The Sun. — London, England, 1841-12-11 00:00:00

EVENING SUN NATIONAL MERCANTILE LIFE SOCIETY.—ROBERT CURREY, Esq., in the Chair. The Members and Friends of this Society will Dine to gether at the London Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill, on MONDAY, 27th December, at Six o'Clock precisely. Tickets, One Guinea, At film Bar of the London Coffee-house, and at the Office of the Society, Arthur-street West, London-bridge. THE ENGLISH CHARTIST CIRCU- . LAR.—At a MEETING of the MIDDLESEX DE LEGATE COUNCIL of the CHARTIST ASSOCIATION, Mr. MARTIN in the Chair ; it was resolved unanimously— " That, considering the ENGLISH CHARTIST CIRCU LAR to be a most efficient agent in the spread of Chastism, and :anxious to further the interest of the cause, we declare that we highly approve of that Publication, and call upon our Brethren to give it their utmost support." Nearly every De legate exnressed the highest satisfaction at the talented and im partial manner in which the Circular has been invariably con ducted, and recommended its general diffusion as a tract. MR. AINSWORTH'S NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE. In, 3 vols. post evo., illustrated with Twenty large Designs on Steel, by Franklin, OLD SAINT PAUL'S A TALE of the PLAGUE and the FIRE. By W. HARRISON AINSWORTH, Esq. IS NOW READY. Hugh Cunningham, St. Martin's-place, Trafalgar-square. Just ready, in 2 vols. post Bvo., MADAME DE SEVIGNE, AND HER CONTEMPORARIES. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. '",,* Orders received by all Booksellers. TIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, His MAJESTY the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, His MAJESTY the KING of PRUSSIA, having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (though faey are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtain :ng LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH and at LUBECK, Are now SELLING ORIGINAL BONDS for the said ms rrtißu TIONS. Persons desirous to purchase for the Next Distributions say receive, PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PRO SPECTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing a line to HEINE BROTHERS. The NEXT.AUSTRIAN DISTRIBUTION contains DI. VIDENDS of £25,000 £6OO 5,000 400 1,500 200 1,000 150 800 120 HEINE BROTHERS having remitted during a short time 25,000/., 18,000/., 9,000/, 5,0001., 3,600/., &c. &c. &c., to London ; 3,600/., 600/, and 7001., to Edinburgh ; 3,600/. to Dublin ; 3,600/. to Beverley; 3,600/. to Halifax ( Yorkshire); 1,2001. to Portleaven Harbour; 9001-, 700/. and 600/. to Li verpool ; 900/. to Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; 9001. to Hull ; 9001. and 600/. to Manchester ; 700/. to East Retford (Not tinghamshire); 6001. to Bideford ; 6001. to Cork ; 6001. to Bradford ; they shall feel glad to remit many Dividends of the next Distribution to England, Ireland, and Scotland.. Direct for Prospectus and Particulars, without delay, either to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, or to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. £llO £7O 100 60 90 50 80 Sterling. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. U VDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, DEC. 11, Will be repeated Bellini's Opera of NORMA.—Pollie, Mr. W. Harrison ; Flavius, Mr. Clement White Oroveso, Mr. Leffler ; Adalgisa, Miss Rainforth ; Clotilda, Miss ant ; and Norma by Miss Adelaide Kemble (her seventeenth appear ance upon the English Stage). After which, a New Farce, entitled UNITED SERVICE. Capp.i*Whistlehorough, Mr. W. Farren; Capt. Pacific, RN., B`Tley ; Rivet, Mr. C. Mathews ; Mr. Euclid Barn, Mr. Harley ; Mrs- Coo, Mrs. Glover ; Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Orger. After which the Ballet Divertissement of THE WOODEN LEG.—Principal Characters by .Mr. Gilbert and Miss Bailin, Master and Miss Marshall, Messrs. J. and T. Ridgway, Miss Jackson, &c. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. `3,.; Gallery, ls. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be bad solely of ,Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167. New Bond-street. On Monday, the lslw Comedy, entitled Court and City, with Wooden Leg, and Free and Easy. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Mr. GI sham, Mr. Phelps, and the most powerful Company, supporting Shakspere's Tragedies. THIS EVENING, DEC. 11 Will be acted Shakspere's Tragedy of OTHELLO.--Othello, Mr. Graham ; lago, Mr. Henry Hughes; Cassio, Mr. N. T. Hicks ; Desdemona, Miss Wayerley ; Emilia, Mrs. H. Vining. To conclude with the successful French Drama of rivetting situations and intense interest, THE TWO LOCKSMITHS, OR POVERTY AND CRlME.—Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Hicks, Smith, Neville, Mrs. Vining, Mrs. Daly, &c. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. 7NDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. Immense attraction. Virginius, supported by Mr. Osbaldiston, Mr. E. F. Saville, and Miss Vincent ' • and only appearance of Messrs. Cony and Blanchard, with their celebrated Dog. THIS EVENING, DEC. 11. For the BENEFIT of a CHARITABLE INSTITUTION. Will be acted Mr. Sheridan KnowlesbTragedy of VlRGl- NlUS.—Virginius, Mr. Osbaldiston •' Icilius, Mr. E. F. Sa ville ; Dentatus, Mr. Dale ; Appius Claudius, Mr. Seaman ; Virginia, Miss Vincent ; Set-via, Mrs. Lee. After which, WOMAN'S LOVE ; or, THE WIVES OF CLITHEROE.—WiIford Clitheroe, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Old Wynsley, Mr. James ; Hollyhock, 11r. Gardner ; Kate W)n sley, Miss Vincent; Lady Adeline, Mrs. G. Lee. To conclud:i with MY POOR DOG TRAY.—In which Illessrs.'Cony and Blanchard, with their Dog, will perform, conjointly with the strength of the Company. boxes, 2s.—Pit, 6d.—Half-price to the Boxes only, at Half-put Eight. THE RAILWAY SUN. NOTICE—The RAILWAY SUN, being out of priiit, will be RE-PUBLISHED on TUESDAY NEXT. THE CHINA SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Dec. 11, 1841. THE WEATHER.—NOON, DECEMBER 11. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 47 j Highest 5O 1 Lowest 35 Barometer 29.79.—Wind W.—Freezing Point 22 Deg. H1(41-1 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW Morning 15 minutes after 1. I Evening ......34 minutes after 1. The Publication of the Evening Edition of Tuit SUN com menced at 10 minutes after Three. 41,1114, LONDON : SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1841. Sir RonEnT Pi i L seems absolutely afraid to meet Parliament. Adopting the practice of great criminals in the sister island, certain of asked fo r a long day, their fate, he has and obtained it. The Representatives of the people will not assemble for the dispatch of public business till Thursday, the 3d of February, the very latest period to which, public feeling, without outraging the meeting pos tponed late day in and even a could have been in the Week is chosen, as if to carry the dis cussion on the distresses of the country into the following week, and thereby protractbusiness for ten days. It is certainly a remarkable feature in the doin gs of the present Government, that when the people expect some thing decisive—sonte intelligible communication from them, they are treated, as it were, with studied contempt and mockery. On the first day of the last Session, Sir ROBERT PEEL, in place of discussing or even noticing the great questions that then agitated, and still continue to agitate, the country, moved for an additional grant of money, not less than 80,0001., perhaps 00,0001., to make the Members warm and com fortable. The proceedings of the Privy Coun cil yesterday were not calculated to alter the unfavourable impression made by such con temptuous, treatment. We learn from the re, Port that many vain ceremonies were performed, that the LORD CHANcELLor delivered the pa tent fur the creation of the Prince of WAVES; that. the impression of the Prince's seal was in closed in a silver case and placed in a box lined with white satin, and covered with crimson velvet; that the name of his Royal Highness was :ordered to be inserted in the Liturgy ; that ‘fAhe arm s of his Royal Highness were taken into consideration at the Council ;" and, last of all, that Parliament was further prorogued unto the 3d of February, to meet for the dispatch of public business. The word " urgent," or important, which we have seen in these announcements, was, no d ou bt, p u rposely omit ted. Are we, therefore, to conclude from this, that even in February nothing is to be done for the relief of a starving and distracted population, or that the Prime Minister, chosen by the aristocracy, . is afraid to publish a word that can give them a moment's uneasiness, or endeavour to conceal, even from himself; the awful position in:which the country is placed.? We do not regret these strange proceedings. They show our