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III(311 AT Mf.rning 40 minatt c alter ; • • n !:(r.v '•2 -- s (1 TiIEATRE ROYAL, DIZURY-LANE TIIN EVENING will be performed the 1; , :w Gran.lOpera, ctititlea THE SIEGE OF 110CI:EI.LE. Cuontdc Itosemberg,, Mr. Scguin ; D.larquisde Valir.our, nlr. Templetc;i I‘lonta'han, Mr. Glubciei ; Nr. IL l'hi:lips, Clara, Shirro:T; MArcclla, ?..Ti-3 F. lie.ily After which, tho n Ji:XVESS. ; Catd'rial de 13..0gi1y, i•;r. Vjarde; Prince 1".0 Grand Provost et' Clut Mr. S.viin ; 11,zzar, Eachcl, _,1i... E. 'free; !Le 1 `Yr. V • . Stag:, ?11;%: - 12;: , ...r, 311.. i: a c ntitled nit!, Mr Co per; '11:e Lis!lcp if Constance, Ya' ^5, LoN,flice. is (Ten daily, u r the and DONCS, . LCC: ~ . ;~1:.~Prr~rH:~, r li'.l:(7S, 7s. ; I'lice, Zs. Catlery, s. ;- Si coud rrico, ! (:;•! £l.e Ire obteined, , (;,1 nr M ANDY THEATRE IZOYAL Under the EA - .1 , a 'Afaringmnent of M. NIS. , ;ETT, THIS EVEN INU wi:l Le perforined the Eu:letia . calh:?..l THE DREA:',I AT SEA. . Mincipal Charvetern by Mr. Nining. Mr. -0. Smith, Mr. Eue'.:slcilv, I'4r. WilkinEon, Mr. lipmming, Mr. W. Detmeti, :this Daly, rAr.: Mrs. Nisbett. After id: In—FAMILY PECULTARMES. Prim:ill:11 Characters by Messrs. Wrench, \V. Bennett, Mrs. Nisbett ar.d the Misses Mordannt. rorowed y the New Grand operatic rule clue eltitled THE Jr.wr.ss. Yrincipal Character.; by Messrs. O. Smith, Wilkinson, Wobeer, 7.liss Vinc . ..Lt, and Miss Daly. • To conclude ITith—THE MAZOUIIKA, Box-oflice open from Ten till Four. Boxes, 4s. Pitt, 2s. Gallery, 13. Doers Open at half-past Six.—Perforinances comm.:nee at Saven.— linlf_price at half-past Eight. Mr. Sams, of Sr. Jarnes's.strt.et, is appointed :.3.,13 agent for the dlr_ posal of Private Boxes. lIAMBUR.G, IcdvEMISEX 17, 1635. rp HE TICKETS of the Gith GREAT LOT TERY of the STATE of HAMBURG, selling most rapidly, and being neatly cleared off, HEINE BROTHERS, the CONTRACTORS, . Beg to state that no time is to be IoA in ordering, if desired to be obtanetl before a rise in price. To thoso remitting a 101. note without delay, they will, en executing the order, remit a surplus of *2l. 'b y return of - pest. But to any person remitting 101. after the establishment of a higher rate than the orig , - , 1 price of t 4., they will be obliged to return his own remittance, leaving the order un executed. To those remitting 201., they will return 41. ; and to those re mitting - SOL, toy iil ntufii W., provided they be in time- for meetii.g attention.. 77;e publication y TER SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at Three 42'C:wk. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 10, 1835. The first Annual Report of the Poor Lew Com missioners for England and Wales, addressed to his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, with a view to its being laid before both Houses of Parliament, has just been published. It is a clear, succinct, and masterly exposition of the principles of the amended system ; the extent and tenour of its operation ; the prevalent erroneous impres sions respecting it ; the circumstances which retard its universal reception throughout England and Wales ; and its practical effect upon the habits, comforts, and moral feelings of the pauper population. We had re ceived repeated assurances that the new system worked well wherever a fair trial was allowed it. We were credi bly informed that it was much more popular among, the paupers themselves, particularly in the agricultu ral districts, than the public might be led to believe from the statements daily put forth and commented upon by an unprincipled Morning Contemporary ; but a reference to this Report has satisfied us, that we had greatly under-rated the strength of the feeling which prevails among all classes in favour of the Poor Law Amendment Act. Although it has not been yet quite a year in operation—and, when approved of by the Legislature, was assailed by appeals to the ignorant prejudices of the uneducated and the depraved— yet, thanks to the firmness, the prudence, and the conciliatory bearing of the Commissioners, it has al ready been productive of the greatest good, moral and physical. Wherever it has been carried into opera tion, the almost immediate consequences have been a reduction of the rate from 20 to 50 per cent. ; an im provement in the physical condition of the paupers themselves ; a diminution in the catalogue of crime in a still greater ratio than that referred to in the re duction of the rate ; an abolition of the entire system of parish jobbing ; an improved mode of voting at vestries, and of levying the parochial funds ; and a clear understanding between rate-payers and rate-receivers of their reciprocal duties, and the real extent of the mutual obligation s existi ng between them. The Commissioners wisely and humanely avoided having recourse to harsh or extreme measures. They weighed the causes of irritation on every side ; re ceived the partial and erroneous statements of all par .without seeking to wound their feelings by epubting their veracity ; 1 and by calmly and impar a adjusting the balance among them, succeeded in r tlsicing all of the rectitude, and humanity of their tentions. As we shall have frequent opportunities ;referring to this Report, we shall confine our present remarks upon it to a detailed account of the succes s o f th e C omm i ss i oners, i n for ming extensive parochial Unions—an improvement in the new system which we hope to be able to notice at length to-morrow. The following is the statement ' contained in the Report : " We have now to report that at this period the total number of parishes which have been united by us since the 6th December last, the- date of the first union, and sub jected to the progressive introduction of the new Act, is 2,066, constituting 112 unions. The population of the parishes united and placed under Boards of Guardians, forms one-tenth of the population of England and Wales ; but in consequence of the most heavily-burdened districts being selected for our earliest proceedings, the proportion of the rates affected by ,the change is one-sixth of the total amount of rates in England and Wales. " In the county of Kent, eight old incorporations have been dissolved by consent ; 211 parishes have been formed into 13 unions, which include the whole of East Kent. "In the county of Sussex, five old incorporations have been dissolved, and 242 parishes, comprising nearly the whole-of the county, have been formed into sixteen unions. " Nearly the whole of Hants has been re-organized into twenty-one unions, comprising 275 parishes. " The whole of the county of Berks has now been united in eleven unions, comprising 176 parishes. " In the county of Oxford, 185 parishes have been formed into five unions. " The greater proportion of" the county of Bucks has been included in seven unions, comprising 162 parishes. " In the county of Suffolk, three of the old incorporations have been , dissolved, and 129 parishes have - been united in four unions. "In the county of Northampton, 153 parishes have been formed into seven unions. "In the county of Cambridge, 61 parishes have been united into three unions. " In the county of Essex, 91 parishes have been united into three unions. " Nearly the whole of the parishes in the-county of Bed ford have been united in four unions. " The whole of the parishes of the county of Hertford have been formed into twelve unions. " In the county of Norfolk, where proceedings have been recently commenced, 63 parishes have been included in two unions. " In Wilts, two unions, comprising 45 parishes have been formed. " In Middlesex, one union has been formed. " In the county of Gloucester; 37 parishes have been foimed, into one union.' The following Return shows our progress in the number narishes'united during each month up to this period Number of Number Of Unions Parishes formed. united. 