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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Messages. des Giambres of Monday.) (SECOND EDITION.) PARIS, DEG. 11.—Yesteyday, after the reception at the Palace, M. de Bourmont had a conference of three quarter, of an hour with his Highness the Dauphin. Tile little Council, of the Canton of Zurich has just decreed that no person not a native of Switzer land shall be henceforth admitted into any of the companies in the service of France. In consequence it .huts rendered the Captains responsible for the in 14actions which may be committed in this respect. (From the Gazette de France, dated Tuesday.) 'PARIS, DEC. 14.—The Neapolitan journals an nounce that M. de Ribeaupierre, sailed from Naples on the 26th of November for Constantinople, on board the Princess Eliza, a Russian frigate. Yesterday, at noon, Te Delon was performed in the Greek chapel of the Russian Legation, for the re-establishment of the health of the Emperor Nicholas. The number of Russians at this moment at Paris, and who were all present, was considerable. Count Pozzo di Borgo V. ill give, on Friday next, a grand dinner and ball, in honour of the fete of his Sovereign. A letter from Rome of the 30th of November, says —" The canonization of the late Clotilda of France, Queen of Sardinia, sister of their most Christian Majesties Louis XVIII. and Charles X., will take place as soon as possible. It is said that the Court of Turin will deposit 100,000 Roman crowns, required for the purchase of the draperies, adorned with gold, as well as the eapence of car penter's work for scaffolding, for the orchestra, illu minations, fireworks, salutes of artillery from the castle of St. Angelo, and other expences required for the pious and pompous ceremony of the beatification." The Universel says—" It is affirmed that M. Aguado, banker to the Court of Spain, has becoMe the proprietor of the Drapeau Blanc." FAENCH FUNDS. EIS, DEC. 14.—Five per Cents. 1081. 80e. 60c. ; Three per Cents., 84f. 50e. sc. ; Naples Stock, 91f. 60c. ; Royal Spanish Loan, S 1 ; Spanish Renter Perpetuelles, 611:; llaytian Loan, 4301: Exchange on London, one month, paper, 25f. 60c ; money, 25f. 55e. ; three months, paper, 25f. 40c. ; money, 251. 40e. .-- Colas Authentique. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Richard Cater, a man who keeps a fruit stall in Sr. Bartholomew-lane, was brought before the LORD MAYOR, charged with having stolen a package of French plums, in the warehouse of Messrs. Levy and Sdmon, fruiterers, in Botolph-lane. The pri soner was committed to Newtrate for trial. A gentleman called at the Justice-room to in quire whether any intelligence had been, in the couNe of the day, received relative to the stage coach-driver, whose brutal conduct to an old gentle man in a pony-chaise, on London-bridge, had been described in the Papers of the day. He had wit nessed the scene, which was one of great outrage, and he was most anxious to give evidence, if the driver could he found. Mr. Smallpiece, of Fish street-hill, was the gentleman who had bet .n over turned. The coach had marked upon it in large letters the word " Vauxhall," and the street-keeper it seems, can identify it. The LORD MAYOR hoped, that for the sake of humanity, the brutal driver might be discovered. A very proper appeal had been made to the passengers. BOW-STREET. It was understood that Sir R. BIRNIE and Mr. HALLS were yesterday to give their opinions as to whether the statements of witnesses, with which they had been furnished, respecting the mysterious death of Mrs. Phillips, of Finchley, were sufficient in their estimation to raise a presumption of guilt against some party or parties, or whether the whole bearing of that evidence was of too vague and in conclusive a nature to warrant their interference. Several gentlemen were in attendance by twelve o'clock, but from that time to the closing of the office at three in the afternoon, neither Mr. Phil lips, of Finchley, nor any of that gentleman's friends, appeared, to learn the determination to which the Magistrates had come after a perusal of the papers in question. Neither was Mr. Cox pre sent during the whole of the day, nor Messrs. Kerr and Blissett, the trustees to the testamentary paper which the deceased lady had left. At one o'clock Mr. HALLS, who had been deeply engaged in a private room in perusing the examina tions, entered the office, and was about to dispose of some unimportant public business, when he fell back suddenly in his chair, and appeared to labour for some time under an alarming illness. Sir R. Birnie directed that a surgeon should be called in. Mr. Halls was with difficulty led from the office to an apartment in the house of Mr. Stafford, where he was recovered sufficiently to be enabled to resume his public duties before the close of the day. Mr. Wekley ascribed the cause of his illness to a too close application to business, which Sir R. Birnie explained, by stating that the whole weight of official labour had for the last four or five weeks fallen upon Mr. Halls, owing to his (Sir R. ,Birnie's) late indisposition, and the