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city in which he resided, for his great professional skill and services, and for the active support which he gave to every lenevolent and useful in;titution. Sir John Soane received his early architectural education under Mr. Dance and Mr. D. Holland, and was afterwards sent, by the especial bounty of King George the Third, as a student of the Royal Academy, to pursue his profes sional studies at Rome. After his return he gradually ob tained extensive employment, both as an architect and a surveyor, and finally succeeded in securing almost every important and honourable appointment which is connected with the exercise of his profession in this country. In later life, when in possession of an ample fortune and public honours, he became a most munificent patron of public in stitutions, and more particularly of those which are connected with the advancement of the fine arts ; and in 1835 he be queathed his house in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, and the magnifi cent collection of works of art which it contained, to the nation, and secured the accomplishment of this noble project by an act of Parliament : he continued to pursue his usual course of public munificence until his death, which took place on the 20th of January last, in the 84th year of his age. Sir John Soane was profoundly acquainted with the great principles of his art, and many of the interiors as well as ex teriot sof his buildings arc remarkable fcr skilful construction es ifor rich and harmonious effects ; but he was unfortunately dispt sed, in some cases, to seek for novelty rather in new fo ms and decorations of architectural members, than for ori ginality i❑ the combination of those which have been sanctioned by the concurrent voice of the most cultivated of ancient na t;ons and the greatest masters of modern art ; it is for this reas( n that many of his works appears somewhat capricious and extravagant, and fail to produce that undefinable feeling of pleasure and satisfaction which always attends the contem plation of those great productions of architecture which have beer. celebrated for correct proportions, cr for beautiful and appropriate decoration. In connection with this distinguished professor and patron of art, I feel myself called upon to allude to the name of the Earl of Egremont, whose very recent loss we deplore. He was a nobleman distinguished by his active yet discriminating benevolence, and by his princely use of a princely fortune ; but it as a judge and patron of art that his loss will be most severely felt, beyond the precincts of his own family, and the numerous poor who were the immediate pat tskers of his bounty. He was equally judicious in the selection of sub jects fur artists to execute, and liberal in rewarding them when done. Mr. J. D. Broughton, Surron of the Life Guards, had s rvid with great distinction as a medical officer, during a great hart of the Peninsular war and at Waterloo. He was an eminent physiologist, and devoted a great portion of his time and attention to the study and improvement of the science of medical jurisprudence, and mere particularly to experiments on the effects of poisons, and to the best and most unerring tests for dc.ecting their presence after death. His death, which followed a serious operation, rendered ne cessary by a long-neglected accident, was deeply lamented by a large circle of friends, by whom he was equally respected and beloved for his great professional talents and for his honourable character. • Mr. John Davidson, the last known victim to the cause of African discovery, was formerly a partner in the house of Messrs. Savory and Moore, the well-known chemists, but was induced to quit it in 1826, partly with a view to gratify his passion for foreign travel, and partly from other causes. He afterwards visited North and South America, India, Pa lestine, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Germany, and France; and the lectures which he gave at the Royal Institution and else where, after his return, on the pyramids of Memphis and Mexico, on Thebes and the temples of Egypt and Jerusalem, afforded a sufficient proof both of his activity and of his au curete observation. The spirit of enterprise and travels, when once excited, is not easily allayed, and Mr. Davidson devoted himself, almost from the period of his return to this country, to a ciurse of preparation for a journey to Tinibuct on which had elready proved fatal to so many adventurers. !le was ac companied on this journey by Abu-Bekr, an enfranchised African slave, who had been a 1 3 , ince in his own country when young, and was well acquainted with the Arabic lan guage. He had penetrated from \Vadnoon to within 25 days' journey of Timhuctoo, when he was murdered by the El Ilarcb tribe, who were suspected to have been hired for that lu-pot.e by Moorish merchants, who, fieim not being able t) uncle send or conceive the real motives of such an under /. king, conceived that its success wou!d be injurious to their interests. Mr. Davidson was a man of great activity and strength, in the full vie-our of life and health, and able to en dure the severest labours and rrivati.ms; but personal accom plishments the most calculated to secure success in ordinary attempts of this nature, serve only to augment the suspicion and to stimulate the cruelty of those savage tribes, who tyran nize over these ithospitalle and almost impenetrable regions, and who are described by his c-erapanion, Abu-Bekr, " as full of envy at a stranger's g ods ; they lie in wait to plunder him of every thing, as a lion lietli in wait for cattle; they have no mercy on the stranger; even if a stranger were to strip off his skin and give it to them, they would seize upon it." The only foreign memLers whom the Society has lest dur iug the last year are Dr. Adam Afzelius, of Upsala, and Pro fessor Morichini, of Rome. Dr. Adam Afzelius was born at Large in West Gothland, in 1750, and was one of the last surviving puyils of Lienmus. In 1777 be was appointed Reader of Oriental Literature, and in 17 e 4.5 Demonsarator of Botany in the University of Upsala ; and be made his first appearance as an author by the publica tion of a short supplement to the ILra Suecicu of his master, in the Transactions of the Academy of Stockholm for 1787. la the years 1792 and 1794, he made botanical expeditions to Guinea and Sierra Leone. and a considerable part of the col lcctLns which he formed in those countries passed subse quently into the herbariums of Sir Joseph Banks and Sir