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MORNING SUN Just ready, in 3 vols. post r vo,, FE R R E ft S v, ROMANCE of the REIGN of GEORGE 11. By CHARLES OLLIER. " Thoegh this be madness, yet there's method in it."-- SEIAXSTEA Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. IMPORTANT NEW HISTORICAL WORK. Just ready, in 2 vols. Svo., FREDERICK THE GREAT AND HIS TIMES, Coraprisin,„v numerous Original Letters of th a t Monarch. now first published ; with an Introduction By THOMAS CAMPBELL, Esq., Author of " The Pleasures of Hcpe." Henry Celburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NEW WORK ON AMERICA. Now ready, in 2 5013. small dvo., with Portraits of Sir John Hervey and General Scott. 21.. bound, LIEUT.-COLONEL MAXWELL'S RUN THOUGH THE UNITED STATES. " Great interest will he attracted toward this pleasant work, by the existing state of our relations with the United States. 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If our correspondent. who writes from Longton Potteries, will refer to The Sun, he will find that we acknow ledged on the sth inst. the receipt of his communica tion, and that it. appeared at full length on the 9th. ' TILE NyEATIIER.—Noon, NOVEMBER 11. ROY AL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer.. 51 1 llighest 5l 1 Lowest Barowet4a 31125.—Wind S.W.—Freezing . Point 32 Deg . .. . ':.'-• • .0. a . , /..!4, •A". 2 ' , 4.;;.• - - Ir- , , - ,z.N1.1 , ..14:111 1 / 4 . i. • 414,1 < bP r.: ' 9 ' Arf'-,N,,,,,,.. , , * , AL A.; ~. , ', , ft , Ilk ''''• ..'4!* , -. 7, "AttP...: ^ ':4l3 o°.- -" " I": • --, . ... ' S/ ...-. t% Tht LONDON: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1841. A t present there seems a contest in society between the - Principles of free trade and re straint, disguised' under the name of protection, which it will require a great deal of discussion to settle. To refer to the general principles on which ultimately this dispUte must be decided, restraint and monopoly are both exemplied by the follow ing anecdote, taken from " Chambers' Informa tion for the :People," which resembles many si milar anecdotes :—" Mr. FERGUSON, of Wood _hill, met in Canada with a young Scotsman, who had been a poacher in Scotland, but was now settled and thriving well on a firm of 100 acres M his new country. Mr. FERGUSON said to him, ' You will need neither certificate nor qualifica tion here; what do you principally shoot ?" Indeed, sir,' said he; you'll believe me, I scarce ever thinh about ;t, for here noebodg see& to hinder u?.' A. herd of dear, only two days before, had wandered past him while at the plough, yet WALTER felt no inclination to 11111 fir his rifle, though it stood loaded at home." The philoso phy of the whole lies iii the phrase, " there is naebody here seeks to hinder us." The seekbin by others to hinder him from shooting begot. the desire to shoot., The more precaution they took to prevent him shooting, the more stringent they made the laws to attain that object, the Ligl►cr in their estimation, and of course in his, became the value of the privilege th ey reserved to them selves, and the stronger became his desire to ex ercise it, or to shoot tor himself. When nobody • took the trouble to li'mtler him, the desire died a way, and he could not he tempted by a chance of the best sport to leave his occupation to go The principle involved M this anecdote whole of society, and it is pre gnant pervades the with instruction • Every monopoly , from that great original ino• the monopoly of the w ild rtopoly of the soil to birds that feed on it, has to be hedged round and maintained by prohibitions and restrictions. The more these are multiplied and sharpened, the higher the general estimate of the value and im portance of the monopoly is raised. The more extensive, too, they are —meeting men at every turn, the more. 'continually the ideas of that value and importance are forced on the mind, and the more urgent they become as motives for action. In many cases they become over whelming, and every huMan power is defied in obedience. to them. it results therefrom that no monopolies whatever should be created, and no peculiar privileges should be granted an • d en fOrced, which are not strictly and demonstrably necessary for the public advantage. Even the monopoly of the soil—except, as Mr. Lacs::: says, securing to each man who tills it as much land as he improves, cultivates, and can use—is not de fensible. No idle whim of a class, no fancied advantage to a nobleman, no caprice or desire of superiority in the members of any sect, should ever tempt the Legislature to bestow on them monopolies or exclusive privileges, unless the Legislature wisllPg to provoke those desires which, in General, . legislation is i ntended to re strain. A. priesthood, for example, iaendowed to check enthusiasm ; bat endowment strengthens it by worldly a - • arter, and • the land becomes ier „ e ambititins priests of various sects, 1 11 '" 3 " *- by exciting religious enthusiasm, and-pres e a dominion over the minds 1 4 1 . of -Allier men. Ti ' -7" _ Ley are prompted by avarice to take advautage of the natural religious feel- (~ . r L- ings of mankind to reduce the enthusiasts to de pendence on the order of priests. Legislators ought, on this principle, to take the utmost care not to multiply decrees, orders, prohibitions, and restraints, because the inevit able consequence is, that they continually pre sent to the minds of the people the idea of some body seeking to hinder them, and thus cause the very actions they are solicitous to prevent. Every action has its own natural consequences, and every object its own natural attractions or re pulsions for the mind. Prohibitions and re straints alter these natural consequences, and give a false value to the objects and an erroneous bias to the conduct. Take the preservation of game and the Game-laws for an example. Ex perience has demonstrated that common daily "labour, however poorly paid, being steady and in demand throughout the year, generating habits of temperance and frugality, is infinitely more advantageous to the labourer than poach ing or hunting or shooting. But these latter have been made so attractive by the false value given to the objects by prohibitions and restric tions, and such an erroneous bias has been given to the conduct, that there are multitudes of men who, like WALTER, will dare anything, will violate the laws, trespass on their neighbours' property, and imbrue their hands in blood, because somebody seeks to hinder them from taking game. When such consequences result from decrees, restraints, and prohibitions, it be comes extremely difficult to say how much of the criminality which at any time pervades society is the consequence of the " natural depravity of man," presuming that to exist, or of that Great system of restraints and prohibitions which is founded on a theory and justified by reasoning, and which a great mass of law-makers and public writers are continually anxious to extend. The case of WALTER is only an illustration of the very general statement, "I had not known sin, had you not prohibited it;" and at least com mands men, with urgent vehemence, to decree no restraints and no prohibitions, till their utility, taking into account their effects in promoting the crimes forbidden, be unanswerably demon strated. In defiance, however, of this plain and yet certain rule, the greater number of political writers think they can do nothing so advisable as devise new restraints and prohibitions. Besides starving men to death—heinous enough offence in monopoly—it seems to have the addi tional evil effect of disturbing and perverting the natural relations of man to the objects of creation —perverting his judgment, erroneously biassing his conduct, and rendering him im moral. Our country teems with invasions of the right of property ; we are a nation of swindlers, plunderers, and thieves; we sanction much of our immorality by law ; and there seems little chance of amendment as long as we act unceasingly on the principle of seeking to hinder men from performing an immense variety of very innocent and even praiseworthy actions. Laws are made by ignorant men, very little ac quainted with the bearings of their own enact ments, and still less acquainted with the vast phenomena which constitute human society ; and it cannot, therefore, on reflection, excite any surprise if it should turn out that laws, re. straints, and restrictions, cause a much greater number of crimes than they prevent. whe attention of the public was yesterday at tracte74 to the instruction given by the Church and the two - Universities, by the Tory Herald and the Tory P 0,..