The Sun. — London, England, 1841-12-31 00:00:00

EVEN ING SUN price is dependent upon supply and demand. Itgan article is scarce in the market, however small the defi ciency may be, the price of all the stock in the market is raised. In like manner, if there be a surplus, how ever small that surplus may be, it affects not merely the vurglela, but the tehole of the commodity, which is thereby reefeete3 in - price. Now, we can show by sta tistical facts and irrefutable documents, that since the year 1815, there has been a constant introduction of self-acting machitiery, or machinery which imposed greater labour on the smaller number of adult opera tires retained ; thus cheapening the cost, and in creasing the amount of production. And what has bean the consequence ? Why, exactly in proportion as this as taken place, the profits of the capitalist and the wages of the labourer have regularly de creased ; until at length, in 1E32, we received no more money for three times the amount of raw material manu factured, than we received in 1815 for the one-third. This result, in our opinion, is clearly traceable to the unregulated use and extensive introduction of machinery which has either superseded adult labour entirely, or replaced it by the cheaper labour of woman and childrem What is now the consequence? Throughout the manu facturing districts mills are nearly closed. The capi talist and middle classes are in difficulties—insolvent or bankrupt ; while the operatives are in a state of desti tution which must make every heart bleed, and which arises from causes over which they themselves have no contrail!. Now, if this insane course had been checked, if over production had been discouraged by wise laws, and a prudent system of trade pursued, wages and profits would have beenbetterond employment more permanent ansi more equally diffused over the year. Fur these rea sons, Sir Robert, we believe that the dictates of sound political wisdom coincide with the dictates of humanity, morality, and religion, in calling upon us to retrace our steps, and arrest the progress of a system which is spreading disease, disorganization, and disaffection, in the factory districts. As a proof that we are not over stating the facts, we beg to present you; Sir Robert, with one illustration of many which might be offered. It is a printed copy of the Report of the Unemployed Operatives' Enumeration Committee of Leeds, in which a detailed statement of the condition of ad operatives in the several wards of that town, the emporium of the woollen district, is given. The summary of that ap palling statement is, that nearly 20,000 human beings -are now living upon an average Weekly income of 110. per head. We leave to your own judgment what must be the ultimate end of Leh a state of things." Sir Rozerer, taking the document, said, " I am sorry to say that I have already seen this melancholy statement in manuscript, through the kindness of Sir James GrahaM, to whom it was presented by Mr. Beckett. lam deeply grieved by the knowledge of such au amount of suffering, and sympathise most sin cerely with the condition of the people as there de seribe4, It is indeed very distressing, and some effi cient remedy is most desirable." The DEPUTATION—TLP requirements of humanity icnperatively - demand it. No system which entails upon the great biirk of the community such sufforing, ought to he permitted to exist ; such a baneful influence ought .not to - go unchecked, whatever reasons, political or ceonomica!, may be adduced in its behalf. Sir RosEßr PEEL tben directed the conversation to the broad question of machinery. which, he said was oee .?eservin:,• of the greatest consideration. 'r DEPUTATION said, '° We will not atf empt to conceal from you, Sir Robert, our opinion that, in order to meet the case lolly and fairly, the enactment of other and more 'comprehensive measures is indis pensably necessary. A ten-hours Bill ten years ago might and would have produced much more benefit the it can now produce. In the interval a vast amount of automaton power has been called into ex istence. It appears lay the reports of the Factory In spectors that between the years 1835 and 1839 the horse-power increased at least one-half, while, so tar from the new machinery calling new manual labour into exercise, the fact was, that the number of spinners in Manchester required to work the enlarged and increased machinery was not more than one-third of the number previously employed. For such a state of thgs it would be very unwise, and a concealment of the truth, to say that a ten-hours Bill would be a complete and perfect remedy ; but it would, at least, be a step in the right road. To insure effective relief from the dangers and evils by which we are now surrounded, bolder and more comprehensive measures most assuredly are requisite ; and if you, Sir R. Peal, will excuse us for stepping beyond the legitimate boundaries of our mission, we will tell you our opnions as to those measures. We have come to you in the spirit of friendship—not to dictate or dogmatise—neither have we come to find fault, without suggesting such a remedy as-appears to us capable of alleviating the evil ; and we also come free from all party feeling or preju dices. We are sick of party nicknames and party contests, for party' purposes. We are sick of the ever lasting confusion and bad feeling arising from these contests, and are prepared to award our confidence, support, and gratitude, to any Government, or set of seen (no matter what their party name may be), who will show by their actions that they sympathise with our wrongs-end ourisuff4rings, and are honestly desirous of removing them. We venture to recommend, for the reasons laid before you at length, the passing of the Tea Hours Bill, and to accompany it either by the total repeal of the New Poor-law, or by such an altera tion of it as will render it applicable to the manufactur ing districts, in Which it is at this moment practically inoperative, and in which we defy any Government ever to enforce it. • Sir ROBERT—WeII, gentlemen, I have listened with deep interest to your statements, and feel obliged by, your waiting on me. I confess that there is much force in what you have advanced, and that the evils you complain of are manifold and great, especially those which press upon the manufacturing operative. I also fear that an extension of our manufactures will not afford the relief desired; for past experience, I think, shows.that such an extension would only bring into play more machinery, and not employ manual labour in an thing like the rate of the increase in the machine de partment., Of course.l cannot pledge myself to any particular line of action in respect to the measure you advocate. But .I shall give the subject that full and attentive consideration which its importance and various bearings deserve, and should I come to a different con clusion to that you hold, I shall do so with a confident reliance on the intelligence, moderation, and good feel. ing yeti have now displayed, assured that these conclu sions and the reasons I may adduce for them will re ceive a calm and impartial examination. The DEPUTATION repeated that they had no wish to draw from the Premier any premature avowals of his policy. Their sole object was to make a true and full statement of the condition of those whose interests they represeated in the spirit of friendship to all parties. They sought not the injury of any class, but the welfare of as : and they believed that the policy and measures they recommended world insure this commendation. They wished it to be understood that they had no anti pathy whatever to the masters—no desire to injure t h e.aa . They neither,accused them of selfishness nor cru elty. It war,. the _system which made them what they were ; and the object the Deputation had in view was to alter the system in as gradual and beneficial a manner for all parties as p ass ib le. The Deputation then rose to take leave, observing that they had some thought, of waiting upon Sir James. Graham, and asked Sir Robert