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NEW WILLS ACT, I VICTORIA, C. 26. On Saturday, December 16. will be published in foolscap, Svo. price Half-a Crown, neatly done up in cloth, gilt edges, PLAIN DIRECTIONS for making WILLS in conformity with the Law, and particularly with refe rence to the New Act ; with a clear Exposition of the Law relating to the Distribution of Personal Estate in the case of Intestacy. By J. C. HUDSON, of the Legacy Duty Office, London. • „*. This Act will come into operation on the let January, 1335, and the strictest conformity with its provisions will be indispen- sable in every Will made after that date. London : Longman, Orme, and Co. The publication of ME SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 30 minutes past Three o' Clock. PRICES OF STOCKS THU sank 5t0ck.......... 70334 3 per Cent. 3 per Cost. Cana 334 per P9/4 Ditto Red...... 99X%%, New 3% per Cent_ _ New 5 per sank LongAnnuitiestoearire Ja*. 5, IMO 14 13-16% Oct. 10, ...... Jan. 5, 1860 l5 Jan. 5, 1800 April 5, 1880................».. 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Due . 0 America.......... 0 2 France ..... ...—.. 0 1 Lishon 0 0 brazi1............ 0 I Guem. & Jersey 0 0 Malta 0 0 Buenos Ayres.. 0 0 Hamburg 0 0 Mexico....— 1 0 Carthagena...... 0 1 Holland .......... 0 0 Ostend.. ....... 2 Dublin... ....... 0 0 Jamaica ...—..... 0 0 Sweden 0 2 Flanders ..... .... 0 0 Leeward Islands 0 2 Waterford I) HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning 43 minutes after 7 1 Evening l2 minutes after 8. It e ..., . via , i‘ r: - --- f - -- v , ,-.. -- ;-'2-7 - . — 2i•-• ,%' - 17 ~ it - .>...i0-c. . i'll'" 1 " ; ' - * Zln ann. LONDON: MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4, 1837. Among the recent converts to the Ballot, we may mention one who is himself a host—Lord BROUGHA M. Convinced by experience, the best and most efficient of all teachers, his Lordship has come to the conclu sion that this measure is indispensable to the safe pro gress of Reform. The unparalleled bribery and cor ruption practised with such unblushing effrontery by the Tories during the last elections, when parsons, s quires, lawyers, and paid agents were all seen actively engaged in the work of coercion, have no doubt mainly assisted to help the Noble Lord to his pre sent conclusions. Henceforth he is as warm a friend to the Ballot as its most sanguine ad vocate need desire ; for he is not the man to stand dallying with an opinion, or to wait until it shall have become the unanimous one of an empire. Far otherwise; he will lose not a moment in giving that wholesome impetus to the Ballot, which he, of all living statesmen, is so well qualified to give. We con sider his Lordship's conversion as an omen of victory to the good cause. We remember well the influence he exercised as a Reformer, both within and without Parliament, when it was the fashion of the day to laugh at the very idea of Reform ; and sure we are that on the present occasion that influence will not be less potent. The same cogent necessity that made him a convert, will make him a vigorous and irresistible advocate for the Ballot. Little cause, therefore, have we to dread the hostility of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, seeing that we have a BROUGHAM and a DURHAM on our side ; and in addition to their powerful support, that of nine-tenths of the enlightened and influential portion of the community. The country is indeed fast coming to a unanimous declaration i❑ favour of the Ballot. The Tories have furnished it with practical arguments in its behalf, that are per fectly irresistible. It is no longer a mere Radical fac tion that clamours for the Ballot, but a nation. All who love constitutional freedom and hate despotism ; all who desire to enjoy liberty of conscience, and main tain an opinion of their own ; all who wish well to the cause of good government, which is only to be effectually maintained by purity of election ; lastly, all who respect their own just independence, and hold in abhorrence the never-ending exactions of Toryism : all these, and they constitute the majority, are, to a man, in favour of the protection of the Ballot. They see that Reform, in the legitimate sense of the term, is hopeless without it, and that a free and full popular re presentation in the House of Commons is nearly equally impossible. Hitherto the Reform Bill has been little better than a plausible shadow. Its avowed object was to purify the Senate. Has it done so ? Certainly not ; for it has merely transferred the rottenness of the bo roughs to the counties ; and left the bribery and cor ruption so notorious, from time immemorial, at elec tions, in pretty nearly as bad a state as it found them. What then is the natural remedy for these glaring imperfections in the Reform Bill ? The Ballot I Ask Messrs. POULETT THOMPSON and HOEHOTJSE if they be not of the same opinion, and sure we are that these high-minded statesmen will make answer in the affirmative. It is impossible indeed that it can be otherwise, for both have a hundred times declared themselves in favour, not of Reform as it is, but of Reform as it should be. Let them speak out, then, on the subject—boldly and unequivocally—and give us fresh cause to admire their manliness, their sagacity, and their patriotism. They can never have a fairer opportunity, for, as they may perceive, by the different extracts which we have made from the Provincial Journals, and which express the prevailing sentiments of their respective localities, that public opinion is assuming a stern, uncompromising tone on the subject of the Ballot—that, in fact, the hurricane is getting up. Many important provincial meetings have already been announced on this great question ; petitions are lying for signature in all quarters ; asso ciations are in the course of formation for the pur pose of furthering its progress ; and everything de notes that the people will no longer be trifled with. Since the above was written, a great Public Meet - ing, which even at this early hour is crowded to an overflow, has commenced at the Crown and Anchor Tavern. The object of this Meet ing, is to consider the late unfortunate declarations of Lord JOHN RUSSELL in the House of Commons. It will shortly be followed by similar meetings in many of the principal towns of the North. The steam is getting up. One of the most novel, if not the most im portant feature of Lord BROUGHAM'S Educational scheme, is the introduction of an intellectual test of qualification for voters. This, some of our readers may recollect, is the principle contended for by Mr. ADAM, the editor of the Aberdeen Herald, in a pamphlet entitled " the Knowledge Qualification," which we were the first, we believe, to bring promi nently into notice, and of the merits of which we ex pressed ourselves in very high terms. It gives us I much pleasure to find that we are borne out in our opinion by the Noble and Learned Lord ; and to Mr. ADAM it must be peculiarly gratifying to see his pro ject, which was condemned as at present altogether impracticable by some of its warmest admirers, taken up and incorporated to a certain extent with a measure that must come immediately under discussion by the very first practical Statesmen of the day. As a means of rendering the constituencies, of whatever kind fit to exercise their duties, and as a substitute for the justly reprobated system of compul sion adopted in Prussia, nothing better than " the Knowledge