The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-15 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE Three o'Cloch.

The great grievance of the Income- tax is not so
much the amount of the rate, as the harsh, unfair,
and inquisitorial mode of assessing it. The vic-
tim is submitted to a cross-examination, like a
doubtful witness on a trial, or a prisoner before a
French Criminal Court, and when he ventures to
assert thath ism turn is more correct than that given
by the assessor, he is virtually told that he is not
speaking the truth, and sometimes is dismissed
with the laeonicrebuke, " No remarks are allowed
here." This is a cruel and unjust way
of raising money, and we fear is attri-
butable, not so much to the Commissioners,
as to the instructions furnished from
head quarters. The Premier is using every
means to patch up the revenue for the present
quarter, and his agents are not very scrupulous
in carrying his plans into effect. Attempts are
even made to get the second half-yearly pay-
ment by offering a discount of four per
cent. on the money if paid in advance.
When the meaning of any complicated
clause in the Act is doubtful, the Commissioners,
I as in the case of commercial travellers, rather
lean to the side of severity than mercy, and the
assessors fi►ithfully imitate the example. A
Correspondent informs us that in one district
of the metropolis the assessors have actu-
ally laid on ten per cent. on the full
rental paid to the landlord ; thus making
the tenant pay on ten per cent. more than
the value; and, in some instances, fifty or a
hundred per cent. have been charged. Appeal
was made in vain, for the Commissioners
only replied that the assessors had fixed
the value of the houses, thereby intimating
that these functionaries were better judges
of the fact than either the landlord or
tenant. Persons of the highest respectability
are insulted in this manner, and robbed, that
Ministers at the opening of the session may boast
of their financial skill, and draw a glorious con-
trast between themselves and the bun-
gling, impoverished Whigs. " Put money
in the Exchequer," is the order of the
day. If it can be got honestly, good
and well, but money must be had. " Put money
in the Exchequer." If there were any general
combination on the part of the public to make
false returns, and if the Act were not sufficiently
stringent, there might be some excuse for the Com-
missioners ; but no such pleas exist. The penalties
for offenders against the law are extremely
heavy, and no man in his senses, and lease of all
persons of character and property, would run the
risk of detection and punishment. The amount,
too, which will flow into the Exchequer, ac-
cording to the opinion of well-informed parties,
will far exceed that anticipated by Sir R. PEEL,
and therefore the severity admits of no excuse on
the ground of an anticipated deficiency in the
revenue. The Minister calculated the amount
at between 3,000,000/. and 4,000,0001., but it will
probably exceed that by at least 2,000,000/. which,
taking into account the 5,000,000/. to be paid
by China, will furnish the Chancellor of the
Exchequer with more money than he can make
a good use of. We have learned on good autho-
rity, that so confidently is a much larger su:n an-
ticipated than that reckoned on by Sir R. PEEL,
that an offer had been made to Government
by a wealthy house in the city to pay five millions
a-year, for the privilege of farming the tax.
Facts like these, we trust, will only make the
people more impatient under the burden, and
rouse them to cry out with one voice for its
speedy repeal.

The indications, which are neither few nor
faint, of a further modification, if not total aboli-
tion, of the Corn-laws, remind us of those which
are said to precede the breaking up of the ice in
the Polar seas. First, one iceberg, slowly and
reluctantly, as it were, detaches itself from the
main body—then a second—then a third—then a
fourth, fifth, sixth, and so on—until, at last, the
whole vast mass, weakened by so many disrup-
tions, and unable longer to contend against the
altered state of the seasons, breaks up suddenly
with a crash like thunder. Just so is
it at present with the Corn-law mono-
poly. First, an ESCOTT separates himself from
the main body of its supporters,—then
an Acta ND—then a DICKINSON; and these
desertions, which, as a matter of course, will be
followed by others, will have the effect of
weakening the monopolist party to such a de-
gree, that the whole concern will have no
other alternative left than to break up, and that
at no distant period. The monopolists, antici-
pating this untoward upshot, are of course highly
indignant at the idea of any agriculturist pre-
suming to think for himself and quit their ranks,
and are specially wroth with Messrs. ESCOTT
and DICKINSON, both of whom, because they
have seen fit to exercise those faculties
of common sense with which nature has
endowed them, have been fiercely denounced as
traitors, apostates, &c., besides being pelted with
such choice Billingsgate mud, as those rarely fail
to have recourse to, who entertain an awkward
sort of secret misgiving that they themselves are
in the wrong. We congratulate these gentlemen
on the abuse they have sustained at the hands of
the monopolists. It is at once a voucher for their
good sense, and a testimony, however unsavoury,
to their liberality. The speech recently delivered
by Mr. DICKINSON at Glastonbury will, we take
for granted, incense the Corn-law bigots more
furiously against him than ever, if only for these re -
marks—" The general course of things was against
restriction, and he did not think those represent-
ing the agricultural interest could stop it; he
thought that the agriculturists should rather en-
deavour to lend themselves to the state of things
than to oppose them fruitlessly. He also advised
them to unite together, and to adopt improve-
ments for the increase of produce, in order to
meet the altered circumstances of the times, as
the best and most safe course to be pursued."
There is so much calm, steady conimon sense in
this advice, that, as a matter of course, it will be
rejected with contempt by the Somersetshire
monopolists.

