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NEW WORK BY MAJOR NAPIER. In a few days, in 2 vols. small Bvo., EXCURSIONS ALONG THE SHORES OF THE MEDITERRANEAN. By MAJOR NAPIER, Author of " Scenes and Sports in Foreiga Lands," Ere. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. MISS COSTELLO'S NEW WORK. Just ready, in 2 vols. Bvo., with numerous Illustrations, APILGRINIMAGE TO AUVERGNE, FROM PICARDY TO LE VELAY. By MISS LOUISA STUART COSTELLO, Author of " A Summer amongst the Bocages and the Vines,"&c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. ON MONDAY EVENING, DEC. 27, Will be performed, Colley Cibber's Comedy of SHE WOULD AND SHE WOULD NOT.—Don Manuel, ,Mr. W. Farren; Don Philip, Mr. Cooper ; DJU Octavio, Mr. Walter Lacy ; Trapanti, Mr. Harley; Hyppolyta, Mrs. Nisbett ; Flora, Mrs. Walter Lacy ; Rosara, Miss Cooper; Viletta, Mrs. Orger. After which will be produced the New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled GUY EARL OF 'WARWICK ; OR, HARLEQUIN AND THE DUN COW. Doors to ie opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. 25.; 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 so!ely of slr. Andrews, bookseller, 157. New Bond-street. NEW STRAND THEATRE. SPLENDID CHRISTMAS NOVELTIES. Monday, Dec. 27, and every evening during the week, Mr. JACOBS, the ROYAL VENTRILOQUIST and GREAT MODERN MAGICIAN, whose performances during the last two seasons created a great sensation, will, for a third time, have the ho;:our 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 are on an entirely new system; and the Classical Experiments of the PATAGONIAN WONDERS. The tout ensemble forms a Combination of Talent not to be surpassed. Doors open at half-past Six, commence at Seven. Boxe;, 2s. 6d., Children, is. 6d. ; Pit, Is. 6d., Children, Is. ; Gal lery, 6d. Half-price a Quarter to Nine; Boxes, Is. 6d. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, no half-price. Carriages to be in waiting Ten Minutes to Eleven. EVENING SUN POPULATION RETURNS. We have had so many inquiries for The Sun, containing an abstract of the Population Returns, that we shall republish the tables, with consider able additions, TO-MORROW. THE RAILWAY SUN IS NOW RE-PUBLISHING, PRICE SIXPENCE. THE CHINA SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Dec. 24, 1841. TO CORRESPONDENTS. 6 ' A Borough Magistrate of Liverpool" is informed there was no other inclosure but sixpence in his letter. Several "Constant Readers" at Leeds are informed that the word " transported," when applied to Scotch Clergymen, means the very reverse of the same word when used in reference to criminals. When a father in the Scotch Church is trans ported, he performs a voluntary act, and always takes care to go to a better place than the one he left; in the same way as a Bishop is "translated" to a fat See from one which does not furnish so many of the good things of life. THE WEATHER.—NooN, DECEMBER 24. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 42 > Highest 43 f Lowest 31 Barometer 29.72.—Wind E.—Freezing Point .2.2 Deg. tiTRH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW M, , rning......:14 minutes altar 10 1 Evening .27 minutes after 11. Ihe Publication of the Evening Edition of Tits Sux com menced at 10 minutes after Three. , : f t k e l ^._?‘ ) t ,„, yo' 0 " 'OM _714,1114 LONDON: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1841. We drew attention yesterday to the fact that the law, by being perverted to be an instrument of injustice, is losing its authority over the minds of the manuthcturers. Mr. BRIGIIT, of Roch dale, openly defended the violation of the law. Now, while the sufferers in the North are be ginning to find out that we have many bad laws which ought to be disregarded, writers in the South are observing that many, and the most important part of society, spring, up and flourish without any laws at all. On the one hand many► laws are denounced as bad, on the other the ne cessity even for good laws is practically denied. The Nonconformist on Wednesday said— To the efficacy of what enactment recorded in, the Statute-book are we to trace that deep concern to vitalise religion which, just a century ago, startled and terrified a sleeping establishment ? The myriads of Sunday schools which, if they do nothing more, scratch up the surface of a virgin soil before trampled down and neg lected, rendering it capable of receiving some of the seeds of truth—what legal authority coerced them into being ? Chapels, which though too few for the wants of our British population, arc yet, taken in the gross, a vast number. By what tax was the amount produced, necessary to defray the expenses of their erection ? And the ten thousand ministers of various denominations, who nroclaim week by week their several views of re velation and its bearing upon the duties and destiny of mankind. Llow do they find support ? What !is all this to be regarded as pure unmixed evil and absurdity, because, forsooth, they who have done these things did them of their own mind, and were not compelled thereto by Act of Parliament ? They are egregious triflers who say this ; fops,who have yet to learn that there is within man's heart a power which, when evoked by religion, beggars their own parchment-begotten power, as the will which moves the muscle of the living man does the gal vanism which convulses that of the dead one. The whole of Dissent, with its almost countless schools and meeting-houses, and its infinite ad vantages, has not only come unbidden and un regulated into existence, but has grown and flou rished greatly to the advantage of society, in spite of law and legislators. The same obserta tion is strictly true of the Press, the great utility of which to society, though it has been thwarted by meddlin g l awyers and in every possible way , ignorant cduntry gentlem en, was Y es terday thus happily described by the Times: — Liberty of speech on these (national) subjects .1 5 the essential characteristic of a free country._ and . to h ave a press above the, reach of corruption which uses th a t liberty, is the greatest possible sdlegua rod against the dis honesty or the incapacity of those by irbont it is ii and the g g o l v i er s n u e e t Public opinion, speaking unreservedly.yyitr: i organs, is the life and soul of responsil 11j light which is thus poured in upon the machinery of every department of civil and military a dministration is a surer antidote to abuse than a thousand Reform Bs. We are apt to congratulate ourselves upon those me chanical improvements which have enabled a man to breakfast at London and dine in Liverpool, and cross the Atlantic in a fortnight. We perceive the multiplication of points of contact between man and man which is thus occasioned, and the vast increase of power and other ad vantages which are brought in consequence into the com mon stock. But it requires not much reflection to show that the change effected in the constitution of the political world through the instrumentality of public journal', fearless except for their reputation, and provided with organised resources like those at our own command, is not less avonderffil, nor the results less salutary to man kind. Opinion has acquired, through these means, not only new powers of expression, but unlimited opportu nities of information. The statesman or the private citizen, without leaving his home, is enabled to see what passes all over the world. Ile is at once in London and i n New York, at Canton, at Warsaw, and Constanti nople. No agent or oiticer, either of this or of any forcign ro,-,wer, can carry on an operation or course of comhtet ain:ctiro- the public interests in secret ; and the consequf , ne e is, that the representatives of this and other countries act as in the face of day, with the tear of a searching and univileail criticism beiiwe their eves. This is the system— this admirable and useful ma chinery f ur the circulation of that moral power which ree;ulates the pulses of the world, but admirable and use ful only when left to its own natural and unimpeded movements—this it is which an attempt was made to crush in our persons by the trial which took place on Tuesday last. This all-important part of society, which keeps dishonest governers in order, which is the life and soul of responsibility, which is the surest antidote to abuse, which gives a man übiquity, and places him at once in London and in New York, at Canton, at Warsaw, and at Constan from owing anythi ng t o l eg i s l at i on, tinople, far has only to complain of its absurd and cruel trammels. The article from which we have quoted the above