James Edward Smith. In 1797 he was made Secretary of Le gation to the Swedish Embassy in this country, and in the fol lowing year he was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society on the ground of his great knowledge of botany and zoology. Upon his return to his own country he became Professor of Materia Medica and Dimteties at Upsala, situa tions which he retained fur the remainder of his life. He was the author of a learned paper in the Linnean Transactions for 1791 on the genus Trifolium, and also of two works entitled Remedia Guinensia and Stirpium in Guinea Lllcdicinalium Species: he edited likewise the botanical Ccrrespondence of Linnaeus. He was a botanist of great learning and acquire ments, and highly esteemed by the leading founders of the Lirnean Society , but I am unable to connect his name with any considerable advancement in natural knowledge. Professor Morichini, of Rome, was elected a foreign mem ber of the Royal Society in 1827, and is chiefly known for his experiment on the magnetizing influence of the violet rays in the solar spectrum. His experiment was repeated by Con figliachi at Pavia, and by Berard at Montpellier, without suc cess, and in consequence doubts were expressed of the accuracy of his results, which appeared to be finally removed by the successful repetition of it by cur justly-celebrated country woman, Mrs. Somerville, in the summer of 1825. lam not aware, however, that any other philosopher has succeeded in a similar attempt. STATEMENT OF TILE COUNCIL RELATIVE TO MR. PANIZZI'S PAMPHLET. In the pamphlet recently published by Mr. Panizzi. entitled " A Letter to his Royal Highness the President of the Royal Society, on the New Catalogue of the Library of that Insti tution now in the press," all the charges brought forward against the Council are founded on the most unwarranted and erroneous assumptions Mr. Panizzi assumes, in the first place, that the Council was bound to pay him in advance the remuneration agreed upon for the completion of the catalogue, such payment in advance never having been for a moment contemplated. His payment was to have been at the rate of 301. for every thousand titles the catalogue might contain ; but, in consi deration that the work would probably require a long time to accomplish, it was agreed that one-third of the money should be given to him when he had written out all the ti'lcs on slips of paper, another third when the revises were finally corrected for the press, and the remaining third when the whole was printed off. The total number of titles written out by Mr. Panizzi, as counted by Mr. Shuckard, by whose computation he consented to abide, was found to be 24,136; which at the rate of 10/. per thousand, would render the sum he ought to have received at the present stage of his work 2411. 7s. 2d. ; but from this sum 271. 6s. is to be deducted in payment of Mr. Robertson, as had been agreed to by Mr. Panizzi, reducing it to 2141. ls. 2d. At the period when Mr. Panizzi discon tinued the work he had already received from the Society 4501. on account, which is more than double the sum to which he was then strictly entitled. The Council, therefore, far from imagining that he had any further claims on the Society, considered that in advancing him so large a sum before he had completed the second term of his engagement, they had rather erred on the side of liberality. They could never have had an idea that he expected any additional payment, as he never gave them them the slightest intimation to that effect ; and it is not until after the lapse of sixteen months that he suddenly makes an appeal, not to the Council of the Royal Society, but to the public, by the circulation of a pamphlet, claiming fur ther remuneration, which be has never applied for to the party from whom he imagines it to be due. In the second place, Mr. Panizzi as;umes that the slips and revises are his own property, and that the Council has no right to them ; and to such a length does he carry this notion, that, even after he had ceased to be employed by the Council, he refused to give up the key of the drawers containing the slips, as if that key were his own property. He likewise still with holds the revises containing the remarks of the members who had seen them, alleging, while accused by nobody, that they iwere necessary for his justification. He is evidently not war ranted in complaining of members pointing out what appeared to them to be errors ; for if he had deemed this wrong, he NV ould not have done the very same thing in his pamphlet, wheeein he subjects the she's of a former Catalogue, not de signed for publication, and in a very rough and unfinished state, to the ordeal of his severest criticism. Another of Mr. Panizzi's unwarranted assumptions h his fancying himself at liberty to execute the work on which he was employed in whatever manner he pleased. The Council certainly never delegated to him this power ; but appointed a Committee for the express purpose of superintending the work as it proceeded, and of regulating the manner in which it should be printed : and it was the duty of Mr. Panizzi, or whoever else might have been employed by the Council, to .follow the directions and instracCone which might from time uo time he given to him by that Committee. Mr. Panizzi was continually complaining of ill usage, while he at the same time did not disclose the nature of his sup ; used injuries. He stated that he could not proceed with /no. work, but wculd rot point out any ground of complaint. lel en requested to explain wherein he thought himself ap;ge.'eved, h inquiry, but would give no definite answer to the nquiry, but pr.) -wed to refer matters to an arbitration ; leaving the Council she while unacquainted with the subjects of dis pute, or with' the points to be settled by such arbitration. When, for the' purpose of mutual understanding, he was in vited to a conference with the Committee, he refused to meet them, and would only communicate by letter with the Council. Finding, at length, that the great cause of the offence taken by Mr. Panizzi consisted in his being directed by the Com mittee to omit certain comments and Rotes which he had in troduced, in his own name, in the Catalogue, the Council, in deference to his wishes, and in the spirit of conciliation, con ceded the point in dispute, and agreed that he might consider the manuscript corrections made by the members of the Com mittee, merely "as suggestions for his guidance." But, far from meeting them in the same spirit, he next required of the Council, as a condition