The accounts from Madrid are to the 6th.
Several fresh regiments had arrived, to replace
those which had accompanied the REGENT to
Barcelona. The National Guard appeared
animated by the best spirit, and the city enjoyed
perfect tranquillity.

The Three per Cents. were done at 211- for
cash, and 22 at 60 days ;
and the Five per Cents.
at 26 at CO days, and the certificates of the debt
bearing no interest at
.51 for cash.

The Paris papers
they contain
----.1.1".---are still occupied with the
bombardment of Barcelona, but, with one ex-
ception,pct. It would appear, though they do not ad-
mitnothing new on that sub-
the facts, that the city had suffered very
little from the shells,
the General purposely
causing them to burst in the air, or fall where
they could do little injury to life or property.
Notwithstanding this, the journals rave as if the
whole city had been destroyed, and the madmen,
who had killed and wounded a thousand of their
ojournals. to
T 0 were as innocent as babes. This
appliesu
etnhe Ministerial as well as the Opposi-
tion
the former the Qnotidienne
makes a pithy reply,
cl countrymen,
showing that ESPAR-
TERO only followed the example set by
the rulers of France. " ESPARTERO and
VAN HALEN," says that journal, " are only
putting in practice in the Spanish manner the
materialist and atrocious doctrine of the Con-
servatives of France, contained in the words,
enforce the law. When all moral principle, all
rules of authority, superior to brute force, have
ceased in governments, it is clear that the only
ffborder i l
lis t
it,
philosopy of revolu-
cmoauxldimbeo
tions? Is it not in virtue of this law that M,
leleatbhoemisbt. 'What other could

GUIZOT, the most pitiless of sectarians, gave the
order to cast Lyon.,-.5 into the Rhone? Is it not in

virtue of the same law that he has got Paris sur-
rounded with citadels? .INlountehanks and hy-
pocrites! you bewail destruction, you who give
yourselves the mission to destroy !"
The proclamation of VAN HALEN on entering
the city, and that of the political Chief
GUTIERREZ, in office previous to the insurrection,
are given in another place.

The Moniteur publishes a royal ordonnance,
dated the 10th inst., abolishing the transit duty
hitherto chargeable on foreign merchandise pas-
sing from one part of France to another, without
leaving the French territory.
The French Government have received the
following telegraphic dispatch, bringing news
from Barcelona of the Bth. Like all the rest,
we have no doubt it is greatly exaggerated :
" The disarmament still continues. The delay of
twenty-four hours allowed for it not being considered
enough, forty-eight hours have been accorded. The
order comprises all arms and classes, and extends to
guns for sport and pistols ; the theatres have even
been obliged to give up their stock of swords. There
are twelve thousand soldiers here; the barracks are
full, the citizens' houses likewise; and troops seem
to increase and arrive, not diminish.

" About four hundred arrests have taken place, and
the prisoners are brought to the citadel, where the
court-martial is in permanence. Execution follows
condemnation. The Regent remains at Sarria."

