The Sun. — London, England, 1835-12-31 00:00:00

PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT JNE O ' C L OCK. I.W, Bank Stock. :3 per Cent Bed. Beer Cent. Co ns smut Sou th kea Sock ......... ...... .. ' 3 Per Cent 093 f% Old Pitta Annnities Red. o ,l k. New Ditto ‘,. New '44 '44 per Cent Ncr, 3 per Cent - Exch. 13111 s, ..i.:l,t 'ou, l3 15 pm. liT..nk Long Annuities to expire Ditto 500 l3 15 pm. Jan 5, :R430 1 6 14 !-Ifi Ditto Small Oct 10, It'so -- Ditto Commercial — pm. -Jan 5. WM — Ditto Advertised Jan. 5, IW , Batik Stock for Account tUti April 5, ISSO —i India Stock for Acc0unt......... . - -z-- Jan. 5, IS7O ' Consols for Acconnt t)m nin m pm. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT OSZ O'CLOCK. _Austrian Bonds ........... .... ... Per vian Bonds ~. Mrleian Bonds Ditto -Account ... Ditto Account. Brazilian Bonds .. 5 7 3%44 Ditto l '..ccount ~,,. Ditto Account — Dittn New Ilonlll ...83 3 ; 4 Buenos Ayres Ponds — Ditto AccAnbt. 54 3% 4 Ditto Account — litttch AI), it cent. 9 51 i ! , 2 % Chilli . n Fonds — ' i'r4 , 4itin Bonds Ditto Account --, /Rtvs , an Bonds, ISO , — Ca!mb!an Bonds - ' Ditto Account — Ditto Account • Ditto Metallic. Columbian Bonds, :Kt "3 - 2%4 !Spanish Bonds — Ditto Account ...... ~.,.,..132%%.4 Ditto Account Danish Bonds Ditto Account ` Greek Bondi — French, 5 per cent. ..... ..... —t —c TDitto Bonds, 1825 — 4 per cent. —f. —c. Ditto Account tlexican Bonds, 5 per cent.... 27 Exchange —f. —c. Ditto Account ! Dutch, 2 , 4 per cent. Dl'..to, n per cent. 'Ditto Account Ditto, 5 per cent lOl% N, Nea - ,olitan Ditto Account PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. aid. del Monte Mining Co., Regi s t ere d Mi. P 10s. (d Per Share Ditto Unregistered Great Western Rail Dray Company 5 Lmtlon and Greenwich Railway Company Australasia Bank- 40 Canada Company, 21 20 , ,r; 11.4 5 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, DECEMBER 21. 3 per Cent. Consols 9014' Grand Canal Deb 6. 6 per cent. 66 Ditto Reduced - Ditto, 4 per cent 57% 3 1 ,4 per Cent. Stock 99 Hibernian Bank - Ditto New, 1830 ES% : City of Dublin Steam C 0.111% 3 1 per Cent. Debentures 9l ' National Insurance Co - Bank Stock. 209 ' City Debentures, 4 per cent 7B Royal Canal Stock 3-I, Ballast Office ebentures, 4 Grand Canal Stock --. per cent. - MAILS. Arrived. Du . Arrived. Due. Arrival. Due. 0 America 0 1 France 0 0 Lisbon 0 0 Brazil 0 Ituelios Ayres._ 0 0 Hamburg ..... ... 1 0 Mexico I 0 eartlizgena 0 0 Holland 1 0 Ostend 0 1 Dublin 0 0 Jamaica 0 0 Sweden 0 I Flanders 0 0 Leeward Islands 1 1 Waterford 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. 'Nforning 28 minutes tart 0. I Evening 51 minutes after 0 THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THE GREATEST COMBINA7 lON OF ATTRACTIONS EVER --- OFFERED TO THE PUBLIC. !THIS EVENING will be performed the New Grand Opera of THE SIEGE OF ROCHELLE. Count de Bosemberg, Mr. Seguin ; Marquis de Valmour, Mr. Templeton ; Montalban, Mr. Giubelei ; Michel, Mr. H. Phillips. Clara, Miss Shirreff; Marcella, Miss F. Healy. After which, the new Grand Operatic Drama entitled THE JEWESS. Cardinal de Brogny, Mr. Warde; Prince Leopold, Mr Cooper; The Grand Provost vf Constance, Mr. Ginbelti ; The Bishop of Constance, Mr. Seguin ; Eleazar, Mr. Vandenholl. Rachel; Miss E. Tree ; the princess Eudocia, Miss Forde. To conclude with the Gran :i Comic Christmas Pantomime called --- WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT. Harlequin, Mr. Ellar ; Clown, Mr. T. Matthews; Pantaloon, Mr. Tumour; Haramsearam, Mr. W. H. Payne. Columbine, Miss G. Reekie. Stage Manager, Mr. Cooper—Acting Manager, Mr. Yates. The Box-office is open daily, under the direction of Mr. Parsons, of whom Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, and Places may be obtained. Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.—Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Second Price, 2s. ; Gallery, 2s. ; Second Price, ls.—Upper Gallery, Is. ; Second Price, 6d. This Day. Price is. NEWTON and FLAMSTEED.—REMARKS on an ARTICLE in No. CIX. of the QUARTERLY REVIEW. By the Rev. W. WHEWELL, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, Cambridge, London : John W. Parker, West 5t...-and : Cambridge ;J. and J. J. Deigliton. DUTCH LOAN of 1:331 for £500,000 at Two. and-a-Half per Cent. Certificates by Mr. N. M. ROTHS. CHILD. The Dividend on thiP, Loan, which becomes due on FRIDAY, the Ist of January nez►,, will be paid on every succeeding Monday, Wednesday, and ratirsday, between the hours of Eleven and Two. PORTUGUEP,E THREE PER CENT. CONSOLIDATED STOCK. The DVidend on this Stock, which becomes due on FRIDAY, a Ist of .knuary next, will be paid by Mr. N. M. ROTHSCHILD o every 'succeeding Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, between the hours of Eleven and Two. NEAPOLITAN LOAN of 1a24, at Five r Cent., contracts pek by Mr. N. M. ROTHSCHILD. The Dividend on this Loan which becomes due on MONDAY, the Ist of Febreary next, will be paid on that day, and on every sue s eeding Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, between the hours of Eleven and Two. Printed formsare to be previously called for at the counting-house .f Mr. N. M. Rothschild, 2, New-Court, St. Swithin's-lane, and the Coupons are to be left for examination. HAMBURG, DECEMBER, 1835. THE TICKETS of the 67th GREAT LOT- TERY of the , STATE of HAMBURG, selling most rapidly, and being neatly cleared off, HEINE - BROTHERS, the CONTRACTORS, Peg to state that NO TIME IS TO BE LOST in ordering, if desired to be obtained before a RISE IN PRICE. To. those remitting a 101. note without delay, they will, on execut ing the order, remit a surplus of 11/. by return of post. To those remitting 201., they will return 4/. ; and to those remitting 301., they will return 6/., provided they be in time for meeting atten tion. But to any person coming too late, or after a Rise in the Price of 81., they will return his remittance, leaving the order un executed. Drawing 13th or next month. In the last 66th Lottery they sold £7,200 to Liverpool, £3,600 to Edinburgh, and many other Capital Prizes to Dublin, Limerick, Liverpoo' Hull, and various places in England, Scotland, and Ireland Schemes gratis. HAMBURG, DEC. 18, 1835. - ON approach of the 13TH of JANUARY, the Day of Drawing of the 67th HAMBURG GREAT LOTTERY, HEINE BROTHERS, the CONTRACTORS Beg toirecapitulate the Capital Prizes above 5001. which they sold to England, Scotland, and Ireland, during the last Six Lotteries :- 61st Lottery. A Whole Ticket. Sold' to Edinburgh, £3,000 do. do. do. London.... 1,000 62d do. do. do. Beverley.. 3,000 63d do. do. do. London ... 1,000 64th do. --- do. do. Aberdeen. 3,000 do. do. do. Liverpool. 1,200 65th do do. ,do. Limerick.. 3,600 do. do. to a Hamburgh house 1 1 500 for ac count o f a L on d on house f ' do. do. Liverpool. 