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MORNING SUN MR. AINSWORTH'S NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE. In 3 vols. post Bvo., illustrated with Twenty large Designs on Steel, by Franklin, OLD SAINT PAUL'S: A TALE of the PLAGUE and the FIRE. By W. HARRISON AINSWORTH, Esq. IS NOW READY. " We are glad to meet Mr. Ainsworth again in the region of historical romance, a department of literature in which he has already distinguished himself above every author of the day. A better subject than that which he has chosen for his present volumes could not have been selected. It is replete with incidents of the most varied, striking, and affecting cha racter. These Mr. Ainsworth has turned to the account which every reader of his former works must have been prepared to expect. He has interwoven historical facts into a web of most pleasing fiction, thereby investing history herself with new at tractions. Many passages remind us of the simple pathos and truthfulness of Defoe. "—Observer. Hugh Cunningham, St. Martin's-place, Trafalgar square. 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THE CHINA SLTN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sun Offict., Dec. 15, 1841. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We will give a report of the proceedings referred to by two Correspondents at Devonport to-morrow. THE WEATHER.—NooN, DECEMBER 14. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE -STREET. Thermometer... 37 llighest 47 Lowest 36 Barometer 29.63.--Wind N.W.—Freezing Point 22 Deg. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. lifornin” lO minutes after it. i Evening 0 5 minutes after 3. F? -;nu 4, -,:- ' t , • .. ... ' ~,,], Zinosi7Al - ...' °\ 24: •__••S•C‘>' l e ' U N ;_...d . r 4. , .• 1111;_ itk. v:- '-. • ij' .:" ' ''' %6 tth t _',Ata, LONDON : WEDNESDAY, DECEIIBER 15, 1841. The leader which we copy from the Times, on the Midland Counties C o nferenc e , is replete with ignorance and malice,—ignorance both of details . • land and of princip es, thatlnaliceali seeks to wound by the most unblushing assertions. That speaks the languag e of a great party which journal vhich un happily for the m oment, is the master of the State, and will make us pay a lono- e , r homage to it than would otherwise be necessary. The Times says that the millowners, " findino. 1 their confederates are displac ed, a nd that it is n o longer of any service to conceal their own pur. poses, remove the mask front their faces and the bridle from their tongues, and call out openly and lustily for the repeal of all agricultural pro tection whatsoever." It quotes the language used by Mr. COBDEN as the proof. No man, however, who has attended to the Corn-law controversy, can be ignorant that Mr. COBDEN and the whole Anti-Corn-law League have for months, and even years, insisted on the repeal of all agri- cultural protection, and that they have not 'thrown off the mask and the bridle from their tongues since the Whigs left office. The asser tion of the Times is only a proof, therefore, of its ignorance of the details of the great question it writes about. Its ignorance of principles is equally palpable end striking. It follows the landlords, with Whom it now makes common cause, in ascribing our diminished manufactures to the progress which the nations of the Continent have made in developing their own industry since the pe_•ce. , It seeks, therefore, in a P ed dling spirit, to make the world believe, Contrary to all experience, that the commercial prosperity of one nation is the injury and ruin of another. Pro m a poor and an idle people nothing can be got, but the superfluities of a rich and industrious people give opulence to all around them., No nation in modern times has, by the extent of its cheap productions, conferred such vast benefits on other nations, and so much promoted their industry and wealth, as Great Britain. It is as false, therefore, as it is diabolical, to represent the progress of other nations as the cause of the decay and suffering of England. By our laws We have given a forced direction to the industry of other Countries, and made them competitors with us. At the same time, we have deprived ourselves of their advan tage—abundance of cheap food, without being able to deprive them of our advantages, skill and knowledge. Our machinery cannot be kept to ourselves, but we refuse to share the food which other nations offer us. To throw the blame, justly due to our own Corn-laws as the Times was wont to admit, on the beneficent pro gress of other nations, is extremely malignant, regularly Tory, delightful to the landlords, and quite consistent with their theory and practice; but it betrays the grossest ignorance of that wise and universal system which has made the peaceful de velopment of the resources of one nation, inva riably promotive of the development of the re sources of other nations. In pointing out the wretched ignorance of the Tines, more worthy of a plundering Arab than a compatriot of merchants enriched by commerce, we have also demonstrated its malice. It is, however, worth adding, that it pours out much rabid spite on Mr. COBDEN ; and, while it takes care to state that the Conference retired to " an excellent dinner at the Royal Hotel," where no poor were present, it represents him as appealing to the "starving multitudes on the philosophy of taxation and the adjustment of the doctrines of political economy." Mr. COBDEN did that in the same sense as the Times does, when it appeals in its columns, day after day, to the starving multi tude on the question of the Poor-laws. If Mr. COBDEN'S language be influential with such per sons, the fault lies with those lawgivers who have inflicted starvation on the multitude, and on those writers who encourage them in their wicked and mad career. If the Times is to retain its place amongst the journals of the empire, it must get some persons of talent to cover its vehement abuse with the semblance of knowledge and the appearance of truth. Such articles as the one we refer to, stamp it with ignorance and falsehood, and expose it to supreme contempt. At the same time, the article should be read for its admissions. Long ago we told the land owners of England that they were making the Corn-laws a question of title to their estates. Long ago have we stated that, by deriving a por tion of their rent from taxation, confounding this with property, they were bringing the existing right of property into question, and endangering all property. The progress of the discussion in the public, must satisfy our readers that we took a long and a correct view. Now, a part of the article of the Times was employed to defend the property of the landowners from the attacks of the millowners, and, in turn, to insinuate at tacks on their property. It begins, therefore, to feel, and tacitly to acknowledge, that all pro perty is endangered by the landlords' tax on the people's bread. Moreover, the language of the Times implies that the landowners and the millowners are in collision; heretofore they were united. Ca pital and rent have gone hand in hand, and the opulent manufacturers—or, as the Times calls them, after Mr. OASTLER and the Chartists, millo crats—have been the firmest auxiliaries of the landed aristocracy. It was at Manchester and by To►y millowners that the assault was made on the Radical Reformers which excited general indignation. These classes are no longer united, and the Times provokes their mutual hostility. Combined, they have found it difficult to subdue the labouring classes, and the admis sion of the Times that they are united no more, is a fearful portent for the power of both. The Duke of WELLINGTON once asked how the country was to be ruled under the Reform Act; but if such a question were of ominous im port when the " millocrats," as the Times calls the manufacturers, and the landlords were act ing in concert, it becomes still more ominous when they are in hostility; when the Reform Act, and other similar Acts, have taken away from our laws all the sanctity of prescription; when, for the bulk of the people, the Reform Act is a failure ; and when they are at once better informed and more justly discontented than ever they were before. How the country is to be governed if the capitalists and the landlords fall out, is a question which may alarm the most re solute and puzzle the most skilful politician. Some