• The observations of botk, were suggested by the re.'' f tt conversion o . E SIBTIIORP from the Church of nittand to Popery. We are not surprised that S an - Z' event, though now far from unexampled, shouit:' h deeply affect our Contemporaries. To them 'it must be as much a cause of sorrow and lamen tation as it will be of rejoicing and exultation to to Dr.WisEmsN and the Lord Mayor of DUBLIN. The Ultra-Protestant member of the Cathedral town of Lincoln will henceforth probably re member hibrother, and hold his peace, instead of attempting a dull joke against Maynooth and Mr. O'CoririELL. It must contribute to bow down with affliction many a Protestant horn now exalted with pride, which the observations of our Contemporaries will not contribute to raise : The Herald says— The secession ,of Mr. Sibtliorp from the Church of England affords another striking illustration and exposi tion of the mystery of l'useyism, and of its close and essential connection with the mystery of Jesuitism. Here is a man of accomplished mind and of high family lost to the cause of Protestantism by listening to the sophis tries of Messrs. Pusey and Newman, and depend upon it he will not be the last—for the cause of this declension from Protestism is not accidental. It is laid deep in the re cesses of that system of school logic which still reig ns supreme and pre-eminent in the University of Oxford. The followers of High Church, Low Church, and no Church, are but the successors . of Ramies and Oceans. The su bterfuges of conscience find an easy retreat into all the varieties of mood and figure. Some bellow out for Popery, because they think that the Church of Eng. land is too nearly allied to the principles of Noncon formity, and others would admit Dissenters to the 'Uni versities, because they deem the Church of England too Popish and exclusive. But it followed, as usual, that extremes meet, and that whether you pursue the Low Church of Whateley, or the High Church el Newman— the cause of Protestantism and the Reformation is equally I n' endanered ' We again say-that until the University of Oxford expels the system of logic now taught from its schools, the minds of the English clergy will never be at rest. There will be a perpetual vacillation between Popery and Liberalism. That is the description given of the teaching a lie University, and of the doctrines taught They unsettle men's minds; they teach them to vacillate between good and evil; they make men infidels or bigots. Nor is the description which the Post gives of our national religion much more encouraging. The Establishment, intended to preserve and prescribe one faith, seems, according to our Contemporary, to admit ►rithin her bosom—as we know, in fact, from-the astounding, ,diversity of doctrines which are taught from her pulpits—men of almost every creed. Our Church (says the Post) is not so stern and rigid a mother as some would have her, though she has for mularies fitted for even the most sternly and rigidly minded men as to the bounds and limits of orthodoxy. If a man be but of a reverential temper, not wise in his own conceit, nor over anxious to thrust his own peculiar notions upon the acceptance of others, the Church of England will allow of ample enough range for his Christianity, without his rushing forth into the trackless wilds, and inextricable thickets of Dissent. And if, on the other hand, a man be of that mind which leads him to seek a shelter for his religious hopes within narrow bounds, and under authoritative protection, he may find that comfort too within the Church of England, and without submitting his mind to the despotic devices and the intoxicating ceremonials of the Church of Rome. The consequence of this laxity is thus men tioned : The e o s f we tre kit ` l r t lie religion of the people of England had become a ristianized ethics, of which the Protestant branch of public decency the pu bli c selhvaosolsr,ecaocotinnigzetut au thoritynrdaetrhetrheasaP others, delivered prot es t ation t nation. \V hat it -7 Thee than the vital principle of the t was most zealous in was not a faith of its own, but a es ti t , ation against the too ntuch faith of religion, found their wa y coarse hatre d l s anyl i a ie g l e z of wer tr e iumphant ha tredthe nseissoaaltsh)s,rema. our Prayer-book (a copy of Parliament tt and itn i e seapi triumphant r o i m u e m o p t . han t C th t e ist romt: Ca tholic Christianity. Church of Englandi l s ne u d i, a then, subi protestation against the faith of livered in the coarse l language of triumphant hatred. What a beautiful, humane, and exalted creed! The people will thank the P ost for such a graphic description of the faith the of • tithe owners. Catholics and Dissenters, with all who are opposed to religious intolerance, w ill be grateful to it for ack nowled.,_ ing that our Acts of Parliament for the State Church, preserva tion of the ex_ eluding Catholics and Dissenters from political power, were founded on that hatred, expressed in coarse language, for the faith of others, which is the vital principle of Church of Eng_ landiem. The natural consequence of such a political religion is thus described by the Post : Many had grown weary and faint under the burden of mere Protestantism, which is, with regard to Church matters, a formulary of non-belief; and therefore no sup port at all. They wanted a belief and a guidance other than that which their own fallible judgment gathered from the original documents. They were going over to Rome, when the Tractarians stepped in to show them that the Primitive Church afforded all they wanted, and that the Church of England is the. true depository of all THE SUN, LONtON: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12 1841. that the Primitive Church had, without the admixture of modern fancies and strange unedifying observances, which have disfigured the simplicity of the Catholic faith in the Church of Bonze." This is quite edifying; the protestation against the faith of others, expressed in the coarse lan guage of hatred, had made many weary with this formulary of non-belief; but then the Trac tarians stepped in and showed that the protest ing system of hatred of others' faith, and the formulary of non-belief, was not true religion. There was a primitive Church, differing alike from the too much faith of Rome, and the no faith of protesting hatred, which has been re covered and lbunded by Dr. PusEY. Puseyism, according to our Contemporary, is a new reli gion, neither Roman Catholicism nor Protes tantism, different from both and that new reli gion, while it still hypocritically wears the garb of the Establishment of hatred, and is selfishly nestled in its extorted wealth, is expected by its authors to work the regeneration of the people. But when such a correct description is now given of the non-belief of Protestantism, by the very men who, at the same time, laud it as hav ing heretofore been the salvation of the State, with its strife and its hatreds, what must be our enormous credulity if we can hope anything from this new phasic which Dr. PUSEY would give to non-belief and protesting hatred? The other Tory authority, quoted first, tells us that Dr. PUSEY and Dr. NEWMAN are leading men astray by their sophistries, that the root of the evil lies in the school logic which reigns su preme at Oxford,. and that the system of edu cation there adopted distorts and corrupts the mind. The one convinces us that the whole education of Oxford is a disgrace to the age, the other that the established Protestantism, so long honoured, is a system of hatred and a disgrace to humanity. The cross fire of these two best possible Tory instructors, one aiming at the University and the other at the Protestantism established at the Reformation, seems very likely to blow up the whole system. Toryism is condemned out of its own mouth. Truth is extorted from it, and it curses its own creed. We have long regretted, and so must every well-wisher to his country and his kind, that the University and the priesthood, which have so much influence over the minds of o ur statesmen, by controlling their education, should adhere to doctrines so little in accordance with modern knowledge. To regulate the affairs of the poli