The Sun. — London, England, 1841-12-24 00:00:00

MORNING SU MISS COSTELLO'S NEW WORK. Just ready, in 2 vols. Svo., with numerous Ill us t ra ti ons , A PILGRIMIVIAGE TO AUVERGNE, FROM PICARDY TO LE VELAY. By MISS LOUISA STUART COSTELLO, Author of " A Summer amongst the Bocages and the Vines,"&c. . Richard Bentley, New Burling-ton-street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. 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 TASNIAGORIAL 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, Is. 6d. ; Pit, Is. 6d., Children, Is. ; Gal lery, 6d. Half-price a Quarter to Nine; Boxes, is. 6d. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, no half-price. Carriages to be in waiting Ten Minutes to Eleven. POPULATION RETURNS. We have had so many inquiries for The Sun, containing an abstract of the Population Returns, that we shall republish the tables, with consider able additions, TO-MORROW. THE RAILWAY SUN IS NOW RE-PUBLISHING, PRICE SIXPENCE. TUE CHINA SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Dec. 24, 1841. THE WEATHER—NOON, DECEMBER 23. . . ROYAL. CALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. T/lernlonieter... 41 1 highest 4l 1 Lowest 3l I3arjnicter. S W.—Freezing Point 22 Deg. HIGH WATER AT I.ONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. M rrnrw 35 mfmt.ttas after 9 I Evening IG minutia after 10 Thus Mr. CHRISTOPHER presumes to found an argument in favour of plundering the people, on the asserted fact that the price of wheat has varied less in England than in all the countries of Europe, since 1815, except Sweden. In them, however, communication is difficult, and the peculiarities of one province cannot correct those of another; while in England communication is very much facilitated, and there is little differ ence of price between Brighton and Inverness. Everybody knows, too, that wheat is the staple food of England, and rye of most of the other countries which Mr.CHaisTopitEß enumerates. In them wheat is more an article of commerce and speculation than, as it is here, of general consump tion. Had Mr. CHRISTOPHER compared the variations in the price of wheat in them to the variations in the price of tallow here, he would have made a fairer comparison. But that might not have served his personal views, and to the selfishness and ignorance of his class, truth, as well as the public welfare, are sacrificed. Our readers are aware that his Majesty of HANOVER, whose dominions skirt one side of the Elbe for a few miles, levies a heavy toll on all ships and goods entering that great artery of Northern Germany. As a justification of this toll he neither keeps up lights, buoys, nor bea cons, nor in any way facilitates or improves the river, the navigation of which is impeded by banks which might be removed. He has no ex cuse nor pretext whatever for levying the toll, except that it has been for many years sub mitted to. Originally it was one of those tolls very nume rous on every river of Germany, which every strong-handed robber-Baron, whose castle com manded a flowing stream, levied on those who used the water. It was a tax or compensation which they consented to pay to some robber, rather than be stopped and rifled. Stade served its original owners as such a castle, and far back in the night of time some Sea King, having fixed himself there, stopped all vessels entering the Elbe and plundered them. To escape his depre dations they consented to pay something, and that sort of exaction, under terror of being plun dered, has been continued by the successive owners of Stade to this day. Out of deference to the Elector of Hanover, as long as he sat on our throne, Great Britain submitted patiently to the extortion. When the countries fell under different monarchs the Stade dues were remonstrated against, but respect for old usages forbad the Government putting an end to the toll with a strong hand. Its vexa tions, therefore, were the subjects of a negotia tion which has now been several months in progress. Yesterday advices from Hamburgh informed us, that new difficulties have arisen in the nego tiations between England and Hanover for the reduction of the Stade dues. His Hanoverian MAJESTY, it is said, is willing to decrease the duties payable by the riverian states, but declines to make any concession in favour of transmarine countries; he will, in short, treat the impost quoad the former as a river tax, and therefore subject to the provisions of the treaty of Vienna ; while in reference to sea-borne commerce his MAJESTY insists that it is a sea toll, and consequently not cognisable under the treaty. If this representation be correct, his Majesty of HANOVER is resolved to defend his plunder by a quibble, and the negotiator henceforth em ployed should be a man-of-war. Hanover has no right whatever to this toll, except by our con sent, and the instant our consent is withdrawn its right ceases. If it should levy the toll after a refusal and resistance, a vessel of war stationed in the Elbe should secure its free passage to all her MAJESTY'S vessels. It is unworthy of Great Britain to meet such quibbling with any other answer than a demand for the total abolition of the toll, and a positive refusal to pay it. Prince ERNEST relies, we presume, on his friends th e Tories, and is persuad e d that they will compel English merchants to submit to have a portion of their property confiscated to swell his Exchequer. A case which occurred yesterday in the Vice- Chancellors' Court, illustrates the mode by which the mistakes of professional men are made to operate as a heavy tax on suitors. In the cause of the " Attorney -General v. the Greenwich Railway," an application was made to the Court to allow the words of a decree to be altered. It was admitted by the Registrar that he had writ ten down the words of the decree from memory, and that the Vice-Chancellor had actually used words which the Registrar had omitted. They were of great importance, for, as he had stated them, they compelled the Attorney- General to proceed by indictment, whereas the words used left it optional with him so to proceed. The decree, as written and recorded, was, in fact, different from the decree as pro nounced in Court; nevertheless, the application to make the written record conform to the actual decree was refused, because to rectify the ad mitted error " would establish a dangerous pre cedent." The Court could not possibly survive the plan of correcting errors without additional payment. The case must, therefore, be re-heard, solicitors must be, again employed, counsel again feed, the clerks of the Courts even must be paid 4 gain, because it would establish a dangerous precedent in the Court of Chancery to do an act of justic e without making the clients pay for it ! Errors, it may be expected, will be in proportion to Courts and causes, and thus, whether the new Courts s a ti s f y the suitors or ot, they will be sure to increase the emoluments of the legal profession. e publish Mr, f' e c o s r T n olu w E s ß . ' s T suggestions t from those which the Honour slßl for an alteration of th on ce October 25th t 2s t t h h e , differ essentially noticed in The able Gentleman threw at Boston, and which we while now he is Sun, except that he was then. amongst his consti tuents, duty should be 205., uncertain whether it should be 20s or 30s. ss, fixed duty as scale for tl He has since that time been much appear notittmioe:i tuents, and if they approve of his against the public, with a sliding advantage of the farmer, they approve of so low a maximum duty as 203, one great consolation, however, to find that Mr. CHRISTOPHER is of opinion that the law, as it exists at present, cannot be maintained. Madrid papers of the 14th inst. have reached us. We have given in our Foreign Summary all that is most important in their contents. Bands of robbers continue to invest the great roads in the neighbourhood of the capital, but as the Go vernment is taking active measures to put them down, we expect soon to hear of their dis- appearance. The Five per Cents. were done at the Madrid Bourse on the 14th inst. at 331 for cash, and 341 at 60 days. It was well and generally known in Paris on Tuesday that the Court of Peers had con- , They mean, it is said, to propose some modifica tion of the Corn-laws; let them learn a little mo desty and a little forbearance by the humi liating confession of failure, which such a proposi tion implies. There is no reason to apprehend that they will be over-modest. Our selfish and incorri gible Corn-law-makers are not to be daunted by any failure, and seem only to be stimulated by the confession of blunders to blunder anew. Mr. CHRISTOPHER, for example, while he ad mitted that "it is impossible for human inge nuity to devise any system that shall regulate the price of corn, because the farmer is obliged to cultivate the land at certain seasons, and it is