1834, December.. 1 1835, January 2 February March April May June July Months. 112 2,066 Sutton Courtney plated under a Board of Guardians, 10th December, 1834. " St. Niartin-in -the-Fields ditto, 29th April, 1835. " Battersea ditto, 15th May, 1835. " The complete statement of tbe'pecuniary results fairly ascribable to the new Act, or to our proceedings under its authority, could scarcely be made within the time in which it is de,irable to present our Report. A considerable num ber of ti - :e present parish officers being unlettered men, their Retarns are, as n:llht be expected, extensively de fective. In requirinl any return from the 15,635 places at present managin7 their own peer, a considerable proportion errors mast be anticipated." With re - ueet of the ftTeet of the new system on the physic.al c,.)nlition of the paupers themselves, the Com missioner; make the following statement—which we would observe is woli authenticated by the declarations of the Magistracy and . Clergy whose letters to the Board ate appended to the General Report : We have directed our most anxious attention to the general effects produced by the change upon the condition of the able-bodied paupers, whose allowances in aid of wages have been discontinued. Careful inquiries have been made as to. the subsequent condition of those who had re fused to accept relief in a workhouse. In the Faringdon union, for exiimple, all out-doer relief was discontinued, and relief in the workhouse 'was offered to 240 able-bodied labourers. Of these, not more than about twenty entered the workhouse, and not one-half remained there more than a few days ; the diet in the workhouse being; at the same time high as compared with the diet of large classes of inde pendent labourers. Mr. Guhon found, at the time of_his inquiry, that the whole of these labourers had got into independent employment. On inquiry of some of the limners who had previously represented to him that they bad then no means of employing any additional labourers, he received for answer, that the additional employment was now given in consequence of the improved character of the labourer," The observations of the Commissioners respecting the operation of the Bastardy clauses, the separation, of the sexes in workhouses, &c., shall have our earliest attention. We now find that our view of the Poor Law Amendment Bill was correct from the very com mencement. • Instead of starving the pauper popula tion, as the Times so repeatedly predicted, it has—as we asserted it would at the time it was passing—ma terially improved both their moral and physical con dition. We have been favoured with a third edition of the Autocrat of all the RUSSIA'S speech to the Munici pality of Warsaw. The view in which the CZAR would wish to be regarded by the inhabitants of St. Petersburg may easily be inferred from it : LITERAL TRANSLATION FROM THE RUSSIAN OF AN AC COUNT OF THE WARSAW SPEECH, AS CIRCULATED IN ST. PETERSURGII. " Scarcely had the spokesman motioned to beoin his speech and uttered the word Sire,'—' Stop,' said the Em peror, I know what von mean to say, rather listen to me.' The Deputy began to bow. "' Do not bow—you bowed just so in 1829, and in a shameless manner betrayed and re jected the benefits of Alexander, who, for your sakes, did not spare the - riches of his own country. A precious page in history you have left ! You yourselves, for yourselves, built this citadel. Now only dare. On the slightest com motion, in twenty-four hours Warsaw ceases to exist, and it is not I who will rebuild it a second time. Do not place your hopes on Germans (" Nemtzee," which is often used indiscriminately for all foreigners) or Frinchmen—hope only.from my mercy. Honour the laws—love your Mo narch. I assure you that only thus can you hope for pros perity, and strive to give to your children a different educa tion from what you have yourselves received." The above is brief but pithy. The " now only dare" is a rhetorical flourish, compared with which the " quas ego" of the Marine Deity is mere babbling. The object of the citadel of Warsaw is no longer doubtful ; and the Poles may be certain that the EMPEROR has uttered no threat which he is not pre pared to execute. As sure as he threatened the de struction of Warsaw, so sure will it perish, whatever may be its subsequent bearing towards his Go vernment. He will leave no rallying- point for Polish emigrants—no city to open • its gates to the armies of England and France. In the event of the reduction of Warsaw to a pile of smoking ruins, we should lament the sacrifice •of human life--we should mourn over the fate of the . slaughtered Poles ; but, on every other account, we should rejoice that Russia had struck a blow capable of rousing into fierce action the dormant energies of England. The roar of the cannon mounted on the citadel at Warsaw will, whensoever heard, proclaim to the nations of Europe the resuscitation of Polish independence. Some recent occurrences abroad and at home, have recalled our attention to the subject of the disabilities still affecting the Jews in England, a Bill for remov ing which has twice passed the Commons, and been rejected by the Lords. In June, 1834, the King of PRUSSIA had pub lished an edict, making his Jewish subjects in the Grand Duchy of Posen (who are a very numerous body), eligible to all municipal offices. During the last few weeks, the States of the Duchy, instigated chiefly by the Nobles, proposed to the KING to limit the number of Jews admissible to these situations ; but the KING replied, that he " considered it unnecessary to iestriet the rights which he had granted to his Jewish subjects." Here we perceive that, under the rule of the Government of Prussia, Jews are free to hold all municipal offices. In England, on the con trary, they are excluded from these, as well as from almost every political right. An Act of Parliament, applying specially to Sheriffs of Cities, was lately found necessary, in order to enable a Jewish Gentle man to accept the situation of Sheriff of London, to which he had been unanimously elected ; and upon the same Gentleman being chosen Alder man, his election has been declared by the Court of Aldermen to be void, on the ground of his having de clined to take a declaration " upon the true faith of ai Christian ;" or, in other words, the man who is se lected by his fellow-citizens as the fittest to act as Magistrate is forbidden to do so, because, in addition to his other merits, he possesses that of disdaining the smallest hypocrisy ; of disdaining to disown, even