Qualification" could be devised. On this last point Mr. ADAM, says, " But it is not merely as a means of extending the suffrage and improving the intellectual character of our constituencies, that the Knowledge qualification is advanced. Its influence in promoting the spread of education among all ranks of the people is its most powerful reccommendation. At present, there is no degradation in being excluded from the right of suffrage. Poverty is not morally re garded as a crime, although it is often punished as such ; and as it is impossible that the masses can oc cupy houses rated at 101., or farms at 501. per annum. the non-elector represses his desire of political power and consoles himself with the thought that he is but one of many, and that some fortunate turn in the pub lic or in his own private affairs may happen, placing him, either as an individual of along with his whole class, on the list of the enfranchised. But it would not be so if education and intelligence were the quali fication ; for, besides the ordinary spur of ambition, every man would be urged on to educate himself and his children to avoid singularity. It would become a just reproach to be disqualified by ignorance for exercising civil rights ; and a non-elector arrived at years of man ' hood, and not otherwise incapacitated, would feel ashamed of his position. Who, under such circum stances, if he could pay for a teacher, reach a charity school, or educate himself, would remain ignorant ?" Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S Bill, providing a Poor-law for Ireland, was read a first time on Friday night. The Bill of last Session reached a second reading, and con siderable progress was made in Committee with its clauses, when it fell to the ground, owing to the sud den dissolution of Parliament. The Government, however, did not therefore lose sight of a measure so necessary to the social well-being of Ireland. Mr. NicHor,Ls, upon whose Report the Bill was founded, was commissioned to make further inquiries into the actual condition of the poor in Ireland, and to com municate what new facts he might discover to the Mi nistry. The result was a second Report from that ger, tleman, which was presented to the House of Com mons on Wednesday night. To this Report we are desirous of directing attention, though the shortness of the time that has elapsed since it was delivered will not allow us to remark upon all the points adverted to in it. The necessity of some provision for the poor of Ireland is now generally admitted ; the question is as to the proper nature and extent of that provision ; and on this question there is much diversity of opinion. The weight of evidence and experience, however, greatly preponderates in. favour of that system which is founded on the principle of relief afforded in a work house as at present put in practice in England. Al most any system of relief will be a boon to the pea santry of Ireland, who are now depressed to the lowest grade of existence ; but it is the duty of the Legislature, in introducing a new system into that country, to benefit by the melancholy experience of England, and to avoid the evils which have flowed from bad laws and a worse administration in this country. If out-door relief were given in Ireland, what would be the consequence ? You would have a nation of paupers—the whole population would become ap plicants for that relief—and the miseries of Ireland would soon be increased tenfold. Such consequences are not to be anticipated from a system of in-door re lief, administered on the principle of the English workhouses. There is sufficient evidence to prove that this description of relief may be as safely granted a 3 it is urgently demanded. We shall put this argu ment in a more clear and forcible manner by quoting a passage from Mr. NrcrioL Ls's Report, showing his conclusions on this subject. After detailing the evi dence which he obtained from men whose opinions are rendered valuable by experience, at Bristol, Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham, he says " My investigations at Bristol, Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham, have thus been altogether confirmatory of the view embodied in the Bill of last Session, establishing the workhouse as a means of relief in Ireland. The experience acquired in those places, proves that the workhouse system is not less applicable to the Irish than to the English. Such moreover has been the result of my inquiries in every other in stance. The answer has been always essentially similar to that given by Mr. Barnett, the Master of the Nottingham Work house, when under examination before the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Poor Laws, as printed in the Minutes of Evidence of the 28th June 1837 : " Question 19,850, by the Chairman : Judging from your experience, do you think the Irish are more apt to stick to the workhouse than the English ? " Answer, Mr. Barnett : " No, by no means ; far from it. I should say the contrary, speaking of them as a whole. " It may possibly be objected, that although this disinclina tion ' to stick to the workhouse' is the characteristic of the Irish when in England, such would not be the case if the sys tem is ere established in Ireland. This objection does not ad mit of an answer directly founded upon experience; but rea soning from analogy, and making due allowance for the diffe rent circumstances of the two countries, there seems no reason to doubt a similarity of result in each. The Irishman is, per haps, by habit and temperament, somewhat more roving and migratory than the Englishman, but this distinction is assu redly not calculated to reconcile him sooner to the restraints of a workhouse, or lead him to resort thither more readily. In this view nearly all the individuals with whom I have conversed in Ireland, concurred ; and I made it my business to inquire, and to court objections from all classes of persons : with scarcely an exception, it was affirmed that an Irishman would never go into the workhouse, if he could in any way keep out of it. The result of my investigations in the several houses of Industry and Mendicity Establishments has been to the same purport, all tending to show that if the workhouse is pro perly regulated, it will be resorted to only by the actually des titute. It is not less important to state however, that I found the same individuals unanimously and decidedly opposed to any thing in the shape of outdoor relief. I have not met with an individual conversant with the subject, either in England or Ireland, who did not at once declare against the giving of any outdoor relief. 