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MORE ING MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. (WEDNESDAY EVENING.) CHRONICLE—The subjoined communications, being extracts from letters dated Ist of December, re ceived from a mercantile house at New York, agents for the State of Illinois, will be satisfactory to the holders of the Stock of that State, the credit of which was shaken in consequence of the proceedings adopted by the State against Mr. John Delatield, of New York. Mr. Delafield had received from the Fund Commis sioaers of Illinois a large amount of State Bonds, under contract of the 7th May, 1839, to the extent of 283 s bonds, for 1,000 dollars each, which he was bound to pay by instalments in terms of contract. It appears, iisteever, that he only paid the two first instalments az4irding to contract, and the Fund Commissioners, therefore brought a suit against him in the Chan edifies Court for breach of agreement. Mr. Delt pleagied much in his defence on the berl the State of Illinois, whereby the !Jah' , of the - bends tl been seriously depreciated. fit:, plea wasifojandetlAg*Pe following resolution of a corn mittee of the. Legislate of Illinois, of date the 30th, January, 1840 :—" Resolved, That the contract trind::, by MM. Rawlings and Charles Oakley, fond commis sioners of the State of Illinois, with John Delafield, banker, New York, on the 7th day of May, 18;39, for the sale of 283 State Bonds, for 1,000 dollars each, is not made in conformity with law, and is hereby repu• diated." It is important to observe that this resolution was passed in consequence of the protest of the drafts for the 11-cember and January instalments of Mr. De lafield's debt, and, above all, that it was rejected ulti mately by the Senate, and was ni..ver entertained by the House; of Representatives of the State of Illinois. It originated from the failure of agreement on the part of Mr. Delafield, who passed the bonds of the State into other hands without p rying the price, ued in consequence of which illegal conduct on his part, the State, after a long rind useless correspond, nee. to effect a compromise, was ultimately compelled to seek redress in a court of law. The object of the suit, however, was not to repudiate the validity of the bonds which Mr. Delafield had, by himself or agents, passed to thirl parties. The State of Illinois never meant to question their liability for the bonds ; they only wished for an injunction to prevent Mr. Delafield from passing those remaining in his hands away to others, arid to make the proceeds of those which he had sold answerable for his debt, under the contract with the Sate. That such was the nature of the pro ceedim.a against Delafield is fully explained from the following letters : " On account of the unfavourable impression which has l eon nude in the London market. in consequence of err. tain proceedings of the State of Illinois against Mr. Johi, D4lalicld of this city, we have thought it would be inter esting to you to receive the inclosed letter, addressed to us by the Hon. Daniel Webster, who, you would perceive, was one of the counsel employed by the Stare. We hope the explanations contained in this letter will effectually remove all further apprehensions on this subject. " Since enclosing you the letter of Mr. Webster by this conveyance, we have received the enclosed letter from Mr. S. B. Ruggles, who was also engaged with Mr. Webster as the solicitor of the State of Illinois:— (Copy.) " New York, Nov. 30, 1840. " Gentlemen,—Mr. Ruggles has suggested to me that some alarm has been excited among the holders of Illinois Itauds by the Chancellor's decision in the suit of Illinois against Delatield. I know no reason of alarm, arising from anything decided, or contended for, in that case. It was not suggested by the Counsel for the State of Illinois, nor, as I understand, intimated by the Chancellor, that the State could repudiate the bonds, or refuse their pay ment. On the contra , y, the ground insisted on for the relict claimed was, that the bonds must be paid, in all omits, to the holders, into whose hands they passed from Delatield.--I am, &c., (Signed) DANIEL WEBSTER." (Copy.) " New York, Nov. 28, 1840, 1 . Gentlemen,—ln answer to inquiries made by your. %chic.. and others, holders of Illinois bonds, as to the ob ject of the suit in Chancery, prosecuted by the State of Itlinois against Mr. John Delafi.ild, and of which I have charge as„Solicitor, I state that the object of the suit is, not to repudiate, or in any way disavow the bond; of the State, but merel y the contract by which they were sold to Mr. Delatield. The bonds are regarded throughout as beinv, of and in themselve: , , valid and perfect aecuri,ies, obligatory against the State in the hands of all persons except the - kriginal parties to the contract, arid the main objet of the I3iFl is to prevent Mr. Delatield from parting with the bonds, and thereby placing them in hands where, in ail events, they would be binding on the State. " It will ha seen that the decision of the Chancellor plainly recognises thoprinciple, in attaching the proceeds of such of the bonds as Mr. DelatlAd may have nego tiated ; and such, too, was the whole scope of the reason ing of ate eminent counsel ( Messrs. Witham Kent and !)suit! Webster) who argued the cause in behalf of before the Chancellor. The idea was never for a won , eut thrown out or entertained, either by court. or - evunsel, that the bonds once out of the possess'on of Dela field were not legally, as well as morally, binding on the State, and this obligation was not only admitted, but it was urged and relied on, as furnishing the sole ground for seeking the aid of the Court. The opinion of the et,..- eellur will show that he recognises this obligation as tine vary basis of his decision. " The question arising in the cause, as to the legality of the original sale of the bonds to Delafield, by the fund Commissioners, is a matter resting exclusively between hicn and the State, in no way affecting third parties holding the bonds, who are not bound either to prove, or know, or inquire how, or by whom, the bonds were originally put in circulation. " I am, &c.. (Signed) "SAMUEL B. RUGGLES." Mr. Daniel Webster was counsel for the State of Illinois, in the action against Delafield, and Mr. Ruggles Was solicitor in the cause. The above com munications, therefore, which fully explain the nature and object of the proceedings, cannot fail to give con fidence to those who may be holders of bonds of the State of Illinois. TlMES.—There have been frequent intimations of Xitte of the approaching introduction of foreign loans into this market, but they have died away again for the wait part and been forgotten. All this implies, as plainly as though it. had been publicly stated on unde niable authority, that the market has been examined very carefully, and found not to be capable of receiving coy additional supply to a large extent. This i 3 to bu ascribed in part to the efforts of the Bank to make e money scarce ; but there exists another and more power ful cause for it, which is, that we have not at hand much spare capital available for such purposes. Projects at ))erne of various kinds, but principally those connected with railways. have absorbed money to an immense amount, in permanent investment, for good or evil, as the case might turn out to be ; while the systematic dealers in money, who might he tempted, while it was of little or no value in the discs ant market, by the high rate of in terest on foreign loans, to lend their help at least in setting them forth, have been able to derive all the profit they could have derived, and of a safer kind also, {rem the current rate of money on private loans, to the profit on which there is, in fact, hardly any limit, as the recent disclosures respecting souse of the roan societies have proved. These circumstances, joined with the discredit attaching to foreign loans gene rally from the quantity of dishonoured paper of that kind now in circulation, will probably keep us free for aotue time to come from any large introductions of that kind. The Coasol market was buoyant to-day with improv invsymptoms. The arrangement of the account to-day in the sh,:re market Ucing passed over easily, although much as 13 per curt. was paid for accommodation, the prices of the *entral descriptions have been fully waintaiod, whilst in some a further advance occurred. By the usual official return published by the Custorni, Ole, .4 xports of the precious inet,:ls frora the port of Lon don to foreign and colonial ports, for the week ending *b 24th instant, was as under Ounces. Silver coin to Belgium 2,000 Mauritius C onn ected with the desire which is gen , rally felt for the introduction of a higher stamp for the postage of forqigo letters , are a memorial to the Treasury the Committee of the Bombay Chamber of Com merce, and an accompinying letter by the Lond on East India and China Association. The Bombay memorialists represent that they . have observed with 'egret that the presen t impossibility of pre-paving their letters to E ng l an d prevents them availing th!rn aelves of the adva n t ages o f overland communication, and go so far as to say, that many persons who would otherwise open correspondences in E n g land are do : lerred from so doing by an unwillingness to entail wevense on those parties with w hom they might cor lewond.They therefore suggest that envelop es and *amps similar to those in England, but specially stamped for Indian letters, should