BOURSE—PARIS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13.
First Highest ~..owest Last
Price. Price . Price. Price.
French Five per Cents. 119 45... 191 55 .19 45... 119 50
41,4 per Cents. 106 60... 106 60.. 106 60... 106 60
Four per Cents. 101 ... 101 ... 101 ... 101
Threes, ex div. 79 15... 79 20... 79 10.. 79 20
Bank of France 3350 —.3350 ...3350 ...3350
Laffitte Bank I,ooof 1055 ..1055 ...1055 ...1055
5,000 f 5080 —.5080 —.5080 ..5080
Belgian Bank BO7 50... 810 ... 807 50... 810
1841 lO7O ...1070 ...1070 _lO7O
Belgian Fives ... ... 103 i ... 103# ... 103 k ... 103 k
1840 104 g ... 1044 ... 104 i 104 i
Spanish Active. . 231 ... 23 ... • 23A
Passive 3i ... 3 ... 3; ... 3E
Ne vr Deferred 94 ... 9 ... 9 ...
Neapolitan
Roman lO4 ... 104 A ... 104 ... 104 k
RAILWAY SHARES. •
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St. Germain B5O ... 850 ... 845 ... 845
Versailles, L.B ll O... 110 ... 107 50... 110
R.B 270 ... 270 ... 270 ~. 270
Rouen
Orleans. 622 50... 625 ... 622 50... 622 50
Strasburg to Bale 202 50... 203 75... 202 50... 203 75

AMERICAN NEWS

EXPRESS FROM LI VERPOOL.
LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
We Lave this afternoon received papers from
New York to the 25th ultimo. They are five
days later than those by the Hottinguer, and
were brought by the packet-ship Roscius, Capt.
Collins, who has made an excellent passage of
eighteen days. This vessel had thirty cabin, and
a large number of steerage passengers.
We learn from these papers that a dreadful
gale had caused the loss of several lives, and done
considerable damage to shipping on Lake Erie.
Our late Consul at Havannah, Mr. Turnbull,
bad again visited that place. His visit had
caused considerable excitement, and on his de-
parture for Nassau and England on the 6th inst.,
it was intimated that his return would be any-
thing but agreeable to the authorities.
The following letter from Havannah of the Bth
ult., gives an account of his release :--
"Our community has been thrown into a great state
of excitement within the last three days, by the arrival
and safe conduct to this place of D. Turnbull, Esq.,
formerly English Consul here, but who was removed
in consequence of the earnest and repeated solicita-
tions of this Government. He was brought here on
board the Spanish steamer of war Congress, from
Neuvitas, and it spread like wild-fire, accompanied by
every rumour possible ta invent against him.
"Mr. Turnbull's plea was admitted, and he was pro-
nounced " lunatic' (in order to save trouble), and he
shipped on the 6th, per steamer Thames, for Nassau
and England, with an intimation that if he ever set
foot again on the Island of Cuba, he would be treated
as a disturber of the peace. He expressed his inten-
tion of leaving the steamer at Nassau, and doing all
in his power to ameliorate (as he calls it).the condi-
tion of the poor Africans in bonds in Cuba. This
means, I presume, inciting them to cut their masters'
throats, and then take to the mountains, to be hunted
like wild beasts with dogs, and shot by whoever sees
them. It is uncertain by what process of logic he
arrives at the conclusion that that would ameliorate
their condition, but it is presumed to be by a peculiar
one of his own."
The Mexican expedition destined for Yucaton,
comprised 3,000 men. The blockade of the latter
country had been declared. The island of Carmen
was, however, excepted, and provisions, &c., were al-
lowed to be landed there.
We learn that the Riverista squadron, consisting of
a barque and a brig, has been destroyed by a division
of the Buenos Ayrean squadron, commanded by Ad-
miral Brown, after a severe action. We also learn
that a great stir had been observable in the Marine
and War Departments at Buenos Ayres, and every
thing combines to induce the belief that an early
opening of the campaign was anticipated by the Ar-
gentine Government.
The crew and officers of her Britannic Majesty's
steamer Spitfire were left at Jamaica by the brig
Annawan, and not at New York, as was incorrectly
stated by the papers previously received from that city.
From Rio Janeiro we learn that the rebellion in
the provinces of St. Paul and the Mines is en-
tirely quelled, and the state of affairs at Rio Grande
is more cheering.
Her Majesty's ship Spartan, the Hon. Captain
Elliot, with the Bishop of Newfoundland on board,
was off Bermuda on the sth November.
The health of Sir Charles Begot was considerably
improved. He rode out on horseback on the 16th
ult., but his physicians strongly advised his return to
England, and it was generally anticipated that he
would comply with their wishes.
There was a large business done it, State Stocks
on the 24th ult. at rather higher prices. Cotton was
more noticed, but on somewhat lower terms, and
flour was in moderate demand, at steady rates.
Foreign Exchanges were firm, and the supply of
bills moderate at 1061 on England, and sf. 40c.
on France.
The Montreal and St. James from London, and the
Stephen Whitney from Liverpool, were entering the
port when the Roscius left.

GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY.
Traffic returns for the week ending Dec. 10, 1842 : -
PaS sengers
Alerchandise 547 13 8

X 1,182 1 2

Corresponding week last year ...£1,147 13 9
Darlington. Dee. 14. W. O'BRIEN. Secretary.

FRENCH PLAYS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Mr.
Mitchell has issued a prospectus of this entertainment
for the approaching season. The subscription is to
consist of forty representations ; the first performance
to take place on Monday, the 16th of January, when
Madame Albert will make her appearance.' From
the list of performers engaged, the company will be a
strong one, comprising the most distinguished actors
and actresses from the principal Parisian theatres.
The regime is to be a female one; the celebrated Ma-
demoiselle Eliza Forgeot being announced as Direc-1
trice. Our theatrical readers will remember that
these entertainments, last season, were carried on with
great spirit and success; and Mr. Mitchell's prepara-
tions for his second season are highly promising. •
BRIGHTON WEDNESDAY.—We have had a poll
here this week for a Church-rate. The numbers were
declared this afternoon. The anti-Church party were
successful, entirely through the apathy of the Church
party, who would have had no difficulty in carrying
the rate if they had bestirred themselves. The num-
bers were—For the rate, 869; against it, 1,079: ma-
jority against the rate, 210.—. Post.
BRITISH PENITENT FEMALE _REFUGE.—Yesterday
evening, a numerous and highly respectable meeting
of the governors, friends, and suppoil.ers of this ex-
cellent and praiseworthy Institution, wag held on the
occasion of the opening of the new ylumr, situate at
Cambridge-heath, Hackney; the Rev. Dr. Fletcher
in the chair. The object of the Society is to afford
protection to innocent females who may be exposed to
imminent temptation and danger, as well as to assist
in the restoration of those who have fallen into sin,
and are desirous of returning to the paths of virtue,
and those admitted into the Institution are suit-
ably employed, with a view to fit them for useful
service, and religiously instructed, in order to their
permanent recovery and spiritual ben'fit. The So-
ciety was commenced in 1829 ; since that period 734
females have participated in its advantages. There is
now a total of 68 on the foundation, who, by the
timely aid of the Society, have been rescued from ruin.
With regard to the finances, the committee have been
enabled, during the past year, to reduce their liabilities
upwards 3001. The internal condition of the
Asylum, ancr the health and conduct of the inmates
generally, w ere subjects of favourable report. The
business haA ring been gone through, thanks were
voted to the +airman, and the meeting separated.
The Earl and Countess of Minto are staying with
Lord John Russell, in Chesham-place, until after Lady
John's recovery fr•om her accouchement. Her Lady-
ship and infant son tikre both doing well.

SUM MARY 07

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" Who runs may read.'

