The Sun. — London, England, 1837-12-27 00:00:00

The publication of Tug SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock. g t t cf 3r• . ( 7 1) e WITH WHICH " THE TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED. LONDON : WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 27, 1937. - In deploring the state of affairs in Lower Canada, we cannot withhold the expression of our deep regret that the Colonial Secretary, and the rest of her MAJESTY'S Ministers, seem to have been very im perfectly informed respecting the progress of events in that Province—that the Cabinet never once antici pated conclusion of a struggle long foreseen by the zrrtelligeut and disinterested part of the community. It has been often observed in the House of Commons, that Sir GEORGE GREY declared his ignorance of proceedings which Mr. FIuME and Mr. ROEBUCK inquirer! about, and of which they had received, by the provincial Newspapers, regular details. We fear from what has taken place, that the Colonial Office remains in utter ignorance of pro ceedings which would mark the progress of public opinion in that province, and enable Ministers, if un derstood, to guard against many evils which may yet ensu e . If our readers refer to the file of The Sun, for the last year, they will see many and timely warnings given of the state of Lower Canada, which no person Of reflection could mistake ; and the urgent manner in which we called on her Majesty's Ministers to alter their policy will shew that we deemed the affairs of that province in a critical state. On the 2d of Sep tember last, we published the proceedings of a public meeting of the County of Lacadie, which slie'wed what the the real views of the people of Canada then were. Mr. PAPINEAU attended the meeting, which consisted of 500 horsemen, 300 carriages, and an immense mul titude of people. The banners exhibited on that occa v Eion and the resolutions adopted, strong in complaint of grievances, and loud against the policy of the Go /ernment, indicated to us a high degree of excite- Ment. We concluded in these words :—" We con sider these resolutions as a sample of those generally adopted in Lower Canada ; and, as speaking the public opinion on the state of affairs, well deserving the attention of Lord MELBOURNE and Lord JOHN RUS SELL ; for we cannot expect that any complaint will have an effect upon Lord GLENELG, who has heti) the supporter of the system of misrule which has almost driven to a state bordering on insurrection every colony of the Crown." On the 3d of October ve published the Address of the house of Assembly of Lower Canada to Lord GosFortn, passed on the 26th of August, breathing indignation at the treat ment the representatives of the people had re ceived, and intimating resistance until the policy of the Government should he altered. We re quest our readers to refer to that Address to his Lordship : and then let us ask why Lord MELBOURNE did not pay attention to the almost trnited representation of the people of Canada? The -Assembly complain of " the withholding of the most titter e d rights of the Canadian people and of the Le g i s l a ture." And they complain of the formal and total refusal of the reforms and improvements de thanded by that House and by the people"—they say, in our efforts to remove the evils which have pressed Upon our country, we have had recourse to None but constitutional means, founded on the best recognised Principles."—They conclude with these words—that, `1 Strong in the justice of their cause, they rely on Providence,__ and on the public and private resolves of t he people," for justice. 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Sun o,ffice, 112, Strand, London. December 25, 1837. _'3~!{ Bahia THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27. 1837. On. the 10:h of Octob;:r we aga)r stated some oc currences i❑ Lower Canada, such as the declaration that L•. - )rd JoHN ussELL's resolutions were re volutionary, and in violation of their best rights.. We pointed out the dismissals of magistrates and mi litia officers by Lord GOSFORD, for attending pub lic meetings of the people, a►rd we asked her Ma jesty's Ministers what that expected from such a system To us the evils were apparent, and we did our best to impress Lord MELBOURNE with our fears, but to no purpose. On the 13th of October we pointed out the misru!e, by means of Orangemen, in the Canadas, and we detailed numerous crying evils from the mtem then going on. We compared the state of Canada then with what Ireland had been under the Orange domination, and we entreated Lord Join; RUSSELL not to persevere in so reprehensible a line of policy. What Lord MULGRAVE had done in Ireland, we prayed Lord MELBOURNE to do in Canada—to grant equal justice, and depend upon the continuance of peace and contentment. On the 18th of October, and on subsequent days, we brought the complaints of the Canadians before the public—we called the attention of Ministers to the inevitable consequences of such proceedings as were then going on ; but, it would appear, to little purpose. We now wish to see the horrors of war—of civil war—put an end to, and say emphatically—do justice to the Cana dians, and all will go well. In our columns of to-day will be found, extracted from the Supplement of the London Gazette of last night, a dispatch from Sir JOHN COLBORNE, Com mander of the Forces in Canada, dated the 29L11 of November, enclOsing the reports of Colonels WE THERALL aßd GORE relative to the attacks on the in surgents at St. Denis and St. Charles. These docu ments will be read with eager attention. In the attack on St. Charles, which was as successful as could be desired, Colonel WETHERALL only lost one serjeant and two rank and file killed ; and eighteen rank and file wounded. On the side of the insurgents the loss was very great, Colonel WETHERALL having him self counted fifty-six dead bodies, exclusive of those who perished in the houses set on fire by the soldiers'. Colonel GORE, who failed in the attempt to carry St. Denis, lost one sergeant and five rank and file killed ; and ten, including Captain Mertxll Am, wounded. The insurgents, however, al most immediately evacuated the town, on hearing that Colonel WE 4 THERALL was preparing to march against them. The reported defeat of the QUEEN'S troops at St. Charles turns out to be a hoax. There is at present not the