be sold by the home post-office to the English stationers, who would for a small per contage transmit them Indict. for sale to Indict. I n th e letter that accompanies this memorial the Committee of the East India'and China Association, considerin g that stamps of the present low denomination would, from the num ber that would be requisite for Indian communie.ition, b o th disfigure the letters and increase their weight, surcst; that Is. be the amount of the statnP %'made f or I n dia, provided the wish of the Bombay rialists is granted. As the Indians themselves are:-. will ing to purcha se these stam p s, there seems no ob j ection a t can be urged by t he Government a g ainst a flea ha that would tend to increase the revenue, while pub_ t h e -tyenience was at the same time consulted. For on Enghtamission of the pre-paid letters from India to Governs loss could of course be sustained by the delivery ; w did any accident prevent their safe the loss of efas, under the present arrangement to the party foer is a loss to the revenue as well as suggest, in additiorilm it is designed. Some persons ' Indian public, that a this alteration in favour of the the postage of the lettet4ar stamp should be made for This would prevent much 'oen to India from England. from the clerks who take tiiP delay which now arises has n; to wait while their letters to the Post-office taxed, and the cousequent crowd sere examined and 'h is found trA be so great an inconvenience at the office on the 4th of every month. The letters would be weighed and stamped in the houses of the parties who sent them, and not a moment's delay would arise at the Post-office. These suggestions seem altogether unobjectionable, though there appears no reason that a shilling should be fixed upon as the nzazinzion of the postage stamps, and why these may not be issued of every amount for which use might be found. POST.—The transactions of the foreign market ;lave been generally limited, and with a view to the settlement and effects of the account, which closes to morrow. There was a good deal of stir in the Spanish funds, which continue to advance, though with an evi dent, and probably a well-founded, suspicion on the part tof the de; ers that there may be something unsound in .the view I those who are operating for the rise. Co - : lornbian Ito 2-I ; M ex ican 281 to 29 ; Fiver Cent. I tuguese 321 to 321 ; Active.*ftanish 2-Q to t 25 ;an i 4 Treasin y Bonds, 26. i IP 6 4 2 at,\_illrern Railway Shares cu at 26 to 2q prem. ; •di1015; (new), 111 to 12 ken]. ; ,London and South Westkrn, 17 to 171 prem. ; Brighton, (4 to 61- did,.; Birmingham 81 to 83 prem.; and London Joint- StiiClZ Bank', 2a to 2-, 7 ; prem. per share. This market exhibits but little activity (it was settlity day). Prices as will be seen, are nevertheless, still rather upon the rise—a circumstance which may be ascribed to the easy state of the money market. Discounts en first,rate foreign bills were effected at 4i per cent, Every day seems to bring to light some fresh defect in Air,. Rowland Hill's Post Office arrangements. A money order received by a respectable merchant from Jersey, was yesterday presented at the proper window for payment by the gentlemen in person. The answer was, that no advice to pay had come hand. • In the midst of the uncertainty that exists, with regard to the position and prospects of our money market, it is gratifying to the commercial interest in the City to find, as they do, from the advices just received by the Great Western steamer from New York, that there is no reason to apprehend a drain, or even a demand, for specie from that quarter. On the departure of the steamer the exchange on England ranged be tween Si and 91- per cent. prem., the supply of bills being at the same time very niodeiatc. 1. th..1,... of any fresh State loans, and with the exchange as suming so satisfactory a tone, tinder an adverse state of trade, the confidence displayed by our commercial men, as respects the relations of this country with the United States, seems to be perfectly warranted. 'Tice matter may be placed more strikingly before our readers by the aid of figures. In the table here annexed it may be readily perceived how disastrous the late crisis must have have proved to the manufacturing and other pro ducers in Europe. It is shown that in the year 1839 the imports of various commodities were double those of the present year. It is enough, for the purpose of comparison, to refer to the return for New York for the period named : INIPORTS INTO NEW YORK. Wine. Brandy. lEnWare. From Jan. Ist to Nov. 1,30, 1840. ..... 61,760 9,781 16,961 Same time in 1839 147,9241 16,402 34,596 Pipes, I Pipes, Crates. easks,&e. easks,e. Iron. 56,089 92,995 Tons, pigs, and bar s. Our manufacturers are now busily occupied in the execution of orders for the United States markets, and it may be taken for granted in the event of no extra neouscircumstance occurring to interfere with the natu ral course of trade, that the exchange will improve, and continue favourable for this country the whole of the ensuing year, especially when it is considered that a large amount of American paper will have to be nego tiated through this country for the purpose of liquidat ing certain outstanding liabilities on the Continent. We have, in IS4O, during which the imports from the United States did not fall short of the average received from thence for several seasons past, a most unpropitious year. We come, then, to the conclusion—a conclusion in which there is scarcely room for error—that the ba lance of trade must be so decidedly in our own favour as to justify the importation of specie from America as a safe and profitable investment. When it is recollected how large a proportion of our foreign trallic is with the United States, it will be con ceded that to see the exchange in that part of the world placed upon a satisfactory footing must necessarily fur nish the trading part of the community, as well as our capitalists, with fair grounds for all the exultation which they seem to experience. The only thing that can well go counter to this en couraging state of things is the unfortunate propensity that is, we fear, still prevalent, for the dirty loan-jobbing that acts so prejudicially to the interests of the country, both public and private. If this is kept under control there can be little tear that the Bank will before long begin to recover their stock of bullion, and relax the "screw." As many persons in England are deeply interested in the progress of the canal, coal, and iron works in America, we give, far thplr information, the following extract from the National Gazette (Philadelphia paper) of the 30th ultimo : " The Danville lutelligencer of Friday last says The north branch division of the public works continues to work well, and such a rush to get down Wyomin coal and up Shamokin coal to Danville before the close of navigation was never before known. At the wharfs of Biddle, Cham bers, and Co., in front of the Nlonteur iron works, and in front of the steam-engine manufactory and machine shop of Heywood and Snyd,r, mountains of coal are raising from the continual stream of boats there unloading. All the assurances of the canal officers that the canal should be navigable this fall are more than fulfilled. Our iron mon will have fuel plenty on the spot where they want it for the winter season, and three, if not four, anthracite furnaces will be in blast at Danville throughout the ensu ing winter. One of the large now furnaces of Biddle, Chambers, and Co., is now ready for business, and another nearly completed.'" Commercial letters from St. Petersburgh continue to speak of the appearance of the British at Pekin. In one of them we find it stated that two considerable towns, besides the capital, had been taken possession of. The Manchester Guardian gives the following (dated St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11), which has been addressed to " an eminent Foreign house" at Manchester, and which was received yesterday morning : " At the beginning of this week a Tartar arrived here from hiachta, wish the news that the English had taken the capital of China after havng bombarded it, and de stroyed all the forts near the river. The Emperor, the Son of the Sun, had fled with all his mandarins. The consequence of this event will be a good treaty, which will completely change the commercial dealings with that empire." This informatioun seems to be express and intelli gible enough. It is given, not as a matter of hearsay, but as one of fact, and, as it agrees substantially with a variety of statements previously obtained here and at Liverpool, it may be considered, in the opinion of tlio Guareliqn, as not without foundation. Kiaehta is geo graphically the nearest, and, moreover, the most cue venient point from which news might be expected over land. It is a frontier town, in which there are sta. tionwl custom-house officers, Chinese as well as Itus s'Lin, to see to the regulation and payment of duties on tile part of the respective Governments. HERALD.—The Post-office appears to be getting into disgrace. An order has been exhibited in the City from a provincial office which has been refused payment on the ground of " no orders," that is, as regularly disho noured as any bill of exchange ever protested. in reference to the " London and Westminster Water Company," noticed sorne time ago under this head a report has appeared in the City drawn up by Mr. Robert Stephero,on, the celebrated engineer, which ppeffs highly se.Csfactnry. As it may probably appear in another part of the Herald as being a document of public iihnortance. thri , tu refer to here more particularly at present. