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- C„ EVENING SUN Now ready, in 2 vols. post Bvo., 21s. bound, MADAME DE SEVIGNE, AND HER CONTEMPORARIES. Comprising SKETCHES of above ONE HUNDRED of the MOST EMINENT PERSONS of HER TIMES. Heßry Colburn, Publisher , 13 , Gre;lMarlborough-street. MRS. GORE'S NEW NOVEL. Now ready at rll the Libraries, in 3 vols. post Bvo., THE MAN OF FORTUNE. By MRS. GORE, Authoress of A Mothers and Daughters," " Mrs. Army tage," " &c . The Peeress," _ _ _ _ _ . Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE REVOLT OF THE FRENCH PEASANTRY. This day is published, in 3 vols. post Bvo., THE JACQUERIE ; or, The Lady and the Page : an Historical Romance. By G. P. R. JAMES Esq., Author of " The Huguenot," " Henry of Guise," &c. 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THIS EVENING, DEC. 23, Will be repeated Bellini's Opera of NORMA.—Pollio, Mr. W. Harrison ; Flavius, Mr. Clement White, Oroveso, Mr. Leiner ; Adalgisa, Miss Rainforth ; Clotilda, Miss Grant ; and Norma by Miss Adelaide Kemble. After which, CHARLES THE TWELFTH.—CharIes the Twelfth, Mr. W. Farren ; Adam Brock, Mr. Bartley ; Eudiga, Madame Vestris. Do - ors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circ'es, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. ; Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167. New Bond-street. On Monday next will be produced the New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled Guy Earl of Warwick ; or, Harlequin and the Dun Cow. 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 tyro 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 those of Mons. ROSSEAU, the celebrated FRENCH EQUILIBRIST ; Herr KREUZER'S PHAN TASMAGORIAL DISSOLVING PORTRAITS, which , arc 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. ed., 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, on Saturday next, the 25th inst. THE RAILWAY SUN /S NOW RE-PUBLISHING, PRICE SIXPENCE. TIIE CHINA SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Dec. 23, 1841. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Our respected Correspondent "H. P." has misappre hended the scope of our remarks on Chartism and Puseyism, which Were intended to show from both, that 'aloes opinions are as unsettled in religion as in politics. THE WEATHER.—Noon, DECEMBER 523. ROYAL GALLERY OP SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 41 J Highest...... 4 1 1 Lowest 31 Barometer 29. I.—Wind S W.—Preening Point 32 Deg. 7 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BII.IDGIE TO-MORROW M ming 35 minutos after 9 Evening ...... IG minutes after 10. rn 4 9 ? .• .7' " m : • "'l' Aint. LONDON: TIIURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1841. The landowners under the skilful leadership of Sir ROBERT PEEL, have triumphed in Parlia ment, and at the elections. They are the mas ters of the Government. The wants of the State, and the distress of the public gave their opponents more power against them in 1841 than at any former period, yet could these opponents make no head against them. So far as the Corn-laws arc concerned, they must, therefore, alway s h ave b een masters o f t h e Legislature. In fact, the late Ministers deferred to them ou this point, and were completely defeated the instant they went against the landlords. Their sway in the Legislature has long been paramount, and they are responsible fur the condition of the country, We do not ask them to look at this condition in reference to the decay of the manufacturers, for that will, we believe, give them satisfaction. We do not appeal to them because the people are distressed, for they avow their wish to bumble and degrade the democracy; and the more the people are reduced, the better the landed aristocracy will be pleased. But we ask them to look at it in relation to their own secu rity. If they are quite satisfied that their pro perty is now as much respected as it was ten or twenty years ago; that the law by which alone their property can be p rotected, continues to be equally honoured; and-if they are convinced 'that there is no dimin u ti on i n the 'power of coercion, and no increase in the power of resist- ance, they will act consistently in continuing the present system. If they are not so satisfied and so convinced, the sooner they alter it the better. They wee with us in opinion, at least they •,. • profess t4.kelieve, that the interest of all classes is identioact It cannot be for their interest, thereforethat the manufacturers and the arti sans should suffer their present hopeless dis tress. We can see that it is not for their interest. The multitude begin to question their title to own the land. The opulent manufacturers and capitalists, heretofore ranged on their side, and even over-zealous to protect the present right of landed property, begin to call it in ques tion, and side with the multitude. Under the existing law and practice, as to the land-tax for example, a great number of the present holders of land, such as the ASHBUR TONS, the ARKWRIGHTS, and the PEELS, have purchased it, and they have given an increased sum, because the land-tax has not for many years been levied nor demanded to the full ex tent. If on the whole of the landed property now possessed by Sir ROBERT PEEL or Lord ASHBURTON, the land-tax, to the whole amount of 4s. in the pound on the actual rental, had always been paid, the Noble Lord, or the father of the Right Hon. Baronet, would have given so much less for their estates. This is the illus tration; the fact is, that the land-tax, unjustly evaded by former generations of land-owners, has become incorporated with the price of landed property, and has been purchased by many of the present landlords. To levy it now to the full extent would be taking something un justly from the BARINGS, the ARKWRIGHTS, and the PEELS, for the benefit of the more ancient proprietors, whom the industrious merchants and manufacturers displaced. Nevertheless, so great is the hostility now felt towards the landowners, in consequence of the distress caused