The Sun. — London, England, 1837-12-29 00:00:00

THE TRUE SUN. LONDON: SATURDAY EVENING DECEMBER 28, 1837. This evening is the last on which the daily True Sun will appear. We have now for eighteen months devoted to it every energy of our minds, far more intent upon national improvement than on success in a mere commercial undertaking. We have fearlessly advo cated the interests of the whole community, as distin guished from those of narrow sections. We have bearded the oligarchy in its strongholds, and exposed alike the open profligacy of the Tory, and the tortuous duplicity of the Whig factions. We do not affect Co be insensible to the strong ap probation of our views which has been expressed by some of the highest minds of our time. We are deeply grateful to that part of the public press which has awarded to us its honest praise, and we shall re member with pride, that amongst the public and the press, it is from the intelligent we have received the most hearty support. We have neither spared our time nor our capital in the effort we have made to establish a Daily Journal unshackled by party ties, untrammelled by the neces sity of advocating class interests, and have made consi derable sacrifices in so doing. But we do not see a reasonable prospect of a remunerative return within such a definite period as would justify a perseverance on the part of private individuals, who value their pecuniary independence as the foundation of their political usefulness. But let it not be said we have suddenly abandoned our efforts. We have, for several months, laid before the more opulent of the Liberal party the actual posi tion of the paper. We have informed them that, after the present period, the distributive efforts of the Liberal party must be taxed to carry out to ultimate success the national object we had commenced with much pro mise, and continued so long as individual prudence would permit. With some generous exceptions, this met with no efficient response. We trust that the Liberal cause will not suffer from the want of a daily organ. We do not attribute our commercial failure to apathy on the part of the people. There is scarcely a mechanics' institute, or a place where industrious and intelligent tradesmen and work ing men assemble, that the daily True Sun has not been found. We have had perhaps a greater number of readers than any other Newspaper, but the indus trious many who have most sympathised with us have bee❑ so borne down by low profits and scanty wages, consequences of aristocratic rule, that a daily paper is an intellectual necessity they have not the means to attain. Under these circumstances the daily True Sun has been disposed of to the proprietor of The Sun, and will henceforward be merged in that journal. And we wish and hope that the new vigour which our own circulation will infuse into our contemporary may enable him to take that independent political position which we have ourselves occupied. Let the people remember that upon the support they afford him will depend the degree of his independence. let them remember that the labourer is worthy of his Fire; and that if they would maintain an independent pr.ss they must make strenuous efforts in aid of the journal which dares to be independent. B3yond our : sincere dosim that The Sun may deserve and command success, we have not the slightest interest in that jour 'al. From some remarks which appear in another part of the pa - per it will be seen that the True Sun Weekly Paper wi7l still remain in our hands. /0 On Monday, and following days, during the week, The Sun- Evening Paper will be published at our Office, as a su.hstitute for the True Sun. TO THE ED: TOR OF THE SUN. Stn,—l trust you will spore me the appellation of an offending sinner for presun.log to address myself to the Liberal Members of the House of Commons, through the medium of your talented and consistent paper. I have wished that some person more competeDt to the task had undertaken to render an important service toe). class of men who have long since been abused by the Heads of our cathedral. As it has not been noticed, I cannot longer re frain from publishing the injustice with which they are treated by those whose duty it should be to make a proper and adequate provision for the Lay Clerks, who, compara tively speaking, have the whole services to prrform. The immense revenues of our Bishop, Dean, and Prebends. are too well known to need a separate enumeration—it will be sufficient for my purpose to show the encroachments the Dean and Chapter have gradually made upon the incomes of those for whom I am seeking a proper redress. The Prebends are expected to show themselves and at tend cathedral services eight-and-twenty days in the year, for which they receive on an average, as compensation for their arduous duties, from 8001. to 1,000/., in addition to which they have valuable livings, some holding a second, producing, taking it at the lowest standard, an income of 2,000/. per annum for each individual, and in some few instances nearly double the amount. Their attendance is optional, and it frequently happens that one only is resi dent and attends duty, save and except the time pay day arrives, when nearly the whole force is mustered to dis tribute the revenue, and misapply some portions of it to their own use. Is it not abominable that Christian Ministers should act so dishonestly as the sequel will explain they have done, and can they feel surprised that the people should press upon her Majesty's Ministers a Church Reform ? No : and I sincerely hope that when a Bill is introduced is Par liament for the equalization of Church livings, or for the better provision of smaller ones, that the Lay Clerks will find some friend in Parliament who will represent the op pression under which they labour. I shall now place in ,juxta-position to the situation of Prebend that of a Lay Clerk, whose attendance is expected regularly under a for feilure twice a day throughout the year, and on Sundays three times: And I shall surprise the reader when I state that for his labour he receives the liberal allowance of from 301. to 60/. per annum—it