The Sun. — London, England, 1841-12-30 00:00:00

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THIVVENING, DEC. 30, Her Majsety's Servants will perform the Play of THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, from the Text of Shakspeare. Duke, Mr. G. Bennett ; Antonio, Mr. Phelps ; Bassanio, Mr. Anderson; Lorenzo, Mr. Elton; Shylock, Mr. Macready ; Portia, Mrs. Warner ; Nerissa, Mrs. Keeley ; Jessica, Miss E. Phillips. After uhich will be repeated the New Christmas Pantomime, called HARLEQUIN AND DUKE HUMPHREY'S DIN NER ; OR, JACK CADE, THE LORD OF LONDON STONE. Doors to be opened at Half.past Six, and the Performance to begin at Seven o'clock. Boxes 55., Second Price, 21. 641. Pit 35., Second Price 2s. Lower Gallery Is. 6d., Second Pr.ce Is. Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, DEC. 30, Will be repeted Bellini's Opera of NORMA.—Pollio, Mr. W. Harrison; Flavius, Mr. Clement White, Oroveso, Mr. Leffler ; Adalgisa, Miss Rainforth ; Clotilda, Miss Grant ; and Norma by Miss Adelaide Kemble. After which will be repeated the New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled GUY EARL OF 'WARWICK ; OR, HARLEQUIN AND THE DUN COW. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, 53. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Secons! Price. 25.; Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167. New Bond-street. ►:OYAL 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. 30, 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. Hailequi n , M. Huline ; Patch, M. R o ch e t ; Pan taloon, M. Lehman ; Flip, Signor Feliz Carlo ; Clown, Mr. Buckingham ; Calumbine, Miss Sharpe. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSRALDISTON. Splendour—Novelty—Attraction and Interest ! Undoubted ! Unequalled I Unprecedented ; THIS EVENING, DEC. 30, Will be actml, SUSAN HOPLEY ; or, THE TRIALS AND VICISSITUDES OF A SERVANT GlRL.—Wil ham Dean, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Dicky Dean, Mr. Paul ; Susan Hopley, Miss Vincent (the acknowledged Heroine of Domestic Tragedy), • After which, ROBERT AIACAIRE.—Robert Macaire, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Jacques Strop, Mr. Gardner. To conclude with a New Grand Romantic Aerial Comic Pan ttiraime, entitled UARLEQUIN 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, 2s.—?it, Is.—Gallen, 6d.—Half-price to the Boxes only, at Half-past Eight. NEW STRAND THEATRE. SPLENDID CHR ISTMAS 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. 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OROr• 1"-1- vot, LONDON: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1841. We must direct attention to our report, in another part of The Sun, of the meeting of the CHRISTIAN CHARTISTS at Birmingham. It ap pears that they have, in imitation of the Chris tian Chartists in Scotland, obtained a Church in which they perform public and divine worship. They have considerable funds; they have esta blished a school, instituted prizes, own a printing press, and exert themselves zealously and lauda bly, in a Christian spirit, to obtain the People's Charter. They were addressed by . Mr. J. STURGE, who strongly recommended them to , abstain from the use of all intoxicating drinks, as a certain means of obtaining the rights they demand. They were also addressed by Colonel PERRONET THOMPSON, who is indefa tigable in devoting himself to the people's ser vice. What the landed aristocracy and the clergy may think of this falling away of the peo ple from the old customs of their fat!iers, we do not pretend to guess, but tons such meetings are, as the Nonconformist describes them, evidence "of the existence of a strong under-current of feeling in favour of political equality. They are the first escapes of steam which aristocratic tyranny has been for some time past generating." We presume the landed aristocracy, and the priesthood do not mean to coerce the people into obedience to their arbitrary will; and if they do not--if they do not design to make a charnel house of our goodly country, the sooner they take the various indications of the direction in which opinion is setting into favourable consi deration, the more advantageous it will be for themselves and the community. For many years France has been subject to almost continual political disorders, and has tried almost every remedy without obtaining a cure. Extreme Republicanism, and an Imperial despotism, alike caused bloodshed and tyranny. A temperate and mixed Monarchy ended in re volution, and in the establishment of the dynasty which is now hurrying on to despotism. Before the first Revolution, France had an immense Church establishment, which was the parent of the grossest immorality and the most disgusting impiety. To the same period it was blessed with the uninterrupted and uncontested sway of a long line of Kings, who involved the nation in endless profanity and immense debts, and of their hideous rule the terrible Revolution was the necessary corrective and end. The generation which grew up in. Europe, and has almost passed away since that series of events began, was so forcibly impressed with them that it saw neither their causes nor their conse quences, and for a long time treated. them as the results of furor or innate wickedness of Frenchmen, subject to no general law, and only to be repressed, like lunacy, by putting the nation under the constraint of strict laws. The student of history is aware, that the terrible ex cesses of the Revolution have some parallels at many antecedent periods in the existence of France, and that they only appeared so terrible to this generation because it witnessed them ignorant of previous excesses, and suffered bit terly from their consequences. Through all this long series of events, and pro tracted existence of great social evils, the theory has been professed and acted on, that the law, be it what it may, must be obeyed and enforced. Whether the law expressed only, as in the period antecedent to the time of Cardinal RICHELIEU, the brutal will of the Seigneurs, tempered some little by the doctrines of religion, and the cun ning resistance of the men of law growing gra dually into power; or whether it expressed, as subsequent to that period, the somewhat more refined and statesman-like views of the Monarchs and Ministers of France, it was, through all the ages of French history, rigorously and even terrifically enforced. France is the country of Europe where the law—whether it emanated from the Court or the Parliaments, considered as the antagonist and the curb of the popular will which had neither meetings nor institutions to give it voice—was pre-eminently the rule of society. Everything was regulated and everything ordained; and, till the beginning of the Revolution, the popular turbulence of England, in contra-distinction to the well-regulated and suppressed popu lar feelings of France, was a standing theme of reproach to our great and growing community. France has long been a monarchy par excellence, and at no period of its history has any portion of its people been capable of disputing the power of the law, or in any way resisting it, except by a violent revolution, or rushing into civil war. The result has been ages of disorder and of tumult, ending as the latest event in the attack of QUENI'SSET on the lives of the Royal Family, and its consequence forboding another period of anarchy, in a collision betwixt the Government, intent on administering and maintaining a bar barous and inefficient law, and the Press. Nor have the periods of greatest internal tran quillity, when the law was completely supreme, been free from dissasters. Louis XIV. was obeyed unresistingly in every part of his dominions, or he enforced his will by the sword. His