by the Corn-laws, that we find the journals of the capitalists in the manufacturing districts, and the capitalists themselves, attack ing this purchased property of the PEELS and the BARINGS. The Manchester Guardian of yesterday, for example—a very cautious journal, a very moderate Whig journal, not a go-the whole-hog journal, but the determined enemy of the Chartists—has a long article on this ques tion of the land-tax, in which it asks, " What right have the landowners to evade the payment of the entire sum of 4s. in the pound, which was originally fixed by law, on the entire rental ?" It calculates that the land-tax, justly levied as originally enacted, would at present amount to no less than 8,000,000/. a year; and it concludes that the present landlords, who, as we have shown, have given more for their land in conse quence of the practical exemption, should be re quired to pay this 8,000,000/. Such opinions strike at their present right of property ; such opinions are now very prevalent in the manufac turingdistricts ; they are entertained by numerous and respectable capitalists, and lessen the se curity of the landlords' property. Some few specimens of the language used at the late Manchester meeting, will justify our re marks. We can assure the landed aristocracy that they are especially worthy of their attention: " It is the almost universal conviction of the operatives," said the Rev. J. Waddington, " that there is provided in the bounty of Pros idence bread enough and to spare ; that the famine of the necessaries of life is artificial ; and that markets are closed against the produce of their labour in order to keep up the rents of the lords of the soil, and to increase the value of the tithes. They may be found sitting in their damp, cheerless, and poverty stricken cellars, surrounded with their children, meagre bellied or sickening before them under the power of dis ease, and as they brood over their miseries they compare their lot with those whom they regard as their oppressors —pampered in luxury, and, as they believe, as regardless of their wretchedness as the rich man in the Gospel was insensible to the sufferings of Lazarus who perished at his gate full of sores. . . . So far as in me lies will I expose these scenes of lamentation and woe ; and, fellow -countrymen, if after these disclosures, ghastly want could lead to disorder, to tumult, to pillage, or to bloodshed, for one, I am guiltless of the consequences ; the inquisition for blood will be made on those who suffer, such amass of wretchedness to remain without the adoption of the only adequate rnoains of amelioration." —(Applause) " If," said Mr. Bright, the Delegate from Rochdale " to work without wages was to be a slave, then there were hundreds of thousands of people in this country as much slaves as any that ever went by that name in the British Colonies.—(Hear, hear.) So far as uncompen sated labour formed a ground of complaint, or a cause for sympathy, the Englishman had as good a right to complain, and was as fit a subject for sympathy, as the negro in the We: t Indies. lle would take the case of one of the flannel-weavers, for there was nothing like taking individual cases to see how a great principle applied.—(Hear, hear.) If the flannel-weaver made a piece of flannel, the raw material being his own, had he not as good a right to that piece of flannel as the Duke of Buckingham had to the acres on his estate ? Undoubt edly he had, and a vast deal more—(Cheers)—because there were certain things which the Duke of Bucking ham could not do with his estate, whereas this man could do what he pleased with his flannel. The Duke could not allow his land to lie fallow.—(Hear, hear.) The aristocracy had no right to do that with their land. Their title to their land did not rest upon so good a ground as the weaver to his piece of flannel.--(Cheers.) But, if an American had grown on his land a quarter of wheat, would he not have as good a right to it as the Duke had to his green acres, or the weaver to his piece of flannel ? But when the weaver at Rockdale ex changed his flannel for the wheat of the American, and attempted to bring it home for his use, who stopped him in the way, and said he should not use it ? Why, the Duke of Buckingham, and the rest of his class.—(Ap plause.) Ay, that class had passed a law to prevent the weaver and his family from using that to which he had an undoubted right. He (Mr. Bright) declared that the Parliament had no right to make a law like that. . . . With respect to this unjust law—should it be tolerated? There was no moral law which would condemn a man for an invasion of the Corn-law. He (Mr. Bright) would have no scruple whatever, in introducing, in violation of that law, any quantity of food i n t o thi s country f or the wants of people Misery was seen in the house of every poor man. Poor men he was ashamed to call them, but that was the term now applied to every working man. Misery was to be seen on his threshold; haggard destitution, and extreme poverty were the most prominent things in his family. The consequence was, that discontent had so pervaded the country that scarcely any working man would lift a finger in de fence of those institutions which Englishmen were wont to be proud of. Neither the monarch nor the aris tocracy were safe under such a state of things—a state of things that would blast the fairest prospect, and destroy the most powerful nation that ever existed. What could be done to upset a law which was fraught with so much evil consequences ? Ho should be the last man in the world to encourage force—(Hear, hear) — Sift, notwithstanding, much good could be effected by moral force and the power of public opinion, exercised and brought to bear on the question in a peaceable man ner.—(Hear, hear.) When the Church cess was to be abolished in Ireland, how was it done ? Was it by phy sical force ? No. Force was exercised by the Govern ment in upholding the cess ; it cost Lord Stanley 28,0001. in law and other expenses, to collect 12,0001. of a cess.