only in the hand of the Almighty Power that guides the whirlwind and directs the storm to decide whether we shall have a good harvest or a bad one." Yet he proposes to regulate this price which cannot be regulated, and to fix the price of corn as nearly as possible between 565. and 655. It makes the heart sink to know that such inconsistent, meddling, selfish men have the regulation of public affairs, and the making of laws for society, of the immense phenomena of which their minds do not take in one thou sandth part. if,ct ef ' e tir \ 0 ighd woci 44,1'16 1 ' •-,- 4 • -' -•-• • ruin LONDON: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1841. We drew attention yesterday to the fact that the law, by being perverted to be an instrument f injustice, is losing its authority over the minds of the manufacturers. Mr. BRIGHT, of Roch dale, openly defended the violation of the law. Now, while the suflerers in the North are be ginning to find out that we have many bad laws which ought to be disregarded, writers in the South are obserVing that Many, and the most important part of society, spring up and flourish without any laws at all. On the one hand many laws are denounced as bad, on the other the ne cessity even for _good laws is practically denied. The Noncovformist on Wednesday said— To the efficacy of what enactment recorded in the Statute-book are we to trace that deep concern to vitalise religion which, just a century ago, startled and terrified a sleeping establishment ? The myriads of Sunday schools which, if they do nothing more, scratch up the surface of a virgin soil before trampled down and neg lected, rendering it capable 'of •receiving some of the seeds of truth—what legal authority coerced them into being ? Chapels, which- though too few for the wants of our British population, are yet, taken in the gross, a vast number, By „what .tax: was the amount produced, necessary to defray the'. expenses of their erection ? And the. ten thousand .ministers of various denominations, who uroclaina weelic 11 week their several views of re velation and it:s.betirimi• . upon the duties and d es ti n y o f mankind. 1-low.do - the'y And support ? What ! is all this to be regarded as pure .unmixed evil and absurdity, because, forsooth, they who have done these things did thein:Uf their own mind, 'and:were not compelled thereto by Act "of Parliament ?. They are egregious triflers who say this ; fops, who have yet to learn that there is within man's heart a p:.nver which, when evoked by religion, beggin's their own parchment-begotten power, as the will which moves the muscle of the living man does the gal vanism which convulses that of the dead one. The whole of Dissent, with its almost countless schools and meeting-houses, and its infinite ad vantages, has not only come unbidden and un regulated into existence, but has grown and flou rished greatly to the advantage of society, in spite of law and legislators. The same observa tion is strictly true of the Press, the great utility of which to society, though it has been thwarted in every possible way, by meddling lawyers and ignorant country gentlemen, was yesterday thus happily described by the Times:— Liberty of speech on these (national) subjects is the essential characteristic of a free country, and to have a press above the reach of corruption which uses that liberty, is the greatest possible safeguard against the dis honesty or the incapacity of those by whom it is governed. Public opinion, speaking unreservedly through such organs, is the ife and soul of responsibility ; and the light which is thus poured in upon the machinery of every department of civil and military administration is a surer antidote to abuse than a thousand Reform Bills. We are apt to congratulate ourselves upon those me chanical improvements which have enabled a man to breakfast at Loudon and dine in Liverpool, and cross the Atlantic in a fortnight. We perceive the multiplication of points of contact between man and man which is thus occasioned, and the vast increase of power and other ad vantages which are brought in consequence into the com mon stock. But it requires not much reflection to show that the change effected in the constitution of the political world through the instrumentality of public journals, fearless except for their reputation, and provided with organised resources like those at our own command, is nut less wonderful, nor the results less salutary to man kind. Opinion has acquired, through these means, not only new powers of expression, but unlimited opportu nities of information. The statesman or the private citizen, without leaving hi s home, is enabled to see what passes all over the world. He is at once in London and in New York, at Canton, at ffiWarsaw, and at Constanti nople. No agent or officer,' e i tht . r of this or of any foreign Power, can carry . mir a n,:oPuration or course of conduct affecting the public interests in secret ; and the consequence is, that the representatives of this and other countries act as in the face 'of day, w i th the fear of a searching and universal criticism before their e y es . This is the system —this admirable and useful ma chinery for the circulation of_ that moral power w hi c h regulates the pulses of the world, but admirable and use ful only when left to its o wn natur a l and uni mpe d e d movements—this it is w hich an attempt ha, made to crush in our persons by the trial which took Pia„ on Tuesday last. This all-important part of society , which keep s dishonest governors in order, which is the lif e • and soul of responsibility, which is the sur est antidote to abuse, which gives a man übiquity, and places him at once in London and in New York, at Canton, at Warsaw, and at Constan tinople, far from owing anything to legislation, has only to complain of its absurd and cruel trammels. The article from which we have quoted the above passage was written to - demand an improvement in the Libel-law, which exposes the-conductors and proprietors of the Press to be sevetYly ?milked and imprisoned fbr performing those : important and essential duties which the Tirikes describes. "It is," said our Contempo- ' rary, " a disgrace to a free country, that, for statin g plain fact,, and offering temperate re monstrance, the conductors of the Press should be liable to that species of legal annoyance and persecution to which we have been subjected." All that law and legislation have done fbr the Press is to de?Tade, by its penal laws, one •of the inoA useful occupations of society, and to make the performance of its essential duties irk some and dangerous. When we have convincing evidence on the one hand that some laws, like the Corn and Provision laws, inflict italescriba.ble mischief on society, and pr o ors, on the other, that some of the most im portant parts or limbs of society flourish with out any laws, at least we may demand of the gentlemen who are soon to assemble at West minster—and we go no further—that they should be extremely ca.ctions not to inflict new and un necessary enactments on society. To repeal laws is, in the majority of cases, to remove res trictions and restore society to the healthy in fluence of the natural laws, which regulate its birth and its growth. Like removing ligatures from the body, the abolition of: bad laws allows every limb of society to assume its proper form. THE SUN,. \LONDON,. ?FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1841 demned M. DUPOTY, Editor of the Journal du Peuple, for participation in the attempt to assas sinate the Royal Princes. This participation con sists in his having edited a Journal which was subscribed for by the proprietor of the wine shop in which the conspirators were in the habit of assembling. Why the builder of the wine-shop was not included in DUPOTY'S sen tence the Peers only can explain, for he was equally criminal with the able writer now about to be made the scape-goat of the sins of the Cabinet. But the French papers are too ter rified to do more than allude to this iniquitous proceeding. The National knows that the President of the Court longs to pounce upon it, and therefore discreetly remains silent. The Siecle is in the same predicament. The Temps, which being usually more moderate is less impli cated, has the following remarks on this infamous trial : " Of this we are certain, that the Government (un'- worthy of being called the Government of July) would, if it could, re-establish the censorship. But this the Charter forbids. Therefore, not being able to silence the Press, the Ministry defame it, and strive to die honour it. They would prefer, no doubt, to buy ; but unluckily for them there are certain men belonging to the Press who would prefer to be ruined rather than to sell themselves. As a last resource, and in defiance of truth and justice, the Press is compromised in a procedure for high treason. We think Government