if it would be ad visable or necessary ? James, had better see Si r J am To whi c h b e replied, " Cer tainly ; I think you. and also Mr. Gladstone." *Sir Robert immediately wrote notes of introduction to those two ge nt lemen, after which, he most courteously bade the Deputation farewell, again expressing the satisfaction the inter Y i' eW had afforded him. The impression left on the minds of every one of the Depoption on retiring was, that Sir U. "et is f e ll a aware di the great source of our evils at the prese n t moment, and that be sineely sympathises with the work _ ing-classes. GEORGE A. FLEMING. JOSHUA HOBSON. JOHN LEECH. MARK CRABTREE. TITUS S. BROOKE. • The bridge over the Berre, between Grignan and 3fontelimart, in the Drome, had several of its arches car :ried away by the late flood. The Courrier of Valance states that some nights ago a merchant's clerk, travelling with goods in a cart, being unaware of the accident, drove on to the sound part, and passed for some little distance, hut towards the middle the road sunk under him, and with the cart and horse he fell into the river, 20 feet be low. By a miraculous chance he contrived to get on dry ground again, without the least injury to the horse, the start, the goods, or himself, except a good drenching. The Alsace relates the following cruel and cold blooded murder :—M. Haanaan, the Cure of Schlestadt, bed leug been accustomed to make his house an asylum for bc'nighted travellers, giving them a moderate supper and alae'd, sending them on their way in the morning, Ivith a small sum of moneyin their pockets. On Wednes day evening last he brow ht home a man of decent ap, pearcitee, Who he admitted to partelre at his own table, anal then conducted to the guest chamber. In the morn ing, when the bour of mass came, and the servant of the good priest-Went to call him, he was found dead on the lloor, his throat having been cut with a razor. The stranger had fled, taking with him 50f., all the money in the house, though probably he expected' a much larger b oo ty, the deceased's watch, his cloak, and some other por• table articles 11 , has not been discovered, and it i s believed took his departure by the Colmar Railroad. TOTAL REPEAL OF THE BREAD-TAX.—A public meeting of the inhabitants of Manchester will be held in the Town nal!, King-street, on new year's day, for the purpose 'of petitioning Parliament in favour of the total and immediate repeal of the Bread and Provision taxes,- and of recommending to the House of Commons the appointment of a Committee to ascertain the best mode 'of compensating the injured bread-eaters of Great Britain and Ireland for the great misery, privation, and loss sustained by them from the operation of the Corn and Provision-laws. Mr. Alderman Brooks will take the Th'e Patriote of Chalons-sur-Saone states that the wife of a farmer of Veesey has been taken into cus tody for having, after a quarrel with her husband, and as h e was lying in bed, thrown a large saucepan of boiling water over Is face and breast, THE RAILWAY SUN lS NOW RE-PUBLISHING, PRICE SIXPENCE. TUE CHINA SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sun De c . Office, D 3l, 1841 . 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With Eight Illustrations from Dra wings by Alfred Crowquill, engraved by Cruikshank the Younger.—Rais.lng the Devil : a Legend of Albertus Magnus. By ' rhomas Ingoldsby, Esq. Mr. Bentley begs to inform Subscribers and the Pub lic ghat he has declined to renew his engagement with Mr. Ainsworth as Editor of, or Contributor to, " Bentley's Ins cell sny." Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, DEC. 31, "Will be perfor;;;lthePiTi.y of THE TWO GENTLEMEN 0:F VERONA.—Duke of Milan, Mr. Phelps ; Valentine, Mr. Macread7 ; Proteus, Mr Anderson ; Thurio, Mr. Comp ton ; Launce, Mr. Keeley : Julia, Miss Fortescue ; Silvia, Miss Ellis ; Lucetta, Miss Turpin. After v,hich will he repeated the New Christmas Pantomime, called HARLEQUIN AND DUKE HUMPHREY'S DIN NER ; OR, JACK CADE, THE LORI) OF LONDON STONE. _ . Doors to be opened at Half past Six, and the Performance to begin at Seven o'clock. Boxes 55. , Second Price, 2 r. 6.t. Pit 35., Second Price 2s. Lower Gallery Is. 6d., Second Pr ice Is. Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, DEC. 31, Will be presented Shakspere's Comedy (with Music) of THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR.—Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Bartley ; Master Slender, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Ford, Mr. Cooper; Fenton ' Mr. W. Harrison ; Mrs. Ford, Mr., Nisbett ; Mrs. Page, Madame Vestris ; Ann Page, Miss Rainforth ; Mrs. Quickly, Mrs. Glover. After which will be repeated the New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled GUY EARL OF WARWICK ; OR, HARLEQUIN AND THE DUN COW. Doors to te opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. fid.; First and Second Circ'es, ss. ; Second Price, 23. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. 23. Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be talvfn 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. • To-morrow, Norma, with the New Pantomime. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. The most extensive Christmas Novelties ever produced. All the talent of London. Grandeur and expence unequalled. All New. THIS EVENING, DEC. 31, Will be acted a New Domestic Drama, entitled MADAME LAFFARGE, from Memoirs written by Herself. To conclude with a Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE ICE QUEEN; OR, JACK FROST AND KING SHAM.—With gorgeous and charac teristic Scenery, splendid Properties, ludicrous and Quaint Dresses, ingenious Tricks, magnificent Panorama by Brun ning, &c. Harlequin, M. Hyaline ; Patch, M. Rochet ; Pan taloon, M. Lehman ; Flip, Signor Feliz Carlo ; Clown, Mr. Buckingham ; Columbine, Miss Sharpe. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSRALDISTON. Splendour—Novelty—Attraction and Interest ! Undoubted ! Unequalled Unprecedented ; THIS EVENINO, DEC. 31. Will be acted, SUSAN HOPLEY • er, THE TRIALS AND VICISSITUDES OF A SERVANT GlRL.—Wil liam Dean, Mr. E. F. Saville; Dicky Dean, Mr. Paul; Susan Hopley, Miss Vincent (the acknowledged Heroine of Domestic Tragedy}, After which, ROBERT MACAIRE.—Robert Macaire, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Jacques Strop, Mr. Gardner. To conclude with a New Grand Romantic Aerial Comic Pan tomime, entitled HARLEQUIN PETER WILKINS ; OR, THE KING OF THE AIR AND THE FLYING IN DIANS.—With new and extensive Scenery, Dresses, Decora tions, Tricks, Transformations, and Effects—A new Nautical Panorama, to be entitled " Our Native Sea-girt Isle !" con sisting of Maritime Views along the Coast of England. Also, a new Grand Dissolving Diorama, by Childe, the Great Illu sionist ; and the Opening of the Pantomime supported by the Comic Talent of this—the Popular Theatre of London. Boxes, 25.-I'it, is.—Galley}, 6d.—Half-price to the Boxes only, at Half-past Eight. NEW STRAND THEATRE. SPLENDID CHRISTMAS AMUSEMENTS. This and Every Evening during the Week, the GREAT MODERN MAGICIAN and ROYAL VENTRILOQUIST, Mr. JACOBS, will astonish, delight, and surprise his au diences. The Feats in Magic surpass every thing of the sort previously witnessed. His NECROMANTIC TEMPLE is gorgeous and costly, and his Ventriloquism is the first in Eu rope: to miss seeing him is losing a treat indeed; In addition to the above, the following excellent performances are given : Herr KREUTZER'S PHANTASMAGORICAL DIS SOLVING PORTRAITS; the Classical Experiments of the PATAGONIAN WONDERS; and Mons. ROUSSEUR, the celebrated FRENCH EQUILIBRIST. Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, is. 6d. ; Gallery, 6d. To commence at Seven precisely. Carriages to be in waiting Ten Minutes to Eleven. qtt LONDON: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1841• The principle involved in the condemnation of M. DUPOTY by the Chamber of Peers, which our Tories are disposed to adopt and act on, namely, that an author is responsible for the ef fects of his writings on the minds and conduct of other persons, requires now to be subjected to a close examination. We cannot assent to it. An author or public writer is responsible for the truth and accuracy of his remarks ; he may be justly liable to censure for bad taste or improper language; but the effects of his observations on the minds of others is wholly beyond his com- THE SUN , LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1841. wand or control, and it is as absurd to make him responsible for other men's feelings, thoughts, and actions, as for their peculiar organitation, on which, more than on his words, their feelings depend. Language, whether written or spoken, is the mere sign or symbol of the feelings or thoughts of him who use;; it, and has no necessary or cer tain connection with the feelings or thoughts of those to whom it is addressed. Men of different nations do not understand each.others langu'age. It is for them a Mere sound, musical or other wise, or a mere mark, crooked or straight, and nothing more. For individuals of the same na tion words have very different meanings, or arc connected with very different emotions, accord ing to their respective knowledge, situation, pas. sions, and circumstances. Take, for example, the word "home." In the half-starved ragged urchin, who scarcely ever enters his wretched abode but to be scolded or beaten, and who only knows it as a place of re fuge in extremely bad weather; all whose youth ful pleasures have been found in running about in the streets, playing in the dirt with other idle boys, getting his food by what be can beg, or earn by holding horses or sweeping a crossing in such a ragged lad, the word " home" conkres up feelings almost the reverse of what the same word conjures up in a youth who has foul - Kt most of his pleasures in his father's house--who has there had his toys and his playmates—who has there always found his food and 11;.s repose—who has returned thither from school, or from the outdoor world, sure to find some fond and affec tionate bosoms into which he can pour all his griefs, and sure to receive in all difficulties ad vice, sympathy, and consolation—and who has there received all his first, his strongest, and most pleasurable impressions. For two such persons, the word " horhe" signifies totally diffe rent states of mind ; and is the poor writer - or speaker, who ivies the word, to be made respon sible,for their,l: 4 ifferent emotions? Or take the word " king," as more appropriate to our subject. In the man who has been trained in the belief that kings reign by Divine com mand, and are GOD'S vicegerents on earth— who looks, therefore, on them almost as deities— who has been taught that, wanting their august presence and special care, men would be brutal untamed savages—that a Court only can shed over a laud the taste for the fine and ennobling arts—and in whom, consequently, loyalty is a reverential worship of the human being, who may at any moment sit on the throne : in such a man the word " king" rouses a kind of idolatrous emotion. In the man who looks at all political institutions as intended to benefit the bulk of the community—who sees a monarch in tensely selfish, spending more wealth than would feed and clothe a thousand of his subjects—who knows that to have the means of gratifying his personal vanity Raid extravagance be sacrifices his duties and his oaths, living only to squeeze out of the people, with most ease and safety to himsell', the wealth he requires —who is con viklced, by much reading and much reflection, that kings have inflicted great injury on society, and who therefore hates the name: in such a man the word "king" excites a scornful emotion, the very opposite to that it excites in the believer in Divine Right. In our country there are nume rous individuals who have associated these very dissimilar feelings with the word " king," and they have some antipathy to one another. At least the Divine Right man considers the Radical, Utilitarian, or Republican, as a bad man, and would make laws, if he could, to stifle the emotions which the word "king" excites in the other. These are examples and illustrations of the principle, pervading all language, that words are mere signs, which, in a manner that would be called wonderful, were it not extremely familiar, excite in those who hear or read them, such thoughts, ideas, or emotions as they have pre viously, from education, situation, and their own passions, connected with these words. The mental condition of him who uses them may be totally different from the mental condition of him who hears or reads them, and whose sentences may represent in the minds of writer and reader, emotions as different as those which different men connect with the word " . king," In France, to quote a practical illustration im mediately bearing on the question, there are some persons, like M. GUIZOT and his friends, who believe that France can only be saved by an iron hand of despotism, and who not only see with satisfaction any attempt which LOUIS PHI LIPPE makes or sanctions to curtail liberty, but encourage him to make those attempts, and love and respect him the more in proportion as he departs from the principles of the Revolution of 1830. There are other persons in France who regard all such attempts as an act of treachery as well as despotism, who, consequently, asso ciate with the conduct of the KING emotions of contempt and scorn, and regard him as a selfish, vile, worthless tyrant. Is any or every writer to be made responsible for the different emotions which the conduct of the KING, more than any writing, produces in two distinct classes of per sons, whenever his conduct is referred to ? Yes, says M. GITIZOT, in France ; and yes, say the Tories in England; and yes, also, say the Peers of France, and those who entertain the first-mentioned opinion of the KING'S conduct. They assume that they are authorised to make laws and punish writers, because their language excites emotions of which they disapprove. They would make writers, therefore, actually responsible for the effect which the KING'S con duct, when it is made public, has on the minds of those who prefer a Republic to a Monarchy. We may give an illustration of the same fact frotn our own country. A large party entertains a strong and a decided conviction that the Corn laws are unjust, and so we always speak of them. In landlords and tithe-lords such remarks pro bably excite only indignation against• Anti-Corn law men. In the mass of the labourers, suffering from short commons and deficient clothing, and already disposed, from many causes, to regard the landlords as enemies, denunciations of the Corn-laws are likely to produce indignation against the landlords. Now, are the Editors of Anti. Corn-law Journals to be answerable for that state of mind in the working classes which is, in fact,the consequence of the landlords' oppression? To return to the case of M. DUPOTY. He has been punished for an article reflecting on LOUIS PHILIPPE, but it is very probable that the lan guage of the Ministerial Journals in Paris may have had a more irritating effect on the minds of the conspirators than the language of M. Du- POTY. They regard Louis PHILIPPE as a traitor to his oaths, and as an obstacle to their political success ; and they may have been stimulated to commit a grievous political crime by the insult ing taunts of their opponents. WEDDERBURN, when Solicitor-General, it is said, insulted FRANKLIN, and FRANKLIN retorted that his master should pay for the insult. The separa tion of the American colonies, regarded as a traitorous offence by GEORGE 111., followed. The Republicans, then, may have repaid the scornful and insulting language of the Ministerial Jour nals with scornful deeds ; and the words of the former might have been the provocative to make the attempt on the life of the KING. It would be absurd to punish the Editors of the Ministerial Journals with five .years' imprison ment, for such an effect of their writings on the minds of Republicans; and' it must be equally