The Sun. — London, England, 1841-12-25 00:00:00

t '~ MORNING SUN of Devonshire that at twelve o'clock at night on Christmas-eve, the oxen in their stalls are always tbund on t heir knees, as in the attitude 01 devotion ; aw l t h at , w hi c h i s more s i ngu l ar, since the alteration of the style, they continue to do this only on the eve of old Christmas-day. An honest countryman, living on the edge of St. Stephen's Down, near Launceston, Cornwall, informed me, Oct. c2S, 1790 (says the same au thority), that be once, and some others, made a trial of the truth of the above, and watching se veral oxen in their stalls at the above time, at twelve o'clock at night, they observed the two oldest oxen only fall upon their knees, and, as' he expressed it in the idiom of the country, " make a cruel moan like Christian creatures." He seemed to" marvel at my unbelief." CHRISTMAS IN THE COURTS OF LAW There were anciently great doings in the halls of the Inns of Court at Christmas time. At the Inner Temple, early in the morning, the gentle men of - the Inn went to church, and, atter the gervice they did "presently repair into the ball !IIP) breakthst with brawn, mustard, and malmsey.' At the first course at dinner, was " served in, a' a fitir:and large Bore's head, upon a silver plat ter, with minstralsaye," says Dugdale. This custom is still observed at Queen's Col lege, Oxford, and tradition repress►►ts this usage as a commemoration of an act of valour per ibrmed by a student of the College, who, while walking in the neighbouring tbrest of Shotover, and reading Aristotle, was suddenly attacked by a wild bear. The furious beast came open mouthed upon the youth, who, however, very courageously, and with a happy presence of mind, is said to have " rammed in the volume," and cried, Giyeettnt eat, fairly choking the savage -with the sage. HoEnsiled says, that in the year 1170, on the day of the young Prince's coronation, King Henry 11., served his son at the table as sewer, bringing up the Bore's head, with trum pets before it, according to the manner." SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—The Chronicle of this mornieg observes, We confess it gives us pain to see a respectable Paper like the Herald pointing out two distinguished individuals—the one almost by name, the other by cir cumstances which could hardly be misunderstood—as implicated in the Exchequer bill fraud. The Globe of Wednesday observecl,' the matter cannot now be left where it is; and our Contemporary, the Herald, if it does possess the names of the parties pointed at, is bound to give them to the public; without hesitation or ceremony, no matter who or what the parties may be.' From an article in the Herald of yesterday, it appears to us that that paper has only gone too far already." We are much of the same way of thinking upon this point as our Morning Contemporary. As, however, our previous remark may be liable to some misconstruc tion, we may perhaps as well state somewhat more at length our view of the duties of journalists, as regards the propogation of reports of the above nature. Whatever may be thought of the present state of the law of libel, it does not appear to us that any iniquitous quality which there may be io that law, affords the slightest apology for shrinking from supporting a charge which bas once been put forth in such a man ner as to point evidently at individuals. The law of libel may furnish very good reasons for abstaining from individual illusions ; and indeed, independently of the law of libel, we think such allusions should never be published on no better authority than mere unsup ported rumour. It is, indeed, said that journalists who happen to obtain early information of whatever re ports are abroad, must not be withheld from communi cating them. But this privilege evidently must have its limits; for a mere flying verbal rumour acquires an added appearance of authority from the " form and pressure" of type, and circulation by a respectable news paper. STANDARD.—We have copied from the Man chester Courier a long and very able article, exposing most satisfactorily and most usefully the " enormous lies" of "the League." There is one part of this article which we must acknowledge with gratitude, and which we recommend earnestly to the public attention. We allude to the passage in which the Manchester writer demonstrates the necessary antagonism between the particular interests of the manufacturing class, and the interests of the na tion. Our excellent Contemporary quotes Adam Smith in support of its proposition ; and Adam Smith, who certainly was no enemy to manufactures, speaks clearly and strongly upon the point ; as onr Con temporary truly remarks, more strongly than even the Quarterly Review, the Standard, the Morning Herald. or the Morning Post, or any other of the defenders of the agricultural interest has ever spoken. The truth is, that it has been the giving too much weight to the representations of ma nufacturers that has led the national policy astray in every instance in which it has gone wrong. Take the single case of Ireland. What is it that has con demned that important part of the United Kingdom to poverty and ignorance, and all the melancholy con tequences of poverty and ignorance, during nearly a century and a half? The destruction of her trade and manufactures upon the suggestion and for the benefit of the manufacturers of England. Had the same pains been taken after the revolution of 16S8 to foster and protect the trade of Ireland that was taken to destroy it, that country would be now the strength of the empire, instead of being confes sedly " the chief difficulty" of every administration. Swift saw this, in a hundred places in his writings ; he predicts the evil that England was preparing for herself, by sacrificing the prosperity of Ireland to the cupidity of English manufacturers. Swift, as zealous a Protestant and as earnest a supporter of the British connection as any of us, did not scruple to expose him self to oblcquy and persecution as a Jacobite rebel, in proclaiming the truth, that only by rendering justice to tha industry of one division of the empire, could the security of the whole be provided for. COURIER.—The plan sketched by Mr. Christo pher, pretty plainly, we believe, indicates the principle which Sir Robert means to adopt as the basis of his new bill—namely, the reduction of the extremes of duty within much narrower limits than the present scale allows, and the fixing of a maximum and minimum amount, Mr. Christopher considers the object of whatever alleviation short of the present law, may be proposed, should be to settle the price of wheat at some point between 565. and 65.. per quarter ; and this he proposes to secure by a minimum duty of ss. when the price reaches or exceeds the latter limit ; and a maximum duty of 20s. when it fells to or below the former limit—the intermediate range being so gradually regulated as to discourage, if Tint prevent, gambling speculation, and all those frauds which disgrac e the present system. A different mode for taking the averages must, of course, be introduced simultaneously with the proposed change in the duty scale. The great temptations to tamper with and fal sify the averages, as well as the facilities for doing so, consist in the v ast extent of the sliding scale as at pre sent constituted, ranging, as it does, from the absurd ex treme of 535. to Is., and from the abruptness of its de scent at that end wh ere regular gradation is most neces sary. The fact of confinin g the range to the limits pro posed, would of itself have a most b ene fi c i a l t en d ency in repressing the falsification” of the sales, now resorted dinite averages to the r equ i re d to, for " working up th point, both by gr eatl y ialling the premium, and enhancing the difficulty of the operation. Combine this with an improved method for takin g the averages, and we have no doubt but that gambling in corn would soon become a very profitless and troublesome game, and consequently be abandoned for som e W other epecu on. It must be borne in mind, that Mr. Chris. topher, on the occasion alluded to, has di, claimed all pretension t o the chara c t er of " a pilot balloon," w ishing to be understood as merely speaking his own sentiments. We I I ", strong reasons for believing such to ,be the ease, and that whatever points of identity may be hereafte r found to exist between the Government measure and that adumbrated in Mr. Christopher's address, will be attributable not to any preconcerted arranarrangement be tween the parties, but to the fact of a coincidence of opinion on a subject which has engaged the attention of all enlightened men for some time past. For ourselves, we have long laboured under the conviction that no other mode for adjusting the question on a sure and satisfactory basis was open to any Government, but by contracting the range of the scale, and fixing at either end a point of maximum or minimum duty. Such a plea appeared to us to combine all the requisites and desiderata of sound legislation, serving, as far as human legislation can extend, to steady the prices of corn, and in ruling the introduction of the foreign-raised article on terms the reasonableness of which none could justly object to. BARBAROUS MURDER IN HANTS. SouTnA)trroN, DEC. 23.