tical world by the' doctrines of either Pro testantism or Popery, is a rank absurdity. Yet " protesting hatred against other mens' faith," is the corner-stone of the instruction given by the priesthood. It is an insult to the mighty genius of England, to the calm and profound wisdom of BACON, to the searching sagacity of LOCKE, to the intrepid and far-going analysis of BERKELEY, yet to retain the logic of ARISTOTLE, and . yet to teach the mysticism of PLATO at our Univer sities. It is utterly impossible that men who lived two thousand years ago can be of use as guides in the present state of mankind. It is utterly impossible, too, whatever may be taught at the Universities, to prevent the events which daily happen from making an appropriate impression on the mind, and from teaching their own lesson. It is utterly impossible, therefore, to prevent the knowledge which experience brings from being at variance with the teaching of the priesthood, and of the Universities. Un fortunately, the latter, to a considerable extent, mould and influence the minds of statesmen, who read nature through -the darkened glasses, with which they are hood-winked at College, and wear during their lives. • Hence, between them and society—between their legislation and •he national wants—there is perpetual friction, which at this moment threatens a vast social conflagration. The Paris Journals of Tuesday have reached us, but they are wholly taken up with a Report of the Minister of Commerce—a summary of which we subjoin for the information of our commercial readers. The Debats devotes no fewer than five columns to the report of a speech of the Procureur-General, M. DUPIN, in the Court of Cassation, on the appointment of MM. MESNARD and PATAILE to Judgeships in that Court. Every affair in France calls for an oration. The last sad debt which the French pay to the dead is to spout nonsense over their graves. A collision between France and Spain is be coming daily more imminent. It was reported in Paris that ESPARTERO would insist upon the removal of Madame MUNOZ from Paris, and in case of refusal, recal the Spanish Ambassador. In the meantime France continues to increase her military force on the frontier, and to send ships of war to Spanish ports to protect French resident?. An affecting incident followed the death ol the unfortunate General Don DIEGO LEON. When the account of his being shot reached his family, a maid-servant, who was much attached to her master, went mad on hearing it. As CHRISTINA MUNOZ was leaving the Church of St. Philippe de Roule on Monday her Cham berlain dropped her purse, which a poor man found, and delivered to her in her carriage. She pressed him to keep it, which he refused to do, or to accept any part of its con tents, or even to give his name. It is gratifying to record such instances of rigid honesty on the part of the poor. Were LOUIS PHILIPPE and his Government only half as honest as this poor man, what a prodigious re duction of taxes would take place in France I The Minister of Commerce has just published the ge neral account of the rtade of France for 1840, from which we make the following extracts : " The foreign commerce of France during 1840 in creased in regular progression. The aggregate amount was 2,063,000,000 f., being greater than in any pre ceding year. Of the two elements the imports have in creased in the greatest ratio ; at no previous period have the imports reached 100,000,000 f., but this last year they have exceeded that amount by 52,000,000 francs. The export trade has exceeded that of 1839 by only one per cent., - but on comparing the aver age drawn from' the aggregate of the five preced ing years, the increase will be found equal to 12 per cent. The special commerce of France—namely, the produce she draws from foreign countries for her own consumption, and those which she exports, as the fruits of her own soil and industry—is comprised in the 2,063,000,000 f., and amounts to 1,442,000,000 f., viz., im ports 747,000,000 f., and exports 695,000,000 f. As in the general trade, the increase of the special commerce is shown both in the amount of the imports and of the exports, but mere particularly in the former. The comparison with. 1839 and with the average of the five preceding years shows a result, in favour of 1840, of increases of 15 and 16 per cent. on the im ports, and of 13 and 14 per cent. on the exports. In importation, the United States have assumed the first rank, which, in 1839, was occupied by Sardinia. North America stands for 17 per cent. of the whole, . and for upwards of 118,000,000 francs for the articles for honie consumption. Compared with 1839 and the general average, 1840 presents for imported produce from the United States, stn augmentation of 77 and 60 per cent. on the general trade, and of 37 and 38 on the special trade. This increase bears chiefly on cottons and wool. Both categories show a progressive yearly increase until 1840, when it amounted to 110,000,000 f., and 74,000,000 f., being in six years an increase of 30 and 31 per cent. The exports from Belgium were superior to those of the preceding year, without reaching the amount of 1838. After these three Powers those of Sardinia, Switzerland, Spain, and Russia, follow in order as to the importance of their impor tations into France. Her imports from Germany have not followed the same progression. The value of the merchandise brought in from thence, in 1835, was 57,000,00 f. ; in 1840, it amounted to only 54,000,000 f., a sum below the average of the five last years. It is nevertheless to be observenhat, in comparison to 1839, the imports , from this country both general and special have increased. This has not been the case with regard to Turkey, Norway, the Dutch Indies, Chili, the French Colonies, Algiers, and the French Factories in India. The value of the mer chandise brought from each of these sources has not reached the sum of 1839. There has been on the contrary aumnentations in the amount of imports from the Bri tist Indies, the Two Sicilies, Tuscany, the Hans Towns, Austria, Brasil, Mexico, Hayti, Cuba, the States of cent., which i3 t e a fih t Barbary, Denmark, and Egypt. As to exports, there xceed has been a notable diminution in the trade with the trade n csoomgrme great tr commerce. T hose 1839 ; the o s ioi . oa ,so l ob n oo s r t r. e n, a ea d uopfo diminutiono4t , h o e oO s , p o oef O c O iaa f t . l (theleast ande ast amount iii sent to that country in 1839), the sum in 1840 does not tdegrees.fhoer Algiers The reductionp, a of ea t sas also s o f or slight icrincreasing, England sin wereggeimportance,3bneepinrneoagrtl being only 1 percent. for general, and 2 per cent. for special three times as much as in 1835. Among other countries those with which our commerce has most im Germany, Russia, Chili, and extco. A goved are Sardinia sensible decrease has been felt in the demands for our pro duce in Egypt, Turkey, the coasts of Africa, and Switzer land. On inquiring into the proportions which the several species of merchandise boar to each other in the imports, raw cotton stands for 14 per cent, of the value of the whole amount, and of these 94,000,0001. were for home con sumption. As compared with 1839, these sums present an increase of sixty-seven and:thirty-two per cent. The importation of silks, which gave way in 1839, recovered, but did not reach the amount of 1838. There was a failure in the arrivals of colonial sugars, but there has been an increase in their acquittement. From 1835 to 1838 the value of foreign corn brought fate home consumption has not exceeded upon an average 4,000,000 f. per annum. Since 1838 the importations of linen and hempen cloths for home consumption have annually decreased. The contrary is to be stated with regard to flaxen and hempen threads, the importations of which in 1835 attained to scarcely 10,000,000 E, but in 1840 were nearly 28,000,000 f. There has been no sensible variation in the importations of iron in bars or cast iron in its unwrought state, but in the last article there has been a slight decrease. The imports of coal since 1835 have increased notably; those of 1840 amounted to 18,000,000 f., those of 1835 were only 12,000,000 f. The amount of imports of foreign cattle was 8,000,000 f. in 1840, and 9,000,000 f. in 1839. The imports of foreign sugars, coffee, indigo, cochineal, dye-woods, lead, zinc, tin, and straw-plaits, have been much augmented. For the exports of goods