—(Cheers.) Yes, passive resistance; that was an opponent which no Government could withstand.— (Cheers.) Undisciplined mobs might be mown down by her Majesty's troops, but they could not get hold of " passive resistance." They could not fight with such a phantom..—(Cheers.) The troops would now find plenty of spectres t o kill , no d ou b t—(Hear, hear)—but passive re not istae -- !hat was a spectre which they cou ld take aim —(Applause.) " Mr. Brotherton (to make one quotation more) was con !timed, that, if the people of this country but understood the extent of t heit i zr ir ongs, they would rise up as one iant that an ii2dignation.—(Applu .) se He Christian Legislature astonished an d (yn. any country, professing to be a S, should ny country, professing to be a ssuc ll l:::j n i:t r laws." Christian countr e feltt n At all the late meetings vehement the language the greater wa s the applause, and if the speakers had gone much further the auditory would willingly have gone with them. We warn the landowners, that, with reference to them and to our institutions, an alarming state of public feeling exists in the manufacturing dis tricts. There is an increasing disregard for the law, and a concentration of hatred and indigna tion on those who make it. The land owners may possibly survive the sad COL ,. flagration they have kindled, but they will not escape unseorche • d Public °p i_ nion, though it be armed with no sword, is the real guardian of all our rights. Unsupported by it, laws are mere pieces of blotted parchment. The landowners, as legislators, cannot continue, therefore, to inflict distress and outrage on the manufacturers without becoming practically con vinced, by their own insecurity and sufferings, that their best interests are identical with those of the restiof the community. The only way by which they can be prosperous is, to act justly. We have not thought it necessary to offer any comments on the scheme for reforming the Corn-laws, recently announced in the Globe as having received the assent of the agriculturists, and as likely to be submitted to Parliament by the Cabinet, because the scheme appeared to us destitute of authority. When objections have been urged to the present system, and a fixed duty has been proposed, the Tories have exult ingly pointed to the great quantity of corn which has been imported under the system at a duty of ls., and have boasted of that as one of its hap piest effects. When prices rise very high, it allows corn to come in at a nominal duty. The proposed scheme would annihilate that argu ment in its favour, by placing the lowest duty, whatever may be the price, at 4s. the quarter. The Tories will not, we opine, venture to destroy the single, and by them much praised, advantage of the present system. Sir ROBERT PEEL, too, has frequently de nounced a fixed duty, because it could not be maintained when prices were exorbitantly high. A duty never to be lower than 4s. would be a fixed duty to that extent, and Sir ROBERT must eat up all his thunder against a fixed duty, or hurl it against the scheme suggested in the Globe. It contravenes, in fact, the principles avowed by the present Ministers ; and we, there fore, do not believe that it emanates from them. Proceed, however, from whom it may, it is so di rectly at variance with that total repeal for which we contend, and falls so far short ofjus tice, that it shall meet, should it be brought for ward by any competent authority, with our stre nuous opposition. The Tory Journals assert that the present Mi nistry is pledged to the principle of protection to agriculture, and the sliding scale. They endea vour to excite some little hopes, however, in the public, by stating that the sliding scale may be improved; that the Ministers are not pledged to the details of the law, and that these probably may be altered with advantage. If that be Sir ROBERT PEEL'S opinion, as we believe it is, it is not the opinion of the Duke of BUCKINGHAM. His Grace has, at sundry " ordinaries" and " Farmers' Clubs," declared stoutly for the whole law, and advised the farmers to suffer no alteration in it whatever. His Grace is con sistent. Who can tell where alterations will stop when they have commenced? He is the Lord ELDON of his party, and is well aware that it is much easier to maintain a darn unimpaired than to prevent it being totally washed away after making a breach in it. The authority of the law mainly depends on its sanctity; to propose alterations in it, is to admit, to a certain extent, that it is a bad law, and, so far, to plead guilty to the charge of those who con demn it. For the Pro-Corn-law-men there is no safety but in sticking to every tittle of the present law, averages, jumping -scale and all. By pro posing alterations they will brand it as some thing less than the incarnation of wisdom. When it is admitted that the scale is not correct, that the averages are not well taken, we should like to know what the law is sepa rate from these details. The principle of protection to agriculture, as it is called, is en tirely a pecuniary question of degree. The most unrighteous of the unrighteous landlords do not ask for a protecting duty of 20s. when wheat sells at 80s. The exact sum now fixed on is a just pro tection for the agriculturists, or it is not. If it be just, why alter it? To propose an alteration is to admit an injustice on one side or the other. Apart from the details, there is no principle in the law, and when the Pro-Corn-law men give up the details, they throw the principle over board. Many of them admit that the law can not be maintained as it is, and they may be as sured that they cannot alter it without bringing about its total annihilation. We publish Mr. CHRISTOPHER'S suggestions for an alteration of the Corn-laws. They do not differ essentially from those which the Honour able Gentleman threw out on October 23th, at Boston, and which were noticed in The Sun, except that he was then certain that the minimum duty should be 205., while now he is uncertain whether it should be 20s. or 30s. He