The Sun. — London, England, 1837-01-25 00:00:00

.------- PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank 5t0ck.......... . ... ...... 2(11% 5 India Stoek — 3 per Cent. Resi t ...........9M%%34 , Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent. Cbia,4........ 59% ISN South Sea Stock — Diper Cent......... 9 9 Y. Old Annuities tto Red 98 % 9 g5/Z.4 ' New Ditto New 3% per Cent 9 8.4,4 , 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751... —. New sper Cent.,.........„ Exch. Bills, £1,000......25 20 23 pm. ; Bank LongAnnuitiestoexpire Ditto .... ...........500 Jan. 5, 1460 Oct. 10. 1859...... .......... .. , Ditto Commercial — pm. Jan 5, IF 60 — , Ditto Advertised pm Jan. 5, .Pki' ...... ....... —. ;Bank Stock fbr Account...... 204% 5 April 5, 1980 - India Stock for Account.. . . ... .. Jan. 5, 1870.......... ....... .... Consols for Acconnt ..597, 904 S9y, Omnium .. ...... .. ..... pin. • PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds .................• —1 Peruvian Bonds ....... ..... ....... Belgian Bonds — Ditto Account .••• ••• ....... «I. DI ttO Account .. —, Portugueseßonds. 7034 2 Brazilian Bonds ..... --i Ditto Account — Ditto Account ......... ........ —1 Ditto New Bonds .. Buenos Ayres Bonds —' Ditto Account 4 Bsq Ditto Account .................. —,, Ditto, 3 per cent. 30 %34 Chillian Bonds —............. ..... ' Prussian Bonds ...... .... ....... Ditto Account Columbian Bonds .......« —' Ditto Account — Ditto Account. — 1 Ditto Metallic ..... ... Columbian Bonds, :824 .--' Spanish Bonds ........ ......—.... Ditto Account — Ditto Account ..... ........ ..... Danish Bonds Ditto Account .......... ..... ... Ditto Account 25% 534 Greek 80nd5........—.............. French, 5 per cent .........IoBi. 50... Ditto Bonds, 1625 —' -- 4 per cent. —f. —c. Ditto Account .... ......... Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent.... —: -- Exchange 2sf. 50*. Ditto Account Ditto, 6 per cent. ............ Ditto Account 54 Ditto Acc0unt................. : . Ditto, 5 per cent Neapolitan ......... ................. — r Ditto Account PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. South Brighton, Lewes, and Newhaven Railway 2 2 ..i London and Westminster Bank 2O 2 0 South African Bank 6 5 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. m nutes alter -I, Evening...—. I minutes after 5. HANIBURGH, JAN. 10, 1637. ALL those who may have to write to us are re quested to direct HEINE BROTHERS in HAMBURGIT, which is perfectly sufficient for the address, and letters directed in that way will reach us just as well as if directed, HEINE BROTHERS, BANKERS, in HAMBURG. Neither the deno mination- of BANKERS, or any othcr, is required, and letters directed, HEINE BROTHERS in HAMBURGH. will do without any further remark or description. We further request to observe, that a letter with one. inclosure doubles the Postage only, but several inclosures would by far increase the same. Thus la, 201 , or 30/. , for instance, if remitted in One Bank of Eng lAnd Note would only cause double Postage, but 10/. remitted in ,:wo notes, would be liable to a much higher charge. It is there fcre most advisable, for any Person having to remit Money to Ham iurg'i, to forwat 1 the amount in One Note, or one Bank Post Bill or Cheque ; or having to receive Money from Hamturgh, to receive the same in the same way, whenever possible. As to re mittances from Flamburg,h to England for large Sums, amounting to rna:ny THOUSANDS, of course they may rather be remitted in Pills of Exchange. All those giving orders for any Branch of cur i cultifariousßusiness, that must be executed before FEBRUARY, are advised to lose no time in forwarding the same. HEINE BROTHERS in HAMBURG. 7lie publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPEr. commenced this dap 'at 10 minutes past Three o'clock. , A% 4 ,- .4 .-,..r. T, •:!-,-1,-.. A1i(4`...-'1?;'?...-.15.-. ..',,..!'-::,;• Tv ~ .---IrL,_ -- A4 l / 4 , -"l';‘!) -1=0,1"'-'-,,,41-1,,--t7.-'''', . , -::i.:.f ,- ..,,,,. ,--,-__. d!'- ! ,-•4 -,- •-•l'i,-,--.:l**----:.:: %a ct > ‘cz, COURSE OF EXCHA Amsterdam C.F. 12 54 Ditto, at sight ........... 12 24 H °trent= U. 12 0 Antwerp.~ ...... 51.8 l3 124 A1t0na..... P.tri , , 3 days' sight 25 50 Ditto .......... .......... 2 Us 25 SO Marseille;. Frankfort nu Maine, Ex. M 153 Petershiugh, ruble I Us. 10 0 Berlin _ ►NGE YESTERDAY. Leghorn 47U Genoa t'.6 5 Milan 3l Venice 47 Naples , 40 Palermo per oz. 191 Lisbon ................ .................. 54 Oporto 53 Rio Janeiro 33 Bahia 26 Buenos Ayres Dublin, 21 days' sight Vienna, effective LI 2M.10 18 Cork 1 . 5 .4 l'rieNte ditto lO 19 Madrid 35!.4 . PRICE OF BULLION, PER OZ. Gob 7 37 Portugal Gold, c0in...„...£0 0 0 Hi lhoa '53 , ()re i gn • . gn G o ld , in bars.-- 3 17 9 Itircelona ^0 New Doubloons S.rville ,ll : New Dollars ................. 0 4 10% Gibraltar MAILS. .... _ _ 'A 11l ved ____. Due. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due o America. 0 1 France e 0 Lisbon 0 0 Brazil ..... ....... 0 0 °nun). &Jersey 0 0 Malta ........ 0 nuenosAyres.. 0 0 Hamburg 1 0 Mexico 0 o carthagena...... (1 0 Holland 0 0 Ostend... ..... ... 0 1 Dublin... ...... 0 0 Jamaica 0 0 5weden........... 0 0 Flanders ......... 0 0 Leeward Islands 0 1 Waterford 0 LOND ON, WEDNESDAY EVF.NING, JANUARY 25, 1837. In the Number of the Edinburgh Review just puh li-died, there is an article entitled " The Approaching Session," which contains much that is worthy the .;rave consideration of our readers—especially as re !7ards the present state of Ireland, on which subject the Reviewer remarks—" When we come to Ire land, the case is entirely changed. Ireland can not wait. If the Whig Government should be destroyed or damaged, or obstinately thwarted, we do fear for Ireland with regard to those very measures in which, and in their immediate settlement, the safety of that unhappy country is involved. Imagine the most probable of all consequences—an Irish civil war. When the shrieks are borne, and the buntings flare across the Channel, will England quietly look on ?" Certainly not. Nor would the Tories survive such a calamity a single hour. From the moment whim the first signal of insurrection was given in Ireland, from that moment their party would not be merely lessened, or put down, but extinguished—annihilated—leaving not so much as the. scrap of a wreck to show that they had once existed. But we have few apprehensions for the sis ter country. Let LYNDIIURST bully, and the Lords cry " Hear, hear," as they please, Ireland must be righted, and that immediately. She cannot afford to wait. She ought not to wait ; and shame light on her, if she does wait ! But why does the Reviewer insinuate his distrustful "if ?" Why imagine—for such is evidently his drift—that the Ra dicals have any idea of " damaging, or destroying, or obstinately thwarting" the existing Ministry ? We have no