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THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS THIS EVENING, DEC. 16, Will be repeated Bellini's Opera of NORMA.—Pollis, Mr. W. Harrison ; Flavius, Mr. Clement White, Oroveso, Mr. Leffler ; Adalgisa, Miss Rainforth ; Clotilda, Miss Grant ; and Norma by Miss Adelaide Kemble. After which, CHARLES THE TWELFTH.—CharIes the Twelfth, Mr. W. Farren ; Adam Brock, Mr. Bartley ; Eudiga, Madame Vestris. Door; to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circle:. ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. 21.; 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 bad so!ely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, In 7. New Bond-street. The contest at Oxford is of importance as a sign of the times. Men's opinions in religion are no more settled than in politics. The Puseyite scheme has sprung, like Chartism, from an in stinctive conviction that the present system does not answer its intended purpose. Protestantism has given birth to Dissent, and has not secured mo rality; the Catholic Church in unity is here at an end, and the people are not faithful to their pastors, so the Puseyites dig down to some old foundations in order to rebuild the Catholic Church in unity. Our political system has, in like manner, given birth to much distress; To-morrow, the New Comedy, entitled Court and City, with United Service, and Wooden Leg. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Brilliant success of Shakspere's Tragedies, powerfully cast— Mr. GI sham, Mr. Phelps, Mr. Hughes, and the whole ta lent of the Company. THIS EVENING, DEC. 16, Will be acted Shakspere' ; Tragedy of JULIUS CiESAR.— Marcus Brutus, Mr. Gr a h am ; Cams Cassius, Mr. Phelps ; Marc Anthon, Zit H. Hughes ; Portia, Mrs. H. Vining. To conclude with the successful French Drama of rivetting situations and intense interest, THE TWO LOCKSMITHS, OR POVERTY AND CRlME.—Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Hicks, Smth, Neville, Mrs. Vining, Mrs. Daly, &c. has failed in it;object, so far as the working . ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. Concentration of talent for this Night only.—Mr. Osbaldiston and Mr. E. F. Saville in " William Tell," and Miss Vin cent in " Nature and Art." THIS EVENING, DEC. 16, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE MASONS, Will be acted WILLIAM TELL.— William Tell, Mr. Os baldiston ; Michael, Mr. E. F. Saville ; . Gesler, Mr. Dale ; Brawn, Mr. Gardner • Albert, Mrs. Howard; E mma , M rs . L ee. After which, NATURE AND ART.—Gabbleteu, Mr. Gardner; Eliza Proscenia Ardent, Miss Vincent. classes are concerned, of securing their property and promoting their prosperity, and like the Pu seyites, they go down to old foundations, in order to reconstruct society. Puseyism in the Church, Chartism in the State, are both symptoms of the same disease—namely, a felt and general convic tion that the present system is inefficacious and untenable. ft is quite clear from the mass of Dissent, and the growth of infidelity in the country, that the Church no longer supplies, if ever it did supply, that resting place for man's faith, and that guide to man's hope, which the mind requires, and ever seeks till it is obtained. It is equally clear from the mass of political discontent, and the perpe tual fault-finding in detail of most of our laws and institutions, even by Tory writers, that our political system no longer commands the confi dence of the nation, or gives the people that sense of security which is essential to po litical repose and peaceful industry. Which ever way the election at Oxford may be de cided, and whichever party may momentarily triumph in the State, this great discrepancy be tween the public mind and the Church, and the pnblic mind and the State, will not be removed nor lessened. Till they be adjusted, however—. which we will be bold to say will require much time, and will not he accomplished by the Tory method of bringing the public mind into ac cordance with Church formulas, and diverg ing, warped, and shattered institutions, but by rectifying them in accordance with the progress of knowledge—till the Church and the State are made to answer the great objects of supplying a resting place for faith, and giving a sense of se curity, the agitation in Church and State, whether it assume the form of Puseyism and Chartism, or any other forms, will not come to an end. Those Tory Journals, such as the Morning Post and the Times, which support Puseyism in the Church, seem to us somewhat in consistent in reprobating Chartism in the State. Both are the offspring of the same principle, and both are equally disturbers of established institutions. It is of no use for Mr. PALMER and the Post to protest that the Tracta rians are only going back to the strict letter of To conclude - with The TWO LONDON LOCKSMITHS; or, the BANKER, the THIEF, and the WlLL.—George Davis, Mr. E. F. Sa ville ; Murray, Mr. Dale; Burl, Mr. Seaman , Torn Lively, Mr. Gardner ; Barny Cly, Mr. Paul ; Emily, Mrs. Lee. To-morrow, The Locksmiths, with The Wonder, and Black Eyed Susan. THE RAILWAY SUN. NOTIC E.—The RAILWAY SUN, being out of print, will be RE-PUBLISHED TO-MORROW. THE CHINA SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE. STYPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Dec. 16, 1841. THE WEATHER.—Noorr, DECEMBER 15. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 45 I Highest 45 I Lowest 28 Barometer 29.66.—Wind S.W.—Freezing Point 22 Deg. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning 45 minutes after I Evening 2 minutes after 4. LONDON: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1841. In another part of our Paper will be found an abridged report of the proceedings at Leeds of the Conference of the manufacturers of the West Riding of Yorkshire, which supplies additional evidence of the distress of the people, and of the decay of manufactures. We must, however, own that we are not disposed to dwell much on such circumstances as reasons for repealing the Corn-laws, independently of the facts, that many circumstances may make particular branches of traffic decay besides an extravagant price for bread, such as changes in fashion, which have heretofore annihilated the buckle manufacture ; and that the bulk of the labouring classes in the majority of cases have generally been on the verge of destitution, we begin to be very much afraid, from the conduct of the landowners, as in Berwickshire, and from the doctrines put forth by their organs, such as that the half of our towns might be destroyed, that they wish to check the growth of manufactures, and keep down the democracy, and that consequently every instance of decay and distress is a proof of the efficacy of their system, and rather an encouragement to continue, than an inducement to abandon it. This is a hard suspicion, which we do not embody in this serious statement without due consideration, nor without beint, prepared to state some reasons f'or our belief. At the same time, as the. Govern ment of the country is now completely in the hands of the landowners, it bodes, if at all well founded, the most dismal futurity for the manu facturers, for the democracy, and for the whole society. the Rubric and the old ways of the primitive Church, for they disturb the present order of things in the Church, which has settled down to a foundation very different from the Rubric and the primitive Church. They are the authors of schism, though they assert for themselves that they are true members of the Catholic Church. Their Church is avowedly not the Protestant Church of England; they assert it is not the Papal Church of Rome, but a Catholic or Universal Church, buried under the pompous Church of England and the meagre tabernacles of Dis sent, which they have exclusively found in digging down to the foundations. In truth, then, the Catholic Church of the Pusey ites is a Church of their own discovery and creation, such as other people say never be fore existed, and which is as little likely to answer the purposes of the Church as the Papal usurpa tion and its Anglican offspring. As yet its uni versality embraces only some hundred or two of crotchetty, fidgetty, ambitious priests; and till they obtain for it the assent of the majority of the clergy and laity, however much they may be delighted with their own faith, they must suffer under the charge and the penalties of being schismatics. Like the Puseyites, the Chartists protest that they are only going back to the strict letter of the Constitution and the old ways of their Saxon ancestors. They are, nevertheless, held to be disturbers, even by the Post. And the same Journal which