—Intelligence has just been received here of a mcst barbarous murder, committed on a servant girl, by a party a three excavators, on the road between Winchester and Southampton. It ap pears that the young woman was walking towards South ampton, rather late last evening, having been engaged as a.servant to a family in the neighbourhood. She was acempanied for some distance on the road by her fatter, and when he separated from her she gave him a stilling to go into a public-house on the road side to refresh himself. While he was sitting there three excavators walked in one carrying a bundle, which the father knew to belong to his daughter. He, of course, took immediate steps to have them taken into cus t o dy. Several persons went immediately in search of the young woman, and found her murdered, which atrocious act was committed (there is not the shadow of a doubt of the fact) by the three ruffians who had just been secured. Shortly after the arrival of Sir James Graham from Windsor Castle yesterday, the Earl of Lincoln, First Commissioner of Woods and Forests, had a long interview with the Right Honourable Baronet at the Home-office. AIRS. GORE'S NEW NOVEL. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. post Bvo., THE MAN OF FORTUNE. By MRS. GORE, Authoress of "Mothers and Daughters," "Mrs. Art% tage," 4 ‘ The Peeress," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. EIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, His MAJESTY the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, His MAJESTY the KING of PRUSSIA, having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (tbon . gh they are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtam 'ng LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH and at LUBECK, hire now SELLING ORIGINAL BONDS for the said DIS FRIBU TIONS. Persons desirous to purchase. for the Next Distribution, say receive, PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PRO SPECTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing a line to HEINE BROTHERS. The NEXT AUSTRIAN DISTRIBUTION contains DI VIDENDS of £25,000 £6OO 5,000 400 1,500 200 1,000 150 800 120 HEINE BROTHERS having remitted during a short time 25,000/., 18,000/., 9,000/, 5,0001., 3,600/., &c. &c. &c., to London ; 3,6004, 8001., and 7001., to Edinburgh ; 3,6001. to Dublin ; 3,600/. to Beverley; 3,60 to Halifax (Yorkshire); 1,200/. to Portleaven Harbour ; 9001., 7001. and 600/. to Li verpool ; 900/. to Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; 900/. to Hull ; 900/. and 600/. to Manchester ;.700/. to East Retford (Not tinghamshire); 600/. to Bideford; 6001. to .Cork; 600/. to Bradford ; they shall feel glad to remit many Dividends of the next Distribution to England, Ireland, and Scotland. Direct for Prospectus and Particulars, without delay, either to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBUItGH, or to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. £llO £7O 100 60 90 50 80 Sterling. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. ON MONDAY EVENING, DEC. 27, Will be performed, Colley Cibber's Comedy of SHE WOULD AND SHE WOULD NOT.—Don Manuel, Mr. W. Farren ; Don Philip, Mr. Cooper ; Don Octavio, Mr. Walter Lacy ; Trapanti, Mr. Harley; Hyppolyta, Mrs. Nisbett ; Flora, Mrs. Walter Lacy ; Rosara, Miss Cooper; Viletta, Mrs. Orger. After which will be produced 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, ss. ; Second Price, t'.s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. 23.; 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. ItOYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF AND MR. WILLIS JONES. The most extensive Christmas Novelties ever produced. All the talent of London. Grandeur and expence unequalled. All New. ON MONEAY EVENING, DEC. 27. Will be acted a New Domestic Mama, entitled MADAME LAFFARGE. To conclude with a Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE ICE QUEEN; OR, JACK FROST AND KING SHAM. NEW STRAND THEATRE. SPLENDID CHRISTMAS NOVELTIES. Monday, Dec. 27, and every evening during the week, Mr. JACOBS, the ROYAL VENTRILOQUIST and GREAT MODERN MAGICIAN, whose performances during the last two seasons created a great sensation, will, for a third time, have the honour of submitting to the public his unrivalled and truly pleasing performances. His NECROMANTIC TEM PLE will be found superior in every respect to those on former occasions. His Ventriloquism has undergone considerable change and improvement; in the delineation of the various characters he is the first in Europe ; a great treat is afforded to the audience in this department. Mr. Jacobs, in addition to his own interesting entertainment, has added these of Mons. ROSSEAU, the celebrated FRENCH EQUILIBRIST ; Herr KREUZER'S PHAN TASMAGORIAL DISSOLVING PORTRAITS, which are on an entirely new system ; and the Classical Experiments of the PATAGONIAN WONDERS. The tout ensemble forms a Combination of Talent not to be surpassed. Doors open at half-past Six, commence at Seven. Boxes, 2s. 6d., Children, ls. 6d. ; Pit, Is. 6d., Children, Is. ; Gal lery, 6d. Half-price a Quarter to Nine ; Boxes, ls. 6d. ; Pit, IL ; Gallery, no half-price. Carriages to be in waiting Ten Minutes to Eleven. THE RAILWAY SUN IS NOW RE-PUBLISHING, PRICE SIXPENCE. THE CHINA SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Dec. 25, 1841. TO CORRESPONDENTS. " A Borough Magistrate of Liverpool" is informed there was no other enclosure but sixpence in his letter. Several "Constant Readers" at Leeds are informed that the word " transported," when applied to Scotch Clergymen, means the very reverse of the same word when used in reference to criminals. When a father in the Sc o t c h Ch urc h i s trans- ported, he performs a voluntary act, and always i;i:e;c;;;io go to a better place than the one he left; in the same way as a Bishop is "translated" to a fat See from one which does not furnish so many of the good things of life. The lines of " R. S." pay a high compliment to the merits of Dr. Birkbeck, because they evidently come from one of a class which he laboured for thirty years to elevate in the scale of social life. We are glad to find this proof of attach ment to his memory, and regret that we cannot insert the Terns. THE WEATHER.—NooN, DECEMBER 24. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET, Thermometer... 42 Highest 43 Lowest 31 Barometer 29.72.—Wind E.—Freezing Point 22 Deg. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Sinning 54 minutes after 10 1 Evening...... 27 minutes after 11. tit i e -uttt LONDON: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1841. The Spanish Cortes is to be opened to-mor row, and great, indeed, is the interest which this event has already excited in the political circles of Madrid. Senor SURRA. Y ROLL, the Minister of Finance, has devoted much of his time to the study of political economy, and during the brief period since his taking office has certainly performed wonders in the way of retrieving the national credit. The long out-standing claims of the British and French Auxiliary Legions were liquidated in the midst of a domes tic insurrection, known to be countenanced by the French Government, and no efforts have been left untried to meet the demands of other classes of public creditors. This able and honest Minister has arrived at the conclusion that, without adopting the principles of free trade, Spain can never arrive at any high degree of prosperity, and therefore he has armed him self with Reports of Committees upon the subject, which will be early laid before the Cham ber of Deputies. He expects to be ably sup ported by Senor MARLIANI, a political economist of th e R USKISSON school, w h o , a f ter t h e most di ligent inquiry, has found that what is called the " protective system" has been the ruin of Spain. Still we have our fears that the Opposition will prove too stron g ng for them. If, after the advan tageshas de r i ve d f rom commerce during a period of tw o cen t ur i es , an d w i t h the aid of an unfettered Press to guide public opinion, there be at this day