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. ( From the Brighton Gazette.) PorassiouT DEc.3 1. —The steam-vessel Avon, Lieu• tenant Pritchard, with men for the Monarch, 84, and Ver non, 50, at Sheerness. The Inconstant, 96, Captain Pring, has arrived at Plymouth from Cork, with volunteer seamen for general service. Thu Vindictive, a fine frigate, to mount upwards of JO guns, is preparing here with every despatch for commis sion; and at Plymouth also are two more of the same class bringing forward, namely, the Portland, 50, and America, 50. The greatest dispatch i 3 used here in the equipment of tho St. Vincent, 120, a three-decker of the largest class ; she is getting rigged, and otherwise fitting for sea. The pendant will be hoisted in about a month. The Vengeance, 84, is in the basin, rigged and masted, and only waiting orders fur commission. The Driver, a new steamship recently launched here, is in dock preparing for immediate commission. She is intended for the Mediterranean. The Impregnable. 104, Captain Thomas Forest, C. 8., and Belleiste, 78, Captain Toup Nicolas. are in Plymouth Sound, where they will complete their crews and sea store.. They will not proceed to the Mediterranean how ever for sonic time. The Indus, 84, Captain Sir James Stirling, and Tweed, 20, Cemmander Dauglas, are alongside their respective hulks fitting out. Both ships will be ready for sea about the 25th January. The above are the only ships equip ping here, but orders are daily looked for to commission Several more. The steam frigate Phoenix is rapidly refitting in the harbour, to return to the Mediterranean. There is no commander yet appointed to her. It is expected that she will proceed about the sth of January. The Ap o ll o an d A t h o l troop- ships, are nearly ready far sea. They w ill go to Cork to transfer troops, the 42d Regiment, thence to the lonian Islands. The Neptune, 120, is to be overhauled at this :port for commission, if necessary. The Pelican, 16, Commander Charles Napier, and Iris, 26, Captain Nurse, are ready for departure from Sheer ness, and may be expected at Spithead shortly. At Sp:thead—No vess e l o f war. - In Harbour—Queen, Victory, Indus, Tweed, Royal George yacht, Excellent, Apollo, Athol, Rapid, Phceoix, Echo, and flag tenders. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS, FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the Morning Chronicle.) To-day we take our final leave of eighteen hundred and forty, who departs to join. •• ?ancestors " with the years beyond the Flood." • her day brings another annual date. May the 91 •►" ear part in peace ! If we have seen some better, there have been many worse. To the Sovereign of these realms it has been an eventful year ; a life-colouring, and, we trust, a life-blessing period. Her prbspects of a happy existence, as well as of an honourlble reign, have augmented, to the satis- faction of all honest hearts. The promise of direct suc cession afforiled by the birth of the Princess Royal is calculated to still something of the activity of faction by abating its hopelessness. The predictions of evil omen, which some •d• red to utter, have beer, felicitously falsi fied. A Hannerian succession has gone down in the doctrine of chances. The Royal infant is a living Act of Settlement. And thus do national considrrationt create a halo of public interest around the deeper and tenderer emotions of Royal mother and her illustrious consort. In reference to her Majesty, the year has taught decency to Tory tongues. The achievement re- fleets credit on old Anno Donlini's powers as a school. master. The gross and virulent abuse by which Con• servative festivals had been characterised, is discon tinued. Restraint has been imposed upon the elo quence of the Bradshaws, Robys, and other " wine warmed individuals." The party found that it would not do. They have learned what Tom Crib told a pupil was " the best attitude of defence," viz., keep a civil tongue in their heads." Even Prince Albert's Protestantism has ceased to be a subject " to of public anxiety. Demonstrations have been scarce during the recess. The tone of faction is tamer than last year. Threatenings to turn out Ministers upon the first division have dwindled to the bet of " a poney" upon a change by next Easter. The path of progressive reform is evidently open to such general union amongst Reformers as is re quired to take advantage of cpportunities. Symp toms of an advance towards union have increased ; and if, even under all the evils of apathy and schism produced by the disappointment of numbers at the imperfect nr tteforra Bat, t_l‘. Tories have still been kept in opposition, what may not be obtamea, 'c hef and of right, by the hearty co-operation which sin cere Reformers desiderate and anticipate ? The bene ficent measure of a cheap postage, and the multiplied and multiplying facilities of locomotion afforded by tLic extension of railways, have been silently carrying on some of the best of all reforms and improvements throughout the year. Of the benefits of either, it. is not to b• expected that the public generally should have a prompt and full appreciation. Such changes work like the rains of Heaven upon the springing corn ; no one actually sees the growth, but the harvest comes. The amount of communication by letter has been more than doubled, and it 14111 be more than doubled again. Per sonal communication between the inhabitants of different districts has been multiplied at a far greater rate. How much is implied of pecuniary profit, of cheapening en joyment, of mental stimulus, and even of moral good By the continuance and enlargement of these agencies, the whole island will approximate towards possessing the social advantages of an immense town, without any of the attendant nuisances. The sun of the year sinks peacefully b.,10w the horizon. The clouds that seemed to forebode a storm have parted, and arc bright with the reflected beams of success. '['he apprehensions are dissipated of that heaviest and fearfullest of all calami ties—an European war. May the new year have no thing pugnacious in his juvenility, but leave th world even quieter than he found it, and more earM , dis posed to make the most for humanity of the means of well-being by which we are surrounded ! (From the Times.) When gentlemen of the Whig-Radical persuasion, or perhaps we ought rather to say profession, are obliged to attend a meeting of the dupes who return them to Parliament, they should endeavour to keep their orations out of the newspapers : not that they have in general much credit to lose in their own per sons, but they expose their party—they help to show up the Ministers. Even such a slip has been made at Cupar, in Fifeshire, by the offspring of the most skil ful backstairsman of the age—by the son of the Right Hon. Edward Ellice. Mr. Ellice, jun., has blabbed to the Reformers the composition of the Whig party ; he has let them know that the Whigs are utterly power- less for the objects which the/ pretend to advance ; in short, that their whole policy is a pretence, with no one practical object except to keep the Tories out, or, in plainer English, to keep themselves in. " The Government," he said, " might not move on so fast as many of their friends could wish ; lmut great allowances must be made for them under the present difficult circumstances of their position. It should be remembered that their majority in the Commons was extremely small ; that the majority egainst them in the Lords was overwhelming ; that many of their lukewarm supporters in the House of Commons would desert them the moment they proposed any of lhooP measures mh;eli. um. Id ndd to the direct byluence of the people upon the Government of the country ; and that their small majority was even then daily decreasing, from the influence of wealth, power, and station which the aristocracy had brought to bear upon the constituencies." In every point of view this passage is remarkable. In the first place, it admits not only that the Ministerial majority is an " extremely small" one, but that many of its constituent members arc " lukewarm supporters" . of the Adminis tration, and that its slender amount is even " daily de• creasing." From almost any of the Whig vassals an ac knowledgment like this would have been important, es pecially in immediate sequence after Mr. Gisborne's significant admission at the Manchester dinner. But it comes with an especial • weight from the mouth of Mr. Edward Ellice's son, because the whole compo sition of the Whig Redical force, its character, or want of character, its schisms, its reconeilements, the screws that coerce it, the blandishments that cajole it, all its history, even the inmost secrets of each successive Secretary to the Treasury, and of each assistant• whip per-in, every note or message in any way referable to the business of voting, or to the still more delicate af fair of pairing, however " private, confidential, and ini mediate"--all these things have been known to the orator's Right non. Parent, from the very beginning of the Whig dynasty, down to the present mouth of De cember, 1840 ; insomuch that by this time, in so well trusted and clever a functionary, for such undoubtedly he has been approved— " --- Long experience cloth attain " To something like prophetic strain." It is from the son of that consummete authority