passage was written to demand an improvement in the Libel-law, which exposes the conductors and proprietors of the Press to be severely mulcted and imprisoned for performing those important and essential duties which the Times describes. " It is," said our Contempo rary, " a disgrace to a free country, that, for stating plain facts, and offering temperate re monstrance, the conductors of the Press should be liable to that species of legal annoyance and persecution to which we have been subjected." All that law and legislation have done for the Press is to degrade, by its penal laws, one of the most useful occupations of society, and to make the performance of its essential duties irk some and dangerous. When we have convincing evidence on the one hand that some laws, like the Corn and Provision laws, inflict indescribable mischief on society, and proofs, on the other, that some of the most im portant parts or limbs of society flourish with out any laws, at least we may demand of the gentlemen who are soon to assemble at West minster—and we go no further—that they should be extremely cautious not to inflict new and un necessary enactments on society. To repeal laws is, in the majority of cases, to remove res trictions and restore society to the healthy in fluence of the natural laws, which regulate its birth and its growth. Like removing ligatures from the body, the abolition of bad laws allows every limb of society to assume its proper form. They mean, it is said, to propose some modifica tion of the Corn-laws; let them learn a little mo desty and a little forbearance by the humi liating confession of failure, which such a proposi tion implies. There is no reason to apprehend that they will be over-modest. Our selfish and incorri gible Corn-law-makers are not to be daunted by any failure, and seem only to be stimulated by the confession of blunders to blunder anew. Mr. CHRISTOPHER, for example, while he ad mitted that "it is impossible for human inge nuity to devise any system that shall regulate the price of corn, because the farmer is obliged to cultivate the land at certain seasons, and it is only in the hand of the Almighty Power that guides the whirlwind and directs the storm to decide whether we shall have a good harvest or a bad one." Yet he proposes to regulate this price which cannot be regulated, and to fix the price of corn as nearly as possible between 565. and 655. It makes the heart sink to know that such inconsistent, meddling, selfish men have the regulation of public affairs, and the making of laws for society, of the immense phenomena of which their minds do not take in one thou sandth part. Thus Mr. CHRISTOPHER presumes to found an argument in favour of plundering the people, on the asserted fact that the price of wheat has varied less in England than in all the countries of Europe, since 1815, except Sweden. In them, however, communication is difficult, and the peculiarities of one province cannot correct those of another; while in England communication is very much facilitated, and there is little differ ence of price between Brighton and Inverness. Everybody knows, too, that wheat is the staple food of England, and rye of most of the other countries which Mr.CHRISTOPHER enumerates. In them wheat is more an article of commerce and speculation than, as it is here, of general consump tion. Had Mr. CHRISTOPHER compared the variations in the price of wheat in them to the variations in the price of tallow here, he would have made a fairer comparison. But that might not have served his personal views, and to the selfishness and ignorance of his class, truth, as well as the public welfare, are sacrificed. Our readers are aware that his Majesty of HANOVER, whose dominions skirt one side of the Elbe for a few miles, levies a heavy toll on all ships and goods entering that great artery of Northern Germany. As a justification of this toll he neither keeps up lights, buoys, nor bea cons, nor in any way facilitates or improves the river, the navigation of which is impeded by banks which might be removed. He has no ex cuse nor pretext whatever for levying the toll, except that it has been fbr many years sub mitted to. Originally it was one of those tolls very nume rous on every river of Germany, which every strong-handed robber-Baron, whose castle com manded a flowing stream, levied on those who used the water. It was a tax or compensation which they consented to pay to some robber, rather than be stopped and rifled. Stade served its original owners as such a castle, and far back in the night of time some Sea King, having fixed himself there, stopped all vessels entering the Elbe and plundered them. To escape his depre dations they consented to pay something, and that sort of exaction, under terror of being plun dered, has been continued by the successive owners of Stade to this day. Out of deference to the Elector of Hanover, as long as he sat on our throne, Great Britain submitted patiently to the extortion. When the countries fell under different monarchs the Stade dues were remonstrated against, but respect for old usages forbad the Government putting an end to the toll with a strong hand. Its vexa tions, therefore, were the subjects of a negotia tion which has now been several months in progress. Yesterday advices from Hamburgh informed us, that new difficulties have arisen in the nego tiations between England and Hanover for the reduction of the Stade dues: His Hanoverian MAJESTY, it is said, is willing to decrease the duties payable by the riverian states, but declines to make any concession in favour of transmarine countries; he will, in short, treat the impost quoad the former as a river tax, and therefore subject to the provisions of the treaty of Vienna; while in reference to sea-borne commerce his MAJESTY insists that it is a sea toll, and consequently not cognisable under the treaty. If this representation be correct, his Majesty of HANOVER is resolved to defend his plunder by a quibble, and the negotiator henceforth em ployed should be a man-of-war. Hanover has no right whatever to this toll, except by our con sent, and the instant our consent is withdrawn its right ceases. If it should levy the toll atter a refusal and resistance, a vessel of war stationed in the Elbe should secure its free passage to all her MAJESTY'S vessels. It is unworthy of Great Britain to meet such quibbling with any other answe r than a demand for the total abolition of ioer:etol,l,,atalci is nda positive refusal to pay it. Prince ERNEsT relies, we p resume , on his fri en d s t h e T Engli s h persuaded that they will comp e l merchants to submit to have a portion of their property confiscated to swell his Exchequer. A case which occurred yesterday in the Vice- Chancellors' Court, illustrates the mode by which the mistakes of professio na l men are ma d e to operate as a heavy tax on suitors. In the cause t( Attorney-General v i n . a t ab h ee e toG altered,trhe e e r Courtlw Greenwich It an application w as gecisrtereait•othat he had writ tenßofaitlte,ay,,, memory I t v o as allow admitted the o f a R d e down the words of the decree from had m and that the Vice-Chancellor actually used words which the Re g istra r had omitt e d. They were of gre at importance, for, as he had stated them, they c om p elled the Attorney_ General to proceed by indictment, whereas the words used left it opt ional with him so to proceed. 