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EVENING SUN MR. AINSWORTH'S NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE. In 3 vols. post Bvo., illustrated with Twenty large Designs on OLD S SteeAl Nl by Fran T klin, 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 ihcidents 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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UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS, THIS EVENING, DEC. 15, Will be repeated the New Comedy, entitled COURT AND ClTY.—Captain Dangerfield, Mr. W. Lacy ; Sir Paladin Scruple, Mr. W. Parrett ; Sir Harry Whiffle, Mr. C. Ma thews ; Sir Hector Itumbush, Mr. Bartley ; Mr. Winning ton, Mr. Cooper; Humphrey Rumbush, Mr. Harley; Lady Whiffle, Madame Vestris ; Mrs. Charmington, Mrs. Nisbett; Lady Dangerfield, Mrs. W. West ; Barbara Bearbinder, Mrs. W. Lacy. After which, the New Farce, entitled UNITED SERVICE. Captain Whistleborough, Mr. W. Farren; Capt. Pacific, RN., Mr. Bartley ; Rivet, Mr. C. Mathews ; Mr. Euclid Bam. Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Coo, Mrs. Glover ; Mrs. Walker, Airs. Orger. After which the Ballet Divertissement of THE WOODEN LEG.—Principal Characters by Mr. Gilbert and Miss Bailin, Master and Miss Marshall, Messrs. J. and T. Ridgway, Miss Jackson, &c. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to eommence at Seven. 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The leader which weeopy from the Times, on Conference, the Midland Counties is replete with ignorance and malice ,—i gnoran ce both of details and of principles, and malice that seeks to wou n d by the most unblushing asse rt i ons. That journ a l s p ea ks the language of a great party which, un happily for the moment, i s t h e masteroi the State, and w ill make us pay a l onger homage to it than would otherwise be necessary. The Times says that the millowners, " finding* their confederates are displaced, and that it is no longer of any service to conceal their Own Pur poses, remove the mask from their faces and th e bridle from their tongues, and call Out op en l y and lustily for the'repeal of all agricultural pro tection whatsoever." It quotes tile . language used by Mr. COBIJEN 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 it writes about. Its ignorance of principles is equally palpable and 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 peace., It seeks, therefore, in a peddling spirit, to make the world believe, contrary to all experience, that the commercial P ni Verity of one nation is the injury and ruin of another. From 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 tidse, therefore, as it is diabolical, to represent the progress of other nations as the cause of the decay and suffering of England. By OUT Jaws we have given a forced direction to the industry of other countries, and made Moreover, the language of the Times implies that the landowners and the rnilloivners 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 Tory 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 Tunes 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 Rethrm 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 nut, 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 i n t o a bank ing,- house, and th e 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 to take 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 aristocracy. To that end consistency, honour, m ercy, charity, and justice, are all to be sa crificed. Whether that will not be consi sidered too costly a price to pay for the preservation of a body of Protestant landowners, we must leavetinte and the public to decide. To find such an article in the Times would much alarm did not its l ate inconsistencies deprive it of all u s :veight and authority. e In another part of The S insert an arti cle from the Berwick Advertiser, describing part i cu l a r instances, the h ostility of the ia, by nd - - own ers to the progress of manuf acturers, and their resolution to keep them do wn . Appended to it is a paragraph, taken from the Mornin g Chronicle, stating that the Ir ish landlord s are still engaged in the work of clearing their estates of people whom they and other landlords w i ll not allow to find employment in manuflictures. 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 some justification in their own won derful superiority, and in the horrid cruelties 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 Times, more worthy ofa 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. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1841. 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 Pest was the only London Journal that espoused the • cause of Louis PHILIPPE against the Spaniards; 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-Churchsparty, 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 livings 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. BLOXHA3f, 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 some 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," he 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. The practice so generally adopted by the pre sent Government of making fresh batches of Tory Magistrates to swamp those appointed by the Whigs, has naturally excited great dissatisfac tion in many Boroughs. Several Corpora tions hav e protested against it, and others have co nvened meetings of the inhabitants for the purpose of devising some plan to abate the evils arising out of the appointment of political Justices. A. large meeting (to which we adverted yesterday) was held at Devonport last week on the subject, and as it is one of great importance at the present moment, we have given as full a report of the proceedings as space would admit. The plan of Mr. LITTLE for ap pointing Stipendiary Magistrates we fear will not succeed. The expense is one objection —an other is, that the appointment of these would be materially influenced by party feelings ; and a third is, that the depriving men of pro perty and influence in a town of the administra tion of justice in petty cases might lead to greater evils than the present. The best remedy is pub licity. If the press in provincial towns, as in London, were to watch the conduct of the Jus tices and report their proceedings impartially, they could not do much mischief. In the Metropolis the unpaid—the old worthy Alder men, are infinitely better Magistrates than the juvenile barristers who have a little law, but are sadly deficient in practical knowledge, and still more deficient in the exer cise of that sympathy and kindly feeling which a Lord Mayor or an Alderman generally dis plays in administering justice to his fellow-citi zens. We have watched the two systems long, and have no hesitation in saying that in the one we may generally expect law and equity—in the other only law, often carried to the verge of ab surdity, with loop-holes pointed out by Learned Justices to let great criminals escape, and little meshes formed to catch petty offenders. The Hanover Gazette of the 9th inst., received this morning, contains the following article BRUNSWICK, DEC. B.