merchants, manufacturers, and broken-down operatives what they are to expect from a Tory Government ; and will therefore be urged more and more to help themselves, if they expect help from the Giver of all good. From the train of argument adopted in the Tory Journals; their perpetual references to the black bread in use on the Continent; from the assertion printed in the Standard, with all the emphasis italics can give, that " English misery would he comfort in most of the continen tal nations," our standard of living is so much superior to theirs ; and from the inquiries which the Premier is said to have instituted into wages and prices on the Continent, it appears without disguise, and in all the hideousness of unpatriotic brutality, that the monopolists found the de fence of the misery they inflict on their own countrymen and countrywomen on the perhaps equal, or possibly greater, misery inflicted on the comparatively recently emancipated serfs to the eastward of the Rhine. What amiable, what patriotic, what noble-minded men these Tories and monopolists must be, to seek for the rule of their conduct, not in the best and most elevated condition of human life, but in the lowest, most degraded, and most depraved ! If the monopolists must have a foil for their own guilt in the wretched condition of some other people, we would recommend them to turn their eyes to the nasty Hottentots, with yet quivering entrails of hunted beasts hung round their necks ; to the savages of New South Wales, grubbing for a scanty meal in a worm-eaten log ; or to the mild warriors of New Zealand, feeding on a well fed European ; and then a assuage, if they can, the hunger of the starving artisan, by telling him how much better off he is than the wild men of the southern hemisphere. Badly off as the labourers of Germany and Belgium may be, we very much doubt whether the comparison will suit the monopolists, and whether, if they stop short of the interior of Africa, they will find any body of human beings in quite so destitute and deplorable a condition as our ingenious and in telligent labourers. At the same time this unpatriotic and hideous principle will not suit another branch of the Tory policy. When the bread-tax is under dis cussion, then our labourers are to be satisfied if they are not quite so badly off as those who must subsist on black bread on the Continent ; when the New Poor-law is the question, then no measure can be found for the indignation of the Tories against those who would degrade the condition of the labourer by the workhouse test. When it has been desired, too, to enlist the pre judices of the people against the French or Germans, then they were represented as wretched .frog-eaters and wearers of wooden shoes, or as the slaves of rascally Princes who sold them body and blood, and with all the ac coutrements of a soldier, at so much per head to any Prince who would buy them. It will not do, therefore, now for the monopo lists and the Tories, who still boast of their pre eminent attachment to the glories of Britain, to tell the people that they must be contented, be cause they are not quite so badly off as JOHNNY CRAPAUD or the boors of the Elector of HESSE. If the Tories and monopolists, with Sir ROBERT PEEL at their head, fancy that they will make free-born Englishmen, living under a paragon of constitutions, submit to a bread-tax, or any other bad law, by the most lugubrious pictures of wretchedness on the Continent of Europe, they will be completely mistaken. They must be driven to their last shifts when they dream of having recourse to a mode of justification which dispels all the illusions, and strikes down all the prejudices, on which their power and the praise of the Constitution rest. The population returns supply some corrobo ration of the unfortunate condition of the three midland counties, 'w (Ilea was brought so promi nently and pai MI under notice at Derby. The test of all national welfare is the increase in the number of the people, while their con dition remains undeteriorated or is improved. The United States are very prosperous, and in them population doubles itself under the in fluence of their natural and healthy circum stances, in less than twenty-five years. It is now ascertained that, during the last ten years, the population in England has not in creased at the same ratio as in the previous de cennial periods of this , entury. - Between 1801 and 1811 the increase was 14 per cent. ; between 1811 and 1821 it was 17 per cent.; between 1821 and 1831 it was 16 per cent; while, between 1831 and 1841 it was only 14.5 per cent.; or, it has made no more progress during the last ten years, than during a period of calamitous war. Now we find, on looking' to the population returns, that of the three midland counties only, Derby equals the average of the diminished increase of England and Wales. During the last ten years Derby has increased 14.7 per cent., but Leicester has increased only 9.5 per cent., and Nottingham only 10.8 per cent. The average of the three is 111 per cent., or 2.8 per cent. below the average of England and Wales. But where all have been suffering, particularly during the last four years of the decennial period, the suffering of these three counties, as evidenced by the population returns, must have been very great. We should suppose that such facts as were brought forward at the Derby meeting will en able Sir ROBERT PEEL to open the eyes of his colleagues. His own eyes, we believe, do not require to be opened. He is as strongly con % inced as we are—we firmly believe—of the mischievous effects of the Corn-laws; and if he would not be branded by posterity as the most infamous politician that ever stood at the head of affairs in this country, he will throw over board the colleagues whom lie cannot enlighten, and repeal the Corn-laws. The Rev. W. G. WARD, of Balliol College, Ox ford, one of the writers of the " Tracts for the Times," has addressed a letter to the Rev. Dr. PUSEY, correcting some statements relative to the Oxford controversy, made by Mr. GOLIGHTLY, which throws some additional light on 'the proceedings at the University. Though we did not give insertion to Mr. GOLIGHTLY'S letter, as there was nothing in it which we considered would interest our readers, we readily insert Mr. Wann's correction of what he complains of as a misstatement in it. We pray our readers to mark it we ll . It is as good a spec i men o f lo gical hair Mr. Goli g h tly ' s -splitting a s we are acqua inted with : statement is, that I " told a friend of his in th e course of % might in discipl es o f Mr. t now be considered to be divided he present month, that a certain paity in thi s place Newman and Dr. Pusey ; the latter no opposed, the formerlong er o p pose d, to R ome . A s I did not wish to trust m c alled upon Mr. Golight y ly? s wn memory on the subj ce t, I informant, a gentleman who is wholly incapable of the least approach to intentismal misstatement. His account of conversation was as regardingihe Chur c h o f near ly as possible what f o ll ows . l%l a r n .Golightly was expressing his suspicions that yourself d Mr. New man differed in your manner of Rome, and his friend answered, wa distinction betw een them in that respect, Ward and says recognizes a that some follow the one, some the other ; but Newm a n e says, that Pusey has a strong feeling, against Rome, e, has no such feeling at all. ' I think the difference between this statem ent said Mr. Golightly's is not altogther unimportant. We differ altogether from Mr. WARD, acid think that there is not the slightest substa nt i a l difference between these statements. In both it is affirmed that Dr. PusEY has yet some scruples of conscience about embracing the Roman Catholic religion, and in both it is affirmed, that Mr. NEWMAN has no such scruples. This is the substance of what is said on both sides. What is to come is more important, and, coupled with what goes before, presents a picture which sober-minded Protestants cannot contemplate without great alarm. We quote from Mr. WARD'S letter: -- I have spoken in print of " the harsh and umkind manner in which our sister Churches are spoken of, even by Catholic minded and most highly respected pm :sons." (Few More Words, &c., p. 32.) And I may refer to the same pamphlet for an answer by anticipation to the I charge that such acknowledgment involves disaffection in the case of any one to our branch of the Church. "To remain in our own Church," I have said, " and by God's help endeavour to elevate its tone, cannot be looked upon by the Catholic Christian as only the cold performance of a duty, but as a labour of • love." (Few Words, Scc., p. 44 ; Few More TVords, p. 41.) In another place I have protested against the notion of its being " inconsistent with the position of a member of our Church to think other Churches more pure and apostolical" (Few