patience with such misgivings ! Every day's experience serves to show that the Radical section of the Reformers have the fullest confidence in the Go vernment ; that they are aware of its difficulties ; and ready to go alllengths in assisting it through them. Even those who have most spoken out against the Mi nistry, have spoken out, not as enemies, but as zealous and sincere friends. True, they are deter mined that Reform shall be on the move, but they are not such fools as to suppose that it can be driven forward at a steeple-chace gallop ; no, they are satis fied with its making a steady, rational, and continuous progress. Should the present Cabinet be even ejected from office, sure we are it will not be owing to the Radical Reformers- Far otherwise. Ministers, and Ministers only, can sign their own death-warrant. Their own indolence and procrastination only can undo . them. They open the campaign under the most favourable auspices, for though the Tories will no doubt get up a vigorous opposition, yet the people generally are With Government, and Ireland to a man is with them. What can they desire more ? Diffi culties they may have—as what Ministry was ever without them ?—but difficulties are only difficulties to the timid and distrustful ; to those who have the means, and above all, the will, to surmount them, they are mere cobwebs in their path. Had difficulties been xegarded, the Duke of WELLINGTON would never have carried Catholic Emancipation, nor Earl GREY the Re form Bill. Making every reasonable allowance, then,for the embarrassments to which we are well aware Ministers will be subjected daily throughout the Session—grant ing that the Court is against them—that the Lords are against them—and that a strong faction in the Com mons is against them—still we repeat, we know of no obstacle so overwhelming that they will not be able to subdue; for to the stout heart and the enterprising na ture nothing is difficult but that which is impossible. With the Reviewer's remarks on the House of Lords we cordially coincide. They are pregnant with good sense and significance. "It is high time for the House of Lords to be on its gUard. It is as its friends that we say so. We beseech it to look to the dangers which it will accumulate upon itself, and upon the Constitution, by intemperate perseverance in the spirit and conduct which it has recently displayed. If the House of Lords continue to recognise Lord LygnittirtsT for its leader, and persist to keep itself, whether under the same or any guidance, in an atti tude of hostility to a popularly-elected House of Com mons, it will uon become utterly impossible for those 'T - r/( THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1837. who are, and wish to continue, warm friends of the institution, successfully to defend it." The petition to the House of Commons from the inhabitants of Manchester, praying for the total abo lition of Church Rates, has been signed by upwards of THIRTY-SIX THOUSAND persons. This is, we be lieve, the greatest number of signatures ever affixed to a petition from that town, and it speaks in a language that cannot be misunderstood, the sentiments of the manufacturing capital of the British Empire on a great public question. The Rate-payers of the Borough of Newport held a meeting on the 17th instant, at which resolutions were passed, condemning in the . strongest terms the iniquity and impolicy of the Church-rate system, and petitions to the Legislature praying its immediate abolition, unanimously adopted. This, be it ob served, was a meeting not of Dissenters exclusively, but of rate-payers publicly convened, and presided over by the Mayor of the borough. It must therefore have comprehended many of the supporters of the Es tablished Church. Did they hold up their hands against these resolutions ? No such thing. They con ceived that they were acting as the best friends, the truest supporters of the Church whose worship they ap proved, by lending their assistance to do away with those abuses and unjust privileges, which, so far from strengthening, decidedly weaken and undermine the Establishment, by enlisting against it the feelings and the religious principles of the com munity, and thus rendering it an object of disgust as well as an intolerable grievance. This is the proper view of the question, and this view, we are delighted to find, is rapidly extending among churchmen. A great meeting, having the same excellent object in view, takes place to-night at Boston. We have reason to believe that the resolutions against Church rates submitted to the people of Boston will be ex pressed in language particularly energetic, and that one of them will contain a declaration pledging the meet ing to support no candidate at the next election, who has not satisfied them as to his opinions and conduct on this important point—in other words, that the candidate for their votes must he a total abolitionist. We highly approve of this decided conduct on the part of the men of Boston. It is manly and noble. The Dissenters possess great political influence, and are they not to use it in the justest of causes ? Are they, with the power in their hands to rid themselveS' of a degrading and intolerable burden, to sit still and bow their necks to the yoke of bondage ? No ! they hare been passive too long. They have borne, without murmuring, the taunts, the scoffs, and the tyrannical oppression of the state-hound sect, until they have been accused of apathy. They are now determined to prove that the accusation is unfounded, and we are of opinion that those who ventured to prophesy that the excitement among the Dissenters would be of a very transitory duration, arc by this time pretty well convinced of their error. The extension of the commercial relations of Great Britain with Russia, however brought about, must be highly beneficial to the inhabitants of both countries. The greater advantages must necessarily be on the side of the country least advanced in civilization ; but to persuade a people in a semi-barbarous state that their condition can be at all improved by a commercial in tercourse with, foreigners, is to remove one of theligreat est impediments to the happiness of mankind. It is therefore with the sincerest pleasure that we direct the attention of our readers to the new Russian Tariff which Lord Durham has succeeded in obtaining from the Cabinet of St. Petersburg. Of articles of English _manufacture, nearly a hundred are now ad missible into Russia, subject to a fixed duty, which hitherto were absolutely prohibited. We grant that the duty in some cases amounts almost to a prohibi tion, so that an extensive trade in certain commodities now admissible, cannot reasonably be anticipated ; but we may infer from the nature of this change, as well as the consequences which must result from it, that Russia will, by degrees, reduce her scale