varies some years, but never exceeds the last-named sum. In many Cathedrals the Lay Clerks live rent free, with a much larger salary ; but here they have only the scanty pittance of, we will say, a pound a-week. It is monstrous that such irreligious fraud should be allowed to exist in afree country, and calls loudly upon the public for their severe disapproval and indignation. In former times they were better treated, and it is shameful that the dispensers of religion, who are for ever telling us that we are daily becoming more civilised, are themselves retrograding from every species of justice and humanity. I shall briefly state that not many years since the organist, enjoying the same salary the present occupant does, had in virtue of his office a house in the neighbourhood of the Cathedral of the value of 601. a year, and to which he is now as much entitled as the Bishop is to his palace. The Dean and Chapter, with their usual grasping propensity, wrested that right from his successors, and the gentleman who now officiates receives in lieu thereof the liberal sum 4of 41. I could, were it not trespassing upon your columns, recite numberless instances of such like fraud, but I shall rfterve some as flagrant acts of oppression for a future time. Being a sincere Protestant, and one wl:o admires as much as any of its members the beauties of our Church in every respect " saving one," the conduct of the majority of its ministers I have tried to expose, not with a wish of making them more unpopular, but solely with the hope of seeing a check put upon their growing rapacity, and thereby render ing the Establishment what it ever should have been—pure and holy. One of the gentlemen connected with the Chapel Royal, Windsor, related to me some time since an anecdote worthy of being recorded, it having reference to one of our large Church Establishments. A young man, who held the situation of clerk at the Registrar's Office, and who had frequent opportunities of pryin g into the Church writing s , di s covered that th e L ay Clerks had long since beep plundered of their rights ; possessing a fine voice, he became a candidate for a vacant clerkship, and was elected to the situation. On the first pay day arriv ing, he was tendered his salary, which he indignantly re fused, adding that he knew what they were entitled to, and neothing but his just claim would he receive. His obstinacy lead the desired effect upon the Chapter, and the Lay Clerks ‘ll.since been furnished with a residence each, and an pp, amounting to treble the amo un t formerly ''' '- / W,Ofd not such an enterprising man work a i'''llrdracla for his, Vsethren here ? I have no doubt on the subject. - e Your's truly, D. J. --- i W 14 ;- ;;•:,, mg a S.l PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock 2044 5 3 per Cent. Rect. 3 per Cent. Corm.. 3% per Cent...—.....—...... ..... SPA Ditto Red. 98 1.4106 New N per Cent New 5 per Bank LongAnnuitlestoexpire Jan. 5, 1860 14 13-16 N Oct. 10. 1859 Jan. 5, 1860 Jan. 5, 1886 April 5, ....... Jan. 5. 187 n..... ....... PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Ronda Belgian Bonds .. Ditto Brazilian Bonds . 4 Ditto Account 5 4% Buenos Ayres Bonds ..... 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In referring briefly yesterday to the origin of the un [ natural contest between Great Britain and Lower • Canada, we concluded with a promise, which we hasten to fulfil, that we would to-day inquire, with as much minuteness as our spa ‘x would admit, into the number and extent of the grievances complained of by the PAPINEAU party in that Province. The list of alleged grievances, may, we conceive, be summed up in six articles, which we shall take leave to state, and comment upon, in the order in which they appear in an address of the H. )use of Assembly to his late Majesty, WILLIAM I V., dated February 26, 1836, and re-iterated in an a ldress of the same body to the Governor-in-Chief, dr ted the 3d of October in the same year. The first grievance is substantially to the following effect :- 1. That the Member, s of the Legislative Council, or branch of the Provincial Legislature, answering to the House of Peers in the mother country, are ap pointed by the Crown fot life ; whereas the Canadians contend for the right of electing the Upper Chamber by popular suffrage, ar for a limited time. This is the master-I ;rievance of the Papineau party —a grievance which .?mgland cannot redress, in the manner pointed out, IN ithout giving up the Colony al together. The Legislative Council forms the only constitutional link tha secures to British settlers in Lower Canada the pi otection guaranteed to them by the mother country ; .and we hold it impossible to render it popularly e' rective without granting to the Canadians the power of choosing, when it may be most convenient for th em, to abrogate every vestige of the Sovereignty claimc dby England, under the triple right of conquest, tre; ity, and possession. That the Supreme Government has wantonly and insultingly abused the prerogative enjoyed by it, of nominating members to scats in tl le Legislative Council, we most readily admit ; but thi ; evil might be corrected with out having recourse to an extreme measure, calculated, and seemingly intender 1, to destroy the influence of the Crown in directing the Colonial administration. We are but too well a',; are that the Canadians had cause for just exasi, e.ration, when they beheld Chief Governors raise to the dignity of Legis lative Councillors der k ; in subordinate Govern, went offices—British elit o lers of Lo local influence, DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India 5t00k........ — Ditto Bonds 25 27 pm. South Sea Stock — Oldinnnities .... ..... --- Nt w Ditto ......—......... ....... 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1761 — Exch. Bills, £l,OOO 44 46 pm. Ditto ......... ..... 5011 —pm. Ditto Small Ditto Commercial — pm. 