'flue decree, as written and recorded, was, in fact, different from the decree as pro nounced in Court; nevertheless, the applicatio n to make the written record conform to the actual decree was refused, because to rectify the ad mitted error " would establish a dangerous pre cedent." The Court could not possibly survive the plan of correcting errors without additional payment. The case must, therefore, be re-heard, solicitors must be again employed, counsel again feed, the clerks of the Courts even must be paid again, because it would establish a dangerous precedent in the Court of Chancery to do an act of justice without making the clients pay for it ! Errors, it may be expected, will be in proportion to Courts and causes, and thus, whether the new Courts satisfy the suitors or not, they will be sure to increase the emoluments of the legal profession. The Paris Journals of Wednesday have all been received. There is not a word about the case of M. DUPOTY in the Liberal Press. The Icational, instead of denouncing the infamous proceedings before the Court of Peers, has a ge neral article upon a work published by M. Du- VERGIER DE HAURANNE upon the interior and exterior politics of France. The Commerce has a long article upon M. ODILON BAR ROT'S letter to the Siecle relative to the fortifica tions of Paris, and. another upon a petition ad dressed to the President of the Council by the shipowners of St. Brieux, praying for a redac tion of the French Navy as a measure necessary for the encouragement of the merchant service. This petition is also the subject of articles in the Debats and Constitutionnel, but as the question is but of local interest, we shall not now en ter upon any discussion of its merits. Neither would we so particularly allude to it, except to show to what uninteresting topics the French press is obliged to have recourse to avoid dwel ling upon the proceedings of the French Star- Chamber, the Court of Peers. The Paris Jour nals have had enough of fines and imprison ments, and these await the publishers of any strictures upon judicial roguery which may be brought, during the sitting of the Court, under the notice of the President, Baron PASQUIER. Whatever may be the immediate effects of the terrible examples of political offenders, made by the Court of Peers, the next revolution in France will mainly stand indebted for its origin to the outrages upon national liberty now in course of perpetration by that base tribunal. The idea of such a revolution may appear preposterous to the Court ; but reflecting men, placed in a situation to mark the signs of the times more correctly than can be done within the precincts of a palace, cannot but have observed growing indications of a tendency in the public mind to such a catastrophe. The dynasty of ORLEANS has no more dangerous enemy than the Court of Peers. By trampling under foot all the defences of national liberty it accustoms the French people to regard no insti tutions as sacred which they have the power to set aside. From the moment the Court of Peers shall have pronounced M. DUPOTY guilty of participation in QUENISSET'S attack upon the Royal Dukes, the Charter, the palladium of French freedom, will be of no more value than one of the ballads of that late eminent Grub street publisher, CATNACH. In justification of the conduct of the Peers, their only British apologist, the Post, urges " the necessity of restraining, in some way, those French political writers, whose pestilent breath spreads the contagion of treasonable and infamous doctrines throughout the land." Star- Chamber prosecutions of the Press will never cor rect this evil. It is only to be done by removing the abuses in the Administration, which call forth the violent reprehensions of the press. The in stitutions of France are wholly unsuited to a free people, and before the press can be made to suggest reforms in the mild language common to British journalists, they must be wholly re-mo delled. What, for instance, can be more op posed to civil liberty, than the whole passport system ? A Ministerial Journal of this morning says, " An ar rangement betwee❑ the Court of Rome and Espartero is seriously contemplated. 'We are assured that the Inter nuncio of his Holiness at Paris has received overtures on this subject." Yesterday morning the King received successively MM. Guizot, Martin du Nord, Mole, Sauzet, and de Broglie. Al one o'clock there was a Council of Ministers. The decision of the Court of Peers will be pronounced this evening, or to-morrow (Thursday), at the opening of the Sitting. The Arnionican of Brest, of the 18th of December, says, the order to dismiss all the seamen of the class of 1834 has arrived. On the 21st the landing of the men to be discharged from the Suffren ' the Jupiter, and the. Scipion will begin. They will be immediately sent ~to their homes. Those from the Jena, Neptune, and Triton, will be discharged the 23d, and in a few days afterwards the same measure will be applied to the sea men in those belonging to the division. Already 300 naval apprentices have gone on board in place of those who are to be discharged, and as the sea men included in the permanent levy, begin to arrive in considerable numbers, and as orders have been given at L'Oricnt and Cherbourg to send to Brest the sailors who can be spared at those two ports, it is probable that in a short time there will be sufficient to fill up the vacancies in the vessels at Brest.—Constitutionnel. In the sitting of the Council-General of Agriculture, held on Thursday, the sugar question was taken into lengthened consideration. M. de Tocqueville was op posed to the beet-root or indigenous system as tending to injure shipping interests. M. C. Dupin wished to see all branches of national industry equally prosperous, and was for promoting the interests of agriculturists at home, as well as those of the growers in the colonies. He la mented that so much versatility should have been shown by the Legislature on this subject, and that the measures affecting the question should have been adopted rather on the spur of the moment than after mature and well founded deliberation. M. G. de Beaumont complained of the mode in which the duties on indigenous sugar are collected. He observed that they were calculated only on presumed produce, whereas they ought to be reckon ed according to the quantities actually made. He con ceived that the mercantile ports were not justified in the complaints they had made of the depressed condition of the colonial sugar trade, because, during the first months of the year, they had imported more sugar than they had done for a long time. It was notorious, he added, that the trade was injured, both in the colonies and at home, by contraband proceedings, and at Bourbon, in particular, 28 millions of kilogrammes of sugar had been sold in a year, more than what the island had produced or could produce. M.. de Larnartine was an advocate for the equal prosperity of both systems ; he thought there ought to be a perfect equality established for the two classes of products, and that a just indemnity should be allowed to the home growers, whose operations extended over only 57,000 hectares (144,000 acres), of land. He was for protecting the colonial interests. M. Desjoberts would establish an equality of duties, and then if the colonies could not support the competition, he would allow them to select their own markets. No decision was come to. The Committee of the Council on the Sugar question is composed of Messrs. de Mornay, Ju lien Lefebvre, Leroi de Pommiere, de Tocqueville, de Bethune, Saunac and Briffet. The Berlin papers state that a few days ago a duel was fought, at Potsdam, by two officers, both sons of Prus sian Generals of distinction. One of the combatants was dangerously wounded in the neck by his adversary's ball. It arose from hasty words passed at the theatre more than twelve months ago. A Court of Honour had de cided that the offence given was not sufficient to warrant a hostile meeting, but the officer now wounded persisted in fighting. They write from Cronstadt that, on the 3d inst., the gulf was entirely free from ice from the shore as far as the eye could reach; an unusual instance of mild weather at this time of the year in Russia. The Popuisr of Barcelona of the 9th instant states that a feud has arisen in Catalonia, which threatens to revive the sanguinary conflicts of the old factions of the Caps and Hats in Italy. The students at Barcelona in medi cine pharmacy, and surgery have adopted as a distinc tive !park of their profession grey mushroom-shaped hats, with bands and loops of different colours, according to the branches to which they respectively confine their studies. The different journeymen have sworn to put down this innocent distinction, and having insulted seve ral of the students violent conflicts have ensued. The, journeymen have also adopted a hat of their own, made much the same as that of the students, but white, with larger flaps, bands, and loops. If this competition con tinues, the manufacturers who confine themselves to making caps may leave off business. _ _ _ _ _ The Diario di Roma of the 11th inst., shows that the report of the Pope having been at the point of death, was entirely false. On the 10th, the Pope was present seated on his throne at mass, and on the same day, in the chapel of the Vatican, gave the benediction of the sacrament. The Diario informs us that Prince Leopold of Bavaria, and Prince Frederick of Prussia had arrived at Rome. Don Juan and Don Fernand, sons of Don Carlos, were still there. On the 6th, the Pope received the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz, and the Duchess Caroline, her daughter. As a .sovereign Princess, the Grand Duchess, who was presented by the Prussian Minister, was received in the apartments to which generally ladies are not admitted. DUTCH FUNDS.