without which he could not proceed with the Catalogue, a further concetsion, namely, that they should rescind the whole resolution of its Committee, and de clare it null and void. It was obviously impossible to comply with so unreasonable a demand, which seemed so like a mere pretext for the total abandonment of the work ; and no alter native remained but to pass the resolution of the 14th of July, " that Mr. Panizzi be no longer employed in the formation of the Catalogue." On the Council requesting the return of the revises in his possesoon, Mr. Panizzi refused to do so, alleging that they are his private property ; nor would he even deliver up the key ' of the drawers containing the manuscript slips; refusals which, of course, put an end to all further correspondence with him on the part of the Council. So far from the Council having ever withheld from Mr. Panizzi, as he asserts in his pamphlet they have done, the precise number of titles which he wrote for the catalogue, they have always been ready to afford him that information. The slips were carefully counted by Mr. Shuckard, in whose accuracy Mr. Panizzi placed the fullest reliance, and who was appointed for that purpose with his concurrence. Any in quiry that Mr. Panizzi might have chosen to make as to the results and details of that computation would, at all times, have received the most immediate and complete answer. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1837. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock 3per Cent. tte,l,, . 90% 1 1 / 4 3 per Cott. Con& .3y4 per Cent..........- ......... Ditto Red. 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To heighten this state of perplexing conflict, the Go vernment kept perpetually shifting from side to side— one while throwing all its weight into one scale, and in the twinkling of an eye, flinging it into another— without the shadow of a pretext for a course so undig nified and extraordinary. In 1807 Sir JANIES CRAIG dragooned the Canadians ; while his successor, Sir GEORGE PREVOST, allowed himself to be bearded and insulted by them, within the precincts of his official residence. The Duke of RICHNIOND had his authority set at open defiance—the House of Assembly having first resolved to stop the supplies during his administration, in 1815. Lord DAL • nousues policy was the very reverse of the Duke of RICHMOND'S—and thus, from the year 1763 India ............... —.—... .. Ditto Bonds South Sea Stock -- O►d Annuities Nov Ditto 3 pek Cent. Annuities, 1751 -- Each Bills .£1 OOP 46 44 urn. Ditto - Pm• Ditto Small Ditto Commercial — 12 pm. Ditto Advertised Pm Bank Stock for Account... India Stock for Account......- • 266 4 Cnn‘oli for Acconrt ...... 921.( t Jan. 5: 1870... :::::::: : :::: :: o the present hour, has England been hold ing out inducements to the Canadians to take the dreadful step which they have now taken. That the Canadians have many grievances to complain of, we readily admit ; but we deny that they are of a nature to justify the shedding of a drop of hu man blood. They are, therefore, morally reponsible for the guilt of the war in which they have plunged this country. We shall to-morrow minutely examine the list of grievances complained of by the Canadians, that our readers may learn what are our exact opinions respecting them. People, it is said, are allowed to talk nonsense at Christmas-tide—for it is a tolerant and good-natured season, when allowances are made for all sorts of social escapades—but we know not that they are allowed to talk such nonsense as was talked a clay or two since at the Holywell Conservative Dinner. Captain MOSTYN, to whom this feed was given, twaddled away in a style that sets all competition at defiance. He did not indulge in occasional sallies of no-meaning; but was contitsuous and diligently persevering in his efforts to bewilder and obnubilate his hearers' faculties. Now, we hold, with die force of a strong moral con viction, that oratory of this sort is inexcusable even at Christmas, more especially when it is of a lengthy character, as was the case with the notable speech, of whose peculiarities we now proceed to make honour able mention. After observing, that he " aspired not to eloquence of diction or flower of speech," and then hastening to prove the fact by spreading over some five or six windy, corpulent sentences, remarks that might have been packed up in three lines ;—after thus certificating his abhorrence of all prolixity, Captain MOSTYN—who, we should premise, is the de feated candidate for the Flintshire boroughs— went on to say, " Gentlemen, I have, perhaps, paid less attention to polities than many of you ; nor do I pretend to possess the abilities which are necessary to form a profound judgment on the science of Government." And yet with this just and becoming estimate of his own abilities, the gal lant Speaker aspires to a seat in Parliament, and thinlt.s it uncommon hard that he has been unsuccess ful in his exertions 1 He confesses that he knows little or nyithing of legislative matters, and that many of his hearers have the advantage of him in this respect ; yet, nevertheless, he is desirous to take his place in the House of Commons, in order, of course, to grapple with questions which demand long habits of thought and sedulous application ; which involve mighty interests ; and are only to be fairly discussed and decided upon, by those who have made politics the science of a life. We might attribute Captain MOSTYN'S denial of politi cal ability to mock modesty, and give him credit for all of which he denies the possession, did not his remarks on the nature and tendency of the Conserva tive system convince us that he has done himself no more than justice, and assessed his faculties at precisely their proper valuation. What, indeed, is to be said for a speaker who can talk such nonsense as the follow ing ?