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But even in this fatal policy the Government was more influenced by the necessities of its position than by any predilection in favour of British sailers; as those Canadians whom it appointed Legislative Councillors were sure to be marked out by the House of Assembly for objects of especial ebloquy, if they coincided with the views of the Chief Governor. As an instance we may mention that in a series of resolutions passed by the House of Assembly on the 21st of February, 1834, ANTOINE GASPARD COUILLARD is named in the 34th reso- lution, as the only Legislative Councillor " of French origin who stooped to concur in an address from that body to the Throne, dated the Ist of April 1833," and the resolution then goes on to denounce Co um- LARD as a man who had rendered himself dependent upon the Executive " by soliciting a paltry and subor dinate place of profit." In the face of such invidious opposition as this, it could not be expected that the Crown would expose, by a show of confidence, its faithful Canadian subjects to the hatred and scorn of their fellow-countrymen. Now of this first grievance the Canadians in their address to the Crown protest that they will accept no remedy but such as they have pointed out ; and this England cannot concede without giving up the pro vince altogether. One or other must yield, now that the sword has been drawn to decide the question. 2. That the Executive Council is responsible only to the Crown, whereas it should be made responsible to the House of Assembly. No such concession as is here demanded can be made, without previously declaring the Canadas an integral portion of the United Kingdom. The Im perial Legislature can alone claim the right of im peaching the Ministers of the Crown. The exercise of the power thus sought is incompatible with colonial dependence, and is moreover obtained to all just in tents and purposes by petition—the only form in which we feel disposed to see it entrusted to the control of the House of Assembly. 3. That the Crown is possessed of the means of raising a large revenue in Lower Canada, independently o the House of Assembly, whereas the House of As-f sembly claims the sole and unrestricted management of all the revenue raised in that province, from whatever source derived, as the only means of effectually con troling the acts of the Executive. The Crown Lands in Lower Canada are held in trust for the people of this country, by whose blood and treasure they were purchased; and until the Canadians can lay a stronger a claim to them, than what they derive from their being employed in enabling them to live without paying taxes, we do not believe that the Imperial Parliament will advise the Crown to part with them. But to quiet the minds of the Canadians, as well as to convince them that we had their best interests at heart, we would gladly support a measure for devoting the whole of the revenues raised by the Crown from sources not under the coutroul of the Colonial Legis lature, to the agricultural, commercial, and moral improvement of the Province—under the manage ment of a Board appointed by the Crown, and presided over by the Chief Governor for the time being. More than this the Canadians cannot reasonably ask. When they complain of the influence which the Crown de rives from the possession of the wild lands, they forget to add that we have no security against the worse abuse of such a trust by the House of Assembly. 4. The repeal of the Tenures' Act.—(6 Geo. 4, chap. 59.) This Act was passed to remedy the abuses of the old French Law of Tenure, which it decreed should be replaced on the demise of the holders of lands in the Lower Province by the right of free socage--the tenure by which rented property is generally held in this country. The hostility of the Canadians to this Act is, that it affords enterprising British settlers facilities of purchasing large tracts of cultivated ground by the simple process of application to the immediate occupier. Under the French law, purchases to such an extent could not take place without extreme difficulty. We are, however, pre pared to admit that the Act in question has operated have a tendency directly the reverse. This is just what we ourselves have said. The Noble Lord's de claration will have no other effect than to put 1 the people on their mettle ; to rouse all their dormant energies; and teach them betimes to trust only to themselves. Already we see that it is working in a proper spirit, and day by day that spirit will in crease in energy and determination. So far then from blaming Lord J. RUSSELL, all staunch Reformers ought rather to thank him, for the opportunity he has afforded them of telling Ministers a few stern, whole some truths. One thing, however, the people should bear constantly in mind—namely, that agitation on the question of the Ballot, in order to be effective, must be prompt. There is not a day—not even an hour—to lose ; a fact which we feel that we cannot too often, or too earnestly, insist on. The fire should be kept up day by day, so as to make the requisite impression on the House of Commons when Mr. GROTE'S motion is brought forward. What is Bristol about ? Why is Liverpool silent ? Is there no Newhall-hill near Birmingham ? The people should hold gatherings in all quarters ; for what but such a simultaneous display of energy enabled them to wrest the Reform Bill from a reluctant Oli garchy ? And is the Ballot, in it's way, a less im portant measure ? On the contrary, we maintain that it is far more so, for it will at least tend greatly to secure freedom of election, of which at present we know nothing but the name. With the Ballot, we may do much— very much—to improve our position ; without it we can do nothing ; but must be content to see our best interests still bandied about, like a shuttlecock, be tween Whig and Tory ; and at last, between them both, tumbling dead to the ground. We can readily believe that the majority of both these old-fashioned parties will combine to oppose the Ballot ; but that is the very reason why we should the more firmly insist on it. We have nothing to do either with Whig or Tory interests ; our sole duty is to look well to our own. The time is come when we need to have all our wits about us ; for mark our position ! it is now just