that we now receive a fresh intimation of the decayed and still decaying state of the Whig forces and of the Whig prospects; and if the Eilices don't know the state of the party, there is no intelligence left among mankind. But what is strange, unblushing avowal, does the before-quoted passage involve of Whig chi canery and humbug ! The Whigs ridiculously inferior to their rivals as men of business, and lamentably overmatched be them in Parliamentary talent, have yet been supported by the party of the movement, in the expectation and on the promise of progressive reform. Year after year has rolled away, and the poor gaping Radicals have still been fooled with apo logies and assurances—apologies for the nothing that is past, and assurances of the much that is to come. Meanwhile the march of liberality has taken the line of the crab ; agitation has become distasteful ; Ministerial majorities have dwindled from hundreds to units ; and now, a regular and well-taught Whig ling proclaims the Government to be utterly bank• rupt—ay, notoriously unable to redeem any one of its p!ed.,;ee of popular reform, lest it slioull be deserted in that very moment by its lukewarm sup porters ! If that be so, was there ever anv!bin , h a lf so s h,,,a„ • a.: a ministry's continuance in othee, or anything half so stupid as the continu ance of 'the Radical support to such a Ministry ? It is the history of the appropriation clauses, re-acted. They came into office to distribute the properly of the Protestant Church among the Papists and agitators, and they vowed, by all that was sacred and all that was profane, to accomplish that object or lay down their existence. They relinquished the object, but they clung to the existence. They had now found out something else to live for—the exten sion of the people's rights. It was the Whig Admi nistration, and the Whig Administration alone, which would achieve this great and new design—this super sedeas of the settlement which but eight years ago it had held out to the country as final. Tho Whig Ad ministration alone had the means of uniting all classes of Reformers, and forcing freedom against a reluctant aristocracy. More years elapse, and the little trades men begin to think that they have given credit enough, and are entitled at least to something on account. But when any of them mentions any little bill of long stand ing, and humbly hopes that something will be forthcom ing after Christmas, the fine gentlemen who form the committee of direction for Old England resolve that the request is out of reason, or out of season, and that if they were to attempt such a thing as the discharge of their lia bilities they would be ruined that very moment—" the moment they proposed any of those measures, their luke warm supporters would desert them.' So says Mr. Ellice, jun., one of the connections of the firm. Will none of the parties whom theyhave solong been putting off with empty promises, get up and ask them why they entered into engagements which they are thus forced to own them. selves incapable of fulfilling ? They have their answer ready :—" To keep out the Tories." And thus says Mr. Ellice, jun., with perfect gravity, to the patriots of Cupar—" Granting that they had merely kept out the Tories, I would still contend they have promoted the interests of the people." The argument is most satisfactory,"and runs thus:—You must help us to keep out the Tories, because we shall carry a series of re forms which a Tory Goverment would stifle. Well, but when you confess that you cannot, and dare not try to carry out any of these reforms, why should we be helping you any longer to keep out the Tories ? Oh, because—because by your help we do keep out the Tories. This sort of reasoning has gone down pretty well with the Radicals to the south of the border ; but the men of Cupar, though stupid enough to be Radi- THE SUN, LONDON, MAY, JANUARY 1, 1841. call, are still Scotchmen, d must have some satis faction upon the question o ain or loss. If we are to gain nothing by keeping law Whigs, can you show tis that we, lose anything , letting in the T,ries? To be sure," says 'SlrEllice, jun. "Do you think your meetings about:orn-laws, liaiversal Suf frage, and other popular tics, would be tolerated ? Even the salutary moral 'Renee of the masses over elections would be effectuallyrushed; for would there not be a troop of re-est&shed yeomanry at every poqing-place to keep dowiwhat the Tories call the rabble ? I do not mean say that such a state of things would be long endures but it would only be by sonic popular convulsion, %rich would endanger the well-being of society, that itvould be got rid of." ',So Bien this gentleman wishes tip poor people at (lunar to iPlieve that Sir Robert Peck Governmenytiould tole rae no more meetings upon , opular topics, and would lttempt to crush the opinion of the, country by an overawing force of cav a lry a the .elections! Dae3 M-. Ellice, jun., believe this hitrsell? If ha does beteve it, what shall we thinl o his understanding ? ff t, e :hors not believe it, and y t says it, the alterna tive is one which we will not' complete. But Mr. Ellice, in avowing his opinion chat the merit of keep ing out the Tories would of Aself be a sufficient one, takes credit, however, to hi: friends the Whigs, for " the support in some instane rs , the countenance in all, which Government have giver to the Ballot, the alters tion of tl,e Corn-laws, the 'stablishment of a popular system cf education, and otter measures of a similar tendency.' Of their educatan system, the country may say W3at the patient did t the interrogation of the apothecary, whose physic he hat left unswallowed : " Tile draught did good ? " It dd no harm ; fur pacr it hath stood." But upon '.he other two su3jeco, Ballot and Corn laws, was ever assumption s , ) ludicrously unlucky ? Why, if there were two subj ec t s i n th e world which it was most desirable for th.t Whigs to huddle out of sight—two subjects exposi4 above all others, their characteristic shabbiness, those two subjects arc their two " apen questions" of 13 dlot, and Corn-laws. They dare not promote either of ASse changes as a Govern ment, because a defeat uon a vital question world be the loss of office ; they dare not, as a Government, oppose either, because divers of their Radical allies wootd, in teat ease, be ejected from Parliament at thp nest election ; they pu•sue therefore the course most sale for themselves, but most dangerous to the country, by leaving those two important matters wholly and perniciously unsettled ; old this shirking on one side, and shrinking on the other, is extolled by their Dlices as an evidence cf public tirtuc, and received by the Uoporites as an instalment of reform .I'rom the Norning Post.) The auth or it y Of M. Tocqueville having been ral" i o n f s s u h v w o in rt g o so f co d s em da o y c s ra a t g ic o t l a o t r % e ,i s , e nw M. .o took frequently quot e d o f l a t e b y some J ourna l s ca ll e d the L trouble Tocqueville describes the circumstances which actually exist under the most poten!, democracy in the world, he depicts a state of frightful and disgusting tyranny. A confident and very shallow writer in a Ministerial print of yesterday says :-- `' And solar rsien instances e s s o o c f o .. h h t e i e m u y hi q cc u s o o t et. democracy ocTocquevilleraeyini might iit some respect fur le e lean. general conclusion, that the tviidenc., B of society are ti,,,, r d s democracy." We hAvt not observes./ any want of respect for the conclusion above state(}, But that which honest sub jects of the British monarchy can have no respect for is the theory that because th e present ten d enc i es o f soc i e ty are towards democracy tht :y should go with the tide, and become democrats. 'rbis the fatal and (as we regard it) the cowardly We do not dispute that tn witch so many people make.' tendencies of society are towards democracy ; but the more palpable this tendency becomes the more inceenbent is it upon duti ful subjects of monarchical Government s to resist that tendency, and to be upon their guard lest th ey should be in .any degree carried away by the stream of tendency from that point where it is their duty to stash} fist. The tendency of society is towards democracy ; but who can read the deliberate and careful statements of M. de Tocqueville concerning the state of society in America without perceiving that this tendency of so ciety is a tendency towards an extremely had thing ? Oar business is to resist this progress towards evil as much as we can. We may be but partially success.. • ful—we may utterly fail ; but at all events, while we are resisting as much as we can we shall be doing our duty. The tendency of the nature of man ever since the fall of Adam has undoubtedly been to sinfulness. Will any man pretend that it is, therefore, right to promote sin and to further depravity ? No ; but the very contrary. Because the tendency of our nature is what it is, the more are we bound always to be watch ful in resistance, and to counteract the tendency which we continually acknowledge and lament. ( From the Morning Herald.) The impression becomes stronger, from day to (lay, in this country, that the - Miniete , of M. Guizot cannot stand. The war party, it is believed, will ere long prove too powerful for bins. The objects of the war party are not. at first sight, very obvious ; yet to those who arc familiar with the structure of French society, there can exist little difficulty in discerning the causes which pro mise to