750 do. Liverpool. 7,200 do. Edinburgh 3,600 do. 66th do. do. ER !tA TU an Advertisement relating to a Meeting on Church Reform, inserted yesterday over our Leading Article, the date should have been Monday, the 4th of January, instead of the 11th. The publication of Tut SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at Three o' Cock. . , " <2) a•--c - - „k.e 1 7,An fll':(,. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 31, 1835. The Legislative Chambers of France opened on Tuesday. We subjoin, from the Journals, a report of the grand ceremonial usual on such occasions, toge ther with a copy of the Royal Speech. The latter is remarkable only for its barrenness. On no question whatever is the slightest information, of an important nature, communicated to the Chambers. It is from first to last a string of no-meaning common-places ; with the exception of the few words which refer to the American Indemnity question. Upon this point our readers have nothing to learn, as we informed them yesterday, in our observations on the PRESIDENT'S Message, that England had taken upon herself to effect an entire reconciliation between the Governments of France and the United States. The KING commenced by congratulating the Chambers on the state of the country. This was natural enough, but the fact was 'one with which every Member had as extensive a know ledge as his MAJESTY. He next informed them that the laws of last Session had consolidated public order, and the institutions of the country. We are a little doubtful as to the meaning of so strange a phrase as this. If the KING referred to the operation of the Fieschi laws, we cannot perceive in what way they have contributed to the consolidation of public order. The Press judging from the recent lists of editorial pro secutions—is as libellous as ever it was; treasons abound in the Army ; and in several departments it has been found necessary to disarm' large sections of the Na tional Guard. Are these things proof of a consolida tion of public order under the operation of the pater nal Fieschi Code ? We pass over the two next paragraphs. They are personal to the man and the father; and our commentary has no reference to Lis PHILLIPPE iu his private capacity. The two paragraphs immediately following detail all 'that i 6 KING chooses to make hnowh respect ing the relations . of Frank* with the other great European Powtm ) .and of the ineasutes proposed for the pticificatlion of MAI the consolidation of the throne of IsAhti.LA 11. And what does this all amount to !P—Nothing ! Whether France appru'ves br, or . condemns the Prumian commercial league ; whether she dtpi&es, or rejoices in, the downfall. vi Poland ; whether she sympathizeg with, or repudiates the struggle for, inclependerice now carried 'on in the East ; whether she is sensible of, or indifferent to the intrigues of Russia—are questions upon which the Deputies of France are obligingly permitted to decide for themselves. This is wretched policy on the part of the KING ; and his adoption of it, proves,- that he neither understands what his position demands of him, nor bow to take advantage of those means of acquiring an enthusiastic popularity which prompt a cultivation of the natural genius of the French people. In facty France was just as wise—just as well in formed—of the sentiments of the King, the people, and Foreign Governments, before the KING opened his mouth, as she is now. On no subject, foreign or domestic, has she obtained an iota of information. Whether there will be war or peace—whether the taxes will be raised or partially abolished—are ques tions which the KING has left to be decided by. every person according to his own fancy, or by the event, if he happen to be of a temperament sufficiently cool to abide patiently the judgment of time. Letters from Paris state that a plot for the assassi nation of the KING, on his way to the Chambers, was discovered by the agents of police on Monday night, and that several conspirators were seized on Tuesday morning, all having fire-arms about their persons. The principal of these is reported to be the same in dividual who was tried and acquitted for attempting to shoot the KING on the Pont Royal. We withhold the name for the present, as otherwise we might possibly do injury to the character of an inno cent person. The KING, both on his way to and from the Chambers, . was attended by a strong guard, so that it appeared as if he himself was apprehensive of danger. However, no disturbance took place, the people keeping as much out of the way of the procession as if it were the triumph of a conqueror in arms against the nation. There were no joyous shouts from the populace ; no acclamations of welcome, as the Citizen King proceeded in state!, through the capital The only other important topics noticed in these Journals will be found in our extracts from them. The Constitutionnel has a long article on the recent rumours set afloat by the Tories with respect to a change of Ministry in England; which, however, contains nothing new on the subject. In speaking of the Royal Speech, we forgot to mention one important fact announced in some of the French papers. It is reported--on what authority we know not—that Count PAHLEN, the Russian Am bassador, told the KING, at a private audience, that any reference to the fall of Poland in the Royal Speech at opening the Chambers, would not fail to be re garded by the EMPEROR as a denunciation of the Imperial policy, and tantamount to a declaration of hostilities against NICHOLAS. The CITIZEN KING was thunderstruck, and subsequently, in_Council, in sisted that no mention whatever of Russia or Poland should be made in the speech. We give the rumour as we have received it—comment is unnecessary. PARIS, DEC. 29.—A letter from Valence of the 26th says The Duke of Orleans, who left Toulon yesterday, arrived here this afternoon, but stopped only to change horses. His Royal Highness will pass the night at Tarn, for it seems, that in order to avoid all etiquette, he passes the night only at places of small importance. His Royal Highness is in perfect health." The Duke of Orleans did not go to Marseilles, because, says a letter from General Damremont, the views of the King; who wished him to return immediately to Paris, would not allow the delay which would have ensued. BREST, DEC. 24.—The Jupiter of the line and the Terpsichore have been a long time in the roads ; their crews are raised to the full war compliment, and they only wait for orders to sail. The division of the crews of ships of the Line expect 1,000 recruits of the class of 1834, by the first fortnight in January. The San Petri and Jena of the line are almost entirely ready, as well as the Hernzione frigate. They will be able to put to sea, in a short time after they are in the road. All these accounts of armaments, which now have no object (at least no ostensible object), will not be agreeable to the tax-payers, for they will be summed up in some sub stantial millions of supplementary votes of credit, which will have to be added to those that we shall have to pay to the United States.