from France, which may be divided into the classes of natural products and manufactured objects, those of the former class have decreased one per cent. for general commerce, and three per cent. for special ditto ; while those of the latter class have increased 2 per cent. for general commerce, and 5 per cent. for special ditto. The most important exports have been silks, which have amounted to 141,000,000 E, being nearly the same as in 1839. The exports of cotton and woollen stuffs have increased, by 74 per cent., and 60 per cent. respectively . for 1840, as compared with 1833. The exports of wines have been greater than in 1839, but lest than in 1838 ; they have not, however, varied much during the last six years. Exports of bran dies have increased 31 per cent. during 1840. A diminution has taken place in the exports of refined sugars, prepared hides, clock-work, modes, jewellery, &c. The duties of all kinds received by the Custom-house (salt -duties included), amounted to 178.000,000 E, being 40,000,000 f. more than in 1839. This increase was chiefly on the entrance-duties, which amounted alto gether to 114,600,000 f. Compared with 1839, and the average of the five preceding years, these duties show an augmentation of 10 per cent. and 8 per cent., chiefly arising from cottons, coffee, foreign sugars, grains, lead, oleaginous fruits, and cheese. The Sentinelle of Toulon says, " The news which we gave the day before yesterday, of the discharge of the seamen who have served less than thirty months in the Royal Navy, is fully confirmed. By this measure some ships will lose 300 men. We much fear that this is a prelude to disarming ; for, supposing that the Govern ment has not this intention, it would require infinite time to form new crews. "It is said, but it is at present only a report, that two more ships are to be sent to Brest." Lord Cowley and family have arrived at Paris.— Constitutionnel. We are enabled to state, that there is no foundation whatever for the rumour circulated by the Courrier Francais, that the Bank of England intended to apply again to the Bank of France for pecuniary assistance. Several decorations of the Legion of Honour, have been granted to the officers and men of the gendarmerie of the Puy de Domo, for their good conduct during the late disturbances at Clermont. M. Paya, chief editor of the Emancipation of Tou louse, and four other persons, who stood on the opposi tion interest, have been elected Municipal Councillors in that town. The Sentinelle of Bayonne states that Espartero left St. Sebastian for Pampcluna on the 4th inst. Advices from Barcelona of the 3d, quoted by the Courrier Francais, state that Van Haien had re-entered the city, and that all was quiet there. A Constantinople letter of the 20th, in the Augsburgh Gazette, states that the Ottoman Government is going to construct a series of fortified camps, or barracks, on the land side of the capital, to serve as a line of defence. Two such posts already exist. The Odessa Journal announces that the Grand Duchess Helena and her daughter, the Grand Duchess Maria Mikaileona, after remaining two months in the Crimea, left Simpherophol on the 9th, for St. Petersburgh.— Galignanes Messenger. STOCK EXCHANGE, Two o'CLocK.—Five per Cents. opened at 115 f. 90c. ; Threes at 80fr. 25c. STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 8, HALF-PAST FOUR.—The Market has been slightly disturbed to-day by the defal cation and disappearance of M. Bonnet, a stock-broker, whose Stock Exchange liabilities, however, are believed not to be very large. French Funds have gone down in price. For Cash Fives have fallen 20c. ; Threes 15c. ; Ditto (1841) 25c.; Neapolitan 10c.; Spanish Fives (Ac tive) have risen ; Roman 4 ; Belgian Fives and Spanish Fives (Passive), are unvaried ; Belgian Threes and Por tuguese no quotation. For the end of the month, Fives, Threes, and Ditto (1841), have declined 25c.; Neapolitan no quotation. DUTCH FUND3.—Amertanaw, Nor. 8. Money. Ell's. Actual Debt, `2% per Cent Ditto, ditto 0 per cent. Amen Svndic,4ii per cent 9OX 1,14 Ditto, ditto, 3 5 4 per Commercial Company, 444 per cent 1.91A 55 Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent. ...... 101% 103 , Loan 1837, 5 per cent. ............... 97 9 Exchange on London, One mon t h s .. 12 7% Twoh 11 57% Hambursh, One month 35 81% Two months 35 L',l3 _ Dutch Papers, Nov. 9. ISELOI AN li U NUS—Batmen' , Nor. 9. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Roth ch il d ' s Loan, 5 per Cent ...... ........ Loan of Thirty Minions, 4 per Cent. 92 . 3per Cent. — ----- .. 71% (1340) IOIA Loan of City, 1232, 4 per Cent. 94 Society of Commerce, 4 yi per Cent 93 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent.." 31% National Society. ......... . . ............. — Exchange on London (short) --Brussels Papers, Nov. 9. AUS f MAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Nov. 2 five per Ceots. Metalli q ues .............. .............. 105 , , Four per Cents 'three per Cents. Bank shares ...Alleemeine ZeituNg. Nov. e. HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, Nov. 6 Bills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. flank 5hare5........._ 1:,60 1511 Anglo-Russian Loan lOB% 108 Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Selias lO3 Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th Series .... 98% 9S Ditto in Certificates "smear ....an... 98 97 % New 4 per Cent. (1840) B6 li5A, Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 5O Ditto.. ...................... 5 per Cent — Polish Bondi New ticket Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 7s' 75% 1 1 14 101% t eL egi s an New Loa s n p , e l r B3 C 4 e , n 4 tc per Cant ... Thirty .seven. COCKNEYISM OP Ing TIMES.—This once pow erful Journal, which every day was wont to strike some chord that vibrated through the heart of the 'empire, has now descended to the very lowest grade of twaddle, and every day puts forth trash worthy elan ancient Alderman. Sir C. Hunter himself could not surpass an exquisite specimen of genuine cockney simplicity which appearedin its pages yesterday. A compositor, who has taken an accurate gauge of our Contem porary's foot, wrote to explain the great distress to which the compositors are now exposed, and which is unhappily both intense and wide-spread. In this letter the " mighty power possessed by the Times" is spoken of: Its " noble and gene rous efforts in the cause of suffering humanity" are praised, and it is supplicated to do for the compositors what " it has done for Frenchmen, Spaniards, Poles, starving Trish, Highlanders, and distressed Spitalflelds weavers." That Journal is described as " issuing a history of the world for a day . to the inhabitants of the four quarters of the Globe," with much more flummery of the same kind. The compositor, knowing his men, administered a dose of flattery which would have choked a dog. In acknowledging the many compliments the Times ingenuously says, "we like both the spirit and the style in which the letter is written," and it offers the writer a place in. the establishment of the Times. Speak ing for the public, it - declares that it likes the gross flattery of the Times. This is genuine cockneyism, gobemoueherie of the biggest swallow. After the Times has thus certified to the merits of the Times, what will it not believe itself and endeavour to make others believe? PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT. —The Houses of Lords and Commons assembled yesterday, pro forma, for the purpose of further proroguing Parliament by Royal Commission, until Thursday, 21st December. The Lords Commissioners were—the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Buckingham. and Lord Wharncliffe. No Member of either House of Pailisment was present, ex cept the three Lords Commissioners ; and the Commons were represented by Mr. Lee, the Cleik of the House of Commons. We have pleasure in stating . that on Sabbath the 31st ult., a collection was made in the Rev. George Lawson's Church, Selkirk, in behalf of the unemployed weavers at Paisley, amounting to 181. Gd. sterling, a sum alike honourable to the congregation and their respected pastor, who pled with heart-touching. eloquence, the cause of the sufferers. We think it right to mention, that Mr. Campbell, the parish minister, intimated to his people the object of the collection, a circumstance worthy the imitation of Christian Ministers of all denominations, to