— Money, 11111 Amwrasnasi, Dec. 21. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent .litto, ditto 5 per cent. Amort Syndic, 4% per Cent 90 91% Ditto, ditto, 3% per c0nt........ 00000000 Commercial Company, 4% per cent.... Ditto (1835 an d 1837) 5 per cent. ..... Loan 1 837, 5 p er cent. •.•.. 000000000000000 •.••••• 9 7 . iiiiii Exchange on London, One m0nth......,, l2 0 % Two months ..... Hamburgh, One month 35 81% Two months 35 59% Dutch Papers, Dec. 22. itELOIAN IS UNDS—liatissaLs„ Dac. 22. Actual Debt,2% per Cent. . ..... ............ 52 Rothschild's Lean 5 per Cent ......... ..... 101 Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent......... 92 . ----------- 3per Cent -- • — •Thirty•strven ;$ Loan of City, 1932, 4 per Cent B44: 101 . 06% Society ef Commerce, 4 ii Per Cent Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 74% National Society. • •••••••••••«•••••••••••••••••••• Exchange on London (short) . ..... ...Brussels Papers, Dee. 22. TEE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, lB4l . AMERICAN NEWS (EXPRESS FROM LIVERPOOL.) LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY. The Hibernia, Captain Wilson, arrived at our port to day, after a quick passage of twenty-two days and a half from New York. She has brought Journals, to the Ist inclusive, from that city, but they contain no intelligence relative to politics or commercial affairs, later than the news recently received by the Halifax steamer, for which second editions were prepared by the New York press, on the evening previous to the departure of the Hibernia. The Americans, despite of their republican notions, appear to be mightily delighted with Lord Morpeth, who continued to be feasted and toasted with unabated hospitality. He had been entertained at a grand dinner given by the St. Andrew's Society, on the anniversary of their patron Saint; and his Lordship delivered an eloquent speech on the occasion, acknowledging the very flattering manner in which lie had been received by the citizens of the United States. The above was the third dinner he had attended, on three consecutive evenings. BUFFALO, Nov. 16.—Buffalo is without a bank. Eleven were in operation as many months since ; but, alas ! poor Yorick ! the pet of all pets, the Commercial, has this day ceased to redeem, and is now at the mercy of the Bank Commissioners. Some fifteen days since, a breeze was raised about the ears of those having control of this institution, in regard to the redemption of its bills at Albany, but the matter was easy and very amicably set tled, and affairs looked smooth as Geneva upon a sum mer's day, when all at once this eruption burst forth, leaving us totally prostrate, and without a bank of any description whatever. EXCHEQUER BlLLs.—Extraordinary as it may appear, we have reason to believe, that upwards of eighty thousand pounds of Exchequer bills, which have been stamped by the Government as genuine, are spurious, notwithstanding that warranty. METROPOLITAN DISTRICT LETTERS.—To-mor row the district letters must be put into the General Post-office by 12 o'clock, noon, when the last despatch for the town and suburbs will be sent off. At the receiving houses no letters will be received for delivery that day after nine o'clock. INCONSISTFNCIES.—The Morning _Herald is one of the sticklers for the Church, and for ex tending the Church. But the clergy can only teach as they are taught, and hence, if Univer sity education be bad, the cleegy will not teach properly, and to extend the Church will only be to extend improper teaching. The Herald, how ever, besides being a patroness of the Church, is Anti-Puseyite, and its dislike of Puseyism in spired it yesterday with the following severe hit at Oxford education :—" A college tutor, brought up in the principle and practice of school logic, can easily find a loop-hole to creep out at." But a college tutor is the true pivot of college edu cation, and college tutors, according to the Herald —a description which we believe to be accurate, and to apply to the entire instruction of the Universities—are brought up to quibble, to make the worse appear the better reason, to pervert and mystify, not to discover and establish truth. Such is the character which the Church-loving. Herald gives to the education which the tutors of colleges receive and bestow on the youth educated at the Universities. Can we wonder at the consciences of priests being in all cases so wonderfully flexible, while their avarice is un controlled and intense? Our Contemporary has also been a distinguished advocate for the abo lition of capital punishments. It is now very zealous for the suppression of the slave trade, as it had the good fortune to publish a notice of the new treaty before the Times. This zeal, yester day, led our Contemporary into much exultation at the existence and extension of capital punish ments, in the case of making the slave trade piracy, contrary to the principles so well advo cated by the Herald. It affirmed that the " ventures of the slave dealer will be fewer, with the penspect of the YARD-ARM before him." Such tricks do words play even with strong minds. Had "yard-arm" been "gallows," the Herald would have shrunk affrighted from encouraging the vulgar belief that putting men to death is the way to prevent crimes. The passions of great men play sad tricks with their reason, and be fool them far worse than ever an old man was , befooled by an artful maiden. PARADISE LOST. BY A WHIG Ex-mAcumAls. Farewell the green Eden of Place, And Downing-street's sweet, sunny clime, Where, clasped in Enjoyment's embrace, I spent so delightful a time— Farewell, oh farewell, for my doom Is to fly from those scenes I love most, And cherish in exile and gloom, The remembrance of Paradise Lost ! Yet in slumber my fancy still roves Through that Eden, like Adam of old, Still haunts the rich Treasury groves, Where rolls a Pactolus of gold ; But I wake, and the scene disappears, And, wrecked on the barbarous coast Of bleak Opposition, in tears, I muse upon Paradise Lost ! If I strive to re-enter within The gates of that Eden so dear, Some Tory cries out with a grin, " No Whig is admissible here; " So be off, or I'll give you in charge, " And then you shall find to your cost, " What it is to be prowling at large " Round the portals of Paradise Lost !" Was there e'er such ill-fortune as mine? I'm fit to do nothing, alack ! But to drown all my sorrows in wine, Or play Hamlet at Woburn in black; Though I bow to my tailor, yet still The scamp looks as grim as a ghost, And thinks with a sigh of his bill, While I think of Paradise Lost ! Hark, bells from church-steeple and tower ! Hark, shouts from hill, valley, and lea ! 'Tis Christmas's festival hour, And all appear happy but me ; I'm the cruellest treated of martyrs, I'm the poorest of all the Whig host, So I'll swing from the bed in my garters, In my anguish for Paradise Lost ! PARADISE REGAINED. BY A TORY PLACEMAN. Hip, hip, Hurray ! All's right at last ! ➢iy term of banishment is past, And now with bliss unfeigned, I see the gates for years denied To Tory ingress, opened wide, Of Paradise Regained ! Oh sunny realms of wealth and joy ! Of flattering hopes without alloy, Of plenty unrestrained ! Once in, I'll never quit you more, But take good care to bolt the door Of Paradise Regained ! What, though the Whigs, without, declare A Tory has no business there, Where they so long have reigned ? I'll laugh at all their factious din, And fatten on the wealth within My Paradise Regained ! Graham shall teach me how to rat, Peel how to gull John Bull and Pat, By no false shame restrained ; Lyndhurst convince me black is white, And, thus well taught, I'll prove my right To Paradise Regained ! Talk of the duty that I owe To the great Firm of Queen and Co, ! Pshaw, 'tis a term profaned !---- My duty is to help myself, And fill my pockets with the pelf Of Paradise Regained ! Duty indeed !—llah, hah ! Ho, ho ! Within my soul the patriot's glow, Thank clod, has long since waned ; So here I'll spend my latest breath, And, like a horse-leech, stick in death To Paradise Regained ! STATE OP TRADE---KIRICALDY.—The gene neral distress is only beginning to bo felt here. In the town and district there are about 2,000 looms, and until within these two months past they have been all well employed, and yet our trade has been long in a lan guishing state ; two facts which can only be reconciled by supposing, what we believe to be the . case, that ou r manufacturers manage their affairs with more prudence than happens elsewhere. But a sad change is now taking place ; we see many of the weavers going about seeking work, and cannot find it ; and it will still be worse with them, as the manufacturers, unable to go on any longer, are daily , drawing in.