few days ago the Times, acting on the suggestion of its correspondent, the " Genoese Traveller," was disposed to cultivate friendly re lations with the United States. No vessel from there has since reached this country, but our Contemporary has received a new light from some quarter, and yesterday called on Sir Ro- BERT PEEL not to pass over in silence a letter from Mr. SEWARD, the Governor of New York, to the Secretary of the New York Irish Repeal Association. The Irish Catholics having been long and sorely oppressed by the Orangemen— and more embittered by old grievances than thankful for recent liberties grudgingly bestowed, have, for some time, as our readers are well aware, entertained a project —we think an erro neous one—of procuring a repeal of the Legis lative Union. There is no treason in that, nor any rebellion. They have as good a right to ask for the repeal of a law as we have to ask for its continuance. Mr. SEWARD is favourable to this project, and, in reply to an application of the Secretary of the Repeal Association, while he declines to become a member of their Associa tion, expresses a high opinion of the Irish, and says, " My indignation against oppression never rose higher than when I found her Parliament halls in College-green converted into a banking house, and the places of her orators and states men filled with money-changers." For this hei nous offence, or, as the Times calls it, endeavour ing to stimulate " her MAJESTY'S Irish subjects to break forth in treasoned revolt," that journal speaking, we are afraid the language and wishes of men in office, insists on effectual interference, and would have Mr. SEWARD removed from the Governorship of the State of New York : " That the American Government," it says, "pro fessing friendship towards this country, shall either re frain from removing such an incendiary from the office which he disgraces, or shall profess a Constitutional inability to control his indiscretions, is not to be en dured. The redress of this growing grievance should be seen to immediately." This is very silly, but at the same time it is very mischievous. From cultivating friendship, in one short week the Times is for provoking war. From being the opponent of the Corn-law, it has become the advocate of that law. If we are t o t a k e its opinions as an index to the Tory policy, we must infer that our people are to be starved, and war is to be waged with the United States, in order to preserve the power of the Protestant Tory amriesrtcoyer,agait . r T y, To that end consistency, honour, sa crificed, and justice, a re a ll t o b e sa - Whether that will not be consi sidered too costly preservation of a body of Protest an t l an d owners , we must leave time and the public to decide. To find such an article in the Times, would much alarm us, did not it s late inconsisten c i es deprive tencies it of all weight and authority. In another part of The S u n we insert an arti cle describing, by particular from t instances, s ß t a e n r e w e k theAd i)kveolsizi, ty of he land owners to the progress of manufacturers, and their resolution to keep them down. Appended to it is a paragraph, taken from the m orning Chronicle, stating that the Irish landlords are still engaged in the work of clearing their e states of people whom they and other landlords w ill not allow to find employment in manufactures. In truth the Cork papers contain deplorable ac counts of paupers sent back from England where their services are not required, so that between landlords clearing their estates, and landlords prohibiting and preventing the growth of manu factures, in which the people might find em ployment, multitudes must be doomed to perish. These united accounts reminded us of the extir pation of the red men of North America by . the advent and progress of a superior race. Many were the cruelties which the whites, in their pride, practised on their savage opponents; but they had so me justification in th • en. own won derful superiority, and in the horrid crueltie s i practised, at times, by the savages. We almost doubt whether anything done by the white men to the red men surpasses in cruelty the practices of our landlords to the people, as described in the paragraphs we have referred to. They make us acquainted with a resolute determination to stop the progress of society, carried into effect by sweeping out of existence more human beings than all the tribes of the red race. At the same time our landlords are exposed to none of the circumstances which palliated the atrocities of the European races in America. They are en gaged in no war, and the people, whom they will not allow to live, are patient drudges, whose in crease adds to their wealth and power. If the political and religious views of the Morning Post have no other merit, they at least lay claim to that of singularity. Thus on the question of French intervention in Spain, the Post was the only London Journal that espoused the cause of Louis PIIILIPPE against the Spaniards i and now on Puseyism the Post is again in a " glorious minority of one " in favour of the Puseyites and Newmanites. The Post " charges" and " reiterates the charge against the ultra-Protestant party and their allies, the In fidel or no-Church.party, of trying to drive mem bers of the Church of England into the Church of Rome." As the ultra-Protestant party are headed by the Bishops, we suppose the Post means that there is some intention of depriving the Puseyites of their livings in the Church. When some of the RefOrmers of Scot land opposed the pulling down of the Roman Catholic churches and monasteries, JOHN KNox vindicated their destruction by contending that the best way to get rid of rooks was to cut down the rookeries. We have not heard that the rookeries of Puseyism are in the least danger from the Bishops; and as the no-Church party have no Church to dispose of, the Post in reality can afford' to laugh at them. There is not the least danger of the Puseyites being driven out of the Church of England into that of Rome, so long as the latter has no Church preferments at its disposal. The Pusey ites, in looking to Rome, continue also to keep an eye to the main chance. The Reverend Mr. GOLIGHTLY, who describes himself as a Master of Arts of eleven years' standing, and who for the last six years has resided within the walls of the University of Oxford, states his belief that there are ten mem bers of the University, nine of whom are Fellows of Colleges or Clergymen of. the Established Church, who are at heart Roman Catholics. He particularly mentions the Rev. W. WARD, Fellow of Balliol, the Rev. J. BLoxitam, Fellow of Magdalen, the Rev. J. MOZLEY, late Fellow of Oriel, and Rector of Cholderton, the Rev. F. OAKELEY, Fellow of Balliol, and the Rev. J. H. NEWMAN, as figuring in this list. He further asserts, that a Roman Catholic Bishop has been staying for sonic time at the Mitre Inn, at Oxford, where he was visited by, and returned the visits of, several members of the University. " A Fellow of Exeter," lie continues, " has expressed his belief that seven years hence the Churches of England and Rome will be re-united ; some cross themselves in public worship, others make genuflections others openly praise the Jesuits, talk of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, have plans for taming refrac tory Bishops, and talk over what they shall do, in their day of triumph, with the clergy who reject their views." These are grave charges; and, from what we have learned of the recent proceedings at Oxford, by no means exaggerated, much less un founded, as the Post would lead us to suppose. Nevertheless, while the Church has the distri bution of the loaves and fishes we will answer for it that these men will not quit her communion. They may not abandon their opinions, but they will take good care not to throw away their preferments. The Church's doc trines may be distasteful to them, but they have an excellent relish for tithes, and a division of the spoils of college foundations. The Post, therefore, may spare us the infliction of its nau seating cant about driving such hirelings out of the fold. It is understood that the ratifications of the Treaty of last July, were exchanged by the Am bassadors of the Five Powers on Monday after noon, at the Foreign-office. EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.