overwhelm the Administration of M. Guizot. The war party in France coeiprehends many who have no particular desire that France should embroil herself in quarrels with other nations ; but who look upon war as the direct road to revolution, and who, therefore, oppose themselves ini at strenuously to the continuance in office of Ministers whose policy is pacific. The war party, strictly so called, numbers in its ranks the few surviving Bonapartists, and a considerable number of the less violent republicans. These men dream of foreign conquest—and pant for vengeance on those " natural enemies," who checked the growth of the French republic, and who, subse quently, blighted the glories of the French imperial dynasty. But the greatest number of the anti-peace kl:ninistralion party is made up of men imbued with the doctrines of Robespierrianism—under the more modern titles of Socialism, or St. Simonianism. The St. Si:mini:lns constitute a far more extensive portion of the French people than is generally supposed. Not that all the tenets of the sect are embraced by many persons—still less that those tenets are avowed , by all who really, although it may be only part'ialiy, hold them ; but however it may be lost sient of, no fact can be less disputable, than that anti property d o ctrines lend their colouring to the convictions of scores of thousands of active-minded Frenetimen. These ate the men who constitute the rnosVformidable portion of what is denominated the F r ench war party. These men care little for foreign CO°quest. Their aim is, a vast social revolution. Wi m p the revolution. of 1789 broke out in Park, the doctrines promulgated by the leaders of the popular movements were subversive of the rights and privileges of She monarchy, the nobilby, and the Church. At that point, however, the original directors of the revolution stopped. A smell section of _" Reformers" soon o utto . shera in the competitioe per popularity. Robespierre and his supporters lauelsa. to scorn the notion, that niece quality of political rigl es could ever confer perinaneo benefits on manisint. Such a result, they maintained, could be secured only by "social equality'—by the ituPatting to all inee, in equal shares, all the advantages which society can call into existence. But of all the institutions of society, property is the most remarkablee - eind in the benefits of that ineeitution, Itobespierre.and his followers eon. tended that all men are equal!! entitled to participat e . Community of property was, io fact, the great dog e " of the faith „loci) Robespierre laboured to promulgate. To root out from die minds of `men the ideas which .ire represented by the words nu}tint And born was the object at which he professed to aim. lie protested cJlu _5.,,,r of kisas e tecend nobles, and prissts ; hut he maintained that so long as the tyranny of the ourso should be tol-nrated/ oankind would wily by each staccessive revolution, exchange one il.!3potisai for another still more grinding. Ro bespii rre, together with the bloody despotism which he, in his tutnesontrived to establish, have passed away ; hut the notions to which he gave currency' have not disappeared from the minds of a large sec tion of the French peope front the minds of that section, more especially. which streets to represent the thinking principle among our neighbours. The middle closes succeeded, fifty year.: aeo, in overt Wowing the monarchi cal and aristocratical systems of 'Prance. The privi leges of the middle classes themselves are note ex. posed to dangers, seardY less imminent than those which threatened the piseiple of monarchy in the per son of Louis the Sixteentl All Dower in France radi ates now from the Bours, and from behind the counters of Paris ; and the People who rose in re hellion against the pre c riptivc p rivi leges of a ling, and a territorial aristeracy, are little likely to submit patiently to the tspotisin of usurers and loan jobbers. England is hatJ by the Anti-property party in France ; because Englrid is the Centre whence is de rived the whole strenga of the system of stock.job hinge and of commereil gambling n all its varieties. It t m ig htwins uub b sres y gi aes t h,r ‘. li v eit i t r ipin d lso- s , England is hated by th republic arse: Bonapartist fac tions, because, asnti l lie llv e es di a d v r o a w i , ir e rna r en e t , t e ri y iceiap a ai n lyt d eo N pa % pj r a ou t sn e ee r d. - dis• ant as the cvel.ti re presented may be from each other Yi point 3f time,—the feelings tvhiali these words exe'e, can rover die in the bosoms of a large class of Fr th'hilocns rence n est be reel to dream of ee war party in counteriwg Eu.ope ems, if the war party tion egainst France on part o f 1:1 ; other great Euro pean powers ; hut tie French are , otn y 'i c vhat sceptical to the cordiality r: that aniline( at this mo wsto the interests of ireat Britain o,ll' ; aro laoce between these countries on, in the nature k th i l v ogs, be of long t ri e s e re n s t t s a popfearst Russiao n u e t, , t ( i i n E a ; n i i n n d g Meditee. duration. Rus'ea is much more e g ' in the long ngland. Eng landr dislike, is to both an object of de . , 11 and of run, to unite smith France, than g a stronger envy, than each is to the "er.. ,s o s r ia e longs a . rds t. our Ind ian to possess European Turkey. Fe e Lgypt• r i , t o a i s s s e b s s si c o a n s s t . s an eye great obeli to the triumph ranee]. England is the of Russian, as well as of Frenellatition• The war to ;lips Russia among party in France does not e e covets e a t ff a c s e u t ip°rll6; h. the number of the foes of France ; and if Russia should remair neutral—or should aid France—the war party in that country might risk less by hostilities, than, at the (From the Globe.) The Herald is in agonies at the bare idea of the new Poor-law's defects being shown to be administrative, and not organic ; and Mr. Pewtress's observations, thrown into the form of a Report to the Civic Authori ties, on the provisions aad administration of the measure, in which it is proved that the imputations upon the law refer properly to the illegality of the mode in which its enactments have been carried into effect by those en trusted witli its administration, rather than to the obvious intention of the Act, have drawn down upon that gentle man the feeble force of the Herald's garrulous capabili ties. A more wretched farago has seldom been printed, even in the columns of the Herald, than that which as sumes to be a confutation of Mr. Pewtress's Report, and a vindication of the policy which is set forth in its own columns. The public subscription raised and dis t' ibuted by the Inquests of the several City wards and, we believe, generally in the parishes of the metropolis, and also in the to Nns and villages of the country, at this season of the year—and which acts of benevo lence are urged upon the affluent by the necessarily great amount of suffering to which the poor arc subjected by the earliness and severity with which the win ter set in—these expressions of considerate sympathy, which, if administered with discretion, bless the givers and the recipients, are appealed to as proofs of the inefficiency and intolerance of the new law—as though these were new anti unheard-of efforts of the richer parts of the community to add to the insufficient resources of the poor, and thus enable them to procure an addition to the scanty food, fuel, and clothing they are able to obtain, in order to preserve them from the inclemency of the season. At the Mansion Rause yesterday, Alderman Wilson, who sat for the Lord Mayor, alluding to Mr. Pewtress's report, said— '• lie acquiesced in the propriety of many of the obser. cations with respect to the administration of the law. ll was quite prepared to say that the relieving officer was compellable to give shelter and covering, as well as bread, to the destitute, and that all those things were comprehended in the word " relief," which some people frittered away into a very small and inade q„„,„ „„„„,—;"„- Tr, th..roftwo, this City r'n lice Commissioner thought it right to give orders ti his • men to take any destitute persons who should be in the streets to the relieving officers, and to insist that such destitute persons should be supplied with shelter, us well as what was called the necessaries of life, and it the relieving officers should refuse to comply, he (Alder man Wilson), upon being applied to, would grant sum monses to such relieving officers, and upon proof of their non-compliance, levy the heavy penalties named in the Act." If the Magistrates were fo be thus vigilant in watch in the administration, and firm in enforcing upon the relieving, officers the provisions; of the Act, we feel per suaded that the poor would be vastly benefited by the change of system, and the confessedly vast aggregate of human wretchedness, which must, under any circum stances, be always large, would be greatly diminished. (From the Courier.) We are concerned to find Mr. Pewtress, a respect able Common Councilman of this ancient metropolis, stepping out of the particular line in which he had de servedly attained to some eminence, and to his vocation of paper•maker adding that of paper-stainer also. In the Courier of yesterday will be found the striking proof and first sampe, so far as we know, of his new undertaking, consisting of a 11. , !port replete tvith litudation usque ad nauseam on the new Poor-law, as presented by him to the Police Committee, said to be in session and aggression upon the subject, at Guild hall. Now if Mr. Pewtress had limited his staining paper process to the exhibition of the New Poor law excellences in his own ward or parish, and the specially stated facts of his own experience, we should have nothing to do but leave him to the quiet enjoyment of his own Poor-law vagaries. But when, on the contrary, he favours the world with a new year's carmen triumphate on the saving graces of the law, whilst to his ward he vouchsafes not one word of evi dence in illustration of the fact, he wantonly presumes to cross our path, and must therefore übide the conse quences. Mr. Pewtress sets out on his paper-staining travels with a sample bag of assertions, which are re tailed, as truisms unquestioned, with an air as self satisfied and solemnly complacent as ever Mr. Clay himself exhibits when rising with looks of mysterious import in the Commons' House to enunciate his com mon-places. But here is the commencing batch, so that of the whole sack the reader may be enabled to judge for himself : " Whatever may be the opinion entertained with te spect to various parts of the New Poor-law, the full and complete system of relief provided fur the destitute poor is secured by the Legislation of this country. The ancient mode of giving relief to the out-door poor (a right which they so long possessed) is taken away, and the law now enacts that no person in this country shall be left to perish in a state of destitution. 