—Scotsman. Ihe Antw er p C om p an y's steam ship Princ ess Victoria,. Capt a i n J ac k son , arr ived yesterday morni ng off the Tower, after the very short winter passage of twenty-one hours from Antwerp. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vtibltt optittott. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. • The Paris Papers of Wednesday report that M. B—, a banker at Mons, has stopped payment and absconded. It is supposed that he fled to England. In the absence of more stirring topics, the reduction of the French Marine occupies the Paris Journals of Wednesday. The _Debuts approves of the reduction of the navy in time of peace, in order to facilitate the opera tions of merchants and ship-owners. The Constitutionnel, on the contrary, contends that the navy ought never to be reduced, as seamen in merchant vessels lose the habit of discipline, and are subsequently useless for Govern ment ships. The history of every naval war proves the fallacy of this assertion. The Spanish Government, finding that the number of churches within the kingdom is too numerous and un suited to the condition of the inhabitants, has issued a decree enjoining the Bishops to make snch unions of parishes within their dioceses, as may be consistent with the population and the due administration of divine ser vice. This measure is to be carried into execution in the course of two months after the observations on this subject of the provincial deputations and the Ayunta mientos shall have been heard, Of course the Pope will oppose this salutary measure of reform, and thus the breach between Espartero and the Holy See will be widened. Here is a new theme for O'Connell vituperation. PUBLIC OPINION. The Morning Advertiser thus refers to the successful struggle for the Ward of Farringdon Within :—" It will be seen that this ward has nobly done its duty. Every man returned will support the ward in calling for the abolition of the Corn-laws. There were four new can- didates, all Corn-law repeaters ; two of them succeeded, and the other two only tailed in consequence of previous members who had wavered, or claim e d th e right to consider the case when brought before them,' having found it expedient to make up their minds, aye,' or no.' They said, aye' for the repeal. Mr. Hartley, to prevent mistake, it seems, was not only required to say aye, if he wished those votes which alone gained him his re-election, but to put that pledge in black and white ;' whereupon he got the deciding, votes of the good men and true of Blackfriars. It was added that such document was at any moment forthcoming I As to men talking about their taking matters into consideration when they are brought forward, that is only a cloak for deception ; as Mr. Ashurst said, every Common Coun cilman's vote was the ward's, and the ward had a right to it. Mr. Hartley was not the only man, who, during the ward elections, found it right to recognise such doctrine." In a leading article suggested by Mr. Christopher's address to his constituents at Lincoln, the Morning Chronicle remarks as follows :—" It is plain, at first sight, that one part of this plan bears more hardly on the consumer than even the present system. The far mer's price of wheat is substituted for the salesman's in taking the averages. At present, whatever the middle men obtain in the shape of profit, augments the con sumer's chance of open ports and subsequently reduced prices. If the averages be fradulently raised; the cost to the consumer is not proportionally enhanced ; and when foreign corn is thereby let into the market, the consumer enjoys a proportionate reduction. Of all this benefit Mr. Christopher proposes to deprive the public. We shall probably not overrate the effect by assuming that it will add five per cent. to the averages. His scale is, by that difference, higher than it seems as compared with the present scale. This is a quiet mode of giving the screw a twist harder, while pretending to relax its pressure. 0, Christopher° Sly !' " The Times says :—" In no department of the public service has the unscrupulous partisanship of the - Whigs been more disgracefully and injuriously exercised than in the hallowed temple of justice. From the highest offices of the bench, one of which they offered to O'Connell, down to the humbler provincial Magistracy, among whom they associated such violent demagogues as Frost, all the judicial patronage at their disposal,-ir respective of the station, character, or qualifications of nominees, was conferred exclusively upon their own po litical creatures. Forgetful of the example set them by the successive Administrations of Mr. Canning, Lord Go derich, and the Duke of Wellington, during which several Whig barristers, especially in Scotland, were promoted to the highest legal stations—the late Government, inca pable of such laudable impartiality, not only sacrificed the interests of public justice to the advancement of their electioneering hacks (as in the sheriffships of Banff and Selkirk), but, while incessantly active in dis missing ConservativeLord-Lieutenants, and in excluding every Conservative gentleman from the Commission of the Peace, infested the boroughs and cities of the em pire with a swarm of Liberal Magistrates after their own heart."—When the Times talks of the temple of justice having been profaned by the Whigs, it seems to forget how that august temple was profaned by the Tories during their long misgovernment of Ireland, when Judges were notorious partisans, and justice was made subservient to the purposes of faction. The less the Times says on this subject the better. The Herald refers in the following terms to Mr. Christopher's recent speech to his Lincolnshire consti tuents :—" The speech delivered by Mr. Christopher, M.P. for Lincolnshire, to his constituents, on Friday last, which we gave in yesterday's Herald, is chiefly valuable as demonstrative of the willingness of the landed interest to make reasonable concessions in the amendment of the law regulatine• the importation of foreign grain, to which the House of Commons stands pledged. The suggested alterations are doubtless in themselves important, but the supposition that they are to be accepted as indications of what may be expected from the Conservative Govern ment, is ridiculous. Mr. Christopher most cautiously guarded against such an inference being drawn from the connection which exists between himself and the Duke of Buckingham ; he denounced the insinuation that he acted as pilot balloon' to Sir Robert Peel as ' base and unworthy.' " We quote the following from the Leeds Mercury : " We perceive that there is great activity in various offi cial departments in London, in the preparation of re turns to prove the national prosperity ; it is therefore the more desirable that facts should be supplied from the manufacturing and commercial districts, showing the forms in which that prosperity displays itself here, such as unoccupied mills, unemployed workmen, insolvent' tradesmen, depreciated machinery, low wages, and a greatly diminished consumption of the necessaries and comforts of life !" Speaking of an approaching repeal demonstration at Kells, the Dublin Pilot remarks: —" As to the extent of the sentiment in favour of repeal, its character and de gree, a wise Government, knowing that to coerce public opinion is dangerous, and to despise it weak, will itself study the public voice, that, ascertaining the depth, and intensity of the sentiment, it may wisely give it a direc tion through justice, less congenial, perhaps, to tke peo ple, but mare comfortable to the dispositions of its rulers. Insane Governments resist public opinion, while wise Governments modify it." The Nottingham Review thus alludes in general terms to the present state of the country :—" How gladly should we advert to some other topic than that of the distress of the times, but we hear the cry from every side, and being convinced that unless the public voice can reach the marble hearts of our aristocratical rulers, one common ruin will speedily pervade this great em pire, we feel it our duty again and again to call the at tention of every class of our readers to the calamities which are impending over our beloved country, in one determined effort to turn aside the fatal blow." The Plymouth Journal observes, in an article suggested by the late great commercial meetings:—" The great meeting of the