—An accident occurred on the works of this line on Saturday last, as Kelvedon, which might have been at tended with fatal consequences. A viaduct of three arches is being erected over the Black water river, in that quarter, and as the weather has been so unpropitious of late for carrying on the work, the contractor has seized every oppor tunity to hurry up the brick-work ; but, un luckily for himself and others, he has made more haste than speed. He persisted in running the rings out of one of the arches, although forbid den so to do; whilst keying the last ring, the centerings gave way, the brickwork follow e d, and with it all engaged upon the arch, miracu lously without loss of life or broken limb. Eleven of the men were more or less bruised, but not seriouly injured. An adjourned meeting was held on the Bth in stant, at the Norfolk Arms, Arundel, by the creditors of Hopkins and Drewitt, when the solvency of the firm was demonstrated; and the meeting unanimously expressed a decided con viction of the integrity of both parties.—Salis bury and Southampton Paper. We beg to remind our readers that Mr. Wil son, the celebrated vocalist, gives his second lec ture upon Scotch song to-morrow evening, at the Music Hall, Store-street, Bedford-square. The " Bill of Fare" contains the following favou rite and popular songs :—" My love is lik e th e red red rose," " Roy's Wife of Aldivalloch," " John Anderson my Joe," and " My boy Tom mie." The third lecture is appointed for Mon. day, the 27th. Mr. W. also gives lectures on Friday, the 17th, at the London Tavern, Bishops gate-street. DR. BIRKBECK, we understand, died of a dis ease in the bladder, combined with stone, the presence of which was only first conjectured a few hours before his death, but verified by post mortem examination. His sufferings were very great for the last fifteen months, and his exem plary fortitude under them convinced all who came near him, that, in teaching philosophy to others, he had himself become a true philosopher. The Siecle has the following amusing fling at Mr. and Mrs. Standish :—" Mr. and Mrs. Standish, the heirs of the rich Englishman who bequeathed a fine library and a magnificent gallery of pictures to Louis Philippe, are invited to all the parties given by the Royal Family. In the summer they were at Fontainebleau ; and the Duke of Orleans did the honours of reception. As he was showing them over the Palace he stopped and said, " This is the gallery where Queen Christina had Monaldeschi assassinated." At these words Mr. and Mrs. Standish, who had only the day before passed the evening with Christina Queen of Spain, were struck with horror to think they should have been in such society." THE LATE EXPEDITION TO SYRIA:—We are requested to state that Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborough-street, has this day published the " Narra tive of the Late Expedition to Syria, under the com mand of Admiral Sir Robert Stopford, G.C.8., compris ing an account of the Capture of Gebail, Tripoli, and Syra, the Storming of Sidon, Battle of Cailar Meidan, Bombardment and Capture of St. Jean D'Acre, &c.," by W. P. Hunter., Esq. ; 2 vols. small Bvo., with portraits of Admiral Stopford, Commodore Napier, and other illus trations, price 21s. bound. Mr. Colburn has also pub lished, this day, " Memorials of the Great Civil War in England, from 1646 to 1652," edited from original letters in the Bodleian Library, of Charles the First, Charles the Second, Queen Henrietta, Prince Rupert, Prince Maurice, Prince Charles Lodovic, Duke of York, Henry Earl of Clarendon, Archbishop Sancroft, Marquis of Worcester, Earl of Derby, Oliver Cromwell, Sir Thomas Fairfax, Major-General Monk, Major-General Skeppon, Colonel Ireton, Admiral Blake, and numerous other eminent persons, by, the Rev. Henry Cary, M.A., 2 vols. Bvo., 28s. bound. • The laying down of wood pavement here by way of experiMent has commenced in the Rue Neuve des Petits Champs, which is a great thoroughfare, and near the Bank of France. The Charivavi, alluding to the name given to this :pavement—which is, I believe, ste ' reoconique—calls it, purposely, stereocontique ; and then adds that it is likely to become stereutragique, by causing the death of hundreds, who will be run over before they can get out of the way of the carriages, which will come noiselessly upon them. There is this danger to be ap prehe tided, for it i s i mpossible to get French people out of the habit of walking in the middle of the streets, even where there a re w i de foot pavements. Should the expe riment, however, succeed, the adoption of wood pave ment in some parts of Paris will be equal to an additional value of . 25 per ce n t. to house property, for the noise of the carriage wheels at night,, i n some o f th e narrow s treets, is so great th a t t enanta can scarcely be found for the houses.—Letter from Paris. Mr. J. El. Anderson, the celebrated " Wizard of the North," has become lessee of the Liverpool and Manchester Theatres Royal. THE SUN, LO'NDOIsr, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1841 SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vtti WPtittalt+ " Who runs may read." 70REIGN. Letters from Lisbon of the 7th instant announce the arrival in that capital of the Austrian Minister Baron Marcella], and M. Hubner, Secretary of Legation. The Pope's Nuncio had not arrived, but was daily expected. Lord Howard de Walden. the British Ambassador, communicated to the Portuguese Government a note ad dressed by Lord Aberdeen to the Regent of Spain, re minding his Highness that England, as the ally of Por tugal, could not permit any invasion of her territory. The Court was delighted at this, and the promulgation of the account of interference so generous, stilled for a moment the clamours of the press against England. PUBLIC OPINION. The Times has a leading article on the subject of the Derby Conference, which seems to have given it no slight uneasiness, as appears by the following passage :—" hio doubt the difficulties of legislation very speedily vanish before a financier who proposes to relieve the pressure of taxation upon one-half of a country by shifting that taxation upon the other half, in addition to the taxation which this other half had to bear already. This is easy work ; and at such a rate Mr. Cobden would make as good a first Minister as Sir Robert Peel. Perhaps this was the inference which Mr. Cobden sought to establish. But presumptuous rashness is not the worst of his offend ing. He is answerable also for the crime, and there can hardly be a more heinous one, of uttering those presump tuous and rash effusions to a population who, if his own account be true, are in a state of unexampled distress, and therefore naturally in a temper of irritation and excitability. If the evils he alleges have any existence (and we are far from denying that amid all the exagge rations of this subject there is still, unhappily, but too large a proportion of truth), is it to a starving, mul titude that a Member of the Legislature ought to appeal upon the philosophy of taxation, and the adjustment of the doctrines of political economy ?" If the opinion laid down in the above passage is to be considered as sound doctrine, then nothing can be more signally improper —nothing more injudicious—than to state the truth to the poor and destitute. It is the duty of all wise men and good citizens to keep them as much in the dark as possible respecting the causes of their sufferings, and the abuses which aggravate their distress, least, by enlightening them on the subject, they might inconvenience the Government by insisting on redress ! Such is the doctrine laid down by the Times, and excel lent Tory doctrine it is; but the people at large repu diate it as false, hollow, and selfish. The Chronicle remarks, in reference to the wretched condition of the poor in Ireland :—" We have in Ireland a specimen of the tender mercies to be expected from a legislature of landowners when they are allowed to have it all their own way. They have had it all their own way with a vengeance in that unfortunate country. The landlords conceive it quite a matter of course to retain the peasantry in abject misery, and, when the fit takes them, turn them out by hundreds to beg their way to this country, or die in ditches at home. There is not a spot in Ireland where a poor man can say, the law gives me a right to remain here. The landlord is all in all."