—We have just heard that the Assembly of the State has revoked the resolution of the 3d of this month, and has to-day adopted, by a great ma jority, the proposal of the Governors, by which the ac cession of Brunswick to the great Customs Union, is to take place on the Ist of January, 1842; only the district of the Weser and Hartz is to remain for another year in the Customs Union of Hanover and Aldenburg. :HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, DEc. 10. Bills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. ................. 107 N lON Bank Shares 16211 1615 Anglo-Russian Loan IOS% r1). 4 Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Sezios 10k.5 Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th Series .•... ..... ••• ...... •••••• ........ Ditto in Certificates New 4 per Cent. (1840) 86% 86% Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 51);•, 50 X Ditto.... ..... . . •••• ....... so spercent ...... ••••••••••••• — Polish Bonds New ticket Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per 77% 77 Notwegian Lean, 1834, 4 per 10'2% 1021 X Spanish, New 5 per Cents. ls IS EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, DEC. 10.-13 7.—Two months, 13 514 PeTicesanitun, Nor 30.—Two months, 3e% pence. BERLIN. DEC, 7. Three months, 6. IP%. BREMEN, DEC. 7 —Two months, 6 17. VIENNA, DEC. 2.—Three months, 9. 35. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Beaux, Dec. 7, Bills. Money. St. Schuld. Sch., 4% per cent. 104% 10314 Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cenL 102% 101% 11‘,IChaage on London, three months tl 1954 —Prussian State Gaulle, Dec. 8. Madrid Journals of the 7th inst. have reached us. The Madrid Gazette of that date publishes a decree of the REGENT, suppressing the whole of the infantry and cavalry of the Royal Guard, the officers of which all belonged to noble fami lies. These corps are to be replaced by two re proes of infant r y an d two o f cava l ry. The Fr enc h ma il , wh i ch reached Madrid on m the 6th, was robbed within a short distance of the capital. The correspondence, however, was spared. Mr. Rumr.v, M.P., one of the travellers, was among the victims. The Ministry had prepared a Municipal-Bill, which was said to be extremely liberal, and would no doubt meet the approbation of the Cortes. The funeral of the Duke DE L'INFANTADO was celebrated with great Pomp on the 7th. Several changes had occurred in the Spanish c olps diplomatique. M. CONCHA, brother of tl2, General of that name, having resigned the post of Minister• of Spain in Greece, was to be re placed by M. SAENZ DE VINIEGRA, the present Consul of Spain in Marseilles. M. TovAn, the Spanish Co - nsul at Perpignan, has been removed in the same capacity to Bayonne; and M. FER RARI was to succeed him in Perpignan. The Five per Cents. were done on the 7th at all for cash. The Paris Journals of Monday announce, as we stated in our Second Edition of last nialit, the important intelligence that the French army is to be reduced by about 89,000 men. Still. France will have a standing army of 344,000 men—an enormous military force in a period of profound peace. The saving on the budget of 1843 will be 30,000,000 of francs, or 1,200,000/. sterling, which will be sunk in the ditch with which the KING persists in surrounding his faithful Parisians. The Court of Peers is still busy trying the pri soners. M. LEDRU ROLLIN ably defended M. DUPOTY, Editor of the Journal die Peuple ; but it is generally rumoured that the Peers have made up their minds to condemn him. Nothing is more likely. Before the Court of Peers inno cence is no protection. It is undoubtedly the most infamously servile tribunal in France. The Chancellor, Baron PASQUIER, is one of those renegades who, in getting rid of their principles get rid of all shame. There is no work too foul for him either as a legislator, a Judge, or a Councillor of State. Many of his associates on the judicial bench have well quali fied themselves by the betrayal of every cause, and the abandonment of every principle, to vote with him for the condemnation of M. DUPOTY. But M. DUPOTY is an able and an honest man, and as the September Laws failed to reach him, the Court of Peers strains its power to involve him in the meshes of a charg. of constructive treason. The Peers challenge him to deny that the conspira tors read his journal, and, because he cannot do that, declare him accessory to the attempt on the lives of the Royal Dukes. Now, if this logic be admitted, we see no reason why those who supplied the conspirators with their breakfast on the morning of the attempt should not be brought before the Peers.• Supplying them with food was supplying them with strength to perpetrate their crime. But the real object of the Peers is to crush the Liberal Press. The condemnation of M.DUPOTY is wanted for a precedent, and then we shall hear of nothing but trials of the National, the Siecle, the Quotidienne, and the France, on charges of constructive treason. The September Laws are too mild, so the Peers have resolved to dispense with them altogether, by making themselves judges of all offences committed by the journals. Marshal Soult has addressed the following report to the King as the basis of the law, which follows it : " Sire—The extension given to the army in 1840 by the creation of 12 regiments of light infantry of the line, 9 battalions of foot chasseurs, 1 battalion of the foreign legion, 4 regiments of light cavalry, 32 batteries of artil lery, 17 commissariat companies, and five other compa nies, has augmented considerably the effective of the army and its expenses. This augmentation, altogether owing to extraordinary circumstances, to which able negotiations have given a favourable turn, cannot be kept up without weighing too heavy on the public Trea sury. Hence the urgent necessity of reduction. This task, delicate as difficult, I have undertaken, premising that the law of necessity could not have put a War Mi nister's devotion to a more painful trial. The first plan that suggested itself was to reduce the new