illness of Mr. Minshull at the same time. The latter gentleman has met with a domestic calamity in the death of his wife, which may probably prolong his absence. The clerk of Mr. Ashuret, finding that there was no likelihood of the business upon which he attend ed, being brought to a conclusion, addressed Sir R. Birnie at two o'clock, stating that he had been in attendance since twelve, in expectation that the case of Mrs. Phillips would be gone into. He attended with the original statements, copies of which had been forwarded. Sir R. MIME asked if any of the other gentle men connected with the case were present. Ashurst's clerk replied, that he had not seen Mr. Phillips, of Finchley, during the whole of the morning ; and what was still more singular, Mr. Cox, the solicitor, who had seemed so urgent for the inquiry, had not thought proper to appear, to learn the result. Sir R. BiIINIE observed, that both Mr. Halls and himself were prepared to give their opinion upon the statements, but they certainly should wish to do so when all parties interested in the case were present. The sudden illness of Mr. Halls, and the non-arrival of the gentlemen whose presence would be necessary, prevented the possibility of entering on the business then. . Ashurst's clerk hoped that copies of the ex aminations would be delivered up to no one but himself when the Magistrates had given their de cision. Sir R. BlRNits replied, that the papers should certainly be given back to him (the clerk of Mr. Ashurst), from %7Elona they had been received. The clerk of Mr. Ashurst then withdrew. In the course of the d‘ty Sir R. BIRNIE stated that a very important documect had beep forwarded that morning by Dr. Tweedie, which both himself and Mr. Halls had attentively perused. The doctor• had also forwarded six closely-written pages of evidence. From an early hour in the morning, the outer door of the office was beset by several of the officers in the employment of the Sheriff of Middlesex,—a fact which might account for the non-appearance of some of the gentlemen whose presence was looked for. Two young women, paupers, belonging to the parish of St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, were charged by the assistant overseer of that parish with riotously assembling in front of the workhouse, and demo lishing two panes of glass in the windows thereof. The case was fully proved, - and the prisoners were sent to hard labour in the House of Correction for two months. It is affirmed that a correspondence is at this moment going on between our Government and the Di rectors of the Mint in Paris, with the view of determin ing low far it may be expedient to extend the silver cur rency, and t 3 make it a legal tender in this country.— Er • d r 4 4 4 4 . -- zre 1444+ LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 17, 1829. The French Papers of Tuesday have been re ceived, by Express, but their contents are more of a speculative nature than possessing any au thentic character. We are again told that the Russian army is to be remodelled, and that the Chief Generals of the Empire, with the Grand Duke CONSTANTINE, are to be present at the important discussions which are to take place at St. Petersburgh on the subject. With respect to France and the Ministry, we find the same repetition of reports and contra dictions. One day the Monarchy—that is the Ministry—is to be destroyed—and next day the Charter is threatened. Time alone will settle which, or if any : (From the Constitutionnel of Tuesday.) PETERSBURGI(, NOV. 28. The greatest activity is observed in the Depart ments of Foreign Affairs and War. Couriers are daily arriving, and others are despatched in all di rections to different parts of the Empire, and to foreign countries. It is reported that not only Field Marshals Die bitsch and Paskewitch, but other principal Gene rals of the Army, have received orders to come to this capital, in order to be present at a grand Coun cil of State, in which several questions of the highest importance will be discussed, especially relative to the new organization which is to be given to the arm y. The Grand Duke Constantine is also ex pected here before the end of the year. With the exception of the regiments of the guards, which are on their return to this city, we do not hear of any movement of the troops to return to their usual can tonments in time of peace. All the corps which have formed part of the army in the field, will, it is said, take up their, winter quarters in the Turkish Provinces, which are to remain for the present oc cupied by us ; and, it is affirmed, that these corps will from time to time receive the reinforcements necessary to keep them at their full complement. (From the Messager des Chambres of Tuesday. SECOND EDITION. REPORTS OF THE JOURNALS. PARIS, DEC. 15, NOON. M. de Polignac and M. de Bourmont profited by their leisure in the country to meditate on the vio lent measures with which they have been pleased to threaten France fur the last four months. All had been agreed en between them. The plan was to dissolve the Chamber, to change by an ordonnance the Electoral 'system, to declare the