in Parliament a majority of our legislators who pretend to see national ruin in the free importation of corn, can w e wonder that there should b e in King-trodden, priest-ridded decidedly opp osed den Spain, a majo r i ty of the National R e presentatives to any inva sionprivileges claimed by S pan i sh mono iolistosfie ? t T i i s there anything more natural than that they should retort upon Senors Sui t BA Y. RULI. i i and MARLIANI, the sophistries urged against the MELBOURNE Cabinet by free-trade policy of the Ps EL aid Co. ? And yet nothing would, at this moment, tend so much to enrich Spain, and to place her once more in the list of great Powers, as a good tariff, based as closely a s possible upon the , principle of free trade. By concludi n g a com mercial treaty with Englan d , re ciprocally based on that principle, Spain would open to her self the best market in the world for her corn, her wine, her oil, her wool, and her fruits, while in return she would receive manufactures thirty per cent. cheaper than any protective sys tem will ever enable her to produce them. Add to this that England would supply her with that agricultural skill of which she stands in such need, and which applied to her genial soils would render them the most productive in Eu rope. Capital, too, an industrious neighbouring State would have no difficulty in raising to any amount in this country. Spain is eminently an agricultural country, just as England is a manufacturing one. To enrich both they have only to agree to a fair exchange of their respective products. Mutually to strive to excel in producing the same things is to injure both their interests. A man having four sons does not make them all farmers, or tailors, or watchmakers, or weavers. He puts one upon the loom to weave cloth, another he apprentices to a tailor to make garments for his brethren, a third is brought up to till the ground to grow them all food, and the fourth is taught to construct watches. Thus, by a mutual exchange of labour, they are all clothed, fed, and provided with watches. Now nations should study the wise economy of this father of a family. To try to be independent of each other is to endeavour, to extend and perpetuate beggary and barbarism. The more nations are dependent one upon an other the wealthier, and the happier they must become. This mutual dependence has also the effect of preventing wars, by making it the in- terest of every citizen to endeavour to maintain peace. We therefore trust that every advance made by the present Government of Spain to a closer commercial intercourse with England will meet with the support of every party in this country. The Paris Journals have all been re ceived. There is not a word about the case of M. DUPOTY in the Liberal Press. The National, instead of denouncing the infamous proceedings before the Court of Peers, has a ge neral article upon a work published by M. Du- VERGIER DE HAURANNE upon the interior and exterior pblitics of France. The Commerce has a long article upon M. ODILON BAR ROT'S letter to the Siecle relative to the fortifica tions of Paris, and another upon a petition ad dressed to the President of the Council by the shipowners of St. Brieux, praying for a reduc tion of the French Navy as a measure necessary for the encouragement of the merchant service. This petition is also the subject of articles in the Debats and (Jonstitutionncl, but as the question is but of local interest, we shall not now en ter upon any discussion of its merits. Neither would we so particularly allude to it, except to show to what uninteresting topics the French press is obliged to have recourse to avoid dwel ling upon the proceedings of the French Star- Chamber, the Court of Peers. The Paris Jour nals have had enough of fines and imprison ments, and these await the publishers of any strictures upon judicial roguery which may be brought, during the sitting of the Court, under the notice of the President, Baron PASQUIER. Whatever may be the immediate effects of the terrible examples of political offenders, made by the Court of Peers, the next revolution in France will mainly stand indebted for its origin to the outrages upon national liberty now in course of perpetration by that base tribunal. The idea of such a revolution may appear preposterous to the Court i but reflecting men, placed in a situation to mark the signs of the times more correctly than can be done within the precincts of a palace, cannot but have observed growing indications of a tendency in the public mind to such a catastrophe. The dynasty of ORLEANS has no more dangerous enemy than the Court of Peers. By trampling under foot all the defences of national liberty it accustoms the French people to regard no insti tutions as sacred which they have the power to set aside. From the moment the Court of Peers shall have pronounced M. DUPOTY guilty of participation in QUENISSET'S attack upon the Royal Dukes, the Charter, the palladium of French freedom, will be of no more value than one of the ballads of that late eminent Grub- street publisher, CATNACH. In justification of the conduct of the Peers, their only British apologist, the Post, urges " the necessity of restraining, in some way, those French political writers, whose pestilent breath spreads the contagion of treasonable and infamous doctrines throughout the land." Star- Chamberprosecutions of the Press will never cor rect this evil. It is only to be done by removing the abuses in the Administration, which call forth the violent reprehensions of the press. The in stitutions of France are wholly unsuited to a free people, and before the press can be made to suggest reforms in the mild language common to British journalists, they must be wholly re-mo delled. What, for instance, can be more op posed to civil liberty, than the whole passport system ? A Ministerial Journal of this morning says, " An ar rangement between the Court of Rome and Espartero is seriously contemplated. We are assured that the Inter nuncio of his Holiness at Paris has received overtures on this subject." Yesterday morning the King received successively MM. Guizot, Martin du Nord, Mole, Sauzet, and de Broglie. At one o'clock there was a Council of Ministers. The decision of the Court of Peers will be pronounced this evening, or to-morrow (Thursday), at the opening of the Sitting. The Arnwnican of Brest, •' the 18th of December, says, the order to dismiss all the seamen of the class of 1834 has arrived. On the 21st the landing of the men to be discharged from the Suffren, the Jupiter, and the Scipion will begin. They will be immediately sent to their homes. Those from the Jena, Neptune, and Triton, will be discharged the 23d, and in a few days afterwards the same measure will be applied to the sea men in those belonging to the division. Already 300 naval apprentices have gone on board in place of those who are to be discharged, and as the sea men included in the permament levy, begin to arrive in considerable numbers, and as orders have been given at L'Orient and Cherbourg to send to Brest the sailors who can be spared at those two ports, it is probable that in a short time there will be sufficient to fill up the vacancies in the vessels at Brest.—Constitutionnel. In the sitting of the Council-General of Agriculture, held on Thursday, the sugar question was taken into lengthened consideration. M. de Tocqueville was op posed to the beet-root or indigenous system as tending to injure shipping interests. M. C. Dupin wished to see all branches of national industry equally prosperous, and was for promoting the interests of agriculturists at home, as well ac those of the growers in the colonies. He la mented that so much versatility should have been shown by the Legislature on this subject, and that the measures affecting the question should have been adopted rather on the spur of the moment than after mature and well founded deliberation. M. G. de Beaumont complained of the mode in which the duties on indigenous sugar are collected. He observed that they were calculated only on presumed produce, whereas they ought to be reckon ed according to the quantities actually made. He con ceived that the mercantile ports were not justified in the complaints they had made of the depressed condition of the colonial sugar trade, because, during the first months of the year, they had imported more sugar than they had done for a long time. It was notorious, he added, that the trade was injured, both in the colonies and at home, by contraband proceedings, and at Bourbon, in particular, 28 millions of kilogrammes of sugar had been sold in a year, more than what the island had produced or could produce. M.' de Lamartine was an