—Messager, Dec. 29. In The Sun of Saturday we extracted from the Port folio the copy of an official despatch; bearing date June 13,1829, from Prince LIEVEN, and Count MA TUSZE VICH, Russian Ambassadors at the Court of London, to Count CHARLES DE NESSELRODE, Vice-Chan cellor of the Empire, and Minister for Foreign Affairs —to the subject of which we then requested the atten tion of our readers in a leading paragraph. We were then very far from anticipating the strong expression of feeling which the publication of this document appears to have produced in various parts of the country. The people of England really begin to open their eyes to the importance of their foreign relations ; and when the country-is once brought to look beyond the all-absorb ing theme of agricultural distress—to examine with calm ness the causes of the evils which afflict it—to compre hend its actual position, and so be made to perceive that its insular situation cannot render it indifferent to the proceedings of other States, unless it has resolved to descend from the proud pinnacle upon which it now reposes—we may then console ourselves with the anti ' cipation of greater triumphs and a more ,permanent glory. Before now the honour of the.-nation fmind defenders against all encroachments from without, in the ambition of the Court and the jealousy of the Cabinet ; henceforth we must look to the patriotism of the people for such protection. We need not say that we are not apprehensive of suffering with impunity aught derogatory to our national fame, provided the facts of the case be fairly submitted to the House of Commons. For a just and defensive war we have resources in abundance ; and thank Heaven, we are not destitute of Statesmen, with ample sagacity to perceive that a war, apparently aggressive, may be still purely defensive —undertaken solely for the pro tection of our trade, our territory, and our liberties. When the safety of nations is perilled itbehoves public men to act in accordance with the dictates of an en larged, comprehensive, and if we might be allowed the expression, a prophetic policy. The ethics which are rules for the guidance of individual conduct, require a corresponding extension in proportion to the magnitude of their relative objects, when ap plied to the policy of great nations. An individual cannot be too slow in assuming the defensive, provided his adversary does not make known his evil designs against him. The reason of this is sufficiently intel ligible. While the laws exist for his protection he can never be greatly overmatched, without having a re medy within his reach, of which lie may instantly avail himself. But in war, between hostile States, might too often constitutes the right of nations; and the country who secs herself exposed to the chance of wearing fetters, without making an effort to prevent • the possibility of her undergoing such degradation, is not more wronged than she. is justly punished for either her folly or her pusillanimity. It has been complained of, us, in a high quarter, that we have for some time past endeavoured, to inter- Tilt SUN, LONDON, TIIIJRgD Alt, DECIMBER 31, IKA .. . rupt the existing ftiendly relations between England, France, and Russia ; by iirciti4 the formeri'owers to declare War ngriittst the imperial MriscoVite. How are we to understand such cotriplaints ? Is it a crime in Englishmen to love their Contiti'yi itiid ii.l iinplbre their fellowmstilijeas to prepare thenafielves to defend their liberties against Russian aggression ? Is it cri minal iu public Journalists, whose duty—if they have a duty at all to perform—consists in watching over the interests of their country, to proclaim aloud the dangers which assail constitutional freedom in the event of certain measures being neglected by the Govern. meld ? Have we not reason to dread the encroach ing and perfidious policy of Russia ? Have we not witnessed her treachery in all her negotiations with the Sublime Porte ? Have we not seen her, in violation of the most solemn Treaties, seize upon the Princi palities of Wallachia and Moldavia, and actually com pel the SULTAN to govern them on a principle which conferred on Russia the virtual Sovereignty of these States ? Have we not beheld her forcibly wrest from the same Power the territories of Bosnia, Georgia, and Circassia, under the perfidious plea of restoring public tranquillity in these districts of the Ottoman em pire? Have we not sat wondering spectators ; aghast at the daring, and the impiety of the deed, while she tore into shreds the Treaty of Vienna, and mingling it with the life-blood of prostrate - Poland, presented it, in solemn mockery, as a beverage suited to the nice palates of England and France ? Yes, we have wit nessed all these enormities ; and, in addition, have had the deep mortification to see our Mnisters, Whig and Tory--WELLINGTON and PALMERSTON—mere agents, moved in every direction by LiEvErr-and the female intriguantes, who figured in the suite of this representative of the NERO of the North. The Tories made a great outcry about the great capacity of the Noble Duke, and his fitness to discharge thdiduties of Foreign Secretary. They will have only to peruse Prince LIEVEN'S Despatch to Count NESSELRODE to correct this opinion. His Grace is a distinguished officer ; but he is too much tinctured with vanity to . cope in diplomacy with the agents of the Autocrat. This is so well known in certain quarters that most iunworthy advantages are freq uen tly t a k en o f it by th e Duke's political associates. , But as the complaint which has been made against us calls for a more explicit expression of our opinions, we shrink not from admitting :—That as the policy of Russia is unchanged—as the recent Memorial ad dressed by her to the German Princes proves that she meditates the destruction of the German Confederacy ; the suppression of the Diet of Frankfort ; and the annexation of the German territory, with the exception of Austria and Prussia, to her empire—as her support of the German Commercial League was undertaken with a view to effect the commercial, political, and territorial downfall of Ghat Britain and France—as by the secret treaty of Unkiar Skelessi she dared, without the knowledge or consent of England, to close the Dardanelles against English ships of war ; to assume the protectorate of the Sublime Porte ;_and by:placing herself in a position to seize at any moment upon