permanence immovibilite) of the tribunals suspended for a year, to suspend all the Journals which should not appear without a licence from the Government, and receiving from it a principal Editor, who should have been ordered to repeat every morning to France that the Ministry, by re-opening the career of revo lution, had saved the Monarchy. The Council of yesterday was to decide upon important questions. It was not till about half-past eleven at night that reports were circulated respect ing what had passed in it. The following are those which we have collected : That M. de Polignac opened the sitting with a report on the situation of France, in which, after re capitulating the arguments which have been repeated for these ten years in the counter-revolutionary speeches and writings, he endeavoured to prove that the Monarchy was threatened—that its dangers claimed a speedy remedy, and that the remedy was the project, the principal points of which we have mentioned. That immediately afterwards M. Cour voisier spoke with much energy and warmth against the criminal projects which it was ventured to bring forward as means of salvation for the monarchy, and that in a vehement extemporary discourse he showed the incalculable consequences of a mad resolution, which would convulse France, and, per haps, Europe. M. de Chabrol, it is said, spoke to the same effect, but with less energy. He chiefly endea voured to show, that every measure of this de scription would be followed by the ruin of public credit. M. d'Haussez coincided in this opinion. The contrary opinion was maintained by Messrs. De Bourmont and Guernon de Renville. It is added that the august personages who were present at this Council did not hesitate a moment to declare their repugnance to every measure which should deviate from the Charter. It even seems that the Dauphin entered into some developments, re m4r/olile for a just appreciation of the situation of France, and of its public spirit. PAnis SToex ExenANGE, DEC. 15.—Five per Cents. 1081. 40c. 50c. 4 0 c. 45 c. 50 c , ; Three per Cents. 83f. 90c. 84f. se. 84f. 84f. sc. 84f. 83f. 95e. 84f. sc. 10c. ; Rentes de Naples, 91f. 35c. 40c. 30c. 15c. 25c.91f. 35c. 40c. 45c.; Sicilian Bonds, 9 3 f. 50 c. ; Royal. Spanish Loan, ; Rente Perp. d'Espagne, 6l ; Haytian Loan, 440 f. 450 f. 440 f. 450 f. 440 f. 450 f. 417 f. 50c. Exchange on London—One month, 25f. 55c. ; three months, 25f. 40c. VIENNA, DEC. s.—Metalliques 1021; Four per Cents. 91k; Bank Shares, 1,22 S . The Prussian State Gazette of the 11th December contains the following : ST. PETERSBURGII, DEC. 2. Accounts from Tiflis, of the 13th November, say that Field-Marshal Count Paskewitsch had arrived there on the 6th of that month. On the 28th cf last month the Imperial Academy of Sciences had an extraordinary meeting, in honour of the illustrious traveller, Baron Alexander Von Humboldt, on his happy return from his journey in Lobeira. After the reading of several interesting papers by different members of the Academy, Baron Von Humboldt delighted the company by a most animated account of the results of his scientific ex pedition, in which he also took a view of the pro gress of the study of the physical sciences in Russia, under the protection of the Government. The nu merous audience, among whom were the Grand Duchess Helena, Duke Alexander of \Vurtemburg, most of the Foreign Ambassadors, the Ministers of State, and the principal Clergy, and Civil and Mili tary Officers, listened with the most profound atten tion for above an hour to the instruction arid dis course of the great naturalist, and paid a just tribute of admiration to his multifarious knowledge, his acute spirit of investigation, and the eloquence of the language that flowed from his lips. The frost being now fully set in, the navigation is closed. Commerce has been extremely active this year, as appears from u comparison of the num ber of ships that have arrived and sailed from the port of Cronstadt with that of former years:— ARRIVED. SAILED. 1829... 1 507 1,488 1828 1,266 1,291 1827 1,257 1,244 1826 957 945 1825 1,263 1 289 1824 1,098 1,103 Brussels Papers inform us that the liberty of the press is to be curtailed in that country : BRUSSELS, DEC. 12. Some Journals have again announced that the dia moods stolen from the Palace of the Princess of Orange have been recovered. It is the object of this false intelligence to cause the search after the authors of the robbery to be relaxed or discontinued. When the articles stolen shall really be discovered we shall immediately acquaint the public. BRUSSELS, DEC. 13. The Journal of Antwerp contains the following article :—ln the sitting of the Second Chamber yesterday a very long Royal message was read, with a project of law to repress the abuses of the press. The message observes, that in the m;dst of peace abroad, and the prosperity of the several branches of the national manufactures, some evil disposed persons have abused the last law relative to the press, the most liberal that exists in Europe, to sow discord, dissension, religious hatred, and party spirit ; that it has become an imperative duty to repress