five years since the Reform Bill was passed—that Bill which we only valued as paving the way to prompt and comprehensive improvements ;—yet, here we are, still compelled to struggle for a measure, which was originally intended to have been incorporated with the Reform Bill, as being necessarily associated with it in principle ; but which Lord J. RUSSELL—true to the retrogade system of policy—now considers to be, not the fit and natural adjunct of Reform, but an in novation of a hazardous, if not a reprehensible cha racter ! Such being the case, it becomes us, we repeat, to agitate the question of the Ballot, at every convenient opportunity. Never otherwise shall we obtain it—or indeed, deserve to obtain it. grievously, inasmuch as it has led to the appointment of a host of escheators, and other officers of a like nature, having a direct interest in promoting liti- gation. We will not undertake to say that the Act ought to be unconditionally repealed ; but sure we are that the abuses in its operation are calculated to excite the indignation of the Colonists. 5. The simple and unconditional repeal of the Land Company's Act. The repeal of this Act would inflict " a heavy blow and a great discouragement," upon British emigration to the Canadas ; and would, besides, entail ruin upon thousands in this country who are deeply interested in preserving inviolate the faith of a Parliamentary ar rangement. The real complaint against the Company is, not so much that it abuses the power with which the Imperial Legislature has entrusted it, as that it exercises that power independently of the will of the House of Assembly. It is not so much the rights of the Canadians that are invaded, as that their pride is wounded—their sense of independence lessened. Of course the loss of a large source of revenue, though thew were too indolent ever to avail themselves of it, forms an item in the calculation of M. PAPINEAU and his friends. And here again we would gladly see any concession made to the Canadians, not incompa tible with a regard to British interests, and the rights of British settlers. Were the House of Assembly to guarantee the protection of British interests already in force under this Act, we do not think that the House of Commons would object to its repeal. . But no such concession can with justice be made unconditionally. 6. That the Colony swarms with placemen and pen sioners ; whereas all sinecures should be abolished, and the expense of the Executive limited to the wants of the people. In another part of our paper will be seen a small, dark, and not a very pleasing picture of certain cathedral• functionaries taking a lion's share. Our Correspon dent—who, we presume, is himself one of the under paid and overworked Lay-clerks whose grievances he makes known in his communication to us—complains of the injustice of allowing a prebend to pocket an income of 2,0001. a-year, whilst a Lay-clerk often gets no more than 30/. and never more than 601. a-year, although he works a great deal harder and more frequently than his superior. It is not, however, precisely an existing disproportion of this sort that i!!, or perhaps ought to be, com plained of. But if there be in any cathedrals a grasp ing spirit, which shows itself not only in direct con tradiction to the scriptural declaration—that the la bourer is worthy of his hire—but in whose surplice villainies break out, as our Correspondent asserts, in actual fraud and dishonesty, the necessity of applying a corrective to conduct so infamous, as well as of in stituting a rigid investigation, followed by a whole some reform of these establishments, cannot be doubted by any right-thinking man. Letters and Papers from Madrid of the 19th instant have been received this morning. On the previous day, Count OFALIA, the new Premier, and his poli tical associates, made their first appearance in the Chamber of Deputies, as the Ministers of Queen ISABELLA. 11. The Count's reception was most dis couraging. All parties seemed to regard him with suspicion. Senor OLOZAGA, who was addressing the Chamber on the subject of the Cadiz elections, when OFALIA and his colleagues made their appearance, did not allow the occasion to escape of giving the new Premier a foretaste of what his ambition would cost him. When OLOZAGA had concluded, Count OFALIA introduced himself to the Chamber, with the following brief and unintelligible speech, of which not five words were heard by his auditory owing to the low tone in which it was spoken : " At the moment that the Ministers, whom her Majesty has been pleased to nominate, make their first appearance in the Chamber of Deputies, they do not consider it necessary to en ter into a detailed manifestation of ,their principles or inten tions. Unanimously, and in perfect accordance with each other, the co-legislative bodies have, in their respective ad dresses to the Queen, informed her Majesty of their wishes and ♦iews, Peace, Order, and Justice are demanded by the nation. The august Queen Regent is most anxious to satisfy these demands, and th• Cabinet over which I have the honour to preside will congratulate itself if, with the co-operation of the Cortes, it can put an end to the civil war, and if under the reign of the constitution, and the laws of the monarchy, it can unite liberals of all shades under one banner." This is a real grievance, and ought to be redressed without delay. We blame no people for being discon tented who are burthened with the maintenance of an army of sinecurists. We have now exhausted the list of grievances, and we appeal to our friends, the Radi cals, whether they consider them of so much impor tance as to warrant having recourse to the extermi nating process of civil war ? Compare them with the real grievances of Ireland—not a Province, but an integral portion of the British Empire—and then tell us whether any man, who is not ready to advocate the lawfulness of rebellion in Ire land can honestly defend the Canadian insurrection ? Such being the real state of the question, we, while acknowledging as we have always done, the right of relief—of practical and extensive relief—to Canada, hesitate