has since that time been much amongst his consti tuents, and if they approve of his ss. fixed duty as against the public, with a sliding scale for the advantage of the farmer, they appear not to approve of so low a minimum duty as 20s. It is 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. We have received the Paris Papers of Thurs day. It was well and generally known in Paris on that day that the Court of Peers had con 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 dis 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 against 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, tdcted 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• PRIES sat on the Bench, and a Colonel KIRK was charged with the maintenance of public order. The Bishop OfCHARTRES 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, i n a pastoral letter levelled at the Debats, repelled these attacks upon the priest hood. The Debuts 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 corn- THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1841. 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 En g l an d th roug h out 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 Roinanism, w e h ave l ong h ear d 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 congregation, 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 journ a l s t a t es , a wager was laid by two butchers of the village of Borgerho u t, as to the comparative str eng 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 charge 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 next 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 gentlem an ' s heart still remained callou s , an d th e 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 charm would be successful. The key, however, remained as inflexible as the iron 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 few 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 th e s h a f t . _ _ 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), the latter waited on th e G overnor, and de manded the restitution of the captured vessel. This, however, was refused, and the prize was retained. The account adds that on an investi gat i 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 when she was taken. BOURSE—PARIS, I I:pi1 ir di Price o U R . . S H D PI i rig A 6i tc Y eess , s. t ..Lpi C ri DEC. 76c :5 2 ..0! .. . . Iptir6ai ei5:5.: First French 5 per Centt 4 per Cents lOO 90 ... 1„0 9C ... 100 90 ... 100 90 3 per Cent,. ex div 7B 25 ... 78 35 ... %8 25 ... 78 35 Bank of France ...3430 ...3.450 . . : .. 50 11 6 41 5 ) . ..... 5 1 06 14 5 0 . ..... 5 1 06 04 5 0 L 065 5 C41 795 .. 793 ... 790 ... 790 102 ... 102 ... 102 .. 102 S per cent5.,.1849 K2% ... 103 ... 102% ... 113 B aLa e e l lili g g i it a st n ne 5 13Ba re nn r kk C 51 e :1 1 1 . 1: SSl'haarreels Spanish Active % ... 24% ... 24 1 ,4 ... 2% Passive 5% ... 5% ... 5% ... 5% New Deferred Neapolitan Roman.... ll3 ... 1(3 .. 103 ... 103 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain Versailles, L.b .. 192 50 ... 192 50 ... 1-2 50 ... 192 50 at. 11 320 ... 320 ... 320 ... 320 Rouen 455 ... 457 59 ... 455 ... 457 '0 ()cleans Mulhausen to Thann ..... ItrasOurg co Sale 222 59 .. 222 50 ... 222 50 ... 222 50 sEi.tilAl4 r UNDS—Baussimr, Dae. 21. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cmt lOl% Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per C ent. 92 _____ 3 per Cent. ...... Thirty.seven• ._ 7l --- (1840) lolh Loan of City, 1'332, 4 per Cent. 97 Society of Commerce, 43i per Cent Bank of Belgium, 5 per Ce nt...m 7434 NationalSeciety. Exchange on London ( short )„ ....... ....... —Brussels Papers, Dec. 21. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.--ViEnna, DE C.H. Frye per Coat.. Metalliques Four per Cents. 99% Three par Cents. Bank Shares l6ll ...411gemeine ZeitURIL, Dec. 17. CHRISTMAS EVE AND THE NEW POLICE ACT.— For the information of all concerned, it may be necessary to state that no rejoicings will be allowed in public-houses after twelve o'clock on Friday 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. ELECTION OF COMMON COUN CILMEN.-(TH IS DAY.) LANGBOURNEIWARD.—FINAL CLOSE OF THE POLL. This day, at twelve o'clock, the poll for the above ward finally closed, when the numbers were as follow : Stubbings (Deputy) ... 71 Unwin Adamson Snelling 6B Collinson noward 73 Dixon The first eight gentlemei elected, and a vote of thank: John Key, the wardmote set *`Nicholson (L.) , n were then declared duly ;s having been given to Sir parated. THE MARKETS.-(T HIS DAY). COLONIAL MARKET. There was little business done, but prices were sus tained for most articles. The imports were fair. TEA MARKET. The biddings were languid at the public sales, and but a small part sold, at barely former rates. Company's Congou Is. 84d. cash; Is. B#d. was the lowest rate of free trade Congou, cash. TALLOW MARKET. A good demand for Russian Tallow, both on the spot and for delivery up to the end of the year at 48s. to 48s. 6d. per cwt. METAL MARKET. Speller in good request at 401. on the spot. Lead sold steadily. British Pig at 191. 15s. per ton. Iron steady at former rates. WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET. &over 31. to 51. 135.; Hay, 21. to 41. Bs.goTodhaetmthaerkfoeltlowwiansg u o o d t e a r t a i t o e n l s y : u and the trade DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AND NARROW ESCAPE 01 TILE INMATES. —Yesterday morning, at five o'clock, a destructive fire occurred on the premises of Mr. Smith, watch and clock maker, St. John-square, Clerkenwell, which entirely destroyed the stock, furniture, and pre mises. The inmates were removed just in time with only their night dresses on. The fire commenced in the shop, but in what mann er i t or i ginated no id ea can b e f ormed. On Mond a y l ast , the Marquis of Salisbury was elected Chairm an o f the Hertfordshire Quarter Sessions, in the room of Lord Daere; resigned. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND thibitt eptuton. " Who runs may read." PONLEIGN. 