might find a more consistent and more honourable method of proceed ing againsi; the fourth power of the State, than by any sort of legal pursuit whatever. Till men are found at the head of affairs of sufficient political capacity to compre hend the subject, all that we can say is, that the Press is one of the indispensable elements of our institutions ; that the public will never submit to be deprived of their own unshackled organs and that the Ministry, at once weak and violent, who prefer to persecute instead of con ciliating, or who decline to combat their opponents with their own weapons, will only have exemplified for the hundredth time the fable of the serpent and the file." As the charter is now no better than a piece of mere parchment, the press of France ought at once to unite in demanding the restoration of the censorship. No abridgement of the freedom of opinion can exhibit such tyranny as 'is shown in the prosecution of M. DUPOTY ,by the Court of Peers. Writers in France are no.longer pro tected by the laws or by the charter. Neither are they amenable only to the laws—they are every instant at the mercy of a tribunal worse than ever disgraced this country when a JEF FRIES sat on the Bench, and a Colonel KIRK was charged with the maintenance of public order. The Bishop OfCIIARTRES and the French Press are at loggerheads about the state of religion in France. Recently the Journal des Debats pub lished some well-written articles condemning French ecclesiastics for adopting the supersti tions of the dark ages, and praising the modera tion of the Church of England, more especially the Puseyite and Newmanite section of it. The Bishop, in a pastoral letter levelled at the Debats, repelled these attacks upon the priest hood. The Debats replied, and the Bishop re joined. As this theological conflict is nothing to us, we merely refer to it for the purpose of quoting the writer in the Debats' curious com parison between the Anglican and French Churches : " I said that the Anglican Church inspired respect, but neither sympathy nor love, for it wanted heart. It is impossible not to admire the dignity and profound gravity of English manners, almost the melancholy of those inspired by religion. The Anglican Church forms the character, the Roman Church the heart. The former makes great citizens, the latter great men. I consider the Anglican Church under its political, not its dogmatical aspect. The Anglican Church was con solidated by a political revolution, and hence it be came a national institution. So that it is patriotic to be Protestant ; and the nation is religious because its reli gion is national. The influence of England throughout the world is crippled by its religious propaganda. And in the evangelical Church at Jerusalem, England has raised a standard more dangerous than its armies and its fleets. " With respect to Romanism ' we have long heard of religious resuscitation. When we look for it, what do we see in those little gilded churches, so well warmed and carpeted, where saints and martyrs are dressed in the fashion, where the credo is sung to a waltz tune, and the elevation takes place to the tune of a country dance ? It we go to a ser mon, we hear the preacher address his congregation as Messieurs, not as his dear brethren; he talks of the Christ and of the Virgin Mary as Marie. They seek to secularise the Divinity. Do they speak of Christian morality ? Oh, no--but of Pythagoras, Epicurus, and Spinosa. And when we escape from church to our journal we find the preacher there already, presenting a note, stating how the Abbe N- preached to-day to a large congiegation, and made the most profound impression." The following extracts include the miscella neous news in the Paris Journals of Tuesday : The Univers contradicts the article in the Gazette de Dauphine, announcing that the Pope had had an apo plectic fit, on the authority of a letter from Rome, written by M.Boricelli, the Camerlingo of the Pope. " Our readers must be informed that there is no Roman Prelate named Boricelli, there is no such officer as that of Camerlingo at the Chamber of his Holiness; there is a Camerlingo, but he is a Cardinal. Lastly we have letters from Rome of the 10th, at which time his Holiness was in excellent health." A letter from Port Mahon, in the Catolico of Madrid, states that the British Consul in that port has recently been converted to the Catholic Faith. The Memorial of Pau relates that, between eleven and twelve o'clock on Thursday night last, an English family, living in one of the finest houses of the Rue du College, in that town, were alarmed by the attempt of a person wrapped in a handsome cloak, and believed to be a man of fashion, to get into the house. The cries of a female servant, who it seems first saw him, alarmed the household, and compelled the invader to make his re treat. He deterred the domestics from pursuing him, by presenting what they in their fright fancied to be a pistol, but which, it is believed, was only the barrel of a great door-key. M. Domenico Menozzi, a celebrated Italian scene painter, died a short time since at Milan. A few days ago, an Antwerp j o u r n a l s t a t es , a wager was laid by two butchers of the village of Borgerhout, as to the comparative st reng th o f their dogs. One of them was harnessed to a cart containing 15 hectolitres of coals (about 2,4001b5. English), which it drew with ease from the canal to the village. On the 17th inst., says a Liege journal,' as an inhabi tant of that town was putting on the leather cover of his fowling-piece, which was loaded, in order to go on a shooting excursion, the gun went off, and the char ge entered the body of his wife. On the 18th she was still living, but no hope was entertained of her recovery. A young mantua-maker, of the Rue St. Mery, having fallen desperately in love with a gentleman who happens to have been born in the same place as herself, the silly girl, at a loss how to communicate her passion to its ob ject, and excite a reciprocity, consulted a friend, a bas ket-woman of the Rue Marivaux, who introduced her to a soi-disante witch, and the latter at once promised to render the fates propitious on receiving 350 f., the amount of the savings known to have been made by the semp tress out of her earnings. This money was to undergo, it was said, some process of alchemy, and the residuum was ne - d:t day presented to the poor girl in a small piece of iron, which she was to throw into the river, repeating 5 Paters and 5 Ayes. This was done, but the gentleman's heart still remained callous, and the love-sick damsel be came more and more impatient. The sorceress then en joined her to make the proof of the Gospel of St. John as absolutely infallible. This was to be done by the weak minded creature, holding a key suspended by a thread while the cunning witch read aloud the whole Gospel, and if the key turned the charth would be successful. The key, however ' remained' as inflexible a s th e i ron heart of the beloved object. - Other cabalistic tricks were tried, but all equally in vain. - At length the girl be came convinced of her having been duped, and applied to a Commissary of Police, who has sent the two con federates, the witch and the basket-woman, to be tried for fraud. We learn that the attempt made upon the life of the portress in the Rue des Tournelles, a liew days since, was not a deliberate act, but committed by a lunatic. The young man had, for three weeks before, exhibited un equivocal proofs of insanity, reproaching his mother-in- law with being in league with traitors to give him un wholesome victuals, and, at other times, pretending that there were plots to suffocate him. As he had lucid inter vals, the good woman would not have put him under con straint, but he is now placed in a Maison de Sante. His father's admission into Bicetre was on account of the same malady. Two men were suffocated the day before yesterday in a well at Aubervilliers, near St. Denis, into which they had descended for the purpose of cleaning it, without taking proper precautions beforehand to ascertain the state of the air at the bottom of the shaft. The Moniteur Parisien states from Carthagena, 24th ult., that a Spanish coast-guard vessel having captured a small English trading vessel in a situation near the coast prohibited by the Custom-house regulations, and the master of the. English £vessel having declared this to the captain of an English brig of war then in the port (the same who on a former occasion rescued an English vessel which had been seized by the autho rities), th© latter waited on the Governor, and de manded the restitution of the captured vessel. This, however, was refused, and the prize was retained. The account adds that on a n i nvest i ga ti on i t was proved, notwithstanding the assertion of the captain of the brig to the contrary, that the vessel which was seized was in the act of landing contraband goods whesephe was takea. BOURSE---Psais, TUESDAY, DEC. 21. First Highest Lowest Last French 3 4 pet per P rice Price. Price. Price. Cents 118 50 1 16 55 ... 