regiments, which was demanded by the two Chambers, at least the reduction of the twelve regiments. This reduction I have not proposed to your Majesty, lest it might com promise your Royal prerogative with the army, besides that the expenses would not thereby be sufficiently dimi nished. The number of battalions and squadrons seems equally inadmissible. A proportionate reduction of the force of each arm was also objectionable, the artillery and cavalry not being so easily augmented at need as the infantry. A system of reduction by means of leave of absence would also be objectionable, since to produce the desired economy, companies would be reduced to some thirty or forty men, an altogether inefficient force for a company, besides that the system could not be ap plied to the troops at Algiers. My proposal, then, is to reduce a company of each battalion of infantry, which will diminish the army from the effective voted tbr 1642, VIZ., 433,000 men, to 344,000 in 1843, and thus economise thirty millions." The rest of the Report but anticipates the particulars of the Ordonnance, which is as follows : CHAPTER I.—PEACE FOOTING. " Art. I.—The army is composed of the following corps: —Infantry 100 regiments of the line, and light infantry of 3 battalions, with 7 companies ; 1 of Grena diers, 1 of Carbineers, 1 of Voltigeurs, and 1 in depot; 10 battalions of Foot Chasseurs of 8 companies each, two of which are to be in depot for those employed in Alge ria; 1 regiment of Zouaves employed in Algeria. autho rised to enlist natives, and formed of 3 battalions of 9 companies each, one of which is to be in depot ; 3 batta lions of African Light Infantry of 10 companies each, two in depot; 12 Compagnies de Discipline ; 1 Foreign Le gion, forming two regiments of 3 battalions, with 8 com panies each.—Cavalry : 2 regiments of Carbineers ; 10 of Cuirassiers ; 12 of Dragoons ' • 8 of Lan cers ; 1 3 o f Chasseurs; 9of Hussars ; eac h of 5 squadrons. The ca valry also comprises 4 regiments of African Chasseurs of 6 squadrons each.—Artillery : 14 regiments, viz., 10 with 15 batteries, and 4 with 14 batteries, and a depot for each regiment ; 1 regiment of Pontonniers of 12 companies; 12 companies of working men; half a company of Armourers; 6 squadrons of Park Train of 8 companies each : Engineers; 3 regiments of 2 battalions of 8 com panies each, one of which is to be of Miners, and seven of Sappers; each regiment will have besides a company of Sapeurs-Conducteurs, 2 companies of work ing men.—Gendarmerie : 26 legions, one of which is to be employed in Africa ; 1 battalion of Voltigeurs of 4 companies, employed in Corsica as auxiliary to the Gen darmerie ; 1 legion of Municipal Guard at Paris ; 1 bat talion of Sapeurs-Pompier s of 5 companies at Paris.— Veterans : 8 companies of non-commissioned officers ; 10 of Fusileers ; 4 of Cavalry ; 13 of Cannoneers ; 1 of Engineers ; 2 of G endar merie.—Administration : 1 bat talion of Workmen of 10 companies each, and one in depot ; 4 squadrons of the Waggon -train of 4 active companies each, and 1 in depot ; 4 companies of working men attached to the Train. —Article 11: The composi tion of the cadres in the different corps of all arms is to be conformably to the table annexed to the pre sent Ordonnance. " CHAPTER 11.---WAR-FOOTING. " Article 3. Each battalion of the regiments of Infan try of the lino and light infantry may, when put on the war-footing,to nine comp an i es , one o f 'There pu may be equa ll y f orme d a which tobe in b d e ep carried ot. fourth battalion of the regiments of infantry, according to the wants of the service. —Article 4. The 54 regi ments of cavalry, with five squadrons, may be carried up to six squadrons each.—Article 5. In case of war there shall be formed for the service of the staffs of the army two regiments of Horse-Chasseurs, as guides of six squadrons each.—Article 6. Our Minister of War shall determine, according to the wants of the service, the number of batteries and companies of Artillery to be put on the war-footing. There shall be created in the re giments of Poatonniers, and in each of the six squadrons of the park train, a cadre of depot.—Article 7. Each battalion of the regiments of engineers shall be carried, when put on the war footing, to nine companies, one of which is to be miners and eight sappers, and there shall be besides two companies in depot.—Article 8. There shall be created two temporary companies for each squadron of the waggon train, when put on the war footing. " CHAPTER M. - RESERVE. " Art. 9. Men sent on furlough in virtue of article 30 of the law of the 21st of March, 1832, form the reserve of the army. They are to be subject to half-yearly re views, the periods and duration of which are fixed by the Minister of War. —Article 10. The men who form part of the reserve, shall be called under their respective standards, in case of war ; and in time of peace, when extraordinary wants of the service may require it." A fourth chapter contains transitory dispositions ; and the ordonnance is followed in the Moniteur, by a state ment of the composition of the cadres of the army. The Barcelona papers of the 4th instant contain a de claration by the Provisional Junta of that city to the French Consul, contradicting the rumours that French subjects had been assassinated or insulted, and protest ing that the inhabitants of Barcelona are animated by the feelings of friendship which unite the French and Spanish Governments. The journals also give the reply of the French Consul, in which he also contradicts the reports alluded to, and states that he has given assuran ces to his Government of the protection afforded to French subjects at Barcelona. A letter from this city states that the return of tranquillity is likely to lead to many public improvements, and mentions that the city is to be lighted with gas, a contract having been entered into for that purpose with Mr. Grafton, an eminent English gas-engineer and 'Contractor, who has exten sive contracts df the same nature in Paris and other places on the Continent. :Within these forty-eight hours the Ministers have sent numerous negotiations to M. Lamartine and M. Sauzet. ' It is even said that two Ministers in person have visited the former. They have entreated him formally to re nounce the Presidency. After long parleying, the Min isters were at first resolved to remain neuter, but yes terday evening it was affirmed that, after londebates in the Council o f Ministers it was decided to reject M. de Lamartine, so much is the ill-humour of the Left Centre, t o which M essrs. Passy an d Dufaure belong, dreaded : The latter would not be much flattered by this compul sory-and tardy concession,...and the partisans of M. of out things 3. e t s h t e i s r day morning, for La martinelladril would certa i nly 6e irritated. Such i s the state Senor Oloza ga , the Spanish Am b assador in France, set ing of the Co r k s. M. Liernandebzo, ptrheeseln,tirsatt tSecretaryheopen (, to of the Legation, remains at Paris. The Marquis of Dalmatia, French Ambassador at Tu rin, has arrived at Marseilles on his way to Paris.