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 eve n s ti rre d th e p hl egm 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 of Peers will be to have reach ed the lowest depth of political infamy. The Journal des Debats has the following observations on the comments 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 decided that he would have only Ministers Plenipotentiary or Charges d'Affaires at the several Courts of Europe. Prince Lieven, Ambassador at London, has, in consequence been replaced by M. d e B runow , an d M. d e T atischeff , who was Ambassador at Vienna, by M. de Medem. Yet this has not prevented England and Austria from keep ing Ambassadors at St. Petersburgh." 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 effusion 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 larly 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 d ura ti on . M. de Salvandy i s t o b e 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 Pres 4 has decided that there are grounds for the prosecution of the Correo 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 Roma says that a fresh persecution of Catholic Missionaries has taken place 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. PIIIIIAC 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 for 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, notwithstanding their fre quent errors of policy, they will take the country as much by surprise, as it' on some fine morning they were to turn patriots. But, as we have already taken occa sion to observe, we have little hope that the Tories will falsify the notions generally entertained of them. The Herald recommends the immediate expulsion of the Rev. Mr. Palmer from 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 auricular 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 AdvertisAr :—" 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 on 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 only 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 into 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 quarter on wheat, when the averages amount to or exceed the sum of 655. ; and then, as prices decrease, increasing the duty (at what rate he does not mention) till it arrives at its maximum of at least 205., or at most 30s. For our selves we could scarce suppose that Sir Robert Peel would suggest even the least of these sums—an anticipation which would not be weakened by considering the body to whose tastes Mr. Christopher was adapting bis pro posals. But taking it at 205., it rust be allowed bat this would be a very material change. As the scale at present stands, the duty on wheat when selling at 655. per quarter is 21s. Bd. ; when at 50s. is 365. Bd. ; when at 365. per quar t er , it mounts to the absurd height of ps. Bd. A. concession which substitutes ss. for 215., and 20s. for 535., is certainly no inconsiderable abate ment of the claims: of the agriculturists, and we may probably consider Mr. Christopher in a great measure as speaking in the character of their representative. It will be observed that Mr. Christopher proposes to pre serve intact the principle of a sliding scale. Acknow ledging, however, the evils to which it gives occasion, and the fraudulent tampering with the averages which it invites, he proposes to remedy these mischiefs—first, by the change just mentioned in the details of the scale, in no part of which is any - such rapid rise of duty to be in troduced as existed in the previous scale at the prices of 705., 715., 725., and 735., where the duties were respec tively 10s. Bd., 6s. Bd., 2s, Bd., and Is., and, secondly, by drawing the materials from which the averages are to be compiled from the grower, instead of the dealer, demanding, indeed, separate returns from each party, but using the latter only as a check upon the former. With all this, however, Mr. Christo pher states himself to be decidedly opposed to any alte ration of the principle of the Corn-laws, to which he considers that we owe the important fact, that from 1815 to 1838 the price of wheat has varied less in England than in any other country except Sweden, and very con siderably less than in any of those countries and cities which he quotes, except, St. Petersburgh, and perhaps Trieste. Now this is very much the kind of measure which we expected from Sir Robert Peel's Govern ment. And all those who, with this paper, have advo cated the gradual relaxation of the existing restrictions, —whether they are or are not prepared to acquiesce in this as a final arrangement,—have great reason to congratulate themselves at the amount of concession which is at once tendered. How far this scheme will meet the views of certain of our Conservative Contem poraries who were filled with virtuous indignation at our daring, some few mouths since, to predict something of the kind, we will not venture to divine, but will leave them to settle with Mr. Christopher at their and his leisure. With regard to the amendment proposed in the means of taking the averages, we have little to say. It is a practical question, full of minute difficulties, which we hope his scheme may be effectual in over coming. At the same time we may be allowpd to say, that his statement of what he almost avows to be the Government scheme, seems likely to involve a good deal that is artificial and complicated. Of this, however, it is plainly impossible to judge till we have the details before us. On the amount of evils resulting froin the system in its present unmodi fied form, he and every one else have and can entertain but one opinion. The sliding scale may not be incurable, but the attempt to cure it is an experiment which we look on with considerable diffidence of its success. It would be unjust both to our Contemporary, whose san guine prophecies of Corn-law inviolability we are ven turing to discredit, as well as to Mr. Christopher, if we neglected to confess that this latter gentleman somewhat energetically disclaims the character of ' pilot balloon' with which we may seem to have saddled