—" We have no time to lose ; the enemy of our faith is abroad ; and he who loves his QUEEN, who loves his ChUrch, and who loves his GOD, will avail himself of the day of Conservatism to work the work of the Constitution ; for otherwise the night of Radicalism will arrive when no man can work ; and I trust that no friend to liberty will ever again be so tame as to open his mouth, and allow any man to cram down his throat a stranger to us and our country." We here pause an instant to contemplate in heart-felt admiration, the daring energy of the above metaphor. How perfect the picture I How refined and spiritual the allusion I Conceive a Flintshire Conservative opening wide his mouth, while a Flintshire Radical stands at his elbow, and crams down his throat, head-foremost, an immense stranger, hat, coat, breeches, boots, and all I We know of nothing in the English language —not even in that eloquent duodecimo entitled the " Beauties of CASTLEREAOH"—equaI to Captain MOSTYN'S image of the open-mouthed Conservative, unless it be his earnest supplication to the Flintshire electors, that they will not open their mouths for any such unconstitutional purpose as swallowing a raw, uncooked stranger I Sir STEPHEN GLYNNE'S speech—a calamity in flicted at the same dinner—was worthy to vie with Captain Alosivses, which is saying a great deal for it. The Honourable Baronet indignantly repudiated the notion that he was one of those " philosophers" —we are not aware that he has ever been accused of being a philosopher—" who assert that ignorance and Conservatism are connected ;" on the contrary, he maintained that " ignorance and imperfect knowledge were the fruitful source of Radicalism." This is rich. So then, the more the people become enlightened, the more apt they are to fall in love with Toryism ; with its happy genius for taxation ; its tact in inventing jobs and sinecures ; its love of standing armies, and Church pluralities ; its gaols and its barracks ; its Pension-lists and its Peterloo massacres I An illu mined public doats on all these little Tory peculiari ties ; it is a benighted one only that eschews them. The wiser we grow, the more we become reconciled to the visits of the tax-gatherer ; it is our ignorance— our perverse, deeply to be deplored ignorance —that makes us averse to the kind, and well-meant investi gations of Toryism into the exact condition of our purses I This is bright logic, and every way worthy to have fallen from the lips of such a consummate statesman as Sir STEPHEN GLYNNE. Colonel O'CONNELL who succeeded to the com mand of the British Legion in Spain after the depar ture of Colonel EVANS, has been in town for some time making arrangements for the conveyance of the last remnant of this ill-used and ill-fated body to the shores of England. We believe vessels have been dispatched by Government for that purpose, and their arrival may be expected in a few days. Thus will close a scene creditable to the unfortunate sufferers for the bravery and patience displayed under the most trying NOTE BY MR. BAILEY. Mr. Panizzi having stated in his letter to the Secretary, of July Bth (see his pamphlet, page 38), that " Mr. Bailey took away my written memorandum, and ordered Mr. Ro berton not to take any step," 1 beg to remark, first, that when that letter was read at the Council, I was surprised at the assertion, and distinctly denied the fact, never having seen nor heard of the written memorandum therein referred to ; secondly, that Mr. Robertson was immediately called be fore the Council, and, on being questioned as to this subject, disclaimed also any knowledge of the circumstance. THE TRUE SUN. LONDON: SATURDAY EVENING DECEMBER 23, 1337. 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 to be insensible to the strong ap probation of our views which has been expressed by some of the highest minds of our time. Vie 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 juitlfy 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 month, 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 bad perhaps a greater number of readers than any other Newspaper, but the indus trious many who have most sympathised with us have been 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 hire ; and that if they would maintain an independent press they must make strenuous efforts in aid of the journal wl►ich dares to be independent. Beyond our sincere desire that 'The Sun may deserve and command success, we have not the slightest interest in that journal. From some remarks which appear in another part of the paper it will be seen that the True Sun Weekly Paper will still remain in our bands. tKe" On Monday, and following days, during the week, The Sun Evening Paper will be published at our Office, as a substitute for the True Sun. Married, at Government House, Fredericton, New Brunswick, on Saturday, the 25th ult., by the Venerable Archdeacon Coster, Captain Tryon, 43d light infantry, of Bulwick Park, Northamptonshire, to Elizabeth, only daugh ter of his Excellency Major-General Sir J. Harvey, K. C. H., Lieutenant-Governor of this province, a grand-daughter of General Lord Lake, and niece of the present Viscount. The Animals Friend Society" last week caused William Duffield (ostler to Mr. Oddy) to be fined 10s. and costs, at Worship-street, by Mr. Grove, for having cruelly beaten a horse which he was breaking in, and violently pulled the bit. The Society also caused William Easther, Charles Gamble, and the cab driver 462, to be fined by Mr. Jeremy at Union-hall: the first, 20s. and costs, for cruelty to an ass, and he was committed for fourteen days in default ; the second, 10s. and costs ; and the third, ss. and 3s. costs. All the fines were given by the Society to the extra witnesses and to the poor-box. LORD JOHN RUSSELL AND MRS. GORE.— " Mary Raymond" is compared by the critics with Mr. Lock hart's " Adam Blair," and Lord John Russell's " Nun of Ar t ouca. " We are inclined rather to trace a resemblance between this charming tale and one of Mrs. Gore's earlier productions, entitled " Theresa Marchmont," published among the Ro mances of Real Life. THE DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH'S PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE, JUST PUBLISHED BY MR. COLBURN.—These volumes will take a prominent place amongst the most inter esting and important collections of private letters, the publica tion of which has thrown light upon the transactions of a great nation, and the characters of distinguished individuals. Their appearance is well timed. At the commencement of the reign of a female Sovereign, when the contention between the Whigs and the Tories is maintained with so much pertinacity, the struggle of the two sections of the Aristocracy for supremacy in the State under the sway of Queen Anne, presents a thou sand points of interest, and suggests a variak:y of curious and profitable speculations, unassociatcd with it at any other time. THE NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF "DARN LEY," " RICHELIEU," &c.