of prohi bitive duties, in order to allow her subjects to derive a larger share of those advantages, which even now must accrue to them from a more extensive commer cial intercourse with Great Britain. Nations require but to try the effect of the most partial free dom of trade, to be convinced that their true interest consists in extending it. Russia may vet prove an exception to this rule ; but that will not happen before she shall have extended her territory in the East, so as to possess within herself whatever may be needful to supply the wants and wishes of her immense population. But highly as we approve of the changes that have been effected in the Russian Tariff, and deeply as we are sensible of the important services of Lord DURtrAar at St. Petersburgh, we cannot respond to the sentiments of a ministerial Morning Contemporary in commenting upon this document. The attack of the Chronicle upon the Portfolio will pass for sheer bombast with such of the English people as know how to appreciate the services which the Editors of the Portfolio have al ready rendered to the cause of liberty in Western Europe. Mortifying as the fact may be to the Chro nicle, we can assure our Contemporary that the articles in the Portfolio exposing the treacherous designs of the Russian Cabinet have produced a greater effect upon the councils of the Autocrat than all he has published relative to the aggressions of Russia for the last seven years. The epithets applied by the Portfolio to some part of the conduct of Lord DURHAM may be unpa latable ; and we are happy to state that the writer's fears of the failure of his Lordship's diplomacy are daily shown to be groundless ; but there is certainly nothing so offensive in the Portfolio's strictures upon his Lordship's acts, as to warrant a wholesale denunciation of a very useful and very excellent pub lication. We make these observations the more readily, because we have always been as strenuous supporters of Lord DURHAM as the Chronicle, and because we are entire strangers to all that regards the Portfolio, with the sole exception of its powerful effect upon public opinion in every part of Europe. The Chronicle sneers at the over-anxiety of the Portfolio, by stating that—" If the conduct of Russia should be such as to justify British interference, that, interference will not as suredly be withheld." We hope not. But we beg to remind the Chronicle that it is not quite eight years since the conduct of Russia did justify British interference, and that interference was withheld. Lord DURHAM, we believe, has not yet forgotten this fact ; for it happens that he was, about the time we speak of, a member of the Government. The recollection of this ought to restrain all uncalled for boasts, on the part of certain over-authoritative Journals. Were the Russian Tariff twice as favourable as it really is, we should not relax a jot in our efforts to expose the usurping policy of that overgroWn Power in the East. No pecuniary advantages should blind us to the fact, that treaties have never bound Russia for an instant longer than it accorded with her interests to discard them ; and that every advantage which she now holds out to us, is really intended as a lure to withdraw our attention from her designs upon Turkey. As we stated above, the advantages which will flow to her people from a more extensive commercial trade with England, must, for a time, open her eyes to her true interests, and therefore the new arrangement will be productive of great good : but if she can only con trive to make herself mistress of Constantinople— which is her grand object—she will dispense with any , , extensive trade_ with the Liberal States of Western Europe. A gentleman, whose opinions are entitled to great respect, has addressed a communication to us, in which he complains that the public mind of England is so intensely occupied with political questions, that men who would promote the welfare and the glory of their country, on grounds higher and purer than those too often occupied by the leaders of party, are constrained to remain silent, from an inability to make themselves heard amidst the incessant din of faction. This com plaint is by no means a novel one. It has been re peated for centuries, and will be so repeated during the lifetime of the present generation—if not so long as society exists. The mind of a free people must be in cessantly occupied with something or other ; and if it' appear to take too lively an interest in matters of in considerable importance, to the apparent forgetfulness of affairs of greater moment, the blame rests with those who have the power of directing it. The error of the public mind is the result of ignorance or misdirection ; as its activity is the inevitable consequence of necessity. It cannot be still ; and, therefore, those who reserve the discovery of their projects till it be entirely disen gaged must wait for ever. Their best plan, therefore, is not to indulge in complaints; but to develope their ideas, and try what they can do in the way of changing the current of public opinion. There will be always some congenial minds prepared to co-operate with them in any design which they may meditate ; for there will be always some discontented with the existing state of things. The more immediate object which our Correspon dent has in view, in the communication which forms the subject of these remarks, is to rouse the people of England to a sense of that justice which the nation has yet to render to the most illustrious names in the an, nals of the British empire. In imitation of the Irish patriot, THOMAS STEELE, he would recommend that our first instalment of this mighty debt should consist in the erection of a National Monument to Sir ISAAC NEWTON. We agree with him so far. There is no name in the annals of England'which we would sooner place at the head of a list of our illustrious dead than NEWTON. He stands forth as one of the great bene factors of the human race. 