these excesses by severe measures. His Majesty recommends this subject to the wisdom of the States-General. After entering into long de tails on the execution of the Concordat, the re sponsibility of Ministers, public instruction, and the attributes of the provincial estates, his Majesty concludes by hoping that his constant care for the happiness of his subjects will never be over looked either by his contemporaries or poste rity. The project of the law recognises the principle that all the acts of the Government may be discussed with temper by all the Journals and periodical publications; its proposed enactments are, that whoever shall attack the authority of the King, or the Members of the Royal Family, shall be punished with imprisonment from two to five years. Sentence of imprisonment, from one to three years, shall be pronounced against him who shall attack the heads of the Ministerial Departments, and the Members of the States General, with a view to de preciate the existing laws, or the authority of the Government. A repetition of the offence will be punished by increasing the penalty by one-half.— Prosecutions for the offences against this law must be brought within three months. BRUSSELS, DEC. 15.. The sinister project against the liberty of the press has excited a general outcry of disapprobation. The Journal; of the provinces are filled with re marks on this unhappy conception. It is reported that the city of Amsterdam has offered to the King a loan of 100 millions of florins, to meet the ex pellees of the Government if the budget should be rejected. A letter from Amsterdam, of the 13th, quoted by the Courtier Universel, positively states that the merchants of that city have offered the above sum. Thus all difficulties are removed ; all fears of the bad consequences of the refusal of the budget vanish ; thus the Treasury overflows with resources far beyond its demands, since the amount of the an nual and decennial budget together was less than 78 millions. On the other hand, a Journal of the northern pro vinces says, the Government is nearly certain of a majority in favour of the budget. We received this morning the following from our Paris Correspondent : " PARIS, DEC. 15. The Parliamentary Session of the kingdom of the Netherlands having now been for some time in full activity, the interesting situation in which that country is at present placed, with re ference to the Alinistry and the Government, will excuse me for preferring it as the subject of this day's communication to the tiresome topic of changes in the French Ministry. " Van Maanen, the Prime Minister of the King of the Netherlands, has been engaged for several years in a violent struggle with the libe ral party, whose supporters, among the conduc tors of the periodical press, have suffered severely from the Minister's vindictive proceed ings. While other members of the Cabinet have fallen around him under difficulties compara tively secondary, Van Maanen has been con stantly supported by the King, and has hitherto triumphantly maintained himself in power. There are, indeed, other reasons for this distinction independent of the Royal favour. The finances of the Netherlands are difficult to manage, either from the impossibility of making a uniform appointment of taxes, which are to be levied from two countries so dif ferent in their nature as Holland and Belgium, or because the debt, and the great financial con cerns of Amsterdam, have little analogy with the purely agricultural interests of the inhabitants of Brabant. The Minister of the Interior again has great difficulties to encounter in the management of the Provincial States ; and as to the Depart ment of the Marine and the Colunies, it is known that the pride of possessing a great colony like Batavia is an expensive fancy; but the recol-. lection of what Holland once was, and her com mercial and maritime hopes for the future, might justify some sacrifices, although it makes the administration of this branch of the public ser vice a very difficult and ticklish matter.- I ,' The Department of the Minister, whose duty it is 'to superintend the affairs of the Roman CaihoWeAtivotiliiii - , is no donbt, however the. most difficult of all. It is not easy to give satisfaction as the Minister of a Protestant King, under a free Constitution, with such in tractible materials to manage as the Catholic priesthood of the Netherlands, who are sup ported in all their proceedings by the Nobles and the people of their faith. These are some of the reasons which have created so many changes, since the restoration of the House of Nassau, in the offices of Minister of Finance, of the In terior, of the Marine, and the Colonies, and of the Roman Catholic Church, each of which has passed from hand to hand, as in France, but not with the same frequency or rapidity. " I have already hinted that Holland and Bel gium have interests not precisely identical ; but the Ministry of the Netherlands are known to have a decided leaning to the interests of Hol land as opposed to those of Belgium, and to govern with the persons, the maxims, and the jurisprudence of the French