for a moment, the religion in the truth of which he, however as we think mistakenly at least conscientiously, be lieves—the religion which his Fathers followed, and in which he has been bred. Even the Emperor NICHOLAS himself has recently promulgated an Ukase respecting the Jews, dated the 13th April, 1835, which, if we consider whose decree it is, will appear to be far from illiberal. hallows the Jews to dwell in specified places in Russia—directs them to practice agriculture, or certain trades and ma nufactures—declares that on condition of their com plying with the regulations it contains they shall enjoy equal rights with other Russian subjects, and makes their youth admissible to the Universities. We have also been informed by a Gentleman, on whose authority we can rely, although we have not ourselves seen a translation of the ordinance affecting the change, that the SULTAN has during the last year freed the Jews of Turkey from all degrading distinc tions, on account of their religion. In Holland, Belgium, France and the United States, it is well-known that the Jewish subjects have for many years been on a complete equality :with their fellow-citizens ! . . Thu& then, it appears, that with respect 'to , the Jews, England still Maintains degrading restrictions as a punishment for religious belief, which have lon4 altogether ceased to exist in the four countries just mentioned, of which Russia and Prussia are beginning to be ashaMed, and have removed a portion ; and which the GRAND SEIGNOR has abolished as savour ing too much of prejudice, and too little of enlighten ment, to suit the atmosphere of Constantinople. In honour of this state of things, let a few more leaves be added to the wreaths of laurel that have already been placed around the brows of the Peers of England, to commemorate their countless victories over justice and common sense. The whole of the Paris journals of Tuesday have been received. The only intelligence contained in them of the slightest importance will be found in the following extracts. Madrid journals of the Ist instant had reached the French capital on Tuesday, but the only trews they contained was, that the debate on the Address, in answer to the Royal Speech on opening the Cortes, was opened in the Chamber of Procura dores on the 30th ult.:— PARIS, DEC. B.—Letters from the frontiers say--" All the troops that went to Behobia have returned to their cantonments, after having been reviewed by Gen. Harispe." " The Carlists, according to the stipulations entered into, have completed the demolition of all the works erected to wards the Bidassoa, and have retired. It is said that they are gone towards Guetaria, which they intend to besiege ; 500 men have remained to keep Irun. _ " Five Carlist battalions have just arrived at Tolosa, chased, it is said, by the two united corps of Jaureguy and Colonel Evans. We hear of an engagement in the Valley of Boston, in which the Queen's troops are said to have had the advantage, but we have no details".—lndicateur. It is said.the Government have resolved to remove to a distance from. the frontiers the Spanish fugitives, who are daily arriving in the department next the Pyrenees, and that funds for this purpose will be asked of the Cham bers as soon as the session opens. It is said that the naval department is seriously engaged on measures to place our fleet. on a respectable footing. All the largest ships of the line, and the strongest frigates that may be soon ready for sea, have especially drawn the attention of Admiral Du pure. The Minister of Marine, to put each of the ships of our squadron in a condition, in case of a war, to contend singly with American ships of the same ralf, intends, for the present, to send to sea only ships of of the line of 100 to 110 guns, and frigates of 50 guns in creasing the crews of those vessels by one-third or one fourth. It is well known that in the last war, American ships of 74 and 44 guns carried, in fact, the former from -100 to 110 guns ; the latter from 60 to 64 guns, of large calibre ; and that their crews were more numerous by a third or fourth, than those of the English ships. This lesson taught by experience is not thrown away on Admi ral Duperre, who endeavours, before hostilities commence, to establish an equilibrium with respect to their crews and guns, between our ships and those with which they may perhaps have to contend. Orders have been received at Toulon to complete the Hercules of 100 guns, building there, so that it may put to sea in the course of January.—Messager, Dec. 8. FRENCH FUNDS.—Nais, DECEMBER 8. Five per Cents., 107 f. 65c. 70c. 95c. 108 f. 10c. 15c. 10c Four per Cents., 931. 75c. 8 'c Three per Cents., 73E S:C. 70c. 85c. 79f. 30c. Bank Actions, 2,1P,0f. 2,1051. 2,110 f. 2,120 f. 2,127 f. We. Rente de Naples, 96E 25c 40c. 50e. Roman Fire per Cents., 101. Belgian Loan, Five per Cents., 101!x. Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents., 84. Portuguese Three per Cents SL. EXCOANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25c. s;c. ; money, 25' 52!;c. 'Three months, paper, 251.40 c. ; money, 251. 5734 c o,rs Authentivle. BOURSE THREE o'CLocx.—The Monileur's pacific article on the American question has brought many purchasers into the money-market. The 3 per Cents., which opened at 78f. 60c., ex div., gradually rose to 79f. 25c. to 30c. The Spanish securities have also risen considerably ; no news, how ever, from Spain. QUARTER TO FOUR.-Five per Cents., 108 E 60c. ; Three per Cents., 79f. 45c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, —; Three per Cents. Spanish, —; Cortes, —; Coupons, 23 ; Gueb bards, —; Differes, I 7 ; New Loan, —; Actives, 45a ; Passives, 14; Ducats, 96 70; Romans, 1011 ; Pedros, 84; Belgians, 101 i ;I Dutch, —f. —c. ; Haytians, —f. .—c. ; Miguels, —; Brabant Bank, —; Belgian Bank, —; Con tinuation, —c. ; New Differes, 23 ; Five per Cent. Perpe tuelles, We find the following in the City article of a Morning Contemporary : " One of the immediate effects of the anticipated rup ture between France and the United States has been to greatly increase the business of ship insurances. Amongst other eircumstances worthy of note, we find that insurances on American bottoms, from ports in the United States to ports in the Mediterranean and France, have been sent over to be effected here, because Jonathan prefers to throw the risk from his own shoulders on to those of the members of Lloyd's. Policies have been signed on Ame rican bottoms at 10 per cent., which includes the war and common risk. There is also a good deal of activity among the principal ship-builders on the river, chiefly confined, however, to steam shipping. Several of this class of vessels, of a very superior description, are now on the stocks, the largest and finest of which are for the East India Company, the General Steam Navigation Company, and the Peninsular trade. The General Steam Navigation Company are said to be preparing vessels also for the river trade of a class and character calculated to excel the surprising performances of some of the present river steam packets. We also find that many of the lead ng shipowners are standing out for higher freights." Assuming the above statement