116 50 .. 116 55 3 per C en ts. ex die 100 ... 1( 0 91.1 .. 100 90 ... 100 90 78 25 78 33 25 ... 78 33 Sank of France Lallitte Bank I,ooof. Stares 104 .1 , 5.0001. Shares t 065 ..5065 ...5065 H&c / inn sank •00 ... 790 Beigiao 5 per Cents. • 102 ... 102 • 102 .. 102 per Cents.,.lB4u MN N. 100 . t . -10271 ... 149 OparushlActive:.......:•: :5l -7... 24% ... 2414 ... 24% 0' Passive 5 ... 5,', ... 5% ... 5% l• New Deferred ll% ... DV ‘.. 11% ... 11N Naapolitaii .... ..... Marian ..•. ICS ••• I('s ..• 103 MI 103 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Gennain ... .......... ... 780 Versailles. L.. 8.................. 192 50 ~. 192 50 ... 1,2 50 ... 192 50 R. 13 3 20 ... 320 ... 320 ... 320 Rouen 455 ... 4Y7 8) ... 455 ... 457 50 urielns ...• ...... • ••• Mulhausen to Therm ..... ••• 38 5 ... 385 ... 385 ... 385 itraehurg co Pale 222 58 .. 222 50 ... 222 50 ... 2t2 50 , :, , -`BELGIAN t UNDS—Baussime, DEG. 21. Actual Debt, 234 per Cent. Rothschild 's Loan, 5 per Cent..... .„....„ lOl% Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per C ent. 92% 3 per Cent. ..... •••• _B rune l* Papers, Dec v . i 2 EN l N . A, -:, I "- ,i 1. 1 -.--..Thirty.seven—;—____ • ' 1 'Lo 7---"--- an of City, 1932, 4 perWe i g............. .. 11) 97 17148 t IT' Society of' Commerce, 4 4 per Cent ." —. d to flank of Belgium, 5 pet Cent..„„ 74 A National Ssciety. Dec. 111 A Exchan g e u s R n: A L iN o nFduen:l! — nye pit' Costs. Metalliqtzes Four per Cents Three pvt• Cents. Bank Shares ...... ....... ................ ...... .. ..... —Aligemeine Zeilesng. D. 17. CHRISTMAS EVE AND THE NEW POLICE ACT.— For the information of all concerned, it may be necessary tv state that no rejoicings will be allowed in public-houses after twelve o'clock to-night; but people may drink as much as they like at home. The police have orders to see that all public-houses are closed as on Satur day nights. INCONSISTENCIES.—The Morning _Herald is one of the sticklers for the Church, and for ex tending the Church. B u t the clergy can only teach as they are taught, and hence, if Univer sity education be bad, the c l ergy will not teach properly, and to extend the Church will only be to extend improper teaching. The Herald, how ever, besides being a patroness of the Church, is Anti-Puseyite, and. its dislike of Puseyism in spired it yesterday with the following severe hit at OXford education A college tutor, brought up in the principle and practice of school logic, can easily find a loop-hole to creep out at." But a college tutor is the only pivot of college edu cation, and college tutors, according to the Herald —a description which we believe to be accurate, and to apply to the entire instruction of the Universities—are brought up to quibble, to make the worse appear the better reason, to pervert and mystify, not to discover and establish truth. Such is the character which the Church-loving Herald gives to the education which the tutors of colleges receive and bestow on the youth educated at the Universities. Can we wonder at the consciences of priests being in all cases so wonderfully flexible, while their avarice is un controlled and intense ? Our Contemporary has also been a distinguished advocate for the abo lition of capital punishments. It is now very zealous for the suppression of the slave trade, as it had the good fortune to publish a notice of the new treaty before the Times. This zeal,Fester day, led our Contemporary into cap exultation at the existence and extension of capital punish ments, in the case •uf making the slave trade piracy, contrary to the principles so well advo cated by the Herat'. It affirmed that the " ventures of the slava dealer will be fewer, with the prospect of the YARD-ARM before him." Such tricks do words play even with strong minds. Had "yard-arm" been " gallows," the Herald would have shrunk affrighted from encouraging the vulgar belief that putting men to death is the way to prevent crimes. The passions of great men play sad tricks with their reason, and be fool them far worse than ever an old man was befooled by an artful maiden. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, THURSDAY EVENING. The Stock Markets save presented a tranquil appear ance to-day, but there has been no fluctuation of the least consequence in the quotations. Consols have realised 887 1 to 89 for the opening, ex-dividend. Exchequer Bills have been steady at 10s. to 12s. premium, and East India Bonds have been marked Is. to 3s. premium. India Stock for the opening has obtained 245 , and Bank Stock has been firm at 165 to 1654 ; Reduced Three and-a-Half per Cents, realise 984 to 98-4-. A slightly improvd value was borne by Spanish Bonds to-day, but then the transactions were very limited. The Actives ranged from 23i to 24. The Colombian Bonds were a shade higher, viz. 201. Belgian Stock was worth 1011, being an advance ; and Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. obtained 52 to 511. A moderate business has been done in Shares again to-day. Great Western Railway were much the same, viz. 18i premium ; South Western improved to 19a and 20 7 1- prem. Birmingham were 75 to 76 premium ; and York and North Midland 39 premium. Brighton were 12, North Midland 29, Manchester and Leeds 5 to si, Midland Counties 14k, and Northern and Eastern, 9a dis. (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEO. 22.—We have had a fair demand for Cotton to,day, the sales amount ing to 4,500 bales, of which 150 American were taken for export. In prices there i s no change. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, DEC. 22.—The trans actions at the Stock Exchange comprise Great North of England, 67.1; London and Birmingham 32/. New Shares, 26/ ; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, 511. No later arrivals to-day from any quarter. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 22.—Railway Stock continues in demand, and prices are firm. The following sales have been reported:—Midland Counties, 85; Ditto, Quarters, 211; North Midland, 721 ; North Union, 75 3 T; South Eastern and Dover, 201. Consols opened at 88:1 89 for the Account ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 89 ; Exchequer Bills, 10 12 prem. Towards the close of business yesterday, Spanish Active Stock advanced to 24A- 4, but opened this morn ing rather flat at 23j 241 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., are 321 33; Ditto 'Threes, 191 20. Both the English and Foreign Markets are inactive, and prices remain withou Stock,taiteratiol%sl_C;onTshorlssf-oarndt-hae. Haf per Cents. ope l ningare 88 89 ; Bank Reduced, 94; Three per Cents. Re duced, 89 ; Exchequer Bills, 10 12 premium ; Spanish Active Stock, 24 ; Dutch Two -and-a-Half per Cen ta. 524 ; Ditto, Five per Cents., 994 ; Belgian, 1011. The Share Market is steady without alteration. Lon don and Brighton were last done at 37 1 8 ; London and Birmingham, 165 ; Midland Counties, 851 ; 'North Mid land, 701. Consols, 881 89 ; Colombian,, 20 / 3-, ; Spanish, 2424. It seems it must be left at ,last to Foreign States to teach us sound maxims of policy in regulating our domestic trade. Sweden has just effected a most material reduction in the import duty on all descriptions of grain, and will allow foreign wheat for instance, to come in at the reduced rate of one rix dollar. The plan the present Ministry of Sir Robert Peel intend to give us, is oozing out by degrees, but if DDED P Fziii tit E PRICES. ttt 000 I NB C B0DiNl E loi se: d . i m t i b e e r , ‘ v v i h i a l t be re m p u or e t h i s n ay t s he it v i e s s , a new sliding scale, the Pre ition of the man in the fable, who, trying to please everybody, could please no one. G C B L R O I S T9B___ I I9B N s: Bank Stock l6s- India Stock • ass 3 per Cent Rect. Annuities... ,ooo . Annuities .. d . 3 per Cent Cons s 3i per Cent Red.. New 3i per Cent - -1 0 1 p pr nm New 5 per Cent — I Ditto 5001 lO pm Long Annuitiestoexpire Ditto Small. 13 pm Jan 1860 l2i ;Bank Stock for Acct... 245 Oct 1859 'lndia Stock for Acct.. Jan. 1860. FOREIG. Austrian, 5 per cent Belgian, 5 per cent lOl4 Brazilian 80nd5.... Consols for Open B9 4 FUNDS. Portuguese, 5 per cent. -- Ditto, New Ditto — Prussian, 5 u. cent. Buenos Ayres, 6 per cm Chilian, 6 cent- pei 'Russian, 5 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, 1825, 6 per ct. SH A Ditto, Met.;llic Spanish, 5 per cent 24 Ditto, Deferred ... French, 5 per cent. —f. —c, Exchange French, 3 per cent —f. —c Dutch, 21 per cent 5l Ditto, 5 per cent. RES. Great Western Railway , Ditto New Shares (5 Ditto Fifth (4 paid) .. London and Brighton (50 paid).. ..... ...... London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid)... Ditto New Shares ( paid) London and Birmingham (90) ......... ... Ditto Quarter Shares ( b paid) 234 Ditto New Shares (15 paid 27 London and South Western Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... ... Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) Northern and Eastern (35 paid) • . 25k North Midland Railway (100) South Eastern and Dover (43 paid)........, Ditto New Shares ( 5 paid) York and North Midland Railway (50 paid) Ditto New Shares 415 paid) ... ........ 0 paid) B3l paid) 9/ 38 THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA.--A Correspon dent asks us to warn the Emperor Nicholas. " I have great faith in dreams (he says), and, last night, I dreamed that I saw the Emperor of Russia, and that he was for saken, solitary, and in distress. On reading the morn ing Papers to-day, I find that a new Ministry is to be formed at St. Petersburgh ; that the Minister of Police, because he only suppressed some conspiracies amongst the nobility, and did not inform the Emperor, is displaced, and that the Emperor meditates making a great blow at his unruly nobles by abolishing serfdom. I have noticed that changes and projects of this description precede the demise of the Czars, and I should not be surprised to learn that the Emperor Nicholas had been treated as was the Emperor Alexander and the Emperor Paul. It is such an unusual thing for a Sovereign of Russia to die of old age, that it is impossible to read of change and conspiracies in the Court of St. Petersburgh without anticipating a change in the person of the Sovereign." We fulfil the request of our Correspondent in conveying his warning through the public to the Czar Nicholas. Lord Rolle has given 2,0001. ,to build a new bridge across the rive Torridge iu connection with the proposed new road to Little Torrington.— Western Lu minary. THE RIGHT HON G. R. DAwsorr.—On Monday last, Mr D awson formally accepted the Com missionership of th e C ustoms, vacated by the decease of Sir Henry Freeli ng , B art. We are intormed that Mr. Dean, the present Chairman of the Board, will shortly re tire, when *Air. Dawson will succeed him. The post which Mr. Dawson has assumed is one of great responsibility. It presents, especially amidst the changes which are contemplated in the Customs, a wide field for the exer cise of his business talents and industry:--- West of England. Corsertative. PARADISE LOST. BY A WHIG EX - PLACEMAN. Farewell the green Eden of Place, And Downing-street's sweet, sunny clime, Where, clasped in Enjoyment's embrace, I spent so delightful a time— Farewell, oh farewell, for my doom Is to fly from those scenes I love most, And cherish in exile and gloom, The remembrance of Paradise Lost ! Yet in slumber my fancy still roves Through that Eden, like Adam of old, Still haunts the rich Treasury groves, Where rolls a Pactolus of gold ; But I wake, and the scene disappears, And, wrecked on the barbarous coast Of bleak Opposition, ih tears, I muse upon Paradise Lost ! If I strive to re-enter within The gates of that Eden so dear, Some Tory cries out with a grin, " No Whig is admissible here; " So be off, or I'll give you in charge, " And then you shall find to your cost, " What it is to be prowling at large " Round the portals of Paradise Lost !" Was there e'er such ill-fortune as mine? I'm fit to do nothing, alack ! But to drown all my sorrows in wine, Or play Hamlet at Woburn in black; Though I bow to my tailor, yet still The scamp looks as grim as a ghost, And thinks with a sigh of his bill, While I think of Paradise Lost ! Hark, bells from church-steeple and tower Hark, shouts from hill, valley, and lea I 'Tis Christmas's festival hour, And all appear happy but me ; I'm the cruellest treated of martyrs, I'm the poorest of all the Whig host, So I'll swing from the bed in my garters, In my anguish for Paradise Lost I PARADISE REGAINED BY A TORY PLACEMAN. Hip, hip, Hurray I All's right at last ! My term of banishment is past, And now with bliss unfeigned, I see the gates for years denied To Tory ingress, opened wide, Of Paradise Regained I Oh sunny realms of wealth and joy ! Of flattering hopes without alloy, Of plenty unrestrained ! Once in, I'll never quit you more, But take good care to bolt the door Of Paradise Regained ! What, though the Whigs, without, declare A Tory has no business there, Where they so long have reigned ? I'll laugh at all their factious din, And fatten on the wealth within My Paradise Regained ! Graham shall teach me how to rat, Peel how to gull John Bull and Pat, By no false shame restrained ; Lyndhurst convince me black is white, And, thus well taught, I'll prove my right To Paradise Regained ! Talk of the duty that I owe To the great Firm of Queen and Co. ! Pshaw, 'tis a term profaned !--- My duty is to help myself, And fill my pockets with the pelf Of Paradise Regained ! Duty indeed !—Hah, hah ! Ho, ho ! Within my soul the patriot's glow, Thank God, has long since waned ; So here I'll spend my latest breath, And, like a horse-leech, stick in death To Paradise Regained ! COURT CIRCULAR. - - --- WINDSOR, THURSDAY.— The Queen and Prince Albert walked for some time this morning in the Slopes and Little Park. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard, also took walk ing exercise this forenoon on the Terrace of the Castle. The Duke of Buckingham, the Marquis of Exeter, and the Earl of Rosslyn, took their departure from the Ole this morning. • The Hon. Amelia Murray and the HOU: Harriet. Lister have arrived and succeeded Lady Carolinegociss and the Hon. Sar a h M ar y C aven di sh, as the MailleOtHonour in Waiting on her Majesty. • • His Royal Highness the Duka tof Clambridgei arrived in town yesterday from his x . sidgp.p.9,ol Kew, And vlaited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, ut Glou cester House. In the afternoon his Royal Highness re turned to Kew. " • Monseignore Capaccini, Under- Secretary of State of the Papal Government, on a special mission, Inter nuncio to the Court of Lisbon, was presented to the Earl of Aberdeen, at the Foreign-office, by the Baron de Moncorvo, Portuguese Minister. A petition was yesterday presented to her Most Gra cious Majesty, very numerously signed by Merchants, Clergymen, Traders, and inhabitants of the Metropolis and its environs, praying for the commutation of the im posts on Waterloo, Southwark, and Vauxhall bridges, for the benefit of the public. Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes, had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at his official residence in Downing -street. --- SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY. There was not much business doing yesterday after noon, but it will be seen that the second class favourites are not in such odour as they were a week back, the prices quoted below having been laid and afterwards of fered. Against the first and second in the list 9 and 10 to 1 were betted to 501. each. The outside business was in small sums, and at the old averages. Of the Oaks, it is only necessary to say that the offers to lay against Passion were numerous at an advanced price, and that her old supporters are not at present disposed to invest. THE DERBY. 26 to 1 agst Mr. Gregory's two—tak en 50 to 1 agst D u k e of Cleveland's lot—taken 8i to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Attilla 10 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Chatham—taken 25 to 1 agst Lord Vernlarn's Robert de Gorham-- taken and afterwards offered 26 to 1 agst Mr. Dixon's Ballinkeele—taken 27 to 1 agst Mr. G. Clarke's Lord of Holderness— taken and afterwards offered 33 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Wiseacre—t. and aft. of. 35 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's William de Fortibus —taken and afterwards offered 40 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes' Meteor —taken and aft. of. 1000 to 15 agst Lord Jersey's Joanna colt—t. and aft. of. 100 to 10 agst Mr. Ferguson's Fireaway—t. and aft. of. 2000 to 60 agst Policy and Golden Rule—taken THE OARS. 7 to 1 agst Mr. Sadler's Passion. 25 to 1 agst Mr. Gardnor's f. by Sheet Anchor—t. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, DEc. 19.—The Independent says—" We hate this moment learnt that the police has seized another correspondence from a town on the frontiers of Prussiv. It is connected with the conspiracy to over throw the Govotnment, and in which several of the per sons arrested are more or less implicated." On the night of the 15th instant, a dreadful fire en tirely destroyed a fine farm, half a league from Cour tray. Twenty-seven oxen, four horses, and the whole harvest fell a prey to the flames. But for the cowherd, who was roused by the flames, and with difficulty escaped, the farmer, his wife, children, and servants would have certainly perished ; they were got out-of the garret window. The building s being su rroun d e d by water, in consequence o f the inundation, they were in great danger. Some Custom-house officers on the other side of the Lys first perceived the fire, but in consequence of the inundation they were obliged to go half a league about, and when they arrived all as sistance was vain. The loss is 100,000 francs. Nothing was insured, and it is feared that the fire was the act of an incendiary._ BRUSSELS, DEC. 20.