Constantinople, virtually to threaten the existence of our Indian empire—and as the violation of the Treaty of Vienna, perpetrated by the suppression of Polish independence, is a crime which the blood of tens of thousands of martyrs to liberty calls upon us, in the name of justice, of freedom, and of good faith, to revenge—we say openly, in the language of the brave Roman, ‘‘' Our voice is still for war,"—war against the brutal reveller in the blood of Poland! Here it is important that we be not misundertood. We trust it will not be inferred from this avowal of our sentiments, that we are indifferent to the possible con sequences of a,war with Russia, and that we have' overlooked the manifold sufferings that it would neces sarily entail upon thousands of our brave countrymen. On the contrary, we love peace—we are averse to the shedding of blood, whether of friends or foes ; but when it comes to be a question—as it is at present—whether we shall defend our liberties while we may successfully defend them, or pas sively await the approach of a tyranny which is pre paring to invest Europe and Asia in its strangling grasp, then our answer is—England wears a sword, and the hand which should wield it must be lopped off before she will suffer herself passively to submit to chains imposed by Russia. As we have repeatedly stated, a war is inevitable ; and every delay on our part will only strengthen the hands of our adversaries. Why wait till Russia is prepared to contest with Bri• tain the Empire of the Ocean ? New York Papers to the 9th inst. have been re ceived via Liverpool. Their contents are uninteresting. They devote considerable space to comments upon the PRESIDENT'S Message, which they generally regard with approbation. The Gallatin Democrat contains some details of the discovery of a conspiracy of the Blacks in Kentucky, who had resolved to plunder the town and free themselves from the slavery of the Whites Brussels and German Papers have been received Extracts from them are given in another column. The Returns of the Municipal Elections having now been almost all received, we offer our readers and the public our congratulations on the glorious result. Throughout the length and breadth of the land there has been but one voice. The North has responded to the South, and the East to the West. Everywhere the triumph of liberal principles has been complete. To ryism has been overthrown in its very citadel, and in its stead has been established a system founded on justice, adapted to the wants of an enlightenecV people, and possessing within itself the dower of keeping pace with the progress of civilization. - And how greatly is the glory of the triumph enhanced by its having been achieved—not in consequence of any sudden andlemporary impulse—not during a paroxysm of political excitement, when reason and reflection may be supposed to have but little influence on men's minds —but by a calm, deliberate, and predetermined exercise of a constitutional right, and that too in defiance of intimidation, bribery, and all the other sinister influ ences with which ill•gotten and long-established power surrounds itself, and which in this, its death struggle, it has employed with reckless desperation. Ie it possible to contemplate this manifestation of pure and lofty principle without being filled with admiration of the indomitable energy of the English character—without glorying in the name of Englishman ? Had the result of this memorable struggle been ' merely the emancipation of the Municipal Communi ties from the thraldom of the local tyrants, to whose insolent domination they have been so long subjected —had it been nothing more than the restoration of usurped civil rights, and the reform of those adminis trative abuses which had overrun the English Corpora tions, that would have been matter of just exulta tion. But this, important as it is, is not the most important result of the contest which has just closed. It is, in its bearing on the political interests of the country that we hail it as a more especial subject of rejoicing. The mind of the nation has now been unequivocally expressed on the merits of the old and new systems of national government. The former it has rejected with disdain, while it has adopted the lat ter with enthusiasm. We are aware that the advocates of the Tory faction would fain get rid of this conclusion. They pretend thp the struggle is pot in the least degree political The hypocrites Had the Victory been on theieside, ~would they have said ibis ? No l they would have re presented it as the death-blow to the iiefoiiiiing Administration—aye, and to the cause of Reform ttio. How ciitiiic days is it sinee. Arch-Apos tate, who never opens his mouth without tent.ig falsehood, threatened Lord MELBOURNE with the consequences of the then approaching elections. And yet he has now the effrontery to say that the elections involve no political consequences Mr. Sharman Crawford is to be entertained at a public dinner at Banbridge, on the 14th of next month. The Duchess de Dantzic, widow of the Marshal Lefevre, died on Monday morning, at the age of 76. She has left a fortune of 15,000,000 francs to the neices of her late husband.—Galignanis Messenger. The Council of Ministers, headed by the Duke de Broglie, has subscribed to the monument to the memory of Marshal Mortier.—Galignanes Messenget. Lieutenant-General Sir John Hamilton, Bart., whose death we announced on Monday, was appointed an Ensign in the East India Service on May, 1773, Lieute nant in October, 1776, and Captain in March, 1781. In 1787, after seeing much active service, he was transferred to his Majesty's 87th regiment, with which he served under Cornwallis and Meade in the Mysore country. After ob taining his Brevet Majority in March, 1794, he was ap pointed the year subsequently Lieutenant-Colonel in the 61st Foot, which he commanded at St. Dqmingo. In Oc tober, 1809, he was appointed Inspector-General of the Portuguese Infantry, in Portugal, with the rank of Major- General. He was at the battles of Albucra and Nivelle. In January, 1813, he received the Colonelcy of the 2d Ceylon Regiment, and on the 4th of June, 1814, the rank of Lieutenant-General. He was also appointed Governor of Duncannon Fort in the same year in the place of Lieu tenant-General Benson. He obtained the Colonelcy of the 69th Foot in March, 1823. It is probable that the vacancy in the Governorship of Duncaunon Fort will not be filled up. CHARGE OF WILFUL MURDER AGAINST TWO GAMEKEEPERS.