slightest chance of the Canadians succeeding in their mad attempt at independence. As the present is said to be the age of improvement in every department of the State, and as certain depart ments show that they are not yet quite awake to the " march of mind," we feel it incumbent on us to touch their recollection. All the world now talks of Canada— nothing but Canada is thought of. It is the en grossing topic everywhere—and no wonder, for such was the shock produced in the Cabinet by the recent news, that Ministers deemed it ne cessary to cut short the Parliamentary recess by one half. Well, then, such being their opinion of its all engrossing importance to the country at large, will people, taking an interest in the affairs of Canada, believe what follows ? Yesterday morning, as early as seven o'clock, despatches reached London from Canada ; they were laid before her MAJESTY by Li , rds MEL BOURNE, GLENELG, and IT'LL. Well, what then ? When were their important contents communi cated to the public—all anxious as they must have been for official or authentic information ? Per- haps at two, or three, or seven o'clock ? Not so. This morning !—full twenty-four hours after their -ar rival in town Where was the delay ? We know not. Whose fault was it ? We know not : but a fault there was somewhere. At 20 minutes past 10 last night a Supplement to the Gazelle of yesterday was brought to our (Alice, containing the dispatches, but too late, of course, to be of any use. Had it been sent at six, or any hour before post, The Sun would have diffused the contents of these despatches all over the country one day earlier. They scarcely take up two columns of our paper, and might have been copied six times over between the period of their arrival and time of being sent to the Gazelle office. As a proof that ►ve do not exag,gerate facts, we say that, from a quarter past five to a quarter to seven o'clock in the evening, The Sun does often contain in a Second Edition, Parliamentary news extending to five or six columns, not one word of which waq spaleen before five o'clock. And yet it is takcn down in short hand, written out, sent a mile from the Houses of Parliament to The Sun office— composed, printed, and put into the Pont-ollice by Half-past Seven, in above two thousand copies; and yet two columns of dispatches take all day to copy out ! If there be not room for improvement here, we do not know where there is. Mr. CYCoNNOt.I, in a second letter addressed to he inhabitants of Dublin, complains that he receives ittle or no assiiitance from the Irish or English Press, in his opposition to the Irish Poor Law Bill ; and then adds, " Even The Sun, which takes so kind and zealous a part o n most subjects connected with Ire land, does nat feel itself warranted to consume its space by printing my commentary on this Bill." We gave the substance, of the first letter, and at the, same time stated that want of room pre vented us from giving it at full length ; but that was not the sole reason. We are anxious, for the sake of the starving poor of Ireland, as well as from a sense of justice to the people of this country, that some measure of relief should be passed with the least possible delay. Mr. O'CONN ELL, on the con trary, has either been lukewarm or hostile to any com pulsory provision, and he could hardly expect that this Journal should spread and encourage disputes between the landlord and tenant, which might hare the cffect of destroying the Bill, and' leaving two millions of paupers for another year to the tender mercies of the landlords. The landlords now do nothing for the poor—all the relief they get is from the smaller tenants, and from their kind-hearted brethren but a little elevated above them in the scale of existence. Would it not, then, be a great step get one-half, or even one -third, of the rates ;air ed from to the landlord ? No man has better reason than Mr. O'CostNELL to know how difficult— how impossible it is, to get justice in one pay ment from a British Parliament ; and we, there fore, only follow his good example in saying that for the time being we shall be satisfied with an instalment. It is not our intention to enter into all the objections urged by Mr. O'CoN NELL against the Bill now in the House of Commons. Some of them are founded on justice and expediencY• He wisely opposes that clause which enacts that no clergyman can be elected a guardian of the poor. Let Protes. tart and . Catholic clergy men b e e l ec t e d indiscriminately —let them labour together if; thy same works of charity—let them associate together in all rgP ings an d bistittitions where there is no invidious dis tinction, and the . hofitiiity between them which has been generated and supported by ipAYariog wil) be in time modified or converted into esteem and flientiAip. It route be better also if the Poor -rates, in accordance with the principle of Ow 'ph? Pill ; were to come out of the rents—not that the tenant in the long run would be a gainer, but because the collection would be less expensive, and the stnaller te nants would be saved from a great annoyance. It is also objectionable—nav, absurd--to omit taking into account the fine paid by the tenant for his house or farm ; but in our humble opinion all these detail might be satisfactorily arranged in Committee. Both landlord and tenant will be benefitted by the Tithe Bill and the Poor Law Bill. In the first, the charge is to be thrown on the laNdlords, and if they consider that as a disadvantage, they may naturally say why should not the tenants be called upon to pay at least a share of the rates imposed by the second ? This is the great—the paramount objection of Mr. O'CON NELL to the Bill, and by far the best answer to it is given by himself:— " Thus the Ministry contradict themselves, and whilst they advocate the placing other burdens on the rent and landlords, they now insist upon throwing this burden on the occupiers and residents. 