4 Confine relief to the workhouse,' was the general reply, and you will be safe ; but if you once grant outdoor relief, your controul is gone, and the whole population will become a mass of paupers.' " • * • • a • " The testimony which I have inserted in the Appendix, and the facts and reasonings here adduced, will, I trust, serve to remove whatever doubts may have existed on either side of the channel, as to the sufficiency of the workhouse system to afford needful relief to the destitute, as well as to protect the rate-payers from th e c h arge o f support i ng th ose w h o are no t really dest itute ; and I feel it to be my duty to express to your Lordship my conviction, not only that this system is ap plicable to Ireland, but that it is the only mode in which relief can be safely administered to the destitute classes in tha t country." The report then proceeds to examine and dis pose of some minor objections to the establishment of the workhouse system in Ireland, which we have not space to notice here. A measure which must go hand in hand with the introduction of the proposed system of relief is the suppression of mendicancy. The extent of vagrancy in Ireland is a crying grievance ; it is a profession whose practitioners comprise a large proportion of the people of Ireland; and its mischievous influences on the com munity have been powerfully depicted. So long as begging is allowed after the establishment of a system of relief, the Irish occupiers will be doubly taxed ; the burthen of relieving mendicants falls entirely on them ; and with that of the numerous mendicity and other institutions in Ireland, it forms a large item in the cal culcation of the probable amount of the tax which will be levied for the relief of the destitute. 'We cannot do better than quote a paragraph from the report be fore us on this point : " The suppression . of mendicancy is necessary for the protec- THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1837. tion of the cultivators of the soil in Ireland. No Irish cot tier, however poor, closes his door while partaking of his hum ble meal. The mendicant has free access, and is never re fused a share, even although the mess provided be insufficient for the cottier's family. There is a superstitious dread of bringing down the beggar's curse, and no one dares reject the application ; and thus mendicancy is sustained in the midst of extreme poverty, perpetuating itself amongst its victims. Much of the feeling out of which this state of things has arisen, may I think be traced to the absence of any provision for reliev ing the destitute. A mendicant applies for aid on the plea of destitution. His plea must be admitted, for it cannot be dis proved ; and, if not relieved, he may possibly perish for want of sustenance. To refuse relief, therefore, mey occasion the death of a fellow creature, which would, of course, be regarded as a crime of great magnitude, both in a religious and moral sense. Hence the tacit admission of the mendicant's claim, which is now regarded by the Irish peasantry as a kind of right, having priority over every other. To make provision for reliving such mendicants at the public charge, without at the same time preventing the practice of begging, would leave the Irish cottier exposed to much of the pressure which he now sustains from this source; for the mendicant classes ge nerally, if permitted, would probably prefer the vagrant life to which they are accustomed, to the order, cleanliness, and restraint of a workhouse. To suppress mendicancy, therefore, not only constitutes an essential part of the proposed system of Poor Laws, but it is moreover necessary for the protection of the Irish cottier, and the labouring classes generally." We cannot quit this part of the subjeet without no ticing the opinions expressed in the report of a Com mittee appointed at Aberdeen to inquire into the means of suppressing mendicity ; it exhibits a striking and valuable coincidence of opinion between persons pur suing the inquiry under very different circumstances. The Committee report that— " The great evil of begging is its tendency to idleness and irreligion. Every person who can work, commits an injustice when his fellow-citizens are taxed for his support ; and the chance is, or rather it is a certainty, that he will do mischief rather than leave his mind and bands entirely unemployed. In a poor's-house, the question whether parties are willing and able to work can best be tried. Begging habits may thus be justly controlled. The large class of persons who so often are found in the streets pleading inability and want, will not, un less in real need, be bold enough to incur the risk of such a trial. Of this class may be reckoned the young persons who parade the streets, many Of whom can work to some extent, and all of whom may at least be learning something useful, in place of following that most evil of professions, vagrancy, with all its mischiefs. Another benefit to be derived from a poor's house is, that there, if a proper management and superintend ence be adopted, nothing can be misapplied; and, while there is every reason to believe that, in many cases, out-door pen sions are made the means of temporary dissipation, and, in some cases, grabbed at by petty usurers, while the recipients for whom they are destined are left in misery,—by the poor's house system these evils will be prevented. And, if begging be suppressed, the inhabitants of Aberdeen will be able to af ford a large sum, which is now often unprofitably employed on vagrants." In Mr. NICHOLLS' report various objections to the Bill of last year, and which differed in no respect from the Bill read a first time in the House Friday night, are examined and answered. One objection was that it was inapplicable to the manufacturing districts of Ire land: it is shown that it is adapted to the whole country. This objection was raised to the introduction of the Poor Law Amendment Act in England : its answer is afforded by the beneficial effects of the Act in those districts comprising a manufacturing popula tion, in which it has been fairly brought into opera tion. Several collateral measures calculated to pro mote the well-working of the new system are treated of, and the Irish landlords are strenuously urged to use their endeavours to improve the condition of the country. The evidence adduced by Mr. NICHOLLS, and the conclusions formed by him upon this further investigation of the country, are in every particular corroborative of those contained in his first Report, and bear testimony to the soundness of the views which were embodied in the Bill of last Session. The con cluding paragraph of the Report is very remarkable, as well as important : " In the limited survey which I have been able to take of the state of Ireland, and of the condition of the Irish people, it has appersed to me that quiet, and the absence of exciting and disturbing causes, is one of the objects chiefly to be desired. With repose would come security, and with security the in vestment of capital, and thence would arise employment, and the diffusion of wealth, and the development of the latent ener gies of the country. The proposed Poor Law will not of itself accomplish these objects, but it will be found a valuable acces sory ; and with the progress of education, and that orderly sub mission to lawful authority which is at once the cause and the consequence of peace and prosperity, all those other objects will be eventually secured for Ireland." Mr. O'CONNELL has addressed a long letter to the Rev. Mr. THACKARAY, Rector of the rich livings of Louth and Dundalk in Ireland, in answer to that churchman's approval of the Hon. and Learned Gen tleman's recently developed plan for the settlement of the Irish Tithe question. As the plan appeared in our columns, our readers will remember that in sub stance it amounted to this :—.