to be correct, we have only to observe that the French participate to a very trifling extent indeed, in the fears entertained by " brother Jonathan." We have received advises from Paris this very morning, in which we are assured that premiums, including sea and war risks on French ships bound for New York, do not exceed two, and at the very highest, three per cent. However, the ex treme caution of merchants in any part of the world is no standard by which to determine the certainty of an ticipated hostilities. The war between France and America will be altogether of a diplomatic complexion. There will be a direful "effusion of—ink I A pamphlet, entitled " Protestant or Orange As sociations," published at Hereford, has been sent to us. The author, apprehensive—needlessly, as it ap pears to us lest the politico-religious fanatics, M'GHEE, O'SuLuvAN, and Co., should make con verts to their aristocratical system among the people of Herefordshire and Worcestershire, where they were vagabondizing last autumn, - has taken the trouble to expose the humbug which these worthies endeavoured to play off upon the simple and the credulous. In ac complishing the task which the author had prescribed to himself, he shows that the great body of the Catholics are no more responsible for the doctrines of that old bigot, PETER DENS, than the Protestants are for the opinions published by any minister of the Pro testant faith ; and moreover, that the Church of Eng land holds certain doctrines as horrible as any broached by DENS. In proof of this assertion, he instances the Athanasian creed, which condemns to everlasting per.. dition all who do not believe every one of its contradictory propositions, whether they ever heard even the sound of Christianity or not. Several other parts of the Book of Common Prayer are also adduced with great effect as evidence of the same thing. The au thor then proceeds to denounce the cruel persecution which the Irish Catholics have been made to suffer for their conscientious adherence to their religion, and describes, in strong and just language, the innumerable ecclesiastical abuses which the present Government are endeavouring to reform, in order to maintain the exis tence of a Church Establishment in Ireland. Some of the thick-and-thin advocates of Toryism have at tempted to justify the cruel treatment of the Catholics, as well as the monopoly of the ecclesiastical revenues of Ireland, by the small minority of the population pro fessing the Protestant religion. To such reasoners we recommend the attentive consideration of the following observations : " In all views of the internal state of Ireland, common jus tice obliges us to bear in mind that the Irish have ever been, as they are now, nationally Roman Catholic; and that as Bri tish subjects they are constitutionally entitled to a free and full participation in the rights and privileges enjoyed by their fel low subj ec t s o f E ng l an d an d Scotland. Above all, we must never lose sight of the question—would not the British people be as discontented and as turbulent, in fact, more discontented and turbulent, if so large a majority of them were circum -stanced similarly to the Catholics of Ireland ? As an instance. -let it be.supposed that the : present:English , Established Church Wero•Roman Catholic, and the nation, as it is now, were al most entirely Protestant, would the present-Protestant popula tion submit to Catholic dominaticy ? ..Would.not the ,English Protestants forthwith deitroy, not such Churich,"but its domi nancy ? The answer is obvious. This is the just, the honest way of putting the actual position of Ireland to the view of the fair, the honest English Protestant." • Those who are anxious to know why the Protest antism has made so few converts in Ireland, and to as certain whether Catholics can conscientiously hold out the right hand of fellowship to Protestants, and even shield them from persecution, will derive benefit from the perusal of the brief sketch of Irish Church history which we subjoin : " Nearly every discontent, nearly every disturbance, nearly every homicide, even absenteeism, or the self-banishment of the owners of the soil from their native land, may, with soli tary exceptions, be traced to the abominations of the Protestant Irish Churii. The cruelties perpetrated by Irish Catholics at various times have been but deeds of retaliation, avenging the black crimes of their rulers and myrmidons, perpetrated to uphold, to maintain the crying, the ungodly abuses of the Lish Church. The Protestant ,Clergy of Ireland, as a body, have ever been notorious for their idleness and inefficiency ; and the religion of the Church of England, as by law established,-pro tected by the law, and maintained by the military, has made slower progress in Ireland than that of any sect of Christians in all other parts of the world. " It cannot be too often repeated that the Irish Protestant Clergy have ever been the drones of the hive. At the 'Refor mation, had the judicious measure of Henry heeh steadily pursued—had the barons and toparchy been conciliated by kindness—had the people been won by gentle remonstrance, the Papacy would soon have lost its Irish followers ; but measures far different were pursued, and we all know the consequence. The reformed Clergy were strangely culpable and negligent. We are told by an. Irish Chancellor of the time, that they did not preach more than once ti year, and that this annual sermon was the only instruction they vouchsafed to afford their flocks. In default of more efficacious means, they placed their reliance on Acts of Parliament and bands of sol diers, substituting the law of the sword for the Gospel and the cross.' Surely this is a description of Irish Protestantism in our days. ' means of conversion which the Protector Somerset designed to use in Ireland were soon exemplified. A party, issuing from the garrison of Athlone, attacked the ancient church of Clonmacnoise, destroyed its ornaments, and defiled its altars. Similar excesses were committed in other parts of the country ; and the first impression produced by the advocates of the reformed religion was that the new system sanctioned sacrilege and blood. The death of Edward VI. produced a new revolution. The officers of state changed their religion with the same facility they had displayed on for mer occasions, and the great body of the Clergy followed their example. The Queen (Mary) commenced her reign by seve ral acts ,equally just, humane, and politic. The restoration of the old (Roman Catholic) religiose was effected without vio lence ; no persecution of the Protestants was attempted, and several of the English, who fled from the furious zeal of Mary's inquisitors, found a safe retreat among the Catholics of Ire land. It is but justice to this maligned body (the Catholics) to add, hat on the three occasions of their obtaining the upper hand, they never injured a single person in life or limb for professing a religion different from their own. They have suffered persecution and learned mercy, as they showed in the reign of Mary, in the wars from 1641 to 1648, and during the brief triumph of James the 2d.' Shortly after the accession of Elizabeth, the