co-operate with one another in every good work. — Edinburgh paper. THE LATE AUSPICIOUS EVENT. --The form of prayer and thanksgiving for th e safe delivery of the Queen and th e bi rt h . of a Prince of Wales, has just been sent to us in a very elegant form. It is printed in golden letters on a bronze ground, with the crest of the Prince of Wales, beautifully executed, immediately over the Prayer. It is executed by a young tradesman of Fore street, who deserves praise for ;the beauty of the design and the despatch which he has shown in bringing it out, and the trifling price at which it can be sold. We regret to have to announce the death of Peter Burrowes, Esq., long the well-known and eloquent member of the Irish Bar, and who, up to a few years since, discharged the duties of Chief Commissioner of the Insolvent Debtors' Court, Ireland, in which he was succeeded by the son of one of the most eminent men of his own day and party in Ireland, Mr. Curran, Mr. Burrowes, who bad for some time past resided in this country, chiefly for the sake of medical advice, died on Monday at his residence in H e nrietta-street, Cavendish square, in his 90th year. With the exceptions of the ex-Lord Chancellor Plunket and the ex• Chief Justice Bushe, there is scarcely a survivor left of the 'great men of the Irish Parliament. COURT CIRCULAR. The Lord Mayor of London and the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex were received in State yesterday at Buckingham Palace. His Lord ship and the Lady Mayoress, accompanied by the City Remembrancer, and followed by the Sheriffs, Messrs. Maguey and Rogers, arrived at the Palace twenty minutes before three o'clock, and were ushered up the grand staircase. This party were received by the following Ladies and Officers of her Majesty's Household: —The Duchess of Buccleuch, Mistress of the Robes ; the Countess of Charlemont, Lady in Waiting; the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamber lain, the Master of the Horse, Earl of Hard wicke, Lord in Waiting ; the Treasurer of the Household, the Vice-Chamberlain, the Master of the Household, Capt. Meynell, Groom in Waiting, and Colonel Arbuthnot, Equerry in Waiting. After having had candle served, the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress, the Sheriffs, and the Remembrancer, were conducted by the Lord Chamberlain to the apartments of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, to pay a visit of congratulation to his Royal Highness. A few of the Foreign Ministers, including M. Dedel, the Netherlands Minister; Baron Gersdorff, the Saxon Minister; the Rus sian Minister . and the Baroness Brunow ; the Grecian Minister, and Madame Tricoupi ; the Bavarian Minister, and Baron de Neumann ; and a party of Ladies, including the Countess Dela warr, Lady Elizabeth West, the Countess of Uxbridge, and the Ladies Eleanore and Con stance Paget, the Countess of Haddington the Countess of Wilton, Lady Stanley, lon. Cavendish, Mrs. Harcourt, Hon. Mrs. G. E. Anson, followed the Civic party. The Lord Mayor and the Sheriffs had an audience of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, who was attended by the Marquis of Exeter, Groom of the Stole ; Lord Colville, Lord in Waiting; Captain Francis Seymour, Groom in ' Waiting ; and Colonel Wylde, Equerry in Waiting. His Royal Highness the Infant Prince was afterwards brought into the room, in which were assembled the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress, the Sheriffs, the City Remembrancer, the Mem bers of the Diplomatic Corps, and the Ladies who had been honoured with invitations; and also the great Officers of State, and the Ladies and Gen. tlemen of the Royal Household in Waiting. The Royal Infant was carried round to all the distinguished visitors present. The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress, and the Sheriffs, then took their leave of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and left the Palace at half past three o'clock. Her Royal - Highness the Duchess of Glou cester sent, at an early hour yesterday morning, to Buckingham Palace, to learn the state of her Majesty and the Infant Prince. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her . lVlajesty yesterday morning. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge arrived at Buck ingham Palace jn the afternoon from their resi dence at Kew, and made inquiry respecting the health of her Majesty and the Royal Infant. Before leaving town for Kew their Royal High nesses returned to the Palace. His Royal Highness Prince George of Cam bridge called to inquire after her Majesty and the Infant Prince. The following bulletin was issued yesterday forenoon : " Buckingham Palace, Nov. 11, 1841, Half-past Nine, A.M. " The Queen has passed an excellent night. " Her Majesty and the infant Prince are going on well. " JAMES CLARK, M.D. CHARLES LOCOCK, M.D. ROBERT FERGUSON, M.D. RICHARD BLAGDEN." Among the Nobility and Gentry who called yesterday at Buckingham. Palace to make their dutiful inquiries, were Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippsthal, the French Ambassador, the Por tuguese, Brazilian, Sardinian, and Neapolitan Ministers, the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, the Bavarian Minister and Ba ronness de Cetto, the Turkish, Prussian, and Neapolitan Charge d'Affaires, the Danish Charge d'Affaires and Countess Bille Brahe, the Swedish Charge d'Affaires and Baroness Rehausen ; Mr. Colquhoun, Agent for the Hanse Towns, and Mrs. and Miss Col quhoun ; the Mexican Charge d'Affaires and Madame Murphy; Count Revel, Mons. de Paiva, Chevalier George Maunders, M. Hye Hoys, Mons. Lobo de Moira, the Archbishop of Can terbury and Mrs. Howley, the Lord Chancellor and Lady Lyndhurst, the Bishop of London, the Duke of Buccleuch, Duke and Duchess of Rich mond and Lady C. G. Lennox, the Marchioness of Wellesley . , Marquis and _Marchioness of Bristol, Earl and Countess of Belfast, Earl and Countess of Clarendon, Countess of Morley, Countess of Kingston, Countess Dowager Listowel, Earl of Portarlington, Earl and Countess Brownlow and Ladies Cust, Earl of Liverpool, Earl and Lady K. Jertnyn, Earl of Thanet, Earl of Leicester, Countess of Mex borough, Lady Sarah Savile, Lord Pollington, Dowager Countess Cornwall, Earl and Countess Radnor, Countess of Chesterfield, Earl and Countess Malmesbury, Countess Stradbroke, Earl and Countess De la Warr, Lady Elizabeth West, Earl of Haddington, Earl and Countess Uxbridge, Ladies E. and C. Paget, Earl and Countess osslyn, Viscount Hereford, Viscount Cantelupe, Viscount Lowther, Lord Langdale, Lady A. M. Dawson, Lord Fitzgerald and Vesci, Lord Marcus rill, Lord Denman, Lord Clifford, Lord Hill, Lady Augusta Gordon, Dowager Lady Brownlow, Lord Willoughby de Eresby, Lady and the Hon. Miss Denman, the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce, Baron and Lady Gurney, the Attorney-General and Lady Pollock, Honourable Mr. Corry, Honourable C. Law, Recorder of London, M.P., Q.C., Miss Elizabeth Law, Lady Wheatley, Misses Wheat ley, Right Hon. H. Goulburn,- Mr. and Mrs. Ashley. Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, Hon. Cap tain and Mrs. G. Campbell, Hon. Mrs. Denman; Hon. Miss A. Denman, Hon. Miss Fox, Maj, r- Gen. Sir H. and Lady E. Hardinge, Sir William and Lady Poland, Sir J. and Lady Graham, Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Sir R. and Lady Peel, Lieutenant-General Sir J. Macdonald, Lady and Miss Macdonald, Lady Taylor, Lieutenant-General Sir C. and Lady Egerton, Lady and Miss Trotter, Colonel Sir G. and Lady Cooper, General Sir H. and Lady Grey, Sir R. Chester, Sir W. and Lady Clay, Miss Clay, Sir Charles Smith, Sir E. and Lady Antrobus, Sir H. Halford, Sir Richard Westmacott, Sir J. M. and Lady Burgoyne, Sir Chapman Marshall, Sir T. and Lady Barrett Leonard, Sir J. Beckett, Sir Fred. and Lady Wetherell, Sir J. Duke, M.P., Sir Peter Laurie, Sir T. Wilde, Sir Henry Richardson, Mr. Sergeant Goulburn, Mr. Sergeant Spankie, Q.C., Mr. Sergeant and Mrs. Talfourd, Colonel W. Sibthorp,M.P., Mr. Ser geant Andrews, Lieutenant-Colonel and Mrs. H. Hamner, Colonel Richardson, Rev. Dr. Dakins, Principal Chaplain to the Forces, Major and Mrs. Weymouth, Col. and Lady J. Wemyss, Rev. Dr. Kuper, Col. Peel, M.P., Alderman J. Johnson, Major Macarthur, Alderman Humphery, M.P., Alderman Farncombe, Lieut.