'His is a name, whom all times and climes will unite with us in rendering im mortal. But with respect to the monument to be erected in honour of NEWTON, we prefer the plan of Mr. STEELE to that proposed by our correspondent. Mr. STEELE takes as his model for - the work, the cele brated chapel of our Lady of Loretto —by which means the identical house occupied by the great philo sopher would be preserved to the latest posterity. This is i❑ itself, and apart from the other uses of the build ing, a splendid conception. But, in addition to this, Mr. STEELE proposes that the body of the building should form a grand National Library and Museum of Science, and that the top of it should be devoted to the purposes of an observatory, so constructed as to excel any yet known in Europe. This excellent sug gestion . deserves to be followed up in the prosecution of the whole plan of our correspondent. It is an ad mirable improvement upon the laborious, but too often useless monuments, erected by the ancients to perpe tuate the memory of their most distinguished kings, priests, legislators, and warriors. To make the culti vation of the generous sentiment of veneration for the illustrious dead subservient to the promotion of the in tellectual improvement of the living, is to render a most important service to mankind. This Mr. STEELE pro poses to do with respect to the erection of a national monument to NEWTON ; and it seems to us that the same proposal is equally appliehble - AO:national ments to SHAKSPEARE, MILTON, and other great names in the history of our country. The rearing. of pillars to great men is the most expensive, ridiculous, and unmeaning way of doing honour to their memory,. that could possibly be adopted among a people not of migratory habits. It is otherwise in the East, where they serve as landmarks—as lasting memorials of the covenants of various tribes—as records of acts, the me mory of which could not otherwise be preserved in countries without any established literature. The ne cessities, as well as the mythology, of most oriental nations, suggested the rearing of pillars, the digging of wells, and the construction of tombs for the reception of the dead, as the surest way of handing down their memory to posterity. The genius of the Christian religion, the social habits of the people of Europe, the climate, and the forms of Government which prevail in it, are all opposed to such modes of honouring de parted greatness. We know that the ancient Egyptians rewarded the signal services of their Kings by magni ficent tombs, and that ABSALOM reared a pillar to supply the place of children in preserving his memory in Israel ; but the Egyptians looked to the grave as their final habitation, and the Princes of Judah, be fore the time of SoLo:►toN, were strangers to any other mode of rendering their memory immortal among the Twelve Tribes. The very reasons which might be urged in justification of most of the ancient monu ments, are those which bear most strongly against any imitation of them in our days. Indeed it may pass for a maxim that whatever is entirely useless to the living, is not worthy of being devoted to perpetuate the me mory of the dead. In any project, therefore, for honouring the dead, let the welfare of the living be carefully attended to. Halls of science ; extensive public libraries ; museums of natural curiosities ; galleries filled with the choicest paintings and . the. ratrest-apecimens of sculpture ; bo tanical and, zoological. gardens_; and theatres .for the gratuitous recreation•of" the 'people at certain seasons of the year, are the means-by-which we would recom mend the nation to testify its veneration for the memory of the illustrious dead. Mr. STEELE'S unceasing efforts to rescue the memory of Sir ISAAC NEWTON from the comparative obscurity into which the apathy of Englishmen is gradually permitting it to sink, merits the highest praise ; but what we most value is the prac tical utility of his project for so excellent a purpose. We trust that having associated his name with an undertaking worthy of the genius of the present age, and of our common country, he will not relax in his endeavours till the great work be accomplished. If he only set about it in real earnest, he will not fail to im part a sufficient portion of his own generous enthusiasm to the public mind of Great Britain and Ireland. As for our Correspondent, he may rely upon it that the people are capable of entertaining as many projects for honouring the dead as he can possibly propose, with out for a moment losing sight of the political interests of the living. The French Journals of Monday contain no news of the slightest Political importance, with the exception of comments upon the liberation of the prisoners at Strasburg. We have ourselves said all that appears to us necessary upon this subject. For paragraphs of news we refer to the subjoined extracts from these Journals : We see that M. Duchatel represents the prohibition to export certain articles on the Pyrenean frontiers as 66- tremely favourable to the Queen's cause ; and the .Tournal des Debats, acting on the same system of tactics, talks of 40,000 piastres sent by the Spanish Minister of Finance 'for the Foreign Legion, and expresses its pleasure at " thi s justice done to the Legi on o f Africa, the claims and ser vices of which we have long advocated and brought for ward." It may, however, be proper to. plaec in juxta posi tion with the article of the .Journal des Debcits the following lines from the Memorial des Pyrenees : " The Foreign Legion, which no longer consists of any thing more than some glorious fragments, evacuates Spain, and with it is extinguished otar influence on the course of events, and on the fate of the Peninsula." The Sentinelle des Pyrenees of the 196 inst. sap, that on. the preceding days fourteen chests of money, each ccn taining 10,000 francs in silver, had been sent to St. Se bastian. A letter from Tolosa, written to the same journal, says that a French officer in the service of Don Carlos had just been appointed Brigadier of Artillery. It is affirmed that many of the inhabitants are preparing to quit that city.— Journal du Commerce, Jan. 23. The Pilote des Calados of the 20th has the following ar ticle :—" Return and re-establishment of the Jesuits in France.—A person, whom we have reason to believe well informed, assures us that, at the solicitation of M. Guizot, the Jesuits have just been recalled to France, from which the revolution of July had caused them to dislodge. The Jesuits, it is added, would not consent to return till they had dictated the terms, among which is the payment of an indemnity for the loss which the revolution of July had occasioned them. Two provincials have accoritingly been appointed for France ; one will reside at Lyons, and will have under his direction the establishments of the South ; the other will reside at Amiens in the establishment of St. Acbeul, in which he is on the point of taking up his abode, if he has not done so already ; the colleges of Jesuits, which will be founded in the North, will he under him."—Con slitutionnel, Jan. 23. FRENCH FUNDS.-Pests, JAN. 23. Five per Cents., 109 f. 15c. 10c. Four and a Half per Cents. 103 f. Four per Cents., 100 f. 75c. Three per Cents. 79E 85c. 801. 85c. Bank Actions, 2,360 f. 2,362 f. 50c. Rente de Naples, 981 80c. Roman Five per Cents., 102%%%. Spanish Actives, 26l %14 %. Spanish Differes, 11% Spanish Passives, 7U %ki. Portuguese Three per Cents. 31. E 32 31% Dutch Two and a half per. Cents., 55. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 27 ; money, 25f. 27%e. Three months, paper, 25f. 7%e. ; money, 25E 7%c. -Court Authentsane. LAST PRICES. Five per Cents., 109 f. 20c. Three per Cents. 