absurd and unjust to punish M. DUPOTY for some analogous supposed effects of his writings. Because it is impossible in any case to discri minate betwe en t h e e ff ects o f a wr i ter ' s words on anindividual, and the effects of that individual's own peculiarities, w hi c h ma k e wor d s t h e means of exciting , in him peculiar thoughts and emo tions, it is wrong to make a writ er res p ons ibl e for effects he is only t h e i nc i dental cause of pro ducing. Unless it can b e ma d e apparent that the attempt to murder the KING of the FRENCH was exclusively the consequence o f M. D u _ POTY'S writing, it must be, as unjust to punish him for such an attempt as it would be to find one man guilty of murder for having acciden tally run against another, who some short time thereafter died of apoplexy. If indeed it could be shown that such an attempt was exclusively the consequence of M. DUPOTY'S writings, the punishment inflicted on him is much too light. We conclude, therefore, because the words which a man uses are the signs of his own ideas and emotions, and because he cannot even tell what ideas and emotions those signs will excite in others, much less control them, that it is to tally unwarrantable to make a writer answerable fbr the effect of his words on the minds of other men. He can only be made responsible fbr the truth or good taste of what he writes, and be must leave the issue in the hands of Providence. It is necessary now to insist strenuously on this view, because the Tories are willing to imitate French statesmen, and call the Liberal Peas of England to account for the indignation, which is growing up in the land against the injustice which the Tories habitually practise. So far as our own observation goes we never recollect to have seen so many deplorable objects asking charity in the metropolis as at present. Other people have made the same remark. Of that painful feature in society our Legislators know little or nothing. They do not inhabit houses in the suburbs, which, from day-light to dark, are continually visited by beggars of all ages. They have not often to thread their way at night through any of the thoroughfares and narrow streets of the metropolis, and they behold none of the wretched objects, who, beingashamed to be seen by - day, then creep out and solicit alms. They are carried from place to place in their carriages ; their houses are within inclosed parks, into which- the beggars ca►►not penetrate ; between them and the very poorest, crowds of menials interpose, v.d they cannot see that wretchedness which is now daily forced on the observation of The Middle classes. Such a rela tive position makes the present distress pecu liarly a middle-Class 4uestion ; and it can only be, as they bestir themselves, and make the upper- classes share their knowledge and un easiness, thzt the - causes of this distress will be removed. The middle classes, who may be said in gene ral to live on profit, are already the greatest pecuniary sufferers from the decay of trade; but while they see their means diminishing, they also see the claimants on their bounty rapidly increasing. They suffer both in mind and purse. They are afflicted by the sight of distress which they cannot relieve, and are apprehensive of . coming to want themselves. It is chiefly their property which is exposed to the depredations of those who are in distress. Nor is there, we arc afraid, any immediate chance of improve ment. Tho New Poor-law is probably as ri gorokls as the community will bear. A more rigid test than the workhouse can scarcely be applied, and there seems no possibility of dimi nishing mendicancy by increase of severity. If it were supposed that the present distress, by putting many persons out of existence, would put an end to beggary, there would be some, though a very painful consolation; but it is known from the history of every part of Europe, that such distress does not wholly arrest the re production of the species ; and as the present race of distressed persons are carried off, their places will be supplied with others, and probably an increased number. If the middle classes wish to live in safety, and be Untormented by the painful sight of suffering fellow-creatures, they must, with that energy which belongs to them, lake up the question of public distress, and reso lutely probe it to the bottom. Far be it from us to say one word against the active charity which is ever ready to relieve the sufferings of the people ; but while that is admir ably adapted to soothe individual suffering, it is wholly inadequate to redress a public injustice. Charity is a delight to those who give, as well as to those who receive ; but it is now required to set mills in motion, and give profit to the masters as well as wages to the men. Charity unfortu nately increases the claimants on bounty without augmenting, like manufactures, the means of providing for them._ Charity is not, however de lightful to the heart, pecuniarily reproductive. It will not suffice, therefore, to relieve the present distress, and still less will it permanently restore prosperity. If the middle classes wish to put an end to that distress, by which they are both morally and pecuniarily the greatest sufferers, they must have recourse to other means than charity. They cannot, with decency or propriety, rely on a Ministry which has been formed on the principle of denying redress and relief to the people. If they have not lost all that energy which enabled them to carry the country through great foreign wars, they will see the necessity of immediately exerting themselves to conquer the greater diffi culties to which the country is now exposed from domestic circumstances. The middle classes are the sufferers by the present state of the law, and it is the duty of the middle classes to help themselves, and procure the reform of the commercial code. There is very little news of interest in the Paris Journals of Wednesday, except that the accom plices of QUENISSET, who were condemned to death, are making fresh revelations in the hope of escaping the guillotine. In consequence of certain disclosures made by them to Baron PASQUIER, President of the Court of Peers, six fresh arrests took place in the Fau bourg St. Antoine, on Tuesday evening. It is reported that DUPOTY is involved in these accusations ; nothing, we think is more natural. The Peers will endeavour, if pos sible, to implicate DUPOTY as a principal in the crime of treason, for the purpose of turning the attention of France from their former in famous verdict. In Wednesday's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies the four Vice-Presidents were elected. The result of the election was as follows : DUFAUItE 246 votes. CALMAN JACQUEMINOT 176 ~ BIGNON _ _ DUFAURE and CAIMAN are of the middle, or PASSY party, JACQUEMINOT Conservative, BIG NON the same. VI - VIER, M. TRIERS. candidate, had but 113 votes; M. TRACY also had 30. A Council of Ministers was held yesterday at the Tuileries. . The leading members of the diplomatic corps in Paris met yesterday fur the purpose of preparing the speech which is to be delivered to the King on New-year's-day, by the Marquis de Brignolles. There will be grand receptions at the Tuileries of ladies and gentlemen on the evenings of the 3d and sth of January, on occasion of the new year. The sugar question was again discussed at great length by the Councils of Commerce, Agriculture, and Manu factures on Monday. On this occasion M. Pauwell, with a view, as he said, of ensuring to the colonial interest the preference as to the supply of sugar, but at the same time guaranteeing the security of the existing interest of the manufacturers of beet-root sugar, but without any protecting privilege as to the future, ma d e th e f o ll ow i ng propositions :-1. That the manufacture of indi genous sugar shall be free, like all other manufactures, on paying the same duty (45f. per 100 kilogrammes) as on colonial sugar. 2. That the protecting duty of 25f. the 100 kilogrammes fir either one or the other shall only be continued as re gards an equal quantity to that produced in 1841. 