porm
According to accounts from the United States of
the 25th ult., the winter had set in with great seve-
rity, accompanied with strong gales! which had done
considerable damage to the shipping on Lake Erie.
Sir Charles Bagot's health was still in a precarious
state ; an early change was recommended by his
physicians, and it was said he would soon return to
England.
Mr. Turnbull, who had been arrested at Cuba for
interfering with some slave-owners, had been released.
The King of the French returned from Fontaine-
bleau to the Tuileries, at 12 o'clock on Monday night.
Two new barracks are to be shortly erected within
the walls of Paris, one in the Rue Cherche Midi, and
the other on the space occupied by the ancient convent
of the Bernardins, Rue de Ponteise.
During the last fifty years, 89 vessels have gone
down in the Seine, between Caudebec and Havre,
without any of them being as yet taken up, except
the Telemaque. Amongst the number lost were-
-1 Russian, 1 Norwegian, 1 Swedish, 5 Dutch, and
7 English. The nations of 10 others could not be
ascertained, and the rest are French.
The Commerce states, that since the month of Oc-
tober last upwards of 5,000 men were embarked at
Toulon for Algeria, and that as many more would join
the army ofoccupation before the month of March next.
Reports were current in Paris on Tuesday after-
noon that the conduct of M. ..Lessops, the French
Consul, in the events of Barcelona, had not been cha-
racterised with the strict regard to the non-interven-
tion observed by the English Consul, and that diplo-
matic representations would be made, both from the
Spanish and English Cabinets, respecting certain pro-
ceedings of M. Lessops.
Paris consumed, during the month of November
last, 5,208 oxen, 1,762 cows, 4,661 calves, and 38,145
sheep. As compared with the consumption of the
corresponding month of 1841, there is a diminution of
348 oxen and 365 cows, and an increase of 104 calves
and 2,841 sheep. •
It is stated in a letter from Alexandria that Me-
hemet Ali has just paid to the Sultan the whole
amount of the tribute due, according to the,arrange-
ment made between them.
Independently of the large sums of money expended
last year in improving the navigation of the Moselle
and the Sarre, the Prussian Government has just as-
signed the sum of 40,000 thalers to deepen the Lahn.
The navigation of this branch of the Rhine will be
particularly advantageous to Coblentz.
Advices from Pesth, in Hungary, of the 3d inst.,
state that an Austrian army of 30,000 men was to be
concentrated on the frontiers of Servia, and that Aus-
tria would, in all probability, espouse the cause of
Prince Michael, should Russia support the pretensions
of Prince Alexander.
PUBLIC OPINION.
The Times has the following just remarks on the
French Press and the bombardment of Barcelona :
" Of all the events which have furnished subjects for
the extravagant ddlamations of the French papers
against this country in the course of the last thirty
months, none appear to have produced so violent an
effect in distorting the judgments and disturbing the
temper of our neighbours as the bombardment of
Barcelona. To connect this calamity in any way
with England and the policy of this country, is so
wild an absurdity that we are at a loss to treat
such imputations with any patience or gravity.
Yet this absurdity is, if possible, increased, when
we remember that the sympathy thus prodigally and
indiscriminately expressed by the French has been
called forth by a ferocious mob at the height
of all the excesses which political and private
passion could prompt. The second city in Spain
has been treated, we are told, with more un-
sparing barbarity than is permitted in open, unre-
lenting war. The fact remains to be proved; but
admitting it to be true, 'it must also be admitted
to be true that the second city of Spain had
been for three weeks in the hands of rebels ; that the
respectable inhabitants, and even the more conspicu-
ous leaders of the republican party had fled from it in
• despair ; that this insurrection had been commenced
by many hours of fighting in the streets of the city,
followed by the defeat of the Queen's troops, and at-
tended at the very outset by the loss of more than
1,000 lives ; that Barcelona still resisted the summons
of the head of the State, though backed with a power-
ful army, and evidently held out with the expectation
that the insurrection would spread through the province
till the conflagration should become general, and the
whole of Catalonia and Arragon become one scene of
anarchy and bloodshed. We adhere to our opinion that,