—On Tuesday se'nnight, an inquisition was held at Hayfield, before Thomas Mander, Esq-, Coroner for the hundred of High Peak, in the county of Derby, upon the body of a labouring man named Booth, who came by his death on the Saturday night previous, in a rencontre with two of the gamekeepers of John White, Esq., of Park Hall, From the evidence given by a man who was with Booth at the time, it appeared that they were poaching, and on seeing the keepers coming towards them, ran away. Booth wore a pair of clogs, and witness over-ran him down the field. When the keepers overtook him he heard Booth shriek, and turning to look what was the matter, saw him on the ground, and the two keepers, whose names are Jo seph Bowden and Thomas Bowden, along with him. Ano ther witness deposed to passing the field at the time, and hearing the man cry out, but on seeing the Bowdens he durst not get over the fence to see what was the matter, for he thought that if he had done so, Joseph Bowden would have sworn he had been poaching. A third witness stated that Joseph Bowden went to his house, which is near the place, to ask for a candle, and said he had taken a poacher whom be did not know, and he wanted to see who he was. He took a candle and went with Bowden, and when they got to the place where Booth was, they found him dead. On examining the body a wound was found, which had been inflicted with a sharp instrument, such as a dagger or the prong of a pike. The weapon, whatever it might be, had entered his side, and been driven in with such force that it had broken one of his ribs ; the wound was from four to five inches deep, and the instrument with which it was made had penetrated the heart. There was no weapon of any description found upon him, nor in the field, that the wound could have been made with. Both the Bowdens were taken into custody on Monday morning. In defence they said that the man's death was the result of accident ; that as they were chasing him he fell ; and that he mast have fallen upon something which had caused the wound. The verdict of the Jury was " Wilful murder against Joseph •and Thomas Bowden ;" and they were committed under the Coroner's warrant to Derby gaol, to take their trial at the next Assizes. The deceased was a native of Charlesworth, a collier, and has left a widow and four small children.—Sheffield Iris. DISASTROUS FIDELITY OF A DOG.—On Friday s'ennight an inquest was held on view of the body of Thomas Jenkins, at Ruddington, who was found dead in a ditch on the high road between that place and Nottingham. From the evidence adduced before the Coroner, it appeared that the deceased was a drover, and was driving some sheep from Leicester to Nottingham, when, about eight o'clock at night, he was heard to call for help by two men returning from Nottingham ; and on searching he was discovered on his face in the ditch, with his dog sitting close by him ; but the dog resisted every attempt on their part to approach him. The man in vain entreated help. One of the men asked the master of the dog to let him kill it, but he said, " Oh, don't kill the dog, don't kill the dog." They then said " We must leave you, as,the dog won't let us touch you ;" and they thought, as he was off the road and safe, he might have a little sleep, and afterwards get out himself. He did not appear intoxicated, or tell them how he got into the ditch. The following morning early a milkman from Ruddington, walking along the high road, heard a dog bark, and upon going to the spot he saw a man lying in the dike, with his back upwards and his head under his body ; he went as near him as he dare ; the dog growled at and would have bitten him had he offered to touch the body. With the assistance of another person the dog was at last beaten off, but not before the animal, a kind of shepherd's dog, had made a most determined resistance. The man was taken out of the ditch, when no appearance of violence or blood was found apon his person, excapting pieces of his frock and shirt, which, it was supposed, had been torn by the dog in attempting to pull the deceased out of the ditch. From further evidence, it was the opinion of the Jury that his death was caused by apoplexy.—Liverpool Standard. The Duke of Wellington has joined a party at Althorp, Northamptonshire, who have been invited to cele brate the anniversary of the birth-day of the Earl of West morland to-morrow, who will then have attained his 78th year. The Duke will alterwards return to Strathfieldsay, where he has invited a party of friends to spend a few days. A GANDER IN LovE.—We have the authority of Captain Brown, in his curious work on dogs, for stating that, brutes though they be, the tender passion is not un known to the species, whether setter, cur, collet', or mon grel, and why may it not be equally developed in the fea thered tribe ? Some time since a gander was located on a farm on the Craigs Barony, and provided with a helpmate, that survived the union but a very brief period ; Mr. Gan der was provided with wife the second ; but meanwhile he had taken a better thought—conceived a devoted at tachment to a buxom inhabitant of a cottage, and to this day continues to give her unequivocal proofs of it. Though. chary of entering the house, morning, noon, and night, he stands at the door, and in a moon light eve, serenades his fair one in a fashion pecu liarly his own : whenever she does appear, he looks so overjoyed that wings and feet are all in motion, and the steps of the damsel actually impeded by his fluttering. The woman confesseS that the only way she can get rid of him is by " jouking out o' the house, and whipping hard round the corner ;" but once seen, the feathered suitor accompa nies her go where she may. If on the harvest rig, there is the gander by her side ; and during the last season, when the farmer conceived it necessary to prolong the labours of his people till after mid-night, the• gander accompanied all the motions of the team with which his lady love was engaged, and watched every sheaf that was placed on it by her hands.—Durqfries Courier, We regret to have to state that Colonel Ross, late of the 4th - Dragoen Guards, died on Tuesday week. His death has occasioned a great sensation about Lanark, where from his boyhood he was a favourite. His liberal princi ples were well known ; and on one occasion he had an op portunity of displaying that regard for his countrymen, and that honourable reluctance to use his sword against them, which found little favour with a Tory Government, but which earned for him the love and respect of the people. At the election for the county of Lanark in 1831, when the Tories attempted to get up a riot, having taken care to have a detachment of soldiers at hand, it for tunately happened that Colonel Ross's regiment was the one employed. On the arrival of the dragoons before the Cl) des dale Hotel, where the Sheriff had just read the riot act, there was no riot to be seen. A few women and children were on the opposite side of the street ; but there was no violence ofiered to any one. The Sheriff, however, at once