— Here is the great secret of Mr. O'Connell's influence. He is the legitimate creation of the landlords and Orange men in Ireland. Between them both they have raised him to his present elevation, and there they are likely enough to keep him. In O'Connell the oppressed Irish poor find a voice whereby to express their wrongs ; and when redress is denied them with scorn and contempt, in him they find an avenger. The Advertiser says—" Some months agot endea voured to prove, in a series of articles, that the Corn monopoly is essentially a question of humanity and reli gion, as well as of commerce ; and that, consequently, Christian ministers were not only justified in throwing their weight into the scale, in opposition to the mono poly, but that they were bound by the obligation they owe alike to the Creator and their fellow -creatures to bring all their energies to bear against it. In arguing on the religious bearings of the question, we principally dwelt on the fact, that as it is one of the leading injunctions of the New Testament to feed the hungry and to clothe the naked, and as the obvious and admitted tendency of the Corn-laws is to withhold food from the famishing, and clothing from the naked, it necessarily became the duty of every Christian, but especially of every minister of the Gospel, to make every effort to procure the extinction of the bread mo nopoly. Circumstances, however, have since then transpired, which place the religious bearings of the Corn-law question in a still more striking light. It is now ascertained beyond the possibility of denial or doubt, that the effect of these abominable laws is to prevent myriads of religiously-disposed persons from attending any place of Christian worship on the Sabbath day."— If this be the case—and we have little doubt that it is so —then we have a right to expect that the whole army of saints, headed by the Agnewites, will enlist under the Anti-Corn-law banner. If they have any respect for consistency and principle, they will do so as a matter of course. 'They are indignant and hostile enough with the law which enables poor apple-women to sell fruit on Sundays ; how much more indignant then—how much more hostile—ought they not to be with the far more oppressive law that prevents the poor from attending to their religious duties on the Sabbath I •We claim the religious world as our allies in this just and righteous warfare against the Corn-laws. It is evident, by the following extract from the Post, that the recent addresses of Lords J. Russell and Pal- merston are still rankling in the sides of the Tories. Their ill-concealed uneasiness is a proof that the faction by no means think themselves strong in their present position:—" The noble ex-Secretaries for the Colonial and the Foreign Departments are by this time, we sus pect, anything but proud of their smart replies to Ply mouth and to Bridgnorth. It is, at all events, evident enough that their friends who instruct the public' in the newspapers find the task of defending these ex- Ministerial replies a very heavy and difficult one. The perseverance, however, with which they labour at it is commendable. The blunder which the ex-Secretaries have made is that of throwing truth overboard, in so open a manner that every one of ordinary observation and recollection must perceive what they have done. In be coming shameless themselves these ex-Ministers forgot that they could not make others absolutely forgetful." We quote the following from the Herald :—" The principles avowed by each of the parties engaged in the controversy touching the eligibility of the Pusey candi date for the Oxford professorship are now broadly de fined. None can mistake, who are not wilfully blind to them. It is true, indeed, that Lord Dungannon, a little was ignorant' o f th e existence of any the Church of which D r . P usey eou ld be p w a h r i t l y e in ago, con sidered to be at the head.' We suspect his Lord ship has since been amply satisfied upon that point. We are only sorry to perceive that a similar igno rance still exists in the same quarter as to the rela tive forces of Puritanism and Romanism in their hostility to the ' Established Protestant Episco palian Church.' His Lordship's letter of the 10th inst., which we republish from a morning journal, neither recti fies the error of the position assumed by the noble M. A. in his former manifesto ; nor is it calculated to procure for him much credit, with any party, by reason of his un called-for demonstration against, what he terms, the self-styled evangelical party.' If' the Noble Lord be as sincere as he is vehement, in his unmeasured deprecation of the essential doctrines and leading principles of the Church of Rome, as enumerated in the second paragraph of his letter, we venture to tell him that he cannot give any assurance to that effect which will be so satisfactory or so emphatic, as to record his vote against the Pusey candidate." MONEY - TRADE-COMMERCE. The number of paper mills throughout the kingdom amounts to about 300 ; of these only 120 are in operation. At Maidstone, where paper, is the staple manufacture, only 23 vats out of 51 are used, and out of seven ma chines only one is at work. The river Wandle, at :Mitcham, is not surpassed by any river in the kingdom for its pure waters, which never freeze, and are the best in the world for calico-printing. 111'11816 and 1817 there were 17 printworks on the stream, employinz 1,200 persons ; now there are only six, and no more than 300 persons. In 1820 there were 12 print works, employing 1,920 persons, whose wages amounted to nearly 3,0001. a week ; now the wages do not average more than 2501. per week. COMMERCIAL REFORM. A Reform dinner in the Potteries, to J. L. Ricardo, Esq., M.P. for Stoke-upon-Trent, will take place to morrow, at Burslem. Extensive preparations are making for the occasion, and a numerous party is ex pected to assemble. R. E. lieathcote, Esq., will take the Chair. It appeared from a statement made at a special meet ing of the business and district Committees of the Me tropolitan Anti-Corn-law Association, held on Monday at the Society's Rooms, in the Strand, that the various branches of the Association itself have effected great things in the business of petitions and memorials. The petitions praying for the repeal of the Corn-laws had ob tained 255 signatures in two days ; the Ladies' memorial to her Majesty, 1,000 ; Christchurch, 33 petitions, with 801 signatures ; 22 memorials, with 260 signatures ; Paddington, petitions, 760 signatures ; memorial, 20. Lambeth, petition, 6,000 signatures ; Mitcham, petition, 450. The central office itself had issued 397 petitions, 89 of which had been returned with 10,844 signatures attached ; 251 were now in course of signature. PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. - - The Marquis of 'Westminster has opened a road from the foot of Vauxhall-bridge to Knightsbridge, through the fine streets and squares erected by Mr. Cubitt on the Pimlico estate of the Noble Marquis. At a meeting of the parishioners of Hammersmith, held on Monday in the Broadway, on the subject of light ing the roads through that parish, it was moved that the provisions of the General Lighting Act be adopted in the district. A stormy opposition to this ensued, and finally a poll under the Act was demanded, of which ten days' notice must be given. .a.GIULCULTITIZAZI. The farmers in Kent complain of the bad prospect of spring crops, the heavy rains having in many low lands washed the seed out of the ground. ECCLESIASTICAL. The Bishop of London, a short time since, made a speech to the Chapters of St. Paul's Cathedral, against the wooden block pavement which the Chapters thought of putting down round St. Paul's Churchyard. When the Bishop had finished, the Rev. Sidney Smith replied to him thus:—" After the speech with which your Lord ship has favoured us, I will only say, that I think there will be no difficulty in putting down this wooden block pavement fwe can only lay all our heads together." LAW AND POLICE. At' Romford, last Wednesday, William Sorrell, a butcher, was fined 18s. for cruelly beating and ill-treating two calves. One - would have thought Essex the last county in England where Rich an offence would be corn mitted. At Marylebone Police Court, on Monday, John Light foot, a stoker on the Birmingham Railway, was fined 40s. under Lord Seymour's Act, for being drunk while on duty. Richard