— Constitutionnel. - Private accounts from Naples of the Ist instant an nounce the return of the King from his excursion to Sicily. His Majesty had as yet adopted no resolution respecting the free export of sulphur,which the Sicilians so earnestly demanded, that the King was afraid to withdraw the troops which he had sent to that island, when he ex pected to be attacked by Great Britain. The Greek metropolitan Bishop of Serajevo, as we learn by a letter from the frontiers of Turkey, in the Cologne Gazette, has been dismissed from his functions by order of the Porte. He had taken an active part in favour of the Christians against Wedschila Pacha, the local governor. The Correo of Madrid states that the mail, which left the capital on the 3d inst., was stopped by robbers within gun-shot of the town. The passengers were plundered and the letters taken away, a task the more easy as the mail-box was not fastened. This was the second occur rence of the same nature which had happened within a few days. It is stated by a Neapolitan correspondent of the Com merce, that the Marquis de Dragonetti is among the per sons arrested for the affair of the conspiracy at Aquila. Another letter, in the Presse, states that on an injunc tion being communicated to the robbers in Sicily who pillaged the baggage of the King and Court, as it was being conveyed to Palermo, the whole of the objects thus seized have been restored. " Yesterday morning," says the Commerce, " M. Thiers and M. de Lamartine, as we are informed, had an inter view at Count Mole's. A rumour is current that Minis ters have determined to oppose M. do Lamartine if he becomes a candidate for the Presidency of the Chamber of Deputies." The Temps gives an enumeration of the appointments to prefectures made since the Revolution of 1830, by which it appears that the total number of such appoint ments is 360. The greatest number of changes were made immediately after the Revolution of July, when all the prefects were dismissed, and the next greatest were under the Ministries of Marshal Soult and Messrs.fGuizot and Thiers, in 1832, when 75 nominations took place. The present Cabinet has appointed 23 prefects since its accession to power. The English brig Unicorn was wrecked on the 10th inst. on the coast near Havre. The crew were saved by the courageous conduct of six seamen of Havre, who humanely put off to their assistance, notwithstanding the risk which they themselves incurred. The Unicorn went to pieces soon after she struck. The Zephire sloop, of Calais, went ashore at the Isle d'Jeu ; and the Eng lish schooner Publican near Calais, on the 11th. The crews and cargoes were saved. An Ent ish vessel, the Susan, from Manila to London, was wrecked a few days ago at Croc Marie, near St. Valery stir Somme. The crew, fifteen in number, were saved and have been placed in the Lazaretto. The Madrid Gazette promulgates a decree of the Re gent containing the following articles :—" 1. All ships coming from the French Colony of Algiers with clean bills of health delivered by the board of health, and verified by the signature of our Consul or commercial agent, according to the terms of the circular issued on the 18th July, 1817, shall be admitted to free pratique in our ports.-2. The introduction of forbidden goods without proper certificates, and of old rags, coming from the Levant and the northern coast of Africa, remains prohibited." BOURSE—PARIS, MONDAY, DEC. 13. lint Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Prici, Price. French 5 per Cents lld 60 116 60 ... 116 60 ... 116 60 4 per Cents ..........„ 100 90 1 , 0 91 100 90 lo t pc, 3 per Conti. ex div 7B 40 78 40 78 35 78 35 flank of trance .4plman Rank Belgian 5 per Cent s ., 1840 lO3 103 ... 102% ... 192% 11..,..i5h Acme 24% ... 24.4 24% ... 24 1 4 Passi.v .. 554 Old Deferred . 4 eapolitan,ex div. ..... 106 1 15 ... 156 15 ... IV6 15 106 13 Roman .... 102% ... 103 ... 102% ... 103 RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, L.R 197 50 ... 197 50 ... 196 25 196 Orleans R. 13 320 ...320 ... 320 320 .. Strasburf to:Balc.shares red 217 50 .. 218 75 ... 217 50 , '213 75 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, Storc-street, Bedford-square. The " Bill of F are " conta i ns t h e following favou rite and popular songs :—" My love is like the red red rose," " Roy's Wife of Aldivalloch," " John Anderson my Joe," and " My boy Tam 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-stree t. DR. BIILKBECK, 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 EEKLY STATEMENT OF LON DON LETTERS, DEC. 14, 1841. THROUGH THE GENERAL POST. Four Weeks, ending Dec. 11, 1841 5,504,139 Corresponding pe r i o d o f 1840 4,408,706 Ditto, as nearly as can be given, of 1839 1,682,912 Increase since 1840, on the Four Weeks'Letters 1,095,433 Ditto, 1839, ditto THROUGH THE DISTRICT POST. Four Weeks, ending Dec. 11, 1841 1,787,325 Corresponding period of 1840 1,564,135 Ditto, as nearly as can be given, of 1839 1,021,386 Increase since 1840, on the Four Weeks' Letters 223,190 Ditto, 1839, ditto -- LATE DELIVERY OF LETTERS. A memorial was lately addressed to the Postmaster- General, from a number of London merchants, and signed by John Dillon, the Chairman, complaining of the late delivery of letters in London on the arrival of the foreign mails, and praying that the subject might be taken into his serious consideration. The following answer has been returned : " General Post-office, Dec. 10, PM. " Sir—l am directed by the Postmaster-General to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 6th inst., transmitting a memorial from the London As sociation, requesting that the delivery of the General Post letters may not be delayed on the days of arrival of the foreign and colonial mails,, and to inform you that his Lordship regrets he cannot comply with this applica tion. as he should not feel justified in subjecting the im portant correspondence from India and other parts abroad, which is brought by these mails, to the serious detention which must inevitably result from a compli ance with the wish of the memorialists. " I am, Sir, your obedient humble servant, " W. L. MABERLY, Secretary. " John Dillon, 106, Fore-street." WEST INDIA MAIL. POST-OFFICE NOTICE.