cotton trade at Manchester was, as might be expected, an important one, and exhibited a sad state of diminished trade and prevailing distress. The con sumption of cotton wool has much declined, and is les sening. It is stated to be 150,000 bales less this year than the past. Profits absolutely gone. The single fact, that during the last twenty years we have doubled the quantity of our exports, without increasing their value, shows at once that the sources of manufacturing wealth have been indeed exported from our shores." MONMIT—TRADE—COMMERCE. Last night a public meeting of the skein silk dye trade was held in Whitechapel, to devise the means of relieving the alarining distress that prevails in that branch of the silk trade. A Committee of seven was appointed to col lect funds, and to co-operate with the weavers generally. The exportation to London of rabbits from France amounts to some thousands weekly, but they are in ferior to the English. American venison has also become an artiale of importation to this country. At the close of the poll yesterday for the Ward of Farringdon Within, it was announced that all the suc cessful candidates (fourteen in number), had declared against the Corn-laws. In several other Wards the same strong feeling prevailed respecting this obnoxious tax. By a letter from one of the largest iron -masters in Wales, it seems that they consider the worst period of depression is past, and that an improvement in the iron trade may be shortly expected. COMMERCIAL razroßm. At a meeting held on Wednesday, at Stoke-Newing ton, Mr. Scoble, the Secretary to the Anti-Slavery Society, in the course of his lepture showed that the Duke of Buckingham, the Right Hon. Henry Goulburn, and other Corn-law upholders, were slave-owners prior to the abolition of the nefarious traffic of slavery. PUBLXC IMPROVEM E NTS. _ _ A petition wasyesterday iresented to her Majesty' numerously signed by the most respectable inhabitants of the metropolis, praying for a commutation of the im posts on Waterloo, Southwark, and Vauxhall-bridges, for the benefit of the public. ECCLESZASTZCAL. Two additionaldo;;;;;;;;;;;;; erected an the outside of the massy doors under the portico-entrance of the north end of St. Paul's Cathedral, in order to pre vent the disturbance formerly occasioned to the service by the opening and shutting of the old doors. NAVAL AND MIZITATLY. The whole number of vessels now in commission ai Portsmouth is 259, which are all to be distributed at dif ferent stations abroad. _ ___ LAW AND POLICE, Sir Herbert Jenner gave judgment yesterday at the Prerogative Court in the case of Godrich v. Jones, which turned upon the assumed invalidity of a will, dated Feb. 13, 1836, which Mr. Godrich was stated to have obtained by undue influence over Mrs. Harriet Lloyd, a maiden lady of large property. The conduct of Mr. Godrich was, for the most part, free from blame ; the Court. however, in pronouncing for the will, refrained from giving an order as to costs. Mr. Laurie, who is candidate for the City Pleader ship, is author of treatises on the use and abuse of grand juries, and on prison discipline. As a Middlesex Ma gistrate, he co-operated in urging the adoption of the non-restraint system at the Hanwell Lunatic Asylum. This morning William Hagger, a young man, respect able in appearance, hilt who has been tried five times before at the Central Criminal Court for felony, was again charged at Marlborough-street, with having a dress coat in his possession for which he could give' no ac count. He was remanded. J. A. Hoffstacott, a bankrupt, who had refused, at his last examinafion, to be sworn, alleging that he was a Roman Catholic, was again brought up, to state his rea sons for so doing. He still tenaciously refused, upon scripture grouncs to swear, upon which the Commis sioner re-committed him to the Queen's Bench prison, remarking that when he altered his opinioi he might apply to the Court again. FINE ARTS. Among the coins recently found near Aberystwith in ploughing a field, there is one of Gallienus, who com menced his reign A.c. 259, and another of his wife Salonini. Also of Postumus, Loplien, the two Tetrici, and Marcus Tacitus. One of Carausius represents that General's head radiated, and Victory pointing to the sun, legend Oriens. Vic. On the exergue is the letter C, for Colonial. The 50-years' anniversary of the death of Mozart has been celebrated at Munich by a grand concert, in which his requiem was performed to an overflowing audience. Similar festivals have taken place all over Germany in honour of the immortal composer. He was born in the house now numbered 934, in Salzburg. THEATRICAL. We understand that the celebrated vocalist Rubini, at the particular desire of Prince Esterhazy, intends paying one more visit to this country at Easter. Miss Kelly has publicly contradicted the report that alle is about to leave England for America. The character of Hamlet was last night represented at the Haymarket Theatre by Master George Webster, a lad little more than ten years of age ! The 14tnehester Theatre opens on Monday next, un der the joint management of Messrs. Anderson and Hammond. Miss Ellen Tree and Mr. C. Kean are en gaged for the first nine nights. COURT-FASHIONABLE. We understand that the Queen Dowager, as soon as she gets perfectly convalescent, intends leaving Sudbury Hall for Hastings, in order to avoid the bleak winter winds. Lord and Lady Stanley are expected to return to St. James's-square to-morrow, from a visit to Knowsley Park. The Earl of Derby, still feeble from former attacks of paralysis, is much improved in health, and will pass the Christmas with his family circle at Knowsley. Mr. Sharman Crawford still continues in a state of great debility. The Right Hon. R. L. Sheil, Mrs. Sheil, and the Misses Power, have left the Gresham Hotel for Rome. Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Blakeney, K.C.8., having returned from leave of absence, has resumed the command of the troops in Ireland. MISCELLANEOUS. To-day, the 24th December, is rendered remarkable, among other causes, from its having been the day on which the bold Robin Hood breathed his last, in the year 1247. his real name was Fitz-ooth, and his grand father, Ralph Fitz-ooth, Earl of Kyme, came over with William Rufus, and his name appears in the roll of Battle Abbey. At Kirkleers, in Yorkshire, is a grave stone near the park, under which, according to general tradition, Robin Hood lies buried. An ancient bronze sword has just been discovered in the bog of Tinraheen, in Wexford county, on the Earl of Arran's estate. It was at the great depth of 20 feet below the surface of the soil, and has been buried there 600 years. It contains four parts of tin and eight of brass. On Wednesday last Lord Mayor O'Connell admitted 64 more persons to the freedom of Dublin. Some claimed to have derived their right of freedom so far back as 1773. The King of Congo levies his taxes in a curious way, He walks out on a morning when there is a high wind . ; he then puts his . bonnet over one ear only, and when it is blown off by the wind, he imposes a tax upon those sub jects who live in the quarter from which the wind blew. " Last week," says the Fifeshire Journal, a small terrier unkennelled a crafty fox from some whins on the farm of Treaton, and kept him at bay in the open field ; ultimately he succeeded in capturing him."—ln the ap proaching Session of Parliament, if the Opposition ter riers do their duty, there will be a glorious unkennelling of crafty foxes on the Treasury bench ! We understand that Mr. Williams has just written a poem, in order to prove his competency for the Oxford Professorship of Poetry ; but, on reading it to some Puseyite friends, he was unable to obtain their opinion, for, before he had finished the second page, they were all fast asleep ! MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS, Clll', TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC. 23.—We have had a good business doing in the Cotton Market to-day, upwards of 5,000 bales having been disposed of to the trade, inciuding 1,000 Surats, at 31d. to 4d. Nothing done in export or speculation. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, DEC. 23.—The trans actions at the Stock Exchange this day comprise, Great Western, at 84 ; Ditto 201. Shares, 9!. 1 ls. 3d. ; Great North of England, 67i • London and Birmingham New Shares, 27 ; North Midland Thirds, 16. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 23.—Our market continues firm, and Railway Shares are in good demand. The following transactions have been re ported ; —Bristol and Exeter, 28 ; Lancaster and Bristol, Three-Fourth Shares, 164; London and Birmingham New 321. 