Imperial regime ; by means of which they violate or elude the Constitution voted by the States General in 1814, at the time of the restoration of the House of Nassau. " The Constitution of the Netherlands ad mits of two Chambers, the first being composed of members named for life by the King, and the second being elective. The first consisted originally of such individuals as could be found, with the usual distinctions of aristocracy, in either of the two divisions of the country, such as the Duke of Usel, the Duke de Loos, the Count de Mercy-Argenteau, the Count de Mi rode, the Prince de Chimay, and the Duke de Beaufort. But the majority of these individuals were led into the opposition, either by the effect of a natural sympathy between the Nobility and the Clergy, or more probably by their personal interests as proprietors of land, which were in consistent with the system of finance and taxa tion adopted by a Ministry wholly Dutch in heart and ideas. Besides, there was no Court influence to retain them in the ranks of the Ministry. In the kingdom of the Nether land there can scarcely be said to be a Court in the ordinary sense of the term. The Nobles there are few and poor, especially as compared with the capitalists, and the attendants on the King may rather be said to be a sort of military staff, than a Court, as it consists only of such as are entrusted with the performance of some offi cial functions. In consequence of the inclina tion of the Nobles towards the opposition, the Upper Chamber, which ought in theory to have been perfectly aristocratical, has been recruited by such members of the Lower House as have shown themselves sufficiently dependent on the Ministry, all, or almost all, being without pretension to per sonal consideration, and even without the in fluence of birth or fortune. In the Lower House the opposition found itself for a long while in the minority, because it was formed partly of Catholics and partly of Liberals, which the Ministry succeeded in putting against each other. During the last two years, however, the aspect of affairs has been ma terially changed. The Liberals, who had allowed themselves to be seduced into very illiberal measures, by means of which the Ministry had been enabled to repel the Ca tholic influence, began to see their error when the Minister's hostility to the liberty of the press, and his taste for violent and arbitrary measures, were manifested in the prosecution of Potter, Ducpetiaux, and other editors and printers of newspapers, who had pleaded the cause of free dom and philanthropy against the project of a new and barbarous penal code. Hence, in the Chamber and out of it, there arose a coalition between the two opposite parties, which deprived the Ministers of their majority. " Out of the Chamber the strength of the opposition was composed :-Ist. Of the Liberal and Catholic press. The journals published in the French language almost all support that interest. 2d. Of the Catholic clergy, who, although paid by the Treasury, take an active and public part in the struggle against the Mi nistry, preaching against them from the pulpit, and using their influence against them at elec tions and in soliciting petitions. 3d. Of the principal proprietors in the provincial States, most of whom arc at open war with the gover nors of the provinces, who are in the Nether lands what the prefects of departments are in France, and of course something very different from our Lords Lieutenants of counties. t , The Liberal opposition is accused of a ten dency towards a re-union with France ; the Ca tholic opposition are also supposed, but in a diffe rent sense, to have a leaning to the House of Bourbon, the eldest daughter of the Roman Catholic Church. The chief complaints of the coalition are The subjection in which the Catholic clergy is held to the Government, and the omission to execute, or the complete execution of, the Con cordat with Rome of 1827. They require also the freedom of education from the remains of the University established by the Imperial Govern ment. They complain of the intolerance of the present Government, with reference to the French language, which it has attempted to extirpate by violent means and by encroachments on the liberty of the subject. They demand important modifications as to the nature and assessment of the taxes, especially those which arc levied on the proprietors of land in the southern provinces ; and finally, they complain of the enormous dis• proportion in the division of public functions and employments betwen the Dutch and the Belgians, demonstrating by figures that the former are favoured to the prejudice of the latter in the proportion of ten to one. The Ministry h ave a l rea d y ma d e i mportant concessions :-Ist. In the Concordat of 1827, which has been followed in the nominations to the vacant Bishoprics of Liege and Tourney, and in the modification of the rules as to the issuing diplomas in the College of Louvain, where the instruction of the superior Catholic Clergywas formerly di rec t e d by ro y a l d ecr ees. 2l of a law on the liberty of the (. In the passing press, recalling the temporary and severe decrees of 1825. The sanction of a jury is still a desi deratum ; but that guarantee, although offered b 3 the Crown, was rejected by the Elective Chamber, through the influence of the Dutch, the declared enemies of trial by jury, which interferes with their mercantile habits, and offends their antiquated notions as to the neces sity of a knowledge of the law to the right ad ministration of justice. 