—The Journal of Dutch Lim burg says—" We have received from a source which is nearly official, a piece of news of great importance to our country, and especially to our Duchy—viz., that a general treaty of commerce is on the point of being concluded between Holland and Belgium, and that two parties are already agreed on the principal points. BRUSSELS, DECEMBER 21.—The fete at Mons, on the' opening of the railway to Mons, was very brilliant. The King and Queen were received with very much of loyal affection. Their Majesties left Mons to-day, at half-past eleven, by a special train, and arrived at Brussels at two o'clock. Much delay was caused by the detestable weather. The road in several places was under water. STATE OF TRADE-..KIRKALDY.—The gent neral distres s i s only begintring4o be 'felt . here. In the t )wn and diitrict there are About 2;000 looms, and until within these two months past' they have been all well employed, and yet our trade 'has . been long in a lan guishing state ; two facts which'can only be reconciled by supposing, what we believe to be the case; that our manufacturers manage their affairs With more prudence than happens elsewhere. But a sad change is now taking place ; we see many of the weavers going about seeking work, and cannot find it ; and it will still be worse with them, as the manufacturers, unable to go on any longer, are daily drawing in.—Scotsman. A LOCK-JAW FROM THE PRICK OF A PIN. —Yesterday morning, Mrs. Mary Peacock, residing at No. 14, Henrietta -street, Manchester-square, was admit ted into the Middlesex Hospital, having been seized with a locked jaw. It appears that she had been washing some linen last night, when she - accidently ran a pin into her left thumb, which has occasioned lock jaw. MORNN`S , - -.-) present stands, the duty on wheat when selling , at 6 5 e• per quarter is 21s. Bd. ; when at 505., is 365. Bd, ;wb el3 at 365. per quarter, it m oun t s t o t h e absurd heig; a 4 f o l 535. Bd. A concession w hi c h su b st i tutes 5s- fb r ,, i , ?..0 1 and 20s. for 535., is c ert a i n ly no i ncons id era ble ao*i,s ment of the claims; of the agriculturists, and we i i 7.11, probably consider Mr. Christopher in a great w easel a, as speaking in the character of their representative. 16-0 will be observed that Mr. Christopher proposes to Pr e- I serve intact the principle of a sliding scale. eittifn ° l7 t ledging, however, the evils to which it gives OCC 3S . b . i and the fraudulent tampering with the averages evhn - " invites, he p roposes . to remedy these mischiefs --first, I,:i the change just mentioned in the details of the sealet„ i +: 1 no part of which is any such rapid rise of duty to b e 1 1' 0 troduced as existed in the previous scale at the prfc . , t eL n . 705., 715., 725., and 735., where the duties were resE ,Lds Lively 10s. Bd., 6s. Bd., 2s, Bd., and Is., and, secondlYt .'!. 7 40 drawing the materials from which the a verages Virg to be compiled from the gr6wer, instead of i dealer, demanding, indeed, separate retnins ft, et each party, but using the latter only as a ch _, 31 ,0 upon the former. With all this, however, Mr. Chri'tVe pher states himself to be decidedly opposed to any aft ration of the principle of the Coin-laws, to which 1 a 7 considers that we owe the import a nt f ac t, that from 181 ~ to 1838 the price of wheat h as var i e d l es s in Eng ian than in any other country except Sweden, and eery f nn ; siderably less than in any of those countries and cities. which he quotes, except, St. P e t ers b urg h, and perbq r : ' Trieste. Now this is very m uc h th e ki n d of reed' which we expected from Si r R o b er t P e el's Govern ment. And all those who, with this paper, have adv o cated the gradual relaxation of th e existing restrictiuiosce —whether they are or a r e no t p re p are d to aecl e to in this as a final arrangement,—have great reaso n on congratulate themselves at the amount of coneessi .11 which is at once tendered. H ow f ar this scheme . ~ meet the views of certain of our C onser v a tive Con te ;l r poraries who were filled with vi r t uous i n dignation a t ° li o f daring, some few months since, to predict something le the kind, we will not venture to divine, but them to settle with Mr. Christopher ad their and the leisure. With regard to the amendment proposed in ° means of taking the averages, we have little to , t 7 i , It is a practical question, full of minute dii etur which we hope his scheme may be effectual in n, to coming. At the seine time we may be alloweu to say, that, his statement, of, what he almost avowyso/ve. be the Government scheme, seems likely to in Of a good deal. thati j is. artificial and complicated. Ao ., - this, however, it is plainly impossible to inu ti 7 i t till we have, .the details_ before us.. On the anl ci od i, of evils resulting from the system in its present un ni t . 9 . will lets fled form, he and every one else have and can but one opinion. The sliding scale may not be luaus 4itt' 'lnch ' but the attempt to cure it is an experiment which f t look on with considerable diffidence of its tuecess'soe would be unjust both to our Contemporary, whoseyen guine prophecies of Corn-law inviolability we ar e i f we turing to discredit, as well as to Mr. Christophe r, "het neglected to confess that this latter gentleman s °ln a ll o on' energetically disclaims the character of ' pilot b ye so with which we may seem to have saddled him. ti de et far from wishing to throw doubt on his disclaime e r ' th is still we cannot help thinking that we do cm; tho se expression of sentiment on his part to some °,.' w ee CO unconscious sympathies between members of ti'L l ing party which we may contintially observe deleSw. themselves in the strangest and most incredible ee;;;r0 dences. Whether by a mysterious intuition, or b Y o hortt similarity of principle, o r by an y ot h er process _ low of course, of the obvious and ordinary modes of ene7tpeet nication betw een man an d man), we can not but of to find that the mind o f M r . Ch r i s t op h er and thn n s f sno our Conservative governors h ave b een m ovie ; ill un ison in this matter of the Corn-laws ; and we shall he'V it , to to bear the blame of some p resumpt i on in our c w ere divine that able gentleman's mind and motives events clearly than he is himself abl e t o ana ly s e them, I do not before long bear out our predictions.i' DIONEY—TRADE—CODIIVEZSCr" he ld on At the meeting of the East India Proprietors, ~,,0 0 Wednesday, Mr. Montgomery Martin presented 31 " lint ile rial to the Court, signed by every East Indian Ine, re o tra de firm of consequence. Its import was to show t° ru i n ed and manufactures of India to h ave been utterly f wh i c h by the competition of thi s c oun t r y ,• one instance costs he gave in the fact, that a pi ece o f b an d a nnas, w iT ul e o bject at Madras 205., costs only Bs. a t Glasgow. H is e tediet was to obtain a reductio n on th e piece goods 0 - shaw ls. particularly those of cott on manu f ac t u re and on 00 the The motion was seconded, but finally withdravr,n4 e the suggestion of the Chair man th a t a p e tition woul".„d the most effectual way of c a r r yi ng ou t his views;. °- measure was left in the hands of the Directors! COMMERCIAL =roam- be d by t he Upwards of 100/. h ave a l rea dy b ee n subscribe d lion Manchester Penny-a-week Anti-Corn-law Stlhentir Committee. A noble example for other toivns. h t on the At a lecture delivered on Wednesday nig' cos peet s Corn-laws, by Col. Thompson, he stated that the coming of the Corn-law Repealers were every day be pad`' brighter. Free-trade principles must and do keep and the energies of the people are daily rallying' , ,t thfi Mr. Taylor delivered a lecture on Wednesdef . 0 1 0 0, 10 s soea es t e Metropolitan Young Men's Anti-Monopoly A _ orn ete inti . e on the Corn-laws, after which the meeting 1 1 ,t, : „ Jo- ~a the 3d of NAVAL AND 11127.XT.algiri ff V COO ; Lord Saltoun, with the three ships appointed uow l o y, 0 out troops to China, sailed from Plymouth on ~.., e t teir ° The Lords Commissioners of the .Adali r " .0 - mile 13 via ' c o t placed at the disosal of the Council of the A.0g,.. h , OW School, two annual nominati-ms of volunteemoi '- ~,.100'4 lass in the Royal Navy to the two most meritorious e ,, lars,of the establishment destined for the naval ser/i e ,04 LAW AND POLICE. e The commission of lunacy which was ex p e cted t° a • been issued against Daniel Gundry, Esq., w ho has 5 1 - p ts used himself so' much lately by assaulting his ser.