under such circumstances as these, the measures taken
by the Regent and Van:Helen were not only the most
effectual, but the most merciful which could be
resorted to. It appears, from accounts received be-
fore the real amount of damage could be accurately
computed, that the loss of life had been astonishingly
small, that vast numbers of shells thrown from the
fort burst in the air, and that even the injury done to
the buildings was less than could have been supposed.
To the mercantile classes, and, indeed, to all the
friends of order . and tranquillity, even the bombard-
ment of the city was a less evil than its permanent
occupation by a band of ruffians, living without any
restraint of law or authority, plundering on every
side, threatening the lives of those who counselled
submission to the Queen's Government, and devoting
themselves and everything around them to common
destruction. These are the beings for whom the
French Consul at Barcelona interceded—these are the
men whom he condescended to encourage by his ad-
vice and to recognize as a municipal government in
the midst of the most horrible tumult—these are the
desperadoes to whom, as the Journal des Debats
piteously exclaims, 'No shadow of amnesty was pre-
sented by the Regent,' whom they defied."
The following observations are from the Post :--
" Simultaneously with our publication of the case of
Mr. Knight Bruce and the blasphemy venders, in
yesterday's paper, we expressed our warmest feelings
of enthusiastic admiration for the more than manly--
the nobly Christian—conduct of the yoting gentle-
man named, in making a spirited and decided attack
on a foul and pestilent den of hideous profligacy. In
certain cases, the letter of the law, whether through
some verbal ambiguity or the remissness of those
who are charged with its administration, may be found
inadequate to grapple with a crying and notorious
evil, and here it is that we can best appreciate the
value of the comparatively few members of any com-
munity who, at personal inconvenience, step out from
the common herd, and initiate the business which all
admit ought to be done, but of which very few wish
Ito take on themselves the risk and trouble. Every
one will approve of the course adopted by the Magis-
trate, in dealing with the case upon its substantial
merits, instead of measuring it by the strict rule of
legal technicality. It is, indeed, disgraceful that, for
so long a time, and, in so public a place, a vaunting
parade should have been made of the most awful and
contaminating impurities and impieties."
The Chronicle says :—" The Cabinet has come to
a wise, though not a very consistent conclusion, on
the question of Irish education. The National Board
established by the Whig Government will continue to
receive support from a Parliamentary grant, and aid
will not be given to any rival or antagonist institu-
tion. Unless they had made up their minds that the
principle of
,united education should be wholly aban-
boned, this decision was inevitable. Nevertheless, it
is a decision at variance with the very ardent protesta-
tions we heard, while these good folk were. out of
office, of attachment to principles and obligations
which must always maintain the same power over
honest minds, whatever changes of place or fortune
may occur. Such discrepancy, however, between
profession and practice, in high places, will not occa-
sion very general surprise now. Familiarity has laid
that sentiment asleep. The Tcries,' says the Dublin
Evening Mail, indignantly—' The Tories give us all
the Whigs promised.' This is not quite as true as we
should wish it to be; but it is true enough to make
ft evident that the Tories would rather give all, and
more than all, the Whigs promised, than let go the
advantages of power and place, to which they raised
themselves by every species hypocrisy and fraud."
The following is from the Herald:—" Lord Auck-
land's advocates and defenders, repulsed from every
other point, are once more compelled to justify the in-
vasion of Affghanistan by asserting that Dost Ma-
homed was unpopular, and that the exceeding popu-
larity in 1838 of the thrice-ejected Shah, our pen-
sioner Soojah-001-Moolk, excused the assault the late
Governor-General made on a friendly people. If
this plea were as true as it is false, it would not con-
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ECCLESIASTICAL.
At Brighton yesterday a Church-rate svas refused
by a majority of 210.
ELECTZONEERING.
Lord Viscount Clive is expected to come forward
for the representation of the northern division of
Shrshire, in the room of Sir Rowland (now
Lord Hill.