79f. 90c. Bank Actions, 2,362 f. 52c. • Rente de Naples, 99f. sc. Roman Five per Cents., 102%. Belgian Society, 1 r 3201. Portuguese Three per Cents., 31%. Spanish Actives, 26%. Spanish Passives, 7%. Spanish Differes, 9. New Differes, 114. Dutch Two and a Half per Cents., 55. Miguelites, 12, The Madrid Gazette of the 15th inst. denies that Brigadier-General ALAIX has been appointed Com mandant-General of Alava by General ESPARTERO. We are very glad of this. Such an appointment at such a time, and under such circumstances, would have proved very detrimental to the triumph of the Constitutional cause in the Basques. The falsehood, which had like to have proved so injurious to the Government, was concocted without any foundation by the Espanol, a Madrid opposition journal. There are still rumours in circulation of a change in the Cabinet, but we trust they are entirely unfounded. The retirement of MENDIZABAL would he a serious loss to Spain at the present juncture. There are no accounts of any interest from the North of Spain. The dreadful state of the weather has prevented any important movement since the 24th ult., on the part of either Christinos or Carlists. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. We have received New York papers to Jan. 3. The New York Price Current of the 31st Dec., gives the following exchanges:— " There have been some sales of bills on England for the packet of the Ist at tif to 71 per cent. cash ; on France, sf. 32-kc. to sf. 35c. ; Holland, 391; Hamburg, 351; Ex ports of specie this week, 3,000 dollars. At the close of the market the exchange on London improved to 74 8." We have the subjoined news from Texas : " SAN LOUIS, MEXICO, Nov. 23.—About ten days ago Gen. Bravo left for Texas ,with 3,000 men. This, with about 1,200 men, in Matamoras, is the whole force, and you are to understand that Bravo's men are all sweepings of the gaols and raw recruits ; upwards of 700 desertions between Mexico and San Louis have taken place. " The latest accounts from the city of Mexico represent things in a very low state ; the inhabitants were riveted to the earth by the heat of the sun, so little animation exists in them." " NEW YORK CITY NEWS.—Saturday night passed off without the severe pressure expected in the Money Market ; but it appears that the merchants had been making their cal culations, and were in a great degree prepared to meet their exigencies; the Banks having now made up their accounts for Albany, relief is immediately expected. " The State Legislatures are debating as to the disposition that should be made of their shares of the Surplus Revenue. All the States thus far have really accepted the Act of Con gress. To divide among the towns seems to be quite a popu lar proposition with seine of the States ; but this seems to us to be frittering the fund away." We have Montreal papers to the 18th December. Ex change at 60 days' Bank, 12 per cent.; Private, 12 per cent.; Montreal Bank Shares, 20 per cent.; City, $ per cent.; Com mercial Bank, l 1 per cent. " LOWER CANADA.—Last night we had the first regular fall of snow with an easterly gale. There will be now suffi cient snow to form a good winter. " The composition of the Legislative Council of Upper Canada is beginning to excite the attention of the Constitu tional Press of that province._ " The Courier states that the different classes of the popula tion are not fairly represented in the Council ; for instance, that there are nearly four times more Scotch Members than English, Irish, or American." We have received Singapore Papers to the 16th of Sept. The Penang Gazette of the 27th 9f August gives the follow ing commercial remarks : " OPIUM. —Seven chests were purchased by the Chinese merchants at 625 dollars, and three chests at 630 dollars cash ; 19 at 660 dollars, 6 at 665 dollars, two at 670 dollars, and one at 680 dollars, three months, all Benares ; two chests Malwa, at 530 dollars cash, and 8 chests at 550 dollars, three months. " CoTToN GOODS.-Bengal piece goods have been a good deal in demand during the week. " Benares has been in excellent demand since our last, and about 30 chests have been sold from 670 to 680 dollars, cash. ". COTTON.—Little in demand, and the market well sup plied." We have likewise received New Brunswick Papers to the 25th December. The Provincial Legislature was opened on Tuesday. His Excellency's speech is a very brief document, and contains but little information. It is as follows: " Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of Assembly, " In obedience to the commands of his Majesty's Govern ment, I have called you together at this unusual, and, I fear, to many of you inconvenient, season of the year, in order to lay before Sou, as I am desired to do, with as little delay as possible, some important dispatches in answer to the address of the House of Assembly, respecting the surrender of the casual and territorial revenues, copies of which shall be communicated at an early period. The arrangements proposed by his Majesty's Government and which are particularly detailed in these despatches, involve questions m which the welfare of the province is materially con cerned; and I therefore have to express my hope that you will give to the subject that calm consideration which its importance demands, and that the result of your delibera tions may tend to the advancemeat and permanent benefit of this rising and happy portion of his Majesty's dominions. "Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of Assembly, " I shall direct the Treasurer's accounts, and such other papers as may be necessary for your information, to be pre pared and laid before .you as soon as possible; but as the close of the year is so near at _hand, it will be perhaps desirable that they should be made up as usual to that period. , g Mr. President. and Hon. Gentlemen of the Legislative Council— It affords me great satisfaction to observe that the general prosperity of the province, notwithstanding some temporary checks which it is feared.it may receive from the deficiency of the crops during the last season, seems to. be steadily ad vancing, and leaves little for me to recommend to your consi deration, beyond the providing for the ordinary services of the province. Some few particulars of minor importance, will be communicated by message during the session." THE FUNDS. Consols opened this morning at 89k 90 for the Account ; Money, 90; Exchequer Bills, 23 25; India Bonds, 19. Spanish Active, 251 ; Passive, 61 71; Deferred, 11 i 12 ; Portuguese, 481; Three per Cents., 301 HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK. luring the morning there has been very little speculation in either of the funds. All attention still prevails to the meet ing of the Bank Directors to-morrow, to ascertain if any thing will come forth respecting the dead weight, Money Stock being still scarce. Consols maintain the price of 89i. Mo ney 89i; Exchequer Bills 20 23 ; India Bonds 17 ; Bank Stock 204} 205 ; India Stock 258. In the Foreign Market very little doing—Spanish Active rather heavy. The speculators are on the qui vine for the re sult of the grand attack of the Queen's troops on the Carlist lines. Spanish 25i; Passive 7i ; Deferred 111 ; Portuguese 41; Three per C en t s ., 30i ; Dutch Two-and-half per Cents. 