success ful tyranny excluded religious liberty from France, and deprived her of some of her best arts and of her best citizens. It was the precur sor, also, of the financial and moral disorders of the Regency and of the reign of Louis XV., which so terribly embarrassed the reign of Louis XVI., from its commence ment, and brought him, far less deservedly than CHARLES 1., to a criminal's end. The internal tranquillity which generally prevailed during the short sway of NAPOLEON was accompanied by a most terrific waste of blood and treasure, by fos tering a military spirit which could not save France from conquest, and has, ever since his fall been a source of u nqu i etness , trou b le, and expense., Such a brief bird's-eye view of the condition of France through many centuries, contrasted with the present condition of the United States, where the progress of society surpasses whatever was before known, while the peace and prosperity of the people are uninterrupted, is calculated, we think, to make the considerate and wise men, who now stand at the head of affairs in France, such as M. GUIZOT and his friends, and whom, we believe, to be animated by the best inten tions, suspect, and even doubt, the truth of their favourite doctrine, that society can be made pros perous by laws, and that nothing but obedience is wanting in France to promote the national hap piness. The Communists, and the clubs of Ouvriers Egalitaires, may be wrong; we believe they are ; but it is plain, from all experience, that M. G UIZOT and his friends must be wrong. Their system of governing France by coercive laws—of putting down what they call the bad Press, or what they consider dangerous opinions, has been tried through a series of ages, under a succession of Kings, during the dis orders of the Republic, and through the stillness of the Imperial despotism, and has invariably failed. It has led, as we have shown, to great and continual disorders. Common sense now imperiously dictates a different medicine. The whole of the institutions of France are monarchical. Political society there cannot now, by any possibility, be otherwise organized ; but those institutions should, by the Administra tion, be tempered to wards liberty—biassed towards Republicanism, not hardened towards slavery, and twisted into an Imperial Crown. The Re volution of 1830, founded on a popular principle, embodied in it the instinctive 'wisdom which grows from expe r i ence. The popular sentiment expre ssed by the P h rase, a CITIZEN-K ING , or Republican institutions with a Monarch, appro- prejaPlicatuebiyexnpressed the wants of France and the and t the country. By at end s h ou ld the institutions adapted Farnadnctetoo the natoltel guide thei r conduct. M. GUIZOT has served both under th e old Mo. n attain ignielim the re f ore reflect statesmen that s p m r principle, i p o l f e whethera : med may not have more influence than prese nt cir 'cilYantldietmheenemt7lhiraeb, its which he then. to r cumstances over his judgment. At least, if lie pursues his present career, the democratic Part of society will not fail to convict him of being much better adapted to be a Sub-Prefect tinde r NAPOLEON, than a Minister of a Republican Monarchy. A scientific theory of 'Government is much more likely to be erroneous, let, us tell M. GUIZOT, than such a popular sentiment as was embodied in the principles of the Revolution of 830. That is the spontaneous growth of the nstincts of man, and of the circumstances of his condition. It is the hand of nature guiding him in his course, while the other is the hand ----- oc art, acting from very imperfect knowledge. As in France in 1830, so in England at this day, the great popular demand for more liberal insti- THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1841. they could, establish a tyranny over opinion here such as prevails in France. In pointing out the error of M. GUIzoT our main object is undoubtedly to read a lesson to our Tories and to our own people. We would earnestly put the latter on their guard against the supposition, disproved by the whole history of France, that exacting a rigid obedience to laws can secure national happiness; and we would make them ready, therefore, if it be in our power, to resist the encroachments of the Tories, who are prepared, we know, to imitate that rigour in Louis PHILIPPE'S Government which they admire and praise. We do not ex pect that they will be convinced that the object of their admiration is a grievous error, but we may, perchance, influence the public to believe that to adopt it here would inflict as much in jury on England as it has inflicted on France. We learn with pleasure from the unequivocal testimony of the Tory Journals, that out of Corn aw Repeal agitation a great political agitation is arising. This is what ought to be, and what we long ago predicted would be, the consequence of the crying injustice committed by the Legisla ture. We told the landowners, years ago, that they were exposing their property, and all the institutions of the country, to danger by levying an augmentation of rent in the shape of a tax ordained by the Legislature on the people's bread. What do we now find? The Corn-law Repealers, says one furious Tory Journal, are bellowing for a land-tax. The repeal of the Corn-laws, says another, is not merely a fiscal or commercial question with the Corn-law Re pealers ; its ultimate object is essentially a poli tical one. So the selfish aristocracy will be paid off in their own coin. They passed the Corn laws to enrich themselves, and keep down the de mocracy ; and those very laws are now stimulating the community to demand an exclusive tax on the landlords, and impelling the democracy to require a complete change in the Constitution. The greediness of the upper classes has com pelled the other classes to look into the founda tion of political power, as well as examine the existing right of property, and the present result is an extensive agitation against the political power and property of the bread-taxers. ,There is only one course which these gentle men can now consistently pursue. If they are resolved, cost what it may, to maintain their tax on the people's bread, they must follow up this gross and palpable act of injustice by further acts of tyranny. If their will be sufficient to take away the people's bread and stop trade, it must also be sufficient to annihilate their liberties and take away their lives. The landlords dare not leave so many people in existence to com plain, nor leave them with their present means of organizing either complaint or resistance. They must, for their own safety, diminish the number of people, and diminish their liberties. Whatever the votes of the electors may decide, whatever may be the majority in Parliament, the continuance of a bread-tax places the land lords in hostility with the bulk of society. They cannot halt mid-way, and must go on and de stroy, or be destroyed. They may retreat and save themselveS, and save the country, but that the landowners-declare they will not do; and if they will not give up their scandalous injustice, their only consistent course is to become the avowed destroyers of the lives and liberties of the people. With folly and ambition, which are quite un equalled, these men institute agricultural so cieties, promote agricultural improvements, study labour, and give rewards to produce corn cheaper, and at the same time they pass laws to keep corn at the same price. By the introduction of improved processes, including new manures and new crops, the produce of agriculture has been increased, on the average, not far short of the whole increase of the population, or 56 per cent., since the beginning of the century; but in the same