lVords More, p. 81), and have maintained that if ours be a branch of the Church, it is" a plain sin for any one of us to leave it." (P. 30.) It may be as well to state in this place my strong and deliberate conviction that Mr. Newman is exercising at present an influence incomparably greater than any other person, in retaining within the pale of our own communion those who might be tempted to quit it—a convictiou founded not only on abstract reasonings, but on my knowledge of individual facts. Here we have the startling announcement that the conversion of many members of the University to the Church of Rome is owing to the non-profession of that creed by Mr. NEW MAN, who is stated to be at heart reconciled to the Roman Catholic religion. Mr. WARD affects no concealment of the fact, that public grati tude is due to Mr. NEWMAN for not openly pro fessing Romish Catholicism, seeing the num bers in the University who are ready 'to follow his example ; and he even quotes his own jus tification of himself, Mr. NEWMAN, and others, for the consistency of thinking other Churches purer and more apostolical than the Church of England, and yet continuing to abide within her communion ! His own words, quoted above, are—" I have protested against the notion of its being inconsistent with the position of a member of our Church to think other Churches more pure and apostolical." Now, no honest Chris tian, whose countenance is not seared by the hot iron of Church preferment, can admit the validity of this protest. It is the sacred duty of every Christian to join, without a moment's hesitation, that Church which he believes to be purest and most apostolical. Mr. WARD is so well qualified for the office of Vicar-General of the Order of Jesuits, that we are suprised he does not enter himself a member of that erudite, but crafty, worldly-minded Society. But be sides the enjoyment of the rich preferments of the English Church, Mr. WARD and his friends have another reason for not aban doning her communion. His words are, "To remain in our Church, and by GOD'S help endeavour to elevate its tone, cannot be looked upon by the Catholic Christian as only the cold performance of a duty, but as a labour of love." The plain meaning of this is that Mr. NEWMAN'S followers think they can do more for Romanism, as professing members of the Church of England than as open converts to the See of Rome; and, therefore, they prefer remaining where they are, till the country is prepared to go to Rome with them. By elevating the tone of the Church, they simply mean the impregnation of the national mind with Romish doctrines. This fact is implied in the words which we have quoted from Mr. WARD'S letter, and so obviously, too, that we think no candid person can accuse us of other than a fair inference from their ob vious meaning. Mr. WARD gives an account of a visit paid by him to Oscott Roman Catholic College, which he thinks i necessary to defend. In such a visit we c "I see nothing at all reprehen sible. We would not be understood here as at all wishing to diminish a kindly and hospitable intercourse between the laity or clergy of the Churches of England and Rome. Nothing can be more commendable than an interchange be tween priests of every communion of all the amenities and charities of life. With Mr.WARD's visits, or friendships, the public has no right to have any thing to do,. and for our part we dis claim any right to object to his dining with the POPE himself; provided he is himself satisfied with his Holiness's fare. But his doctrines can not be included in the exceptional list with his dinner companions. When he addresses the Church of England from Balliol College, Ox ford, as a defender of his own Tracts, we have then to deal with him as a remover of the " an cient land-marks" set by the Fathers of the Re formation in England. Madrid Journals of the Ist inst. have reached us. On the previous day the Council of War heard the accusation against Don SANCHEZ TORRES, charged with complicity in the attack on the Palace. As he was in the QUEEN'S ser vice at the time as one of the gentlemen in waiting, his guilt was considered greater than that of the Christino officers, who had betrayed no personal trust. He has not, however, yet been taken, and may probably escape the sen tence of ten years' confinement passed upon him by the Council. General VAN HALEN has raised the siege of Barcelona, dissolved the Military Commission, and restored the regular tribunals to the exer cise of their functions. The Town Council is, however, still dissatisfied, and demands the demolition of the citadel. They denounce it as a monument of shame and provocation, and in- 1 sist that no vestige of it ought to be suffered to exist. Unless the Town Council changes its tone, ESPARTERO may be tempted to send them after their predecessors—a no very pleasant jour ney in the present humour of the French Govern ment, and with a knowledge that England wholly approves of the conduct of the REGENT. On the morning of the sth inst. the Infanta LOUISA CARLOTA, wife of Don FRANCISCO DE PAULA, left Bayonne for Irun, travelling incog nita, and with only an escort of six horsemen. The political chief of Guipuscoa published at San Sebastian, on the 25ch ult., a decree of the Minister of Finance, granting a delay, not ex ceeding fifteen days, from the 18th of Novem ber, for the disposal of all merchandise in the North of Spain, without being subjected to the operation of the new commercial tariff. On the Madrid Bourse the Five per Cents. were done on the Ist at 321 32, for cash, and at 32i 33j 1 4 324 334 34 33 32 7-16 33 324, at diffe rent dates. The transactions, 28 in number, amounted to 17,640,000 reals. The Three per Cents. sold for 221, cash ; the Foreign Converted Debt for 25, at 60 days; and the Debt bearing no interest for 6, at 60 days. ISLINGTON MEETING.—A Correspondent in forms us that the amended address to the Queen, which was carried on Thursday, was ordered to be presented to her Majesty by the two Mem bers for the borough. The meeting was then dispersed by the beadle putting out the lights. Sir Robert Peel is resolved to hold no com munication with the public, therefore, gives no information to the Tory Journals. They are as ignorant of what is going on, till certain an nouncements appear in the Gazette, as the Whig Journals. For example, the Post states that Lord Hill is to retire, and that Sir G. Murray is to be his successor. The Standard asserts po sitively that the report of Lord Hill's retirement is groundless. When they agree in giving the nation any information it amounts to such hn portant intelligence as this:— The Lord Chancellor, Sir Robert Peel, Sir James Graham, Lord Wharncliffe, Lord Aberdeen, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer met at the Home-office this morning at half-past ten o'clock. Mr. Woods, of the Heralds' College, was in attendance, with the drawing or pattern of the coat of arms for t he Prince of Wales, which was examined by the Ministers previously to its being laid before her Majesty for approval, at the Privy Council.—Standard of last night. The Lord Chancellor, Sir Robert Peel, Lord Wharn cliffe,.the Earl of Liverpool (Lord Steward), the Earl of Delawarr (Lord Chamberlain), accompanied by thelArch bishop of Canterbury, left town to-day at one o'clock, in a special train by the Great Western Railroad, fur the purpose of attending the Privy Council at Windsor. • They are as contradictory also in their policy as their information. The Herald, with the Rev. Chandos Pole,-and•the unctuous Baronet of Bed , ford-sq uare , i s a ll f or Ch urc h E x t e nsion ; the 2 'imes convinces us that Church Extension was merely one of th e b a it s th a t was thrown out to catch o ffi ce , served its p urpose, and is to be thrown awa y as which being hooked, the bait has a nuisanc e . S uch uncertainty in t h e pres ent state of th e nat i onal affairs, is as d e lightful as the sensati ons of a prisoner in the h an d s o f savages, who is i n d oubt whether h e i s t o have his flesh cut off by a knife, or whether he is to be roasted alive. Poor comiktercial England is a prisoner in the h an d s of monopolists, and the consultations of her toes, as far as she is informed, relate only to the mode by which she can be with most lingering torture made to yield the most pleasure to her savage oppressors. TREATY WITH DENMARK.—The Gazette of last night contains officially the Treaty finally approvedof by the Governments of England and Denmark, on the 7th of October last, relative to the Sound Dues, the substance of which, with the schedule of tolls, has already been published in The Sun. TILE PUSEYITE CONTEST.