not to denounce as criminal, in a high degree, the attempt now made to fling off the authority of the mother country. A public meeting of the inhabitants of Sr. Pancras was held yesterday, for the purpose of taking into con &deration Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S late declarations in Parliament. At this meeting, Mr. VIGOR; who was present, observed, that so far from being attended with evil consequences, his Lordship's avowed hostility to the Ballot and an Extension of the Suffrage, would At the conclusion of this extraordinary address the Cortes looked at one another—surprise, vexation, and indignation being visible in every countenance. No Member, however, offering to rise to ask any questions, the War Minister occupied the Chamber during the rest of the sitting with reports from the theatre of war. The liberal and independent portion of the press has already expressed itself opposed to the constitution of the new Cabinet, which it maintains neither has, nor deserves to have, the confidence of the Spanish people. Commenting upon the speech of the Premier on the 18th, the Espanol of the 19th has the following signi ficant passage : " Yesterday, for the first time, the Ofalia Ministry appeared in the Cortes. The Chamber was then occupied with the de bate regarding the Cadiz elections ; and as soon as Senor Olo zags had done speaking the new President of the Council rose, and in an almost inaudible tone, pronounced a short discourse, in which we could only catch the words peace, order, and jus tice. As his Excellency has given so many proofs of fidelity to anti-constitutional doctrines—so many proofs of constant aversion to representative Governments—it would have been agreeable to have had from his own lips a frank and explicit declaration of his actual political sentiments. Two opposed principles combat for supremacy in Spain—no longer by rhe torical perorations, but with fire and sword, devastating entire provinces, and annihilating the people. We defend one of these principles—the principle of political liberty, which was defended by Torrijos, Riego, and many more brave men whose names are inscribed in the salon of the Cortes in letters of gold, and will be recorded by history in letters of blood. The contrary principle was then defended by Count Ofalia. From that direful epoch to the present moment we have no know ledge of any of those acts that identify the man with a certain form of Government, which prove to us that the Count has abjured his old dogmas, or declared himself in favour of the principles of the Constitution of 1837." The Eco del Commerc i o of the same date is hardly less severe in its strictures upon the probable feelings of the Premier upon that occasion : " Senor Olozaga, in his speech of yesterday, made an ener getic allusion, which we shall explain in the sense that we, and several persons who were near us, understood it. The lion. Deputy said that it was a matter of indifference to him who were the Members returned for Cadiz, provided they were Li berals in heart, provided they could read those names (point ing to the tablets that bear the inscription of Riego, Torrijos, &c.) without a blush, and pay them the tribute cf their admi. ration. Amongst the names of the heroes to which Senor Olozaga alluded there are some who were executed under the exterminating Governments of 1823 and 1824; and it is nct probable that Count Ofalia, who was the Minister, and the companion of Victor Saez and Calomarde, can read them without feeling a paw* of remorse. Let our readers—let all Liberals, of every shade, reflect for a moment, and judge whe ther tt e man who has been chosen to preside in the Cabinet ~an inspire them with confil nee." A Cabinet so opposed on all :idea cannot stan d and as it can only perpetrate mischief, the sooner it fall the better. TORENO'S performances arc now limited to prompting and scene-shifting. Letters from Cadiz of the 13th inst. state that a riot took place in that city on the 10th., occasioned by a drunken officer of the third Regiment of National Guards, who persuaded his men to commit outrages upon the peaceable inhabitants. Numerous arrests have in consequence taken place, and as the authori ties dread the existence of a conspiracy, they have resolved to treat the convicted with extreme rigour. The Paris Journals of Wednesday have been re ceived, but their contents are uninteresting. The following gleanings from them include all they contain worthy of the least notice : It is announced that General Bugeaud will shortly arrive at Paris. His presence in the Chamber may be useful when the debate on the Address brings forward the question of Algiers.—Constitutionnel. The Indicateur of Bordeaux, of the 25th inst., has the fol lowing paragraph :—We learn by letters from the frontier that General Alaix arrived at Pampeluna on the 18th, to take pus • session of the Viceroyalty of Navarre, in the room of General Latre, who was going to put himself at the head of the troops. The same letter states that General Espartero was going to Madrid. The Captain of an English vessel, named James Joll, having attempted to land at Passages several bales of prohibited goods, under cover of the British flag, Commodore Lord John Hay being informed of the fact, has ordered the goods to be seized and conveyed to St. Sebastian, under the escort of an officer, declaring that Captain Joll should be tried ac cording to the existing laws, without being allowed to avail himself of his character as an Englishman. This conduct does the greatest honour to Lord John Hay. —Le Commerce. The Commerce says—" We think it our duty to publish entire the last speech of Lord John Russell in the House of Commons. This speech is one of the most important docu ments (les plus graves) that been presented to the public for a long time. It abounds in avowals, and the situation of England and of its Ministry is reflected in it, in colours that are by no means encouraging. The words of the English Minister are an advent, not only for Canada, but likewise for Europe. We shall return to this subject." FRENCH FUNDS -PARIS, Nov. 27. Five per Cents.. 