53 ; Five per Cents., 1031. Accounts from the Cape of Good Hope to the 13th Nov. state that the affairs on the frontier were more favourable. The murders which had taken place of the farmers have not prevented others from emigrating. The Secretary of the Go vernment had laid before the Council the estimates for the present year. The revenue was 127,1001., and the antici pated expenditure 126,6651. A question had been raised whether the Legislature or the Home Government were to provide for She losses occasioned by the Caffre invasion. A public meeting was to he called praying an inquiry by Govern ment into the causes which led to the Caffre war. Consols for the Account, 894. THREE O'CLOCK. Lady Brougham and her daughter, Miss Brougham, are at present residing at Worthing for the improvement of the health of the latter. Lady Malct, her Ladyship's daugh ter by her first marriage, is with Sir Alexander at the Hague, where he is Secretary of Legation. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Through some unaccountable oversight that clumsy and gigantic structure, the Speaker's chair, remains in stain eodenz. It is hardly necessary to inform our readers how effectually, during the last Session, the chair of the Speaker prevented not only the, Right Hon. Gentleman himself, but every Member who spoke before it, from being heard in the Reporters' gallery. This impediment, instead of being removed, has been greatly increased by the lowering of the Reporters' gallery, which is now almost on a level with the top of the Speaker's chair. We hope it is not too late to make some alteration. CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS DAY.) TYLER V. BELL. The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment this morning in this case, which was an appeal from the decision of the Mas ter of the Rolls, allowing a demurrer, and refusing to give the parties liberty to amend. As the case was only argued a day or two since, when all the facts were given, it is unne cessary to repeat them. His Lordship affirmed the decision of the Court below. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) PITT V. BONNER. The VICE-CHANCELLOR gave judgment in this case, which was argued at considerable length before the Christmas vacation. The principal object of the suit was to have an account of the profits of two collieries, called the Kinross and Guscombe Collieries, the plaintiff, Mr. Pitt, alleging that he was entitled to the payment of an an nuity of upwards of 1,1001. out of those profits. His Honour, after going at considerable length into the facts of the case, declared his opinion in favour of the plaintiff Mr. Pitt, and ordered the account accordingly. In conclusion his Honour said, in consequence of some observations made in the course of the arguments against Mr. Pitt, that his conduct had been litigi ous, he had been requested by that gentleman to make some ob servations on that subject, and in justice to Mr. Pitt he felt bound to do so. In his Honour's opinion Mr. Pitt was perfectly jus-' tified, with a view to his own interests, in bringing forward the case in the manner he had done, and there was no imputation against him, either on account of litigiousness, improper extor tion, or improper conduct. Mr. PITT, who was present, could not express the obligation he felt to the Court for the remarks it had made. The VICE-CHANCELLOR-It is a mere matter of justice to you, Mr. Pitt, that I should do so. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) SHAW V. WRIGHT. His Lordship the MASTER of the Rom.s was occupied the whole morning in hearing the further arguments in this case, which was opened yesterday. KING'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) THE KING V. THE INHABITATNS OF WITHONW/CIC. This was an appeal from an order of two justices, dated Feb., 1835, for the removal of William Tiplady, a pauper, Anne his wife, and their four children, from the township of Withon ick to the township of West Newton, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. In the notice of appeal it wa't assigned as the ground of objection, that the pauper never obtained any settle ment in the township of West Newton. On the trial of the appeal it was further urged, that the order of removal was bad, inasmuch as it did not state the names and ages of the pauper's children. The Sessions decided, that that objection not having been set out in the notice of appeal, could not then be urged ; and confirmed the order for the removal of th e pauper an his wife, but quashed the order for the removal of the children, subject to the decision of the Court. Mr. HILLYARD now appeared to support the order of Ses sions, and contended that it was absolutely necessary, in order to give validity to the orders of justices, that the names and ages of the children should have been set out. The question their Lordships had to decide was, whether the objection urged at the trial of the appeal was bad, and also whether the Sessions had power to amend the order of justices by inserting the names of the children, which he submitted they had not. The COURT observed that there could be no doubt upon this point, because the 81st section of the Act required that the written notice of appeal should set forth the grounds of the appeal, and it was not competent to the appellant parish to go into or give evidence upon any matter or grounds of appeal other than those set out in. the notice. They were clearly of opinion that the Sessions were not warranted in going into such ground of objection, and therefore the order of Sessions must be quashed, and the original order of justices for the re moval of the pauper and his family confirmed. COMMON PLEAS—(THIS DAY.) Nothing of any interest occurred• in this Court up to the time when our reporter left. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, JAN. 24.—Wind W. S.W. moderate.—Arrived the Harpooner, Howard, from Mauritius ; Fanny, Cook, from Jamaica•; St. James, Sebor, from New York ; Richmond, West, from Trieste ; Lord Russell, from Messina. STANGATE CREEK.—Arrived the Selina, Ludstone, from Mogadore ; Countess Errol, Maitland, from Leghorn. SHOREHAM, JAN. 24.—Arrived the Mary Ann, Potto, from St. Michael's. Poatsmount, J. 24.—W. S. W. fine.—Arrived the Os prey, Young, from St. Sebastian. GLOUCESTER, JAN. 24.—Arrived the William Hill, from Riga. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 23.