Light, a respectable looking man, was charged with bigamy at Union-hall. Three marriage certificates were produced, and it was stated that the prisoner had three wives all living. Mr. Light stood crying at the bar, and said he had made a full confession on promises of forgivenness being held out to him. The Magistrate remanded him for further evidence. MITEELLILY AND SCIENTIFIC. The Council of the Royal Society on latelyaWarding the Royal medal to Sir John Herschel for his catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars, observed that " this was the second time a Royal medal had been adjudged to Sir John for researches in a department of astronomy, which has descended to him as an hereditary possession. The catalogue contains a list of 2,500 nebulae, and forms a noble basis for ascertaining all celestial changes, pe riodical or not, which the heavens are likely to undergo, There exists throughout China but a single News paper, which is published at Peking, and bears the title of King-Paou, or " Messenger of the Imperial Resi dence." It consists of extracts of what the Emperor has examined or ordered in Council. It is published daily, and the price is Bs. 4d. per annum. SCXENCE AND ART. At Jenkin's nursery ground in the New road, Mr. Kirk has laid down his new skating-room, composed of some slippery crystal substance, in blocks of about'two square feet each. A great assemblage of skaters have tried it, and the Skating Club pronounce it to be better than bad ice, though inferior to the best. THEATRICAL. The next part selected by Miss Adelaide Kemble is, we are given to understand, Amina in La Sonnambula. Senor Forti, the tenor singer of Vienna, has, a journal states, just gained in the lottery a prize of 80,000 florins ; or 200,000 f. COURT—PASETIONAXILE. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland intend to leave Trentham Hall, Staffordshire, the first week in February, for town. Lord Francis Egerton, we learn, has purchased the mansion in which he now resides in Be'grave-square. Bridgewater House, it is said, will occupy seven years in rebuilding. Sir John Shelley has arrived at the Marquis of Exeter's, Burleigh House, near Stamford. The Earl and Countess of Sheffield have left Harewood House for Leamington Spa. WIISCEZZANEOI3I3. Monday evening the Cumberlands rang a complete peal of treble, twelve in, consisting of 5,136 changes, being the first peal rung on the twelve bells of St. Bride's Fleet street, for the last 60 years. The time occupied was three hours and 53 minutes. A poor man, named Charles - Musgrove, an operative mason at Sidford, near Exeter, is a claimant and the supposed heir to 30,0001. in the funds, besides large landed property in Somersetshire. Among the most recent " fashionable arrivhls" is that of the boy Jones at Liverpool. We understand that in consequence of the late lamented death of the Chimpanzee, a deputation of the managers of the Zoological Gardens had an interview on Monday with a eertain Honourable and Gallant Tory Member of the House of Commons, requesting him to officiate as a substitute, until a new Chimpanzee could be caught. The deputation, (adds our informant), was much struck with the likeness between the Gallant Member and the la mented deceased. We are credibly informed that the Marylebone Tories have made the elephant in the Regent's Park a ten-pound householder, in order to enable him to vote against Sir Charles Napier at the next election. The Bury Herald says—" A Chinaman's tail was for warded, on Friday, through the Post-office, to a trades man in Suflblk."—lf O'Connell's tail could be forwarded in like manner, it would save each joint a good round sum in travelling expenses. RUMOURS OF THE DAY. It is stated, in a country paper, that the Queen Dowager has given another donation of 3,0001. towards the erection of a church at Malta. This must be a wicked falsehood. Is it at all likely that her Majesty would at present send out of the country such a large sum for such a purpose, when poor women in England are committing murder and suicide from want of the necessaries of life ? COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert walked both this morning and in the afternoon on the Terrace and in the New Grounds of the Little Park to Adelaide Cottage. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent also walked to Adelaide Cottage, attended by her Lady in Waiting, and rode back in a pony phaeton to the Castle. His Royal Highness the Prince enjoyed the sport of pheasant shooting this mornin g in the vicinity of Ascot G a t e , a t ten d e d b y the Earl of Warwick, Sir Edward Bowater, and the Hon. C. A. Murray. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, arrived in town yesterday from their residence at Kew. Theirßoyal Highnesses visited the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester House, and in the afternoon returned to Kew. , A Cabinet Council was held at half-past three o'clock yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-Office. The following Ministers were present :—Sir Ro bert Peel, the Lord Chancellor the Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Buckingham, Lord Wharncliffe, the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stan ley, Sir James Graham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Haddington, the Earl of Ripon, Sir Henry Hardinge, and Sir Edward Knatchbull. The Council broke up soon after five o'clock. His Excellency Edward Everett, Envoy Ex traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to this Court, with Mrs. Everett and family, arrived in Upper Grosvenor-street, on Monday, from Paris. Baron de Moncorvo, the Portuguese Minister, transacted business yesterday, at the Foreign office. The Duke of Wellington has arrived in town from Strathfieldsaye. Lord Stanley arrived in town on Monday night from Knowsley Hall, Lancashire. Despatches from the Governors of St. Helena and Gibraltar were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Lords of the Judicial Committee of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council sat yesterday. There were present the Lord Presi dent, Lord . Brougham, Mr. Baron Parke, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court. The Hon. W. Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. Mr. Baron Parke gave judgment, on the part of their Lordships, on an appeal from Bengal, " Rajah Deedar Hossain v. Ranee Zuhoor-oon- Nissa," affirming the decree of the Court below (after making some trifling alteration), with costs. An appeal from Lower Canada, " Fraser and Lagueux v. Murray and Fraser," was resumed and concluded. Messrs. Kindersley, Q,C., and Burge, Q.C., appearing for the respective parties. Lord Brougham, on the part of their Lord ships, affirmed the decree of the Court below. Mr. Burge, Q.C., was heard for the appellant, in " John Touzel v. Philip Tilleul," from Jersey. DISTRESS IN PAISLEY . TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—May I request you to insert in your next paper my letter to the Editor of the Paisley Advertiser, with the resolutions of the Paisley Presbytery, published in to• day's Advertiser? I am, your obliged, ROBT. MACNAIR. Abbey Manse, Paisley, Dec. 11, 1341. " TO THE EDITOR OF THE PAISLEY ADVERTISER. "Sir-At a meeting of the Presbytery of Paisley last week, the state of the unemployed operatives was taken into consideration, when certain resolutions were agreed to. To carry them into effect a Committee was appointed, which has since met, when it was resolved to take effec tive measures to give them publicity—to solicit the atten tion of ministers and office bearers of the Church to a circu lar lately addressed by ministers of various denominations in Paisley to their brethren throughout the country, and to recommend the adoption of its suggestions ; especially to request that in those parishes where no contribution has been made in aid of the funds for the unemployed, by collections or otherwise, this should be done on as early a day as possible. " - Of the present distress in Paisley it is impossible to convey an adequate idea. That it is not confined to the humblest ranks in society any one may be satisfied by an inspection of the articles in the shops of pawnbrokers, such as dresses not worn by the humbler classes, gold rings, silver spoons, silver and gold watches, valuable books, and even expensive family Bibles. Nor are the sufferings