3. The excess to be as for new establishments, subject to the entire duty of 45f. 4. All protection to cease at the expiration of ten years, and the two rival manufac tures to be placed on an equal footing as to duties." Pauwell observed that if the manufature of indige nous sugar could support a competition with colonial sugar at equal charges, the result would be perfection and cheapness for consumers ; that if the ten years' pro tection alluded to should not suffice to enable the manu facturers 'of indigenous sugar to compete successfully with the producers of colonial sugar, they would, at least, be sufficient to give to the former such profits as would enable them at the end of the ten years to recover the capital which they have embarked, and save them from ruin; that if, on the contrary, the progress of the native manufacturers should be fatal to the interest of the colonial sugar -growers, the latter would only have to substitute the growth of cotton, coffee, or any other pro duction suited to their climate and soil for the growth of sugar.—Galignani's Messenger. We guarantee the accuracy of this news."—Lc Commerce. The National says—" We are assured that the chief clerk of the Court of Peers went yesterday evening, at nine o'clock, to the nrirson rt.., t ) r,n nounce to quenisset, Colonibier, and Just-Brazier, that their punishment was commuted for that of transporta tion. We are further assured that they will be removed from the prison of the Luxembourg this evening, or on the night of the 29th." La:Presse contains the following article :—" A letter from our correspondent at Algiers, dated the 21st of December, informs us that important events oblige General Bugeaud to remain in Africa, and will prevent him from profiting by the two months' leave of absei:cc which he had asked for, and obtained, We quote the following from the Constitutionnel:— " In 1793 the number of men and Officers employed in the French navy was greater than at any former period; it amounted to 104.920, of whom 69,196 were officers and able seamen. The law of the 3d Brumaire, an. 4, fixed fifty years as the age at which sailors were entitled to their discharge from the service, instead of sixty years as previously. This, of course, made a certain reduc tion. In 1815• the number was brought down to 83,000 men, of whom 51,966 were officers and able seamen. In 1836 it was raised to 90,511, total, and 52,433 officers and able seamen ' • and in 1840 to 98,706, total, and 05,992 officers and able seamen, from the age of eighteen up to that of fifty." The Corresponsal of Madrid states, that at Barcelona the association of cotton manufacturers has cone to an agreement that no member shall have clothes made of any stuffs but those manufactured in Spain, renouncing from this moment all purchases of foreign goods, but allowing themselves three years to get rid their stock on hand. A letter from Alicant of the 18th inst. states that four companies of the regiment of Navarro had arrived there to assist the authorities in the maintenance of order. Quiet had been restored, and it was expected that the municipal elections, which had been interrupted by the late tumultuous scenea, would be resumed on the 26th. At Barcelona the majority of the new municipal coun cil hre in favour of Espartero. Leave has been given to the Members of the late Republican Junta to return to Spain. A Belgian diligence, running from Brussels to Metz, was seized a few days since on the French frontier, on ac count of its containing a considerable quantity of tobacco, which was attempted to be smuggled into France. The vehicle and horses have been confiscated and sold. The forest of Pierrefeu, near Toulon, having become infested by wolves, the authorities ordered a general chase, during which, on the 19th instant, one of the beaters fell in unexpectedly with a wild boar, and was torn by the tusks of the animal in four places. An artery was severed, and the poor fellow died frOtn . loss of blood before he could be carried out of the forest. A Berlin letter mentions that, on the 20th instant, the ling of Prussia dined_ with the Count de Nassau, ex- King of the Netherlands, and a numerous party, com posed of the Princes of the Royal Family, Ministers of State, Diplomatic Ministers, and other personages of high high distinction. BOURSE—PARIS, :WEDNESDAY; DEC. 29. First Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Prier. Fre,lch 5 ocr Cents ll6 40 ... 116 6J ... 116 40 ... 116 50 454 per Cents lO6 2 , . m . 103 25 106 25 ... 106 25 4ier lOl 05 7.: 10 05 7.: 101 05 ... 101 ha 3 per Cents. ex div 78 35 .. 78 35 ... ;8 25 .. 78 30 8 ink of France Laffitte Bank 1,0001. Shares 1(307 50 ...leo7 53 ..1007 50 ...1007 50 ........ __ ...___. __ 5,00Uf. Shares 5025 ...502 ...1025 ...5025 ieleian Bank Belgian 5 per Cents. 5 iaer cent% ) 1843 ICIlli ... 103 1 4 ... 103% ... 1031 i 3 per Cents 72 .0 ... 72 10 ... 72 10 ... 7, 10 ipanish Active t.' 4 l4 ... 21% ... 24 1 4 —. ..4% Ploistive 5% ..." 5% ... 5 % —• 5 % Old Deferred Respolitsn .... 11:6 ... 1% _. 1116 ... :16 Roman... 102% ... 102% ... 112% ... 102% RAILWAY aHAItES. _. _ . ____ ..... --....--. St. Germain _ 815 ... 815 ... 815 ... 815 Versailles, Lal .„, 215 ... 210 ... 2.0 R. IS 340 ... 340 ... 3.15 ... 3.35 Itouen irie.4n. . itrasbuig :o Bale, 226 25 .. 227 50 ... 226 25 ... 227 50 BELWAN k UNDS—DXUSsiiis, Dec. 29. Actual Debt, 2'34 per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cont..-- ..... . Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent 92% -------- 3 per Cent. --.Thirty.seyen----- .. 714 —_-----...—(1840) lOl% Loan of City, 1T32, 4 per Cent 95 Society of Commerce, 41.iper Cent — Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent... ......... National Society Exchange on Londeu (short) - -Brussels Papers, Dec. 29. HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, Dec. CS Bills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents Bank Shares — 1628 . __ _ Anglo-Russian Loan .. 10s% --- 6;9 Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Curtificate Inscription, Ist Sefi9S 10:14 Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th Series Ditto in Certificates Ncw 4 per Cent. (1840) 8 7 14 Dutch actual Debt, 2% pc: Cent 50% 50 Ditto 5 per Cent Polish Bonds New ticket Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent — 7836 N. , twegian Lean, 1831, 4 per Can.... . ... .... . 102% 102 k Spsnish, New 5 per Cents. lb EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, Dec. 28.-13 836.—Tw0 months, 13 -IN PETERBRURGII, Dec 17.-1 wo months, 3e% pence, RIGA, Dec. 18..-Three Months, 38X. Cuaisminia, Disc 17.—Three months, 4 34. SToceilin.si, DEC. 21.—Seventy-live days, 12. 11. BREMEN, Dee. 14 —Two months. 6 18. VIENNA.. DEC. 21.—Three months, 9. 37. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, Dec. 24. Bills 51oney St. Schuld. Sch., 4 1 , per cent. .... 1043 . .10114 'Prussian English Loan, 1830,4 per cent. ...102* 101 3 4 kachange on London, three months ti 193 p —Prussian State Gazette.