—We have read (says our Contem porary, the Atlas) Mr. James's " Louis the Fourteenth" with great interest. The work is less a life of Louis than a view of his times, and less a view of the political than the social times of that Monarch. It partakes rather of the character of an agreeable and diversified narrative, thickly studded cdth personal anecdotes, than of a dry and careful history of Franc.. in the age when Richelieu ruled the destinies of that country; when De Retz, Mazarin, and Turcnne, de Maintenon and La Vallierc, divided the attention of the nation, and when the glory of great deeds was bathed in such hues of voluptuous ness and licentiousness that the stern reality tcok the tone of romance. Mr. James gives us only outlines of the wars ; but then he gives us bountiful accounts of the Generals, the events are despatched with brovity, the pers mnel is given at full length. Such is the general character of this entertaining work, PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds Belgian Bonds.. Ditto Account ..... . Brazilian Bands 5 Ditto Account ..... 73 54U Buenos Ayres Bonds... 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Churchill, Princes-street, Soho; Parbury and Co., 8, Leadenhall-street ; Ste venson, Cambridge ; Sutherland, Calton Street, Edinburgh ; and J. Porter, Grafton Street, Dublin. Now ready, in '2 vols. Bvo., 283., DIARY ILLITSTRATIVE OF THE riIIMES OF GEORGE IV., WITH NUMEROUS ORIGINAL LETTERS OF QUEEN CAROLINE. And other Royal or Distinguished Persons. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street This day was published, in 2 vols., post Svo., beivaifully illustrated with woodcuts, by S. Willliams, price 24 5 ., cloth l e tt ere d. T HE RURAL LIFE of ENGLAND. By WILLIAM HOWITT, Author of " The Book of the Sca.sons," &e., &c. London : Longman, Oraw, and C). EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. 134. ADVERTISEMENTS for the forthcoming No. are requested to bo sent to the Publishers Immediately. Saturday, January 6th, is the latest clay for receiving Advertisements; and Tuesday, January 9th, for receiving Bills. 39, Paternoster-row, Dec. 28, 1537. NOTICE. Having purchased the Copyright of the True Sun Evening Paper, the Proprietor of this Journal respect/idly requests the News Agents in Town and Country to supply The Sun in future in place of the True Sun, which ceased on Saturday, the 23d instant. Should any Subscribers of the True Sun be disap pointed, through mistake, in receiving The Sun, a communication, addressed to this Office, will ensure punctuality. Sun (Vice, 112, Strand, London. December 25,1837. The publication of TUE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 minutes past Three o'Cloch. - , 0 , 41.t.:•107 44. - .2 Zfle allll+ WITH WHICH " THE TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED. LONDON : THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28, 1837. We cannot admit that the grievances complained of by the people of Lower Canada—even were they not, as we know them to be, grossly exaggerated—would justify an appeal to arms against the power of Great Britain. Had the Canadians only the justice of the cause in which they have madly embarked to support them, hopeless, indeed, would be their prospect of the termination of such a struggle. It is not the oppres sive, but the vaccillating policy of the British Govern ment, spreading over a period of fifty years, that has encouraged the French party in Lower Canada, to un furl the standard of rebellion. That vaccillating po licy commenced in 1763, when by the treaty of Paris, Lower Canada, conquered by Wolfe in 1659, was formally ceded by France to England. The first act of the British Government at that time was to abo lish the Civil and Criminal Laws of the Colony, which were modelled upon those - of monarchical France ; and to replace them by the Laws of this coun try. For a time, the Colonists were delighted at the change ; but the wealthier inhabitants complaining that their rights were infringed by the de privation of seignorial privileges and other immunities, secured to them by the French law of tenure, the British Cabinet very foolishly yielded to what was then merely a clamour, and re-established the whole of the civil and criminal code, which only ten years before it had formally abolished. By this change a cruel wrong was inflicted upon the British settlers, who had emi grated to Canada in the confidence of enjoying there the blessings secured to them by the British Constitu tion ; and the consequence was, that, as many of them as could, moved in the direction of the Upper Pro vince, that they might not be subject to a jurisdiction which they did not understand, but against which they had conceived the strongest anti-national prejudices. The French Canadians were not insensible of the ad vantage they had thus gained, and their easy victory over the Government encouraged them to multiply and reiterate their demands. These became so high in 1791, that Mr. P ITT gran t e d th em a Con stitution which secured to them, as far as was then practicable, the same rights, civil, religious, and poli tical, as the people .of England. By this measure Canada was divided into two Provinces, each subject to the jurisdiction of a Governor-General nominated by the KING. In each Province a Legislative Coun cil and a House of Assembly was established, bearing as close an analogy as possible to the Estates of the Lords and Commons in England. To answer to our Privy Council, the Governor was authorized to appoint cer tain Members of the Legislative Council and the law officers of the Crown, to form an Executive Council, to whose judgment he might refer the decision of questions with the details of which he might not be familiar. This concession did not satisfy the Canadians, who dated from its establishment a new list of grievances. As there was no aristocracy of either wealth or blood in Canada, the British Government, in regulating the the working of the Constitution, ordered that the thirty-four Members forming the legislative Council THIS DAY AT ON O'CLOCK. ' Peruvian Bonds ........... 19 Ditto Account ..—......... ..... Portuguese 80nd5.................. 65 Ditto Account ..... ..... ..... ... Pitt° New Bonds...—. ......... Ditto Account Dtto, 3 per cent..... ..... ..19% % Pn.L.sian Bonds ..... . ....... itu..fian Bonds, 1822 Ditto Account Ditto ........ Spanish Bond: atto Account — Ditto Bonds.l%l 19 M4 D tto Account l9 French, 5 per cent_ —f. —c. ------- 4 per cent —f —c --- 3 per cunt. —l. Exchange —c. Dutch, 2 . 7 ‘, per cent 53M0,4% Ditto Account 53t., Data, t, per cent.... 100 1 ,i %% 1 ,4 I'.l Ditto Account ......... DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Paid mpany...... 90 5 Lilway 5 at 15s, pm.) 14 Por Share 2% 3 !11 3 l A , 3 Ss. 12s. 6(1. 