107 f. 90c. 108 f. Four per Cents., 101 f. 10c. Three per Cents., 7Sf. 70c. 65c. 80c. Bank Actions, 2,555 f. 2,551. f. 2,515 f. 2,537 f. 50e. ftente de Naples, 97f. 55c. Roman Five per Cents., 100%%. Spanish Actives, 20%. Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 102. Brussels Society, 1,710 f. Belgian Bank, 1,535 f. 1,5404 1,537 f. 50e. Haytian Loan, 3701. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 47%c.; money, 25f. 47%c. Three months, paper, 25f. 30e. ; money, 25f. 2'7%e. LAST PRICES.: Five per Cents. 108 f. sc. Three per Cents., 73f. 90c. Bank Actions, 2,537 f. 50c. Romans, 100%. Belgian Loan, 102. Belgian Bank, 1,537 f. 50c. Brussels Society, 1,710 f. Spanish Actives, 204. Haytian Loan, 3701. BELGIAN 1' UNDS-Bausenu, Dec. 27. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. lOl Loan of Thirty Millions VS% Loan of City, 1332, 4 per Cent lOl3 Society of Commerce, 4%per Cent 144% Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent National Society . -Brussels Papers, Dee. 27. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.-VIENNA, De 19. Five per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares -Allgetneine Zeitung, Dee 24. [FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] There can be no lasting peace or security in Canada with the present Constitution. The Constitution o 1791 is an utter absurdity. It gave to the represen tative body the command of the public purse, and the Lower Chamber has just as much right to stop the supplies as our House of Commons has, when affairs come to a crisis, and there is no other means of re dress. PAPINEAU and his party adopted this plan when they found, or believed they found, that there was no other way to reform the Upper Chamber. Wrongs they had, it cannot be denied—indeed Lord JOHN RUSSELL admitted the fact in the House of Commons—and when they had recourse to a ha zardous, though a constitutional remedy, the mo ther country breaks the contract, and, with out their leave, takes unappropriated money out of the Treasury to pay the judges and civil officers. The result proves the absurdity of the original agree ment. Mr. PITT gave to the representatives of a colony the greatest power possessed by the represen tatives of an independent State, and when they exer cise this power, the only alternative of anarchy or independence is " might against right." All the faults of the Colonial Government being admitted, it must at the same time be admitted that Mr. PAPIN➢AU has not " chosen the good part." The country is yet too weak and defenceless to set up as an independent State, and if England is to retain it as a colony, another Constitution must be the result, and he will find in that case that he and his party will be the chief losers. THE TRADES AND MR. O'CONNELL• --- To morrow we shall give a report of the meeting of tradesmen held last Tuesday in Dublin, for the purpose of denying the charges made against them by Mr. O'Connell. It is a singular anomaly in civilized society, that those with the smallest means pay at the highest rate for every necessary of life. In the articles of coals, potatoes, tea, sugar, and indeed most others, the rich lay in a quantity at the proper season, while the poor always purchase them by retail, at an increased price of a third, and sometimes of one-half. A poor man that buys his coals from week to week has to pay Is. Bd., and in severe weather Is. 10d. the cwt. ; whereas, if he had contrived to lay by, at the commencement of the winter, 155., he might purchase with that sum half a ton ; and in that case he would find that Is. would go as far as Is. Bd. in the other. Taking into account the bad quality, often the bad weight, and the higher profit charged on articles sold in small portions, the poor pay twice as much for coals as the rich. But where he is compelled to borrow or pawn some of his property, he pays a vast deal mere—he pays at least four times as much as the rich 1 For every article of the value of 205., if allowed to remain one year, he pays as interest of 20 per cent. ; and if the article is repeatedly redeemed and re-pledged—say once a fortnight—he would have to pay more than a hundred per cent. From calculations made, the poor and the improvident sacrifice in this way, throughout the country, not less than 750,0001. a year ! There is some difference between this practice and the Savings Banks system. In the one case, a man acts like a rational being—in tke other, like a maniac. WYLD's MAP OF LOWER CANADA. --Mr. Wyld, of Charing-cross, has just published a coloured Nlap of Lower Canada, which we recommend to all who wish to be correctly informed respecting the progress of the civil war in that provinee. It is well executed, and on a scale sufficiently large to admit a distinct outline of the size of even the vil lages on either bank of the St. Lawrence. - WHITFIELD'S EARLY Pl ETY.—Being now, writes Whitfield, near the 17th year of my age, I was resolved to prepare myself for the holy sacrament, which I received on Christmas day. I began now to be more watchful over my thoughts, words, and actions. I kept the following Lent, fast ing Wednesday and Friday, thirty-six hours together. The evenings, when I had done waiting on my mother, were gene rally spent in acts of devotion, reading " Drelincourt upon Death," and other practical books, and I constantly went to public worship twice a day. Being now an upper boy, I made some reformation among my schoolfellows. I was very diligent in reading and learning the classics, and in studying my Greek Testament, but I was not yet convinced of the absolute unlaw fulness of playing at cards, and of reading and seeing plays, though I began to have some scruples about it. Near this time I dreamed that I was to see God on Mount Sinai, but was afraid to meet him. This made a great impression upon me ; and a gentleman to whom I told it said, " George, this is a call from God." SYMPTOMS.—Sympom 1. When you meet a friend about five o'clock near his own house, and he stands gossipping with you at the street door without knocking, take it as a symptom that you are not wanted to dinner.