him. We are far from wishing to throw doubt on his disclaimer, yet still we cannot help thinking that we do owe this expression of sentiment on his part to some of those unconscious sympathies between members of the same party which we may continually observe developing themselves in the strangest and most incredible coinci dences. Whether by a mysterious intuition, or by mere similarity of principle, or by any other process (short, of course, of the obvious and ordinary modes of commu nication between man and man), we cannot but expect to find that the mind of Mr. Christopher and those of our Conservative governors have been moving in unison in this matter of the Corn-laws ; and we shall be content to bear the blame of some presumption in our claim to divine that able gentleman's mind and motives more clearly than he is himself able to analyse them, if events do not before long bear out our predictions.i' MONEY—TRADE —COMMERCE. At the meeting of the East India Proprietors, held yesterday,. Mr. Montgomery Martin presented a memo rial to the Court, signed by every East Indian mercantile firm of consequence. Its import was to show the trade and manufactures of India to have been utterly ruined by the competition of this country ; one instance of which he gave in the fact, that a piece of bandannas, which costs at Madras 205., costs only Bs. at Glasgow. His object was to obtain a reduction on the piece-goods of India, particularly those of cotton manufacture and on shawls. The motion was seconded, but finally withdrawn, on the suggestion of the Chairman that a petition would be the most effectual way of carrying out his views ; and the measure was left in the hands of the Directors. COMMERCIAL REFORM. Upwards of 1001. have already been subscribed by the Manchester Penny-a-week Anti-Corn-law Subscription Committee. A noble example for other towns. At a lecture delivered last night, on the Corn-laws, by Colonel Thompson, he stated that the prospects of the Corn-law Repealers were every day becoming brighter. Free-trade principles must and do keep pace, and the energies of the people are daily rallying. Mr. Taylor delivered a lecture last night, at the Metro politan Young Men's Anti-Monopoly Association, on the Corn-laws, after which the meeting adjourned to the 3d of January. NAVAL ANDIparLITARY. Lord Saltoun, with the three ships appointed to carry out troops to China, sailed from Plymouth on Monday. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have placed at the disposal of the Council of the Royal Naval School, two annual nominations of volunteers of the first lass in the Royal Navy to the two most meritorious scho lars of the establishment destined for the naval service. LAW AND POLICE. The commission of lunacy which was expected to have been issued against Daniel Gundry, Esq., who has signa lised himself so much lately by assaulting his servants and the police, and for which he was put under restraint in a lunatic asyluth, will not take place, a caveat having been entered at the Lunacy-office, preventing such inquiry. A Jury, composed of thirteen benchers of Lincoln's Inn, was empanelled yesterday, at Stone-buildings, to inquire into the circumstanc es a tt en di ng th e d eat h of John Miller, Esq., Q.C. The examination of witnesses elicited nothing further than has before been stated in The Sun, and the verdict returned was " Natural death." Robert Johnson, a man in the employment of Messrs. Davies and Co., of the Westminster-road, was yesterday charged at Union Hall with robbing his employers to the amount of 1001.; 75 duplicates of various articles pledged by him were produced, and he was fully committed. Dr. Mullins, who was dangerously stabbed about 10 days ago, by a lunatic gentleman, named Griffith Evans, applied to Mr. Burrell yesterday at Queen-square, to know whether, upon the depositions of Dr. Mullins, the Magistrates would send Mr. Evans for trial, or make a representation of the case to Sir James Graham. The latter will be pursued, and the case stands adjourned to Tuesday week. Mr. Leaky, a Solicitor, brought an action yesterday in the Court of Common Pleas against the Marquis of Westmeath, for the recovery of an Attorney's bill of costs incurred in the various suits taken by the Mar chioness against his Lordship, in the Ecclesiastical Court, the English and Irish Courts of Chancery, and the House of Lords. The case occupied the Court the entire day, when all parties agreed that it should be turned into a special case. The amount claimed amounts to nearly 4,0001. SPORTING. Sudbury Park contains a herd of nearly 1,000 head of deer. Friday, the 10th instant, was the last day of grouse shooting. Though there has been no scarcity of game on the Derbyshire moors, a sort of epidemic among the birds has strewn them about the heather, helpless and un able to move. THEATRICAL. We see by the Madrid papers that Rubini continues to be a great favourite in Madrid, and that the Queen and her sister are generally present when he performs. His engagement has expired, but he has undertaken to appear twice for the benefit of the charitable establishments of the capital. - COURT-FASHIONABLE. Sir James Graham left town yesterday on a visit to her Majesty at Winds9r Castle. Lordßag ot will entertain — a large circle at Blithfield, his seat near Stafford, next week. Sir Robert Peel left town yesterday afternoon for his seat, Drayton Manor, Staffordshire. The Right Hon. Baronet travelled by the London and Birmingham Rail way, and left the terminus in Euston-square by the two o'clock train. The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch arrived at Dal keith Palace last week. Viscount Castlereagh and party have arrived at Malta from Gibraltar, in their yacht. The Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby have given up their projected Continental tour for this year. The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry and. the Ladies Vane arrived at Wynyard Park, near Stock ton-on-Tees, on Saturday last, from Mount Stewart, Newtownards, Ireland. The