4' Why should the Ministry violate their own principles, and in this instance act in a way directly the reverse of that which they pump , on other occasions ? I have no doubt that One reason is, because, unless, they conciliated the landlords, they would have no chance of passing the Bill through the House of Lords." _ _ In other words, if the Government did not introduce such a clause, we should never get a Poor Law for Ireland, and while the parties were squabbling about tl►e payment, the poor would be starving of cold and hunger. A public meeting in aid of the Polish Refugees was held a few days since at Devonport, when many of the speakers made forcible appeals to the benevolence of their countrymen ; and implored them to stretch forth a saving arm to those heroic exiles who are now perishing from cold and famine in the streets, the hopeless victims of the most atrocious tyranny that ever disgraced humanity. Lord DUDLEY STEWA RT, from whom Mr. LITTLE read a letter, said, " It is my belief that some of the Poles have ac tually perished in this country from want—not, perhaps, from want of a bit of bread on any given day ; but from want of proper food, they have fallen into a state of ill health, which has proved irrecoverable. Many hare died of broken hearts ; and I could, I lament to say, name several who, over- powered by their misfortunes, public and private, have lost their reason. It is positively the fact, that many are working on the rail-roads ; many more, I may add, would work upon them, if they could get put on. I myself have seen men of education, a colonel, a major, and others, at work on the Great Western line." If this be not a case to call forth all the strongest sympathies of Englishmen, we know not what is. The poor snfreters, be it observcd, hare been reduced to this deplorable condition from no fault of their own ; they are not paying the penalty of misconduct, but of au ardent, disinterested, high minded love of liberty—that passion which has made England what she now is. Are they not, then, the fittest possible subjects for our active benevolence ? In fighting their own bat tles, they have in truth been assisting and exalting the cause of freedom throughout Europe ; and as we, abOve all nations, boast of the de termined stand we have always made against the encroachments of despotism, we should look on the poor Poles, not as Lord LYNIMIURST looks on Irishmen, as foreigners and aliens, but as a band of brothers, whose cause has ever been the same as ours. Several distinguished members of the legal profes sion having given it as their opinion that Lord 13Ro0cunm erred in. asserting that the Duchy of Lancaster is the political, not the natural, inheritance of the Sovereign, and, thenfore, properly within the jurisdiction of Parliament, we deem it of importance to offer a few brief remarks on a subject in which the people of England have a deep interest. The Duchy of Lancaster was created by King EDWARD 111. in favour of HENRY I'LANTAGENET, previously Earl of that territory. Upon the death of HENRY. the first Duke, the dukedom descended, in right of his wife, HENRY'S only child, to JOHN of GAUNT, the KING'S third son, who obtained from Parliament many important privileges for those dwelling within the County Palatine. HENRY BOLINBROICE, Duke of Lancaster, son of JOHN of GAUNT, having wrested the crown from Incif ARD 11., and caused himself to he proclaimed King, under the title of HENRY IV., refused to merge his dukedom in the inheritance of the Crown, because l►e knew that having no claim to the possession of tl►e Throne but what he de rived from usurpation, he must lose all, should lie be deprived of the Royal dignity. He there- fore, in the first year of his reign, caused an Act of Parliament to be passed, ordai►►ing that the Duchy of Lancaster with all its royalties and f►an chises should remain to him and his heirs fur ever, in Ike manner as he never had been acln►owledged King of England. His son and grandson, HENRY V. and HENRY VI. held, and administered the affairs of ti►e Duchy under this tenure ; but the latter beii►g at. tainted of treason by EDWARD IV., another Act of Parliament was passed declaring the Duchy forfeited to the Crown, and vesting it with all its rights and im- 'nullities in EDWARD IV. and his heirs, Kings (f England, for ever ; but under a separate jurisdiction and management from the other Crown po'sessions. The usurpation of lIICIIARD 111. having raised some disputes about the right of inheritance to the Duchy, HENRY VII. procured an Act of Parliament in the first year of his reign, confirming the right of the Crown to the Duchies of Cornwall and LAncaster as a part of the inheritance of the Sovereign, and his eldest son as King and Heir Apparent to. the Throne of England. Since that time the right of the Crown to the possession of the Duchies has never been dis puted; but that the right is solely political is proved by the fact that at the Revolution of 1688 it was not judged necessaty to enact a law vesting the revenues and jurisdiction of the Du chies of Cornwall and Lancaster in the Prince of ORANGE and his descendants upon his accession to the English Throne. JAMES 11. was never im peached as Duke of Lancaster, nor Wai his son, the Prince of WA t. Es, supposed to have the remotest claim to the Duchy of Cornwall after the abdication of JAMES, and previous to his own attainder for trea son. With the Crown, in the opinion of the ablest lawyers of that day, was forfeited all right to the revenues of these Duchies, which were regarded as legally appertaining to it ; and though a contrary opinion has since been advanced by legal commentators, we do not believe that it is entitled to respect—espe cially as it is opposed to all precedents on the subject. The Act of HENRY VII. was simply an Act of r.sumption, as regarded the Duchy of Lancaster, by which it was declared, as under EDWARD IV., the property of HENRY and his descendants—Kings (f England. That Act has never been repealed, nor has it once fallen into desuetude during a period of more than three centuries. There is, therefore, no grounds, legal or constitutional, for assuming a natural right in the Sovereign to these Duchies. The right, as Lord BROUGHAM justly contends, is purely political; and even that right cagnot he maintained without com mitting a fraud upon the House of CummouE) whose vote of a civil list is accepted by the Crown as an equi valent foi whole of the hereditary revenues there unto appertaining. We have thus far confined ourselves to a strictly t e o* yip w Rf this important quest:on. Regarded as a remnant of feudal hioiha6sm. it is aufi,rising that I should have so long escaped the attention 'of a he formed Pazhament. The Court of the Duchy Chan:- 17,r of Lancaster, and Cie S!armary Court of Cornwall, c.hibit au