ordered a charga, on which Colonel Ross replied, " What, m 7 Lord, on the women and children ?" The order was repeated, and of course obeyed, but in such a manner , as to disperse the crowd an n individual. The soldiers, as usual in such same spirit as their commander, without cases, acted hurting in the and while they assumed a most menacing attitude, brandish ing their swords and causing their horses to rear, took care not to disgrace themselves by the smallest outrages. Though there were few persons in the streets when the military arrived, their presence soon brought out a vast number of spectators, but from the mild manner in which the soldiers acted it was found impossible to provoke the populaee to a riot, and the popular candidate and the dragoons were often cheered in one breath. The people of course felt grateful for the regard shown by Colonel Ross for their safety, and also respect for the manliness of spirit by which that regard was dictated ; but it has been reasonably doubted whether his conduct on the occasion did him any good at head his commission.—Dremfii . es Courier quarters ; and it is well know n that 11 ' Non after resigned ,r4lals DAY.) vp 3M ) DEAL, DEC. 30.—Wind n. F.;.•; , •Arrived the Doncaster, fie OM, Mauritius ; Shalt! idiiC•toie, Morton, from Demerara ; oak, t.,'",eot, from Baltinaore ;• grodiets, Holmes, from Tarragona ; Favourite, tiaigen, from Zante ; Ellen, 097teri.front Palermo ; Pioneer, Birnle, tom Naples ; Marn hail, White, frei#t Opei„rte ; Charlotte, Phelpg, from Cork ; Albion, Pelew, from Youglial ; and Ann, Thompson, from Sligo. At rived from River and proceeded with the other out ward bound, as per last, the Courier, Smith, rot' whitehaven ; Meanwell, Murphy, for Waterford Hero, Lawlc, fcl St. Michael's ; and Hannibal, Hcbard, for New York. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 30.—Wind N. W. to N. E. PLYMOUTH, DEG. 29.—Wind N. W. to W.—Arrived the Briton. Hill, from Messina ; and George Solon, Hansard, from St. Übes. MARGATE, DEC. 30.—Arrived off port the Malvina, Thorn ton, from the Gulf of Mexico ; and Alice, Thomas, Dublin. DOVER, DEC. 30.---Arrived off port the Bachelor, Ellis, from Sydney ; John, HolmA, from Rio Janeiro ; Clarkson, Watson, from New Brunswick ; and Brothers, Davies, from Madeira. DARTMOUTH, DEC. 30.—Arrived the Sarah Ann, Prowse, from Zante ; and Eliza, Follett, from Messina. JERSEY, DEC. 28.—Arrived the Phoenix, Picot, from Rio Janeiro ; P. P. C., Le Bas, from Anchal ; Susan, Alexander, from Oporto ; and Oliver Blanshard, Gibart, from Bilboa. BRISTOL, DEC. 30. —Arrived the Dolphin, Bondell, from Newfoundland. _ _ _ GLOUCESTER, DEC. 30.—Arrived the Tam O'Shanter, Lawrence, from Lauraratta ; and Swallow, Paller, from Seville. _ _ CLYDE, DEC. 28.—Arrived the Marquis of Queensbery,Kean, from Miramichi ; and King's Cove, Smith, from Newfoundland. FALMOUTH, DEC. 29.—Wind variable, light airs.—Arrived the Liverpool steamer from Gibraltar—sailed 19th inst., from Cadiz 21st, Lisbon 25th, and from Oporto 26th—has in freight 40,0001. The London Merchant arrived at Lisbon 25th inst. THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY). CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK Montreal Papers to the 29th of Nov., Quebec to the 25th Nov.,an Sydney to the 31st July, and New Brunswick to the 29th of Nov., have been received at the North and South American Coffee House. The Montreal Papers say, that " The speech of the Speaker of the House of Assembly is valuable, as contain ing an unblushing avowal on the part of him who uttered it, of lowest democratic principles. " We have had a considerable fall of snow, with a cold strong wind from the North-east. Business in general is very dull, and probably will continue so until the roads are completely established." The Quebec Papers state, that the Montreal mail did not arrive until seven o'clock in the morning, owing to the state of the roads, and the weather since the previous Sa turday had been very cold for the season. The New Brunswick Papers state that the weather had assumed every appearance of winter. On Monday night, they were visited with a snow storm. The Sydney Papers say, that great disgust had been created in the minds of the intelligent classes of the colony, by the imprudent manner in which his Excellency the Go vernor, and the Chief-Justice, had advocated the formation of Convict Juries. The Legislative Council met, in pur suance to adjournment. His Excellency the Governor took the Chair, and laid on the table the following minute The Deputy Commissary General having again represented the deficiency 9f British silver in the military chest, in consequence of the non-arrival of an expected supply from England, and the little demand for Trea sury Bills, has therefore thought it adviseable to propose to the Council the appropriation of a further sum as a loan, for the present supply of the chest—the repayment of this loan to be secured as before, by taking Treasury Bills." The Colonial Secretary gave notice of a motion—" That a further loan of 40,0001. be made by the Deputy Com missary General, to enable him to carry on the military and convict service." CoaN.—The price of Wheat at Van Diemen's Land on the 4th July may be quoted at about Bs. per bushel ; Bar ley, .ss. 6d. ; and Oats, ss. Wheat has suffered rather depression than otherwise. WHALING.—" We are happy to state that the whaling parties from the port, stationed at Portland Bay, have been fortunate this season." THE FUNDS. Owing to the King of France's speech being of a paci fic nature, Consols are rather buoyant this morning at 92i for the Account. Exchequer Bills 14 16 ; India Bonds 3 4 ; Bank Stock 2124. In the Foreign market Spanish Active Bonds reached 50k, since which they have rather declined, and may be quoted at 49i 50 ; Portuguese 84/. HALF-PAST ONE. The Liverpool steamer has arrived at Falmouth from Lisbon—sailed on the 25th instant ; at which period all . was tranquil there. The Portuguese troops had marched into Spain. The above arrival caused varioys reports, none of which we can put confidence in,at present. Consols have continued during the morning steady, at 92i for the Account ; Exchequer Bills 13 15 ; India Bonds 2 3 ; Bank Stock 212 213. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active Bonds 491 50 ; Portuguese 83i 84 ; Three per Cents., 55i ; Colombian 3:2i ; Mexican 38i ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. THREE OCLOCK. Consols for the Account, 92 . — THE FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES. • BRITISH FUNDS. rank Stock 21214 Ornniam pm 3 per Cent. Red 91% India Stock 3 per Cent. Cons Ditto Bonds IY 4 per Cent. ( V% South Sea Stock 3Y4 per Cent. Red 99% I)itto Old Annuities New 5 per Cent 100% Ditto New Annuities 4 per Cent. Assented Dissented Long Annuities to expire Ditto 501/ l5 pin. Jan. 1800 lO 5-16 Bank Stock for Opg. Oct 1850 ladia Stock for Act. 257 Jan. 1860 Consols for Act. 94% FINE ARTS. WANDERINGS THROUGH NORTH WALES. Parts 8,9, 10. Tilt. London. 