Earl of Sussex was intrusted with ' special di rections to restore the reformed worship. So far as the pre lates and Parliament were concerned the Deputy found little opposition. After some opposition, Acts were passed for in flicting severe penalties on all who absented themselves from the service of the Church of England.' Here the Protestants have another proof that the spirit of intolerance has animated Pro testant as well as Catholic bosoms. But ' there were two par ties overlooked by the wise legislators in this transaction, who were not to be changed so rapidly and so easily as the peers and the prelates. These were the inferior clergy and the people. Whether this influential body (the inferior clergy) could have been induced to support the new system, if measures had been taken to conciliate their affections, is uncertain. The experi ment was never tried. They were not even asked to change their opinions, but were unceremoniously driven from their cures, and their places filled by strangers, the refuse of the English Church.' This is, indeed, the true Church of Eng land mode of maintaining its Protestant ascendancy The conversion of the people was seemingly not meditated by those who patronised the reformation in Ireland. Compulsion was the only means of diffusing the reformed doctrine which they understood ; and their unsparing use of it soon made the name of Protestant detested. The very first and most essential part of the Protestant discipline was neglected. The boast of the Reformers justly was, that the prayers being no longer read in an unknown tongue, all the congregation might share with heart and spirit in the worship of their Heavenly Father. But, though it was notorious that no language but Irish was intelli gible beyond the walls of Dublin, no provision was made for a liturgy or preaching in the only language known to the great majority of the population. In the very Act that established the reformed liturgy, its framers, with whimsical inconsistency, introduced a clause permitting the service to be celebrated in Latin, where an English reader could not be procured. Of English and Latin, the multitude being equally ignorant, pre. ferred that which was sanctioned by old associations. With greater reason they adhered to a Clergy who understood their language, felt for their wants, and sympathized with their feel ings, in preference to a host of foreigners, with whom they could maintain no conversation, and by whom they were regarded as an inferior order of beings. The attachment of the Irish to Popery, is not unfrequently brought as a serious charge against them—when, in truth, they were driven to embrace that reli gious system by the pertinacious folly. of their Protestant Go vernors. The Clergymen imported into Ireland by the Go vernment were for the most part needy adventurers, as bank rupt in reputation as they were in fortune. They were col. lected from the candidates that had been refused admission to the English Church, and sent over, like a band of conscripts, to Ireland. A few made some exertions to discharge their duty; but 'the difference of language was a stumbling-bl oc k w hi c h they had not the industrylo remove. The rest paid no regard to the matter; they collected their revenues in those districts where the authority of Government was supported by the presence of an army ; where that protection was wanting they abandoned the field,to the native Clergy, and contented them selves with petitioning the Government against the horrid abuse of allowing their tithes t o b e di recte d to the support of Popery. One of the statutes for establishing the reformed religion in Ireland enacted, that every Rector, on induction, should take an oath to establish and maintain a school in his parish, for the educafion of the poor. so far the statute was obeyed. The oath was regularly taken [mark this well, all who have listened to the malignities of the M'Ghees and 0' Sullivans], and its obligation as regularly disregarded, down to the commencement of the present century." The last part of the pamphlet is devoted to the purpose of showing the identity of the so-called Pro testant Associations formed under the auspices of I.VPGFIEE and O'SumavAN With the Orange Associa tions, the' object of which is political. The author, at the close, thus recapitulates his ob servations Ist. The doctrines and discipline of the Church of Eng land when interpreted•' and grammatically,' as set forth in the Book of Common Prayer, are equally as horrible as are the doctrines in Dens"lsheology, and that members of the Church of England are as justly chargeable with maintain ing the doctrines of intolerance, persecution, and cruelty, as are the Catholics of England or Ireland :—corollary, it is anti- Christian, for the M'Clrees and O'Sullivans to exhibit the mote that is in their brother's eye, before they cast out the beam that is in their own eye. " 2dly. That the 'sayings arid doings' of the British Catho lics—the only sure test of human actions —prove that they are as peaceful subjects, as good citizens, as exemplary husbands, fathers, brothers, friends, as any other sect of Christians;— corollary, that their lives falsify the M'Ghee and O'SulliVan anti-Christian charges of intolerance, persecution, and cruelty. "3dly. That the history of Catholicism in Ireland proves that the Irish nation, i. e., the Irish Catholics and Dissenters, are more " sinned against than sinning ;" that their revolts have been begotten by the most cruel persecutions, and that they have suffered oppression to a point to which the British people, in similar circumstances, would never have endured it to reach : corollary, that it is the duty of every English member of the Established Church to prove the sincerity of his faith in the divine precept—." Do unto others as you would they should do unto you,"—by recognising the claims of every Catholic and Dissenter to the full participation with himself of equal civil and religious rights. " 4thly. That the actual state of the Established Church of Ireland exhibits a mass of abominations unparalleled in the worst days of the Romish or any other Church, ancient or modern ; and that the Melbourne Ministry, and the majority in the House of Commons, and the minority in the. House of Lords, for their endeavours to reform the Church, are entitled to the thanks and support of every Christian who believes that the buildings, and the acres, and the revenues of the Church, form no clement of true Christianity : corollary, that the M'Ghee and O'Sullivan cries of the Church is in danger from Popery,' and the M'Ghee and O'Sullivan denunciations of the Melbourne Government and their supporters in and out of Parliament, demonstrate that the real object of their Pro testant Associations is Political, NOT Religious. " sthly. That the objects of the Orange Associations and the Protestant Associations are identical: inasmuch as the ostensible objects of the Grand Orange Association, of which the Duke of Cumberland is Grand Master, Lord Kenyon (President of the late Meeting in Exeter Hall) is Deputy Grand Master, and the Rev. Mortimer O'Sullivan (the intole rant apostle of the Tories) is a Deputy Grand Chaplain ; and the ostensible objects of the Herefordshire Association, pro jected by Orangemen, lectured by Orangemen, and officered and fostered by the most violent Tories in the county are the same—the ostensible objects of both being religious, though in reality political—corollary, that the Herefordshire and Wor cestershire Associations being to all intents and purposes Orange Associations, will ultimately prove " highly dangerous to the peace of his Majesty's subjects." 