-Col. and Mrs. Bou verie, Captain Grant, Captain Pitt, Mr. The siger, M.P , Mr. and Mrs. Hume, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence, Miss Disbrowe, Mr. Fitz roy Kelly, Q. C., Mrs. Fitzroy Kelly, Mr. Courtenay, Q. C., Mr. Crowder, Q.C., Miss Blake, r. G. Spence, Q. C.,Mr. George Hayter, Mr. Holt, Q. C., r. Ho race Twiss, Mr. D. Pollock, Q.C., Mr. Whit marsh, Q.C., Mr. and Mrs. W. Gladstone, Mr. S. Sharpe, Q.C., Mr. Baines, Q C., Mr. Tem ple, Q.C., Mr. J. W. Ferrer, Mr. Emerson 'ferment, M.P.,Mr. B. Montagu, Q.C., Mr. Evans, Q.C., r. 0. Hendon, &c. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent returned to the Palace in the evening. Her Majesty and the Infant Prince were both doing well last evening. Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal took an airing in Buckingham Palace Garden yes terday. ThelDuke of Cambridge left his residence at Kew on Wednesday for Petworth. The Duchess and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge visited the Duchess of Kent yesterday. A deputation from the Strand Union, conduc ted by Mr. Edward Willoughby, the Chairman, and Mr. Dowling, the Vice-Chairman of the Board of Guardians, accompanied by Mr. Cor der, the clerk, had an interview with the Lord President at the Colonial-office, yesterday, on the subject of the education of the infant poor. THE QUEEN DOWAGER. The following bulletin of the state of her Ma jesty was yesterday exhibited at Marlborough House:— " The Queen Dowager remains in a state of great feebleness, but her Majesty is suffering less from irritation and fever than during the last two days. " W. FRED. CHAMBERS, M.D. DAVID DAVIES, M.D. " Sudbury Hall, Nov. 10, 1841." 'll ... ) he Observer of Sunday, Nov. 14, will give all the sayings and doings connected with the birth of the Royal Prince. A Monday afternoon edition of the Observer is regularly published at 4 o'clock, which is best adapted fur subscribers in the country and abroad. The Observer of last Sunday, Nov. 7, which contained 14 of their long and wide folio columns of particulars of the fire in the Tower, with engravings of the front and interior when the fire was raging at its height, has been kept on sale since Sunday, and may yet be had for a week to come at the office, 170, Strand. mtaRY iIiEWSI AND PubUr ptnton. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The Dmdalus, Capt. Martin, arrived at Liverpool on Wednesday from the coast of Africa. Capt. Martin re ports that the Niger expedition entered the new branch of the Niger between the 13th and the 15th of August, the Soudan leading. The expedition had, up to that date, lost nine hands by death. The following confirmation of what has been so re peatedly stated by The Sun respecting the movement of a French force towards the Spanish frontier, is taken from a Madrid letter of the Ist inst., published by Louis Philippe's fashionable London organ, the Post:—" The Spanish Consuls at Bordeaux, Bayonne, Perpignan, and Marseilles, Messrs, Duron, Arguendegui, Tovar, and Viniegra, have sent official information of the approach of French troops on the frontier, which, according to them, come in the hope of exciting the Spaniards to offer them some insult, which might serve as a pretext for either invading Spain, or demanding some satisfaction." The Commerce of Tuesday has the following remarks on the commercial relations between France and Spain : —" We remark with pleasure, that, notwithstainling civil c•mmotions, and the efforts of English smugglers, our exports to Spain continue to increase. In 1840 they amounted to 79 millions. Spain is our natural ally, and the results to which we have just al'uded set forth, in a striking manner, the evil policy which has involved us in a quarrel with Spain at a moment when the return of order and peace held out a prospect of lucrative rela tions for us." On Monday Mr. H. Lytton Bnlwer, Minister Plenipo tentiary from her Britannic Majesty, remitted to the King of the French, at a private audience, the letters of recal of his Excellency Earl Granville. A Constantinople letter of the 20th ult., in the Augs burg Gazette, states that the Ottoman Government is going to construct a series of fortified camps or barracks on the land side of the capital, to serve as a line of de fence. Two such posts already exist. The Odessa journal announces that the Grand Duchess Helena and her daughter, the Grand Duchess Maria Mi • kaileona, after remaining two months in the Crimea, left Simpherophol on the 9th ult. for St. Petersburgh. A letter from St. Petersburgh of the 29th of October states that b' the violent storm — which raged on the night of Friday, the 27th, and the following day, at Cronsta.dt, aused several accidents in the road ; fourteen ships coming from sea were obliged to cast anchor off the out ward lighthouse, two made signals of distress, but it was not possible to give them any assistance. Several were damaged." PUBLIC OPINION. The Morning Chronicle, in a leading article suggested by the birth of the Prince of Wales, has the following incidental remarks:—" Britain, at this moment,resem- bles the land of Egypt, during the preternatural inflic tion of darkness. "rhos children of Israel had light in their dwellings,' while a darkness that might be felt' hung over the Egyptians. The favoured classes in this country who do not feel the general distress can gather round their snug firesides, and thank God for all that they have, of past or of present comfort. Yet at the same moment there are firesides where no comfort is— homes that instead of fostering destroy the homely affec tions—children whose sight, instead of warming the heart, wring it with the bitterest anguish. And this unequal state of things, if not created, is strengthened, extended, and perpetuated by laws, that, like the destroy ing angel, enter our very doors, and strike down the first-born of our rights, our hopes, our happiness. Yes, the Corn-laws are a national shame, a national ruin, and a national curse ; and while they embarrass the merchant and rob the manufacturer, they enter the houses of our workmen, and are effectually sapping whatever is good, generous, and kindly in the domestic virtues, on which we pride ourselves as a nation."— Yet though the Corn-laws are thus an acknowledged curse to the country—a cancer eating into the very heart of industry—discouraging its efforts and neutralizing its successes, the Tories are resolved that the impost shall still continue ; or, if modified, shall be so modified as to do the least possible harm to the interests of the mo nopolists, and the least possible good to the community at large: Nothing will ever rouse these men from their infatuation, but one of those stern displays of peremp- tory determination on the part of the people, that there can be no mistaking, and no neglecting with safety. The following is from the Post :—" All intelligent persons know that the Oxford Tracts (with blemishes of various kinds which even their authors are not the y=am'"" MORNING UN • and cheapness of the fish, has of late years become scarce. and dear, owing to the stake-nets at present all owed, awl the encroachments of poachers. CONEDIZIZCX.III. razrozzay. Mr. Sidney Smith delivered lectures on the Cern-laws, on Monday, at Chatham, and on Tuesday at Rochester. The inhabitants of Maidstone have invited him to Wu' on Thursday the 18th, and Friday the 19th instant, in their town. • ECCLESXASTICALL. 3, In the Consistory Court on Wednesday the Queen Advocate moved that all the parishioners of B r aintree, Essex, be cited to appear and show cause why a ra te made by a majority of the parishioners should not be con; firmed. Dr. Lushington, the Judge, said, he bad grea, doubts on the subject, but he would confirm the rate, Oa' the Vicar might sue for it. men. to deny) have had for their general object, not to favour Romanism, but to show to all whom it might concern, that they could have whatever support and consolation the Faith and practice of the Primitive Church could give them, without quitting. the Church of England. Many had grown weary and faint under the burden of mere Protestantism, which is with regard to Church matters a formulary of non-belief, and there fore no support at all. They wanted a belief and a guidance other than that which their own falli ble judgment gathered from the original documents. They were going over to Rome, . when the Tracta rians stepped in to show them that the Primitive Church afforded all they wanted, and that the Church of Eng land is the true depository of all that the Primitive Church had, without the admixture of modern fancies and strange unedifying observances, which have dis figured the simplicity of the Catholic faith in the Church of Rome." That the Oxford Tracts have exhibited a decided, , though not avowed tendency towards Catholic ism, is put beyond a doubt by the recent conversion of the Rev. Mr. Sibthorp, who, after studying them atten tively, and examining all their bearings, became con. vinced - that they , had a Catholic leaning, and, as a neces sary consequence, boldly embraced Catholicism. The result of his impartial investigation satisfied him that Puseyism was the first step to Popery. The Herald says :—" The entire life of every man is but an education for eternity ; the establishment alone of schools for youth is a mere palliative ; national health can never be restored by such inefficient means. 