3d. A law for the organization of public education is at this mo ment submitted to the Elective Chamber ; but whether they will be satisfied with it is sti 1 doubtful. 4th. Some places of importance have lately been given to certain old Members of the Liberal opposition, who, by their acceptance of them, have lost their popularity, without adding much to the strength of the Govern ment. sth. There has been some relaxation in the severity, approaching to persecution, by means of which it was expected to establish the supre macy of the Dutch idiom over the French ; and 6th. Some concessions have been made in the chapter of taxation, although a law for equalizing the land•tax was rejected by the Upper Chamber in 1827. " It is in this posture of affairs that the Go vernment now finds itself obliged, by the Con stitutional law of the land, to come to the Chamber to ask a decennial budget for the per manent service of the State. It is doubtful whe ther it will be granted without a stipulation for a change of Ministry, or at least without a bar gain with the present Ministry for a redress of grievances. " In the Parliament of the Netherlands the Chambers have not the direct right of proposing an amendment on a projected law. The Sec tions or Bureaux present their observations, and if the Government does not exercise its right to modify the projects presented, the Chambers pronounce on their adoption or rejection as a whole. This mode of proceeding, which was no doubt intended to operate as a restraint on the Chambers, has, in fact, only complicated the difficulty. " The Minister can count on a strong ma jority in Holland, and on the class of public functionaries, still more numerous and propor tionably higher paid than in France. He has also among the Liberal party the people of the University, who tremble to see their chairs deserted, and the clergy monopoliz ing the instruction of youth, under the system proposed of freedom of education. The numerous Professors of Louvain, Liege, and Gaud,are men in general tolerably well informed, and peaceably in clined, but devoted to the philosophy of the 18th century. Their notion of liberty is confined, in fact, to mere freedom of thought in matters of religion, and to the privilege of mutual instruc tion by whatever means it may be introduced and propagated, and without any very serious objec tion to intrigue and even violence. " Some collateral subjects I must reserve for another opportunity." Buenos Ayres Papers, up to Sept. 19 inclu sive, which is six days later than the date of the last arrival, have been received. It appears that the new Government is acting with much vigour, though several of the newly-appointed Members of the Senate have, under various pre tences, declined to serve. The Minister refuses to accept the excuses of some, and allows those of others, but iw both cases his answers appear to argue firmness and resolution. DE ROSAS has expressed his adhesion. The exchange on England is pretty much the same as that quoted in the last arrivals, being from Bd. to 84d. per dollar. The highest price of doubloons during the week had been 92 dollars—the lowest 87 to 88 dollars. Measures had been taken to remedy the interruption of the mails mentioned in the former accounts. Though England be justly admired for its general liberty, yet there is no country on earth where more frequent cases of individual oppres sion occur, and that too under the mask of that very law which we are told deals justice to all alike. Though wealth be the real standard of worth in England, yet its possession is not al ways a protection to personal liberty, as may be inferred from the daily cases of alleged lunacy which are got up at the instance of interested parties, who conspire to send a relative to a Lunatic Asylum for the remainder of his life that they may live upon his property. As nothing is more easy than to impute madness to an eccentric or nervous individual, it seems that the process is as easy of being put into practice, for the certi ficate of a medical man, obtained upon mere representation, is conclusive proof of insanity, and the wretch is deprived of personal liberty forthwith. If his mind was before sensitive, he soon gets melancholy cause fur rousing his temperament into all the irritating symptoms of confirmed insanity—the world closes upon the unhappy victim—and the task is done. Nor is it in presumptive charges of madness that a man's liberty is at the mercy of interested conspirators—it is equally so in cases of mali cious arrest. Upon the mere affidavit of a swindler, who swears that any individual named owes him a debt of any amount over twenty pounds, a person may be dragged from the bosom of his family and lodged in a common sponging house, till bail is procured to answer the fictitious charge of debt. In fact, we have now before us a case of this description, where the party has been sponged through the instrumentality of an action,— s against attornies upon a fictitious claim of debt And a in st I where's ho m the ?