period the agricultural population has not increased 20 per cent. The increase of the agricultural produce is therefore obtained by less labour; any proportionate quantity of it cos less than it did at the beginning of the century, or at any intervening time between that period and now, and yet the landlords make laws in order to keep up the price. What would they have said. of the possessors of spinning mules had they required a law to keep up the price of cotton as high as before the mules were invented ? The landowners try, in fact, to accomplish in compatible things, namely, to produce corn at a less cost, and yet to obtain for it the same or an equal price. It is true they have not succeeded; for every successive law they have passed or proposed, they have been obliged to lower the pivot at which they could permit importation. How could they ? It is not more certain that bodies on the surface of the globe tend to the centre, than that lowering the cost of production lowers the price of a commodity. The folly of the landlords is shown in their attempting to accom plish incompatible things—their ambition in attempting to to counteract a law of nature—their folly and their ambition are now as palpable to the meanest man of the community as their in justice, arid they must subvert the laws of nature before they can come successful out of the ter rible agitation against their political power and their property, which their folly, injustice, and mad ambition have provoked. The Madrid Journals of the 21st instant have come to hand, but their contents are of no poli tical importittce. M. SALVANDY still declined being presented to the REGENT. The Funds hat on the 21st undergone a slight improve. merit, the last bargains done being at 32-i a 33 for cash, 3 31 . at sixty days, and about 135,000/. sterling was the equivalent amount of the operations done. _n the comments of the Paris Journals of Tuesday upon the KING'S Speech at the opening of the legislative session, we find ample indica tions of the folly and the madness of the war of extermination proclaimed against the Pre:3B by the Court of Peexs. These comments axe so written as to defy a Star Chamber prosecution, and yet the majority of them are levelled a t the Government and the KiNci with a force and a di. rectness unknown in the Political discus sions tutions and more open trade, is founded on ex tensive experience, influencing the hearts and minds of men. It confirms the assertion that such popular instincts are more to be relied on, for every Government must conform to them, than what are called scientific theories of government, which involve hostility to the people, and can only be maintained by re straint and coercion. M. GUIZOT, therefore, and his friends, would do well, in our opinion, to over haul their theories, and, instead of forcing the monarchical institutions of France towards des potism, to temper them with republicanism, and so reconcile the power of the Throne with the li berties of the people. We have a stronger motive for making these reflections than any expectation that they will influence the conduct of M. GuizoT. Our Tories share his error, and would fain make society swallow their injurious nostrums. They are continually at work to harden our institutions into despotism. They bawl with one discordant throat for coercion to enforce submission to bad and barbarous laws. They aim at Imperial rule. They would exact for a PEEL, supported by his motley crew of monopolists, the reverence which was voluntarily paid to a BONAPARTE at the head of his legions, though they can neither endow the blind, shuffling gin-horse of a politician' with the talents of a great man, nor invest his selfish CALIBAN followers with the attributes of a victorious soldiery. They demand for a mer cenary aristocracy and a selfish priesthood the consideration which is due alone to self-sacrificing patriotism. The people do not agree with the Tories ; the Press questions the utility of the laws which the aristocracy have passed to enrich themselves, and stigmatisetobedience to such laws as a co-partnery in crime. The Tories, therefore, like the mistaken M. GUIZOT, demand rigorous laws to put down what they call the bad opinions of the bad Press, and they would, if i which take place in this country. A Government which admits of the right of free political dis cussion, and after the abolition of the censorship places itself in direct hostility to the Press, is either mad, or doomed to sure and speedy de struction. If then there be wisdom in the Chainber of Deputies, and any attachment to the House of ORLEANS, it cannot too soon set about the correction of the vagaries of the Court of Peers. The functions of that most despicable Court must be clearly defined, and if trial by Jury is to exist in France its exercise must be secured to all classes of offenders not charged with the actual crime of high treason by the re peal of the infamous September Laws. But the Government objects that it cannot obtain con victions from Juries for offences committed by the Press. This is became it does not trust w holly to the honesty of:Juries. While any verdict but that of a Jury can ruin a Jour nalist, the sympathies of Juries will naturally and necessarily be on the side of the Press. Be sides no case is referred to a Jury unless the Pro cureur-General give it as his opinion that it would be ridiculous, and therefore would excite univer sal odium, to bring it before any other tribunal. Unless the Monarchy place itself in harmony with the Press before the close of the pre sent Session of the Chambers, either France will shortly be in chains at the feet of Louis PHILIPPE, or that Monarch and his family will be petitioners to a foreign State for an asylum .denied them within the limits of revolutionized France. The monstrous doctrine of constructive treason established by the verdict of the Peers in the case of M. DUPOTY must at once, and for ever, be declared infamous by the Legislature. Nothing short of this can give security to the Press, or persuade the nations of Europe that France is not retrogading in all that gives stability to the insti tutions, and freedom to the thoughts, of a civilized people. As for M. HEBERT, the vile tool of the Court who propounded this doctrine of complicity of treason, we regard him as a more dangerous enemy of the KING than FIESCHI, PEPIN, ALI BAUD, or any of the vile assassins who, in the course of his reign, have attempted his life. The veriest BOURBON conspirator could not labour more effectually to overthrow the ORLEANS dy nasty than the Procureur-General has done since the commencement of the trial of QUENISSET and his accomplices. The election for the President's Chair took place in the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday The following is the result:-- Deputies present 309 Majority required Sauzet had • 193 votes. Lamartine 64 Barrot 55 M. SAUZET was, therefore, to the great chagrin of the Royalist poet, declared duly elected. But it was supposed that this would not be the only Ministerial triumph in the preliminary arrangements, as the opponents of the Minis terial candidates for the Secretary of Questor ships were supposed to have no chance. This is to be traced to the difference of opinion between Count MOLE and M. Limns, relative to the conviction of M. DUPOTY. The Court was in favour of the conviction, and prevailed upon many of the " 221," of whom he is the leader, to vote with the Government. M. TRIERS, in whose breast a lingering recollection of the Journalist yet exists, shrunk from the atrocity of declaring DUPOTY guilty; and as the first duty of the Opposition will be to denounce this sentence, the MOLE party suddenly finds itself rowing in the same boat