—We agree fdr once with the Standard that the contest at Oxford is one which will not admit of compromise. The faith and the honour of the University are as sailed ; the followers of Dr. Pusey are denounced as more attached to Romanism than to Church of Englandism ; and the followers of Dr. Pusey denounce their opponents as having left the Church and taken refuge in Calvinism. A com promise • between these parties would leave the feud still rankling, and would expose the Church to all the terrible suspicions which now cleave to her of having no faith at all. The question must therefore be decided in the person of Mr. 'Wil liams or Mr. Garbett, whether the Church of England has relapsed to Romanism or gone for ward to Calvinism. The middle state of doubt and nothingness is worst of all, and must be ended. For:either party to consent to a compro mise would be, not to give up the Chair of Poetry, but to sacrifice what it deems the vital principle of Christianity. The contest must be decided bythe votesjof the electors. Mr. Rayner, who has been starring with some effect at Newcastle-on-Tyne, for eight nights, commences an engagement at Southampton on Monday evening next as " Tyke" and " Risk." •; , . 7 1* 4 211 1 * 4 40g1.M O N MII r. 4,,15,11113.0P THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1841. THE QUEEN DOWAGER. SUDBURY-HALL, DEC. 10.—We have the ut most gratification in being enabled to state, that since her Majesty the Queen Dowager's health first began to amend, the improvement, although gradual, has been constant, and that her perfect recovery, should no unexpected relapse take place, may be confidently expected. The dis tressing cough by which she was so constantly disquieted has in great measure been abated, and she is able in consequence to enjoy every night several hours of regular and unbroken repose. The salutary effects of this refreshing sleep have already become apparent. Her Majesty now sits up from eight to ten hours every day with out fatigue, and has attained sufficient strength to walk about her room unassisted. Sir D. Davies still remains in attendance, and, with the exception of Lady Gore and her daughter, con stitutes the only 'addition to the ordinary party at Sudbury-hall. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC. 10.—Although there has been a fair amount of business transacted in Cotton this week, the market still continues dull, and the disposition to sell being fully as strong, buyers have ge nerally been enabled to purchase at a decline of l t d. per lb. in American descriptions, particularly in the better qualities ; in other kinds there is no change of conse quence. Speculators have taken 1,200, and exporters 200 bales American. The sales to-day are 300 bales. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, DEC. 10.—The transac tions reported at the Stock Exchange thisday, are inEastern Counties, 7 13-16 ; London and Birmingham, 36 ; Man chester and Leeds, 65 ; Half Shares, 27 ; Paris and Rouen, 10a. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 10.—The mar ket for Railway Shares continues firm and prices im proving :—Manchester and Leeds, 651 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 26 to 27 ; North Midland, 67 to 68 ; ditto, Halves, 34 to 33. THE FUNDS. The English Market opened steadily with very little doing. Consols for the Account are quoted 881 a ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 88i a ; Bank Stock, 165 166 ; Three .and-a-llalf per Cents. Reduced, 98 ; Exche quer Bills, 10 12 premium. The Foreign Market is quiet, and the only variation to notice is a decline in Spanish Active Stock, which are now quoted at 23-a ; Portuguese Stock continues steady, the I ive per Cents. being 33 331 ; and the Three per Cents. 19 20 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 511,- 52i ; ditto Five per Cents., 99i. In the Share Market there is little doing ; the im proved prices are, however, fully maintained. Great Western are firm at 18 a 20 premium ; ditto New Shares 9a9i ; London and Brighton 36i per share. The quarterly average of the weekly liabilities and assets of the Bank of Egland, from the 14th September to the 7th December, exhibits a decrease in the circula lation, 300,0001.; deposits, 16,0001.; securities, 359,000/.; and bullion, 5,000/. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. London and Brighton London and Birmingham .. • -- Ditto Neer...... 2 ...• 26' to - London and South Western 3Bi 561 to Ditto Tenths 3l 4i..... to .- South Eastern and Dower York and North Midland Ditto New Shares... l5 3oli ... to JOINT STOCK BANKS. British North American National of Ireland 174 174 to COURSE OF EXCHAI Amsterdam CF. 12 7i Ditto, at sight ......... 12 4i Rotterdam 2U. 12 8 Antwerp ......... 12 7 1 Hamburgh M.B. 13 131 1 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 60 Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 90 Frankfort on Maine... 150} Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37 Berlin... Vienna, effec. ff. 3M. 953 Trieste, ditto ........ 955 Madrid Cadiz Bilbao . 36 Barcelona ............... 36 Seville NGE—(YESTERDAY). Gibraltar ....... 46 Leghorn Genoa 25 90 Milan ..... 3l Venice Naples ........ ...• Palermo, per sz 119 Lisbon Oporto 52 Rio Janeiro 27 Bahia Buenos Ayres New York, 21 days sight 461 Philadelphia 46 PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ. Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin. 3 17 5 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars... 0 4 10 Silver in Bars... 0 4 111 .HALF-PAST ONE. The business done in both dieingii;ii — andfereign Stock Exchange has been limited this morning ; the markets have, however, generally improved. Consols for the Account are now 884 ; Three per Cents Reduced, 884 ; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 981 ; Ex chequer Bills, 10 12 premium. Spanish Active was last done at 231 ;:Passive, 54 ; Deferred, 11 12 ; Mexican, 25+. In Portuguese there has not been a bargain done The Share Market is steady, and but few transactions have taken place. London and Brighton have been done at 36k, at which price they may be now quoted; London and South Western 564 ; York and North Midland, 88; London and Birmingham New Shares, 26. _ QUARTER TO THREE. There has been rather an increase of ease in the dis count market since this day week, and were it not for the apprehension of failures, we might probably have to record the existence of greater facilities to commerce generally. The continued disposition of the Bank of England, however, to reduce its circula tion before the dividends fall due, as evidenced in the re turn of its assets and liabilities, must, of course, act as a restraining power over the brokers and monied houses in the City. Consols, 88i a ; Mexican, 25i 261 ; Spanish, 23i 24. 130U1f81PArus, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 8. - _ I , lrst Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pri el, Price. French 6 per Cents .......... . 116 40 ... 116 60 ... 116 40 ... 116 50 4% per Conti ..... 106 50 106 50 106 50 ... 106 50 4 per Cents ........»» 101 20 101 20 ... 101 20 101 20 9 per Witt. ex div. 79 40 78 50 ... 78 40 78 50 Sink 01 France ....... P. 425 ...34 5 ...3425 50 Laffitte Bank 1,000(. Shares 1035 —1035 ...1035 5,000 f. Shares 5055 :5055 ...5055 Belgian Bank, Old ... 790 790 ... 783 75 ... 790 Belgian 5 per Cents. per Cenp., 1840 lO3 103 K ... 103% 193% Spanish Active 24 ... 24 ... 14 5% ... 5% ••• ••• 5% Portuguese 3 per Cents. Neapolitsr, ex 105 25 105 25 105 25 .05 25 Rowan .•••• 103 ... 103 ••• 103 ... 103 RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles. LB lO7 50 197 50 1441 25 ... 191 25 Sousa .............. 457 50 457 50 457 5U ... 457 51) Straeburgtoßide.shares red 217 50 .. 217 50 ... 217 50 ... 217 50 THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) WHITECHAPEL MARKET. The trade was good and the demand brisk. Prices as follow :—Beef, 2s. 4d. to 45.; Mutton, 2s. 4d. to 3s. 10d.; Veal, 3s. 4d. to ss. 2d.; Pork, 3s. 4d. to ss. 4d. Clover, 31. to 51. 135.; Hay, 21. to 41. Bs.; Straw, 1/. Bs. to IL 12s. TEA MARKET. Prices of Free Trade were sustained, but little busi ness was done. Ordinary clean Congou Is. 9d. cash, and Company's might be purchased at the same rate. TALLOW MARKET. Prices were sustained, and a fair demand existed: 48s. was the ♦alue of parcels on the spot, and for delivery up to the end of the year; for spring months, 495. to 495. 3d. was asked. WOOL MARKET. The market firm, with a good demand for both Eng lish and Foreign. The stocks held by the manufacturers are small. SPIRIT MARKET. Rum was taken sparingly, but prices were sustained. Proof Leewards, 15. 