—The followiug was put up yesterday at the Ship Letter-office, St. Martin's-le- Grand:— " Ship letter bags will be made up here for the West India steamers, to sail from Southampton on Thursday, the 16th inst., and Saturday th e 18 t h i nst. " The Forth, on Thursday the 16th inst., at one p.m., for Havannah, calling at Nassau, proceed to New Or leans, Tampico, Vera Cruz, and then return to Havannah. " The Solway, on Saturday the 18th inst., at one p.m., for Barbadoes, proceed to St. Lucia, Martinique, Domi nica, Guadaloupe, Antigua, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Kitt's, Tortola, St. Thomas's, St. Juan's, Porto Rico, Grand Key, Turk's Island, Hayti, St. Jago de Cuba, Belize, and thence to Havannah. " The Tweed, on Saturday the'lBth inst, at one P.M., for Barbadoes, proceed to St. Vincent, Grenada, Trini dad, La Guayra, Porto Cabello, Curacoa, Santa Martha, Carthagena, and thence to Jamaica. " The Clyde, on Saturday the 18th inst., at one P.m., call at Madeira, and proceed direct to Surinam and De merara, calling otf Berbice, thence to Barbadoes, call at Tobago, and from Barbadoes to Grenada. " Letters for the above conveyance must be specially addressed by ship.' " The bags will be made up in London on the evening previous to sailing from Southampton. That of the 16th to-morrow, the 15th (this day), and that of the 18th, on Friday evening the 17th. " Ship Letter-office, Dec. 14, 1841." NATIONAL PROVIDENT INSTI TUTION.—(THIS DAY.) The sixth annual meeting of the subscribers to this institution was held this day at one o'clock at the office No. 13, Nicholas-lane, Ring William-street, for the pur pose of receiving a statement of the accounts, &c. One of our reporters attended, but he was told that it was a private Society, and therefore the press could not be admitted; consequently we are precluded from giving any report of the proceedings. OLD SAINT PAUL'S.—In this work Mr. Ainsworth has pourtrayed many of the horrible inci dents of the Great Plague with historical fidelity. He places his principal characters in the midst of that dreadful scourge, and makes the plot depend, in a great measure, for its progress and development on the cir cumstances common to the time. The foundation of tho story is taken from a scarce work of De Foe's, in which the shutting up of the house of a grocer, with his family, to prevent contagion, is particularly described. The reckless voluptuousness and debaucheries of the Earl of Rochester, and the other roisterers of the Court, amidst the awful visitations of death, form prominent features in this novel ; one of the main incidents of which is the abduction of the grocer's daughter by the Earl. The scenes described are all founded on well authenticated accounts, presented by Mr. Ainsworth with a forcible semblance of reality, which his pen can so well accomplish. These volumes are illustrated by ,numerous engravings by Mr. Franklin, which corres pond 'in their striking effect with the horror of scenes depicted.—Courier. In consequence of the continuance of wet weather, the banks of the Aran,-in_the neighbourhood of Arundel, have overflowed, and the hay-stacks are now standing in throe and fbur feet water. Persons aro obliged to be conveyed along the roads in waggons. Some of the meadows have been under water for the last three months. 3 tIRIi'MARY OF NEVIS AND putatt " TVIto runs may read." FOREIGN. The Manikin. contains a long report from the Minister of War to the King, followed by a Royal Ordonnance, bearing date as long ago as Sept. 8, whereby the army, on a peace footing, is directed to be redueed from 433,000 to 344,000 men. This will effect a saving on the budget of 1843 of 30 millions of francs. The alleged rioters at Toulouse, who were dragged to prison with iron collars about their necks, have been ac quitted by the Jury. This is another blow to the Govern ment. " Sixteen acquittals and one condemnation," says the Quotidienne," and that, too, for an assault. Such is the finale of the formidable affair of Toulouse, in which the Ministry pretended to discover a demonstration of Communism, not mounting to the assault against the Go vernment, as Carbonarism did against the Restoration, but rushing upon society, to pillage, devastate, and de stroy. We always regretted the tumultuous manifesta tions in which the inhabitants of Toulouse indulged, but we never lost sight of the circumstances which led,to them, and of the illegal pretensions of power against the liber ties of the municipality and the interest of the tax-payers. We are glad, therefore, that the verdict of the Jury has brought back the attention of the public to this point." The National has the following remarks upon this noble verdict of a French Jury:—" The Jury intended by their verdict not merely to acquit the political priso ners of Toulouse, but also to mark with their reproba tion the system of internal policy followed by M. Guizot and his colleagues. Honour to the advocates who had the good sense to put the question in that way ! Honour to the Jury who so resolved it ! The new and striking lesson which has just been given to the Government will have no effect upon men who are incorrigible, but it will hasten the moment when, left to themselves, as M. Joly, the advocate, observed—' Alone, like crime and misfor tune,' they will disappear fur ever from the political scene." It is rumoured that the Court of Peers, eager to esta blish itself the court-martial of they press, has resolved to find M. Dupoty guilty, although there is not a shadow of evidence to connect his name with the Quenisset con spiracy. _ - The Augsburg Guzette gives a letter from Beyrout of the 7th, which states that the Druses have recommenced hostilities. Three convents and the villages around them have been burnt. The Einirßeschir, who had shut him self up in Deiret Kannar, was forced to capitulate. II was allowed to retire, after having been despoiled o. everything, and he arrived almost naked at Beyrout. The Druses lost 400 men, the Maronites 1,200. While the account from Bey-rout was being written eleven convents were on fire. The Madrid Castcllano states, that the Army o. North would amount to 32,000 men, without includin the division of reserve, which is to be stationed at Al faro, Tudela, and Corella. The latter is to consist of four provisional regiments and a regiment of infantry The entire of this force is to be commanded by General Rodil. PUBLIC OPINION. The Morning Post contains a leading