protects the Puseyite schismatics as great religious teachers, would hang the Char tists for seeking to restore our ancient political system. We quoted yesterday a clear and decisive proof from the Berwick Advertiser of a determination to keep manufactures out of that county. For mon ths past the Tory press has poured f or th diatribes against the manufacturing system. Landlords and aristoc r a t s who never felt for th e cause of the people or of liberty till they could attack through them the wealthy millowners of whom the landed aristocracy are notoriously envious—have eagerly pressed forward to exp ose the evils of the factory system. The gross im morality and vice of our manufacting towns have been favourite topics of declamation, both for the landlords in Parliament and the clergy in the pulpit, and both have sounded the praises of rural life as replete with virtue. It is quite im. possible, from the nature of the human mind, that the landlords, and clergy who influence the land lords, should entertain such opinions without en deavouring to give effect to them by actions, and prevent to the utmost of their power the increase of those manufactures which they declare to be pregnant with vice and misery. The Chartists, like the Puseyites, assert for themselves, that they have discovered the true political system, but being as yet in a minority their leaders are treated, like Messrs. NEWMAN and PUSEY, as ambitious adventurers, intent on gratifying their own personal ambition, not on making the people free and happy. When Chartism becomes the creed of the majority, it will be our political system, but till then the Chartists, like the Puseyites, will suffer under the charge of being political disturbers. That Puseyism will heal the disorders in the Church, and Chartism rectify the disorders in the State, is no faith of ours. Neither Dr. PUSEY nor Mr. F. O'Corioß appears to us to be the religious or political LUTHER whose advent is now expected by many persons. That we need reformers both in Church and State is undoubtedly true, but they must proceed on the great principle of BACON and LOCKE, that the material world, to which we refer every thought as a test of truth, always corrects, and must ultimately model the mind after itself, not on the principle that the mind can be modelled by some cunning political contrivance,Wohricbhy the g imperfect knowledge Puseyites anci tesinay extract from the Fathers. The same train of argument applies to the de mocracy. The Tory and landlord Journals in variably treat the bulk of the people with su preme contempt. They are incorrigible scoun drels; " canaille," "the swinish multitude ;" not worthy to be trusted with their own affairs; a " rabble democracy." For them sharp and stringent laws are made, which never reach the aristocracy. The N e w P oor -l aw was enacte d , as T inles, Standard, and Herald will testify, on purpose to beat down their wages, and degrade their condition. They are first turned out to starve, and then imprisoned as vagrants. The whole stream of the policy and legislation of the landlords, runs to drown the democracy who con stitute the working classes. To attain this end they have plunged the country in war, and have never hesitated to decree the most unjust enactments. Of late years the democracy has made great progress, and when the Reform Act was passed, it gave the aristocracy a fright which has never been forgotten nor forgiven. Now, the aristo cracy exult in their power to punish the demo cracy for their presumption ; and every tale of The practice so generally adopted by t h e pre sent Government of making fresh batches of Tory Magistrates to swamp those appointed by th e Whigs, has naturally excited great dissatisfac tion in many Boroughs. Several Corpora tions have protested against it, and others have convened meetings of the inhabitants for the purpose of devising some plan to abate the evils arising out of the appointment of political Justices. A large meeting (to which we adverted yesterday) was held at Devonport last week on the subject, and as it is one of great importance at the present moment, we have given as full a report of the proceedings as space would ad m it. Th e p l an of Mr. LITTLE f or ap pointing Stipendiary Magistrates we fear will not succeed. The expense is one objection—an- HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of distress, every in - ifilice of decay, is music to AUSTRIA, their ears. • His MAJESTY the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, His MAJESTY the KING o f PRUSSIA , In former cases of national distress, some at having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIF- tempts were made to relieve it. Loans were TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (though granted or Exchequer bills issued, and at least they are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtain- 'ng LARGE FORTUNES, inquiries were immediately instituted ; but HEINE BROTHERS. at HAMBURGH and at on the present occasion all relief has been denied, LUB, Are now SELLING ORIGINAL BONDS fdi• the said DIS- all inquiry postponed, and the decay and suffer fltlßUrioNs. . ings of the manufacturing classes have been Persons desirous to purchase for the Next Distributions , asay rel.eive, PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PRO rather mocked at than otherwise by the journals SPECTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing a line to of the landlords. They have been told the em- HEINE BROTHERS. pire could do without them, which is tantamount The NEXT AUSTRIAN DISTRIBUTION contains DI VIDENDS of to saying "Go and perish." The evidence of R 25,000 £6OO £llO £7O their distress has been denied. Proofs of un -5,009 2 4 00 00 1 90 50 00 60 timely deaths have been disregarded. The meet.. 1 1,500 1,000 150 ao Sterling. ing of Parliament hasleen unnecessarily put off 800 120 as long as possible. Everything which could HEINE BROTHERS havinc , remitted during a short time tend to succour the distressed artisans and give 25,0001., 18,0001., 9,0001, 5,0001., 3,600/., &c. &c. &c., to London ; 3,600/., 800/., and 7001., to Edinburgh ; 3,6001. to hope to the master- manufacturers, has been dc- Dubin ; 3,6001. to Beverley; 3,600/. to Halifax ( Yorkshire); c ',erred, in order to consolidate the power of the 1,200/. to Portleaven Harbour ; 900/., 700/. and 600/. to Li verpool ; 900/. to Newcastle-upon-Tyne • 900/. to Hull ; Tory aristocracy. 9001. and 600/. to Manche s ter ; 700/. to East Retford (Not- Finally they are preparing to transport the tinghamshire); 600/. to Bideford ; 600/. to Cork ; 6001. to Bradford ; they sh a ll f ee l g l a d t o rem it man y Di v id en d s o f People, whom they cannot s u bd u e, and w ill n ot the next Distribution to England, Ireland, and Scotland.. allow to live in the land of their fathers. They Direct for Prospectus and Particulars, eithout delay, either t• HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, mean, it has been pithily sa id, "t o commu t e i n t o or to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. transportation for life, the sentence of death which their restrictive legislation has passed on the operative classes." In these and similar cir cumstances we see conclusive evidence of the determination of the aristocracy to retain their own superiority at all hazards. As that is in compatible with the growth of the democracy, and the increase of manufactures, it seems useless or even absurd to press on the aristocracy the evidence of the distress of the democracy, and the decay of manufactures, as reasons for altering their conduct. frltP 4 * , ;." „ ,; .u, 4 'N*, ,-4 2 014 :t , R ,‘ ; -)1110 (ot, MORNING Stl\ ~~ other is, that the appointment of these would be materially influenced by party feelings; and a third is, that the depriving men of pro perty and influence in a town of the administra tion of justice in petty cases might lead to greater evils than the present. The best remedy is pub licity. If the press in provincial towns, as in London, were to watch the conduct of the Jus tices and report their proceedings impartially, they could not -do much mischief. In the _ _ Metropolis the unpaid—the old worthy Alder men, are infinitely better Magistrates than the juvenile barristers who have a little law, but are sadly deficient in practical knowledge, and still more deficient in the exer cise of that sympathy and kindly feeling which a Lord Mayor or an Alderman generally dis plays in administering justice to his fellow-citi- zens. We have watched the two systems long, and have no hesitation in saying that in the one we may generally expect law and equity—in the other only law, often carried to the verge of ab surdity, with loop-holes pointed out by Learned Justices to let great criminals escape, and little meshes formed to catch petty offenders. The Hanover Gazette of the oth inst., contains the following article : BRUNSWICK, DEC. B.