•The Irish clergy were to give up all claims to tithes in whatever shape, for which they were to receive seventy per cent. of the in come now legally demanded by them, payable by the Government out of the Consolidated Fund. The Rector of Louth and Dundalk cries " content—your plan is a good and reasonable one," but he adds, with characteristic ecclesiastical wariness, " May not this adjustment' afford a precedent for further deduc tions ? What security have we that the seventy per cent. will continue to be paid ?" Mr. O'CONNELL re plies--An Act of Parliament—a legislative pact, which though not immutable, is more secure than any right you at present enjoy with the Catholics, the Presbyte rians, and many of the Protestants of Ireland against you. The Hon. and Learned Member for Dublin en tirely overlooks the question of a regard to the con scientious scruples of the Dissenters of this country. He objects to the payment of tithes by Catholics ; but he appears indifferent to the saddling this country with an impost intolerable to the people of Ireland. We confess we can neither understand the justice nor the religious toleration of such an arrangement. To tax English Dissenters to support a Protestant Church in Ireland, is a proposal which we never expected to see seriously made by Mr. O'CONNELL ; and we are very confident it is one which the British Parliament would not entertain for an instant. If Mr. O'CONNELL would obtain for his plan the support of the liberal population of this country, let him pro pose to charge upon Irish estates, payable by land lords only, the amount of composition required for the support of the Clergy out of the Consolidated Fund ; or let him propose any other plan which will take from Irish landlords an equal sum, to be annually placed under the controul of Parliament. Any adjustment of tithes is better and less unjust, than to hand them over to the Irish landlords ; and we shall strenuously oppose any plan which gives them a right of pocket• ing a sixpence of the tithe fund for which the nation has not received, or is not to receive, a suitable equi valent. Tithes, as we stated on a former occasion, when discussing the merits of this very plan, are *ei ther the property of the landlords nor the tenants— they belong solely to the nation which allows the usu fruct of them to the Church. If their present appro priation be bad, that is a sufficient ground for change, but none whatever for total abolition. There are funds wanted for the education of the people, for the main tenance of the poor in Ireland, and for a number of other purposes to which the tithes of districts in which there are no Protestants, might be usefully and wisely appropriated. The nation - would thus benefit by the ap plication of its own resources, without any diminution of the original fund whence it derived them, and with out impairing the contingent rights of posterity. We cannot concede a boon to the Irish landlord which we are called upon to refuse to the Irish parson ; for bad as they are, of the two the landlord is the worst. By express from Falmouth, letters and papers from Lisbon to the 29th ult. have been received this morning. The debates on the new Constitution have at last been brought to a conclusion ; and it was expected, when the Iberia steamer left the Tagus, that the amended funda mental Law of the Kingdom would be published in a complete form the instant the Royal signature could be affixed to it. The capital was tranquil, and the news from the South was more favourable after the departure ofthe Viscount das Antes for the seat of the MIGUELITE conspiracy. Vice- Admiral Sir WM. GAGE has returned to England, after receiving the thanks of their Most Faithful MAJESTIES, for the services rendered by the British Navy to the Por tuguese Government. In the Finance Department the scarcity of money is still complained of. Nevertheless, the condition of Portugal is greatly improved, and if the Consti tution be!allowed to work fairly—if no intrigues belagain set on foot to fill the country with bloodsh2d, aqd th, p e ,,pi e with distrust—we anticipate a rapid developement of the prin ciples of social and moral improvement in that country. It was reported that the brig Fortitude, of Newcastle, laden with coals for Lisbon, was unfortunately wrecked off the coast of Aveiro, and the master, mate, and a cabin boy drowned. We sincerely trust that this report will prove unfounded. We have received the Paris Journals of Friday and Sa turday. Their contents, domestic and foreign, are unim portant. The news from Africa is rather unfavourable. There was likely to be a famine in Constantine ; the gar rison was suffering from dysentery ; and the Arabs were roaming about the city in large numbers, cutting off the heads of such Frenchmen as had the misfortune to fall into their hands. The new Bey of Tunis had violated the sanctity of the French Consulate, by attempting to seize an Arab who had concealed himself in the Consul's house ; whereupon the COnsul went on board a French ship of war, followed by two officers of the BETS household who proffered any apology from their master which France would demand. Upon receiving this assurance, the Con sul disembarked, and returned to his residence. The much talked-of trial between the two Physicians and the Earl and Countess of LINCOLN came on in Paris on Friday. At the request of one of the Counsel em ployed, it was postponed for eight days longer. We have no news of interest from Spain. There are symptoms of a rupture between France and Russia. The plague has appeared at Odessa and along the Russian coast of the Black Sea. Letters from Constantinople of the Bth ult. state that the Circassians have recently defeated the Russians in several engagements. The influence of Lord PONSONBT with the Porte is likewise increasing in a very marked manner. _ ...___. The letters from Madrid of the 23d November do not con firm the change of the Ministry, of which two journals hays spoken. • The Government has not only declined the offer of his ser vices made by General Romarino, but it seems that he has even been ordered to quit Spain. This is another symptom of the spirit which prevails in the Councils of the Crown.— Le Commerce. FRENCH FUNDS. -PARIS, DEC.?. Five per Cents., 107 f. 45c. 50c. 35c. 25c. Four and a Half per Cents., 104 f. 50c. Three per Cents., 80f. 55e. 41c. 50c. Bank Actions, 2,54°f. 2,545 f. Bente de Naples, 99f. 95c. 85c. Roman Five per Cents., 100 3 ,4 101. Spanish Actives, 20% 3 %. Brussels Society, 1,085 f. Belgian Bank, 1,530 f. 1,527 f. 50c. 1,530 f. Portuguese Three per Cents., 18%. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 42 ;,c. • money, 9.5 f. 40c. Three months, paper, '2sf. money, 25f. '27%c. -Court Authentique LAST PRICES. Five per Cents. 107 f. 50e. Three per Cents. 50c. Bank Actions, 2,5451. Romans, 101. Belgian Bank, 1,520 f. Brussels Society, 1,685 f. Portuguese Thiee per Cents., 18%. Spanish Actives, 20 BELGIAN UNDS-Bnusens, DEC. 2. Actual Debt, 2V, per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. lOl% Lean of Thirty Millions 9 4 14 Loan if City, 1832, 4 per Cent lOl Society of Commerce, 4C, per Cent 144 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 143% National Society . -Rrussels Papers, Dec. 2. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.-VIENNA, Nov. 24. Five per Cents. Metalliques Fonr per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares l4ll -411genzeins Zeitung, Nov 29. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY DEAL, DEC. 2.—Wind N.W. to S.W. DEc 3.—Wind S.E., moderate.—Arrived the Francis, Smith, from Calcutta; and In dus, M'Farlane, from ditto. The Orontes, Duke of Clarence, Eclipse, and several others anchored again last night, in a thick fog, and finally sailed at seven A.m., proceeding on their respec tive voyages with a fair wind. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 2.—Calm, dense fog. DEC. 3.—Hazy.