'Books and lessons are excellent so far as they go, but unless more powerful agents are administered, their excellence has but a temporary effect. If we wish to bring about an improved state of things, we must amend the moral condition of the adult and the aged as well as instruct the young. So long as parents are vicious, discontented, and irreligious, it is in vain to expect to see children mo ral, satisfied, and Christian. A great want of the manu facturing districts are undoubtedly churches, to remind and invite the people of the worship of God ; but there is an equally serious want in the deficient supply of cler gymen."—lt is not churches, nor clergymen, nor clerks, ncr pew-openers, that the manufacturing dis tricts are in want of ; their want is of a far more pressing and appalling character—they want bread ! Of what use is it to build up a church for a starving population ? To exhibit a sensitive uneasi ness for the safety of their. souls, when their bodies are in a state of absolute inanition ? Such a proposition is a cruel mockery—aye the most cruel of all mockeries, because it wears the disguise of a kindly consideration. Build new churches if you please--for it is better to build them than new jails or new barracks—but at least take care that the congregation shall be in a fit state to attend those churches. The spirit of meek, placid devotion can never exist in the bosoms of a ragged, starving population ; and we have yet to learn that the act of listening to the liturgy or a ser mon, can stave off the cravings of hunger. In reference to the proposed reforms in Chancery, the Times observes :—". We think it indispensable to the well-working of the entire plan, that there shall be no power to plaintiffs of selecting their judge. The causes should go by rotation to the Master of the Rolls, as well as to the three Vice-Chancellors. Without some arrange ment, there is no way to equalize the work, or to secure for the public the full benefit of the establishments they are to pay for. We have heard lawyers talk as though there were some natural justice entitling a plaintiff to choose his own judge. But why should that privilege belong to a plaintiff rather than to a defen dant ? Why should either or both have that privilege, if its exercise would impede the justice due'to other plaintiffs and defendants? Unless the rule adopted' on this subject be a peremptory one, two or three of the four Courts (we exclude the Court of the Chancellor), will soon be clogged with a heavy list of business, as the solicitors of the day shall happen to take a special fancy for some one or more of the Judges or Counsel;;;ind the one or two other Courts, though perhaps quite as well officered for all the purposes of substantial justice, will be left without occupation either for the bench or for the bar. This inconvenience has more than once occurred in the Courts of Common Law, and should be firmly guarded against in the new Courts of Equity." The Dublin Evening Post, speaking of Mr. Warren's appointment to the vacant Sergeantcy, remarks as fol lows:—" Sir Edward Sugden is not to be trifled with. He is determined, so long as he is allowed to remain in the office of Lord Chancellor, that the factious coterie at the Castle shall' not have it all their own way. Sir Ed ward has humbled the pride of the Shaws, and the Blackburnes, and the Brewsters, backed though they were by Lord De Grey and Lord Eliot. With regard to the rival claimants, it was a matter of perfect indiffe rence to its which of them succeeded, for they are both' men of the right sort,' and we were interested in the conflict only because we saw the Chancellor determined to try conclusions with the Orange managers at the Castle. We are enabled to announce that the Chancellor has triumphed. Mr. Warren is now the third Sergeant." The York Courant contains these remarks :—" At present appearances are smooth ; it is passively, not 'A.C• tively, that the hostile spirit of Toryism to public free dom is manifesting itself. An outrage or a riot in be half of its domineering principles is allowed to pass over without rebuke. But dues not this at once point out what are the predilections and the hopes of the party? Long have they been striving for the eminence they now possess. For its attainment they have entered into an unholy aliance' with the avowed enemies of social or• der—with the extreme advocates of extravagant changes to be brought about by physical force—and, after having done this, can we fur a moment hesitate to judge of what they may be further inclined to do to maintain that power o fw ' which they have thus worthily possessed them selves l'' MONEY—TRADE—cowwnwitem: -- - The Herring market at Wick is low in prices. .The total quantity to ship there is now 25:000 barrels, lit not more than 10,000 of these are fbe sale ;'the quan tity on the southern coast for sale is not , lstrge, at LYbster it o not much beyond 1,000 barrels. rfi Shetland thb total catch for the season is 20,000 barfeli.'.. , An application 'is to be made next Session'fa'an ' l4,t• "for the more' effectual preservation and increase of the breed of salmon, and for the better regulating and im proving the fisheries on the River Tyne, and the rivers, streams, and waters running into the same, and on the sea. coast or shores adjacent to or within the month or entrance of the said river." The salmon fishery of the Tyne, formerly celebrated alik e f or th e qua n tity, quality, NAVAL AND MILITARY. The military examinations at the Royal College, Sand-- burst, took place on the 4th, sth, and 6th inst., i e n e tii e presence of the Duke of Cambridge. Fourteen Gentl men Cadets, on account of their high qualifications,, wer recommended to the General Commanding in Chief for appointments to ensigncies in the line without purchase' Fifty others had qualified themselves for comet issi"s' and v 4s made great progress. Captain Ogilvy, of the 2d Life Guards, tho officer 6f the day . on Tuesday at the Horse Guard: h as received an intimation that he will'obtain the promo' d on usually be stowed on officers who chance to be in that position 03 Le birth of an heir to the throne. LAW AND POLICX. Wedncs lay four girls and five young men, all 2°) under years of age, beloi;ging to the Wes: London Union, we" charged before Alderman Kelly, at Guildhall, with ai 3 . orderly conduct in the workhouse. It appeared tha. several of the worthless inmates of the house preferrco, Bridevrell, and created a disturbance order to be Ct mitted. The'Alderman ordered three of the girls to , a committed for seven days, and three of the young °le for twenty-one days. •th At Bow=etreet, the three individuals charged wi causing the death of Michael Aungier were brought !Ip and remanded till this day, when the w hole of the 6.w deuce would be laid before the Magistrate. PINE .A.RTS. A dinner was given at the Albion Tavern, on I.loldffr! . by about 120 professors and amateurs of music, to F. „ Collard, of Cheapside (formerly Clementi and Ti C o llar! as a mark of esteem, and in commemoration of his having resided under the same roof ever since ho cam , to London, in 1791. The evening was marked by soul brilliant singing. LITERARY AND SCIENTITZe• h i st A translation of Southey's, " Roderic:lc" b 4 been published in Italian, under the title, 66 Ro seri ol' ultimo de' Goti." The translator is M. G. 33 ' ' M! a telli, known previously by his translation of Co llins an gc r Spencer. hel d At a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, tea on Monday in Pall Mall, a letter of the late lao c e n i,is Sir David Wilkie