- Dec. 25. BURIAL OF THE OLD YEAR. A DIRGE. The last grand sunset fades apace, O'er another departed Year of Grace, Who covers in clouds his front and face, Like Caesar prone at the pillar's base. Ala& Old Year. Angel-buriers, black and tall, Muffle him round in a solemn pall, While funeral plumes dark over him fall, And the graves aloud for their victim call. Alack Old Year. Up from the scarlet west they throng Bearing the dead Year's body along, Moaning a low, lugubrious song, Which the leaden caves of Chaos prolong. Alack Old Year. Onward the dark procession pours, Along the coast of Immensity's shores, Where the ocean of time eternal roars— Till they stop at the Sepulchre's giant doors. Alack Old Year. It was a vault gigantic and grim Scooped of old by the Rephidim ; Within whose cavernous vastitude dim They hurry to bury and sepulchre him. Alack Old Year. Against whole worlds of tempest-shocks That cavern abutted its adamant rocks, And now when the great Death-Angel knocks, Asunder fly the thunder-forged locks. .Alack Old Year. And there in their purple palls arrayed Near nineteen hundred years were laid, Paly their crowns, their locks were greyed, And sound they slept in Oblivion's shade. Alack Old Year. Slow March, with dark sepulchral pride, That burial host through the portals wide, And lay, while the hour-ghosts round them glide, That Dead by his ancient brethren's side. Alack Old Year. They buried him there without a groan, And carved alone on his sepulchre -stone, 44 Here lies a year whose race is run— One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-one !" Manic Old Year. BIRTH OF THE NEW YEAR. A MADRIGAL. With a star on his brow, and a song on his tongue, And a rainbowy canopy over him hung, Who comes from the East like a masquer rare, Tossing his cymbals aloof in the air? Ah, ah ! young boy, is it you-0 you ! Sweet Eighteen Hundred and Forty-two? All the snowy-croiined Lily-Queens give him their hail, And sigh for his kiss in the bright-hearted vale ; Whilst their dulcet-dewed petals deliciously spreading, Sweet dream like young virgin-girls just upon wedding. Ah, ah ! young boy, &c. What love in his looks, and what grace in his spring ! How round him the fair-flighted summer-birds sing ! How he bounds o'er the mountains, and splendidly throws, To the right and the left his bright glances of rose ! Ah, ah young boy, &c. Our hills are o'erflowing with purple-hued light, The love-planets burn Inure crystalline bright ; And the stars trim their coronals sweeter to-night, To hail your dear advent with festivals hight. Ah, ah young boy, &c. With sounds as of flutes that have silver-touched stops, You play with the winds in the tree.bowered tops ; And Princesses proud, and the King in his hall, leave their dulcimer-music to welcome your call. ah I young boy, &c. Hill-side and vale, and ravine where you leap, Smile in your dews —catch your sweetnesSes deep ; The villagers dance in your May and your June, And bask in the sunshine and blue of your noon. Ab, young boy, &c. So beaming your boyhood, so jocund and bold, With your brows and your tresses in sunniness rolled, We'll haunt you, and hold you, and clasp you for this, Till we've had a whole year-full of you and your bliss ! Ah, ah ! young boy, is it you-0 you ! Sweet Eighteen Hundred and Forty-two ? DISGRACEFUL TRICK.—At a late wake in the country, a short way from Crieff, a waggish fellow tied a cord secretly to the neck of the corpse, and while a number of young men and women present were going on merrily with some sport, the wag pulled the cord, when the corpse started up in the bed, making the clothes to fly off ; the whole party rushed to the door, crying for i►mrcy upon them, and knocking each other over in the htu'ry, wiiea at length some people came to assis tance, who afterwards discovered the cause of their ter ror.—Perth Courier "" ' • - • • „ !ll' . -5,a 1 041 Pk (14 ;C 515 r., ‘PI ra P.,J 11 AND übitt loptnion. " Who runs may read." P ()REIGN. Six more arrests for high treason have taken place in Paris. Just-Brazier and Colombier, to save their heads, are multiplying accusations, at the especial desire of old Baron Pasquier. In the election of Vice-Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies the Government has again triumphed. On 'Wednesday the election took place, when MM.Dufaure, Caiman, Jacqueminot, and Bignon were elected. They are all Ministerialists. Letters from Athens of the 10th of. December, an nounce the appointment of the Director and Committee of the Bank. The Director is M. George Stavros, a French agent, and the names: of the Committee, MM. Vrannes, Roujoux, Mestenet, Atttonopoulous, and Ker gousis, all partizans of France. P MU/IC OPINION. The Morning AdvertisercOntains a leading article, suggested by Sir Robert Peel's late interview with the Deputation of the Short Time Committee of the West Riding of Yorkshire ; the object of which article is to show that the Tory Premier must either break at once with the great monopoly faction, or be involved in its ruin. The Times, in commenting upon the various facts and arguments adduced during Sir Robert Peel's interview with the Short Time Committee Deputation, recom mends the appointment of a Committee of moderate men of all parties to inquire into the state of the nation ; adding that "'the nation has a rightto expect that a strong Goverment will take this responsibility on itself." The Chronicle recommends the constituency of Dub lin to return Lord Morpeth as their Member for • the city, in consequence of the death of Mr. West, observ ing, "no man who has ever administered the affairs of Ireland has, in doing so, won so much general esteem and respect as Lord Morpeth." The Morning Herald contends that the general. one of Mr. Christopher's speech has made a favourable im pression on the country; and that it -has " satisfied all moderate; sober-minded politicians that, if the wrath of party politics be allowed somewhat to subside in the forthcoming Session of Parliament, the real difficulties in the way of an improved Corn-law are not great." In remarking on the late accident on the Great Western Railway, the Post expresses its opinion that " at present the railroads seem to have too much poWer, and the various persons concerned are far too despot:C,. and too apparently self-confident in their modes of pro ceeding." • „ The Derby Reporter, in noticing some points in Lord Melbourne's reply . to the Derby Address, says :—" It would be well for the interests of the people if all grades of Libarals would unite to attain the useful and practi cable, instead of each riding his own hobby after vision ary, or at the best doubtful, objects. We hope, how ever, that the experience of the past has not been lost upon the multitude, but that it will serve as a beacon fur the future to guard them against falling into the. same fatal and disastrous error." In reference to the present distressed state of trade, the Liverpool Journal makes the following remarks : " With the exception of one or two houses, very pecu liarly circumstanced, we believe that there is not a manu facturer of watches in Liverpool who will not admit that for the last three years, he has yearly lost money in his business. We know some one who formerly paid 501. a week in wages in , Prescot, who now find that as much as they can do is to keep on a few of their best • work men, at the barest wages, to save the manufacture from entire extinction." The Wilts Independent thus alludes to Mr. Christo pher's Corn Jaw scheme :—" Mr. Christopher's plan of taking the averages is as open to frauds as the present one. In his speech the Hon. Gentleman acknowledges that, by the mode he proposes, the agriculturists would incur the imputations which they now direct against the Corn-factors and millers, of entering into combina tions to regulate the averages.' No doubt they would, and justly too, for it is as plain as the sun in a cloud less noon-day sky, that the object of Mr. Christopher and his worthy cortfreres is, by keeping down the aver ages, to keep out of the market every grain of foreign wheat except at actual starvation prices." _ _ MONEY-TRADE -consIVIERCE. Within the last four years there has been a decrease of 838 public-houses in the City of Glasgow. The Dundee trade is brightening. Flax and yarns are doing well in both the French and Russian markets. A great meeting of the clothiers of Wilts, Somerset, and Gloucester, will be held on Thursday, the 6th of January, at Bath, to take into consideration the state of trade, and the condition of the working classes. Lord Ashburton is about to proceed on a special mis si.:n to the United States, with a view to settle existing differences between that country and Great Britain., ECCLESEAS - TICAL. Although a commission de lunatico inguirendo sat lately upon the Bishop of Ossory, and found him child ish and incapable of managing his own affairs, yet all minor episcopal functions have been still administered throughout his important districts, and sundry rev( rand gentlemen have been presented to valuable