TINE ARTS.
Mr. Park, the sculptor, is at present engaged on a
colossal representation of Ixion on the wleel. The
imaginative artist, instead of binding him to the wheel
with cords, lashes him to it with serpents.

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC.
Count D'Orsay has just published, through the me-
dium of Mr. Mitchell, of Bond-street, a Livraison,
containing six animated sketches of the Marquis of
Worcester, the late Marquis Wellesley, Count Ester-
hazy, Dwarkanauth Tagore, the Luc de Guiche,
and the Comte de Grammont.
At Arcetri, on the road to Florence, is the tower
of Galileo, with a peasant's cottage and rustic obser-
vatory, where the great astronomer dwelt ten years,
and died. Towards the close of his life he received
the youthful Milton here, then only a scholar and an
elegiac poet. Milton, when old and blind, recurred
in his " Paradise Lost" to the " Tuscan artist" at his
labours. Newton was born the year that Galileo died.
SPORTING.
The Marquis of Hastings, with a small part, in
two days' shooting, last week, at Donnington ark,
bagged upwards of 640 head of game.
COURT-FASHIONABLE.
The Duke of Richmond and family leave town to-
day for Goodwood Park, Sussex.
The Earl and Countess of Minto are staying with
Lord John Russell, in Chesbam-place, until after
Lady John's recovery from her accouchement. Her
Ladyship and infant son are both doing remarkably
well.
The Earl 'and Countess of Chesterfield leave the
Hotel Bristol, Paris, to-morrow, for Genoa.
The Earl and Countess of Wilton pass the Christ'
mas at Melton Mowbray.
The Earl and Countess Grosvenor leave town to-
morrow, accompanied by Viscount Beignive' for
Eaton Hall, Cheshire.
seat,
Sir Henry Hardinge has left town for his
South Park, Penshurst.
Lord and Lady Parker leave this day for the seat
of the Marquis of Westminster in Cheshire.
Lord and Lady Prudhoe leave Stanwick Park in
a few days for Alnwick Castle.
Lady Whichcote leaves Stratford House to-morrow
for Aswarby Park, Lincolnshire. for
Lord Foley left Melton Mowbray yesterday,
Abbey.
Lord and Lady William Paulett have returned t°
Downham Hall, Suffolk, from a tour.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS PAY)
LONDON, D.Ec. 15.—Wind this day at 11°011'
S.W., light and fine clear weather.
MARGATE, DEC. 14.—The Trinidad, 80491/
Honduras, was fallen in with Ist inst., !Lb"'
miles to the northward of St. Michael's, with decks
swept, loss of sails, bulwarks, stanchions, &c., and by
feet of water in her hold, and the crew taken off
the Hawk, Morris.
DEAL, DEC. 14.—Wind S.W. to S.S.N. mod.
Arrd. Jean Graham, for Sierra Leone ; Diana'o
Berbice ; Eleanor, for Barbadoes ; Charles, for 9:
bago ; Lerwick, Rapid, Thistle, Waterlily•
and Monarch, for Jamaica ; Louisa, for
Sld. Pilgrim, for Rio Janeiro ; Pakenhan3, for Vera
Cruz, and others.
STANGATE CREEK, DEC. 13.—Arrd. Emulous,
Allen, Cephalonia, with boat stove and other damage,
having shipped a sea in a gale,. 28th ult.
PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 14.—Wind S.S.E. to .D.P..-"ct,
Sld. Hortensia, Cape of Good Hope; HighwaY,
Vincent's; Norna, Sierra Leone. es.
FALMOUTH DEC. 14.—Wind S.S.W..strongbreez
—Arrd. Betty,
Schyth, Rio Janeiro. Elva Ann,
M'Causland, Newfoundland, sailed 22d ult. BulloF.k
xicant.
OFF DOVER, DEC. 14.—Ellen, Gillman,
breeze'
HULL, DEC. 14.—Wind S.W. by S. strong
—Sid. Progress, Pernambuco.
-r f Ora
PENZANCE, DEC. 13.—The Aimwell, Shapter,
Newport to Nantes, has come up to the pier leag:
with head of mainmast gone, and loss of sails'
beel;
The Stadt, Barth, from Cardiff for Ancona, has
obliged to run for the pier, being much strained Pa
leaky.
MONTROSE, Dim 13.—The Mary, Lawson, bay.
Belfast to this port, was driven ashore in this # r;
yesterday in a disabled state, and is full of wail°
crew saved.
ULL, DEC. 14.—The Juno, hence to Stettin, is
lost in the North Sea ; crew saved. T • ort,
YARMOUTH, DEC. 14.—The Arnie. of .1N
got on the Holm Sand yesterday morning, ad,,r__
mains. The Newcastle, of Newcastle, and nyin
of Shields, are in the Roads, with damage, Willa.
been in contact, but will proceed. Arrd•
LivEapooL, mD.14.--Wind S., moderate.-- 1,.„_
MaYPO Huntress, Lima, sld. Sept. 6 ; John Brr"'n.
Lockhart, Porto Cabello, sld. Oct. 29; Eliza3.o";:p6
Jamaica ; Roscius, Collins, New York - re
Poster,
_Wilson, St. Andrew's ; Agnes
Michaels, Dalhousie ; Elizabeth, Montreal. An
off; Brigand, , Sld. Conservative, Cape of ug.
Hope ; Alpha, Monte Video ; Chaos, and Ann ape
fery, New Orleans; Avon, and Covenanter, S.t.t.kio,
nah ; Blake, and Lord Palmerston, Charleston;
Rio
Janeiro ; Camerton, Havannah. riatinet
MILFORD, DEC. 14.—The John and ms a the
Davies, from Bangor to Swansea, was wrecked and •
entrance of Salvo harbour 12th instant--aew
materials saved.
MEssr•NA, Nov. 28.—The Maria Caroline, TraPill:,..ee;
hence to Liverpool, put into Syracuse with danuis•
but has been repaired and proceeded.
DUNKIRK, DEC. 9.—The Louis Rennin,
bound to Nantes, and the Bonne steamer, Calboppg
went ashore near the entrance of the port during
thick fog this morning.