with M. HEBERT and the Ministry. The Moniteur of the 28th gives in its official part an account of the opening of the Session. The three Councils of Commerce, Manufactures, and Agriculture met on Monday ; the Minister of Commerce presided. The whole of the sitting was taken up with the sugar question ; all the systems already brought forward in the sittings on Friday and Saturday had new and ardent advocates, and the discussion being nearly exhausted, as there was no reason to proceed to a vote, the sittinr , was closed without adjournment to any certain day; only the Minister announced that the subject of discussion at the next meeting of the three Councils would be the question relative to cattle. The Councils will, therefore, have to discuss the question in their respective meetings. We hope to be able to give to-morrow seine precise information respecting the discussion in the three sittings in which the. Councils treated the sugar question. We see by a letter from Frankfort of the 24th, that the Marquis de Chasseloup Labot has made but a very short stay in that city. The Marquis de Chasseloup Labot, Envoy Extraor dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the King of the French to the German Confederation, after having delivered his credentials to Baron Bulow, the Representative of Prussia in the Diet, left our city to-day to go direct to Paris, and take his seat in the Chamber of Deputies, of which he is a Member, as Deputy for the Department of the Lower Seine. If the presence of a Minister Plenipotentiary at Frank fort is useless, why appoint one?—if it is useful, why choose a Deputy who must neglect one portion of his duties?—Commerce. The National states that Baron J. de Rothschild has been created a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour by a Royal Ordonnance, dated 24 t h inst. The Moniteur announces the translation of M. Dupont, the Archbishop of Avignon, to the Archbishopric of Bourges, and the nomination of M. Gignoux, Vicar-Ge neral of Beauvais, to be Bishop of that diocese. The Dunkirk Journal states that Captain Granara, of the Marie Louise, of that port, having rendered great assistance to the Emma, of Dundee, Captain Young, in November last, when in a distressed state off Cape Fi nisterre, on a voyage to Genoa, the underwriters of the latter vessel have presented him with a magnificent silver plateau, richly chased, and hearing an i nscr i pt i on com memorative of the circumstance. The Courrier de Lyon announces the death of an in habitant of Vaise from a broken heart ; he had sustained losses, from the inundations of 1840, to the amount of 100,000 E, but receiving only a very inadequate sum from the indemnity fund, was compelled to relinquish all hope of being able to rebuild his house, which had been thrown down by the floods, and sell his estate. This had preyed on his mind, and worried him till he died. The personnel of the British Embassy in Paris is now composed as follows :—His Excellency Lord Cowley, Ambassador; Mr. 11. Lytton Bulwer, First Secretary of Legation ; Mr. Turner, private secretary of Lord Cow ley ; Messrs. Greville, Howard, Heneage, M'lntosh, and Jones, attaches. _ Prosecutions have been commenced against the Pilate and the Haro of Caen for giving an account of a re cent sitting of the Court of Peer s . .... The Dulce Alexander of Wurtemberg has arrived at he Tuileries from Brussels. " Negotiations," says the Moniteur Parisien, " are nearly brought to a close between the Directors of the French and Belgian Post-offices, for the establishment of estafettes, to receive at Cambrai the mails from Paris for the Two Flanders, to convey them through Lille to the first station at Courtrai, or any other that may here after be nearer the frontier of France, when the railroad is finished, so that very shortly letters passing through the post-office at Paris will be distributed in the two pro vinces of Flanders, nearly as soon as those for Brussels are delivered in that capital. BOURSE—Pants, TUESDAY, DEC. 28. - , - - - - - - I. list Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pricy. Prior. Fre.ich 5 per Cent? ll6 35 ... 116 45 ... 116 30 ... 116 45 3 per Cents. ex div. 78 20 -. 18 :..5 ... :8 15 ~. 78 25 Banc of trance Latlitte dank I,ooof. Shares 10 250 ...1005 ...1002 50 ...1005 5,000 f. Stares 5025 ...5025 ...5025 ...5025 ~ ..ivian ?sank Belgian 5 per Cents. 5 i,er Cenu., 1840 10:334 ... 10334 ... 103% ... 103% ,p.insh Active 1:4% ... 24% ... 24 , 4 ... 1.4..4 Pa.si,. 5% ... 53( 2 ... 53 4 ... % Old Deferred gfaDolitan eorcugueses per Cents 2834 ... 28% ... 28% ... 2854 Bowan RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain Ver.assies, L.. 8. ............ It. B 330 ... 335 ... 330 ... 332 50 Rouen 457 50 ... 457 50 ... 457 50 ... 457 50 ...dm • 5OO ... 505 ... 500 ... 205 Strasburg toßale, 223 75 .. 225 ... 223 75 ... 215 DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, DEC. 28. Money. Bibs. Actual Debt, 254 per Cent Ditto, ditto per cent. 99% lots Ameit Syndic, 43; per cent 9 l— 913, 2 Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent. 7t; ;6% Commercial Company, 4% per cent 155 155% Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent. ..... Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 9 7% 92% Exchange on London, One month l2 10 Twomonths ........• 11 27% Hamburgh, One month 35 Ctiy. Two months ...... Dutch Papers, Dec. 29. BELCH A N MU NDS-13ausacti , lice. 27. Actual Debt, 2t per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, S per C. n t IOI% Loan cf Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 92% • Jper Cent, --- ... 714 ________—_(B4o) lol 7s Loan of City, P. 32, 4 per Cent 1)0 Socletyet Commerce. 4%per Cent Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent............. NationalSwiety. ........... ••••••••••••• — Exchange on Louder, (short) —.Brussels Papers, Dec. 27. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, DEC. 21. Thirty.s¢ven• , ftveper Costs. Diet a lli ques Four per Cents. 995i Three pir Cent s . 1612 sank shares ...... .... .. ...... ........ ............ . —Alfgemeine Zeitung, Dec. 24. We have published from an Edinburgh Jour nal a curious circular, lately issued by a Select Committee of Non-Intrusionists. This violent party in the Kirk, finding it necessary to delude the people, and induce them to go along with them in their schemes of aggrandising the ‘ir own order at the expense of public liberty, have rermed a plan for a " Holy Association." This body is to levy money from the people ; prepare mess sures for resisting every Government not suitable to their views; agitate the cou, try from one end to the other, by means o, tracts, conferences, and lectures; and have paid agents for carrying their secret machinations into effect. If this does not open the eyes of the people of Scotland, they 'deserve to be slaves. We have, however, better hopes of their inde pendence and good sense. One part of this cir cular affords great cause of rejoicing, because it puts the fact beyond doubt th at the Government will not yield. • The Strathbogie ministers must be restored, and if any measure at all is introduced into Parliament, it will be one which the members of this " Holy Association" will resist to the last. They are evidently prepared for Sir Robert Peel's plan. We shall then see whether the General As sembly or Parliament is the strongest party. plan COItONERSHIP OF CHESHIRE.-At the final close A. Churton, Esq., had a majority over Mr. John Wood Massey of 170. REFORM CLUB.