iniperium in iniperio, which only serve to remind us of the weakness and litigiousness of our an cestors. An appeal from the. Duke of LANCASTER to the Sovereign at Westminster—die remedy of the subject in the event of Experiencing oppression—is an appeal, not from PHILIP drunk to PHILIP sober, but from PHILIP the man to PHILIP the monarch. To retain the jurisdiction of Counties Palatine after the country around them has become tranquillized, is as ridiculous as it would be to wear spurs in bed, because there was a ,time within view of an enemy's camp %%hen to ride for life might be the buiness of any hour. "The annexed Address of his Holiness the POPE, delivered at a Consistory, held at Rome on the 10:h inst., to inquire into the merits of the dispute between the King of Puusst A and the Archbishop of Co- LooN a, will not fail to produce a powerful sensation on the Continent. The personal character of the Sovereign Pontiff, who is noted for the extreme mode ration of his views, and the liberality of his sentiments, will have great weight, even with those who entertain the greatest jealousy of the influence of the Holy See. The POPE charges the King of PRUSSIA with vio lating the spirit of the Apostolical Letters of Pope Pius VIII., dated the sth of March, 1830, rela tive to mixed marriages, and thereby attempting to overthrow the " inflexible principles of the Catholic Church"—with persecuting a distinguishd Prelate, guilty of no offence but that of adhering to the Holy See's interpretation of its own acts, Tx hick interpreta tion had previously been communicated to the Prus sian Government—and with insulting the Court of Rome, by notifying officially an intention to remove the Archbishop from his See ten days after his removal had taken place. What answer Prussia will make to these charges we cannot tell ; but however the question may be determined, the Papal address will make a deep impression on the Catholic inhabitants of the Rhenish provinces, as well as upon the Catholic priest hood of the adjoining States. One of the greatest er rors of the Prussian Government is that it meddles too much with the religion of the people. The KING imagines that it is as much his duty to re gulate the religious creeds of his subjects as it is to dictate the uniforms to be ‘vorn by the army ; but finding that it is a more difficult matter to dragoon consciences than to direct army clothiers, he has recourse to every means, short of the exercise of arbitrary power, to make proselytes to the religion of the State. This proceeds not so much from the KING'S attachment to the doctrines of •‘ Evangelical Lutheranism "—the name by which the tenets of the Pt ussiau Protestant Church are distin guished—as from a mistaken idea that difference cf religion weakens the authority of time Civil Magistrate, and strongly tends to the subversion of the Monar chical form of Government " Venerable Brethren,—Placed in a position where it is not sufficient to deplore evil, we are oscrwhelmed with sad tress by the melancholy state of the affrirs of the Catholic Church. Whilst applying our thoughts to the remedy of these plagues of Israel, according to the power received by us from God, a new cause of grief has started up, and from a quarter, too, where it was least expected. You are not ignorant of this, nor of the cause which brings us together this day. It is no obscure event, learned by private accounts ; it has been, on the contrary, officially communicated. We complain of the _rave injury committed against the venerable Archbishop of Cologne, who has been deprived of his pastoral jurisdiction by order of the King, been driven from his scat by the force of arms, and sent out of his diocese. Such is the calamity which has fallen upon this prelate, however anxious he has been to render to Caesar the things which be Caesar's, though not at the sane time forgetting his duty in preserving the doctrine and disci pline of the church. He sought to observe no other rule in the matter of mixed marris,g, s than that contained in the epostolieal letters addressed to the prelates of Western Prussia by Pius VIII., our predecessor, of happy memory, bearing date the 25th of March, 1830. And yet in those letters the Holy See carried indulgence to the extreme limit. You are ignorant that our predecessor was brought to these conces sions with regret, and solely from the necessity of saving the Catholic clergy of thwe couotries from the too certain evils with which they were menaced. Who would have foreseer, that this pontifical declaration, indulgent as it was, and assented to by the Kiog's Envoy at Rota', would be exe cuted in a manner to overthrow the inflexible principles of the Catholic Church, and contrary to the intention of the Holy See ? Yet this very thing, impossible, to imagine or believe, and to suspect whicb would have been a crime, has been done by the artful influence of the secular power. No sooner had we been warned of this than we sent remonstrances, declaring that our apostolical mission obliged us to tell the faithful not to consider a rule to proceed from the Holy See which held in horror. We received fer answer that our complaints were without foun.lation. and tt the same time came a letter from a Bishop of Liege, who, at the point of death, and about to render an account be fore the Supreme Judgn, declared tin - A the instruction addressed to tits Bishops, and subscribed by them at the instigation of the Civil Government, would be the occasion of great evils, and would infringe the holy canon s. Enlightened by the Di% ine intelligence, Tie ac knowledged his error, and of his owe accori retracted his edhesion. Immediately we sent this to the King, and stated how we dissapproved of the interpretation put upon the letters of our pr,.decessor, which, though accepted by the Bishops, were e,tirely opposed to the prin ciples and laws of the Church. Yoa may thus see, venerable brethren, that we have neglected nothing in this affair. Never theless, we say it feelings of the most profound horror, whilst we were waiting the answer to our remonstrance, it was sig nified to the Archbishop of Cologne that he must conform himself to the interpret rtion of the late Pope's letter con corning mixed marriages, of which we disapproved ; or, if he refused, that he must abandon his pastoral func tions. If he resisted, a decree of the Goveroment would