—We have just heard that the Assembly of the State has revoked the resolution of the 3d of this month, and has to-day adopted, by a great ma jority, the proposal of the Governors, by which the ac cession of Brunswick to the great Customs Union, is to take place on the Ist of January, 1842; only the district of the Weser and Hartz is to remain for another year in the Customs Union of Hanover and Aldenburg. :HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, Dec. 10. Bills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. 107% !ON Bank Shares 1620 1615 Anglo-Russian Loan lOB% log% Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate 102% 162% Inscription, Ist Serios lOl% Russian 5 per Cent. Hope. and Co. 3d and 4th Series •••••••••• ..... ••••••••• 98% Ditto in Certificates Ncw 4 per Cent. (1840)..... ........... Dutch Actual Debt, 2% pe r C en t soyi 50% Ditto 5 per Cent Polish Bonds New Picket Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent :7% 77 Norwegian Lean, 1834, 4 per Cent. 11,23 102% Sp,inish, New 5 per Cents EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, Dec. IP.-13 7.—Two months, 13 5%. PRTERSBURGR, Nov 30.—Two months, 38% pence, BERLIN. DEC, 7. Three months, 6. IN. BREMEN, Dec. 7 —Teo months, 6 17. VIENNA, Des. 2.—Three months, 9.35. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, Dec. 7. Bills. Money. St. Schuld. Sch., 4, per cent. ...«.«........104% 103% Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent.... 10•2% 101% Exchange on London, three months 6 19% —Prussian State Gazette. Dec. 8. Madrid Journals of the 7th inst. have reached us. The Madrid Gazette of that date publishes a decree of the REGENT, suppressing the whole of the infantry and cavalry of the Royal Guard, the officers of which all belonged to noble fami lies. These corps are to be replaced by two re giments of infantry and two of cavalry. The French mail, which reached Madrid on the 6th, was robbed within a short distance of the capital. The correspondence, however, was spared. Mr. RIDLEY, M.P., one of the travellers, was among the victims. The Ministry had prepared a Municipal Bill, which was said to be extremely liberal, and would no doubt meet the approbation ofthe Cortes. The funeral of the Duke DE L'INFANTADO was celebrated with great pomp on the 7th. Several changes had occurred in the Spanish corps diplomatique. M. CONCHA, brother of the General of that name, having resigned the post of Minister of Spain in Greece, was to be re placed by M. SAENZ DE VINIEGRA, the present Consul of Spain in Marseilles. M. TOVAR, the Spanish Consul at Perpignan, has been removed in the same capacity to Bayonne; and M. FER RARI was to succeed him in Perpignan. The Five per Cents. were done on the 7th at 34f for cash. The Paris Journals announce, as we stated yes erday the important intelligence that the French army is to be reduced by about 89,000 men. Still France will have a standing army of 344,000 men—an enormous military force in a period of profound peace. The saving on the budget of 1843 will be 30,000,000 of francs, or 1,200,0001. sterling, which will be sunk in the ditch with which the KING persists in surrounding his faithful Parisians. The Court of Peers is still busy trying the pri soners. M. LEnnu ROLLIN ably defended M. DUPOTY, Editor of the Journal du Peuple ; but it is generally rumoured that the Peers have made up their minds to condemn him. Nothing is more likely. Before the Court of Peers inno cence is no protection. It is undoubtedly the most infamously servile tribunal in France. The Chancellor, Baron PASQUIER, is one of those renegades who, in getting rid of their principles get rid of all shame. There is no work too foul for him either as a legislator, a Judge, or a Councillor of State. Many of his associates on the judicial bench have well quali fied themselves by the betrayal of every cause, and the abandonment of every principle, to vote with him for the condemnation of M. DUPOTY. But M. DUPOTY is an able and an honest man, and as the September Laws failed to reach him, the Court of Peers strains its power to involve him in the meshes of a charge of constructive treason. The Peers challenge him to deny that the conspira tors read his journal, and, because he cannot do that, declare him accessory to the attempt on the lives of the Royal Dukes. Now, if this logic be admitted, we see no reason why those who supplied the conspirators with their breakfast on the morning of the attempt should not be brought before the Peers. Supplying them with food was supplying them with strength to perpetrate their crime. But the real object of the Peers is to crush the Liberal Press. The condemnation of M.DUPOTY is wanted for a precedent, and then we shall hear of nothing but trials of the National, the Siecle, the Quotidienne, and the France, on charges of constructive treason. The September Laws are too mild, so the Peers have resolved to dispense with them altogether, by making themselves judges of all offences committed by the journals. Marshal Soult has addressed the following report to the King as the basis of the law, which follows it : " Sire—The extension given to the army in 1840 by the creation of 12 regiments of light infantry of the line, 9 battalions of foot chasseurs, 1 battalion of the foreign legion, 4 regiments of light cavalry, 32 batteries of artil lery, 17 commissariat companies, and five other compa nies, has augmented considerably the effective of the army and its expenses. This augmentation, altogether owing to extraordinary circumstances, to which able negotiations have given a favourable turn, cannot be kept up without weighing too heavy on the public Trea sury. Hence the urgent necessity of reduction. This task, delicate as difficult, I have undertaken, premising that the law of necessity could not have put a War Mi nister's devotion to a more painful trial. The first plan that suggested itself was to reduce the new regiments, which was demanded by the two Chambers, at least the reduction of the twelve regiments. This reduction I have not proposed to your Majesty, lest it might com promise your Royal prerogative with the army, besides that the expenses would not thereby be sufficiently dimi nished. The number of battalions and squadrons seems equally inadmissible. A proportionate reduction of the force of each arm was also objectionable, the artillery and cavalry not being so easily augmented at need as the infantry. A system of reduction by means of leave of absence would also be objectionable, since to produce the desired economy, companies would be reduced to some thirty or forty men, an altogether inefficient force for a company, besides that the system could not be ap plied to the troops at Algiers. My proposal, then, is to reduce a company of each battalion of infantry, which will diminish the army from the effective voted for 1842, viz., 433,000 men, to 344,000 in 1843, and thus economise thirty millions." The rest of the Report but anticipates the particulars of the Ordonnance, which is as follows : CHAPTER 1.-PEACE FOOTING. " Art. I.—The army is composed of the following , orps:—lnfantry : 100 regiments of the line, and light infantry of 3 battalions, with 7 companies ; 1 of Grena,.; diers, 1 of Carbineers, 1 o f V o lti geurs, and 1 in depo. 10 battalions of Foot Chasseurs of 8 companies each, two of which are to be in depot for those employed in Alge ria; 1 regiment of Zouaves employed in Algeria, autho rised to enlist natives, and formed of 3 battalions of 9 Companies each, one of which is to be in depot ; 3 batta lions of African Light Infantry of 10 companies each, two in depot ; 12 Companies de Discipline ; 1 Foreign Le gion, farming two regiments of 3 battalions, with 8 com panies eac h . —Cavalry : 2 regiments of Carbineers ; 10 of Cui rass i ers ; 12 of Dragoons ; 8 of Lancers ; 13 of Chasseurs ; 9 of Trlcasars; each of 5 squadrons. The ca valry also comprises 4 regiments of African Chasseurs of 6 squadrons e ach.—Artillery : 14 regiments, viz., 10 for each regimentwith 15 b a t ter i es, and 4 with 14 batteries, and a depot ; 1 regiment of Pontonniers of 12 companies; 12 companies of working men; half a company of Armourers; 6 squadrons of Park Train of 8 companies each : Engineers; 3 regiments of 2 battalions of 8 com panies each, one of which is to be of Miners, and seven of Sappers; each regiment will have besides a company of Sapeurs-Conducteurs, 2 companies of work ing men.