—A magnificent marble bust of her Majesty the Queen, the production of Francis, has just been presented to the Reform Club by Sir BPrijamin Hall, Bart., M.P. It is placed in a most advantageous situation in the grand hall of the Club-house. Thi s h an d some present has been designed to commemorate the birth of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales ; and, we doubt not, the example of this truly loyal and liberal-minded Cambrian will be followed by many on being generally known. THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IS UPON HER TRIAL.—So say the Tory papers. The truth, however is, that she has been upon her trial for upwards of two centuries, and has been found guilty of inefficiency, want of Christianity, and rapacity. Any sentence pronounced on her at Oxford, will only be the parental condemnation of a vagabond whom the Magistrates have doomed to destruction. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CIIY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC. 29.—We have had a good business doing in the Cotton Market to-day, the sales being 6,000 bales, of which speculators have taken 700. Prices are firm. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, DEC. 29.—The tran sactions comprise —Eastern Counties, 8/. 16s. 3d. ; Grand Junction, 196 ; Great Western, 861 ; Lancaster and Preston Junction, 274 ; London and Birmingham Quarter Shares, 23/ ; Ditto, New Shares, 281. [MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 29.—We have no alteration in the Share Market, and prices are firm. The following are to-day's transactions :—Liverpool and Manchester, Halves, 92 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 28 ; South Eastern and Dover, 21 : 1 ; Ditto, New, 91; Manchester and Leeds, Quarters, 3/. 17s. ; Bank of Manchester, 41. THE FUNDS. Although money commandsthe high rate of interest of six per cent. on the Stock Exchange, both the English and Foreign Securities remain firm. ' Consols are 89* for the opening ; Three per Cents. Reduced 89* f ; Do. Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 99* ; Bank Stock, 165 166; Exchequer bills, l 2 14 prem. Towards the close of business yesterday, some large purchases were made in Mexican Stock, and an advance of one per cent. took place, the last quotation being 274 28, and a still further advance has again taken place, this morning the quotation being 281 I; Spanish Active Stock has also advanced to 244 ; Portuguese Five per Cents. are 324 334 • ditto Threes, 191 20. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great Western ... 65 Ditto New . ... 50 London and Brighton 5O ... . 40i to 39 London and Blackwall Ditto New London and Birmingham Ditto New Manchester and Leeds Ditto New Shares Midland Counties Northern and Eastern South Eastern and Dover Ditto New HALF-PAST ONE. Consols have a d vance d to 89* .; Three per Cents. Reduced 891- i ; Three-and-a-Hall ditto, 99* • India Bonds are quoted at 1 prem.; India Stock, 245; 'Exche quer Bills, 12 14 prem. The market looking very firm. It is currently reported, and pretty generally believed in the City, that an arrangement has been concluded at Madrid for the payment of the over-due dividends upon the Coupons of the capitalised stock. In consequence of which Spanish Active Stock has advanced to 248 ; Passive, 58 ; Deferred, 128 ; Mexican Bonds are now 284 --1- ; Colombian, 21* ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 33i ; Dutch Fi ve p er Cents., 99:1. There has been a fair amount of business transacted in the Share Market again to-day, and prices continue to improve. London and Brighton are 398 i ; Great Western, 88 87 ; London and Birmingham, New, 29 ; Northern and Eastern, 291 ; South Eastern and Dover, 23 22i; ditto New, 101 ; London and Blackwall, lii. HALF PAST TWO. Consols, Account, 891 i ; Mexican, 284 1 , - ; Portu guese, 331 i ; Spanish, 241 25. QUARTER TO THREE. There is a belief in some quarters that a plan will shortly be made public, tending to the relief of the Spanish Bondholders, and that the money for the payment of a dividend will certainly be here in a day or two. In the meantime we should be loth to encourage delusive hope, and much more rash speculation, and would fain counsel, therefore, all who are interested to wait awhile, and see the colour of the Spanish " oilier." MR. CHRISTOPHER'S PLAN OF CORN-LAWS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,- The persuasion in some quarters in , creases,. that Mr. Christopher's speech discloses, or at 411 events approximates to, the intended proposhl of the Minister on the subject of the Corn-laws. The Substance of Mr. Christopher's plan, as stated ina journal on the same side of the gene ral question, is " that he would have the price of wheat fixed as nearly as possible be tween 565. and 655. the quarter. This end he would Secure by a minimum duty of ss. the quar ter on wheat, when the price reaches 65s ; and as the price falls, by increasing the duty to a maximum of at least 205., at most 305." The speaker, however, is not responsible for the in vention of a maximum which shall have a least and a most; for on reference to the report in the Times, what was said is stated to have been, " that he cannot say whether it ought to be 205., 255., or 305., until he has positive and authentic information as to the quantities and the prices at which such quantities could be purchased abroad.' The brief method of reply to this seems to be by asking, why the manufacturing and commer cial interest should not be found demanding to keep the price of wheat fixed as nearly as possi ble between 265. and 355. the quarter; which end they would secure by a minimum bounty of ss. a quarter on foreign wheat when the price fell to 265., and as the price rises, by increasing the bounty to a maximum, which they will settle at 205., 255., or 305., when they have positive and authentic information as to the quantities, and the prices at which such quantities, could be purchased abroad. It is difficult to see how this lex talionis is to be attempted to be parried, except on one ground ; which is that the landlords, being in possession of the legislature as they have been to the extent of an exclusive test, have taxed themselves in such a manner as to make it im perative on them to recover part in a mode that inflicts a hundred-fold loss on the community. And here the war shall be, not with the landlords, but with the men calling themselves political economists. Can there be wonder at the low estimation in which that name is popularly held, when there is found among them a prostration of intellect sufficient for giving way, knowingly or unknowingly, to such an enormous proposition, as that any legislators can possess a right like that supposed ? Imagine the case to exist in its simplicity, and without a suspicion of ill intention of any kind ; and what would be the conclusion, but that such legislators should be cashiered and the public mischief removed, by the quickest process known to the community ? Would a single individual of any kind be found to maintain, that such a blundering self-sacrifice presented any claims to the perpetuation of the public loss? One point in the speech I take the liberty of noting. The speaker entirely goes with me in the belief of the, indissoluble connexion between. the Corn-laws and the present Ministry, inti mated in the last letter you did me the honour of inserting. Yours very sincerely, T. PERRONET THOMPSON. Blackheath, 30th December, 1841. GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY. Traffic returns for the week ending Dec. 27, 1841 : Passengers £BO9 6 1 blereh andize Darlington, Dec. 29. £1,200 0 9 W. O'BRIEN, Secretary. BLAYDON BURN RAILWAY.