10d. ; Brandy is held firmly, with a good demand. British Corn Spirits in brisk request at 10s. 4d. cash. _. ___. ......... METAL MARKET. Spelter in brisk request, and prices firm at 401. on the spot. Iron in good demand, and prices firm. We are given to understand that a Committee, composed of naval offivers, is sitting at Somerset House, to investigate as to pursers' accounts in the R o y al Nav y . and we need n o t sa y it is high time such had taken place, to prevent the great irregularity of passing the pursers' accounts, which in many instances, through the present regulations, have proved so ruinous to them. g W e : ta w on o s ul t d he t y he m re a f y ore recommend to all naval officers who which are to ha b v e e a f go r p t t h ed e are interested in pursers' accounts, to forward any sug ._beßnerfiittisol ci th u e ee n n e . w regu lationsAh a t v i lev ‘ NORFOLK. —In this parish, persons, M there years 1831 and 1840, 21 the population of which, in 1931, did not exceed 900, h il d o i A e s d e M b a e l g tw N es een the years each, m an y o f whom were born in Martham, and the greater part had lived more th an t h ree - q uarters of their lives in that B vi o ll y a e g a e r._ village. There o a l r k e c n h o r w onic li le v . ing in the same parish 10 persons, in goo d h ea l t h, w hose ages average more than UMiViARY OF HEWS AND Public 14 pinton. " Who runs may read." FORMIGN. The Madrid correspondent of the Herald,:writing from that capital on the Ist inst., slip :—The London holders of Spanish Bonds should immediately convene meetings for the purpose of passing a resolution calling on the Spanish Government to issue a decree cancelling Gam boa's, wherein so many difficulties were purposely concocted to prevent the conversion of bonds of the foreign debt into those of the internal. Indeed, they should withdraw their confidence in these Ministers until the same be done, because Gamboa's law was, or seemed, intended for the purpose of favouring a parcel of Stock Exchange adventurers. Little doubt need be enter tained that neither the Prime Minister Gonzales nor M. Surra y Pull are opposed to the reasonable demand, but there are other influences which thwart their upright intentions. The Regent, I need hardly add, is a stran ger to the stock-jobbing game that is now carried on by Safont and others, in connection with influential persons to the prejudice of the bona fide foreign creditors. The Madrid Gazette of the Ist has an official article in answer to the charges of cruelty made against Espar tiro by the French press, and repeated by Mr. O'Con nell. Few men in Espartero's poition would have shown half the clemency which he has done towards the Chris duo rebels. PUBLIC OPINION. The following is from the Morning Herald:—" The Globe joins the Chronicle in its hearty crusade against the Christian instruction of the people by the only means it is possible that Christianity can be taught to the po pulation of England and Wales. Four millions of that population are now practically without the pale of Chris tianity, and the proposition that the State should aid the voluntary exertions of the wealthier members of the Es tablished Church to teach them moral and religious truth, is denounced by the.matutinal organ of Whiggery as;' bi gotry,' and is chirped at at vespers by the Globe as a Quixotic scheme.' Is no attempt, then, to be made by the State to remove the practical heathenism of that por tion of the people, for whom there is literally no religi ous instruction ? Did the State connect itself with the Church, for the attempted salvation of a section of the population only ? Have the means of the Church not to be augmented, as the people increase in numbers ? Has every other temporal institution to be expanded to meet the growing necessities of the times, and the Church alone to remain stationary and restricted?"— If the Church remain stationary and restricted, it is its own fault, for it has abundant means for increasing its influence, and making itself more generally useful. If new Churches are wanted, the Establishment has the funds at hand ; a liberal subscription among its Bishops, Deans, Prebends, and Pluralists, would at once procure all that was needed ; and who can be so deeply inter ested in the welfare of the Church, as those who are its ministers, and who are paid—the higher classes of them, at least—so handsomely, for promoting its efficiency ? It is disgraceful that the Church should sue in forma pauperis, for pecuniary assistance from the State, to enable it to extend the sphere of its operations. Despite all the retrenchments lately made in the Establishment, it is still the richest—would we could add, the most dis interested and conscientious—Church in the world. The Advertiser thus expresses itself on the subject of the encroachments of Puseyism :—" Puseyism goes to the fountain head, and reverts back to Rome herself as the source and origin of her authority. The Cardinal's cap, and not the Archbishop's mitre, should, in their opinion, lead them on in their attacks upon independence and liberty of thought. The authority of the Church of Rome, which they would impose, venerable and ancient as it is, and hoary with the frost ofyears, is to them an object of more bigoted attachment and reve rence than the modern and spurious claims of English episcopacy. They turn with congenial feelings to the times, of darkness and evil for the sanctions that are requisite to give authority to their aggressions"— Though the Church, as a matter of course, exposes its distrust of, and even hostility to, Puseyism, yet its oppo sition is singularly lukewarm, compared with what it would be, were pounds, shillings, and pence, involved in the issue of the dispute. But as it is a question of ritual not of revenue—of creed not of cash—the high Church authorities content themselves with a mitigated opposi tion. Meanwhile Puseyism advances, and while our full-fledged Bishops are still slumbering as grave as owls on their perches, threatens, one of these days, to give them such a rude shock, as shall set them hooting in solemn chorus to the tune of the " Church in Danger." The Times, speaking of the Marquis Of Lansdowne's speech at the Wilts meeting, makes the following obser vations :—" When we bear in mind that Lord Lans downe's political party always betray am anxious desire to miss no opportunity, fair or unfair, of conveying to the throne their own representations about existing dis tress—a desire which, both from delicacy as an ex- Minister and from a due regard to good faith, his Lord ship was specially bound to have refrained from gratify ing at the Wiltshire meeting—we must honestly own that if any prudent or discreet purpose can have dictated Lord Lansdowne's concluding hints. it has entirely eluded our best endeavours to discover it."—To assert that the Marquis, and the other speakers at the 'Wilts meeting, were bound to refrain from alluding to " the existing distress of the country"—in order, of course, to spare the delicate sensibilities of the Tories—is as cool a piece of effrontery as ever was exhibited, even by the Times. Why should the Liberal party spare the Ministers, who never spared them ? Above all, why should they neglect their duty as citizens, in order to make such a sacrifice of truth? Had they done so, they would have disgraced theniselves irrecoverably, for they are bound by every strong tie that can bind honest men, to expose the state of the country without reserve, and even insist on the distresses Of their fellow-countrymen with the more urgency, the more the Ministers feel disinclined to suggest any scheme for their alleviation. The Post says :—" It was determined yesterday, at a Privy Council held at Windsor, that the commencement of the next Session of Parliament shall be on Thursday, the third day of February, 1842. The country will look forward to the meeting of Parliament for the dispatch of divers urgent and important affairs,' in the present in stance, for the second:time during eleven years, with just confidence that the measures to be proposed by Govern ment will have been dictated by an honest and exclusive regard to its solid and permanent interests; and that no thing will have been concocted for the purpose of keep ing an Administration in place by . creating an artificial and abortive agitation during one Session, and giving Ministers a fraudulent pretext for carrying themselves and their defeated measures over to another. The era of fraud in the higher, and of delusion in the lower, region of British society is fortunately at an end."