—Gendarmerie : 26 legions, one of which is to be employed in Africa ; 1 battalion of Voltigeurs of 4 companies, employed in Corsica as auxiliary to the Gen darmerie ; 1 legion of Municipal Gu ar d a t P ar i s ; 1 bat talion of Sapeurs-Ponipiers of 5 compan i es at P ar i s. - - Veterans : 8 companies of non-commissioned officers ; 10 of Fusileers ; 4 of Cavalry ; 13 of Cannoneers ; 1 of Engineers ; 2 of Gend armerie. —Administration: 1 bat talion of Workmen of 10 companies each, and one in depot ; 4 squadrons of the Waggon -train of 4 active companies each, and 1 in depot ; 4 companies of, working men attached to the Train. —Article 11: The composi tion of the cadres in the different corps of all arms 14 to be conformably to the table annexed to the pre sent Ordonnance. " CHAPTER IL-WAR • FOOTING. " Article 3. Each battalion of the regiments of Infan try of the line and light infantry may, when put on the war-footing, be carried up to nine companies, one of which to be in depot. There may be equally formed a fourth battalion of the regiments of infantry, according to the wants of the service.—Article 4. The 54 regi ments of cavalry, with five squadrons, may * be carried up to six squadrons each. —Article 5. In case of w ar there shall be formed for the service of the staffs of the army two regiments of Horse-Chasseurs, as guides of six squadrons each.—Article 6. Our Minister of War shall determine, according to the wants of the service, the number of batteries and companies of Artillery to be put on the war-footing. There shall be created in the re giments of Pontonniers, and in each of the six squadrons of the park tram, a cadre of depot.—Article 7. Each battalion of the regiments of engineers shall be carried, when put on the war footing, to nine companies, one of which is to be miners and eight sappers, and there shall be besides two companies in depot.—Article 8. There shall be created two temporary companies for each squadron of the waggon train, when put on the war footing. " CHAPTER M.-RESERVE. " Art. 9. Men sent on furlough in virtue of article 30 of the law of the 21st of March, 1832, form the reserve of the army. They are to be subject to half-yearly re views, the periods and duration of which are fixed by the Minister of War.—Article 10. The men who form part of the reserve, shall be called under their respective standards, in case of war ; and in time of peace, when extraordinary wants of the service may require it." A fourth chapter contains transitory dispositions ; and the ordonnance is followed in the Moniteur,by a state ment of the composition of the cadres of the army. The Barcelona papers of the 4th instant contain a de claration by the Provisional Junta of that city to the French Consul, contradicting the rumours that French subjects had been assassinated or insulted, and protest ing that the inhabitants of Barcelona are animated by the feelings of friendship which unite the French and Spanish Governments. The journals also give the reply of the French Consul, in which he also contradicts the reports alluded to, and states that he has given assuran ces to his Government of the protection afforded to French subjects at Barcelona. A letter from this city states that the return of tranquillity is likely to lead to many public improvements, and mentions that the city is to be lighted with gas, a contract having been entered into for that purpose with Mr. Grafton, an eminent English gas-engineer and contractor, who has exten sive contracts of the same nature in Paris and other places on the Continent. :Within these forty-eight hours the Ministers have sent numerous negotiations to M. Lamartine and M. Sauzet. It is even said that two Ministers in person have visited the former. They have entreated him formally to re nounce the Presidency. After long parleying, the Min isters were at first resolved to remain neuter, but yes terday evening it was affirmed that, after long debates in the Council of Ministers, it was decided to reject M. de Lamartine, so much is the ill-humour of the Left Centre, to which Messrs. Passy and Dufaure belong, dreaded. The latter would not be much flattered by this compul sory and tardy concession, and the partisans of M. La martine would certainly be irritated. Such is the state of things this morning. Senor Olozaga, the Spanish Ambassador in France, set out yesterday for Madrid, to ba present at the open ing of the Cortes. M. biernandez, the First Secretary of the Legation, remains at Paris. The Marquis of Dalmatia, French Ambassador at Tu rin, has arrived at Marseilles on his way to Paris.— Constitutionnel. Private accounts from Naples of the Ist instant an uounce the return of the King from his excursion to Sicily. His Majesty had as yet adopted no resolution respecting the free export of sulphur,which the Sicilians so earnestly demanded, that the King was afraid to withdraw the troops which he had sent to that island, when he ex pected to be attacked by Great Britain. The Greek metropolitan Bishop of Serajevo, as we learn by a letter from the frontiers of Turkey, in the Col)gne Gazette, has been dismissed from his functions by order of the Porte. He had taken an active part in favour of the Christians against Wedschila Pacha, the local governor. The Correo of Madrid states that the mail, which left the capital on the 3d inst., was stopped by robbers within gun-shot of the town. The passengers were plundered and the letters taken away, a task the more easy as the mail-box was not fastened. This was the second occur rence of the same nature which had happened within a few days. It is stated by a Neapolitan correspondent of the Com merce, that the Marquis de Dragonetti is among the per sons arrested for the affair of the conspiracy at Aquila. Another letter, in the Presse, states that on an injunc tion being communicated to the robbers in Sicily who pillaged the baggage of the King and Court, as it was being conveyed to Palermo, the whole of the objects thus seized have been restored. " Yesterday morning," says the Commerce," M. Thiers and M. de Lamartine, as we are infnrmerl, hail an inter view at Count Mole's. A rumour is current that Minis ters have determined to oppose M. de Lamartine if he becomes a candidate for the Presidency of the Chamber of Deputies." ThZ. Temps gives an enumeration of the appointments to prefectures made since the Revolution of 1830, by which it appears that the total number of such appoint ments is 360. The greatest number of changes were iss made immediately after the Revoluti on o f J u l y, w h en all th the prefects under e Ministriesere dismissed, o m t Marshale Soult an d M essrs. [G u i zot and Thiere, in 1832, when 75 n om i nat i ons took place. The present Cabinet has appointed 23 p re f ects s i nce i ts were and the n ex t greatest were accession to power. The English brig Unicorn was wrecked on the 10th inst. on the coast near Havre. The crew were saved by the courageous conduct of six seamen of Havre, who humanely put off to their assistance, notwithstanding the risk which they themselves incurred. The Unicorn went to pieces soon after she struck. The Zephire sloop, of Calais, went ashore at the Isle d'deu ; and the Eng lish schooner Publican near Calais, on the 11th. The crews and cargoes were saved. An English vessel, the Susan, from Manilla to London, was wrecked a few days ago at Croc Marie, near St. Valery sur Somme. The crew, fifteen in number, were saved and have been placed in the Lazaretto. The Madrid Gazette promulgates a decree of the Re gent containing the ,following articles :—" 1. All ships coming from the French Col ony o f Al g i ers w i t h c l ean bills of health delivered by the board of health, and verified by the signature of our Consul or commercial agent, according to the terms of the circular issued on the 18th July, 1817, shall be admitted to free pratique in our ports.-2. The introduction of forbidden goods without proper certificates, and of old rags, coming from the Levant and the northern coast of Africa, remains prohibited." BOURSE—PARIS, MONDAY, DEC. 13. lint Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Prics, Price. French 5 per Cents ll6 60 ... 116 60 ... 116 60 ... 116 6J 4 per Conte lOO 90 ... 100 9J 100 90 ... 100 110 3 per Cent.. ex div 7B 40 , r 7B 40 78 35 78 35 ILnk of France ..3470 •ielgian Bank ... '782 50 785 Belgian 5 per Deno., 1849 lO3 ... 103 102% ... 102% ipantsh Active 24% 24L ... 24% ... 24 , 4 Passiste 534 534 5 36 Old Deferred Neapolitan, ex div. Roman ..... 10 2 % ... 103 102% ...103 RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, 197 50 197 50 196 25 ~. 196 25 R. B 320 ... 320 320 ... 320 Orleans . Strasburetotßalc.shares red 217 50 „, 218 75 ... 