— Arrived the Sackville, Pernoult, from Seirra Leone • Duke, Har vey, from Smyrna ; and Nymph, Earwicker, from Leone; Übes. Off port, the John, Davy, from Valparaiso. Sailed the Hind, Hya cinth, for the East Indies, and the outward bound. DOVER, DEC. 3.—Arrived the General Chasse, from Batavia. STANGATE CREEK, DEC. 3.—Arrived the Mary, Sterry, Zante. PLYmouTH, DEC. 3.—Arrived the Fly, Soper, Newfoundland. FALMOUTH, DEC, I.—Wind W. to W. S.W. DEC. 2.—Wind S. S.W. to S. S.E., light breezes and fine.—Arrived the Iberia (steamer) packet—left Gibraltar the 24th ult., Lisbon the 25th, and Oporto the 25)th. DARTMOUTH, DEC. 2.—Arrived off, the Breakwater, Pether bridge, from Honduras. SALCOMBE, DEc. 2.—Arrived off the , William Shelleston, from Asia : and Queen of the South, from St. Michael's. BRISTOL, DEC. 3.—Arrived the Emulator, Newfoundland. CLYDE, DEC. I.—Arrived the Mary, Clapperton, from Ja maica ; Mary Anne, M'Simon, from St. Vincent; Arabian, Allan, from Quebec ; Catherine, Mott ; and Moll, Stewart, Oporto. LEITH, DEc. 2.—Arrived the Pomona, Morrison, from Quebec ; and Copse, from St. Petersburg. SWANAGE, DEC. 2.—Arrived the Scourfield, from Bombay. SHIELDS, DEc. 2.—Arrived the Mary, M'Kenzie, from Lecita ; Omort, Long, from St. Petersburg ; and Thenis, Toggart, Riga. HULL, DEe. 2.—Arrived, the Elizabeth, Holderness, from Mira michi ; Falcon, Thomas, from St. Petersburgh ; Helen, Al aulius, from St. Petersburgh ; Ricardo, Munro, from St. Petersburgb ; Edward, Sutton, from Stockholm ; Sesom, (s) from Hamburgh ; and Daisy Lack, from Riga. HUMBER, DEC. 2.—Arrived the Gilmore, from Quebec; Que bec, Baxter, from Quebec ; and Harlequin, Shepherd, from St. Petersburgh. ALDBRO', DEC. 2.—Arrived the Earl Grey, Webster, from St. Petersburgh ; Charles William, Hamilton. YARMOUTH ROADS, DEC. 3,—Arrived the St. Patrick, from Quebec ; 13ellona, Dawson, from Stettin ; and Unicorn, Mullen, from St. Petersburgh. DUBLIN, DEC. 3.—Arrived Mary, Anderson, from Restigouche. CORK, DEC. 3.—Arrived the Aurora, Fotheringharn from St. Domingo. LivritrooL, DEC. 3.—Arrived the Ranger, Jellard, from Cal cutta; Rapid, Robertson, from Aricate ; Daniel Grant, Zetto, from Valparaiso ; Robertson, Neill, from Quebec ; Enterprise, M'Cardy, from Quebec ; Rothschild, from Quebec ; and Eliza, from Quebec. The Orelia, Rowlands, from Quebec to Cork,' struck on a rock at Berehaven on the 27th ult., and became waterlogged. The Greenock, White, from Quebec to Hull, was run on shore on the Island of Innishahull, on the 28th ult. The James Patteson, from Irvin to Dublin, struck upon a rock near Drogheda on the 29th ult. and sunk—crew saved. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITT, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Accounts from Bombay of the 2d of August state that the wea ther in the Deccan had been very favourable for the cotton crops, which were expected to be double those of last year. The Govern ment had given notice that there should be a monthly communica tion with England, via the Red Sea, during the fair season, pro vided coals could be obtained. The - epidemic which had raged at Johdpoor was a plague, and carried off 16 to 20,000 persons. It had almost entirely disap peared there as well as at Marwar. At Madras the cholera was still prevalent : a few cases had taken place. Advices from Alexandria of the 27th October, state that it was known there that the Hugh Lindsay was to leave Bombay for Suez on the 22d October, and return with the London mail on the 28th, which will be dispatched from Malta on the 17th October. The London mail of the Ist June arrived at Bombay on the Ist of August, and that of the Ist July ox the 16th August. THE FUNDS. The Consol market on Saturday had rather a tendency for a de cline, and did not close as good as on the previous day; left off 93 3 / 4 93% for the opening; as the above stock is now closed, there will be no operations in them for money. Consols opened this morning at the above quotation. Exchequer Bills, 44 46 ; India Bonds, 25 27 ; Bank Stock still on the decline ; closed 203 204 Account ; India Stock, 268. In the Foreign Market little doing. Spanish Active closed at 20 to 20k, with Coupons ; opened at 20*. Portuguese closed at 24 to 29 ; opened this morning rather high-29 ; Three per Cents., 181 to 18-6 19 • Brazilian, 78* to 78i. The letters being delivered late this morning, all the information we hear as yet by the Lisbon mail is, that things remained tranquil in Lisbon ; and in consequence of which Portuguese Stock has rather advanced this morning.—The letters by the Malta mail, from India, have not as yet been received. HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK. Ai overland express from India has been received at the India House, but not till a late hour this morning. The letters to the merchants are not as ye. delivered. This morning the Ease India Company's last sale of teas com menced at the India House, where there was a very large attend ance of buyers. Prices are much higher than at the last sale. : The news from Lisbon received this morning is of little impor tance. It appears that the Cortes were discussing the modification of the Constitution of 1320 ; fears were entertained that the Lis bon 'volunteers, who are opposed to any modification, would as semble and make a declaration against the alterations. The Char tist and Miguelite Guerillas seemed to have been dispersed. Consols have continued during the morning steady at 931 I f for the opening; Reduced 92i ; Exchequer Bills rather ,lower, 46 45 ; India Bonds also lower, 27 25 ; Bank Stock rather higher, 203} ; India Stock 268. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active rather heavy at 20, with Coupons ; . Portuguese Stock improved, owing to the news from Li s b o n this morning being vi ewe d i n a more favourable light ; Portuguese done at 294 ; Three per Cents. 19 ; Brazilian Stock not quite so good, 78} 1 ; Dutch Stock 54i ; Mexican 284. TYREE OCL 0 CK. Consols for the Account, 01 y. CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY St. Amand Derembert, a Frenchman, was indicted for un lawfully endeavouring to excite Robert Ashby, an engraver, to engrave for him a certain plate or plates for a promissory ncte for 20 dollars, purporting to be a promissory note of the Union Bank of the State of Louisiana, North America. The case occupied the whole of the morning, but as the prisoner was only committed last Thursday, and as the whole of the evidence against the prisoner has been so recently given, it is not necessary to repeat it. The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty. THE FOG.—Both yesterday and to-day the fog covered the metropolis in fully as dense a degree as at the darkest hour on Saturday ; and the greatest caution is neces sary in traversing the streets to avoid accidents. AFFAIR OF HONOUR.—Two gentlemen of the medical profession met on Tuesday week upon Woodhouse Moor, to settle their differences by a duel. The gentleman w ho sent the challenge is Joshua B-11—nd, Esq:, nephew of a Baron of the Exchequer, and the quarrel arose out of some calumnies said to have been circulated by the other gentle. man (A. F. Esq., relation to - a late M. P. for this town) tending to damage Mr. B. is a love-affair. TIT, parties met, but after all was in readiness for the word " fire , " Mr. M. made an apology, and so the matter exploded.—,Clare Journal. SUN EXPRESSES SHEFFIELD.