interdict him from his ejscodal jurisdiction. The Arch bishop resisting:, in accordance with his duty, those me ortces were fulfilled. Aed mark the conduct observed to. wards us the Prussian Charge d'Apirts warned us of the event as about to take place on the ist of the fallowing month, whilst it was, in rrality, perpetrated ten days sooner. In this occurrence, ven,rable brethren, we owe to God, the Church, and ourselves, to raise our apostolic voice against this i lation of ecelesiasti..al liberty, this usurpation of a sacred jurisdiction, this out age againct the Holt' See, Let us not either forget to give to a Prelate endowed with so maty vir tues the praise due for Iris domtio.i to the cause of religion and to his many sacrifices. Since the occasion offers, we pub licly and solemnly deelere that we entirely disapprove of the practice which prevails in the kingdom of Prussia, contrary to the declaration Vim( predecessor respecting mixed vimrriages. The following extract from a private letter from Gottingen, relative to the expulsion of the Seven Pro fessors, and the establishment of military despotism in llanover, will repay the trouble of a careful perusal. The channel through which it comes entitles the statements it contains, to implicit credit : GOTTINGEN, I)r.c. 16. It is by this time, I presume, generally known in England, that seven Gottingen Professors, MM. Dahlmann, Albrecht, James Grimm, William Grimm, Ewald, Gervinns, and Weber, protested against the abolition of the Ilanoveri in Constitu tion, stating, that having sworn to msint,in it unimpaired, so far as in them lay, they could not violate their oaths at the mere bidding of King Ernest. Nothing could be more tem perate than the language in which thin protestation was couched. For this declaration thy have been deprived of their chairs, and the exptihian is marked by features of hard. ship liither , o unknown in Hanover. First, the King, during his late visit to Rothen-Kirche--a royal hunting seat in the neighbourhood of Gottingen —sent for the Pro-rectcr and Deacons of the four faculties. Sent fur them !--they did not, as stated in the Hanover Gazette, go of their own accord. Then there appeared in the same journal an account of the interview with his Majesty, in which M. Bergmann, the Pro-rector, is represented to have said that the seven Professors had acted rashly and under excitement, but that their opinions were not shared by any other members of the University. The natural effect of this speech, of coarse, was to render general a belief that the University of G..ttingen had, in the person of its Pro -rector, nublicly disowned the protestation. Will it be credited that no such speech ever was delivered ?—that the whole was a fabrication of M. de Schele and his Royal Master ? This act may be viewed as the crowning baseness of tho affair, Accordingly, on tith of Dcy,ember, the following Saturday, NI. Bergmann circulated amongst his brother Professors the speech actually delivered, in which no such statements had been made; This act was undoubtedly samitioned by the Kin , * of !kilos - r. It shows w h a t con fidence may b e pl ace d' in the statements of the Hanover Gazette. It farther shows, that whatever security for their rights the Hanoverian people may nom p()iACSS, that security rm tp he fpliiid tlut per§ono ellapFi;q of their Sovereign, or in his possessing the Sentiments and 62clings suited to his illustrious birth. The falsehood of the statement thus put into M. Bergmann's mouth, may be inferred from the fact, that six other Professors, MM. Miiller (author of " The Do. 000 4 1, Bat , r (the celebrated Listo, ian of philosophy), • "Kraut, Tithet (b n th l'rUfgsSPrs Oublie b ‘ ei;neiden.n, 04 De 'S,!utsCli: ) haye sent a dechu'atioritoltY Cdfser Gazette, expressing their entire •cOneurrence with the views of their Fplleagus. On Thurs , .!ay the seven Professors received each a lioptl rtitoqt front . 1 - 10 . 04i. - ,T, All are devriyo4 of their chairs ; and MM. Da'dmaun, James Grimm, an.l Gerviniy, are hi. en the choice of imprison:flea, or an immediate de parture from the Hanoverian terii:ory. They must Leave in three days. The shor est runt. is prescr - b,d : they must go to W.tienhatv.: n, in Hessu Cassel. Arid the sole reason assigned for this treatment is, that, not content with protest :ng, they mentioned the eircun stance in conversation, and in letter; to their friends I Never sh.l! I big tth • afternoon 0:, which this intelligence arrived, and the se n:atien it pro lace I met one of the oldest citizens of Gottiogen, e he, wish teu - s in his eyes, said to me, " I have seen niauy das in Hanover ; I have seen the Fiend' bivouaclieg Li the streets of Gottingen ; but never, • even under the iron government of Napoleon, was such an order sent to ra G ittingen Professor, And that this should have come from our °e n Kirg !" To enforce the Royal rescript a e oop of 50 d•egoons. and 200 infantry, commaided by Lieutenant- Ciao.. I Wien, eke. arrived on Thursday night. Yesterday, a• tit-, ive o'clock, the magi.strwes were sefinmontd by the S.adt-Director, M. Ebell, to hear Colonel Wieneeke's powers and du les. aslaid do .v ii in a Rev.. al rescript. He is invested with full command of all troops in the principality of Gottingen, with full power to employ them as he thinks proper: on the slightest symptom of an attempt to excite, by we>: d or deed. feel Lies of discontent against King Erne -t, he is empowered to seize the offender, try him before a Court-martial, and intl ct military punish ment. The 61 , 1 powerS hitherto possessed by the Police Director, M. Beaulieu, and ;he Pre -sector, ire transferred to him. Scarcely had two hours elarsed bef. re the power given to the soldiers was employed. At two the numerous class of Professor Langenbeck, after leaving the.class room, cheered under Professor Grimm's nitidows, and then passed on to the Weender street. Except this cite. ring, rot ping, absolutely nothing, had been done. But in the Weender street they were charged by a party of dragonns, Lieutenant Hartmann calling nut, " Cut deep, cut deep." Several stu dents were wounded, and in this state carried aff to prison, where one, who had received a severe wound en the head, now _lies in delirium, and is not expected to recover. After this occurrence the students went immediately to the Pro-rector, and demanded that it should at L