13s. ;, DUBLIN, DECEMBER 26. circumstances, but in the highest degree disgraceful to the Spanish Generals and the Spanish Government. In scarcely any instance did either of these parties keep faith with Colonel EVANS. The troops were enlisted at the instance and on the earnest application of the QUEEN'S Government, and engagements were made by which they were to be paid, and fed, and clothed, in the same manner as British troops of the line. Scarcely had they arrived in Spain before they were seized by an epidemic disease, which was brought on by cold and want, and which carried off many hundreds. Not withstanding their wants and sufferings they were re solved to perform their part of the contract, and at the request of General CORDOVA attempted, in con junction with a Spanish division, to penetrate from Vittoria into the provinces. They were driven back by the forces under EGUIA ; and CORDOVA, in place of assisting them, retreated to the town, leaving them in the most perilous situa tion, and they were saved from total destruction only by the rapidity of EVANS in escaping from the snare. They received the same support in their attack on the lines in the front of St. Sebastian, and, but for the timely succour of Lord JOHN HAY, would in all probability have been driven back with great loss. The battle of 16th March was only a repeti tion of these scenes, except that it terminated more un fortunately, and decided the fate of the Legion. Since then there has been an uninterrupted train of bad treatment, and the Spaniards have con cluded the scene by depriving the few remaining troops of their arms, and leaving them in a state of destitution, and not even secure against the attacks of the armed peasantry. Our Government has at last been obliged to interfere, and provide vessels to con vey them to England. The recital of these facts re quires no comment ; but Colonel EVANS will not do his duty (and he may now speak out without compro mising his men), if he does not lay a full statement be fore the public, pointing out the real causes of his failure, and the exertions Lord PALMERSTON made to bring the Spanish Government to a sense of something like humanity and good faith. The number of unfortunate victims of this policy that now wander through the streets will be increased by some hundreds, and will force on the public—if not on the Government—some attention to their bad treatment and sufferings. They went out under the protection of the British Govern ment, and if they can get no redress from Spain, they have a right still to claim that protection, in order to obtain their arrears of pay, and the fulfilment of the original contract. A Morning Contemporary states with amazing pomp and emphasis of manner, that at a Conservative meeting lately held in Aberdeen, Mr. Ross, of Rossie —who, like our Contemporary, was once a Reformer, and is now a Tory—made a deep impression on all who heard him, by the manliness and eloquence of his remarks ; and adds, that at the next election, he will no doubt be the successful candidate. Now, in answer to this, we may observe—and our authority is that of one who was on the spot at the time—that when Mr. Ross's name was mentioned on the hust ings at the last election, it was received with a loud burst of laughter, even from his own friends ! By the arrival of the City of Canterbury steamer a: Falmouth, we have received advices from Lisbon of the 20th inst. The Cortes were discussing the merits of a new Treasury scheme, which was in bad odour with most of the large capitalists. In the expose of of the Finance Minister the following passage occurs relative to the debt contracted in England : " The Government using the authority conceded to it by the law of the 15th of July last, ordered by a decree of the 14th of October last, through the intervention of the finan cial agent in London, the creation of Exchequer bills to the amount of one million of pounds sterling, bearing an interest at the rate of 31d. per day for each 1001., in order to meet the payment of the dividends, and to redeem 70,000/. of bonds at 5 per cent. held (in pledge only) for advances made by Rothschild, Goldsmid, and others. " The 400 contos of reis with which the Junta of Public Credit was to be additionally endowed in conformity with the decree of the 15th of July, and which the Cortes have voted, is pledged for the payment of the interest of these new bonds." Portugal was apparently tranquil. We have no intelligence respecting the intrigues of the Court, or the movements of the Royal family. The French Journals of Tuesday have been re ceived. During the sitting of the Chamber of Depu ties on that day, 111. DUPJN was re-elected President for the ensuing session. Three hundred and forty eight Members voted, of which votes two hundred and thirteen were given for M. DUPIN—a large majority when it is remembered that the remaining votes were divided among, not three, but several candidates, of whom only two had as many as twenty votes recorded in their favour. A ccording to the Augsburg Gazette, the Duke of NEMOURS is about to proceed to Germany on a matrimonial speculation. The Siecle has the following paragraph relative to the civil war in Lower Canada : " A number of French volunteers propose forming them selves into an auxiliary legion to go to British America and assist the Canadian patriots in their resistance to the domina tion of England. The French, who love liberty, remember that these insurgents are Frenchmen by origin—that they were given up to England by the good pleasure of Louis XV. and that the treaty of 1763, by which they were delivered over to that power, has never been ratified by the people of France." M. JACQUES LAVITTE, of banking and republican notoriety, but who recently disgusted France by his conversion to Conservatism, stands a fair chance of being yet elected a Member of the new Chamber of Deputies, and once more occupying the seat which his old associates had resolved to consecrate to— Vacancy I The following account of a preliminary step to a consummation so ardently desired by :AI. LA IITTE'S friends, leaves little doubt as to the result of such a display of French gratitude : The electors of the first arrondissement of Toulouse have charged M. Belmontel there to put into M. Lafitte's hand the following letter, in which he is requested to come forward as candidate in the room of Marshal Clausel. " Sir—Your presence in the Chamber is necessary for the honour of the France of July. You are the most honourable personification of the revolution of 1830, and your exclusion from The national