— remedy 1: e a (1y o ?f straw—and n i3 a r w in -tand have to pay your own costs. Poverty secures the culprit, and his attorney laughs you to scorn at the escape, or even imprisonment of his accotnialice-client. Really the state of the laws is deplorably de fective in both these cases of imputable luusgf and malicious 'or extortionate arrest. It c 3115 loudly for the interference of Parliament, and i n e will no d ou bt a tt rac t a tt e ntion in the enst . „ ° Session. For our parts, we shall endeavour t° press it upon the Legislature. It is the curse of the law in this country th at honesty has no real protection—while wealth}' roguery or swindling pauperism may hold just ice at defiance—or render the expence of the s uit and the chance of conviction so great as to de. ter a man of discretion from risking the vindi e3 ' tion of his character, or " throwing good money after bad," by appealing to " the glorious tin' certainty of the law." And will it be contended by sticklers ftit " things as they are," that common honesty entitled to no more protection than what tb e law now affords ? None but knaves or parti ci / interested in perpetuating present abuses, gill maintain such position. The many difficulties and harassing impediments thrown in the way cif justice, are sad proofs how much the chicanery of the " craft " has had to do with the e° ll. struction of the statutes at large. Indeed, W such a pitch of notoriety has this been carried, that it is now a bye-word of exultation among. lawyers, while it ought rather to be matter 01 reproach, that in every Act of Faith'mem there are so many flaws that a coach and four co uld be driven through it whenever occasion needs- THE► FUNDS.-(THIS DAT.) Charleston ClTY,P apers ThalvreEL beenT E r e o , ce c i ; L ed o c ai ri be North and South American Coffee-house, to t he 19th of November. The Sl. Janes (N. 8.) Gael' of the 28th of October, mentions the arrival of t," ; , Islam, Capt. Campbell, at that port, all well. is the vessel concerning which a horrible pirli,% story was got up some time since, by the Janl ai ) Chronicle, on the authority of a person %%Awl's' been on board, anal witnessed the whole trans action. THE CROPS.—We have very little doubt that tb e average crop of Cotton will be 1, 000 lbs. p er ac hy throughout the western district. This fall both net Cotton and Corn will be better than at any forne season : from the 14 counties west of T ennebse _ river, we should suppose 30,000 bales of cotton would be shipped. in The Courrier of Bayonne speaks of a les'Y tim A is of P Spain of 50,000 men. Government have come to a deci,ion on the co n di: ar t i h s e p n ap e e w r s tr a e y a s t , y th w a i t tl i t t theisnorewpcnerit,ain that bona.: bl . nt . 11°44 k n own , but the particulars are not as yet made is said to he favourable to the holders of t he loan contracted in France. During the nights of the 21st and 22d of Nov a most violent storm was experienced at Gibraltso r i and the coast was strewed with the remains wrecks. A soldier on the rock was blown into the sea and drowned; and on the 26th the bad weather still continued. THE FUNDS. The Consol Market appears this morning to b e d heav• and may be called in a dwindling state, an .y, to the present time not the least speculation of coa t i sequence is going forward. Consols, which lea yesterday at for the Account, opene d at i t i same price, since which they have receded toull for The week before Christmas is generally speculations. The Foreign Market is is: the 5- yet state as that of the British M ar k e t ; P r ' ces as - nominal. ENGLISH Bank Stock, 216 17 India Stock, -- 3 per Cent. CHIII. shut Do., for Account, 944 Ditto Reduced, 933 k'ORIBIG FUNDS. 31 per Cent. 991 - I,_ New 4 per Cent, sul", C I4aprGFn Exchequer: d l , erurur i :xu a tNE ka ita0e55,i2_41051:4.0,81ii5462.811.277259;576473031 7. 3 1 4 g Spanish, 104 TWO O'CLOC I The Funds were very heavy in the early P13141,°,1 the morning, and Consols were done at 94 } for to Account, owing to some sales of stock, but 1 0t great extent, since which a reaction has tokehe place, and Consols got up again to 944 I fo r • Account, at which price they remain steady at Prr-0 sent, with little business doing. Money i°, lll fi - , / plentiful to-day, and the bankers discounting fr e di It is also expected that 200,000!. or 300,0001' be discounted by the Bank. In the Stock P"0 change the money was given at the rate of VII Brazilian, 67 Buenos ♦yres, 26 28 Cisiliar, 26 28 Colrmilian, 23i 3 Danish, 74 Frensh, 1 per Coot. 109 10 Ditto, 11 per Cent. Si -4- per cent. By private letters from Holland this day , ' t reported at Amsterdam that the negociations for • ti j i Greek Loan had failed, because they would n ot o f present recognze the old Loans : in co nsequanL e ' l e the above report, Greek Bonds declined in the auv ca pital. Private letters from Hamburg state that the Funds have improved there. The Dutch Funds are rather heavy. 