1835. This work deserves encouragement, and we are glad to learn that it meets with it. The literary portion is not less carefully executed than the pictorial, as may be readily conceived, when we state that it is under the superintendance of such a practised writer as Mr. Roscoe, with whom the task is quite a labour of love. The Parts before us, are chiefly confined to illustra tions of the Snowdonian range of mountains, and we can speak, from personal knowledge of the scenes, to their general accuracy of resemblance. FOREIGN FUNDS. " Austrian, 5 per cent — Belgian, 5 per cent 10 0 ,4 Burllian Bonds Buenos Ayres, 6 per cant — Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent Blli Ditto, New Ditto 8454 Prussian. 5 per cent. Russian Bonds, 5 per cent. 1 itto, Metallic — Spanish, 5 per cent 5O Ditto, Hilt ]'rench, 5 per cent Chilian, 6 - per cent Colomthan . , 6 per cent. Ditto, 1824 324 ' Danish Bonds, 76 Greek Elqi:ds, 1825, 5 per cent Exchange' Mexican, 5 per cent. Ditto, 6 per cent , 1825 ....... 28►% Dutch, 2, per cent. l'erur•an L ltk2s, 6 per cent 25 Ditto, 5 per cent ... 101% SCANDALOUS INSINUATION. —Oll Saturday night Mr. Baker, the Coroner, and a jury assembled at the vestry-room of Whitechapel church, to inquire into the circumstances attendant on the death of Mr. Richard Nelme, a merchant of considerable eminetce, who has re sided for many years in that parish, and whose body had been deposited in the vaults of that church on Christmas eve. On the day of the funeral of the deceased. Mr. Baker, the Coroner, received a letter, signed J. M. Mit chell, Great Prescot-street, in which an improper intimacy was imputed to exist between Airs. Nelme (the widow of the decersed) and a Mr. Daniel Mathias, one of the sons of the Rector of the parish, and urging the necessity of an inquiry into the death of Mr. Nelme, from the fact of his being a corpse in less than two hours after he had been in the company of his wife and Mr. Mathias, jun. When the jurors were sworn, Mr. J. Nelme, a gentleman of fortune, residing in Hackney-grove, and brother to the deceased, addressing the Coroner, said he had taken the utmost, pains to discover the writer of the letter, but without success. He felt bound to tell the Coroner and Jury, that his brother, in his lifetime, had received several anonymous letters, im puting impropriety of conduct to Mrs. Nelme with Mr. D. Mathias, and other young men who were in the habit of visiting at his house, but so satisfied was he of their gross calumny, that he treated them with indifference. Mr. Andrew Gibbs, of Devonshire-street, E' l geware-road, bad been on terms of intimacy with the deceased and his family for some years. On the evening of that day fort night he called on the deceased between five and six o clock, and remained there until o quarter or half-past ten o'clock. The deceased, who had recently been complaining of ill ness, appeared in better health and spirits on that night than usual. He was perfectly sober, and all he saw him drink was one glass of wine. Miss Balsh resided opposite to the house of the deceased, and had been on the most friendly terms with him, and had frequently visited him and his family ; Mr. Mathias was in the habit of frequently visiting at the house of the deceased, but she never ob served the slightest impropriety in his conduct towards Mrs. Nelme, nor did he pay her more attention than ordinary courtesy required ; the deceased and Mrs. Nelme had re ceived several letters of a similar tendency to that pro duced and read by the Coroner, which at first gave both much pain and annoyance ; but afterwards, knowing the imputations to be unjust, they treated them with in difference. Elizabeth Melling, a servant to the deceased, was in the bed-chamber when her master entered it, and made a remark upon the dimness of the" night-lamp which was placed there ; she did not observe anything particular in his manner then ; on going to her bed-room, and before she had time to undress, she heard something heavy fall on the floor, and instantly her mistress called out for assistance ; witness in consequence went down stairs, and saw her mas ter lying on the bed-room floor, with his eyes closed, and his face deadly pale. Messrs. Graves and Merrett, two surgeons who had attended the deceased at the time of his death, and who had subsequently seen his body, gave it as their joint opinion that dissolution had been caused by apoplexy. The Jury, to most of whom the deceased h;.d been long known, after expressing their reprobation and abhorrence of the baseness of the individual by whom the letter to the Coroner was written, returned a verdict that the deceased died by the visitation of God. LITERATURE. THE 0 U TLA W. Three Vols. - Bentley. _London : 1835. The action of this tale, which is from the pen of Mrs. Hall, author of the " Buccaneer," takes place • towards the close of the reign of James the Second, and making all due allowance for the claims of fiction, adheres with laudable accuracy to the truth of his tory. A better period for the purposes of romance - or one more crowded with startling events, and ani mated characters, could scarcely have been selected and accordingly there is no want of either in the " Outlaw." The hero is a bold, minutely pourtrayed personage, of a somewhat saturnine disposition, but nevertheless just such a one as is calculated to rivet the attention of the reader. But, as in the case of the " Buccaneer," Mrs. Hall's females are decidedly her best creations. Her Rosalind Sydney is a very delightful, life-like sketch, and interests our feelings , at the very first glimpse we get of her, where she is represented chatting with a favourite old Irish nurse, Alice Murrough—a strange, mysterious sort of being, who is not, however, much to our taste, inasmuch as we can scarcely reconcile her highly figurative mode of speech with that of real life, at any period, or under any circumstances. Lady Sydney is quite a different being, and we recognize her as genuine flesh and blood, with her pride, her sternness, and that one softening and redeeming trait of character—her idola trous affection for her son. The descriptions in the " Outlaw" are good throughout ; and as there is no dearth of incident in it, we doubt not that it will be come a favourite. Our unusually contracted' limits will not admit of our giving extracts, or we would subjoin the quaint and clever sketch of Sir Everard Sydney's ornithological and zoological museum. PERJURY.—At the Henry-street Police-office, Dublin, a charge of perjury against a gentleman of high rank in society, was heard on Monday. The case ivas ad journed till to-day. THE WHALERS.