representation is an outrage to it. We, in consequence, request you to accept the offer we are so happy to make you, in case Marshal Clausel should accept his return at Rhetel. Toulouse will prove itself more just and more grateful than Paris. " Toulouse, December, 1837." This letter is signed by 213 names. All the electors in Toulouse at the time signed. The ma jority for M. Lafitte, it is said., will be at least a third greater than that for Marshal Clausel. No candidate has yet been found to stand against the honourable banker, and nearly 100 legitimist votes are secured to the majority. It is even said that M. Lafitte will be elected without one dissentient voice. The place left vacant in the Chamber will consequently not long be left so. There is no other domestic intelligence in the Paris Journals worthy of notice. The following extracts from them are, however, of some interest : " It is affirmed that the French Government has offered to the King of Prussia its mediation in the affair of the Arch bishop of Cologne, that autograph letters have passed between the two Sovereigns, and that a great lady, who has religion much at heart, has written to King William, expressing her anxiety on account of the disgraced Prelate. The Prussian Government, in reply, has merely related the string of com plaints it has against the Archbishop ; among which is one of having excited the younger Clergy to rebel against the Ar chiepiscopal authority, by a rigorous exaction of discipline no longer in accordance with the manners of the ay."— Bon Sens. " The rich American banking-house of Messrs. Welles and Co., in this capital, on occasion of the late commer cial crisis received assistance from the Bank of France, as our readers will remember, on the guarantee of Messrs. Welles, and also of some great capitalists at Paris, Lyons, and Marseilles, to the amount of 3,200,000 francs. The sum offered to be lent by the Bank of France was 4,300,000 francs ; but of this Messrs. Welles availed them selves only to the amount of 2,375,000 francs; and on the 21st instant, they repaid the whole of this sum to the Bank, and thus effaced the last vestige of the temporary shock sus tained by their house. On occasion of this Count d'Argout, governor of the Bank of France has written to the persons who were guarantees NMessrs, Welles, to inform them that the obligations which they had thus contracted were termi nated, and that " they were entirely freed from their honoura. ble co-operation in an act as useful to commerce in general as to a house which was so well-justified, by its good faith and readiness in paying, the confidence of which it has been the object." Count &Argent has also written to the house in question, to say that the Council- General of the Bank " wag. desirous of giving a striking testimony t o the g ood faith of Mr. Welles, and to the extreme promptitu de which he had employed in discharging his obligations to t he Bank, long be fore the time of the engagements which he had contracted fall ing due." " Upwards of thirty ships perished in the Bosphorus from the hurricane of the 20th of November. Five of these ships. were Sardinian, one Maltese, one English , thr ee Turk, and the rest unknown. Odessa sustains a loss of 100,000 dollars, and Constantinople at least 60,000. Sixty sail got into Igua da."- Genoa Gazette. The Moniteur Alger:en, of the 16th of December contains the following :- " The Acheron steam vessel arrived to-day from Bons, but having twice been obliged to put back on account of bad weather, the last news from Constantine are only of the 3d. At that time the greatest tranquillity still prevailed in the pro vince. Two convoys, one of provisions and another of cloth ing and beds for the army, had arrived safe, having traversed, without the slightest obstacle, the country between Mendjiz-el --laminar and Constantine. " The garrison amounted to five thousand men ; and the cholera having ceased, the general state of health of the troops was very re-assuring. The communications between the Commandant and the tribes, were most pacific. The marke t s were regularly provisioned, and the inhabitants, who bad quitted the city during the siege, had almost all returned. " The defensive works of the place were almost entirely terminated, the breach having been closed, and the Cazbah put in a state of defence. The engineers were occupies' in repairing the barracks and other military buildings; the garri son was performing its daily manoeuvres, and nothing bad troubled the daily course of things. The Sheik of the desert, Feral Ben Sagiei, bad left Con stantine in pursuit of Achmet, whose personal enemy be is. Reports also had reached the Commandant of Constantine, that Achmet had been defeated in a combat with several tribes which formerly were allied to him, and had been obliged to fly into the desert. The courier communications between Constantine and Bona continued to be saf e and direct." HOLLAND AND BELGIUM -The intelligence of the march of a detachment of Belgic troops is confirmed. The 7th and 12th regiments, forming a brigade of six battalions (say 3,600 ne bayonets), with two squadrons and eight field pieces ba re , already moved upon Arlon, under the command of Ge ra ` Olivier. This movement is called by the Belgic Governm ent ~ a measure of precaution ;" but it is, in fact, utter ly useles s. Reports were current at Brussels on Friday that it was the in tention of the Dutch Government to compel all Belgian ves sels, outward or inward bound, to exhibit their papers on pass ng Rammekens (near Flushing), and to exact from them e er- . ;am light-house and buoyage dues, but they were contradict ed. FRENCH FUNDS -PARIS, Nov. 26. Five per Cents.. 107 f. 80c. '7sc. Four per Cents., 101 f. I tile. per Cents., 78f. 75c. 65c. 70c . Bank Actions, 2,500 f. 2,59. f. 2 60Cf Rente ae Naples, 9711 55c. s:'c: • Roman Five per Cents., 1004. Spanish Actives, 20% %. Spanish Ditreres, Spanish Passives, 4%. Belgian loan, Five per Cents, 102 3 / Brussels Society, 1,71af. Belgian Bank, 1,535 f. 1,530 f. Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents. 19%30 • Dutch Two and a halfper Cents., 53. Haytian Loan, 370 f. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 47 4c.; money, 25f. 47%c. Three months, paper, 25f. 30c. ; money, 25f. 27%r. LAST PRICES. Five per Cents. 107 f. 85c. Three per Cents., 78f. 70c. Bank Actions, 2,600 f. Romans, 100%. Belgian Loan, 1021 i. Belgian Bank, 1,530 f. Brussels Society, 1,7101. Portuguese Three per Cents., 19%. Spanish Actives, 2(1%. Spanish Passives, 4%. New Difreres, 0 3 4. Haytlen Loan, 370 f. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH conN, For the Week ended Dec. 22, 1537, :made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and 'fawns in Englan.l and Wales, P" Imperial Quarter. Wheat sBs 2d. Oats - Barley 2l.s, 33. I Itye IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE SIX WEEKS PRECEDING. yvy ~ Wheat 535. 3d. Oats Barley 29s. EU. Rye DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. Wheat ...... 2:ls. Bd. Oats _, 64 Barley lBs. 461. I Rye THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.) HAY MARKETS.—(At per Load of 36 Trusses.) CUMBERLAND. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay..... New Meadow Hay Useful Old Ditto 42; (0 1" 51 £ 4 4 ° 1 : 50 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay. 4£ 4 15 5 5 le Clover Hay Oat Straw £1 14 to £1 161 Wheat Straw 1 16 1 IS SMITHFIELD. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £4 0 to £4 New Meadow Hay 0 0 0 Useful Old Ditto 4 5 4 10 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye grass Hay Clover Hay (extra fine '5 10 Generally 4 10 5 0 Oat Straw £1 h.' t-i .£1 14 1 Wheat Straw 1 14 1 14 WHITECHAPEL. Coarse Meadow Hay ,x4 0 to 1 ! LIG New Meadow Hay Useful Old Ditto 4 5 ' ' Fine Upland Meadow and It ye.grass Hay 4lO `, 1 1 5 5 Clover Hay 4lO .' 1 i ii Old Straw £1 10 to £1 12 I Wheat Straw COAL MAT S. d. Holywell 2l 6 Walls End Bewicke and Ce '23 3 Walls End Gosforth Per Ton. KET.—Dec. 27. 4, s. „ I Per Ton g v Walls End Butterknowl 2 . Walls End Adelaide 22 g Walls End Deanery 0 0,. ,0 g Walla End St. Helen's Tees „„.. Walls End South Durham ... • x" g Walls End Tees 23 6 Walls End West Iletton Walls End Hartley 22 6 Walls End Staveley Main 2, : 6 Walls End Devonshire 2 ' 6 Blythe IS 6 2'2 Cowpen Walls End Hotspur Walls End Killingworth 22 9 I Walls End Newm4rela 2l 9 Walls End Northumberland 22 3 Walls End Braddyll's Hetton 23 9 Walls End Hetton 24 0 Walls End Lambtnn 9 Walls End Russel's Helton 23 9 Walls End Stewart's 9 Walls End Hartlepool 2l 9 Ship. arrived since last market-day, 89 BILLINGSGATE MARKET. Cod Fish to-day were in short supply. Turbot, 4s. and bg i ; up to 20s. Soles very scarce. Lobsters, is. up t o v ery li . qi prices. Cod, is 6d. and 2s. to ss. 6s. and 7s. A plentliu supply of prime Fish. Trade fair. HUNGERFORD MARKET. This market, like all the rest, is not recovered out of that state which is brought on by Christmas. Fish much as 145 c quoted. Buteher's meat, game, and poultry, rather twee t. : tain in prices, but for the most part dear. Vegetables fe t T.! much about the prices of Covent-garden market. Tra ct° generally here, as everywhere else; is not lively. FREE TRADE.—TEA SALES. These sales progressed to-day. The attendance of the trade was fair, and the importer s con ti nue t o b uy in /arg e ," l - to support prices. The littl e t h a t i s so ld f etc h es fbi lti no - s rates, and no new f ea t ure w h atever i s presente d. It yet known on what day the sales will finish. TALLOW MARKET. • ter- P. Y.C. to-day i s d u ll a t 45 5 . t o 45 5 . 3d., w hi c h ar e Yes da)'s quotations. COLONIAL MARKETS. Canadian produce remains in the same state that we stanced yesterday. Th e s t oc k s o f A s h es an d Turpentine; (both Canadian produce) are rather short than otherwise; bui, we had all our a rr i va l s f or t hi s season b e f ore t h e re volt t ' 9° . f place. Ti m b er i s as genera ll y at t hi s t i me o f t h e year, ti be ° , in stock. East and West India produce of a ll kinds CO destitute of public business, and unvaried in prices. st ill The fire amongst the shipping opposite the Tower , IS very great at this time (one o'clock), and Oil and Turpent t. are fast consuming, and covering the water to a great exte n A cAtvo of wheat is now on fire. for making up stocks, 3 t This is the season of the year m o ot a general remark, it may be observed, that the stocks of tlive primary commodities are less than they were at th i6 last year. The following melancholy accident happene a t he Thursday evening last on the farm of Sauchland, now neighbourhood of Fala :—Two of Mr. Bain's servants, .9'foot and a boy, were driving a cart loaded with straw from his atcd at the Magazine to that of Sauchland. They Inr e nter' A l themselves on the cart above the straw, and bad .in2", a y. 11 ; the road leading to the farm-house from the higu y ` t b' e level. that place the road is about ten or twelve feet abn Y t et ber th e of the fields, with no parapet or paling ,_. and v;',,, aa then horse had started, or the force of the wind, which i"diffolt to say, but the cart was overturned. The man very boisterous, had occasioned the catastrophe, it .3 were an d boY thsm . pitched into the field below, and the loaded cart ahoy e . b the man was able to call out for assistance, it Unfortunately there was no person near; and althn a _g_ e ntY minutes before the cart could be removed. By . this t c l . The boy was quite dead, and the man considerably injure.. was s poor boy had fallen with his face to the ground--olcation, recently ploughed field—and he must have died by s 'l' load above as his mouth was filled with earth, and the greatvas about had prevented him from making any exertion. 11 1 e arent 1 1 1 fourteen years of age, and belonged to respectab elf - 0 ed w Dalkeith. The man is doing well, and it is P speedily recover.—Glasgow Herald. at W ilt° was aboutrtw the In the course of the improvements nse stone discovered in a vault behind the pulpit an imerevee inches six i n caes coffin. seven feet nine inches long, two feed of n t Church, near Taunton, the workmen last week accidentallY wide, and two feet deep. The cover is upwards A lion ram' in thickness, and its weight nearly re of a human s" u p . which, in slight alto relievo, is thehouOruglass. The lettertil,7 supported by cross bones and an but the following is tracT; pant appears on its upper portionhfia,lifn abatsosno. relievo, abul can be but imperfectly deciphered, coy vs die Mensis An_ Wiltone in Cornitaysoset Gene_rorore ~ which ma y be tbui Dm Nolimetang,ere proprietate & body m Of George P0wei11:r.....0 rendered, " In this coffin lies the w ho den ~ able :—., In hoc .cp ich Itoiacet or vs Georg Powell do Anno Domini. Forbear to touchome r 'r . .Thwiews an decear am .. The date of the month and yeabrearifngl 1-' the crests of lion where Wilton, in the county of Somerset,gienotnalempaent,y obliterated. Leaden cisterns,u io the same parish, gentu.. pant, are still met with a . n three and four d b qi reside etw cc probably the decease ries ego. -d lave. is