--On Monday amidst cannon firing and colours waving, took place the opening of this beautiful line of railway, made by Messrs. Joseph Cowen and Co., from their fire-brick works and colliery at Blaydon Burn, through that rugged and winding valley to their depot at the river Tyne. This work was commenced not six months ago, and was thought by many to be impracticable ; but by the perseverance and energy of the principal in the above firm, aided by Mr. G. G. Bell, engineer, it has been brought, without a single accident, to a successful con clusion.— York Courant. " 9 7 " P' 7 ' 34 * V r e AND Vitt)Ur Optnton. " Who runs may read." PORMIGN. M. Sauzet has been re-elected President of the French Chamber of Deputies. 'He had 193 votes, whereas M. Lamartine, the poet, had but 64 votes, and M. Odilon Barrot only 55. This is the first triumph of the Ministers. The opinions of the French press upon the King's Speech, selected from Galignani's Messenger of Tuesday, will be found in another part of The Sun. The Speech is denounced as a compound of rhodomontade and imbe cility by a majority of the journals. Senor Olozaga, late Minister of Spain at the Court of France, arrived in Madrid on the morning' of the 21st inst., for the purpos e o f ta ki ng hi s seat in the Chamber of Deputies. When the difference took place between M. Salvandy and the Regent, the latter sent an express to Olozaga to remain at his post, buthe had reached Vit. toria before. The following gratifying news from Spain is from a Madrid letter of the 21st inst.—" Nothing can be more satisfactory than the rapid development we observe in the reviving industry of this country; though the tax levied by Government on the proceeds of the mines is only five per cent., and that we must take it for granted that fraud is practised to some extent, it yields about 60,0001. sterling this year, though none is paid by the proceeds of the quicksilver mines of Almaden, and the new one of Almadenejo, belonging to Government,which yield 1,204,000 dollars per annum, or 251,0001. sterling. The milling undertakings afford employment to half a million of people, and to 50,000 beasts of burthen ; and little doubt need be entertained that the next year's ac count will be considerably more cheering; it is thus that we see the industry of Spain springing up in every direction." The Malaga Bishop Ortigosa, who lies under the Pope's displeasure, has been raised by this Government to the Archbishopric of ;Burgos, and the canons and other members of the Seville Chapter have been com manded by Ministers not to obey the Archbishop and Cdrdinal Cienfuegos, and to proceed to the election of a diocesan governor as in cases of sede vacante. The accession of Mehemet Izzet Pacha, to the office of Prime Minister at the Porte, cannot but be injurious to British interests, as it was the remonstrances of our Government that caused his removal from the army in Syria, where he was noted for his atrocities. PUBLIC OPINION. The Post endeavours, but not with the happiest results, to be sarcastic on the subject of the two addresses pre sented to Lord Melbourne, from Derby, on Monday last. The whole article is a mere tissue of pertness and flip pancy, and bids defiance to anything like analysis. The Times, like the Post, affects the satirical as regards the presentation of the two Derby addresses to Lord Melbourne, and observes of his Lordship's reply, that it was " characteristic "—an expression of dubious import, but intended, we presume, to be condemnatory. The Chronicle, in reply to some remarks lately made by the Dublin Morning Register, on the question of the Repeal of the Union, says—" The Union with Ireland will never be repealed. Hundreds of thousands of men may fall a sacrifice in the attempt to effect such a repeal, but as long as England is secured by her navy from con tinental invasion, Ireland cannot be forcibly separated from her." The Herald contains an article suggested by the Derby addresses to Lord Melbourne, wherein, glancing at the Whig Budget propositions, our Contemporary observes— " That Lord Melbourne knew or cared little about the propositions, we can readily believe ; the more so, as the Noble Lord, in his reply to his Derby admirers, again gives a characteristic instance of his utter ignorance of public opinion, in protesting that he expected the greater part of the proposals would have received the sanction of Parliament. In such expectations, however, the Noble Viscount stood alone." The Dublin Evening Post contrasts the magnificence of former Irish Viceroys with the petty economy of the present, and observes—" It has always been the custom of the Viceroys of Ireland to send a fat ox to the Mendi city Institution, that the mendicants might fare substan tially on Christmas Day. It was, at least, a harmless custom; but his Excellency judged—whether wisely, we shall not say—that you might fulfil all the obligations of charity at a less expense. Accordingly, determined to send something, he ordered that a quarter of beef should be sent to the beggars. This, no doubt, is in accordance with the economy and retrenchment which the Mail as sured us so unctuously was to be the principle of his Excellency's administration." The York Courant remarks, in allusion to Lord Mor peth's reception in America :—" A private letter states, that this worthy and patriotic Nobleman intends to re turn from America to this country at the close of Febru ary, or, at the latest the first week in March. However gratifying to Lord Morpeth's feelings must be the gene rous hospitality shown to him on transatlantic shores, we feel confident the warm and cordial welcomes which will greet him on his return home, and amongst the Refor mers of the West Riding of Yorkshire, will be equally pleasing." The following is from the Cheltenham Examiner : " Well says Mr. Christopher that Parliament must legis late on the Corn-laws—that the feeling of the country demands an investigation which cannot be withheld ; and well he says that no mockery or half-measures will be accepted. The events of the present winter, the agi tation and discussion which have been. carried on, and tho suffering which has been endured, have placed the parties in a very different position to that in which they stood at the close of the past session'. ; even Mr. Christo pher knows now that the chance of an Bs. duty is lost to the monopolists for ever." • MONEY - TRADE-CODTIVIERCE. Mr. Sidney Smith, in denouncing the present system of emigration, observed, in a lecture last night, that this scheme transported not the drones of the hive, and rub bish of the building, but the good square ashlar and sound stone. The men who emigrated were those who worked fourteen or fifteen hours a day, while those kept at home never did more than brush their nails, or pick their teeth after dinner. A number of furnaces were blown out at Wolver hampton last Friday, but none of the workmen on the larger establishments in the neighbourhood have yet been discharged. A meeting of the iroumasters takes place at Dudley this day, to take into consideration the state of tho trade. COMMERCIAL azrozivr. At a meeting of the Anti-Corn-law Association for St. Mary, Newington, held last night, Mr. Wickham mid there were now upwards of sixty well-organised branch societies in London, and closely connected with the parent society. At a public meeting held last night at Paddington, the scheme of the Manchester National Anti-Corn-law Ba zaar, was strongly recommended by the chairman to the notice of the various branch associations. Its chief im portance was, that it would tend very materially to in terest in this question, in a way peculiarly fitted for them, the female part of the community. PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. The day appointed for laying the foundation-stone of the new Royal Exchange, has been fixed by the Gresham Committee for Monday, the 17th of January. The silver-gilt trowel to be used by the Prince is to be manu factured by