THE JACK O'LANTERN.—The first Place
ute
living writers of fiction belongs, without dispel
deii.
r. Fenimore Coo r.` He has conceived an well
neated, better than any other man, the poetry wo
adorns the life of the forest and the sea. Did best ver
alone, therefore, in his country, America could
liters'
be said to want a literature. His works area
;„1011- the
ture of themselves ; the " Borderers" occull'•-° ,3iiis
place of the epic, while the other offspring of his ge,bat
a_ ut
group themselves, like a tragic sisterhood, h°
b.OO
inimitable performance. Full justice has never,, for
done to this writer by criticism. " The Jack nevi
-I%r
tern" is by no means unworthy to rank with his .floc
mer productions. Although the materials are .64
new, they are here so skilfully and cunninKlY gr.". on
that they must inevitably produce on the imagln"
the effect of novelty. Our brave countrymen arL3 the"
hibited in their true dimensions—that is to sat,
most gallant, chivalrous, and generous of mans'iliv
and this is unquestionably the conviction that
bits Mr. Cooper's heart of hearts. The scene 11. ffecf
the rocky islet, where in calm and silence the wotte
Raoul yields up his spirit, with his eyes fixed -nrs
the stars, is admirably conceived, and prodscece'w,
powerful effect upon the imagination. The ex an-
tion of Caraccioli, also, to which Nelson was, ,ic
interest of these volumes, which will be
happily, a consenting party, deepens the tflb
the greatest avidity by all who delight in stirring
romantic fiction. The superior qualities of the styrs;
will very greatly enhance their pleasure. There,
occasionally, when the object is to exhibit atmosphe'
phenomena, a positive transparency in the languat:
which seems to glitter over the ideal basis of the "
stens'
ject, as the luminous air of Italy shines and glisrate
read vvy
over its landscapes. Yet it is not always by elsb4ct.
descriptions that Mr. Cooper produces this e"10.
The whole is sometimes the result of a few ma
terly touches. Thus, in the pursuit of Raoul 's 3:0111'
by the boats of the Proserpine, the whole coast, A4Lni.
Amalfi northward to the entrance of the BeY sni
pies, is presented, even through the darkness of
to the mind's eye, so that he who has one beheld :
sl,
can recognise every point. We have said, we 0.13 ilt
enough to recommend this work to our readrs, In
should be thought to need any recommendation. 1-,
our opinion the name of Fenimore Cooper on the title
page is enough.—Sunday Times. f. of
CHARITIES FOR THE BLIND.—A general Cour-
the Governors of this charity, established in connee;
tion with the Painters' Company, under the Willg
o
the late Mr. John Stock and others, was held
day at the Painters' Hall, Queenhithe, Mr. Robert*
the master, in the chair. The report stated that eft
charity was instituted in 1797, for the benefit
of aged blind men and women, who, to hecoraa
qualified for pensioners, must be upwards' of 60 years
of age, have been totally blind for three years, and
unable to maintain themselves. The institution now
extended its aid to all -persons of this class through"
out England, on reeeiving a certificate from the
minister of the -parish. At present there were 150
pensioners on, its funds. After some routine business,
relating graerally to the affairs of the institution, an
election Yester-,
'co fill up vacancies on the list of pensioners
took r' ace, and the meeting broke up.
me Journal du Havre contains a letter, dated the
ri
1 th inst., from M. David, a highly respectable las-.
loitant of that place, in which, after stating that he hos
been present at the whole of the process of raising mail
examining the hull of the Telemaque, he says
can affrm, without fear of being contradicted, with
truth, that no barrel or chest of any kind has been yet
taken out of that vessel. As to the results which
have been arrived at, it is for the engineer alone,
who has the direction of the operations, to give en
account of them ; but, I may add, that on the 20th
ult., at two o'clock in the afternoon, I -acquired a
profound conviction that the vessel really does contain
objects of gold or gilded silver. This fact was ascei."
tained in the presenct of several persons at the instant
of the discovery, and at the spot where the experi-
_ -
meat was made."