'lf a person under any circumstances is reduced to poverty. and has no money, fora, nr lodging, lie is by law entitled to instant relief, and also to continued support ; and so remarkable is the prompt provision by which it enforces relicf,that it declares the applicant shall in all cases of need be provided with food and medicinea neces sary, before any investigation is instituted into his case, and accumulated penalties of increasing severity are enacted,and may be enforced against any relieving officer or master of the workhouse who shall refuse instantly to relieve any appli cant in a state of destitution. Such is the comprehensive nature of this law that it does not limit relief to natives, hat extends to foreigners; nor to the virtuous only, for it dos s not regard character, but only destitution." Now disclaiming any intention of offence to Mr. Pewtress, whose testimony on a matter of fact we should accept with faith as implicit as that of any honourable man, we must take leave to deal with this sort of whole sale and unsupported averment or opinion, in the only •way in which it can be met ; and therefore we are cont :pelted to say of this vague description of the New Poor 'law, that in downright, however coarse language, almost every line of allegation is a lie. (From the Standard.) We have said so much to justify our contentment with the present state of the Government, that we have little room to advert to the foreign policy of the Administration during the last year. It were unjust, Loa ever, to deny that it has been generally (we hate making exceptions in such a case) prudent, honour able, and prosperous. Lord Palmerston (the merit we believe to have been all, or at least princi pally, his) has fallen back upon old Conservative principles and old Conservative alliances, and his success has corresponded to the improvement. His Lordship has sho,vn himself within the last year the best Foreign Se eretary since the time of the late Marquis of London derry. This is an add;tional reason for our content ment with things as they are ; for a Ministry kept con stantly in check at home by a powerful opposition, 'and showing no disposition to act ill abroad, but the contrary, may very well be borne with for a while. Show us. however, a chance for a Conservative Ministry corning into office upon sound, intelligible, and fixed principles, and we shall be as anxious for a change as any one can be (who has not marked out an office and salary for himself). Let us know that we are to have Sir Robert Peel with a Cabinet of his own making—not with one made for him before he knew that he was in office ; let us know this, and we shall lend our hands as heartily as any to remove Lord Melbourne, and even, though not without regret, Lord l'anterston. But we see no prospect of anything of the kind at the moment in which we write. THE LATE FIRES ON WOOLWICH COMMON AND AT RATCLIFF. URTIILR d . , „,,, F inappeneon the morning of Christmas Day at Woolwich, a notice of which appeared in The Sun on the following day) was of far greater magnitude than was at fist represented. In fact it was the laigest fire that has happened in the town of Woolwich for many years pa,t. An inquiry has been gone into by the Insu rance Companies to ascertain the total loss, The following is the result:-13uildings destroyed on Clarence-terrace—No, 2, tenanted by Mrs. Stafford and several officers belonging to the Royal Artillery, totally destroyed ; furniture, &c, partially saved ; building inured ; Mrs. Stafford not insured. No. I, occu pied by Lady Maclean, burned down ; furniture siaTod ; insured in the Phoenix and Guardian Fire Oak es . No. 3, belonging to Captain Barnaby, and occ upied by Major Chalmer and family, burned down i n sured in the Sun and Guardian Fire Offices. ; No. 4, occupied by Mr. Pattison, who is not insured ; house destroyed ; furniture, &c., saved ; building insured in the Kent Fire Office. No. 5, occupied by Mrs. Winter, not insured ; house greatly damaged ; insured in the Kent Fire Office. No, 6, tenanted by Mrs. Mac- Coombe, insured in the Guardian Fire Office ; similarly dainaryed. The White Cottage (unoccupied), damaged ; insured in the Guardian Fire Office. The total loss is reported to be 10,0001. The loss of the sugar house of Messrs. J. Goodhart and Sons, in Rateliff-highway, which was totally destroyed by fire on Saturday last, is estimated at 16,0001. Messrs. Goodhart are insured to the extent of 10,0001., na mely, 6.000/. in the Imperial Fire Office, and 4,0001. in the Scottish Union Fire Office. The cause of the fire is in voiced in are.tt mystery. The firemen who were injured by the falliag of the eastern wall of the sugar-house are recoverinv, except Loader, of Watling streets ation. TILE LATE CAPTAIN HEWITT, OF TIIE FAlvr. Mr. Editor,—There is a paragraph going the rvuni. of the papers, stating that all the valuable charts, • drawites, Sze., taken within the last ten years by Captain W. Hewitt, in her Majesty's ship Fairy, were ail lost with him in the Fairy, and that the Admiralty had taken no means to secure t h os e valuable w.gks, which cost the country 40,0001- I beg to say that the writer of that para graph is Itlterfering with that which he knows nothing about, as the whole of Captain W. Hewitt's valuable and laborious work is now on copper at the Admiralty, and no charts or drawings of any great value are lost. I a m, Sir, your obedient. servant, FREEDRICK HEWITT, (Brother t• Capt. W. Hewitt). TRIESTE, DEC. 19.—The roads are again pass able, and the nails from France aad Germany, which were delayed, have a rrived to-clay. The Crown Prince of Ba. varia is expected every moment. The Duke of Boor_ deaux is gone t 3 Venice, where, as we hear, he intends to make a considerable stay to study practical navigation. EXTRAORDINARY PROPHECY RESPECTING NAPOLEON. The Memorial de Rouenwas the first to publish the following prophecy, which has since been taken up by several French Journals, and which, if genuine, would unquestionably be one of the most remarkable things in history. The Rouen editor adduces various proofs of the authenticity of this prophecy, establishing, as he thinks, conclusively, the fact of its existence at least so far back as the year 1793, and pledges his reputation to the truth of his several allegations. The whole is ma- ' nifestly fictitious, but it will doubtless amuse our readers. It should be premised that Napoleon's well-known tendency to fatalism was frequently admitted by himself. Napoleon (says the Rouen editor) went one evening to Malinaison. He was very fond of" talking the mar vellous" upon these occasions—more especially with his consort Josepiiine, whom he knew to be very su perstitious. Upon the evening in question he spoke of his gigantic projects, and finished by placing in Jose phine's hands an old manuscript book, bound in parch ment, and bearing the date of 1542. The shape of the book was duodecimo, and the paper on which it was written, as well as the parchment cover, had the yellow hue of antiquity. " Tiens," said the Emperor," regarde et lis." Josephine read aloud—" Prediction de Maistre Noel Olivarius." W ell ?" inquired Josephine. " They say that it has reference to me," replied the Emperor. " How, in a book published in 1542 ?" " Read." The Empress tried to read it, but as the style was old French, and the characters ill-formed, she was obliged for some minutes to run over it with her eye, and then she read aloud as follows : " Italian Gaul will give birth not far from her bosom to a supernatural being. This man will spring in his youth from the sea, will come to assume the language and the manners of the Celtic Gauls, and will open to himself, still young, a path amongst soldiers through a thousand obstacles, and will become their leading chief This sinuous path will cost him much labour. He will become a great warrior near to his natal country in a lustre or more. Beyond sea he will be a warrior with great glory and valour, and will invade the Roman " He will give laws to the Germans, will pacify trou ble and fear amongst the Celtic Gauls, and will be after wards not