benefices, upon the sole responsibility " of the Lord Bishop of Ossory." AGRZCULTUEAL. The floods in Essex have done sad havoc to the arable lands. The forest adjoining Barrington Hall has been inundated to the depth of fourteen feet. In Hertford shire , Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, and Oxfordshire, and all the flat countries, the farmers have been immense sufferers. J-41.:E:CE/0/VEIERING. The late Mr. J. B. West, M.P., for Dublin, fought for Conservatism with great spirit. In the election of 1832 for Dublin, he was in a minority of 300 votes ; in 1835, of 223 below Mr. O'Connell, but was seated by petition. In 1837 he was ousted by a minority, but at the last election had a majority of 168 votes over Mr. O'Connell. He did not sit in the House of Commons more than a year and a half. A piece of plate was lately presented to Commander Somerville, R.N., through Sir Edward Codrington, raised by a limited subscription from 369 flag-officers, captains, commanders, and others, as a tribute of their esteem for the honourable and zealous manner in which he ad vocated their interests before the Commissioners on Na val and Military Inquiry. NAVAL AND MXLITARY. The 92d Regiment, OldordolTY-iigl7lanier;, are suffer ing dreadfully at Dominica, under yellow fever and black vomit. Officers and men to the number of 39 had died previous to the 18th October, besides many being in the hospital. LAW AND POLICE. Yesterday, Thomas Barker, who had been previously examined at Guildhall, on a serious charge of plundering his employer, Mr. Kent, wholesale brush manufacturer, in Falcon-street, was fully committed to take his trial. He had been in Mr. Kent's service for nine years, and had commenced the system soon after he got the employ ment. The prosecutor had reason to believe the defalca tions exceeded 7001. At Union Hall, Henry Reeves, a coach proprietor, was fined 40s. for rude conduct towards a married woniati, and assaulting her husband, in Blackfriars-road on Thurs day morning. The defendant said he could not deny the statement made against him, and expressed great re gret for his conduct. Williams and Slawson, who committed the Chirk murder, were taken at Coventry on Christmas-day. They have been examined at Shrewsbury, and remanded to to-day, when it is understood they will be committed. Two men were fined 201. each at Thames-street, for creating a disturbance at the Stepney station of the Black wall Railway, on Wednesday night. They appeared to be intoxicated, and on the clerk refusing to give the one who appeared the most in lifluor a ticket, a scuffle en sued, and defendants assaulted both the clerk and the porter on the platform. _ FINE ARTS. _ _ _ The Countess de Rossi, during her residence in Hun gary, has produced a cantata, called II Naufragio For tunatu, for a soprano and chorus, which she has sung at the concerts of the Empress and the Princes Esterbazy and Metternich. Several hundred pieces of ancient coin, of the age of Constantine, were lately dug up in the town of Ancaster, situated on the old Roman highway. Rossini has just put a finishing hand to ft magnificent Stabat. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. Manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci have been lately dis— covered by M. Delecluze, carrying back a knowleuge of the steam-engine to the 15th century. On a rage of one, there are five pen-sketches of the apparatus of a steam-gun, which he designates the Architonnerre, and the invention of which is attributed by him to Archimedes. The planet Mercury will be visible for a few evenings after sunset about the 15th of February. King Henry 111. was very profuse in his expenditure in edifices and the necessary decorations. For these he chiefly employed foreigners ; Odo Filius was master of the works at Westminster. William, a Florentine, and Walter, were the chief painters. The shrine of Edward the Confessor was executed by Petrus Cavalini, a Roman sculptor. SPORTING. Mr. G. A. Pollock, clerk of the peace for the county of Dublin, was accidentally wounded by one of his friends while shooting on his father's estate last Tuesday at Meath. Thirty shuts were lodged in his thighs and legs. COUIELT--pAsIIION.PaBLE. The Marcizi; ofWestminster is still -suffering from illness ; consequently, Eaton Hall has been dull this Christmas, The Countess of Jersey had a select evening party yesterday. The Earl and Countess of Carlisle leave Castle Howard on the 14th January, for Grosvenor-place. They come up expressly to attend the christening of the Prince of Wales. The Duke of Marlborough has arrived at 3loate Park, in Ireland, from Blenheim. Lord Brougham left town on Friday last, for Cambridge. The French Ambassador leaves Manchester House, on Sunday morning, for Bowood Park, Wilts. Viscount Canterbury is passing the holidays with Mr. Sanderson, M.P., at Gunton Park. Norfolk. Lord and Lady Maryborough have arrived in town,• from Deal Castle, for the season. Lord Ward arrived at Mivart's Hotel yesterday, from Himley Hall, Staffordshire. TVIISCEZZAPC SOUS. The 1,0001. deodand a warded upon the Great Western Railway accident goes by a grant, made in the reign of James 1., to the lord of the manor. Mr. Palmer, Mem ber fur Berkshire, is the. present lord of the manor. ukoult or THE DAY. The report is current in well-informed circles that the title of King Consort will be conferred on Prince Albert. The Tories no doubt will try to make amends for their rudo conduct towards the Severeign an d h er h us b an d, ar thd we ,ould no t he :.nuTri:;ed to le.tm, that when tl, o title is granted, Colonel Sibthorp will be instructed to move for an additional grant of 30,0001., to maintain the newly-acquired dignity. EVENING SUN MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS* Cll Y, TWELVE O'CLOC T ' LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC. 30.—We 11.-'ve had a fair demand for Cotton to-day, the sales amount tji 6,000 bales. Prices are firm for all descriptions. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, DEC. 30.—The busi ness at the Stock Exchange this day has been to a limited extent. The transactions comprise—Eastern Counties, 81 1 ; Ditto, Debentures, 10 11 8 ; Grand J:inctiou, 196 ;. Great Western 201. Shares, 10-A- ; London and Brighton, 39/. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 30.—We have very fair demand in this Market for Shares ; our sales , this day are :—Lancaster and Preston, 27 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 28 281 281 and 281 ; Manchester and Leeds, 70 ; Ditto, Halves, 30 ; North Midland 72 ; United States Bank, 18s. ; Alliance Bank, 178 ; Bank of Manchester, 41 25., 41. 2s. 6d., and 41 ; Union Bank of •Manchester, 6/. Ils. 3d. ; Manchester Assurance, 91. 2s. 6d. and 9/. 3s. 9d..; South Lancashire Bank, 41. 6s. 3d. THE FUNDS. The English Securities continue exceedingly firm. Con sols have further advanced this morning to 898 Y for the Opening ; Three per Cents. Reduced to 89k 8 ; Ditto Three-and-a-Half per Cents., to 998 1 ; Bank Stock, 166 167; Exchequer billsare 12 14 preen. The advance in Spanish and Mexican Securities is fully maintained. Spanish Active Stock is now 258 a ; Passive, 5/ 6 ; Deferred 121 4 ; Mexican Bonds 281 29; Portuguese. Five per Cents. are 331 I; Ditto Threes, 201. The Hamburgh mail, with the letters and papers of Tuesday has arrived. Exchange- comes 4 schilling lower, the quotation being 13 141. Gold the same as before. • By a private ship from Barbadoes papers to the 25th • November have been received, which state that ‘• the season of the year, usually denominated the hurricane months, has passed over without the slightest cause of alarm to the inhabitants of this island. We have to be thankful, too, for the cessation of drought, and the • tiful showers which have, from time to time, fallen en our land. We regret, however, that this favourable weather has not of late continued throughout the island, many parts of which are suffering now foe want of rain. ' On the whole, however, agriculture is in a favourable state, and with some good rains now things would V el l very well." PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Eastern Counties - • Ditto Debentures 81. 