article on the subject of the Puseyites, the evident object of which is to defend them from the attacks of their opponents. " Whatever faults," says the Post, " may be attributed to the Tracts for the Times' (and the authors of them never pretend that they have not faults), this great merit may be claimed for them, that they are never barbed by party bitterness. They are pervaded by a Catholic spirit—a spirit of mild, serious, argumentative earnest ness, which deals with facts, and principles, and senti ments, but troubles itself not with either parties of indi viduals. But the antagonists of the Tracts for the Times' have taken exactly the opposite coarse. They concern themselves chiefly with party matters and with personal matters. They hive given full swing to anger and bitterness, and so far from answering argument with argument, many of the most vehement attacks upon the Tract writers (not the writings) have been made by those who have never read the Tracts, or at all events have not taken any pains to understand the drift of them. Even Lord Ashley (with all due submission to his Lordship) we are constrained to plate among the latter class, be cause we have a bett er o pi n i on o f hi s understanding than to suppose that, after attentive consideration of the Tract on Reserve in communicating religious know ledge,' he should suppose the drift of the author to be the • suppression' of any point of religious truth."—lt can scarcely be said that the Puseyite doctrines are re commended by a " mild spirit," when their tendency is to revive the intolerant discipline of Laud ; to encumber religion again with its old,' worn-out ceremonial observ ances and to check freedom of thought by means of auricular confession. But our great objection to the Puseyites is, not that they 'differ from what is called " the low Church party"—for every man or set of men have a right to their own opinions —but that differing, as they do, from the State Church as at present constituted, they still take her emoluments. To be honest and con sistent, the Puseyites should at once follow the manly example set them by Mr. Sibthorp. The Morning Herald observes, in an article suggested by the late Derby Conference:—"'That Corn-laws do not materially check the exportation of our manufactures is proved by the facts stated at the Derby talk.' Since 1815, down to the present year, there has been a gra dually increased exportation of hosiery, which is the staple fabric of the Midland counties. But, say the Nottingham manufacturers, wages have decreased in pro portion as our exports have augmented. This may be so; but these acute gentlemen forget that during the last five and twenty years the value of money has greatly increased, and that two-thirds of the wages of 1815 will purchase a larger proportion of the necessaries of life in 1841 than the nominally higher wages of theformer year then did. This is true in respect to every payment, save of taxes; the amount now paid by the nation in taxa tion is more than double what it discharged with greater ease in 1812. The real cause of the diminished comfort of the Midland counties' artisans is the enor mously augmented burden of taxation as levied under the present system of currency. The greater the amount of corn imported under that system the greater will be the distress amongst the operatives, and the greater will be the number of bankruptcies amongst the millowners." The Chronicle thus comments on some observations on the Derby Conference, that appeared in yesterday's Times :—" By a natural association of ideas, its thoughts were far away, with the landlords' majority, and the promise of bread-tax spoliation intact, and the pledges to timber monopolists, and sugar monopolists, and all the sinister interests that were amalgamated into the strong party' that Toryism was: determined not to ' want.' And they did, not' want it ; they h a d i t i n t h e elections ; they h ave it , in the Upper House and in the Lower House ; they have had its victories and its tri umphs; and now, Times Peel ! Corn-law Dukes ! Landed Majorities ! Confederate Monopolists ! what is your strong party to do ?' The very thought of that question, its remote verbal suggestion, chokes your ad vocate, in his hour of pride,' blunts his sarcasms, re torts his censures, baffles his vituperations, and leaves him bewildered in a maze of impotent and self-destructive falsehoods. A' strong party,' united by principle, would know what it was to do. All the world would know beforehand. Its principles would be an infallible direc tory to its measures. The only doubt would be on mere details. Such is not the condition of Tor) ism ; the world has no conception of what it is going to do ; nor its friends, nor its enemies, nor its followers, nor, we verily believe, its leaders."—We do not believe that even Sir Robert Peel himself knows what he is going to do, but will be guided solely by the circumstances of the passing hour. As for being influenced by any enlarged system of policy, he is the very last man on earth we should suspect of such a thing. He is ,just fitted to be the head of a shallow, tricky, purblind, shilly-shally, wait-awhile Government, which is ruled by the paltriest notions of expediency, and looks exclusively to the Chapter of Accidents for escape from whatever predica ment it may get into. The following is from the Times :—" With all our un ceasing anxiety for the prevention of crime and the maintenance of social order, we have uniformly consi dered the new rural police as a mere mischievous ex crescence, neither necessary in ordinary circumstances, nor likely to be generally approved of. How an inno vation so burdensome and inexpedient should have hap pened to obtain the sanction of Parliament, can be satis factorily accounted for only upon the principle of the well-known proverb, that one fault invariably leads to another.' Having introduced a system of pauperism which, while endeavouring to render legislative relief less eligible than the earnings of' industry, has gone to the opposite extreme, of making vagrancy itself prefer able to workhouse inflictions, the short-sighted Whigs, in ridding the poor-rates of many necessitous incumbents, have created such an amount of distress as naturally oc casioned the suspicion that the country would bo over run with hordes of prowling mendicants, requiring a commensurate increase of constables for the due protec tion of the public." The Advertiser is of opinion that the Tories are pre paring a new Coercion Bill for Ireland. It is not un likely, for to coerce and dragoon people into passive