of the families who have reluctantly parted with such articles the less, from their desire to conceal their destitution. It is, therefore, hoped that the resolu tions of the Presbytery will meet with attention, from their brethren in other Presbyteries, and that editors of newspapers will lend a helping hand in giving them pub licity. The following are the resolutions : " 1. That the Presbytery express their sincere and heartfelt sympathy for the suffering and distressed poor within their bounds. " 2. That they express their admiration of the good conduct and decorum of the unemployed themselves, amid their severe and unexampled difficulties. " a That while the .Presbytery are grateful to Chris tian friends, both in town and in other places, of all ranks and classes, for, th e measure of liberality displayed ; they regret that the funds at the disposal of ,tlie Relief Com-' mittee hinder them from extending to the distresSed an adequate amount of relief. • " 4. That they resolve, as a Presbytery, to state to the Relief Committee their readiness to co-operate with them in the way of raising funds, and procuring a Supply of clothing for the distressed, in so far as circumstances will . permit, and with this view recommend to all, ministers within their bounds to make collections ; and the Pres bytery, convinced of the absolute inadequacy of local efforts to remove the evil, resolve to correspond with other Presbyteries, so as to raise the requisite funds. " I am, Sir, your obedient servant, " ROBERT MACNAIR, • " Convener of the Committee of Presbytery." At a shop window in Holborn a paper is exhi bited, on which is written " A perfect blind painter wanted." It is presumed that the blind painter must be able to see his way in the "transparency line." THE MIDLAND ,COUNTIES CONFERENCE. (From the Times.) The mill-owners, or, as they have been not inaptly designated, the millocrats, of the midland counties, as sembled on Thursday last, at Derby, in what is called by them a "Great Conference," for the purpose of clubbing their information respecting the influence of the Corn, laws upon their manufactures ; and after a morning consumed in detailing the sufferings of unemployed arti sans these gentlemen proceeded to celebrate the public distress which had brought them together, in "an excel lent dinner, provided by the landlord of the Royal Hotel." To expose the various fallacies, (some of them put forth from ignorance, but some, we fear, knowingly), which abused the public ear on that morning and afternoon would occupy as many columns as we can spare lines. The majority of the statements were very much of the same nature with those which have already been given in the House of Commons, and which were there either disproved altogether, or explained to carry inferences wholly at variance with the views of their utterers. There is one lesson, a most important one in modern politics, which the speeches at this meeting remarkably illustrate and strongly enforce—namely, the imprudence of ever legislating with a view to pacify the Radical party. Their course goes regularly through the same series of stages. First, they make a large demand. That being resisted, they offer to accept a part in full of the whole as a final settlement. This being conceded and secured they instantly re-open their original demand, and insist upon the whole, without qualification or reserve. The expulsion of the Whigs has happily saved us, in the present case, from such a fraud, but we have had a very narrow escape. " There is a general cry," said the Melbourne Government, " for a repeal of all protection upon agriculture. We dare not go quite that length, because the very few respectable friends still left to us are chiefly connected with the agricultural classes. But we can commute the existing protection ; and when once we get a duty fixed the question about Corn-laws will be finally settled between the Govern ment and the Radicals." Just as finally, no doubt, as the Roman Catholic questions were settled by the Relief Act, or the constitution of Parliament by the acts of reform. And now the Corn-law plot is out, and the mill-owners, finding' that , their confe derates are displaced, and that it is no longer of any service to conceal their own purposes, remove the mask from their faces and the bridle from their tongues, and call out openly and lustily for the repeal of all agri cultural protection whatsoever. " Gentlemen," says Mr. Cobden, " it is the duty of. those in Parliament to take up some defined and well-understood principle ; and that I conceive to be the principle of no protec tive duties. I see very little difference between Lord John Russell and Sir Robert Peel—between new pro hibitive duties and the slidins , scale." And then, after ridiculing Lord John Russell as a friend to half-measures, and deprecating the qualified sort of opposition which the Whigs would be likely to make upon any question of corn duties, he proceeds to say, "There is no probability of any opposition, taking such a turn as this, maintaining its ground with the public. On the other hand, if we take up the principle of no pro tective duties, if we take our stand upon the principle of free trade, that will form such a cement and bond of union that (heterogeneous as are the elements composing the Opposition benches) I venture to say it would be the most powerful and complete that ever sate in the House of Commons."—(Great cheering.) Yes, we have no doubt there was great cheering to that. Yet, were the whole force of the Parliamentary Opposition to join, not in a measure for the improvement of the existing Corn-laws, but in the absolute destruction of all Corn-laws whatsoever—to combine, not for the mere relief of the consumers, but for the utter overthrow of the whole landed proprietary of England by the unre stricted admission of foreign corn, and you will have a very strong party, as far as there is strength in numbers, throughout the whole of the manufacturing districts. Indeed, you will never want a strong party when you offer an unlimited license of spoliation. But what is your strong party, when thus collected, to do ? Why, says Mr. Cobden, we must re-value all the land of the kingdom, and impose a new land-tax according , to that re-valuation. "There must be a total abo lition of all taxes upon food, and we should raise at least twenty millions a year upon the land; and then the owners would be richer than any other landed proprietary in the world." Yes ; and, probably, if we were to confiscate half the property of the cotton lords they would still be richer than any other spinning proprietary in the world ; but would it, therefore, be fitting that a mob should be hallooed upon the premises of Mr. Strutt and Mr. Evans, and half a hundred other millocrat mil lionaries ? " I see no reason," pursues Mr. Cobden, " why we should not have compensation in the shape of land•tax, which would relieve us from the whole of our burdens." No reason It is really idle to talk about reason with a man who deals in such monstro sities as these; else we might say that we can see no reason why " the whole of our burdens," which are now borne by the different classes of society, should hence forth be thrown, as he would throw them, altogether upon one; nor why that one should be the landed class. That is the question which it would be natural to ask, not only in point of reason but in point of justice too: but, as justice is a matter as little cared for as reason by many of'these gentry, we will put the question in another way. When you shall have impoverished the landed interests as you propose to do by the total repeal of protection for agriculture,—when one half of the land shall have been driven out of cultivation, and the rents of the other half reduced as you would fain reduce them—what will re main to yield you the twenty millions you mean to levy in the way of land-tax ? Lest our renders should imagine, from the exceeding absurdity of the passages we have quoted, that they are taken from some unfriendly reporter, who has had a mind to pervert the statements of this eminent Anti- Corn-law leaguer, we beg to assure them that all our extracts are verbatim from the report contained in the Morning Chronicle. Whata specimen do they convey of the intellect and of the spirit which have guided " the Great' Conference !" No doubt the difficulties of legislation very speedily