`Ot is and the police, tind for which he was put under restt,ieg a lunatic asylum, ivill not take place, a eaves, t iqu irf. been entered at the Lunacy-of fi ce, preventing sucl inc eln'e A Jury, composed of thirteen benchers o! . ., l ai n gs, t?. Inn, was empanelled on Wednesday, at Stone-n_Theate of inquire into the, circumstances attending tilt; witnes ses John Miller, Eeq., QC... The examinatio n °I stated in elicited elicited nothing further than has, before antr al d e ath. eii The Sun, and the verdict returned was e N rs. vai ritt ii R. Johnson, a man in thegemployment of Me7; s lro d o esdaktcf and Co., of the Westminster-road, was on, 1 „,,. 5 to tb_ i n ffr charged at Union Hall with robbing his emPi pledge'ili amount of 1001.; 75 duplicates of various ar t icl es w itted. „,-oe by him were produced, and he was fully eon; s h o ut lu,jl Dr. Mullins, who was dangerously s talohel th ,toeSt it days ago, by a lunatic gentleman named Gr im . qu arete ot applied to Mr. Burrell on Wedne sday at Que en i - t alins. tu e ,,:a know whether, upon the depositions of 1)r• '''` or wake s Magistrates would send Mr. Evans for trial,' ,00. dtoThls representation of the case to Sir James Gran dread latter will be pursued, and the case stands a r A ~i if to Tuesday weels. Mr. Leaky, a solicitor, brought an action 011 1 ,V e r d ri n o e i s '"olb in the Court of Coinmon Pleas against the M,, 9 %i1t °I-'f Westmeath, for the recovery of an Attorne y Sari Seri costs incurred iii the various suits taken by n ot ice, }_-; t - , an d chioness against his Lordship, in the c ei Court, the English and Irish Courts of C the Rouse of Lords. The case occupied the ta b o o s be ._ entire day, when all parties agreed that its g oonn ts :..; turned into a special case. The amount clairaen to nearly 4,0001. hanceltiii the S • r j :11 P. 4 APa G E S AND thibltt r )3 tlitth tt. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The French Journals state that there is no longer a doubt of the condemnation of M. Dupoty, by the Court of Peers. This is the crowning atrocity of that infamous Tribunal. M. Dupoty had just as much to do with the attempt to assassinate the Royal Princes, as he had with the assassination of Henry IV. of France, or the massacre of St. Bartholomew, or any other crime committed a cen tury before he was born. The Peers know this, but they want to establish a precedent for crushing the last re mains of the freedom of the press. The prosecution of Dupoty . has even stirred the phlegm of our German Contemporaries. The Augsburgh Gazette, with the approbation of the Censor, comments thus strongly upon it :—" The prosecution in progress against Dupoty is a serious affair, and we are not astonished at the energetic complaints made in that respect by the Opposition prints ; on the contrary, in fact, we feel bound to admit that they are just. It cannot be denied that the French press at this moment is placed in a position of extreme danger." The Constitutionnel announces that a promotion of Peers would be made before the opening of the session. Among them are to be two or three members of the Institute, and M. Gasco, President of the Chamber of the Court of Accounts. A French Peerage will soon be a mark of infamy. To stamp the character of a political scoundrel, the King will only have to create him a Peer. To be enrolled in the list cf Peers will be to have reach ed the lowest depth of political infamy. The Journal des Debats has the following observations on the eomtnents provoked by the change in the Cabinet and diplomacy of Russia :—" Several Journals, in an nouncing the nomination of M. de Boutinieff to be Mi nister. Plenipotentiary from Russia to the French Go vernment, have attached to it a great political impor tance : but there is nothing in it but what is, very. simple. A long time . ago the Emperor Nicholas deci,ded that he would have only Ministers Plenipotepgmy , or charges d'Affaires at the several Courts of - Europe - . Prince Lieven, Ambassador at London, has, - in' . ,consequence, been replaced by M. deßrnnow, and M. 'de Tatischeff, who was Ambassador at Vienna, by Al. de Medem. Yet this has not prevented England and Austria from keep ing Ambassadors at St. Petersburgh."t The Madrid Gazette of the 14th inst. announces that 50 negro slaves in the Island of. Cuba revolted, and shut themselves up in a factory. A detachment of troops was called out, fired upon the poor wretches, and killed 6 and wounded 10 of them. None of the soldiers were in jured, from whence we may infer that the revolt might have been put down without this murderous effiision of blood. A letter from 'Madrid, of the 13th inst., contains :the following:—" M. de Salvandy has since his arrival here already, received several important personages, particu, lady the President of the Council, and Sir A. Aston, the British Minister, to both of whom this day M. de Sal vandy returned their visits. The conference between Sir A. Aston and M. de Salvandy was of long duration. M. de Salvandy is to be presented to the Queen and the Regent at the same time in two or three days. The pre sentation will take place with great state. The Madrid Gazette contains a circular to the poli tical chiefs of the different provinces, ordering them to set at liberty all persons who, in consequence of the affair of the 7th September, were arrested by way of pre caution, unless there be charges against them which it is intended to bring before the tribunals. The Castellano states that the Jury of Accusation for offences of the public Press has decided that there are grounds for the prosecution of the Corrco Nacional and the Conservador, for articles inserted in those Journals. A letter from- Mahon, of the 21st November, in the Correo Nacional, announces the arrival there of an Ame rican squadron from the Levant, consisting of the Brandywine frigate of 60 guns, the Cyane corvette of 24 guns, and the Preble corvette of 24 gans. The Diaria di Boom says that a fresh persecution of Catholic Missionaries h as t a k en pl ace in China, and that the Vicar Apostolic, M. Ignace Dalgado, has been put to death with the most excruciating tortures. Up wards of 20 other Christians are said to have also been put to death. PUBLIC OPINION. The Morning Post says :—" It is a pity these Whigs are so deaf to reason, and so. blind to the signs of the times. If it were not so, they would have discovered, long ere this, that the British public are weary of pro mises, and think that an ounce of performance is not only worth a pound of promise, but any other measure able quantity. The Conservative Ministers, notwith standing their refusal to make pledges, or to state what they were going to do, before they had means of consi dering what ought to be done, are really believed to in tend to do much more than their predecessors, with all their fine promises. True, the Whigs said that if they were continued in office they would confer prodigious benefit upon the commerce of England by the encourage ment of free trade. True, they said that they would re plenish the exhausted Treasury by relieving the public from the , payment of taxes. True, they said that the British public was very sensible of the soundness of their policy, and would record their approval if they had an op• portunity, though the late House of Commons would not. But what signified all these sayings ? Were the people thus to be beguiled fir ever,? No ; they judged of the truth and sincerity of what was said by what had been done."—The Tories are yet to be tried, and if they ac quit themselves on their trial with but half As much suc cess as the Whigs have done, notwithstanaing their fre quent errors of policy, they will take the country as much by surprise, as if on some fine morning they were to turn-patriots, But, as we have already takee occa sion to observe, we have little hope that the Tories will falsify the notions generally entertained of 4iiem49f , dc The Herald recommends the immediate !expulsion of • the Rev. Mr. Palmer froth Magdalen College. Oxford, in consequence of his late declaration in favour of unmiti gated Puseyism :—" We call on the President and Fel lows of Magdalen, if they have any regard and reve rence for the memory of Hough, to take immediate steps to ensure the removal of this hater of Protestantism from their society. They are bound, as they value their own character, to make this appeal to their visitor. The College tutor who dares to anathematise the principle of Protestantism, can have no feelings of loyalty to the House of Hanover. He must secretly detest the Revolu tion, which expelled a Papist, and which can alone be justified by the principle of Protestantism. Is this the man that should still be allowed to remain a tutor in the University of Oxford ? Is this the man to instruct our young divines in the principles of our Protestant Church ? We lately pointed out a case in which the Bishop of Oxford was called upon to examine into the, charge that auri cu l ar confession was notoriously admi nistered by some of the Puseyite clergy in his diocese. But the present case is, if possible, still more flagrant. It is that of a Fellow and tutor denouncing the principles of our reformation from Popery."