advocate for the equal prosperity of both systems ; he thought there ought to be a perfect equality established for the two classes of products, and that a just indemnity should be allowed to the home growers, whose operations extended over only 57,000 hectares (144,000 acres), of land. He was for protecting the colonial interests. M. Desjoberts would establish an equality of duties, and then if the colonies could not support the competition, he would allow them to select their own markets. No decision was come to. The Committee of the Council on the Sugar question is composed of Messrs. de Mornay, Ju lien Lefebvre, Leroi de Pommiere, de Tocqueville, de Bethune, Saunac and Briffet. The Berlin papers state that a few days ago a duel was fought, at Potsdam, by two officers, both sons of Prus sian Generals of distinction. One of the combatants was dangerously wounded in the neck by his adversary's ball. It arose from hasty words passed at the theatre more than twelve months ago. A Court of Honour had de- tided that theo&neegiven was not sufficient to warrant a hostile meeting, but the officer now wounded persisted in fighting. They write from Cronstadt that, on the 3d inst., the gulf was entirely free from ice from the shore as far as the eye could reach; an unusual instance of mild weather at this time of Cie year in Russia. The Pop u l ar o f B arce l ona o f th e 9 t h i nstant s t a t es that a feud h as ar i sen in Catalonia, which threatens to rev i ve the sangui nary conflicts of the old factions of the Caps and llat s i n I taly. The students at Barcelona in medi cine pharmacy, and surgery have adopted as a distinc tive mark of their profession grey mushroom-shaped hats, with b an d s and loops of different colours, according to the branches to which they respectively confine their studies. The different journeymen have sworn to put down this innocent distinction, and having insulted seve ral of the students violent conflicts have ensued. The journeymen have also adopted a h a t o f th e i r own, made much the same as that of t h e students, b ut w hi te , w i t h larger flaps, bands, and loops. If this competition con tinues, the manufacturers who confine themselves to making caps may leave off business. The Diario di Roma of the 11th inst., shows that the report of the Pope having been at the point of death, was entirely false. On the 10th, the Pope was present seated on his throne at mass, and on the same day, in the chapel of the Vatican, gave the benediction of the sacrament. The Dictrio informs us that Prince Leopold of Bavaria, and Prince Frederick of Prussia had arrived at Rome. Don Juan and Don Fernand, sons of Don Carlos, were still there. On the 6th, the Pope received the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz, and the Duchess Caroline, her daughter. As a ;sovereign Princess, the Grand Duchess, who was presented by the Prussian Minister, was received in the apartments to which generally ladies are not admitted. DUTCH FUN DS....IIISTERDAM, DSc. 21. Money. Bill Actual Debt. 2 % per Cent Jitto, ditto 5 per cent. Ainef t Syndic, 4% per cent 90% 91% Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent 15% 76% Commercial Company, 4% per c e nt 154% 15 5 % Ditto (1t35 and 1837) 5 per cent. Loan 1837, 5 per con t............ Exchange on London, One month l2 0% Two months Haniburgh, One month ' 35 81% Two months 35 52% Dutch Papers, Dec. 22. ttELOtAN I' UNDS—Bauseite, DEc. 22. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Lean, 5 per Cent IOI% Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 9:1% 3 per Cent. ..... -- 71% 1849) 101 34 Loan of City, 1932, 4 per Cent. 96% Society of Commerce, 4 % per Cent — Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 74% National Society. ...... .................. — Exchange on London (short) .... ........ ...... —Brussels Paper s , Dec. 2 . Thirty.sevi EXCHEQUER BlLLS.—Extraordinary as it may appear, we have reason to believe, that upwards of eighty thousand pounds of Exchequer bills, which have been stamped by the Government as genuine, are spurious, notwithstanding that warranty. METROPOLITAN DISTRICT LETTERS. This day, the district letters must be put into the General Post-office by 12 o'clock, noon, when the last despatch for the town and suburbs will be sent off. At the receiving houses no letters will be received for delivery to-day after nine o'clock. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, FRIDAY EVENING. The Stock Market closed this evening, no trans fers being, of course, permitted during Christmas day. There seemed some disposition to purchase, and the quo tations advanced a little. Consols for opening were 89* to I; Exchequer Bills brought 11s. to 12s. premium; Bank Stock was firm at 165 to 1651 ; Reduced Three and-a-Half per Cents. obtained 981 to 99i; and the Three per Cents. 89 to Spanish and Portuguese Bonds were a shade firmer, but it was in the entire absence of any animation in ei ther of them. The former were at 24, and the latter at 33. Mexican were at 26 and Dutch Five per Cents. at 99i tu 1. We have still to notice a better market for Shares than for Stocks. Great Western were higher to-day, viz. 19 to 21 ; York and North Midland New, 164 ; Bir mingham Quarters, 18f ; ditto Thirds, 24 ; ditto New, 254 ; and South Western, 19a to 20* prem. ; Brighton were 11i ; Eastern Counties, 14; ; Hull and Selby, 111; Manchester and Leeds 5 ; Midland Counties, 141 ; Northern and Eastern, 8i ; and South Eastern, 23 dis. ; London Joint-stock Bank Shares were 2f prem. ; and National Provincial Bank of England 1 dis. Bills were taken upon the Continental Exchange Cities at very nearly the rates of last post-day. Paris 25 72i to 77* ; Amsterdam, 12 44 to 4i ; Antwerp, 12 3:- . 1 to 4 ; Frankfort, 150 ; Hamburgh, 13 10,1- to 10A- ; and Trieste, 9 50 to 51. Our advices from Liverpool state that Messrs. Crofts, soap-boilers, whose failure was announced some days since, have made a very satisfactory settlement of their affairs with their creditors. (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC. 23.—We have had a good business doing in the Cotton Market to-day, upwards of 5,000 bales having been disposed of to the trade, inciuding 1,000 Surats, at 31d. to 4d. Nothing done in export or speculation. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, DEC. 23.—The trans actions at the Stock Exchange this day comprise, Great Western, at 84 ; Ditto 201. Shares, 9/. 11s. 3d. ; Great North of England, 674 ; London and Birmingham New Shares, 27 ; North Midland Thirds, 16. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 23.—Our market continues firm, and Railway Shares are in good demand. The following transactions have been re ported:—Bristol and Exeter, 28 ; Lancaster and Bristol, Three-Fourth Shares, 16i; London and Birmingham New 321. 261 • South Eastern and Dover, 204 ; Manchester and Leeds, Quarters, 31. 14s 6d. ; Manchester and Sal ford Water Works, 531. Both the English and Foreign Markets opened steady this morning, with scarcely a bargain doing. Consols for the Account are 898 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 898 ; Three-and-a. Half per Cents. Reduced, 981 ; Exchequer Bills, 10 12 prem. Spanish Active Stock 234 244 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 324 33; Ditto Threes, 194 20. Thre has been but little business doing in the Stock Market, but prices have improved since the opening. Consols are now 89ii for the Account ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 894. ; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Re duced, 994; Bank Stock, 1651 ; Exchequer Bills, 11 12. In the Foreign Market there are only throe quotations to notice, viz. :—Mexican Bonds, 26 ; Spanish Active Stock, 244 ; Dutch Five per Cents., 994 100. Very little doing in Shares. London and Brighton has advanced to 38i ; London and Birmingham Quarter Shares are 231- ; ditto Thirds, 56 ; South Western, 581 ; South Eastern and Dover, 20 ; York and North Midland New Shares, 31+. _ _ _ Papers from New I ork, of the Ist instant have been received. They are one day later than the former ac counts, but do not contain any news of the least interest. Consols, 89i 1; Colombian, 20i. i; Mexican, 264 4 2 -; Spanish, 24+. It is suggested that the visit of the King of Prussia to this country might be turned to some good account in a commercial point of view, should the etiquette of Courts permit his Majesty to entertain any pro positions, or listen to any representations in such a matter. The intention of the German Customs' Union to establish a war marine of its own, renders its strict alliance as a union daily of more importance to us, especially if we are to give credence to the report that France is coquetting for the favours of the German Powers. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Rank Stock ... 165,i India Stock 3 per Cent Red. B9l- Ditto Bonds pm 3 per Cent Cons Ditto Old Annuities ... 3i per Cent Red 99A , Ditto New Annuities... New 34 per Cent ;Es. Bills, 1,000/....21d 11 pm New 5 per Cent I Ditto 5001 ll pin Long Annuities toexpire I Ditto Small. 11 pm Jan! 1860 .. 12 9-16 Bank Stock for Acct... Oct 1859 — India Stock for Acct.... Jan. 1860. — Consols for Open B9h FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent Belgian, 5 per cent Brazilian 80nd5.... Buenos Ayres, 6 per cea Chilian, 6 per cent — Colombian, 6 per cent.. Ditto, 1824. Danish, 3 per cent Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent — Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825 Peruvian,lB2s, 6 per et. SHA Eastern Counties Railwa Great Western Railway( Ditto Fifth (4 paid) Hull and Selby (50 paid) 3Bi London and Brighton (50 paid) 3B& London and Birmingham (90) Ditto Quarter Shares ( 5 paid) 23i Ditto Thirds (32 paid) 56 Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) ........ 274 London and South Western Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) Ditto Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) ... 3i Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) Northern and Eastern (35 paid) North Midland Railway (100) Ditto Thirds (15 paid) South Eastern and Dover (43 paid)... ..... Ditto New Shares ( 5 paid) York and North Midland Railway (50 paid) Ditto New Shares (15 paid 3li COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY). Amsterdam CF. 12 74 Gibraltar ... Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 8 Genoa ... 25 90 Antwerp l2 7 Milan Hamburgh M.B. 13 134 Venice .. Altona Paris, 3 days' sight 25 60 Palermo, per oz 1194 Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Lisbon Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 90 Rio Janeiro 27 Portuguese, 5 per cent. Ditto, New Ditto 33 Prussian, 5 per cent — Russian, 5 per cent Ditto, Metallic Spanish, 5 per cent 24 Ditto, Deferred ... French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Exchange --f. —c. French, 3 per cent —f. —c Dutch, 2i per cent Ditto, 5 per cent. RES. Ly (23 paid) ........ Si ( 65 paid) B4i Frankfort on Maine... 1501 Petersburgh, 3 Us 37 8er1in..... 7 Vienna, effee. fl. 3 M 952 Trieste, ditto 9 55 Madrid Cadiz Bilbao 36 Bahia Buenos Ayres ..... New York, 21days sigkt 461 Philadelphia PRICES OF BULLION, PER oz Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin —.3 17 5 New Doubloons 0 0 0 Barcelona Seville New Dollars.... ........ 0 4 10 Silver in Bars... 041 li TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Six,—ln justice to my character, which I hold as dear as any Noble Lord possibly can, may I request the fa vour of you to allow me to correct the statement of counsel i in the case o f M a yb ur y v. Lord W. Paget, re ported n your paper of this day, that I was " offered a very handsome sum." It is true 81. fur debt and costs was offered on Saturday last to my solicitor, who, of course, owing to the ex penses incurred at that stage of the proceedings, refused " the very handsome sum." Until Saturday last no offer was made, notwithstand ing the fact of over two years having elapsed, and my having addressed several letters to his Lordship, about twelve months afro, without receiving a single answer. As the inference deducible from this incorrect asser tion of an offer " of a very handsome sum" is likely to injure me as a professional man, I hope you will be kind enough to give insertion to this letter. Your's, &c., 3, Little Tower -street, Dec. 23. W. A. MAYBURY. POST-OFFICE NOTIOE.—The following notice was put up on Thursday at the General Post-office, St. Martin's•le•Grand: The Oriental steamer for Gib raltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt, and Indian Mails of the 31st, via Falmouth." " The Over land Mail to India and Egypt, via Marseilles, will be made up here on the 4th of January, 1842. The Bri tannia, for the American Mail of the 3d of January, 1842, via Liverpool. - , ,-‘ , -t.c11,.. f ,--. Td' 2: ~ , ,P ;--- z , • • . 0 Z,,?' ••••01"4 a' .‘ &04.211; • • ~11. `0111::.,1,..... .3 ,+.'''lll*,,l9'l A \''. • ,' flirtrild6 4 ....''. -,*. '" LONDO', SAITEDAY, DECEMBER 25 lB4l SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vut3ltz fYptrifaobn. " Who runs may read." POIZEIGN. The Paris Papers of Wednesday - report that M. B—, a banker at Mons, has stopped payment and absconded. It is supposed that he fled to England. In the absence of more stirring topics, the reduction of the French Marine occupies the Paris Journals of Wednesday. The Debats approves of the reduction of the navy in time of peace, in order to facilitate the opera tions of merchants and ship-owners. The Constitutionnel, on the contrary, contends that the navy ought never to be reduced, as seamen in merchant vessels lose the habit of discipline, and are subsequently useless for Govern ment ships. The history of every naval war proves the fallacy of this assertion. The Spanish Government, finding that the number of churches within the kingdom is too numerous and un suited to the condition of. the inhabitants, has issued a decree enjoining the Bishops to make snch unions of parishes within their dioceses, as may be consistent with the population and the due administration of divine ser vice. This measure is to be carried into execution in the course of two months after the observations on this subject of the provincial deputations and the Ayunta mientos shall have been heard. Of course the Pope will oppose this salutary measure of reform, and thus the breach between Espartero and the Holy See will be widened. Here is a new theme for O'Connell vituperation. PUBLIC OPINION'. The Morning Advertiser thus refers to the successful struggle for the Ward of Farringdon Within:—" It will be seen that this ward has nobly done its duty. Every man returned will support the ward in calling for the abolition of the Corn-laws. There were four new can didates, all Corn-law repealers ; two of them succeeded, and the other two only failed in consequence of previous members who had wavered, or claimed the right to consider the case when brought before them,' having found it expedient to make up their minds, aye,' or no.' They said, aye' for the repeal. Mr. Hartley, to prevent mistake, it seems, was not only required to say aye, if he wished those votes which alone gained him his re-election, but to put that pledge in black and white ;' whereupon he got the deciding votes of the good men and true of Blackfriars. It was added that such document was at any moment forthcoming ! As to men talking about their taking matters into consideration when they are brought forward, that is only a cloak for deception ; as Mr. Ashurst said, every Common Coun cilman's vote was the ward's, and the ward had a right to it. Mr. Hartley was not the only man, who, during the ward elections, found it right to recognise such doctrine." In a leading article suggested by Mr. Christopher's address to his constituents at Lincoln, the Morning Chronicle remarks as follows :—" It is plain, at first sight, that one part of this plan bears more hardly on the consumer than even the present system. The far mer's price of wheat is substituted for the salesman's in taking the averages. At present, whatever the middle men obtain in the shape of profit, augments the con sumer's chance of open ports and subsequently reduced prices. If the averages be fradulently raised, the cost to the consumer is not proportionally enhanced ; and when foreign corn is thereby let into the market, the consumer enjoys a proportionate reduction. Of all this benefit Mr. Christopher proposes to deprive the public. We shall probably not overrate the effect by assuming that it will add five per cent. to the averages. His scale is, by that difference, higher than it seems as compared with the present scale. This is a quiet mode of giving the screw a twist harder, while pretending to relax its pressure. 