26i ' • South Eastern and Dover, 2 0k ; Manchester and Leeds, Quarters, 31. 14s 6d. ; Manchester and Sal ford Water Works, 53k. THE FUNDS. Both the English and Foreign Markets opened steady this morning, with scarcely a bargain doing. Consols for the Account are 89k ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 89 ; Three-and-a. Half per Cents. Reduced, 984 s ; Exchequer Bills, 10 12 preen. Spanish Active Stock 23i 24k ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 324- 33; Ditto Threes, 191 20. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Eastern Counties Hull and Selby 5O 38 London and Brighton - 50 381 to London and Bi.mingbam Ditto i Shares Ditto Thirds Ditto New London and South Western 3Bk South Eastern and Dover .HALF-PAST ONE. There has been but little business doingin the Stock Market, but prices have improved since the opening. Consols are now 89f for the Account ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 89i ; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. .10- duced, 99k; Bank Stock, 1651 ; Exchequer Bills, 11 12. ,In the Foreign Market there are only three quotations to notice, viz. :—Mexican Bonds, 26 ; Spanish Active Stock, 24 • Dutch Five per Cents., 991- 100. Very little doing in Shares. London and Brighton has advanced to 38a ; London and Birmingham Quarter Shares are 23f ; ditto Thirds, 56 ; South Western 58i ; South Eastern and Dover, 20 ; York and North Midland New Shares, 311. . • Papers from New York, of the Ist instant have been received. They are one day later than the former ac counts, but do not contain any news of the least interest. HALF PAST TWO. Consols, 89i I; Colombian, 20i 4; Mexican, 261 Spanish, 241. QUARTER TO THREE. It is suggested that the visit of the King of Prussia to this country might be turned to some good account in a commercial point of view, should the etiquette of Courts permit his Majesty to entertain any pro positions, or listen to any representations in such a matter. The intention of the German Customs' Union to establish a war marine of its own, renders its strict alliance as a union daily of more importance to us, especially if we are to give credence to the report that France is coquetting for the favours of the German Powers. HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, Dim. 1S Billy. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares 1628 Anglo-Russian Loan lOB% 108% Russian 5 per Cent. lst series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Series 10•46 Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th __... . Series ........... 0000000000 ..•..• 00000 ..•...... 985; Ditto in Certiticates Ncw 4 per Cent. (1840) 86% Ng Dutch Actual Debt, 2y,', per Cent soq 50 Ditto 5 per Cent - Polish Bonds New ticket Anglo. Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. 775k 771 4 Nmwegian Lean, 1834, 4 per Cent.... 11•2% 1028 Spsnish, New 5 per Cents.... lb!, PETERSFIELD AND HAMPSHIRE . BANK. The old and respectable banking-house of Messrs. Hector, Lacy, and Co., of Petersfield, resumed payment on Wednesday, the 22d inst. Immediately after a pub lic meeting at the Dolphin Hotel, convened by the Ma nner of the London and County Joint-stock Banking Company, of 71, Lombard -street, a deputation of gen tlemen from the above establishment were in attendance, to state the principle upon which business would be conducted in future; also, to inform the meeting that the Directors had taken to the accounts, book debts, &c. of Messrs. Hector and Co., and that all creditors applying immediately at their banking-house, Petersfield, or in Lon don, would have their respective claims paid in full. Mr. Hector, being in attendance at the meeting, was much cheered by the gentlemen in the room for his ho nourable and noble conduct, after being used in such an unhandsome manner by a few individuals calling them selves gentlemen, who had spread false reports respect ing his affairs, also bought up his notes and sent them to be cashed in a mysterious manner. It is said the parties are all known, and their conduct will undergo strict in vestigation. - „ AMSTERDAM, DEC. 21.---News has been re ceived from Maccassar that :,the late King of Zanette, Lapatoura, who had revolted ag ainst our Government, had entirely submitted, and expressed his sorrow, wait ing with confidence for our Government to decide his fate. The Government of Maccassar made the pardo n asked for, depending on L a p at o ura s delivering up the regalia which had remained in his possession, which he accordingly caused to be fetched from 'rift, where th e y were in possession o f his wife. Our private letter following ni news : atra, to enco urage th e —" Measures s c the oas t of su a fr r o e m ta ß k a en tav o i n a, th g e iv w es es u t cultivation of various productions for the European markets, the Government intends to promote the plant ing of coffee and pepper by making c on t racts w i t h t h e na tive population , and advancing money to them for that purpose. Young pepper plants are to be brought from Alocco-Mocco (Bencoolen). A trial tocultivate pepper is to be made also in the island of P ange l arang (i n t h e res id enc y o f Alger Bangies). The new plantati o ns in Sumatra wer e on the whole in good condition.. In Palembang all s now quite tranquil. Mr. Wickham, Chairman of ;the Stamps and Taxes, had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the poheciner, at his official residence in Downing-street. EVENING SUN LAW INTELLIGENCE. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) The MASTER of the ROLLS was occupied all the morn ing with consent petitions of merely private interest. VICE-CHANCERY.---(THIS DAY.) (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.) HODGSON V. BALL. His HONOUR, on entering the Court, gave judgmen t on a motion made by the defendant in this suit. Th e motion was to have a bill taken off the file for irregula rity. The original bill in the case was filed for the purpose of making the defendant, and a person of the name of Richardson, accountable for the proceeds of a personal estate which they might have received but for their neglect. A decree was made by the Court in • 1839, which directed, in the common form, that an ac count should be taken of the personal estate. The Pl tiff filed a supplemental bill, in which he stated that, after the decree had been made, he had discovered certain cir cumstances, which, if they had been made out, would have justified a decree in the form , of making the e xecu - • tors responsible for what they might have received but for their wilful default. This supplemental bill was , therefore, in substance, a supplemental bill of revi,e y'l w ' Is° and inconsistent with the order of the Court. H is ,7 nour, therefore, granted the application, and ordered the, bill to be taken off the file. The Court was afterwards occupied with the hearing of unopposed petitions and short causes. (Before Vice-Chancellor liteicllT BRUCE.) o piti gift COCKBURN V. SINGLETON. Mr. COOPER replied tb-day in this case to the argumen ments, which have already occupied the Court s e ". • veral days. • His HONOUR postponed his judgment. (Before Vice-Chancellor WIGRAM.) BLAKESLEY V. WHIELDON. bill His HONOUR gave judgment in this cause. Th e the was filed for the purpose of having it declared t hat plaintiff was entitled to a right of entry on certain c ea d mines in the county of Warwick. The questio n t ur n e r, • principally upon the covenants and agreements rela. Z to the mines. His Honour made a decree for sree,i3s, performance of the agreement of the 6th of April, lc- for and referred it to the Master to settle a convey ance re carrying the said agreement into effect. In set!' ItiFf such conveyance the Master was to give to the P!a' n and his agents the right to enter upon the inine s hat all reasonable times, for the purpose of ascertaining "the quantity of coals was gotten or worked in each Yea r ' 5 , Master to have liberty to state special cireu xes taec 1. The question of costs was reserved, with liberty to aPP GELDART V. HORNBY. It for an HONOUR gave judgment in this motion. for an application by a mortgagee to enlarge the tint by payment of the money due upon a mortgage, the Master's report of the sth of July, 184l t wa, er e pointed for the sth of January next. Two points ^ en . raised at the bar; first, whether the time should bteoula larged or not ; secondly, if enlarged, whether it s e r in be upon the terms usually imposed on a mortga_genert. such cases, of paying the interest due since the .rep His Honour's opinion was, that the time should be the larged, but upon the terms of the mortgager ould interest. In the present state of the evidence, by -,,. to make no order which would add a single the mortgage debt. He thought the plaintiffs :ite not justified in playing fast and loo se re fer° the defendants as they had done, and he would th e w hich give no costs for that application. The intereaL` n aid, had accrued up to the date of the report, must de bt. but nothing at all must be added to the mortgag e LITTLE V. GREVILLE. 