217 50 218 75 THE SUN, - LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1841. ASSESSED TAXES. [We have been requested to publish the fol lowing letter, which has been addressed to T. Duncombe, Esq., M.P. for Finsbury :—] 23, St. Paul's -terrace, Islington, Dec. 15, 1841. Sia,—As one of your numerous constituents, I think it necessary to inform you of the new "strong Conservative " Government's mode of collecting the Assessed Taxes—by the bye, these taxes had already been made as hateful as possible by the new survey which took pl a c e l as t year , an d by which every little hole in a water-closet, &c., was made to count as a window, and then JO per cent. fixed upon the whole in addition ;—however, the " Conservative" mode of col lecting this impost is as follows :—First, a notice-paper is left by a messenger (not Me Collector), stating that half a year's taxes have become due, and that the Col lector lives so and so. Well, you naturally expect that the Collector, when he requires the money, will at least call for it. Not so ;in a short time you receive a letter, saying, that if you do not seek out the Col lector, and leave the money with him, you will be put in the Exchequer, and all the calamities attending it will be heaped on your unfortunate head. Seared of your life, you hunt up the Collector, who, being a shop keeper, hopes that y ou are not offended with him, as it is no fault of his, but proceeds from that Government which your Colleague apologizes for on all occasions, and for which he shall never again hate my vote. • I remain, Sir, your obedient servant s __ __ W. SHARP. DEATH OF LADY ANNE FITZPATRICK.— We have to record the demise of the above much-la . mented lady, who died on Saturday last, at Farming Woods, N orthamptonshire, after a short illness. Her Ladyship was thfe eldest and only surviving daughter of the late Earl of Upper Ossory (title extinct), by Anne, the divorced Duchess of Grafton, daughter of Lord Ha ♦insworth, whom his Lordship married in 1769. Her Ladyship was a lineal descendant of the ancient Irish family of Fitzpatrick, descended from Donald M'Donald M'Gill Patrick, Prince of the territory of Upper Ossory, in the province of Leinster, who was slain in 1087. Barnaby Gill Patrick lived in the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII., and was father of Barnaby Fitzpatrick, who was created Baron of Upper Ossory, .by patent at Publin, June 11, 1541. His eldest son, the second Peer, was deservedly a great favourite of Edward VI. The second son (John) of this Irish Noble was ancestor of the late Earl, father of the estimable subject of this brief notice. The deceased Lady's charities, en the family estates, were most liberal, and her death will be long re— gretted by the poor in the neighbourhood of Farming Woods, to whom her Ladyship was a kind benefactress. If AND Vubitt Optrion. " Who runs may read." 'REIGN. The Moniteur contains a long report from the Minister of War to the King, followed by a Royal Ordonnance, bearing date as long ago as Sept. 8, whereby the army, on a peace footing, is directed to be reduced from 433,000 to 344,000 men. This will effect a saving on the budget of 1843 of 30 millions of francs. The alleged rioters at Toulouse, who were dragged to prison with iron collars about their necks, have been ac quitted by the Jury. This is another blow to the Govern ment. " Sixteen acquittals and one condemnation," says the Quotidienne, " and that, too, for an assault. Such is the finale of the formidable affair of Toulouse, in which the Minist r y p re t en d e d to discover a demonstration of Communism, not mounting to the assault against the Go vernment, as Carbonarism did against the Restoration, but rushing upon society, to pillage, devastate, and de stroy. We always regretted the tumultuous manifesta tions in which the inhabitantg of Toulouse indulged, but we never lost sight of the circumstances which led to them, and of the illeg a l p retens i ons of power against the liber ties of the municipality and the interest of the tax-payers. We are glad, therefore, that the verdict of the Jury has brought back the attention of the public to this point." The National has the following remarks upon this noble verdict of a French Jury:—" The Jury intended by their verdict not merely to acquit the political priso ners of Toulouse, but also t o mar k w i t h t h e i r reproba tion the system of internal policy followed by M. Guizot and his colleagues. Honour to the advocates who had the good sense to put the question in that way ! Honour to the Jury who so resolved it ! The new and striking lesson which has just been given to the Government will haveno effect upon men who are incorrigible, but it will hasten the moment when, left to themselves, as M. Joly, the advocate, observed—' Alone, like crime and misfor tune,' they will disappear for ever from the political scene." It is rumoured that the Court of Peers, eager to esta blish itself the court-martial of the press, has resolved to find M. Dupoty guilty, although there is not a shadow of evidence to connect his name with the Quenisset con spiracy. - The Augsburg Guzette gives a letter from Beyrout of the 7th, which states that the Druses have recommenced hqstilities. Three convents and the villages around them have been burnt. Th e Emir Beschir, wh o had shut him self up in Deiret Kannar, was forced to capitulate. He was allowed to retire, after having been despoiled of everything, and he arrived almost naked at Beyrout. The Druses lost 400 men, the Maronites 1,200. While the account from Beyrout was being written eleven convents were on fire. The Madrid Castellano states, that the Army of the North would amount to 32,000 men, without including , the division of reserve, which is to be stationed at Al faro, Tudela, and Corella. The latter is to consist of four provisional regiments and a regiment of infantry. The entire of this force is to be commanded by General Rodil. PUBLIC OPINION. The Morning Post contains a leading article on the subject of the Puseyites, the evident object of which is to defend them from the attacks of their opponents. " Whatever faults," says the Post, "may be attributed to the Tracts for the Times' (and the authors of them never pretend that they have not faults), this great merit may be claimed for them, that they are never barbed by party bitterness. They are pervaded by a Catholic spirit—a spirit of mild, serious, argumentative earnest ness, which deals with facts, and principles, and senti ments, but troubles itself not with either parties of indi viduals. But the antagonists of the Tracts for the Times' have taken exactly the opposite coarse. They concern themselves chiefly with party matters and with personal matters. They have given full swing to anger and bitterness, and so far from answering argument with argument, many of the most vehement attacks upon the Tract writers (not the writings) have been made by those who have never read the Tracts, or at all events have not taken any pains to understand the drift of them. Even Lord Ashley (with all due submission to his Lordship) we are constrained to place among the latter class, be cause we have a bett e r opi n ion o f hi s understanding than to suppose that, after attentive consideration of the Tract on Reserve in communicating religious know ledge,' he should suppose the drift o f th e aut h or to b e the suppression' of any point of religious truth."