—Arrived the Tweed, Lawson, from Bombay ; Lord Cochrane, Campbell, from Maranham ; Ann Hall, Bowles, from St. John's, New Brunswick ; Pollock, from ditto ; Brothers, Bell, from Trieste; Liberty, Scorgu, from Sicily ' • Selina, --, from Tarragona. CANTON.— Arrived the Imogine, Riley, from Liverpool ; Eliza, Stewart, from London. BATAVlA.—Arrived the Mary Somerville, Jackson, from Liverpool; Arabian, from Bristol. BOMBAY. —Arrived the Australia, Forrester, from Liver pool ; Jamaica, Martin, from the Clyde; Henry Tanner, Fergusson, from New South Wales. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. —Arrived the Lynheer, Kerswell, and Scaleby Castle, Robertson, from London ; Lise, from Bombay, leaky, and must discharge. FALMOUTH, JAN. 23.—Arrived the Globe, Soudry, from Penang ; Chrystadt, Gladson, from Gergenti ; Antigua packet, Cherry, from Antigua. Off port, the Conder, Pigott, from Buenos Ayres ; Hamilton, from Demerara. BRISTOL, JAN. 23.—Arrived the Lang, Atkinson, from New Brunswick. DUBLIN, JAN. 23.—Arrived the Vixen, Wickam, from Leghorn ; Rose Hill, Harrison, from Memel ; Vaador, Mes queta, from St. Übes. CORK, JAN. 23.—Arrived the Nonpareil, from St. John's, New Brunswick. The Susannah, bound to China, and the Admiral Buskes, were lost in a typhoon on the 31st of July, nea r th e Ladrories. The Pruella, Hardy, from Dublin to Liverpool, is on shore in Carnarvon Bay, and bilged—crew saved. The Friends, Carl, from Gottenburg to Hull, put into Christiansand very leaky, and must discharge. The Superior, Tyson, from Marseilles to New York, struck a reef of rocks near Bermuda on the 29th November, and sunk--crew saved. The Gambia, from New York to Lisbon, was capsized at sea on the 29th November —mate, supercargo, and three men drowned. The Caleb, Goodwin, was driven on shore at Vera Cruz, during a gale previous to Ist December, and wrecked. Yesterday a numerous assemblage of the members of the Incorporated Society of Licensed Victuallers, and other gentlemen, dined together at Mr. CORBY'S, Craven -court, Strand, preparatory to presenting the Secretary of the Society, Mr. BLAKE, with a piece of plate, as a testimony of the high estimation in which his services were held. Mr. THOMAS CORBY took the chair, and after the usual toasts were drunk, pre sented Mr. BLAKE, in the name of the Society o f Licensed Victuallers, with an elegant cup and cover, bearing the following inscription : THIS CUP, Purchased by the voluntary subscriptions Of many of the Members of the Incorporated Society of Licensed Victuallers, And other Gentlemen, Was presented on the 24th of January, 1837, to JAMES FREDERICK BLAKE, ESQ. Secretary to the said Society, As a testimonial of their high'estimation of his Indefatigable exertions on behalf of the LICENSED VICTUALLERS' SCHOOL, And the other Charities connected with the MORNING ADVERTISER, And of their admiration of the talent, integrity, and zeal uniformly displayed by him, in fulfilling the important duties of the offices which he has held in the service of the Society during a period of twenty-eight years. The reading of the inscription was_ greeted by the warmest expressions of approbation. Mr. BLAKE acknowledged the honour that had been conferred upon him in a very clever and appro priate speech, to which we regret our limits will not per mit us to give insertion. He had been in the service of the society for twenty-eight years, and had carefully watched over its growth from infancy to maturity. Th e Editor of the Morning Advertiier, Mr. Under-She riff WIRE, Mr. WARD, and Mr. POORE, severally addressed the Company at great length. The com pany did not separate till a late hour. A splendid ball took place at the White Hart Inn, Bromley, on Monday, the 2sd inst., and was numerously and fashionably attended. The rooms were elegantly fitted up, and brilliantly illuminated. The company did not se= parate until five in the morning. One of the first silk merchants in Berlin has stopped payment for the sum of 400,000 thalers.—French Paper. The grocers of Leicester have announced their inten tion of limiting their credit accounts in future to two months. LITERATURE. ZULNEIDA. 3 Vols. Macrons, London, 1836. The work before us is the production of Dr. Arthur Mower, author of an impassioned little tale entitled the " White Cottage," which was published some years since by Blackwood, and was deservedly adknired at the time. The author, however, has not improved since then. There is nothing in his present tale . equal in pathos and energy to the closing chapters of his first , work, which— .. if our memory do not play us, false- 7 turned upon the subject of hereditary insanity.. The: great defect of Zulneida is want of truth and eon sistency of character. The dranzatis pers.oner are numerous, but scarce one is a transcript° from lifei being but just so many abstractions. They seem to :. be constantly acting without sufficient motives ; if ire` except the heroine Zulneida, whose character, incon; sistent and indeed almost incomprehensible at first, improves as it proceeds, and becomes, by the time we have reached the third volume—a long way to go to find . something worth reading--intelligible and interesting, though hardly in one instance is it removed from commonplace. The best scenes in the novel (romance rather) are those between Zulneida and Eugenio the Benedictine monk, where the latter is persuading the former to renounce the worship of Mahomet, and be come a Christian. Here the dialogue has both force and propriety, and is sustained with considerable spirit. Dr. Mower has great descriptive powers ; much ease and elegance of style ; but little or no tact in delineat ing human character. Granny does not deny that her pretended Second Edition of the 14th inst. was printed somewhere between London and Glasgow—she thinks that immaterial. We entertain no jealousy of her success in such tricks. No diie, woull compete with her in such a field. She has gained no . triumph except in her own imagination : but if she can ;be • pleased with that, we see no reason to be dissatisfiect We are content to have exposed a contemptible fraud.—Times. NEWSPAPER DISPATCH.—ShortIy after mid-day on Monday last copies of a second edition of the Morning Herald, of Saturday, arrived at our office, and at the Coffee room here, with a report of Peel's Banquet, extending to six broad columns, and bringing the proceedings to a close after one o'clock on Saturday morning !!! How occur rences that happen in the morning at Glasgow should on the same evening be printed in London and back to Glas gow by eleven o'clock on Monday, was utterly beyond com prehension, and the occurrence accordingly became the subject of universal discussion in town. The way the business was managed appears to be as follows : The Morning Herald must have thrown off a number of copies in London, printed on three pages, and sent them down to Manchester, where the fourth page would be pet up and printed, and copies sent off thence, as from a centre, to all parts of the kingdom. The affair was admin. ably managed, and the proprietors of the Morning Herald deserve great praise both for their exertions and their inge nuity. An express copy of The' Sun, dated lust 24 hours after the banquet, and containing 8f columns of a report, was received at our office shortly after mid-day on Tuesday. Such exertions are unprecedented, and justly entitle the proprietors both to patronage and fame.