—The Manager of the Commercial News I Room, Sheffield, tenders his best thanks to Mr. M. Young, for his spirited exertions in circulating, with such amazing rapidity, the first, second, and " Express" Editions of The Sun Newspaper on Tuesday last—four copies of each being supplied to this Room by the agent, Mr. Wiley, several hours before the regular arrivals of the mails. High-street, Sheffield, Nov. 27, 1837. We are highly indebted to The Sun Newspaper for the great activity and dispatch used in that establishment, i❑ giving us the intelligence from London up to seven o'clock in the evening ; and we take this opportunity of adding our apprcbation, to that already given by other Contempora ries in all parts of the Kingdom, of the great advantage we have received from the above publication.—Besley's De vonshire Chronicle. We are indebted to the kindness of Mr. M'Phun, book seller, for a copy of the London Sun Express Noi spaper on Wednesday. The proprietors of that Paper are most inde fatigable and deserve every encouragement. —Scotch Re former? Gazette. The second edition of Thursday's Sun gives nearly five columns of the debate in Parliament the same evening, in cluding the Chancellor of the Exchequer's speech on the Civil List. Such promptitude and exertion to gratify the public must ensure universal patronage.—Nottingham and Newark Mercury. PARLIAMENTARY EXPRESSES.—We must express OUT deep sense of the unparallelled exertions of The Sun news paper, as also of the attention and business-like conduct of Messrs. Mansell, and Co., News Agents, of Birmingham. On the afternoon of Tuesday last, we received an express copy of The Sun, containing all the speeches of importance that had been delivered in both Houses of Parliament on Alonday night, and the division on the address in reply to her Majesty's Speech.—The Town's Messenger. The Sun newspaper perseveres most surprisingly in its extraordinary exertions to communicate early intelligence. We were ,supplied with the Speech of the Queen and the whole of the debates on the Address through the medium of that journal at an early hour on Tuesday last. —Stafford shire Advertiser COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty attended Divine Service yesterday morning in the private Chapel of the New Palace. The service was per. formed by the Rev. Dr. Short and the Dean of Chester. Lady Barham, Lord Byron, Sir F. Stovin, the Hon. Colonel Grey, and other ladies and gentlemen of the Queen's house hold were present. The Duchess of Cambridge visited her Majesty 3esterday afternoon. Her Majesty had a dinner party on Saturday evening. The company included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, Viscount and Vis countess Howick, Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Palmerston, Lord and Lady John Russell, Sir John Hobhouse, the Right Hon. T. Spring Rice, Lady Theodosia and Miss Spring Rice, Right Hon. C. Poulett Thomson, Right Hon. R. Cutlar Fergusson, Right Hon. H. Labouchere, Lady Barham, Lady Mary Stopford, Hon. Miss Cocks, Hon. Miss Dillon, Lady Caroline Barrington, Baroness Lehzen, Miss Davys, Lord Byron, Hon. Colonel Cavendish, Sir Frederick Stovin, and the Hon. Colonel and Miss Grey. The band of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards were in attendance during the evening. At the Royal dinner party at the New Palace, on Friday, a solo on the clarionet was performed in the course of the even ing by Mr. Burton, of the Coldstream band. The Earl of Mulgrave had an audience of the Queen on Saturday. A small party, including Viscount Melbourne, Lord Alfred Paget, and the Hon. William Cowper, dined with her Ma jesty last evening. The Duchess of Gloucester, the Duchess of Cambridge, and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attended divine service yesterday morning in Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley-street. The Duchess of Gloucester and a select party dined with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on Saturday at Cam bridge-house, Piccadilly. At the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday, the sermon was preached by the Chaplain in Ordinary. The Duchess Dowager of Richmond, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earls of Mulgrave, Bandon, and Clarendon, were amongst the no bility present. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the office of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Downing-street. All the Ministers attended, except the Lord Chancellor. The Council sat an hour. . A meeting was held at the Home-office on Saturday after noon, at which were present the Lord Chancellor, Viscount Duncannon, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Viscount Howick, Mr. Poulett Thomson, Lord Morpeth, the Attor ney-General, and the Attorney-General for Ireland. Mr. Wells and Mr. Hitchcock had an interview with Lord 61,-nelg on Saturday at the Colonial-office. The French Ambassador transacted business on Saturday at the Foreign-office. The Postmaster-General had an interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer on Saturday. Sir George Arthur, Colonel Macdougall, and Major Wink field had interviews with Lord Glenelg. on Saturday. The Duke and Duchess of Terceira have left Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave-street, for Paris. Despatches from Sir Er C. Disbrowe, at the Hague, were received yesterday at the Foreign-office. Despatches were sent off from the Colonial-office on Satur day evening for the Governor of Gibraltar. Lord Oranmore has left town for Portsmouth. The Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat on Saturday. There were present Lord Brougham, Mr. Baron Parke, Mr. Justice Bosanquet, and the Chief Judge in Bankruptcy. Dr. Lushington, on the part of the respondent, was heard on a petition respecting an appeal from Demerara. Mr. Burge, Queen's Counsel, opposed the petition on the part of the ap pellant. Lord Brougham, on the part of their Lordships, al lowed the petition, but without costs, and gave leave to the appellant to present a petition to their Loadships to amend his appeal. Several other motions were disposed of during the sitting of the Court. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Lord Downes, from Dublin; Lord and Lady Somers, at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from a tour; Mr. East, M. P., and family, in Eaton-place, from the continent; Lord Alvanley, in Albemarle-street, from a tour ; Lady Barham in Upper Harley-street; the Earl of Meath, from Halton, Cheshire ; Lord George Bentinck, at Harcourt House, from Lord Suffield's seat, Gunton, Norfolk ; Lord and Lady Shrewsbury, in Stanhope-street, from Altontowers, Derby. shire ; Sir Francis Chantrey, in Belgrave-street, from Har wich; Lord Wodehouse, at the Hyde-park Hotel, from Kim berley, Norfolk ; Lord Devon, in Chapel-street, from Powder ham Castle, Devon ; Mr. Hope, in Berkeley-square, from Kettering; Mr. Sanderson, in Belgrave-square; Lord Clive, in Berkeley-square, from Powis Castle, and Ludlow, Shrop shire ; the Hon. Mr. Ord Powlett, and family, at Gould's London Hotel, Albemarle -street, from Yorkshire ; Mrs, Greeason, at ditto, from Edinburgh; the Rev. Mr. Patterson and family, at ditto, from Huntingdon ; Prince J. Gagarin, a. ditto, from Dover. DEPARTURES. Captain and Mrs. Peterson, from Gouldls London Hotel, Albemarle-street, for Bath ; Mr. and Mrs. Archibald and family from ditto, for their seat, Renton Park, Leicestershire; Mr. Singleton, from Farrance's Hotel, for Hazley House, Hertfordbridge.: The Duke of