— That the country looks eagerly forward to the next ses sion of Parliament is true ; but it certainly does not do so with any thing like " just confidence." Why should it? What reasons have the Tories ever given for the confidence of the country ? The utmost that can be ex pected from them is, that in all their proceedings they will have regard to the shadow rather than the substance of reform. The Chronicle remarks as follows on the great Derby meeting, which took place on Thursday last :—" The manufacturers of this great division of England all tell the same melancholy tale. Their staple trade, hosiery, has of late years experienced a great decline. Ger many, which used to import hosiery largely from England, now not only supplies itself, but has alto gether superseded us in the market of the United States, and is fast superseding us in South Ame rica. Nay, what is more startling, after paying an import duty of twenty per cent., German hosiery, and more particularly gloves, are sold extensively at a, profit in this country. We have lost the fo reign market, and we are fast losing the home market. Mr. - William Biggs, of Leicester, went minutely into the condition of the principal manufacturing towns of Leicestershire. In all these towns, and their neigh bourhoods, the distress is indescribable. It appears that front 1815 to the present time there has been a constant and regular downward progress. The population of Ilinckley, in 1831, was 6,491 ; in 1841, it is 6,459 ; but the reduced population is not half employed ; and wages, which in 1815 were 12s. wweek, are not now 75., while the men are not half employed. The poor-rates, in 1815, were 2,9291. ; for 1841, they are 4,2401. The next town, Loughborough, had a population of 11,000 tin 1831, and, in 1841, the population has fallen to 10,000. The workman receives now Ss. for what brought him 14s. in 1815. Leicester contains 50,000 inhabitants, and the number of unoccupied houses, which in 1831 was 550, is now 1,400. Wages arc little more than half of what they were in 1815. IR all Leicestershire there were 16,000 frames in 1815 ; there are now not more than 14,000. While things have been taking this downward ,course in Leicestershire, in Saxony the increase has been rapid in the extreme. In 1815 there were not more than 4,500 frames in that State ; in 1835 they had increased to 13,481; and now, in 1841, they are 25,000." The Dundee Chronicle says, in reference to the present distressed state of the country:—" Who can be patiet.t, temperate, or indifferent to the cause of the poor, whilst reading the details of wretchedness and woe so fearfully depicted in our metropolitan and provincial journals ? Who can keep his temper, whilst contrasting the extra vagance of royalty an d i ts sate lli tes, the aristocracy, their palaces and dog-kennels, with the misery of the weavers wretched cabin? Who can be calm, whilst Tory impudence mendaciously asserts, that there is but little cause for the clamours of the operatives of Bolton, Stockport, and Paisley?" The Leicester Mercu r y remar k s as f o ll ows: —" Wh y i s emigration necessary at the present period? Is it be cause the pop u l at i on h ave really out-grown the means of subsistence which th e countr y a ff or d s , an d to t h e use of which they are legitimately entitled? Could this be proved, we should cordially approve the remedy pro pounded. But we deny that this is the case. We nttin taiii that the Le g i s l ature , b y l aws ; t h e most un j ust i n principle, and stupid in policy, have produced, for the most part, the misery which prevails around us." The Western Times observes of the Government emi gration scheme :—" The Government are on the alert to get their emigration schemes well received, but we doubt whether they will be successful—we are certain that they ought not, until they shall have done all in their power to relieve the distress by removing the causes which produce that distress. We see many cases in our beautiful coast towns of patients sent down from distant places to try change of air—which often means that the Doctor having nearly exhausted the fees, and not caring to see the end o f hi s s kill, ge t s th e f r i en d s o f th e patient to remove him to a distance, where he dies off quietly, and the Doctor can say with a safe conscience, •' He did not die under my hands.' " The following is from the Dublin Evening 'Post f— " Our precious Government has two organs, one of which is constantly occupied in contradicting the other, whilst both are fighting like fishwives. The Mail promulgates what the Orange managers of the Castle require to b e performed. The Packet being instructed to play upon a lower key, deprecates the impatience of the rival organ, and describes him as a madman, in order to throw dis credit upon his information. A pretty Set they are—the Government, their organs, and all." The Durham Chronicle comments in the following terms onLord J. Russell's answer to the Plymouth Ad dress :—" His Lordship's recent answer to the Plymouth Address has provoked not a little vituperation. And the more to be wondered at is this explosion of party feeling, inasmuch as we are assured, by the same critics, that Lord John is about the most contemptible person in the three kingdoms ; and that his answer is even more contemptible than himself. This answer we believe to be exactly what it ought to be. It descends to no petty grievance, and discusses the important topics to which it relates with that temperate yet firm and dignified reliance which nothing but a conscientious performance of duty can ever inspire." COMMERCIAL REFORM. At Hemel Hempstead resolutions have been passed for the immediate formation of an Anti-Corn-law Asso ciation. At Bethnal-green, a Conimittee has been appointed to prepare petitions to Parliament for the repeal of the Corn•laws. A Meeting of the Bishopsgate Without Anti-Corn-law Association took place last night, at the White Hart Ta vern, Bishopsgate-street, to hear an address from Mr. Sidney Smith, and to take measures to advance the cause of free-trade generally. ECCLESIASTICAL. On Sunday last, says the Nottingham Journal, the Rev. Mr. Sibthorp, and two other persons, who have lately apostatized from the Established Church, were ordained at the Roman Catholic Chapel at Gracedieu, Leicester shire, by the Vicar Apostolic, and the former afterwards preached two sermons. MAW AND POLICE. At the Surrey Sessions yesterday eight men were found guilty of committing a robbery, attended with violence, on the night of Friday, the 3d inst., on James Goss, in the town of Croydon., ,The prisoners, while in the act of robbing the prosecutor, were disturbed, and succeeded in taking from him only a silver medal and a gold ring. The Court sentenced the ringleaders Freeman, Green, and White, to ten years' transporta tion ; Gee, Payne, and Cresswell, to eighteen months' imprisonment ; and Nicholls and Butcher to 12 months' imprisonment in the House of Correction, at Brixton. On the previous day, Edward Page, aged 22 years, was convicted of robbing on the Queen's highway, near Croydon, on the 29th t., Samuel Cox and his wife, and stealing from them 14. 3d. The convict was sen tenced to be transported for fifteen years. It appears these were members of a gang of robbers who have for some time infested that neighbourhood. The Hatton-garden Police-court will be transferred on the 15th inst. to the new premises, in the Bagnigge Wells road, and for the future be styled " Th Clerkenwell Police-court." At Bow-street, Williams, charged with stealing a quantity of plate from Dr. Giles, of Windlestane Hall, was fully committed •to Newgate for trial. At the instance of Lord Frankfort, an Irish Peer, two Italians were charged at the Marylebone-office with play ing and singing opposite his Lordship's house, and re fusing to go away when desired. It appeared, however, that they were playing opposite the house of a Captain Kerr, at fifty yards distance, and could not possibly an noy Lord Frankfort, and the prisoners were therefore discharged. COVET—FASHIONABLE. The Duchess of St. Albans was safely delivered of a daughter yesterday in Piccadilly. The Earl and Countess of Orford have arrived at the family seat in Norfolk. The Earl of Charlemont has returned to Dublin from Roxburgh Castle._ Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston arrived at Pan sanger from Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire, on Tuesday last. Lord and Lady Walpole go in a few days on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Orford. The Marquis of Lansdowne will entertain Lord John Russell, Lord Duncannon, and other members of the late Administration, during the Christmas holidays,at Bowood. The Earl of Westmoreland remains in much the same state, and we understand but little hope is entertained of his recovery. mXSCELLANEOTTS. The Freshwater Cliffs, Isle of Wight, are in a very bad state from the rains, and the celebrated cavern at Fresh water-gate has fallen in. Headen Hill, so interesting to geologists, is also a mass of ruins. The great lawyer, Francis Hargrave, amassed his ex tensive and valuable library merely by "picking up" at book-stalls. Parliament granted 8,0001. fur the purchase of it for the British Museum. There is only one fur peculiar to England— that of the silver-tipped rabbit of Lincolnshire. It is little used in this country, but is readily purchased abroad, especially in Russia and China. On this evening, in 1718, Charles XII., King of Sweden, was killed during the siege of Frederickshall, whilst inspecting the trenches exposed to the fire of a battery. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) COURSING.-4)STERLY PARK, DEC. 7 AND 8. The Puppy Cup was won by Mr. Ball's Banquet, beating Mr. Wilshin's Spring. The Wyke Stakes were won by Mr. Wilshin's Spot. The 'Warren Stakes were won by Mr. Batt's Barrister. The Norwood Stakes were won by Mr. Charnell's Finish. The Ladies' Stakes were won by Mr. Chandler's Fly. MALTON (EBBERSTON), DEC. 7. The Ebberston Stakes were won by Mr. Baffles Brandy, beating his Barton. The Saddler Stakes (4 puppies) were won by Mr. Bartli Crucifix. KNOWLE MEETING, DEC. 7. The Knowle Stakes (16 dogs) were won by Mr. H. Wilson's Bashful, beating, in the deciding course, Mr. Greaves' Hector. RIDGWAY CLUB (SOUTHPORT), DEC. 2 AND 3. The Ridgway Challenge Cup (12 dogs) was won by Mr. Ridgway's Princess Royal, beating Mr. Eden's Emerald. The Puppy Cup (12 dogs) was won by Mr. Eden's Edhem Bey, beating Mr. Craven's Caldwell. The Martindale Cup (12 dogs) was won by Mr. Eden's Echo, beating Mr. Ridway's Deerslayer. The Fleetwood Stakes (8 dogs) were won by Mr. Swan's Sandy, beating Mr. Slater's Sweetbriar. The Hoghton Stakes (8 dogs) were won by Mr. Knowles' Kate, beating Mr. Craven's Clara ; and the Southport Stakes by Mr. Slater's Snap. MORPETH, DEC. 2 AND 3. The Great North of England Stakes, value 1681., were won by Mr. Henderson's Miss_ Mary (Awake), beating in the deciding course Mr:Ditining's Rob the Ranter. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, DEC. 11.—Wind at noon W., variable. RAMSGATE, DEC. 10.—Arrd. Lady Jane, Mogadore ; Felucia, Bremen for South America. Put back British Queen, for Cape Coast Castle ; Susanna Maria Cathe rine, for Now York. OFF MARGATE, DEC. 10.—Prince George, Halifax. DEAL, DEC. 10.—Wind N.W. by W.—Arrd. Cognac Packet, Buenos Ayres. Arrd, from the River Mary Dick, Rio Janeiro ; Africanus, Africa ; Lady Mary,--. The greater part of the vessels which sailed yesterday have put back, the wind having shifted to S.W., during the night. Arrd. Glenswelly, M`Neil, Singapore. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 10.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. Pro tector, Honduras; Aberbeen, Quebec. Arrijed off—Un daunted, Valparaiso; Dean, Calcutta. DOVER, DEC. 9.—Arrd. Caroline, Jundswell, for Al giers, with loss of sails, stanchions, &c., having been in contact with a barque. DUBLIN, DEC. 9.—Arrd. in the Bay, Oban, Quebec. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 10.—Wind W. to N.W., a gale, very squally.—Arrd. the Oriental steamer, Alexandria, left 23d ult., Malta 29th, and Gibraltar 4th inst. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 9.—Arrived Sophia, transport, and Apollo, transport, eastward, for China. Sailed, Fortitude, Australia. Put back, her Majesty's ship Aigle; and Wan derer. DEC. 10.—Wind N.N.W. to S.W.—Sd. Mediator, New York; British America, New Orleans; Olia, Sierra Leone; her Majesty's ships Harlequin and Pique, China. It has blown a gale all night at S.W. POOLE, DEC. B.—Arrd. Olive Branch and A-la-mode, Newfoundland. CORK, DEc. B.—Beccles,'Brown, Buenos Ayres. Arrd. off—General, Varty, Laguna, and sailed for Liverpool. YOUGHAL, DEC. 5.—A rrd. Idea, Perming ton, Quebec. The Lyons, Walker, which sailed to-day, for London, has put back, making water under the hawse-pipe, but expected to proceed. WEYMOUTU, DEC. 10.—Arrd. Visitor, Shields, for Dublin, towed in dismasted, and must discharge part of cargo. • TORBAY, DEC. 10.—Put back, G. M'Leod, for Mauri tius ; Patriot, Monte Video ; Jane, for Africa ; British Isles for Demerara, and several others working into the bay. BRISTOL. DEC. 10.—Arrd the Susaia, Demerara ;Wave, from Messina. BERWICK, DEc. 9.—The Erin, from Glasgow to Rotterdam, towed in here on the 14th ult. dismested, will be ready to proceed in a few days. The Dart, from Limekilns to London, brought in here on the 2d inst., with damage, having been ashore, has discharged, and will go on the patent slip. YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT, DEC. 9.—The Sham rock, Murray, from Southampton to Youghal, shore on Lymington mud, but came oLf this morning ap parently without damage. got on EARLY RISING.—The late Chief Baron O'Grady (Ireland), who, like the matutine planets, was generally up before the sun, was always in the same pre dicament with reference to his own son, Dennis, whose slumbers were generally prolonged into the morning. Once when the Baron was on circuit, he knew that his son'was engaged as barrister in the first cause, he hurried into his bedroom, and waking him without much cere mony, exclaimed, , 6 Up with you, Dennis, Dennis! re member it's the early bird that catches the worm.' " " Serve the worm right for being up earlier than the bird," replied the sluggard, rubbing his eyes.—Celburn's New Monthly. EARL GREY.--It is not true, as has been stated by some of our Contemporaries, metropolitan and pro vincial, that Earl Grey is suffering from severe indis pbyoshitiisonfa.mTilhye, i Nob n h l i e s Earlus ual.is g a o t o d ifo h ‘ e v a i c l l t c h su. As w r as r e utnod bee d expected, however, the sudden and melancholy death of the Countess of Durham has plunged the venerable Earl and his amiable Countess, and the other branches of the family, into the most poignant grief. This painful ca lamity was not at all apprehended, and has come upon the relatives of the deceased Countess in the most sudden manner possible. The remains of the deceased lady will be brought to Chester-le-Street, near Durham, for inter ment in the vault of th e L am b ton family, where repose the ashes of . the Earl of Durham and his ancestors. LECTURES ON SCOTTISH SO" AND MUSIC. I th e Mr. Wilson, of the Theatres Royal, denture( .0 first of a seri e s of L ec t ures on S co ttish Song and 31051, yesterday evening, at th e M u sic-hall in Store-stre" Bedford-suare. The chief charm of the songs and music of Scoth!nitifte said Mr. Wil son , was th e i r undeviating and extitilli simplicity. Thi s was d ou btl ess ow ing to the s o % from which they sprang. The shepherds of the _N:;' who first piped " u p on th e oa t en s t ra w or pastoral quil t and among the " b e ll s swee t jangled " of their 10°4 flocks, first produced those simple airs which have Vs; tionally descended to our times. Historic chronic] sic, the earliest eras make mention of this primitive ma s '.: and the Lecturer with candour observed, that while r a, Scotland, melodies of a very ancient period floated 0, 11 :1 among their vales, England had been equally precocl.f74 and Gerald Cambrensis cited many instances of plai7 - 3 upon harps and tabrets. 'Washington Irving rer a i r that the Scotch song and music were marked " brilliant melancholy." Allan Ramsay had P r eli hs their flowers of melody with unequivocal d to his heart, and originated many of them nr, self. Walter Scott pronounced them to be m° , self. precious than " cairns of gold or gems of I° oo l Clerical puritanism has, in some instances, d eg° . oo i n . Scotch song and music, but hearty piety h as in mor e s stances found religious exercises and devotion s g r nen f aided by it. The names of many great and exeetlids clergymen could be recounted who had used it as .; n 0 best consolation. Of foolish excommunication s sg 7is it, a very old case of John Muir was in existencedelir that he in the Church had piped," &c. The s aid . 0 quent was cited before the Presbytery for b n 0 1 offence, and on its repetition was severely censund, threatened with excommunication. One old. his however, the Lecturer knew, who constantly tw i li g ht watch in the evening about his candle, that he A '7l, o o sedulously play till the hands tou c hed twelve. -% w as time since, too, a clergyman of his acquala t r i' Fddle. heard by his parishioners to be a pl a yer on the , wa ited His congregation were shock e d, an d according l y „ go o. on their pastor to remonstr a t e o n his heinous e"-'eo, With difficulty they opened the cause of °l'm's.' but at last made him understand about the ea t-. a The reverend accordingly prod uce d the inststua drew fine robust old violoncello, and in their prese t t, bis, some grand old church-musi c f rom its strings !:floot,' bow. The testy religi on i s t s were c harmed. ,t that said one, " it's a fine g orse fiddl e , no t a little 1 100 i they carry in their po c k e t s f or ji gs ; it' s a second let him play on it on Sunday in the congregat ia . s n ' o ssat "The Scotch songs app ear t o h ave a t first been 041 national, intended to stir u p courage aga inst to e ,. et t hat of their hills and borders ; and it is a singul ar ' s- itse t° the language of the Engish and the S c otch W r ys all was almost the same. Love, the passion that ages and all breasts, was of cou rse the creato r f irb i tudes ; Burns owned that it w as f rom love