Noble and Gallant Mar quis and his amiable Marchioness receive a succession of visitors at the former seat during the holidays. The Earl and Countess of Gainsborough will receive company at Exton during next month. The Earl and Countess of Limerick are assembling a large circle of distinguished relatives at South-hill Park, in Berks. The Marquis of Salisbury is entertaining a numerous and distinguished circle at Hatfield during this week. MISCELLANEOUS. Six large corn stores are being builti n in the town of Headford, Limerick, at the sole expend of the benevo lent landlord, R. St. George, Esq. The Visiting Justices of the county gaol, of Brecon are stated to have drawn up a memorial fur presentation to her Majesty in favour of the six Chartist prisoners now undergoing the sentence of two years' hard labour each in that prison, and praying her Majesty to be gra ciously pleased to remit the remaining portion of their sentence. • RUMOURS OF THE DAY. The Duke of Buckingham, the Duke of Beaufort, and Earl de Grey, are candidates for the blue riband vacant by the death of the late Earl of Westmorland. It has not been definitively arranged upon whom the selection will fall, but it is understood that the claim of the Duke of Beaufort will probably lae, preferred. A rumour has prevailed this week at Brighton, that her Majesty is expected to arrive here in the course of the ensuing month ; but no intelligence to that effect has been received at the palace, and we believe that there exists no foundation for the repo rt. It is stated that Sir A. Asto n, British Ambassador to the Court of Spain, has been recalled, and Lord Burg hersh, now Earl of Westmorland, is spok en of as his successor. Tuesday's Gazette contains a list of seventy three addresses of congratulation to the Queen on the birth of the Prince of Wales. These addresses were presented to her Majesty through the medium of the Home Secretary, Sir James Graham, with the exception of one from Tamworth, which was presented personally by Si; Pool, EVENING SUN MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CI7 Y, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC. 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 is no change. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, DEC. 22.—The trans actions at the Stock Exchange comprise Great North of England, 67i; London and Birmingham 321. New Shares, 26i ; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, 51k. No later arrivals to-day from any quarter. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 22.—Railisiti Stock continues in demand, and prices are firm. The following sales have been reported:—Midland Counties, 85; Ditto, Quarters, 211; North Midland, 721 ; No Union, 751; South Eastern and Dover, 201. THE "F ONDS. Consols opened at 88i 89 for the Account ; per Cents. Reduced, 89 ; Exchequer Bills, 10 12 pret°A' Towards the close of business yesterday, SP"' Active Stock advanced to 24* +, but opened this morn. ,,, , 1 ing rather flat at 23i 24* ; Portuguese Five per Cent :01 $ are 321 33; Ditto Threes, 191 20. fpi PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. f RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great Western ... 65 - . 4t Ditto New - Ditto Fifths London and Brighton 5O ...... 37/...... to -- London and Blackwell Ditto New 41. 6s. Bd. 6l. b. i London and Birmingham ttt Ditto New London and South Western 3Bi sBfr to 59 °u" Manchester and Leeds Midland Counties ... Northern and Eastern North Midland South Eastern and Dover Ditto New York and North Midland... Ditto New Shares... .HALF-PAST ONE,' Both the English and Foreign Markets are intion!% and prices remain without alteration. Consols for 7; opening are 88i 89 ; Bank Stock, 1651 ; Three-and o. Half per Cents. Reduced, 94; Three per Cents. l!' e ; duced, 89 ; Exchequer Bills, 10 12 premium ; SPa n t Active Stock, 24 ; Dutch Two•and-a-Half per Ce ll "". 511 52+ ; Ditto, Five per Cents., 991 ; Belgian, 1011. The Share Market is steady with ou t a lt era tion. 1 1 don and Brighton were last done at 371, ; London sU,- Birmingham, 165 ; Midland Counties, 85i ; North g l° land, 70i. HALF PAST TWOS Consols, 84 89 ; Colombian, 20 1 ; Spanish, 2 , 3 1" QUARTER TO MTh, ..,„ 5 It seems it must be le ft at last to Foreign u latl °t3:l,-g to teach us sound maxims of policy in reg our domestic trade. Sweden has just effectedoflB most material reduction in the import duti, ot all descriptions of grain, and will allow foreign vi , for instance, to come in at the reduced rate of one,, T n dollar. The plan the present Ministry of Sir Robert .rif intend to give us, is oozing out by degrees, buL. it be what report says it is, a new sliding scale, the riTet mier will be much in the position of the man in the fly' who, trying to please everybody, could please no one. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. FREE-TRADE CONFERENCES. SIR,—I take advantage of your perlyw - 0* to contribute on alternate days to your colon! b .; to enter into a further examination of the c ' a d nervations of the Times on the Derby a j Manchester Free-Trade Conferences ; a lw a de mean to confine myself principally to one lo w of reply, which shall be by constantly sup that the landowners had worked out then . '" n . tence of a bounty on the importation of ede corn for five-and-twenty years as justice is ISII - and were answering the same a • t ments, mutatis mutandis, in our mouths so removal of the bounty. s° The statements of the Derby sympathizers,. g o 40 show that in the manufactures of the midland a 5 1 there has been a downward progression, or rather re gression, for these five-and-twenty years. Doe s l ife prove the existing distress of those districts to bs' the r, result of the present Corn-law ? We should r .a s iro f think not, inasmuch as the present Corn-law is about half that standing."