named Roy,' but Insperator,' amidst great popular enthusiasm. fie will wage war everywhere in the empire, and chase princes, lords, and kings for two lustres or more. Then will arise new princes, and lords, and cry 0 sidera, 0 sacra !' He will be seen with an army of 49 times 20,000 men, foot soldiers armed, who will carry arms with iron horns. There will be seven times 7,000 horses, mounted by men, who *hall carry a large sword or a lance each, and a steel corselet. There will be seven times seven times 2,000 men, who will set terrible machines in play, and vomit forth sulphur, and fire, and death. The entire of his army will contain forty-nine times 2,000 men. " He will carry in his right hand an eagle, the sigu of victory. He will war through many nations. He will return to the great city, ordering many great things— edifices, bridges, sea gates, aqueducts, canals. He will make of himself alone, through great riches, as much as all the Romans. He will have two wives." Here Josephine stopped. " Continue," said the Emperor. " And one son. He will go warring to the point where the lines of longitude and latitude cross, fifty and five months. There his enemies will burn with fire the great city, and he will enter there and depart from it, from beneath ashes and ruins ; and his men having neither bread nor water, through a great and decimating cold shall return amidst such disasters, that two.thirds cf his army will perish. " Then the great man, abandoned, betrayed by his friends, shall be chased in his turn with great loss, even to his own cite, by a great European population, and in his seat will be placed the Old Cape (Caper) King. He himself constrained to exile in the sea, whence he came forth so young, and near to his natal soil, will remain there for eleven moons with some of his friends, true friends and soldiers, who being no longer seven times seven times two thousand in number, immedi ately that the eleven moons shall have filled their horns and waned, he and his will take ships and will set foot once more upon the Celto-Gaulic soil. " And he will set out towards the great city, where the old Cape King will then be seated, who will straight arise and fly, carrying off' the royal ornaments. He will then restore things to his ancient domination, and give many admirable laws to his people. " Again driven from his seat by a' Trinity European population,' after three moons and the third of a moon, the old Cape King shall be restored to his place, and he shall be believed to be dead by his soldier-people, who during this time shall guard him as their penales near their hearts. " The people and the Gauls shall tear each other like tigers. The blood of the old Cape King sh ,ol be the subject of black treasons. The malcontents shall be deceived, and slain by sword and fire. The lily shall be maintained, but, the last boughs of the old tree shall still be menaced. Thus shall they war amongst each other. " Then shall a young warrior journey towards the great city. He will carry a lion and cock on his armour. The lance shall be given him by a great Prince of the East. He will be seconded marvel lously by warlike people of Belgic Gaul, who shall unite themselves to the Parisians to remove trouble, and cover themselves with branches of olive. Peace for 25 moons. Then in Lutetia shall the Seine be red with blood, &c." This prophecy brings matters so minutely down to the " glorious three days" of 1830, that it is a pity the writer has not given us all the evolutions of the Eastern question v. bile his hand was in. What rasp set can newspaper editors in France have for the null ets of their readers who palm off for authentic so pilpably fictitious a divination, and pledge themselves for its having been existence for three centuries back ? It must be added, in their justification, that the prophecy, or at least the greater portion of it, was published in the " Memoirs de Josephine" in 1820 and 1827, and again by Edouard Brison, in his " Recueil de Pro . pheties." The allegation concerning it is, that in 1793 it was discovered by Francois de Metz in a Benedictine convent at Paris. COURT OF BANKKUPTCY, DAC. 30. IN RE GRANT AND GRANT. The b inkrupts in this case carried on business as mer chants in the City of London, and the commission was issued against them as far back as the year 1783. Suffi cient assets since had been obtained to pay the representa tives of all the then creditors 20s. in the pound, and also a surplus sum sufficient to pay interest on a considerable portion of the amount for which proofs had been made against their joint and separate estates. Mr. LEWIS, a barrister, now appeared on the part of tha representatives of a creditor named NPKercadale, to claim an arrear of interest upon a bond for 1,500/., and Sir Ale :ender Cray Grant, Bart., appeared in person also to claim interest upon a debt due by the bankrupts to his late father for advances to the amount of 2,0851. Mr. Lewis, in opposition to the claim for interest by Sir A. C. Grant, contended that he was not untitled to 11 cpayment of interest, as the instrument by which the debt to his father was created did not expressly state " interest" was to be paid, arid that the Act of Gee. IV., giving interest from the period of its enactment, was not intended to have a retrospective effect. Sir Alexander Grant said he made his claim as the representative of his late father, who was the elder bro. ther of James and Peter Grant, the bankrupts, under th ese o e i reuin ---es :—James • - a ec.tu,y ago, and Ins younger brother, Peter, .on coming from India (where he had been employed in the civil service), was induced enter into partnership with h m, but his only capital was a legacy of 3,000/. left him by a relation, and the sum of 2,085/. secured by a bond from James, with the concurrence of his brother Peter, and the proof was made upon the joint estate. In ;addition he considered it would be strange to contend that a bond did riot contain a covenant for the payment of interest ; arid so sati,tied was he of his right, that he pre sented himself before the Court without the assistance of either counsel or solicitor. Mr. LEWIS was heard against the claim. The Loomed COMMISSIONER said that some of the ob jections raised were new to him, and he would give them his best attention. The further hearing was adjourned. 36, OLD BOND -STREET, AND 1, OLD JEWRY, CllEAPSlDß.—Patronised by the Royal Family, her Ma jesty the Queen of Hanover, the Duchess of Richmond, Duke of Newcastle, Duke of Leeds, the late Duke of ,Buckingham, the Marquis of Wellesley, &c. ; Sir J. E. Anderson, M. D., 11, New Burlington -street ; Sir Benja min C. Brodie, Bart., F. R. S., Saville-row ; Sir Anthony Carlisle, F. R. S., Langham-place ; J. T. Conquest, M. D., F. R. S , 13, Finsbury-square; Jos. Copland, M. D., F. R. S., Bulstrode-street, Manchester-square; Bransby B. Cooper, Esq., F. R. S., Surgeon to Guy's Hospital ; E. W. Duffin, M 1)., F. R. C. S., 14, Langhana-place ; James Johnson, M. D., Physician Extraordinary to the late King ; R. Sergeant Surgeon to the Queen, 15, Albemarle street; C. Aston Key, Esq., Senior Surgeon to Guy's Hospital ; Martin „Ware, New Bridge-street ; J. G. An drets s, Senior Surgeon to the London Hospital. The above and numerous other Medical Practitioners of pre ; mincnt standing have given the most flattering certifi cates to the superior value and importance of E. Solo mon and Co.'s Patent Spectacles, testifying to their pecu liar power of saftening the light to weak and irritable eyes, and the immediate and continued relief that its chas tened transmis , ion affords—their freedom from the perni cious attributes of ordinary glasses ; in short, to a combi nation of properties which render them superlatively pre eminent in preserving the powers of vision unimpaired to extreme old age. Their Voice Conductors extend the most effectual relief in cases of Deafness, and additional satisfaction is derived from the fact that they are worn en tirely unseen. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—OR Tuesday, at All Souls Church, Marylebone, by the Lord Bisho i ) of Rochester, Henry James Baillie, Esq., M. P. for Inver ness-shire, eldest son of Colonel Hugh Baillie, of Red castle, Ross shire, M. P. for Honiton, to the Hon. Phi. lippa Sydney Smythe, eldest daughter of Viscount Strang_ ford, G. C. B. After partaking of a dejeuner de notes at the Noble Viscoun►'s residence in Harley-street, the happy couple proceeded to Bromley Palace, Kent, - / MORNING EDITION CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN' :'tgr the Week ended Dec. '5, /Et4o, made up litan tl,. iictungs tg; the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. Wheat 6os. Id. 1 Oats Barley 32d. 4J. 1 Rye ......... 335. sd. 1 Pease 40s. 161 AVERAGES OF THE LAST SIX. WEEKS. Week ending WIJEAT. BARLEY.I OATS. I RYE. BRANS. PI SW. N0v.120: 6l "8 34 7 21 11 3!. 8 44 0 42 10 .27 6O - 0 33 6 22 2 34 10 43 10 43 7 Dec. 4 11 18 59 1 31 6 21 4 32 I. 41 40 5 25 6O 1 32 4 21 5 33 5 40 9 40 1 IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES Or THE SIX WEEKS Wheat 59..10d. 1 Oats 21s. 10d. Beans... ...... Cs. Ir'.Barley DUTIES OW FOREIGN CORN. Wheat 27s. Bd. 1 Oats Barley 133. 