vanish before a financier who proposes to relieve the pressure of taxation upon one-half of a country by shift ing that taxation upon the other half, in addition to the taxation which this other half had to bear already. This is easy work; and at such a rate Mr. Cobden would make as good a first Minister as Sir R. Peel. Perhaps this was the inference which Mr. Cobden sought to establish. But presumptuous rashness is not the worst of his offending. He is answerable, also, for the crime, and there can hardly be a more heinous one, of uttering those presumptuous and rash effusions to a population who, if his own account be true, are in a state of unex ampled distress, and therefore naturally in a temper of irritation and excitability. If the evils he alleges have any existence (and we are far from denying that amid all the exaggeration of this subject there is still, unhap pily, but too large a proportion of truth), is it to a starving multitude that a Member of the Legislature ought to appeal upon the philosophy of taxation, and the adjustment of the doctrines of political economy ? Is it in such a cause that he ought to set the poor in judgment on the rich, with a proviso that if the judg ment be an unfavourable one, the property of the defen dant shall be sequestered to the judges' use ? The statements of the Derby sympathizers go to show that in the manufactures of the midland districts there has been a downward progression, or rather re trogression, for these five and twenty years. Does that prove the existing distress of those districts to be the result of the present Corn-law ? We should rather think not, inasmuch as the present Corn-law is only of about half that standing. A more rational inference, we suspect, would be, that the cause of our diminished manufactures is to be found in the pacification of Europe, which, five and twenty years ago, set the nations of the Continent at liberty to pursue the arts of peace, the develop. ment of their own resources, and the employment of their native industry. If, then, overlooking or ne glecting these circumstances, our manufacturers continued to increase their own productions, and by invitations of fresh operatives from the country to multiply the numbers dependent on a precarious trade, then, however we may feel for the poor arti zans, however we, may regret even the disappointments and losses of the masters themselves, yet certainly we cannot submit our understandings to the delusion now attempted by those masters, nor lend our selves to the iniquitous project for making up their unlucky speculations at the expense of their neigh bours. And we say this the more stringently, because we cannot help observing, that although the dis tress which they harp upon has been in progress, accord ing to their account, for a quarter of a century, it never occurred to them to make the heartrending statements which they have laid before Parliament, and to call " great conferences together," until the deficiency of the Whig-Radical budget and the peril of the Whig-Radical Administration suggested this movement of political sympathy. IR ELAND. DUBLIN, DEC. 12.—1 n the Leinster Express (a Tory journal) published yesterday, there is a report of an ap plication, made on Monday last, to the Magistrates, at the . petty sessions of Moumtmelick, Queen's County., to receive informations for sedition against Mr. William Connor, a respectable landholder, who resides at Inch, in the neighbourhood of Stradbally. A Mr. Browne, from the office of the Crown Solicitor of the Home Circuit, attended by direction of the Attorney-General to prose cute the case. The first ;ituess examined was George Stewart Hill, Sub-Inspector of Police, who read his own information, as follows :—" Recollects Sunday the 14th November last. After divine service on that day saw about one hundred persons assembled in the Market-square of Mountmelick, and saw William Connor addressing them in a violent and exciting tone of language. Heard Con nor say that the Members of Parliament were a lazy, scurvy set of rascals, useless servants, and forgot them selves like other rascals—that tyrant landlords would be murdered, and that it was not to be wondered at, for it was nothing but the reward of tyranny, and the fault lay nowhere but at their own doors. And Connor further added—l tell Sir Robert Peel and the Government, that there }lever will be peace in Ireland till these grievances are remedied. Connor was frequently cheered by the people, and witness has no doubt that such language, ad dressed to persons in the rank of life of those assembled, would be calculated to hold up landlords to hatred, and produce public discontent and hostility to the laws of the country." After a lengthened cross-examination of the Sub-In spector, Mr. O'Connor was held to bail, himself in 501., a nd two sureties in 251 . each, to appear at th e next Assizes. EFFECTS OF RA I LROADS.—At the toll letting on. the Sheffield and Wakefield turnpike-road, a few days ago, there was not a s i ng l e tender delivered, and the trustees of the roads were therefore compelled to take the tolls themselves. There was a similar scarcity of contractors at the letting of the iron bridge tolls on the Wakefield and Denbydale road.—Leeds Mercury. MORNING !-.TTN MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS Ciry WEDNESDAY EVENIO;O There is again but little to comment upon in o p Market for English Stocks, prices being d e bt ported, both for the funded and the unfundectu,:oo The rates at which bargains were effected in C lot were 881 to 88f for the opening the dividend ; Exchequer Bills were at 105. tn. .'.., ; premium, and East India Bonds at Is. to3s. premaint:ed Bank Stock continued firm at 165 to 1651 ; I te r , B l to Three-and.a-Half per Cents. were steady at '', pis, 981 ; and the Three per Cent. Annuities at 8 4. 1 1 a l. in January, w1 t , 2 ,, Speculation in the Foreign Funds is at proen ite , most exclusively confined to Spanish Bonds. T he op t, tives to day were done at a slight improvew viz., 24f to 23i, but closed rather heavily ; r!'_ ioe guese New Five per Cents , were rather depressed,er„; quoted 33 to 32 1 ; and the Three per CentF • were9ol; at 19f to 191. South American Stocks :wer e gf.os Mexican at 26 ; Colombian at 20 1 to ',l-; an d Dra ':; st of 11839 at 56. Belgian Stock was rather du%if 1001 ; Danish at 79} ; and Dutch Two-and-a'n per Cents. at 51,i to -1. The Share Mnrket has been rather buoyant againota; day. Great Western at 19f ; ditto, New , , ath 1 -,,,ad , London and Birmi n gh am , N ew , at 234 ;or North Midland at 39 ; and South Western a, 0; prem. ; Brighton at 131- to 13 1 ; Blackwell a t tie, Manchester and Leed s at 3 t o 5 ; and Midland Cosioro at 1.51 dis. ; London and Westminster Bank were li prem. boll Bills of Exchange on the Continental cities lin y o re ' in good supply this afternoon. Oa Paris the ratore to up to 25f. 70c. and 80c. ; on Amsterdam the) ? : c o l to 48 to 1 ; on Antwe r p, 12 31 ; on H a mburghp I" 104: on Trieste, 9 52 to 53. orts I The following are th e o ffi c i a l re t ur ns of the e l; e adinif bullion from the port o f L on d on f or the vie' Thursday last :- Silver coin to Haraburgb 3.50 °I. 28,000 °I. Ditto Rotterdam 40,000 os, Ditto Bars ditto (From The Sun of Last Night.) ~,,, re is a° LIVERPOOL COTTON' MARKET, DEC. 13.---1 I v sales change of importance in the Market to-dat „ Orlea ns ! comprise 3,500 bale s , cons i s ti ng o f S u rats, .Le`' D ries ' Pernams, a few. Egyptians, without chang e in . 500 on speculation. , t rano c. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, DEC. 13.-I_,T i f fl d P ile : . lions comprise -Eastern Counties, 81 _,_. ", r '',. Sh'e - , , tion, 197 ; London and Birmingam . tiun r ' e. LIS P l-1 22' 4 ' ; Ditto, New, 55 ; Manchester and l'n e ' Shares, 28 ; South Eastern and Dover, 17.1- 1 , The re k MANCHESTER STOCK EX C H ANG E, DEC' ' - ' - " - Ste c " . continues to be a good demand for RailteY,chester Lancaster and Preston, 28 4 1 ; Liverpool and Nr e ";111 01. Half Shares, el/- ; London and Birininghatn , I I 'lg () ' chester and Birmingham, 28 ; Manchester 011 4 Quarter Shares, 31. IGs ; Bank of Manchester, 41;oesois The English Stock Market continues fir o. e v he vet being still quoted at 88i 1, for the Account ; . 