111 tills His HONOUR gave judgment in this cause. lie for case there was an application, first against Gr ey/ ro deo' the payment of money into Court, and for the 1;',,, t for tion of books ; secondly, against the other defen u o ol the appointment of a receiver of the general 1 3 '',_ f • the estate, and also for the appointment of a receiver t o o gr . rents and profits t of some property belonging _„ u ritl Payne, the deeds of which he had deposited as a n-to of for the sum of 6,0001., owing from him to the I s e , his the testator. The application against shillin„ere Gm/ t hat Honour said he had already disposed of, na nlell ;econ d wI l there should be a receiver appointed ; as to !11-A of the point, the plaintiff was a trustee under th e trus tee testator, Mr. Priest, and had acted as such for several years. It appeared that he had a t .' ‘ ' fr. Ore' been discharged from being a trustee, and that tbere ville had been appointed in his place. Prima l a,!;; 55 ,Ut fore, he had no interest at all in instituting. _tu r : ot ca but it was said that, owing to his default ID e ha d suf" ing in the debts owing to the estate, that esta t _ se d to be fered very great loss, and that after he had ee'L, c i wo e trustee, a person of the name of Burbidge "' the Yell vered from him the sum of 4,0001. as a lien te n er a der property of which Mr. Payne was the owne.r.afe u 3 re such circumstances he was clearly entitle d to b v o o rd e e p r t ceiver appointed to get in the debts of the to ascertain whether he was justly liable to the .1"-' e tue of that 4,0001. His Honour, after remarking f these st length upon the relative position and rights L_ d for the ties, decreed that a receiver should be appointe_ to wile general personal estate, the Master to decide n o have ther a legal mortgage bond be executed, 0 . 1 _*„. t,0 to e power:to settle one ; the costs of th e applican costs in the cause. SECONDARIES.—(THIS nj os. THE ASSIGNEES OF RILEY, A BANKRUPT, V" of Tho s. This was an action brought by the assignees t he FP" Riley, printer, a bankrupt, against Dr_ IEIIO, _ an to prietor of the Alligator, a defunct weekly newsPa,r b inp recover a balance of account for the printing, pulvisto, in advertising, stamps, paper, books, rent of office, t in ot fact, every other expense incurred in the nianag!; oe es, and publication of the said paper duri n g tea. viobiee from the 2d Janua.iy last, at the expiration, nttbinn time, having bitten every person who had haden'tencel to do with it, the Alligator terminate'i it s __," re fug e through the instrumentality of Mr. Rilef , ,, w a id f o r the w ore r to go on with the paper unless lie expenses he had already incurred. er on The defendant admitted his liability e d . the PI,I ) • i nto Mr. Corey, the gentleman who masag eteriq a the e bl 'bi e g the part of the proprietors, prove. a n pu a contract with Mr. Riley for the printing a viro duce the paper. b an cafe, r d Ives Mr. Riley, who had since become a " 8- .4 te an • s tiees von the release of his assignees and his c er .„, ye the Ira consequently a competent witness to P.- f 0 hl $ items in the account, which he did. Jury There was no defence offered, and th e verdict for the plaintiff for 631. Is. id.: GUILD HALL.---(THIS DA A I i i i, isherP The driver of a HollOwdy omnibus, Pa ine 4 00 0 i. summoned moped George Bishop, driving a liensingtall busfor wilfully damaging his vehicle. the cora' From the evidence of Mr. James, wile said the ae• plainant used very disgusting language towar ds ' fendant, As t° Sir P. LAURIE said he should dismiss the ca s , e ' ne rsa i ' the disgusting expressions used by this class °` r or itt'e was their particular idiom; to expect civila, eroald cency from them was hopeless. He vvishod tbc'ea the all adopt the plan which the ornnibus-driversts. The New-road do, and there would be fewer COrePliti,,llo i nt d way they manage is, every driver pays in the 31" e 9 al l ) ' money received for fares, which is in the eveningho onii divided amongst them all, so that the Ini"11,. who P t. gets three passengers is as well off as he wu c ' reye ntetl . teen, and thus all competition and racing ° P— _—....- 4 t'') LLOYD i S -11i'''' ,5 ......---......----- s Hip p IN G__,or 0 LONDON, DEC. 24.—Wind this day at " °llS. J3 Wr re . i ne*th r RAMSGATE, DEC. 23.—Arrd. Gustav Fr iti ' A. 10 6 g °' bcb fo oaani r cwk i s C p u r b it a , ; cu ß tvs li a z t a e b r e , Elizabeth, Leith h it a h vin fo g r bLeeegohoiranco, 'n'itt,:ft.oliYii`ji..c mast,p Magnet, n fh e ro t a , mv P in i Ng ca e r bw d eceas f n or tl R, damage, pEe h an er d e w l i l l th go in i s n t to , w th it e h ßasinto OFF THE GALLOPER, for ar r s ee horn,. r ca Hamburgh for Buenos Ayres.. der soO , OFF THE NORTH FORELAND, DEC. 23.,—"AnArt' liqu.lell'Iu::: in contact. c 2 o i9p n s. i t i a d c l ie e isrgc s . t: h . a w htab i r T t ari h g b in e nw i g : C h s i o : Ane r h e .o °—,n r oodt i o ! LIVERPOOL, DEC. 23.—Wind W.S.W. to IT:iiied 7tb Arrd. Thomas Worthington, Paine, Lingo, iieci iith Sept.,pt,-; Columbian, Wakeliam, Valparaiso, 63 , 00 , llo r adura, sailed 25th Pocohontas, Higg S r Pernambuco lath Nov. ; Richard, Sita'charle; ton, sailed 25th Nov.; Aug.; Hibernia, New York, sailed inst.; Retriever, Montreal; Fisherman, G i a b ,; a ra n4 )__':' 14 „ c i e l- Sld. Parlaud and Mars, Calcutta; S lia , -'7" -- " NY in' Us a n d son Wood, Maranham• E , 4titerprise, j , for Murray, Gibraltar. Arrd. off, Cosnw i e rne a OFF D . OVLR, DEC. 21.—Creole, 1305°11%- n Gine Monte .Video ; George, Hamborgh for -1-0* Norfolk Hero, Hull for S y ' • for COWES, DEC, 23.—Sld.mVrenspaa. sian, Antwerp; le, n DARTMOUTH, DEC. 23.—Arr. Britannia, )11,06 n~ Antwerp, with loss of sails, and head of forerrias bliS; PLYMOUTH, DEC. 23.—Wind IV.S.W---Ali deck s Quebec ; Active, Nichols, Newfoundland, 7 . ~.' r swept ; Elizabeth Mary Ann, Ancona. onstitot• ti ,re 9l° ; ill's', iled Is LERWICK, DEC.l6.—The Noraen Constitnti° n od ii korn, from Drouthince to Barcbelona, have Dg 5 14th, . 1 1 leak on the 10th inst., was run on shore on the ad Isl a the Island of Ocmurtree, west side of Shetland, t e so become a total wreck. Crew and part of the st°' ' ~1 la p st Ort . o to this port and Leith, in materials saved. fro , 0 BERWICK, DEC. 22.—The John Callum, Wat,arboarti. grave, wi'thnaight, struck twice on SPitall point, bu,t. ra, FALMOUTH, DEC. apparently not much dainagseaw.,Ar mtd DEC 22. --Wind W. to taking he P c oe ° Wells, Quebec. ' tt auefr:' MILFORD, DEC. 22.—.A.rrd. China, 13enne__, ~_00104:,, CORK, DEC. 2 t.—Arrd. Harmony, London, J"..,Ari :: DEAL , DM 23.--Wind S.W. fresh breei•__ 00., Mary Ilalkett, Foggs, Buenos Ayres; Willielnetic,buco, burgh, for St. Thomas ; Josephine, Smith, Bic_:Trisli. Arrd. from the River, Stearn, Jamaica ; Archer,ostol., clad ; Charles Brooke, St. Vincent ; harletf_Pror. The 'Union, from Liverpool, Nova Scotia, W D1',4,3, tb!, was fallen in with 13th Sept., in lat. 49, In. 2 3, _ . ' b y el' master and three men taken from the rigging d , I ' Josephine, Smith, arrived in the Downs. lir•l4'lt, —Arrd. her Majesty's ship Powerfull,ld• Salta tr io est ,Li PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 93.-Wind IV.S.IV. to A iber t . Kloebgeter, Bremen for Baltimore. Sid. her Cor ship Atholl, Jamaica ; Pomona, Fayal. Arr d. rib. King, Demerara. ------.'—' This - --_----- CHRISTMAS GIFTS TO T HE morning the the Vicar, Churchwardens, H and other tie_cld men of the parish of St. Sepulchre, distributed P_lrr gifts to the poor of the parish, not in the receipt ("thipiP rochial relief. The donations were of mone y, e l° frog beef, coal subscriptions of the benevolent to relieve the a l c ot? s, &c. Some were annual gifts, otheis, which prevails. Upwards of 100 recipients, had been previously inquired into, were relieved. e : P lar gifts were made in many of the other a t is Dunstan's, St. Mary-le-Strand, St• Clement•P sc. whos,iot, r--- Thi of B a re nu i Bade' forint; he th an namip teasb . Deer, 4s, 6d W as it kutk to lq .„ 117(64, 111 teet; as. 8(1 L 11 ( "weli ThE 48 8. 3