—Symptom 2. When you drop in for half an hour's chat at a friend's house in the evening, and your friend looks at his watch after you have been there about two hours, while his wife packs up her needle-work with a yawn, observing, " Well, I think it is time to give over for to-night," it is an infallible symptom that you are a bore, and that the sooner you export yo urse lf the better.—Symptom 3. If at any evening party yo u are se lected to make one at a rubber at whist it is a symptom there are younger persons in the room whom the ladies cannot spare as well as yourself.—Symptom 4. If you are travelling outside a stage, and when you stop for dinner the po r t er b r i ngs a lad der for you to descend, consider his civility a decided symptom (whatever you may think of yourself) that he thinks you a gentleman who has arrived at a time of life not favourable to agility. Symptom 5. When a Jew boy importunely offers to sell you a pair of spectacles as a bargain you may conclude it is a symptom there is something in y our appearance w hi c h denotes the father of a family, in spite of whatever the tailol may have done to dress you like your youngest son. Symp tom G. If you meet a gentleman and a lady, the gentlemar looking vacantly serious, as if thinking of nothing—the lady placidly careless, as if perfectly satisfied—depend upon it them are symptoms of their being man and wife, and that the hus band has consented to a walk, though h e w o u ld r a th e r leave it &one, while the wife is pleased to find he is as attentive as ever. But when you meet a lady and gentleman in earnest discourse, the gentleman talking much, the lady listening with downcast eyes, it is the s, ) mptom of an affair in progress which will probably end in going to church. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, Du. S. S. W., moderate.—Arrised the Catherine Elizabeth, Merritt, from Demerara ; City of Lon don, from Honduras ; and Amelia, from Seville. Came clo!vn from the River and remains the Paget, Brophey, for St. Vin cent. The Canton, for Australia, and Isabella, for Hobart Town, remain. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 2R. —Wind S. S. W. to S. S. W.—Ar rived the Emma, Holmes, from St. Petersburgh. Sailedthe his Majesty's ship, Inconstant, for Cork ; and Jessie Kitehm, M'Lachlan, for Barbados. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 28.—Wind S. W.—Arrived the Briton, Hall, from Messina. The Sophia, Mercy, bound to Narita, put back very leaky and with loss of rudder, having been as sisted off Penlec Rock. STANGATE CREEK, DEC. 28.—Arrived the Clyde, Blagden, from Port Vendre. COWES, DEC. 28.—Arrived the Mary Lyon , P Dandser from io Janro. EN R ZANCE, ei DEC. 27.—Arrived off port the Fanny, C ousins, from Jamaica. HULL, DEC. 27.—Arrived Gertrude, Atkin, from Memel. FALMOUTH, DEC. 27.—Variable, light air and thin.—Sailed Her Majesty's Steamer, Comet, Lieutenant Gordon , for the North coast of Spain. SALCOMBE, DEC. 27.--Arived off port, the Comet, Raby, from Philadelphia. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 28.—Arrived the Mary, Hartley, from Calcutta ; Cette, from New South Wales ; Heroine, Gill, from Bahia; Mary, Nelson, from Demerara; Brighton, fro m New Orleans ; Harold, Crowe', from Demerara ; Solon, from Savannah, Hankinson, from Africa; Albatross, from Denn ; Bonny, James Dunlop from Marseilles • Harry, from th e Me diterranean ; and Eliza Scotland, Smith, from Gib raltar. Off port, the Campbell, for Paracba. CLYDE, DEC. 26.—Arrived the Atlanta, from Demerara. MARKETS-(THIS DAY ) CORN EXCHANGE. The supplies to-day were to a fair extent, but of oats large: Trade was languid rather than otherwise. Inferior Wheat declined Is., and inferior Barley was a little lower; but the best descriptions of both these kinds maintained former prices. Oats were heavy of sale, and went down 6d. per quart er ' Beans and Peas must also be quoted at 6d. to Is. per quarter lower. Flour unvaried. ARM VALS. 1 Wheat. I Barley. English Irish - 510 Oats. I Flour ,2g,744000 Foreign I I I SMITHFIELD MARKET. This day's supply was very good, and the sale was dull at lit tjd alteration from the prices last quoted : PRICES TER STONE OF BLI3. TO SINK TISE OFFALE• d s. d. to s. d Inferior Beasts .... 2 2 2 4 Inferior Sheep ...... ...... '. 2 1.1 2 . t 0 9 46 Second quality ditto 2 6 3 0 Second quality ditt0...... 3 2 4 0 Prime large Oxen 3 4 3 8 Coarse-vroolled ditto..... 3 10 , 4 Prime Scots. &c. Large coarse Calves 4 0 4 6 Large Hogs - 3 4 7 . 2 Prime small ditto 4 8 5 0 Small Porkers ... 4 2 '.. ........ ,„, 0 3 , ickling Calves ,each l6 0 23 0 Quarter old Pi g t e a ch, 12 0 a" SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. I Sheep. I Calve Pigs 504 7,009 119 I 499 NEWOATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. At per stone, by the Carcass. s d. to s d. Beef, inferior 3 0 3 4 Mutton, inferior - middling 3 6 3 8 middling - prime large ...... 3 8 310 - prime - prime small 4 0 4 Pork, large Veal 3 6 4111 sn+..n c. a toyd. 3 4 3 9 8 jo 40 4 4 ~38 4 4 4 8 " TALLOW MARKET. There is more briskness to-day here, and P. Y. C. has ad vanced to 465. TIMBER MARKET. The only publicly advertised sale to notice, is one of 1 50 logs of Honduras Mahogany, which fetched 50. to 9id. fo r small to fair middling wood. Nothi ng f res h i n any otherkiLd of Timber, Baltic or Canadian. TEA SALE (THIS DAY). We may say that about 90,000 packages have paned the hammer; which is about half the quantity originally adver tised. Buyings in continue extensive. A difference of opi nion prevails as to whether prices are not now a little lower, some affirming that they are, and others that they are not. Nothing decisive can be said. COLONIAL MARKETS. These great departments of business are exceedingly quiet; nothing indeed passing of any moment. Quotations remain unaltered, but are merely nominal. The imports are slender. SUGAR, B. P.