Devonshire will return to Chats worth to spend his Christmas. Open house will be kept at his Grace's magnificent seat in Derbyshire, at Lismore Hall, Ireland, and Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire. _ _ The Marchioness of Lansdowne and Lady Louisa Fitzmaurice have joined the Earl of Shelburne at Dover, where a mansion has been taken for a short period for the be sefit of his Lordship's health. The Marquis of Granby, Earl of Wilton, Lord Rokeby, Count Bathiany, Lord Gardner, Hon. Colonel An son, Earl of Chesterfield, Mr. Errington, Earl of Ho wth, and a large circle of sporting noblemen, have assembled at Melton Mowbray. Several of the party will proceed the lat ter end of this month to Badmington, Gloucestershire, to par take of the munificent hospitalities of the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort. Captain Sir Bursford M'Mahon, Bart., of the Scots Fusileer Guards, will lead to the hymeneal altar, in the course of the present month, the accomplished Miss Bateson, daugh ter of Sir Robt. Bateson. We are gratified to hear that Sir David Brewster is to be appointed Principal of the united Colleges of St. Sal vador and St. Leonard of St. Andrew's, the Rev. Dr. Lee, who was lately appointed, having resigned. Lietenant-Colonel Vernon Harcourt, and his noble Bride, daughter of the Earl of Liverpool, after passing the honeymoon at Buxted Park, will proceed to the archiepiscopal palace at Bishopsthorpe, on a visit to the venerable Archbishop of York. The notice of the death of the Right Hon. William Adam in Saturday's Courier is unfounded. The Marquis of Londonderry and Lord Castlereagh have become Members of the Newtownards (Downshire) Temperance Society. The Noble Ma r q uis presided at the tea party of the Society on the 20th ult., and Lord Castl ereag h was also present, and sipped the simple beverage, " the cup which cheers but not inebriates," with the members, with all the gusto of an experienced tea-totaller. Lord Lowther has purchased the mansion of Mr. Broadwood, M. P., on Carlton-terrace, t o w hi c h hi s L ordsh i p has removed from Cleveland-row. The Countess Brownlow, Lady of th e B e d c h am b er to the Queen Dowager, has arrived in Belgrave-square, from St. Leonard's. The Dowa ger L a d y Cl i nton succeeds her Ladyship in waiting on her Majesty. Lord Aberdeen and hi s step - son , L or d Cl au d e Hamilton, have arrived at Argyll House, from a visit to the Earl and Countess of Harewood, at Harewood, Yorkshire. The State rooms in Windsor Castle, and tlue do n,stic apartments occupied by the Court, ate now nearly complete. The drawing-rooms are magnificently furnished, and the Waterloo Gallery has received several additions and embellishments since her present Majesty came to the throne. UNIVERSITY OF GOTTIN --.---- an King's ot.h e c r on t d o u p ( i .t c , is an t d h othu those v\ o li f, o HAmatianti, Nov. 28. —The excitement here on the rut e ,_ verian question is, as you may imaaine, very great. Scarc and attck t h to display their zeal to the utmost. Among the young Got• —of whom a very large number finished their studies at Liek f tingen—an active littlo party has been formed, who have 0 . . up an Address to the seven Professors, of which I inclasclo" a copy. ' e it, seem who advocate . t h e os 'keis At Kiel a few of the professors and students have 11 this • • joined in an Address to those of Gottingen, but, while all.. excitement is going on here, and perhaps also in some obeef: of the city of Germany, the most perfect tranquillity Colt° to prevail in Hanover itself. seem equally anxio 0 The question relative to the validity of the Constitution; which thP King considers to have been null and vod,llo origine, will in due course be brought before the erms( Diet, several of the constituted bodies of the King d°ln fr ° Hanover having determined on appealing to that great a dcral tribunal. Such a step must not, however, be looked upon as of a hostile character • on the contrary, ill ela i a i. agree with the King respecting the insufficiency of the Console tution of 1833 entertain doubts as to the expediency ef 4 i s form in which the Royal ordinances are conceived, eed it is t therefore desirable, in the interest of the King bites should, t i a d, every doubt as to the perfect legality of his conduct siwuvi as soon as possible, be set at rest by a decision of the Geri Diet. ADDRES r c ob To the Professors F. C. Dahlma S nn, E. Albrecbt, Agna Grimm, Wilhelm Grlmm, G. Gervinus, H. Ewald' Wilhelm Weber, of Gottingen. bleb r ti " The undersigned have read the declaration cv t he have felt it your duty to address to the Curatorium .hue Royal University, on the subject of the abolition o f se lves damental law of the State of Hanover. Tney feel theta' to impelled to express to you the joy which it has avvat e av n o be• them to find that you, the representatives of science , come the organ through which the truth has been pro ne "' sir iply and firmly, ably and energetically. ad o eate While you felt impelled by your consciences to the the cause of justice in opposition to power the Voicet i:oal public conscience m a d e it se lf h ear d t h roug h you• ablehie sod rest assured, therefore, of the sympathy o f all the the sacra 4 r e intelligent among the German peopl e , f or it is of union and patriotism that has found a voice in You . , ; ,,b yos " You have openly proclaimed th e stan d ar d by 5 -_ -- a i o ne, judge these relations ; and, though app aren tly stands yet, as the organ of the just conviction o f a ll, you have rected the political eye and judgment to the basis of m bar be and justice. You have made it clear to every man mbar owes to himself in the moment of important deter° a l of which is at hand. You have shown yourselves vi °r. like those distinguished men whose successors you ar e ; f s of them, while you have shown yourselves the promote science you have also shown that that s c i e nce, not cool 1 01 the service of general purposes, is able, on occasion, %/ad language and expression to the rights o f wa r m and un a ., that patriotism. It was more particularly in your acade%hee the word of freedom formerly established its throne , r oes those men, with truth and firmness, enjoined to th e ,: v . i vete and People of Germany respect for public rights. T ue t, ra b l l supported by the power of a free press, now so dell e age fettered that it will scarcely be able to bring to the knc ° . o or of the German people your generous advocaey of iustic 'But to you the universal sympathy which you have awakened. steo if the organ of the general voice is paralysed, let each ill s of to raise his individual cry. If we, f o rmerly the PaP l A s ies German Universities, now citizens of a f r e e State, PI - T our our joy and gratitude for the testimony you have given a t jab independence, we do so from a conviction that the in" ° chl lity of law forms the basis and vital principle of a 0 0 . 0- o ur as well as of a republic. In this sense you will recm/ e or di address, and you will participate in our h o pe that the t he you have spoken will be understood by the good sense o f 01, nation. Those words will find an echo in every thinking m and will call general attention to an attempt to unci ev- t the public justice; they will contribute, we hope, to prefea'or people of Germany, collectively and individually, from 04 sidering that the dictate of power can relieve them from °, of solemnly taken ; they will contribute to baffle the p.olv one man, by means of the feeling of justice i n h e rent in (Here follow about fifty signatures.) " Hamburg, Nov. 26, 1837."