Deputy Brook, of the Poultry. The amphi theatre to be constructed for viewing the ceremony will contain seats for 1,200 visitors, forming an enormous covered tent. ZAW AND POLICE. Yesterday, at Row-street, Richard Horton, late a letter-carrier in the General Post-office, charged with stealing a letter containing a sovereign, was fully com mitted. Inspector Musgrove summoned the landlady of the Angel Inn, St. Clement's, for having her house open for business on Sunday the 19th, before one o'clock in the afternoon. The charge was dismissed on the ground that she had only supplied refreshment to travellers. Another of these meddling inspectors summoned Mr. Day, land lord of the Blue Posts, Southampton-buildings, for re fusing to admit the police. This charge was also dis missed. Charles Smith, a waiter, 16 years of age, at the Shak speare Head, Drury-lane, was charged at Guildhall with attempting to drown himself at Blackfriars-bridge, at noon on Tuesday. A Waterman saved him just as he was about being drawn under the barges, but received no thanks for his pains. The prisoner was remanded till Friday, in order that a surgeon might be consulted respecting the state of his mind. At Thames-street a woman of the name of Upjohn, who had been charged on Monday with cutting and dan gerously wounding Edwitird Allen, a rigger, with whom she cohabited, was again brought up for examination. Allen swore that the woman did not cut him, and the wounds were accidental, but from the evidence of a sur geon and another witness the Magistrate considered him self justified in committing the prisoner. COUR.T -- -rASHIONALBLE. Stafford House is preparing for the reception of the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, who have fixed the 3d of next month for their arrival in town. The Marchioness of Westmeath is passing the season at the seat of Mr. Fergusson, at Pitlour, in Scotland. The Earl and Countess of Brownlow are not expected to leave Torquay until the first week in April. The Earl and Countess of Beverley return to Portman square on the 10th of January. Miss Burdett Coutts left town yesterday for Roehampton. MISCELLANEOUS. At the usual weekly meeting of the National Repeal Association on Tuesday, the Lord Mayor congratulated_ the Association on the gre a t d emons t ra ti o n made on the preceding day at Kells, when from 10,000 to 20,000 per sons attended, and came to the determination to post up in a conspicuous part of their dwellings, " There is no thing for Ireland but Repeal." A hatband with the same inscription was to be generally worn by the people of that district. . _ The mt.gnificent Arabian horse sent by the Dey of Tunis to the King of the French, was presented to his Majesty a few days ago by the persons sent to deliver it. The total number of burials in the metropolis for the year ending Dec. 14, 1841, was 14,599. The burials of females exceeded those of males by 207. Only one per son reached the age of 100, and about 60 died between 90 and 100. The christenings were 7,505 males, and 7,629 females. The General Steam Navigation Company's vessel the Giraffe, B. Stranack, from Rotterdam, arrived off the Custom House at h'alf-past eleven o'clock, A.M., this day with the Dutch mail. ty WILD - - Lord and Lady Robert Grosvenor have joined ,he domestic circle at Eaton Ball, to spend their Christ mas. We have great happiness in announcing that the Noble Marquis of Westminster is much recovered in health, and is rapidly approaching convalescence.—Man- Mester Guardian. EVENING SU INSOLVENT COURT.-THIS DAY IN RE THE REV. WILLIAM DAY. WOODROFFE moved for a re-assignment in this case. The grounds upon which the Learned Gentleman rested his motion were certain affidavits and documental drawn up by Mr. Lamb, who audited the accounts. The insolvent had some time since passed through this Court, owing debts to the amount of 5851. I ls. 2d., and his assets had since been made available for 1,2011. I Is. 2d., so that, after paying each creditor 20s. in the pound, 3 balance of 7061. stood in Court in favour of the insolvent. Mr. Commi ss i oner B OWEN —H as t h e money b e en paid to the crediters yet ? Mr. Woodroffc believed not; but that he considered to be immaterial, as the money was in the hands of trustees for the benefit of the creditors, and that had been decided in the case of ,‘ Jephson" to be sufficient. Mr. Commissioner BOWEN said there could be no More l doubt but that the Rev. Gentleman bad paid all his cre ditors in full; however, there must be legal proof, in dime obtaining, of which he thought there could be little dim' culty or inconvenience, and when that was acquired be should at once accede to the motion. --._ • • LLO YD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAYS) LONDON, DEC. 30. Wind this day at noon, westerly. DEAL, DEC. 29.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Elizabeth, Shields for Jamaica ; Norna , _ Copenhagen for Messina . LIVERPOOL, DEC. 29.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Diadenb Ross, Savanilla, sailed 18th N ov . ; Di ana, Eld r idge, at" chez ; Calamazoo, M'Arran, New Orleans, sa iled 2 6 th ult. Sid. Felicity. Singapore; Parker, Demerara; Thos. Bell, New York. COWES, DEC. 29.—Arrd. U raguay, Kelso, Buenos Ayres, and sailed for Antwerp,. Fortuna, Rio, for ditto. SAECOMEE, DEC. 29.—S1d. Facility, Faro. OFF DARTMOUTH, DEC. 29.—Sp ee d we ll, San LUCCfr. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 29.—S1d. M ars h a l Bl uc her, Fai r ? RAMSGATE, DEC. 29.—Sid. British Queen, 31aurittub, Wilhelmina, St. Thomas ; Meyor, Cape de Verds. B. OFF DOVER, DEC. 29.—Uncle Donald, SytineY' PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 29.—Wind, N.N.W.—l".rdmid nerva, Hoffmann, Batavia, sld. Aug. 15th, bound to dleburg. Sid. Her Maj es ty' s s hi p Snake, riYat'ut h. .0 OFF BEACHY HEAD, D EC . 28.—Cl emen tine, prem to New Orleans, 0ut.28 days. SCILLY, DEC. 28.—Sailed Herald, Leghorn. t . WHITEHAVEN, DEC. 27.—Sld. B r i t i s h Q u een, An' A l ' ey , LEITH, DEC. 28.—Arrd. Inconstant, Levie, Sy " 11- '' C. 8.; Pomona, Beveridge, Quebec. STOCKTON, Dec. 27.—Arrd. Cossack, Richebucto . e , CARDIFF, DEC. 28.—Th e 'Triton, Rees, from Ci o il ebe which was ashore on th e b ar 16 t h i nst., was got c" dthe brought into the harbour yesterday, after discharging greater part of her cargo. CORN AVERA G_Et3. „, GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CO..•;:, cf For the Week ended Dec. 24, 1841, ma d e up from the ...lied sad the Inspectors In the different Citi es an d T owns in zalg" -- Wales, per Imperial Quarter. - Oct Wheat......... 6:25. lt d . I Vats Barley 313. 'dd. l Rye ...... ..... 2 44 15 5 . . Irl d i f l e e t t i l e s. ..:::"'" -521. CI - ---- AVERAGES OF THE LAST SU WEEKS. Week ending WHEAT. BARLEY.! OATS. 1 EYE. ELI"' esis s L. --- -- 4 ,- .- Nov. 19 - ----; 40 .0 65 11 33 4 '22 U 40 2 4 ° , - 1 40 26 OA 9 n 4 22 8 44 7 41 i 5 9 Dec. 3 63 6 31 9 22 6 44 5 9 7, 34 0 4 10 62 7 39 9 22 2 44 8 39 „ - 0 :39 6 17 62 9 34 5 21 2 39 5 :1; z, 36 24 62 10 30 2 21 5 44 8 37 v w va 3 IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGE* or THE _V - . 394. 16 , , Wheat 83 s. 96.1 Oats ......... 225. WA Besoluo' o9s. 33 Barley, 3ls. 6d. I Rye 433. Od.l Pessa" 4 r, .. DUTIES OW FOREIGN c 05.21. -i• ..... ocl. Wheat =sl Bd. Oats ..... .... 134. 9d.1 Beani.... ... 11 , °4 Barley I 15s. 4d. itYe .... ..... ss. oil.l Peas e ...... .. . THE MARKETS.-(THIS DA Y). COLONIAL MARKET. Do d s not There was little business done, holders of o ° d. being disposed to force sales, and prices were scalp ed. The imports were fair, and the deliveries pretty' go o d ' MARKE. The operations in EA Free-trade we T re few, but holders were firm, and wo u ld no t se ll C cm p an y's Congo u up der ls. 9d. cash. WHITECHAPEL HAY .MARKET.the trade The market was b u t mo d erate l y su pplied ; very fair, and p r i ces w i t h out a l terat i on . Clover, 2 1 1 it 1 45. to 51. 