obedience, is the favourite policy of the Tories. If, however, they attempt such a project, they will not only miserably fail, but arm Mr. O'Connell with tenfold power to thwart and embarrass them. Of course their Coercion Bill, should they be fools enough to bring for ward one, will be aimed chiefly at the Repeal agitation, to which, in consequence, it will be the means of giving an immense impetus. The surest way to put down Re peal is to leave it to itself—to let it die a natural death. We subjoin the Advertiser'sConments on this subject:— " In the Times of yesterday there is an article of por tentous import to Ireland. It is impossible to read that article and resist the con yiction that a new Coercion Bill, infinitely worse than the Bill of 1833, though that of was sufficiently odious, is hatching for the suppression public liberty in the sister kingdom. The Times counsels the Government to put clown sedition, and extinguish th e cause of repeal in Ireland. The advice, we doubt not, is the consequence of a previous resolution on the part o f a Tory Administration to do the very flung that it is coun selled to carry into effect. The resolution is put forward to strangle liberty in that country, under the p retext of putting down sedition and crushing' the cau se o f repea l. and information of such determination being c onveye d to Puddle-dock, forth comes the Jove of th a t c l ass i cal lo cality with his terrible thunders against Mreea.pCl'Cl,oannnteilla, the Roman Catholic priesthood, sedition, r thousand persons andthings besides. Ty ranny i s neve r at a loss for pretexts." MONEY—TILADS—COMMERCE. An Association has lately sprung up in Dublin, under the protection of the Lord Mayor. Every member be longing to it pledges himself to use nothing but Irish manufacture, and a number of marts have been opened for the exclusive sale of Irish make and produce. Every description of manual labour at Dundee is now failing alarmingly. The dock-yards are emptying daily. One joiner, who i 4 May last had fifty men in his em- EVENING SITI4_,-- ployment, has now not Work for three, and makers are in the same condition. eP dt 'rue linen merchants, bankers, and fl ax -spina t h d ;?elfast have memorialized the Board of Trade ol io depreciation of their manufactures. Their In" T ' ar l have been thrown out of the French market by th, e to o laid on by that Government, and out of the Ile of market by the advance of machinery there. They Poi the abolition of the Corn-laws. In the trade of Y ar ,, and linens, Ul s t er h as b een a t a loss in the la st y e nearly 300,0001. Snit° . The Zurich and B as l e R a ilroad Company i n land has been dissolved. ECCLESIASTICAL. • de How TO CURE A PARSON.—A Contenaporat7',lo4• scribing the pleasure afforded to the Rector aud (1 „,,e5 wardens of Hackney by Church-rate contests, in% t he that three have already taken place in that parish i f f op course of the year, and that a fourth is to comeS Friday next to cure the parson. Since the last y b, ', o the Rector of the parish, the Rev. H. H. Norris, ha s ur o in indifferent health, and it is understood that rc°o,o to renewed agitation is now had as much with a fof his perfect restoration, as to the ordinary PurPest-,11 which a Church-rate is made.— We defy Jonathan to this. LITERARY AND SClENTlrle'cuoioo Mr. Clough, a missionary, has lately made an ea yi ,ited into the provinces of Southern Abyssinia, nev er ho ting before by Europeans. On th e plea of elephnU!,loi„hs• he penetrated with others int o the country- T; o f t. bitants are principally Christians, of the au% r ites Mark, in whose ceremonies many of the Jolris are blended. bar ousli The death of Dr. Forbes, at Erzerouto, 1354r ,,d by murdered by a. Beloo chief, has been „Oin% rod letter to the Royal Geological Society. JIG had visaed antiquarian, and the first Englishman wh o ' I% the Singhur Hills, in Mesopotamia. NAVAL AND PIILITAXI• 1, in th i e A new stand of col ours w ill b e presented 0 13 r e l res fort4 spring -to the 16th Regiment, by Viscoun t their Colonel. LAW AND POLICE. , his cu re Sir Peter Laurie announced Testerday. t:la i t os wo r t. k; for jumping, or trying to jump, into the rlvel in tn„ ing admirably, and he would therefore per s , e r ` e - o gste , regimen, and make the jumpers walk off to take a little refreshing exercise on the tread-'1,151" taken On Monday William Abrahams, aged 259, 11 % 01 4 before the Alderman at Guildhall, charged o new; 153 newspapers, the property of Mr. Edmuno;yos Erica vender, and committed for trial. Yesterday he to t olv c for the offence, found guilty, and sentenc ed t months' imprisonment. 1 ,6 e At the Thames Police C our t, J. Alexand er, cfo )Ir. F belonging to the ship Cant on , wa s brough t Tot i Broderip rg on the charge of attempting to stran;-,wolietlO; named Ann Dix, and severely aSSallitingl Pa w 11 51 , 1) named George Hailes, and another person n` of Fowler, all of whom appeared to have bc cn op tbs' l T,; , o jured. The prisoner was sentenced to onet_Tassanho g prisonment in the House of Correction for th e ent ry _ the police constable, to pay a fine of 405• for, r, old on the woman, and 20s. for striking l' f fjecl P r 61 default of payment to be further in 3 P r ' fn rr n weeks. At the Brentford Petty Sessions ye t -e dru nk ' 4l lo il lo labourer was fined 10s. for being found stro irnen , f , Great Western Railway line. He had a 0 .20 t his 1-)° ` d a ' t . escape, as a train passed within a few inche' _ es ter, _ Gin"' •trat" Several meetings have been held ut jag das which the ratepayers have memorialized t he arocterise ;or the abolition of the County police, ch' burdensome and unnecessarir." tea by SPORTING. " sen , t 4 Twelve noble roebucks have just beell bland eS'a e'i the Marquis of Breadalbane, from - his nig" - pritC a to Prince Albert. ~..e s , „ A superb bow and arrows are about to be F' s p ro by the Kilwinning Archers to Prince Albe rt ' $ ' aA t of their Society. I, has rr i" The Earl of Cassilis, with his fine stud, ""..: on. t Northampton from Ireland, for the hunting 5„1-05014,311 After a splendid breakfast last Saturday Gr ad , ` l ' t the Duke of Beaufort's, at Badminton, hi s r t. above 2,000 horsemen, had unusually goo d sr vr vil• THEATRICAL. _ A ...0 ,_.,7, r . Miss Adelaide Kemble made her apPna n t - Old ~„,,'' ' , ll ton on Monday, at the Assembly-room of tR" bas '- During the last fortnight Miss Ellen ,tree going the round of her best characters at BlV il fa COURT—PASHIONLIXO° . t oiIi fr° The Duke of Wellington has arrived in 3 . Strathfieldsaye. r in Lord Stanley arrived in town on Monday it° 10° sr " ley-hall, Lancashire. - r fe rlW r s ir ti The Duke of Sussex and the Duchess of 0 , rl d 1 ) 1 expected at Woburn Abbey on the 23d inst . ' ; 1 ra m's and Lady J. Russell on Friday next. - ' t Mi ll- r s • Viscount and Viscountess Villiers arrivedo, Vis Upton 0 ' Hotel yesterday from their seat, , hotel wickshire. f iort , The Marquis of Blandford arrived at bas' Aro Ye sterday from Blenheim. 