ast be publicly announced that such powers had Leen given to Colonel Wi:necke. At first M. Bergmann would not b lieve that the assault had taken place; but on its being placed beyond doubt, burst into tears; exclaiming, " I can do nothing—l dare do nothing —Colonel Wienecke is the sic authority in Gottingen." To aggravate these wrongs it is almost impossible , for the wronged to make known their misery, the German Dirt having, be fore the termination of its sittings, enjoined on the representatives of the different states the strictest caution in treating of Hano verian matters ; and last vv. ek all pamphlets on the subject, even those of a purely legal character, were forbidden under a tine of 50 dollars. In plain words, Ilanovcr is subjected to all the horrors of despotic governmenf. The Paris papers of Monday have all been re ceived. With two excep , ions, they are unanimous in prophesying the loss of the Canadas to Great Britain —an event at which they do not affect to conceal their satisfaction. The following extracts from them con tain the only interesting intelligence, foreign or do mestic, to be found in their columns:— Tile Phare de Bayonne say General Ulibarri at hngth arri.ed on the Frontiers on the I ith, r,ce've the convoy of provisions of which 'we have often spoken. The ditilculty of the passage by a road . t-) the left of Valcarlos and Arneguy could not allow the whole convoy to pass the detik, which was covered with snow... The zral and activity of Aquerre, Go vernor of Valcarlos, were of great service in conducting the operations. _ . . Some enemies of Zareatiguy having ob , Tived that mod of the soldiers who had accompanied him in his expeditkn, returnei to Bi;cay, loadel with money, t':e part of their plunder at Segovia and Vallarlolid, and that it was to be inferred that the General had received considerable booty, of which he had rendered no account ; -this suspicion induced him inanediately to solicit a Court-martial to which he might give an account of his conduct 'lite Pretender agreed to this request ~bout a month ago, Zariatiguy coated his functions, went to Lruuiaja, and what i.s very singular, the Court-martial has already completed its insestigation, the result of which is, that a!I the charges imputed to Zariatiguy are found to b. calumnies, so that at the rno.nent of our writ ing these lines, he has resumed his command, and may per haps be en'rusted with the direction of the approaching expe dition.—Le Constitut:onel. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. We have received Care of Good Hope Papers to the 2•i of Novembe - , from which we extract the subjoined:- 4. The New Bank has received its notes, checks. &e., from England; and what is of more importance, the d.posits and paid up capital already amuunt to 100,000/. sterling. We hear from various parts of the country, that the wheat crops promise a most abundant harvest " By the r. turns it appears that the imperts have not de clined during the last quarter." Haan Town Papers have been received to the 19th of August ; we give the following extracts We Ir.ve heard that it is doubtful whether the Legislative Council will meet in September, es was anticipated. There is reason to believe that the long-expected Charter, for a re presentative Legislature, will arrive before the time appointed for the Council to meet. We are sorry to announce the death of Dr. I.lm 31:tule Hudsjeth on the 5:11 first. The Legis lative Council .hai adjourned for six week•." THE FUNDS. The most important an i,al this morning i iron Bahia, re ported to have arrived at Liverpool, which has caust d a g. eat panic in Wail Stock. It is ID tate(' tint tit t pro-ince Las d •clared itself independen., and that trcop; a ut fi ow. Rio Janeiro ha I joined them. Thi, information Ills cause I Bra zilian Stock to recede 5 per cent. ; it opened at 791, and went down to 741, at which !rice it is at present. Consols opened at 94 an I, (millff, to aliove ac ,punt' receded to 92 fur the opening. Excl.equcr Bids, 4!., 45 47 prem. ; ditto, 2d , 42 44; India Bands, 2 1 ; 28; Batik Stock, :031 20-a. In the Foreign Market li`tle doing, except in Brazil Stock. Spau!sh Active, 19i. with Coupans: Portuguese, 291 :f ; Mexican, ofif ; Colombian, 231 a ; Dutch Two-and-a 1-10f per Cents , 52g 531- HALF-PAST ONE We can now stat 2 some furthcr parti,Culars respecting. the Insurrection at Balia, b) tho Ariel an ived at Liverpool and hich sail. d on the 11th No•ember. The letters rec , ived by the above vessel are of the date if the 10th November. They state that two prJel-matinns cr addresses io the Bahians had been published by a Chief of the insurrectionary movement, calling o ► the people to renounce their dependence from the tyrannic Governmen: of Rio Janeix, and to declare themselves an independent St it,. We also hear that the Governor on learning this event re monstrated with the peorle, who remained eetcrmincd ; in comequence of vhicti he called on the troops in garrison Bahia to fire on them ; but his orders were not obeyed, and be was obliged to embark with several of his officers for R'o Janeiro. We do not hoar of any blood being sheaf. It is stated that the Indians have itined the'people. The Comol Market sinv:e di., early part of the morning has resumed a buoy ttuT. anl a great deal - of business has been doing it. puichasing. Coosols have improved from 9I to D 2 fur the opening. Exchequer Bills, 21d. ;45 44 46 and 44 premium ; Dit'o, 2d. ; 42 ; India Bonth, 25 9 7; Bank S:ock, 203 204. In the Foce;gn Market, the chief operati.ms are in Brazil Stock, which continues receding, and is now 73—a fall, during the morning, of 6 per cent. Spanish Active, 191 3 with Coupons ; Portuguese, 291 ; Three per Cents., 191 1 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 52i3 ; Mexican, 24 ; Colom bian, 23 ; Brazil, 73 ; Danish, 711 ; 13e1g:ao, too. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for tb• Account, 914 92A. THE FUNDS.—CLOSING PLUCE3. BRITISH FUNDS, Mink titnc... . )1!): , T, 1 9rcnlmn 4 per Cent Red 4 /0;i, :mica Stock 1 per Cent Co ns — :Mtn !.'o ri els ...... ...... .. . 115 3 v per Cei t. .P( per Cent. Ae11.............. ..... iSli, Ditto Old Alimilt les New Itri per Cent 1:9) (1 Ditto New Artanticz... ..... ... I per Cent. Aseented Dissented I. ng Annuities to expire Ditto NO/ 45 pm Jas 1866 l4 13-111 Jack Stock for opg Oct I oNi l4 9 -16 :arlia stuck for Act. ...... ... 