1 ova Bills, 10 12 premium. has 've In the Foreign ma r k e t a f urt h er a dvance he iten,a place in Spanish secur iti es t hi s morninc''. T De f e r , co o Stock is now quot e d 24i1 ; Passive, gjl , 3k ; Jilt 12 1 ; Portuguese Five per Cents. ar e 5 qOA Threes, 191 20. • fl the `',., 0 There has been but little business doing 1- „a are,' ow Exchange. Consols have been 881. buyers , 11- 4 ,;, 01 , 0 881 sellers ;'Exchequer Bills firm at 10 12 c P o r- ish A c l l s o Bonds 2 3 prem.; Bank Stock, MI 165' , 4- vorttli e ; Stock is now quoted at 24 1 ; Passive, 5. s l',i ne r Five per Cents., 331 ; ditto, Three per uei",:flan p er Dutch Five per Cents., 991 i ; ditto, Two-o' f-* .4 Cents., 511 I, ; Mexican Bonds, 26. • the ; h t The following are the only transaction s Ili dri',Zo Market: Great Western fifths, 9i; London al , : 317 0 ' - 361 ; London and Birmingham, New. 25 '' ' 1 fort / ' Counties 841. Consols, account, 8814 ; M ex i ca n, 25i 26° ; X guese, 321 33 ; Spanish, 24 a todd e r o il h p e n t 0 Ono of the ultra French p . a er s has '.-- defesv ~1 recently, with evident satisfacption, to the , I re Princess Island, Africa, o f the Iris by the slaver Negro, and i t fi e b t t ed to envelop the affair with as In i - t -c is ,t 1 BritisP ock oo gr geration and mystery as possible. ''''' f ees - die, that the Commander of the Iris, after his ; rae' o , the piratical ship, one of far sup er ' - his °' to and with a much larger force than port t he had made for the nearest .African ee iea " e s repair damage, &c., but sedulously e °Tc ev era lee se fact of the encounter, to all but the 6 , 4 be en std authorities of the place, who will no den% sls o , - so look-out tor the slaver. Greek pirates hs, v , ate ly 19 peered recently, if the information receivea I be depended upon. CLOSING PRICES. -, BRITISH FUNDS. ... ''' IP° Bank Stock 165 ( I n di a Stock ...... ....... ..... 3 per Cent Red. B9 IDitto Bonds.. ... :ii e , ... 3 per Cent Cons lDitto Olal Anit °i • t ies..: s r o 31 per Cent Red 9Ba 'Ditto New ..v-.7 . . .:11a '' e 2 p 4 paw . New 31 per Cent 99a Ex. Bills, 1 , ~4 .. ..... t oe New 5 per Cent i Ditto ;:l, LoJanAnn toexpil2 5-16 Bank re Ditto S ° e ct... '. 1860. i... ..... St o ck for A <, Oct 1859 lndia Stock fo r Acct . • ' : . tr i Jan. 1860. Consols for Ace t ...... ~, FOREIGN FUNDS. „,. 0- 3'..'i Austrian, 5 per ce n t.... - Portuguese, 5 p'• c ent' Belgian, 5 per cent lOO4 Ditto, - Newbitto. , ,"'" ....:, Brazilian 80nd5.... Buenos Ayres, 6 per eel -- P R r u us ssi s a ia n n , , s s pe e r r Ce Ce n 'it::::: f Chilian, 6 per cent Metallic.. ••• Ditto, , Metallic •••; .... .. '" 5 c's Colombian, 6 per cent.. - S pan i s h, 5 per eeo-•'::;. "", Ditto, 1824. 2Ol Ditto, Deferred .... 1,.f. c, Danish, 3 per cent 7 91 F renc h, 5 per cent. ~...f. ' c Greek, 1825, 50i. cent - Exchange .......... i; --f. 511 Mexican, 5 per cent 26 ' F r e nc h, 3 l'''re,t. f e u t....." yoh Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825 - - Dutch, 21 Pe r -n ' ..... Peruvian,lB2s, 6 p er ct, --- Ditto, 5 Per B en 23 SHARES, i 7 paid) e 2 1 Cheltenham and Great Westr3.Nt T od - ....... 134 E Eastern Counties Railway (23Pa,,, i ) / ...... ...... bq Great 'Western ItailintY( 65 psi ... „".• ,NI Ditto New Shares (50 paid) '".. .•"•' 3611 Ditto Fifth (4 paid) .................... • ' 10 London and Brighton (50 paid),•„,..' ........... --7: , London and Blackwell Railway V"' ' .' 2511 ....... -...i London and Birmingham (90) •........ ... . . Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid. .•"'•" ...., ,tai London and South Western ............. .„,... 0 7 Ditto New Shares (- paid) paid) "...~,.•• 31 Manchester and Leeds (70 paia,), .... ' .. 50 Ditto Quarter Shares ( 2 paid ) 'aid ) :Ai ... .. " a-ti Manchester and Birmingham (40 P. 1.. ‘ , 3 Midland Counties Railway (100 Pa l "' ... ..... Northern and Eastern (35 paid) .... .. .. 151 North Midland Railway (100) .............. 13 9 Ditto Thirds (15 paid) ..... - ........... . York and North Midland Railway crl,Afat ,/,46 SO COURSE OF EXCHANGE- IY r ' .. ..... 3 0 a o Amsterdam CF.I2 7i Gibraltar... '"'.. ....." g,..i " Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ..... ....2 U l2 8 Genoa ... ............ "41 Antwerp. 59 1 Hamburgh M.B. 13 131 Venice ............ ...•09 'Altona ' 1. ...... ... 5ll Paris, 3 days' sight Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Lisbon ............... ...... 7.. ,I. Marseilles VP _ Bourdeaux 25 90 Rio Janeir o .•••• ....., ~... Frankfort on Maine... 1501 Bahia ............ ...... 4 4 Petersburgh, 3Us Trieste,Vienn a 8er1in..... ... di eff tt e o c ‘.. fl ... .... . A . I 99 5 53 5 a, ba 3 0 PpithclaEdselopheial3.l j.. 1,. .................... y CMadrid ... 36 Foreign Gel , cei a... o 0 0 adiz Bilbao ........ 4 i Barcelona Seville ... 36 Silver in liars"' . ,1,6 frii i Portugal Gold ..... 4 ii; INCREASE ' OF c---,----itamß I COUNTRY. ol io° , (From the Liverpool Times.) 111 141. ter' carc ' atrocity, Our el r y ea pa u ew e rp r e s eet m krap u ta s e i s have been struck with the ebt atici o f frequency of late of crime of avr daring - som e a c. 'a te)sylgviatoligosutmtohree record e l r es il s 0 13; 1 0 _ trn ber otl erei t i , r e, not different parts of the adjoining districts. n ' s ' t s pi ° of without some surprise that we find Mi er boa o r strength_ or of an intention to suppress a lar,ei p ro f Da t e a, f rutitc4e c ehm e raop c si li ts a a rg r e a d eo ‘ l v i i s t r h i t3 t , l a i e t too protection ing m os of Ii le lin ce 0 ° rote f t he r e ori bei d s rages, which calls for the most serious deliberativiesll.o step should s r h o o b u s l n d d be m t u a r k d e e n r . , lay'lliiiecbauwdeticbiesyi s e b i l i l a r c g i b t e e e a n h l r t tie l r r: h fr o o o m ds t , im b e y to time, have for the most P 2r ,i'oeig ilu i di t 3 petrated in the more lonely and unfrequ.enlfp.,:papait.lo towns,. wherineenthewbporaicstsiuseedfrsokinill tabneddeetTir)v.se'ied-nrictlerP°rinosel; police present dangerous obstacles to their ,_ e f a il ar o , 1 ilt b; rw lonely fe o re then,farm - c :: 1 ,a i fo o :rtni o tontas s mh(oc i ) o n ikhu g poegrrur t ept li ciso e ttce i n: r pnu am p ts e hsn i e: n ia t ilt be e 0: : 1i ! e : t s s b , bo) c eie l .: ;I ' l : s: r e : ace ti ie r i o:e a d : notorious at Myerscough, was the concerted s c se en, t i ", t t i l a e t d a es b p u e Hyde, near Stockpor C t a , hdi been committed at of rapine r a apine gan a g nd frvoimole another o sh f e l a e il s , s t t i pda r tnu i E l 1 0 : , . : s oy: aloo g° a s idi c eg : t I ce c ' t t i f lo r : a l 1 0 11: OW d *lO by parties from Liverpool, Chester, al l- Th ° c o' a oth er os e may be b in the recollection of our readers. ,ricillte, very different in the , r v a b l o y c r oun e ties, but to diminish the defences ag ain' ll 'at ' ll ,l the ceonctriigmaeit.)isosfosifmreilqairiendtelpyraeinigtyen,dered, bY " no lal e o towns, is a very careful matter of very serious impionrtti,ittenkcille7s I°l. survey of the probable COnsequene ,~ T o --____T--------------- _ COMMISSION_ OF INQUIRY rsl). THE COLLECTION OF THE CLT:_-;TO)/ 11 VENUES. • , o 1 The Members of this Commission have , t iroa rt' e e , Liverpool, and will begin their examination of re th this day, at the Custom-house. The fullowing,,!,,eoi‘' names of the Commissioners, Lord Granville i.-}j''',o,olir' Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, told i, bwi r able 11. Bingham Baring, eldest son of Lord J' - ' O O/ 5 ' ton, and Alexander Pringle, Esq., 31. r ., C ° iii:i sioners of the Treasury. We understand that the o l, 0 rent mercantile and shipping associations have gi r O ft deput a ti o ns to wait upon the Commissioners, `),,bie purpose o f p o inting out to them the alterationc,. tho they consider desirable in the mode of collco.rtio revenue in this port, and if any private inddna.i: tbdi any suggestions to make, it would be well th i%re t /1 should take this opportunity of laying them be Commissioners.—Liverpool Times. d ole ••._.---_---- -= - — 1,, ; MINING SPECULATIONS.----CaVe, 11" . b brated mining .speculator, who has been so oftetristoropt the Court of Bankruptcy was discharol .Y i :os, 11) , after a severe lecture from' Commissioner VV1 11 "a to d o the unfair and deceptive means he had emploY' 1 ,0 i d tam shareholders. The loss altogether a rrioi l o op. 195,0001., and of that 120,0001. has fallen upon clergymen of the Church of England. • `c r S I C ?. it h ' 1r 4 40 4 a,' I r `i i t c ,) 1 1 1 I;! ' , i~. 9~~~~