—West India. is quoted at from 60s. 6d. for brown, to 665. for yellow ; low to good, up to 675.; 68s ' for fine. Mauritius, according to quality, from 545. to 66.. Bengal , from 50s. to 685., according to description. Refined Sugar is said to have fetched 38s. for doubl 6 crushed. The refilled trade generally, owing to a variety of circumstances, is in a very depressed condition. Amongst Spices, Pepper is the only commodity moving, and rather higher prices are realized by it. Cotton receives a little business by private contract at its previous value. _ Coffee, Rice, Cccoa, Rum, and Indigo, are all inanimate and unvaried. That part of colonial produce which cones from the Cs' nadas is just in the same state a 3 previously noted. Higher prices are asked to-dly for Oil and Turpentine, i? consequence of the great fire of yesterday which consumed so much. LIVERPOOL MARKETS. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, Dec. 28. Only a very small portion of business was effected in Cotton at our Market this morning, and prices have not in the lee° improved ; at the same time we cannot quote any further de cline. 2,000 bags are the extent of this day's sales. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, DEC. 28. Contrary to the anticipations of most parties, a consider able improvement has occurred this day in most of the leach'' Railway lines, and we have now an exceedingly firm market► with every probability of prices being shortly as high as those of this day fortnight. London and Birmingham, 64; Quarter ditto, 19 ; Great Western, 10i. THE FUNDS -(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCX. Consols, which were buoyant during yesterday morning► and reached 92i for the opening, rather receded at the close of the Market, and left off at 921---caused, no doubt, by th e arrival of the Dutch mail, which brought the Dutch Funds lower. Consols opened this morning at 921 s ; Exchequer 1 33 , 10 21d., 44 46 prem. ; Ditt o 2d., 42 44 prem. ; India &pug' 26 28; Bank Stock, 205. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active closed at 191 with Coupons ; Portuguese Five per Cents. closed at 3 1 opened at the same ; Three per Cents. closed at to l l; g at the same - Spanish Active opened at 19+ Brazil's" closed at 731- 741, opened at 74 to 1 ; Mexican 251 26; o fT . lornhian, 22 4 23f ; Dutch Two- an d- a- H alf per Cents., b'n Up to the present time we do not hear of any further 11 . - rival, either from Canada or New York. HALF-PAST Ola',l f This is settli ng d ay i n the Foreign Market ; conseque ntly little' doing, ex ce pt i n a dj ust i ng the accounts, the heavier' - o which is in Br az ili an S toc k , w hi ch receded from 8 1 1 t f 721, and went up again to 75--being an extreme fi uc tuationA 9 per ce n t. P ortuguese, 2 9 1 to 301 ; Three per Cents. . to 20 ; Spanish Active, 19;1 ; Brazil, 74—done in the moral ng at 741 ; Mexican, 254 ; C o l om bi an, 23 ; Dutch Two-and. a Half per Cents., 531. Consols c on ti nue at 921 for the openi n g ; Exe,,"-,auer;(pli Bills, 2id., 44 46 ; Ditto, 2d., 42 44 ; Bank Stock -- 205 ; India Bonds 25 27. Brighton and London Shares have improved this no r ning 11 per Share—at present 44 per Share. THREE o'CLo or• Ceasols for the Acco un t, 92i 1. We find the followin; instance of the bold an ti andadroit Switzerlandm anee uvre s i n o f the ee Federalsmug g l e o r f s on the Geneva frontiers n of Fre u 6 r . : are two mountains, separated from each other by au th,e!dilbyci eeP narrow ravine, the bottom of which is completely gr .,. a a strong line of armed custom-house officers. M a i g i o l a e o hour in the night two band of smugglers are assemble", o ne on eaeh mountain. A spark struck by flint and steel erl tor side, and answered by a similar signal from the other , A nounces that both are re a dy f or th e i n t en d e d operation; too stone, fastened to a strin g of sufficient strength, but rotber heavy to prevent the transit, is thrown from ono to th throw party. To the end of the string retained by the Pa s t i by their ing it is attached a strong c or d, which is drawn acr oss mad e confederates; and th e t wo ex t rem i t i es o f t h e c ord ar e ns a re fast at each side of th e c h asm . Wh en t h ese prepara tte sus complete, fresh signals are i n t e rchanged, the articles a re _ o ver pended to the co r d, an d are safely and secretly dram' from one mountain to the other." la 0 the On Wed nes d ay a f ternoon an i nques t was be bo dy of George IV., i n t h e S out h war k - b r id ge-roa d, on the in t he place Hannah W a l s h, an I r i s h woman, w h ose d ea th took roto the station-house adjoining the above public-house. Christniai evidence it app earedat ear on the g day the deceased was h t aken ly into custody mornin by a pllicemaczad the charge of being drunk and disorderly. Sh e ingly conveyed to the station-house in theSouetehiva.rtsbhriedfcsocan; road, and locked up in one of the women's appointed visited purpose,th e c o a u n r s l e a o h f o the ot even in gnine o'clo ck 'cwi°as recovering night, when spoken to, she answered that she . . g on t he into the cell bench eating an apple, and when the locker went found sitting ex from her intoxication. At this time she was satin .• in half an hour afterwards the deceased wasfound seen oictly in the same position that she had been ha p ud : i ' but not re in, with a portion of the apple still in her found that i 1 3,1 immediately slaw:watt', b e y k th th e e per sanio to did not conside was ee . . ou s w w a e a r a in e g or w p h ae e . n Tsphoekertnietdoi,caolnoeffixnaemriwnaataioinin mit:as. but life being quite extinct, he effect was returned. fishery rthesaotrhtetrodeaantyhmweaaanosneoafsiroaoseudschiytataipoonp,leanxyd. heAyetduifet°tPolulthat brought b ck 3, 56 u made 214 voyages, and l a sts. employed, which l 2 in 7 umber was en y , ,___ o essary their herring lastshas T been il o e f i) fi very sh ut i' lta p hs favourable ,3e,cermasrasnttthida, l e t s h e a s i sie that i . , s 0 1 o n o all ll6 This year, too, .- 650 lasts remain. The wild fowl on the Hamp who have been ili 'lies. so rare this season, that the puntinen• Ives and fo l3l , ii ., support themselves ttous J iabit of killing enough to . bear, a nd resort have been obliged to lay aside their lthour or the workhouse. slii r e. coast odt b a ht lal°6:ett.sabwpiee:eh:ne-if r