6s. Bd. 101. 16s. Bd. to Great Western Ditto New . 50 Ditto Fifths London and Brighton 5O . 40i to 391 London and Bi.mingham • Ditto New 'llanchester and Birmingham ... 40 - to 2i North Midland South Eastern and Dover Ditto New - to JOINT STOCK BANKS. • London Joint Stock IiALF-PAST ONE. To-day being settling day in the Foreign market, the: brokers are busily engaged in arranging their accounts,. - and, up to the present time, no difficulty has been ex perienced in the settling. Spanish Active Stock is non' 25/ ; Deferred, 124 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 3 3 1 Colombian Bonds, 22 -; Maxican Bonds, 28i Consols are firm at .89,-1 ; Bank Stock, 166 ; India. Bonds, 2, par. ; Exchequer Bills, 14, 12, 15 prem. The Share Market continues to improve. Ole!' Western are 88k ; Ditto New, 62 ; Ditto Fifths, 10ff London and Brighton, 3911. ; London and Birminghoill'' 1681 : Manchester and Birmingham, 281- ; North gio land, 72i ; South Eastern and Dover, 23. TWO O'CLOCK The Markets are all firm. HALF-PAST TWO. '..':;* Consols, Account, 89i ; Exchequer Bills 14 lb i fic Mexican, 28i Portuguese, 33i 34 ; Spanish, 25 it. • !)ti QUARTER TO THRli:b. The accounts from Germany state that a great deal of • 0 1, attention has been paid to the subject of em i gr ation to - >' l the New Zealand group called the Chatham Islands, wh ich are Eakl to have been disposed of by the Company here to a mealhant of Hamburgh. Such a sale, it seems ve r Y s , probable, Nowever, the Government of this country wilL _ r „, ( rt never recogoise, and if the Germans wish to enaigra a t e r. Afr, which from peZsonal experience we know they do , l joi e(' them seek political- freedom, and agricultural prosperity' in some of the BritLh colonies, where their value " honest, industrious, and ,?nlightened men, is so 4 and deservedly appreciated. : • Nothing has been heard yet of the steamer from Halif" MARLBOROUGH-STREET. (THIS DAY.) Mary Arthur and Ann Arthur, sisters, the former 1 4 years of age, and the latter 12, both of them intelligent girls, and very decently clad, were brought before Hardwick, by by 'police constable No. 92 A, whom they t in the street last night, and stated they were in utter destitution, and had been refused admission to St. tin's workhouse. In answer to questions by Mr. HAnnwics the eld er girl stated that her father %las a native of Dublin, Ana b r tilde a gunsmith., He had for a considerable time b_ v ee en working at Bristol, where her mother died about seha months ago. About a month since her father brefini them up to London, and they continued to live with the until Monday last, when he left them standing:l: was ., street opposite to a public-house where he sai d "u ed going to get some porter ; he, however, never rort! to them, and after waiting until night-fall, and not having. any money in their pockets, the eldest girl took her hair combs out and sold them for 6d. and was directed wher e to procure a lodging for , the , m4;ast, velidelf and on the following day she procured food and a shelter for the night by disposing of part of her clothes. Yes terday they wandered about the street until evening, when some person, to whom they told their distressing tale, directed them , to apply to St. Martin's workhouse, and if they could not obtain admission to give themselves up to the police. Mr. HARDWICK ordered the children to be supplied with food, and immediately wrote to the parochial authorities of St. Martin's, at the same time expressing his intention ofseeing that the children should be properly taken care of. LLOYD'S SHIPPING--(THIS DAY.) LONDON, DEC. 30.—Wind this clay ht noon, S. to S. B• RAMSGATE, DEC. 30.—S1d. Apenrade Pak t.. ayag uez. DEAL, DEC. 30.—Wind E. N. E.—Arrd.. from the River and sailed, Borussia, ; Lee, Cura cou ; Lavinia, Ancona. • LIVERPOOL, DEC. 30.—Wind variable.—Arrd. Hart, Montreal. Sid. Mars, Calcutta ; Mage ifice ''' and Belvidere, Bornbai" Y ; Champion,, Brazil ; Kelsick, Wood, Berbice ; Jonathan Fell, and Britannia, Trie M dad ; Tomlinson, Tampico ; William and Eliza, No r Orleans ; Hercules, Mobile; Alex.Edmonds, Charleston; Tai:. grand, Boston ; Pioneer, Ancona. Arrd. Fre d er i c k ;yarrcn, New Orleans. SOUTAPTC I N, DEC. 29.—S1d. Acteon st., Barbadoes. HK COWES, Drx. 30.—Arrd. Minerva, Hoffman, Batavia. Sld. Catherine, liltenos Ayres ; Colonic, Rio • 'Mariann! Pauline, La Guayrn. Sid. Luna, Tampico ; nam ;and the rest of the outward-bound. ity, PLYMOUTH, DEC. 30. -47- Wind S.W.—Arrd. v e' c ' e Wilcox, Newfoundland. ---Sl d ' FALMOUTH, DEC. 29.—Wind N. to N. ri • r * Windhond, Antwerp. for MILFORD, DEC. 29.—Arrd. George IV., Ca r n ci A i l l ow Waterford, with loss of topmast, bowsprit , a stove, having been run into by a dockyard lighter. id •; HuI.L, DEC. 30.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrd. W 1 akeue, ;l ,, , Ar St. John's, New Brunswick. Ale 1 t't YARMOUTH, DEC. 30.—The Liddell, of Newcito which was ashore on Haisborough Beach, has . beengo, gi g " . off, and into the harbour. as OFF PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 30.—Wind E. to 5.5..v0l - 111 Vanguard, Singapore, sailed Aug. 18. PADSTOW, DEC. 29.—Arrd . J ohn and Mar y; Bathurst.. CLYDE, DEC. 29. _Arrd. Barlow, Richebucto.- Sid, • Frederick, Charleston. 91° 10't THE MARKETS.—(THIS DAY) , ,CORN-EXCHANGE.; The arrivals o' Wheat have been small this week, c'"`'." Barley good, and of Irish Oats very large. Little busi-,t ness was done, and prices were nominally as on Monday SMITHFIELD MARKET. The supply was short, the demand bad, and the Pre' . sent quotations barely realised. Beasts, 358 ; Sh ee p' 2,220 ; Pigs, 341 ; Calves, 139 ; Beef, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 8,4-i Mutton, 4s. to ss. ; Veal, 4S. 2d. to ss. 2d. P ork ! . 4s. 4d. to 55..4d. - - TEA MARKET. The demand was good, and full rates wele P aid° Company's Congou Is. 9,-}d. cash. ,TALLOW MARKET. t 485 . 6d. jja y i .The m 2 rket: . firm; and the demand Active a deliver iy' in 0 1 ' to 48s. 9d. for parcels on the spot, and for del spring, 493. per cwt. _ METAL MARKET. f ;TO - d ill Dill Iron in good request, and prices firmer I4ea— d , t of sale. ~,, 1 C(.5 VRT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR '''. WINDSOR, T ZURSD A Y• —The Queen a v to Piince Albert walked on the Terrace and iie n tl o il'i Slopes to-day, both in w e morni ng and afternooo• ‘-'' Her )ktoy al Highness the DUcheSs of Kent also took walking exercise. Sir George C ou p er ar rived a t the Castle O n a visit to her Ma;lesty. TA Y Colonel Bouveric and the Hon. C. A. --arra joined a party at S w l x o e Y on a sperti /yr eNellr; Sion. Viscount Sydney and Sir Edward 13 ° wate rode out on horseback. Mr - "i -* . S ei, ter th Sculptor, 1 now.eti t , e NI ..s io • his for a morning by Prince Albert with a sitting - bust of his Royal Hihness. Her -Majesty honougred Mi.. Partridge by main ittin ' s g tor her oortrail: to-day - ------=------ Cambridge, attended by Lady Their Royal Highnesse,s t he Duke and Duc hess of__ Cambridge, and the P,:ince" Augusta of Augu sta Sower set, arrived in town yesterday' from t h e i 'resi— dence at Kew. The Duchess anti the P r incess Augusta visited her Royal Highness the The Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester H ouse. D uke of Cambridge visited his Sere ne Highness Prince Ernest of Philippsthal at Marlboro!' Their and eft in the afternoon l town for Royal Highnesses the D u chess and thEppien Princess Augusta of Cambridge returne d to Kew in the from afternoon. gt" House, M. Fortique, Ministe r Plenipotentiary, Venezuela, had an interview with Lord Startleyt yesterday, at the Colonial-office. The Chancellor of the Exchequer arr i v ed ill town yesterday evening, from Cambridg e. is addition to the other ca ndidates for th. , c li4 Pleadershir, Mr. Thomas has, we understand, been prg• posed by his friends, Ku 11911 b , 0.6 1 4 JV t 6. rg 0 ........ Al (k r , 1 1,„ toe,