0, Christophero Sly The Times says :—" In no department of the public service has the unscrupulous partisanship of the Whigs been more disgracefully and injuriously exercised than in the hallowed temple of justice. From the highest offices of the bench, one of which they offered to O'Connell, down to the humbler provincial Magistracy, among whom they associated such violent demagogues as Frost, all the judicial patronage at their disposal, ir respective of the station, character, or qualifications of nominees, was conferred exclusively upon their own po litical creatures. Forgetful of the example set them by the successive Administrations of Mr. Canning, Lord Go derich, and the Duke of Wellington, during which several Whig barristers, especially in Scotland, were promoted to the highest legal stations—the late Government, inca pable of such laudable impartiality, not only sacrificed the interests of public justice to the advancement of their electioneering hacks (as in the sheriffships of Banff and Selkirk), but, while incessantly active in dis missing ConservativeLord-Lieutenants, and in excluding every Conservative gentleman from the Commission of the Peace, infested the boroughs and cities of the em pire with a swarm of Liberal Magistrates after their own heart."—When the Times talks of the temple of justice having been profaned by the Whigs, it seems to forget how that august temple was profaned by the Tories during , their long misgovernment of Ireland, when Judges were notorious partisans, and justice was made subservient to the purposes of faction. The less the Times says on this subject the better. The Herald refers in the following terms to Mr. Christopher's recent speech to his,,X4incolushire consti tuents :—" The speech delivered by Aln„christopher, M.P. for Lincolnshire, to his constituents,* Priday last, which we gave in yesterday's Herald, is chiefly valuable as demonstrative of the willingness of the landed interest to make reasonable concessions in the anaLndatent of the law regulating the importation of foreign grain, to which the House of Commons stands pledged. The suggested alterations are doubtless in themselves important, but the supposition that they are to be accepted as indications of what may be expected from the Conservative Govern ment, is ridiculous. Mr. Christopher most cautiously guarded against such an inference being drawn from the connection which exists between himself and the Duke of Buckingham ' • he denounced the insinuation th a t h e acted as pilot balloon' to Sir Robert Peel as base and unworthy.' " We quote the following from the Leeds Mercury : " We perceive that there is great activity in various offi cial departments in London, in the preparation of re turns to prove the national prosperity; it is therefore the more desirable that facts should be supplied from the manufacturing and commercial districts, showing the forms in which that prosperity displays itself here, such as unoccupied mills, unemployed workmen, insolvent tradesmen, depreciated machinery, low wages, and a greatly diminished consumption of the necessaries and comforts of life l" Speaking of an approaching repeal demonstration at Bells, the Dublin Pilot remarks:—" As to the ;extent of the sentiment in favour of repeal, its character and de ' gree, a wise Government, knowing that to coerce public opinion is dangerous, and to despise it weak, will itself study the public voice, that, ascertaining the depth, and intensity of the sentiment, it may wisely give it a direc tion through justice, less congenial, perhaps, to tke peo ple, but more comfortable to the dispositions of its rulers. Insane Governments resist public opinion, while wise Governments modify it." The Nottingham Review thus alludes in general terms to the present state of the country :—" How gladly should we advert to some other topic than that of the distress of the times, but we hear the cry from every side, and being convinced that unless the public voice can reach the marble hearts of our aristocratical rulers, one common ruin will speedily pervade this great em pire, we feel it our duty again and again to call the at tention of every class of our readers to the calamities which are impending over our beloved country, in one determined effort to turn aside the fatal blow." The Plymouth Journal observes, in an article suggested by the late great commercial meetings:—" The great meeting of the cotton trade at Manchester was, as might be expected, an important one, and exhibited a sad state of diminished trade and prevailing distress. The con sumption of cotton wool has much declined, and is les sening. It is stated to be 150,000 bales less this year than the past. Profits absolutely gone. The single fact, that during the last twenty years we have doubled the quantity of our exports, without increasing their value, shows at once that the sources of manufacturing wealth have been indeed exported from our shores." MONEY-TRADE-COIVEMERCE. Thursday a public meeting of the skein silk dye trade was held in Whiteehapel, to devise the means of relieving the alarming distress that prevails in that branch of the silk trade. A Committee of seven was appointed to col lect funds, and to co-operate with the weavers generally. The exportation to London of rabbits from France amounts to some thousands weekly, but they are in ferior to the English. American venison has also become an article of importation to this country. ::At the close of the poll on Thursday for the Ward of Farringdon Within, it was announced that all the suc • cessful candidates (fourteen in number), had declared against the Corn-laws. In several other Wards the same strong feeling prevailed respecting this obnoxious tax. By a letter from one of the largest iron -masters in \Vales, it seems that they consider the worst period of depression is past, and that an improvement in the iron trade may be shortly expected. COMMERCIAL REFORM. At a meeting held on Wednesday, at Stoke-Newing ton, Mr. Scoble, the Secretary to the Anti-Slavery Society, in the course of his lecture showed that the Duke of Buckingham, the Right Hon. Henry Goulburn, and other Corn -law upholders, were slave•owners prior to the abolition of the nefarious traffic of slavery. PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. A petition was on Thursday presented to her Majesty, numerously signed by the most respectable inhabitants of the metropolis, praying for a commutation of the im posts on Waterloo, Southwark, and Vauxhall-bridges, for the benefit of the public. ECCLESZASTXCAL. Two additional doors have just been erected an the outside of the massy doors under the portico-entrance of the north end of St. Paul's Cathedral, in order to pre vent the disturbance for►nerly occasioned to the service by the opening and shutting of the old doors. NAVAL AND MILITAIZY. The whole number of vessels now in commission. at Portsmouth is 259, which are all .to be distributed at dif ferent stations abroad. LWD PO Sir Herbert Jenn A er g ave judgment XCE, yesterday at the Prerogative Court in the case of Godrich v. Jones, Which turned upon the assumed invalidity of a will, dated Feb. 13, 1836, which Mr. Godrich was stated to have obtained by undue influence over Mrs. Harriet Lloyd, a maiden lady of large property. The conduct of Mr. Godrich was, for the most part, free from blame ; the Court, however, in pronouncing for the will, refrained from giving an order as to costs. Mr. Laurie, who is candidate for the City Pleader ship, is author of treatises on the use and abuse of grand juries, and on ,prison discipline. As a Middlesex Ma gistrate, he co-operated in urging the adoption of the non-restraint system at the Hanwell Lunatic Asylum. Yesterday William Hugger, a young 'man, respect able in appearance, but who has been tried five times before at the Central Criminal Court for felony, was again charged at Marlborough-street, with having a dress coat in his possession for which he could give no ac count. He was remanded. J. A. Hoffstacott, a bankrupt, who had refused, at his last examination, to be sworn, alleging that he was a Roman Catholic, was again brought up, to state his rea sons for so doing. He still tenaciously refused, upon scripture grounds to swear, upon which the Commis sioner re-committed him to the Queen's Bench prison, remarking that when he altered his opinion he might apply to the Court again. PINE AIMS. Among the coins recently found near Aberystwith in ploughing a field, there is one of Gallienus, who com menced his reign A.c. 259, and another of his wife Salonini. Also of Postumus, Lcelian, the two Tetrici, and Marcus Tacitus. One of Carausius represents that General's head radiated, and Victory pointing to the sun, legend Orions. Vic. On the exergue is the letter C, for Colonial. The 50-years' anniversary of the death of Mozart has been celebrated at Munich by a grand concert, in which his requiem was performed to an overflowing audience. Similar festivals have taken place all over Germany in honour, of the immortal composer. He was burn in the house now numbered 934, in Salzburg. THE SUN, THEATICIICAi;. We understand that the celebrated vocalist Rubini, at the particular desire of Prince Esterhazy, intends paying one more visit to this country at Easter. Miss Kelly has publicly contradicted the report that she is about to leave England for America. The character of Hamlet was on Thursday night re presented at the Haymarket Theatre by Master George Webster, a lad little more than ten years of age The Manchester Theatre opens on Monday next, un der the joint management of Messrs. Anderson and HammOnd. Miss Ellen Tree and Mr. C. Kean are en gaged for the first nine nights. CO7RT--i'ASEIONABLE. We understand that the Queen Dowager, as soon as she gets perfectly convalescent, intends leaving Sudbury Hall for Hastings, in order to avoid the bleak winter winds. Lord and Lady Stanley are expected to return to St. James's-square to-day, from a visit to Knowsley Park. The Earl of Derby, still feeble from former attacks of paralysis, is much improved in health; and will pass the Christmas with his family circle at Knowsley. Mr. Sharman Crawford still continues in a state of great debility. The Right Hon. R. L. Sheil, Mrs. Sheil, and the Misses Power, have left the Gresham Hotel for Rome. Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Blakeney, K.C.8., having returned from leave of absence, has resumed the commau'd of the troops in Ireland. IICISCELLAIVMOUS. Yesterday, the 24th December, is rendered remarkable, among other causes, from its having been the day on which the bold Robin Hood breathed his last, in the year 1247. His real name was Fitz-ooth, and his grand father, Ralph Fitz-ooth, Earl of Kyme, came over with William Rufus, and his name appears in the roll of Battle Abbey. At Kirkleers, in Yorkshire, is a grave stone near the park, under which, according to general tradition, Robin Hood lies buried. An ancient bronze sword has just been discovered in the bog of Tinraheen, in Wexford county, on the Earl of Arran's estate. It was at the great depth of 20 feet below the surface of the soil, and has been buried there 600 years. It contains four parts of tin and eight of brass. On Wednesday last Lord Mayor O'Connell admitted 64 more persons to the freedom of Dublin. Some claimed to have derived their right of freedom so far back as 1773. The King of Congo levies his taxes in a curious way, He walks out on a morning when there is a high wind ; he then puts his bonnet over one ear only, and when it is blown off by the wind, he imposes a tax upon those sub jects who live in the quarter from which the wind blew. " Last week," says the Fifeshire Journal, a small terrier unkennelled a crafty fox from some whins on the farm of Treaton, and kept him at bay in the open field ; ultimately he succeeded in capturing him."—ln the ap proaching Session of Parliament, if the Opposition ter riers do their duty, there will be a glorious unkennelling of crafty foxes on the Treasury bench ! We understand that Mr. Williams has just written a poem, in order to prove his competency for the Oxford Professorship of Poetry ; but, on reading it to some Puseyite friends, he was unable to obtain their opinion, for, before he had finished the second page, they were all fast asleep ! AMERICAN NEWS. LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY. The Hibernia, Captain Wilson, arrived at our port to day, after a quick passage of twenty-two days and a half from New York. She has brought Journals, to the Ist inclusive, from that city, but they contain no intelligence relative to politics or commercial affairs, later than the news recently received by the Halifax steamer, for which second editions. Were prepared by the New York press, on the evening previous to the departure of the Hibernia. The Americans, despite of their republican notions, appear to be mightily delighted with Lord Morpeth, who continued to be feasted and toasted with unabated hospitality. He had been entertained at a grand dinner given by the St. Andrew's Society, on the anniversary of their patron Saint; and his Lordship delivered an eloquent speech on the occasion, acknowledging the very flattering manner in which he had been received by the citizens of the United States. The above was the third dinner he had attended, on three consecutive evenings. • BUFFALO, Nov. 16.—Buffalo is without a bank. Eleven were in operation as many months since ; but, alas ! poor Yorick ! the pet of all pets, the Commercial, has this day ceased to redeem, and is now at the mercy of the Bank Commissioners. Some fifteen days since, a breeze was raised about the ears of those having control of this institution, in regard to the redemption of its bills at Albany, but the matter was easy and very amicably set tled, and affairs looked smooth as Geneva upon a sum mer's day, when all at once this eruption burst forth, leaving us totally prostrate, and without a bank of any description whatever. PETERSFIELD AND HAMPSHIRE BANK. The old and respectable banking-house of Messrs. Hector, Lacy, and Co., of Petersfield, resumed payment on Wednesday, the 22d inst. Immediately after a pub lic meeting at the Dolphin Hotel, convened by the Ma nager of the London and County Joint-stock Banking Company, of 71, Lombard-street, a deputation of gen tlemen from the above establishment were in attendance, to state the principle upon which business would be conducted in future; also, to inform the meeting that the Directors had taken to the accounts, book debts, &c. of Messrs. Hector and Co., and that all creditors applying immediately at their banking-house, Petersfield, or in Lon don, would have their respective claims paid in full. Mr. Hector, being in attendance at the meeting, was much cheered by the gentlemen in the room for his ho nourable and noble conduct, after being used in such an unhandsome manner by a few individuals calling them selves gentlemen, who had spread false reports respect ing his affairs, also bo ug ht u p hi s no t es an d sent t h em to be cashed in a mysterious manner. It is said the partie are all known, and their conduct will undergo strict in s vestigation. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, FRIDAY. —Her Majesty and Prince Albert enjoyed their accustomed walk in the forenoon.l His Excellency Monsieur Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister, and Madame Van de Weyer, and the Earl of Sandwich, arrived to-day at the Castle on a visit to her Majesty. The Right Hon. Sir James and Lady Graham took their departure from the Castle for town this morning. Major- General and the Lady Isabella Wemyss, Mr. George Edward and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, and the Hon. Mrs. Arbuthnot, will have the honour of joining the Royal Dinner Circle at the Castle to-morrow. Their Serene Highnesses Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippsthal, and Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, left town yesterday on a visit to their august relative, her Majesty the Queen Do wager , a t h er res id ence S ud b ury Hall. Their Serene Highnesses travelled by the Lou. don and Birmingham Railway, and left the Euston square terminus by a train in the forenoon. His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge ar rived in town from Kew on Thursday, and visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester House. His Excellency Edward Everett, Minister Plenipoten tiary from the United States, paid visits on Wednesday to the Membeis of the Royal Family in town. Lord Wharncliffe, Lord President of the Council, left his residence in Curzon-street yesterday morning, for his seat 'Wortley Hall, Yorkshire. The Chancellor of the Exchequer left his official resi dence in Downing-street yesterday for Cambridge. Sir James Graham arrived in town yesterday morning from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. Lord Stanley left the seat of his father Knowsley Hall, Lancashire, yesterday for town. AN ADVENTURE.—A Frenchman, originally of the name of Seves, began his career in the French by his aides-d e - Ney, an d navy, and thence changed to the artillery , where he ob tained the rank of captain. Being w ith B onaparte in the receivedMoseov fexpedition an he appointmentwas taken aso notice n e of o camp. In the " hundred days " he served alt ernately as aide-de-camp to Grouelj and to Ney. D ur i ng t h e sub sequent imprisonment the latter he was implicated in an attempt for the Marechal's escape, and, avoiding in vestigation, became included amongst the proscribed. He passed almost immediately into Egypt, where he was em ployed by the Pacha in organising, on the European sys tem, a body of Mamelukes. Following Mehemet in the campaign of the Morea he there received the rank of Bey, gained, it is said, by his gallant conduct on several occasions, and some time afterwards, professing Maho metanisen, was on the same day created Pacha.