—lt can scarcely be said that the Puseyite doctrines are re commended by a " mild spirit," when their tendency is to revive the intolerant discipline of Laud ; to encumber religion again with its old, worn-out ceremonial observ• ances ; and to check freedom of thought by means of auricular confession. But our great objection to the Puseyites is, not that they differ from what is called " the low Church party"—for every man or set of men have a right to their own opinions—but that differing, as they do, from the State Church as at present constituted, they still take her emoluments. To be honest and con sistent, the Puseyites should at once follow the manly example set them by Mr. Sibthorp. The Morning Herald observes, in an article suggested by the late Derby Conference:—" That Corn-laws do not materially check the exportation of our manufactures is proved by the facts stated at the Derby talk.' Since 1815, down to the present year, there has been a gra dually increased expo r t a ti on of hosiery, which is the staple fabric of the Midland counties. But, say the Nottingham manufacturers, wages have decreased iu pro portion as our exports have augmented. This may be so; but these acute gentlemen forget that during the last five and twenty years the value of money has greatly increased, and that two-thirds of the wages of 1815 will purchase a larger proportion of the necessaries of life in 1841 than the nominally higher wages of the former year then did. This is true in respect to every payment, save of taxes; the amount now paid by the nation in taxa tion is more than double what it discharged with greater ease in 1812. The real cause of the diminished comfort of the Midland counties' artisans is the enor mously augmented burden of taxation as levied under the present system of currency. The greater the amount of corn imported under that system the greater will be the distress amongst the operatives, and the greater will be the number of bankruptcies amongst the millowners." The Chronicle thus comments on some observations on the Derby Conference, that appeared in Tuesday's Times :—"By a natural association of ideas, its thoughts were far away, with the landlords' majority, and the promise of bread-tax spoliation intact, and the pledges to timber monopolists, and sugar monopolists, and all the sinister interests that were amalgamated into the strong party' that Toryism was: determined not to want. And they did not want it ; they had it in the elections ; they have it in the Upper House and in the Lower House ; they have had its victories and its tri • uniphs ; and now, Times I Peel ! Corn-law Dukes ! Landed Majorities I Confederate Mondpolists I what is your strong party to do ?' The very thought of that question, its remote verbal suggestion, chokes your ad vocate, in hie hour of pride,' blunts his sarcasms, re torts his censures, baffles his vituperations, and leaves him bewildered in a maze of impotent and self-destructive falsehoods. A strong party,' united by principle, would know what it was to do. All the world would know beforehand. Its principles would be an infallible direc tory to its measures. The only doubt would be on mere details. Such is not the conditicin of Tor) ism ; the world has no conception of_ what it is going to do ; nor its friends, nor its enemies, nor its followers, nor, we verily believe, its leaders."—We do not believe that even Sir Robert Peel himself knows what he is going to do, but will be guided solely by the circumstances of the passing hour. As for being influenced by any enlarged system of policy, he is the very last man on earth we should suspect of such a thing. He is just fitted to be the head of a shallow, tricky, purblind, shilly-shally, wait-awhile Government, which is ruled by the paltriest notions of expediency, and looks exclusively to the Chapter of Accidents for escape from whatever predica ment it may get into. The follo wing is from the Times:—" With all our un ceasing anxiety for the prevention of crime and the maintenance of social order, we have uniformly consi dered the new rural police as a mere mischievous ex crescence, neither necessary in ordinary circumstances, nor likely to be generally approved of. How an inno vation so burdensome and inexpedient should have hap pened to obtain the sanction of Parliament, can be satis factorily accounted for only upon the principle of the well-known proverb, that one fault invariably leads to another.' Having introduced a system of pauperism which, while endeavouring to render legislative relief less eligible than the earnings of industry, h as gone to the opposite extreme o f maing vagrancy itself prefer able to workhouse inflictions, the short-sighted Whigs, in ridding the poor-rates of many necessitous incumbents, have created such an amount of distress as naturally oc casioned the suspicion that the country would be over run with hordes of prowling mendicants, requiring a commensurate increase of constables for the due protec tion of the public." The Advertiser is of opinion that the Tories are pre paring a new Coercion Bill for Ireland. It is not un likely, for to coerce and dragoon people into passive obedience, its the favourite policy of the Tories. If, however, they attempt such a project, they will not only miserably fail, but arm Mr. O'Connell with tenfold power to thwart and embarrass them. Of course their Coercion Bill, should they be fools enough to bring for ward one, will be aimed chiefly' at the Repeal agitation, to which, in consequence, it will be the means of giving an immense impetus. The surest way to put down Re peal is to leave it to itself—to let it die a natural death. We subjoin the Advertiser's comments on this subject:— " In the Times of yesterday there is an article of por tentous import to Ireland. It is impossible to read that article and resist the conviction that a new Coercion Bill, infinitely worse than the Bill of 1833, though that was sufficiently odious, is hatching for the suppression of public liberty in the sister kingdom. The Times counsels the Government to put down sedition, and extinguish the cause of repeal in Ireland. The advice, we doubt not, is the consequence of a previous resolution on the part of a Tory Administration to do the very thing that it is coun selled to carry into effect. The resolution is put forward to strangle liberty in that country, under the pretext of putting down sedition and crushing the cause of repeal; and information of such determination being conveyed to Puddle-dock, forth comes the Jove of that classical lo cality with his terrible thunders against Mr. O'Connell, the Roman Catholic priesthood, sedition, repeal, and a thousand persons and things besides. Tyranny is never at a loss for pretexts." IVION MY — TRADE—COMMERCEL An Association has lately. sprung up in Dublin, under the protection of the Lord Mayor. Every member be longing to it pledges himself to use nothing but Irish manufacture, and a number of marts have been opened for the exclusive sale of Irish make and produce. Every description of manual labour at Dundee is now failing alarmingly. The dock-y ar d s are em ptyi ng d a il y . One joiner, wh o i n May last had fifty men in his em- ployment, has now not work for three, and cabiret makers are in the same condition. The linen merchants, bankers, and flax-spinners - at Belfast have memorialized the Board of Trade on the depreciation of their manufactures. Their products have been thrown out of the French market by the Tariff Lid on by that Government, and out of the German market by the advance of machinery there. They pray the abolition of the Corn-laws. In the trade of yarns and linens, Ulster has been at a loss in the last year of nearly 300,0001. - -- The Zurich and Basle Railroad Company in Switzer land has been dissolved. ASTICAL. How TO CURE ECCLES A PARSO N .— A Contemporary, in de scribing the pleasure afforded to the Rector and Church. wardens of Hackney by Church-rate contests, intimates that three have already taken place in that parish in the course of the year, and that a fourth is to come off on Friday next to cure the parson. Since the last defeat, the Rector of the parish, the Rev. H. H. Norris, has been in indifferent health, and it is understood that recourse to renewed agitation is now had as much with a view to his perfect restoration, as to the ordinary purposes for which a Church-rate is made.—We defy Jonathan to beat this. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. Mr. Clough, a missionary, has lately made an excursion into the provinces of Southern Abyssinia, never visited before by Europeans. On the plea of elephant-hunting he penetrated with others into the country. The inha bitants are principally Christians, of the order of St. Mark, 'in whose ceremonies many of the Jewish rites are blended. The death of Dr. Forbes, at Erzeroum, barbarously murdered by a Beloo chief, has been confirmed by a letter to the Royal Geological Society. He was a good antiquarian, and the first Englishman who had visited the Singhur Hills, in Mesopotamia. NAVAL AND MILITARY. A new stand of colours will be presented early in the spring to the 16th Regiment, by Viscount Beresford, their Colonel. LAW AND POLXCE. Sir Peter Laurie announced on Tuesday that his cure for jumping, or trying to jump, into the river was work ing admirably, and he would therefore persevere in the regimen, and make the jumpers walk off to Newgate, or take a little refreshing exercise on the tread-mill. On Monday William Abrahams, aged 25, was taken before the Alderman at Guildhall, charged with stealing 153 newspapers, the property of Mr. Edmunds, a news vender, and committed for trial. On Tuesday he was tried for the offence, found guilty, and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. At the Thames Police Court, J. Alexander, a Lascar, belonging to the ship Canton, was brought before Mr. Broderip on the charge of attempting to strangle