2fi414 Jan lAfito — Courols for Act. FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent — PortugueAc Bon.ls, 5 per cent. 63 Ito'gum, a per cent ar.zilian liunris iluens,s A %res, 6 per c.i.i Cililtan, ti per cent .... •.• Colonunan, rl per cent Ditto, 1.2; 1 ),ini:h, 3 per cent '.:94 French, 7 pet cent ... .... Give, Bonds, 1 ' 725.5 pc, tent Exchang. Mexican, 5 per cent. D.tto, 6 per cent., 1825 ....... 16 Dutch, 2, per cent. 5 -, 7,, cerov•aii, 1%-.5, A per cent ... , Ditto, 5 tier •-ent. IOU - , -C. SH A IES. Dublin and Kilkenny 11..ilway~ Lownni and Ilrialaun It. niv , av 2 London and Krightun Railway (lieonles) North 31,11. ind Railway Nu other varialions ill the Prices of ..91 , &rEs since our One e'cl.e MARKETS.-(TIIIS DA CORN EXCHANGE. The cr:ivals of bJ;I: Gran) and Four are mcderate, and, b.ing Christmls neck. the buyers show very little inelinition to make puct-ha , es. The condition of the Wheat samples is ;nd tierent; and Coe s.le is heavy of all quAli.ies at the pre vious qu B ir.ey als.) nue.ls a very dull sale at former Boiling: Pease are unaltered. Grey P. a,w, o.s, and 01!s are ea ...h Is. per go trter lower than last There is eery tittle sale fo: Pour at the terms East (lot A e:H I VAL& Wheat, Ba-I,y. Euge h I I ", kuqre 170 I qrb 1 ish - - Ileoreuen - - Oats. I I."^ , tt 14 its 9_o —kik ( 'U I COIIONIAL Ri.IRKETS, The chief commodities of interest in,tv in these markets are Canadian produce. The holders are now in that :tate of per plexity, ra!uraly caused . hy the intelligence that they will.nnt s.-11, their produce, such as Ashes, Turpentine, and Timber, they will nr.t nano a price. In the various de.criptions of East and West Lrdit produce there is nothing whatever fresh. The stocks of Ea 4 India produce are larger than they were last week. owing to heavier imports and no sales. The busi ss in Colonial produce is East and W. st India, adverti.ied until Tuodly next, alien the Briti.,h Plantat'on Sugar Market opens. NEWGATE AND LEADENIIALL. Supplies of town and country killed moat were to a fair extent corsit:e.ing that Cl ristmas is just passtd. The qualitz was good and trade brisk rather, owing to the colder weat:o r. Prices unaltered from Saturday :-11..ef, 2s. Bd. to 3s. 81. ; Aluttol, Bd. to 3s. 6d. ; Veal, 3s. 61. to 4s. 8(1. ; Pod:, 4s to sc. ; Irish, 35 6.1. to 4s. Goese and poultry Were in good supply ; Lady, however, wa:: but odd. d:ing-pri. es lower in some instances : -Grouse 3i to 3s. GI. ench ; Marc s, 4s. to 5.. ; Geese, 4s G.!. to 9s. ; Rabbits, I Id. to Is. ; Teal, 6d. to Is. ; Wild Ducks., 24. to - ; Widgeons, 61 to ls. ; Chickens, Is. Gil. to 2s. 6d. ; Part ridges, 2s. ; Pheassnts ,4s. to 4s. 6d. ; Pigeons, lid. to Is. ; Woodeoeks, 4s. ; Ducks, 23. to 3s. ; Turkeys.(eocks), 65.- to Ss. ; Ditto (hens), 4s. to 85. each--Fowls 3s. to 103. per couple ; Eggs in good supply, 7s. 61. to lOs. 6d. pee 120. List. Edward Lawrence, the bailiff, watt on Saturday to the cottage of a man named Kinnersley, who resides in this city, for the purpose of distraining for rent. Lawrence seeing Kinnersley's wife, nho asked him for what be had come into her house, knocked the poor won.an dot n, and said " fur tl.at," and when the husband came to the wife's assi,tance. the office: floored him. After these Gutr.lgeous acts, the officer tcok the bed, blankets, and sheets away, and p..wned them. On Monday Lawrence was brought before the Mayor. when he gave the goods takea away, paid the rent out of his own pocket, and gave 14 in preference to the charges being persev e r e d i n . The ilfiyor ohierved, " that beilds were the greatest scoundrels on earth."—Hereford Jersini. AMSTERDAM, I)gc. 3.—The Court of Assizes of this city lately condemned to death a man of th,? maws of Pet , r Breur, for the crime of murder. The King has commuted this punishment into twenty years' imprisonment, preped:ti by flagellation, and branding with c hi - 4 The plisoer has sent . in a petitis l o to the }Sing, to entre it him to the seti(e4e'ortliC Court to be carried into execution. A notig the reasons which he assigns for his prayer, these words recur The petitioner is now prepared (*co: e,1•0!,. 9,nd believe . himself in a condition .o sippeeAr be10w02,4. 3 •' determt 10* o f tl t c liiug is poi 'lvt known, LIVERPOOL MARKETS. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, DFC. 26 Since our last noti,:e of the Share Market, Great Western Shares have undergone a further depression, and they have this day bees done at 81 VI and 81. Holders of London and ll:ralingham are d!manding an advance, and several offers at Lite rates, say 60 premium, have met a refupl. At present vc must report the prices generally a,; very unsteady. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC. 26. The attend puce to.day was inconsiderable, and the sales limited to about 2,000 bags. We lwve but little Cotton now off: ring, ard do not expect very much business to be done ilia week ; but the closing prices of Saturday were v,.ry'steadily main'aimd. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET. Sii.ce cur !a,t report Gr..in of all descriptions, likewise Flour and Oattm.al, have arri‘ed to a very ttir extent. There wa: (. I ,ly a thio muster of cl,alers, and tuillers at this morn-' ieLes ma-ket, who evinred little disposition to purchase of any rrliele in tie Co-n trade, not wilistanding which fine old Irish, Briti h. and Foreign free Wit, ati maia , tined our last quota tions ; but other quflit:es we're &pressed in value, 2d. to 31 on the rates of this day sc'nnight. Oats were in poor request, end have declined d. to Id. per 451bs. Oatmeal, on the contrary, remains steady, both as to deninnd and value. Only a limited event of transactions were effected i.i Barley, at rather lower rates than last repotted. Barley rvinains sta tionary ; and i.l any other article we have no alter...fon wl.at ever to report : - . - Viiii AT, - English, White, per 71111). —.— ned ------• Se...elt, Welch, .1,1.1 Manx Irish. White 7 4 8 0 .......---- Heti ..•—• ....... 6 4 7 10 - Foreign OATS, English, NVelsli,n.lseoteli, ler 4:41i. ..... I rist. ---- Foroivii isAALLr, Atli h, Malting, per Imp. splatter 3•l 0 4H ti --...... s.vtek .001 Irish, per 60Ihs. Feeding. 3 3 3 4; Recs.., English, per I :riper tat 90:ti ter 45 0 48 0 Irish, &c. Forel', licAsis, English, per Illlperial .1.1. a ter I.