th at c odas " rhymed and sang." King J ames the Fiftlie b f e ' 7 4; o o is mentioned by English chr on i c l ers to hav e prince and prelate of all harp ers ," an d he Was 4ceo excellent of skill on the psaltery and organ. ~; pe y s° ° :; Scotch airs, it is singular to remark, are e', „'","in posed by omitting the fourth and seventh 11 ,t h- f s 10u t. % scale, by which also the music of Caledua l l„," of a' very nearly to approach to the ancient P° .n r ''' o sseri a. Greek Church music. James Clarke makes 7-the bare' tion that by playing only on the black keYL ° l or d ' sichord, a variety of Scotch tunes may r. n 'aseP his h; while another has said, in reference to the" the m cated simplicity, that an animal might proda''' scrambling haphazard on th e k e y s . his le cture s) Mr. Wilson now proceeded to illustrrite,_ 3 s rd with a selection of songs and airs that . o "", n s br a , equal antiquity and simplicity. His ric e ... n os : 0 ,..., 1 a j a to great advantage within the limited causr - Ow: s on music-room. The sweetness of his tenor w7 e ,,abY truly exquisite, and the finer intonations e a ," ll ,,„ t ert F' - t ha songs were charmingly soft and mild. " 1, 1 away from me, Mary," was powerfully:tone _oat rising inflections of the voice, and the cadent movements. To the modern set : ° , ea ces i a ,,; Flowers of the Forest" some curious remit' s- on tached, and the words appear to have been N t° V the occasion of the breaking up of seven Laird' siags burghshire, all of whom became insolvent la wns se r S o year : the ancient set of the same song, which found 0 lugubrious of tone after the above, b r oil winninglq„ ip the Skene M.S. in the Advocate's Edinburgh, was the composition:of one Ifathers,o ofrcej the time of James 11., was a Clerk of Sessi °ll l; s eoce„,s held in later days by Sir W. Scott ;it was it"'" in the Library by James Grahame , Ivil i ° oo l l wards translated it for ordinary instrumen ts + n t 55 been originally noted for the lute. In the, seque the sio er the repetition of the words " Wally, wally," w as e ar et. pathetically exquisite e x pre s sion in music that, bissa, heard. " Woo'd and married an a', is a trti l l o ice ful thing, and the archness of mannerism and The re i fused into it by the singer gave great delight- iv oak fractoriness of the little maiden refusing ' rise .--, se, " Johnny," having in expectation a brighter f f . s urPr i ,•' chiding of her mother the gudewife—the h 3 half-indignation of her father—the voice of b o la i n e , at her side, telling her of past loves and her , l ike C` P j . blue e'en"—her confusion and touched feeling", rin gh e i ridge's "Genevieve," at length described us coq ue t. pl. till " she blinkit sae sweet in his face, t ha 's a e ,,s was blest and the marriage consummated- 13 r„ iic ti e r uso known address, the words of which arc by 0 w if sung by Mr. Wilson, with great power. AnnPl e for o h e i r c b the war-tune to which it is set, was accomp - 0 ",,Icl by other words, namely, "How now day claWiie,beitv Bishop Gawin Douglas and Dunbar me n tion i s o ! histories. Mr. Wilson proposed that in Si t/ ', 11 :1 . 1" - r h e now adopted, an improvement would be etfee,„t %"'" fall at the end of the fourth line were sustained , deference to the talented vocalist's judgment bi s s - hic i q dation appeared to remove the falling harasonY us es , a great beauty. His execution of the s';:l e fis A lf l ei t ' a would rouse courage in stone ; it rang w . t te rsse' j t he " Tak yer auld cloak aboot ye," in these I,ll,oice cave passages where the sweet, thin, tresaul °u i s te uess ° E f h t , e le gudewife is advising, possessed an elg a vi s s ould 11°- , as it fell from the singer's lips, such, ti ,".i n ger- „ g oo been expected from the voice of a tua. t ' e i lii s on, 011 , 11 1, pre' The two further lectures of gr. from t " r e , ot th ° ,, for the 15th and 27th instant, proms' t he t he lo ve " • c e and grammes to furnish a yet richer treat t° no of 01 c a science. Enhanced by the accornpunielef lec ture C harpsichord, this delightful species fail to draw together crowded audiences' 0 14 • 11 A. ed s o MODEL OF NIA „proclu i r e fs Mr. Catlin, whose brush and pencil. f.„ ll ' er icau ; L iter. many animated transcripts of North nieu e fin . Ir sceneries, now appears before the riot ° s ubjer c The Falls of Niagara have furnished ving, Trollope, and other descriptive Wi t mo del Catlin has represented them in a mi niA o tilre cosc uto r 5.. 5 would surprise even the natives. a cct This work of art, made on a scale f tions, was modelled in the country, fro m 0 0 b o rth # by Mr. Catlin himself. The scene rePr es on ihe nod whole may be thus graphically described. esto ing west, the broad river of the Niagara of n t jppe r furlongs in width, pours along its of 40' against what is termed the river-shod ca ts 0 , Canada, and creates a gigantic ja i l ° n epea ll 'fre. Diana sg idt outside of which Half-moon aris ing termed from its crescent conformation,,hae ric e r niv~ the same cause. The immense body o,f!nd, can 60 its rapids is met midway by a bulk 0 1 1 " w e °jag -fi T ve his ac i re so s l Island. seventy acres, and tract kno w of Porter. It is covered with forest trees, at o o f r' sy clo n land d t h b e e .: ; s o t 11,h e :el are chairs and benches for the accommudspect tb i lers and visitors, and much resembles in, htbich Park in its more wooded quarters. Bested ona.: tree island, the river divides into two portioornioing meets with the Horse-shoe of Niagara , f, i . fle rea, c osse mendous " Falls," and the other wia," i st ;tes, northernmost promontory of the United re . ; so o; by a ferry-bridge, and falling down nnuca' iii there forming the United States Falls ;, ' ' s j pitiC e9 o lll o the waters of these two falls afterwards tua e il Ca n ifAl ° r r e unitedly they flow into Lake Ontario• to v, ef t side of the river is traversed by the great raa . " oo, atT o ser, and Chippewa, and southward to Queea c ' eat tere u es a so tends about a mile and a half in length. ;„„tati°,,th s ; the same surface are innumerable small IN: d for,s! o tea farm-yards, the hotels known as Brown , w ic ea' together with every mill, factory, and tc% s aule on the shore. On the United State s ' side t" racy is followed up. ----. „, 0 A.5.,,, THE MISSOURI LEVIA'A ,theSPro a A n n addition has been made to the attractions 0. Leas-tiow, ti Hall by the exhibition of the " Missouri $ SOO brought to this country by M. Koch, together w" is , , abundance of fossils and relics of unknown aninlooj pre. magnitude of the above specimen, which have beeo,°,rlb; servation, is enormous ; it is supposed toedlol u p "". ginally an amphibious creature, and roam 1 15 l ie ' ' fens and marshes of the antediluvian world. , he pe surements exceed the Iguanadon, discovered in i" sex sands by Mantell. —..---- 0 00 n n u g s s Thursday , i hs uit the ros r csi varied a : ,f thisev e entertainmentsn ibeautifuln evening two ADELAIDE GALLOIY. c i, 0 ° whi 10 were n u e A t r u e e m r d instruction are daily delighted and, iroproy musical pert° which call for a 0 o,i Mr n especial notice. .A. B. S a i l.. ? • k C d u pon th e . b 01 '. wie - performed a solo los o r certina," - consisting of brilliant variations on an With 04061 a e Tyrolese melody, in a masterly style and co ntif i l d fi clit effect, which elicited universal and long' °f el of t a r pplause, and was vehemently encored. This 7 1 u pol oef theatreviotfhanktpoe°ere4 certainly not appreciated, as it deserves to b e ' 1c at least in the hands of such a master as M e Scmb 110 1 i 1 0 inferior to none. Its compass is scarcely s eed zwr tvor than that of the violin, nor do its harmonies co less perfect than those of th e less plastic insstru o fr , phatically styled the " Table of Ilarmon).".' f ob „ It o( Mr, L. Emanuel performed upon the piano to the Sedgwick's accompaniment upon the Concertin_ o f , , i , " Divertimento," composed by himself, in WI., .1. 0 Prince of Wales, entitled, " l'he Royal Firestn •,.„,1 V . , c o mposition is at once classical and imaginative,,_r occ,l admirable execution with which the author, on to! . 0 , 0 1 4 sion, presented it to his enraptured audience', red scarcely be surpassed. The piece was Quo enthusiastic applause. . - Vi'i .nti _____—.......... f RELIEF FUND.—We understand that tri.itip of Wales' Fund for the poor of the city, bas reset` 00 COON. ;which will prove a great boon to e s ur .: la it 16 bsig working population during the winter, rdis distributed in meal, potatoes, and coals.----' ' on e, A sl i ght shock of earthquake Wag fe lt st -l ii v i°o Observer. on the 2d inst., at a little before eight in the e.„'r e r: i pe , ()„; the same time, a shock was experienced at v 1 ` 0 03e" the Rhone. No damage was done, but t fe et. was stronger at the latter place t han at the EVENING SUN 4 til4 c ; 44 tisei 11111 Of