10,1.1 Eye THE MARKETS-YESTERDAY COLONIAL MARKET. The transactions were entirely confined to private cont. tract, and suited to the bare wants of the home consumers. Prices remained much the same as they were at the clout of last week. Rice in fair demand at full prices. Run sought after at somewhat easier prices than last week.. Coffee is very dull of sale, and destined to go still lower.:; TEA MARKET. The demand was steady for moat descriptions, anal prices had an upward tendency for the black and gram sorts. Company's Congou met with more attentium from speculators, and the current price advanced to 2r. 11 d. per lb. TALLOW MARKET. • The price of P. Y. C. on the spot was 48s. by the prin— cipal holders, while small parcels sold privately at 6d. par cwt. less. The stock is very large, with every prospect o f a I.rge supply next season. DRY FRUIT MARKET. The supplies were sot so large as in the early part a f the month, but the quantity in warehouse is much largar than usual at this season, and in consequence prices wen• depressed. Valencia Raisins of fine quality can be bough t at 375. to 385., and good cur rants at 725. per cwt. WHITECHAPEL HAYMARKET. There was a good supply with a fair demand for etle middling sorts; prices generally firm. Clover, 41. to 61 . ; Meadow flay, 31. to 5/ ; ordinary and middling 3/. tO 31. 15s. ; Straw in brisk request, and prices firm at 325. ,to 34a. per load. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. • Wheat. i 'Barley. „ Oats. I iaeans. tease. --,-,-- Per Quarter. s. to a. La.to e. s. to s. ia.to s. s t., 1 , Beaton Braintree SO 60 i , 2e 31 I'6 30 !38 46 40 • 441 B. ighton 59 70 128 36 22 ~t i 1 Z.,11 47 38 4 e Cambridge. - 11 - 32 I ....... al 1 - 38 - 318 Chichester - 61 I - 32 - 23 - 42 - 41 Dunrnow Grantham - 46 - -.. GrimshY 5B 60 35 39 '22 '26 43 44 - • L.- Hailsham - 46 - 401 Hitchin 5B 60 30 33 22 30 28 3I - ... Ipswich 5,-; tor 36 34 24 28 38 40 38 42' Lewes 5B 66 34 36 21 . 23 34 39 14 318 Lynn 54 61 36 39 21 26 42 44 - 46 Maidstone 59 66 36 39 23 32 40 50 - ...2 Norwich Petworth Rom ford 5B 70 38 35 20 28 34 46 36 411 Sandwich • 56 ti 7 34 43 '27 34 33 45 31 • 44 Tnetlord 56 59 '2B 32 24 30 36 40 40 (.4 • Wishech ..- 6O 66 28 34 24 30 44 45 - ... Witham 57 67 2E 34 25 29 36 47 36 4p Yarmouth 6O 65 27 31 24 39 40 42 39 1. I 9 LIVERPOOL CORN M AR . :ET.-D,c. 9.9. WHEAT, English, White, per 70Ib. ,„,.. Red Scotch, Welch, and Manx - 'lrish, White 8 0 0 6 , -•••••-•••••• Red - Foreign OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 9 5 3 4 - Irish • 3 0 31N j - Foreign BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter ..... -- Scotch and Irish, per 60Ibs. Feeding 3 6 3 Ski BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 4B U 50 0 i - Irish, &c. - Foreign PEASE, Englisn, per Imperial quarter 42 0 44 0 --- Foreign Emma, English, per 28016. 4B 0 50 0'- - Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish. per 2401bs ....... ... _..26 3 27 3 , INI,IAN CORN, NA' 480Ib. ... 34 0 36 s' • Rye, per Imperial quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter HULL CORN MARKET. • Wheat, White (per Quarter) Mite 465. 5114. ti2s. • Foreign 46s. 58s. 60s. t Barley, Malting 3os. 325. 945. , Grinding Oats, British Foreign (in bond) Beans Pease, Grey Blue and White 4os. 41s. 425. Linseed Flour (per sack) -s. 445, : - .0, Rapeseed (per 10 quarters) -/. 281. 301: CHELTENHAM MARKETS. _. _. . . Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d. -_----_ per lb. d. tot Wheat Barley 4 0 4 6 Mutton Oats 4 6 5 0 Veal Beaus Pease ._ 6 0 8 0 Lamb .. ... . _. _ .... U Hay 41.135. to 5/. Os. Od. per ton. CAN ft :BRUM DIARKET. Wheat, white-- €Os. to has. ...... 01d—....... —4. to red................ 575. to 645....... 01d.............. —s. to —s Barley, Malting —.. 3's. to Nis...—. GI-lting.. —B. to —O. Oats ...------... 235. to 275...... 014....-...... —s. to —4. Beans. .. ---.—. 35s to 4 's. ...... 01d.—........ —.I. to ...s.. Pease ..-.-....--- 425. to —5..,..,. Grey........... 40s. to —s. CHELMSFORD MARKET. Wheat, White 67 to 71 Oats Red Barley ,IIC , CaIIcA. ...... .... ...e. .r iovekallS, 111,, 4U 4 6 Grinding We are informed that the donations to the Lich field Diocesan Church Extension Society were the follow ing :—Rev. Thos. Gisborne, of Yoxall Lodge, 1,000/4 William Evans, Esq., M.P., 1,000/. ; Mathew Gisborne, Esq., 2001. ; and Samuel Evans, Esq., 5001. 39, ALBEMARLE-STREET, PICCADILLY (OP." POSITE THE YORE HOTEL), AND 76, KING WILLIAM"' STREET, BANY OF ENGLAND.—DEAFNESS AND Drs- FECTIVR VISION.—A greater proof of the value of th 4 Messrs. S. and B. Solomon's Invisible Operative Voicas Conductor and newly-invented Spectacle Lenses, can not be adduced, than the circumstance of the many thousands of individuals who have obtained the r:eateat benefit and instant relief, and the constant immett se de mand there is for them, and the - patronage they ha se and daily continue to receive. .The Messrs. S. and B . Solo mons disclaim all connection with persona of 01 e same name, and the sale of amber spectacles ; the riernicieua use of amber spectacles being now well kno , in to the public, and the vendor being aware of it, he hr .s therefore altered their name, by leaving oat the wore. " Amber," and calling them " Patent Spectacles." 1 3r. Andrew Ure, Esq., M.D., F.R. S., Sic., states amber is most powerfully electrical by friction, very hot, to. such an ex tent as to explode into fragments. The wor'Lmen, toe, aro subject to a nervous tremor in their wrists, v.rms, &c., they encounter great danger by handling such, dreadfully.ex cited electric:. Amber is of such a soft. and sticky es turn, that it is apt to take fire ; and w hen exposed to warmth, it swells, bubbles up, and will . 'burn away with flame. This statement is further confirmed by Sir D'• Brewster and Pliny, and also by Parks and Hearn§ ow chemistry. The pernicious and destructive use of such w msterial for spectacles to imperfect vision may be ascot.- mined at any respectable optician's in London. ~..~.• HORIZONTAL GOLD WATCHES, 8/. 8s each.—Highly finished hnritriiiiral Flat Gold Watches, jewelled in four holes, with enamel dial, hand to mark the second..,, and maintaining power to continue going whilst being wound, Eight Guineas each. These elegant waistcoat pocket watches are recommended for great accuracy and durability, the hori zontal escapement being peculiarly suited to combine these portant requisites in a flat watch. A written warranty g ivers. A. B. SAVORY and SONS, Watchmakers, N o . London, opposite the Bank. PLATE.—T. COX SAVORY, Silversmith, Etc.. 47, Cornhill (Seven Doors from Gracechurch-street), London, The best wrought Fiddle-Pattern Spoons and Forks, at 7s. 2d. per ounce. The following are the weights recom mended, but the artietes may be had lighter or heavier at the same price per ounce : _ Fiddle pattern Cias is do oz. .d. £s. d. £s. a.. 12 Table Spoons 12 Dessert ditto 12 Table Forks 20 at 7 2 ... 10 15 0 .., 11 7 4 4 . r lb 4 12 Dessert ditto .., , 1 Soup Ladle lO at 7 2 ... 3 11 8 ... 3 12 11 1 4 Sauce ditto 4 Salt Spoons(gilt strong) 1 0 0 ... 1 4 0 1 Fish Slice . 210 4 ... 211 $ 2 Tea Spoons lO at 7 8 ... 316 ,i ... 4 8.• 0 1 Pair Sugar Tongs (strong) 0 15 0 ... 0 17 0 The Classic is a new pattern, much admired for its simplo elegance. The Fiddle Pattern is with the handle the shape of a fiddle, quite plain ; it has been approved, and in 'request for more than thirty years. N.B.—Pattern Spoons ca be sent into the country. TABLE CANDLESTICKS, ...uperier to Silver for" durability, equal in appearance. Table candlesticks, 0 inc Ties high, 7s. per pair ; 9 inches high, 9s. ; 10 inches, I le. per pair; ditto, with rich shell mountings, 9 inches high, 13e. per pair , snuffer trays, with shell mountings and chased cen tre, 4s. each.,. The particular metal of which these and a great variety'of other articles are made, can only be told font silver by reference to the stamp. Catalogues gratis. RIP PON and BURTON, Wells-street, Oiferd-street. . - BIRTHS. At Mount St one , Stonehouse, Devon, on Christmas-day, the lady of Captain Bulkeley, late 2d Life Guards, of a son. On the 28th ult., Mrs It. Burrs., jun., of Meeklenburgh— square, of a son. On the 28th ult., at Woolley Hall, Berks, Mrs. A. Claytone of a daughter. In Upper Harley street, the Hon. Mrs. Kenyon, of a son. At Shirley House, Hants, the lady of Major-General Sleigh, of a son. MARRIED. On the 29th ult., at the parish church of I New Windsor, tho Rev. Reginald Edward Copleston, Rector of Barney, Surrey, and late Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, to Anne Elizabeth, (laughter of the late Thomas Sharpe, Esq. On the 26th ult., at St.: George's, Everton, Mr. E. Estop, of Dalqon, to Eliza Grace, daughter of J. Shaplee, Esq., ot Kirkdale, near Liverpool. On the :30th ult., at St. Pancras New Church, Edward Slaughter, Esq., of Clifton, near Bristol, to Mary Ann, elderL daughter of J. Hensley, Esq., of Tavistock-square. DIRD. On the 16th ult., after a long and severe illness, Mr. J. C► Green, of Pilgrim's Hatch, Essex. On the 15th ult., Nicholas Maughan, Sen., Esq., of Little Distaff-lane, in his 79th year. On the 18th ult., at Northam-green, near Dies, NiJrfolk , Mr. W. Roper, surgeon. On the 18th 'ult., Lieutenant -Colonel C. M. Baker, late of the 14th Light bragoons. aged 70. On the 19th ult., at Nice, Barbara Julia, only daughter of the late E. Horne, Esq. On the 24th ult., at the Spa, Gloucester, Rebeecs, relict Of the late J. Earle, Eq., of St. Aryan's, Alonmouthshire. On the 24th ult., at Ripley, Surrey, Caleb Beaumont Read slimy, Esq., aged 83. London: Printed 411(i Published by 111 1 / 1 11)0 YOUN(J• N. IP2, Strand, at The Run Office, No. 112, Strs&4, the county of Middluex.—Friday, January, I, IM4I. lla Ih• 1)a Th Jec the liu th e an, IV; o f stir for bili CIO CrS Re Cu an, sot of as dr. th, 41) an br jor a ,:%''~'