants of Lime-street Ward, Liverpool, on
iNic;ntlay, to 'Consider the means of relieving the distress,
Mr. C. llawlinS stated, that he had spent .ne,arly. the
whole of Sunday and that day in visiting the poorer
parts of Rodney-street Ward. In the CmiTge•ollifs'visits
he had
-'found compiiSing aboutt
individuals, in such a state 'of destitution, • that 'no
man, possessed of the comniOn 'feenivs'of'hUtat,tnity,
could have looked upon' it without' feeling' imperiously
called upon to
.put his hand in his pocket, ''Amongstthe number of persons mentioned; • he ascertained
that there 'were only five, blankets. There- were
five women, from within a week to fl month- of confine-
ment, and only two of them 'had any :baby linen; Three
had got the assistance of the Ladies' Charity, and the
other two Were- seeking it, though without very strong
hopes of obtaining it. The distress,, as compared' with
this lime last' year, he might, as a commercial man, de-
scribe as 50 per cent. worse. Some cases that came
under his observation were of • a peculiarly lamentable
kind. One than had on Saturday sold the bedstead.
from under • his sick wife, in order to provide food for his
family. There were fifty-four families destitute .of
blankets, and having nothing to corer them during the
cold nights but a bit of carpet or sacking, or some such
thing, in addition to their ordinary clothing. This desti-
tution, he felt bound to say, did not arise altogether front
the season. Many of the working men had been out of
employment from three week ';to three months, and
he had found one class of men suffering from want ofl em-
ployment who had before been exempt—he Meant the
coopers. It would require the poor people to be in work
for weeks, and in some cases for months, to 'obtain the
articles absolutely necessary for their comfortable sub-
sistence.--Liverpool Times.

We find the following in the Constitutionnel,
on the demonstration of Friday last, by some students
and workmen in favour of M. de Lamennais ..—..,,‘,Qur
tno2urs publiqucs are not those of England. With (lc
without reason, alarm is felt in France at every noisy
demonstration, and even the temporary anxiety of
peaceable citizens is taken advantage of by those in the
Government who hate liberty, and avail themselves of
everything for its destruction. A conviction of this
fact makes us regret deeply what passed on Fridayoo the
occasion of the release of M. de Lamennais from
We are far from being admirers of the doctrines of LW!,
writer, and we have reason to think that tbayoun elff!
who got up an ovation in honour of him on_Fridayt will
be of our way of thinking when they shall have bad
ae t theif
experience of age and of the realities of
o life.
tis Radical
the pupils of the schools wished to give to prisoa.
writer a public proof of their sympicit
we think, have done better if they abs t s theyo abstained would,f
ro k
canyt 11. de L ameniar
and yet they have
of the police force.0
grea_
the public, and led to a t
those outward demonstrations
.whlicihlacrented alarm i
certainlyTh
promote the views of the Mi•
istry which retained him in. .
Leonseiously done so by giving to it as auxiliaties all
nwohton,tivsehnttotocompdpliimpson,
those interests which take alarm at everything ap-
proaching to street tumult.