—Paisley Advertiser. THE DUKE OF SUSSEX'S SOIREES.—It gives us Auch pleasure to observe that his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, as president of the Royal Society, re commences his soirees at Kensington-palace on the 11th February, and that they will be repeated on the 11th March, 13th May, and 10th June. The cards of invitation to a number of literary and scientific men, besides others of rank and distinction, whether natives or foreigners, have just been issued. Formerly these meetings consisted of a com bination of talent and attainment hardly to be equalled, and the urbanity of the illustrious Duke, and his powers of con versation on many subjects and in several languages, ren dered them highly attractive. Since the attack on the sight of his Royal Highness (now happily restored) the re-unions have, we believe, been discontinued, but they dill be revived under the most favourable circumstances. Men of all parties cast aside their political differences, and rejoiced to partake of the Royal Duke's hospitality. We are sorry to state that the indisposition of the Countess of Essex still continues. Lord Russell, the chairman of the Drury-lane Re form dinner, is the only son of the Marquis of TaVlstOck, by his marriage with the eldest daughter of the late Earl of Harrington. His Lordship is in his 28th year, and repre sentative for Tavistock. The present Earl of Arran is Secretary orLegation to Mr. Mandeville's Embassy at Buenos Ayres. His Lord ship is in his 35th year. The Hon. Fred. Keppel Craven has sailed for Lis bon, as junior Attache to Lord Howard de ,Walden's em bassy. Lord Etnlyn, eldest son of Earl Cawdor, and grand son of the Marquis of Bath, has entered Christ Church, Oxford. The Earl and Countess, and family, are expected in Grosvenor-square next month, from Stackpoole Court, near Pembroke. The Duke of Montrose will take the oaths and his seat in the House of Lords as Earl Graham, in the Peer age of the United Kingdom, the Marquisate, Earldom, and Dukedom of Montrose, of the date of creation. 1707, being Scottish honours. It is now said the fortune of the Queen of the Bel gians is not payable, either principal or interest, during her father's lifetime. Lieutenants Stuart and Semple, of the 86th depot, prevented from settling an affair of honour in a hostile way, in the neighbourhood of Mallow, met on the Race Course, Fermoy, early on Saturday morning, the former attended by the Hon. E. S. Plunkett, 86th, and the latter by Lieut. Prescott, of the Queen's Bays. On the , word being given, Mr. Semple's pistol missed fire, and Mr. Stuart discharged his in the air. Thus the matter terminated.—lr ish paper., Yesterday morning, about half-past nine o'clock, as Colonel Maiseleyc, of Green-street, Grosvenor-square, wag dri'ing in his gig, accompanied by his groom, along Gros venor-place, the horse took fright, and set off at a furious rate. After proceeding for about 200 yards, the off-wheel of the gig came in contact with that of a country waggon with such force, that the gig was literally dashed to pieces. The Colonel and his groom were thrown into the road, and sustained severe injury, the former having his right wrist and two of the fingers broken, and the latt er hi s s k u ll severely fractured. The groom was removed to the hos pital, but is not expected to survive. . - Yesterday evening a meeting of the inhabitants of St. Andrew's, Holborn, and several adjoining parishes, was held in the vestry-room, St. Andrew's -court, when a series of resolutions were passed, having for their object the pre vention of the desecration of the Sabbath, and after a vote of thanks to the Rector, who presided, the meeting separated. The rumour is, 'that the lessee of Covent-garden, finding that the reduction of prices at Drury-lane has se riously diminished his receipts since Christmas, intends still further to lower his terms, and that he means to re sort to this expedient without delay. We own that we place no confidence in the statement, but we give it as it has reached us. It is said that his project is to lower the admission to the boxes to 35., and to the pit to Is, 6 ( 1. Observer. iloAx.—Copies of a tragedy entitled The Student of Padua, were sent round to most of the London Journals with notes addressed to the different Editors, purporting to come from Nobility or high official functionaries, such as were presumed to stand most favourable with the respective Journals. All the notes it has been ascertained were lot genies, but only some of the Journals saw through the trick, and eschewed the bait. Mrs. Ducrow departed this life on Sunday, the 15th inst., at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Mr. Ducrow immediately closed his performances, and on Thursday set out on the mournful journey of attending ,the body of his departed wife to London. •The funeral will take place from the Amphitheatre house, Westminster-bridge, and the remains. be deposited in the Cethetery-ground in the Harrow-road.. WILD WATER POND.—" Her mind was a cloud less sky, and every thought a star." Such is the image, poetical alike in fancy and expression, by which the heroine of Wild Water Pond is introduced to the admiring reader. Wh ere i s Wild Water Pond ? and who is its heroine ? On these poihts Mr. Sulivan must be consulted, who, in his " Flittings of Fancy," just published, has conjured up scene that may vie with the most enchanting and original that even the pencil of Washington Irving has produced.-- Court Journal. The Palace of Lacken, at Brussels, has witnes,so a curious succession of dynasties during the last 40 years , It was originally fitted up by the Archduchess Maria Christina, wife to Duke Albert of Saxe Teschen, eldest daughter of Maria Theresa, and Governess of the Nether lands, who resided there at the breaking out of the French revolution : it next became the head-quarters of a revo lutionary General ! then the residence of the brother of Buonaparte ; and at the period of the battle of Waterloo remained exactly in the state in which it was left by the' Emperor, by whom it had been decorated in the most' sumptuous style : the present King and Queen of Holland were its next occupants. Mrs. Graham the aeronaut is still 'suffering from the severe injuries resulting f rom h er terrible accident, and the consequences of that calamity have occasioned great pecu niary as well as physical distress,