—Morning Post. s RELATIVE MERITS OF THE HANOVErIx CONSTITUTIONS OF 1819 AND 1833. k ) (From the Frankfort Cor re sp on d en t o f t h e Morning CliO ng , c i t• I have hitherto not thought it worth my while or e l ; of tention to enter into the particulars of the Constitutle! l The Hanover, or to compare one of them with the other. eye . fact of the Constitution of 1833 bein g an immense illir.ved ment on that of 1819 is so well and c l ear l y k nown to - de German, that we here could no t t hi n k o f i ts b e i n g in a l a tS question in England. However, we perceive from the 0 . numbers of the Tory journals, that the writers of these. o r sert, in profound igno r a n c e an d w ith an impudence O l d as ginable, that of these Constitutions one is about as V ° ore the other, and that of the two, that of 1819 is, perhaps , i ll liberal. seated These journals speak of the landed interest as re presgPi e d in the first by a certain number of D e p u ti es , a nd repre lt n il t ir in the second by more ; from whi c h th ese L earne d u e rhea men conclude that the framers of the new Constitution vi' 9 „o , to increase rather than diminish the influence o f the ;19 tocracy. Now mark the facts. By the Constitution of „ e y the noble proprietors of land, and those of the eq, o g. trian order, exclusively, enjoyed th e r i g ht of 01 ; 0 5 , The non-noble classes were denied this right ; even thoser o p sessing allodial property of their own, of course f a rmers r e tj , ing or holding fiefs, no matter on what condition, free treble s and, in fine, the whole of the agricultural pop u l a ti o n, not l oc o were excluded from the franchise by the law of 1819. 1833 these classes have had the right of electing and L'ibe elected ; and their deputies brought forward instantlY pd laws for abolishing feudal charges, and allowing tenants ° by peasants to redeem tithes, coreees, and feudal impoststeto paying twenty-five times the annual value. These ' ( o p. passed by the united votes of the dep u ties of the et noble landed classes and the burgess class. Al d VeS the Tory journals set down the former voters as " - ",, r e st. and Conservatives, because they are of the l an ded jet, F . he- The writers were dreaming of England, w h e re, tbo lieve, Lord Grey's Reform Bill has not done for t he peasants what the Duke of Cambridge ceded t 01833 Hanoverians. The overthrow of the Constitution of , 14 . in Hanover by King Ernest, is precisely as if in Po land he, as king, were to declare that the right Of I „ble s for Members of Parliament should be confined to the rr a rs, and esquires, excluding freeholders not n o ble, copYll °- tbe and leaseholders. So much for the difference betwee n Constitutions, as far as regards electoral law. , of To proceed to other matters. According to the 1833, the debates of the Lower Chamber were public. sea cording to that of 1819, they are held secr e t and with clop. doors. King Ernest refuses publicity and p o litical educa te By the law of 1833, the States had a decisive vote in ,„ ters of impost and legislation, like the Engli s h and r i l o e 4 assemblies. The proposing of m e asures was. indeed, con 830, to the Government, as in the F r e nc h s y stem before I r eit But the States, according to th e l aw o f 1819, have in op deliberative power, the liberty to discuss their interests 9. of no more, like the provincial States of Prussia. This, l9 o s t much as to say the Constitution of 1819 is no Constitutl° to t all. You may congratulate the Tories upon such an eV predilection. su b ' And now with res p ec t t o fi nance an d revenue , on which oasif jest King Ernest is r e p resen t e d by hi s f r i en d s as m arvell to , generous. Of old the royal domain was of course rer'Aif be perty, which the Elec t o r or Ki ng h e ld , b ut out o f wh i g " - ta tee paid his Court exp enses , c i v il list, &c., recurring to tbeL"-tbef for whatever s ur pl us was requ i s i te to hi m, an d w hic h t iny might grant of th e i r goo d w ill . A ccor di ng to t h e Cell s tbs tion of 1833, King William gave up these domains Vf the, States, which in return voted funds for all the e xpenses sou State. In walks Ki ng E rnes t, resumes t h e domains„ro leaves the publi c c h arges as th ey h a d b een j us t voted r tbe mises, indeed, to pay something out of the revenue rf, the State. Thus the poor Hano v eri an s h ave b een tricked " g L it iol l enjoyment of a three years' Co n stit u ti on i n to the inal ) ;0 51 of heavy taxes, and lose their liberty at the end. K in g ee ee ' promises to abate 100,000 doll ar s o f th e nex t year's r e- t rr whilst by his upset of the Constitution, and corset e n er iieg sumption of the domains, he gains at least 200,0001- s n t a , or e a year I Here is a generous prin ce I Now, I ask 'boo r the Hanoverians bound to p a y th e t axes vo t e d by the sing bers after the Constitution of 1833, and subsequent !loave- William's cession of the domains ? I say that the l ; foie rians are the basest slaves that ever money was Will„nogtisre st if they submit. Never was there an example of de s k ; g uncle once so extortionate and so mean. Resistance is, however, in preparation. At Gett' rl ' e unri e " professors have followed the example of your bishop s at ad James 11. If exiled, Russia will welcome them . , she i t n : rate Gottingen is ruined as an University. M ',latent and Osnabruck the citizens are about to follow the A won set by the professors. The states of East Friesian," pay what they have no right to pay. ear sur e The Liberals of Germany, however, look for one r est hat port, and that support but an opinion. They exp ect f Sus h i g se s, first Agnat of the house of Hanover, the Duke o f are " should take an opportunity of declaring publicly w hat sentiments on the overthrow of the Constitution. GOTTINGEN, NOV. 26.—0 f the seven Profess ors rib not signed the Protest a ainst the King's Patent, tfore hcrei single Hanoverian. against the King's Patent, there ' single Ilanoverian. They were all invited from gviiiime. tries, and m o st o f th em under the rein of King cooorel' Dahlmann came f rom Ki e l, as P ro f ess or g of Polit ical E om t he and is the first th a t s i gne d. lie was the deputY fjonstita; University and took an active part in framing the ;a rsine tion of 1833. Alb rec ht i s a lawyer, who, on the e theePP Coe' of the Patent of J u ly 5, warmly took up the defence f roc inb e stitution of 1833. Oswald, the great Orientalist, 9 so t 1 / 1 0 of the Theological faculty, and was one of the dePeri:air 1 .11 5 the University to congratulate the King on big ar researched two Grimms, who enjoy great reputation for their ere l avite s l into the languages and antuities of Germany, ,lector, from Cassel,where they formerly were Directors of th? o r; bo o.), Library, and as well as Professors Gervinus and W‘ l3 to the faculty of Philosophy T. COX SA P V S OR ar Y e Z E CUP and Second-hand SciTelectiolint PRIZE CU may be made f • offeredSAVOßY'S, G Goldsmith d a s t m v i t e h r , y and w Reducedatc hPrLikceers: post, s .A mgl S e h l e , e t t ter o , f i, D l a r n a7 l, i . n e g r s to o a f from a great variety, both of Sizes and c o o „ L Cups kill be fora. YOU ~ London : Printed and Published by MU u p 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 1 of Middlesex.—Monday, Deceml)ex 4, tr ! .. ,•A - C