—The expedition sails to-morrow (Friday), under Captains Ross and Humphreys, for the re— lief of the still imprisoned mariners in the polar region.— Hull Observer. The Secretary to the Highland and Agricultural So ciety of Scotland has, in answer to a letter from the se cretary to the Society lately formed, designated the Royal Central Agricultural Society of Great Britain and Ireland, informed them that the Highland Society is precluded by its rules from joining in the formation of the new Society, and that it is a fundamental rule of the Highland Society , to avoid as much as possible any interference with ques tions of a political nature. GREAT FIRE IN PARIS.--011 Saturday morning, while the workmen of Mr. Perrotet,; bookbinder, No, 14, Rue du Pot de Fer, Paris, were gone to breakfast, at about half-past nine o'clock, a most frightful body of flame sud denly issued from a part of the buildings in which was the dry ing room, and where an immense number of sheets of dif ferent works were hung up. In a few minutes the whole building was enveloped, and presented a most . awful aspect. It is believed that the fire was occasioned by some of the sheets in the drying room being hung too near the flue of the stove, which was over-heated. Happily no lives have been lost, nor has any very serious personal injury been sustained by any one. The loss of property is said to amount to the( enormous sum of 1,500,000 f. ; according to some, to 3,000,000 f. ARNi A G H.—The formidable junction of Liberals in the Reform Association, and the progress towards re action already made in one or two counties, now misrepre-. sented by Tories, have rendered the faction so reckless and desperate that they are endeavouring to get up an opposi tion in Armagh to Mr. Leonard Dobbin, one of the most useful, intelligent, and indefatigable of the Irish represen tatives. It appears that the Tories are about to unbag a Farnham Fox in that ancient city.--:Dublin Post. The new Act relative to Weights and Measures comes into operation to-morrow. EUGENE ARAM IN SHILLING PARTS.—Mr. Bultver's fascinating Romance, founded upon the strange fate of Eugene Aram, the scholar of Knaresborough, is now in course of publication by Mr. Bentley, in Weekly One Shilling Parts, to be succeeded by other works of fiction by the same great master ; each work to be com pleted in Six Parts. This design must obtain universal favour, and will unquestionably command a most extraor dinary sale. The first number is illustrated by a steel plate, from a design by Pickering, representing the trial of Eugene at the moment he is delivering his memorable defence. Sir Walter Scott has vindicated the high genius manifested in this Romance ; and we cannot better conclude these brief remarks than by quoting the few emphatic words he pro nounced on rising from its perusal :—" I can hardly cork ceive a greater proof of talent than this, that a writer should take for his subject a story known so well as Eugene Aram ;' and that he should be able to work it up in so artful a manner as to produce such intense in terest. I read late ; I could not lay it down ; and twice t has spoiled ray night's rest." The New Municipal Corporations—Great Triumph of Reform and Death-blow to Toryism—American Presi dent's Message—War between the United States and France.—For ample Particulars of, and Comments upon, the above Important Subjects, Read the Dispatch of Sun day next, Enlarged Edition of 48 Columns, without Extra Charge.—Dispatch Office, 139, Fleet-street. BAUBLES.--The Reformers of Hull are anxious that all the ostentatious frippery of the defunct Corporation should be sent adrift as soon as passible. An appropriate suggestion has been made, that the ant!.ique " maces" should be put forthwith into the crucible, ai:d converted into grateful testimonials to Viscount Melbourne and Lord John Russell.—Hull Observer. _ _ _ _ The Manchester mail was overturned on Monday morning last, on its way to Carlisle, immediately after cross ing Lowther-bridge. The driver was severely injured and the guard was also much bruised, but none of the passen gers received any injury.—Whitehaven Herald. ATTEMPT T 9 OUTLAW AN UNITED STATES SENATOR.—We learn from the New Orleans papers that a very extraordinary movement is making in that city to denationalize the Hon. Alexander Porter, one of the sena tors in the Congress of the United States from the state of Louisiana. It appears that a memorial is receiving sig natures, setting forth that Judge Porter is not entitled to a seat in the National Legislature, not being a naturalized citizen of the United States. The memorkxlists allege that several of them have called on the senator to exhibit the proofs, if lie have any, of his citizenship, and that he has replied that he does not recognize their authori,V to make the demand, and expresses his willingness to . r,efer the matter to the decision of the Senate. The question, so far as we can gather it from the meagre details it; the papers, is of considerable complication, and one which will involve the constitutional citizenship of a great many pro minent individuals in Louisiana, and test severely some of the provisions of the naturalization laws in their application to that state. Of the character of the present movement there can be very little room for mistake. It is partizan altogether, and would not have been thought of but for the particular politics of the senator. Judge Porter is an Irish man by birth, but it is strikingly singular that the question of his American citizenship should be mooted at this late day, when it is notorious that he has filled, without any scruple of his right to do so, many of the most important and responsible offices in the State. He was even a mem ber of the Convention which framed its constitution, has been repeatedly elected to the State Legislature, one of the most efficient and prominent judges of the Supreme Court, and is now a member of the Senate of the United States, in which body he has held his scat an entire session, without the least suspicion from any quarter that lie was not legally entitled to the place. This is really all we profess to know on the subject.—New -York Paper of Nov. 26. TILE NEW NOVELS.—The following is a list of the most popular Novels just published.—" The Outlaw," by the author of " The Buccaneer" (Mrs. Hall) ; " Chro nicles of Waltham," by the author of " The Subaltern (Mr. Gleig) ; " Tales of the Peerage and the Peasantry," by . the author of " The Chaperon, (edited by Lady Dacre), " Belford Regis," by the author of " Our Village" (Miss Mitford) ; and " Apes Serie," by the author of . " Th 9 Heiress." >*~ - Ver.,...i. 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