6th and lastly,—That Orange Institutions having been pro nounced by a Committee of the House of Commons, to be dangerous to the peace of his Majesty's subjects, and highly injurious to the discipline of his Majesty's army, are disloyal, and, above all, Anti-Christian Institutions—corollary, every sincere believer in the great principles of Christianity—peace and good-will unto all mankind, and equal privileges to all men of equal rights, will hurl frsm him the Orange Councils of the Orangeman Mortimer O'Sullivan, and his Protestant Associations, as a farmer would cast out a flaring firebrand flung into the heart of his homestead. --- PRICES OF STOCKS Tf HS DAY A V JNE O'CLOC rank Stock ........ ......... -.210 1 4 11 ! India Stock shut $ per Cent Red. ( 1 01. i 16 1 Ditto Bonds 3 pm. 2 per Cent Cons - 2." per Cent - OlclAiltinilles - I Ditto Red 918,8 0% New Ditto - New 31C, per Cent .............. shut( 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 - New 3 per Cent ..................... -,, Exch . Bills, .•.:I,C ') l6 18 pm. Vank LongAnnuitics to expire I Ditto 500 .. 16 18 pm. Jan. 5, !sot , 16;6 3-16 1i I Ditto Small Oct ;10, Mt - Ditto Commercial --pm. Jan. 5, I N it ., I Ditto Advertised . pm. ..ran 5, ISiZ z . O .--...-. Bank Stock for Account -. April 5, 1880 - India Stock for Account Jan. 5. 1570 - Consols for Acconnt OlYi 14 Omnium PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian 13onds — ;Peruvian Bonds — Belgian Bonds ! Ditto Account — Ditto Account'. .clrr.z;li an Bonds! Ditto Account — Ditto Account — Ditto New Bonds B4'4 Buenos Ayres Bonds —l Ditto Account B4 % 34. i Ditto Account I Ditto, 3 per cent , 55! Chillian Bonds 43X, Prussian Bonds — ' Ditto Account : Russian Bonds, 182:: — Coltanb'an'Bonds — , Ditto Account ... — Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, ,Int 22v, Spanish Bonds — Ditto Account 32 ~i + Ditto Account — Danish Bonds —l Ditto Bonds, IS'34 45 % 14 . 1 45>1 Ditto Account Greek 80nd5 . ........ ............... Francis, 5 per cent. —t. —c Ditto Bonds, IS:'25 -,--- 4 per cent. ....... ... —f. —c. Ditto Account — t' per cent. —f. —c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent — ----- Exchange f. --c. Ditto Account- , I' -. :Dutch , 214 per cent .... 51% 3 lis J Ditto, 6 per cent. 39Ycl4 Ditto Account — Ditto Account! 5916 Ditto, 5 per cent l O, li 3i; Neapolitan Ditto Account 1007 i PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Alliance Assurance Company lO 11% London and Blackmail Railway 3 4M London and Gravesend Railway Comiiany... London and Greenwich Railway Company 2) WA i; , Danube and Mayne Company ..... ... • ... 5 6 PRICES OF IRISH STOCK: 3 per Cent. Consols SJ Ditto Reduced DUBLIN, DECEMBER 7. Grand Canal Dcb, t; per cent. S 7, ?!4 per Cent. Stock 9V4 Ditto New, 1831) 3 1 4 per Cent. Debentures 90% Rank stock 2.20 ._..... Ditto, 4 per cent ' 5,3 1 . Hibernian Stank .. City of Dublin Steam Co. llO National insurance Co - City Debenturc, 4 per cent 7S Ilinl;.At Cifice Del)entures, 4 Per ctn . " I 374 Vocal Canal Stock 363i Grind Canal Stock ---- - BELGIAN FUNDS.—llaussims, Dec. S. Actual Debt, V, per Cent , Rothecbild's Loan, Five per Cent Loan of City, 15:32. Four per Cent Society of CFlimerce, Four antl a Half per Cent. 111 Bank of Btlgiurn, Five per Cenr ... 114 - —Erussrls Papers, Dec. 9. DU.I . CII FUNDS—ANsTEnnAm, D"c 11,16ne )no , ; Sills. Art Dcl , t, .21;1 per Cent. Loan (I1=:30) 5 per een. Ao , ort :.% fldiey 4 1 ;4 per rem... ..... . DIM, ditto, :,`,-, per cent 7k ; Tali Commercial Comfiany, 4 , :, per e. IA - l-2 3 ,.1 - 12: 3 1 Ditto (V:l2 and IF:61) 5 per cent; Exchan!:,e 0ni.. , ;i::.1::, One n:et:ti . ;;:, .27, - • ' Two months. :`,l;:crs, I'UNr:S.—EERLIN,pEc. J. St. Schtild. Selo, 4 per cent. 'ol Pr t.si.in English Ulan, 15:l0, 4 per cep.% 1,i.)!(, —Prkssien Slate Gazelle, Dec. 4. 101 1 4 !'l9 1 1 ,1 A 1 LS, Arrived. Du . Arrived. Due !Ale) ve , :l. Du: 0 ,lurericA. 0 I frair. , .. 0 Prazil 0 P.ncliaiityre)3M ... II 1 0 u - ntweg 0 I 1 , Vex++, 0 ca r. , „ 01 rtliFe.... 0 I (lullap a l ao - - , t .., I Da:Ain 0 0 Jamaica fl , 0 v.,. 0 ander 0 Lee:+.ll+++l,:u llis (1 , ) V, :.',+:+l ,- .rd. ... 0 - 4 ='•?‘ Pia . ,- --- -i:p .; ,-;_t - ',_ r --- ...0 4 e - ci'''''' -", o) . ' -..-- -'• •. 4 ,14...-- , .e .-- -" •- ~ ..)..n ~ f r:r.....%:ivle - ,. i .,•; i ':t l / 4 L "..,','A ' , ..,...- ...- -„f, .- , <, 1. .. ~ ..., '::.: , t' . ?::::,_ , ..,-,j 3 .1: - .......AST.zz i g. ~-,,,.,-aziii.,Y, Ciii:ZZA:•' 4' WESTMINSTER SCHOOL. The King's scholars gave last night a second representa tion of the Latin play which it is their custom to represent annually at this season of the year. The Andria of Terence was the play selected this year, and the parts in it were cast as folloWs :=-Simo, Gray ; Sosia, Howard ; Dave:, Page ; Mysis, Lennard ; Pamphilus, Ellison ; Charinus, Drew ; Bsrrhia, Baiston ; Lesbia, Robinson ; Chrernes, Taunton ; Crito, Butler ; Dronzo, Barnes. The two fine gentlemen of the piece found suitable representatives in Mr. Ellison and Mr. Drew. Mr. Howard, as Sosia, was as de mure and solemn a looking personage as any gent. of 60 would wish to possess as the superintendent of his family ; and Mr. Page, as Dave:, was as saucy a lookinc , valet as any young gentleman of 20 would wish to .have the trouble of superintending in - his establishment. Mr. Lennard, as Mysis, had all the appearance of a very interesting sou brette, and had it not been for his husky voice, might have been easily mistaken for one of the sex whose garb he had assumed. The representation of the play was preceded by a prologue in hexameter and pentameter verses, of which we cannot say much good, and are reluctant to say ar.y harm. The epilogue was a composition of much greater merit, and contained many palpable bits very happily ex pressed against the new system of poor-laws. The curtain fell amid the applause'of a numerous audience. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF . BRITISII CORN, For the Week ended Dec. 4, 18:35, made up from the Returns of th e Inspectors in the different CitieS and 'POWHS in Englan i and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. Wheat 3Ms Pd Oats Barley 29a. Bd. I Rye IMPERIAL AGGE.EGATE AVERAGES OF THE ,SIX WEEKS PRECEDING. Wheat I 365. Bd. Oats . 1!L l ld De - ms '3ss. 9,1 Barley t2:93 lid Rye DUTiICS ON FOREIGN CORN. Wheat Barley l3s. 4d. I Rye ...... 235. 9d. I Pease gd THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.) HAY MARKETS.—(Ai per Load of 35 Trusses.) CUMBERLAND. ------- Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay — Xi? 15 n) £3 5 !Sew Meadow Hay Useful Old Ditto 3lO -3 15 Fine Upland Meadow and Ilye.grass Hay Clover Hay 4 5 - 5 lo 04 Straw t 1 Sto £1 10 I Wheat Straw 1 12 1 13 SMI I'l I FIELD --- - —. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Huy -- .f. 2 15 to £3 5 New Meadow Flay • Useftil Old Ditto 3 10 3 15 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye grass Hay Clover Hay ;extra fine ......a 5 5.. Generally .., ..... 4 0 5 0 Oat Straw ... 1 sto £ 1 8 I Wheat Straw 1 S Ilu HON GERFO 11 D . Coarse Meadow Hay _____. .S' 10 to £3 0 New Meadow Hay Useful Old Ditto 3 5 3 10 Fine Upland Meadow and Itye.grass Hay , Clover Hay 4 0 5 0 Oat Straw £1 to X 1 6 I Wheat Straw SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) (FROM LLOYD'S.) DEAL, Doe. 9.—Wind N. E., strong breezes.—Arrived the Edward, Thompson, from Miramichi ; Baltic Merchant, Dumble, from Quebec ; and the Friends, Letter, from Villa viciosa. Arrived from the river and sailed the Andromache, Andrews, for Bombay ; Offiey, Lazurdy, for the South Seas ; Venelia, Andrew, for Corfu ; Eliza, Cutchell, for the South Seas ; Clansman, Blair, for Mauritius ; Rawlins, Marr, for Jamaica; Palestine, Sim, for St. Lucia ; Delos, Harvey, for Constantinople; and the Waterlily, Cushton, for Fayal. The Waterlily, for Jamaica, and Columbine, for the Cape of Good Hope, have also sailed. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 9.—Wind N. N. W. to N. E.—Sailed the Flora, Leveque, for Jamaica. FALMOUTH, DEC. B.—Wind N.N. W. to W.—Arrived the Nimrod, Yeller, from Bahia. Off port the Brenda, Leithel, from Alexandria, and the Falconer, Winsor, from St. Peters bury, leaky, bound to Boston. MARGATE, DEC. 9.—Arrived the Matilda, Minto, from Cork. RAMSGATE, DEC. 9.—Arrived the Alert, Freeman, from Seville ; Herald, Robinson, from Belfast ; and the Richard and Ann, Way, from Dublin. LIVERPOOL, DEC. B.—Arrived off the Canadian, —, from Pernambuco. DUBLIN, DEC. 8. Arrived the Defiance, Davis, from London. LONDONDERRY, DEC. 7.—Arrived the Charity, Reed, from St. John's, New Brunswick. GALWAY, DEC. 7.—Arrived the fiche, M‘Doughnay, from ditto. Prom Fayal, bound for London, has put back to The Vesta', Shields leaky. The St. Laurence, Haggarth, was on shore in the Darda nelles, on the 11th ult., but expected to be got off. THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY). CITY. TWELVE O'CLOCK. Both the British and Foreign markets have improved this morning. Consols are at present 91- for the Account; Re duced, 94+; Exchequer Bills, 16 16 ; India Bonds, 3 5 ; Bank Stock, 2104 2111. In the Foreign market Spanish Active Bonds advanced to ; Portuguese, 84i ; Three per Cents., 55i HALF-PAST ONE. The Bills drawn by the Portuguese Minister of Finance on his agent here, amount to 60,000/.—out of them 25,0001. were drawn in favour of the Bank of Lisbon, for whose honour they have been accepted by their holders, Messrs. Forster Brothers, and Mr. Soares, both houses being agents for the same Bank. For the remainder of the Bills—it is said that nobody has yet come forward to accept them, and it is believed they will be sent back to Lisbon by the next mail. The French and Spanish Funds having come higher this morning from Paris, had the effect to improve the British and Foreign markets. Consols at present maintain the morning price, of 914-i for the Account. Reduced 904 t ; Exchequer Bills 16 18 ; India Bonds 3 5 ; Bank Stock 2102 2111. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active Bonds reached 46, since which they have receded to 452; at present they are 452 i. Portuguese, 834 1 ; 3 per Cents. 544 ; Colombian, 32i; Mexican, 391 i; Dutch, 544 55. A report prevailed that an express had arrived from Madrid, with information that Don Carlos had made proposals to the Spanish Government to enter into a negociation. We have made inquiry into the subject, but cannot trace the report to any authentic source ; therefore we suspect it is a stock-jobbing trick. Consols for the Account, 91 THREE O'CLOCK i• THE FUNDS.-C BRITISI Bank Stock .11 3 per Cent. Red t A i 3 per Cent. Cons '3% per Cent. 3% per Cent. Red S7S New 3% per Cent 100►4 4 per Cent. Assented Dissented Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 l6 Oct 1850 Jan. 1860 LOSING PRICES. 1 FUNDS. Omniam 3 Pm. India Stoc'• Ditto Bonds South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New Annuities 1 .1:x. Bills, Ditto 530/ lB p7i. Ditto WV lB pm. Bank Stock ibr Opp. India Stock tbr Act. Consols for Act. LITERATUEE. ENCYCLGPiEDLA XIL PART I. Black, Edinburgh, 1835. There arc some admirably reasoned articles in thig Number, foremost among which we may mention that on " Instinct," which is the production of au e nquiv ing, acute writer, who is metaphysical without dealing too much in the mysticism of the science: " Hydro' dynamics" is also a shrewd and elaborate treatise, which traces the science from its first origin under the auspices of Archimedes, the t , .e1l known Greek philo' sopher, down almost to the present period, when the power of water is so well understood, and is rendered serviceable in such a variety of ways. Among th e , most successful hydrodynamical experimentalists ° I late years have been, it appears, M. Eyetelwein of Berlin, Dr. Matthew Young, late Bishop of Clonfert, who has explained the cause of the increased velocity of efflux through additional tubes, Mr. Vince, and Don George Juan. Those who desire to acquaint them' selves with this interesting branch of science will find much to answer their purpose in the present treatise, The .subject occupies a considerable portion of th e Number, and does not merely skim the surface, but sounds the depths of it. The essay on " Interest" i 3 treated in a sound, practical spirit, and may possibly b e the production of Macculloch, who is every way Val'; fled to discuss and throw light on such a complicate d theme. Under the head " Interment," the reader wil l find many curious and entertaining particulars respect' ing the mode of sepulture as practised among the Greeks and Romans, and more particularly among th e Egyptians. But, indeed, the whole Number is got UP with the most diligent and minute attention to facts; every subject being thoroughly sifted, and leaving little or nothing unsaid that could possibly be said 0 f it. Ina - word, the " Encyclopedia Britannica" is a library itself, and .he who poSsesses it, may well gs' pense—so far as absolute necessity' is coneerned- -- with the purchase of any other books, except those which are exclusively devoted to the lighter and mor e amusing branches of literature. The Number is em' bellished with a variety of engravings, illustrative of zoological and scientific subjects. SCOTT'S PROSE WORKS, Vol. 20. Cadell, Edinburgh, 1835. This is-the most interesting volume we have yet, seen of Sir Walter Scott's " Periodical Criticisul%, It contains his able article on the " Culloden Papers which the late Mr. Ch ar l es Mill s — no mean judge of such matters—pronounced to be one of the ablest essaY s that had ever appeared in the Quarterly Review, andi° which the character of the Highland Chiefs, and th e feudal system of clanship, as they existed previous the memorable year 1745, are delineated with the sla i i of a master ; a clever go s sippi ng notice, intersperse' with much anecdotal observation, of " Boaden's moirs of Kemble ;" and another of the late Sir 11 111 e,: phery Davy's " Salmoni a ," i n th e course o f which ~ Walter gives an admirable criticism on old Isaa c Walton's "Complete Angler," which we like the bette r ' inasmuch as it is wholly free from that absurd Cockney enthusiasm which, for some years past, has beep endeavouring to raise the Cheapside gudgeon-fish er , into a sort of intellectual prodigy. The volume embellished with two engravings, one of which, trative of a scene near Abbotsford, has been execute by Mr. Richardson with much skill. MY NOTE BOOK, 3 Vora. Macrone, London. 