—Hunter's _Expedition to Syria. The noise made by the fall of the fish-market at Bordeaux was so great, as the local papers state, that the going a t some di stance, were so h o rses of a diligence, panic-struck that they all stopped short, and one of them fell. The wooden pillars which supported the roof were evidently too weak, and also had become rotten at their bases. Most of the marble benches were broken by the fall. mouNiNd' S UN THE DYING PUSEYITE. A CHRISTMAS SCENE. DEAR S—, I write with a trembling hand. Our (161 .1 NV— died yesterday. His last moments were moll by that intense enthusiasm which he always displaro upon the new p r i nc ipl es h e h a d a d o pt e d. bolt by his bed-side, and had an opportunity of seeing / deep-rooted his doctrines will strike in young, bpi can say no more. I have tried to embody this s „ w it sublime death-bed scene while warm in my ra e o — g Eheu unica !—Extract from Letter, Oxford, Dee' (IN THE METRE OF MILTON'S " AGortzsTri." ) God, all men are thy Sons : but some far higher Are so ordained and solemnly elected : Thy chosen servants these, Fully impregned with thy empyreal fire, By whom thy wise decrees Are duly furthered, and in part effected, Such was thy white-robed Christ Who left the shining throne— - The sumptuous Heaven-halls that were his own-- And in the likeness of a man by birth, Ministered upon earth. And such art Thou— Awful young Spirit of surpassing lustre O'er the proud-swelling cluster Of whose full life, and pulses, and sensations , And fiery-flighted Hopes and Aspirations Death's hand is sweeping : For in thy palmy days, How like a prophet-teacher, Or solemn Hebrew-preacher, Forth from thy lips God's gos p e l-t ru ths were drive n, n. Like trumpet. songs of seraph s ro ll e d through id oo E'en now, when deathy faint, Half between earth, and half the empyrean—. How teem thy lips, young Saint, With the full grandeurs of a glorious pman ! VOX PUSEYITICA. God! God! God! Woe was the great Beginning leude ne ' When man—prime image of thine own resp Grew dim by sinning:— Woe when the rosy-windowed Skies Wide open ever, Closed-in their Festivals and Symphonies . or , Their Angels, and their P ear l-t rees, an d pure v. When man in his distress And shame and nakedness, Before the planet-blazoned Universe, Bowed him beneath the curse.— No—God, God, God ! Said only idiots so— Fools who their own true grandeur could not But deemed thy ways of wisdom, ways of s7e. Happy for me, and all earth's Adamites, That Adam, and that I too with him, fell Had I been doomed to dwell Amid those sparkling Paradisal bowers Secure in blessedness unbreakable— Fed like an Angel in the lap of light , On Eden's apples gold and lightning-brigh 4 And the sweet milk of the nectareous stars' Had I down all Eternity's blue hours, In the white bosom of some Eve uxorious .Unmasculined my powers, I had been blessed, isangelized, and pure, Had been beatified, and happy sure, But sure inglorious ! 111. God! be thou therefore thanked, That me thou didst create, Not incorruptible, nor in a state Full-fenced about with starry perfectnees: - cd But on the dark-floored platf o r m of the n' Me Me from the womb has hurled Arrayed in neither asphodel or light, But—armoured darkly-bright In only mortal powers, Stauncher to struggle for immortal dowers - 7 The more to agonize with might and ina". ol ..- My plumes, an crown, and purples to reg al And by deep fasts, and mightiness of prayer, By spiritual throes and wrestlings rare, Again to robe my limbs in flowing w hitenes s ' Again to tower with o'erpowering brightness, Again to gird around my brow a more Majestic splendour than it wore before.-- Therefore I thank thee, °Oa- - thee greatly. Thank thee stupendously, and praise That thou hest fashioned me, In my desires and imaginations, So very over-proud and passing stately That therefore thou has thronged The skies and empyreans silver-songe fr d, avo s, The sanctuaries and kingd o ms of the Th. e ons With such magnificently-made teraptat l As should allure my Spirit to aspire , And flame with irrepressible desir e ' To seize alone, thy throne The next grand-burning throne beside For no inferior stand, Among in the angels in thy star-paved land :•—• No second place, In the gold courts or provinces of space No drooping plume, Or third-rate wreath of amaranthine bloom ; No lowly Princedom or poor Satrapy Will guerdon me. God, God, God! Suffer thepot to be Approachable in degree E'en by thy topmost Hierarchs, alchough„,, Their saffron-robes like gold about them nu v Though Glory's sweet light swim • Around the brows of thy bright It were for me too dim ! Though thy tall Angels raise nbire blaze, Their palm-wreathed heads amid the Their loftiness for me were still too I°lv 0 Past the great Seraph-Kings I, too, m ust g t i ne , Though their blue eyes with diamond-waterts su And silver sceptres guide their steps d ivine Still higher—higher still, My lofty stature must hereafter fill, • 0•:-- dwe Ihn The jasper courts of thy everlasting And mightier vigours nerve, Cherubim The radiant-arching curve, Of Wings, from my immortal shoulders swelling. God, God, all-gracious God ! If these requests to me thou should'st Uttermost darkness must be mine, and The second and eternal death shall die. But no—as faith and burning love believe —Too deeply trustful ever to deceive -- I shall hereafter full before thee live, 01, And shall be lion-voiced, and rainbow-crow In the grand heritance thy grace shall Ruling all thrones and fir m aments around love, Lord God, thy goodness and thy love, I ! These on thy dying servant will. bestow 0 rose-plumes of Archangel Gabriel's wing ' e r s hair 0 cloud-white crown of pearl round Rap 0 Michael beautiful, and Uriel fair ! All the rich graces ye divide and shar e- All the high majesties that round ye God will make also mine ! Whether the splendid doom for which b e Y ear ue That noble Spirit gained, I cannot say To mortal judgments it seemed fully earned If love and holy lives with God have swaY But this I know—from out the human I'it —The Grave's abysmal and inglorious hole"—, That, plume-uplifted, through the Infinit e Sprang from the flesh his fiery-soaring soul. Rose his strong Spi r it. P as t the planets seen I saw him mounting—saw the mighty dead Winging the purple hollowness of heaven , By fiery-armoured Seraphim upled Troop after troop their sunlit legions filing Till Immortality—the proud high Queen---,.„„., Through her high veil of veils serene l y 01.0" e Oped her Majestic arms and clasped them PRIEZ POUR CELUI QUI L'Eceivri CO o' .ar ELECTION OF COMM _ _ _ _ _ R ne D ed ic f )F li F w A a ß s latslNfoGlloDwos7ls°s:ll; ic/c1("' The polling in wardthisCiLMte.ErraNin•ate I%,, b ui\fl u arr t s.. i Aaß t n i n w lr nddo a A fe s ourr n tdo e n arly four o'clock before th e :t t at t e w° ° c n°ll ef th e / Mr. R. Taylor . 435 M B .... '' .. 3 3 , 4 .... 3O 463 Mr. Harding .... „... 53 i r. urn .... ..... ... ~, ..... 433 Mr. Edkins..... .... Y . 53 Mr. Gresham 430 Mr. Prendergast'. .... 5 g Mr. W011ettH0dg50n.......... , 426 Mr. ..... 16 Mr. Pearce 422 Mr. Williams...... . 3 0 , Mr. Barnard Mr. Rams i‘o h l Mr. Charles • 418 Mr. Walker .....•"::,, i Aj f . afieal Sadlerlr Harding, iw. n o , Mr. Obbard Anderton abelbvs:rsd. . 407 Mr. Stone .......... ...... 396 Mr. Wells ............ Mr Sir S J to A k 3 e t s Es DUKE then3a7n9nounced Barnsti°ll,tilst:;; S t B ed Mfo ' r P d a r s en h d i worthy Alderman s ta ° te li d att t ' lla C t v ,- ,se r r ti.p a gu y a i r i spn o tu, r , t , 31:). B Iera e rdcfeo,r d E , d kul.s, ja r d o ci , 035 7 : : d oPe in Charles, e h :, Rep, tifi CRIPPLEGATE WITHOUT. 10 6 170IAtkinson .............. •"' 14 Gilbert 168 Eldred ................. .... 1 Dixon ' .... .... 1381 King .............. Jones 6 4 WARD OF CHEAP. , 6 1 , . ••• Watson r•••.'.,... „ 43 ' Oliver .... ... .......... ••• ••••• 1 4 %I ay ................... ~ Paed . .................. Deputy Brook Hickson Fenning Hardwick Ganthony The eight first were elected. Sr Thomas Fremantle left town on Thu rso " his seat in Buckinghamshire. Wortiel Lord Wharnchfre :eft town yesterday for Hall, Yorkshire. ap p` ibnyg Chancellor Ttahtheeltion o'clock ( 3 L fao,rvo,cf M.P.,a the Cambridge.. E d lg : ef c .t b :lu n e r y , e a s tcecrodli:ll3,ll sin _„,ii i , e A AN AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY." •,,biv regret to hear of the serious illness ofanoble and 01110100, lady, formerly Ambassadress to this Court. Th. C ° : l er °` Sebastiani, wife of the Marshal Sebastiani, and t co fi' the Countess of Tankerville, has been for some tiraerdiog fined to her room by a painful malady , which, fice°Pii‘ to our recent advices, has increased in its severity! ; ~, A! 4!..; [~:_ ;•.,