—Times, Dec. 14, 18 41 i: flo ut' Fancy the change described, and "we sae rather think" they would tell us, that the di 650 ence of time relied on was only a quibble, lo re , . much as the law, though not in precisely its P ar s sent form, had existed for five-and -twenty i e and more. " A more rational inference, we suspect, wou ld be the cause of our diminished manufactures is W an d found in the pacification of Europe, which, ~.five t at twenty years ago, set the nations of the cont in e nt of liberty to pursue the arts of peace, the derelope o4l ;4o their own resources, and the employment of their nay" industry."—B. b out,' Fancy the landowners groaning under a -I d to on foreign corn, as they will be, and to refer it all to the pacification of Europe. irearw " If, then, overlooking or neglecting these c t heir stances, our manufacturers continued to increase a y es own production, and by invitations of fresh 0 1 7 1 1.6 „ t ou from the country to multiply the numbers deP e o ; the a precarious trade, then, however we may feel -crsap poor artisans, however we may regret even th e 1 v t pointments and losses of the masters themselves, ; h e certainly we cannot submit our understandings to ,7 e delusion now attempted by those masters, nor lend 0- -- selves to the iniquitous project for making up their 0 ,; lucky speculations at the expense of their neighbou rs ' —lb. Their neighbours being us the supporterl e f The bounty. But let us remember, whe li d t e r. time comes, that "we cannot submit our on standings." " The plaint uttered at Derby by the midland m ill ; owners has made itself heard among their north brethren at Leeds and at Manchester, and IheY have re brethren echoed the cry with a shrillness which sharply on the ear, however little it may 1 0 " the derstanding."— Times, 18th Dec., 1841. gna ire Remember this when duke calls ' f a for a responsive moan, on the tribulation's ° bounty on imported corn. "The art of the whole is to make truth serve do P urP l e t he e of falsehood. It is true now, and unhappily it has often that true before, and is likely to be often true fsga in '_;bat the manufacturing . districts are in a state of suffe rinb u 'it of it is false that their suffering is exclusively the re? - the Corn-laws, and equally false that any In ste e ri r e al peel n of that suffering would be effected by the of of a ll h: Think how magnanimously w e will sal to the landlords, when they tell us that theY age theirs should be the better for the remova l °et bounty on imported corn. " The Coryphieus of the meeting at Leed_e ,w_a s v ja a tiall , tleman of that ilk,' named T. Flint. ,Cor a ' syllogism is a little incomplete, laws exist—distress exists—therefore the distress been caused by the Corn-laws." b — ei / n b. this 7:o ll2l: We will parody the argument, and S Printing-House-Square syllogism is as f a o l ll oS ere y' .. a bounty exists—less English corn exists- - t h t he fore the diminution has been caused by bounty." " The gentlemen who followed Mr. Plint were *4;o the whole of their argument, as disposed of bi if propositions which &c.—first, that the modificativ-'ia not the total abolition, of the Corn-laws is regtl isit fo' order to enable the mill-owners, by a reduction of w-iw eel l to undersell their foreign competitors, which ha s "- the cry of the manufacturers ;' —lb.. p t i the On this point the landowners have ho ax % .ve l working classes and the working classes m, - 0 4. to a great extent, swallowed the bai .19 t The e y owner doubles the price of bread ; the master manufacturer to advance the do the price, and the operative carries it in his hand to a• shopkeeper, who is the receiver for the laudll. And this, says the landlord, is your wages; i ts care not to diminish your wages! The falar t he is in a nut-shell ;it is not your wages, it a n tax to the landlord. And the working Ma n g to cannot see this when he is told, is fi t s i ti nartS fill the cushions that tyranny rests its back r upon. o ld which oblitie " —and secondly, that the Ministerial measurereci' , not have had the effect of lowering the price of all, which has been th e d oc t r ine of the po litic ' e onothese mists. We shall leave th e Leaguers to ree calel various allegations as they ma y "—lb. fr th e We shall not let the landlords ° f bounty, because they prove that some s Of political economists have made simpletonviyg themselves. Perhaps they were in the enetbere e employ. But without insisting on tilaE , „ % the has undeniably been too much done to CO plea thieves to come out and be hanged, 'oil th e , that it would not hurt them much. Whicil make no reason, why the thieves should go ° two s In my next shall be noticed the °User° er on the Manchester conference, and if rooln S I t o mits t the attention of your readers the impossibility of a Government's going.uch whose cause has come to be rested nn by breaches of the common-sense and justi ce d i ts which the world, badly •is erfie d as it is, the Times produces. To which shad be 3 ""f, some further circumstances leading to the belief, that the question of Free Trade is tbe POW . 5 enll e which i n the Cromwellian phrase, our en the are delivered into our hand, and that here is fly place and time ibr the Liberals to sound the Its and Re-form. Yours sincerely, T. PERRONET THOMPSO.O di rig 00, den in the Black heath, Dec. 2371841. P.S.—I 0f ha1, 21, -e lo j r u n st in s g een cb tl i i .o e ni l e e i t e ter of That he claims the twenty - millions a-year as ci .c , o the state upon the present rental, andirresgu.4 tive of the Corn -law, is a new IWit. Let us too. 90 for that, and the Cornpensation Bounty to_., But the last is the best to drive. The other neu..e tralizes the claim for commiseration on the sc° l y IN G I s r t e tl;: e : of land-tax. - .. • !.. The late Lord Monson, by his will, proved:!: the Prerogative Court, has left an annuity of 200/. toI D faithful valet, who travelled with him in his frequen tours to the High Alps , Ita l y , and Germany. Puy ton late and in Lincolnshire, is enta iled on the present reef ull and his issue. Gratton Par k and estate, which the , Lord purchased from Sir Mar k Wood is left to the Co tess of Warwick, his Lordship's mother, -toor ( th o rnih th r .Part at Crh e t