1835. Mr. Macgregor, the author of these volumes, is a experienced traveller, who, like the Grecian wandcre, r , of old, " mores hominum multorurn vidit et urbes• Few places of note, either in the Old World or the No v ' have been unexplored by him ; and we rememberfiolo e few years ago, having read with much pleasure his de' borate work on British America. The volumes befor e us are of far less pretension, being sketchy and de' sultory to a degree—mere fragments, as it were, of the , author's travelling reminiscences. Thev contain fe , matters of novelty—for what is to be said of Conti' nental cities, and habits and scenery, that has not been said a thousand times already?—Nevertheless, they or e amusing, and will attract attention, if only from th e light and unassuming manner in which they- o re written. Mr. Macgregor gives us a humorous se count—a little caricatured, however, we suspect—of 111 ostentatious, thorough-bred Cockney merch an t and 1 1 P seven gaunt unmarried daughters, whom he picked 1. 1 1 ) at an hotel at Boulogn e , a n d w h o a st on i s h e d t h e whole table d hote by the energy and desperation of their or sault and battery on a fine sirloin of beef, which wa s was the only thing at the hotel that thqy prf nounced fit to be eaten by a Christian. Tv e sketch of the passengers on board the Boulog,oe steam-boat is equally amusing, though liable to the- tame objection that we have before hi n tea . , After' a day or two's stay at Bologne— qu ite enough in all conscience, for there is little or nothing to see, though a great deal to smell, especially on th e ramparts of the upper town—Mr. Ma c g rego r quitte d the place for Belgium, of whose King, Leopold, b e t draws an accurate character, asserting, however, he issfar—very far indeed—from being a popular Sore ' reign. We should • have supposed otherwise, eS} cially as, on the author's own shewing, " He allows the people to govern themselves, w ithout scarcely any interposition of the roy a l p r e roga ti ve . He 5 a prudent, peace-loving Sovereign ; is fond of peace age security in what he possesses ; is t oo un b en di ng no t to . honest ; and interferes not by appointing favourites as M y nisters, but by following the admirable instruction of Wi ll " Penn—leave the people to govern themselves, and the) . will think they govern.' If these are not qualities to make a Sovereign pOP u ; lar with a peaceable, well-disposed peopl e , we Icio` not what are. The reason, however, of Leopold '5 unpopularity is subsequently explained, as follows "He would be an admirable King in a country fre i e from the shackles of bigotry and priestly p ower ; but Be' glum has a religious, nay, an ecclesiastical aristocradi which assumes the almost supreme authority in politics O r public instruction, besides the disposal of an immense F o non of the public revenue. Leopold must therefore eiti" be ruled by, or rule through, the influence of the c lerg,:' otherwise he will be a thousand times more hateful. 00 the King of Holland." It would seem from this, that in Belgium, as els' ;# where, priestcraft is the great stumbling-block in tt' e way of good government, neutralizing all the gcs3 qualities of a Sovereign who allows the people to ge f vern themselves, with " scarcely an interposition a t the Royal prerogative." It will be a proud day humanity when this grinding tyrannythe most ye: sa tious and oppressive, though the most insidious, of all tyrannies—is trampled under foot, never to rise agi 1111 : Religion would be an infinite gainer by such an eve- 0 ; for it has no w orse enem y th an p r i es t cra f t , w ho, Ilif wearing its mask, and counterfeiting the very tones -43 j its voice, is the ca use o f it s b e i ng cons t an tly su bject(' to undeserved obloquy. From Brussels Mr. giv c : gregor sets out on a tour through the Dutch provincel'; thence he proceeds t owar ds th e Rhi ne , o f course seeifr, all that is to be seen on its romantic and diversified shor es , ; and afterward s hu rr i es o ff f or S w it zer l an d, o f wh ob b Alpine scenery, he gives us some descriptions, whiA s , serve no other purpose than t o c on vince u s that he out of his ele men t w h en t rea ti ng o f th e pi c t u resqu 4, 1 He mistakes ex aggera ti on f or f orce , as w h ere he , the sun was setting in effulgent grandeur bey' o f the western heights ; below was the buzzing sound congregated man—of closing labour, as it plod Nor ,' inwards from the fi e lds to the valli e s beneath." dialer this is not description, but bombast—th e m e re of the Minerva-library novelist s . M r . M acg re g or 1 1. s a sound, clear-headed man ; b u t lie has not an Orli:, of fancy or imagination, and should forswear all "tempts at the picturesque, which require soinethio,-; more than mere common sense. At the end of t l ' third volume there is an appendix, full of useful st d ' tistical information, c hi e fly as resp ec t s th e g enera l provincial, and municipal administrations of Prussia' which is worth all the rest of the work put together. FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent Belgian, 5 per cent 99% Brailian Bonds Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent — Chilian, 6 per cent 45 Columbian, 6 per cent. — Ditto, IS-24 31% I >anish Bonds. — Greek 131cds, k 25,5 per c:mt. Mexican, 5 per cent. Ditto, 6 per cent., 1925 ....... Peruv,an, 1825,..6 per cent, ... Pal tuguese Bonds, 5 per cent. Ditto, Now Ditto B3 Prussian. 5 per cent. I;u6sian Bonds, 5 per cent. Ditto, Metallic Spanish, 5 per cent 4si Ditto, 1834 4354 F.•encli, 5 per cent Exchange —l*. —,-. French, 3 per cent —l. —c. lintel', 2, 1 percent 55 Ditto, 5 per cent, ........ ...... IOON Thi tcdi, from t Th( Ana th Di►; the E; Count Gasco Lox at the Lie de Re remon Ti JO.rTny Car roads Majcsl Not ne2s y Poreig The terday street. Des Prince at the Lor at dinr. Mr. m tom The able P There the Ju Bankri The part o Rootui decree a wron • on ap/ Mr. E Wigra Attorn ships ti The Rarnsg Althori in Port &hire ; Doyer- Rsq., Lvrd Cotton ditto ; Contin, nis seal chioues -Lord I Ives, I 'Norf . °ll "lents ; James': from d from d ditto ; Latouc Ireland and Ai -Bright, Thi tig h tloi which th e 3 31.1 xnr.ny 11:o wn e Veneral hours, that E, going tno one An Earl F and no ship's r The seeds much 1 his hea Pril tinoplc gone of Were s the Le It Bacclh vice Si Th. estates Vernon Carofit siste r t berals Obsert Lo The E the Pr name formin pit al o TB eetir was re upon t on the havei 'Copies Ruth Mr ing discov, The r wad th 300 f. BA . ..those Ibeen tit' Kul M Pres?) locry 1 the _I owing his att against A classes for thi Earl o a privi • ship's 8301 b: 'one pi its niz Tenn , Aresij the of victu A Lor Wil Lor: A 1 li•-......