--If the Puseyites have any regard for consistency of character, they will all, to a man, quit the Protestant Church, for it is highly im proper—to use the most courteous term—to continue to receive the emoluments of an Establishment to which they are opposed on more than one vital point. Advo cating Catholic doctrines, let them go over to the Ca. tholic Church, and then, however we may differ from them, we shall at least respect their manliness of spirit: We take the • following from the Advertiser :—" Our Paper of yesterday recorded another death from starva tion. The unhappy victim was a poor woman residing in Chelsea. Such deaths are—we write it with horror— becoming matters of hourly occurrence in all the manu facturing districts. We can scarcely glance our eye over the columns of a provincial journal without encounter ing one or more instances of mortality from this cause. No one will ask, what produces the starvation which ter minates in death ? There are not, and cannot be, two opinions on the point. Even the monopolists themselves know, though they will not acknowledge the fact, that the great cause of all our commercial embarrassments, and of the penury and destitution which now prevail to so dreadful an extent—terminating in so many instances in death—is the odious impost on foreign corn. That tax is a hideous English Juggernaut, the workmanship of a cruel Legislature, and the monopolists are so many priests for whose special benefit thousands of our coun trymen are daily crushed beneath its ponderous wheels." —There is scarcely a large town in England in which, dur ing the last few inclement weeks, many deaths have not occurred from absolute starvation, with all its train of protracted horrors. Apt comment this on Tory legisla tion, and Tory monopoly ! Starvation at Christmas ! There is a world of impressive meaning in these few words. The Chronicle gives the following seasonable hints to the great : Tory. landholders:—" The landowners may depend Ote,it that the nation will not long submit to the injustice which, in order to swell already inordinate rents, does not scruple to sacrifice the best interests of the country. A terrible retribution awaits them, if they do ,not in time listen to the demands of a people who seek ouly to exchange their industry for the bread which they cannot obtain at home. Pride will have a fall,' if they do not take warning in time. Let them bear in mind that laws derive their force from the conviction that all are benefited by them. Desperation is eating into the heart of the poor workman, who, looking info the faces of his starving children, envies the fate of those who have suc ceeded in effecting their escape from a country afflicted by all the evils which follow in the train of Corn-laws." The Times thus expresses itself on the subject of an alteration in the Corn-laws, which was alluded to in a speech lately delivered by Mr. Christopher to his Lin colnshire constituents :—" A speech which has just reached us, delivered by Mr. Christopher, M.P. for Lin colnshire, to his constituents, on the subject of the Corn laws, will be perused with no inconsiderable interest. The connexion to which that gentleman alludes as sub sisting between himself and the Duke of Bucking ham, the information which he quotes as coming to him from a gentleman who is in communication with the Government,' and the distinct tone of his proposals, mark it out as almost affording pretty clear indications of what may be expected from the Conservative Ministry, and from the agricultural interest. Mr. Christopher consi ders that the law should aim at fixing the price of wheat as nearly as possible between 665. and 655. per quarter. This he pronounces to be the extent of protection which may be justly claimed as necessary to the farmer's well-being, and conceded without unfairness to the rest of the com munity. And this, or something like this, he proposes to secure, by affixing a minimum duty of ss. per q uar t er on wheat, when the averages amount to or exceed the --- t exe sum of 655. and then, as prices decrease, increasing the duty (at what rate he does not mention) till it arrives at The tobacco monopo ly law of e F brua r i' 2 185 • its maximum of at least 205., or at most 30s. For our- on the Ist of January, 1842, but a 0 , y anu ary, - in France was •°,,, selves we co uld scarce suppose that Sir Robert Peel would prolonged its duration until the Ist t into operation; suggest even the least of these sums—an anticipation The new law will accordingly com e of tobacco P r ' d e taf..; ed which would not be weakened by considering the body few ap t ys. In 1816 the manufacture .e 46,3 00 to whose tastes Mr. Christopher was adapting his pro- 3.3,000,000 f.; in 1823, 41,500,000 f.; ; ittel p esa ls. But taking it at 205., it must be allowed that ,in 1834, 50,800;000E . ; in 1839, 64,50 0 this would be a very material change. • 'Ai the scale at I 1840, by revaluation, 70,000,000 f, SPORTzpro. head ° f Sudbury Park contains a herd of nearly 1 000 , deer. 1- ' g rous e Friday,' the 10th instant; was the last day O afopt shooting. Though there has been no scarcity" „o.D,tlitn:f on the Derbyshire moors, a sort of epidemic •anl°,7l,uolo) birds has strewn them about the heather, helplefeeem7iivl able to move. eld ,1 814. a19 (4 THEATRICAL. i 9 00; 91 We see by,the Madrid papers that Rubini con ili ,r be a great favourite in Madrid, and that the t r -2.u_`Tt , - 0; her sister are generally present when he perform•sta 4 / si engagement has expired, but he has undertaken te,i.'ll4ol twice for the benefit of the charitable establishal jo(11,0 the capital. ~w0a, , ,,54 COURT---rAszIONABLZ. 4(1 d Sir J. Graham left town on Wednesday on a , ,o - t/ 4 /3 0 her Majesty at Windsw Castle. • VAitTrtli Lord Bagot will entertain a large circle at Blit •,,, Aii 'l ' I his seat near Stafford, next week. Sir IL Peel left town on Wednesday afternoon fe0r60.13111 seat, Drayton Manor, Staffordshire. no fig ht ol, l) oo Baronet travelled by the London and Birminaha°3 t fi l 3 he t -, lf I ' way, and left the terminus in Euston-square Y o'clock train. The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch arrived at D al ' Palace last week. „ Lt . ' : ed a t MaltaV isc f o r u o n m t G C j a h s r t e l i e t r e e r a , Castlereagh theirand ,a party have - iv The Marquis and Nfarchioness of Norman. gir T e h n e u p Ar t a h r e g i u r i p s roajnedcted Marchionesseontinental: tour for Londoedlock- i) ton-on-Tees,the Ladies Saturday W l 2 s r t n , y a fr r do from t o , u n n e t ar ,s te A IPA: m t tht b s Y P hil i alr ii : .1 Newtownarda, Ireland. The Noble and Gali ttll CA:l 3 quis and his amiable Marchioness receive a suc cess l til l , • ,, t visitors at the former seat during the h o lidaYsm, re o t4 •ig The Earl and Countess of Gainsborough I"' ~, 0 i a ,- , company at Exton during next month. rabli ll 79 lP The Earl and Countess of Limerick are asse- - „, .10 0 ,..0 0 14 large circle of distinguished relatives at South-hP' '''-', 3 ' l ', sli ,- in Berks. nun , e totts, The Marquis of Salisbury is entertaining!. T r • I ' o o and distinguished circle at Hatfield during this wee -- I, ' ) "',b inniczia..aNzous.'- ", ,9 Six large corn stores are being built in the t0 m ,40.• • Headford, Limerick, at ihe sole expense of the be ll- lent landlord, R. St. George, Esq. f• Bre ° The Visiting Justic es o f the o unty gaol °' tien are stated to have dr a w n u p a memorial for presentaner l to her Majesty in f avour o f the six Chartist Pri,'"sf,,,ir now undergoing th e sen t ence of two years hard „. each in that pri son , an d p ra ying her Majes t y lOOl be g;.airir ciously pleased to remit the remaining p ortion sentence. RUMOURS or =TIM DAT. s ot The Duke of Buckingham, the Duke of Beaufort, ot Earl de Grey, are candidates for the` blue ribuard r c i l a s by the death of the late Earl of Westmorland. : -it .. 00 not been definitively arranged upon w hom the sele4ll,o will fall, but it is understood t hat the claim o f the P of Beaufort will probably be preferred. tha t A rumour has prevailed this week at Brighton; , o f her Majesty is expected to arrive here in the cou SC LO the ensuing month ; but no intelligence to that e ffec t . 1',... e been received at the Palace, and we believe that tee' exists no foundation for the report. the hersh, now Earl of Westmo rland, is s p oken of as 'I Courtis s stated tee of Spain, tli atSi Sir A. been Aston, recalled, British A aed ni L b aiisrsda dßour Ithis successor. -....mmimillMONNlM....l•lon.. —nil. .~ db ... rill%