*. , rei 11 Elouit, Eneisli, pet •2911 b. Irish OATmEAL, Engliws and Irish, per .2 4 ,1a, s 11.1 AN Colts:, p, r 4401 h. FINAL, p,T I tikper al quarter MALT. per Imperial , plarte! .., ___ _ TALLOW-MARKET. P. Y. C. continues dull at ytsterdays quotations of 45, a 455. 3d. The stock is lighter than it vral last ucek, 'and about 12,000 casks light"r th in at ais time last )oar. HOP NIARKET. Prices ja.,t tha same as on last Monday week, anl seareely anything TEA SALES TIIIS DAY. The sales wire resumed th's afttrnoot;lii Miacing.laue ; %then l,•ft market the et , arazter of the side %l a the same as thiit vtlii,2li it b •re prevlou! to its suspension ; but very few paities )et doing 7.ny bthin'ss. BALTIC TI MITER MARKET. Much of the same fe.ii,T and views that pervade the Mar k t fur C:m tam Timber, a:e found here; arid holders are so firm they will not 'lune a price. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--(THIS DAY.) DEAL, DEC. 2G —Wind S. E., fresh bre:zim—Arlived the Links, from Constantino', ; Edward Barrett, Proudfoot, from Calcutta ; Excel, Read, from Waterford. Sailed the %1161 - 0 of the outward-bound, except the Isabella, fo: Hobart Town ; Canton, for Australia. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 26.—Wind S. S. W. to S. E., hazy... Sail d her Mtiksty's sh7p Thunder, for the West Indies-; Iphil, Morgan, fo: New York ; her Mts' ; esty's ship (4 , •arne.) Lightning, for Woolwich. The Patrick is come into hiihour from St. Helena, to be laid on Gosport Beach to be ex mined. Tho Indian Chief, hart, for Barcelona, has gone nut of tit- harbour, for the Mother Bank. PtAmotru, DFC. 26.—Wild S. S. W.—Sailed her Ma j• sty's ship President, for Portsmouth. FALMOVTII, DEC. 25.—Wind W. to S.W., strong breezes and iiled the Emerald (steamer), for Riga, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, ar.d Cibraltor, with mails. Dov Er., DEC. 23.—Arrived off port the Mayflower, Head ley, from Hobart Town. - POhTLAND, DEe. 26,—Arrived off port the Kron, Prins Van P.u , s •r, from Havanna!). Dr.c.•26.—Arrived the Sally, M•Renzed, from Pic ton ; EuphetrCa, Torii-, from Lisbon ; Monarch (steamer), fro n Hamburg. .% LIVERI.uOI„ Dix. 26. —Arrived the Ariel, from Bahia ; Veritas, Moira, fom PaLirion. 0.1" pert the Thomas, Wor thingtml, from Lu'ti; M3na, from Buenos Ayres; Due d'Or leans, from New Orleans. MARGATE, DEC. 26.—Arrived off part the Fox, Withr corniie, from the Ca, e of f;00,1 Hope. POOLE, DEC, 25.. - -Anived the Montigu, Eleanor, and Je , sy, Ilaivey, from Newriundland. MONMOUTH, DEC. 25. —ArrivA the hope, Svtnoads,ftem Miramichi. • WHETF.HAVES, Dar. 25.—Arrived the Lady S., Stews t. from New Brunswick. Dunt-iN, DEC. 25.—Arrived the Leeds, Joy, Lon lon. CORKS, DEC. 2.t.—Arrived the O'Connell, lioratoa, from Neafounland, The En;ghetlen, Th)g..r-on, from St. Üb - ,'s to C1.41-istian sand, was wrecked on Athertie!d Rocks on the 24tli instant. Crew sa.ol. The liobus, Ilernhcs4 feozn liavre, put into Ramsgate in a sinks ti state, having been on shore, bound to Newcastle. The Flora, Ugla id, from Gottenburg, put into ltalvoage leaky, a:.d must discharge; bound to Leith. NA I. TON News-Itoom.—Qn Monday night week a meeting of tie subsclibera of the Malton News-room took place, for the purpose of choosing and voting in the news !pipers for the forthcoming year. An attempt was made to get the Tie to admitt,d, which was, however, rejected. Al together the meeting was respectably attended, and went off satisfactorily.—Hull Observer. About ten o'clock on Thursday morning week, an explosion of gal took place in a new house, now in course of finishing, in St. Saviour-gate, in York. M. Townsend, st nern4son, and some of his men, went into the cellar, one of them having a lighted candle, and as soon as they entered the explosion teik place. Seven squares of glass were broken in the cellar window, and the ceiling was considerably damaged, being nearly all brougi►t down. Fortunately the men escaped with no other injury than having their hats forced off their kinds; but a boy, named flare, was scorched in the face, though not a wuy likely to be of any serious consequence. The cause of the accident is supposed to have been, that the tap of the gas-light had not been sufficiently turned, and thus the gas hLd escaped and filled the cellar. —Hull Observer. Yesterday morning, con§iderable excitement prevailed in Church-street, Sc. Giles's, in consequence of a respectable middle-aged man named Joseph Brand, who resided at No. 16, in that street, being discovered on his bed with his throat cut fom ear to car, and a razor lying at his side. The body was quite cold, but a surgeon was sent for, who said he had been dead fur some time. No cause can be assigned for the ra-h act. The deceased, who got his living by hawking poul try, about the country, was a widower, and has left seve ral children. Yesterday morning, between eight and nine o'clock, es Wm. Bolus, one of the Thames police, was rowing up the 'lvor, disecvered the body of a woman lying on the shore roar the Pilot panic -house, in Woolwich reach ; she was lying on her face, and a large quantity of blood was near the head. The body was instantly taken ashore, when, on examination, the face was loon 1 to be in a dread!el state from bruises, ap parel-4'ly recently inilkted. No moaey was found in her psekeis. She ha; the a.ppearaece of being a poor person, about four feet five inches high, stout, and dressed in a chocolate-co lour. d gown and one she,a. The body does not appear to have been many hotari., In the water. Information of the eircutu ar,c4) has been sent to the Coronerplr. Carttar) but who is at present from home. Such a Christaday as :Monday, in point of tem perature, liks Loan rarely, if ever known, wi h the thermo meter wt 00. a southern breeze, and sunshine, rather resembling hlay than December, The Metn'acTs tor Salisbury have each given 1001. to be iltAlitalted in sums of five shillings each, am )ng de serving For families in that city. THE NEW NOVEL. In 3 vols., post Bvo., Tx E ELOPEMENT, A NOVEL. By the Author of " Robert D'Artois." WILL BE PUBLISHED TO-MORROW, THE 28TH INST. Richard Bentley, Nevi Burlington-street. *. 4 Orders received by all Booksellers. In 3 vols. post Svo. L O V E; A NO V E L. By Lady CHARLOTTE BURY. Authoress of " Flirtation, " " The Divorced," &c. IS NOW READY. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.