01l ie• The Lord Chancellor entertained the rte, in Go* sador and other Foreign Ministers ,estertdt.7 ) 1 ,3 , ~ street, Hanover-square • at Chan Prince Esterhazy is expected to arrive ~ ° OOl, l o house on New Year's-day. The marriage of the Hon. Miss Anson, 313 i" li i/ 1111 to the Queen, with Sir Arthur Brinsley j3rok , ' place in a few days. ISCETAL.A.NZIOTTS ce 13 1 / ZW A despatch communicated to the dolonis l- 1 l' ° , e ; Governor Gipps, states that Count Strelitsbi' f GiPPiii had penetrated inland, and found in the interio r ° 'biP ".. land plenty of wood and water. A ew. In fi° 14 ( be erected there to be called Albert. n gbY he Vauxhall Gardens are about to be let °- v iag t : " 6 0 Fowler, in six acres, for building leases, a s ter seerrti°llo other five acres for public gardens. The , lat 'stc. *'" comprises the tavern, orchestra, rotating', 'tell in license has been renewed. high 0 peril,' in Etiquette in England was carried to s ° ~,t s p , of the time of Queen Elizabeth, that her Sc the p r res en k - ° A nd p hi e s rfo ß rm oy i a ng l tmheistfruenses,tiownassofehwiasysoiliocbetig.einti t o grit toe t h ofls 0 write upon his knees. ct h dea a fter To-morrow will be the anniversarj_ ° ,! ;,, - . r e iting s ,' . ...";i v e , r , Walton, who died in 1683, and who' 1 . po ptit.",,Teei lapse of two centuries, still maintain the' 1 the 119- Na)' It is remarkable that the boy Jones f ic e i i g the ir f 00 have both been equally successful in '`: h r- ' wish es ° i twice into Buckingham Palace again st e Iles n ll ' Royal owner. t 0 so d- Perhaps it is not generally known On bulk b and' from a gun or pistol will not pass h: kerchief. thatr 0,- The Cologne Gazette of the 19th instanargentw (nos person holding a high situation in the, de l P ,, v ing It de Exchequer at Munich had disappeare d ' ' ‘ , — ,..ins• in his accounts to the amount of 100,000 o-- through tt ~.,....„:.._„, ,oe. MONEY and COMMERCIAJ" pioCiviei LIVERPOOL MARKET, D `' l cli COT C TO I N TY, TWELVEEc. y 4, :: .1 -- . T or t° s h il ich to day comprise 2,500 to nearly 3,000 bale s, SLes 600 have been taken by speculators. "'rice e . ns 6 at Friday's quotations. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, DEC. —Th e tril h 05 14. ~/. 6-;,5 , tions comprise—London and Birminglialli „ .00 th 1; " at 55 ; Grand Junction, 198 ; London an '- illic it, tern, 43 ; North Midland, 70A-. 1 ,, 14.";, O A MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, l'—' ,"° 9' is no change in the character of this market' ester A n and Birmingham Quarter Shares, 23 ; M enc d s , Q uilt Birmingham, 28+ 28 ; Manchester and Lee Shares, 31. 16s. 6d.; Manchester Assurance, 9 1 ' 9 ' lc i cre THE FUNDS. 1, A t There has been but little business doing in t-e ,ll Oll . , ar e Ib, r Exchange up to the present time. Consols J , se§ 88' 4 1 for the Account; Three per Cents. Redcereilli stock Bank Stock, 165 166 ; Exchequerßills, 10 1 213 '0 , 9 1 , 1 ; Spanish Securities continue firm. The Itcl f e, 53 1 is now quoted at 241 -1- ; Deferred, 12-1; ditto T hree ' Portuguese Five per Cents. are 32}1; dill° 19i 194; Mexican Bonds. 251 26-1-. e r ON E ' ' PRICES OF SHARES THISDAY , _., RAILWAYS. Paid. Per 8 101 "" 'to Cheltenham and Great Western. 721..•••• 21 ...... to Great Western Ditto Fifths ........4 ...... 90 ~t o London and Brighton 5O ...... 3 8 lti '' to --. London and Birmingham .. 9O ..... -- ...... t• --- Ditto i Shares London and South Western;..... 3 5 8 i ............ NI ......... : to Ditto North Midland - •'*". to Ditto Thirds South Eastern and Dover 43 ...... 17i ..... to ..-. 1 York and New Nor sar th h M e i s dnd... Ditto 15 ...... 3 1 • to - .40 ...... bq • • ... • w -- , . 40 ...... 36 ............ i GE-4. YESOB . 0 .0 ........ ~,, 'Gibraltar .•• ••• ....... ''" g 0 Leghorn ...• .... ' . 9 •• 5 Genoa .., ............. •.. 3 1 Milan . ....... .. ......... .•; Venice ................. .. g gi Naples ..... .. ...... . . ••••1 10 Palermo, per oz••• .... bli Lisbon ............ .... ..... Oporto ........... ..... ...• ~, Rio Janeiro ................. ?, Bahia ................... • .....7' B u enos Ayres ....... : . it • 4b e New York. 21 cIIP sI I I . 46 4 , Philadelphia ........ ! . '1,',0 09 tames OF VAL° Iti3 11 p F o o r r e t i u g g n a 1 GGooilds c ll.: . .. . 1' lU 0 .. New Doubl oons ••' ;,p 4 ti New Dollars..., ...... 0 4 I Silver in Bars... ,Ar..._ There has been a fair amountll ofA bLuFsi-nreAssStrlian:s'i.coteoisoli i ll it e ve English Stock Market since the opening, nu,,edce areil o 1828 a id preen.va : d IBl t ia o dlilak BB l3 - s i ,teo t: lc 9 dsk ; 13 T 6 25 h : p e ler6esropier; fixecohl6e•gired;iiii4 wil iciso:euincirt.itebttsirh..ai:nTi: : :9 : 2 ; s : o :. ,a.l a ßi l is;rd a ap.. l z t i e l r . a . tio i 1 , has . taken o r t a b s e si I :::• re C;. ,i i No lir , • Mexican,ian Bonds f ; tr e r ( c )ir u t o u t e n d .s a c t 1 ,6 1 3 0 3 0 ,' 3 0 ; rgailfApeettrvce elsntt(s)e.,ks, 121 , ; ditto, Five Cents., 99.Chel; Very Hale business has been done in Shares. . ore tenham and Great Western arc quoted at 2 1 . i 4 1 1; Western Fifths, 9 i l ,- -a; London and Brighton, 3 6 a ~,,,„„ an' s do o n uth ai vv id esßteirrlnn,ils%6la;rnsQouutahrteEraSsttla•es,a2n3d ; i t u y i e ';.: l'i ; York and North Midland, 89. ER TO - 11-110 QUART Consols are firm at 88i 89. JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia British North American ....... COURSE OF EXCHAP Amsterdam CF. 12 7i Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 Antwerp l2 7 Hamburgh M.B. 13 13i Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 60 Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 90 Frankfort on Maine... 150} Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37i 8er1in..... 7 Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M 953 Trieste, ditto 9 55 Madrid ... Cadiz 36* Bilbao 36 Barcelona Seville The und " le r3 h her under —.. met7 .-----,—_- - oned were an 7 ong I n sse" ‘ gers i landed at Calais from Dover on Sunday I " 4 ' 11 4 ' LAroarjdestAy),'s.lmsetera,mLl,o-ersdselnWi_cdlgeon, Lieut. Earle: ,wn.vie, commander:—Duke Staeltpole and suite, Stuart, &c. &c. °w en ' rri , tt Sir Noel countess ~ ti tc 4 ~ c °~ ~ el