'll Foreign Market nothing doing. nCI 4 THRUE O'CL Consols for Account, 94} f. ot. Ysteerday, a Court of Directors was be.- - , 6 4 the East India House, when the following Captain' sworn in to the command of their respective s hips,; o s Capt. Tuotaas LARKINS, Marquis Camden, St. 0 :0; Prince of Wales's Island, and China ; and Capt. ~e BAYLIS, Canning, China direct. /O f CITY ELECTIONS.—Monday w i ll be -" , day in the City, as the election of citizens to serve to Common Council commences on that day. The re ,„ At hith be an opposition in the Ward of Farringdou which, from recent events, is expected to be elo r P t o. severe. In the Ward of Cripplegate Within there : 0 .0 vacancies to fill, in consequence of members re ai g -l or for which there will be a smart struggle among the ne' e t ial didates, but the members remaining after the resigntor are not expected to be disturbed in their seats. lußieltootli gate Ward, Mr. Czaatzs Psiasow presents f in% again as a candidate, having received the most fla t '',lo o attention in his canvass. In other Wards contests o r t f iD expected, where the parties interested are also 14 ' preparing for the day of election. ELOPEMENT.—Last week Mrs. d • the mother of three children, residing with her hor :f p/ Clifton, eloped trona her husband's house. The o'o l excited the greatest interest in Clifton and Bristol : oe/oit gentlemen, both relations and friends, are gone in Pe f i ro ct of the fugitives, in the hopes of preserving the l a d Y further disgrace.—Bath Chronicle. cis! Some large sums have been obtained t° t o( at the Bahk, under the new arrangement for gr eP o tta loans on Exchequer-bills, &c , at three per eer it ,, ; e from the aspect of things at the Stock Exchange, t"-beeti mand in that quarter is likely to continue. It ble bse estimated, that since the measure first took effect t here , been issued under it about 1,000,0001. sterling, b US i i s ble calculations, it need not be observed, are exceeding l y ' to error.— Times. last , 1)1 A woodcock was shot on Wednesday - yep a gentleman of this town, which, when killed, oglis 15+ oz. A snipe was also shut a few days before tviho. same gentleman, of the weight of 5i oz.--C lidi ° Chronicle. ! o ce SINGULAR FISH !—A short tune --." vo .o celebrated Journal stated, that in dragging a cer t6in oge in 'Warwickshire, a turnpike was -caught weigbiug, •, —Cheltenham Chronicle. ?Men OF STOCKS Ti 8 yak stock r 217 3 per Cent. Bed. 9 37S ii 1 per Cent. Cons shut 1 1 ,4 per Cent. lOO DUO !led. WY'S 4 per Cent. Ana Ditto, Ift26 Ditto Scrip Rank t.. Ann. Ditto 30 years 19 13-16 India Stock shut Ditto Bonds 63 67 pm. PRICESOFyOREIGN Finips Austrian Bonds Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres Bonds ..... „ 27 Chilian Bonds ... — Colombian Bonds ... — Ditto, 1824 THIS OAT AT ONE O'CLOCK. I Neapolitan . Peruvian Bonds I tl% Portuguese Bonds Prussian, Old New - Russian 074 Danish 74M % Spanish, MI ... Greek Bonds Ditto, iS2S 26% 7 French Rentes, sp. c. leSf. 25c. Guatimala —;— Exchange Mexican Bonds ...... ......... 7 '— 3 per cent. —t -- Ditto, 1825 PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AY ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Brazilian Imp. Mm. Co. (iss. at 51. pm.) £2O Ditto National to Columbian Mining Co. (ias. at 51. pm.) £35 16% 71 ,i 8 PRICES OF IRISH STOC Bank Stock `255 ex div. Consols, 3 per cent. Gov. Stock, 3 1 ,si per cent 99% Ditto, New 4 per Cent lOl% Gov. Deb. 3i; per cent 99 i ' Royal Canal Stock —; Grand Canal Stock —i City Deb. 4 per cent Ballast Office Deb. 4p. c —.' Arrived. Due. O America 0 O Brazil O Buenos Ayres 0 O Carthagena 0 1 Dublin 0 1 Flanders 0 1 France 0 2 Guernsey &Jersey 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning... 15 minutes after 7. I Evening ... 40 minutes after 7. THE COLOSSEUM-REGENT'S PARK. The whole of this Magnificent Exhibition being completed, and the Interior warmed, the Public are respectfully informed that the Admissions are as follow, viz. : s. d. To view the Panorama, with the original Ball, removed from St. Paul's Cathedral—the Prospect from the sum mit of the Building—and the Saloon fur the Reception of Works of Art 2 0 To view the Conversatories, Fountain, Swiss Cottage, &c 4 0 To ♦iew the Panorama only The whole to be ♦iewed for 5 0 N. B.—ANNUAL TICKETS of ADMISSION (One Guinea each) may be had at the North Lodge. Open from Ten till Dusk. DAY AT orm crctocx. South Sea StoeiCiAfiA:“.: shut Old A nn uities New4Mit to shut Ex. Bills,.£l,ooe) 2d. 73 74 pm. Ditto ld. 73 74 pm. Ditto 500 2d. 73 74 pm. ........ Igd. 73 74 pm. Ditto 'Oman 24. 73 74 pm. Ditto lid. i,73 74 pm. Bank for Account ' lndia for Account (Cons. for January 91.34%% IDitto, :KS DUBLIN, DEC. 14. St. Patrick lnsur. (per sh.) Royal Irish Ditto National Ditto Patriotic Ditto Hibernian Bank Provincial Ditto Royal Irish Mine Imperial Mine Mining Co, of Ireland .Commercial Buildings Arrived. Due. 1 Hamburg O Holland C Jamaica 0 O Leeward Islands O Lisbon 1 O Mexico 1 Sweden 1 Waterford