13s. ; H a y, V. to 41. Bs. ; Straw, IL 10s. to COAL MARKET. d Ships arrived since last market Jay, 3d. I. s. d. o 9 °' Buddle's West Hartley...... 17 0 Tanfleld;Moor ........... 7. . 7 .. i d 64 Carr's Hartley••• .......................... . 1° Original Windsor's Pontop 17 2 Walls Ena Hea ton ..... NAVAL INTELLIGENC B. • , flo ated ' ! l ' PORTSMOUTH,29.—It is currentiy re, e is the naval circles that the uniform of the several ChISS an to be forthwith changed. and that the white collar "th cuff are to be again substituted for the red. Vice- Adwi- The Powerful, 84, Captain Seymour, wit h 0 this ral Sir John Ommanney or. board, has come ss be harbour from the Mediterranean, and for shortly re-commissioned. The Admiral hila!,,_nts. London, and thence will proceed to his seat i orders for The Hazard, 20, Commander Bell, is under Indies and Plymouth, thence to proceed to the ,13sistSir China, taking despatches for Vice-Adlmra- Parker, K.C.B. B expected Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Owen, - R i c h, for to re-hoist his flag in the Queen, 110, Captaln nuarY• the Mediterranean command, about the 25th of a doubitet This noble ship (which has never been at sea) w d t e P re out to Spithead during the week, to be complete with men and stores. The Warspite, 50, Captain Lord John nay, is un ci n ef f p or ru de s r s s ia t , o to br b i e ng pr t e o se t n h t is a c t o t u h n e ty his e r hris Majesty teningof the thep li rin iv e g e Wales. of The Rapid, 10, Lieut. Earle, i s t o go t o th e Coast' - Africa, and will be ready about the 20th January. The steam-ship Vixen, Commander Boyes, is to pl . ?' teed to the South Americ an St a ti on , an d also the frltiir 50, Captain Sir John Marshall. Both will preb ab ' leave Plymouth together. and The Conway, 26, Captain Bethune, from Chi na Bombay, may be looked for daily, having on board fi u . r s; wards a two millions of dollars, and will be Pala oil Portsmouth. The brig Nautilus, 10, is to be attached as a tender to ~ the Queen's yacht, Royal G eor g e ; and Lie ut. - Thomas (son of Sir George Thomas, Bart.), is to h av e the command of her. Rear-Admiral the Hon. Jocelyn Percy, w ith Car, tain Charles Eden, a s Fl ag Capt ain, is to ]nave the con r i mand at the Cape and Ri o do J a neiro, vice Sir Edwara King, promoted. The Alfred, 50, Commodore Purvis, will be at Spi t ; head about the 15th January, on her way to t he South American station. At Hap Sithead.—Hd, 18 Snke, 16. In rbour.—St.azar Vincent, , Quee a n, Victory, Excellent, Royal Geor ge ya c ht, W ars pi te , Vindictive, Po werful Rapid, Echo, and tende rs. dant; The Carysfort, 26, is being hastened for th e _p e and rumour gives her to Captain Lord George Yau le " . " -- Brighton Gazette. r e Yesterday aftern oon a y o ung woman.,o°paioythOf name of Elizabeth Macintosh i , a servant n t h e re was Mr. Pettifer, of Clevel an d- s t ree t, Fitzrorstr ia l, e ' foot h carrying some knives and f or ks u p stairs, When he' templ e. slipped, and three of the pron gs entered her r i g The su r. Part of the prongs had brok en in her head geon, therefore, holds out no hope of her recoverYA° t hat FRACAS IN DUBLIN.—We have heari,!, - „„ a serious fracas has taken place between these hip " . c - ohie c r . tionaries, which has led to a long and most edifying respondence. Rumour is busy respecting portions nf t „- correspondence, which we do not feel we would be jus'": fled in publishing. It is enough to state that the calls'. belli originated with the Archbishop, who adopted,- the precedent set by Lady Haddington respecting the lit, of the Lord Chancellor, who, feeling himself there'l eorre' aggrieved, a long and, as is stated, most angry k po o n o d w en n c o e t. en l su t ensued. has, How the matter will . terming:ow ' 1) 1; set the gossip -mong ers the ears.—Dublin Monitor. was p h E el A d T y li ester F d ß ay? inque st far, before Mr. Baker, the T itn A hge ß a V ct A otr T ho en l STARVATION.—An ). 0111 A 3te ri, n aes 0 bu o,g oo f .. Frances Goodwin, aged 45. Johanna Desmond, °f li t alley, Well -street, Poplar, said that on Thursday ui r f last the deceased called at her house, and begg e ; o : i n v i h geh r t e 's e l l o se dg to ing a , p a p s l) s .. he w w i a t s oe d b e s st g it a u v t e e, h a e n r d a di h deZt ai l il on the following morning, observing her weak ii g nn a gg v . e w h e e a r k Witnessse o r m e state'tary ` v a s s ro v ( christina o . then put dheieceerdatsooendhesdsa,iadattoitrdhdaastra,sdliteutilxg sil::: and T p H ri E vat c io morning. Verdict—Natural Death, accelerated by ive ' O IL UNTRY CRIER. —A . r son in an English country town having lo e s e t rt t a v i v n o s P °l3 ,.,:i ti o -. 0' 13- dogs, sent notice to the crier of the °parish to the I''',,i,r ing effect:—That the Rev. Gentleme - ai having lost i ',. r y ilo of setting bitches would liberally reward any pers el ;, o lc,r, would restore them. The crier was no great s , f ie dil La and the parson's writing not being of the most "", Olt character, made the following whimsical bl u nder:l ns t t ) yes 1 oh yes 1 whereas the Rev. Mr. Grouse has,. „„- to pair of his satin breeches; whoever will restore tne7 t he the owner shall be handsomely rewarded. God sa ve i Os oKoiensg, withan d thelon long eeradrsoLthe i. A v l e r a p n ool o r. Mercury. Rs• both hi '' l l° MURDER OF THE B OY THOMAS MA —Additional depositi ons h ave b een t a ken bytheGct uilt j ' ll Oli 1; Coroner,f h avingbut no se factseers of importance incuiPati n g Lion-house murdered boy, at , of ~.d thhaaosboeenindisclosed, though several witnesses swear to t ',. w th h e ich bo question. On Christmas morning the body i n-house since the view of it by the Jury en '2 Cues dO O 0 was consigned to the grave in Kevin's churchy ad. ... eveningf Tuesdaythyadaloinaignifitittltihellierliashhtu:t:ltn,y:f, soner, was delivered of a son in the Coombe Lying Hospital. morning Mrs. Delahunt, the mother o f theme r i i n —Dublin Paper. and Sum' D E.—Yesterday evening, betwei,n ' , five , six o'clock, the following suicide was con mitt 1 ./Y,, i respectably-attired young lady, apparently betcreen '.; and 25 years of age, at present unknow n. It aPP (11 ::-.. that a man was crossing the Albion -bridge of the . 1 " , r a no 11 -_; . gent's canal in Maiden-lane, Battle -bridge, St. when be observed a bonnet and shawl on the grou au On looking into the canal he observed a person' til: gling in the water. Being unable t', swim, he 912, h erd diately ran to the Albion Tavern in Maiden -lane, wy.e.,rt the drags are kept, which being procured, after a 3 ." fl a time the body of the unfortunate young lady was l el/ ri a and immediately conveyed. to the Albion Tavern', 1 !„„ surgical assistance being procured with as much speed possible, every ekertion was used to restore anirualle but without effect. A t the THE LORD MAYOR OF DUBLIN. --w...-- a tb 0 ',or meeting of the Repeal Association, to-day, Mayor observed that he could not interfere i• a the V i ii proaching election for this city. The Cor po rale P' s , made the Lord Mayor returning officer, 0 ad he `vas determined, that in everything connected v , ith the en` .. , he would actwith the strictest impartiality a nd jesti t ' e. Dublin Evening Post. ' Si hi th di de be th, res tin are she the• Cau A the hist day Tle w the i A Jour 3 (1 e rrs Aoini the e men, Parts force terd t sloor to b Gen( Ti folio, stant couel of E throe ish fc hour, they the •1 Ar, 2 teacE o'clo c v tly th Havit cf ChT two; lii str( iml the sea ( mit !lot rr h'he an y