a woman named Ann Dix, and severely assaulting a policeman named George Hailes, and another person of the name of Fowler, all of whom appeared to have been much in jured. The prisoner was sentenced to one months' im prisonment in the House of Correction for the assault on the police constable, to pay a fine of 40s. for the outrage on the woman, and 20s. for striking Fowler, and in default of payment to be further imprisoned for six weeks. re At the Brentford Petty Sessions on Tuesday, a farm labourer was fined 10s. for being found drunk on the Great Western Railway line. He had a most miraculDus escape, as a train passed within a few inches of his body. Several meetings have been held at Gloucester, at which the ratepayers have memorialized the Magistrates for the abolition of the County police, characterised as " burdensome and unnecessary." SPOR,TiNG. ---- Twelve noble roebucks have just been presented by the Marquis of Breadalbane, from his Highland estates, $e Prince Albert. A superb bow and arrows are about to be presented by the Kilwinning Archers to Prince Albert, as patron of their Society. The Earl of Cassius, with his fine stud, has arrived at Northampton from Ireland, for the hunting season. After a splendid breakfast last Saturday morning at the Duke of Beaufort's, at Badminton, his Grace, with above 2,000 horsemen, had unusually good sport. THEATRICAL. Miss Adelaide Kemble made her appearance at Brigh ton on Monday, at the Assembly-room of the Old Ship. During the last fortnight Miss Ellen Tree has been going the round of her best characters at Birmingham. COURT-FASHIONABLE. The Duke of Wellington has arrived in town from Strathfieldsaye. Lord Stanley arrived in town on Monday from Knows ley-hall, Lancashire. - The Duke of Sussex and the Duchess of Inverness are expected at Woburn Abbey on the 23d inst. ; and Lord and Lady J. Russell on Friday next. Viscount and Viscountess Villiers arrived at Mivart's Hotel on Tuesday from their seat, Upton House, War wickshire. The Marquis of Blandford arrived at Mivart's Hotel on Tuesday from Blenheim. The Lord Chancellor entertained the French Ambas sador and other Foreign Ministers on Tuesday in George street, Hanover-square. Prince Esterhazy is expected to arrive at Chandos house on New Year's-day. The marriage of the Hon. Miss Anson, Maid of Honour to the Queen, with Sir Arthur Brinsley Brook, will take place in a few days. 2VJCISCEX.X.A.RTEOUS. A despatch communicated to the Colonial-office by Governor Gipps, states that Count Strelitzky, a Pole, had penetrated inland, and found in the interior of Gipps land plenty of wood and water. A new township will be erected there to be called Albert. Vauxhall Gardens are about to be let off by Mr. Fowler, in six acres, f or b u ildi ng l eases, reserving the other five acres for public gardens. The latter section comprises the tavern, orchestra, rotunda, &c. The license has been renewed. Etiquette in England was carried to so high a pitch in the time of Queen Elizabeth, that her Secretary, Eil, in performing the functions of his office in the presence of his Royal mistress, was always obliged to speak and write upon his knees. To-day is the anniversary of the death of Isaac Walton, who died in 1683, and whose writings, after a lapse of two centuries, still maintain their popularity. It is remarkable that the boy Jones and the man Peel have both been equally successful in forcing their way twice into Buckingham Palace against the wishes of the Royal owner. perhaps it is not generally known that a bullet fired from a gun or pistol will not pass through a silk hand kerchief. The Cologne Gazette of the 19th instant states, that a person holding a high situation in the department of the Exchequer at Munich had disappeared, leaving a deficit in his accounts to the amount of 100,000 florins. WEST INDIA MAIL. POST-OFFICE NOTICE.—The following was put up on Tuesday at the Ship Letter-office, St. Martin's-le- Grand:— " Ship letter bags will be made up here for the West India steamers, to sail from Southampton on Thursday, the 16th inst., and Saturday the 18th inst. " The Forth, on Thursday the 16th inst., at one P.M., for Havannah, calling at Nassau, proceed to New Or• leans, Tampico, Vera Cruz, and then return to Havannah. " The Solway, on Saturday the 18th inst., at one P.M., for Barbadoes, proceed to St. Lucia, Martinique, Domi nica, Guadaloupe, Antigua, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Kitt's, Tortola, St. Thomas's, St. Juan's, Porto Rico, Grand Key, Turk's Island, Hayti, St. Jago de Cuba, Belize, and thence to Havannah. " The Tweed, on Saturday the 18th inst, at one P.M., for Barbadoes, proceed to St. Vincent, Grenada, Trini dad, La Guayra, Porto Cabello, Curacoa, Santa Martha, Carthagena, and thence to Jamaica. " The Clyde, on Saturday the 18th inst., at one P.M., call at Madeira, and proceed direct to Surinam and De merara, calling off Berbice, thence to Barbadoes, call at Tobago, and from Barbadoes to Grenada. " Letters for the above conveyance must be specially addressed by ship.' " The bags will be made up in London on the evening previous to sailing from Southampton. That of the 16th to-morrow, the 15th (this day), and that of the 18th, on Friday evening the 17th. " Ship Letter -office, Dec. 14, 1841." MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The English Market for Stocks was very dull to-day, although the business transacted was not of magnitude. The rate for one or two invest ments was rather higher. For the opening Con sols were marked 884 to 89, and for present de livery 894 to with the dividend. Exchequer Bills were 10s. to 12s. premium, and East India Bonds 2s. to 3s. premium. Bank Stock rose to 1654 to 165:1, and India Stock was specially trans ferred at 249. The Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. were at 981 to 98k, and the Three per Cents. at 981 to 89/. There was rather more done in Foreign Stocks, and prices, except for Portuguese Bonds, which' were still heavy, generally kept up. Spanish Active Bonds were at 24 to 24/; Portuguese New Five per Cents. at 321 ; to 321; the Three per Cents. at 194 to ; Mexican at 26; Colom bian at 231, and Brazilian at 631. Austrian Stock advanced to 109; 'Russian was at 1131; French. Five per Cents. Rentes obtained 116 f. 25c. ; and Dutch Five per Cents. 99/ to 991. In the Share Market thc! transactions were to some extent, and prices r&.ed firm. Great Wes tern were 181, the New 9i ; the Birmingham Thirds 23; York and North Midland 39; and South Western 18/ premium. Brighton were 13/ to 131 ; Manchester and Leeds 4 5 Midland Counties 161; and South Er-astern and Dover 25 discount. Australasian Bank Shares were 121, and London and Westminster 11 premium. British North American Bank Shares were 4 discount. (F sal es LIVERPOOTrComeTTTohNc Su n AIA RoKcLz.,stDlNElCg.ht.) 14. —Th e to day comprise 2,500 to noway 3,000 bales , of whi c h 600 have been taken by speculators. Prices are steady at Friday's quotations. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARRE'..c, DEC. 14.—The transac tions comprise —London and Birmingham 32/. Shares at 55 ; Grand Junction, 198 ; London and South Wes tern,_ 43 ; North Midland, 7o f. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 14.—There is no change in the charactei: of this market. London 2 8.1 28 ; M anchester and Leeds, Quarter and Birmingham Quarter 'bhares, 23 ; M anchester and Birmingham, Shares, 3/. 16s. 6d.; Manchester Assurance, 9k. to the preser.t ti me. Consols are firm at There has been but little busines s d o i ng i n the Stock Exchange up 881 for the Account; Three per Cents. Reduced, 88 2 , 89; Bank Stock, 165 166 ; Excb.eque r ßill s, 10 12 premium. Sp an ish Securities vont:l,4lle firm. The Active Stock MORNING SUN is now quoted at 244 4 ; Deferred, 19.1-; Passive, Portuguese Five per C en t s . are 321 1; ditto rr 191 192; Mexican Bonds, 252 261- 'There has s b te e ek been Market r f a a r i k r eatm since ount the of . business ening a ra n n d s I c c o teci psceio i° l the English have advanced to 88a 89 ; Th ree p e r Cents. R ed are 88* 894- ; India Bonds 3 2 prem. ; E xc h e quer P m "' 10 12 prem. ; Bank Stock, 1652 1654 No material alt era ti on h as t a k en lace i gl in the Pr e co , Securities. Br az ili an B on d s are quote d at 631; e t lombian, 20 ; Mexican, 26* Portuguese Three Cents., 191 ; Spanish Active Stock, 245 Passivf, Dutch Two-and- a -H a lf p er C ents ., 51 4 - 3 ; ditto, Fo re r Cents., 99k. Very little business has been done in Shares. „v tenham and Great Western are quoted at 21 ; u fo r , Western Fifths, 91-a; London and Brighton, 3 6 1 t; ~* ; /)(1 don and Birmingham Quarter Shares, 23 ; 14)11 " ° ;7i; South Western, 56:1 ; South Eastern and Dover, York and North Midland, 89. Consols are firm at 8q- 89. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. ...249 sank Stock 1634 India Stock ..... ...... 2prD 3 per Cent Red. 89,1 Ditto Bonds ........ ....••• ..._ 3 per Cent Cons B9i Ditt o Old Annuities ... 3i per Cent Red 984 Ditte New Annuities... """ P ~, ol d 10 New 3i per Cent Ex. Bills, 1,000 1 - •••"'• 100 1 New 5 per Cent Ditto 5001.. ....... ~ 0 Long Annuitiestoexpi re Ditt o Small. ' ' Jan 1860 ... 12i Bank Stock for Acct... Oct 1859 lndia Stock for Acct..... 0-'4 IC.Onsols - for Acct ......... FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent 109 , P or tuguese 5 per c en t . ' 321 Belgian, 5 per cent !Ditto, New Ditto ...••••" Brazilian 80nd5.... 63i Prussian, 5 per cent. ..• Buenos Ayres, 6 per cex Russian, 5 per cen t ....• Chilian, 6 per cent — 'Ditto, Metallic ........•••' Colombian, 6 per cent.. Spanish, 5 per cent..... Ditto, 1824. •• Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent - Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange ............ Mexican, 5 per cent 26 F renc h, 3 per cen t ' 0 Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825 D u t c h, 2i per cent. ...... Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent. ..... Jan. 1860. SHARES. •d) 21 Cheltenham and Great Western ( 72k Paid) 28 Eastern Counties Railway (23 rai) ........... 101 9 5 ;L. Ditto Debentures ( paid) .....•...•• •'• 881 Great Western Railway( 65 paid) ........... 59 Ditto New Shares (50 paid) ..... .••••••" 9 Ditto Fifth (4 paid) ................ ...... 381 Liverpool and Manchester (100 paid) .•••• 3611 London and Brighton (50 paid)........... London and Birmingham (90) ......... ....• 23 Ditto Quarter Shares ( b paid) .........••• Ditto Thirds (32 paid) ...................... 51 idr - W - • ...ondon and South rvestern .................. 66 Blanchester and Leeds (70 p a id ) ......••• •••• Si Ditto Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) ........ 8 3 1 Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) ... •.. North Midland Railway (100) ............. •• 16 Ditto Thirds (15 paid) ..................... 15 South Eastern and liove; Oa paid)... ••;• 89 York and North Midland Railway (50 Pal' 501 Ditto New Shares (15 paid............ •.... FINE ARTS. HULLMANDEDS LITHOTINT A.- -- TlONS.—[SEconn Novcs.] 00 0 00 e We noticed these admirable illustra ti° o time weeks since in The Sun, and at the B ; o prOVe' took occasion to speak of the important! y earn merit which Mr. Hullrnandel, after in a°Y e d e a of unwearied perseverance, had sne ce .,d effecting in lithography. As we autiriP a T.: 4 o improvement has excited the attention e`dTetaot in no o r di nar y d egree , an d bid s f a ir, at 11 %4 0 period, to make the hu m bl er c lasses of se'. Brest familiar with the chefs d'ceuvre of t lic toer atin masters of Art, as the wealth and arisiotbior connoisseurs and amateurs now are . at dra ft f more e ff ectually contributes to elevate a taste o the mind of a nation tha n th e spread of B aa ite, this sort; pictures are nearly, if n et n i e ; 111114 serviceable to public teachers, as b c „ e eyeriY, thanks to Mr. Hullmandel's valuable ow es o f c ottag • t ji the day is not far remote when the 00 our peasants and artisans maybe embelliskeo t he cheap and first-rate engraving's fi llobes s°l Master-pieces of Raphael, Titian, ho haVo Claude, and those other gifted sPiri tel i r t done so much to instruct and deli gh t nity. And here, before we commence e l O no/ of the handsome Lithotint Illustratiranity of lying before us, we will take the oPP er our for' correcting a mistake which appeared la gro ndel ° mer criticism. In alluding to Mr. 111 w here we spoke of him as a tc German artist,'" noy a dd' , it seems he is an Englishman and we y . year s too, that he has shown by his tw ee t jo ne t strenuous devotion to Art, that : fir ing ( l u r e sparingly endowed with those well - l r ' - , tw ee, t a " lities of courage, patience, and perql f c ' a k able' which John Bull has always been re t o ef ° Such being the case, time only is neede d °t o' all the effect he could desire to his Pre, se t bird provements in the art of Lithography. ly r 6 go on then with unabated zeal, for assur e V o oo‘ will soon reap the full reward o f a ll his 18 1 0 Fe And now to the Illustratio ns before ; one . dian Scene is in every respect a c h te r ' s- br oil' In the foreground we see two native India ° at the ing the day's meal before a wood fire, jtotledioe edge of a thick jungle, and in the j ail : 0; 00 4 neighbourhood of a small tank or stre a urr tree, behind them rises the tall, graceful pl l e du" ; apparently motionless, for *O Ol oin e -°- sultry look of the fixed cloud s / d en ough easily see that there i s not "4:ltist, with to stir even a le a f. The i tao cae. o im p Part na consummate skill, has contrive" thoroughly oriental aspect to his lap dh s j o g almost expects to see a ti g er eroti c d prep" the tangled underwood of the j un gle, an ectin g , fkg for a deadly spring on the unsnsPketeh of a t 'Mans. A Mountain Village is a , ; !le totally di ff erent complexion. The l i t a 1 100-' with its quaint, old-fashioned, patria rcu t . lef i : ing tenements, is nestling at the fo° t a lter of precipitous crag, and under the Elli e re ciple e, castle which crowns the summit of th e g e i r r c In the distance, huge mountains rear too l& backs to the sky; and right in front, a c oull e ,' mountain stream dashes in its headle.ligo. ge ntiJ with one or two cottage-gardens sheivls'e tiO ° acefa ft down to it. Nothing can be more Pe i mv e. the character of this picturesque lanagniner. is the very emblem of repose and COa ra 7i o th The broken shadows of the dark c died wit h restless waters of the streamlet are 'it' ll 0 0 masterly adroitness. A. Groupe la o f 00e English Baronial Hall, reminds us j t . Leslie's clever pictures. An elderly do s '° e the Court dress, apparently of th e d by t h o Charles the Second, is dragging forw al ,, ee of t % arm a reluctant youngster into the Pr esej : e at 11w arch-looking dame of quality, who laud 01 0 Yr fellow's evident bashfulness—and well s i ' co tion' for he looks as if he would rather face e 10 1 ; than the bright, perilous black eyes of tr uer t o Nothing can be more humourous, o r aw kwar t character, than the constrained and festince position of the embarrassed stripling. a ddres' ar e would prompt him to go up and . i ities laughing dame; but his nervous sensih.:_ ; so be too strong for the promptings of iinPu.l,_°g,o fo r ' hangs back, perfectly convinced that tu _ os ioa ward, will be—to quote Falstaff's. eltll lo g rew' D O' "to write himself down an ass.' a nd a nd a1 ) . 1 1 ,i5 merit of this sketch is its happiness ding 1 ' fry fee -- re' priateness of expression. Dalged t o; favourite war-horse, Gustavus, will insentert9iiri most Leg 0 mind the spectator of one of the ing incidents in Sir Walter Scott's tel's ° Montrose !" The shrewd, worldly, trooper, whose days of romance and h eu , ;9 slf°l are for ever gone by, and who drawn mi nlea teS. for that party only who offer him th e ta h e t, tte amount of pay, is pourtrayed with grea t Theei t° fully works out the novelist's conceptiont•winkjitig pression,in particular, of the sly, smal l ' re seat ° eye is capital. A. Scene in a Cathedral r ep slog veil efia floating lein b d e e h e i p ad m h o e u r, rning attire, w it h _ h full an d' some mausoleum, on w in h o ic v h ing r t e 7lanrec: :21tht the length, the effigy of a mailed warrior, w: s banner of his house suspended above his of the The attitude and half-averted countenan.c_euelog solitary mourning lady, have a verY intended to 1)e character, and realize the idea intenttZde o ur conveyed by the artist. We here conc_in our brief, imperfect sketch of these adinira.ble, xamn aea d, it b trations, which must be seen and e _ cia o attention, before they can be truly aPPr; lit he They ha e v i e l g ra little ving i s n , commonforthe li ght s with s atnhde a ass' v graphic et: defined with extraordinary beauty and o f of the ness, and the perspectives, some _ v ea e s r e y adaidffiacuplrtaperlileatrya,ctoefr. wahreiehmafenwagewdow,i,djiastaiirso pose lithography was capable. A r f i l e: e e d d .: l ,ov r or i. 4o : might d ta ia n a ce, ia th k ey sketches,l3 show to as much advantage as P o f o hope shortly to see the master-piece pass for wthheenbestaisnetpinpvia. outivir lin lll/1 ' great painters engraved by 11r• 0 1 ' who, by means of his improved system, % - 00 no d 01 the originals with the closest fidelity, tiply his copies almost ad infinitum. -•. ~~ tk C(4i qll th eo n