was read, containing the result c!, de , barometric observations to determine the level an" le on, pression of the Dead Sea ; being the last, if net th e e ter scientific labour of that celebrated man. No baron. to , had ever before been carried to the Dead Sea, „ion observations of Sir David Wilkie showed a dePre of 1,198, 76 feet below the Mediterranean, and the e ter , vation of Jerusalem as 2,262 feet also above the 114,p0 points to which previous observers had nearly proximated. e Captain Ross has, by letter, stated that he the a successful approach to within h twelve degrees 0 0. Antartic Pole, and had obtained 49rue, very aPP r°ll determinations of the South•Mignetic Pole. THEATRICAL. Mr. Charles Kemble is perfectly restored to be t . h is and has been present at all the performanc e :. % it daughter at Covent-garden. Mrs. Butler has ftP ° nessed her sister's debut. - r stiPo' The manager of the Haymarket has, we un-e -re-engaged Madlle. Celeste, who is now playing at naingham. COURT—PASIIIONABLIL cod' The Duke of Wellington left town for "%Velma' on Wednesday morning. t„,l The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland ret urn- Trentham Hall, Staffordshire, on Wednesday- on The Duke and Duchess of Bedford left liolkbant Monday for Beauchamp. Wells,. Swaffham, Norfolk. tiler The Earl and Countess Brownlow arrived at Br°``. House on Wednesday afternoon, from Lincolnshire.t she During her Majesty's recent visits to Clareninn ' o ur selected the wife of one of the attendants of that blishment to be wet nurse to the Prince. Her Waal Brough, and she is a remarkably healthy person. MISCELLANEOUS. t I • When Rubini arrived near Madrid with his,'escerlio 30 men, he was surrounded by a crowd of prAsan ts er . imagined him to be a Christino chief to bed? ll did ed up to the prompt justice of Esptvetero. In v 3i d li t he Rubini protest, the soldiers were-dismissed, an.nter• vocalist was allowed to depart at l as h on ly on th e t he cession of a priest of the place, gnd a promise`: e astir would return and sing a mad; i n the church pose he was frightened tr 'death, else he would 1 1 f ~,/e o° vinced them on the !'pot, and, like a musician of acquired imi'O°'7'.al fame by taming a 11.1adrid'in the sweetness of his n o t e s. 'on of tb : A large African m a l e li on , l a tely in the P°ss Essi has ed Marquis of Waterford, was on W e dnesday p urc the Council, and added to the l' collection in the e t g l e te ll park, The noble animal, which from the ti ° elf the to the nose measures upwards of 12 feet, is one finest lions ever exhibited in this co untry. o ter l Professor Thiersch, of Munich, according to " - n ipteP thnony of Professor Blackie, the recently - ainßelf Professor of Humanity in Marischal College, Ac e ' es ton talks classical Greek as fluently as Lord Palm Parliamentary English. er e The Tipperary Free Press says :--" There is n ° ,; r i 0 ' hibiting in the window of our office, two large e`;,.-0104 wheat pa one stalk, both p ro d uc i ng thirty-fou r ° .) of prim wheat."---These ears must be almost as I n Peter BJrthwiek's. RUMOURS OP THE DAY. r elent ed It is rumoured that Mr. Oastler is about to be from his confinement in the Fleet prison. RADCLIFFE-CLOSE READ I ROOM. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) 111st•' • On Saturday evening, the 6th of November with members of the reading-room in connection Jls4 works and tenantry of Mrs. M. Bealey and 'To n i 0 , 11 : ' cliffe, held - a tea party, to commemorate their - ur er, versary. Afterwards James Booth, Esq., trcl,s,- meets % unanimously called to preside, and opened th° by an appropriate speech, when Mr. F. Gooue"i;iclt cretary, read the report of the p a st year which e tinc 01. very interesting and encouraging. The rn e r , the 0 . then addressed by several of the members , ° "„ n a at ' O - ti s vantages to be derived from such institutions, ', s ic fr, t , tervals was enlivened by select pieces of vocal,cithe sn of Handel, Mozart, &c. &c. About ten o'eloci'„diag,bi ing broke up, highly gratified with the Pr°',:, vi,",ba the evening, and with increased, respect to tui -- es ' family, to whom must be attributed the existence Alt e i institution. ols,,„ tt About fifteen months ago the reading- I ' o oc liK b' up with everything necessary for the accoran the members, by Messrs. M. Bealey and Sonej gnd d - e ndy it since received the additional present of S P -- * A° of maps. ltee isoclP Thereading-room is governed by a Cora l ,' n yn . e r annually by the members from among thei r u -' s n‘ The adult members subscribe 3d. a month ; / 0°,4 sixteen years of age, 2d. The periodicals $ ( 1 5 111 11 0 0 received are • sik in - number, which, with tw° th e 03t nine weekly newspapers, selected from ainc, r tsort l9- respectable of all parties, forms a very goou V of reading. vi , , CORONER'S INQUES.I• abli'' .41.,: ki el, house, i .o n ri q on u n eesr FloodNvo a n % v h t ir e ee l ev i t ,at Westminster, of th t e h e C o b a o c d l a o n bf d t Ifl,, g ,,filo u it 'l e.r ir s w Pl Llfol:' SO aged 34- years. ha lHho William Jones, waterman, stated that eb°°tl:o-retitth"e two o'clock on Tuesday afternoon.last, he disc. ' s ll it Ait body of the deceased floating in til rio t* ‘ vit ) le' i:closure of the dam for repairing Westreinstevll°l3 n the Middlesex side. Witness towed the b °d ; / ht._ 4 , l in It appeared to have been in the water a fortnig",, cw,, $ Sarah Winfield stated that her husband wu 'i 60 Th ri g of the Old Britannia bar of E 'Hester, ° w ver burthen. She knew the e' '' o' DO deceased, who wa s ;m os ',,, , 11 31 .trade. He was on his first voyage with w ,.,, for'', l log band on board the barge. On last Tue,s"3ldischar'tb. they were returning from Wandsworth , ni ter 136 30 ' cle' a cargo of bricks, when, in shooting Batter sc3 ,. d tl t oti head of tho barge struck one of the Pier, s ;, - ,. 11 an ° - ,3, ceased was knocked overboard by the trei'oecnrl-110 drowned. A few minutes before the ace. an d. j' a ccl' ho was remarking that he could not swtfi l ' be clre''" should fall in the water, he was sure t ° be Ve A rdict—Accidental death. I A with„ ti i'll e second inquest was afterwards procee" — spe' ro . f a re- , i ve clet ed iappearedntheg saaiomateghfemale,aGt Jury, rnenamed e mt dcee dhc relative eitHapsaceir d.tr Chapel-street, was rt t , ae h ues e t deatho:nvv il_tn. , I i ° t t 4 jen a d s yt : ri D o : r. . 5 fore married westtat bled 00 in passing by two men walking together, the theu LW the cape ,of her cloak became tangled w ith f tbe 1 , 1. ? of one of their coats, and hrew , her down (;'" i t f , ' l . l er ment with such violence that the bone of her tEI 0.0 was broken. She was 'admitted into the W e o of 1 ,,,, Hospital on Saturday, and died from thudee,eve6 injury about .two o'cloc\c yesterday morni• Accidental _Oath. journed florn \ 1 .14 road, od „ 1/ 1 ,i'. Suspicious------- sion' CASE.--BODY 1701./Nl' t 11- MAIiKS ;nollef ' 0 rsloaLttEtlN.dCitty: INlastT,lwicaslioTwitre.TnAesnds'y-tiifetell,:, resumed an&eoncluded at the York Otte', ' , J eg i tl i , beforelfr.• Carter, the Coroner for Surri' Or at in No.the 89th root, but lattetly living bvatLy'a Michael Compton, aged. sixty, forint rif i , f el: o poo roe 0 , 4 1, Seven Step-alley, Rotherhithe.. ay,' denee •given before the Jury at their first ineettog..l. peo, thet on the 15th tilt., whet deceased cceived 111 ,' : tIO!, sion, he quitted home with tt portion. of the 110,1,1,71.'„.i,14 from that time he was misied; and thanen 1.,,01"6 last his body was found in the river, ox 1 ' , s ine,. b . ridge. A woman of notoriously Lad characterpolii witilPe be!rt charged before the 'Magistrates a t Unio n , o til t c being concerned in his death, and rernande" evitlel' verdict of the' Jury was known. The addonal vithtt adduced on Wednesday was to the effect that, °I; . och 1 the 15th tilt., 'deceased received the sum of . 1 ' ' A z. :;d' ll ,t ll the pregerikof a person to i‘ horn he paid 111--ruel"j! 1111_,.(01k,Sed) put the remainder in a, bag /1 1 iir 3 fo, on' Welt was upon hiiu when his bodi ":„!' - esi li l l a Mr. John Howers, surgeon, made a post 701if-i6e 01 ',',,c 1 nation, and fund over the left ( -Sr a larr 1-1' %.i e s '' „,' 0 contusion between the eyes, both a whien lo.l'"of tb"-, apparently been receiv efore death. 5e4t4r,,,e5 P.,,i' injuries would have cause death, althouoh " .., fo bable they had produco nsensibility. Vor"dict" • dead." • 40 -4 I